Hi all,
Wish you all a very happy and prosperous new year 2012 !!!
Wikimedians in Bangalore cordially invites you to attend the Wikipedia
11th anniversary celebrations in Bangalore !
15th January 2012 is the 11th Anniversary of Wikipedia !
The Wikimedia India Chapter turned one year on 3rd Jan 2012 !
Join us to celebrate the Wikipedia anniversary at the 41st Wiki-meetup in
Bangalore.
And Cake - cutting too !
*Date :* Sunday, *15-January-2012 Time: 4:00 PM *IST
*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 : *
- Introductions.
- Welcoming , and About Wikipedia 11 and other Wikipedia Projects
- 15 Minute Google hangout with all cities that are
doing parallel events at the same time 4:30 PM
- Wikimedia India Chapter - 1 year
- Launch of Wikimedia Portals -
- Cake Cutting
More details : http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiMeetups/Bangalore/Bangalore41https://www.facebook.com/events/327765823923926/ ( Facebook invite)
7 other Indian cities are also celebrating .... Are you attending?
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Eleven
Regards
Tinu Cherian
( P.S. Feel Free to forward this to your friends, colleagues and other
possibly interested mailing lists)
Wikipedia turns Eleven on the 15th of January 2012 !
7 Indian cities are celebrating...Are you attending?
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Eleven
Regards
Tinu Cherian
P.S. Feel free to add information , if you are planning for more events in
other cities and towns.
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From: Shrinivasan T <tshrinivasan(a)gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 4:57 PM
Subject: Adding categories for multiple images in commons
To: wikimedia-in-chn(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Hi,
I am uploading the images to commons.
The default category is "TamilWiki Media Contest"
Want to add more categories for the images.
Adding, the categories using HotCat
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Gadget-HotCat
is so boring and tough.
Is there any possibilities for adding categories for multiple images
in a single go?
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Dear All,
We started meetups around Kannada Wikipedia yesterday. We celebrated Wiki
11 with a long awaited meetup session. 9 people turned up Including Mr.
Arjun Rao chavla. Kalmane Koffee's small little corner turned out to be a
hot discussion point in few minutes. As we had few new editors around us,
Introduction was given on how and why wikipedia can be the best platform to
start sharing knowledge. Naveen and Prabhodh had joined us from FSMK to
share their commitment to work with Wikipedia, and also explained why they
would look for support groups to work on these projects. Naveen explained
how support groups can help us grow steadily.
Discussion continued around topics like 1. Complaints that we hear about
Kannada wikipedia 2. Why we don't see regular editors 3. Support groups for
those who seek help 4. Unattended support requests 5. Unavailable community
around wikipedia to welcome and greet new editors 6. Why should new editors
find Wikipedia Interesting 7. How build the community to be more active in
terms of building the missing support team 7. Special projects that we can
take up to make things Interesting around Kannada Wikipedia 8. Personal
experiences about editing wiki 9. How we can prepare ourselves to better
Kannada wiki state by July 12th on which we will be celebrating our 9th
anniversary and so on.
Abhiram from Sanskrit wiki joined us to explain why he hopped in to Kannada
wikipedia and started helping people around it and how Sanskrit community
working at present.
While Naveen and Prabhod mentioned about their monthly magazine for FSMK
not seeing enough articles from the FOSS community, I got an instant idea
of creating interest in people around us to work on a specific topic for
the month and collate and contribute that to Kannada wikipedia and make it
available / reachable to magazine readers. This can go along with a story
on how the community could go ahead and use Wikipedia to build a detailed
document to feature on its Magazine. This will inspire not only techies but
also those who read the magazine to start contributing.
Shalini, Pradeep who work at Serverlots on a research project called Alipi (
http://janastu.org/technoscience/index.php/Alipi) which is a re-narration
project of the hub understood how wikipedia works and new possibilities of
reaching out to community.
Raghavendra, a linguist & a journalist joined the meetup happily to
understand how he can help us better quality of Articles contributed by
Google Translation team in which he had worked earlier.
Arjun shared his learnings from Telugu wikipedia and encouraged us to find
the new possibilities to engage more people on Kannada Wikipedia.
We were expecting Thejesh GN who was found to be the first Kannada Wiki
editor in early days of Kannada wikipedia, but unfortunately he couldn't
make it for the event. Wish to meet him in upcoming meetups along with
others who missed it.
Before i close this report: Here is something that we had to talk about
during our meetup.
A mail that I received from one of our top most Kannada wiki contributor
Mr. Holalkere Lakshmi venkatesh. On request to reach out to Bangalore
wikipedian's during our first meetup, he had sent an email about Kannada
wikipedia from Mumbai. Kannada wikipedia's present state and how he wishes
to to see in future could be found in his email. I'm sharing it here along
with this email for all to see the.
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Here are some of my wishes about how Kannada Wikipedia should proceed in
the coming years !
The truths about kannada wikipedia :
We were sleeping almost from centuries, with out improving our mother
tounge, keeping in view of some totally unrealistic goals. Even when we
watch some kannada programmes on Chandana, the Anchor will be narrating the
events, etc; in high language, with lots of adjuctives added to it, more
than it deserves. Every thing is superficial non realistic and almost not
practical for the present day situation.
Let us start, from here.
What is our role ?
kannada is rich, we hear. But is it true ? yes and no. Provided if we
contribute a bit to its growth. We are supposed to read a lot to enrich our
knowledge and later find some words new, or borrow some from some where,
and see whether it fits to the context.
Pro. G. T. Narayana rao, T.R.Anantharamu, Pro. HRRRao, Dr. Pavanaja, Hegde,
and others so many of them have been doing a great job in finding some
equivalent Scientific words for the writers. We have to be in costant
touch of their work. Later some thing we have to contribute.
This is not easy. First let us contribute some articles in kannda
wikipedia. They can be biographies, and about the people next door who are
doing some good work, they might not have Ph.Ds or M.Techs added to the end
of their names. Doesn't matter. We have to read them throughly.
What we do when we get a doubt about some word or place or name ? Refer
Dictionary, or Encyclopedia, or ask some one . Right ?
*But just a click distance we have the entire world is unfolded infront of
us- free of charge.*
**
*Why not use it ?*
Here the English wikipedia comes to our mind immediately. It is well
developed and has real wealth of information. That is well managed by
competent people with dedication hard work, with upto date information and
love for the language. *That is how it is treated as a full enclyclopedia.*
In Kannada, and many of our regional languages, we do not have one. Why ?
We are not striving hard to have one. Create one.
We do not love our mother tongue. We won't read kannada literature. We do
not contribute to it. Earlier days during our time, letter writing was
there. But that great art has gone to dust bin; and our skill in writing a
good sentence, or narrating a story to our own children has a back seet,
and the Idiot box has taken over that place ! We are struggling with SMS
language skill.
That is part of history. What we have been facing from our childhood days
to this day.
So, no one has tobe blamed.
We are the makers and destroyers of our own follies.
Let us add something to the already existing articles.
Just like in English enclyopedia, we have to develop on the same lines.
Gradually we can go stronger by innovating it.
*The new generation boys and girls are having lots of skills as for
Computer technology and skill in making the things much faster than the old
timers. This plus point should be encashed.*
Unless you have kannda knowledge you can not make a good article. We have
appropriate words to match the English words. Only way is bring the english
words as they are in kannada, and try to borrow words from hindi, urdu,
Tamil, Telugu, Bengali etc; they can borrow some from kannada.
Rest is when one starts writing in wikipedia one explores the necessity of
finding the new ways and avenues !
Good luck and have a nice time.
I am a blogger. That way, I could improve my language skills.
*When an old timer (68), with out the Computer skills whatsoever, can make
some thing in wikipedia, you can do wonders !*
Wish you best of luck,
My real name is :
(ಹೊಳಲ್ಕೆರೆ ರಂಗರಾವ್ ಲಕ್ಷ್ಮೀವೆಂಕಟೇಶ್)
ನನ್ನ ತಾಯಿಯವರ ಹೆಸರು : ರಾಧಮ್ಮ ಮತ್ತು ತಂದೆಯವರ ಹೆಸರು : ರಂಗರಾಯರು.
I use the following names while writing in Wikipedia.
-Radhatanaya(Purely for kannada wikipedia articles)
-Rangakuvara(Use this name when I write for English wikipedia, some
articles have been written in kannada also)
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Wiki meetup page is available here:-
http://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ:ಸಮ್ಮಿಲನ/೧
It was fun, interesting and there was much sharing... Wish to see more of
this with growing Kannada Wikipedia!
PFA:- Kannada Wikimedia Project at a Glance
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With Best Regards,
Omshivaprakash.H.L | ಓಂ ಶಿವಪ್ರಕಾಶ್ ಎಚ್. ಎಲ್ | ॐ शिवप्रकाश् एच्. एल्
Chair, Kannnada SIG
Phone: 91- 9902026518
[[User:Omshivaprakash]] kn: en: meta: comm:
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Dear all,
As promised, for Wikimania 2013[0] I hereby announce the Jury[1] to
select the winning bid, and invite everyone to consider putting a
bid[2] together:
== Jury ==
* [[User:80686|Manuel Schneider]]
* [[User:Beria|Béria Lima]]
* [[User:Deror avi|Deror Avi]]
* [[User:Effeietsanders|Lodewijk Gelauff]]
* [[User:Ilario|Ilario Salvatore Valdelli]]
* [[User:Kiril Simeonovski|Kiril Simeonovski]]
* [[User:Peteforsyth|Pete Forsyth]]
* [[User:Philippe|Philippe Beaudette]]
* [[User:Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington|Anirudh Bhati]]
* [[User:Theo10011|Theo10011]]
* [[User:Thogo|Thomas Goldammer]]
There are a further two individuals who I have asked to confirm that
they are happy to serve on the Jury, and who I will add on-wiki if and
when they confirm.
As in previous Juries, any Wikimania Foundation Board members may act
as (non-voting) advisors to the Jury if they so choose. I know that
Bishakha Datta and Phoebe Ayers have agreed to take on this role, and
other Board members may join if they wish.
I will serve as a moderator (a neutral non-voting aide to the Jury),
along with another individual who will hopefully confirm that this is
OK with them later today.
Thank you for everyone who contacted me to nominate themselves,
others, or give suggestions; the suggestions were very helpful, and I
hope the resulting Jury will be a success.
== Invitation to bid ==
To re-iterate my comment in November, I'm sure the whole Wikimedia
community would love to see as many good bids as possible. There are
already a few bids[2] on Meta, but if you or your local community are
thinking about putting one in, you need to get it started and in a
reasonable state by the end of 28 January 2012 at the very latest[3].
Please also consider passing this message on (and translating it!) for
your wiki's community forum for those that don't read these mailing
lists.
Thank you, and good luck to all Bids.
[0] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013
[1] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013_jury
[2] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013_bids
[3] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013_bids/Timeline
Yours,
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Hi,
I am from kanchipuram, a city of temples.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanchipuram
It has temples everywhere.
The information available about the temples in wikipedia are very less.
But, there are some books describing each temple in kanchipuram,
available in tamil.
Shall we upload all the details from these books to wikipedia?
Is there any procedure to follow while adding information from book?
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This is the excellent event conducted by IITans so thought of sharing on mailing list.
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From: Rahul Deshmukh <rahuldeshmukh101(a)gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 1:54 PM
Subject: Marathi wikipedia @ Techfest IIT Bombay - Photos on commons
Dear all,
Please find here with the link for the photos of Promotional participation of Marathi Wikipedia in Techfest 2012.
A team of more than 10 enthusiastic volunteers participated in it.
This year One Lakh students from2500 colleges and 10,000 corporate and faculty members visited techfest.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Marathi_Wikipedia
Thanks
Rahul Deshmukh
Hello everyone!
There's a Wikipedia Hackathon being planned in Chennai on March 17th,
2012. It's a 'Wikipedia'/WikiProjects hackathon, rather than a
MediaWiki hackathon - hacks of various types utilizing the Wikipedia
API/Data are what we are looking at.
You can find more details here:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Chennai_Hackathon_March_2012
Suggestions for hacks that the community would find useful are
welcome. Registrations are open, so please do sign up if you are
interested!
Note: This is *not* an official WMF sponsored workshop, just something
the a few of us are putting up (me, Srikanth Lakshmanan and the
members of the Chennai Geeks community).
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Yuvi Panda T
http://yuvi.in/blog
hi,
I just got an email from the chapter asking if I wanted money (upto INR
2000) from the chapter for the conduct of Wikipedia 11 anniversary. I am
not sure how many other cities got the same offer.
While it may seem as a generous offer, my own opinion is that this money
could be more productively useful to the whole community other than for
purchase and cutting cakes, which was a requirement that the Chapter asked
for, if we were to hold the event.
Can we formulate a policy for providing and recieving grants that can be
made on and followed in a public or chapter's public wiki?
warm regards,
Pradeep
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Hi everyone,
I wanted to share with you all few things that I'm currently working on and I'd love to get your ideas, thoughts, suggestions, questions and most importantly approvals.
Supporting Outreach
I started working on this sometime in December by talking to some community members and understanding how they have been conducting outreach session, what they think about outreach, how can we make it more effective etc etc. I got varied comments with some talking positively about outreach while some thought that outreach was not helpful. Im in the process of collating all comments & suggestions I got during my conversations with community members and including them with some of my own views as to how can we make outreach sessions more effective. This includes building presentations, brochures, FAQs, tips, ideas on how can we provide the appropriate kind of training on Wikipedia, how can we make sessions more fun for the participants, how can we follow up with the participants, how can we measure the effectiveness of these sessions etc.
The objective is to build a handbook that is inclusive of all ideas and standardized documents that one could use to conduct outreach session anywhere in India. We want to facilitate community members efforts wanting to conduct wiki workshops and motivate others to conduct similar sessions. Initially, these documents will be in English - but can be translated to Indic languages subsequently. I'd want to work closely with the Chapter to conduct WIki Academies with other community members to conduct these workshops.
Here is the link to the handbook:http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Progra…. Ashwin, Naveen, Srikanth L, Srikanth R, Suyog, Pradeep, Subhashish have contributed to this document by giving me ideas or helping me build standardized documents. I'd like really like to thank each one of them to help me work on this handbook and make it what it is today. I'd encourage all of you to please feel free to edit, expand, improve and suggest.
Testing Outreach
I want to test wether all the ideas such as what kind of pre-work an outreach needs, repository of documents, follow up ideas, and all the other suggestions that are collated in this Outreach Handbook are effective or not. The best way of testing this would be conducting outreach programs following these suggestions and measuring their effectiveness. I have reached out to several institutes in Delhi with the idea of conducting Wiki sessions at their institutes. To name a few: I have written to 9 different department heads at IIT Delhi including biochemical, management science, civil, chemistry engineering departments, National Institute of Fashion Technology, St.Stevens College, Lady Shir Ram College, Netaji Subhash Institute of Technology etc. I have already heard positively from some institutes and I'll keep you updated as and when things become a little clearer.
Even if we're able to conduct 4 of these sessions in Delhi over the next month it will give us a good testing ground for this Outreach Handbook. The idea is to measure results of these 4 sessions in terms of no. of total participants, no. of participants who created usernames, no. of participants who started editing, keeping in touch with the participants over a period of time and evaluating no. of participants who continued editing over a period of 3 months - measure and share this data with you all.
Since the community size is small in Delhi, I plan to conduct these sessions with the help of Shiju, Subha and any interested local community members. I request any other local community members who are interested to let me know if they can join in these outreach sessions. (I have already started reaching out individually to as many as are listed on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:New_Delhi_Wikipedians on their talk pages to invite them to the planned meet up in Delhi on Jan 15th.
With regards to outside Delhi, I am realising that it does take time and effort to identify potential places to do outreach - and this is one reason some community members do not do outreach. I would love to help out other cities as well, and I am going to approach local communities in Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkatta and Pune in this regard.
Institutional Partnership
One of the other things I'm currently working on is how to build partnerships with like-minded organisation. For this - and with Noopur's help - I am exploring how to partner with SPIC MACAY (www.spicmacay.com). The main objective of this organisation is to preserve and promote Indian classical music, dance and cultural heritage. SPIC MACAY is also a volunteer based organization with chapters spread all over the country and some in other foreign countries as well. They conduct events where they have prominent Indian classical artists (vocalists, instrument players, dancers etc) perform, they conduct heritage walks to old monuments like Galib ka Ghar etc, they have a resource center where they have a lot of information about Indian artists, videos/pictures clicked by volunteers, they also have a weekly newsletter etc. To summarize, they have gold pot of information about Indian classical musicians, instruments, dancers which can contribute to Wikipedia articles in a big way and increasing more Indian content. Thanks for all your help on this one, Noopur. Fingers crossed!
I see two potential ways of working with them one would be to organize wiki workshop for their volunteers and they can start contributing to Wiki projects and become independent contributors. The other could be that they can provide us with all their resources and Wikipedia volunteers can take over collaborative editing to write articles on these topics. We're just doing preliminary discussions with SPIC MACAY as for now. I'm planning to meet with SPIC MACAY volunteers again sometime soon. Here is the presentation that I'll be using: https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/present/edit?id=0AdsrCZ_fInBPZGhueG…. Im sharing this presentation so that you can give me your feedback on this as well as if you'd like to use/reuse it to reach out to similar institutes in your cities.
Wikipedia 11 Years Celebrations
We are organizing a Wikimedia Commons workshop for a photography club named Tassavurrati in Delhi on the day of Wiki 11th Anniversary. The club members travel through the length and breadth of India and are very passionate to contribute to Wiki projects. The idea is to brief all the participants about Wikimedia Commons, how to upload pictures and a bit about licensing. Noopur is also helping us organise this session. And maybe as a follow up we can conduct Wikipedia takes Delhi with these set of participants. Post this session we've organised a meet up in Delhi where these club members are also invited to join us. Here is a link to the event: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Commons_Workshop_Tassavurrati
I would love to know what you think of all the above work. It's really essential for me to hear each one of your opinions to make sure that Im serving you all in the most effective and useful manner.
Waiting for your comments and inputs. :-)
Thanks
Nitika