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From: Ashwin Baindur <ashwin.baindur(a)gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 7:39 PM
Subject: Announcing - WikiProject Offline Wikipedia for Indian Schools
To: WikiProject India mailing list <wikimedia-in-en(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
ANNOUNCING A NEW WIKIPROJECT
(WikiProject Offline Wikipedia for Indian Schools)
Dear friends,
This is to announce the beginning of a new project for WikiProject
India - WikiProject
Offline Wikipedia for Indian Schools (OWIS). For quite some time now, there
has been a need for an offline wikipedia compilation suitable to Indian
schools. There are, and have always been, a whole lot of Indian schools and
students out there who do not have access to an English encyclopedia. The
web has killed off a whole range of printed encyclopedias and factbooks
besides paid encyclopedia packages such as Encarta. If the school does not
provide wide-spread, regular and dependable access to the web. then the
students have zilch. So, keeping in mind that English Wikipedia has been
around for more than a decade and has more than enough material for an
encyclopedia, we began this project so that all interested people could
pitch in and collectively prepare such offline compilations which are the
need of the hour.
About the Wikiproject
To do this, we began a new WikiProject in English Wikipedia, daughter to
WikiProject India. Titled WikiProject Offline Wikipedia for Indian
Schools(OWIS), it is intended to be the umbrella WikiProject for all
Indian
versions of offline English language wikipedias for students and
communities. The WikiProject will concentrate on content issues and leave
the production to a team of technically oriented guys from the community
(to be decided later).
You can read about the WikiProject page here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Offline_Wikipedia_for_In…
Under this WikiProject, it is proposed to provide a variety of compilations
suitable for various needs, such as a full offline encyclopedia, single
disc collations on topics related to India etc.
The first project
To begin with, we felt it is best to create a single DVD compilation with
all subjects covered in sufficient detail. We have named it as Offline
Wikipedia for Indian Schools (Full version) or OWIS-FULL (in short).
It is based on and will be similar to the SOS Children’s Village Offline
Wikipedia for School which you can checkout for yourself at this link:
http://schools-wikipedia.org/
The project page for this first project is here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Offline_Wikipedia_for_Indian_Sc…
The SOS village compilation is CD based with approximately 6500 articles
based on the British educational syllabus. Naturally, it contains a large
number of topics relevant only to the UK and has a distinct Western flavour
in its overall choice too, which is only natural.
To make this compilation suitable for our environment, we will have to not
only add a whole host of new articles on Indian topics to the compilation
but also remove topics/articles irrelevant to Indian students. In addition,
the SOS Children’s Encyclopaedia, being in existence for the last few
years, is designed to fit on a CD with the consequence that the number of
articles on a subject cover a subject satisfactorily but skimpily. Since we
plan our compilation to be on a DVD, there is scope to improve coverage on
all subjects as well. Hence it is planned to have in the region of around
9000 articles.
So where are we now? As a first step we have established the framework in
the form of the WikiProject and pages where one can work. The list of
topics from the SOS compilation has been prepared subjectwise. These lists
need to be vetted/improved/extended and then finalised.
As of now, six subjects have been opened up for topic selection - Art, IT,
Maths, Physics, Biology and Chemistry. We need motivated editors to join
the teams and pitch in. The selection of topics needs to be completed in
ten days time so that we can move on to other subjects, other tasks.
So, if this venture interests you, if you want to do something really
important with us, if you agree with our proposition that this is critical
for delivering the potential of Wikipedia to digitally-challenged
communities, sign up here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Offline_Wikipedia_for_In…
All the best to all of us to successfully complete this vital project.
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Ashwin Baindur
Just a reminder......
Dear friends,
The monthly Pune meetup will take place at SICSR , 7th Floor, at 6 PM on
Sat, 10th Dec 2011.
The points on the agenda are :
* WikiConference update
* CMDA preperation
* Translate wiki update
* Marathi Wikisource
* Marathi Wikipatrika
All Pune Wikipedians and Campus Ambassadors are requested to come for the
meetup.
With Regards,
Mandar V. Kulkarni
http://mr.wikipedia.org
(forwarded by Ashwin Baindur)
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Sorry for crossposting.
Nemo
Dear All,
Pl. find below link of Special focus discussion on Marathi Wikipedia in today's Tech Guru on IBN Lokmat {Telecast Saturday(26/11/2011) at 7.30 pm and sunday 10.30 am (27/11/2011)} with Sudhanwa Jogalekar, Rahul Deshmukh and Mandar Kulkarni during India Wikiconference.....
http://youtu.be/Ql8lIZeHEHI
Special thanks to Sagar for putting on web.
With Regards,
Mandar V. Kulkarni
http://mr.wikipedia.org
Hi,
We are happy to announce a Translation sprint on 26th November 2011 at
SICSR between 10 am to 5 pm.
These are the activities in the sprint:
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 :-) )
These translations are done at https://translatewiki.net .
There will also be some discussions related to the topic. We will also have
some session similar to FUEL (www.fuelproject.org)
5 people from the Wikimedia Foundation technical team (Siebrand, Niklas,
Amir, Gerard, Santhosh and Alolita) will be coming for the sprint.
It is not necessary that you should have technical knowledge about
mediawiki or translatewiki but that will surely help. Your (Indic) language
skills are also required for the event. People interested in FUEL
activities are also welcome.
So, do join us for the sprint.
Here are the details:
Date: 26th November 2011
Venue: 3rd floor at SICSR (this might change if we have HUGE response :-) )
Time: 10 am to 5 pm.
Thanks and regards
-Sudhanwa
~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!
web: www.sudhanwa.com blog: www.sudhanwa.in
Twitter: sudhanwa Check on FB, Linkedin for more.
A reminder: We would love to see you at the Mumbai Wikimedia developers'
days next weekend (19-20 November), happening alongside WikiConference
India. Help us improve access to Wikipedia and Wikimedia's other
projects across all languages, via mobile devices, and
for people without Internet access!
You'll meet other Indian open source contributors and Wikimedia
technologists from India and abroad.
Developers of all backgrounds are welcome, and prior experience with the
MediaWiki software is not required. Translators with a linguistic
background who can help improve language support for Wikimedia
technology projects are also welcome.
There's more information at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/India_Hackathon_2011 . If you'd like to
come, please request registration at this form by the end of the day
Wednesday 16 Nov:
https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/spreadsheet/viewform?hl=en_US&formk…
Shortlink: http://ur1.ca/5qf6c
(You will not be formally registered until you receive a positive reply
to your request. It may take a few days for us to process requests.)
It would be great to see you there! Please come if you can.
--
Sumana Harihareswara
Volunteer Development Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
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
>
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