Wikimedia-in-chn February 2011

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Re: [Wikimedia-in-chn] Wikipedia Wiki-meetup in Trichy / Tiruchirappalli
by CherianTinu Abraham 18 Feb '11

18 Feb '11

If you are a Wikipedian / Wiki enthusiast in & around Trichy, do come & say hai tomorrow at the Wikipedia stall at NIT, Trichy. Regards Tinu Cherian On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 5:08 PM, CherianTinu Abraham <tinucherian(a)gmail.com>wrote: > > Hi, > In association with Pragyan / Pengufest at NIT , Trichy, we > are organizing a Wiki-meetup at Trichy / Tiruchirappalli on Feb 20th, 2011, > Sunday 9:00 - 11:30 AM > > More details here > > http://www.pragyan.org/11/home/workshops/pengufest/ > Schedule > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Tiruchirappalli/Tiruchirappal… > > http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichy > > Agenda : > Introduction , 10th Anniversary updates > How to Contribute to Wikipedia -- User:Tinucherian > Introduction - Tamil Wikipedia -- User:Sodabottle > Hacking with Wikipedia -- User:Logicwiki > > Note that the organizers have kindly agreed to also open these sessions > for public. > > They have also given us a stall as well and Bala & me will be manning the > stall on 19th Feb ( Saturday) and after the sessions on 20th Feb. > > If any of you can participate/volunteer at the stalls/sessions , you're > most welcome ( Please get in touch with one of us). > > If you are in Trichy or around, please do spread the word and participate > in the meetup.. > > Regards > Tinu Cherian/ Srikanth / Bala >

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Indian academicians on Wikipedia?
by CherianTinu Abraham 16 Feb '11

16 Feb '11

Hi, A reporter is doing a story on Indian academicians on Wikipedia.. . If you know about any academicians / people from the education system who edit Wikipedia, it would be great help.. Are there anyone in the India mailing list ? Please drop *a personal mail to me* with the contact informations , if so. Thanks in advance. Regards Tinu Cherian

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Re: [Wikimedia-in-chn] [Wikimediaindia-l] Announcing Hisham Mundol as WMF consultant for National Programs, India
by CherianTinu Abraham 16 Feb '11

16 Feb '11

Hisham , Welcome to the world of Wikimedia / Wikipedia ! Looking forward to closely working with you. Best wishes ! Regards Tinu Cherian On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 6:43 AM, Arjuna Rao Chavala < arjunaraoc(a)googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi Hisham, > > A warm welcome and best wishes. > > Cheers > Arjuna Rao Chavala > President, Wikimedia Chapter, India > > On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:40 PM, Barry Newstead <bnewstead(a)wikimedia.org>wrote: > >> Dear colleagues, (please feel free to cross-post this to local lists >> within India) >> >> I am pleased to announce the appointment of Hisham Mundol as a consultant >> to the Wikimedia Foundation to support us in our program initiatives in >> India. >> >> As you know, the Wikimedia Foundation declared India to be a strategic >> priority during the strategic planning process [1]. I announced our plans >> for the formation of an office in August 2010 and the Wikimedia Foundation >> Board of Trustees approved the creation of the Wikimedia India chapter in >> June 2010. India is a priority for the Wikimedia movement as it has a strong >> and growing community of Wikimedians building the Indic and English language >> projects. It is a country where the Wikimedia movement can achieve our >> mission and learn important lessons for achieving impact elsewhere. The >> engagement of Hisham will enable the Wikimedia Foundation to pilot new >> initiatives aimed at accelerating the growth of the community in India. I am >> very happy we’ve now reached this point. >> >> As I have mentioned in the past, we have a lot of momentum in India but we >> have a long way to go to achieve our full potential as a movement. Indians >> represent 4% of the world’s Internet users today (and this share is >> growing), yet they only represent 1.5% of page edits on Wikipedia. We should >> be able to rapidly increase this share - across all projects - and expand >> readership in a corresponding fashion. >> >> Hisham’s title will be Consultant, India National Programs. He will >> report to me. His role will be to design and implement specific pilot >> programs that encourage many more Indians to become contributors to our >> projects in Indic languages as well as English. The National Programs >> initiative will focus on the following areas in the first year: >> >> - >> >> Design and implement an India-wide program to increase Wikimedia’s >> footprint on university and college campuses with students and faculty with >> the aim of encouraging contributions to Wikimedia projects >> - >> >> Support the launch and implementation of community-initiated programs >> that seek to increase the editor base for Wikimedia projects >> - >> >> Engage with the community and chapter to build a strong relationship >> among these stakeholder groups and create communications forums that allow >> for effective partnerships >> >> As a newcomer to the Wikimedia movement, Hisham’s first task will be to >> deepen his understanding of us: our history, goals, values, culture and >> mission. To that end, he will be spending the coming weeks (not months!) in >> learning mode: Hisham and I will be meeting with community members in >> Mumbai, Pune and Bangalore on Feb 23-25 and then Hisham will join community >> meetings across the country as they occur. Hisham will also spend time in >> San Francisco with the staff of the Wikimedia Foundation, as well as with >> other like-minded individuals and organizations and he will attend the >> chapter conference in Berlin. >> >> Hisham will be creating a workspace on strategy wiki where he will share >> what he is learning and develop the core elements of the action plan going >> forward. We encourage active community engagement on this wiki. We aim to >> move to action quickly and welcome input and guidance from across the >> community. >> >> Hisham was most recently a consultant with the Public Health Foundation of >> India (in a partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation). He >> designed and implemented large-scale national programs on HIV/AIDS >> prevention. He worked to understand the dynamics of hard-to-reach >> communities by conducting in-depth, on-the-ground analysis (ask him to tell >> you about his experience talking to drivers while sitting under their >> trucks). The programs he designed and implemented sought to convince people >> in large numbers - 400 million young people across the nation - to change >> very personal behaviours. While we are not tackling issues of such an >> intimate nature, we do aim to convince large numbers of people across the >> country to contribute their personal time to Wikimedia projects. During >> this assignment, Hisham worked closely with public, private and community >> groups (local and international) to work through the details of the programs >> and build partnerships for implementing them at scale. He did so in a manner >> that used persuasion rather than power to build support to move things >> forward. We think his experience navigating these varied groups position >> him well to work in the Wikimedia community. His earlier career was in >> marketing and business development with a number of well-known businesses: >> Infosys, Accenture, Cadbury and Unilever. This experience positions him well >> to engage with a movement and organization that is global in nature, in >> particular to work with a team that is based halfway around the world. >> >> We have scheduled an IRC chat with Hisham and myself for Thursday, >> February 17 at 22:00 India Standard Time (16:30 UTC). >> >> I want to thank everyone who helped in the selection process that >> identified Hisham. It was a five month process in which we made an open call >> for consultants (using my visit in September to drum up interest via >> conversations with the community and the media) in India and around the >> world. We had 197 applicants from a wide range of professional backgrounds. >> Egon Zehnder’s India office, part of a leading global executive search >> firm, helped screen candidates and manage the process. Egon Zehnder >> conducted indepth interviews with 25 candidates based on the inputs from >> Bishakha and I who helped shortlist. I interviewed 12 candidates via Skype >> in the first round and then I had the help of Bishakha Datta and Achal >> Prabhala to interview the top seven in person in Bangalore. Our top two >> candidates met with Sue and Erik in Delhi and then Hisham met with the >> entire WMF leadership team and a broad group of staff members in San >> Francisco. >> >> We are very happy with the selection of Hisham. We recognize that we did >> not manage to hire someone from inside the Wikimedia community or the open >> source community. We did look for people with this background and one of >> our finalists was a long time open source advocate. We also engaged with a >> long time Wikimedian for a role, though he ultimately decided to withdraw >> for personal reasons. We are committed to seeing Hisham integrate himself >> into the community quickly and to seeing him add people to his team from the >> community. We hope that the community will engage actively with him to >> bring him into the fold. Hisham will most definitely bring fresh >> perspectives to the movement that will help us grow and change for the >> better. >> >> Please join me in welcoming Hisham to the Wikimedia movement. >> >> Note: An FAQ will follow shortly. >> >> Best, >> Barry >> [1] *http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Plan/Role_of_the_WMF*<http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Plan/Role_of_the_WMF> >> [2] * >> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2010-August/000850.ht… >> *<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2010-August/000850.ht…> >> >> -- >> Barry Newstead >> Chief Global Development Officer >> Wikimedia Foundation >> Tel: +1-415-839-6885 x. 6634 >> Skype: barry.wikimedia >> Twitter: @bazanews >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >> Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > >

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Wikipedia workshop in Carte Blanche, Chennai
by BalaSundaraRaman 15 Feb '11

15 Feb '11

Hi, As part of the FOSS event called Carte Blanche (http://cb.csmit.org/) to be held at the Madras Institute of Technology, a Wikipedia workshop is being conducted on February 6 between 9:30 am and 4:30 pm. Following is the proposal, the exact timings will be finalised soon. * English Wikipedia - general introduction for participation (Sundar) * தமிழ் விக்கிப்பீடியா பயிலரங்கு (Tamil Wikipedia Workshop by users Manian, Sengai Podhuvan, Paridhimathi, Surya Prakash, and Mahir) * Hacking with Wikipedia (Srikanth's previous presentation will be used + Sundar's introduction to pywikipediabot and a few bot examples + Mahir's talk about templates and other things) The organisers have kindly agreed to give us a stall as well. If any of you can participate or, better still, conduct sessions, you're most welcome. On a sidenote, I've been asked to inaugurate the event on Feb 5 at 9:00 am. All are welcome. - Sundar "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted." - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture

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Thanks for the wikipedia session at MIT
by Shrinivasan T 12 Feb '11

12 Feb '11

Friends. Last sunday, I attended the wikipedia session at MIT. Thanks for the session. I see a lot of interest and enthusiasm in contributing to the wikipedia. I am from Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai [ http://ilugc.in ] We are collecting the list of projects to do for the Free Open Source Software. Here is the list. http://wiki.ilugc.in/index.php?title=Projects_List If you want any projects to be done, please add the details here. We are spreading this link to many colleges so that any students can pick any project and finish it. Please add you in the mentor page too. http://wiki.ilugc.in/index.php?title=Projects_Mentors Thanks a lot. -- Regards, T.Shrinivasan My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com Free/Open Source Jobs : http://fossjobs.in

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Wikipedia Wiki-meetup in Trichy / Tiruchirappalli - Feb 20th, 2011, Sunday 9:00 AM
by CherianTinu Abraham 08 Feb '11

08 Feb '11

Hi, In association with Pragyan / Pengufest at NIT , Trichy, we are organizing a Wiki-meetup at Trichy / Tiruchirappalli on Feb 20th, 2011, Sunday 9:00 - 11:30 AM More details here http://www.pragyan.org/11/home/workshops/pengufest/ > Schedule http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Tiruchirappalli/Tiruchirappal… http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichy Agenda : Introduction , 10th Anniversary updates How to Contribute to Wikipedia -- User:Tinucherian Introduction - Tamil Wikipedia -- User:Sodabottle Hacking with Wikipedia -- User:Logicwiki Note that the organizers have kindly agreed to also open these sessions for public. They have also given us a stall as well and Bala & me will be manning the stall on 19th Feb ( Saturday) and after the sessions on 20th Feb. If any of you can participate/volunteer at the stalls/sessions , you're most welcome ( Please get in touch with one of us). If you are in Trichy or around, please do spread the word and participate in the meetup.. Regards Tinu Cherian/ Srikanth / Bala

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