*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
Hi all,
i just go through a interesting survey regarding Top Indic
wikipedians, This survey was carried out by Hindi wikipedians to measure
Activeness of all Indic Sysops.Generally we count no of edits but No of
sysop actions are also an interesting thing that how much a sysop is active
in his sysop activities.This parameter is also a good measure for any
wikiproject active community and controll over vandalism.Link for This
survey is as following-
http://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AA%….
We just tried to share an interesting stastics and I hope it will bring some
good creativity between Indic Sysops.
Thanks and Regards
Mayur
*Daijiworld : Gurudath Bantwalkar, Hariprasad Nadig to Attend World
Wikipedia Conference*
http://www.daijiworld.com/news/news_disp.asp?n_id=109987
*Gurudath Bantwalkar, Hariprasad Nadig to Attend World Wikipedia Conference*
*
*
*Daijiworld Media Network - Mangalore (FR)*
*
*
*Mangalore, Jul 28: Gurudath Bantwalkar and Hariprasad Nadig of Sampada fame
have been selected for presenting a paper during the Annual Wikipedia World
Conference, Wikimania-2011. The conference is scheduled to be held at Haifa,
Israel, from August 4 to 7 and Gurudath and Hariprasad who co-authored the
paper have been invited by Wikipedia to present their paper on August 6
during the morning session.*
*
*
*
*
*The title of their paper is “Resolving a conflict with the help of
Technology: Konkani Wikipedia, Enabling Inter-Script Transliteration”.
Gurudath, who is the Asst Director at World Institute of Konkani Language,
at the World Konkani Centre is an active Wikipedian. He has written several
short stories and poems both in Konkani and Kannada and has also presented
research papers about Konkani language and Culture and other related issues
at various seminars and conventions. He was also instrumental in launching
several online initiatives of the World Konkani Centre.*
*
*
*Hariprasad Nadig is an active Wikipedian, SYSOP and is associated with
Kannada and Sanskrit Wikipedia. Nadig had started Sampada.net in 2005, which
has now emerged as one of the largest internet portals in Kannada. He has
also served as a member in Chapters Committee of Wikipedia Foundation.*
*
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* *
*Abstract of the Paper Submitted*
*
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*Usage of multiple scripts in Konkani language has hindered the sharing of
knowledge between the communities that speak the same language but are
separated by the usage of script. Moreover the conflict over the usage of
script in some official situations has created a rift in the language
community. Groups are at loggerheads and the language is losing its ground
in schools mainly because the focus of the activists is shifting to
upholding the script of their choice than popularizing the Konkani Language,
especially in Karnataka State. Since a considerable amount of literature has
been created in some of the major scripts, people who are comfortable with
one script are opposing the other script to agree on a common script.*
*
*
*In the advent of Internet, technology has enabled an accessible knowledge
sharing platform for Indian languages through Unicode. Presently the ability
to ‘Search’ in Indic scripts as well as the ability to do ‘Transliteration’
and ‘Translation’ for the Indian language content has enabled more avenues.*
*
*
*An initial effort to create a Konkani Wikipedia lost its momentum due to
the script conflict. It was a real obstacle for the users to create four
different pages in four scripts for each content page without which the
content created in the language would limit itself for the specific region
where the script is in use. Hence Konkani language Wikipedia is still at the
incubator stage.*
*
*
*Desirable Solution: A system which can allow user to create the content in
the script of his/her choice and allow another user to read the same text in
another script of his/her choice is communities that are facing similar
situations, is the need of the hour. An extension for Media Wiki to
transliterate between scripts would contribute to resolving a major conflict
among Konkani speaking communities and few other Indian language language
communities which are facing a similar issue.*
Regards
Tinu Cherian
Mr Yadava
Can you let us know the timelines for this? Specifically, when is the last date by which you will need the content?
I will be in touch with separately you also on how we can help providing technical support on building capacity for translation.
Many thanks.
Hisham Mundol
Wikimedia India Programs
skype : hisham.wikimedia
gtalk : hmundol(a)wikimedia.org
twitter : @mundol
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On Jul 19, 2011, at 11:57 PM, M K Yadava IFS wrote:
> Dear All,
> Thanks a lot for the great efforts. To start with, we can think of English
> as medium, and then slowly fill up the gaps with local language
> translation (say in assamese) in course of time with some local support
> and technical guidance from wikimedia.
>
> Yours,
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>> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 7:09 PM, Martin A. Walker
>> <walkerma(a)potsdam.edu>wrote:
>>
>>> This is an excellent project! If there is anything that the English
>>> Wikipedia 1.0 team can do to help, please let us know.
>>>
>>> If you are looking for a list of important Indian topics to check
>>> through,
>>> I'd propose using a slightly amended toolserver list sorted by points
>>> rather than importance, available here:
>>>
>>> http://toolserver.org/~enwp10/bin/list2.fcgi??namespace=&importance=&score=…
>>>
>>
>> Good suggestion, Martin.
>>
>> Question about this: is there a way to "hide" those articles that are
>> already included in the selection? That is, is there a way to filter OUT
>> those articles which are included in the Wikipedia for Schools selection?
>> I
>> am not sure if that database is integrated into this selection tool or
>> not,
>> but it could be helpful in parsing out which articles would be additive.
>>
>> - Jessie
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Hi Ashwin,
One area where it does help being in London is photography. The V&A
has been very progressive about this, you can't use flash, or at least
not where there is a risk of damaging the artworks. But otherwise they
are quite open to photography of their own collection (special
exhibitions with visiting collections are another story).
So far we've barely started on
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Indian_sculpture_in_the_Victoria…
There are many more exhibits in the museum, including quite a lot from
India, and I hope we'll see many more photos loaded in the future. But
if you have any specific requests please do let us know, probably the
best place to post a request for photography is at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_London
Bye for now, hope some of us will meet some of you in Haifa!
WereSpielChequers
On 20 July 2011 14:54, Ashwin Baindur <ashwin.baindur(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Just to update you on Tipu's Tiger, now that Fae brought up the topic. User
> Shyamal and I have been helping User:Johnbod, Fae and others in developing
> Tipu's Tiger. The collaboration is successful and Tipu's Tiger has gone
> much beyond the C- class article that was the version Tamil Wikipedians
> translated to a GA nominee today with many new facts and images.
>
> The surprising thing we learnt in this collaboration that despite just being
> on the internet in India and never having been to England, much less the V&A
> Museum, it was possible for us to contribute in so many ways - from finding
> derivative works, and public domain images to adding facts and references.
> The reasons for this were primarily that thanks to Shyamal's knowledge of
> open resources we found historical material on the net and also to some
> plain old grunt work churning through page after page of search results in
> Google Web, Google Books, Google Scholar and Google Images.
>
> All in all, collaborating with UK GLAM on this initiative was a very
> positive experience that we recommend to others. In one sense, this
> international collaboration is the defauilt mode for all editting in
> Wikipedia and thus nothing really new - in another sense, it was an
> interesting, purposeful and deliberate collaboration between Wikimedians all
> over the world and the V&A Museum. We hope that this is just the first of
> many such initiatives with the Victoria and Albert Museum, a museum which
> holds many objects important to Indian heritage.
>
> Our thanks and good wishes to our British colleagues for this venture.
>
> Warm regards,
>
> Ashwin Baindur
> ------------------------------------------------------
Hi,
On 09-07-2011, Suryaprakash, Tamil Wikipedian gave a introductory session on
Wikipedia, Tamil Wikipedia, Technology involved around Wikipedia at Indian
Linux User Group - Chennai 's monthly meetup held at IIT Madras.
On 16-07-2011, Theni.M.Subramani, Tamil Wikipedian gave an introduction to
Tamil Wikipedia in an event held at Madurai District collectorate for
tutoring volunteers to use internet and reach the collector.
--
Regards
Srikanth.L
Hi Folks
I wanted to share an update on the Wikipedia India Education Program. As of today, we have 15 teachers from 4 colleges participating. The most exciting part is that we have nearly 800 students (and counting) who are going to work on about 1200 articles in this semester. (Do note these numbers may fluctuate as the actual editing in classrooms starts - which is only to be expected.)
Please see the project page at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:India_Education_Program - and do go through the sub-tabs for Ambassadors and courses.)
I think it will be a great idea if the Campus Ambassadors had a chance to introduce themselves to you and you had a chance to interact with them. Can we do it on the India Programs Monthly IRC this Thursday (July 28th) at 9pm IST on #wikimedia-office. (I apologise that we are late on this month's IRC.)
You can also hear from them about their experiences. They've having 1-on-1 discussions with faculty members to identify potential articles to work on and conducting editing workshops for students in classrooms.
I look forward to as many of you attending as possible - and for a wonderful interaction with the Campus Ambassadors. They are great guys and have done amazing stuff so far. They're going to need your help and encouragement. Drop in and say hello, and a little more!
Warmest Regards,
Hisham Mundol
Wikimedia India Programs
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hi,
Warning up front that the forward is very long. However, there was no
offline instance.
This was circulated on the Wikipedia GLAM list today. This is also something
that we hope to promote via the WikiConference India 2011 (though we do not
have concrete plans on how to do that - ideas welcome!) . What follows is
the press release for the "Wikipedia for World Heritage".
warm regards,
Pradeep
--mail begins--
Hi everybody,
I am new to this list. I've only read yesterday's and today's posts but
that's already been really, really interesting. I am a PR assistant at
Wikimedia Deutschland, mostly involved with our chapter publications and
supportive tasks for WMDE's projects, as well as press support of community
events. Ever since the initiative "Wikipedia for World Heritage" was
launched a couple of months ago I have also been involved there. I'd like to
keep you informed about the initiative's progress trying to convince the
UNESCO of declaring Wikipedia the first digital World Cultural Heritage. For
now, please find our initial press release below (a kind of introduction).
By the way, approaching 50k supporters who have signed the online petition:
http://wikipedia.de/wke/Main_Page?setlang=en
Best,
Michael
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Michael Jahn
Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Eisenacher Straße 2 | 10777 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 260
http://wikimedia.de <http://www.wikimedia.de/>
Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch freien Zugang zu der
Gesamtheit des Wissens der Menschheit hat. Helfen Sie uns dabei!
*Helfen Sie mit, dass WIKIPEDIA von der UNESCO als erstes digitales
Weltkulturerbe anerkannt wird. Unterzeichnen Sie die Online-Petition:*
http://wikipedia.de/wke/Main_Page?setlang=de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
PRESS RELEASE
Berlin, 26 May 2011
*
**Wikipedia for World Heritage! *
*
*
*Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales calls for signatures to be collected and
presented to the UNESCO.*
On Monday, 23 May 2011, Wikimedia Deutschland started a worldwide collection
of signatures for the Wikipedia for World
Heritage!<http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page>initiative. People
are invited to join the list now by signing an online
form <http://wikipedia.de/wke/Main_Page?setlang=en>. The list will
ultimately be presented to the World Heritage
Committee<http://whc.unesco.org/en/comittee>at the beginning of 2012.
To date more than 7000 people from over 100
countries have already signed the petition. Each signature supports the
initiative’s claim that Wikipedia as the largest collection of human
knowledge should be recognized as the first ever global and digital World
Heritage site. Altogether there are ten UNESCO criteria for recognition as a
World Heritage site. The first of those criteria demands that World Heritage
sites “represent a masterpiece of human creative genius”. The online
petition is quoting these exact words. By signing it participants confirm
that Wikipedia has universal value and that the claim is true in its case.
This petition is the starting point for a global discussion of Wikipedia’s
cultural meaning. Currently the free encyclopedia provides free access to
more than 18 million articles in over 280 languages. Since the beginning of
the new millennium Wikipedia has evolved into the collective memory of the
world. Having Wikipedia recognized as a Unesco World Heritage site is a huge
step towards preserving its cumulative knowledge for future generations.
“Millions of people take Wikipedia for granted. They use it each and every
day. Still, free access to the sum of human knowledge is not a matter of
course in many places. It is a global challenge to recognize, support and
preserve the work that hundreds of thousands of volunteers invest in this
community project. The key to free exchange of knowledge is public
recognition”, says Pavel Richter, CEO of Wikimedia Deutschland.
The initiative was introduced in March 2011 at the international Wikimedia
Chapters Conference in Berlin. Chapters from all over the world will
accompany the initiative's activities regarding Wikipedia’s recognition as a
World Heritage site. Wikimedia Deutschland will entertain an expert round on
the subject on 31 May 2011 at the Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin. The event
will be a public kick-off. Further activities with the international
community will follow. Additionally, public discussion provides a chance to
explain how to deal with free knowledge and to stress its meaning for
society. The advertising agency Leo Burnett supports Wikimedia Deutschland
in the initiative’s realization.
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales was the first to sign the petition. In a video
statement <http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page> he calls for support of
the initiative. In his appeal Jimmy Wales puts emphasis on how important
international awareness is to the free encyclopedia: “A lot of people think
of Wikipedia as a technical phenomenon, a technical achievement. But in fact
it isn't. What Wikipedia is, is a cultural change, a cultural achievement.
We are going to try to get as many people as possible to sign the petition.
Just like Wikipedia itself, the more people we get involved, the greater the
chance that we'll achieve our goal. Please sign the petition!”
Links:
Petition: http://wikipedia.de/wke/Main_Page?setlang=en
International website and video statement by Jimmy Wales:
http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
*
*
*About the UNESCO World Heritage:*
UNESCO is the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization. Its list of World Heritage sites currently recognizes 911
properties as parts of the cultural and natural heritage of the world and
worthy of protection. The basis for this list is the World Heritage
Convention, established in 1975. The convention has been signed by 187
countries so far. By doing so they have committed to protect World Heritage
sites in their respective territories and to support each other’s efforts.
Further information: http://whc.unesco.org/
*About Wikimedia Deutschland:*
Wikimedia Deutschland is a non-profit organization that supports the
advancement of free knowledge. Since its foundation in 2004 the organization
has been supporting the Wikimedia projects, the most well-known of which is
Wikipedia. Wikimedia Deutschland promotes free of charge access to free
knowledge, thereby endorsing the fundamental human right to education.
Wikipedia, like its sister projects, is ad-free and independent. This is
only possible through volunteer dedication and donations.
Further information about Wikimedia Deutschland:
Website: www.wikimedia.de
Blog: www.blog.wikimedia.de
Twitter: www.twitter.com/WikimediaDE
Kind regards
Catrin Schoneville
spokeswoman
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
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Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Eisenacher Straße 2 | 10777 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 260
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Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch freien Zugang zu der
Gesamtheit des Wissens der Menschheit hat. Helfen Sie uns dabei!
*Helfen Sie mit, dass WIKIPEDIA von der UNESCO als erstes digitales
Weltkulturerbe anerkannt wird. Unterzeichnen Sie die Online-Petition:*
http://wikipedia.de/wke/Main_Page?setlang=de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
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WIKIMEDIA CHAPTER invites you to a seminar on Copyright and Open licensing
Date: 30 July 2011
Time: 5PM to 8PM
Venue: TERI Auditorium, Domlur, Bangalore
Agenda
05:00PM – 05:05PM Welcome and Introduction of Wikimedia Chapter and
today's seminar speakers .. Gautam, Secretary, Wikimedia Chapter
05:00PM - 05:45PM Copyright law and plagiarism: 101 ... Sudhir
Krishnaswamy, Azim Premji University
05:45PM - 06:30PM Indian copyright law and the Commons: 101 ...
Pranesh Prakash, Centre for Internet and Society
06:30PM - 06:45PM Tea break
06:45PM-07:30PM Open licensing and Creative Commons:101 ... Danish
Sheikh: Alternative Law Forum
07:30PM-08:00PM Q&A
Objectives of the Seminar:
To educate attendees about Copyrights and Open licensing, Wikimedia
copyright policies and how one can become a better contributor to
Wikimedia projects.
About the Speakers:
Sudhir Krishnaswamy: Sudhir was a Professor of Law at the West Bengal
National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata India where he
taught Constitutional Law and Jurisprudence. He studied law at the
National Law School of India University, Bangalore (BA LLB 1998) and
the University of Oxford (BCL 2000 and DPhil 2008). Before NUJS he
taught at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore and
Pembroke College, University of Oxford. He has engaged with the
Government at various levels including the Prime Minister’s Committee
on Infrastructure and the Kasturirangan Committee on Bangalore’s
Governance.
Pranesh Prakash: Pranesh Prakash is a graduate with a degree in Arts
and Law from National Law School, Bangalore, with a keen interest in
the law, economics, and culture of intellectual property rights. He
helped found the Indian Journal of Law and Technology, and was part of
its editorial board for two years. He is most interested in
interdisciplinary research on IP and property law, freedom of speech,
and privacy. He has worked with practicing lawyers, civil society
organizations, and law firms.
Danish Sheikh: After 5 years of worrying about the ways in which law
school irreversibly damaged him, the Alternative Law Forum in
Bangalore in their infinite wisdom has given Danish a place to work.
Registration:
Free on first come first served. Pre registration recommended by
signing on the event page on Wikimedia Chapter wiki events page.
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Events/Copyright_and_Open_Licensing_Seminar
For more information:
Gautam K John, Secretary, Wikimedia Chapter: gkjohn(a)wikimedia.in
Wikimedia Chapter, No.194, 2nd C Cross, Dommaluru 2nd Stage, Bangalore-560071.
http://wikimedia.in, Email: chapter(a)wikimedia.in
Sponsored by:
Centre for Internet and Society, Dommaluru
About Wikimedia Chapter:
Wikimedia Chapter is a not for profit Society registered on 3 Jan 2011
with Office of Registrar of Socities, Bangalore Urban District with
the objective of educating Indian public about availability and use of
free and open educational content and build capacity to access and
contribute to such resources in various Indian languages. It has over
64 members who are passionate about Wikipedia and sister projects from
all over India and representing several Indian languages. Wikimedia
Chapter is an autonomous entity and works in close coordination with
Wikimedia Foundation.
Thank you.
Best,
Gautam
(For Wikimedia Chapter, India)