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From: Bishakha Datta <bishakhadatta(a)gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 10:16 PM
Subject: Fwd: [Wikimedia-in-mum] troubleshooting Wikipedia for schools
project
To: Ashwin Baindur <ashwin.baindur(a)gmail.com>
Could you post this to the Pune list too?
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From: Nikhil Sheth <nikhil.js(a)gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 7:21 AM
Subject: [Wikimedia-in-mum] troubleshooting Wikipedia for schools project
To: info(a)soschildren.org
Cc: wikimedia-in-mum <wikimedia-in-mum(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
HI,
I'm trying to spread wikipedia for schools offline edition in my
city/country. Got some interested people to join in the project at the
wikipedia
10th anniversary meetup at Mumbai,
India.<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Mumbai/WikipediaDay2011>,
i've included them in cc.
I've set up a mirror website hosting the large file in parts because several
people had complained they couldn't download the original thing.
http://wikipediaforschools.4shared.com
I wasn't aware of your webpage back then so used a .ZIM file that I found on
http://www.kiwix.org : schools-wikipedia-full-20081023-rc5.zim
I hope I'm not hosting the wrong file??
Could you please give me this info:
In the press releas<http://www.soschildrensvillages.org.uk/charity-news/archive/2008/10/2008-wi…>e,
a .Torrent file is linked :
http://www.soschildrensvillages.org.uk/static/schools-wikipedia-full-200810…
I need to know what are the contents of this .tar.gz file.
Is it for windows or for linux? Is it the same .zim file only? Is it using
kiwix or something else? Is it pre-indexed?
On a blog post I created for this, someone posted a link to a large .zip
saying this is a pre-indexed packaged version:
http://download.kiwix.org/portable/wikipedia_en_for_schools.zip
So is that the one I should be going with? The current one I'm hosting needs
a small first-run procedure that has to be done on every computer I put it
in, of opening the .zim file from kiwix and then indexing it. Also, I had
problems with some older computers - the indexing never took off and we are
limited to click-browsing on those computers.
Moving on from the downloading aspect, I want to set up a wiki page that
will track the proliferation of Wikipedia for Schools. But I can't figure
out where to create it, what name to give it and other things. So need a
little help there. (wikipedians, you can help?)
And finally, could you connect me with more people in India who are
associated with this project or may be interested in networking on it? Is
there a facebook page on this? Mind if I set one up?
Cheers,
Nikhil Sheth
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From: Nikhil Sheth <nikhil.js(a)gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:00 AM
Subject: Re: Nikhil, a news tip
To: Simon Owens <simon.bloggasm(a)gmail.com>
Hi Simon,
Great job done!!
This video already got posted in the main blog
post<http://technosophi.blogspot.com/2011/01/10th-anniversary-of-wikipedia-mumba…>that
reported on this event and I'll share this too, as did something else
I've set up and would need some help in:
Wikipedia For Schools - offline version
We want to put wikipedia for schools offline version in each and every
school and non-internet-connected computer in India. I've implemented it at
one under-resourced school for poor kids in Pune (my hometown) and the
results are amazing - kids who have never seen the internet are suddenly
surfing through all sorts of articles using this - it's empowering in a way
that has never happened before.
Many people were having problems downloading the 2.6 GB Wikipedia for
Schools .ZIM file from Kiwix, so after the meetup, I've split it into 100MB
parts and uploaded here. Also made a torrent which I'm hosting (need more
seeders!)
http://wikipediaforschools.4shared.com
The README file there has instructions on how to go about it.
So I need help in spreading the word. I want to set up a website (preferably
a wiki only) where people can enlist the schools where they pledge to
install this, and then come back and confirm when the deed is done. I also
want to reach out to computer vendors to install it in all computers that
they sell or repair. I'd start off with India but this can go international
as well.
Let me know if you can help with this project, and feedback if I'm doing
something wrong.
And Kudos for the amazing video again!
Cheers,
Nikhil Sheth
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On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 3:40 AM, Simon Owens <simon.bloggasm(a)gmail.com>wrote:
> Hey Nikhil,
>
> I read your post the other day mentioning Wikipedia's 10th anniversary. I
> work with a group that teamed up with Jimmy Wales to create a video on the
> state of Wikipedia (Wales narrates the video). We depicted an animated
> history of the site and detailed where Wales would like to see it head in
> the future:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXD1TRGafQ0
>
> Anyway, I thought this was something you and your readers would find
> interesting.
>
> Take care,
> Simon
>
>
>
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Hi all,
Just put up the Pune Wikipedia Marathi meetup. http://wp.me/pfuZu-l5
Good deed done for the day, hope somebody can either give me a link
about photos uploaded/put up somewhere either on wikimedia commons
or/and flickr group or send me across an image or two of the event to
update on the blog post.
Either way there would be attribution to author or the source .
--
Regards,
Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल
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Hi all,
I posted the Wikimedia commons blog post. Point your browsers to
http://wp.me/pfuZu-ln
As far as plagarism is concerned, you guys should look at
http://chori.in and you will be scandalized as who does it (and gets
away with it).
Note for Chandan and Ashok :- I was talking about this
drupal.airjaldi.com/node/274 - that's the wireless antennae course.
Around here locally, there's supposed to be a Honey Bee Network
somewhere in Lonavla, Talegaon who have also played with antennae's
for wireless broadband.
--
Regards,
Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल
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Dear Friends,
We have started off our Wikipedians of Pune activities very nicely. So far
we have had :
* One editing session at Sahakarnagar on the following birds by 7th
Ornithological Course on Friday 07 January 2011. Dr Satish Pande, Dr Anil
Mahabal, self and students of 7th Ornithological Course attended.
- Comon Myna (user subpage)
- Peregrine Falcon (main article space)
- White Stork (main article space)
* Marathi Wikipedia Meetup at SICSR on 08 January 2011. Ashwin Baindur,
Sudhanwa Jogalekar, Shirish Agarwal, Anupam Saraph, Mandar Kulkarni,
Karunakaran and Harshad Gune attended.
* Commons Meetup at Shaniwar Wada on 09 January 2011. Sudhanwa Jogalekar,
Shirish Agarwal, Ashwin Baindur, Ashok Bagade, Anand Patankar, Chandan
Sharma, Prasad Rasal, Prasad Vaidya attended the meet. Images of
Shaniwarwada and outside of Kasba Ganpati mandir were taken.
We now look forward to :
* Completion of bird editing sessions.
* 15th January 2011 Meetup at 1830 hrs at SICSR.
As discussed earler, we will have a mailing list (this one).
Flickr group "WikiPuneri" is being created by Anand Patankar. He will send
us all an invite. Two poins regarding the images :
* Please load your images there with Creative Commons 3.0 License.Here is
the url of the license.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
* Please add at least three keywords to each image :
- WikiPuneri
- Meetup 09 Jan 2011
- Shaniwarwada ( or Kasba Ganpati mandir or as relevant)
We also have a wikipage on Wikimedia.in as collaborative whiteboard. The
home page has been created and is still kachha. Please bookmark it :
http://wikimedia.in/wiki/WikiPuneri
I personally enjoyed meeting and interacting with each of you. Your energy
and enthusiasm really motivate me. I do hope that our small endeavours are
like the acorn which leads to a mighty oak tree.
Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur
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Hi Guys,
It was great meeting everyone today and I had lots of fun. Ashwin thanks so much for mentioning about the Wikipedia project.
I am going to download the pics so I can see how they turned out.
Chandan Sharma