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Sudhanwa's article in Maharashtra Times - 22nd Jan. 2012
by Mandar Kulkarni 25 Jan '12

25 Jan '12

With Regards, Mandar V. Kulkarni http://mr.wikipedia.org

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Re: [Wikimedia-in-mum] Opportunity to participate @ Technovanza
by Ang India Tehnologies 25 Jan '12

25 Jan '12

We will be able to participate On 25-Jan-2012 11:26 AM, "Nitika" <ntandon(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: Hey All, We have the opportunity to participate in Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute tech fest Technovanza which is running from 3rd to 5th February. A *"special thank you" *note goes to *Aditya Sengupta* for helping us organise this. :-) For more details about the fest please visit: http://technovanza.org/. The organisers want us to hold a Wiki session on the 5th February, Sunday. Time is yet to be decided. I wanted to reach out to Mumbai folks and see if some of you can lead this session. Please let me know as soon as possible so that we can then confirm our participation to the organisers of the fest. Awaiting your replies. Thanks Nitika _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-in-mum mailing list Wikimedia-in-mum(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-mum

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Re: [Wikimedia-in-mum] [Wikimediaindia-l] [Foundation-l] REMINDER: Wikimania 2013 - invitation to bid
by CherianTinu Abraham 24 Jan '12

24 Jan '12

I strongly concur with the most of the thoughts of Ashwin below. The need of the hour is the build the strong Indian Wikipedias and Wiki-communities within India. IMHO, We are too early to host a Wikimania in India. While we had a successful Wikiconference Mumbai, I think we all agree that we were still short of lot of hands and infrastructure. Based on my experiences of attending previous Wikimanias, I can say that the standards should be much high, when you are hosting a Wikimania, where more than 500+ international delegates attend. ( Except yea, in Gdansk ;) ) My personal suggestion is that we withdraw the bids for Delhi / Mumbai for Wikimania 2013. We should a host a few more Wiki-Conferences at different cities in India annually, till we are mature enough for a Wikimania ( may be in 2014-16). Also, there is no need of a national Wikiconference on the same year we are hosting a Wikimania. Regards Tinu Cherian On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Ashwin Baindur <ashwin.baindur(a)gmail.com>wrote: > As one intimately involved in the planning and execution of the last > WikiConference India, we need to have a cold rational thought on this > process for bidding for Wikimania, not hubris. > > Without prejudice to User:Vibhijain, a bid from Delhi cannot be made > unilaterally by an under-age editor who is not in a position to > execute any of the responsible roles. There should be a requirement > for each bidding city community to show support and backing. Otherwise > the bid should be thrown out. > > That Delhi has editors is without question, the real question is does > Delhi have a strong and united wikicommunity which will be able to > take on this kind of huge commitment? There are few signs of such an > established community, not withstanding lot of relatively new editors > such as Noopur taking up new activities to do which hopefully will > lead to a strong and vibrant community in the future. > > For the reasons mentioned above, the Delhi bid should be re-examined > in all seriousness. > > I'm not siding with Mumbai either. In my opinion, we should have a few > more WikiConferences India before we ask for Wikimania. India needs > WikiConference Indias, not to host the international community. It is > akin to the person who has not yet furnished his house or setup his > residence in a city falling over himself to invite others from > outside. > > WikiConference India 2011 stretched the volunteer community of the > nation's Wikipedians and was possible due to the unflinching support > of so many others not from the city. Which is as it should be. So can > the country deal with both a WikiConference and Wikimania in the same > year? I think not. Suppose another city, say Kolkata hosted > WikiConference India, where would the funds, volunteers attention go? > I think it is a raw deal for the city hosting the WikiConference. The > amount of volunteer effort which goes into these is not funny. I think > around 5000 edits worth of effort of mine went into the Conference. > > WikiConference India 2011 proved to be beyond the resources of Mumbai > wikipedians alone. If they have bid for Wikimania 2013, can they > assure the Indian wikipedian community that they can tackle this even > larger event without extensive external help when they could not > tackle the smaller? > > If Indian editors are supposed to all join in loyally to support > Mumbai should it win the bid, isn't it right that Mumbai ask the > community's opinion at large first before bidding instead of taking it > for granted that Indian volunteers will pitch in when needed? > > I do not grudge supporting Mumbai, I identify strongly with it and > will do whatever I can do to help those wonderful guys, but I strongly > feel that this light hearted attitude to such serious subjects in fact > takes the rest of the Indian community for granted. > > My own personal take is let this opportunity go. Let us have > WikiConferences 2012 and 2013 and bid instead for Wikimania 2014 and > that year we should not have a WikiConference. 2013 is too early. The > need of the hour is building strong Indian wikipedias and communities > not hosting foreigners. > > Warm regards, > > Ashwin Baindur > ------------------------------------------------------ > > > > On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 7:16 AM, Béria Lima <berialima(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Since we have not one, but two bids from India, I think that is > important > > to be announced here (I would rather prefer if all of you could work > > together in a single bid, but if is not possible, at least list both > under > > the right section in the page) > > _____ > > Béria Lima > > (351) 925 171 484 > > > > Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter > livre > > acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir > > esse sonho. > > > > > > On 23 January 2012 23:15, Thomas Goldammer <thogol(a)googlemail.com> > wrote: > >> > >> Dear all, > >> > >> I want to remind everyone to officially start a bid for the locale of > >> Wikimania 2013. All bids made so far are *unofficial* and cannot be > >> considered, as long as they are not in the list of official bids on > >> this page: > >> > >> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013_bids > >> > >> The possibility to make an official bid closes at ***January 28, 23:59 > >> UTC***, this is in less than five days! So hurry up if you want > >> Wikimania to happen at your place. :) > >> > >> Note that you then have two more months to make your actual bid (and > >> one more month to refine it). You don't need to have everything > >> completely ready by now, so don't worry. :) For now, just create the > >> bid page and list it under "Official bids". Please don't forget to > >> list your organizing team members on the bid page. (All of them should > >> enable their email function on the Meta wiki, so that we can reach all > >> of you easily.) > >> > >> On behalf of the jury > >> Thomas. > >> (User:Thogo) > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> foundation-l mailing list > >> foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > > Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >

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Wikipedia Takes Mumbai II
by Karthik Nadar 23 Jan '12

23 Jan '12

As we had discussed in the Meetup on 15th, Sunday, we are holding Photowalk in Mumbai on 28th. Accordingly we have decided "Oval Maidan, Churchgate" as the meeting point. The wiki page link for the event is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WTMUM2 . We would be glad if more volunteers from Mumbai come forward for the same. Do Pass the word :) Currently Nikita, Myself and Anshuman are working on the same besides, Pranav and Moksh as mentors! Thanks to both of them !! -- Thanks and Regards, *Karthik Nadar.*

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Tie-Up concern for the Mumbai Photowalk Activity Dated January 28, 2012.
by avi＠photokatha.in 23 Jan '12

23 Jan '12

Dear Wikipedians, It is my immense pleasure to know about the Wikimedia decided to take up the activities pertaining to my country. Thus I decided to be part of it and already did in the Ahmedabad Photo walk held on January 3rd, 2012. As you might be aware, there is an upcoming photowalk in Mumbai and thus I would be pleased to unite my group of photographers with it. We had already had a talk about this to some volunteers of this activity which didn't felt to be strong enough due to authoritative lag. During the ongoing talks with them, we had approached Hindustan Time for a collaboration to cover the walk to which because of the extended efforts of Photo Katha, HT has agreed to take up the activity on media. We are Photo Katha, a group of amateur and professional photographers united to share the knowledge, skills and passion as a team. We also invite photographers across India to participate in the activities that we undertake and we guide them if necessary. We thus would like to unite as a team in this activity and make it a joint success to make this activity as big as possible. Hoping for a quick and favorable response for the same. Thanks, AVIRAL MEDIRATTA Visionary Photo Katha India (+91)-991-336-6044

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Tie-Up concern for the Mumbai Photowalk Activity Dated January 28, 2012.
by avi＠photokatha.in 22 Jan '12

22 Jan '12

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Wikimedia India Chapter : December 2011 Report
by CherianTinu Abraham 20 Jan '12

20 Jan '12

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 _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l

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Media Coverage of EN Wiki Blackout
by wheredevelsdare＠hotmail.com 17 Jan '12

17 Jan '12

English Wikipedia blackout story is rapidly spreading within the Indian media - just saw it on the front page of the NDTV and CNN IBN websites: http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/in-protest-wikipedia-blackout-on-wednesda… http://ibnlive.in.com/news/wikipedia-to-go-dark-to-stop-antipiracy-act/2214…

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Mass upload tool for the photowalk
by Karthik Nadar 16 Jan '12

16 Jan '12

I have got the *mass upload tool *for the photowalk after some Google searches. You can find it here http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Tools/Commonist I tried by just uploading a single image I had and it really worked. Can anyone verify the same and let me know. I have also *attached the java file* with this email which is actual mass upload tool (only for windows). The app requires *Java* in your system. -- Thanks and Regards, *Karthik Nadar.*

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FW: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: SOPA - Action
by wheredevelsdare＠hotmail.com 16 Jan '12

16 Jan '12

fyi - SOPA is an act that has been proposed in the US that seeks to censor the internet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act). There is a proposed blackout of Wikipedia in protest - please give your views on this here within the next 12 hours: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative/Action Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:41:32 +0530 From: swarooprao(a)wikimedia.in To: wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: SOPA - Action Srikanth R (User:Rsrikanth05) requested me to forward this mail to the Wikimedia India list. Please do have a look. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Srikanth Ramakrishnan <rsrikanth05(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 6:27 PM Subject: SOPA To: Swaroop Rao <swarooprao(a)wikimedia.in> Note: Forward to the India mailing list on my behalf please. Heya Mike, Since you are an admin on Sa, I thought this would be of importance to you. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative/Action Do intimate other Indic languges also. The deadline to submit proposals to the Foundation is less than 13 hours away. Take a call and spread the word. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan, Sathyamangalam-Gobichettipalayam Star Gazers, Coimbatore. -- Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch) _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l

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