Hi all,
Sending in an update from the Ahmedabad community: The Wikipedia Takes
Ahmedabad photowalk is scheduled for Tuesday, 3 January 2012. As of now,
we have received confirmation from 162 individuals on facebook itself! We
saw a surge in interest from amateur and professional photographers in
Ahmedabad after the Times of India and the Mirror covered our story
yesterday. 93.5 RED FM played our pre-recorded interviews this morning.
Noopur has created a short-guide on the fly for uploading pictures on to
the Wikimedia Commons:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Eec_Yly7wRZB8sNto6rD6WyX3_ATYJezZJ6slxq…
Due to the sudden increase in the number of interested participants, we
have decided to hold a pre-event meeting with group co-ordinators tomorrow,
29 December 2011.
For more information, please go to : http://enwp.org/WP:WTABD
anirudh
On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Noopur <noopur.raval(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
> I take great pride and joy in announcing Wikipedia takes Ahmedabad on
> January 3, 2012. As a great start to the event, we had a new volunteer join
> us and make our logo. He is very excited to have discovered Commons and has
> offered his help for all events in future. We are coordinating it thru FB
> group and event page and details are listed on Wiki here:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_Ahmedabad
>
> You can join and invite your friends here:
> http://www.facebook.com/groups/wpabad/
>
> Please do give us your suggestions on how to make this event a success :)
> Look forward to your best wishes!
>
> Thank you,
> Warmly
> Noopur
>
> --
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> Student
> Arts and Aesthetics
> Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
> Ph: 9650567690
>
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Thanks Noopur. Cross-posting to Wikimedia Ahmedabad list.
Yours sincerely,
Anirudh Bhati
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From: Noopur <noopur.raval(a)gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 7:50 PM
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Announcing Wikipedia Takes Ahmedabad!
To: Wikimedia India Community list <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Dear all,
I take great pride and joy in announcing Wikipedia takes Ahmedabad on
January 3, 2012. As a great start to the event, we had a new volunteer join
us and make our logo. He is very excited to have discovered Commons and has
offered his help for all events in future. We are coordinating it thru FB
group and event page and details are listed on Wiki here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_Ahmedabad
You can join and invite your friends here:
http://www.facebook.com/groups/wpabad/
Please do give us your suggestions on how to make this event a success :)
Look forward to your best wishes!
Thank you,
Warmly
Noopur
--
Noopur Raval
Student
Arts and Aesthetics
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
Ph: 9650567690
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*Ahmedabad Mirror : " Ahmedabad to go Wiki with your clicks" *
http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/article/2/2011122720111227022617405d732bc46/…
*Photos of the city taken by you during a special tour on January 3 will be
uploaded on Wikipedia; they will pop up with your name in the creditline
when someone searches for Ahmedabad on the web encyclopaedia*
*
*
*
*
*Want to show the world how aapnu Amdavad looks like? Pick up a camera,
capture glimpses of the city and share them with the world’s largest
collaborative encyclopaedia on the web, Wikipedia. The global non-profit
organisation, Wikimedia Foundation, is organising ‘Wiki Takes The City’
walks for Ahmedabad on January 3, and snaps taken during the initiative
could end up uploaded on the site along with a creditline for you. *
*
*
*Those passionate about the city and photography can join the “walks” that
will begin from Gandhi Ashram in Sabarmati at 8.30 am and cover various
areas of the city.*
*
*
*Said Noopur Raval, a member of the Wikimedia India chapter, “Not many are
aware of the way this group works. Through this walk, we invite anybody and
everybody to join us and take photographs of Ahmedabad. These pictures can
be of something that can be seen as the landmarks of the city. Right from
monuments, food items, buildings, roads and bridges to college campuses.”*
*
*
*All are free to join the tour in which they will use vehicles and
contribute their images to the local chapter. Selected few will be uploaded
on Wikipedia, she said.*
*
*
*The aim of this exercise is to encourage participants to compete to take
photographs of as many local sites and city specific objects of cultural
heritage as possible for Wikipedia articles, says the information on
‘Wikipedia Takes Ahmedabad’ page.*
*
*
*Through this exercise, Wikipedia will add on to its open and free
knowledge sharing and promote awareness of Wikipedia in the city. “Anybody
with a passion for photography and a camera can join us. They may also
carry data transfer cables so that they can hand us the pictures towards
the end of the tour, if they so wish,” Raval said.*
*
*
*
*
*The pictures will be uploaded as licensed material with credits attributed
to the photographers. Said Raval, “These pictures will come under the
Creative Commons licence (CC DY-SA) which allows Wikipedia users for use in
educational and commercial purpose as long as they are being attributed to.
They may adapt it and modify it, as long as they acknowledge it.” *
*
*
*So, the next time someone sitting in Bosnia or the Botswana surfs the
internet for Ahmedabad, there are chances of your photograph popping up
along with an article with your name flashing on it. *
*
*
*The recently held first annual India function of Wikimedia Foundation in
Mumbai saw a huge participation. Across the world these Wikimanias see a
participation of around 500 people while at the India conference close to
700 participants remained present. This gave a huge impetus to the group,
Raval said.*
*
*
*Srikeit Tadepalli, a 24-year-old Amdavadi student pursuing MBA
(advertising) at SIMC-Pune, said, “I have been a part of the Wikipedia
since 2006. When I began writing and collecting information I was in
school. I had a bit of time on my hand which I turned into a productive and
global knowledge sharing exercise.”*
*
*
*Tadepalli is one of the few administrators with Wikipedia who usually have
more tools than common users and can reject or block controversial or
indecent articles. The Ahmedabad Wikipedia group has a strength of only six
or seven members. “Contributors from Ahmedabad may be few in number but
they are dedicated to the cause of knowledge sharing. That’s why four out
of these few members have been made administrators,” he said.*
*
*
*Another administrator Anirudh Singh Bhati, a 25-year-old lawyer added, “I
was a student at Gujarat National Law University when I first posted my
edit, on January 26, 2006. It happened when I was searching for my
university but there was not much information which is why I created a page
on GNLU.” *
*
*
*Soon Bhati realised that this is more than being just an encyclopaedia as
he found an entire community behind the content. The fact that his
knowledge was being seen by millions of net users prompted him to spend
hours of research and work. “My contribution is being read not only by
those reading journals but by billions. It also gets prominently displayed.
Every second close to 10,000 members are watching every word that comes on
Wikipedia with around 1500 administrators which ensures that nothing wrong
goes up on the pages.”*
*
*
*HOW DOES ONE POST INFORMATION ON WIKIPEDIA?*
*
*
*Anyone can edit an existing article or create a new one and volunteers do
not need to have any formal training. The people who create and edit
articles in Wikipedia are spread all over the world and come from a wide
range of age and backgrounds. A contributor to this encyclopaedia,
unregistered or registered, is called a “Wikipedian” or more formally known
as “editor”.*
*
*
*The best of articles are highlighted in the list of featured articles.
These articles were granted “featured” status because they were judged to
be of high quality by other editors. (If later editing compromises the
quality of a featured article, a user can nominate it for removal from the
list.)*
*
*
*WHO ARE WIKI ADMINISTRATORS?*
*
*
*Administrators, commonly known as admins or sysops (system operators), are
Wikipedia editors trusted with access to restricted technical features
(tools). For example, administrators can protect, delete and restore pages,
move pages over redirects, hide and delete page revisions, edit protected
pages, and block other editors.*
*
*
*Administrators assume these responsibilities as volunteers. They must
never use the tools to gain an advantage in a dispute in which they are
involved. Administrators should not be confused with Wikimedia system
administrators (“sysadmins”).*
*
*
*For further information:*
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_Ahmedabad*
Regards
Tinu Cherian
press(a)wikimedia.in
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/In_the_news
Important Note : The publisher ( Ahmedabad Mirror / Times of India Group)
of the above news article owns the copyrights of the article / content.
Request to kindly not reproduce or circulate the content further. The
information is only shared only with an internal community who have been
featured on this article. All copyrights are duly acknowledged.
[cross-posting to reach pan-India; apologies if you have got it from some other mailing list.]
Hi Folks,
As you might be aware, the Consultant, Team Support position is to be filled as part of the India Programs team. (http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-September/004251….)
I am really pleased and excited to announce that Subhashish Panigrahi has agreed to join as Consultant, Community & Program Support.
Some of you might know Subhashish (or Subha as he's also called.) He is all of 23 and a wonderful Wikimedian from Odisha. He has a BE in Biotechnology from Sapthagiri College of Engineering, Bangalore. He has worked for about 1 1/2 years in business development and is currently based in Bangalore. He's been an active Wikimedian since a friend of his attended a Wikipedia 10th event in Bangalore in January and told Subha about Wikipedia. Subha then spent considerable time - quite a bit of it in Shiju Alex's living room apparently :-) - learning about Wikipedia. Since then, he's been on fire! He's helped the Bangalore community organise the monthly meet-ups, been a central figure in building community & momentum for Odia Wikipedia and has conducted outreach programs for Odia projects back home in Odisha as well as in Bangalore. He's also been helping out other projects and communities; a couple of weekends ago he was in Chennai conducting a WikiAcademy there. He is a fantastically inspiring example of a complete outsider being welcomed into the family, having his hand held in his growth as a newbie, charging forward taking responsibility & ownership and then spreading his skills & knowledge to others. He is also one of the sweetest human beings I have ever met. He is a perfect example of the Wikimedia Dream.
His interests (outside of Wikimedia) are cooking, graphic design and handwriting analysis. (I bet most of you who know Subha don't know that last bit about him. So the next time you see him, show him your writing and get him to reveal your deep dark secrets!) He has also been involved with campaigns for social work during the floods and cholera outbreak in Odisha and been involved with a Odisha community organisation, eOdissa.com.
Originally, the Consultant, Team Support position (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs#Team_S…) was to manage the back-end aspects of India Programs (basic accounting, basic personnel management, office administration, travel support, expense statement management, logistics support for the community, etc.) I have been looking at the actual work load involved and I do not think this is a full time role. The functions listed are essential and need to be done - but there is an opportunity to improve the richness of the position and it's value to the community. I'm therefore proposing that the Consultant, Team Support be redesignated to Consultant, Community & Program Support. I envisage this position to have about 1/3 of time spent on the back-end work listed above but 2/3 of time can be very productively utilised supporting community efforts - such as helping community building & outreach and supporting community-led initiatives. An important consideration I have for this redesignation is after looking at the specific skills that Subha brings to the table; I want to make sure that he has the required space to realise his potential and to support the community and movement.
Subha will of course continue to pursue his personal voluntary work for and as part of the Wikimedia community. The one question that he emphasized during the selection process was whether he would retain the flexibility to continue to pursue his personal passions on Wikimedia; the answer he got was a loud Y-E-S!!! :-) I'm delighted to have another community member joining the team.
He'll formally start in Delhi on January 9th 2012.
Do join me in welcoming him.
Warmest Regards,
hisham
A quick note that, thanks to the sysadmins/listadmins and Gmane admins,
this list has just been added to Gmane and should appear in their
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See http://gmane.org/about.php and
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and Wikimedia lists, and please add/update yours if missing.
Sorry for crossposting.
Nemo
Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2011 14:44:32 +0530
From: pradeep.mohandas(a)gmail.com
To: wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Any Wikipedians in Bharuch?
hi,
In between the conference preparations, I got a job offer and moved to Bharuch, a town situated in between Surat and Baroda. Just wondering if there are any Wikipedians from here. Would be lovely to meet up.
I went to the K J Choksi Public Library today. It's like an oasis in the middle of the Sahara. I fall short of better metaphors to describe the place. Awesome book collection in English, Hindi and Gujarati. While becomign a member I broached the idea of a Wikipedia workshop and the folks at the library are very excited at the prospect. They told me they lack resource persons who can conduct such programmes for children and members.
While I've offered to conduct the workshop in English and if there is interest, in Hindi as well, I need help in Gujarati. Any Wikipedian in Bharuch who is interested in doing a meetup would be great!
warm regards,
Pradeep
--
Pradeep Mohandas
How Pradeep uses email - http://goo.gl/6v1I9
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