Dear All,
>>
>>The next monthly meetup of Pune wikipedians, WikiPuneri, is planned for Saturday 10 Mar 2010, from 1800 to 1900 hrs at Ranade Institute, Ferguson Road, Near Rupali, Pune
>>
>>The intended purpose of the meetup is:
>>
>>Set up a long-term plan for a year's worth of Wikipuneri activities, with detailed planning for Wikipedia activities .
>>
>>The agenda is as follows:
>>1. Discuss and plan for outreach activities in Pune
>>2. Communication and reporting of various activities of events
>>3. Reporting of past events like Marathi Wikisrot launch, Wiki academies
>>4. Discuss on increase member strength in Pune
>>5. Discuss immd. project in Pune and the support required
>>
>>Please sign up here :
>>
>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Pune/Pune19
>>
>>This is a very interesting and important meet so be sure to be present to push your ideas about what you would like to do!
>>
>>
>>With Regards,
>>
>>Mandar V. Kulkarni
>>http://mr.wikipedia.org
>>http://mr.wikisource.org
>>
Hi
Now that Dravid has retired, we will be seeing a spike in editing of the
articles. A lot of this may be highly emotional and the article may take a
severe POV battering.
I suppose POV monitoring and intervention would be more required on the
Indic language Wikis where there may be fewer editing eyeballs.
Request everyone to watchlist Rahul Dravid's article on all Indic language
wikis.
Regards
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Srikeit
Hey All,
It's feels great to receive so much enthusiasm and support from all of you regarding experimenting online outreach. But unfortunately, until now I haven't heard from anyone who'd want to participate in this session. I'm writing to invite all the people who are on this list but are not comfortable to edit - please come forward and register for this session. Here is the link to the registration form: http://tinyurl.com/RegistrationWikisession.
Here are some more details about the session:
Date: 10th March, Saturday (Sorry the date had to be changed. My earlier mail mentioned 11th March but we have a Delhi monthly meet-up at the same time)
Time: 3pm-6pm
Medium: Google hangout. Google hangout lets you do a group video conferencing, and it's completely free. Thou, you might have to install plug ins.
Logistics: Please make sure that you have a webcam installed and that your speaker and mic are functioning well. If you'd like to test audio, video, screen sharing, internet stability or just to test how Google hangout works please log in 15-30 mins before the start of the session - I'll be available on Google hangout starting 2.30pm to help you out with all the technical issues.
Maximum no. of participants: 9 participants + 1 facilitator. Up to10 people can do a google hangout together. Participation will be confirmed on the basis of first come first registration.
Please feel free to forward this mail to anyone who you think might be interested. Let me know if you have any questions at all about the session. Hoping to hear from many of you! :-)
Thanks
Nitika
Hoi,
The good news is that there is approval for the Gujarati Wikisource. We are
quite happy to post a bug asking for the creation of this new Wiki but for
one small detail. There is information lacking that is necessary for the
creation of this new wiki.
I am happy to share this news and I hope it will not take long before I can
inform you about the creation of the Gujarati Wikisource.
Thanks,
Gerard
*OUTREACH PROGRAMME*
JAMIA MILLIA ISLAMIA
&
WIKIMEDIA INDIA
INVITE APPLICATIONS FOR
A ONE DAY WORKSHOP ON
WIKIPEDIA<http://jmi.ac.in/bulletinboard/outreach/latest/72>
to be held on
MARCH 22, 2012
(from 2 PM to 5 PM)
in
The Committee Room, Nehru Guest House, Jamia Millia Islamia
The workshop will focus on the various projects of wikimedia foundation
together with how students can participate in these projects and improve
their research skills, writing skills, and critical thinking. The workshop
has a limited capacity of 40 students’ which will be decided on a first
come, first served basis. The students can register themselves by logging
on to:
Registration link: http://tinyurl.com/WikiRegistration
RSVP:
Office of the Outreach Programme, JMI
Contact # 011-26981717 Ext. 1051
Email: *mediajmioutreach(a)gmail.com*
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I'm starting a monthly note on what the India Program team will be focussing on at the start of every month. March 2012 is posted here. I hope you find it useful. Please do add comments on the discussion page, or on this mail trail, or offlist to me.
Many thanks.
hisham
Something in the light of our recent discussions :) A good read!
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From: Matthew Roth <mroth(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 12:05 AM
Subject: [Wmfcc-l] The kind, gentle approach to retaining new editors
To: Communications Committee <wmfcc-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi all,
You might remember Susan Hewitt from her
time<https://donate.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FundraiserLandingPage?uselang=en&…>
on
the top of Wikipedia during the last fundraiser.
Susan has become something of a den mother for WikiProject:Gastropods,
where she is the unofficial welcoming committee. At a lightening talk
recently in New York City, she argued that WikiProjects can be an important
tool for editor retention and development. Here's a new blog post about her
and WP:Gastropods.
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/03/08/the-kind-gentle-approach-to-retaining-…
The kind, gentle approach to retaining new
editors<http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/03/08/the-kind-gentle-approach-to-retaining-…>
Posted by MatthewRoth <http://blog.wikimedia.org/author/matthewroth/> on
March 8th, 2012
<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Susan_Hewitt_and_shell.JPG>
Susan Hewitt of WikiProject:Gastropods
At the Wikimedia Foundation, we’re developing a number of tools to improve
editor retention, from a dramatically simpler editing
interface<http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/12/13/help-test-the-first-visual-editor-deve…>
to
improved article feedback
tools<http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/12/20/a-new-way-to-contribute-to-wikipedia/>.
But
what if keeping new editors and helping them become productive long-term
contributors were simpler than all that?
Susan Hewitt <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Invertzoo> believes
fostering a little wiki love and a sense of camaraderie will go a long way
toward increasing new-editor retention. She is the informal den mother to
WikiProject:Gastropods<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Gastropods>,
one of the 2,000
WikiProjects<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject> on
English Wikipedia organized by editors who share an affinity for a
particular subject area and want to see the quality of those articles
improved.
“[Wikipedia] is a very big place,” said Hewitt, who lives in New York City.
“You start editing, it’s like you walked in off the street — it’s as big
and echoey asGrand
Central<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Central_Terminal>.
It’s like an enormous hospital or an enormous high school, where you don’t
know what’s going on, and you don’t know where you’re supposed to go, and
you’re disoriented by it.”
According to Hewitt, technological tools are vital to improving the editing
experience and she expressed gratitude to MediaWiki developers, paid and
volunteer, who consistently improve the editing experience. But the
question of human interactions remains even after the code is deployed. We
should approach each other on Wikipedia, she said, “with this attitude
which is kind, considerate, warm, appreciative, thankful and gentle. It’s
just like everyday life. This is a really amazing project, there’s a lot of
people working on it, and in a sort of vague way they know you’ve got to
try to be polite.”
She has developed a system for welcoming new editors to the project and she
has become adept at marshaling their strengths for improving Wikipedia. She
uses AlexNewArtBot <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:AlexNewArtBot> to
monitor new articles related to
gastropods<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastropods>,
one of the largest taxonomic classes on the planet and better known as
snails and slugs. When she sees an unfamiliar new editor, she drops by
their talk page with a colorful
template<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Gastropods/Invitation,_b…>
and
words of encouragement. She invites editors to participate in the
WikiProject using an array of pictures and barnstars, like a deep water sea
snail in the genus *Guildfordia<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guildfordia_yoka>
* or the luminous*Janolus fuscus<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janolus_fuscus>
*.
Her methods are paying off.
“To me, the moment Susan came to me and invited me to the project was
crucial, essential,” said Daniel
Cavallari<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Daniel_Cavallari>,
a biologist living in São Paulo, Brazil. “If I hadn’t been welcomed and
helped when I joined in, perhaps I wouldn’t be editing at Wikipedia
presently.”
Hewitt and Cavallari have never met in person, and maybe never will. They
are thousands of miles apart, but they share a mutual respect for the
project and they improve it constantly. Cavallari noted that he has had a
much different experience editing on his native Portuguese language
Wikipedia, where some editors have not been as kind to him.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chromodoris_willani_for_nudipixel.jpg>
A photo of Chromodoris willani, by Alex Jenner, Wikimedia Commons
Another member of Hewitt’s circle of wiki love is Alexander
Jenner<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Antarctic-adventurer>,
an astrophysicist living in Tokyo, Japan. Just like Cavallari, Jenner has
never met Hewitt in person, but he is grateful she welcomed him. Given his
interest in scuba diving and underwater photography, Hewitt encouraged him
to contribute his photos to Commons.
“Susan, she was doing other areas of Gastropods and she said ‘Nobody’s
doing nudibranchs <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nudibranch>, so we’re happy
to have somebody doing it.’” Jenner noted. “I guess I got a buzz when I was
the first person to add a high definition photo of a species that didn’t
exist [on Wikipedia]. It was like, ‘I did that photo.’”
Jenner said he had a much different experience on another WikiProject,
where there is no welcoming committee and there are often heated arguments.
If he had joined the other project before Gastropods, he said, “I doubt I
would have edited nearly as much. That early phase before one becomes
accustomed to the ways of Wikipedia is very important.”
“Susan most certainly made a difference in my case,” he added.
*(To get involved with
WikProject:Gastropods<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Gastropods>,
feel free to contact Susan Hewitt on her talk
page<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Invertzoo> or
reach out to any of the members of the project. For more information, read this
excellent piece<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2010-04-26/WikiPr…>
from
the Wikipedia Signpost WikiProject
series<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Archives/WikiProj…>
.)*
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Matthew Roth
Global Communications Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
+1.415.839.6885 ext 6635
www.wikimediafoundation.org
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Noopur Raval
Student
Arts and Aesthetics
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
Ph: 9650567690
Dear Members,
I would like to inform the Wikimedia India Chapter and its
volunteers/workers that the Featured Wikimedian for the last 2 months have
not been updated as such. I hope those who maintain the portal will look
into the matter soon enough not to be obsolete.
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Thanks & Regards,
Abhiram C (User: sbblr0803)
Forwarding this information about ZIM reader Kiwix, which is the reader
commonly used for the Offline Wikipedia projects.
Many of you on these lists I know have connections to both OLPC and/or
Offline Wikipedia, so I thought that you might at a minimum interested in
the update and hopefully also interested in helping test!
Best wishes to all -
Jessie
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From: Emmanuel Engelhart <emmanuel(a)engelhart.org>
Date: Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 11:17 AM
Subject: [Kiwix-testing] [KIWIX] New version of Kiwix for Sugar
To: "kiwix-testing(a)lists.sourceforge.net" <
kiwix-testing(a)lists.sourceforge.net>, olpc-france(a)lists.laptop.org
Dear testers,
we finally have fixed the big bug impacting loading of ZIM files with
0.8x versions of the OLPC OS. So, Kiwix should work now and be able to
load any ZIM file. No bug anymore concerning Kiwix on Sugar is still
open on our side.
Please test the last version and give us a feedback:
http://activities.sugarlabs.org/fr/sugar/addon/4483
Build your own small custom ZIM file there:
* https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sp%C3%A9cial:Livre
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Book
If everything still runs fine, we plan to introduce pre-packaged .xo
files (Kiwix+content) during the summer.
Regards
Emmanuel
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Wikimedia Foundation
*
Hi all,
On behalf of the Bangalore Wikipedia / Wikimedia Community, we would
like to co-cordially invite you to attend the 43rd Bangalore
Wikimeetup on*Sunday, 11 Mar 2012 3 PM
*
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiMeetups/Bangalore/Bangalore43
*Date: *: Sunday, 11-March-2012 Time: 3:00 PM IST
*Venue:*
The Centre for Internet and Society ( Wikimedia India Office)
No. 194, 2nd 'C' Cross,
4th Main
Domlur 2nd Stage
Opposite to Domlur Club
Bangalore 560 071
Karnataka
*Agenda*:
- *Native language transliterations in English Wikipedia articles* -
Swaroop G Rao (User:MikeLynch)
In English Wikipedia articles, articles with strong non-English
connections usually carry a transliteration (along with pronunciation) in
the language of origin. There was many disputes regarding these
transliterations. This presentation will focus primarily on these
transliterations, exploring many possible points of view into the problem.
Since India is a large country of over 28 states and 22 official languages
(and hundreds of other recognized languages), we can expect this problem to
be more pronounced in Indian articles. And not surprisingly, it is so. This
is a contentious issue many a times; and more often than not, regional
polarization occurs, even among established editors. Swaroop will speak
about looking into these problems objectively, and in the meantime, also
looking into possible solutions. Along the way, he will also present some
case studies of contentious discussions/edit wars which have already taken
place.
- *NASSCOM Initiative - Engineering Services* - RadhaKrishna Arvapally
(User:Arkrishna)
NASSCOM (Under Human Resources Ministry) has few initiative of which one
of them is Education Initiative: Under this initiative, NASSCOM aims to
enhance graduate employability through appropriate skill enrichment and act
as bridge between industry, academia and government. As being part of one
of the working groups, RadhaKrishna made a framework to add WikiMedia to
this course. He will be talking more about this.
- *Kerala Sarvavijnanakosham and Malayalam Wikipedia *- Ramesh N G
(User:Rameshng)
This story is about an effort to increase the content of the Malayalam
Wikipedia where the community is successful in getting the content from the
Kerala Government officially published Encyclopedia called as
SarvavijnanaKosham. In 2008, Kerala government Education minister announced
about giving the content of SarvavijnanaKosham to Malayalam Wikipedia. The
SarvavijnanaKosham contains nearly 21 volumes, each with ~1600 article; out
of which four volumes are published online. The license of the website
content is changed to GNU Free Documentation License 1.2. Malayalam
wikipedian a groups 7 users started transferring the content from the
website to Malayalam Wikipedia. Under the project while transferring the
content the users make sure that it wikified, possible images added,
interwiki given etc. This presentation is about the idea behind getting the
content, the project coordination, current status and future of this
project. This project is one of the motivating project and rich in content
where we are getting the article content which are written by subject
matter expert in SarvavijnanaKosham for last 70 years.
- *Community activities and Outreach in Kannada Wikipedia* -
Omshivaprakash H L(User:Omshivaprakash)
Omshivaprakash will talk about the recent increase in the Community
Activities around Kn-wiki and its future plans for outreach. He will be
also taking on how kn-wiktionary has adopted its best projects and
practices.
If you are planning to attend , you can sign up here
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiMeetups/Bangalore/Bangalore43#Sign_Up
or the facebook event page https://www.facebook.com/events/119678494824154/
( Note that facebook page shows the wrong time due to some bug)
If you need any help, feel free to contact us.
See you all there !
Regards
RadhaKrishna Arvapally & Tinu Cherian
