Dear Wikimedians,
Today we have released first version of FAQ
for Hindi Wikipedia
<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hindi_Wiki_Projects_FAQ_Version_1.0.…>.With
a nice effort of malayalam wiki community they translated their FAQ from
malayalam to english.That translation helped us a lot for preparing FAQ for
Hindi Wikipedia.Special thanks to Shiju Alex and Junad pv who gave this FAQ
its Final pdf form.
Thank you and Regards
Mayur
I am happy to share a tiny web application to help people get started with
using Indian languages on Computers in public places, using wiki sites.
Check it out
http://gyanpad.appspot.com/
Cheers
Arjun
Hi Folks,
I'm really pleased to send out this email welcoming the first 2 new members of the India Programs team. Just before I introduce them, I thought I'd share with you the background of their selection.
Context
As you might be aware, the Foundation had decided to undertake a catalyst operation in India to promote the growth of the community and projects here. The team is expected to be a small, nimble 5 person group. We had put out 2 job postings - for Indic Initiatives and for Participation. (Please refer: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-May/003007.html) We posted them on linkedin and on the Indian FOSS community list as well as announcing them on various Facebook pages and Twitter feeds.
The response was wonderful. >110 applications for Indic Initiatives and nearly 175 applications for Participation. These were short-listed to 10 (3 for Indic Language and 7 for Participation.) These were a mix of existing & previous Wikipedians, Wikipedia newbies and open source advocates.
In June, the shortlisted 10 were interviewed and further down-selected to 4. These 4 were then further interviewed by a group of other staff members from the Foundation. I am pleased to inform the community of the final selected 2.
Shiju Alex - Indic Initiatives
Most of you already know Shiju. For those who don't, Shiju is a long-time Wikipedian [User: shijualex] and is active on Malayalam Wikipedia, English wikiprojects and Wikimedia Commons, as well as Wikisource and offline. He has been passionately involved with the establishing and building of Indic language Wikipedias. He's participated in a series of outreach activities and is also (jointly) undertaking a grant from the Foundation for outreach across India. He's a regular member of the Bangalore community.
Shiju is from Palakkad, Kerala and is married with a 2 year old baby. He currently works as a Senior Technical Writer with ABB in Bangalore.
Even those of you who know him might not know the following 2 things that I was lucky to discover during the selection process. Shiju is an MSc in Physics with a specialisation in Astronomy and Astrophysics - and he retains a deep interest in anything astronomical. Feel free to quiz him vigorously on this! He also enjoys trekking and misses his time in Pune where he could be up & close the gorgeous Sahyadri Hills.
Shiju is going to lead our work on promoting Indic language projects across India. The challenges are enormous - from technical constraints to low levels of awareness of these projects to vibrant but nascent communities. However, these only point to the massive size of the opportunity for Indic language projects - which is the joint top-2 strategic priority of the movement in India. After he joins, he'll collaboratively put together a plan for Indic language projects and work towards quality execution of high-impact initiatives.
Shiju is currently serving out his notice period so will be able to join us only around September - October.
Nitika Tandon - Participation
Nitika [User:nitika.t] is relatively newer to the community - and has been brushing up her editing. She's been immersing herself in the Wikimedia world and attended community meet-ups as well as reviews of the Wikipedia India Education Program. She is from Delhi - and is currently based in Mumbai - where she works as a Strategic Partnerships Manager with Directi. (If you're not aware, they are one of the most prominent internet domain & solutions providers in India.)
Nitika has an MBA and has also worked on research analytics. A fascinating detail I discovered about a previous assignment of hers - and you must ask her about it - is how African drums can be used for management coaching! She also reliably informs me that there are 7 Spanish dance forms and she instructs in all of them!
Nitika is going to be working on Participation - which is primarily focussed on increasing the contributor base of non-Indic language projects, primarily Wikipedia. One of her first tasks will be to expand the Wikipedia India Education Program from the Pune pilot to a more national footprint. She'll also work on other initiatives to promote participation - and I can foresee Wikimedia Commons being a potential initiative.
Nitika will join us on August 1st.
Introductions
I'm going to be scheduling the August Monthly India Programs IRC on Thursday August 18th to introduce them both to you. Please do join us. I'll send a reminder closer to the date. Also, needless to say, they'll be attending a series of community meet-ups over the next months.
In the meantime, please do join me in welcoming them onboard. I'm really excited because this means that we will now have the capacity and capability to dramatically accelerate our activities in India.
Warmest Regards,
Hisham Mundol
Wikimedia India Programs
skype : hisham.wikimedia
gtalk : hmundol(a)wikimedia.org
twitter : @mundol
Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!
After logging-in, it would be good to have a bookmarking facility in
wikipedia.
(watch list is not meant for this purpose ...)
--
Thanks & Regards,
A.Radha Krishna
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Arkrishna
hi,
This is to let everyone know that I have submitted a proposal to the
Wikimedia Foundation for a GLAM India Co-ordinator fellowship. You can find
the same here -
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Fellowships/Proposals/GLAM_India
A need for such a position was felt during Liam's visit to India. Entry into
cultural organisations by volunteers of any organisation is difficult here
unlike many countries. Hence, we felt that having a dedicated person for
this effort might help matters along.
warm regards,
Pradeep
--
Pradeep Mohandas
How Pradeep uses email - http://goo.gl/6v1I9
The primary reason is that there is a huge newbie attraction and India
mailing list sign up due to Wikimedia conference banner. When somebody signs
up, they are given an option to have digest mails instead of regular mail on
new message type.
It is generally recommended to change the subject line and
remove unnecessary portions of the original mail while replying to the
digest mails.
While replying to a digest mail, it even does informs the sender like
"When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific
than "Re: Contents of Wikimediaindia-l digest..." "
The new comers ( mostly college/school going students) are not used to or
aware of such mailing list rules.
Should we automatically send a introductory mail on list rules and
guidelines when somebody signs up ?
Regards
Tinu Cherian
On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Vickram Crishna
<vvcrishna(a)radiophony.com>wrote:
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> On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 1:19 PM, anuj doshi <anujndoshi(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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>> hey are we goin to have a age criteria box for the conference?
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>
> While one appreciates that it needs some fiddling with settings to prevent
> otherwise avoidable top-posting from some mobile devices, sending queries
> like this, without even editing the subject line, is simply unfair to other
> listmembers. Looking over the list of previous mails in the digest below, I
> can't see what triggered it - it doesn't even vaguely link to them.
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>
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>>
>> On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 7:33 PM, <
>> wikimediaindia-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:
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The Indian Contingent for Wikimania 2011 at Haifa, Israel leaves this week.
Wishing all those attending have a great trip (when you come back we expect feedback that will be useful for WCI :) ).
hey guys how do i can work on it?
and how far it takes to completely indulge in?
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 20:18:34 +0530
> From: Hisham Mundol <hmundol(a)wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Welcome to the India Team! : Shiju &
> Nitika
> To: Wikimedia India Community list
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> Subha
>
> Your wonderful and warm story & comments are what make me so excited to
> have Shiju on board!
>
> Warmest Regards,
>
> Hisham Mundol
>
> Wikimedia India Programs
> skype : hisham.wikimedia
> gtalk : hmundol(a)wikimedia.org
> twitter : @mundol
>
> Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the
> sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!
>
> On Jul 29, 2011, at 5:22 PM, Subhashish Panigrahi wrote:
>
> > Wow!
> >
> > I am so happy to see Shiju. Heartiest congratulations to both Shiju and
> Nikita.
> >
> > Shiju is the guy who initially invited me to his house to teach the
> basics in the month of February when I first joined Wikipedia as an Editor
> and kind of pushed me into organizing the first Workshop for Odia Wikipedia
> in Bangalore and 2nd in Bhubaneswar and handled almost everything. I am so
> overwhelmed to see him on-board. Name any Indic Wiki initiative and you'll
> find Shiju being the first guy to take initiative. A long time Malayalam
> Wikipedian, and being part of the outreach programs in Indic initiative,
> Wikipedia India could never have the great opportunity to get someone work
> for the foundation as a staff.
> >
> > Just came to know about Nikita from Hisham's mail, will look forward to
> meeting the new staff members in any Bangalore meetups.
> >
> > @Tinu, I would like to suggest we can have a small talk from Shiju in the
> coming meetup.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Subha
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hey are we goin to have a age criteria box for the conference?
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> Today's Topics:
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> 1. Oral citations project update: more articles + full English
> subtitle track (Achal Prabhala)
> 2. Re: Welcome to the India Team! : Shiju & Nitika (Erik Moeller)
> 3. Re: Welcome to the India Team! : Shiju & Nitika
> (Arjuna Rao Chavala)
> 4. Re: Welcome to the India Team! : Shiju & Nitika (Bishakha Datta)
> 5. Re: Welcome to the India Team! : Shiju & Nitika (Arun Ramarathnam)
> 6. Re: Welcome to the India Team! : Shiju & Nitika (Hisham Mundol)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 03:08:05 +0530
> From: Achal Prabhala <aprabhala(a)gmail.com>
> Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Oral citations project update: more
> articles + full English subtitle track
> To: "Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia."
> <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
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> *apologies for cross-posting*
>
> Dear friends,
>
> A quick update on the oral citations project.
>
> 1) We have now posted sample articles in all 3 project languages,
> Malayalam, Sepedi and Hindi:
>
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Oral_Citations#Articles.2F_Discussi…
>
> 2) A full English subtitle track for the film is now available on
> Wikimedia Commons (the previous one only covered non-English speech):
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/TimedText:People-are-Knowledge.ogv.en.srt
>
> ---
>
> There are a couple of things yet to come, some of which are
> intrinsically linked to the suggestions and comments coming in from the
> discussion on the previous thread. These are:
>
> a) A few more articles in development, which will be posted when done
>
> b) Transcripts of the audio interviews in Hindi, Sepedi and Malayalam,
> each accompanied by an English transcript (in development)
>
> c) An FAQ, where we can begin thinking collaboratively about ways in
> which an exercise like this could work/be made to work under existing
> policies within the Wikimedia movement, and Wikipedia specifically; as
> well as ways in which this project could be extended to think about
> sources and citations generally.
>
> ---
>
> Lastly, if you haven't had a chance to see the work of the project, you
> can do that here:
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Oral_Citations
>
> ...and if you would like to watch the film made during the course of the
> project, please check it out:
> on Commons:
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:People-are-Knowledge.ogv
> or on Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/26469276
>
> Cheers,
> Achal
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> Message: 2
> Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 19:16:05 -0700
> From: Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Welcome to the India Team! : Shiju &
> Nitika
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> Fantastic news - a warm welcome to both of you. :-)
>
> A small team, with the help of our vast community of volunteers, can
> make a huge difference. Really excited to see what you will come up
> with.
> --
> Erik M?ller
> Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation
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> Message: 3
> Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 10:31:33 +0530
> From: Arjuna Rao Chavala <arjunaraoc(a)gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Welcome to the India Team! : Shiju &
> Nitika
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> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Hisham Mundol <hmundol(a)wikimedia.org
> >wrote:
>
> > Hi Folks,
> >
> > I'm really pleased to send out this email welcoming the first 2 new
> members
> > of the India Programs team.
> > --cut--
> >
> Shiju, Nitika,
>
> Congratualtions on your new roles.
>
> I am confident that your work will help growth of Wikimedia movement at a
> rapid pace.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Arjun
>