Congratulations to Malayalam Wikipedians!
>>With almost 250 active editors<http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%A4%E0%B5%8D%…>Malayalam wiki community continues to be one of the most active Indian Wiki
community. That is the the main reason behind this achievement. <<
Precisely. Malayalam Wikipedia should be an example for all the budding
wikipedias including the ones in Indic languages.
Regards,
Sankalp
2011/1/25 Shiju Alex <shijualexonline(a)gmail.com>
>>
>>
>>> Dear All,
>>>
>>> I am happy to announce that Malayalam wikipedia has crossed the *10 Lakh
>>> (1 million) edits* milestone on *2011 January 22*. Malayalam wikipedia
>>> is the *first Indian language wikipedia to cross the 10 Lakh milestone*.
>>>
>>>
>>> With almost 250 active editors<http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%A4%E0%B5%8D%…>Malayalam wiki community continues to be one of the most active Indian Wiki
>>> community. That is the the main reason behind this achievement. Malayalam
>>> wikipedia also has the *most number of edits per article *(more than 30)
>>> among all theIndian wikis.
>>>
>>> The information about the *total number of the edits* in some of the
>>> major active wikis is provided below.
>>>
>>> Language wikipedia Number of edits since the wiki is set up
>>> Malayalam 1002375 Hindi 913612 Tamil 688891 Marathi 665774 Telugu 578760
>>> Urdu 376948 Kannada 186771 Gujarati 133134 Sanskrit 101517
>>> Data is collected on 2011 January 24.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Shiju Alex
>>>
>>
Dear Wikimedians,
It's a pleasure to inform you all that Liam
Wyatt<http://www.wittylama.com/>will be visiting India between 12th
and 19th Feb to focus on
GLAM <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLAM_(industry_sector)>related
initiatives here.
Liam's visit to India is intended to support wikimedia communities to
explore the possibilities of collaborating with Galleries, Libraries,
Archives and Museums (GLAM) in strengthening articles on wikipedia of mutual
interest.
Liam recently became a Wikimedia Fellow -
http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2011/01/19/announcing-our-glam-fellow-liam-w…
Liam was the wikipedian in
residence<http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2010/07/10/the-royal-cup-bridges-wikipedia-a…>
at
the British Museum last year. Liam has been focussed on GLAM and was
the convener of the GLAM-WIKI
<http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/GLAM-WIKI>event held in Australia in
August
2009.
It is great to have Liam visiting us. He will be visiting Delhi, Mumbai and
Bangalore. We hope to make the most of Liam's visit to create more awareness
for GLAM amongst wikipedians and connect with GLAM stakeholders wherever
possible.
Liam will also be speaking at the
ICLAM<http://www.nift.ac.in/ICLAM_2011/index.htm>conference on the
15th.
For coordinating events during his visit, I have create a GLAM project page
on the India wiki, to help us all get started:
http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Projects:GLAM_2011
There are city specific pages, each of which has a planning page.
We look forward to all your support and active participation to organize
events and meeting in various cities. Wikipedians are requested to join the
discussions in the planning pages for each city. .
regards
Arun
Bangalore, India
www.twitter.com/arunram
Congratulations! Speaking of this...what's happened to your regular
statistics update? I thought that there were some really interesting
cross-comparisons in there, it allowed us to evaluate the state and
health of different language Wikipedias across a range of parameters
like depth/quality/quantity/participation, etc.
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> 1. Re: Malayalam wikipedia crossed the 10 Lakh/1 million edits
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> Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 18:51:14 +0530
> From: Gautam John<gautam(a)prathambooks.org>
> Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Malayalam wikipedia crossed the 10
> Lakh/1 million edits milestone
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> Wow! That is awesome news! Congratulations to the community!
>
> Thank you.
>
> Best,
>
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> 2011/1/25 Shiju Alex<shijualexonline(a)gmail.com>
>
>> Sorry, missed Bengali wikipedia from the below list.
>>
>> Bengali wikipedia has *9,22,606* edits. It is placed in the second
>> position after Malayalam.
>>
>> Shiju
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 2011/1/25 Shiju Alex<shijualexonline(a)gmail.com>
>>
>> Dear All,
>>> I am happy to announce that Malayalam wikipedia has crossed the *10 Lakh
>>> (1 million) edits* milestone on *2011 January 22*. Malayalam wikipedia is
>>> the *first Indian language wikipedia to cross the 10 Lakh milestone*.
>>>
>>> With almost 250 active editors<http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%A4%E0%B5%8D%…>Malayalam wiki community continues to be one of the most active Indian Wiki
>>> community. That is the the main reason behind this achievement. Malayalam
>>> wikipedia also has the *most number of edits per article *(more than 30)
>>> among all theIndian wikis.
>>>
>>> The information about the *total number of the edits* in some of the
>>> major active wikis is provided below.
>>>
>>> Language wikipedia Number of edits since the wiki is set up Malayalam
>>> 1002375 Hindi 913612 Tamil 688891 Marathi 665774 Telugu 578760 Urdu
>>> 376948 Kannada 186771 Gujarati 133134 Sanskrit 101517
>>> Data is collected on 2011 January 24.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Shiju Alex
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: Anoop<anoop.ind(a)gmail.com>
>>> Date: 2011/1/25
>>> Subject: [Wikiml-l] ?????? ?????????????? 10 ????? ?????????
>>> To: Malayalam wiki project mailing list<wikiml-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
>>>
>>>
>>> ?????????????,
>>>
>>> ??? ?????? ?????? ??????? ??????????? ??????????????. ??????
>>> ?????????????? 10 ????? ??????????? (Edits) ?????????????????. ?????????
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>>>
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>>> ????????????????? ?????? ??????????????? ?????? ?????????.
>>>
>>> ????? ?????? ??????? ???? ??????????????? ?????????????? ????? ?????.
>>>
>>> *??? (language)* * ?????????????? ????? (Number of
>>> edits since wiki is set up)
>>> * ?????? (Malayalam) 1002375 ?????? (bengali)
>>> 922606 ?????? (Hindi) 913612 ????? (Tamil) 688891 ??????? (Marathi)
>>> 665774 ?????? (Telugu)
>>> 578760 ???? (Urdu) 376948 ????? (Kannada) 186771 ????????? (Gujarati)
>>> 133134 ???????? (Sanskrit)
>>> 101517
>>> [1]
>>>
>>> ? ?????????? ?????????? ???????????? ?????.
>>>
>>> *??????*
>>> 1. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ?????
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http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/article1096315.ece
In order to move forward, may I suggest the following:
Job description of volunteer: other prerequisites - please list
1. Speak Kannada Yes (mandatory)/No (not required)
2. Programming knowledge Yes (mandatory)/No (not required)
3.
4.
1. List of names/email of volunteers who will be present at the Kannada
Wikipedia booth on
a. 4 Fri
b. 5 Sat
c. 6 Sun
2. Location map of venue/hall/room - exact details to prevent frantic
searching for the right place.
3. Bus from Shivajinagar/Majestic/...
4. Coordinator name & mobile 9.........
5. Please bring (your own) snack/lunch, booth will be working without a
break! Cannot afford to lose a single visitor.
6. Script: What should/should not be said. It may be impossible to meet
before the event for the orientation but a virtual classroom will address
that need.
http://www.wiziq.com/online-class/453323-let-s-learn-to-use-wiziq-virtual-c…
Await your comments. Thanks. Ralph
Apologies for delay - this was written the day after the wiki10 celebrations
hence many 'yesterdays' in report,
Bishakha
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: jayanta nath <jayantanth(a)gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:46 AM
Subject: Re: Kolkata wiki10 meetup; personal report
To: "bishakhadatta (wiki)" <bishakhadatta(a)gmail.com>
Dear Bishakha
Could you please send our west Bengal and India and 10 mailing list
---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Bishakha Datta <bishakhadatta(a)gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 9:00 PM
> Subject: Kolkata wiki10 meetup; personal report
>
> As the meetup ended, two law students said they had clicked the wiki10
> banner on wikipedia not expecting to find a celebration in Kolkata. "We were
> pleasantly surprised," they said. "No one ever comes to the East."
>
> Ok, ok, I'm Bengali and I *was* born in Cal. But even if you factor that
> in, it's still true: the eastern part of the country often seems cut off. In
> general, it gets a smaller piece of the national pie - action, attention,
> opportunities, resources - so much so that the 7 states in the North-east
> have pretty much given up on 'India'. The two students reeled off every band
> or concert that had made it to Del, Bom, Bang - but not to Cal.
>
> Given this, I'm glad a meetup was held here in December. Without it, who
> knows if Kolkata would have joined in the celebrations? As Jayanta jokingly
> told one reporter, "Atleast we had a meetup in time to join the
> celebrations." Till yesterday, Jayanta Nath, who hosted the Dec meetup and
> is an admin on Bangla wikipedia, was the only community member active
> offline; Arnab Dutta, a student and bn:wp editor who lives in Kolkata,
> pitches in online.
>
> The biggest direct benefit from yesterday's meetup was identifying three
> more community members: Rimi Chatterjee who edits in English, Biswarup
> Ganguly who is on commons, and Shankar Vishwanathan, a most charming and
> eccentric senior citizen who edits in English and wants to popularize
> wikipedia among senior citizens. Hopefully, they'll help form the core that
> is needed to keep meetups going (and which seems to have developed in Mumbai
> and Pune, among the ones I know).
>
> The crowd yesterday was exactly what we were expecting: about 60-odd folks,
> the majority of whom had never made a single edit. Less than 10 said they
> had ever edited. Anticipating just this, and given Cal's yen for quizzes, I
> hosted a quiz: 10 things you may not know about wikipedia, which covered all
> the basics and some fun birthday stuff. Luckily, the crowd was game, so the
> event was interactive from the word go. The meeting was bilingual, with
> English and Bengali flowing in abundance; much clapping when I announced the
> Foundation's plans for India and the India chapter. No one had any idea of
> either. Media coverage has been much lower here too.
>
> There was huge interest in Bangla wikipedia; many questions after Jayanta's
> presentation, including some chicken-and-egg ones: Why edit in Bangla when
> there are more readers in English etc? Since many editors are bilingual, one
> suggestion was to encourage editors to also mirror their English
> contributions in Bangla (only voluntarily, of course). Because of the
> unexpected interested in Bangla editing, Arnab did an impromptu
> demonstration of Bangla wikipedia to 25 enthusiasts after the official
> program had ended.
>
> Rimi followed up with a fascinating talk on how the English department at
> Jadavpur Univ, where she teaches, knows students use wikipedia for their
> class projects; so instead of fighting this, they do a two-week session on
> 'How students should use wikipedia'! One of her colleagues also assigns
> students specific pages on wikipedia to upgrade, and marks them after going
> through the page's edit history - to assess participation. Quite unique.
>
> There was a discussion on uploading images to Commons, including a demo of
> the lack of photos of Kolkata and possibilities such as Wikipedia Takes
> Bangalore/Mumbai, both of which happened this week as part of wiki10. Maybe
> it's easier to get young people started off with taking and uploading photos
> to Commons? asked Mr Vishwanathan. He and Bishwarup Ganguly are likely to
> speak with Jayanta and Arnab at a student-run half-day hands-on meetup in
> Feb.
>
> Two specific requests for half-day workshops emerged between yesterday and
> today:
> -the all-male participants at the FSF workshop wanted a hands-on session;
> this seems a critical bridge step to becoming an editor
> -a few women at the event yesterday requested a hands-on session
> exclusively for women (so that they don't feel like dummies because of
> technological issues - Soma is very keen on this; let's keep for my next
> trip)
>
> Today, I attended part of a two-day workshop of the Free Software
> Foundation, mainly to support Jayanta and to build relationships with sister
> orgs/movements. An aside: at wiki meetups in other cities I've been to, many
> people have their own laptops; here, less people did yesterday (expected)
> and today (unexpected). Needs to be kept in mind while doing hands-on
> sessions.
>
> So three thoughts in closing:
> One, let's make sure we don't neglect the east or the northeast in our
> plans. This part of the country needs exposure to other wikimedians, to
> ideas, access to conferences etc, so it does not remain cut off. Language is
> a factor influencing the participation of Bangla editors on the India list.
>
> Two, Jayanta and Arnab feel the biggest barrier facing Bengali wikipedia is
> lack of awareness that it exists; they would like media coverage, specially
> in Bengali newspapers, so that people start using it. No one ever became an
> editor without first being a user, right?
>
> Three, of course, Cal can't lay claim to being the biggest anniv
> celebration or anything or anything. But give us our due: Cal could lay
> claim to 'Best gender ratio among panelists', since women comprised 66% of
> the panel. :)
>
> Jesus, after a month here I'm already saying 'us'. Thank god I return to
> Bombay this week.
>
> Cheers
> Bishakha
>
>
>
>
>
>
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With Warm Regards,
*Jayanta Nath*
Calcutta,West Bengal
+91 9836294438
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