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On 27 August 2013 12:52, Ravishankar <ravidreams(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Tamil Wikipedia will be celebrating its 10 years with an event at Chennai
> on 29th September. Please have your calendar marked and travel tickets
> ready. More details will be announced soon.
>
> This is the first International Tamil Wiki meetup where we expect around
> 40 core Tamil Wikipedians from countries including Sri Lanka, UAE and
> Canada to participate. If you are interested in meeting Tamil Wikipedians
> and share stories with us, this is the right opportunity. So, please
> consider this as an open invitation for all members of global and Indian
> languages wiki community.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ravi
>
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Hi Wikimedians,
I would love to share with you an idea, that I've planned to improve Bangla
Wikisource (http://bn.wikisouce.org) contents by typing digitized (PDF,
DjVu) books now available at Public domain license. Target people for this
plan is students of school, college and universities.
The basic idea is Bangla does not have any good OCR to work. But there are
lots of digitized public domain books are available at internet as well
printed public domain books in reality. So we have to type the books to
make it in Unicode. So run series of type-a-thon event in educational
institutions where student can learn how to type Bangla using Bangla
Wikisource integrated typing tools. They can practice Bangla typing with
the Bangla Wikisource ProofReading extention page by typing the PDF or DjVu
pages uploaded at Bangla Wikisource or Commons. They will also lean about
Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects in Bangla. That's a way we can
improve and increase Bangla Wikisource contents and also enable students to
contribute in Bangla Wikimedia projects.
I made a draft the idea at the meta page[1] with some more explanations and
more details. I would like to invite you to join the plan, improve it and
make it success by discuss it, with your comments, suggestions and your
active participations.
[1]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Capacitate_student_in_Bangla_typi…
[2]Click here<http://bn.wikisource.org/wiki/%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%98…>to
see an example of pdf book at bn Wikisource.
Regards,
Belayet
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প্রিয় সবাই,
সম্প্রতি হংকংয়ে ৯-১১ আগস্ট পর্যন্ত অনুষ্ঠিত হয়েছে উইকিপিডিয়ার বার্ষিক
সম্মেলন 'উইকিম্যানিয়া'। চলতি বছর উইকিম্যানিয়ায় বাংলাদেশ থেকে যোগ দিয়েছেন
বাংলা উইকিপিডিয়ার প্রশাসক নাসির খান সৈকত, বুরোক্র্যাট ও প্রশাসক বেলায়েত
হোসেন, উইকিমিডিয়া বাংলাদেশের সাধারণ সম্পাদক ও বুরোক্র্যাট তানভির রহমান এবং
উইকিমিডিয়া বাংলাদেশের কোষাধ্যক্ষ আলী হায়দান খান (তন্ময়)। চলতি বছরের
উইকিম্যানিয়া নিয়ে আজ প্রথম আলোর প্রজন্ম ডট কমে প্রকাশিত হয়েছে বিশেষ
ফিচার। *উইকিপিডিয়ানদের
মহামিলন* শিরোনামের এ লেখাটি পড়তে চাইলে দেখুন: http://goo.gl/MHaKQh
আর্টিকেলটি লিখেছেন নাসির খান সৈকত।
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FYI.... and once again congratulations to Jayanta da to become a EC member
at Wikimedia India Chapter.
Belayet
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Date: 15 August 2013 22:01
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Wikimedia India Board(EC) Elections-2013 -
Results
To: "Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia." <
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From: Arjuna Rao Chavala <arjunaraoc(a)gmail.com>
Date: 2013/8/15
Subject: Wikimedia India Board(EC) Elections-2013 - Results
To: wmin-members <wmin-members(a)googlegroups.com>, Wikimedia India EC <
wikimedia-in-exec(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc: <masked>
Hi,
We completed the election process for Wikimedia India Chapter Executive
Committee (EC) Elections for year 2013 in today's Annual General Body
Meeting. We are happy to announce the results of the Election.
Total eligible Voters: 66 (Excluding 3 members of the Election Committee,
who cant' vote as per the Election rules)
Votes polled: 27 (26 by post and 1 in person), (40.9%)
Valid votes: 26
Invalid vote:1
Candidate- Votes polled
Jayanta Nath - 17
Moksh Juneja - 17
Nikhil Kawale - 3
Santosh Shingare - 6
Yohann Thomas - 7
Hence, Jayanta Nath and Moksh Juneja are declared as elected to EC for the
two vacant positions for term 2013-2015.
We congratulate Jayanta and Moksh. We thank EC, all the candidates and
members for active participation in the Election process.
We thank the outgoing Executive Committee led by Sudhanwa for all their
contributions. We wish the new EC all the best for growing the movement
and the chapter in future.
Sincerely,
Arjuna Rao Chavala, Tinu Cherian, Radhakrishna A
Election Committee for EC Elections-2013
Wikimedia India Chapter
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I also can't agree more. We should focus on planning and spreading the word
of Bangla Wikipedia. It can be a large ceremony or a week long series of
small events on multiple venues on different cities, reaching out people
from different places and cultures or maybe we can do both.
I specially feel for the people outside of Dhaka and Chittagong city. Most
of out events are Dhaka based (for practical reasons). But this time we can
include them and arrange a group of small events on divisional cities as
well.
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On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 10:11 PM, Vishnu t <visdaviva(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Belayet,
>
> Wonderful to hear this! I am glad that the preparation for the
> celebrations is initiated early. Let's make it *Grand*! Would be more than
> happy to help on this in any small way.
>
> Cheers and best,
> Vishnu
>
> Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 10:20:43 +0600
>
>> From: Belayet Hossain <bellayet(a)gmail.com>
>> To: Discussion list for Bangladeshi Wikimedians
>> <wikimedia-bd(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, "Bengali
>> Wikipedia<br/>(wikipedia-bn(a)lists.wikimedia.org)"
>> <wikipedia-bn(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
>> Subject: [Wikipedia-BN] 10 years of Bangla Wikipedia
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>>
>>
>> Dear Wikipedians!
>>
>> Bangla Wikipedia is the largest encyclopedia in Bangla Wikipedia, also the
>> largest encyclopedia in Bangladesh.
>>
>> I am happy to let you know that the next year on January 27, 2014 Bangla
>> Wikipedia will be 10[1] years old. All of you will agree with me that "10
>> years of Bangla Wikipedia" deserves a grand celebration. We have only 5
>> month to plan, design, arrangements and celebrate. I think this is the
>> right time to start community discussion and set the plan how we will work
>> on that and make celebrate this grand anniversary.
>>
>> I've create a project page[2] on Bangla Wikipedia for the discussion and
>> coordination of the events centrally. Tou can discuss in the mailing
>> lists,
>> But make sure that your idea goes to Wikipedia page as well.
>>
>> I would like to invite you to join the discussion. Please write down your
>> ideas, plans and suggestions to celebrate this unique occasion for Bangla
>> Wikipedia.
>>
>> [1]http://bn.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&action=info
>> [2]http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/wp:10_years_of_Bangla_Wikipedia
>>
>> Cheers,
>> --
>> Belayet Hossain
>> http://www.facebook.com/bellayet
>> http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:bellayet
>> http://twitter.com/bellayet
>> http://bellayet.wordpress.com (Bangla)
>> Knowledge is universal
>> ...so share it.
>>
Dear Wikipedians!
Bangla Wikipedia is the largest encyclopedia in Bangla Wikipedia, also the
largest encyclopedia in Bangladesh.
I am happy to let you know that the next year on January 27, 2014 Bangla
Wikipedia will be 10[1] years old. All of you will agree with me that "10
years of Bangla Wikipedia" deserves a grand celebration. We have only 5
month to plan, design, arrangements and celebrate. I think this is the
right time to start community discussion and set the plan how we will work
on that and make celebrate this grand anniversary.
I've create a project page[2] on Bangla Wikipedia for the discussion and
coordination of the events centrally. Tou can discuss in the mailing lists,
But make sure that your idea goes to Wikipedia page as well.
I would like to invite you to join the discussion. Please write down your
ideas, plans and suggestions to celebrate this unique occasion for Bangla
Wikipedia.
[1]http://bn.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&action=info
[2]http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/wp:10_years_of_Bangla_Wikipedia
Cheers,
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From: Pranav Curumsey <curumsey(a)gmail.com>
Date: 13 August 2013 18:31
Subject: [WMIN-Members] NCERT portal goes CC-BY-SA
Hi folks,
Savithri just gave me some wonderful news. The new National Repository of
Open Education Resources has been launched, and Dr. Tharoor, the HRD
Minister announced its licensed under CC-BY-SA! *http://nroer.in/home/*
Iv been following up with Dr. Tharoor and NCERT for about 6 months now,
pushing for this. Thanks to Gautam, Tinu, Savithri, Dr. Nagarjuna and
everyone else who helped make this happen. It is certainly a major win for
us as a chapter to be a part of this and a major win for OER in India.
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Date: Aug 8, 2013 3:48 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia Announcements] [PRESS RELEASE] Wikimedia Foundation
2013-14 Board of Trustees announcement
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Wikimedia Foundation announces 2013-14 Board of Trustees and elected
officers at Wikimania in Hong Kong
Hong Kong -- August 8, 2013 -- The Wikimedia Foundation today announced
recent additions and elected officers for the 2013-14 Board of Trustees.
Every year at Wikimania, the annual gathering of Wikimedia contributors
from around the world, the Wikimedia Foundation Board appoints its officers
for the coming year. This year's appointments were announced in Hong Kong,
where more than 1000 conference attendees came from nearly 90 countries.
This year, Jan-Bart de Vreede was appointed Chair of the Board and Phoebe
Ayers was appointed Vice Chair. De Vreede works at Kennisnet, the Dutch
public educational organization that supports primary, secondary and
vocational institutions in the effective use of IT in education.
"I am honored to have been chosen to chair the Board in the coming year"
said de Vreede. "I want to thank Kat Walsh for her service on the Board and
for the year she served as Chair during a critical stage of the
organization's development. We look forward to hearing her wise voice as
she continues to engage with our projects, community and mission."
"This is an exciting year and I look forward to using my energy to ensure a
successful transition of our Executive Director and to helping our newer
board members to be able to contribute in the best possible ways to our
mission," de Vreede said. "The next twelve months promise to be significant
for the Wikimedia Foundation and the Wikimedia movement and I'm excited to
have the opportunity to lead the Board."
There are 10 seats on the Wikimedia Foundation Board and according to its
bylaws, three members are elected by the Wikimedia community, two are
selected by the Wikimedia chapters, the Founder seat is held by Jimmy
Wales, and four members are appointed by the Board itself to provide
additional, specific expertise.
The Board expressed its great thanks to former Board Chair Kat Walsh.
Walsh, a long-term participant in the Wikimedia projects, has been a member
of the Wikimedia Foundation Board since June 2007. Her leadership has
strengthened and nurtured the growth of the worldwide Wikimedia movement.
"It's been a pleasure to serve on the Wikimedia Board for nearly 7 years
and as Chair over the past 12 months," said Kat Walsh. "During my time as
Chair, the Wikimedia Foundation has worked with the global Wikimedia
community to introduce the simplified editing interface, VisualEditor, and
to support the growth of the Wikipedia Zero program to give free access to
our sites on mobile, helping us reach our goals of increased reach and
participation worldwide. We've also begun an innovative, volunteer-led
grantmaking program to ensure sustainability for our movement and our
projects. Our Board has diversified and strengthened over the past years,
reflecting the diversity and strength of our community and enabling our
colleagues to accomplish remarkable things; I am proud of what we have been
able to do."
The Wikimedia Foundation is happy to welcome its newest member of the
Board, Maria Sefidari, a Computer Science Ph.D candidate at Universidad Rey
Juan Carlos in Madrid, Spain. She has been an active Wikimedian since
March, 2006 and is a founding member and former Vice President of Wikimedia
Espana, the Wikimedia chapter in the country. She has served as a member of
the Affiliations Committee and the Individual Engagement Grants committee.
She lives and works in Madrid, Spain.
The Wikimedia Foundation is also happy to welcome Phoebe Ayers and Samuel
Klein back to the Board as the other two members elected by the volunteer
Wikimedia community. Ayers is a reference, instruction and collections
librarian at the University of California, Davis, specializing in computer
science, physics and engineering information resources. Klein is a
long-time Wikipedian and a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and
Society at Harvard University.
Every two years the worldwide contributor community elects Board members
from among its peers to participate on the Board and help steer the
Wikimedia Foundation as it fulfills its mission to "empower and engage
people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a
free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and
globally."
In collaboration with a network of chapters, the Wikimedia Foundation
provides the essential infrastructure and an organizational framework for
the support and development of multilingual wiki projects and other
endeavors that serve the mission. The Wikimedia Foundation will make and
keep useful information from its projects available on the Internet free of
charge, in perpetuity.
The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees for 2013-2014:
*Jan-Bart de Vreede, Board Chair
*Phoebe Ayers, Vice Chair
*Jimmy Wales, Founder
*Maria Sefidari
*Samuel Klein
*Alice Wiegand
*Patricio Lorente
*Bishakha Datta
*Ana Toni
*Stu West
About Wikimania
http://wikimania.org
Wikimania 2013 is being held in Hong Kong, where more than 1000 Wikipedia
contributors, Wikimedia advocates, researchers and educators from roughly
90 countries are in attendance. The previous Wikimanias were held in
Frankfurt, Germany (2005), Cambridge, USA (2006), Taipei, Taiwan (2007),
Alexandria, Egypt (2008), Buenos Aires, Argentina (2009), Gdańsk, Poland
(2010), Haifa, Israel (2011), and Washington DC (2012).
About the Wikimedia Foundation
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The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization that operates
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. According to comScore Media Metrix,
Wikipedia and the other projects operated by the Wikimedia Foundation
receive 500 million unique visitors per month, making them the fifth-most
popular web property world-wide (comScore, June 2013). Available in 285
languages, Wikipedia contains more than 28 million articles contributed by
a global volunteer community of roughly 80,000 people. Based in San
Francisco, California, the Wikimedia Foundation is an audited, 501(c)(3)
charity that is funded primarily through donations and grants.
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