Wikimedia-IN-PUN October 2011

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DIWALI Graphity........ Abhijit Pendharkar
by Mandar Kulkarni 27 Oct '11

27 Oct '11

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Fw: [Wikimediaindia-l] Translation sprint in Pune on 26 Novermber?
by Mandar Kulkarni 25 Oct '11

25 Oct '11

Dear All, You must have seen below email from Siebrand Mazeland. Pl. share your views on this and suggest a plan to have meet on 26th Nov. I think, this is a very good opportunity to interact with foundation people and work on the project. We need somebody from Pune to take lead in this.... I also suggest you all to put your views on the same thread i.e on wikimedia-in-pun(a)lists.wikimedia.org <wikimedia-in-pun(a)lists.wikimedia.org>; With Regards, Mandar V. Kulkarni ----- Forwarded Message ----- >From: Siebrand Mazeland (WMF) <smazeland(a)wikimedia.org> >To: wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >Sent: Monday, 24 October 2011, 12:38 >Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Translation sprint in Pune on 26 Novermber? > >(I tried sending this 8 or so hours ago, but it looks like it didn't >get through - apologies if it somehow ends up twice) > >Dear Indian Wikimedians, and those from near Pune in particular, > >In November the complete localisation team of the Wikimedia Foundation >(I, Niklas, Amir, Gerard, Santhosh and Alolita) will be in India for >the Wiki Conference India, the Mumbai hackathon and a team meeting. >Our schedule allows for an event in Pune on Saturday 26 November 2011, >if the Pune community thinks this is a good idea. We would like it to >be a localisation sprint, in which we gather as many people as >possible from the Wikimedia community, but maybe also from other open >source translation communities, to work on the translation of >MediaWiki and MediaWiki extensions used by Wikimedia for a few hours, >and have some nice chats while doing that. > >We would of course need a venue with a decent internet connection, >enough power, and participants would need to bring equipment that >allows for them to work online in translatewiki.net or offline with a >gettext editor. > >Is this something that is doable? > >-- >Siebrand Mazeland >Product Manager Localisation >Wikimedia Foundation > >M: +31 6 50 69 1239 >Skype: siebrand > >_______________________________________________ >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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Today's Indian Express News- Marathi Wikipedia to feature at WikiConference
by Mandar Kulkarni 25 Oct '11

25 Oct '11

Dear All, Pl. find attached link for more details - http://www.indianexpress.com/news/marathi-wikipedia-to-feature-at-wikiconfe… Wish you all a very Happy Diwali !!! With Regards, Mandar V. Kulkarni

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Translation sprint in Pune on 26 Novermber?
by Siebrand Mazeland (WMF) 24 Oct '11

24 Oct '11

I only found the Pune mailing list after sending this to the general list. Sorry for having to forward it... Siebrand ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Siebrand Mazeland (WMF) <smazeland(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 12:52 AM Subject: Translation sprint in Pune on 26 Novermber? To: wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Cc: sudhanwa(a)sudhanwa.com, Alolita Sharma <asharma(a)wikimedia.org> Dear Indian Wikimedians, and those from near Pune in particular, In November the complete localisation team of the Wikimedia Foundation (I, Niklas, Amir, Gerard, Santhosh and Alolita) will be in India for the Wiki Conference India, the Mumbai hackathon and a team meeting. Our schedule allows for an event in Pune on Saturday 26 November 2011, if the Pune community thinks this is a good idea. We would like it to be a localisation sprint, in which we gather as many people as possible from the Wikimedia community, but maybe also from other open source translation communities, to work on the translation of MediaWiki and MediaWiki extensions used by Wikimedia for a few hours, and have some nice chats while doing that. We would of course need a venue with a decent internet connection, enough power, and participants would need to bring equipment that allows for them to work online in translatewiki.net or offline with a gettext editor. Is this something that is doable? -- Siebrand Mazeland Product Manager Localisation Wikimedia Foundation M: +31 6 50 69 1239 Skype: siebrand

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[Press]: DNA : Want to display your photos? Donate them to Wikipedia
by CherianTinu Abraham 18 Oct '11

18 Oct '11

*DNA : Want to display your photos? Donate them to Wikipedia* http://epaper.dnaindia.com/epaperpdf/17102011/16main%20edition-pg8-0.pdf http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report_want-to-display-your-photos-donate-th… *Kannan Shanmugam's grandfather was the first man to set up a photo studio in south Kerala at Kollam, giving the locals one of their first tastes of technology.Around 100 years later, Kannan is hoping to continue his legacy in a way that could be just as revolutionary in today's world — the act of giving something away, for free.* * * *Kannan is an active contributor to Wikimedia Commons, an online repository of free-use images, sound and other media files primarily used to supplement other Wikimedia projects, Wikipedia being the most popular.* * * *The project, which began in 2006 and to which anybody can contribute, has amassed over 11 million media files in five years. * *With the fast-growing interest in Indian topics on English Wikipedia and 20 Indian language Wikipedias already in existence, there is a dire need for images from India. In the run-up to WikiConference 2011 to be held in Mumbai in November, the India Loves Wikipedia initiative has been launched to encourage people to donate their photos for India-related articles.* * * *Kannan has been one of the biggest contributors in the initiative which has amassed 3,359 photos, but feels it is difficult convincing professional photographers to contribute their photos.* * * *"Photography equipment is costly. You don't get any returns from uploading images on Commons. Only those who share this idea of free information are willing to do it," said Kannan, a former press photographer.* * * *Tinu Cherian, executive committee member of the Wikimedia India Chapter, agreed. "Releasing images for free use isn't a popular concept in India. And once your image is in the public domain, you are allowing people to use, share, alter the images (provided it is attributed) for both free and commercial purposes."* *However, Wikimedians (contributors to Wikimedia projects) insist you don't have to be a professional to submit your images.* * * *Vaishak Kallore from Kannur in Kerala believes it is amateur photographers in remote villages and towns in India who can be the most useful and generous contributors. "Professionals might not see it worth their while to take photos of seemingly mundane things. But there is a desperate need for such images to substantiate and inspire articles on India."* * * *From images of panoramas tostructures on the verge of extinction, almost nothing lies beyond the scope of Commons. * *And being a free repository, the images can be picked up for use by news publications, portals and blogs. However, Kannan said, Indian media companies often tend to use these images without giving credit to the photographers. "There is a need for greater awareness about free licensing. If there is proper attribution, more people will be encouraged to donate their photos."* * * *Explaining how government bodies in the US, especially NASA, release images into the public domain (including Commons) for free public education and use, Cherian said: "The biggest goldmine for Commons from India is actually the government. We haven't approached them officially yet, but we should be lobbying with them to come up with a similar policy." Want to donate your photos to Wikipedia? Visit www.commons.wikimedia.org* Regards Tinu Cherian http://wiki.wikimedia.in/In_the_news * * *Important Note : *The publisher ( DNA / Dainik Bhaskar ) of the above news article owns the copyrights of the article / content. Request to not kindly reproduce or circulate the content further. The information is only shared only with an internal community who is been featured on this article. All copyrights are duly acknowledged.

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Monthly meet at SICSR , 7th Floor, at 6 PM on 15th Oct
by Mandar Kulkarni 15 Oct '11

15 Oct '11

Dear friends, The monthly Pune meetup will take place at SICSR , 7th Floor, at 6 PM on Sat, 15th Oct 2011. The points on the agenda are : * WikiConference update * Meet the Campus Ambassadors & interact with them * Marathi track in Wikiocnference All Puneri Wikipedians and Campus Ambassadors are requested to come for the meetup. Warm regards, Mandar Kulkarni

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Presenting "The India Chronicles"
by Hisham 08 Oct '11

08 Oct '11

cross-posting to reach pan-India; apologies if you have got it from other mailing lists. Hi Folks, A few months ago, the Foundation asked Tory Read to travel to India and listen and learn and write about the movement in India. The objective was to harvest experiences and learnings and to have an open discussion around what we could all do to further the movement. This isn't in the form of a (possibly) long & boring report - but in the form of a story. (Tory's a professional researcher, writer and former journalist.) To put this together, Tory travelled for a couple of weeks across Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore and across towns in Kerala - attending community meet-ups and meeting up/speaking with a host of individual community members (in these cities and indeed beyond.) Tory's tale is called, "The India Chronicles", and is available on Wikimedia Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_India_Chronicles_(150dpi).pdf Do have a read through and do share your views on it - positives and negatives - and do feel free to comment on any aspect of it. It would be wonderful to have an engaging conversation on this. Warmest Regards, hisham

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Re: [Wikimedia-IN-PUN] Indic Languages: Shiju Alex
by Shiju Alex 02 Oct '11

02 Oct '11

Dear Indic wikimedians, Thank you very much for the welcome messages and for making me feel at home. Over the past few years I have interacted with many of you for the various Indic Wiki related activities and we have done many successful projects. Thank you very much for all those wonderful projects. Now when we are moving to a different phase of growth of Wikimedia in India, I request more support from your side. To get started we shall together develop a plan for Indic language wikis and design few pilot projects to gain learnings to drive growth. I propose to develop this plan collaboratively and openly - in true wiki style. This will include focused Indic language meetups, virtual meetings, desk research and constantly synthesizing the findings from all of these into learnings. These learnings will then flow into pilots that we will implement and review and learn from. For this purpose, I will be using the following page http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_…. It is very preliminary right now - but will keep updating it. The page will give you a flavor of the kind of process and methodology I plan to use - and also give you a hint of the end output. However, I stress that is nothing more than a stub right now. So please provide your suggestions. I will be in touch soon and regularly on the next steps and I will keep you constantly posted on progress - both positive and whenever we face setbacks. The task is huge. The potential is even more massive. I will need a lot of your help. I invite and welcome and urge all of you to contribute to this process - during physical meetups, in virtual meetings, one-on-one conversations or meetings, on the talk page to the Indic Languages page and in any and every manner that you can imagine. As part of the India Programs of WMF, my official ID is shiju(a)wikimedia.org. You can reach me anytime regarding any WMF's Indic wiki related topic. Thanks Shiju On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 7:24 AM, Hisham <hisham(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > cross-posting to reach pan-India; apologies if you have got it from other > mailing lists. > > Dear All > > As I had mentioned in a previous posting (and as was so touchingly welcomed > by so many of of you), Shiju Alex is joining us to lead our Indic Languages > initiatives. In this mail ( > http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-July/003845.html), > I had indicated that he would join around September-October. > > I'm really pleased to inform you that he has now joined India Programs (on > September 24th.) > > Indic Languages is an important priority for us - and Shiju intends to > start work on this urgently. He'll be in touch shortly on this matter. > > Welcome aboard, Shiju! > > Warmest Regards, > > hisham > >

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