Hi all,
Announcing the 35th Wikimeetup @ Bangalore on 10th July 2011, Sunday
3 PM.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:MBL35
*Venue:*
The Centre for Internet and Society
No. 194, 2nd 'C' Cross,
4th Main
Domlur 2nd Stage
Opposite to Domlur Club
Bangalore 560 071
Karnataka.
*Agenda*
- Preview of Oral Citations Project Video - Achal Prabhala , Shiju Alex
- Bangalore Community Engagement with Wikimedia Chapter
- Wikiconference Mumbai Updates.
The Oral Citations Project is a strategic research project funded to help
overcome a lack of published material in emerging languages on Wikipedia. It
is being undertaken by Wikimedia Foundation Advisory Board member Achal
Prabhala as a short-term fellowship.
http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Oral_citations
This Wikimeetup features one of the first previews of video of this project.
All are cordially invited.
Don't forget to signup
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:MBL35#Attendees
Regards
Tinu Cherian
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 5:35 PM, CherianTinu Abraham
<tinucherian(a)gmail.com>wrote:
> Please note that we have completed 2 years of regular Wikipedia meetups in
> Bangalore. We started in July 2009 and since then we have been meeting at
> least once every month and here we are with the 35th meetup.
>
> Requesting the kind co-operation of everyone for this meetup, as usual.
>
> Regards
> Tinu Cherian
>
> On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 4:29 PM, Subhashish Panigrahi <
> psubhashish(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Bangalore Wiki community is organizing the monthly meet up on Sunday, 10
>> July 2011 at CIS, Domlur, Bangalore.
>>
>> This is a quick courtesy mail to all of you to find some interesting
>> agenda as well as speaker for the meetup. In general Wikimedia India
>> Conference, Pune Pilot program updates, community updates will be discussed,
>> but, if anyone has something specific agenda or ideas which could be
>> discussed to put forth for the main agenda, it, would be much appreciated.
>>
>> The Wikipedia page will be made available shortly for sign up.
>>
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Dear friends,
We will have a monthly meetup on 9th July 2011 in SICSR at 6pm.
We will have updates on the Campus Ambassador program, conference in
November in Mumbai and can also have a demo edit session.
One of the media person is likely to join to discuss the following
points (taken from his mail).
1. मराठी विकीपीडिया सध्या इतर भारतीय भाषांच्या तुलनेत कुठे आहे?
2. त्यावर तयार होणारा कॉन्टेन्टचा दर्जा तुलनात्मक काय आहे?
3. संख्यात्मक पातळीवर मराठी कुठे आहे?
4. वाढविण्यासाठी काय करणं आवश्यक आहे?
These are the details of the meetup:
Venue: SICSR, Atur Centre, Model Colony. Room No 704. 7th floor, time 6pm
http://www.plug.org.in/images/map-to-aturcenter.jpg (Directions)
All Puneri Wikipedians who are interested are encouraged to attend the
meetup. Your voice and opinion are needed to be heard.
All the very best to all of you and looking forward to meeting you all
on Saturday.
Ashwin Baindur, Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Dear Indic language wikipedians,
The logos of some of the Indic language wikipedias are updated recently.
Following are those wikipedias:
- Marathi - http://mr.wikipedia.org/
- Kannada - http://sa.wikipedia.org/
- Sanskrit - http://kn.wikipedia.org/
- Odia (Oriya) - http://or.wikipedia.org/
Among this, the Odia wikipedia logo is updated yesterday and is done by a
new wikipedian. Thanks to Subhashish who started editing in Odia wikipedia
recently. He had done a wonderful job.
The logos for the following language wikipedias still need to be updated.
- Assamese - http://as.wikipedia.org
- Bhojpuri - http://bh.wikipedia.org
- Bishnupriya Manipuri - http://bpy.wikipedia.org/
- Divehi - http://dv.wikipedia.org
- Gujarati - http://gu.wikipedia.org
- Hindi - http://hi.wikipedia.org
- Kashmiri - http://ks.wikipedia.org/
- Nepali - http://ne.wikipedia.org
- Pali - http://pi.wikipedia.org
- Punjabi - http://pa.wikipedia.org
- Sindhi - http://sd.wikipedia.org
- Tamil - http://ta.wikipedia.org
Hope the logos will be updated soon by the respective language community.
Kindly create a new logo, upload it to commons, and log a bug in bugzilla.
In case you require any assistance please contact me.
Shiju Alex
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Shiju Alex <shijualexonline(a)gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 10:32 AM
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Updating the logo of Indian Language Wikipedias
To: "Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia." <
wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Dear Indic language wikipedians,
As many of you know the default skin of wikipedias (including that of all
Indic language wikipedias) is moved to the new Vector skin some time back.
Please see the below mail that I sent to this list regrading this on *2010
July 1*.
As some of you know, along with this update, the logo of wikipedia is also
updated. The current logo is available
here<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia/2.0>.
But even though almost 6 months had passed after this major update, only
Bengali <http://bn.wikipedia.org>, Malayalam
<http://ml.wikipedia.org>, Urdu<http://ur.wikipedia.org>,
and Telugu <http://te.wikipedia.org> wiki communities had took initiatives
to update the logo. The logo update is still pending for the following
Indian language wikis.
- Assamese - http://as.wikipedia.org
- Bhojpuri - http://bh.wikipedia.org
- Bishnupriya Manipuri - http://bpy.wikipedia.org/
- Divehi - http://dv.wikipedia.org
- Gujarati - http://gu.wikipedia.org
- Hindi - http://hi.wikipedia.org
- Kannada - http://kn.wikipedia.org/
- Kashmiri - http://ks.wikipedia.org/
- Marathi - http://mr.wikipedia.org
- Nepali - http://ne.wikipedia.org
- Oriya - http://or.wikipedia.org
- Pali - http://pi.wikipedia.org
- Punjabi - http://pa.wikipedia.org
- Sanskrit - http://sa.wikipedia.org
- Sindhi - http://sd.wikipedia.org
- Tamil - http://ta.wikipedia.org
Carry Bass (User:Bastique <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Bastique>)
has took initiative to create the new logo for some of the Indian language
wikis. But for languages like Kannada, Oriya, and so on even that is
pending. Even if the new logo is created a bug needs to be filed by the
respective wiki community to change the logo. So for most of the Indian
wikis both these tasks are pending now.
I request the respective language communities to take initiatives to create
the new logo and file a bug for this update. The guidelines for creating the
new logo is listed at
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikimedia_official_marks/Word_mark_crea…
Please write to me if any of the language communities require any type of
support regarding this.
Regards
Shiju Alex
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Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 06:43:08 +0200
From: shijualexonline(a)gmail.com
To: wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Updating the default skin of Indian Language
Wikipedias
Hi All,
As some of you already know, *Usability Team<http://usability.wikimedia.org>
* is driving the task of updating the default skin of all WikiMedia
Foundation wikis to a skin called
*Vector*<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vector>.
English Wikipedia and some other big wikis have already moved to *Vector
skin* some time back. Apart from the UI, the logo of Wikipedia is also
updated <http://blog.wikimedia.org/2010/wikipedia-in-3d/>.
Yesterday (2010 June 30) at 10:30 PM IST, some other wikis (that have
carried out the formalities required for the UI change) are also moved to
the new UI. Among this, 3 Indian Language Wikipedias are also there.
Following are those Indian Language wikipedias:
- Malayalam - http://ml.wikipedia.org
- Bengali - http://bn.wikipedia.org
- Telugu - http://te.wikipedia.org
Please note the new default skin and the new logo that are appearing on
these wikis. (You may need to clear the cache to see the changes. )
Now to move your language wiki to Vector, you have to perform the following
two major operations:
1. Update the logo of your wiki
2. Localize the Vector skin system messages
Logo update
For some languages, logo is already updated. See the list here:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia/2.0
If your wiki's logo is missing from this list, then you need to create the
new logo based on the instructions listed on this page.
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikimedia_official_marks/About_the_offi…
Localizing the Vector skin System messages
For the current update, you need to localize the Vector skin system
messages. To localize the system messages, use Translate wiki -
http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Main_Page
The current Localization statistics of Vector skin system messages is
available here. http://translatewiki.net/wiki/User:GerardM/usability-stats
You can see that many Indian languages (for example, Tamil) are missing from
this list. The reason is, none of the Vector skin system messages are
localized for those languages. Even for the big Languages like Hindi and
Marathi the percentage of localized messages is very low.
So I request the respective Indian Language Wikipedia communities to take
required initiative to switch over to the new Skin. Usability team is
planning for next set of switch over by the end of July. So you have
almost one month to finish these tasks.
Once you finish the above tasks you need to:
- Let the community know about this upcoming update (Use the village
pump, Site Notice, Mailing list, and so on)
- Appoint some volunteers to answer the questions related to this
- Appoint an ambassador to collect the feedback/issues/bugs and report it
to the Usability Team.
Please let me know in case you require any support regarding this.
Regards
Shiju Alex
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Dear Wikimedia India Community,
Last month, the Chapter has taken several steps to engage with the community
towards building the Chapter further. Here are the highlights.
1. Membership drive to enroll members who will be able to both stand for
elections and vote in the elections to the Executive Committee of the
Chapter was completed on 23 Jun 2011. The membership stands at 64 as of
23-June-2011. We thank the community for having shown keen interest in
getting membership in the Chapter.
2. A mailing list exclusively for members (wmin-members(a)googlegroups.com)
is now operational. We encourage members to start using the mailing list
for discussing topics of interest to members.
3. A wiki for members (http://members.wikimedia.in with 36 accounts as of
4 Jul 2011) is now operational. We request all members to intimate chapter
their user-ids on Community wiki, to enable access for them on Members Wiki.
Members can seamlessly access community wiki and Members wiki, with single
login. We look forward to building an active members wiki, which can help in
shaping the Chapter's plans.
4. Chapter decided to partner with the Mumbai and Pune Wiki-Communities
to co-host the WikiConference
India<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2011> for
this year.
5. Applied for a boot strap
grant<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:WM_IN/Bootstrap_Grant>
from
the Wikimedia Foundation.
6. AGM is planned for 24th September, 2011 in Bangalore.
We thank the community on the support extended to the Chapter so far. We
would like to thank Arnav Chaudhary specifically for offering to set-up a
platform for membership sign-ups and
management<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/SW_for_Membership_management> and
building a test site and several others from members and community in
testing the prototype. We look forward to the community and members to
volunteer for other projects <http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Projects:2011-12> as
well and also support the chapter through
donations<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Donations>,
as getting the funds from Foundation could take 3-4 months.
Over the next few weeks, we will work towards forming city/language
subcommittee<http://members.wikimedia.in/City_and_Language_Special_Interest_Group_subcom…>
(for
members only), defining the process for nominations and conduct of elections
for vacancies in EC as well as making progress on
projects<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Projects:2011-12>
.
You can still register to be a member of the Chapter by using the [Individual
Membership Form<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/File:WikimediaChapterMembershipFormIndividual.pdf>]
along with either Cheque/DD payable at par at Bangalore or via online
transfer. Please do send us the physical copy of the form, duly signed, to
the Bangalore address of the Chapter.
Look forward to your continued support
Thank you.
Best,
Gautam on behalf of the Wikimedia Chapter.
(PS: Please do cross-post this as necessary)
Hi all,
The Wikimedia India portal has been up and running for a while now. I
request the attention of available volunteers to help us with the Wikimedia
website redesign. We mainly need help with two issues:
1. Wikimedia India wiki: The Main Page of the wiki (wiki.wikimedia.in)
requires a re-design to make it look better organized and attractive. I
would appreciate if volunteers with designing and HTML skills please support
us with this request. We welcome all contributions and inputs, and I
request you to be bold and make changes as and how you see fit.
2. Wikimedia India landing page: The wikimedia.in domain lands at a static
page and the plan is to have a wordpress or drupal based platform to support
a few static pages and a blog. Would appreciate if some volunteers helped
us with this as well.
Yours sincerely,
Anirudh Bhati
+855 975 529 803
Skype: anirudhsbh
Hi,
Its been months that we had meetups at Hyderabad, and still i feel that
nothing significant has been done to tewiki.
Some facts about tewiki :
- There are more than 48000 articles with the article count at the moment
of writing this mail being 48111.
- Most articles are one liners with the villages as theme, content being
village name, mandal name and district name.
- Many articles are a direct word to word translations
of English Wikipedia articles which lack nativity and have several
grammatical mistakes.
- Articles that can be marked as good are very few.
- Most of the places, personalities, other important entities do not have
articles at tewiki.
So, its obvious that we need to have a quality improvement of existing
articles and creation of relevant content as well. Also, we envision to have
reached the 50 k mark by August 29, 2011.
In this regard, I propose the first Telugu Wikipedia marathon on July 10,
2011.
Venue
Honeypot IT Consulting Private Limited,
6-2-46, Moin Court, Advocates Colony,
AC Guards, Hyderabad.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=honeypot+Hydera…
the marathon will run for 4-6 hours and participants can even do it from
their places. Those with lack of computer/internet facility can make use of
the venue.
With thanks and regards
Rahimanuddin Shaik
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