<div class="gmail_quote"><br>FYI<div>First Wikimedia community letter from India </div><div class="im"><div><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_India_Community_Newsletter_2010_September.pdf" target="_blank">http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_India_Community_Newsletter_2010_September.pdf</a></div>
<div><br></div></div><div><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_India_Community_Newsletter_2010_September.pdf" target="_blank"></a>Thanks</div><div>Tinu Cherian <br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">
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From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Achal Prabhala</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aprabhala@gmail.com" target="_blank">aprabhala@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 6:15 PM<br>Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Announcing the Wikimedia India Community Newsletter - Edition 1<br>
To: <a href="mailto:wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org" target="_blank">wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org</a><br><br><br></div><div><div></div><div class="h5">Greetings,<br>
<br>
On behalf of Shiju Alex, here is... the first ever edition of the<br>
Wikimedia India Community Newsletter. It's an incredible effort, and<br>
we're really glad to have something like this - congrats to all who<br>
helped with it.<br>
<br>
Going forward, Shiju (and all of us) would appreciate help and<br>
participation. If you are a member of a Wikimedia language, or<br>
geography, or project that you feel isn't adequately represented, or if<br>
you'd like to help with design, proofreading and turning it into<br>
something that works like the Signpost - we'd appreciate hearing from<br>
you at:<br>
<br>
<a href="mailto:wminewsletter@gmail.com" target="_blank">wminewsletter@gmail.com</a> or Shiju Alex <<a href="mailto:shijualexonline@gmail.com" target="_blank">shijualexonline@gmail.com</a>><br>
<br>
At the moment, we're circulating the file in two pdf versions (one for<br>
viewing, one for printing) and this is the link to the file on Commons:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_India_Community_Newsletter_2010_September.pdf" target="_blank">http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_India_Community_Newsletter_2010_September.pdf</a><br>
<br>
Shiju will shortly find a way to design it in html, making it easier for<br>
everyone.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
Achal<br>
<br>
<br>
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Subject: Releasing first edition of Wikimedia India Community<br>
Newsletter - 2010 September<br>
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 17:56:06 +0530<br>
From: Shiju Alex <<a href="mailto:shijualexonline@gmail.com" target="_blank">shijualexonline@gmail.com</a>><br>
To: <><br>
<br>
<br>
<br></div></div><div><div></div><div class="h5">
Dear All,<br>
<br>
Our hard work for the past 2 months to release the first version of<br>
Wikimedia India newsletter is coming to an end today.<br>
<br>
Please find attached the Print Quality PDF of the finalized version of<br>
Wikimedia India Newsletter for your reference. We are officially<br>
releasing the newsletter at 7:00 PM in the Bangalore Wikimeetup.<br>
<br>
This newsletter is the result of the ideas, suggestions, and feedback<br>
that you had been provided by you during the last 2 months. Finally<br>
Indian wikipedia community has come together for a common purpose. This<br>
is just a starting. We have a long way to go.<br>
<br>
Each language community (8 communities as of now) has helped by<br>
providing content about the respective language community. Some<br>
communities could not join as their communities are not strong enough to<br>
provide news to the newsletter. Hope they will join soon.<br>
<br>
Let me introduce again the Indian Language Wikipedians involved in this<br>
effort (All are included in this mail thread). Here are they:<br>
<br>
Bengali:<br>
<br>
* Belayet Hossain<br>
* Jayantanth<br>
* Ragib Hasan<br>
<br>
<br>
*English*<br>
<br>
* Naveen PF<br>
* Srikanth Lakshmanan<br>
* Tinu Cherian<br>
<br>
<br>
*Hindi:*<br>
<br>
* Mayur Kumar<br>
<br>
<br>
*Kannada:*<br>
<br>
* Hari Prasad Nadig<br>
<br>
<br>
Malayalam:<br>
<br>
* * Praveen P .<br>
* * Raziman T.V .<br>
* * Simy Nazareth<br>
* * Shiju Alex<br>
* * Junaid P.V .<br>
* * Thachan makan<br>
* * Jacob Jose<br>
* * Rajesh V arma<br>
<br>
<br>
*Marathi:*<br>
<br>
* * Mahitgar<br>
* * Abhay Natu<br>
* * Sankalp Dravid<br>
<br>
<br>
*Tamil:*<br>
<br>
* * Mayoora Nathan<br>
* * C.R. Selva Kumar<br>
* * Ravi Dreams<br>
* * Sundar<br>
<br>
<br>
*Telugu:*<br>
<br>
* * Arjuna Rao C .<br>
* * Ravi Vyzasatya<br>
* * Veeven<br>
* * Sujatha Thummapud i<br>
* * Bhaskara Rao Chimakurthy<br>
* * Ravi Chandra Enagant<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
*Technical team*<br>
<br>
* * Typesetting, template design, other tecnical support: Junaid<br>
P.V.<br>
* * Front and back cover page design: Rajesh Odayanchal<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
I know that not everybody knows each other. But you will be excited to<br>
be introduced to wikimedians working for other language wiki communities<br>
of India. Let this be a new begining. Sharing experience from different<br>
language wiki communities will surely help us (it is already helping us)<br>
to replicate the success stories and best practices in other wikis.<br>
<br>
<br>
So we are done with the first release. So what next?<br>
<br>
Eventhough we cannot think of a monthly newsletter now, we need to aim<br>
atleast for a quaterly newsletter. Taking this point in into account, we<br>
are proposing a list for regular content collation and newsletter<br>
coordination. This list will contain the core editorial team and two<br>
volunteers from each wikipedia. The volunteer nominations can be<br>
suggested by the respective wikipedia community.<br>
<br>
The role of the volunteers from the language wikipedias would be to<br>
conduit for collating content on events, happenings and plans of those<br>
respective wikipedias. The community could choose to rotate these<br>
nomiees as they deem appropriate. Please send your queries regarding the<br>
mailing list to Arun Ram (<a href="mailto:arunram25@gmail.com" target="_blank">arunram25@gmail.com</a><br>
<mailto:<a href="mailto:arunram25@gmail.com" target="_blank">arunram25@gmail.com</a>>).<br>
<br>
<br>
Once again I would like to thank each one of you from various language<br>
communities for providing the community news.( from various language<br>
communities.)<br>
<br>
Junaid P.V has done the type setting and the template design of this<br>
newsletter. Without his support and hardwork this newsletter would not<br>
have seen as it is today. Many days he was woking over night to fix<br>
various issues. Once again I thank him for being kind with me while I<br>
was sending repeated changes that I got from various language communities.<br>
<br>
Rajesh Odayanchal has designed front and back cover pages.He specially<br>
created an Indian language map for this newsletter. Thanks to him.<br>
<br>
Arun Ram has done the peer review of most of the language community<br>
news. Special Thanks to him.<br>
<br>
Last but not the least, I specillay thank Achal Prabhala for the review,<br>
timely advice, and support. His advice has helped us to move forward<br>
when there were many roadblocks in between.<br>
<br>
<br>
Thanks once again.<br>
<br>
Thank you.<br>
Shiju Alex<br>
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