Hello all,
We are very pleased to announce the successful registration of the
Wikimedia Chapter vide Registrar of Societies, Bangalore Urban District
Certificate No: SOR/BLU/DR/1137/10-11 dt 03 Jan 2011.
We have become a formal entity due to the untiring efforts of Wikipedians
(in alphabetical order) Anirudh Bhati, Arjuna Rao Chavala, Arun Ramarathnam,
Balasundararaman, Gautam John, Hari Prasad Nadig, Srinivas Gunta for over
two long years with support from Achal Prabhala, Wikimedia Foundation
Advisory Board member, Bishakha Datta, Wikimedia Foundation Trustee and
Barry Newstead, Chief Global Development Officer, Wikimedia Foundation.
We would like to place on record the support by Centre for Internet and
Society, Bangalore, specially its director, Sunil Abraham for extending
their office support for chapter and community meetings and registration
support by its auditor Mr MN Rao. The efforts of Gautam John and Arun
Ramarathnam in working with registration authorities are appreciated.
We are delighted with this development, as Wikimedians all over world are
celebrating Wikipedia's Tenth anniversary this week. We have over 60 events
happening in India(http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:India). At this
juncture, we would like to commit ourselves to taking Wikimedia Movement to
greater heights by engaging with Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimedian community
in India and all Indians by working with special focus on all Indian
languages including English.
With your active participation and support, Chapter can play a key role in
enabling access to free knowledge to everyone. In the next few weeks, you
will hear more actively from the Chapter on various initiatives. In the
mean time, for any questions, please send a mail to executive committee
mailing list wikimedia-in-exec(a)wikimedia.in
Please do check Wikimedia India website
http://wikimedia.in<http://www.wikim>for further updates.
Cheers
On behalf of
Wikimedia India Executive Committee,
Arjuna Rao Chavala
PS: Please help reduce the noise on the mailing list to the minimum by not
sending your appreciation remarks to the entire list and placing the same
on wikimedia.in announcement discussion page
http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Chapter_Registration_accomplished
Hi Ashwin,
I should have clarified in the comments at Picasa. The credit must goto from
Tony / Swapnil. I just put it on my album to share the images i got on
email.
Regards
Srikanth.L
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 16:30, Ashwin Baindur <ashwin.baindur(a)gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi Srikanth,
>
> Just thought you'd like to see this? Hows that for a Creative Commons use.
> We told everybody its your design and we ate a slice in your honour too.
> Come to Pune and we'll get you more cake. :-)
>
> For the rest of us, our Pune cake was based on Srikanth's design from here
> :
>
>
> http://picasaweb.google.com/srik.lak/WikipediaXLogosAndBanners?authkey=Gv1s…
>
> Warm regards,
>
> Ashwin Baindur
> ------------------------------------------------------
>
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From: Nikhil Sheth <nikhil.js(a)gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 7:21 AM
Subject: 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
+91-966-583-1250
Teach For India Fellow 2011-13
Pune, India
www.nikhilsheth.tk
Find me on: Twitter <http://twitter.com/nikhiljs> |
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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
+91-966-583-1250
Pune, India
www.nikhilsheth.tk
Find me on: Twitter <http://twitter.com/nikhiljs> |
Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/nikjs>|
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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
>
>
>
> --
> http://bloggasm.com
> http://twitter.com/simonowens
>
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Gautam John <gkjohn(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Arun Ramarathnam <arunram25(a)gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Any videos anyone?
> > Did anyone record parts of the keynote, panel and Jimmy's talk?
>
> Royson has video. Will collect it from him once it is ready.
>
>
There were others who shot video snippets on their cameras besides Royson.
It would be great if people can upload these to commons.
regards
Arun
There are a few Indian languages on the "missing" list here (only
Bengali and Malayalam are on the done list). I'm sure Guillaume would
welcome your help in the missing languages and any other languages
that you guys know. :-)
Casey
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From: Guillaume Paumier <gpaumier(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 8:00 AM
Subject: [Translators-l] Status of the Licensing tutorial translation
To: "translators-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org" <translators-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Dear all,
First of all, I wanted to thank you for all your work and help for the
translation of the Licensing tutorial. It is now available in 24
languages! See the fully localized graphics on Commons:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimedia_Commons_licensing_tuto…
Translations and localization in the following languages have been
completed thanks to you:
العربية | Български | বাংলা | Català | Česky | Dansk | Deutsch |
Ελληνικά | English | Español | Suomi | Français | עברית | Italiano | 日
本語 | 한국어 | Македонски | മലയാളം | Norsk (bokmål) | Polski |
Português | Română | Русский | Tiếng Việt | Svenska | 中文(简体)
Translations in the following languages need to be checked by another
translator before they're included into the graphics:
Brezhoneg (Breton) | Lietuvių (Lithuanian) | Nederlands (Dutch)
Translations in the following languages are still missing:
हिन्दी (Hindi) | Interlingua | /ქართული (Georgian) | 한국어 (Korean) |
Lëtzebuergesch (Luxembourgish) | /मराठी (Marathi) | සිංහල (Sinhalese)
| Kiswahili (Swahili) | தமிழ் (Tamil) | తెలుగు (Telugu) | 中文(繁體)
(Traditional Chinese)
To help translate or proofread a translation, please refer to the hub
page for the translation of the licensing tutorial:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Licensing_tutorial
If your language was not listed in this email, it means your language
was not in the "priority languages" (i.e. the biggest communities, and
those who have disabled uploads to their local wikis). Nonetheless, we'd
be really glad to produce a localized tutorial if you translate the text
into your language. The more translations, the better!
As always, I'm available to answer questions on or off list, should you
have any.
Many thanks,
--
Guillaume Paumier
Product manager - Wikimedia Foundation
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See below for reply: In line
............
Thanks Nadig, Gautam, Srikeit, Tinu, Mahesh, all...I will shortly set up
a public discussion around the scope of the project and am interested in
hearing from you.
No specific languages set HPN, I've had initial discussions with a
number of people including Shiju, Sundar and Mohau (a Wikipedian from
South Africa) and I'm hoping to figure out exactly how to proceed after
a more thorough set of discussions with anyone interested in the
subject. I think we can increase the number of languages slightly, but
the point overall is to set feasible targets within a limited time-frame
and assemble compelling evidence and action. In that sense, it matters
less as to which language is used in the process than whether the
results overall are useful to Wikipedians in India and South Africa at
large.
In general, the idea is to focus on instances of a citation gap: either
an already created article whose basis has been established but for
which there are no citations available, or a situation where citations
cover a topic only partially, or an article that should be created but
can't be because of a lack of supporting scholarly evidence.
Until I set up a more formal space for discussion, maybe we can begin
discussion here. Have you ever faced a situation as described?
Good wishes,
Achal
..................
Dear Mr.Achal and all
Compliments to Mr.Achal for much needed study fellowship.
I am not sure whether your study will include following points , but this is
just an attempt to begin a discussion
1) For most people, certain areas and certain phase of life they come across
certain valuable written info but afterward one tend to remember info to some
extant and try to include the info on a wiki but does not remember exact name of
the books etc On Marathi Language wikipedia I get some flexibility to write
since many of the fellow Marathi people are aware of same fact so they do not
insist on citation immediately but that does not mean that citation is not
needed. But in the same case if I try to include the same info on en wiki might
get rejected because they may insist for the citation
2) Another problem is in India we did not have good enough of tradition to note
down things which can be used for reference , about previous generation Indian
people had big enough tradition to shy away from any sort of publicity , such
cases may be eve about many prominent people so people are aware of the facts
but written material is hard to find
3) Problems are coming from information coming from rural areas information may
be genuine but hard to find reference to support the same.
4) Info coming from rural area problem becomes more acute with personalities and
rural institutions and NGOs working in rural areas , for want of proper
documentation and what to accept on encyclopedia and what not to accept becomes
really challenging.
I am keenly interested in knowing how other indic language wikipedias are
handling such info being uploaded
Regards
Mahitgar
On Monday 17 January 2011 10:40 AM, Hari Prasad Nadig wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Bishakha Datta
> <bishakhadatta(a)gmail.com <mailto:bishakhadatta@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> As part of the continuing spate of good news, I'd like to
> congratulate Achal Prabhala for becoming the latest Wikimedia
> Foundation Fellow.
>
> For those of you who don't know him, Achal is a writer and
> researcher in Bangalore who has participated as a volunteer in the
> Wikimedia movement in India and globally for years, and as a
> member of the Foundation?s advisory board.
>
> Achal will be conducting field research in India and rural South
> Africa with Wikipedians and non-Wikipedians across three languages
> to explore ways to compensate for the gap in published/printed
> sources in many local languages.
>
> More details at
> http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2011/01/12/new-wikimedia-fellow/
>
>
> Congratulations, Achal. This is good news indeed.
>
> Curious though to know about the languages you have picked for this
> research! :-)
> --
> Hari Prasad Nadig
> http://hpnadig.net | http://twitter.com/hpnadig
> http://flickr.com/hpnadig
>
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Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 21:45:15 -0800 (PST)
From: BalaSundaraRaman <sundarbecse(a)yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] A Wikimedia Foundation Fellow from
India
To: "Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia."
<wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc: Achal Prabhala <aprabhala(a)gmail.com>
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Congrats, Achal. Your area of research is very interesting and has a huge
potential fallout.
- Sundar
"That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for
the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted."
- George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture
>
>From: Bishakha Datta <bishakhadatta(a)gmail.com>
>To: India List Wikimedia <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
>Cc: Achal Prabhala <aprabhala(a)gmail.com>
>Sent: Mon, January 17, 2011 10:32:07 AM
>Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] A Wikimedia Foundation Fellow from India
>
>Dear all,
>
>As part of the continuing spate of good news, I'd like to congratulate Achal
>Prabhala for becoming the latest Wikimedia Foundation Fellow.
>
>For those of you who don't know him, Achal is a writer and researcher in
>Bangalore who has participated as a volunteer in the Wikimedia movement in
>India and globally for years, and as a member of the Foundation?s advisory
>board.
>
>Achal will be conducting field research in India and rural South Africa with
>Wikipedians and non-Wikipedians across three languages to explore ways to
>compensate for the gap in published/printed sources in many local languages.
>More details at http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2011/01/12/new-wikimedia-fellow/
>
>Cheers
>Bishakha
>