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Translation Help for WikiConference India
by wheredevelsdare＠hotmail.com 20 Jul '11

20 Jul '11

**Kindly forward this to other language/city lists that you are a part of** Just to follow up, we have received offer for help with translation to Hindi, Telegu, Sanskrit and Kannada thus far. We still need help with all the other indic languages and request volunteers to come forward. Kindly contact Theo or myself privately if you can help. Kind Regards,

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Translation Help Required
by wheredevelsdare＠hotmail.com 19 Jul '11

19 Jul '11

Hiya, The Scholarship Application Form for WikiConference India 2011 is ready to go live - we need help with translating the form as well as the site notices (for Wikipedia) into the 20+ indic language languages that have operating wikis. Kindly contact either Theo directly or respond privately to my email if you can help us. Kind Regards, Pranav

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13 July Mumbai bombings Article Help
by suyog vyawahare 14 Jul '11

14 Jul '11

HelloI have created an article on yesterdays bombings. Now few foreigners are proposing to rename this article to Mumbai 2011 bombings. Please oppose this on talk page. Please support me.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:13_July_2011_Mumbai_bombingsI am opposing it for following reasons1) Year 2011 has not yet ended so how can it be labeled as 2011 mumbai bombings? 2) What if there are more bombings in this year? Editors are saying that if new bombing happens then we will rename it to 13 july Mumbai bombings! Why to go to double work? 3) All outsiders are supporting no Indian comments on it!! Please Vote on it Suyog Vyawahare +919987135236

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Update : Wikipedia Student Club Pune. [Success of Pre-Launch Meet-Up]
by Abhishek Suryawanshi 14 Jul '11

14 Jul '11

Hi, We hosted two Pre-Launch Meet-up back to back. One was on Saturday (09-July-2011) afternoon and another on Monday(11-July-2011) Morning. On Saturday many students were not able to attend due to school timing, Remaining joined on Monday (those students - having holiday on Monday on behalf of Aashadhi Ekadashi.) So for them we conducted second session of Pre-Launch Meet-Up. [image: wiki-student club-pune.JPG] Aim of pre-launch meet-up was to clear up confusions, and to have basic outline to student club. [image: what is student club.JPG] We discussed various things regarding Wikipedia Students Clubs, also we highlighted work of "existing" Wikipedia Student Clubs... [image: existing student clubs.JPG] After exploring activities and structures of "USA Wikipedia Student Clubs" Basic Question was still there : [image: what-you-are-going-to-do-in-studentClub.JPG] We did interesting brainstorming session about "Activities" and "Things to do" in Wikipedia Student Club Pune, and we came to several conclusions. Overall Activities : Group Editing Sessions / Editing Collaborations, Trivia Nights , Fun Workshops , Field Visits and documenting our experiences in a public forum , Contests etc. [image: 11072011145.jpg] We outlined few basic rules like - ANYONE can join Student Club, but if he or she wants to have advantages like Field Visits, Project Experience, its mandatory to make three minor edits per month. After long discussion, everyone enjoyed Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Times_%28film%29>Movie Clips. [image: charlie-chaplin - student clubs.JPG] Next Steps for Wikipedia Student Club Pune : [image: next steps-wikipedia student club-pune.JPG] Also, Next Important step involves inclusion of Local Community.Including Help of Ashwin Baindur , Sudhanwa Joglekar , Mandar Kulkarni and others for Advisory Board. We are fortunate enough to live in city which is graced by such Wikipedia Devotees. Hope so they will agree to be on Advisory Board of Wikipedia Student Club Pune. Also We need to keep open system, where anyone will be able to join Club. We will discuss about those issues in next meet up.Also its important to encourage other students to start their own Student Club in respective colleges and schools. We need to work hard on first students club in Pune, if we make it successful [throughout year], other students will start clubs in their own. We need to make sure that everything goes fine with this first club in city.. Those who were not able to attend first meet-up,Hope to have their help/support for next activities.. To Get Regular Updates , Please Join Wikipedia Students Club Pune FaceBook Group : http://www.facebook.com/groups/224329400941064?ap=1 Hope to see all of you in next meet-up. Best Regards, Abhishek Suryawanshi <http://www.facebook.com/AbhishekSuryawanshi> Campus Ambassador,*Wikipedia* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:AbhiSuryawanshi cell :+91 9420542578 skype : abhisheksuryawanshi

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Re: [Wikimedia-IN-PUN] [Wikimediaindia-l] [WikiConference-India 2011] 13 July Mumbai bombings Article Help
by Ashwin Baindur 14 Jul '11

14 Jul '11

Suyog, Tinu & Shiju are right about canvassing. This should not be done. That apart, I oppose the renaming vide - It seems that only one article, that of 26/11 is named as [[2008 Mumbai attacks]] per year and the others per date though in some cases there is only attack/blast/bombing per year. Logically speakiing, a person unfamiliar to the topic would think that "2011 Mumbai bomb blasts" would be about all the bomb blasts in Mumbai in 2011 and not about those on a date - so the proposed title is misleading in a way, as it is in the case of 26/11. BTW Users Joyson Noel & MikeLynch are Indians :). Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur ------------------------------------------------------ On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 8:10 AM, CherianTinu Abraham <tinucherian(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Suyog, > Appreciate the great work on creating the article. > It was also good to bring in attention of all on the discussion on the change of article. > But per Wikipedia guidelines, it is highly inappropriate to canvass for support in a non-neutral manner. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Canvassing > Wikipedia is a global collaborative project and nobody owns the articles.. There is neither insiders nor foreigners. > Personally i am of the view of having the article as "2011 Mumbai bombings". There was an article created by Moksh Juneja at the same time by that name. This article was redirected to 13 July article since the later was more worked on. > > God forbid, Let us hope that there will be no more blasts in Mumbai this year ( or ever ) ! > Regards > Tinu Cherian > > > On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 7:46 AM, suyog vyawahare < suyogaerospace(a)yahoo.co.in> wrote: >> >> Hello >> I have created an article on yesterdays bombings. Now few foreigners are proposing to rename this article to Mumbai 2011 bombings. Please oppose this on talk page. Please support me. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:13_July_2011_Mumbai_bombings >> I am opposing it for following reasons >> 1) Year 2011 has not yet ended so how can it be labeled as 2011 mumbai bombings? >> 2) What if there are more bombings in this year? Editors are saying that if new bombing happens then we will rename it to 13 july Mumbai bombings! Why to go to double work? >> 3) All outsiders are supporting no Indian comments on it!! Please Vote on it >> >> Suyog Vyawahare >> >> +919987135236 >> _______________________________________________ >> WikiConference-India mailing list >> WikiConference-India(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiconference-india >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >

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Update on the Wikipedia India Education Program and Campus Ambassador Program
by PJ Tabit 11 Jul '11

11 Jul '11

Now that the Wikipedia India Education Program and Campus Ambassador Program have been in full operation for just over one month I think it is timely to provide an update to you, the Wikipedia Community. In early June staff from the Wikimedia Foundation's San Francisco office, as well as Hisham Mundol (Consultant, India National Programs) and two Wikimedia Fellows conducted a two-day training session for the first batch of Wikipedia Campus Ambassadors in India. Since conducting that session we've been hard at work recruiting professors to participate in the program. We held faculty workshops at 7 colleges during which we introduced Wikipedia and this project to interested faculty members. For these sessions we welcomed Dr. Bob Cummings, a professor of English at the University of Mississippi, to talk about his experience using Wikipedia in the classroom. These workshops provided excellent opportunities to talk honestly with the professors about not only what benefits they could expect, but also what challenges they would face. On the whole, faculty members (and administrators) were extremely supportive and enthusiastic. The final two weeks of June were extremely busy as we worked to finalize commitments from professors. It was hard work, but it certainly paid off. We now have twelve professors and about 500 students committed to using Wikipedia in the classroom this semester. And we're still not done! We are continuing recruitment efforts at several other colleges so it is likely that these figures will increase in the coming weeks. For an up-to-date list of the participating colleges and professors please see the Wikipedia India Education Program project page (linked here<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:India_Education_Program> ). Last week the first Wikipedia campus workshops outside of the United States happened at the Symbiosis School of Economics (SSE) in Pune. Two campus ambassadors (Abhishek <goog_82403213>Suryawanshi<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:AbhiSuryawanshi> and Wasim Mogal <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Wasimmogal2007>) conducted introductory editing sessions for over 150 students. This was an important moment. Until this point we had largely been interacting with professors and administrators. And while their support is crucial, ultimately it will be the students who will make this project successful. Based on what I saw last week I am very confident that this project will indeed be a resounding success. We continue to charge ahead. This coming week we will return to SSE to talk to students specifically about the Wikipedia assignment the professor designed for their class. Next week we will be conducting our first sessions at the College of Engineering, Pune (COEP). Very soon we will be seeing the first Wikipedia edits coming from these students. I know this is the moment we've all been waiting for and I assure you that it is not far off. Your continued support is critical to the success of the project. Please feel free to contact me (pjtabit(a)gmail.com) with any questions you may have. All the best, PJ Tabit Wikipedia Fellow, Wikipedia India Education Program

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Confirmation: Wikipedia monthly meetup on 9th July 2011 in SICSR at 6pm
by Sudhanwa Jogalekar 08 Jul '11

08 Jul '11

Dear friends, We will have a monthly meetup on 9th July 2011 in SICSR at 6pm. We will have updates on the Campus Ambassador program, conference in November in Mumbai and can also have a demo edit session. One of the media person is likely to join to discuss the following points (taken from his mail). 1. मराठी विकीपीडिया सध्या इतर भारतीय भाषांच्या तुलनेत कुठे आहे? 2. त्यावर तयार होणारा कॉन्टेन्टचा दर्जा तुलनात्मक काय आहे? 3. संख्यात्मक पातळीवर मराठी कुठे आहे? 4. वाढविण्यासाठी काय करणं आवश्यक आहे? These are the details of the meetup: Venue: SICSR, Atur Centre, Model Colony. Room No 704. 7th floor, time 6pm http://www.plug.org.in/images/map-to-aturcenter.jpg (Directions) All Puneri Wikipedians who are interested are encouraged to attend the meetup. Your voice and opinion are needed to be heard. All the very best to all of you and looking forward to meeting you all on Saturday. Ashwin Baindur, Sudhanwa Jogalekar

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FW: [Wikimediaindia-l] Chapter Update - June 2011
by wheredevelsdare＠hotmail.com 07 Jul '11

07 Jul '11

FYI From: gautam(a)prathambooks.org Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 16:07:01 +0530 To: wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Chapter Update - June 2011 Dear Wikimedia India Community, Last month, the Chapter has taken several steps to engage with the community towards building the Chapter further. Here are the highlights. Membership drive to enroll members who will be able to both stand for elections and vote in the elections to the Executive Committee of the Chapter was completed on 23 Jun 2011. The membership stands at 64 as of 23-June-2011. We thank the community for having shown keen interest in getting membership in the Chapter. A mailing list exclusively for members (wmin-members(a)googlegroups.com) is now operational. We encourage members to start using the mailing list for discussing topics of interest to members. A wiki for members (http://members.wikimedia.in with 36 accounts as of 4 Jul 2011) is now operational. We request all members to intimate chapter their user-ids on Community wiki, to enable access for them on Members Wiki. Members can seamlessly access community wiki and Members wiki, with single login. We look forward to building an active members wiki, which can help in shaping the Chapter's plans. Chapter decided to partner with the Mumbai and Pune Wiki-Communities to co-host the WikiConference India for this year. Applied for a boot strap grant from the Wikimedia Foundation. AGM is planned for 24th September, 2011 in Bangalore. We thank the community on the support extended to the Chapter so far. We would like to thank Arnav Chaudhary specifically for offering to set-up a platform for membership sign-ups and management and building a test site and several others from members and community in testing the prototype. We look forward to the community and members to volunteer for other projects as well and also support the chapter through donations, as getting the funds from Foundation could take 3-4 months. Over the next few weeks, we will work towards forming city/language subcommittee (for members only), defining the process for nominations and conduct of elections for vacancies in EC as well as making progress on projects. You can still register to be a member of the Chapter by using the [Individual Membership Form] along with either Cheque/DD payable at par at Bangalore or via online transfer. Please do send us the physical copy of the form, duly signed, to the Bangalore address of the Chapter. Look forward to your continued supportThank you. Best, Gautam on behalf of the Wikimedia Chapter. (PS: Please do cross-post this as necessary) _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l

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Vote for the Conference Logo
by wheredevelsdare＠hotmail.com 27 Jun '11

27 Jun '11

Hiya, With the deadline for submitting LOGO designs for WikiConference lapsing today, we now request everyone to vote for the design they would like to see as the logo of WikiConference India from the eight designs submitted. Deadline for voting is 2.30PM on 29 June 2011 (48 hours from now). You see all the designs and vote here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:WikiConference_India_2011#Logo Kind Regards, User:AroundTheGlobe

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WikifyIndia
by Sohel Bohra 22 Jun '11

22 Jun '11

[[This is a lengthy mail and is cross-posted on all mailing lists. Kindly bear]] Dear Wikimedians, We interact with the government on multiple occasions. The problems are all too familiar - complex systems, official apathy, corruption - just to name a few. Some trivia and stats to qualify these claims: * Entrepreneurs identified increasing the speed and ease of issuing permits; lowering taxes; and reducing the time it takes to start a business as key issues. (Note - All issues relate to government interactions; Source - Legatum Institute) * In Mumbai, there are 37 procedural hoops to jump through to gain approval to build a warehouse. (Source : World Bank) * On the Corruption Perception Index (2010), India ranks 87th of 178 countries * Indians are highest ranked in volume of search for terms such as government rules, passport and registration (Source - Google Trends) Here's where WikifyIndia - a wiki of government procedures - kicks in. If Wikipedia is the Thinkers Encyclopedia, WikifyIndia is the Doer's Encyclopedia We (the founders) are ardent believers of the Wikipedia model and want to apply it to government procedures. Our belief is that ordinary citizens suffer for two reasons – the process is complex and accurate information is unavailable. WikifyIndia addresses the latter. Agents distort information to suit themselves. Officials are rarely friendly. The best solution has always been to ask someone who has ‘been through the grind’. WikifyIndia does it on a national level. The scope of the Project is wide ranging. From getting into the armed forces to filing a Right To Information request, from complaining about a broken traffic signal to opening a restaurant, from changing your name to adopting a child, from applying for euthanasia to marrying in court, from getting a gun permit to filing your taxes, from getting a permit to climb peaks to getting a gas connection, it will all be there. www.wikifyindia.com Every article is expected to have a short intro, requirements/eligibility, procedure, list of documents, timings, fees, application form, sample certificate among other details. Unlike Wikipedia, WikifyIndia is also a forum. There is merit in aggregating experiences (for ex. visa experiences can be quite varied). Current approaches on the internet are inadequate. Information is retrieved from Q&A forums, blog posts, agent or government sites. It is incomplete and outdated. Wikipedia has proved that a bottom approach is far more suitable in some areas than any top down approach (where a group is formally trying to organise information). Even if someone did a good job, they wouldn't be able to distribute it for free. WikifyIndia complements Wikipedia. The article on Civil Marriage in Wikipedia is written differently from the same article on WikifyIndia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_marriage http://www.wikifyindia.com/wiki/Civil_Marriage When WikifyIndia has adequate accurate content, it will reduce what economists call 'transaction costs'. Any tool to improve productivity of citizens, entrepreneurs and organisations will be directly contributing to the Indian economy. To the best of our knowledge, there is no other site with a similar approach in any other country. We urge you to jump in and make a difference. WikifyIndia is a non-profit initiative free of advertising and is being run by a small fund created by the Founders. We (the founders) have cribbed about a @#$% and rotten system for far too long. WikifyIndia is our way of doing something about it. We ask for your complete support in adding content, sharing experiences, creating templates and technical support. The goal is for every government procedure to be available in every Indian language with complete and accurate guidelines. If a farmer's wife in Manipur wants to get employed under Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, she should have all the information and forms on the site in her language. Thank you for your time and patience, Anish and Sohel [User:Sbohra]

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