<p>Respected Sir/Madam,
</p><p>Greetings from Wikimedia India Chapter. We are pleased to let you
know we can arrange a talk/lecture on Wikipedia at your college if you
could arrange a lab for 3 hours with some students. Below is the sample
call for program and we can structure the agenda based on the below one.
We could also include specific areas within Wikipedia in the agenda
which your students might be interested in.(Ex:- Wikipedia as media
resource for journalism students / Technical talk on Wikipedia for
Computer Science students) We could send a local Wikipedian to talk
about Wikipedia and how students can benefit out of it by knowing more
than just a site to get assignment notes. Please let us know if you are
interested.we are interested please tell us what to do<br></p><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Ashwin Baindur <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ashwin.baindur@gmail.com">ashwin.baindur@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">This is relevant to all those who have written to the various lists and asked how one can participate. volunteer or help in any way. <br>
<br>We need people to upload images to Wikimedia Commons. <br><ul><li>We face a problem in that photographers are willing to go out & shoot and donate images. But they are unfamiliar with Commons and do not upload it there. However, we find that they know Flickr and are willing to upload it under a suitable Creative Commons license.</li>
<li>There are hundreds of free images on the net, we can show you how to locate them. These can be uploaded to Commons. We are at this point of time interested in images pertaining to India only.<br></li></ul>It is a job requiring patience, care for details and intelligence as the images need to be categorised also. Where relevant we would like to add them to articles too. <br>
<br>We need a small TEAM of three to five - people, age, sex, religion, etc, etc, no bar, except that they should have:<br>* Knowledge of uploading images to Commons<br>* know how to categorise<br>* know how to load images into Wikipedia<br>
* Possess good judgement.<br>* Possess an abiding love for Wikipedia and willing to contribute to it. <br><br>If you are interested, let us know. This is a serious commitment under the "India Loves Wikipedia" initiative. Dont apply if just for "time paas".<br>
<br>Helpers will be awarded barnstars at a suitable date after the project is done.<br><br clear="all">Warm regards,<br><font color="#888888"><br>Ashwin Baindur<br>------------------------------------------------------<br>
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