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 all,
Wikimedia Polska (Poland) has announced its own scholarships
programme for Wikimedians willing to attend Wikimania 2012 in Washington,
D.C
Apart from up to 10 scholarships for Wikimedians from Poland, they are also
going to grant up to 6 scholarships for Wikimedians from other countries (
which includes India).
More details can be found here :
http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2012/en
We spoke to the Committee, and they expressed that all willing Indian
Wikimedians are free to apply and they will treat them with all due
consideration.
Please also note that the recipients will be required to cover all the
expenses on their own and then present the documentation of those expenses
to the them in order to qualify for the refund.
While the number of WMF scholarships for Wikimania are limited,We strongly
encourage Wikimedians from India to also apply and utilize this opportunity
too.
Best wishes !
Regards
Tinu Cherian
Wikimedia India
http://wiki.wikimedia.in
P.S. Feel free to forward this to various other India-related Wikimedia
mailing lists.
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 5:01 AM, Tomasz Ganicz
<polimerek(a)gmail.com><polimerek(a)gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Wikimedia Polska (Poland) has just launched its own scholarships
> programme for Wikimedians willing to attend Wikimania 2012 in
> Washington, D.C. This year, apart from up to 10 scholarships for
> Wikimedians from Poland, we are also going to grant up to 6
> scholarships for Wikimedians from other countries. Only countries
> which have lower national income per capita than Poland (according to
> World Bank 2010 stats) are eligible. We are particularly willing to
> reach out to the Wikimedians from the former USSR countries (except
> Estonia, which doesn't meet the income criteria) and from the Balkans
> (except Greece and Slovenia, for the same reason). The scholarship
> covers travel and accommodation expenses, as well as conference fee.
>
> More details are available here: http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/**
> Wikimania_2012/en <http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2012/en>
>
> The closing date for applications is March 9.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz
> http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/**User:Polimerek<http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polimerek>
> http://www.ganicz.pl/poli/
> http://www.cbmm.lodz.pl/work.**php?id=29&title=tomasz-ganicz<http://www.cbmm.lodz.pl/work.php?id=29&title=tomasz-ganicz>
>
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>
Hello All,
Tamil Wiki Community is currently organizing a 3 month long media
contest[1][2] with the aim of increasing media files related to Tamil /
Tamilians / Tamil culture to be used in Tamil Wiki Projects and
encouraging non-text contributions from users who could contribute easily
through pictures, sounds, videos. Total prize money of 850 USD is up for
grabs. As such within a week of starting the contest, we have got over 350
images from participants in India and Srilanka. Apart from images which can
be used on Wikipedia pages, pronunciation files are also being uploaded to
be used in Wiktionary. Arrangements are on to get it widely publicized on
print / radio / television media across places with Tamil population.
Facebook[3] is also helping a lot in getting traction. Spread out the word,
also do participate!
[1] http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contest/en
[2] http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contest
[3] http://www.facebook.com/tawmc
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Regards
Srikanth.L
WARNING: THIS IS A PARTICULARLY LONG MAIL, WHICH TALKS ABOUT A FEW PERSONAL
EXPERIENCES AS WELL.
Heya all,
So, this is the mail about the event which happened at NITT this weekend.
Before I start off, I'll apologise and say thanks to:
* Nitika Tandon, For all the support and help you have given me in the last
two months. The NITT event even reached such a stage thanks to your support
and presently the Coimbatore community is hanging by your support.
* The Chapter EC, especially Naveen, Tinu and Anirudh. You guys gave me
tremendous support for everything I've done, not just this NITT event.
So, I'll start where it matters:
Last year, NITT celebrated Wikipedia 10 at their campus. Saagar, [now] a
3rd yr B.Tech student of NITT, and Nitika [after I told her] inferred that
this meant there might've been an editor on campus. I didn't infer any such
thing. I'm very stupid in such matters.
This year, Saagar Varma, the said student was on the Marketing team of the
annual tech fest of the institute, Pragyan 2012. He sent a mail to the
foundation office in the US, who directed him to Swaroop Rao. Swaroop, due
to exams forwarded it to the Tamil Nadu community. Bala couldn't be part of
it and said so earlier.
I was initially reluctant, but two of my cousins, one who is an ex-NITT-ian
and the other who attended Pragyaan in 2009-10 convinced me to take it up.
The MoU:
Pragyan got ISO certification this year, something that is great. The ISO
certification it received is the same one which Bombay Airport has. It
required us to sign an MoU with them, which explicitly stated that we'd
have to give swags, something which I convinced them hard that it would be
difficult as we are a Non profit body without any proper funding. We run on
donations right?
The MoU finally got signed without the swags part by Naveen and the
organisers of Pragyaan.
The actual event.
I was promised support in the form of volunteers, internet connectivity,
atleast 70 people participating etc.
Volunteers, I got none, internet connectvity, happened after the the thing
started, and only 17 people finally filled the sheet that I passed around.
Nitika sent over a presentation, which is where I screwed up. I should've
seen it a week in advance to prepare, which I did the night before the
workshop. I wanted to do it at a Cyber cafe before leaving, but couldn't.
I lost two slides due to format conversion to pptx, but I still explained.
Accomodation and transportation:
I had clearly stated two people would be attending around a month in
advance.
THere was no proper acomodation, I slept two nights on Saagar's bed as i
had said okay to it.
Sohan arrived on Saturday morn and left the same night.
He arrived at 6.15 when half the crowd pours into Trichy. He could've been
picked up, which, didn't happen. Neither was he dropped back.
, on the other hand arrived at 2.35am, but chose to go around the district
[lying to my parents that I was picked up, if they found out, I'd be
screwed up now], and went off t Tanjore to enjoy some Idlis and Boiled corn
at 4am in the morning before heading back to Trichy and then the institute.
The main issue:
Sohan was treated badly. He is a working professional, someone who has
finished studying, and is therefore senior to anyone prganising Pragyaam.
The event is handled only bu UG students.
I, on the other hand, am merely BSc student. The animosity between BSc and
Engg students is a known fact. It didn't make any difference to me whehter
I was treated well or not. I ended the trip with a visit to my uncle in the
city, before I headed back home. All I feel is, I should've made a trip
home instead. I took two days off anyway. Home would've meant more
Wikipedia editing, time with parents [something which a Hostel students
longs for] and well, I just love home. Especially after what just happened.
Sohan, I feel sad that I dragged you unnecesarily into this mess. Please
accept my apology.
The bottom line.
The event was poorly handled, and Sohan wasn't treated well. I don't care
what they think of Wikipedia, they'll still use it for assignments.
Sohan and I attended the McAffee Security quiz and the Pragyaan Main Quiz,
both of which had the entire text copied word-to word, with citations
removed from Wikipedia.
I guess this'll mean I'll stop volunteering for academies from now on and
will concentrate more on Wiki editing and meetups in Coimbatore and
Bangalore.
Sorry for screwing up guys, this was my second academy, and I had played a
much smaller role in my first one. [
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Academy/India/2010/Bangalore1]
Hope something will be learned from this.
We cannot give Swags again.
Wikipedia is considered Social Service by some here.
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Regards,
Srikanth Ramakrishnan,
Sathyamangalam-Gobichettipalayam Star Gazers, Coimbatore.
Hi
I just saw this Live search project http://live.wikimedia.in/ supported by
Wikimedia India.
I was travelling recently, so I must have missed the announcements for it.
Can someone fill me in about how this came to be? This looks like an
excellent project, the chapter did an outstanding job supporting it. I love
the twitter-ish font-end.
It seems like a great tool that can even be a new general Wikimedia
project. A live version. I would like to learn more about it.
Regards
Theo
Hey Subhashish,
I think it's a great idea. In case people are thinking of recording
such a video, I would love to help you edit and here are some
suggestions for community members:
1) Put it on your next meetup agenda. Do it in the meetup itself
2) It could be one single person saying "I edit wikipedia" or a group.
More than 1 is welcome
3) For editing purposes, it is better if you record video in room with
LESS noise and MORE light
4) Try and keep video in MPEG, Avi or MP4, so that while editing we
don't have to convert and lose quality.
5) You can use any normal digital camera, even your (iphone) camera :P
Just try and minimize shaking.
Cheers
Noopur
2012/2/7 Subhashish Panigrahi <subha(a)wikimedia.org>:
> Deal all,
>
> As a part of helping the community to reach out to more people apart from
> the presentations, handouts, FAQs and mailing list support we also have need
> for more visuals. Audio/Video clips containing Indian Wikipedians sharing
> their message "I EDIT WIKIPEDIA" or "I EDIT AN INDIAN LANGUAGE WIKIPEDIA" or
> "WIKIPEDIA IS HELPING ME DOCUMENTING MY HERITAGE" will create impact among
> people and motivate them to contribute to Wikipedia. Many people use
> Wikipedia in a daily basis without being aware of they can also [Edit] it,
> social media, Youtube, mails containing link to such a video can be used to
> reach this message to them. Moreover, such videos which are already there in
> Outreach (outreach.wikimedia.org) Bookshelf might make some people feel it's
> project being managed by some foreigners. Seeing some real Indians editing
> Wikipedia with the Main page of an Indian language background will
> definitely make this message clearer.
>
> If there is a fairly good no of community members located in anywhere in
> India (e.g Pune, Bangalore and Mumbai community) we can ask the community
> members say it altogether aloud apart from one/two community members
> speaking in their own language. I will be posting the details in the
> community village pumps, you are allowed to send as many people's footage as
> you can provided the video and audio quality are reasonable good. We will be
> collecting footage from all the communities and do a post production.
>
> Subha
> Community & Program Support, India Program
> Wikimedia Foundation
>
>
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Student
Arts and Aesthetics
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
Ph: 9650567690
*Code Mixer*
Hackathon Event by MixOrg
*Event Introduction :*
Building a web application that focuses on a single industry vertical such
as the education (engineering colleges), Healthcare (Hospitals), Publishing
(Magazines), Fashion wear,and Hospitality( Restaurants and Hotels) . These
are just some of the ideas that can go into the app. We will leave the idea
open and see if they can come up with things which are more
innovative/attractive.
*Eligible Industries:*
1. Restaurant
2. Super Market(e.g. Walmart, Big Baazar, Vishal Mega mart, etc)
3. Shopping Malls
*Technology :*
While we do not want students to build a Facebook application but we want
it ultimately to be used there. So, the web app should follow the size
guidelines of Facebook Canvas ( 510 width * 2000 pixels +length) .
(Recommended : Also, building a Facebook app requires SSL certificate so
students are better off building a stand alone web app.) They can use any
platform/technology and also refer to existing applications on Facebook for
inspiration. Also, they can use social components such like/comment within
their app.
*Scoring:*
The apps will be scored on the basis of the novel ideas that go into it,
the design and User interaction, the reusability of the app, etc
*Terms & Conditions:*
1. Ideas should not be copied or replicated as same from any other web app.
If found registrations will be cancelled.
2. Submission of entries after closing time will not be considered as valid
entry.
3. Extra points for well indented code. Marks will be deducted in case of
hard code.
4. Submit application in .tar.gz and zip.
5. Also containing README file which will be containing all the details
regarding application.
*Contest Duration:*
Opening of registration from 25th February, 2012
Announcements of starting of contest on 27th feb,2012
Closing of registration on 1st March, 2012 till Midnight.
Submission of Application on 3rd March, 2012 till 5:00PM.
Announcements of Results of contest on 4th March, 2012
NOTE : Details of uploading will be mailed to all the participants after
registration on the Google Docs Page of mix coder.
*Contact: *
Sheel Sindhu
+91 9711357056
Amit Shah
+91 9891044714
*Website Link:* http://algorhythm12.in/hackathon
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*Sheel Sindhu Manohar ( शील सिंधु मनोहर )
Manager JMILUG
*www.jmilug.org *
Founder Linux Adda
*www.linuxadda.org*
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