Hi Ravi,
Thank you so much appreciating efforts.
I just want to clarify few things :
*1) Summit - Conference : It is different - *
Summit skeleton is completely different as compared to conference.
Conference : One speaker and remaining audience. It is most of time - one
way communication. (except Q & A)
Summit : It is more interactive and two way communication, everyone gets
platform to share. (More like Panel discussion)
More details will be shared soon.
*2) Value dilation : *
Repeating same, Conference comes up with different model and skeleton. So
it is going to 'add value' to existing outreach.
Additionally , our aim is to host Summit every year at same place for
continuity.
*3) Just event? *
We are going to introduce projects to follow for one year. So Summit is
just kick start ti those ambitious projects.
Reports of projects will be published in next year's Summit, and new
projects will selected as per requirement.
*4) Chapter involvement : *
Chapter is official body in India, and it will be there in future too. We
have full respect for Chapter - as they were pioneer to introduce
WikiConference India, as well as many projects. It is difficult to imagine
Wiki outreach in India without Chapter.
We believe, Chapter is there is to support community initiatives, and
Summit is also community initiative.
We have '*requested*' Chapter to nominate three Chapter representatives in
planning committee, we are hopeful about their response.
*5) Community involvement : *
Summit itself is being planned *by small community*, we do understand there
is exists a *bigger and wider community* with lot of credibility and
experience.
We would also like to request community members to be part of Planning
Committee to execute whole activity.
Do let us know if anyone want to volunteer.
*
6) Why Summit, What is Spoken Wikipedia and Why Pune? *:
P.S : City, Summit and Spoken
*
7) There are many flaws and mistakes : *
Instead of having bullet-proof shell, Summit idea is to have discussion to
develop Wikipedia in more dynamic and innovative way (like Spoken
Wikipedia).
If we 've hurt anyone in whole process, we would like to apologize
publicly. At same, we expect support by assuming good faith. For Summit
2014 planning, definitely we will improve and learn from our mistakes.
*P.S :* Everyone working for Summit is volunteer, *No one is getting
fellowship or grants to run Summit.* We are working professionals, who are *
donating* their time and energy to make Summit happen. It is by the
community, for the wider community event.
We believe Spoken Wikipedia through Summit is going to bring hope of light
in disabled persons life.
Keep Suggesting, Keep Inspiring! :)
Best Regards,
Abhishek Suryawanshi,
User:AbhiSuryawanshi <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:AbhiSuryawanshi>
On Behalf of Wikipedia Club Pune
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Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2012 20:57:43 +0530
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Summit India 2013 for Spoken
Indian Language Wikipedia!
Hi,
I appreciate the effort by the Wikipedia club Pune.
Please let me know if the idea for the summit was widely discussed in the
community well in advance.
Somehow I feel that such an event may dilute the importance of
Wikiconference India event and may even confuse audience which is what.
It will be good to know if the chapter was consulted on any national level
event.
Right now, the whole planning of the event seems arbitrary.
Ravi.
P.S: Who created this story that Pune is the education hub of India? :)
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Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2012 21:02:05 +0530
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Most recent updates on the hiring of the
Programme Director for the A2K programme
Jadine,
I appreciate the transparent methodology and engaging the community in
hiring the programme director.
Ravi
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Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2012 00:50:21 +0530
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki Academy in Goa in Dec
On 06-Dec-2012, at 1:21 PM, Frederick FN Noronha * फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या *
فريدريك نورونيا wrote:
Dear Nitika, Is it possible to get in touch with others who have been
contributing to the Goa pages in the past?
Absolutely! We can invite Wikipedians from Goa
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Goan_Wikipedians>
and members of WikiProject
Goa<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GOA>
.
Also, some of us have bandwidth problems here, otherwise we would have
contributed more. Is it possible to set up a small team to continue this
process, in Goa itself, after the workshop is done?
The Central Library has a lot of space and tend to be supportive in such
work. Its Curator, Carlos Fernandes, was even supportive when Richard
Stallman of the FSF visited many years ago. They understand the importance
of creating sharable resources. At the library, you can spot some displays
of open journal websites, etc which researchers can freely access. You
could build on such synergies.
We have a meeting scheduled with the State Central Library on the 13th Dec
at 10.30am. We can most definitely work out a plan with them. I'm hoping
you'll be able to join for this meeting too.
I have raised a ticket to lift IP rate limit:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42767. Hope it gets
resolved at the earliest.
Thanks
Nitika
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Cc:
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2012 12:08:51 +0530
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] The Hindu : "Indians win in Wiki mega
photo contest"
*The Hindu : "Indians win in Wiki mega photo contest"*
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/indians-win-in-wiki-mega-p…
http://www.twitpic.com/bjqjvm ( Print coverage) - Large coverage on rear
cover page !!
*WLM beat its own record this year with more than 3,50,000 images
Two photographs sent by Indians have won the first and sixth places in
what Guinness World Records has called the largest photo competition.
Called ‘Wiki Loves Monuments 2012!’ (WLM), the online competition was
organised by Wikipedians all over the world, Karthik Nadar, secretary and
Board member, Executive Committee, Wikimedia India Chapter, told The Hindu .
Pranav Singh’s photo of Safdarjung’s tomb in New Delhi secured the first
place internationally while Narender Kumar’s photo of the Taj Mahal got the
sixth place. The two photos had been rated ninth and first respectively in
the competition held at the India level. Other Indian finalists sent photos
of the country’s tombs, temples and military forts. Narender Kumar told The
Hindu that most photos of the Taj are “touristy,” so he took an unusual
angle. “Luckily, there was foggy weather,” he said.
A record
While WLM had set the Guinness record for the world’s largest photo
contest with 1,68,208 images in 2011, it beat its own record this year with
more than 3,50,000 images.
India participated for the first time in the competition this year. It
sent the highest number of participants, representing 15 per cent of the
15,000 total contributors from around the world. Over 2,200 photographers
contributed nearly 16,000 photos, according to sources in Wikimedia India
Chapter.
There is no free-to-use image of more than 99 per cent of monuments in
India listed by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI). The aim of the
contest was to encourage people to contribute photos to Wikimedia Commons,
said Mr. Nadar. The Wikimedia Commons is a sister project of Wikipedia. It
is a media file repository that makes available freely licensed educational
content (such as images, sound and video clips) to everyone in the world.
It acts as a common repository for various projects of the Wikimedia
Foundation, including Wikipedia. (
Wikipedia.org )
He said anyone could use the photos from the Commons, including for
commercial purposes provided the photographer’s name was mentioned. A
‘Photo Walk’ was organised in Mumbai in September (when the contest was on)
during which participants took photos for the contest.
Naveen Francis, former secretary and board member, Wikimedia India
chapter, told The Hindu that participation from India was “almost uniform”
with photos coming from contestants from across the country. The highest
participation was from Delhi, with more photos taken of the Taj Mahal and
the Qutub Minar. Mumbai followed with photos of Gateway of India.
Mr. Francis said contestants were asked to photograph those monuments
recognised by the ASI. The focus was on structures of national and
international importance. However, some contestants sent photos of
monuments not recognised by the ASI. Those were excluded from the
competition. However, they will be used in Wiki Voyage, a new travel
website that has launched recently.
The international jury considered 324 images from 33 participating
countries in the finale. There were 10 nominations from each participating
country for the international round. The Indian jury for the country round
had six jury members, who nominated 10 photos from 16,000. Three
professional photographers, Gauri Gill, Anup Mathew Thomas and Ryan Lobo,
made up the team along with three Wikipedians Arun Ganesh, Kiran Ravikumar,
and Sreejith K. *
Regards
Pranav Curumsey
Press Team, Wikimedia India Chapter
press(a)wikimedia.in
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/In_the_news
Important Note : Non-commercial reproduction for informative purposes
only. The publisher ( The Hindu ) of the above news article owns the
copyrights of the article / content. All copyrights are duly acknowledged.
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Cc:
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2012 16:26:27 +0530
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Report of Ahmedabad Wiki meet up - 6
Hello all,
First of all, sorry for delayed report.
Wikipedia Meet up - 6 was held at Lois Kahn Plaza, IIM Campus on 1st Dec.
After some brief introduction, new members were given some basic idea
about things related to Wikipedia. Some discussions were carried out
regrading Wikipedia. Conflicts of Interest was one of them.
Then we discussed about our new project on Ahmedabad named "*વિકિપરિયોજના
અમદાવાદ*"*(Wikiproject Ahmedabad)* in Gujarati Wikipedia. In this we
discussed lots of thing including how to make this project successful, what
kind of strategies we can apply, which types of articles can be included
and other stuff.
Another key agendas of meetup discussed at large were how to make grow
community in Ahmedabad, enlarge viewership of Gujarati Wikipedia? Everyone
gave his own idea. We had some wonderful things to take on. After talking
much about these issues,we decided that Wikipedia workshop will be the best
way to increase potential editors. So we are planning to arrange one
workshop on 16th December. After finalization, detail will be posted on
mailing list soon.
At the end, a small editing session was held to get newcomers' hands
tested on Wikipedia.
Here is the complete list of participants
1. Harsh Kothari
2. Samkit
3. Arjun
4. Hitarth
5. Dhaval
6. Akash
7. Amit Panchal
8. Harendrasingh
9. Ketan Raval
By and large, it was a successful meet up concluding some useful points.
Photos of this meet up is here
1.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=400338140040746&set=oa.49167838…
2.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=400338590040701&set=oa.49167838…
Thanks,
Harsh
---
Harsh Kothari
Research Fellow,
Physical Research Laboratory(PRL).
Ahmedabad.
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From: Srikanth Ramakrishnan <srik.ramk(a)wikimedia.in>
To: Pranav Curumsey <pranav(a)wikimedia.in>in>, Wikimedia India Community list
<wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc:
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2012 17:22:55 +0530
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] The Hindu : "Indians win in Wiki
mega photo contest"
Way to go India. We did it this time. Let's hope we contribute the max no
of images next year!
On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Pranav Curumsey <pranav(a)wikimedia.in>wrote;wrote:
*The Hindu : "Indians win in Wiki mega photo
contest"*
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/indians-win-in-wiki-mega-p…
http://www.twitpic.com/bjqjvm ( Print coverage) - Large coverage on rear
cover page !!
*WLM beat its own record this year with more than 3,50,000 images
Two photographs sent by Indians have won the first and sixth places in
what Guinness World Records has called the largest photo competition.
Called ‘Wiki Loves Monuments 2012!’ (WLM), the online competition was
organised by Wikipedians all over the world, Karthik Nadar, secretary and
Board member, Executive Committee, Wikimedia India Chapter, told The Hindu .
Pranav Singh’s photo of Safdarjung’s tomb in New Delhi secured the first
place internationally while Narender Kumar’s photo of the Taj Mahal got the
sixth place. The two photos had been rated ninth and first respectively in
the competition held at the India level. Other Indian finalists sent photos
of the country’s tombs, temples and military forts. Narender Kumar told The
Hindu that most photos of the Taj are “touristy,” so he took an unusual
angle. “Luckily, there was foggy weather,” he said.
A record
While WLM had set the Guinness record for the world’s largest photo
contest with 1,68,208 images in 2011, it beat its own record this year with
more than 3,50,000 images.
India participated for the first time in the competition this year. It
sent the highest number of participants, representing 15 per cent of the
15,000 total contributors from around the world. Over 2,200 photographers
contributed nearly 16,000 photos, according to sources in Wikimedia India
Chapter.
There is no free-to-use image of more than 99 per cent of monuments in
India listed by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI). The aim of the
contest was to encourage people to contribute photos to Wikimedia Commons,
said Mr. Nadar. The Wikimedia Commons is a sister project of Wikipedia. It
is a media file repository that makes available freely licensed educational
content (such as images, sound and video clips) to everyone in the world.
It acts as a common repository for various projects of the Wikimedia
Foundation, including Wikipedia. (
Wikipedia.org )
He said anyone could use the photos from the Commons, including for
commercial purposes provided the photographer’s name was mentioned. A
‘Photo Walk’ was organised in Mumbai in September (when the contest was on)
during which participants took photos for the contest.
Naveen Francis, former secretary and board member, Wikimedia India
chapter, told The Hindu that participation from India was “almost uniform”
with photos coming from contestants from across the country. The highest
participation was from Delhi, with more photos taken of the Taj Mahal and
the Qutub Minar. Mumbai followed with photos of Gateway of India.
Mr. Francis said contestants were asked to photograph those monuments
recognised by the ASI. The focus was on structures of national and
international importance. However, some contestants sent photos of
monuments not recognised by the ASI. Those were excluded from the
competition. However, they will be used in Wiki Voyage, a new travel
website that has launched recently.
The international jury considered 324 images from 33 participating
countries in the finale. There were 10 nominations from each participating
country for the international round. The Indian jury for the country round
had six jury members, who nominated 10 photos from 16,000. Three
professional photographers, Gauri Gill, Anup Mathew Thomas and Ryan Lobo,
made up the team along with three Wikipedians Arun Ganesh, Kiran Ravikumar,
and Sreejith K. *
Regards
Pranav Curumsey
Press Team, Wikimedia India Chapter
press(a)wikimedia.in
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/In_the_news
Important Note : Non-commercial reproduction for informative purposes
only. The publisher ( The Hindu ) of the above news article owns the
copyrights of the article / content. All copyrights are duly acknowledged.
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Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2012 17:28:21 +0530
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Report of Ahmedabad Wiki meet up - 6
Harsh, thanks for the report.
Can you let us know what Project Ahmedabad is?
On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Harsh Kothari <harshkothari410(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
Hello all,
First of all, sorry for delayed report.
Wikipedia Meet up - 6 was held at Lois Kahn Plaza, IIM Campus on 1st
Dec.
After some brief introduction, new members were given some basic idea
about things related to Wikipedia. Some discussions were carried out
regrading Wikipedia. Conflicts of Interest was one of them.
Then we discussed about our new project on Ahmedabad named "*વિકિપરિયોજના
અમદાવાદ*"*(Wikiproject Ahmedabad)* in Gujarati Wikipedia. In this we
discussed lots of thing including how to make this project successful, what
kind of strategies we can apply, which types of articles can be included
and other stuff.
Another key agendas of meetup discussed at large were how to make grow
community in Ahmedabad, enlarge viewership of Gujarati Wikipedia? Everyone
gave his own idea. We had some wonderful things to take on. After talking
much about these issues,we decided that Wikipedia workshop will be the best
way to increase potential editors. So we are planning to arrange one
workshop on 16th December. After finalization, detail will be posted on
mailing list soon.
At the end, a small editing session was held to get newcomers' hands
tested on Wikipedia.
Here is the complete list of participants
1. Harsh Kothari
2. Samkit
3. Arjun
4. Hitarth
5. Dhaval
6. Akash
7. Amit Panchal
8. Harendrasingh
9. Ketan Raval
By and large, it was a successful meet up concluding some useful points.
Photos of this meet up is here
1.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=400338140040746&set=oa.49167838…
2.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=400338590040701&set=oa.49167838…
Thanks,
Harsh
---
Harsh Kothari
Research Fellow,
Physical Research Laboratory(PRL).
Ahmedabad.
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Wikimedia Chapter [India]
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