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Fwd: [Wikimediaindia-l] FAQ: Consultant for National Programs, India
by Pradeep Mohandas 15 Feb '11

15 Feb '11

The FAQ that was promised in the previous email. Again FYI. warm regards, Pradeep ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Barry Newstead <bnewstead(a)wikimedia.org> Date: 15 February 2011 22:56 Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] FAQ: Consultant for National Programs, India To: India list <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Cc: hisham <hisham.mundol(a)gmail.com> Here is the link to the FAQ. Feel free to add questions if you have them and I'll attempt to answer ;) http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/FAQ_Consultancy_for_National_Programs,_I… -- Barry Newstead Chief Global Development Officer Wikimedia Foundation Tel: +1-415-839-6885 x. 6634 Skype: barry.wikimedia Twitter: @bazanews _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l

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Fwd: [Wikimediaindia-l] Announcing Hisham Mundol as WMF consultant for National Programs, India
by Pradeep Mohandas 15 Feb '11

15 Feb '11

FYI. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Barry Newstead <bnewstead(a)wikimedia.org> Date: 15 February 2011 22:40 Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Announcing Hisham Mundol as WMF consultant for National Programs, India To: India list <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Cc: hisham <hisham.mundol(a)gmail.com> Dear colleagues, (please feel free to cross-post this to local lists within India) I am pleased to announce the appointment of Hisham Mundol as a consultant to the Wikimedia Foundation to support us in our program initiatives in India. As you know, the Wikimedia Foundation declared India to be a strategic priority during the strategic planning process [1]. I announced our plans for the formation of an office in August 2010 and the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees approved the creation of the Wikimedia India chapter in June 2010. India is a priority for the Wikimedia movement as it has a strong and growing community of Wikimedians building the Indic and English language projects. It is a country where the Wikimedia movement can achieve our mission and learn important lessons for achieving impact elsewhere. The engagement of Hisham will enable the Wikimedia Foundation to pilot new initiatives aimed at accelerating the growth of the community in India. I am very happy we’ve now reached this point. As I have mentioned in the past, we have a lot of momentum in India but we have a long way to go to achieve our full potential as a movement. Indians represent 4% of the world’s Internet users today (and this share is growing), yet they only represent 1.5% of page edits on Wikipedia. We should be able to rapidly increase this share - across all projects - and expand readership in a corresponding fashion. Hisham’s title will be Consultant, India National Programs. He will report to me. His role will be to design and implement specific pilot programs that encourage many more Indians to become contributors to our projects in Indic languages as well as English. The National Programs initiative will focus on the following areas in the first year: - Design and implement an India-wide program to increase Wikimedia’s footprint on university and college campuses with students and faculty with the aim of encouraging contributions to Wikimedia projects - Support the launch and implementation of community-initiated programs that seek to increase the editor base for Wikimedia projects - Engage with the community and chapter to build a strong relationship among these stakeholder groups and create communications forums that allow for effective partnerships As a newcomer to the Wikimedia movement, Hisham’s first task will be to deepen his understanding of us: our history, goals, values, culture and mission. To that end, he will be spending the coming weeks (not months!) in learning mode: Hisham and I will be meeting with community members in Mumbai, Pune and Bangalore on Feb 23-25 and then Hisham will join community meetings across the country as they occur. Hisham will also spend time in San Francisco with the staff of the Wikimedia Foundation, as well as with other like-minded individuals and organizations and he will attend the chapter conference in Berlin. Hisham will be creating a workspace on strategy wiki where he will share what he is learning and develop the core elements of the action plan going forward. We encourage active community engagement on this wiki. We aim to move to action quickly and welcome input and guidance from across the community. Hisham was most recently a consultant with the Public Health Foundation of India (in a partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation). He designed and implemented large-scale national programs on HIV/AIDS prevention. He worked to understand the dynamics of hard-to-reach communities by conducting in-depth, on-the-ground analysis (ask him to tell you about his experience talking to drivers while sitting under their trucks). The programs he designed and implemented sought to convince people in large numbers - 400 million young people across the nation - to change very personal behaviours. While we are not tackling issues of such an intimate nature, we do aim to convince large numbers of people across the country to contribute their personal time to Wikimedia projects. During this assignment, Hisham worked closely with public, private and community groups (local and international) to work through the details of the programs and build partnerships for implementing them at scale. He did so in a manner that used persuasion rather than power to build support to move things forward. We think his experience navigating these varied groups position him well to work in the Wikimedia community. His earlier career was in marketing and business development with a number of well-known businesses: Infosys, Accenture, Cadbury and Unilever. This experience positions him well to engage with a movement and organization that is global in nature, in particular to work with a team that is based halfway around the world. We have scheduled an IRC chat with Hisham and myself for Thursday, February 17 at 22:00 India Standard Time (16:30 UTC). I want to thank everyone who helped in the selection process that identified Hisham. It was a five month process in which we made an open call for consultants (using my visit in September to drum up interest via conversations with the community and the media) in India and around the world. We had 197 applicants from a wide range of professional backgrounds. Egon Zehnder’s India office, part of a leading global executive search firm, helped screen candidates and manage the process. Egon Zehnder conducted indepth interviews with 25 candidates based on the inputs from Bishakha and I who helped shortlist. I interviewed 12 candidates via Skype in the first round and then I had the help of Bishakha Datta and Achal Prabhala to interview the top seven in person in Bangalore. Our top two candidates met with Sue and Erik in Delhi and then Hisham met with the entire WMF leadership team and a broad group of staff members in San Francisco. We are very happy with the selection of Hisham. We recognize that we did not manage to hire someone from inside the Wikimedia community or the open source community. We did look for people with this background and one of our finalists was a long time open source advocate. We also engaged with a long time Wikimedian for a role, though he ultimately decided to withdraw for personal reasons. We are committed to seeing Hisham integrate himself into the community quickly and to seeing him add people to his team from the community. We hope that the community will engage actively with him to bring him into the fold. Hisham will most definitely bring fresh perspectives to the movement that will help us grow and change for the better. Please join me in welcoming Hisham to the Wikimedia movement. Note: An FAQ will follow shortly. Best, Barry [1] *http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Plan/Role_of_the_WMF*<http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Plan/Role_of_the_WMF> [2] * http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2010-August/000850.ht… *<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2010-August/000850.ht…> -- Barry Newstead Chief Global Development Officer Wikimedia Foundation Tel: +1-415-839-6885 x. 6634 Skype: barry.wikimedia Twitter: @bazanews _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l

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GLAM India page
by Pradeep Mohandas 15 Feb '11

15 Feb '11

hi, Apologies for repeatedly posting similar information to the list. We've decided to have one single page for all the GLAM projects in India on a single page. Link - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/India For now, we'll have one page. So, I hope Wikipedians from Ahmedabad, Pune, Mumbai, Kolkata and Bangalore who have all had or going to have meetings with Liam may put the information into this one single page. I have created the page on Wikipedia so that we could point to one single page if necessary and also get help from GLAM members outside India if needed. There is a sign-up list and I hope that you will sign up there to participate in the GLAM project in India. I'll be updating all the institutes that Liam has already visited and their responses on the page. I have also added a column for the people who visited the institution so that we know who has been in touch with what institution. In the remarks section, feel free to leave any specific request that the institution made or any specific take-aways from the institution. I'll try and post all the meetings that has already been done in India and update the pages. warm regards, Pradeep

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Re: [Wikimedia-in-mum] Acknowledgment of grants received from thefoundation for the Wikipedia 10th Anniversary Celebrations in Mumbai. *
by Prakash Advani 15 Feb '11

15 Feb '11

Me too, I have some photos of mumbai, which I am happy to contribute to Wikipedia under a preferred license.. let me know which one is of use. http://www.cityblogger.com/photos/bombay On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Rohini L <rohini.lakshane(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi AroundTheGlobe, > > Do you need photos of Mumbai for a particular page or project? I have > pictures of the Mumbai University campus in Kalina, the organic farmers' > market in Bandra, various temples and tourist spots in Mumbai. Most of them > are uploaded on Flickr. > http://www.flickr.com/photos/rohini1729/sets/72157625751133822/ > http://www.flickr.com/photos/rohini1729/sets/72157625952046846/ > > Regards, > Rohini > -- > > Technology Blog : Technosophy <http://technosophi.blogspot.com> > Travel Blog: Wayfarers And Pathfinders<http://wayfarersandpathfinders.blogspot.com> > > > > On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:34 AM, <wheredevelsdare(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Anirudh, >> >> I understand that is the case. However, even if its in Viveks personal >> name (what I had orignially meant, sorry for not clarifying) it gives a >> certain level of comfort to all as then there is lesser chance of >> "pilferage" as all transactions will relate to Wikimedia Mumbai expenses. >> >> Just a suggestion for Vivek - finally I guess its his call on how to >> handle things as he is in charge of Mumbai funds and will have to give >> answers when required. >> >> Lets end this here and get down to the real work. I have mentioned to >> Bishaka, Vivek and Pradeep, after our first Photowalk, I ran a quick check >> on Flickr for Mumbai related content and found a lot of relevant and >> professional photographs. I contacted relevant uploaders requesting them to >> change licensing to CC-BY or CC-BY-SA so that to allow use on Wikipedia. >> >> A lot of them agreed - for example, I got pictures of an IPL match at >> Brabourne Stadium, several photographs of Ganpati Visarjan at Girgaum >> Chowpatty (taken from a boat by a visiting foreigner who kindly agreed to >> change licensing) - they include wonderful picutures of the beach full of >> people and idols, coast guard choppers patrolling etc., Ballard Bunder >> Gatehouse, an ATP tournament that took place in Mumbai at CCI in 2006, >> Agatti and Delhi airports (aerial view) and Mani Bhavan pictures so far. >> During the photowalks we would have taken a lot of time to cover so much - >> and may not have been as professional. >> >> Further past sports events is something we could not have got for obvious >> reasons and I doubt we could have got as good pictures of Ganesh Visarjan >> (even if we waited a few more months ourselves). Out of about 15 people >> contacted about 7 people have agreed to change the licensing (only 1 refusal >> thus far). A lot of the amateur photographers on Flickr might be willing to >> let go of the copyright so as to get more exposure and notice through >> Wikipedia (they may even pass the word that their photographs have been >> requested for use by Wikipedians and are currently used on Wikipedia!). A >> couple of them while changing the license requested me for the link to the >> article on which their photo is used. It may be a good idea for us to >> concentrate on getting pictures from Flickr rather than conducting more >> photowalks (by identifying requisite photographs and requesting them via >> comments on the said photo and email to the photographer/flickr user). I >> shall be mentioning this on the India string as well. >> >> Regards, >> User:AroundTheGlobe >> >> ------------------------------ >> > -- Blog: http://cityblogger.com Photos: http://cityblogger.com/photos

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Re: [Wikimedia-in-mum] [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Liam Wyatt's visit to Mumbai and GLAM meetup - a summary
by Pradeep Mohandas 15 Feb '11

15 Feb '11

hi, Thanks Arun for posting it here. I was really tired when I posted this yesterday to the Mumbai mailing list. It does seem more or less accurate. A few additions from what I missed out yesterday night. 1. With The Museum ( Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalay - CSMVS), we spoke with the Museum Director, Chief Art Conservator and the Business Development Executive there. After the requisite background that Liam provided (it also helped perhaps that the British Museum Director, Neil MacGregor visited the Museum this week) that we gave them a rough idea of possible activities we could do together. We also explained to the Conservator how a typical session would be conducted to help them understand their part of the responsibilities and what will be ours. 2. At Jnanapravaha, Bishaka and Liam visited. After the usual pitch, the feedback was that they were interested in getting students to write and improve articles on Indian art and aesthetics on Wikipedia. They have asked for help previous to the next semester in July on how such a thing can be organised. 3. Ashwin Baindur asked about how to work with institutions like Maharashtra Archives which are facing a brunt of the budget cuts (they get the money after the song and dance shows, museums etc all get their cut) and have trouble with up-keep of their archives. Liam replied that this would mainly be in helping them digitise records. The trouble, Liam said, was on where to begin and how to priorotise work. Stating the example of the National Library, Kolkata he said that some books were not even docketed (I forget the original word - something to do with giving the books numbers and classifying appropriately). We agreed that Libraries and Archives also suffered because there was no good Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software for Indic languages. Liam suggested a French example of how an old French cursive text made it un-OCR-able (new word - mine!) and got help from Wikipedians to manually type in text onto WikiSource. 4. Bishaka raised the point that all of the GLAM activities could also be simultaneously done in various languages locally. So, during a Backstage Pass event in Mumbai, we could improve the English, Hindi and Marathi (say) articles at once. Editors in any language are welcome to contribute. 5. There have been an influx of new people and requests from people for a basic editing session. Perhaps it is time to interlace the meetups with WikiAcademy. With that, I hope I've more or less covered all Wikipedia territory from the meetup. If I missed out on anything, feel very free to jump in and add your notes. warm regards, Pradeep

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GLAM project page on Mumbai
by Pradeep Mohandas 15 Feb '11

15 Feb '11

hi, We've created a start-up project page under GLAM for co-ordinating activities among Wikipedians interested in working with GLAM institutions in Mumbai. I've built up a pretty simple GLAM Mumbai project page - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Mumbai. We'll keep this page updated. Request all Wikipedians interested to sign up and spread the word. warm regards, Pradeep Mohandas User:Prad2609

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Liam Wyatt's visit to Mumbai and GLAM meetup - a summary
by Pradeep Mohandas 13 Feb '11

13 Feb '11

hi, For the past few days, Liam Wyatt has been going around cultural institutions in Mumbai. He will be going to a few on Monday morning as well. This is a small report for the benefit of the group and for those interested and who could not make it for the meetup today at the Pinstorm offices in Santacruz. Our thanks to Netra there who offered and allowed us use of space on such short notice. We had a nice turn up today of around 20-25 people. We started off with directly with Liam's talk on his work with the British Museum. His work/documentation of his work here can be found at http://enwp.org/WP:GLAM/BM. He then talked about his idea behind doing a project with the British Museum after a controversy the year before with the British National Archives. He said that the relationship was mutually beneficial to both and did not compromise on the principles of either Wikipedia or the British Museum. He talked about the series of conferences called GLAMWIKI that have already happened in London and Paris and are planned in Washington DC and Barcelona. He then went on to talk about five of the events that he conducted during his 5 month stint as the Wikipedian-in-Residence at the British Museum. These included the Backstage Pass, One on One Collaborations/Photos Requested, Feature Article Prize, the Hoxne Challenge and the School Translations. Backstage Pass involves a free tour of Museum objects in display and out of display by curators of the Museum for Wikipedians working on an article. The One-on-One Collaborations was an exchange of requests between Curators and Wikipedians who needed each others help - curators to improve articles on Wikipedia and Wikipedians for expert advice on articles in Wikipedia. Photos Requested requested for photos in different parts of the museum. Feature Article Prize was an interesting if controversial experiment. The British Museum offered 100 pounds for the 5 articles in Featured Article in Wikipedia related to an item in the British Museum. This became similar to the pay-for-edit idea. However, the rationale was that since the prize money was not for an article on the British Museum and was for an object/topic related article, it was okay. The Hoxne Challenge was an effort to see how Wikipedians could improve an article on one subject given access to subject experts etc.The subject given was that of the Hoxne Hoard discovered in England in 1992. I think it goes without saying that the article reached Featured Article rating pretty quickly. The last was the School Translations project where a group of French school children that Liam knew translated the articles on certain items in the British Museum from English into French as part of their English class homework. The students later visited London (like they regularly apparently did) and visited the Museum to see the objects they had written about as part of class. These were some of the implementations possible in the 5 week period whilst Liam was with British Museum. Bishaka and Liam reported on their visits to The Museum (Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalay) and Jnanapravaha. I accompanied Liam and Bishaka to The Museum. I am pleasantly surprised by the way they have transformed it! We've reported on positive responses from these cultural institutions. Liam and Bishaka will be visiting one more institution tomorrow. We then had a brief introduction to pad.ma. The part that relates to Wikimedia Commons was a demo on how a plugin for Firefox developed by the same team helped in uploading files in the .ogg format to Wikimedia Commons. We had a small reference to the Workshop for Women on Wikipedia (an idea suggested by Tinu Cherian) and we suggested the idea to two students who had come from SNDT Women's University to the meetup today. We've requested them to check on the possibility of using their labs to conduct the Workshop in Mumbai on or around March 8, 2011 (to re-iterate: the centenary celebrations of Women's Day). warm regards, Pradeep Mohandas

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[Press] : The Hindustan Times : Wiki to tie up with city galleries, museums
by CherianTinu Abraham 13 Feb '11

13 Feb '11

*The Hindustan Times : Wiki to tie up with city galleries, museums* http://www.hindustantimes.com/Wiki-to-tie-up-with-city-galleries-museums/Ar… *A 14th-century manuscript of Dante’s Divine Comedy is the Asiatic Society of Mumbai’s most treasured possession. And, if all goes well, you may soon be able to read all about it and how it ended up in the city, on wikipedia.com. The Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organisation behind * * * * * *Wikipedia, is in the process of tying up with galleries, libraries, archives and museums for what is unofficially called the GLAM project, a global cultural initiative that seeks to make exclusive material available to the world via the online encyclopaedia.* *Liam Wyatt, now a cultural partnerships fellow with Wikimedia Foundation, had been working independently with several museums around the world towards this end. Last month, he was roped in by the foundation for a one-year fellowship.* * * *India was Wyatt’s first destination as part of GLAM and he officially launched the project in Mumbai on Saturday.* * * *“The amount of content in Indian cultural institutions is massive,” said Wyatt. “That, combined with the potential for* * * *Internet penetration in India and the vibrant Wikipedia community here, make this a great destination for GLAM.”* * * *The project will also urge experts and curators to upload information about topics of their choice. “Enough information about the cultural heritage of India is still not available on the internet. For a young girl in a village in Maharashtra, a textbook should not be her only resource,” said Wyatt. "We need experts who have this information to come on board and help.”* * * *In March, Wyatt plans to travel to Switzerland, France and Germany to promote GLAM.* Regards Tinu Cherian http://wikimedia.in/wiki/In_the_news#February_2011

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Wikipedia GLAM meetup - location map
by Pradeep Mohandas 12 Feb '11

12 Feb '11

hi, To repeat, the GLAM meetup scheduled for February 13, 2011 has been shifted to the Pinstorm offices. If you do not know how to get here, I am sharing this Google Maps image of the place - http://maps.google.co.in/maps?um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=Pinstorm,+Santacruz&fb=1&gl=i… Also, on getting there: It's 10 minutes walking distance from the railway station. If you're coming by rickshaw/taxi you can state your destination as Arya Samaj, Santacruz. The auto can take you through either Linking Road or S V Road. 1. On S V Road, take the lane (called North Avenue) directly opposite to Dynasty Chinese Restaurant. 2. On Linking Road, stop at Tresorie. You will find a lane opposite Tresorie where the Pinstrom office is the last building. One of us will get there before time and stand there. You can call me on 897-625-3586. I'll try my best with directions. Do keep the address with you for reference: Pinstorm, Swati Building, Ground floor, Behind Kotak Bank, Off Linking Road, Santacruz West, Mumbai 400050. It'd be great if someone could make an OpenStreetMap version of this. Till then, I've posted this on the Wikipedia page. warm regards, Pradeep

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Venue change: Meetup 7 - Sunday 13 Feb 4 pm
by Bishakha Datta 11 Feb '11

11 Feb '11

Dear all, There's been a change of venue, sorry about this. The meetup will now be held at Pinstorm, Swati Building, Ground floor, Behind Kotak Bank, Off Linking Road, Santacruz West, Mumbai 400050. Time remains the same - 4 pm, Sunday 13 Feb. Many thanks to Netra Parikh of Pinstorm for coming through and helping out at such short notice. See you'll there - more below. Bishakha ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Bishakha Datta <bishakhadatta(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 12:53 PM Subject: Fwd: Reminder: Meetup 7 - Sunday 13 Feb 4 pm To: Mumbai List Wikimedia <wikimedia-in-mum(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Dear all, Just wanted to remind everyone about the upcoming Mumbai meetup on Sunday,February 13, 2011 at 4:00 pm,details of which are at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Mumbai/Mumbai7 Liam Wyatt <http://www.wittylama.com/>, a longstanding wikipedian who is visiting India for a week, will be the featured speaker at this meetup. More about Liam in his own words: "I am the Wikimedia Foundation’s Cultural Partnerships Fellow<http://bit.ly/GLAMfellow>(aka GLAM fellow), based in Sydney. My username everywhere is “Witty lama” - an anagram. I speak French and Swedish, have three highly prized yellow shirts <http://www.arc.unsw.edu.au/Yellow-Shirts-53.aspx>, a bachelors in Globalisation Studies and one highly prized university medal<http://wittylama.com/thesis>. In former lives I have been Vice President of Wikimedia Australia<http://wikimedia.org.au/>and the “Wikipedian in Residence <http://www.wittylama.com/2010/03/the-british-museum-and-me/>” at the British Museum. Also, a project officer at Austlii<http://www.austlii.edu.au/austlii/>and multimedia coordinator at the Dictionary of Sydney <http://www.dictionaryofsydney.org/www/html/51-project-teams.asp>, a historian, podcaster <http://wikipediaweekly.org/>, fire-twirler<http://www.circusoc.com/>, museuophile, snowboarder, förman <http://www.ostgota.nu/>, bartender and backpacker." Liam's visit to India is intended to support wikimedia communities to explore the possibilities of collaborating with Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM) in strengthening articles/image collections on wikipedia/wikimedia commons. From Mumbai, he moves on to Delhi and Bangalore. At the meetup, Sanjay Bhangar will also do a short presentation on the Public Access Digital Media Archive (http://pad.ma) - which is an open source video archive. His presentation will touch on a technical overview, licencing, uploading video etc. Look forward to your presence and active participation at this meetup. Liam is really keen to meet as many fellow wikimedians as possible, so it would be great if you could be there. Best Bishakha

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