Hello friends,
This is a link I recommend you to bookmark.
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Geographical_distribution_of_Indian_Wikipedians
This list is useful for outreach & also whenever someone needs Wiki-Help in
a particular city. It would be great if Wikipedians could update this
list.:)
We have the following completely unrepresented states/UTs:
* Andaman & Nicobar Islands
* Arunachal Pradesh
* Assam
* Chandigarh
* Chhattisgarh
* Dadra, Nagar & Haveli
* Daman & Diu
* Goa
* Himachal Pradesh
* Jammu & Kashmir
* Jharkhand (AngPradesh is in Mumbai)
* Lakshadweep
* Manipur
* Meghalaya
* Mizoram
* Puducherry
* Punjab (oye, ye ki hoya!)
* Nagaland
* Uttar Pradesh
* Uttarakhand
Okay, all you admins, please update your status (Mikey my boy, that means
you too)!
Abroad, we dont have Indic Wikipedians listed for:
* Africa
* Australia
* Asia (other than India)
* Middle East
* North America
* South America
Unless you would like to stay off list, of course that's acceptable too.
May I also request Tinu / list admins to please forward it all the Indic
language & city Wikimedia lists. We need this resource to be as
comprehensible as possible.
Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur
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Hi all,
Needless to repeat the <India-Indic-Mobile-Growth> story. But I was
surprised even with that, many Indic wikipedias do not have a mobile
site(or some have gone dead since they failed to update for
MobileFrontend[1] changes), even the ones that had weren't very much
usable. Lets not cite, mobile phones do not have fonts, no one uses Indic
on mobile, we all know lot of people do use Opera-mini with complex script
rendering support.
* Please visit <yourlanguage>.m.wikpedia.org and see if there is a page. If
it has nothing but 'search, license, and action control' links, here[2] are
the steps that an admin need to do to get a mobile site running with
content. If you have problem in doing those, come and ask at
#wikimedia-tech (or #mediawiki {?}).
* When I visited Tamil wikipedia mobile site, I was restricted to content
that was put on mainpage, the links in it. Since my Symbian phone doesnt
have Indic input system, I cant search anything. The solution to this is to
have a list of articles in alphabetical order *and* display it in mobile
front page, like Assamese wikipedians have done[3]. Many Indic wikis have
this template, but few show it on main page. This might be incredibly
useful on mobile versions.
More thoughts on improving Mobile sites welcome :)
Mobile sites are important since,
1. Lot of people will be using this.
2. The Wikipedia app uses this(?) [Correct me if am wrong]
[1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MobileFrontend
[2]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Projects/Mobile_Gateway#Mobile_homepa…
[3] http://as.m.wikipedia.org/
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Regards
Srikanth.L
Hi,
Thanks, Nitika.
It might also be a good idea to ask participants to get their dongles as backup.
Also, please keep us informed on the GLAM discussions, as this may be of interest to some of us on this list, like me. :)
Pradeep
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Hey guys,
I was wondering if I could ask for some help. Victor Grigas, a storyteller
with the fundraising team at the wikimedia foundation has produced a
fantastic video featuring wikipedia editors and about them, where and why
they edit and the impact they feel their work has.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Impact_Of_Wikipedia.webm
We would really like to get the subtitle translated into as many languages
as possible with one of our focuses be languages that belong to the Indian
subcontinent and we were wondering if people would be able to help us out.
If you would like to help you can translate the messages from the following
page by selecting your language:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&taction=trans…
Also could you relay this relay to the regional and associated language
mailing lists to spread the word? The more languages we can get this in the
better :)
Thanks for you help guys
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Joseph Seddon
Fundraiser Translation Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
Hi,
Which also makes me wonder if there are other Wikipedians not on this list? Might be a good idea to leave a note on WikiProject Goa.
Pradeep
Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android
+1
A wiki Academy at Goa University was being discussed for mid December.
Nitika will take that call.
It is the height of the tourist season so we need to think through
accommodation options for out of state folk.
Warm regards
Harriet
Harriet Vidyasagar
www.outofindia.netwww.womenofindia.net
INDIA: 91-99011 66276
USA: 1-301-649-2240
On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 12:13 AM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar
<sudhanwa.com(a)gmail.com>wrote:
> Great work !!
> And a nice report too!!
>
> Is it possible to have some followup events for this activity. Some
> women meetup every 2-3 months will be a good way to keep everyone in
> touch and to have better interaction.
>
> Congrats to all the volunteers, co-ordinators and participants for a
> successful event.
> Keep up the good work!!
>
> Regards
> -Sudhanwa
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Krutikaa Jawanjal <krutikaa05(a)gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > A Day Spent well.
> >
> > The Wikipedia Women Workshop which took place on November, 4th 2012 in
> > Vidyalankar Institute of Technology (VIT), Wadala was indeed a
> > success.
> >
> > The people who volunteered in organizing this workshop were Bishakha
> > Datta, Moksh Juneja, Karthik Nadar, Pranav Curumsey, Pradeep Mohandas,
> > Anshuman Fotedar, Aditi Juneja, Harriet Vidyasagar, Nikita Belavate,
> > Netra Parikh, Noopur Raval, Netha Hussain. All discussions and
> > planning done while organizing this workshop for women paid off. In
> > all, 70+ women participants attended the workshop.
> >
> > The workshop started with a short introduction after which, wasting no
> > time, the women participants moved on to learning how to edit
> > Wikipedia which was though by the present on ground volunteers. The
> > participants were were divided in groups and every group had to create
> > a new article which wasn't already available on Wikipedia. In the
> > process, women interacted with the volunteers, asked question
> > regarding Wikipedia. Every group at least had added introduction to
> > the new article.
> >
> > Having done with the basic editing, a general presentation on
> > Wikipedia was given by some of the volunteers. This was followed by
> > question and answers regarding the same. By this time, it was already
> > 1.30pm, so the lunch was announced. After having lunch, the
> > participants got back to their seats. Pretty much everybody stayed
> > back post lunch. Moksh continued with teaching how to edit Wikipedia.
> > This time it wasn't it in groups though. "References" and "Notability"
> > were the main topics that were covered in this session.
> >
> > Anshuman and Karthik then proceeded with teaching photo uploads on
> > Wikipedia. Quiz was conducted towards the end and Wikipedia-Tshirts
> > were given as prizes for giving right answers. Karthik, then also
> > showcased the winning images of Wiki Loves Momunents 2012 India. The
> > long day came to an end with an overwhelming response and a call for
> > organizing many such activities. The feedback received was positive.
> > The participants enjoyed the workshop.
> >
> > We are thankful to everybody who made this event a great one. Thanks
> > to all the volunteers. Special thanks to Moksh and Karthik who went
> > out of the way to get everything arranged before hand at the venue, to
> > Netha and Noopur for making it to the workshop and for working hand in
> > hand with the Mumbai Community, to Srikanth Ramakrishnan who
> > constantly stayed in touch for online help.
> >
> > Special thanks to whole Vidyalankar team. Vishwas Deshpande, Founder
> > of Vidyalankar, who gave us an opportunity to to do the Mumbai's first
> > Wiki Workshop for Women at Vidyalankar. Milind Tadvalkar (Director)
> > and Seema Shah (Principal), Jayprakash Kurmi and Vivek and the
> > complete IT Team at VIT, Mahesh from Canteen for an awesome Pav Bhaji
> > for Lunch. Another thanks to Netra Parikh, for giving us enough place
> > at her office, Pinstorm, for all out pre-meetings. Thanks to all.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Krutikaa Jawanjal
> >
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