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 all,
Odia Wikisource went live yesterday and is available at:
https://or.wikisource.org. It was in the main Wikisource for about 1.9
years and has an active community consisting 8 contributors. So far almost
3 books have been digitized. Recently a few new contributors joined and
are digitizing Odia Bhagabata.
CIS-A2K congratulates the community and thank all the contributors,
Wikimedia Language Committee, Wikimedia Foundation Board and all the
Wikimedians who have helped to set up the wiki.
A brief post on this:
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/10/21/more-than-40-million-people-await-the-…
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Best!
Subhashish Panigrahi
Programme Officer, Access To Knowledge (CIS-A2K)
Centre for Internet and Society
@psubhashish
Dear Wikimedians,
We are glad to invite you to join us for an event in Mumbai on October
7th where Pandita. Neela Bhagwat [1] will donate her comprehensive
textual compilation of Gwalior Gharana [2] bandishes.
Timing: 5.30 to 7 pm
Venue: Shivaji Park Nagarik Sangh, (hall next to Shivaji statue at
Shivaji Park, Dadar)
As some of you may know that Gwalior Gharana is one of the old
traditions of Hindustani gayaki and like other gayaki's the tradition
has been passed on orally in the guru-shishya parampara. Pt. Neela
Bhagwat has over a period of 30 years (of learning and teaching music)
meticulously compiled most of the Gwalior Gharana bandishes with
notations and notes. Upon the request of CIS-A2K, she has agreed to
donate this comprehensive collection which will be scanned and hosted on
Wikisource. We hope that this will be of interest to music aficionados
and those interested in the study of Hindustani Music.
CIS-A2K is thankful to the event hosts, Khayal Trust. The event will
attract a community of Hindustani music lovers and we hope to orient
them to consider improving the quality of content on Hindustani music
and musicians on Wikipedia during the event. We welcome the community
members in Mumbai to join us in this effort. Please help spread the word.
Best,
Vishnu
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neela_Bhagwat
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwalior_gharana (needs wiki love)