Dear Mandar and the Pune community,
I'm writing this email on behalf of Pranav, myself and everyone else in the
Mumbai Community. We are really sorry that Pune has pulled out of being
co-hosts. In this email, we wanted to apologise for our contribution in your
making this decision and acknowledge the effort that the Pune community has
put in into this Conference.
We feel bad that the situation has come to this. It is not fair for only one
party to take the blame for making such a decision. For all the faults that
we may have committed knowingly or unknowingly, “Sorry”.
At this point, it will be unfair if we did not acknowledge the role that
Pune has played in bringing the Conference to this point. Let me re-assert
that the Conference would not have taken off without the help of the Pune
community. For everything that you have done, please accept our heartfelt
“Thank you”.
We also want to say that we need a lot of help in taking forward the
conference and we do hope that the Pune community will be involved in any
and every capacity they choose for the conference.
Warm regards,
Pradeep Mohandas
On 19 September 2011 17:36, Shekhar Krishnan <shekhar(a)mit.edu> wrote:
> In the meeting this Saturday we officially recorded the deep regret of
> everyone present at the withdrawal of the Pune community from the
> conference organisation.
>
> What is more regretful is that no explanation was given for this drastic
> step, and no open discussion took place on the issues which led to this
> split. While the policy questions about the composition of working
> groups, and scholarships and hosting for volunteers were resolved, it
> seems personal disagreements still linger.
>
> We are already quite thin on the ground in Mumbai, and need more
> volunteers and enthusiasts for the conference to be successful. For
> Mumbai's sister city of Pune to secede at this nascent stage in the
> formation of the all-India Wikipedia movement is indeed sad.
>
> At our meeting on Saturday, we discussed these points, and how we can
> strengthen the working group by assigning official Points of Contact
> (PoC) in every team/committee. For each team there will be a "backup"
> PoC if the main PoC cannot attend weekly online meetings, and devote
> time to their organisational duties.
>
> This conference needs all the help it can get. Certain teams
> (logistics/venue, technical/IT, party/fun) will benefit from PoCs based
> in Mumbai, but all working groups can benefit from participation by
> Wikipedians anywhere in India, including Pune.
>
>
>
> S.K.
>
> On 09/18/2011 05:12 PM, Kundan Amitabh wrote:
> > Hi !
> >
> > We regret the withdrawal of Pune community from the organisation of the
> > conference and sincerely hope that this will not affect their
> > continuing participation in the conference itself.
> >
> > Best Regards.
> >
> > Kundan Amitabh
> > Managing Director,
> > Ang India Technologies,
> > www.angindia.co <http://www.angindia.co/>
> > ======================
> > 9768884444 / 9869478444
> > ======================
> >
> > -----------------------------------------------
> >
> > Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 15:42:54 +0100 (BST)
> > From: Mandar Kulkarni <mvkulkarni23(a)yahoo.co.uk
> > <mailto:mvkulkarni23@yahoo.co.uk>>
> > Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Pune community
> > To: Wikimedia India Community list
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> > <mailto:wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>>,
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> >
> >
> >
> > Dear All,
> >
> > This to formally communicate to all that Pune wikipedians are
> > withdrawing from the co-hosting of the Conference due to the differences
> > came in?Mumbai
> > and Pune communities and many other unresolved?issues.
> >
> > For your information pls.
> >
> > With Regards,
> >
> > Mandar V. Kulkarni
> > -----------------------------------------------------
> >
> >
> >
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>
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> Mahim, Mumbai 400016, India
>
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Scholarship form is closed today morning.
Total number of applicants : 7070
Do you require a full, special or partial scholarship?
Full Scholarship, travel and accommodation included
4807 68%Full Special Scholarship, including travel and accommodation for
caregiver
3805% Partial Scholarship, accommodation only
71910%Partial Scholarship, travel only
3896%50% of Travel and Accommodation costs (You bear 50%)
2944%75% of Travel and Accomodation costs (You bear 25%)
480 7%
Sex:
Male
633190% Female
73810%
Do you plan to speak in Wiki Conference India 2011?
Yes
296242%No
410758%
Do you contribute to Wikimedia commons?(Optional question)
Yes
138420% No
419459%
Number of responses without dates: 1
Number of daily responses
Naveen Francis
for Scholarship Team, WCI 2011.
Hi
I wanna share some statics on Indic language on web in Unicode , I
conducted a simple search on 18th September 2011 at 9:00 pm with
language name in Unicode with three leading search engines Google, Yahoo,
Bing . I did't include Sanskrit bacasue is based on the Devanagari script .
This latest estimates can help to find the Internet Users by Language
(unicode) due to the lack of other sources in data mining and
technical issues please consider this analysis is just of information
purpose only .
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* Google Yahoo Bing *
অসমীয়া (Assamese) 739,000 91,500
196,000
বাংলা (Bengali) 20,400,000 49,600,000
18,600,000
English 8,510,000,000 2,180,000,000
4,190,000,000
فارسی (Farsi) 222,000,000 193,000,000
5,7,000,000
ગુજરાતી (Gujarti) 12,000,000 4,680,000
4,190,000
हिन्दी (Hindi) 251,000,000 70,500,000
1,7400,000
ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada) 12,700,000 19,500,000
6,130,000
کًشُر (Kashmiri) 44,300 424,000
7,160
മലയാളം (Malayalam) 23,800,000 36,400,000 13,800,000
मराठी (Marathi) 17,500,000 10,800,000
10,600,000
ଓଡ଼ିଆ (Oriya) 1,550,000 123,000
141,000
ਪੰਜਾਬੀ (Punjabi) 23,000,000 4,490,000
2,110,000
தமிழ் (Tamil) 59,800,000 66,100,000
16,600,000
తెలుగు (Telugu) 40,100,000 24,900,000
9,230,000
اردو(Urdu) 49,900,000 43,100,000
10,500,000
Regards
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Hi !
We regret the withdrawal of Pune community from the organisation of the
conference and sincerely hope that this will not affect their
continuing participation in the conference itself.
Best Regards.
Kundan Amitabh
Managing Director,
Ang India Technologies,
www.angindia.co
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9768884444 / 9869478444
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Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 15:42:54 +0100 (BST)
From: Mandar Kulkarni <mvkulkarni23(a)yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Pune community
To: Wikimedia India Community list
<wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>,
"wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org"
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Dear All,
This to formally communicate to all that Pune wikipedians are withdrawing
from the co-hosting of the Conference due to the differences came in?Mumbai
and Pune communities and many other unresolved?issues.
For your information pls.
With Regards,
Mandar V. Kulkarni
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Dear Srikanth and Aniruddh,
I sincerely believe that sometimes, or rather most of the time, our
sensationalist mediapersons have no clue as to what they say and what
they should really say.
But then, Arindam Chaudhary could be behind it. He loves criticising
Wikipedia, Twitter and Facebook, or anything, where the general public
can post. Yes, I believe he is behind this.
Srikanth, Coimbatore.
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Sent from my mobile device
Regards,
ME.
Wear a Lungi, Support the Movement
My infrastructure invasion... plus other images
too.. on Wikimedia Commons. http://bit.ly/d50SIq
The thirteenth meeting of Wikipedia Mumbai community was held at the Center
for Education and Documentation, Colaba. The meeting was scheduled to be
held between 4 pm and 6 pm but went on till 7 pm. We would like to thank the
Center for Education and Documentation for providing the venue and being
patient despite us crossing the time limit.
The meeting had two agenda items:
1. Introductions
2. Update on WikiConference India 2011
There were 15 people present at the meeting.
1. After a round of introductions, Pranav presented an update on
WikiConference India 2011.
2. Prof. Nagarjuna proposed and offered the facilities of the hostel at the
Homi Bhaba Center for Science Education (HBCSE) for a few Wikipedians. The
conference working group has been requested to get back to him with number
of people and has offered the place even a few days before the conference.
3. The discussion turned to the backing out of Pune from the organisation of
the conference. It was resolved by members in the Mumbai community to put
out this statement: "We regret the withdrawal of Pune community from the
organisation of the conference and sincerely hope that this will not affect
their continuing participation in the conference itself."
4. a. It was suggested to have weekly meetings of the Points of Contacts of
the various teams in the Working Group of the Conference along with the
Functionaries. It was suggested that the meeting be held on a platform such
as Jabber with Sabse Bolo conference as backup.
4. b. It was suggested that each team also have a back up Point of Contact,
in case the Point of Contact could not attend the meeting. Missing the
meeting twice in a row would mean that the person would be out.
4. c. It has been suggested that the first Point of Contacts and
Functionaries meeting be held next Saturday at 5 pm subject to approval by
the Points of Contact and their backups.
5. There was an open question left unanswered on the gender imbalance in the
Working Group.
6. We wanted to increase the volunteer base in the working group and it was
felt that there should be recruitment of more Wikipedians and there should
be increased publicity of the Conference in Mumbai and across India.
7. There will be two WikiAcademies held in North and South Mumbai very soon.
The date for the first one will be October 1, 2011 at the Center for
Education and Documentation, Colaba. Thatzit has offered its premises in
Goregaon for the organisation of the second WikiAcademy. The date for this
WikiAcademy is to be finalized.
The meeting ended at 7 pm as the Center had to close its premises.
--
Pradeep Mohandas
How Pradeep uses email - http://goo.gl/6v1I9
HiYa All..
Just an update on the September 2011 Translation Rally on translatewiki.net
24 users have made it among them One user from India Psubhashish (Subhashish
Panigrahi aka. Subha Pa) and another from Nepal, Saroj Kumar.
Any newbie out there interested in such competition, keep looking :) :)
Details can be found @
http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Thread:Project_talk:Rally-2011-09/translatewi…
Sorry, If I'm spamming ;) :D
cheers...
Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Ansuman Giri
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