A Wiki workshop in Salem was conducted on December 11, 2011 by the Tamil
Wiki community. Paavadi Girls higher secondary school had graciously given
their computer lab for this workshop. This was made possible by the efforts
of an excellent newcomer to Tamil wiki projects - ParvathiSri, who is a
school teacher in Salem.
The workshop started sharply at 10 AM. Attendees included school teachers,
students, college professors and Tamil enthusiasts. There were about 15
attendees in Total. Wikimedians ParvathiSri, Thagavaluzhavan, Sodabottle,
Essar & I spoke and conducted editing sessions.
I gave a presentation on Wikipedia. In that session I covered 5 pillars of
WP, reliability of WP, importance of references, tasks for a Wikipedian,
benefits to a Wikipedian by editing WP. After that Thagavaluzhavan spoke
about Wiktionary, where he used Ta Wiktionary to explain everything instead
of using a presentation. He explained the multilingual nature of Wiktionary
and the need for multimedia content in it.
Next, Sodabottle explained the other sister projects - Wikisource,
Wikinews, Wikibooks and Commons. He explained the necessity of content
creation in mother tongues. A short introduction to the ongoing Tamil Wiki
Media Contest (http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contest<http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/contest>)
was also given.
Attendees didn't raise any questions in the Q&A session. But, they did ask
many doubts in the hands-on session that followed. During the session
the attendees
taught about creating account, WP navigation, terminology, uploading file,
using a file in an article, talking to another user. There were many
questions raised in this session. We, Wikimedians clarified their doubts
with clear explanations.
Around 1 PM the workshop came to an end. Group photos were taken. As a part
of Tamil Wiki Media Contest a small photo-walk had been arranged at the
end. User Essar, User Thagavaluzhavan and I took photos all along the road
sides of Salem Bazaar.
==Links==
1) Workshop page and talk page in ta wiki:
Event page<http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%…>
Talk Page<http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%…>
2) Images in commons
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedian_meetups_in_Salem,Dec2…
Thanks.
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From: Kumaran M <kumaran.ma(a)gmail.com>
Date: 2011/12/6
Subject: [JAYA ENGG. COLLEGE LUG:%D] Wikipedia Workshop on 10.12.2011
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Dear Friends,
Jaya FOSS Club, Jaya Engineering College in association with Wikimedia
India Chapter organising a Wikipedia Workshop for Students and
Internet Users on 10.12.2011 at 10.00am in FOSS Centre. Interested
Students can add their names in the wikipage given below.
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wiki_Academy/Jaya_Engineering_College
Limited seats available on first come first serve basis.
All are invited....
Herewith i have attached the poster for the workshop.
with regards,
Prof. M. Kumaran,
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Dear all,
As requested at the Wikimedia Hackathon in Mumbai last weekend by Srikanth,
and also in bug 32619[1], *Narayam* was just *enabled* on *Wikimedia Commons
*. I hope you find it useful.
During the hackathon we had a lot of help in adding more key mappings to
Narayam[2], and we are right now at the Red Hat offices in Pune working
together with their localisation team for Indic languages to verify and get
feedback for more Indic languages. The recent work may be deployed next
Monday (28/11), but it could also be delayed a week. The complete Wikimedia
Localisation team is travelling home this weekend, and we haven't reviewed
all the code yet, hence the possible delay.
Another *exciting feature* we are planning on deploying and enabling on
many Indic language projects to increase accessibility, and that we would
like to have your feedback[3] on is *WebFonts*[4]. Many languages do not
have proper fonts easily available to users. This may be because the
operating systems do not ship these fonts, the script has fonts but users
don't know from where they will get them from or how to install them in
their system. Another reason is because the user is reading the wiki from a
shared computer without these fonts. Sometimes it may be because the user
does not know how to configure the operating system for a language or the
user does not have enough permissions to do this. Because of all these
reasons, providing the content in certain languages is problematic.
WebFonts sends the fonts with the data and therefore we expect that
everybody can see the text correctly.
You can also read more about it in the sheets of my talk at WikiConference
India 2011[5]. Gerard Meijssen will soon post a note in all targeted
Wikimedia wikis requesting your feedback.
[1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32619
[2]
http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2011/11/typing-made-easier-for-six-lang…
[3]
http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2011/11/webfonts-are-ready-for-your-com…
[4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WebFonts
[5]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WCI_2011_Language_Support_in_Wikipe…
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cross-posting to reach pan-India; apologies if you have got it from other mailing lists.
Hi Folks,
A few months ago, the Foundation asked Tory Read to travel to India and listen and learn and write about the movement in India. The objective was to harvest experiences and learnings and to have an open discussion around what we could all do to further the movement.
This isn't in the form of a (possibly) long & boring report - but in the form of a story. (Tory's a professional researcher, writer and former journalist.) To put this together, Tory travelled for a couple of weeks across Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore and across towns in Kerala - attending community meet-ups and meeting up/speaking with a host of individual community members (in these cities and indeed beyond.)
Tory's tale is called, "The India Chronicles", and is available on Wikimedia Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_India_Chronicles_(150dpi).pdf
Do have a read through and do share your views on it - positives and negatives - and do feel free to comment on any aspect of it. It would be wonderful to have an engaging conversation on this.
Warmest Regards,
hisham
>
> I will suggest forwarding to respective language wiki mailing list, in
> addition to city mailing lists to reach the target audience.
>
Arjuna, This is already done. The mail is sent to various Indic language
lists also.
Shiju
On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 7:18 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala <arjunaraoc(a)gmail.com>wrote:
> Shiju,
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 6:59 PM, Shiju Alex <shiju(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>> Dear Indic wikimedians,
>>
>> Thank you very much for the welcome messages and for making me feel at
>> home.
>>
>> Over the past few years I have interacted with many of you for the various
>> Indic Wiki related activities and we have done many successful projects.
>> Thank you very much for all those wonderful projects. Now when we are moving
>> to a different phase of growth of Wikimedia in India, I request more
>> support from your side.
>>
>> To get started we shall together develop a plan for Indic language wikis
>> and design few pilot projects to gain learnings to drive growth. I propose
>> to develop this plan collaboratively and openly - in true wiki style. This
>> will include focused Indic language meetups, virtual meetings, desk research
>> and constantly synthesizing the findings from all of these into learnings.
>> These learnings will then flow into pilots that we will implement and review
>> and learn from.
>>
>>
>> For this purpose, I will be using the following page
>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_….
>> It is very preliminary right now - but will keep updating it. The page will
>> give you a flavor of the kind of process and methodology I plan to use - and
>> also give you a hint of the end output. However, I stress that is nothing
>> more than a stub right now. So please provide your suggestions.
>
> --cut--
>>
>
>
> Nice to see the detailed approach.
> I will suggest forwarding to respective language wiki mailing list, in
> addition to city mailing lists to reach the target audience.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Arjun
>
>
Dear Indic wikimedians,
Thank you very much for the welcome messages and for making me feel at home.
Over the past few years I have interacted with many of you for the various
Indic Wiki related activities and we have done many successful projects.
Thank you very much for all those wonderful projects. Now when we are moving
to a different phase of growth of Wikimedia in India, I request more
support from your side.
To get started we shall together develop a plan for Indic language wikis and
design few pilot projects to gain learnings to drive growth. I propose to
develop this plan collaboratively and openly - in true wiki style. This
will include focused Indic language meetups, virtual meetings, desk research
and constantly synthesizing the findings from all of these into learnings.
These learnings will then flow into pilots that we will implement and review
and learn from.
For this purpose, I will be using the following page
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_….
It is very preliminary right now - but will keep updating it. The page will
give you a flavor of the kind of process and methodology I plan to use - and
also give you a hint of the end output. However, I stress that is nothing
more than a stub right now. So please provide your suggestions.
I will be in touch soon and regularly on the next steps and I will keep you
constantly posted on progress - both positive and whenever we face setbacks.
The task is huge. The potential is even more massive. I will need a lot of
your help. I invite and welcome and urge all of you to contribute to this
process - during physical meetups, in virtual meetings, one-on-one
conversations or meetings, on the talk page to the Indic Languages page and
in any and every manner that you can imagine.
As part of the India Programs of WMF, my official ID is shiju(a)wikimedia.org.
You can reach me anytime regarding any WMF's Indic wiki related topic.
Thanks
Shiju
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 7:24 AM, Hisham <hisham(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> cross-posting to reach pan-India; apologies if you have got it from other
> mailing lists.
>
> Dear All
>
> As I had mentioned in a previous posting (and as was so touchingly welcomed
> by so many of of you), Shiju Alex is joining us to lead our Indic Languages
> initiatives. In this mail (
> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-July/003845.html),
> I had indicated that he would join around September-October.
>
> I'm really pleased to inform you that he has now joined India Programs (on
> September 24th.)
>
> Indic Languages is an important priority for us - and Shiju intends to
> start work on this urgently. He'll be in touch shortly on this matter.
>
> Welcome aboard, Shiju!
>
> Warmest Regards,
>
> hisham
>
>
cross-posting to reach pan-India; apologies if you have got it from other
mailing lists.
Dear All
As I had mentioned in a previous posting (and as was so touchingly welcomed
by so many of of you), Shiju Alex is joining us to lead our Indic Languages
initiatives. In this mail (
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-July/003845.html),
I had indicated that he would join around September-October.
I'm really pleased to inform you that he has now joined India Programs (on
September 24th.)
Indic Languages is an important priority for us - and Shiju intends to start
work on this urgently. He'll be in touch shortly on this matter.
Welcome aboard, Shiju!
Warmest Regards,
*hisham*
cross-posting to reach pan-India; apologies if you have got it from other mailing lists.
hisham
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Hisham Mundol <hmundol(a)wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Press Coverage: Request for Voices & Faces!
> Date: September 12, 2011 3:38:04 PM GMT+05:30
> To: Wikimedia India Community list <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Cc: CherianTinu Abraham <tinucherian(a)gmail.com>, Moka Pantages <mpantages(a)wikimedia.org>
>
> Hi Folks
>
> In the last couple of days, we've had a couple of really insightful, well-written articles on Wikipedia and you, the community.
> http://www.timescrest.com/life/you-cant-copypaste-this-homework-6226
>
> http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110911/jsp/7days/story_14492284.jsp
>
> I want to acknowledge the behind-the-scenes work of Tinu and Moka. (Most of you know Tinu - who's a community member based out of Bangalore. For those of you who don't know, Moka handles Global Communications for the Wikimedia Foundation.) They have worked on making sure that we convey the right messages as well as making the articles as inclusive of as many community members as possible - by covering the stories of as wide a range of editors as possible. The result of their work is the high-quality articles I've referenced above.
>
> We will continue to get requests from the press and I'd love to have them tell the tales of an even larger and more varied group of community members. It'll help to convey the diversity and magic of the community. Can I request you let Tinu and I know (offlist please) if you are willing to be interviewed by journalists in future? Every one of your stories will add emotion to an article - no matter how simple or otherwise your story is.
>
> Also, a practical issue that we are facing is that we don't have enough print-quality images of community meet ups. Can you please add as many high-resolution images of as many community meet ups, outreach events, etc. as you can to Commons (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page) so that the press can access it more easily - and they can celebrate the human face of Wikipedia in newspapers and magazines?
>
> Many thanks.
>
> Warm Regards,
>
> hisham
>
Cross-posting to reach pan-India
Thanks
Nitika
From: Nitika Tandon [mailto:ntandon@wikimedia.org]
Sent: 05 September 2011 16:40
To: 'wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org'
Subject: Update, Examples & Request: Wikipedia India Education Program
Hi Folks,
I thought I’ll share an update with you’ll on the Wikipedia India Education Program. It's running majorly in 2 colleges in Pune (Symbiosis School of Economics and College of Engineering Pune). We already have over 1000 students enrolled from just these 2 colleges. Most of these students have gone through one or more out of a total of 35 introductory, basic editing and refresher sessions conducted by Campus Ambassadors.
It’s good to see big numbers but I thought I’ll also share with you some articles that the students have been working on. It’s really inspiring to see their progress! J
User: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Abhilasha369> Abhilasha369 started a new article: Robinson Crusoe Economy <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinson_Crusoe_Economy>
User: basic.atari <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Basic.atari> is working on article Human capital <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_capital>
User: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/SaurabhKB> SaurabhKB is editing <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-organizing_list> Self-organizing list
User: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Aishani_Sharma> Aishani Sharma on Social preferences <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_preferences>
User: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Jinchurikidan> Jinchurikidan has been actively editing the article on Animation studio <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animation_studio>
These is still some way to go on these articles but I think they are fantastic starts! The 5 users and articles above are just illustrative. You can also track progress of the entire program here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:INDIAEDU
Please do reach out to the students (not just the one's listed above) and offer help and encouragement. Please do help them out on their articles as well. While they have been trained, they're going to need a lot of support because they are almost entirely newbies. Please do also leave kind words for the Campus Ambassadors. They've been doing amazing work!
Thanks
Nitika Tandon