Hello friends,
This is a link I recommend you to bookmark.
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Geographical_distribution_of_Indian_Wikipedians
This list is useful for outreach & also whenever someone needs Wiki-Help in
a particular city. It would be great if Wikipedians could update this
list.:)
We have the following completely unrepresented states/UTs:
* Andaman & Nicobar Islands
* Arunachal Pradesh
* Assam
* Chandigarh
* Chhattisgarh
* Dadra, Nagar & Haveli
* Daman & Diu
* Goa
* Himachal Pradesh
* Jammu & Kashmir
* Jharkhand (AngPradesh is in Mumbai)
* Lakshadweep
* Manipur
* Meghalaya
* Mizoram
* Puducherry
* Punjab (oye, ye ki hoya!)
* Nagaland
* Uttar Pradesh
* Uttarakhand
Okay, all you admins, please update your status (Mikey my boy, that means
you too)!
Abroad, we dont have Indic Wikipedians listed for:
* Africa
* Australia
* Asia (other than India)
* Middle East
* North America
* South America
Unless you would like to stay off list, of course that's acceptable too.
May I also request Tinu / list admins to please forward it all the Indic
language & city Wikimedia lists. We need this resource to be as
comprehensible as possible.
Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur
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Hi all,
Needless to repeat the <India-Indic-Mobile-Growth> story. But I was
surprised even with that, many Indic wikipedias do not have a mobile
site(or some have gone dead since they failed to update for
MobileFrontend[1] changes), even the ones that had weren't very much
usable. Lets not cite, mobile phones do not have fonts, no one uses Indic
on mobile, we all know lot of people do use Opera-mini with complex script
rendering support.
* Please visit <yourlanguage>.m.wikpedia.org and see if there is a page. If
it has nothing but 'search, license, and action control' links, here[2] are
the steps that an admin need to do to get a mobile site running with
content. If you have problem in doing those, come and ask at
#wikimedia-tech (or #mediawiki {?}).
* When I visited Tamil wikipedia mobile site, I was restricted to content
that was put on mainpage, the links in it. Since my Symbian phone doesnt
have Indic input system, I cant search anything. The solution to this is to
have a list of articles in alphabetical order *and* display it in mobile
front page, like Assamese wikipedians have done[3]. Many Indic wikis have
this template, but few show it on main page. This might be incredibly
useful on mobile versions.
More thoughts on improving Mobile sites welcome :)
Mobile sites are important since,
1. Lot of people will be using this.
2. The Wikipedia app uses this(?) [Correct me if am wrong]
[1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MobileFrontend
[2]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Projects/Mobile_Gateway#Mobile_homepa…
[3] http://as.m.wikipedia.org/
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Regards
Srikanth.L
Hi,
Since 2009, most of Tamilnadu is facing a power crisis. It started with few
hours of power cut. For the last few months, it has gone up to *18 to 20
hours of unscheduled power cut every single day. *Only Chennai city is
exempted with a 2 hour power cut. Government is not sure when the crisis
will be resolved. It could be next year or it could take few more years.
What this means for the growth of Wikimedia expansion in Tamilnadu?
Every single contributor in Tamilnadu that I talk to are *unable to
contribute to their full capacity* because of the power cuts. I fear that
this may be a *bigger concern in attracting new contributors*. When there
is only few hours of power left, other major concerns like work and study
will be given priority. There won't be much time for hobbies and forget
geeky activities like Wikipedia editing. This is a *major blow* given the
fact that computer and internet usage was increasing in the last few years.
How is the power situation in other states?
Ravi
Dear Members and Community,
At the outset, on behalf of Wikimedia India Executive Committee for
2011-12, I would like to thank you all for the support for the Chapter
during the past year, as we strived hard to complete the boot strapping
phase of the Chapter. I am glad to report that the boot strapping phase is
now complete, as the Chapter is financially healthy, staffed and has
conducted AGM and Elections for EC vacancies successfully, apart from
spearheading Wiki Academy events and partnerships with various
stakeholders. I would like to place on record my thanks to all co-founders
and EC team members,volunteers from members and community, Achal, Bishakha,
WMF staff,WMF board members, Manuel Schneider and partners and consultants
for all the contributions and support towards reaching this important
milestone.
Recently we had inducted the newly elected EC members with an EC induction
program at Bangalore. As part of it, we have completed the office bearer
elections for the 2012-13. I would like to introduce the new team that has
taken charge.
Sudhanwa Jogalekar
[image: Sudhanwa Jogalekar] <http://wiki.wikimedia.in/File:Sudhanwa1.JPG>
Sudhanwa Jogalekar is an IT professional with expertise in Information
security, system administration, IT infrastructure management etc with over
27 years experience in the industry. He is an Electrical Engineer from
College Of Engineering, Pune with 2 additional management degrees and a
professional certification of ISO 27001 Lead Auditor. He has done many
projects for corporates, SMEs and Academic Institutions for IT
infrastructure, Information Security, E-learning etc.
He is a well known FOSS evangelist in India and has been promoting FOSS for
the last 13 years. He has been co-ordinating PLUG (Pune GNU/Linux Users
Group) for many years and conducting workshops, seminars, trainings
in/around Pune and other places across India. He has contributed to Indic
computing activities (Marathi/Devanagari). He has released a Marathi font
family for free.
He is active on various technical and non-technical groups and helped
promote Wikimedia projects. He has organised a complete track on Wikipedia
activites in GNUNIFY 2011. Apart from organising various events and
activities related to Wikimedia(like launch of Marathi Wikisource,
participating in CMDA expo etc.), he also co-ordinates regular meetups of
Wikipedians in Pune (WikiPuneri).
Being a photographer he is involved with various photographers groups and
is active in Photographic society of Pune.
He is elected to the Executive Committee in September 2011 and served as
Chair of City/Language SIGs till Oct 2012. He is elected as *President* in
Oct 2012.
- More details available on his website http://www.sudhanwa.com
- Email: sudhanwa [at] wikimedia.in
- Wikimedia username: sudhanwa
- Twitter: @sudhanwa <http://twitter.com/sudhanwa>
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sudhanwa.jogalekar
Karthik Nadar
[image: Karthik Nadar] <http://wiki.wikimedia.in/File:Karthik.jpg>
Karthik Nadar is a final year B.Com student from Mumbai, specializing in
Banking, financing, accounting and insurance. He started his contributions
to English Wikipedia in mid 2010 and became very active from the following
year. In English Wikipedia, Karthik has more than 18K edits and so far has
contributed for 10 Good articles. Started working on Indian film related
articles, he later on ventured on into political, India and Mumbai related
articles. Karthik is autoreviewer, rollbacker and filemover on the English
Wikipedia. He also serves as coordinator for WikiProject Mumbai. Karthik is
also active on Wikimedia Commons, where he has uploaded hundreds of images
and has an edit count of 1,250. He has fixed some small templates and
layout issues on Tamil Wikipedia and contributed few articles in Hindi
Wikipedia.
In 2011, he was featured on Wikimedia Fundraising
banners<https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/L11_1212_WMUK_KarthikB/en>.
Subsequently he became active in Wikipedia Mumbai community and contributed
towards organizing second Photo-thon in Mumbai and few other events. He
volunteered to be part of core team for organising "Wiki Loves Monuments
2012 in India" and played a key role along with Naveen Francis in making it
a success.
He is elected to the Executive Committee during September 2012 and current
serves as the *Secretary*.
Apart from his contributions to Wikimedia Movement, he is an aspiring photo
journalist and a passionate drummer.
- Wikimedia username: Karthikndr
- Email: Karthikndr[image: at ]wikimedia.in
- Twitter: @Karthikndr <http://twitter.com/karthikndr>
- Facebook: fb.com/karthikndr
Anirudh Singh Bhati
[image: Anirudh Singh Bhati] <http://wiki.wikimedia.in/File:Anirudh.png>
Anirudh Singh Bhati is a technology lawyer based in Ahmedabad.
He is a contributor to Wikimedia projects since January 2006 and is mostly
active on the English Wikipedia project where he is also an administrator.
He is one of the founding members of Wikimedia Chapter (India).
He currently serves as the *Treasurer*.
- Wikimedia: Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington
- Facebook: http://en-gb.facebook.com/bhati
- LinkedIN: http://in.linkedin.com/in/anirudhbhati
- Email: anirudh[image: at ]wikimedia.in
Nikita Belavate
[image: Nikita Belavate] <http://wiki.wikimedia.in/File:Nikita.jpg>
Nikita Belavate is a pre-final year student of 5 year M-tech Integrated
degree in Biotechnology and Bioinformatics. She is based in Mumbai.
She attended 'Wiki-Conference India' held in Nov-2011, which gave her the
exposure to Wikipedia Community at large. She was inspired by the event and
became active English Wikipedian in December 2011. She helped conduct
meetups, photo-walks and outreach sessions in Mumbai. Her interests include
encouraging and improving women participation in Wikipedia and other
projects.
She is elected to the Executive committee in Sep 2012 and is the first
female Executive Committee Member to serve on board of 'Wikimedia India'.
She currently serves as *Member*
- Wikimedia User Handle: Nikita
- Email: nikita.sb[at]wikimedia[dot]in
- Facebook: nikitabelavate <http://en-gb.facebook.com/nikitabelavate>
Pranav
[image: Pranav] <http://wiki.wikimedia.in/File:Pranav.jpg>
Pranav is a Consultant in the field of Marketing Management based in Mumbai
and currently works with a Social Media firm.. He has been associated with
the Wikimedia Movement since 2006 as an editor and image contributor. He
holds a B.Com degree from the University of Mumbai and an MBA from
Strathclyde Business School, Glasgow. Pranav served as the Chairman of the
Organising Committee for WikiConference India 2011 (WCI) organised jointly
by Wikimedia Mumbai Community and Wikimedia India, with active involvment
of 11 teams consisting of over 50 volunteers. He was granted a Fellowship
from the Wikimedia Foundation for this task. Apart from WCI, Pranav has
been one of the few Wikipedians instrumental in hosting of several
community Meetups, Photowalks, Workshops and Academies in Mumbai.
He is the first person to sign up as a member of Wikimedia Chapter using
electronic funds transfer of membership fees. In September 2012, Pranav was
elected to the Executive Committee of Wikimedia chapter and currently
serves as *Member*. In addition to this he devotes time to other
charitable/philanthropic activities as well,serving as a Member of the
Board of Trustees of four Mumbai based Public Charitable Trusts which
operate in Health, Education and other functional areas.
Twitter: @Curumsey
Email: pranav [at] wikimedia [dot] in
Srikanth Ramakrishnan
[image: Srikanth Ramakrishnan] <http://wiki.wikimedia.in/File:SrikanthR.jpg>
Srikanth Ramakrishnan is a 20-year old student based out of Coimbatore,
Chennai and Bangalore. He has been a contributor to the English Wikipedia
since 2005 and has been a regular at Bangalore meetups since 2009. He has
also held various outreach sessions across Tamil Nadu. On Wikipedia, his
primary interests include editing transport, Indian economy, JAVA
programming area articles.
He is elected to Wikimedia India Executive Committee in Sep 2012 and
currently serves as a *Member*.
- Wikimedia: User:Rsrikanth05, en-wiki User
page<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rsrikanth05>
- Email: srik.ramk[image: at ]wikimedia.in
Viswa Prabha
[image: Viswa Prabha] <http://wiki.wikimedia.in/File:Viswa.jpg>
Viswanathan Prabhakaran is an engineer, project manager and technology
consultant by profession. After acquiring his B.Tech. in Electrical
Engineering from the Government Engineering college, Thrissur in 1986, he
initiated his career in computer industry. Keeping pace with the rapid
evolution of technology, he has aligned his career path with industrial
automation, communications, laboratory science etc. finally culminating
into advanced biomedical engineering.
He has travelled extensively both within and outside India and has lived
and worked with a vast mixture of cultures and communities. He is elected
to Wikimedia India EC in Sep 2012 and currently serves as a *Member*
At present, he is living in his home town in Kerala, occasionally
travelling, spending most of his time voluntarily for social causes and the
Wikipedia movement.
- E-Mail: viswaprabha [at] wikimedia.in
- Wikipedia+: User: ViswaPrabha
We are confident that under the new EC's leadership Wikimedia Movement and
Chapter in India will grow to greater heights in the year to come. We
request you all to extend the support and actively engage with Wikimedia
India to achieve the vision of sharing free knowledge with every one for
building a Knowledge Society.
Please join me in wishing the new team all success.
Cheers
Arjuna Rao Chavala
President,Wikimedia India
Jan 2011 - Oct 2012
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Dear Wikimedians,
A new post is on the Wikimedia blog featuring Sucheta Ghoshal and new
Bengali wikipedia contributor "SohojKotha" (meaning simple words).
Makes for an excellent read.
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/10/26/editing-wikipedia-and-overcoming-a-gen…
Kudos Sucheta for bringing on board a senior contributor to Bengali wikipedia
and wikisource.
regards
Arun
P.S: The blog post is in Bangla and English
Hello all,
The Wikimedia Language Engineering team[1] invites Indic wikipedians and
people who are interested in language support for their wikiprojects for a
meetup with us. Language teams are Wikimedia community members with a
common interest (compare with SIG) to help improve, provide feedback and
help educate our language communities of readers and editors about
Wikimedia software enhancements and tools built by the langauge engineering
team. This meetup is to get a face-to-face introduction to language
technologies available on the Wikimedia websites and learn more about how
to best use these. We will be in Pune[2] on the 4th November and
Bangalore[3] on 11th November. (For a change a Bangalore Wikimeetup can be
held in a different part of city :)). Please sign up on the page, looking
forward to meeting you and working together on improving language support :)
[1] http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Language_Engineering_team
[2]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Pune_Language_Engineering_Meetup_November_20…
[3]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bangalore_Language_Engineering_Meetup_Novemb…
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Regards
Srikanth.L
Hello folks,
The plan for Wikipedia Workshop for Women in Mumbai is up. Its going to
take place on Sunday, November 4th.
All women are cordially invited to join us at the workshop. Sign-up
here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WWWM
We are all excited for the workshop. Do send us your best wishes and help
up in spreading a word. :)
Regards,
Krutikaa
