Dear all,
We have an opportunity to organize a Wikipedia workshop at NMAMIT,
Karkala in Karnataka on 21st December. It will be a day long workshop
with over 100 students, mostly to tell them about Wikipedia in Indian
languages and how they can contribute.
I am yet to confirm the time for the workshop but it will be held at
NMAMIT on 21st December. Would any Wikipedians from the Bangalore
community want to join me?
CIS would be willing to support the travel expense for upto 2
wikipedians to and from Bangalore (or any other place in Karnataka
that is close to Karkala). If you know any wikipedian from any other
nearby places do let me know.
We are still planning it out and the more the merrier it is! Please
write to me offlist if you are interested.
Best!
Subhashish Panigrahi
Programme Officer, Access To Knowledge,
Centre for Internet and Society, New Delhi
Dear all,
Metawings, an organization that holds soft skills
training workshops for students across colleges in India has offered us
a day to hold a _free _Wikipedia workshop on 17th December at SRM
University near Chenna. Over 60 students have registered so far. Here
are the details of the event:
VENUE: SRM University, Kattankulathur
Campus, Kanchipuram District, Tamilnadu- 603203
DATE AND TIME: 1:30 pm
- 1:30 pm, 17th Dec, 2012
I will be conducting the workshop. Of
course, everyone from the community is welcome to join in! Please do
reply with your suggestions for the event.
After this workshop, I
would be going over to IIT, Madras to meet a bunch of students who have
been editing and want to informally meet up and see what they can do
around Wikipedia in their college. Yuvi would be joining me for both.
Thank you,
Best
Noopur Raval,
Programme Officer,
Centre for
Internet & Society, Bangalore
http://cis-india.org/
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Date: 2012/12/12
Subject: [Wikitech-l] Welcome our six OPW interns!
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
I’m glad to announce that Kim Schoonover, Mariya Miteva, Priyanka Nag,
Sucheta Ghoshal, Teresa Cho and Valerie Juarez will join the MediaWiki
community as full-time interns between January and March 2013. They
have been selected as part of the FLOSS Outreach Program for Women.
Check the details at
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/12/11/welcome-to-floss-outreach-program-for-…
We wish a happy landing to our new interns and the best luck in their
projects! You’ll be hearing more from them over the next few months.
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FYI.
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From: Amit Kapoor <akapoor(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 5:09 AM
Subject: [Wmfcc-l] TechCrunch: $50 Android Smartphones Are Disrupting
Africa Much Faster Than You Think, Says Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales
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http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/10/50-android-smartphones-are-disrupting-afri…
$50 Android Smartphones Are Disrupting Africa Much Faster Than You Think,
Says Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales
What phone does Wikipedia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page> founder
Jimmy Wales have in his pocket? An unlocked Android-powered 3G smartphone,
made by Chinese mobile maker Huawei – which was selling for $85 on the
streets of Kenya last year and now goes for $50.
While the majority of Africa’s mobile phones are more basic talk-plus-text
feature phones — recent figures from analyst ABI
Research<http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/28/abi-africas-mobile-market-to-pass-80-subsc…>
suggest
3G connectivity accounts for 11 percent of the continent’s overall mobile
subscriptions vs. GSM’s 62.7 percent – 300,000 of these $50 Android
smartphones have been sold in Kenya, according to Wales and African carrier
Safaricom’s CEO Bob Collymore. The pair were speaking at Vodafone’s Mobile
for Good summit taking place in London today.
“What I always thought about mobile in Africa…is this [smartphone adoption]
is coming in the future — in the future someday,” said Wales. “Well the
someday’s happening faster than I ever realised.”
Wales’ own budget Android was brought back from Kenya by a friend and is
now his personal smartphone. “The screen is a little smaller than the
iPhone, it’s not quite as good but the battery lasts two days,” he joked.
The Wikipedia founder has been spending the past couple of years
working on Wikipedia
Zero <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Zero> – a project that’s
aiming to broaden access to the online encyclopedia to those who don’t own
a computer or can’t get access to 3G mobile data – but he says the pace of
smartphone adoption in Africa is changing the digital landscape of the
continent much faster than people think.
The pace caught Wikipedia by surprise. The not-for-profit organisation had
been focusing its emerging markets’ efforts on India but is now paying a
lot more attention to Africa, thanks to the growth in ownership of cheap,
Android-powered handsets — like the one in Wales’ pocket.
“This phone actually woke my mind up,” said Wales, pulling the handset out
of his pocket and holding it up. “This is what really got me energised to
say let’s go back and take another look at Africa, because we had focused
most of our attention on India with the view that it was ready for us to do
things.”
“If you go and you take a look at the numbers [of smartphone adoption in
Africa]… the upward trend — obviously it’s still a very small penetration –
but that upward trend is there really strongly. If you look at the total
bandwidth into Nigeria, for example, it’s skyrocketing.
“Things that are very hard for us to all imagine are going to happen much
faster than we realise,” he added. “People are going to be coming online
for the first time. There’s this vibrant community of young app developers
growing in Kenya and Nigeria.
“It’s mind-boggling to think what the possibilities are — and I’m super
excited about it.”
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Mobile Partnerships
Wikimedia Foundation
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Hi,
Thanks for sharing this Anirudh. Could similar hackathons be tries in other cities as well? Trying to engage with tech communities wherever there is a sizeable Wikipedia community might make sense. It would give Wikipedians tools to streamline their editing work better and could help techies access and understand how end users behave and use their tools.
How do we replicate this further in the community?
Pradeep
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FYI, folks.
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From: Sumana Harihareswara <sumanah(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 4:40 AM
Subject: [Wmfcc-l] A Wikipedia Mini-hackathon in Delhi (CIS India)
To: Communications Committee <wmfcc-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
User:Yuvipanda led this event.
http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/mini-hackathon-delhi
"A Wikipedia Mini-hackathon in Delhi"
Posted by Yuvraj Pandian at Nov 11, 2012 06:00 PM | Permalink
Filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Workshop, Openness
Wikipedian Yuvaraj Pandian visited the CIS office in Delhi and helped
the Access to Knowledge team conduct a super-ad-hoc mini-hackathon with
two other volunteers, Sheel from Delhi and Harsh from Ahmedabad. The aim
was to get them a kickstart in developing userscripts/gadgets, and get
them to a point where the prior existing documentation makes sense to them.
The ad-hoc plan had three parts:
The execution environment (Concept of userscripts vs gadgets,
ResourceLoader)
The API concepts (Special:ApiSandbox, concept of 'actions' in the API)
Accessing the API from JS (mediawiki.api module, concept of AJAX)
Here is the account of what they did, written by Yuvi:
"We covered all parts of them slowly, with both Harsh and Sheel working
at things until they fully understood what they were doing and why
whatever they were doing was working.
I introduced them to the environment first by having them execute code
in Chrome's JS Console, and then in their own common.js. Once they
understood the context in which the code was getting executed, the
'ResourceLoader default modules'[1]documentation started making sense to
them, and they could pick up other modules from there.
We then explored the API via the API Sandbox[2], which is a relatively
new (and not very well known) way of letting people play around with the
API. It is a massive improvement over the older, non-interactive
docs[3], and both Harsh and Sheel were very excited about being able to
discover all the things they could do with the API. A fair amount of
time was spent messing around with it on different wikipedias (en, hi
and gu) and reading bits of the API Documentation[4] to understand the
concepts behind the actions - and for filling in the gaps.
Finally we had them use the API from a userscript to make calls. I went
through the entire process line by line, explaining how AJAX works and
how asynchronous programming works. We traced the flow of code together
to understand how the seamingly nonlinear asynchronous programming model
works. Then we dug into a bit of how to use the mw.loader module to make
dependencies work, and why the same code that was working in the chrome
js console was not working in their common.js.
It ended with them trying to port HotCat to their native language
wikipedias. Harsh started to explore more about getting started with
MediaWiki dev itself (rather than just gadgets), but the clone took a
looooong time and we had run out of time by then. I directed him to a
WMF tech open chat happening today, and hopefully that could help!
[1].https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ResourceLoader/Default_modules
[2].https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ApiSandbox
[3].https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php
[4].https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page
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Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
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Hi Pranav,
I think the two topics Creative Commons 10 this week and their impending visit to India in February, 2013 are getting mixed . I think Shuba is referring to the CC 10 celebration meetups if they happen.
Could you fork a seperate thread for the February events and leave this thread for those interested in having meetups related to the Creative Commons 10th anniversary event? Thanks.
Shubha, do feel free to coreect me if I understood it wrongly.
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Hi,
Creative Commons, the license that Wikipedia and its sister projects have been using turns 10 this year.
Their celebrations - http://10.creativecommons.org/ - last for 10 days from December 7 to 16. If you have a meetup in that period, perhaps we can celebrate.
Pradeep
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