Hello friends,
This is a link I recommend you to bookmark.
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Geographical_distribution_of_Indian_Wikipedians
This list is useful for outreach & also whenever someone needs Wiki-Help in
a particular city. It would be great if Wikipedians could update this
list.:)
We have the following completely unrepresented states/UTs:
* Andaman & Nicobar Islands
* Arunachal Pradesh
* Assam
* Chandigarh
* Chhattisgarh
* Dadra, Nagar & Haveli
* Daman & Diu
* Goa
* Himachal Pradesh
* Jammu & Kashmir
* Jharkhand (AngPradesh is in Mumbai)
* Lakshadweep
* Manipur
* Meghalaya
* Mizoram
* Puducherry
* Punjab (oye, ye ki hoya!)
* Nagaland
* Uttar Pradesh
* Uttarakhand
Okay, all you admins, please update your status (Mikey my boy, that means
you too)!
Abroad, we dont have Indic Wikipedians listed for:
* Africa
* Australia
* Asia (other than India)
* Middle East
* North America
* South America
Unless you would like to stay off list, of course that's acceptable too.
May I also request Tinu / list admins to please forward it all the Indic
language & city Wikimedia lists. We need this resource to be as
comprehensible as possible.
Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur
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Dear Wikipedia contributors,
We did it! For the past six weeks, you have all graciously tolerated my
emails requesting participants for my undergraduate senior thesis
project<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Motivations_to_Contribute_to_Wikipe…>
on
users’ motivations to contribute to Wikipedia. On Monday, I reached out to
this community, begging for just eighteen more participants to reach my
target sample size of 100 respondents. We not only reached that goal, but
exceeded it: 161 Wikipedia contributors responded to my questionnaire!
Your insightful responses are invaluable to my project and I cannot express
my gratitude for this community enough, so thank you, thank you, thank you!
When my final paper is written in June, I will make it available to the
Wikipedia community.
Thank you once again for your insight, thoughtful questions, and feedback.
Best,
Audrey
Is an interesting talk especially in the context of Wikipedia and
Kalyan's work on Commons.
http://youtu.be/mLf58wZEhQ4
He talks about freedoms, Creative Commons, Wikipedia and Commons.
He's on the list too. Even if he's a lurker. :)
Thank you.
Best,
Gautam
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http://blog.prathambooks.org/p/social-media.html
Dear Wikipedia contributors,
In the past few weeks, I have reached out to this community on
numerous occasions,
requesting help with my undergraduate honors thesis, which examines
Wikipedians’ motivations to contribute. For anyone who would like more
information about this project, a detailed description can be found here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Motivations_to_Contribute_to_Wikipe…
.
In my last email, I mentioned that I hoped to attain a sample size of at
least 100 Wikipedians, but had only received 52 responses. I am ecstatic to
report that I now have 82 responses – just 18 responses short of the
targeted sample size. If you have not taken the
questionnaire<https://us1.us.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_8ixU9RkozemzC4s>,
please consider donating approximately five minutes of your time to
complete it.
I am so grateful for the Wikipedia community’s support in this project and
will make a final draft of the paper available to the community.
If you have any questions or concerns about this study, please contact
Audrey Abeyta at audrey.abeyta(a)gmail.com.
Thank you in advance for your participation!
Audrey
UC Santa Barbara | Department of Communication
audrey.abeyta(a)gmail.com
Dear Wikipedia contributors,
Your valuable opinions are needed regarding users' motivations to
contribute to Wikipedia. This topic is currently investigated by Audrey
Abeyta, an undergraduate student at the University of California, Santa
Barbara. You can read a more detailed description of the project here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Motivations_to_Contribute_to_Wikipe…
Those willing to participate in this study will complete a brief online
questionnaire, which is completely anonymous and will take approximately
ten minutes. The questionnaire can be accessed here:
https://us1.us.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_8ixU9RkozemzC4s.
The researcher hopes to attain a sample size of at least 100 Wikipedians;
as of now, only 52 have responded. Your contributions to this project's
validity are invaluable!
A final draft of the paper will be made available to the Wikipedia
community.
If you have any questions or concerns about this study, please contact
Audrey Abeyta at audrey.abeyta(a)gmail.com.
Thank you in advance for your participation!
Hello Everyone!
This month, Gateway of India
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateway_of_India>was selected as the
collaboration
of the month <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:INCOTM> and
Tripura<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripura>for GA/FA of the month.
It's sad that there has been no significant participation for both the
articles apart from some contribs by a couple of editors.
I just wan't to know from the community if we are going wrong in the
article selection itself. Editors vote for an article during the nomination
period but don't show up again.
We have experienced editors but what we are getting out of the
collaborations is minor editing, grammatical corrections and stuff. That is
also equally important as we are contributing to an encyclopedia. But at
the same time, the article also needs to be expanded to make the
collaboration successful. Tripura has had new additions but Gateway of
India is lacking some quality edits.
I have been trying my best to get new editors and this month, we have
User:Jobin
RV <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jobin_RV>as a major contributor for
both the articles. But what about the experienced folks and the ones who
have been involved in previous collaborations?
As a volunteer coordinator for this WikiProject, I would like to know the
reason behind the sudden fall in the participation (since last month) so
that we can figure out something to make the process better and to get
successful collaborations.
Warm Regards,
Pratik Lahoti
User:BPositive