With email & phone number available in the ealier page (
http://ten.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hyderabad,_India&diff=prev&oldid…
)
, it may be a good idea for someone from the hyd wikicommunity or the
chapter to reach them and tell the changes.
We should be extra careful in those bogus events with an eye on either
foundation grant or free merchandise.
Regards
Tinu Cherian
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Arjuna Rao Chavala <
arjunaraoc(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 1:25 AM, Steven Walling <swalling(a)wikimedia.org>wrote:
>
>> Okay, I'm just going to be bold and delete the Hyderabad and Bhopal pages,
>> and explain to these folks that we're only here to support volunteer-led
>> events, not corporate ones et cetera.
>>
>> If any Wikimedians from either of those cities want to put something up,
>> go for it though.
>>
>> Thanks for the quick response.
>>
>> As I am active in Telugu wikipedia, though based in Bangalore, I am in
> touch with Hyderabad organisers Rahimanuddin, Veeven and others. We will
> have the proper details soon. Thanks for the alert.
>
> I have already removed the redirect for now.
>
> Cheers
> Arjun
>
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Hello everyone,
I wish to attend the event, do i have to register to the event
or is it spot registration.Can anyone please send me the details.
--
RAJEEV
Help for translating this to Telugu so that the same can be provided to
Telugu media is requested.
Arjun
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From: Moka Pantages <mpantages(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 10:12 AM
Subject: [Internal-l] W10: Final Press Release
To: "Local Chapters, board and officers coordination (closed subscription)"
<internal-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi, everyone!
Just three days until we celebrate a decade of Wikipedia: more than
300 events in 104 countries! Amazing.
Below is the final release you are free to distribute anytime after
1PM UTC tomorrow, January 12. Again, feel free to edit or change it
anyway you like. It's for you to use however you need.
Just so you know, Jay is going to send this out to press tomorrow at
1PM UTC. It's going out to the media list a few days early to make
sure people have it in enough time to write something by Saturday.
I'm personally so proud to be apart of this movement and love seeing
everyone --press, everyday people, community members-- excited and
celebrating.
Congrats to you all! You do amazing work.
Cheers,
Moka
Wikipedia Celebrates 10 Years of Free Knowledge
Wikipedia users and contributors mark the project's first decade with
events around the world
San Francisco, January 15, 2011 -- On this day ten years ago, a
website with a funny name invited people everywhere to come together
to create a free encyclopedia. The initial results were underwhelming.
The article "Astronomer" simply said: "Scientist whose area of
Research is Astronomy." Sweden: "Country in Northern Europe.
Inhabitants are called Swedes. Language spoken is Swedish. Capital is
Stockholm." Physics: "Physics is a very broad subject."
Following these humble beginnings, Wikipedia grew quickly, and 1,000
articles were written in less than a month. Over the next five years,
many new language versions were launched, and Wikipedia began to
surpass traditional reference sources in breadth and depth. The secret
to its success: anyone can edit any article. In January 2006,
Wikipedia volunteer Gareth Owen wrote on his user page: "The problem
with Wikipedia is that it only works in practice. In theory, it's a
total disaster."
Wikipedia is now consulted by more than 400 million people every
month. It provides instant access to high quality and in-depth
information, free of charge and free of advertising. In the last
decade, a vast and unique global volunteer community has come together
to create more than 17 million articles in 270 languages, advancing
the cause of free knowledge for every person on the planet.
Today, January 15, the Wikipedia community is coming together in more
than 200 locations all over the planet to celebrate the 10th
anniversary of the free encyclopedia. From a conference in New York to
a concert in Prague, from the launch of a new school project in
Nairobi to a museum bootcamp in Amsterdam, from a beer-meet in
Bucharest to a film screening in Tel Aviv, the events are organized by
volunteers and Wikimedia chapters, as well as independent supporters.
The events are open to participation by anyone and reflect the
diversity of the community.
Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, recalled: "It's hard to imagine
that it's been 10 years since I first edited Wikipedia. I remember
that first day. I clicked on 'Edit' and I wrote 'Hello World', and
that was the beginning of Wikipedia and all the things that have come
since then. I want to thank everyone who has helped. I want to thank
all the people who have edited Wikipedia, who have contributed to this
great knowledge base. I want to thank everybody who is reading
Wikipedia, who is really engaging with ideas and knowledge. That's
what we made it for: we made it for you to read."
Wikipedia is operated by the Wikimedia Foundation, a charitable
non-profit organization established by Wales in 2003. It is entirely
supported by donations, and just completed the most successful
fundraiser in its history, with more than 500,000 individual donations
totaling more than $16 million.
Sue Gardner, Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director, has ambitious
goals for the future. "We want to reach a billion people by 2015. We
want to persuade more readers to edit. More women. More people from
the Global South. We know that the more diverse the editing community
becomes, the more comprehensive, accurate and rich the encyclopedia
will be."
Jimmy Wales joined her call to action: "Even though we've got millions
of articles, even though we're in hundreds of languages, there's still
a lot of work to do. So, I want everybody out there, if you've never
edited Wikipedia, try it - just click 'edit'."
For more information about Wikipedia 10 events
* http://ten.wikipedia.org
* http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_timeline
About the Wikimedia Foundation
* http://wikimediafoundation.org
* http://blog.wikimedia.org
The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization which operates
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. According to comScore Media Metrix,
Wikipedia and the other projects operated by the Wikimedia Foundation
receive 410 million unique visitors per month, making them the 5th
most popular web property world-wide (Nov, 2010). Available in more
than 270 languages, Wikipedia contains more than 17 million articles
contributed by a global volunteer community of more than 100,000
people. Based in San Francisco, California, the Wikimedia Foundation
is an audited, 501(c)(3) charity that is funded primarily through
donations and grants.
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Cheers,
Moka
Moka Pantages
415.839.6885 x 635
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I am surprised that no Wikimedia volunteer from Hyderabad has taken notice
or objected to this.
Similarly, as I had mentioned to Steven on his WP10 user talk page, the
Bhopal event is being organized by a user who is faking his credentials to
gain mileage out of the Wikimedia Movement's good name.
More information available here:
http://ten.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bhopal&oldid=11100http://ten.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Steven_(WMF)&oldid=118…http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Arbitrarily0&oldid=4073…
Yours sincerely,
Anirudh Bhati
00 91 9328712208
Skype: anirudhsbh
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 1:12 AM, Steven Walling <swalling(a)wikimedia.org>wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> So recently a Hyderabad event got created on ten.wikipedia.org, and I've
> received some email about it. However, if you read the page (
> http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyderabad,_India) you can see it doesn't
> quite seem to be run by Wikimedians, and I'm concerned by some of the
> content, such "Wikipedia, as an ultimate resource for Online
> Media/Marketing" and the fact that is seems to be run solely by a media
> company.
>
> Does anyone know the editor who created the page or listed contact? I don't
> want to promote an event that is less about Wikipedia and your work than
> some random company.
>
> Steven Walling
> Fellow at the Wikimedia Foundation
> wikimediafoundation.org
>
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FYI
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From: రహ్మానుద్దీన్ షేక్ <nani1only(a)gmail.com>
Date: 2011/1/7
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-in-hyd] [[Press]] : Oneindia.in : Wikipedia
celebrating its tenth anniversary [Telugu]
To: CherianTinu Abraham <tinucherian(a)gmail.com>
bengaluru: This month's 15, wikipedia's 10 year celebrations will take place
in karnataka's capital bengaluru.
wikipeida is a free encyclopedia. its the among top 5 best web portals in
the world. with 410 million unique visitors. wikipedia has put a keen stress
on India and developing its projects here. not only english its available in
270 other languages and so is world famous.
already we have it in 20 indic languages and 20 more are yet to come.
Jimmy wales found wikipedia a decade ago. currently we have 5 lakh+ articles
in 50 languages. overall 17 million articles in 270 languages. The 10 years
celebrations are being celebrated worldwide. in india also celebrations are
taking place at a larger scale. in the city(bengaluru) these celebrations
will take place on 20 and the actual anniversary is on 15th.
2011/1/7 రహ్మానుద్దీన్ షేక్ <nani1only(a)gmail.com>
> want it in english? i'll do it. if you want
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 4:01 PM, CherianTinu Abraham <tinucherian(a)gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> Oneindia.in : Wikipedia celebrating its tenth anniversary [Telugu]
>>
>>
>> http://thatstelugu.oneindia.in/news/2011/01/07/wikipedia-celebrating-its-te…
>>
>>
>> Can somebody help in a little translation ? :)
>>
>> Regards
>> Tinu Cherian
>>
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>
>
> --
> Rahimanuddin Shaik
> నాని
> ॥రామానుజార్య దివ్యాజ్ఞాం వర్ధతామపివర్ధతాం॥
>
>
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నాని
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Hi,
I am doing translations frequently into telugu. Please let me know
further information.
Thanks,
Sasi
At Friday, 07-01-2011 on 16:02
"రహ్మానుద్దీన్ షేక్" wrote:
want it in english? i'll do it. if you want
On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 4:01 PM, CherianTinu Abraham wrote:
Oneindia.in : Wikipedia celebrating its tenth anniversary [Telugu]
http://thatstelugu.oneindia.in/news/2011/01/07/wikipedia-celebrating-its-te…
Can somebody help in a little translation ? :)
Regards
Tinu Cherian
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Hello Everyone,
I'm Raj from Hyderabad.
I'm a volunteer for Wikipedia 10 years celebrations @ Hyderabad.
Would like to know what is yet to be done so I can do my part. Please let me
know
Please reply to this or call me on my mobile. My no. is +91 970 370 1230.
--
Raj
Mobile: 970 370 1230
Hi there,
- Please make a clear cut decision and post it as soon as possible, i
missed last month meetup too only because the venue and time were being
discussed till the afternoon of the day of meetup and somehow i am getting
mails a bit late than they are posted.
- The other issue is the Telugu bloggers meet lasts for at least 2-2.5
hours and this week's discussion might take a bit longer time, which I would
have to attend for sure.
- At the same time I dont want to miss the wikipedia meetup as well. So,
5:00 or 5:30 would be ideal for me, Provided it takes some 10-15 minutes of
time to travel from Yusufguda to Banjara Hills.(Which is possible)
- But organisers please be sure that last minute changes to venue and
time wont change. Plus make the agenda of the meetup specific so that we can
make it a bit productive in the sense, people coming will have some
intention and some before hand preparation.
With Regards
Rahimanuddin Shaik
9493035658
rahim(a)azrisolutions.com