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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Great news! The second article assessment drive has been completed and
Tag & Assess 2014 is officially over. Kudos to the handful of editors
who participated to the best of their abilities to make this happen -
(alphabetically) - Cesdeva (talk), Kautilya3 (talk), Ninney (talk),
OccultZone (talk), Titodutta (talk), Ugog Nizdast (talk) & VasuVR
(talk).
We are also grateful to all those editors who contributed anonymously
to this drive. Though it took months, we persisted & we got it done.
Der aaye, durust aaye! goes an old Indian saying (never mind the
lateness of a safe return)!
It is hard work & not quite cool to do assessments, but these guys did
it! All these editors have earned well-deserved barnstars & some have
won medals or awards.
A special mention goes to the top three contributors - VasuVR, Ugog
Nizdast & Ninney. Congrats guys.
We request the community participate more widely in these essential
maintenance tasks about the WikiProject that we love so much -
WikiProject India!
AshLin (talk) 8:30 pm, Today (UTC+5.5)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_India/Assessment/Tag_%2…
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Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur
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Dear Wikimedians,
It gives WMIN and CIS-A2K great pleasure to announce that we have started
preparations for MediaWiki Train the Trainer Program. It is a matter of
grave concern that while the Indian Language Wikipedias are slowly improving
their content and expanding their volunteer base, there is very less and
often zero representation from the Indian Language Communities towards
MediaWiki software and the available tools around.
CIS-A2K intends to bridge this gap by creating and grooming 'tech' leaders
in the MediaWiki sphere from the existing Indian Language Wikipedians.
MediaWiki Train the Trainer program aims to facilitate discussions around
nurturing leadership regarding tech related issues, file bugs that hinder
the growth of Indian Language Wikipedias, active contribution towards
improving the existing MediaWiki software and understanding the importance
of mediating technology for outreach activities. The 4 day residential event
will happen in last week of June, 2015.
Exact dates and venue will be announced soon.
We welcome specific issues that should be discussed during the MWTTT as well
as feedback and suggestions. Please write to us if there are any concerns.
The event page :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/Mediawiki_Train_the_Trainer_P
rogram
Thanks and regards,
Pavanaja
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U.B. Pavanaja, MSc, PhD
Programme Manager <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pavanaja> - Indian
languages,
Access to Knowledge program
The Centre for Internet & Society