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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Dear all,
On a casual request, I was prompted to support some of the tasks the
India Chapter and the India community would benefit together, and I decided
to take up the responsibility of creating profiles for the 'Featured
Wikimedian' section in the Wikimedia India Chapter
wiki<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Main_Page>.
This section aims to showcase the achievements of active Wikimedians who
have contributed significantly to the Wikimedia projects in English and/or
Indian languages. The featured profile for January is that of Mr. Balachandran
G <http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Featured_Wikimedian/Archive/2013//January> from
Malayalam Wikipedia.
If you know an inspiring Wikimedian whose profile hasn't been featured
yet, do let me know! Please also go through the profile of the featured
Wikimedian of this month and send your suggestions and comments for
improving this section.
Happy new year!
Regards
User: Netha Hussain
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Netha Hussain
Student of Medicine and Surgery
Govt. Medical College, Kozhikode
Blogs : *nethahussain.blogspot.com
swethaambari.wordpress.com*
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
Wikipedia Club Pune
The Republic Day Workshop
26th January 2013
Theme/ Agenda: Creating & Editing existing articles on the Indian War Heroes
(post Independence) in Marathi, as a homage to them.
The Workshop was carried out successfully on the 64th Republic Day of India.
Keeping in mind the theme/ agenda as to pay homage to these great men who
gave their lives serving the motherland.
The workshop was organized in Pune’s most sought after & leading learning
institution Janana Prabodini, with the consent of the principal of the
institution Mr. Milind Naik. A seminar hall “Prabodh” and two computer labs
were engaged. Volunteers from the institution in coordination with the
members of the club assisted and helped for the smooth execution of the
workshop.
Volunteer Coordinators from the institution Miss Priyanka Bhalerao & Mr.
Hrushikesh Pathak were of great help as they helped with the permissions for
the workshop and the bookings of the seminar hall and the computer labs
which were needed prior to the workshop and were in constant touch of the
Wikipedia Club Pune’s members. We thank them for their enthusiasm and
dedication for the same.
The club members on the day of the seminar helped in setting up the venue,
giving a very comfortable yet professional outlook to the seminar & seminar
venue. The Introductory Seminar was conducted by Mr. Abhishek Suryawanshi
wherein the students were given information regarding Wikimedia & its sister
project Wikipedia, precisely concentrating on Marathi Wikipedia. Knowledge
about creating and editing the articles was given through a live
demonstration over the projector projections. The students enjoyed the
presentation which was followed by a very interactive session where Mr.
Suryawanshi was able to solve the queries upto the mark.
The attendees specially belonged to student category, besides these the
principal himself and many other teaches were present for the same. A very
special attendee Mrs. Sulabha Marathe was present who works for the blind
and is engaged in recording audios, so that the blind could gain knowledge
through audible medium. She is currently on a project wherein the audio
recordings of the syllabus is done and is provided to the blind for learning
purposes.
After the informative seminar the students with the special attendees were
escorted to the respective labs for the creation and edition of the
articles. The workshop started with creation of the User Accounts and then
creation/editing. We the members of the club were overwhelmed with the
response of the budding Wikipedia Editors of the future!
Many articles on martyrs were undertaken the list is as follows:
Major Rajesh Singh Adhikari, Cap. Vikram batra, Manoj Kumar Pandey, Ashok
Kamte, Constable Tukaram Omble, Hemant Karkare, Lalit Rai etc.
The workshop ended with an interactive feedback session where basic queries
and complex questions were solved.
Following is the list of the club members and volunteer coordinators
Abhishek Suryawanshi, Nikhil Kawale, Sanket Oswal, Abhinav Garule, Laskhy
Gontla, Ravati Joshi, Saylai Borade, Niraj Suryawanshi, Priyanka Bhalerao,
Hrushikesh Pathak.
We appreciate and are very much thankful to the volunteer coordinators and
the staff of the Janana Prabodini for the help provided. Also we are
thankful to the club members who gave their precious time for the workshop,
who helped it become a grand success.
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Regards & Thanks,
Niraj Suryawanshi
on behalf of Wikipedia Club Pune
+91 8149920120 | niraj.suryawanshi(a)gmail.com
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*Wikimedia India activity report: October 2012 to December 2012*Admin &
LegalTraining and induction of new EC
After the elections in September, a common meeting of the outgoing and
incoming Executive Council members was conducted. This had outdoor group
activities, induction training and also interaction with our consultant.
New office bearers were decided and roles and responsibilities of the new
EC members were defined. Our Executive Manager was also present and
participated in the activities.
Capacity
*Membership:*
Membership as of December 31, 2012 is 185.
*Donations:*
Amount of donations received during Oct-Dec 2012 was Nil.
*Appointments:*
Abhijit Jayanti was appointed as Hyderabad SIG chair.
Technology & Cultural UpdatesWiki Loves Monuments
- WLM India results were announced on November 3, 2012.
lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2012-November/008779.html
- WLM Global results were announced in December 2012. First and Sixth
prizes were won by Indian entries.
lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2012-December/008921.html
Grant UsageApproved Grants
- Wikimeetup Bangalore 50 - 13 October, 2012 - INR 19,100
- Wikipedia Workshop for Women, Mumbai - November 4, 2012 - INR 10,000
- Wikipedia Workshop for Women, participation grant for Netha Hussain -
November 4, 2012 - INR 8329
- Wiki Vana-Vignana Yatra Event - December 8-9, 2012 - INR 17,600
EventsOctober
1. Bangalore meetup #50 was organised at TERI. The keynote speaker was
WMF board member Bishakha Datta. It was a milestone event for the Bangalore
Wikimedia community. City SIG chair Radhakrishna and other wikipedians were
involved in its organisation.
2. A Wiki Academy was organised in IIT Chennai on October 6, 2012.
Speakers/Facilitators were Arjuna Rao Chavala and T. Sujatha (Telugu
Wikipedian). Executive Manager of WMIN Sowmyan Trimurthi also attended.
November
1. The Wikipedia Workshop for Women took place on November 4, 2012 in
Vidyalankar Institute of Technology (VIT), Wadala. More than 70 female
participants attended the workshop. 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,
Rohini Lakshane. A detailed report on the community mailing list is
available at
lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2012-November/008782.html
2. Kannada Wiki Meetup -
6<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KN:%E0%B2%B5%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%95%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%…>
3. Wikipedia Bangalore Meetup 51 - November 18, 2012
December
1. Wiki Vana vignana yatra was organised by the Malyalam Wikipedians on
December 8-9, 2012. A public report is available
[here<http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%…>
]
2. Wikipedia Bangalore Meetup 52 - December 2, 2012
Thanks and regards,
Karthik Nadar,
Secretary, Wikimedia India Chapter.
Hello,
We are pleased to announce the results of the hiring of Programme
Director for CIS's A2K programme. After a lengthy four month process,
Mr. Vishnu Vardhan, who posted his essay onto the mailing list under the
alias Nee Davis, was offered the position on January 13th, 2013, which
he has accepted. He will be taking on the responsibilities of Programme
Director in early February, 2013, and he hopes to be fully transitioned
into this position by the end of February.
The entire CIS team and Mr. Vardhan would like to thank the Wikimedia
community for their interaction and input, particularly during the
public stage of the hiring. We look forwards to working with you all as
the A2K project continues.
Thank you,
Jadine
Anyone interested for uploading pictures on WikiCommons using your Android phone? Some updates below:
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Yuvi Panda <yuvipanda(a)gmail.com>
> Date: 28 January 2013 1:46:21 AM IST
> To: mobile-l <mobile-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: [WikimediaMobile] Wikimedia Commons android app nightlies available
> Reply-To: yuvipanda(a)gmail.com
>
> Hello everyone!
>
> As you might be aware, there has been ongoing work on a Commons application for Android[1]. Hashar was awesome enough to set up automated builds of it on Jenkins - you can download the latest from:
>
> https://integration.mediawiki.org/nightly/mobile/android-commons/
>
> It is currently at a state where you can upload fine (goes to testwiki), but has minor issues on pre-4.0 devices. Expect rapid work on it over the coming weeks!
>
> [1]: https://github.com/wikimedia/android-commons
>
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Could this be useful to the article on Garuda Mall?
BBMP has worked hard to give away 15 acres of its land in Koramangala in bangalore, for free to a dubious company and in the process sacrifice the welfare of 1600 families. read my article below.
http://www.talkmag.in/cms/mauled
Basavaraj N Itnal
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On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Theo10011 <de10011(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Ask any OTRS volunteer about threats like these, this is nothing compared
> to the threats we get on a daily basis.
>
>
What are the kinds of threats OTRS volunteers get? Just curious.
Bishakha
Dear friends,
This is to inform you all about the creation of the first MediaWiki group in India. For the past several days, I’ve been speaking to Quim Gil, Sumana and Yuvi Panda. I was informed about the setting up of local groups in different countries for technical contributors. With encouragement from all of them and with help from Noopur I submitted a proposal for the formation of MediaWiki Group Ahmedabad. This proposal has been endorsed by 7 people so far.
For those who might be interested in setting up similar groups, I think a Wikitech mailing list for India is being set up and personally, I would be happy to help you write a proposal for your community. I think it’s a great idea because with the help of this technical group we intend to make good technical infrastructure and editing environment for Gujarati Wikipedia easier to contribute to.
I have already ported HotCat and Popups(on the way) on Gujarati Wikipedia. Please have a look at the areas we want to collaborate on:
Areas of collaboration:
Localize Gadgets for Gujarati Wikipedia and Wikisource
Create New Gadgets and extensions
Bug solving for Gujarati Wikipedia and WikiSource and also other MediaWiki related Bug solving for all Indian languages
Translate into Gujarati Language, i.e http://translatewiki.net/
Wikidata
You can read the proposal here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Groups/Proposals/Ahmedabad
Your endorsements, improvements and feedback are welcome at the wiki
page. Thank you!
Harsh Kothari
PS: see also http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Groups/Proposals
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Harsh Kothari
Research Fellow,
Physical Research Laboratory(PRL).
Ahmedabad.