For those of you who might not be on the India mailing list, you might want to consider a similar event in Pune. I know there are some very avid and passionate photographers in your city and there's some amazing sights that can be captured.
The Ahmedabad one was planned quite elaborately and it might be useful to pick their brains to figure out what can be done and how. (Key contacts would be Noopur, Anirudh, Srikeit & Arnav; the last 2 are based in Pune!) Would be great if they could share tips on mobilising volunteers, training them the basics of Wikimedia Commons, organising the actual event and managing the back end (categorisation, etc.) as well as challenges they faced (typically newbie challenges around kinds of images, watermarks, copyrights, etc.)
Good Luck!
hisham
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From: Anirudh Bhati anirudhsbh@gmail.com Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India: Wikipedia Takes Ahmedabad, January 2012 Date: January 3, 2012 6:06:08 PM GMT+05:30 To: Wikimedia India list wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Reply-To: Wikimedia India Community list wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Greetings! This is a short update on the January edition of Wikipedia Takes Ahmedabad. From where I stand, the event has been a resounding success! Over seventy-five people turned up, both old and young, this morning, which is no mean feat since it was very cold as well as a working day.
Special thanks to Noopur Raval, our benevolent dictator and project mastermind, Srikeit Tadepalli, who spent time with me following the project participants prepping them and helping them figure out Wikimedia projects. Our heartfelt gratitude to Aviral Mediratta, Khayal Dave, Yash Vadiwala, Konarak Ratnakar, Smit Shah, Karthik Mistry and Chirag Solanki; our team leads and coordinators for helping everyone take beautiful pictures.
Please keep an eye on our maintenance [[Category:Ahmedabad 1]], specially created for the event. 238 pictures have been uploaded so far... and we expect a lot more being uploaded by tomorrow.
I will be posting a project report soon. Thank you!
Sincerely,
Anirudh Bhati
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Ahmedabad 1 Wikipedians deserve an award - definitely a barnstar each. But more important, they deserve our time and support.
My way of thanking you guys is to go through two guidebooks (on Google Books), some websites and some Wikipedia articles and prepare a list of 87 places of interest around Ahmedabad. You can find this list of places on English Wikipedia here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:AshLin/Ahmedabad
This will help you to place your images in Wikipedia articles easily and also indicates where there is an article and where there is not. Red Links can now be converted into stubs easily. It is possible that I have not been able to locate some already existing articles for the red links so checking once again is good practice.
The list is about as complete as I could make it from those sources. Please feel free to add locations/delete them or to move the information wherever you want.
Congratulations once again, Ahmedabad Photothon team. Great job done.
Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur ------------------------------------------------------
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Hisham hisham@wikimedia.org wrote:
For those of you who might not be on the India mailing list, you might want to consider a similar event in Pune. I know there are some very avid and passionate photographers in your city and there's some amazing sights that can be captured.
The Ahmedabad one was planned quite elaborately and it might be useful to pick their brains to figure out what can be done and how. (Key contacts would be Noopur, Anirudh, Srikeit & Arnav; the last 2 are based in Pune!) Would be great if they could share tips on mobilising volunteers, training them the basics of Wikimedia Commons, organising the actual event and managing the back end (categorisation, etc.) as well as challenges they faced (typically newbie challenges around kinds of images, watermarks, copyrights, etc.)
Good Luck!
hisham
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From: Anirudh Bhati anirudhsbh@gmail.com Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India: Wikipedia Takes Ahmedabad, January 2012 Date: January 3, 2012 6:06:08 PM GMT+05:30 To: Wikimedia India list wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Reply-To: Wikimedia India Community list wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Greetings! This is a short update on the January edition of Wikipedia Takes Ahmedabad. From where I stand, the event has been a resounding success! Over seventy-five people turned up, both old and young, this morning, which is no mean feat since it was very cold as well as a working day.
Special thanks to Noopur Raval, our benevolent dictator and project mastermind, Srikeit Tadepalli, who spent time with me following the project participants prepping them and helping them figure out Wikimedia projects. Our heartfelt gratitude to Aviral Mediratta, Khayal Dave, Yash Vadiwala, Konarak Ratnakar, Smit Shah, Karthik Mistry and Chirag Solanki; our team leads and coordinators for helping everyone take beautiful pictures.
Please keep an eye on our maintenance [[Category:Ahmedabad 1]], specially created for the event. 238 pictures have been uploaded so far... and we expect a lot more being uploaded by tomorrow.
I will be posting a project report soon. Thank you!
Sincerely,
Anirudh Bhati
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Thanks Ashwin for your constant support and positive leadership. We were already thinking of how to not let this buzz down. We are planning something slightly more amateurish on this article list issue. Maybe something like a COTM but where we can educate new users. Keep them suggestions coming, please :)
To all, I am indebted to Kartik for his poking, prodding and unfailing support throughout our event. So, whenever you do criticize/suggest things, do remember that it is *people *who make events or wikipedia work. And, people are more than just their affiliations to communities. So, let's not please be unfairly rude or critical of anybody's good efforts :)
Thanks again, Noopur (PS. Photos still flowing in, any help with categorizing is appreciated) :)
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 12:09 AM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.baindur@gmail.comwrote:
Ahmedabad 1 Wikipedians deserve an award - definitely a barnstar each. But more important, they deserve our time and support.
My way of thanking you guys is to go through two guidebooks (on Google Books), some websites and some Wikipedia articles and prepare a list of 87 places of interest around Ahmedabad. You can find this list of places on English Wikipedia here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:AshLin/Ahmedabad
This will help you to place your images in Wikipedia articles easily and also indicates where there is an article and where there is not. Red Links can now be converted into stubs easily. It is possible that I have not been able to locate some already existing articles for the red links so checking once again is good practice.
The list is about as complete as I could make it from those sources. Please feel free to add locations/delete them or to move the information wherever you want.
Congratulations once again, Ahmedabad Photothon team. Great job done.
Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Hisham hisham@wikimedia.org wrote:
For those of you who might not be on the India mailing list, you might
want to consider a similar event in Pune. I know there are some very avid and passionate photographers in your city and there's some amazing sights that can be captured.
The Ahmedabad one was planned quite elaborately and it might be useful
to pick their brains to figure out what can be done and how. (Key contacts would be Noopur, Anirudh, Srikeit & Arnav; the last 2 are based in Pune!) Would be great if they could share tips on mobilising volunteers, training them the basics of Wikimedia Commons, organising the actual event and managing the back end (categorisation, etc.) as well as challenges they faced (typically newbie challenges around kinds of images, watermarks, copyrights, etc.)
Good Luck!
hisham
Begin forwarded message:
From: Anirudh Bhati anirudhsbh@gmail.com Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India: Wikipedia Takes Ahmedabad,
January 2012
Date: January 3, 2012 6:06:08 PM GMT+05:30 To: Wikimedia India list wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Reply-To: Wikimedia India Community list <
wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
Greetings! This is a short update on the January edition of Wikipedia
Takes Ahmedabad. From where I stand, the event has been a resounding success! Over seventy-five people turned up, both old and young, this morning, which is no mean feat since it was very cold as well as a working day.
Special thanks to Noopur Raval, our benevolent dictator and project
mastermind, Srikeit Tadepalli, who spent time with me following the project participants prepping them and helping them figure out Wikimedia projects. Our heartfelt gratitude to Aviral Mediratta, Khayal Dave, Yash Vadiwala, Konarak Ratnakar, Smit Shah, Karthik Mistry and Chirag Solanki; our team leads and coordinators for helping everyone take beautiful pictures.
Please keep an eye on our maintenance [[Category:Ahmedabad 1]],
specially created for the event. 238 pictures have been uploaded so far... and we expect a lot more being uploaded by tomorrow.
I will be posting a project report soon. Thank you!
Sincerely,
Anirudh Bhati
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