Hi All,
This is Srikant from Odia (Oriya) Wikipedia.
It is my pleasure to inform you all about the 3rd Odia (Oriya) Wikipedia
Academy/Workshop <http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:MCTC1> is going to be
organized in Cuttack on 2011, April 17 at 10 AM, Image Institute of
Technology & Management. This is the first of its kind of workshop in
Cuttack city.
Main Agenda:
Session1:
- Introduction about Wikipedia and Wikipedia Odia
- Recent developments and new features added in Wikipedia
- Why Wikipedia Odia?
- Future deveopment and possible opportunities with Wikipedia
Session2:
- Discussion of common problems raised (And by audience)
- Display and typing issues and solution
- Building community
- Translation issues & possible measures to solve them
- Incubation of new projects for students in Odia Wikipedia
- Future Projects for Odia Wikipedia
Anyone from any other language Wikipedias are most welcome to this event to
share their thoughts and ideas for the development of Odia Wikipedia. This
is an open event and free for all. Anyone who has some ideas to share can
also share them here or here <http://defn.me/r/or/5fz>.
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Thanks & Regards,
Srikant Kedia (User:Odisha1)
Odia (Oriya) Wikipedia Community
Mail ID - odiawiki(a)gmail.com
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FYI
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Fuad Jaleel <fuadjaleel(a)gmail.com>
Date: 2011/4/15
Subject: [വിക്കി കാര്യനിര്വാഹകസംഘം] IEI Kerala State Centre - Wednesday
Technical Talk 20 April 2011 - 5:45 PM
To: mlwikiadmin(a)googlegroups.com
From: <ietvm(a)dataone.in>
Date: 15 April 2011 11:26
Subject: IEI Kerala State Centre - Wednesday Technical Talk 20 April 2011 -
5:45 PM
To: fuadjaleel(a)gmail.com
Cc: kirangopi84(a)gmail.com
The Institution of Engineers (India)
Kerala State Centre Cordially invites you to attend the technical talk on
Malayalam Wikipedia Awareness
by
Dr. Fuad Jaleel
Wiki Volunteer Editor
&
Mr.Kiran Gopi
Wiki Volunteer Editor
* * on
Wednesday, 20 April 2011 at 5:45 PM
at
Institution of Engineers Hall
Visvesvaraya Bhavan
Opposite to Kanakakunnu Palace
Trivandrum - 695 033
*
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*Open to public. All are welcome.*
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web: www.ietvm.org e-mail: ieitvm(a)gmail.com ietvm(a)dataone.in
Tel: 0471-2322991 Fax: 0471-2327501
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*JOINTLY ORGANISED BY:*
1. *IEEE *Kerala Section
2. *Computer Society of India*, Trivandrum Chapter
3. *Aeronautical Society of India*, Trivandrum Branch
4. *Systems Society of India*, Thiruvananthapuram Chapter
5. *IETE* Thiruvananthapuram Local Centre
6. *Project Management Institute* – Trivandrum - Kerala Chapter
7. *Indian National Society for Aerospace and Related Mechanisms*,
Thiruvananthapuram Chapter
8. *Indian Society for Technical Education* - Kerala Section
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Yours cordially
Dr.Fuad Jaleel
*The Hindu : "Wikimedia Commons set to reach a milestone"*
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/article169574…
*Wikimedia Commons (http://commons.wikimedia.org) may not be as well-known
as Wikipedia. But the multilingual free-content media repository is poised
to reach a milestone in which Indian contributors have played a role.*
*
*
*At present, Wikimedia Commons, a source of freely usable media files to
which anyone can contribute, has a database of 99,84,064 files. It is
expected to reach the mega milestone of 10 million uploaded files any time
this month. The five millionth file was uploaded on September 9, 2009. So,
the project has doubled in size in the past 17 months and is still growing,
says Wikimedia Foundation.*
*
*
*Media files on Wikimedia Commons are viewed by over 400 million visitors
every month, via more than 250 language Wikipedias that use photos from the
Commons, it says.*
*
*
*The content on Wikimedia Commons is a resource used by bloggers,
individuals and organisations that want to illustrate content with free
media.*
*
*
*In five years, Wikimedia Commons may become the largest repository of free
media in the world, says the Foundation. It is difficult to point to a
number of contributors to the Commons as anybody can contribute photos
besides which, they can use pseudonyms too.*
*
*
*The contributors include Indians as well.*
*
*
*Srikanth Ramakrishnan, a class 12 student of Vijaya College, Bangalore, has
contributed 50 photos of transport and infrastructure of different cities,
particularly Bangalore, to the Commons. “Several of my classmates look up
the Commons to take photos for using as wallpapers on their computers and
mobile phones,” he said. About tracking how many times the photos he
uploaded to the Commons were used and by whom, he said that Wikipedians
acknowledged the use but not others.*
*
*
*Sreejith K, a software engineer in Bangalore, has contributed at least 100
photographs of places, people, and government offices. However, he feels
that not all contributors send good quality photos.*
*
*
*“If someone can get photos with commercial value, why should they give it
to the Commons?” he said.*
*
*
*Over the last one-and-a-half years, Rajesh Odayanchal, a software engineer
in Bangalore and Wikipedian, has added to the Commons 50 photographs of
historical places, simply for the “satisfaction”, he gets. He said: “I don't
want any credit. Anyone can use them.”*
*
*
*Sreejith said that 1,500 photographs were uploaded during an ongoing online
“Malayalam loves Wikimedia” initiative (April 2 to 17).*
Regards
Tinu Cherian
http://wikimedia.in/wiki/In_the_news#April_2011
*The Hindu : "Now, copyright-free maps of States, districts, panchayats"*
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/article1697940.ece
*As “Malayalam Loves Wikipedia” campaign gets good response..*
*
*
*Even as the “Malayalam Loves Wikipedia” campaign, launched to expand the
knowledge repositories of Malayalam Wikipedia with copyright-free
Malayalam-related photographs, continues to evoke overwhelming response from
Wiki users and contributors, a project meant to make available online
free-to-use national map and maps of States, districts and panchayats is
making silent, but significant strides.*
*
*
*The ambitious project was taken up by Bangalore-based software engineer and
Wiki contributor Rajesh Odayanchal. Other contributors, Ajay Kuyiloor,
Naveen and Jason Nedumbala, joined him in the venture. The team crossed a
milestone when a copyleft [free of copyright] map of India — to be further
fine-tuned — and maps of the districts of Kerala and some States were
readied.*
*
*
*“Our aim is to prepare maps of all Indian States up to ward-level, which is
a humungous task. But we are confident that we will be able to execute
district-wise, panchayat-level and ward-level maps of Kerala. Regarding
other States, we may not be able to source data to do that kind of
micro-level cartography, so we will most likely restrict ourselves to
district-level mapmaking for the time being,” Mr. Odayanchal said.*
*
*
*The project, carried out using vector graphics software Inkscape, carries a
GNU General Public Licence that renders it copyleft. Separate maps are made
in Malayalam and English. The modalities of execution have been well-laid
out in order to standardise the maps and make categorisation easy.*
*
*
*“Given the magnitude of the project, we would like to have more persons
conversant with Inkscape,” Mr. Odayanchal said.*
*
*
*To this end, a Google group has been formed, whichcan be contacted at
mlwiki-maps(a)googlegroups.com.*
*
*
*Separately, the Malayalam Wiki is also set to add to its database a
copyleft version of Kottarathil Sankunni's Aithihyamala (Garland of Legends)
under a project initiated by Santhosh Thottingal, a member of Wikimedia
Foundation's language committee.*
*
*
*The “Malayalam Loves Wikimedia' project, launched on April 2, received over
1,200 pictures as on Wednesday. It also found a mention in the international
Wikimedia signpost.*
Regards
Tinu Cherian
Hi
Frank, Annie & Jessie have started a page to get inputs to select which specific colleges/universities to approach for the Pune pilot:- http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Selection_of_schools_for_the_Pune_pilot
Could you help out and provide your inputs / comments? Please feel free to edit the page and not restrict yourself to the Talk page.
Many thanks.
Hisham Mundol
Wikimedia Foundation India Programs
skype: hisham.wikimedia
gtalk: hmundol(a)wikimedia.org
twitter: @mundol
Thank you all for the positive responses. Will get back with something more concrete shortly.
Regards,
User:AroundTheGlobe
> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 21:46:34 +0530
> From: Gautam John <gautam(a)prathambooks.org>
> Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiConference
> To: Wikimedia India Community list
> <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Message-ID: <BANLkTi=01aBSXbYgR8vKjc++PGvR-gK4Rg(a)mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>
> +1 and hope it happens.
>
> A couple of questions:
>
> 1. If something like this did happen in India, what kind of format
> would you think works?
> 2. What kind of event would work?
> 3. What kind of outcomes would we expect?
>
> Would be great to hear from you!
>
> Thank you.
>
> Best,
>
> Gautam
> ________
> http://social.prathambooks.org/
>
>
>
>
> On 13 April 2011 18:32, Bishakha Datta <bishakhadatta(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > Love the idea and hope it happens,
> > Bishakha
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 3:10 PM, <wheredevelsdare(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I think it might be a good time to start an annual WikiConference in India
> >> on the lines of what Wikimedia UK has
> >> (http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_UK_2011).? We are starting
> >> afresh, talks on a setup are still progressing and the future beholds. It
> >> will be a wonderful opportunity for all of us to put a face to names as well
> >> as to interact with each other and pave the way forward for Wikimedia in
> >> India. Any thoughts?
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> User:AroundTheGlobe
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list
> >> Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
> >>
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list
> > Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
> >
> >
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 10:00:31 -0700
> From: Barry Newstead <bnewstead(a)wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiConference
> To: wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> Message-ID: <4DA7282F.6040808(a)wikimedia.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>
> another +1.
>
> I would love to see a national conference happen later this year...and
> would be happy to provide support (and attend, of course!).
>
> Best,
> Barry
>
> On 04/14/2011 09:16 AM, Gautam John wrote:
> > +1 and hope it happens.
> >
> > A couple of questions:
> >
> > 1. If something like this did happen in India, what kind of format
> > would you think works?
> > 2. What kind of event would work?
> > 3. What kind of outcomes would we expect?
> >
> > Would be great to hear from you!
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Gautam
> > ________
> > http://social.prathambooks.org/
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 13 April 2011 18:32, Bishakha Datta<bishakhadatta(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Love the idea and hope it happens,
> >> Bishakha
> >>
> >> On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 3:10 PM,<wheredevelsdare(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> I think it might be a good time to start an annual WikiConference in India
> >>> on the lines of what Wikimedia UK has
> >>> (http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_UK_2011). We are starting
> >>> afresh, talks on a setup are still progressing and the future beholds. It
> >>> will be a wonderful opportunity for all of us to put a face to names as well
> >>> as to interact with each other and pave the way forward for Wikimedia in
> >>> India. Any thoughts?
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>> User:AroundTheGlobe
> >>>
> >>> _______________________________________________
> >>> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list
> >>> Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
> >>>
> >>
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Regards
Tinu Cherian
Hello friends,
Article selection for Wikipedia for Schools (Offline Ed) - Indian
version has begun. I have started selecting articles. I chose
Geography as a relatively uncontroversial topic to begin with. The
first items added were the states & union territories -
uncontroversial, just added them all. The next I have selected are
Indian cities.
[[User:AshLin/Work_list]]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:AshLin/Work_list
Any that you feel should be removed/added? Your thoughts on this issue?
Warm regards,
[[User:AshLin|AshLin]] ([[User talk:AshLin|talk]]) 18:38, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi,
I think it might be a good time to start an annual WikiConference in India on the lines of what Wikimedia UK has (http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_UK_2011). We are starting afresh, talks on a setup are still progressing and the future beholds. It will be a wonderful opportunity for all of us to put a face to names as well as to interact with each other and pave the way forward for Wikimedia in India. Any thoughts?
Regards,
User:AroundTheGlobe