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 friends,
You may be aware that we (my family) have released a font family earlier.
Here is some background if you are not aware of it.
On the first death Anniversary of Yogini Joglekar(my aunt), our family
released AksharYogini (Normal) Font on 1st Nov. 2006. This font is
primarily for Marathi language but can also be used for Hindi (for any
language using Devanagari). It also has English support. Later on, on the
occasion of Gudhipadwa (Chaitra Shuddha 1, 1931; that is 27th March 2009) ,
we released the additional fonts to complete the "AksharYogini font
family". This font family was/is made available on the site
http://aksharyogini.sudhanwa.com for free usage/distribution/sharing.
Today, on the occasion of Eighth Death Anniversary of Yogini Joglekar, we
are now releasing an updated "AksharYogini font". This font is also
available on the same website http://aksharyogini.sudhanwa.com
This is an updated font and has support for the new (MS Windows) operating
systems where the internal mechanism for font rendering is changed. Also,
it has additional characters for the current Unicode standard and the Rupee
Sign is also included.
Most important is the licensing. The new release is under the Open Font
License. As such, all Linux distributions will be able to freely use it in
their packaging.
Please feel free to use, share, distribute the new font. You can download
it from http://aksharyogini.sudhanwa.com .
Give us feedback on my email id or the official id for the font "
aksharyogini at sudhanwa.com " You can also comment on the guestbook on the
website.
Do share this news and also the font.
Wishing you a Very Happy Diwali !!
Thanks and regards
-Sudhanwa
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Twitter: sudhanwa Check on FB, Linkedin for more.
Hi,
I had sent following mail to the WMIN members list about 10 days back.
As there was no reply for 5 days, I sent the same again adding
individual ids of EC members.
There is not a single line of reply to the mail. Not even any
acknowledgment of receiving the mail.
I am wondering if my email id is blacklisted by EC members or there is
no one in the current EC who is nominated/interested in responding OR
WMIN is completely shutdown.
If any list members have any idea about the current status of WMIN,
please let others know.
Regards
-Sudhanwa
Here is the mail I sent to members list 10 days back.
Dear WMIN members,
There are no updates of any kind from the EC in the last few months.
What is the current status of Sowmyan? Is he still there or really gone?
There are not even membership renewal reminders now. Assuming that
Sowmyan is not there, where the forms are to be sent?
What is the status of the grants-earlier ones and the new ones applied for..
What are the current projects happening in/through WMIN?
What is the current membership renewal status? What is the current count?
WMIN website is not updated for quite some time. Who is looking into
those activities?
Can someone from the EC enlighten the members please.
Thanks and regards
-- Sudhanwa
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web: www.sudhanwa.com blog: www.sudhanwa.in
Twitter: sudhanwa Check on FB, Linkedin for more.
This may be of interest. A major opportunity to shape funding decisions in
the movement.
Asaf
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Anasuya Sengupta <asengupta(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Thu, May 29, 2014 at 7:51 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Funds Dissemination Committee seeking nominations
for new members
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
tl;dr Self-nominations invited for four Board-appointed members of the FDC.
Nominate here.[3]
Dear members of the Wikimedia community,
The Funds Dissemination Committee Advisory Group (FDC AG) met recently in
Frankfurt to recommend to the Executive Director (ED) of the Wikimedia
Foundation whether the FDC - the nine member volunteer committee reviewing
annual plan grants or allocations for Wikimedia and allied organisations -
should continue or not, after the first two years of its existence.[1] The
detailed recommendations of the FDC AG will be shared with the Executive
Director and the community shortly, but we are happy to announce that the
AG recommends that the FDC continues to exist with some suggested
improvements to the process.
The final decision on the FDC will be taken by the ED and the Board of WMF
over the next few months (the FDC Framework’s timeline suggests August),
but the AG’s overall recommendation is a testimony to the deep commitment
and energy of the current FDC and the community members who have
participated in this unique peer-review grantmaking process. Thank you.
Without anticipating the ED and Board’s decision, we would like to move
forward with the process of renewing the current FDC with four
Board-appointed members of the FDC so that a full FDC is in place by August
2014. As per the Framework,[2] four of the current committee members will
be ending their two year terms in July, and four new members will be
appointed by the WMF Board to fill these vacancies.
I write to ask those of you interested in joining the FDC to signal your
interest on Meta by self-nominating by end of day UTC June 15.[3] The
schedule for the nominations process is as follows:
* May 30 - June 15: Self nominations to join the FDC. Candidates indicate
their interest through a short paragraph about themselves, and respond to
an initial set of questions from the FDC staff
* June 1 - June 30: Public question and answer [4] from community members
to candidates
* June 24 - July 3: FDC staff in consultation with the FDC Board
representatives (Bishakha Datta and Patricio Lorente) interview a sub-set
of nominated candidates
* July 3: Shortlist of candidates announced
* July 4 - 10: Decision on final four FDC candidates by the Board reps in
consultation with the full Board
* July 11: Public announcement to community of the four new members
* August: Based on the ED and Board’s decision on the FDC’s existence,
orientation of the new FDC at Wikimania
To be eligible to join the FDC, members need to meet the requirements
below, as outlined by the Framework.[5] They must:
* have sufficient time and dedication to commit to this time-heavy process,
including attending two 4-6 day face-to-face meetings (likely in mid-May
and mid-November) and be able to meet the expectations outlined in more
detail on the nominations page
* have a track record of constructive engagement in community discussions
and an orientation toward collaborative problem solving
* be able to set aside any conflicts of interest and work towards the
mission goals of the Wikimedia movement without considering individual or
organizational interests
* be over 21 years in age and over the age of majority in their home country
* be able to work effectively in English (note that full fluency is not
required)
* present to WMF appropriate personal identification
* Staff / board members of entities requesting funds from the FDC may serve
on the FDC;
however, they must recuse themselves from deliberations pertaining to their
entity's application.
The *skills and attributes* being sought for in FDC members include:
* Experience directing or evaluating programs;
* Grant-making expertise (either as a grantee or grantor of funds);
* Exposure to, understanding of, and personal credibility in the Wikimedia
movement (experience across different Wikimedia projects as well as
experience in programs, chapters, or administrative roles within the
Wikimedia movement);
* Gender, geographic and linguistic diversity.
There are no term limits for FDC members, and current members may choose to
re-apply for the FDC. The members whose terms end this July are Anders
Wennersten, Arjuna Rao Chavala, Mike Peel (current Secretary), and Yuri
Perohanych. The members who continue on the FDC for another year are Ali
Haidar Khan (current Vice-Chair), Dariusz Jemielniak (current Chair),
Cristian Consonni, Delphine Ménard and Sydney Poore. More information
about the Committee’s roles is available on Meta.[6]
We’ll hold IRC office hours to answer questions, particularly for those of
you interested in joining the committee. Current FDC members may join these
office hours, based on their availability. Office hours will be held on the
#wikimedia-office channel on Wednesday, June 4 at 0:00 UTC and again later
that day at 16:00 UTC.[7]
Please don’t hesitate to reach out to me and my FDC staff colleagues at
FDCsupport(a)wikimedia.org. We’d be happy to answer any questions you may
have about joining the committee.
Warmly,
Anasuya
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Funds_Dissemination_Committee_Advisory_Grou…
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Funds_Dissemination_Committee/Fr…
[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Funds_Dissemination_Committee/No…
[4]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Funds_Dissemination_Committee/No…
[5]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Funds_Dissemination_Committee/Fra…
[6]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Funds_Dissemination_Committee#Rol…
[7] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours
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*Anasuya SenguptaSenior Director of GrantmakingWikimedia Foundation*
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the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!
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Hope we can send some experiences from India. Lila's the incoming executive
director at WMF, in case some have missed that announcement.
Best
Bishakha
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Lila Tretikov" <lila(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: May 29, 2014 1:55 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Edit #1 and Challenge #1
To: "Wikimedia Mailing List" <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
I wanted to share my first editing experience and ask for your help. Here
it is:
Today I have made the first edit on English Wikipedia. As I said in my
first meeting -- I believe in traveling the path of our editors, so I can
better understand them and so taht we can make their experience more
natural.
I have edited in private wikis before and I have edited the talk pages. I
used the Visual Editor, even though I am well-versed in the syntax. I had
the advantage of a very very experienced user by my side and it went pretty
smooth -- so this report is not entirely fair. Even though, I did stumble
in a few places, however, and this is a learning experience for me and for
our team.
Overall I wish I had this on video. It is a bit like an experience of a kid
making their first goal. Exhilarating.
So now I have a challenge back to you:
- Please pick a friend who has never edited before.
- Ask them to make an edit. Any edit in any language.
- Please have them write one paragraph about their experience.
- Have them send it to lila at wikimedia with the subject: #1
Thank you!!!
Lila
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Dear Ravi,
I am impressed by the statistics you have mentioned in your previous
mail on the Tamil team in Wikipedia. Can you please share the Tamil
team's approach as a case study. I am sure that many of us here will
benefit from it.
Thank you
--
Vikram Vincent