Please note that the *last date of nominations* for Executive Committee
Elections 2011 of Wikimedia India chapter is *Aug 29, 2011*
With less than 3 days to go for the last date of nominations, there were
just 2 nominations for the 3 vacant posts.
This is very disappointing and concerning for the future of Wikimedia
Chapter India.
I sincerely appeal to the veteran Wikipedians / Wikimedians of India to come
forward and help grow the chapter.
Regards
Tinu Cherian
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Gautam John <gautam(a)prathambooks.org>wrote:
> Dear All:
>
> We have instituted a monthly call between the India Chapter and the
> Wikimedia Foundation. Members of the Chapter EC, Hisham and Asaf Bartov
> (who heads up Global South Relationships at the Foundation) will participate
> in this call. The objective of the call is to share information and improve
> collaboration between the Chapter and the Foundation on various Wikimedia
> projects of relevance to India. We had the first one on Aug 24, 2011, and
> here's a quick update.
>
> *Chapter Update*
>
> - 30 persons attended the workshop on Copyright and Open Licensing
> conducted on 30th July 2011 in Bangalore, which was well received.
> http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Events/Copyright_and_Open_Licensing_SeminarPlan
> - Plan to conduct 1st WikiAcademy with the Department of Public
> Libraries, Karnataka for their senior Library professionals on 12 Sep 2011.
> - Membership currently stands at ~80
> - Participation from community on some projects but the response is
> below expectations. Chapter hopes that the response will improve as more
> activities are taken up by Chapter in the near future.
> - AGM will be conducted on September 24 2011. Elections process for
> EC vacancies has been initiated.
> - Process for applying for FCRA prior permission has been actioned with
> necessary steps being taken with local banks, consultants and the WMF. The
> bank account required for FCRA is ready. The draft of letter from WMF will
> be finalized in a week by Chapter Accountant and Advisor (another
> prerequisite) and then FCRA application will be submitted. 3-4 months are
> required for approval by Home Ministry, Government of India.
>
> *Foundation Update*
>
> - Education Program is doing well from a numbers perspective - with
> more than 1000 students involved. However, there is a great deal of effort
> required to continue to support and enable and motivate these students.
> Additional Campus Ambassadors are being selected from the participating
> institutions. Hisham requested that everyone reach out and be encouraging
> to the Campus Ambassadors, students and teachers.
> - 2 new staff members selected; Nitika has joined & Shiju will be
> joining by October
> - Initial conversations were being sought with leading mobile companies
> to explore Wikipedia on mobile
> - Independent public trust to be set up hopefully by next week,
> followed by FCRA prior permission and other approvals required for tax
> exemption, etc.
>
> *Collaboration on future projects*
>
> Some requests from colleges to participate in campus ambassador
> like program were received by the chapter and Hisham. Hisham said that till
> the ongoing program is stable, he will not be able to roll it to other
> cities. He suggested that colleges can get started by forming student
> clubs and Foundation staff are providing necessary information and
> assistance for the same. He also requested Chapter EC to extend their
> support for the same.
>
> Chapter seeks active involvement in the elections and looks to grow its
> membership base and expand it's reach in encouraging the use
> and contributions to the Wikimedia movement in India.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Best,
>
> Gautam
>
>
>
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Dear All:
We have instituted a monthly call between the India Chapter and the
Wikimedia Foundation. Members of the Chapter EC, Hisham and Asaf Bartov
(who heads up Global South Relationships at the Foundation) will participate
in this call. The objective of the call is to share information and improve
collaboration between the Chapter and the Foundation on various Wikimedia
projects of relevance to India. We had the first one on Aug 24, 2011, and
here's a quick update.
*Chapter Update*
- 30 persons attended the workshop on Copyright and Open Licensing
conducted on 30th July 2011 in Bangalore, which was well received.
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Events/Copyright_and_Open_Licensing_SeminarPlan
- Plan to conduct 1st WikiAcademy with the Department of Public
Libraries, Karnataka for their senior Library professionals on 12 Sep 2011.
- Membership currently stands at ~80
- Participation from community on some projects but the response is below
expectations. Chapter hopes that the response will improve as more
activities are taken up by Chapter in the near future.
- AGM will be conducted on September 24 2011. Elections process for EC
vacancies has been initiated.
- Process for applying for FCRA prior permission has been actioned with
necessary steps being taken with local banks, consultants and the WMF. The
bank account required for FCRA is ready. The draft of letter from WMF will
be finalized in a week by Chapter Accountant and Advisor (another
prerequisite) and then FCRA application will be submitted. 3-4 months are
required for approval by Home Ministry, Government of India.
*Foundation Update*
- Education Program is doing well from a numbers perspective - with more
than 1000 students involved. However, there is a great deal of effort
required to continue to support and enable and motivate these students.
Additional Campus Ambassadors are being selected from the participating
institutions. Hisham requested that everyone reach out and be encouraging
to the Campus Ambassadors, students and teachers.
- 2 new staff members selected; Nitika has joined & Shiju will be joining
by October
- Initial conversations were being sought with leading mobile companies
to explore Wikipedia on mobile
- Independent public trust to be set up hopefully by next week, followed
by FCRA prior permission and other approvals required for tax exemption,
etc.
*Collaboration on future projects*
Some requests from colleges to participate in campus ambassador like program
were received by the chapter and Hisham. Hisham said that till the ongoing
program is stable, he will not be able to roll it to other cities. He
suggested that colleges can get started by forming student clubs and
Foundation staff are providing necessary information and assistance for the
same. He also requested Chapter EC to extend their support for the same.
Chapter seeks active involvement in the elections and looks to grow its
membership base and expand it's reach in encouraging the use
and contributions to the Wikimedia movement in India.
Thank you.
Best,
Gautam
I am happy to share a tiny web application to help people get started with
using Indian languages on Computers in public places, using wiki sites.
Check it out
http://gyanpad.appspot.com/
Cheers
Arjun
hi,
We had the 12th Wikipedia meetup in Mumbai at Lower Parel. The minutes of
the meeting are as below:
1. The meeting was held in the offices graciously provided by new community
member Sahil and a member in the WikiConference teams.
2. The meeting began at 4:30 pm.
3. Eleven (11) people attended the meetup.
4. We had a round of introductions of the eleven people.
5. After the round of introductions, Hisham Mundol from the
Wikimedia Foundation India office provided an update.
5. a. He said that two members were added to office staff - Nitika Tandon
and Shiju Alex. Nitika would be working with the Pune Education Program.
Shiju will join them in the end of October.
5. b. He said that the Educations Program was successful. They expected 250
students but have now got about 1000 students. They are working on how to
manage this larger than expected outcome. One of the things they are
considering is having more Campus Ambassadors in Pune.
5. c. The office is also (hopefully) to be registered as a public trust
soon.Various options were considered before they reached this decision. They
are also looking for premises in the National Capital Region.
5. d. Hisham introduced Nitika Tandon to the members present.
6. Nitika provided an update on the India Education Programme.
6. a. She said that she had recently taken up her work at posting in Pune.
6. b. She has also been talking to 2-3 colleges in Pune but they have been
taking it slow since they have to manage the current student count.
7. Hisham suggested that one of the star students is user:basic.atari (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Basic.atari) who has been great and
requested Mumbai community members to send him some wikilove. (How? - Once
you log in, click on the heart in the top right of the user page to whom you
want to send wikilove and be led through some steps to send people wikilove)
8. Achal gave a small talk on Oral Citations project. We were (Again) not
able to show the video.
8. a. Achal said that the Wikipedia before ~2004 did not have citations and
they grew as the Wikipedia project grew over the years.
8. b. He said citations currently was currently done from the publications
industry which has stronger and wider presence in European and North
American countries.
8. c. This combined with the limitations on what are rules on what could get
cited, could be one of the reasons for decrease in the growth of new editors
on Wikipedia.
8. d. The limitation on citation and deletion of articles without good
citations turned off new Wikipedia users and also took away some of the
revolutionary ideas around which Wikipedia was born. Other form of citations
were thus to be considered.
8. e. Wikipedians in India and South Africa worked on the Oral Citations
project - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Oral_Citations
9. The meeting was concluded at 6 pm.
--
Pradeep Mohandas
How Pradeep uses email - http://goo.gl/6v1I9
Hi All,
I am watching the mailing list for quite sometime here. I would like
to understand how can I contribute to wikimedia ?
--
Vijai Ganapathy
Mailto: Vijai.Ganapathy(a)gmail.com
Dear friends,
The much-delayed Pune meetup will take place at SICSR , 7th Floor, at 6 PM
on Monday, 29 August 2011. The points on the agenda are :
* WikiConference update
* Meet the Campus Ambassadors & interact with them
* Oral Citations project ( video will be shown)
All Puneri Wikipedians are requested to come for the meetup. We request the
Campus Ambassadors to make it too!
Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur
------------------------------------------------------
Hi Folks
As I mentioned earlier, we're scheduling the Monthly IRC of India Programs tomorrow (Thursday August 25th) at 9pm IST. This will be on the #wikimedia-office channel. (For those who are not familiar with IRC, it is an Internet messaging system similar to a regular chat room. It's very simple to use and you can join in by clicking on the following link: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#wikimedia-office)
The main agenda items are to give an update on India Programs - and also for Nitika and Shiju to introduce themselves, and for you to get to know them better. For those who missed the earlier mail exchanges on this, Nitika Tandon and Shiju Alex have joined the Wikimedia Foundation's team in India. (Nitika has already started and Shiju will be starting shortly.) I'm really excited about the additions to the team and I invite you to come join us tomorrow night to welcome them aboard!
Hope to see many, many of you tomorrow.
Best
Hisham Mundol
Wikimedia India Programs
skype : hisham.wikimedia
gtalk : hmundol(a)wikimedia.org
twitter : @mundol
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