Cross-posting to other lists.
Hi all,
Wikimania is the annual international conference of Wikimedians
, jointly hosted by the local team ( usually local chapter) and the
Wikimedia Foundation.
The previous conferences were held in Frankfurt, Germany (2005), Boston,
USA (2006), Taipei, Taiwan (2007), Alexandria, Egypt (2008), Buenos
Aires, Argentina (2009), Gdan'sk, Poland (2010), and Haifa, Israel (2011).
This year, it is to be held in Washington DC, United States of America,
on July 12-14 , 2012. http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
<http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page>
I have attended the Wikimanias in Gdansk and Haifa, along with several
other Wikipedians from India.
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wikimania2011
<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wikimania2011>
I highly recommend everyone to apply and attend Wikimania !
Like every year, The Wikimedia Foundation is offering a limited number
of scholarships to offset the cost of select individuals' attendance at
Wikimania.
Both full and partial scholarships are available for Wikimania 2012:
Full scholarships will award round trip travel, dorms
accommodations and registration.
Partial scholarships will subsidize up to 300EUR of travel expenses.
Scholarship recipients have to bear themselves the additional costs of
taxis, visa & travel agent charges etc.
More Information : http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships
<http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships>
Apply here : https://secure.wikidc.org/wm/schols/
<https://secure.wikidc.org/wm/schols/>
Deadline : *16 Feb 2012*
Around 30 % of the scholarship are allocated to Asia & Pacific, so there
are more chances of scholarship applications from India to be selected. :)
Please note that the selection is mostly based on the merit of the
applications.
One of the common mistakes that Wikimedians in India make is that we
aren't enough vocal of what we do. So please do write in detail about
your Wikimedia activities.
Please feel free to forward this to various language and city mailing
lists and encourage other Wikimedians to apply.
All the best wishes!
Regards
Tinu Cherian
How wonderful, I do wish I was there. You guys have done a great job. My
personal congrats to each of the participants.
Do we have a master list for articles about Mumbai? Does one need to be
made?
Well begun is half done. Please remember that with all this raw material
(images), you now have to make cakes & pastries (i.e. better-illustrated
articles & newly-made stubs).
So the process of cooking must now start.
Just to remind every-one once again, :)
We need to :
* categorise the images.
* add the images to articles, where possible.
* create stubs where necessary and add images to them.
Congratulations once again Mumbai community, but don't halt just yet,
complete the cycle & see Mumbai represented much better in Wikipedia.
Bumping this to the Wikiproject India mailing list also.
Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Anshuman Fotedar <anshuman.fotedar(a)gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 9:54 PM
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Report on Wikipedia Takes Mumbai II
To: Wikimedia India Community list <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>,
"Mailing list for Wikimedians / Wikipedians in & from Mumbai , India." <
wikimedia-in-mum(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Greetings! This is a short note on Wikipedia Takes Mumbai II. Forty
people turned up near the Oval Maidan at Churchgate at 8 am yesterday. The
landmarks that were photographed included the Babulnath Temple, Nehru
Science Centre, Opera House, St Thomas Cathedral, INS Vikrant and Yazdani
Bakery. After the photos had been clicked many of the participants
proceeded to Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, TIFR where they were
shown how to upload to Commons using both the usual upload process and by
using the mediawiki-uploader mass upload script.
Nikita Belavate and Karthik Nadar put in a lot of work into the event. They
helped many people contribute to the Commons while having a good time, and
they deserve praise for making all of this happen.
Our heartfelt gratitude to Pranav Curumsey, Vickram Crishna, Dr
Nagarjuna, Noopur Raval and Moksh Juneja for all the help and mentoring.
Thanks to Shrinivasan T for mediawiki-uploader :) And apologies if I missed
anyone out.
Do visit our maintenance category
WTM<http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:WTM>,
specially created for the event. 313 pictures have been uploaded so far.
Sincerely
Anshuman Fotedar
PS:
1.
During the photowalk, some of the participants who were taking pictures of
Bombay House were interrupted by private security personnel and asked to
handover their cameras so that the pictures could be removed. Pranav
and Aditya Sengupta, who were among them, peacefully put forth the fact
that they were not not breaking any laws by photographing the structure
from the outside since it was not a legally protected one. They were
standing on the road, and not trespassing. To resolve the matter, Aditya,
Pranav and Krutikaa Jawanjal accompanied the security personnel to the
police station where they explained that they were within their rights to
do what they did, and that citizens of the country need not take prior
permission to take exterior photographs of private property that was not
accorded legal protection. The PSI on duty made a noting in his station
diary and informed us that Bombay House has security fears, which is why
one should speak to their bosses before taking pictures, but agreed with
them per se that there is no law that prohibits people from taking pictures
there.
2.
The group that went to Bombay House (and subsequently to Yazdani Bakery,
St. Thomas Cathedral) and other places was delayed owing to the incident
at Bombay House and discovered serendipitously that entry to INS Vikrant
was open. Covering Vikrant took a while, adding to the delay. Consequently
they (this includes me) never reached HBCSE but uploaded from home instead.
Although we did get several good contributions from the participants in
this group as well, I do recognise that it may have been nice if we could
have joined in with the participants who uploaded together at HBCSE. I
apologise.
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Dear Debanjan,
Doing refs one at a time can be a disadvantage. Doing refs from beginning
to end brings more suggestions and options to mind.
See Ref 108 wikitext -
<ref name="Chakrabarty">{{cite book|author=Bidyut Chakrabarty|title=Social
and political thought of Mahatma Gandhi|url=
http://books.google.com/books?id=4x34We-mY40C&pg=PA138|accessdate=25
January 2012|year=2006|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0-415-36096-8|page=138}}
</ref>
Very good compared to the one I made below using RefTag which is slightly
better
<ref name="Chakrabarty2006">{{cite
book|last=Chakrabarty|first=Bidyut|title=Social and political thought of
Mahatma Gandhi|url=
http://books.google.com/books?id=4x34We-mY40C&pg=PA138|accessdate=25January
2012|year=2006|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0-415-36096-8|page=138}}</ref>
Mine is slightly better - the Harvard style refname allows multiple books
by one author to be used and allows seperate refs for each. Also secondly,
Surname first followed by comma followed by firstname is almost always
preferred in GA/FA like this :
author=Chakrabarty, Bidyut | or
last=Chakrabarty | first=Bidyut |
As regards Ref 109, whose wikitext is as follows -
<ref>From Discussion with BG Kher and others, 15 August 1940. Gandhi's
Wisdom Box (1942), edited by Dewan Ram Parkash, p. 67 also in Collected
works of Mahatma Gandhi Vol. 79 (PDF), p. 122</ref>
Now, if you read all the refs from beginning (in section "Notes") you will
that refs 3 & 4 are also from Collected Works. So checkout the text &
wikitext for one of those, say ref 3 :
Ref 3 text:
Gandhi, M. K. (1982) [10 November 1921]. "The Momentous
Issue"<http://www.gandhiserve.org/cwmg/VOL025.PDF>.
*Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi*. *25* (electronic ed.). New Delhi:
Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Govt. of
India. pp. 76–78. Retrieved 11 January 2012. "*Complete civil disobedience
is rebellion without the element of violence in it. An out and out civil
resister simply ignores the authority of the state. He becomes an outlaw
claiming to disregard every unmoral state law. ...In doing all this he
never uses force and never resists force when it is used against him. In
fact, he invites imprisonment and other uses of force against himself...*"
Ref 3 wikitext :
<ref name="CollectedWorks25">{{cite book |title=Collected Works of Mahatma
Gandhi|chapter=The Momentous Issue |last=Gandhi |first=M. K.
|authorlink=<!--Mohandas
Karamchand Gandhi-->|volume=25 |year=1982 |publisher=Publications Division,
Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Govt. of India|location=New
Delhi|isbn=
|edition=electronic |pages=76–78 |url=
http://www.gandhiserve.org/cwmg/VOL025.PDF|quote=''Complete civil
disobedience is rebellion without the element of violence in it. An out and
out civil resister simply ignores the authority of the state. He becomes an
outlaw claiming to disregard every unmoral state law. ...In doing all this
he never uses force and never resists force when it is used against him. In
fact, he invites imprisonment and other uses of force against
himself...''|origyear=10
November 1921 |accessdate=11 January 2012}}</ref>
Now, examine this carefully, I constructed it by hand:
I choose to format it like a book using "cite book" template, not a web
site in which case "cite web" is more suitable, or, as an online pdf
document stored, in which case I would have used "citation".
I added the usual fields, but I found from a previous reference a very good
url of Gandhiserve.org. where each & every volume of Gandhi Collected Works
can be accessed by just fiddling the urls.
http://www.gandhiserve.org/cwmg/VOL025.PDF
By changing 25 in the url to 79 we get the desired url for the new ref 109!
In this case, since we can get open access to the volume 79, the Collected
Works url is used and we get rid of Gandhi's Wisdom Box part of the
reference. The new reference for 109 becomes :
<ref name="CollectedWorks79">{{cite book |title=Collected Works of Mahatma
Gandhi|chapter= Discussion with BG Kher and others |last=Gandhi |first=M.
K. |authorlink=<!--Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi-->|volume=79 |year=1980
|publisher=Publications
Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Govt. of India|location=New
Delhi|isbn= |edition=Electronic |pages=121-122 |url=
http://www.gandhiserve.org/cwmg/VOL079.PDF|quote=|origyear=15 August
1940 |accessdate=26
January 2012}}</ref>
Here, the information I got was from the following sources :
* "chapter" is name of concerned document in the valley.
* "origyear" is the date when the letter was actually sent, in this case 15
August 1940
* Edition=Electronic, why because this index of all Gandhiserve collected
works volume, specifies that this should be the version of the book
inreference :
http://www.gandhiserve.org/cwmg/cwmg.html
* "year" is the year of publication by Publications Division of Ministry of
I&B, GOI). This I got by finding the Google Books page on Vol 79 of
Collected Works :
http://books.google.co.in/books/about/Collected_works.html?id=DYRDAAAAYAAJ&…
With all these chhota mota inputs, I crafted the reference.
GTG now, too sleepy,
Happy Republic Day!
Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur
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On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 4:03 AM, Debanjan Bandyopadhyay <debastein(a)gmail.com
> wrote:
> Thanks for the tip. I shall discuss this one with you in detail a bit
> later. Right now, tell me about this reference, look at references nos.
> 108, 109. I added 108 as a verifiable link, but 109 was so well formatted,
> I thought not to remove it without asking you. What is your take on it?
> Should I remove it.
>
> Also, 108 has also been referred once before, i.e. 37. Is it not possible
> to merge the two with different page nos. I used the ref name as same, but
> it merged with the previous reference as ab in superscript but the problem
> was, it only showed pg 91 of the first reference, and not pg 138 of the
> second link. What I wanted to do it point a towards pg 91 while b towards
> pg 138, is that possible?
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Debanjan*
>
> - Lets make this world a better and more informative place*
>
>
>
Hello friends,
It is time for a review of the Collaboration of the Month for January
2012. Lets have a look at what we achieved in these COTMs. As usual,
I'm delivering the verdict before the month ends. :).
Last month we had decided to take up just one COTM considering that
fewer members were taking interest in it and choose an article for
Good Article improvement. The one's selected were :
* [[Premchand]] as INCOTM &
* [[Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi]] - for GA.
During the period under question, Premchand had 133 edits from 17
contributors. This was very good from the point of view of COTM even
though it was about half of the previous COTM - Mullaperiyar Dam. The
COTM was a success in this case as the article on Premchand improved
substantially:
* Improved infobox
* Improved lead.
* Size - increased from 974 words to 3361 words - a 3.5 times increase.
* There was very large restructuring of Biography alongwith expansion.
Biography went from zero subsections to seven.
* A new section on "Styles and influences" has been added.
* Referencing greatly improved from 7 to 47.
* Images went from nil to two.
* List of works, now in tabular form but still quite trashy.
* External link cleanup done and went from five to two.
* Five books were listed in the References (=Bibliography) & Further
reading section. Previously none.
Is Premchand ready for GA? No, the article is still having huge gaps
in content and the list of works is far too clunky to even think of
it. It needs even more development despite the increase in size.
However, the article reads much better now, is referenced a whole lot
better and is now satisfactory which it was not earlier. So, imho a
successful INCOTM.
The top four editors of Premchand during 01January 2012 to the time of
writing this email were:
* utcursch - 51 edits
* Hisham - 43 edits
* Nitika.t - 19 edits
* Redtigerxyz - 11 edits
To encourage contribution, they have been awarded a Barnstar for
taking time and effort to participate. This is the first barnstar both
Hisham and Nitika.t are getting for their contribution as editors and
separate from their official role. I trust they will value these more
than the others they have received till date.
MANY THANKS TO ALL WHO CONTRIBUTED IN PREMCHAND COTM (Yes, I'm shouting!)
The GA of the month was Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Gandhi saw lots of
activity - 316 revisions by 27 users, boy, that exceeded Premchand.
But it takes a humungous effort to set articles right for GA nowadays.
There was a lot of editing and deletion as we had User:Rjensen, a
history prof in the states doing lots of work, judging material with
the fine eye of an expert. His user page blurb tells all about his
experience.
{{quote|Since taking a PhD at Yale in 1966, I have been an active
historian, with numerous books, articles and papers on quite a variety
of themes, especially American political, social, military and
economic history, as well as historiography and quantitative and
computer methods. Since 1971 I have authored, coauthored or edited 21
scholarly or popular books, and written 45 scholarly articles. My most
recent popular books I served as well on the editorial boards of six
scholarly journals such as the Journal of American History and the
American Journal of Sociology and have been a permanent or visiting
professor at U Illinois-Chicago, Washington U, U. Michigan, Harvard U,
West Point, Moscow State (in Russia), etc. Currently I am retired from
teaching and am a Research Professor at Montana State University,
Billings, Montana, USA. Here's the favorite book I've written: The
Winning of the Midwest: 1888-1896 (1971), online free.}}
We are honoured to have User:Rjensen amongst us. His improvement of
Gandhi brings to the article the hallmark of the professional
historian.
The top editors were:
* AshLin - 119 edits
* Rjensen - 64.
* Karthikndr - 56.
* AroundTheGlobe - 30
* Debastein - 13
The reason why is that yours truly has started the Master Class and
the class is still stuck on Reference cleanup. About 110 refs have
been cleaned up by me. The article has now got 146. But there has been
many references removed, some fused, and almost all improved in some
way or the other. Yet about 60 odd refs still remain. A number of
posts on Master Class dealt with this aspect.
Of the three Master Class students, one was preoccupied with
studies/SSB interview and outreach and genuinely had problems to edit,
one did not bother to edit after opting in and the third, Debanjan was
hampered by his College server not downloading Wikipedia to see much
less to edit. But Debanjan came back with a vengeance and in barely
couple of days clocked up 13 decent edits here alone.
Kudos to AroundTheGlobe and Karthikndr for their sterling work in GA.
Since we are nowhere near completion, Gandhi defaults to February. We
continue to edit it till it is GA or bust. Barnstars for GA will be
awarded only after Gandhi becomes GA again.
In the next post, I shall be discussing the proposal for next month's COTM.
Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur
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Great job done as long ago as 2006 by early editors of WikiProject
India, in this case - our very own Planemad :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:India_roadway_map.svg
Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur
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Dear Debanjan,
The very first page of web search in Google yields that :
* the Journal of Indian History is published in Madras since the
early decades of the Twentieth Century. (see
http://www.archive.org/stream/journalofindianh014918mbp#page/n1/mode/2up).
Keeping in mind that Vol VII was published in 1928, we can assume that
it began publishing in 1920 or 1921.
* the University of Pune includes it in the list of journals it
subscribes to ( See
http://www.google.co.in/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=journal%20of%20indian%20history&so…)
* Not finding it in JSTOR or indeed in Google Book Scholar implies
that it is one of those journals which has not digitised its valuable
IP and offered it online either free or under a paywall.
So what to do?
By using Revision History Search from the History page of Gandhi &
typing in "Journal of Indian History" text (also known as WikiBlame).
Give it time to run and it will find the insertions. Here is the url :
http://wikipedia.ramselehof.de/wikiblame.php?user_lang=en&lang=en&project=w…
After 5 minutes it points at two insertions by User:Rjensen who is a
history professor and presumably has both access to the document and
knows what he does. So, the only thing to do is to ensure it is in a
cite template - in this case "cite journal". If it is already in the
format, no issue. If it is not, convert it.
So the crucial question is - does the edit reflect the original text
neutrally and accurately? Since we do not have access and the editor
is a respectable co-worker with us, we may assume good faith and leave
it at that. Should we feel that the edit is far-fetched or that we
need to check it out we may either:
* find it in a library OR
* if its JSTOR, make a request at Resource Request
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Resource_Exchange/Resour…)
* Ask the inserting editor for a copy of the paper.
Then we check the reference to see that the edits are accurate and
that there is no copyvio or POV editting.
Hope this satisfies your thirst for knowledge. :)
I'm bumping a copy of this to the WikiProject list as I'm sure others
will face your situation in the future and this may help in giving
them guidance.
Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur
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On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 3:31 AM, Debanjan Bandyopadhyay
<debastein(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey Ashwin,
>
> I've finally got access to well some type of internet connection, its not
> too dependable but it works, and that https idea worked well also. Ok, so
> while cleaning up the references, I found there are a lot of unverifiable
> references, mostly protected by jstor. Look at reference no 84. It reads as
> follows:
>
> Watson, I. Bruce (1977). "Satyagraha: The Gandhian Synthesis". Journal of
> Indian History 55 (1/2): 325–335.
>
> I am totally unable to find any link of the original article, i.e. the
> Journal of Indian History. The closest thing that I found was that it was
> referenced to a jstor article,
>
> The Principles of Equity and the Sermon on the Mount as Influence in
> Gandhi's Truth Force
>
> But that too is locked by jstor to only paid users. What do I do in this
> regard??
>
> --
> Regards,
> Debanjan
>
> - Lets make this world a better and more informative place
>
The need for the hour is referenced edits. I have got to the point now
that I cannot get myself to add unreferenced edits easily - I have to
force myself.
And its all really quite easy.
Suppose you want to find a fact to add in any article of your choice.
Say I want to add a fact on "influence of Indian cinema in Soviet
Russia" to the [[Bollywood]] article.
Go to Google Books search (not generic search). Type in the phrase. In
Advanced Search preferences, select "limited preview and full view"
option. (Cant find it? Its along the bottom of the search page).
Press "Search".
The fifth reference on the first page is "Dreaming in Canadian: South
Asian youth, Bollywood, and belonging - Page 21" and it gives a
factoid about Raj Kapoor's popularity in Soviet Russia.
Isolate the fact from the text - rewrite it as a single fact without
close paraphrasing in your own words.
"In the first two decades after Independence, Russian-dubbed Indian
films, especially the movies of Raj Kapoor, were popular in the
Soviet Union. However, this interest vaned alongwith the breakup of
the Soviet Union".
Now copy the url of the Google Books page:
http://books.google.co.in/books?id=A3VvKZuI_0UC&pg=PA21&dq=influence+of+Ind…
and load it in RefTag
http://reftag.appspot.com/
and press Load. Viola the reference is created.
Since in most places, author convention of surname first is preferred,
I press the "or" button just behind each authors name, which directly
converts it to the surname first mode.
Then I press "make citation" again and I get the version that I wanted.
Note of all the citation options, always choose "cite web" over others.
(I also remove the - after the page number in RefTag wherever the
information is found on only one page as has happened in this case.)
By doing this I get the readymade reference which is :
<ref name="Hirji2010">{{cite book|author=Faiza Hirji|title=Dreaming in
Canadian: South Asian youth, Bollywood, and
belonging|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=A3VvKZuI_0UC&pg=PA21|accessd…
January 2012|date=30 November 2010|publisher=UBC
Press|isbn=978-0-7748-1798-1|page=21}}</ref>
Now combine the fact and the reference
In the fifties, Russian-dubbed Indian films, especially the movies of
Raj Kapoor, were popular in the Soviet Union. However, this interest
vaned alongwith the breakup of the Soviet Union.<ref
name="Hirji2010">{{cite book|author=Faiza Hirji|title=Dreaming in
Canadian: South Asian youth, Bollywood, and
belonging|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=A3VvKZuI_0UC&pg=PA21|accessd…
January 2012|date=30 November 2010|publisher=UBC
Press|isbn=978-0-7748-1798-1|page=21}}</ref>
and copy-paste it in the article in the desired place.
Its as simple as that. The Google Books - RefTag combination is really
awesome. You can find almost a citation for almost any fact in Google
Book search & RefTag makes it extremely simple to create the
reference.
All the best for your work, happy editing.
Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur
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Cross-posting to other lists. Kindly excuse if you have already received
this via another mailing list.
Regards
Tinu Cherian
Head of Communications,
Wikimedia India Chapter
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Naveen Francis <naveenpf(a)wikimedia.in>
Date: Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:39 AM
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter : December 2011 Report
To: Wikimedia India Community list <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Dear all,
Greetings from Wikimedia India !!!
We are delighted to present the last monthly Wikimedia India report of the
year 2011, almost a year after the chapter received the formal recognition
from the Government of Karnataka on 3 January 2011. The journey so far
wasn't easy, but we appreciate your continued patronage , support and
participation.
*Organisational Updates*
*Formation of Task Forces:*
As announced earlier, with the objective of increasing the engagement and
participation of the members of the chapter actively in various
initiatives, the India chapter has come up with focused Task Forces for
coordinating and driving various chapter activities [1]. There are two
types of Task Forces - Project Task Forces and Operations Task Forces. The
Project Task Forces are focused on growing the Wikimedia projects. The
Operations Task Forces are critical functions to enable the Project Task
Forces and the Chapter in growing the movement. The operations group
consists of Administration, Fund raising, & Communications. The Projects
task force consists of City and Langugage SIGs and Special Projects. The
new task forces will be led by the following people:
- Anirudh Bhati, Head, Fundraising.
- Arun Ramarathnam, Chair, Special Projects.
- Srinivas Gunta, Head, Administration.
- Sudhanwa Jogalekar, Chair, City and Language Special Interest Groups.
- Tinu Cherian, Head, Communications, PR & Media Relations.
*Membership:*
The Chapter membership stands at 190 members as of 31 December 2011.
*Donations:*
Total donations received in Dec 2011 - INR 700
Average donations in Dec 2011 - INR 350
*FCRA:*
Our application for FCRA prior permission under the Foreign Contribution
(Regulation) Act with the Government of India is still pending. An official
from the Home Ministry has visited Arjuna Rao Chavala, President.
*Internet Relay Chat(IRCs):*
>From time to time, Wikimedia India conduct planned online IRC chat
sessions. The Dec 17, 2011 was anchored by Arun with the focus on Chapter
City & Language Special Interest Groups. [2]
*Board Meetings:*
The Chapter Executive Committee had two Tele-conference meetings in the
month of December (dated 07 Dec and 14 Dec, 2011). The Wikimedia India
chapter and Wikimedia Foundation had one joint co-ordination call on 21 Dec
2011, which was attended by Arjuna Rao Chavala, Arun Ramaratnam, Naveen
Francis, Sudhanwa Jogalekar, Tinu Cherian, Anirudh Bhati, Asaf Bartov and
Hisham Mundol. The summary of the joint coordination call was shared
earlier [3].
Community City and Language Special Interest Groups
City and Language Special Interest Groups are a mechanism to engage the
diverse interests of members across India. The objective is to grow the
wiki projects in their areas of interest by reviewing the status, planning
and executing events of interest through growing the community involvement.
The leadership of these groups is part of the extended leadership of the
Chapter.
The Wikimedia Chapter is proud to announce the appointment of the next
batch of City and Language Special Interest Group Chairs [4] as given
below:
*City*
- Delhi SIG - Noopur Raval (noopur [at] wikimedia [dot] in)
- Bangalore SIG - RadhaKrishna (Arkrishna [at] wikimedia [dot] in)
- Mumbai SIG - Kundan Amitabh (kundan.amitabh [at] wikimedia [dot] in)
- Pune SIG - Mandar Kulkarni(mandar.kulkarni [at] wikimedia [dot] in)
- Kolkata SIG - Kalyan Sarkar (kalyan [at] wikimedia [dot] in)
*Languages*
- English SIG - Ashwin Baindur (ashlin [at] wikimedia [dot] in)
- Kannada SIG - Omshivaprakash H L (omshivaprakash [at] wikimedia [dot]
in)
- Marathi SIG - Mahitgar (mahitgar [at] wikimedia [dot] in)
- Telugu SIG - Rahimanuddin Shaik (rahimanuddin [at] wikimedia [dot] in)
The current sign-ups of Members for the SIGs are as follows:
*City Special Interest Groups*
City Members Bangalore 10 Delhi 2 Mumbai 3 Pune 6 Kolkata 2
*Language Special Interest Groups*
Language Volunteers Bengali 1 English 15 Hindi 1 Kannada 3 Marathi
4 Malayalam 8 Nepali 1 Odia 3 Sanskrit 2 Telugu 3 Events
A round-up of Wikimedia events and initatives around the nation is as
follows.
- *Wiki Academy @Jaya Engineering college * ( 10 Dec 2011) : The first
Wiki Academy in Jaya Engineering college, Chennai,[5] was organized by the
Wikimedia chapter and co-hosted by Jaya FOSS Club. Odia Wiki Chair &
Chapter member, Subhashish Panigrahi explained basics of Wikipedia, how it
is edited by millions of volunteers, how Wikipedia is exclusively
encyclopedic and kind of articles and notability of articles in Wikipedia,
how Wikipedians communicate and form community, and organization of
Wikimedia foundations and active projects. Then he took the audience
through active editing by signing up, searching for articles, choosing
articles to create. Then he demonstrated about creating an article by using
the Edit toolbar, citing the text by searching the web and uploading and
adding pictures in articles. The editing session was followed by a Q & A
session. Hisham Mundol, Consultant, Wikimedia Foundation India Programs,
connected with the audience via Google Hangout. Hisham interacted with the
audience by giving a talk about the nature of the event, few details about
Wikipedia, WMF and Chapter and foundation are trying to do in India. He
answered questions raised by the audience. Nitika Tandon , Consultant,
Wikimedia Foundation India Programs, later explained about the India
Education program (IEP), how it functions and the
student-teacher-foundation collaborations through the education program.
The photos of the event are available here [6].
- *Coimbatore 1st Meetup*( 10 Dec 2011) : The first Kovai (Coimbatore)
meetup [7] was held at KGISL Campus, Saravanampatti, Coimbatore. The Meetup
was organised by Srikanth Ramakrishnan (User:Rsrikanth05) and
User:Sodabottle.
- *Bangalore Wikimeetup 40* ( 11 Dec 2011) : Around 11 people attended
the 40th Wikimeetup in Bangalore [8]. The Bangalore SIG Chair, RadhaKrishna
presented a talk on the experiences on WikiConference India 2011 and
WikiAcademy events in IT companies. Experiences of Wiki Academy in Jaya
engineering college and way forward was shared by by Subhashish Panigrahi.
Plans regarding Wiki Eleven in January 2012 was discussed. The photos of
the event are available here [9].
- *Wikipedia Meetup1 Salem*( 11 Dec 2011) : A Wikimeetup was organised
at Salem, Tamil Nadu, [10] by Tamil Wikipedians Sodabottle and Surya
Prakash.
- '*Wikipedia Takes Kolkata /Kolkata Photo Walk* (18 Dec 2011) : A Photo
Walk was organised in Kolkata, West Bengal [11] by Kalyan Sarkar (Kolkata
SIG Chair), Jayanta Nath (Bengali SIG Chair) and Biswarup Ganguly. Around
437 images were uploaded to Wikimedia Commons as a part of this
initiative.[12]
- *GLAMcamp Amsterdam * Noopur Raval ( Delhi SIG Chair and GLAM
enthusiastic) attended GLAM worskop in Amsterdam, hosted by Wikimedia
Nederland. [13]
- *Wikipedians participation in CMDA IT Expo , 2011*: Indian Wikipedians
participated in the annual CMDA IT Expo 2011, Pune.[14] The stall were
manned by Sudhanwa Jogalekar ( EC member), Mahitgar ( Marathi SIG Chair),
Ashwin Baindur ( English SIG Chair) , Hisham Mundol and Nitika Tandon ( WMF
India Programs), and Campus Ambassador (IEP) volunteers.
- *Malayalam Wiki-Academies:* Malayalam Wiki-community organised two
Wiki-Academies in Kerala in the month of December at Alappuzha ( Dec 13)
and Kollam (Dec 31). The Alappuzha (2nd Wikiacademy) held at St.Joseph
Vanitha College was led by Adv. T.K Sujith, Adv. M.P.Manojkumar and Akhil
Krishnan. The Kollam (4th Wikiacademy) held at Govt. Higher Secondary
School, Anchal West, was led by Kiran Gopi ( User:Kiran_Gopi) , Faud A.J. (
User:Faudaj) , Kannan Shanmugam ( User:Fotokannan)and Sugeesh (
User:Sugeesh)
Other News
- A new initiative named *"Featured Wikimedian* was started on the
public wiki of Wikimedia India. Every month, one Indian wikimedian will be
featured. [15]
- * Tamil Wikimedia contest*: The Tamil Wikimedia community has
organised an international contest to get more photos, videos and audios
related to Tamil, Tamilians and Tamil culture to the Tamil Wikipedia and
Wikimedia Commons. [16] (themed “Eluthu mattum arivanru” or “Knowledge
beyond text”) . The Tamil Wikipedia Community and the Wikimedia Foundation
have jointly sponsored a prize money of $850 (with nine prizes) for
winners. (The first, second and third prizes are $200, $100 and $50. Three
prizes of $100 each are for those uploading the maximum number of quality
entries. A special prize of $150 is for media files on traditional Tamil
arts and crafts. Winners would be announced on March 15, 2012 and they
would get certificates with their entries displayed on the front pages of
Tamil Wiki projects. The contest (, November 15, 2011 to February 29, 2012)
is open to all and is on Facebook [17].
- India Wikipedians Sengai Podhuvan , Karthik Nadar and Aniruddha Kumar
joins Jimmy Wales among others in the *Wikimedia Fundraising 2011 banners
* [18].
- *New Mailing lists* are created for Gujarati Wikipedia[19], Assamese
Wikipedia [20], GLAM India [21] and India related content on English
Wikipedia & related projects. [22].
Milestones & Anniversaries
* December 2011* [23]
25
- The Tamil Wikipedia<http://internal.wikimedia.in/index.php?title=Ta:&action=edit&redlink=1>has
reached 1,000,000 page edits.
- The Urdu Wiktionary <http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ur:> has reached
10,000 total pages.
21
- The Malayalam
Wikipedia<http://internal.wikimedia.in/index.php?title=Ml:&action=edit&redlink=1>has
turned 9.
18
- The Bengali Wiktionary <http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bn:> has reached
2,000 entries, as a user adds over 1,300 entries for Malagasy words in 5
hours.
16
- The Bihari
Wikipedia<http://internal.wikimedia.in/index.php?title=Bh:&action=edit&redlink=1>has
reached 100,000 page edits.
9
- The Sanskrit Wiktionary <http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sa:> has
reached 100 entries.
- The Urdu Wiktionary <http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ur:> has reached
5,000 entries.
5
- The Marathi
Wikibooks<http://internal.wikimedia.in/index.php?title=B:mr:&action=edit&redlink=1>has
reached 1,000 registered users.
4
- The Kannada Wiktionary <http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kn:> has reached
150,000 entries.
Media Coverage
- 28 Dec : Financial Chronicle : Wikipedians say Indian govt should ease
copyright curbs<http://www.mydigitalfc.com/knowledge/wikipedians-say-indian-govt-should-eas…>
- 27 Dec : Ahmedabad Mirror : " Ahmedabad to go Wiki with your clicks"
<http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/article/2/2011122720111227022617405d732bc46/…>
- 24 Dec : The Economic Times : "Wikipedia enlists Indians to be the
standard-bearers for its fund-raising
efforts"<http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/internet/wikipedia-enlists-indians…>
- 18 Dec : The Hindu : "Creative Commons: the licence to
evolve"<http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/article272537…>
- 16 Dec : The Hindu : "Contest to add files to Tamil Wikipedia gathers
steam"<http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/article2719118.ece?textsiz…>
- 1 Dec : Tech Marathi: मराठी विकिपीडिया संपादन – अवघड की
सोपे?<http://techmarathi.com/?p=1243>( Marathi)
We look forward to your continued support and active participation.
Best,
On behalf of Wikimedia Chapter (India)
Naveen Francis
Secretary
Notes:
- 1)
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Announcements/Call_for_participation_of_Members_in…
- 2) http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Internet_Relay_Chats/Dec_17,2011
- 3)
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Announcements/Chapter-Foundation:_Co-Ordination_Ca…
- 4) http://wiki.wikimedia.in/City_and_Language_SIG_subcommittee_chair
- 5) http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wiki_Academy/Jaya_Engineering_College
- 6)
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Jaya_Engineering_College_Wiki_Ac…
- 7) http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore/Coimbatore1
- 8) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore40
- 9)
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Bangalore_Meetup_December2011
- 10) http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:SALEM1
- 11) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_Kolkata
- 12) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_Takes_Kolkata
- 13) http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAMcamp_Amsterdam
- 14
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-December/006135.…
- 15) http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Category:Featured_Wikimedian
- 16) http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contest/en
- 17) http://www.facebook.com/tawmc
- 18)
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2011#A_Parade_of_Appeals.21_Dece…
- 19) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-gu
- 20) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-as
- 21) http://lists.wmnederland.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/wlm-in
- 22) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-en
- 23) http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Milestones_and_Anniversary
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