Hi All,
Let us collaborate and contribute to the Wiki.
After the great success of Wikimedia India newsletter combined with good old
days of WP:INCOTM <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:INCOTM> let us
start Wikimedia India Collaboration of the Month.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Collaborations_of_the_month
I have selected 6 articles.
- Inland Waterways Authority of India
- National Waterway 1 (India)
- National Waterway 2 (India)
- National Waterway 3 (India)
- National Waterway 4 (India)
- National Waterway 5 (India)
Selected these articles because even english wikipedia doesn't have these
article.These is experimental. Next time onwards we will nominate the
articles which we have to select.
Please add respective articles in all languages under
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Collaborations_of_the_month/October_2010
Please feel free to add any language if I have missed(
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_India/Languages#List).
Indian wikipedians let us start and see who all will complete all the 6
article before 31 October 2010 !!!
--
Naveen Francis
Dear wikimedians,
There is an order from Govt. of India that came out some time in 2010 April
about renumbering the national highways of India. It is here:
http://dorth.gov.in/writereaddata/sublinkimages/finaldoc6143316640.pdf
This has an impact on all wikipedias (including all Indian language
wikipedias) that have articles about Indian national highways.
I am not sure whether this is implemented by Govt of India yet, but it will
be good to mention about this in all the wikipedia articles about Indian
national highways. For time being, it is good to mention the new number in
the first sentence itself.
May be some time later (when we are sure that this is implimented by the
Govt.), we can rename the article titles. Also maps needs to be updated. It
is important that duplicate entries are avoided by making using of redirect
pages.
Shiju Alex
Greetings,
On behalf of Shiju Alex, here is... the first ever edition of the
Wikimedia India Community Newsletter. It's an incredible effort, and
we're really glad to have something like this - congrats to all who
helped with it.
Going forward, Shiju (and all of us) would appreciate help and
participation. If you are a member of a Wikimedia language, or
geography, or project that you feel isn't adequately represented, or if
you'd like to help with design, proofreading and turning it into
something that works like the Signpost - we'd appreciate hearing from
you at:
wminewsletter(a)gmail.com or Shiju Alex <shijualexonline(a)gmail.com>
At the moment, we're circulating the file in two pdf versions (one for
viewing, one for printing) and this is the link to the file on Commons:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_India_Community_Newsletter…
Shiju will shortly find a way to design it in html, making it easier for
everyone.
Cheers,
Achal
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Releasing first edition of Wikimedia India Community
Newsletter - 2010 September
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 17:56:06 +0530
From: Shiju Alex <shijualexonline(a)gmail.com>
To: Belayet Hossain <bellayet(a)gmail.com>, Ragib Hasan
<ragibhasan(a)gmail.com>, jayantanth(a)gmail.com, "Naveen (Naveenpf-wiki)
Francis" <naveenpf(a)gmail.com>, Srikanth Lakshmanan <srik.lak(a)gmail.com>,
tinucherian(a)gmail.com, mayur kumar <mayurdce(a)gmail.com>, Hari Prasad
Nadig <hpnadig(a)gmail.com>, Praveen Prakash <me.praveen(a)gmail.com>,
Raziman T V <razimantv(a)gmail.com>, Francis Simi Nazereth
<simynazareth(a)gmail.com>, makan so thachan <thachan.makan(a)gmail.com>,
Jacob Jose <jacob.jose(a)gmail.com>, Rajesh Varma <rajeshrv(a)hotmail.com>,
Mahitgar from Marathi Wikipedia <mahitgar(a)yahoo.co.in>, Abhay Natu
<anatu(a)yahoo.com>, Sankalp Dravid <sankalp.dravid(a)gmail.com>,
Mayooranathan Ratnavelupillai <rmayooranathan(a)gmail.com>, "C.R.
Selvakumar" <c.r.selvakumar(a)gmail.com>, Ravishankar
<ravidreams(a)googlemail.com>, balasundar(a)gmail.com, arjuna rao chavala
<arjunaraoc(a)googlemail.com>, Junaid P V <junu.pv(a)gmail.com>, Rajesh K
<rajeshodayanchal(a)gmail.com>
CC: Barry Newstead <bnewstead(a)wikimedia.org>, Achal Prabhala
<aprabhala(a)gmail.com>, Bishakha Datta <bishakhadatta(a)gmail.com>, Arun
Ram <arunram25(a)gmail.com>
Dear All,
Our hard work for the past 2 months to release the first version of
Wikimedia India newsletter is coming to an end today.
Please find attached the Print Quality PDF of the finalized version of
Wikimedia India Newsletter for your reference. We are officially
releasing the newsletter at 7:00 PM in the Bangalore Wikimeetup.
This newsletter is the result of the ideas, suggestions, and feedback
that you had been provided by you during the last 2 months. Finally
Indian wikipedia community has come together for a common purpose. This
is just a starting. We have a long way to go.
Each language community (8 communities as of now) has helped by
providing content about the respective language community. Some
communities could not join as their communities are not strong enough to
provide news to the newsletter. Hope they will join soon.
Let me introduce again the Indian Language Wikipedians involved in this
effort (All are included in this mail thread). Here are they:
Bengali:
* Belayet Hossain
* Jayantanth
* Ragib Hasan
*English*
* Naveen PF
* Srikanth Lakshmanan
* Tinu Cherian
*Hindi:*
* Mayur Kumar
*Kannada:*
* Hari Prasad Nadig
Malayalam:
* * Praveen P .
* * Raziman T.V .
* * Simy Nazareth
* * Shiju Alex
* * Junaid P.V .
* * Thachan makan
* * Jacob Jose
* * Rajesh V arma
*Marathi:*
* * Mahitgar
* * Abhay Natu
* * Sankalp Dravid
*Tamil:*
* * Mayoora Nathan
* * C.R. Selva Kumar
* * Ravi Dreams
* * Sundar
*Telugu:*
* * Arjuna Rao C .
* * Ravi Vyzasatya
* * Veeven
* * Sujatha Thummapud i
* * Bhaskara Rao Chimakurthy
* * Ravi Chandra Enagant
*Technical team*
* * Typesetting, template design, other tecnical support: Junaid
P.V.
* * Front and back cover page design: Rajesh Odayanchal
I know that not everybody knows each other. But you will be excited to
be introduced to wikimedians working for other language wiki communities
of India. Let this be a new begining. Sharing experience from different
language wiki communities will surely help us (it is already helping us)
to replicate the success stories and best practices in other wikis.
So we are done with the first release. So what next?
Eventhough we cannot think of a monthly newsletter now, we need to aim
atleast for a quaterly newsletter. Taking this point in into account, we
are proposing a list for regular content collation and newsletter
coordination. This list will contain the core editorial team and two
volunteers from each wikipedia. The volunteer nominations can be
suggested by the respective wikipedia community.
The role of the volunteers from the language wikipedias would be to
conduit for collating content on events, happenings and plans of those
respective wikipedias. The community could choose to rotate these
nomiees as they deem appropriate. Please send your queries regarding the
mailing list to Arun Ram (arunram25(a)gmail.com
<mailto:arunram25@gmail.com>).
Once again I would like to thank each one of you from various language
communities for providing the community news.( from various language
communities.)
Junaid P.V has done the type setting and the template design of this
newsletter. Without his support and hardwork this newsletter would not
have seen as it is today. Many days he was woking over night to fix
various issues. Once again I thank him for being kind with me while I
was sending repeated changes that I got from various language communities.
Rajesh Odayanchal has designed front and back cover pages.He specially
created an Indian language map for this newsletter. Thanks to him.
Arun Ram has done the peer review of most of the language community
news. Special Thanks to him.
Last but not the least, I specillay thank Achal Prabhala for the review,
timely advice, and support. His advice has helped us to move forward
when there were many roadblocks in between.
Thanks once again.
Thank you.
Shiju Alex
Hi all
The first Wikipedia Delhi Meet was organized yesterday, despite a constant
downpour and some Venue issues 14 Delhi-hites braved the monsoon to reach
the meetup. We had to shift the venue to another location across the
street because of some scheduling issues at the last minute. We
only received half the people we were expecting from the meetup page due to
the heaviest monsoon rains in Delhi in over a hundred years, that along with
traffic and water lodging because of the constant rains for over a month
were real obstacles.
The turn-up had a healthy mix of bloggers, Wikipedians, supporters and press
representatives. There were almost the same number of women present as men,
almost everyone was generally interested in Wikipedia.
We discussed Wikipedia policy and structures, some political issues and the
foundation's plan for India. There was a genuine interest in some supporters
in joining and contributing to the Wikimedia movement, someone suggested an
informal workshop to teach interested users on how to edit Wikipedia. Barry
fielded a barrage of questions from press members and other attendants
alike, there was curiosity on every level.
The first meet served as an introductory get-together, something we hope to
build on in future.
Also, pictures are already available on twitter through *#WPMDH1 *hashtag*.
*More would be uploaded on the commons in the coming days.
Regards
Salmaan
Dear All,
Wikimedians in Bangalore are meeting on 2010 September 24. Please sign on
the wiki page if you are based in Bangalore and planning to attend.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore19
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore19>Barry
Newstead, CDO WMF will be attending, apart from Bishakha Datta & Achal
Prabhala
Here are the date and venue details:
- *Date:* : Friday, *2010-September-24* 6:30 PM IST
- *Venue:*: CIS , Domlur Bangalore
Requesting all wikimedians from Bangalore to attend this meet..
Regards
Tinu Cherian
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Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 12:16:32 +0530
From: Srikanth Lakshmanan <srik.lak(a)gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Minutes of Pune Wikipedia Meetup 18th
Sept. 2010
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Hi,
That was great summary to read. On a lighter vein, it seems en.wiki needs
some "encouragement/focus" in Marathi land, i couldn't see it being
discussed at all, but for translation.
::May be I missed to mention it in this note , I told all the people present that english wikipedia is still not complete either and has a scope for further improvement.
::And my friend this note is not translation ,do not know how much it matches to standard english but this document is prepared in english only and is yet to be translated to Marathi language.
Reagrad
Mahitgar from Marathi Wikipedia
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Hi,
That was great summary to read. On a lighter vein, it seems en.wiki needs
some "encouragement/focus" in Marathi land, i couldn't see it being
discussed at all, but for translation.
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 12:01, Mahitgar from Marathi Wikipedia <
mahitgar(a)yahoo.co.in> wrote:
> Dear Wikimedians ,
>
> Thank you all for the overwhelming response to the 2010 Sept 18th Pune
> Wikimedia meetup. 17 people had attended this meet. Special thanks to HOD &
> staff of Women?s Studies Centre, University of Pune and visiting media and
> open source movement fraternity for their active participation and guidance.
>
> Mr Vijay Sirdeshpande (Mahitgar from Marathi wikipedia) and Ms Bishakha
> Datta (trustee, Wikimedia Foundation) jointly chaired the meet . Ms. Datta
> introduced herself . She talked about Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia
> Foundation?s plans in India, the Wikimedia India Chapter, and difficulties
> faced in completion of its registration process. She also talked about
> Bangalore wiki meet-ups. She stressed the need to conduct wikipedia
> academies and informed about the upcoming visits of Jimmy Wales to Mumbai at
> the end of October. Other Wikimedia Foundation staff visit India in
> December, includes Sue Gardner (executive director), Erik Moeller (deputy
> director) and Danese Cooper (chief technical officer).
>
> Then wikipedians introduced themselves. Mr. Amit Yadav raised the topics of
> need for and lack of adequate references on Marathi wikipedia, quality of
> content, and outreach. He was for most of the discussions to take place
> online rather than offline. He stressed the need for initiative and
> self-learning process for making contributions on part of wiki-admiring
> people.On quality of content front, the success of Malayalam wikipedia was
> discussed. Mr. Vijay explained the difference in the initial focus, and said
> that now the focus is on making Marathi wikipedia reader-oriented. Everyone
> agreed that for bringing better quality we need more active users. Mr.Vijay
> also informed that Marathi wikipedians can request for various features and
> get various features adopted in the user interface, including page rating
> etc. for improvement in quality.
>
> Mr.Amit Yadav suggested that Marathi Wikipedians wherever necessary can
> refer to English language wikipedia but need to do more original writing
> than merely translating from English wikipedia and Good number of attendees
> supported this idea. One atendee asked whether it is right to give
> references of Marathi language sources apart from the English language
> references.
>
> Mr. Amit was of the opinion that those people who use old technologies for
> writing can share their documentation online and rest of the people can
> support them in uni-coding the texts for wikiprojects, whereas opinion of Mr
> Ajay Garg was that we can support these people technologically and we need
> to do so. Mr.Sudhanwa Joglekar was of the opinion that it is important to
> involve senior citizens. Mr.Vijay informed that we do have already good
> support and contribution from working professional and senior citizens
> categories; but academic and student categories,women and economically
> weaker and rural sections are under-represented in contributing and
> interaction with wiki projects.
>
> On media support, Mr. Samrat Phadnis (esakal.com) and Mr. Nilesh Bane (
> indiatimes.com) assured support from their respective media houses. At the
> same time, Mr. Nilesh said that wikipedia in itself is the biggest medium.
> On this, Mr.Vijay stressed the need of diverting en wiki traffic using
> geo-location and asking for mother tongue while logging in and diverting
> users to their respective mother tongue wikipedias.Secondly Mr. Vijay also
> requested for a call center facility if possible from the foundation side
> (to help contributors all over India instantly).Meeting also discussed
> importance of inter-wikilinks in spreading awareness among English language
> Wikipedia?s Indian visitors aware of Marathi language Wikipedia.
>
> Mr.Sudhanwa and Vijay highlighted that Pune would be a good location for
> the Foundation?s proposed India office, since it is a major educational hub.
>
> Mr.Nilesh Bane took up the subject of Marathi language used on Marathi
> wikipedia - he felt it should avoid usage of new difficult Marathi words,
> and highlighted the importance of usability and simplicity in the user
> interface. Mr.Sachin Venga seconded Mr.Nilesh on his points.While agreeing
> with his points Mr.Samrat Phadnis (from esakal.com) suggested giving
> preference to the language used by people from rural and small cities, since
> readers across Maharashtra constitute the major share of Marathi wikipedia?s
> target audience. Mr.Sudhanwa Joglekar briefed on the process of language
> terminology standardisation through FUEL (Frequently Used Entities in
> Localisation) sessions. In this context, the views of Mr.Mahesh Kulkarni of
> CDAC and Rachna Pradhan of Bhasha Sanchalanalay were brought to notice and
> the need for previous(Swa.Savarkar time) debates related to Bhasha
> Shuddhikaran Movement and Balbharti's Dictionary becoming available online
> were also discussed.
>
> Mr.Nilesh Bane expressed his dismay over delay in (Govt.) Marathi
> Wishvakosh becoming available online.
>
> Mr.Ajay Garg promised to support wikipedians on technical and software
> special font conversion issues while Prof.Subhash Pawar was enthusiastic in
> supporting usage of Marathi on computers. It was agreed that there is a need
> to separate co-ordination by interested wikipedians team with promoting
> volunteers and technical support on font usage.
>
> Mr.Kaustubh Samudra informed the meeting that media wiki software is
> translated to Marathi and where people deem it fit to change the usage and
> correction of Marathi, the correction process is very simple and interested
> people can help themselves. Besides wikipedia, this software as content
> management system can be used by the Marathi web developer fraternity since
> localisation of the Media Wiki software is almost complete.
>
> Prof. Shriniwas Hemade shared his experience and the need for public
> awareness for utility of encyclopedias. He was enthusiastic in sharing his
> own write-ups with wiki projects and requested for technical support on font
> conversion front. He said the best benefit of the meeting is to bring
> together people in need of technical support like Prof Shriniwas and
> software experts like Mr. Ajay Garg.
>
> On the subject of increasing contributors and contributions, Mr. Amit was
> of the opinion that involving post-graduate (PG) level students will ensure
> better quality and reliability of content. Mr. Vijay was of the opinion that
> wiki volunteers need to reach 10th standard onward students, journalism,
> law, Marathi language, Engineering, Computer hardware and software, and
> botany-related students on priority by way of wikimedia academies and
> PowerPoint presentations. Mr.Amit promised to take active part in updating
> PPTs while Mr.Ajay Garg promised to share his expertise in making
> presentations easily available. Mr.Sudhanwa Joglekar brought to notice the
> difficulty in approach the student community, asking what would motivate
> students? Mr. Amit said that a percentage of students would get awareness
> and factual benefits to themselves by using the same. Mr.Samrat Phadnis
> assured support with eSakal. Prof Shriniwas also assured support in writing
> article for Marathi media .
>
> Ms. Bishakha Datta requested support to the Women?s Studies department,
> University of Pune - they are very interested in contributing to Marathi
> wikipedia, but need handholding and technical help. Mr. Amit assured his
> support on this account.
>
> Mr.Omkar Khair, Mr.Gawande, and Mr.Paresh Mhetre expressed their support to
> Marathi wikipedia.
>
> On the subject of outreach to the people volunteering for presentations at
> colleges, Prof.Shriniwas Hemade was of the opinion that future meetings
> should preferably have a pre-decided agenda. Mr. Amit Yadav was of the
> opinion that future meetings, if any, should have three distinct teams: one
> for usage on Marathi plus basic training on wiki usage.Mr.Vijay suggested
> Marathi Usage on comp promotion and new user wiki-edit help, Content and
> outreach group, Techsavy and higher experience level user guidance group,
> And language wise group of people for non Marathi if more than 5
>
> Thanks to Ms.Bishakha Datta for supporting in updating this
> writeup. Looking forward to feed back and openions about points raised
> during this meeting.
>
>
> Thanks and Regards
> -Mahitgar from Marathi Wikipedia
>
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Hi everyone
This is to remind everyone of the Delhi meetup tomorrow. It is scheduled for
6 PM at the Cha Bar, Oxford Bookstore, Statesman House, Connaught place.
There is more information available at the meetup page on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Delhi/Delhi1
The venue is accessible by Metro or other Public Transport, Parking might
be available on the outer circle but in case it is not, please check the
NDMC lot next to Palika Bazar.
There is no set agenda, we just want to meet everyone and hear their
thoughts. Looking forward to seeing local Wikimedians there.
Regards
Salmaan Haroon