Hi everyone,
If I haven't introduced myself before, I'm Steven Walling. One of my jobs at the Foundation is helping everyone who wants to celebrate our 10th anniversary. I'm pretty sure it's been mentioned on the list before, but ten.wikipedia.org is the place to learn about everything we're organizing.
There's plenty going on there for the anniversary, but the most pressing issue is that the Foundation is shipping kits of free merchandise to people who are running events, and the deadline for getting that merchandise shipped to you is rapidly approaching. You can see mockups of the t-shirts, stickers, and buttons at ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design/Merchandise
If you're running an event and would like merchandise kits, the time to get set up to do so is now. I just need a couple things to be able to do so:
1. A public listing for your event on ten.wikipedia.org. Most people have done this, but if your wiki page doesn't have at least a basic description of what you're doing and how people can participate, I would really appreciate it if you could do that. It will help make your events great and show the world all the amazing things we're doing to celebrate Wikipedia's first decade.
2. Email me your shipping address and contact information.
Two events (Bangalore and Kannur in Kerala) have done all this already. The other events listed (Mumbai, Mehrabpur, Hyderabad, Pune, Mysore) still need one or both of those two things.
The Wikimedia Foundation has the merchandise ready to ship and is prepared to pay all the costs involved. If it might make better sense to say, ship to the chapter or a particular group and have them distribute throughout the rest of India, we can talk about making that happen too.
Thanks for reading,
Steven Walling
Fellow at Wikimedia Foundation
wikimediafoundation.org
Hi everyone,
If I haven't introduced myself before, I'm Steven Walling. One of my jobs at the Foundation is helping everyone who wants to celebrate our 10th anniversary. I'm pretty sure it's been mentioned on the list before, but ten.wikipedia.org is the place to learn about everything we're organizing.
There's plenty going on there for the anniversary, but the most pressing issue is that the Foundation is shipping kits of free merchandise to people who are running events, and the deadline for getting that merchandise shipped to you is rapidly approaching. You can see mockups of the t-shirts, stickers, and buttons at ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design/Merchandise
If you're running an event and would like merchandise kits, the time to get set up to do so is now. I just need a couple things to be able to do so:
1. A public listing for your event on ten.wikipedia.org. Most people have done this, but if your wiki page doesn't have at least a basic description of what you're doing, when, where, and info about how people can participate, I would really appreciate it if you could do that. It will help make your events great and show the world all the amazing things we're doing to celebrate Wikipedia's first decade.
2. Email me your shipping address and contact information.
Two events (Bangalore and Kannur in Kerala) have done all this already. The other events listed (Mumbai, Mehrabpur, Hyderabad, Pune, Mysore) still need one or both of those two things.
The Wikimedia Foundation has the merchandise ready to ship and is prepared to pay all the costs involved. If it might make better sense to say, ship to the chapter or a particular group and have them distribute throughout the rest of India, we can talk about making that happen too.
Thanks for reading,
Steven Walling
Fellow at Wikimedia Foundation
wikimediafoundation.org
A Kannada Wikipedia meet-up has been organized by community members with
help from people at Inetframe solutions at Padmanabhanagar, Bangalore on
December 25th, Saturdaty at 10.00 AM.
The intention is to get together, discuss on various issues, roadblocks on
Kannada Wikipedia (including the limitations with input) that are slowing
down editors and how to deal with it. There will also be a discussion on
Google translation tool being used for translation of Wikipedia articles.
Venue:*
*Inetframe solutions Pvt. Ltd.
#23-26, Sri Kalyani Bhavan,
2nd cross, 2nd main,
Sarvabhauma Nagar,
Chikkalsandra
Bangalore - 560061
08026391661
Call: Narayan Shastri 9880926893 to register or mail me back.
Getting there:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Chikkalsandra+M…
Meet-up page on Kannada Wikipedia:
http://is.gd/j5y9y
Do attend! And pass it on to your friends :)
P.S: Bangalore community: need some help putting this up on English
Wikipedia (as the next meet-up), there are plenty of Kannada speaking
editors on English wiki who might find it useful.
--
Hari Prasad Nadig
http://hpnadig.net | http://twitter.com/hpnadighttp://flickr.com/hpnadig
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Elevator pitch - The tenth anniversary of Wikipedia on 15 January is a
golden opportunity for the city's wikipedians to firmly place Pune on the
international wikipedia map. Birdwatchers of Pune have committed to
improving bird articles and an editing tutorial session has been planned for
the newbies at the meet. We look forward for people to come forth to
evangelise Wikipedia in schools and Colleges, to collect images of Pune for
Wikimedia Commons through a photothon and to a meetup of Marathi Wikipedians
which will showcase Pune as the cultural capital of Maharashtra.
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Dear friends,
The Pune Wikipedia meetup plan is in the process of formalising. Wikipedians
who have participated in discussions so far are Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay,
Shirish Agarwal, Sudhanwa Jogalekar, Abhay Natu and supporting us online are
Mahitgar and of course Bishakha and Arunram have given their full support as
always.
We all hope that the 10th Anniversary Wikipedia Celebrations on 15 January
(Saturday) in Pune are a great success. For that, I request all people
connected with any Wikimedia project in pune, whether it is English
Wikipedia, Marathi Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons or any other.
We hope to have some activities before that date and the final meetup on 15
January (Saturday) where we showcase those events.
The venue is yet to be decided, the timing will be in the evening but exact
timing yet to be decided.
The wikipedia-linked events formalised to date are :
* Contribution by 7th Ornithology Course of Ela Foudation and Abasaheb
Garware College. This will consist of a talk to the course during one of
their sessions and development of three articles of bird species hopefully
to GA quality. Dr Satish Pande and Dr Anand Padhye, the course organisers
and mentors have given full support.
We hope that the following additional events can be formalised :
* Pune photothon - Pune loves Wikimedia Commons - prior to 15 Jan. Sudhanwa
is working on this with some photographic societies.
* Marathi Wikipedia meetup - prior to 15 Jan. This is really important.
* Some evangelising with schools/colleges.
At the main meeting on 15 Jan it is tentatively planned to have the
following events as of now:
* Newbie editing session by Ashwin Baindur.
* Uploading of the three bird articles by 7th Ornithology course.
* Skype linkup with other meets (if it can be coordinated).
* (During W10 Meetup on 15 Jan) - short talks on:
** overview of articles on Pune in En:WP (max five minutes).
** progress of Mr:WP (max 10 minutes) (if Mr:WP meetup has been conducted).
** on the ornithology course's bird contribution to Wikipedia (max five
minutes).
** about the photothon (max five minutes) (if photothon has been conducted).
* Refreshments.
Wikimedia foundation is providing a small grant and some promotional
material. Please come forth with your views, activities and
ideas/criticisms. There is no formal chapter or official users group. These
messages on various lists and anybody who participates in discussions are
all there is to it.
Wikipedia Meetup friends from Mumbai, and indeed wikipedians from all over
the country are cordially invited.
Will keep everyone posted on the latest,
Ashwin Baindur
Blog post by BGMahesh ( one india) on the 23rd meetup.
http://www.mahesh.com/2010/12/18/wikimedia-meetup-in-bangalore-my-first-one
Regards
Tinu Cherian
On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 11:18 AM, CherianTinu Abraham <tinucherian(a)gmail.com
> wrote:
> Just a gentle reminder regarding the Bangalore Wikimeetup23 today @ 3 PM
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore23
>
>
> Danese Cooper, Chief Technical Officer, Wikimedia Foundation, Alolita
> Sharma, Engineering Programs Manager, Wikimedia Foundation will be attending
> this meetup. Unfortunately, Erik Moeller is unable to attend due to an early
> flight out of the country. However, he will be available at the venue at
> around 1:30 PM.
>
> Please note the change in the venue this time. It is TERI auditorium , but
> very close to CIS office.
>
> logicwiki & Me will be at the venue by 1-1:30 PM , so if you would like to
> help with setting up things, feel free to join us :)
>
> Regards
> Tinu Cherian
>
>
>
hi,
In 2009 being the International Year of Astronomy, I began editing some of
the astronomical observatories in India on Wikipedia. 2011 is the
International Year of Chemistry (IYC-2011) and I hope we can do something
along those lines for articles on Chemistry as well.
IYC-2011 is being organised by IUPAC (remember all those IUPAC names you had
to by-heart in your Chemistry classes?) and the UNESCO. You can find out
more about this here -http://www.chemistry2011.org/about-iyc/introduction
If any of you have an inclination towards Chemistry or edit Chemistry
articles on Wikipedia, do let us know ideas for how we can also encourage
IYC-2011.
warm regards,
Pradeep Mohandas
Hi !
Peter Shevlin is making a BBC Radio Documentary on Wikipedia.
If you or anybody you know anyone that would describe themselves as being
addicted to editing Wikipedia pages? Someone that can’t resist getting home,
turning on the computer and editing more and more pages on Wikipedia. Please
let him know if anyone springs to mind.
He may be contacted on 07786195707 and 020-8291 0719
Best wishes
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> Dear All,
>
> As all of you know, the first edition of the *Wikimedia India Community
> Newsletter*<
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_India_Community_Newsletter…
> >was
> released by Barry Newstead on 2010 September.
>
> The wikimedians associated with the Newsletter know that much effort had
> put behind to bring out the first edition. We all are happy to see that the
> newsletter is well received by Wikimedians across the world. There were
> many
> obstacles faced while we were working on the first edition. But the
> community was able to overcome all these and bring out the first edition.
> There are many lessons learned during this process.
>
> Now almost 3 months had passed after we released the first edition. It is
> important that this initiative needs to be carried forward. In the past 2
> months many people have asked me about the second edition of the
> Newsletter.
> Even though I voluntarily coordinated the various activities for the first
> edition, I am no longer in a position to continue that for the future
> editions. It is better to *form a team* *of active Indian Wikimedians* to
> coordinate the various activities of the Wikimedia India Newsletter.
>
> I request the help and support from different Indian language wiki
> communities to take this initiative forward. The idea is to* form a team
> with 2 or 3 active users from each language community* and coordinate the
> activities for the Wikimedia India Newletter. *Srikanth Lakshmanan* has
> informed me that he will help me to form the initial setup. Once the
> initial
> setup is formed the complete responsibility of the Newsletter rest with
> this
> Newsletter team.
>
> *Eligibility:* The only criteria that needs to be fulfilled to be part of
> this initiative is, * the person must be an active wikimedian* in any of
> the
> Indian language wiki community. The person needs to be part of the language
> community and should be able to coordinate with the respective language
> community to prepare content for the Newsletter. The respective language
> community can decide which active users can be part of the Newsletter team.
>
>
> Please send a mail to me (shijualexonline(a)gmail.com) and Srikanth (
> srik.lak(a)gmail.com) so that we can take this forward.
>
> Thanks
> Shiju Alex
>
Hi,
Please check out some of the photos of the Pune3 meetup here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23201590@N05/5271060506/
First 8 pictures are from the meetup, remaining are from the meeting
of wikimedia dignitaries with Symbiosis students.
Will post more pictures/updates as and when I get them.
-- Sudhanwa
Wikipedia Wikimeetup1 @ Kolkata, Dec 2010 Photos
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Kolkata_Meetup_Dec2010
There were around 18+ attendees for the first Wikimeetup @Kolkata . I would
like to express my sincere thanks to Jayanata Nath, Indranil Das Gupta &
Shiju Alex for all the efforts in putting things together for a successful
meetup, at one of the ancient cities of India. Special thanks to Bishakha
Datta & Achal Prabhala for all the encouragement & support in our efforts.
One of us will be sending a detailed report on the meetup soon.
Regards
Tinu Cherian