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Translation sprint in Pune on 26 Novermber?
by Siebrand Mazeland (WMF) 23 Oct '11

23 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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Indic Languages: Shiju Alex
by Hisham Mundol 30 Sep '11

30 Sep '11

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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Women & Wikimedia
by Sarah Stierch 29 Sep '11

29 Sep '11

Hi everyone! I wanted to let you know about a survey that I am running for female contributors to any Wikimedia project. It is being ran by me as an independent volunteer, *not* on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?hl=en_US&formkey=dDR3a3JfaTd0a… If you are a female contributor and you are comfortable working in English, please participate, and if you know any female contributors, please share it with them. Thanks so much! Sarah Stierch [[User:SarahStierch]] -- GLAMWIKI Partnership Ambassador for Wikimedia <http://www.glamwiki.org/> Wikipedian-in-Residence, Archives of American Art<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SarahStierch> and Sarah Stierch Consulting *Historical, cultural & artistic research & advising.* ------------------------------------------------------ http://www.sarahstierch.com/

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WCI 2011 Registrations NOW OPEN
by wheredevelsdare＠hotmail.com 22 Sep '11

22 Sep '11

***Cross Posting on Various Lists - Kindly Forward to your city list if not included in this email*** Hiya Indian Wikipedians!! This is to announce that Registrations for WikiConference India 2011 are now open! WCI 2011 will take place on 18, 19, 20 November 2011 in Mumbai. We have been receiving unprecedented amount of attention and thank everyone for their attention and patience to wait for registration to open. Fee Patern: Registration entitles you to entry for all three days of the conference[1], attendee party, lunch on all days and evening snacks on the first and second day. Early Bird Individual [2][3] = 750 (+ 25 Processing Fee)Individual = 1500 (+ 50 Processing Fee)Institutional = 5000 (+ 170 Processing Fee)[1]: there may be some programs open only to certain audience such as Wikimedia Chapter members.[2]: denotes limited by number.[3]: additional 10% discount for Wikimedia Chapter members. This discount is only applicable on Registration Fee and not on Processing Fee. Registration Link: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2011/Registration All Wikipedians are requested to register ASAP to take advantage of Early Bird Registration. Hope to see all of you @ WCI 2011!!! Kind Regards,

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Re: [Wikimedia-IN-PUN] [WikiConference-India 2011] [Wikimedia-in-mum] Withdrawal of Pune community - Re : [Wikimediaindia-l] Pune community
by Pradeep Mohandas 20 Sep '11

20 Sep '11

Dear Mandar and the Pune community, I'm writing this email on behalf of Pranav, myself and everyone else in the Mumbai Community. We are really sorry that Pune has pulled out of being co-hosts. In this email, we wanted to apologise for our contribution in your making this decision and acknowledge the effort that the Pune community has put in into this Conference. We feel bad that the situation has come to this. It is not fair for only one party to take the blame for making such a decision. For all the faults that we may have committed knowingly or unknowingly, “Sorry”. At this point, it will be unfair if we did not acknowledge the role that Pune has played in bringing the Conference to this point. Let me re-assert that the Conference would not have taken off without the help of the Pune community. For everything that you have done, please accept our heartfelt “Thank you”. We also want to say that we need a lot of help in taking forward the conference and we do hope that the Pune community will be involved in any and every capacity they choose for the conference. Warm regards, Pradeep Mohandas On 19 September 2011 17:36, Shekhar Krishnan <shekhar(a)mit.edu> wrote: > In the meeting this Saturday we officially recorded the deep regret of > everyone present at the withdrawal of the Pune community from the > conference organisation. > > What is more regretful is that no explanation was given for this drastic > step, and no open discussion took place on the issues which led to this > split. While the policy questions about the composition of working > groups, and scholarships and hosting for volunteers were resolved, it > seems personal disagreements still linger. > > We are already quite thin on the ground in Mumbai, and need more > volunteers and enthusiasts for the conference to be successful. For > Mumbai's sister city of Pune to secede at this nascent stage in the > formation of the all-India Wikipedia movement is indeed sad. > > At our meeting on Saturday, we discussed these points, and how we can > strengthen the working group by assigning official Points of Contact > (PoC) in every team/committee. For each team there will be a "backup" > PoC if the main PoC cannot attend weekly online meetings, and devote > time to their organisational duties. > > This conference needs all the help it can get. Certain teams > (logistics/venue, technical/IT, party/fun) will benefit from PoCs based > in Mumbai, but all working groups can benefit from participation by > Wikipedians anywhere in India, including Pune. > > > > S.K. > > On 09/18/2011 05:12 PM, Kundan Amitabh wrote: > > Hi ! > > > > We regret the withdrawal of Pune community from the organisation of the > > conference and sincerely hope that this will not affect their > > continuing participation in the conference itself. > > > > Best Regards. > > > > Kundan Amitabh > > Managing Director, > > Ang India Technologies, > > www.angindia.co <http://www.angindia.co/> > > ====================== > > 9768884444 / 9869478444 > > ====================== > > > > ----------------------------------------------- > > > > Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 15:42:54 +0100 (BST) > > From: Mandar Kulkarni <mvkulkarni23(a)yahoo.co.uk > > <mailto:mvkulkarni23@yahoo.co.uk>> > > Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Pune community > > To: Wikimedia India Community list > > <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > <mailto:wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>>, > > "wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > <mailto:wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>" > > <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > <mailto:wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>> > > Message-ID: > > <1316184174.35491.YahooMailNeo(a)web24004.mail.ird.yahoo.com > > <mailto:1316184174.35491.YahooMailNeo@web24004.mail.ird.yahoo.com>> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > > > > > > > Dear All, > > > > This to formally communicate to all that Pune wikipedians are > > withdrawing from the co-hosting of the Conference due to the differences > > came in?Mumbai > > and Pune communities and many other unresolved?issues. > > > > For your information pls. > > > > With Regards, > > > > Mandar V. Kulkarni > > ----------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-in-mum mailing list > > Wikimedia-in-mum(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-mum > > -- > > Shekhar Krishnan > 58/58A, Anand Bhavan > 201, T.H. Kataria Marg (Lady Hardinge Road) > Mahim, Mumbai 400016, India > > http://heptanesia.net > http://web.mit.edu/shekhar > > _______________________________________________ > WikiConference-India mailing list > WikiConference-India(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiconference-india > -- Pradeep Mohandas How Pradeep uses email - http://goo.gl/6v1I9

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Wikipedia Session at SNDT on 15 September 2011
by Ashwin Baindur 18 Sep '11

18 Sep '11

>From Radha Misra's entry on Facebook Ashwin Baindur <http://www.facebook.com/ashwin.baindur>, conducted a wiki session (15.9.2011) at a workshop in SNDT Women's University. It was a Master trainer workshop in 'Integrating ICT in Higher Education". The session was informative and inspiring and many participants started editing and said they would like to explore it more. Thanks Ashwin. My response - It was a great privilege to introduce Wikipedia to the faculty of SNDT College. The enthusiasm of the knowledgeable education professionals who participated was contagious and I felt quite caught up with it. We hope that they become meaningful contributors to Wikipedia and that they become active members of Pune Wikipedia community also. My thanks to Dr Radha Misra for giving us/me this opportunity. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur ------------------------------------------------------

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