Hi,
Yannf posted this on IRC (#wikimedia-in) when I was away,
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in my new DSL connection with BSNL, *.wikipedia.org is blocked
any idea?
I get a page of advertising about web hosting
http://commons.wikimedia.org works
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My guess is BSNL DNS is playing some game here (IIRC they have local DNS
for each telecom circle). As for the geekish users, they would know to use
opendns, ways to access *.wikipedia.org etc. But this needs to be looked at
seriously. This is not the first time am hearing something like this on
BSNL DNS. If we identify the problem, can the chapter / programs do
necessary running around for the issue and ensure this doesn't exist?
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Regards
Srikanth.L
Hey folks,
There are over 20 Tech fests that are being conducted by several institutes across India over the next 2 months. I'm sure my list is not completely exhaustive and I might have missed a few. I was wondering if any of you know friends, family members, faculty members, students, administrators associated with any of the following organisations who might be able to help us out in participating or getting a slot for a Wiki stall or a workshop during these tech fests?
These fests might prove to be a brilliant opportunity for us to do massive outreach programs. I am assuming, to be on a conservative side, that each fest has a footfall of minimum 1000 participants. Even if we are able to take part in say 10 such events during the next 2 months, that means we have the opportunity to create awareness about Wikipedia amongst at least 10,000 more people.
Fests scheduled for next few months are as under:
Tech Fests January
Elan 2012 Techno Cultural Fest January 2012 IIT Hyderabad Andhra Pradesh
WISSENAIRE 12 Techno Management Fest January 20-22nd 2012 IIT Bhubaneshwar Orissa
Techkriti 12, IIT Kanpur, Technical Fest, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, January 27-30 2012
Threshold 12 Management Fest January 30-31st 2012 Jain University Centre for Management Studies Bangalore Karnataka
Electrocom 12 Technical Fest January 20-21st 2012 KITS Warangal Andhra Pradesh
Quark 12 Technical Fest January 27-28th 2012 TGPCET Nagpur Maharashtra
Dhrishyaa 12 Techno Management Fest January 24-25th 2012 Alagappa Colleg Of Technology Chennai Tamil Nadu
INctf 12 Technical Fest January 29th 2012 Amrita University Kollam Kerala
E-Summit 2012, Entrepreneurship Festival, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, Maharashtra, January 28-29 2012
Tech Fests in February
iTechRoots 3.0 12 Technical Fest February 9-11th 2012 YCCE Nagpur Maharashtra
Vidyut 12 Techno Management Fest February 1-3rd 2012 Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham Amritapuri Kerala
Prajwalan 12 Technical Fest February 18-20th 2012 Government College of Engineering Amaravati Maharashtra
Arghya 12 Technical Fest February 2012 MBES College of Engineering Ambajogai Maharashtra
Kurukshetra 12 Techno Management Fest February 1-4th 2012 Colllege of Engineering Guindy Anna University Chennai Tamil Nadu
Felicity 12 Techno Cultural Fest February 17-19th 2012 IIIT Hyderabad Andhra Pradesh
INSEAT 12 Technical Fest February 11th 2012 VIT University Vellore Tamil Nadu
FootPrints X2 Technical Fest February 24-26th 2012 Maharaja Sayajirao University Baroda Gujarat
Dhrishyaa 12 Techno Management Fest January 24-25th 2012 Alagappa Colleg Of Technology Chennai Tamil Nadu
Anwesha 12, Techno Cultural Fest, IIT Patna, Patna, Bihar, February 24-26 2012
Varchas 2012, Sports Festival, IIT Rajasthan, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, February 9-12 2012
Tech Fests in March
Apogee 12 Technical Fest March 16-20th 2012 BITS Pilani Rajasthan
Radiance 2012, IIT Bombay, Mechanical Fest, Powai, Mumbai, Maharashtra, March 3-4 2012
Convergence 2012, Technical Fest, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, Maharashtra, March 2012
Cognizance 2012, IIT Roorkee, Technical Fest, Roorkee, Uttarakhand, March 23-25 2012
If you have a contact and want someone to follow up with people in these institutes, I'll be more than happy to do that. Lets try and do as many outreach programs during these fests as we can.
Thanks
Nitika
Thanks for the prompt reply and a big thank you for helping us out. :-)
Would there be anyone else as well who could support us?
Thanks
Nitika
On 25-Jan-2012, at 1:11 PM, Ang India Tehnologies wrote:
> We will be able to participate
>
>
>> On 25-Jan-2012 11:26 AM, "Nitika" <ntandon(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>> Hey All,
>>
>> We have the opportunity to participate in Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute tech fest Technovanza which is running from 3rd to 5th February. A "special thank you" note goes to Aditya Sengupta for helping us organise this. :-)
>>
>> For more details about the fest please visit: http://technovanza.org/.
>>
>> The organisers want us to hold a Wiki session on the 5th February, Sunday. Time is yet to be decided. I wanted to reach out to Mumbai folks and see if some of you can lead this session. Please let me know as soon as possible so that we can then confirm our participation to the organisers of the fest.
>>
>> Awaiting your replies.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Nitika
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Hello everyone,
On 24th January 2012, a small meetup was organized in L.D. College of
Engineering Ahmedabad, I thank Kothari Harsh and Shah Smit from the college
to organize this on such short notice (less than 24 hours). After the
successful photo walk and a small Wiki 11 celebration, I thought this would
help out in sustaining a community there too.
The meetup was attended by 7 people in total, I gave them a small
presentation of Wikipedia and idea of how exactly the community works and
what does a community do. I also shared my experiences as a CA in IEP and
as an editor on EN and GU WP too for past 1 year.
After the presentation we had a good discussion on how they can help
building a strong community from Gujarat, Kartik Mistry shared his
experiences of working collaboratively in FOSS and Debian Community. He
blogged <http://kartikm.wordpress.com/2012/01/25/meeting-with-arnav/> about
this meetup too.
I also showed them Gujarat
Transliteration<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Narayam/Guajrati/Transliterati…>and
Gujarati
Inscript<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Narayam/Gujarati/InScript>of
Extension:Narayam which needs help, Kartik has agreed to help us in
this. Thanks.
I also showed them the list of places of interest in Ahmedabad which could
be developed as articles User:AhsLin/Ahmedabad, which Ashwin created and
asked them to start helping out in this too.
I request everyone from the community and WMF to help them as and when
required, and lets have one strong community from Gujarat too.
Thanks.
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Thanks
Arnav (ricku).
(User:Rangilo_Gujarati) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rangilo_Gujarati>
Hello All,
The *Photowalk* is just one day away. All Wikipedians from Mumbai, please
do join tomorrow. Assembling at 8am at Oval maidan, Forte (the ground in
front of Mumbai Uni). Also, HBCSE has agreed upon making their lab
available to us for upload of images to Commons. Thanks to Vickram uncle
and Dr.Nagarjuna :)
Hope to see you all !
Wiki Page link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_Mumbai_II#Participan…
Warm Regards,
Nikita Belavate.