*FYI. Apologies for cross posting
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Dear all,
I am delighted to give you a small summary of the Tag and assess drive that
was conducted by members of WP:India by means of a blog post.
Here<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/07/20/english-wikipedias-biggest-ever-india…>it
is. As you can read in it, organizers and participants alike,
unequivocally agree it is an unprecedented achievement for members of our
community!
Thanks to all of you for sparing precious time to give your inputs.
Personally, it was also inspiring getting to know editors outside the
mailing list. May I take this opportunity to propose a bigger project or a
new collaboration like this one? Just starting a conversation :)
Thank you,
Best,
Noopur
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Noopur Raval
Hi All,
I wanted to share an update of a fantastic weekend in Delhi.
Saturday morning, 8 community members (3 existing and 5 new editors) on
Hindi Wikipedia met up at Crafts Museum to meet each other and collaborate
on Crafts GLAM project. The meeting started with a round of introductions,
including short talks from the existing editors of how they got introduced
to Wikipedia and what keeps them motivated to edit and what kind of
articles they edit. There's a separate blog post about the Crafts Museum
GLAM project that's coming out shortly - but a quick summary of the meet
up. 4 of the 5 new editors edited. They improved the articles on a type
of sari, a kind of metal handicraft, a class of textile and added content
to the Crafts museum page on Hindi Wikipedia! Pictures are uploaded
here<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:GLAM_Crafts_Museum,_New_Delhi_7_…>.
User: अनिरुद्ध, User:Siddhartha_Ghai and User:Roboture inspired and guided
the new editors. User:Anilbhardwajnoida, a Museum staff member, was
specially congratulated for his really good contributions (after starting
to edit only a couple of months ago.)
Saturday afternoon, 17 community members (2 existing and 15 new editors) on
English Wikipedia met up at the British Council. This was the meeting of
the British Council Wikipedia Club members and this was a follow-up session
to the initial Wikipedia introduction sessions conducted a little while
earlier. 10 of the new editors edited - including creating a new article
of a locality in Delhi and Indian chewing gum brand, improving the articles
of a famous Delhi landmark and a Delhi school as well as building on the
articles of an Indian architectural element and a kind of darshan dating
back to Akbar's time! They also added content on a couple of local food
items and a couple of pictures on Commons! User:Theo10011 & User:Hisham
helped new editors on a whole host of queries they had.
Sunday morning, 5 community members (2 existing and 3 new editors) on Odia
Wikipedia met up at Hauz Khas. A WikiWorkship was conducted. A journalist
who attended covered it in the The Political and Business Daily.
Additional WikiWorkshops and press coverage were planned in Delhi.
Pictures are uploaded
here<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Delhi_Odia_Workshop_2012Jan29>.
A new editor created an article about a traditional Odia food.
User:Rashmirparida and User:Psubhashish conducted the session.
Sunday afternoon, 14 community members (2 existing and 12 new editors) on
Malayalam Wikipedia met up at Hauz Khas. A WikiWorkshop was conducted for
the participants who included 3 women, 1 school student and 1 retired
person. They also discussed a potential partnership with the Malayalam
Mission in New Delhi, as well as follow-up outreach session. This meet-up
was covered in the leading Malayalam newspapers, Malayalam Manorama and
Mathrubhumi. Pictures are uploaded
here<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Delhi_Malayalam_Workshop_2012Jul…>.
User:Subeesh Balan and User:Shijualex conducted the workshop.
I hope there are more meet-ups in more languages in Delhi and other cities.
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*Subha*
*Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the
sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!*
Sorry if you have already read it. Cross posting to reach the mass.
Hi,
hope all fine :)
This is to inform you about Wiki Loves Monuments (WLM) 2012, a global
public photo contest around monuments, organized by Wikimedia chapters and
groups. WLM was first organised in Netherlands in 2010, while
18 European countries participated in 2011. In total, more than
*165,000* pictures
of European monuments were uploaded in 2011.
Happy to inform you that, this year, Indian community is confirmed to
participate in the international
contest<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012>.
Photo contests and events have been organised in India till 2011, however
in different cities at different period of time. In an attempt to organise
the contest nationally, we will need some dedicated volunteers who can
assist us in following ways:
- Helping to prepare the list of monuments
- Coordinating in your own city
- Online support, especially from Wikimedia Commons users while pre,
during and post the contest for categorization, OTRS team, and many more
stuff's
Anyone interested are welcome to sign-up at the volunteers section! [1] Do
use Commons event talk page for discussion.
1.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012_in_India
2. Official website <http://www.wikilovesmonuments.in/>
3. Wiki Loves Monuments India mailing
list<https://lists.wmnederland.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/wlm-in>
(wlm-in(a)lists.wmnederland.nl<https://lists.wmnederland.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/wlm-in>
)
4. One minute fact sheet about Wiki Loves
Monuments<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_Fact_Sheet.pdf>
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Thanks and regards,
(User:Karthikndr <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Karthikndr>)
*Karthik Nadar.*
Hi All,
New editors across Indic Wikipedias often face problems while editing for
which need they help. However, most don't know where they can ask questions
or get clarifications as they are usually unfamiliar with village pumps or
mailing lists or even talk pages on basic editing. Many existing editors
want to help new editors and could appreciate a central place where they
can meet and help new editors. India Program has started a pilot to
support the Odia community's help desk,
Chatasabha<http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%89%E0%AC%87%E0%AC%95%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%AA%…>.
(Incidentally, "Chata" means student and "Sabha" means community, in Odia.)
This pilot will build on the community's existing efforts - and seeks to
provide a structured way of designing and running a Help Desk. It takes
learning from English Wikipedia's Tea
House<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:Teahouse>as well as other
experiences on Help Desk and similar services.
The Help Desk that is being piloted is user friendly, has guidelines to
provide simple answers to new editors and tries to manage the work load of
existing community members by providing ready answers to frequently asked
questions. The user friendliness of the Help Desk is in the form of being
able to ask questions without getting stuck on Wiki markups as well as
illustrated answers to some questions.
I have put a page on meta which has the pilot
design<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Pilot_Designs/Community_buildi…>.
Eventually, we would like to help other Indic languages build similar Help
Desks. Please do provide your feedback on the talk
page<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:India_Program/Pilot_Designs/Community_b…>
.
Best
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*Subha*
*Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the
sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!*
Dear all,
Just a gentle reminder for today's IRC on Social Media pilot at 8:00 p.m
(IST). You can join the meetup by clicking on this link:
http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#wikimedia-office . Enter a nickname
and channel name is #wikimedia-office.
Since there is another IRC scheduled at 9:00 p.m for Wiki Loves Monuments
in India, we'll try and wrap this up by sharp 9:00 p.m. We'll be discussing
the progress on the already active social media groups (English and Odia),
explaining strategies to start it on new groups, discussing ways to retain
new editors. For those of you who may not have been following this
discussion, here's the link to the Social Media
pilot<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Pilot_Designs/Social_Media>that
we are running on Facebook right now. Here's the link to the blog
post<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/06/20/social-media-for-wikipedia-outreach-i…>on
the Social Media pilot.
Since this has been a collaborative process, I would urge all the mentors
(existing editors who are helping out on Facebook) to attend the IRC. Your
inputs and suggestions would be really helpful in deciding the course of
action further.
See you there!
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Noopur Raval
Dear all,
*Monthly reports/plans:
*Here's a link to the monthly report for May:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Reports/Community_Monthly_Repo…
Here's a link to the monthly plan for June:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Reports/Community_Monthly_Repo…
There was an IRC meeting to discuss community building for Indic
languages. Here is a link to the logs:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/IRC_meeting_2012-06-07
*IRC on 21st June:
*We plan to have an IRC meeting on June 21st at 8:00 p.m on Communications.
The focus will be on the Social media pilot currently running in Assamese,
English and Odia. Do join us using this link: http://webchat.freenode.net/?
on the #wikimedia-office channel.
Apologies for the delay in sending this out. I should have sent this last
week but, unfortunately some things came up. Going forward will ensure the
monthly reports come out by the 10th .
Please do respond with your questions and suggestions.
Thank you,
Best,
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Noopur Raval
Hey folks,
Hisham <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Hisham> had posted an update
on the community
building<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Pilot_Designs/Basic_Community_…>pilot
Shiju <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Shiju> ran as part of India
Program. This pilot was run in Assam but there are tips and pointers and
suggestions from this pilot that are relevant for all Indic communities. As
part of the India Programs IRCs, we propose the first monthly IRC of June
to be on this topic. We'd like to discuss how to build and support
communities by increasing the number of editors, assessing progress on
Wikiprojects as well as fostering possibilities of new collaborations.
Please join us on *7th June* at *09:30 p.m* IST using this link:
http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#wikimedia-office.
Thank you,
Best,
Noopur
> On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Hisham <hisham(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>> Dear All
>>
>> I wanted to share with you an update on the work that Shiju<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Shiju>[1] is
>> doing on Indic languages<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Indic_Languages>[2]
>> as part of India Program <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program>.[3]
>> A guiding principle for the thinking and efforts of our team is that
>> community building should be the most essential aspect of all the work that
>> we do. In the context of small Indic communities, Shiju has been working
>> to try and identify the various elements that need to come together to
>> foster community building. This update is about the Community Building
>> pilot<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Pilot_Designs/Basic_Community_…>[4] that
>> was run for the Assamese community. For context, community building means
>> different things to different people and in fact there was a very
>> interesting post<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-December/005813.…>[5]
>> that Shiju put out that articulated his thinking on this and, hence, our
>> priorities.
>>
>> The results of these efforts have been outstanding
>>
>> - number of editors on Assamese Wikipedia has increased to 31 in
>> April 2012 (from 18 in December 2011 and just 10 in November 2011.)
>> - number of Wikiprojects increased to 6 (from a situation where there
>> were no reasonably active ones in December 2011- and including 5
>> Wikiprojects independently conceptualised and managed by the community)
>> - average monthly edits on Assamese Wikipedia increased to about 5000
>> in April 2012 from around 3000 in November 2011
>>
>> There are 5 key factors that are responsible for this remarkable growth
>>
>> 1. *Strong communication*. This started with Shiju building personal
>> connections with Assamese editors and then encouraging them to communicate
>> with each other on-wiki, online and in meet--ups and outreach sessions.
>> 2. *Initial push*. Shiju visited Assam in January where he spent
>> time in 2 towns with 7 of the most active community members, who also
>> conducted 2 outreach sessions. This visit has proved to be really useful
>> because it helped to energise the community and also helped to establish a
>> personal relationship between Shiju and these editors (and also, amongst
>> the editors themselves.)
>> 3. *Encouraging collaboration*. Wikiprojects and outreach are really
>> useful to galvanise a community and helped build personal equations. It's
>> wonderful to see the increase in Wikiprojects and
>> 4. *Building capacity & confidence*. In all the work that has been
>> done for the Assamese community, the endeavour has been to build capacity.
>> For instance, support was given to get basic outreach material including
>> FAQs prepared and outreach sessions were guided by Shiju. It's inspiring
>> to see the Assamese community now take things to a whole new level and plan
>> out an ambitious 10th anniversary<http://blog.wikimedia.in/2012/05/16/ten-glorious-years-of-assamese-wikipedi…>
>> .[6]
>> 5. *Healthy environment*. This is the last - but probably the most
>> essential point - and it is something I want to call out because it is what
>> will help or severely hinder the abilities of individual communities
>> realise their dreams and potential. The reason why the Assamese community
>> is making such wonderful steps forward is because there is
>> - a set of editors with the right level of initiative and
>> motivation
>> - a strong sense of co-operation and good spirit amongst the
>> editors
>> - an extremely welcoming approach to new editors
>>
>> None of this would have been possible without the efforts of every single
>> Assamese community members. In the early days when Shiju started off, he
>> was interacting with Bishnu, Dipankar, Gitartha, Jyoti & Prabhakar - who
>> helped organise the first meet-ups and outreach sessions. Thanks to their
>> efforts, a list of thank-yous would now be 31 strong! Thank you and
>> congratulations to all of you!
>>
>> To the Assamese community, I wish you the very best for your 10th
>> anniversary<http://blog.wikimedia.in/2012/05/16/ten-glorious-years-of-assamese-wikipedi…>.[6]
>> There are exciting plans including your photo contest and your article
>> contest and the meet-up and the outreach session. I know that you are
>> doing most of the event largely independently (with Noopur<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Noopur28>[7] providing
>> media assistance for the 10th anniversary and an India Chapter<http://wikimedia.in/>
>> [8] grant<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Grants/Photo_and_Article_Competition_and_Wiki_Work…>[9] supporting
>> you.) This is the true signs of a community that is coming of age. There
>> are tremendous opportunities in outreach to get new editors, initiatives
>> like your article & photo contests to improve content and in proposed
>> projects like offline to make transformational changes in the community.
>>
>> With regard to the way forward for India Program, the pilot design page<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Pilot_Designs/Basic_Community_…>
>> [4] on meta <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program>[3] has now
>> been updated. The next steps are going to be to see how we can adapt or
>> build on these experiences with other communities, and as we move to other
>> communities, do them in a more scaleable manner.
>>
>> To all community members - across languages across India - if you did
>> want any help in any aspect of community building, please feel free to
>> reach out to Shiju <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Shiju>[1] at
>> shiju(a)wikimedia.org. Please also do add comments or ideas or
>> suggestions you might have to the Community Building Pilot's talk page<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:India_Program/Pilot_Designs/Basic_Commu…>
>> .[10]
>>
>> *hisham <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Hisham>[11]
>> *
>> Notes
>> [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Shiju
>> [2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Indic_Languages
>> [3] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program
>> [4]
>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Pilot_Designs/Basic_Community_…
>> [5]
>> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-December/005813.…
>> [6]
>> http://blog.wikimedia.in/2012/05/16/ten-glorious-years-of-assamese-wikipedi…
>> [7] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Noopur28
>> [8] http://wikimedia.in/
>> [9]
>> http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Grants/Photo_and_Article_Competition_and_Wiki_Work…
>> [10]
>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:India_Program/Pilot_Designs/Basic_Commu…
>> [11] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Hisham
>>
>>
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