*Times of India : "Online encyclopedia promotes itself as teaching-learning
tool"*
http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-06-07/pune/29629403_1_onli…
*PUNE: Wikipedia.org, the largest online encyclopedia in the world, has
invited teachers and students in India to incorporate Wikipedia as teaching
and learning tool in classrooms through its Wikipedia India Education
Programme. The initiative coincides with the start of this academic year,
with Pune as its pilot project. Various colleges and universities are being
united to participate in the initiative, with students having the
opportunity to contribute by editing articles related to their syllabus on
Wikipedia, in lieu of conventional paper or report submissions.*
*
*
*Hisham Mundol, who leads India Programmes, said, "Information about India
and that which is contributed by its people is not adequately represented on
Wikipedia. We want to change that by increasing the number of editors from
India. The Wikipedia India Education Programme will promote this by
encouraging teachers in Pune to join a global community of educators who use
Wikipedia as teaching and learning tool in classrooms."*
*
*
*The Wikipedia team has therefore chosen 22 campus ambassadors in Pune to
help them in this programme.*
*
*
*"The campus ambassadors are essentially volunteers who would work with
teachers to incorporate Wikipedia and train students on how to write
articles on Wikipedia. They would support both students as well as teachers,
during the course of the semester. During the course of the initiative, we
will provide teaching material and example lesson plans, expecting the
professors to assign their students Wikipedia articles to write or improve,
as part of the class," said Mundol, adding that the project will cover a
wide range of subjects such as engineering and economics and media and law
and architecture and medicine and biology and any other area of academic
interest.*
*
*
*The team proposes to replace student reports and papers with Wikipedia
articles. "We will thus work with teachers and professors through campus
ambassadors to identify potential articles on Wikipedia that can be created
or improved through class work for that particular semester. Through the
initiative, we also hope to create educational materials in the form of
quality articles, including those about topics important to Indians, as well
as people all across the globe," said Mundol.*
*
*
*According to Mundol, Pune was chosen as the pilot city for having the
world's largest number of colleges and universities, which are attended by
more than 200,000 students. "The pilot project in Pune is being used to
experiment and learn from before any roll-out of a large-scale program
throughout India," added Mundol.*
*
*
*The Wikipedia team feels that students would get a lot out of the editing
assignments. "As opposed to writing a paper that they work on alone and that
which is seen by a single person, the students will now work collaboratively
with other Wikipedia editors. Thousands of people all over the world could
then refer to their contributions for educational purposes. As for the
educators who participate, they would engage and become part of a wider
global community of educators who are on the forefront of implementing new
teaching and learning practices, thus engaging with a larger, global
academic community," said Mundol.*
Regards
Tinu Cherian
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/In_the_news#June_2011
Hey All:
Expanding on what Achal had mentioned:
> 1) The 2011 WikiConference: are there other communities with proposals
> or is the Mumbai/Pune proposal the only feasible one on the table?
The EC would like to know whether we can expect any bids or
expressions of interest from other communities/cities in India for
this event this year?
It would be great if you could let us know at the earliest, please,
and definitely by 14th of June?
Thank you.
Best,
Gautam
Thank you.
Best,
Gautam
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Hey All:
We realise that the WikiConference Framework has caused some confusion and
we wanted to clarify this.
The Chapter EC would like to indicate intent of the following:
- The Chapter indicates its intent to take the responsibility of working
with various stakeholders to have this event run year on year
- We would like to help build with the community a repeatable and
sustainable set of methods that would help organize an national annual
Wikimedian event.
- The focus is to evolve a framework that would allow City, Chapter and
other community stakeholders to participate in organising the annual event
in manner that the experiences, learning and best practices can be carried
forward across years.
The following clarifications are also in order:
1. The framework is a draft and is open for further refinement with
various stakeholder inputs. The framework will always be an ideal goal. Even
if the proposal doesn't match it, the idea is for the Chapter to help bridge
that gap.
2. We do believe that as a general practice it is good haver many cities
bidding to run this event on annual basis and that a choice is made based on
the merits of the bid.
3. The enthusiasm and passion shown by the Mumbai and Pune Wikipedians in
taking the lead get an event of this nature for the first time is laudable.
We also owe a debt of gratitude to the Bombay and Pune communities for
bringing the discussion and planning thus far for the event.
4. What we intended to communicate is that we know Mumbai has an event
being planned and even if it doesn't match whatever framework we all come up
with, it doesn't really matter, because all of us, Community and Chapter,
will work together to bridge the gap such that the event works.
5. It's awesome that Mumbai and Pune communities are ready to go with the
event. It doesn't appear at this stage that there any other volunteers or
bids in the making. We all want an event of this nature to happen. That
said, we are also trying to put some process and structure around it for
future events.
Thank you very much.
For Wikimedia Chapter, India.
Best,
Gautam
Hi Wikipedians of Bangalore,
It is my pleasure to introduce *Tory
Read *to the 34th Wiki Meetup Bangalore.
*Tory Read is a writer and social historian with an MA in Journalism and a
BA in Comparative Literature from Stanford University. For 25 years, she
has documented stories, results and lessons learned for innovative
community projects. She has done this extensively in the US, Asia and the
Pacific, in a variety of subjects, including environment conservation,
education, economic development, juvenile justice, affordable housing, and
community media. Her specialty is to tell the story from multiple points of
view of the people on the ground doing the work.*
*
Currently,she is a consultant to Wikimedia Foundation. The Foundation asked
her to write a story about the growth of Wikipedia in India, including
the Foundation's unfolding role, and to capture lessons learned so far.
The piece will serve to inform people inside and outside of India about
what is happening on the ground, and the lessons learned section will
inform the Foundation's future work in India as well as its future work in
other areas of the global south. *
Tory is equally excited to meet the "much hyped" Bangalore meetups and
Wikipedians in Bangalore. I am sure that she is particularly interested in
learning the experiences from the Wikipedians of Bangalore. :)
Btw we are also working on some planned talks and discussions for the
upcoming meetup on Sunday and will be announced shortly.
Do sign up and hope to see you all there on Sunday.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:MBL34
*Date :* 12 June 2011, 3PM Sunday
*Venue :*
The Centre for Internet and Society
No. 194, 2nd 'C' Cross,
4th Main
Domlur 2nd Stage
Opposite to Domlur Club
Bangalore 560 071
Karnataka
Regards
Tinu Cherian
Dear All,
We are planning to start few new WikiProject for Odia Wikipedia:
1. *Odia Loves Wikipedia*: A project for adding media files to Wikipedia,
this will include pictures, videos related Odisha like famous places,
people, etc
2. *Odia Sahitya:* A project destined to make Odia Wikipedia an extensive
resource of Odia Literature. This will bring a swift in adding more Odia
Literature specific Articles [
http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/category:Odialiterature ], pictures of
Odia writers and autographs of the writers.
As we have set the target of 1000 articles before and it was a huge success
[ http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:Wpjun1 ], we expect you all take part in
this movement of adding encyclopedic articles to Wikipedia.
Lets [Edit <http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:VP>] Odia
Wikipedia<http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%AA%E0%AD%8D%E0%AC%B0%E0%AC%A7%E0%AC%BE%…>
.
Please take part in Village pump at *http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:VP* for
consensus and changes/modifications.
regards
*
ସୁଭପାSubhaPa
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See forwarded message thanks!
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From: Steven Walling <swalling(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 4:35 PM
Subject: IRC office hours with Sue Gardner, this Friday the 10th at 06:00
UTC
To: foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Hi everyone,
Sorry that we sent out less than a week's notice, but I wanted to extend an
invitation to Sue's office hours this Friday the 10th, at 06:00 UTC.[1]
We're doing it at this time specifically to meet with Wikimedians in
Asia,[2] but the topic of discussion has not been set, so feel free to come
with things you're interested in hearing about.
Talk to you soon,
--
Steven Walling
Fellow at Wikimedia Foundation
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1. Meta: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours
2. Conversion from UTC:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=06&min=00&sec=0&d…
--
Steven Walling
Fellow at Wikimedia Foundation
wikimediafoundation.org
Well I have placed the chapter request with a lot of discussion with Mayur, a member of the Grand Advisory Committee. We have the support of many hindi wikipedians including two crats, Mayur and Ashish. And we will soon get the support from more 20 wikipedians. Wikimedia India chapter is mainly Concentrated toward South Indian
Languages, New Chapter in New delhi will help make a good community in India. Well Tinu, you are right, you don't need more organisations, but we need. Well, 10-20 people interested are needed for a chapter, lets see, if we gets them, then only we will proceed.
Vibhi, if you need help, I can try and get some friends in Delhi et all to
join you in your enthusiasm.
While I'm pleased to see your enthusiasm, your over enthusiasm is what
worries me.
Bishakha,
Just to point out, our community was going super strong in the first half of
2009, before our first meetup at Tinu Cherian's house in July 2009. We were
colaborating, discussing and working together, on Wikipedia itself. Without
the mailing list, knowing each other, offline, on Facebook or Twitter ...
Ask anyone in the Banglore community, purely by using Users talk pages we
got several GA and FA level articles. Gdibyendu, SBC-YPR, me and Logicwiki
got Transport in India elevated to GA, without knowing each other offline.
Now, I request Vibhi to think with a clear mind.
- Regards,
SR
Sent from my Motorola L9. Please excuse spelling errors.
On Jun 6, 2011 12:30 PM, "Bishakha Datta" <bishakhadatta(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Bishakha Datta <bishakhadatta(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
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>
> On Mon, Jun...
Just realized my last two sentences could be misread/misinterpereted: just
to clarify - it would be great if interested wikipedians in Delhi/North
India could meet and make plans to build these communities. To me, this
seems to be the critical first step, more than plans to start a sub-national
chapter. Community activism is what seems to be needed.
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