42 Student participents were there for the program. Mr Tittu Vargheese, a
student gave the welcome speech . Adv. T.K. Sujith took the Presentation
both in English and Malayalam followed by a class on Common wikipedia
editing by Prasobh G. Sreedhar .He also created an article about adoor
engineering college in malayalam wikipedia. Among these participants only 2
had heard about malayalam wikipedia and 6 of them were helped to create
their account in wikipedia.
Go through this
link<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wiki_Academy/College_Of_Engineering_%28IHRD%29,_Ad…>
--
*Prasobh*
*+919496436961
***
Great report, AshLin! Loved the commentary. I think the English Wikipedia
community needs a renewed focus! We should attempt to organize meetups
dedicated to the English Wikipedia around the major cities of the country.
This is so that we can help young editors who may or may not decide to
become long-term contributors - and we shouldn't let that decision be
solely based on their online interaction with enwp editors.
Konarak Ratnakar has scheduled a Wikimeetup in Ahmedabad on February 19,
2012. He is a new editor who began fairly recently and is currently
working on cleaning up the article on [[Gujarat]].
Thank you, once again, for helping jumpstart the English community. :-)
anirudh
2012/2/15 Ashwin Baindur <ashlin(a)wikimedia.in>
> The month of January passed quietly for WikiProject India on English
> Wikipedia. However elsewhere, the SOPA/PIPA discussion in the United States
> was the hot topic of the month andEnglish Wikipedia went dark on 18 January
> for 24 hours in protest against these proposed laws.
>
> At this point of time, getting the few small initiatives to keep going
> have been our concern.
>
> We have had [[Premchand]] as [[WP:INCOTM]] and [[Mohandas Karamchand
> Gandhi]] as GA of the month. Premchand has had substantial improvement. The
> GA Master Class ( a hoity-toity name I picked up as an excuse for
> periodically giving a few hints on the Wikimedia-in-en list) for Gandhi has
> begun and some posts made. GA of the month is a misnomer because despites
> lots of edits, there is tremendous amount of work yet to be done on Gandhi.
> It seems that we will be doing a GA/FA a quarter instead. :( The new
> INCOTM of the month is [[Dance in India]].
>
> The Offline Wikipedia for Schools project has been dawdling along and we
> need people to recommit themselves to this Project. Recently, I realised
> that the most important parts of Wikipedia which need doing are not "pop
> corn and fast food". They require commitment and seem too much like work.
> They are not as much fun as editing on our favourite topics. That fact
> perhaps is the reason people begn working on this project and finding it is
> not much fun, gradually stop editing. However, lakhs of Indian children
> await our output so I'm requesting particiants to return and recommit.
>
> On the talk page, we have had a discussion since December and through
> January into February about whether caste should be mentioned in
> biographies. The protagonists quoting [[WP:BLP]] and [[WP:V]] took the
> stand that caste should not be mentioned unless it has been self-identified
> by the person concerned in a reliable source. Some Indian editors contested
> it vehemently arguing that caste pervades Indian society and binding
> strictures on its mention should not be placed. But when it boiled down to
> a poll, the majority of editors stood up for the conservative position i.e.
> noinclusion unless self-identified in a reliable source.
>
> An earlier discussion about which should be the languages that a title of
> an article should be translated into in the lead. After lots of discussion,
> the discussion was closed as no consensus emerged except that IPA should
> definitely be present for pronunciation. In this regard, I think common
> sense and not misplaced parochialism should help us decide which all
> laguanges the title should be transcribed into in the lead.
>
> In this month, we saw Swaroop Rao, aka MikeLynch or Lynch7 as he
> masquerades nowadays become an admin. That is great.
>
> However, I am seeing more activity overall on English Wikipedia from the
> habitual editors - which is a very good sign. Young former CAs are playing
> up too but the spectre of exams had made its presence known by end January.
> All in all, a fairly okay month for WikiProject India.
>
> AshLin
>
>
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>
Under the auspeciuos of Wiki Media Inda Chapter a Wiki Academy has
conducted at College of Engineering,
Adoor<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:College_of_Engineering,_Adoor>,
Kerala.
The College is affiliated to the Cochin University of Science and
Technology<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Cochin_University_of_Science_and_Technology>and
is run under the aegis of the Institute
of Human Resources
Development<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Institute_of_Human_Resources_Development>,
an institute of the Government of
Kerala<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Government_of_Kerala>.
42 Student participants were there for the program. Mr Tittu
Vargheese<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ml:User:Tittuonnet>,
a student gave the welcome speech . Adv. T.K.
Sujith<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/User:Adv.tksujith>took the
Presentation both in English and Malayalam followed by a class on
Common wikipedia editing by Prasobh G.
Sreedhar<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/User:Prasobhgs>.He also created an
article about adoor engineering college in malayalam
wikipedia. Among these participants only 2 had heard about malayalam
wikipedia and 6 of them were helped to create their account in wikipedia.
For details of the programme and photos, see the
page<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wiki_Academy/College_Of_Engineering_%28IHRD%29,_Ad…>abt
wiki academy.
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> 1. The 'Undue Weight' of Truth on Wikipedia (from the Chronicle)
> + some citation discussions (Achal Prabhala)
> 2. The 'Undue Weight' of Truth on Wikipedia (from the Chronicle)
> + some citation discussions (Achal Prabhala)
> 3. Re: [WMIN-Members] Formation of Communications, PR & Media
> Relations Team (Ramesh N G)
> 4. Re: [WMIN-Members] Formation of Communications, PR & Media
> Relations Team (CherianTinu Abraham)
> 5. Fwd: [Foundation-l] Wikimania scholarships deadline: Feb 16
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> 6. towards a Gujurati Wikisource (Gerard Meijssen)
> 7. Re: Formation of Communications, PR & Media Relations Team
> (Naveen Francis)
> 8. Wikipedia COIMBATORE Meetup 2 [Really short] Report.
> (Srikanth Ramakrishnan)
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> Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:06:17 +0530
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> There's an interesting article out in the current issue of the Chronicle:
>
> http://chronicle.com/article/The-Undue-Weight-of-Truth-on/130704/
>
> It's behind a paywall, but in the spirit of fair use and in keeping with
> the author's intent (the article is on Wikipedia, and I believe the
> author would want to have us discuss it) I reproduce it here:
>
>
> The 'Undue Weight' of Truth on Wikipedia
>
> By Timothy Messer-Kruse
>
> For the past 10 years I've immersed myself in the details of one of the
> most famous events in American labor history, the Haymarket riot and
> trial of 1886. Along the way I've written two books and a couple of
> articles about the episode. In some circles that affords me a
> presumption of expertise on the subject. Not, however, on Wikipedia.
>
> The bomb thrown during an anarchist rally in Chicago sparked America's
> first Red Scare, a high-profile show trial, and a worldwide clemency
> movement for the seven condemned men. Today the martyrs' graves are a
> national historic site, the location of the bombing is marked by a
> public sculpture, and the event is recounted in most American history
> textbooks. Its Wikipedia entry is detailed and elaborate.
>
> A couple of years ago, on a slow day at the office, I decided to
> experiment with editing one particularly misleading assertion chiseled
> into the Wikipedia article. The description of the trial stated, "The
> prosecution, led by Julius Grinnell, did not offer evidence connecting
> any of the defendants with the bombing. ... "
>
> Coincidentally, that is the claim that initially hooked me on the topic.
> In 2001 I was teaching a labor-history course, and our textbook
> contained nearly the same wording that appeared on Wikipedia. One of my
> students raised her hand: "If the trial went on for six weeks and no
> evidence was presented, what did they talk about all those days?" I've
> been working to answer her question ever since.
>
> I have not resolved all the mysteries that surround the bombing, but I
> have dug deeply enough to be sure that the claim that the trial was
> bereft of evidence is flatly wrong. One hundred and eighteen witnesses
> were called to testify, many of them unindicted co-conspirators who
> detailed secret meetings where plans to attack police stations were
> mapped out, coded messages were placed in radical newspapers, and bombs
> were assembled in one of the defendants' rooms.
>
> In what was one of the first uses of forensic chemistry in an American
> courtroom, the city's foremost chemists showed that the metallurgical
> profile of a bomb found in one of the anarchists' homes was unlike any
> commercial metal but was similar in composition to a piece of shrapnel
> cut from the body of a slain police officer. So overwhelming was the
> evidence against one of the defendants that his lawyers even admitted
> that their client spent the afternoon before the Haymarket rally
> building bombs, arguing that he was acting in self-defense.
>
> So I removed the line about there being "no evidence" and provided a
> full explanation in Wikipedia's behind-the-scenes editing log. Within
> minutes my changes were reversed. The explanation: "You must provide
> reliable sources for your assertions to make changes along these lines
> to the article."
>
> That was curious, as I had cited the documents that proved my point,
> including verbatim testimony from the trial published online by the
> Library of Congress. I also noted one of my own peer-reviewed articles.
> One of the people who had assumed the role of keeper of this bit of
> history for Wikipedia quoted the Web site's "undue weight" policy, which
> states that "articles should not give minority views as much or as
> detailed a description as more popular views." He then scolded me. "You
> should not delete information supported by the majority of sources to
> replace it with a minority view."
>
> The "undue weight" policy posed a problem. Scholars have been publishing
> the same ideas about the Haymarket case for more than a century. The
> last published bibliography of titles on the subject has 1,530 entries.
>
> "Explain to me, then, how a 'minority' source with facts on its side
> would ever appear against a wrong 'majority' one?" I asked the
> Wiki-gatekeeper. He responded, "You're more than welcome to discuss
> reliable sources here, that's what the talk page is for. However, you
> might want to have a quick look at Wikipedia's civility policy."
>
> I tried to edit the page again. Within 10 seconds I was informed that my
> citations to the primary documents were insufficient, as Wikipedia
> requires its contributors to rely on secondary sources, or, as my critic
> informed me, "published books." Another editor cheerfully tutored me in
> what this means: "Wikipedia is not 'truth,' Wikipedia is 'verifiability'
> of reliable sources. Hence, if most secondary sources which are taken as
> reliable happen to repeat a flawed account or description of something,
> Wikipedia will echo that."
>
> Tempted to win simply through sheer tenacity, I edited the page again.
> My triumph was even more fleeting than before. Within seconds the page
> was changed back. The reason: "reverting possible vandalism." Fearing
> that I would forever have to wear the scarlet letter of Wikipedia
> vandal, I relented but noted with some consolation that in the wake of
> my protest, the editors made a slight gesture of reconciliation?they
> added the word "credible" so that it now read, "The prosecution, led by
> Julius Grinnell, did not offer credible evidence connecting any of the
> defendants with the bombing. ... " Though that was still inaccurate, I
> decided not to attempt to correct the entry again until I could clear
> the hurdles my anonymous interlocutors had set before me.
>
> So I waited two years, until my book on the trial was published. "Now,
> at last, I have a proper Wikipedia leg to stand on," I thought as I
> opened the page and found at least a dozen statements that were factual
> errors, including some that contradicted their own cited sources. I
> found myself hesitant to write, eerily aware that the self-deputized
> protectors of the page were reading over my shoulder, itching to revert
> my edits and tutor me in Wiki-decorum. I made a small edit, testing the
> waters.
>
> My improvement lasted five minutes before a Wiki-cop scolded me, "I hope
> you will familiarize yourself with some of Wikipedia's policies, such as
> verifiability and undue weight. If all historians save one say that the
> sky was green in 1888, our policies require that we write 'Most
> historians write that the sky was green, but one says the sky was blue.'
> ... As individual editors, we're not in the business of weighing claims,
> just reporting what reliable sources write."
>
> I guess this gives me a glimmer of hope that someday, perhaps before
> another century goes by, enough of my fellow scholars will adopt my
> views that I can change that Wikipedia entry. Until then I will have to
> continue to shout that the sky was blue.
>
> Timothy Messer-Kruse is a professor in the School of Cultural and
> Critical Studies at Bowling Green State University. He is author of The
> Trial of the Haymarket Anarchists: Terrorism and Justice in the Gilded
> Age (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) and The Haymarket Conspiracy:
> Transatlantic Anarchist Networks, to be published later this year by the
> University of Illinois Press.
>
> ---
>
> Two things that the article relates to, currently happening/ in proposal:
>
> A discussion on oral citations (recently revived):
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard#Oral_Ci…
>
> A proposal to examine citations, including the use of 'primary sources':
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Fellowships/Project_Ideas/InCite
>
> ---
>
> Cheers,
> Achal
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:51:20 +0530
> From: Ramesh N G <rameshng(a)gmail.com>
> To: wmin-members(a)googlegroups.com
> Cc: "Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia."
> <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, socialmedia(a)wikimedia.in,
> wikimedia-in-exec(a)lists.wikimedia.org, communications(a)wikimedia.in
> Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Formation of
> Communications, PR & Media Relations Team
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>
> Good job Tinu.
>
> good to see the energetic members of wiki are in the list.
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Tinu Cherian (Wikimedia India) <
> tinucherian(a)wikimedia.in> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> > We are pleased to announce the first batch of our team for
> > Communications, PR & Media Relations of the Wikimedia India Chapter.
> >
> > - Tinu Cherian, Head, Communications
> > - Arun Ramaratnam, Official Spokesperson
> > - Anirudh Bhati
> > - Srikeit Tadepalli
> > - Noopur Raval
> > - Srikanth Lakshmanan
> > - Naveen Francis
> > - Pranav Curumsey
> > - Ram Shankar Yadav
> > - Mitra Sharma
> > - Anivar Aravind
> >
> >
> > We are still discussing with lots of potential people who are interested
> > and have the necessary skills. We will be adding them as we progress.
> >
> > *Scope of Work*
> >
> > Duties and Responsibilities of the team include, but are not limited to
> > the following:
> >
> > * General :*
> >
> > - Development of a comprehensive multi-language Communications
> > Plan for Wikimedia Movement in India to support the Chapter's
> strategic
> > objectives. This plan must include social media, digital outreach,
> Public
> > Relations (PR) and supporting community and chapter outreach.
> > - Implementation of the Communications Plan - including
> > measuring of results focused on growth in participation and readership
> > within India and continuous improvement as required.
> > - Identification, selection and onboarding of specialised
> > agencies as required.
> > - Build a close partnership with the Community and Wikimedia
> > Foundation India Programs to support communications and media
> outreach.
> > - Participating in Global Wikimedia Communications committee
> > and subscribed to its mailing list: wmfcc-l(a)mail.wikimedia.org
> >
> >
> > * Communications :*
> >
> > - Supporting and overseeing communication with Wikimedia
> > community which includes Chapter members, general public and media.
> > - Helping the Chapter Secretary in the monthly report that is
> > send to the members and the community.
> > - Providing ad hoc support to the Chapter & Community on all
> > aspects of communications as may be deemed necessary.
> >
> >
> > * Public/ Media Relations :*
> >
> > - Coordinating communications with the press, including press
> > releases, interviews, and inquiries.
> > - Handling press enquiries and answering them.
> > - Build a close partnership and working relation with a
> > network of journalists and news editors all over India and abroad.
> > - Maintaining a list of people willing to be contacted &
> > interviewed by the media.
> > - Identify potential "media worthy" stories and getting them
> > published into the mass media.
> > - Contacting editors and publishers of Wikipedia press
> > coverage to request that corrections be published as needed.
> > - Public Relations (PR) to build and manage relationships with
> > media and drive messaging that promotes participation.
> > - Researching press lists, monitoring and analyzing media
> > coverage, both negative and positive.
> > - will be responsible for executing and carrying out PR
> > campaigns on behalf of the chapter.
> > - Improve Wikimedia media coverage especially on Indian local
> > languages.
> > - Supporting the media coverage of Chapter , Wikimedia
> > Foundation and Community led events and initiatives in India like
> > Wikiconference, wikimeeetups, wikiacademies, workshops etc
> >
> >
> > * Digital Properties/Social Media :*
> >
> > - Digital outreach comprises how to drive awareness and
> > education and movitation to participate in various projects from
> within the
> > existing readership base.
> > - Social media includes managing and driving social media
> > vehicles to drive participation (i.e., building awareness and driving
> > traffic to Indic language editions, raising awareness of how content
> is
> > created on various projects and motivating and enabling
> participation.)
> > - Maintain the official IRC channel on freenode: #wikimedia-in
> > and regularly conduct planned IRC sessions.
> > - Maintain the social media properties including the ones on
> > facebook & twitter and Youtube channels, and all Public facing Digital
> > resources like the wiki, blog and website.
> > - Keeping the Wikimedia India Press kit and In the News
> > sections on the public wiki up to date.
> > - Interacting with the Chapter OTRS team.
> > - Help and co-ordinate the Community Newsletter, WikiPatrika
> >
> >
> > * Team Structure*
> >
> >
> > - The team is led by Head of Communications, PR & Media Relations,
> > Wikimedia Chapter. The position is a voluntary and not a staff/paid
> > position.
> > - There is an official Spokesperson of the Wikimedia India
> > Chapter. The position is a voluntary and not a staff/paid position.
> > - The above positions will be handled either by a single person or
> > two individuals.
> > - The Team will be internally divided into Communications , Press
> > & Social Media sub-teams.
> >
> > You can find more information at
> > http://members.wikimedia.in/Communications
> >
> > Regards
> > Tinu Cherian
> > Wikimedia India Chapter.
> >
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> >
>
Dear All,
This is a reminder email. When we all will be able to see the various Videos of India Wikiconference 2011 on you tube? The target date given was 31st Dec. 2012.
Can we get some communication and confirmation on the same pls. If this is done, request to share the link.
With Regards,
Mandar V. Kulkarni
http://mr.wikipedia.orghttp://mr.wikisource.org
Dear All,
We had the second monthly Wiki meet up at Delhi last Sunday and here is the
summary of the meet up. The details of the Meet up could be looked at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Delhi/Delhi6
..............................................
The 6th Delhi meet up (second monthly meet up) was organized on 12 February
2012 and attended by 15 Wikipedians.
The meet up started with self introduction by the 7 Wikipedians who were
present from the beginning and rest all joined the meet up later. Then
Nitika talked about few quick facts about Wikipedia for them who are not
that familiar with Editing Wikipedia followed by an editing session. The
new Wikipedians who have faces problems with editing explained and the
experienced wikipedians solved the questions answered by them. A couple of
articles were taken for demonstrating the editing and showed to them. The
audience were also taught about uploading pictures and media files in
Commons with a brief discussion of choosing licenses and categorizing them.
Nitika tales about WikiProject India and explained how the Wikipedians can
participate in it.
Noopur talked about the recent approval of a new GLAM project which is set
to be started soon in the National Crafts Museum and how the wikipedians
can volunteer for specific programs under it. Post to these discussion and
editing session there was a Q&A session where the new wikipedians discussed
common problems. Noopur, Shiju, Subha, Rajesh and Nitika helped them with
solving them. Max, a Wikipedia regional ambassador from the US talked about
his participation plans with the "Oral Citation" project and how Oral
citation would be useful in India specific articles. He also led a
discussion about India Education Program.
Wikipedians socialized and had a photo session after the event. Photos
could be found at
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Delhi_Meetup_2012_February
Subha
I've BCC'ed all attendees of the Meetup.
Hey,
The Second Wikipedia Meetup in COIMBATORE was help on Sunday, the 12th of
February 2012, from 11am to 2pm at the KGISL Institute of Technology
[KITE], Saravanampatti, Coimbatore-35.
The meetup was attended by 5 people including me.
Bala [User:SodaBottle] was unable to attend as he was busy with some other
work.
All the attendees [except me] were Engineering Students. We started of with
a basic introductory session to what Wikipedia is, and how it works.
I mostly echoed what Bala had said in the last meetup.
We moved on to how the Community runs, how an individual benefits from
contribution [the usual enhancement of skills, improvement of language
stuff].
After this, I took some time to explain what Wikipedia is NOT, including
answering one question:
Why does the Kolaveri video not exist on Wikipedia inspite of being World
Famous?
This was what we spoke about.
The computer we were provided with didn't work and there was noone from the
administrative staff to help out since it was a Sunday, so we let it go.
That was all that happened.
We hope that by next meetup, we'll have more active members.
Last time, there was me from English and Bala from Tamil. THis time
Shanmugam from Tamil.
We sincerely hope more people join us.
--
Regards,
Srikanth Ramakrishnan,
Sathyamangalam-Gobichettipalayam Star Gazers, Coimbatore.
Hi all,
We are pleased to announce the first batch of our team for
Communications, PR & Media Relations of the Wikimedia India Chapter.
* Tinu Cherian, Head, Communications
* Arun Ramaratnam, Official Spokesperson
* Anirudh Bhati
* Srikeit Tadepalli
* Noopur Raval
* Srikanth Lakshmanan
* Naveen Francis
* Pranav Curumsey
* Ram Shankar Yadav
* Mitra Sharma
* Anivar Aravind
We are still discussing with lots of potential people who are interested
and have the necessary skills. We will be adding them as we progress.
*Scope of Work*
Duties and Responsibilities of the team include, but are not limited to
the following:
* General :*
* Development of a comprehensive multi-language
Communications Plan for Wikimedia Movement in India to support the
Chapter's strategic objectives. This plan must include social media,
digital outreach, Public Relations (PR) and supporting community and
chapter outreach.
* Implementation of the Communications Plan - including
measuring of results focused on growth in participation and
readership within India and continuous improvement as required.
* Identification, selection and onboarding of specialised
agencies as required.
* Build a close partnership with the Community and Wikimedia
Foundation India Programs to support communications and media outreach.
* Participating in Global Wikimedia Communications committee
and subscribed to its mailing list: wmfcc-l(a)mail.wikimedia.org
* Communications :*
* Supporting and overseeing communication with Wikimedia
community which includes Chapter members, general public and media.
* Helping the Chapter Secretary in the monthly report that is
send to the members and the community.
* Providing ad hoc support to the Chapter & Community on all
aspects of communications as may be deemed necessary.
* Public/ Media Relations :*
* Coordinating communications with the press, including press
releases, interviews, and inquiries.
* Handling press enquiries and answering them.
* Build a close partnership and working relation with a
network of journalists and news editors all over India and abroad.
* Maintaining a list of people willing to be contacted &
interviewed by the media.
* Identify potential "media worthy" stories and getting them
published into the mass media.
* Contacting editors and publishers of Wikipedia press
coverage to request that corrections be published as needed.
* Public Relations (PR) to build and manage relationships
with media and drive messaging that promotes participation.
* Researching press lists, monitoring and analyzing media
coverage, both negative and positive.
* will be responsible for executing and carrying out PR
campaigns on behalf of the chapter.
* Improve Wikimedia media coverage especially on Indian local
languages.
* Supporting the media coverage of Chapter , Wikimedia
Foundation and Community led events and initiatives in India like
Wikiconference, wikimeeetups, wikiacademies, workshops etc
* Digital Properties/Social Media :*
* Digital outreach comprises how to drive awareness and
education and movitation to participate in various projects from
within the existing readership base.
* Social media includes managing and driving social media
vehicles to drive participation (i.e., building awareness and
driving traffic to Indic language editions, raising awareness of how
content is created on various projects and motivating and enabling
participation.)
* Maintain the official IRC channel on freenode:
#wikimedia-in and regularly conduct planned IRC sessions.
* Maintain the social media properties including the ones on
facebook & twitter and Youtube channels, and all Public facing
Digital resources like the wiki, blog and website.
* Keeping the Wikimedia India Press kit and In the News
sections on the public wiki up to date.
* Interacting with the Chapter OTRS team.
* Help and co-ordinate the Community Newsletter, WikiPatrika
* Team Structure*
* The team is led by Head of Communications, PR & Media
Relations, Wikimedia Chapter. The position is a voluntary and not a
staff/paid position.
* There is an official Spokesperson of the Wikimedia India
Chapter. The position is a voluntary and not a staff/paid position.
* The above positions will be handled either by a single person
or two individuals.
* The Team will be internally divided into Communications , Press
& Social Media sub-teams.
You can find more information at http://members.wikimedia.in/Communications
Regards
Tinu Cherian
Wikimedia India Chapter.
Hoi,
Now that the localisation for the Gujarati language of the compulsory
messages has been completed, we are moving towards the next steps in this
process. It is really exciting to notice how Wikisource is getting traction
in India. A lot of important work is done and it shows.
I have blogged about it and I find it amusing that there is a logo adapted
for the Gujarati language and not yet for the Marathi language. I also
noticed that WebFonts and Narayam have not yet been configured for the
Marathi Wikisource. I assume that as this beneficial for the project i can
ask for it to be configured.
Thanks,
Gerard
http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2012/02/towards-gujarati-wikisource.html
FYI
Regards,
Jyothis.
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There's an interesting article out in the current issue of the Chronicle:
http://chronicle.com/article/The-Undue-Weight-of-Truth-on/130704/
It's behind a paywall, but in the spirit of fair use and in keeping with
the author's intent (the article is on Wikipedia, and I believe the
author would want to have us discuss it) I reproduce it here:
The 'Undue Weight' of Truth on Wikipedia
By Timothy Messer-Kruse
For the past 10 years I've immersed myself in the details of one of the
most famous events in American labor history, the Haymarket riot and
trial of 1886. Along the way I've written two books and a couple of
articles about the episode. In some circles that affords me a
presumption of expertise on the subject. Not, however, on Wikipedia.
The bomb thrown during an anarchist rally in Chicago sparked America's
first Red Scare, a high-profile show trial, and a worldwide clemency
movement for the seven condemned men. Today the martyrs' graves are a
national historic site, the location of the bombing is marked by a
public sculpture, and the event is recounted in most American history
textbooks. Its Wikipedia entry is detailed and elaborate.
A couple of years ago, on a slow day at the office, I decided to
experiment with editing one particularly misleading assertion chiseled
into the Wikipedia article. The description of the trial stated, "The
prosecution, led by Julius Grinnell, did not offer evidence connecting
any of the defendants with the bombing. ... "
Coincidentally, that is the claim that initially hooked me on the topic.
In 2001 I was teaching a labor-history course, and our textbook
contained nearly the same wording that appeared on Wikipedia. One of my
students raised her hand: "If the trial went on for six weeks and no
evidence was presented, what did they talk about all those days?" I've
been working to answer her question ever since.
I have not resolved all the mysteries that surround the bombing, but I
have dug deeply enough to be sure that the claim that the trial was
bereft of evidence is flatly wrong. One hundred and eighteen witnesses
were called to testify, many of them unindicted co-conspirators who
detailed secret meetings where plans to attack police stations were
mapped out, coded messages were placed in radical newspapers, and bombs
were assembled in one of the defendants' rooms.
In what was one of the first uses of forensic chemistry in an American
courtroom, the city's foremost chemists showed that the metallurgical
profile of a bomb found in one of the anarchists' homes was unlike any
commercial metal but was similar in composition to a piece of shrapnel
cut from the body of a slain police officer. So overwhelming was the
evidence against one of the defendants that his lawyers even admitted
that their client spent the afternoon before the Haymarket rally
building bombs, arguing that he was acting in self-defense.
So I removed the line about there being "no evidence" and provided a
full explanation in Wikipedia's behind-the-scenes editing log. Within
minutes my changes were reversed. The explanation: "You must provide
reliable sources for your assertions to make changes along these lines
to the article."
That was curious, as I had cited the documents that proved my point,
including verbatim testimony from the trial published online by the
Library of Congress. I also noted one of my own peer-reviewed articles.
One of the people who had assumed the role of keeper of this bit of
history for Wikipedia quoted the Web site's "undue weight" policy, which
states that "articles should not give minority views as much or as
detailed a description as more popular views." He then scolded me. "You
should not delete information supported by the majority of sources to
replace it with a minority view."
The "undue weight" policy posed a problem. Scholars have been publishing
the same ideas about the Haymarket case for more than a century. The
last published bibliography of titles on the subject has 1,530 entries.
"Explain to me, then, how a 'minority' source with facts on its side
would ever appear against a wrong 'majority' one?" I asked the
Wiki-gatekeeper. He responded, "You're more than welcome to discuss
reliable sources here, that's what the talk page is for. However, you
might want to have a quick look at Wikipedia's civility policy."
I tried to edit the page again. Within 10 seconds I was informed that my
citations to the primary documents were insufficient, as Wikipedia
requires its contributors to rely on secondary sources, or, as my critic
informed me, "published books." Another editor cheerfully tutored me in
what this means: "Wikipedia is not 'truth,' Wikipedia is 'verifiability'
of reliable sources. Hence, if most secondary sources which are taken as
reliable happen to repeat a flawed account or description of something,
Wikipedia will echo that."
Tempted to win simply through sheer tenacity, I edited the page again.
My triumph was even more fleeting than before. Within seconds the page
was changed back. The reason: "reverting possible vandalism." Fearing
that I would forever have to wear the scarlet letter of Wikipedia
vandal, I relented but noted with some consolation that in the wake of
my protest, the editors made a slight gesture of reconciliation—they
added the word "credible" so that it now read, "The prosecution, led by
Julius Grinnell, did not offer credible evidence connecting any of the
defendants with the bombing. ... " Though that was still inaccurate, I
decided not to attempt to correct the entry again until I could clear
the hurdles my anonymous interlocutors had set before me.
So I waited two years, until my book on the trial was published. "Now,
at last, I have a proper Wikipedia leg to stand on," I thought as I
opened the page and found at least a dozen statements that were factual
errors, including some that contradicted their own cited sources. I
found myself hesitant to write, eerily aware that the self-deputized
protectors of the page were reading over my shoulder, itching to revert
my edits and tutor me in Wiki-decorum. I made a small edit, testing the
waters.
My improvement lasted five minutes before a Wiki-cop scolded me, "I hope
you will familiarize yourself with some of Wikipedia's policies, such as
verifiability and undue weight. If all historians save one say that the
sky was green in 1888, our policies require that we write 'Most
historians write that the sky was green, but one says the sky was blue.'
... As individual editors, we're not in the business of weighing claims,
just reporting what reliable sources write."
I guess this gives me a glimmer of hope that someday, perhaps before
another century goes by, enough of my fellow scholars will adopt my
views that I can change that Wikipedia entry. Until then I will have to
continue to shout that the sky was blue.
Timothy Messer-Kruse is a professor in the School of Cultural and
Critical Studies at Bowling Green State University. He is author of The
Trial of the Haymarket Anarchists: Terrorism and Justice in the Gilded
Age (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) and The Haymarket Conspiracy:
Transatlantic Anarchist Networks, to be published later this year by the
University of Illinois Press.
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Two things that the article relates to, currently happening/ in proposal:
A discussion on oral citations (recently revived):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard#Oral_Ci…
A proposal to examine citations, including the use of 'primary sources':
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Fellowships/Project_Ideas/InCite
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Cheers,
Achal