A special 'thank you' to Rohini Lakshane for working on this article.
Regards,
Nitika
Konkani Vishwakosh (encyclopaedia) relaunched with a free license, may boost Konkani Wikipedia
http://www.dnaindia.com/blogs/1901806/post-konkani-vishwakosh-encyclopaedia…
The Konkani Vishwakosh was re-released under a Creative Commons (CC-BY-SA 3.0) license last month at an event held at Goa University, Taleigao. The digital version of the Vishwakosh (encyclopaedia) will be available in a few months. Under the license, the Vishwakosh could serve as a source of reliable references for the Konkani langauge Wikipedia, which is currently under incubation.
Last month, Goa University re-released a four-volume encyclopaedia, Konkani Vishwakosh under a free license. The encyclopaedia presents information about the world with an emphasis on the Konkani language, Goan culture, the folklore, history, and geography of Goa, etc.
What does the open license mean?
The Konkani Vishwakosh was relaunched under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 (Creative Commons-Attribution-Share Alike 3.0) license. The Creative Commons licenses are a legal tool for copyright owners to manage rights and permissions for their works. Under the CC-BY-SA 3.0, users are free to reuse, modify, build upon, and redistribute content from the Konkani Vishwakosh, as long as they attribute it. The same license also applies to any work created by using content from the Konkani Vishwakosh. Licensing the sources of knowledge is a way of enabling access to knowledge, especially for those who may have little or no access to it.
Relevance to Wikipedia
One of the cornerstones of Wikipedia is the use of citations. All writing on Wikipedia must be supported by reliable and independent references. Any editor may challenge and removed unsubstantiated content on Wikipedia. The Konkani Vishwakosh could serve as a vast and versatile source of references for articles in the Konkani language Wikipedia, which is currently under incubation. Content from the Vishwakosh could go into the building of the Konkani Wikipedia as the text on Wikipedia too is available under a CC-BY-SA 3.0 license.
Digitisation of Konkani Vishwakosh
The Centre for Internet and Society - Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) team and Goa University together have undertaken a project to digitise the Vishwakosh over a period of two months (October and November 2013). They have made a call for volunteers to type out pages from the encyclopaedia in the Devanagri script. More about the project here.
Links to press coverage, and report of the launch event by CIS-A2K.
Apologies for the rant that follows and can be conveniently skipped by the
busy folks here.
I am quite intrigued by the kinds of discussion on this list and indeed
intrigued by most of the characters that seem to be involved in the
Wikimedia movement in India and how it stands out in contrast to the spirit
of Wikipedia and its sister projects. Whereas the project is more a culture
of giving, most of what we see here seems to be more about merely getting
things for oneself and getting ahead of each other which I suppose is
inspiration drawn from street traffic. Having observed the movement from
the outside, it is my hope that the best values of Wikipedia culture are
imbibed rather than the worst of Indian culture.
* Wikiculture - Deal with issues not the persons raising them - what
matters more than who. Those who actually interact with the *community* (an
earlier thread gave the suggestion that people would get an opportunity to
interact with the *community* only by attending Wikimania) on Wikipedia
will know this aspect. This is a symptom of the fact that hardly anyone out
here is really editing substantially.
* Wikiculture - Think independently and question everything - Wikipedia
achieved a lot and is interesting because it questions(or questioned)
paradigms that are (or were) taken for granted. It uses direct interaction,
direct democracy, rather than representatives. So voting people into
committees / positions that work in private is not the way things are done
here, it is by discussing ideas. Independence requires that you question
any sense of group identity.
* Wikiculture - Forsake cliques, identity traps and recognize in-out-group
dynamics. In particular I think much of the poverty of editing from India
comes from poor research driven by the idea that an "Indian" needs to
represent India-related Wikipedia entries in a (POV) way that apparently
instills pride among fellow-Indians!
* Wikiculture - Wiki is not paper, editors do not need an office, the best
community support is provided on-wiki. So again, why would having funds for
an office, 3 employees visiting that office each day (and adding to
Bangalore's traffic) help the Wikimedia movement? If something needs to be
organized, let leadership be elected on Wiki and let there be an grant such
as IEG on Wiki to support it. I have been quite intrigued by the idea of
Special Interest Groups being defined by many here by the language in which
they edit - one would expect SIGs to be subject dependent - so you could
have astronomers, law experts, literature experts, and so on with members
who work in multiple language mediums. There could be language specific
technical SIGs that work on IME, Unicode etc but what we see here instead
appears more like language chauvinism. Those professing to be subject
matter experts (and really ought to members of specific SIGs) out here seem
to contribute almost nothing to Wikipedia in their claimed area of
expertise - for instance there are quite a number of law experts in the
group and despite that, one finds that the law related articles, even on
the English Wikipedia quite atrocious. With the amount of money being
thrown here one would expect that at least something like the article on
the Indian Copyright Act to be a GA if not an FA (on the English WP).
I know that many of the people in the Wikimedia movement in India know each
other from before, have worked in the same NGOs or are good friends. That
is not to say that corporates and organizations across the world are devoid
of "old-school" connections but full disclosure would certainly be
appropriate here while not being disqualifying. I agree with the anonymous
commentator and would rather like to see issues being addressed just the
way Wikipedia works and not by Indian style ad hominem or argument from
authority.
In a somewhat Groucho-Marxian way I think an ideal club like the Wikimedia
India chapter should abhor club-mentality and should probably not want to
have me (or anyone) as an "exclusive" member. It should instead perhaps
consider everyone as a member. And for full disclosure - my political
leaning is obviously towards the anarchist-left-liberal end of the spectrum
unlike most of the Indian Wikipedian movement.
best wishes
Shyamal
en:User:Shyamal
I am looking for scanning contractors in Mumbai for a large-scale
digitisation project. Please contact me offlist if you are interested.
Regards,
Rohini
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Royal Society's online resources are available free for 24 hours.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Daria Cybulska" <daria.cybulska(a)wikimedia.org.uk>
Date: Oct 10, 2013 11:39 PM
Subject: [Gendergap] Free access to the Royal Society resources - creating
articles about Women in Science
To: "Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects" <
gendergap(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
HI all,
Wikimedia UK is running a Women in Science themed editing event on Friday
11 October 2013 in London to celebrate Ada Lovelace Day. Great news
is, Royal Society has opened its online resources for 11th October midnight
to midnight BST - no paywall. This will be available to everyone, from
anywhere in the world, at http://royalsocietypublishing.org/. You can also
search particular journals [http://royalsocietypublishing.org/journals].
If you would like to join us in editing while making use of the Royal
Society resource, please feel free! For an inspiration on what to edit
about, you could have a look at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_female_Fellows_of_the_Royal_Society
There are many more suggestions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women%27s_History/Ada_L…
If you do join us, you are welcome to
sign up
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women%27s_History/The_R…
and add the articles you created.
For those in London or around, you are welcome to attend the evening talk
on the 11th about Women in Science -
http://rs-women-in-science.eventbrite.co.uk/
All the best,
Daria
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+44 7803 505 170
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From: "Rohini Lakshané" <rohini(a)wikimedia.in>
Date: Oct 11, 2013 12:37 AM
Subject: Fwd: [Gendergap] Free access to the Royal Society resources -
creating articles about Women in Science
To: "Rohini Lakshané" <rohini.lakshane(a)gmail.com>
Sent from my bright yellow Xperia go. Pardon the typos, if any.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Daria Cybulska" <daria.cybulska(a)wikimedia.org.uk>
Date: Oct 10, 2013 11:39 PM
Subject: [Gendergap] Free access to the Royal Society resources - creating
articles about Women in Science
To: "Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects" <
gendergap(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, "Tom Morris" <tom(a)tommorris.org>, "Andrew
Gray" <andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk>, "Анастасия Львова" <stasielvova(a)gmail.com>,
"Netha Hussain" <nethahussain(a)gmail.com>, "Kounila Keo" <
kounilakeo(a)gmail.com>, "Lila Pagola" <lilapagola(a)gmail.com>, "Charlene
Foster" <afrastocracy(a)gmail.com>
HI all,
Wikimedia UK is running a Women in Science themed editing event on Friday
11 October 2013 in London to celebrate Ada Lovelace Day. Great news is, *Royal
Society has opened its online resources for 11th October midnight to
midnight BST* - no paywall. This will be available to everyone, from
anywhere in the world, at http://royalsocietypublishing.org/. You can also
search particular journals
[http://royalsocietypublishing.org/journals<http://royalsocietypublishing.org/journals>
] <http://royalsocietypublishing.org/journals>.
If you would like to join us in editing while making use of the Royal
Society resource, please feel free! For an inspiration on what to edit
about, you could have a look at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_female_Fellows_of_the_Royal_Society
There are many more suggestions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women%27s_History/Ada_L…
If you do join us, you are welcome to
sign up
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women%27s_History/The_R…
and add the articles you created.
For those in London or around, you are welcome to attend the evening talk
on the 11th about Women in Science -
http://rs-women-in-science.eventbrite.co.uk/
All the best,
Daria
-
Daria Cybulska - Programme Manager, Wikimedia UK
+44 (0) 207 065 0994
+44 7803 505 170
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+44 (0) 207 065 0994
+44 7803 505 170
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Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and
Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered
Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT.
United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia
movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who
operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects).
*Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control
over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.*
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N.A.Nazeer Participating in Malayalam Loves Wikimedia
3<http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/MLW3>,
the Photo Uploading Event as Solidarity to Free Knowledge Movement.
N.A.Naseer is Wildlife photographer and Nature conservation activist. He
is incessantly traveling in the forests of Kerala for the last 35 years.
In addition to Malayalam periodicals, he writes on wild life with
magnificent photographs, in magazines like Sanctuary Asia, Hornbill,
Frontline, Outlook, Traveller etc. He is a life member of Bombay Natural
History Society. He founded the Nature conservation society of
photographers. Also, a society for nature conservation and martial arts.
His book ' Woods and Photographer " on wild life, is the first of its kind
written in his mother tongue, Malayalam. It contains exciting real life
photographs of wild fauna of South India.The book was sold out in three
months .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N.A.Nazeerhttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:N_A_Nazeer%27s_uploads(uploading
just started.
)
Joseph Lazer 's Clicks
<http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&limit=250&off…>
Naseer's Website : http://www.nilgirimarten.com/
-FWD-
Subject: നസീറിന്റെ ചിത്രങ്ങൾ സ്വതന്ത്രലൈസൻസിൽ കോമൺസിലേക്ക്
To: Malayalam Wikimedia Project Mailing list <wikiml-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>,
Discussion list of Swathanthra Malayalam Computing <discuss(a)lists.smc.org.in
>
ഏവര്ക്കും ലോകഫോട്ടോഗ്രാഫി ദിനാശംസകള്.
*പ്രശസ്ത വന്യജീവിഫോട്ടോഗ്രാഫർ എൻ എ നസീറിന്റെ ചിത്രങ്ങൾ സ്വതന്ത്രലൈസൻസിൽ
വിക്കിമീഡിയ കോമൺസിലേക്ക്..*
മലയാളം വിക്കിമീഡിയ സമൂഹത്തിന്റെ ആഭിമുഖ്യത്തിൽ സംഘടിപ്പിക്കുന്ന മലയാളം
വിക്കിമീഡിയയെ <http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/MLW3>
<http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/MLW3>സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു<http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/MLW3>എന്ന
ഫോട്ടോ അപ്ലോഡിങ് ഇവ
ന്റിൽ പങ്കെടുക്കുന്ന നൂറിലധികം വിക്കിമീഡിയ പ്രവർത്തകർക്ക് ഐക്യദാർഢ്യവുമായി
പരിസ്ഥിതിപ്രവർത്തകനും വന്യജീവിഫോട്ടോഗ്രാഫറുമായ എൻ എ നസീറും സുഹൃത്ത് ജോസഫ്
ലാസറും. 350 ലധികം ചിത്രങ്ങള് സ്വതന്ത്രലൈസന്സില് പ്രസിദ്ധീകരിക്കാനായി
മുന്നോട്ടുവന്നിട്ടുണ്ട്.
അപൂര്വ്വവും ഉയര്ന്ന റെസല്യൂഷനിലുള്ളതുമായ ഒരു പിടി ചിത്രങ്ങളാണ് ഇതിലൂടെ
പകര്പ്പാവകാശം സ്വതന്ത്രമായി നമുക്ക് ലഭ്യമാവുന്നത്. 350ലധികം ചിത്രങ്ങള്
(ഏകദേശം 2.8 ജിബി) ആണ് ഈ ഒരു ചിത്രങ്ങള് അപ്ലോഡ് ചെയ്യുന്ന
ഇവന്റിനെക്കുറിച്ച് പറഞ്ഞപ്പോള് എന്.എ നസീറും ജോസഫ് ലാസറും സംഭാവനയായി
ക്രിയേറ്റീവ് കോമണ്സില് പ്രസിദ്ധീകരിക്കാനായി ഏല്പ്പിച്ചത്. ഡാറ്റയുടെ
വലിപ്പം കുറച്ചധികമായതിനാല് അപ്ലോഡിങ്ങ് പതുക്കെയേ നടക്കുന്നുള്ളൂ.
ഇതുപോലുള്ളവരുടെ ചിത്രങ്ങള് കോമണ്സിലെത്തുന്നതോടെ വിക്കി സംരംഭങ്ങളിലേക്ക്
സംഭാവന ചെയ്യാനെത്തവരെ കൂടുതല് ഇതിലേക്ക് ആകര്ഷിക്കാനാകുമെന്ന്
പ്രതീക്ഷിക്കാം :)
ക്രിയേറ്റീവ് കോമണ്സ് ലൈസന്സില് പ്രസിദ്ധീകരിക്കാന് മൂന്നോട്ട് വന്നതിന്റെ
പിന്നില് ലൈസന്സിങ്ങിനെ ചുറ്റിപ്പറ്റി ഒരു സംഭവമുണ്ട്. എന് എ നസീറിന്റെ
ചിത്രങ്ങള് ആട്രിബ്യൂഷന് നല്കാതെ കേരളം വനം വകുപ്പ് മാഗസീനുകളില്
പ്രസിദ്ധീകരിച്ചതിനെ ചോദ്യം ചെയ്തപ്പോള് നസീറിനേയും കൂടെയുള്ള സംഘത്തേയും
നിയന്ത്രിയ്ക്കാനെന്നപ്പോലെ കാട്ടിലെ ഫോട്ടോഗ്രാഫി നിയന്ത്രണം
ഏര്പ്പെടുത്തിക്കൊണ്ട് ഉത്തരവ് ഇറങ്ങുകയും ഇതിനെതിരെ വലിയ
പ്രതിഷേധങ്ങളുണ്ടാക്കുകയും നടന്നിട്ടുണ്ട്.
സ്വതന്ത്രലൈസന്സില് പ്രസിദ്ധീകരിച്ച ഈ ചിത്രങ്ങളെല്ലാം ആട്രിബൂഷനോടെ
പുനരുപയോഗിക്കാനും ജനങ്ങളിലേക്ക് സ്വതന്ത്രമായി ഉപയോഗിക്കാനായി എത്തിച്ചേരാനും
ഇതുവഴി സാധിക്കും. നിങ്ങളുടെ ഫോട്ടോഗ്രാഫി സുഹൃത്തുക്കളോടും ഈ വിധത്തില്
ചിത്രങ്ങള് പ്രസിദ്ധീകരിക്കാമെന്നുള്ള ആശയത്തെക്കുറിച്ച് പങ്കുവയ്ക്കുമല്ലോ :)
ചിത്രങ്ങളുടെ അപ്ലോഡിങ്ങ് പൂര്ത്തിയായിട്ടില്ല. കാടകത്തിലെ ചിത്രങ്ങള്
താഴെയുള്ള ലിങ്കില് കാണാം
എന് എ നസീറിന്റെ ചിത്രങ്ങൾ
<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:N_A_Nazeer%27s_uploads>
<http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&limit=250&off…>ജോസഫ്
ലാസറിന്റെ ചിത്രങ്ങള് :(വര്ഗ്ഗം ഇപ്പൊ കാണാനില്ല.സായിപ്പ് നീക്കം ചെയ്തു.)
Manoj.K/മനോജ്.കെ
www.manojkmohan.com
"We are born free...No gates or windows can snatch our freedom...Use
GNU/Linux - it keeps you free."
There are 14 entries so far, deadline for submission of entries is 7pm IST
today. Thereafter we will open voting after CC HQ ratifies the entries.
Thanking all those who have submitted entries so far and encouraging all
those who have not but wish to, to do so before the deadline.
Link: wiki.wikimedia.in/Deciding_CC_India_logo
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 1:11 AM, Pranav Curumsey <pranav(a)wikimedia.in>wrote:
> Hiya,
>
> The chapter along with Acharya Narendra Dev College in New Delhi and CIS
> needs to prepare a new logo for CC India. In true Wikipedia style, all 3
> organisations have agreed to crowdsource the logo.
>
> We request community members to come up with designs and submit entries by
> 5th October 2014. Details are on the wiki:
> wiki.wikimedia.in/Deciding_CC_India_logo
>
Dear Indian Wikimedians,
Although Wikimedia chapter for Pakistan is still in the discussion phase, we've working on creating of an official Wikimedia User Group, since the numbers of our community members at the moment are not sufficient for the creation of a chapter.
The main objective of this user group will be to act as a voice and representative for the Pakistani Wikimedian community and to promote Wikipedia and various Pakistani language Wikimedia Foundation projects throughout Pakistan and further strengthen the community.
The initial goals our user group will be: Organise regular meetings and meetups in major cities of Pakistan for discussions etc and planning of a Wikipedia workshop and Wikipedia Takes The City photo contest in 2014To empower and engage Pakistani Wikimedians in both on-wiki and off-wiki activitiesGrowth of the Wikimedian community in PakistanCreation of Wikimedia Pakistan chapter in the long run
Some ideas and suggestions from Indian chapter members will be welcomed and highly appreciated.
regards
SaqibAdmin, English Wikivoyage
The Closed Group is up at www.facebook.com/groups/gendergapindia
Participants at workshops or newbie editors often ask for easy ways to seek
help on Wikipedia and off it. Please share the URL with such participants.
The Group could be used a discussion board and to publicise Gender gap
related events.
- Rohini
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http://about.me/rohini
Hello everyone,
This is my first post to "Wikimedia India" mailing list, I recently
successfully completed my internship with WMF as a part of Google Summer of
Code. This year we had 9 students from India interning with WMF, this
number is huge considering the fact that 20 students were selected across
the globe. I was wondering if maybe we could have an annual "Indian
Wikimania", where developers can meet and share their experiences, conduct
hackathons, etc. We also have had many developers in the past GSoC editions
too. We could channel all this experience and organize an annual event.
There have been workshops in Kolkata( conducted by Sucheta nd team),
alongside the GNunify Conference, at BITS Goa campus. I could manage to
read the summary of these events and all of them turned out to be big hits.
So if we could conduct such workshops on a large scale annualy, we can
definitely attract more developers to contribute.
And any reason why the "The Wiki Conference" has only held in 2011 and not
continued after that?
I maybe wrong on my facts, please excuse me and correct me for that.
Thanks,
Rahul