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
---
Harsh Kothari
Research Fellow,
Physical Research Laboratory(PRL).
Ahmedabad.
Thanks for posting this, harsh. I am also fowarding your message to the
Wikimedia Ahmedabad community mailing list.
Good luck with the event!
Cheers,
Anirudh
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 5:48 PM, Harsh Kothari <harshkothari410(a)gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi All
>
> We are going to organize 2nd Wikipedia Workshop at Ahmedabad on 16th
> December, 2012[1].
>
> *Agenda*
> The agenda includes explaining the basics of Wikipedia, 5 Pillars, few
> policies, anatomy of an article, basic editing Wikipedia etc. On the event
> day, a Wikimedia community member will introduce you to technical side of
> Wikipedia and it's sister projects as well as the non-technical side of it.
> You get a chance to network with some local Wikipedia community members.
>
> *Date and Venue*
> *Venue*:Lets Nurture<https://maps.google.com/maps?q=letsnurture+india&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozi…>,
> 312 Kalasagar Mall
> *Date*: 16 December 2012
> *Time*: 11:00 to 2:00 IST<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Standard_Time>
>
> *For Registration click on following link*
>
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHFjci1acXl3R2VRMnpHdX…
>
> *Facebook Event*
> https://www.facebook.com/events/447222005342455/
>
> *Twitter HashTag*
> Use #WPWABD2 in your tweets.
>
> 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Workshop/Ahmedabad_Workshop_2
>
> Thanks
> Harsh
> ---
> Harsh Kothari
> Research Fellow,
> Physical Research Laboratory(PRL).
> Ahmedabad.
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Wikipedia-gu mailing list
> Wikipedia-gu(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-gu
>
>