Heya, for those interested,
Voting is on for the date and time of the next Huggle Con
*Hello,
I just send out the invitations for our poll for the next HuggleCon. (
http://www.doodle.com/du7ke2emtc99xv7e)
For those devs, testers and helpers who haven't got it: Please send me your
e-mail-adress to mmovchin(a)wikipedia.de. I will send you a private
invitation link as soon as I read your email.
--
Yours sincerely,
Michael Movchin (mmovchin)
Volunteer Huggle core developer, conference coordinator and Wikipedia author
*
For logs of the first one:
*Hello,
I just uploaded and published the logs of the 1st HuggleCon that was on 4th
March, 2012 18:00 UTC.
You can view it here:
http://toolserver.org/~mmovchin/hugglecon/
--
Yours sincerely,
Michael Movchin (mmovchin)
Volunteer Huggle core developer, conference coordinator and Wikipedia author
*
--
Regards,
Srikanth Ramakrishnan.
Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on February 12th.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore
Aliens invaded Tamil Nadu, left their Spacship and now it is a Toll Plaza.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IVRCL-Vijayamangalam-Toll-Plaza.JPG
Hiya all.
This is a quick summary of one of my silliest ideas.
Thanks to my Wiki-friend PhantomSteve, and real life buddy @aagan86 [from
Twitter] who got me interested in QR codes.
I kept this a secret, telling it partly to Pradeep Mohandas, and Nitika
Tandon. [SBC-YPR knew it the whole time].
I had contacted Roger Bamkin of the UK Chapter, and he connected me with
Terence Eden. As you all know, the two of them created QR Pedia together.
Sent on 28-12-11 to Roger Bamkin.
*Hi,
I'm Srikanth, from India, known on Wiki and Twitter as Rsrikanth05.
I've been on the English Wikipedia from June '05 and I have a little over
10,000 edits. I've been editing since I was 13.
I got really interested in QR Codes a while back, and I tried using one to
promote a WikiMeetup in Coimbatore.
I stumbled across QR Pedia on Google, and thought I'd get in touch with you.
I thought of this crazy idea to promote learning History and Geography via
Wikipedia in India, using QR Codes. Seeing that a VAST majority of kids
today roam around with BlackBerrys, iPhones, et al, I thought this would be
a good opportunity.
I'm a mega transport enthusiast, so I thought I'd write to the Bangalore
Metro Rail Corporation Limited, who operate the Bangalore Metro. I chose
BMRCL, because:* *
1> Out of the three Metro systems in the country, it is the most
approachable.
2> Out of the various agencies in Bangalore and it's parent state of
Karnataka, again it is the most approachable and tech savvy.
My plan is to convince the BMRCL about providing QR codes to the various
localities and landmarks along the route of the first track.
Ideas in my brain are:
1> Each station has multiple exits, each of those can be linked to an
article. Eg: At MG Road station, there is an exit towards Commercial
Street, one towards Brigade Road, and one towards the Parade Ground. The
Brigade Road exit can have a QR code pointing to Brigade Road, while the
Comm. St, one can have one pointing to it's article.
2> Where the board says the station name, place a Code for the article of
that area.
3> Presently, two stations are named after people: Mahatama Gandhi and
Swami Vivekananda. More are in the pipeline, once the construction is
completed. We could link the Code to the article on that person.
I agree that articles should be in all possible languages and should be of
high quality with good media. I am working on this, hoping the community
will join me.* *
*
*This came in response:*
*I don't think its silly at all. What can we do to help you? Most of our
best successes have been silly ideas (who would think you could allow
everyone to edit a good source of information?)
We have a following of people who like writing articles and the Wikimedia
UK board are keen on this idea. (We were also in the Wikimedia Foundation
annual report)
We can show you how we ran the Derby project * *
http://midea.nmc.org/2011/12/one-small-museum-making-a-big-impact-an-interv…
One of our most repected editors in the UK is 13 now!* *
Do you have some "sources" that we could write these articles from? You may
be able to convince the bus company by doing one stop?
Very interested in helping you, the bus passemgers etc and of course
Wikipedia
regards* *
Roger*
*Further*:
*Srikanth
Obviously Ive never tried to sell this idea to a bus company, but I have
given talks in Bristol about how QRpedia can move a museum or a city up the
google rankings.
I have also copied in Terence Eden as he has also spoken about this idea
(we both made QRpedia together). He'll be intrigued by the India link and
he may be able to suggest other business cases.
If you look on my wikipedia page and try the links ...* *
regards
Victuallers - Roger*
*From Terence:*
*Sounds really good. I currently work for [placeholder]- who are based in
Bangalore. Hopefully I'll be able to come out and visit the
installation in 2012 :-)
You could also link to the transport company's Wikipedia page - they* *
may like to see that as an example.*
Hopefully, something can happen.
--
Regards,
Srikanth Ramakrishnan,
P.S: I'm sending my Chapter membership form.
The Teylers Museum in Netherlands holds a writing competition: You
write articles related to the museum in your language, and if there
are many of them and they are good, you get prizes. Details:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Teylers/Multilingual_Challenge
Actually, it started in January and i only noticed it now, but there's
still time until May, and it's a good opportunity to improve the
quality, the diversity and the article count of the Wikipedia in the
languages of India, so try it.
--
Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
http://aharoni.wordpress.com
“We're living in pieces,
I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
Hoi,
I noticed on the request for the approved Gujarati Wikisource that Narayam
is requested. What I do not understand is why WebFonts is missing.
Particularly for a Wikisource there are many advantages of having WebFonts.
I blogged about this in the last month quite regularly.
- a different font may be used to indicate the age of a document
- fonts for scripts that are extinct but are relevant to a project may
be available .... eg Cuneiform
- for the Sanskrit texts it may be possible to have fonts for the
Brahmic script to represent the original source properly
All in all, I really like to encourage you to consider WebFonts for the
Gujarati Wikisource from its start.
Thanks,
Gerard
Hello all,
I am sending this mail, as I am soon going to be leaving for Kolkata and as
such a particular incident reminded me how we can do a free of cost basic
outreach, to spread the word about Wikipedia. The incident occurred when I
was traveling from Mumbai to Kolkata, just after the conference, and not
having time to change, I boarded the Duronto with my conference t-shirt on.
The passengers in the compartment I was in, though initially kept to
themselves, started speaking to each other as often happens on long (28hr)
train journeys. Very soon the focus shifted to my t-shirt and the resultant
was that I ended up explaining the world of Wikipedia to them for hours.
I should mention, it was a very varied crowd and maybe that is why it
happened. There was a lawyer, a psychiatrist, a scientist, an engineer, and
a couple others whose occupations were unknown to me.
I won't say it was very fruitful, or that I showed them any live demo or
ppt. Rather I focused on a few crucial question which were on their minds:
- What is Wikipedia?
- Who runs Wikipedia?
- Is Wikimedia a sub-project of Wikipedia?
- Who edits Wikipedia?
- How many employees are there and how many volunteers?
- Is it really free? If so, how does it earn money?
- Reliability of Wikipedia - If anyone can edit, is it reliable?
- Who monitors info?
- Copyvio and reliable sources
- What do I get out of it, if not money?
- Role of a Campus Ambassador
- How to edit?
- Why edit?
- Edit what?
- Presence of Indic language wikis
- How to edit Indic language wikis
- Sister projects like Commons, Wikibooks
- Entry of Foundation in India and creation of India Chapter
However, as it was my first journey, I did not note down their emails to
follow them up. The number was also limited, only 6. But hey, it was free
and killed a lot of time, while at least telling people that Wikipedia can
be edited and it has indic languages as well as sister projects. Hence, a
sincere request to all Wikimedians. If you are traveling in a long distance
train journey, try wearing a Wiki t-shirt if you have one. If you don't but
the audience seems interested go over, say hello and ask where they work.
When they ask you back, say, "WIKIPEDIA" and see the reaction. That should
get you started.
You can always try it. If it fails, then the only thing is you have to wash
your Wiki tee at most. But at least you spread the awareness. I am not
saying that this will retain people and inspire them to start editing, but
at least they might go back and try and look at Wikipedia in a different
way, or seek out new info.
Am again going to wear a Wiki tee on my journey, will tell you if i have a
similar experience.
--
Regards,
Debanjan*
- Lets make this world a better and more informative place*
I would like to inform the broad community of glad tidings - we have a
number of volunteers who have agreed to coordinate WikiProjects. These are:
* Wikipedia:WikiProject Hinduism - Redtigerxyz.
* Wikipedia:WikiProject Indian Cinema - Vensatry.
* Wikipedia WikiProject Mumbai - Karthikndr.
* Introducing Newbies to WikiProject India initiative - Debastein (based on
his Teahouse participation).
We welcome them to their new responsibilities and they are now proud
members of a select club indeed - people who have publicly volunteered to
look after an area of responsibility on WikiProject India.
Please welcome them on their talk pages and not on the list(s).
They join Bpositive (INCOTM), Kondicherry (WikiProject Gujarat) &
ssriram_mt (Tag & Assess 2012).
Redtigerxyz has asked for fellow co-coordinators for WikiProject Hinduism,
if any one is willing and forthcoming.
We would like to intimate readers that we are constantly looking for
editors to help with the various departments and task forces. There are
more than seventy more areas needing looking after. And if the project you
are interested in already has one, welcome to it - we need lots of
dedicated voluntees per department or task force not just one.
Warm regards,
AshLin
------------------------------------------------------
Hello everyone!
Me and SrikanthLogic are conducting a small Unofficial Wikimedia
Projects hackathon in Chennai on 17th March. You can find more details
and register for it here:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Chennai_Hackathon_March_2012
Also, I'd request the community to add ideas here:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Chennai_Hackathon_March_2012/Ideas. Note
that this hackathon is *not* a purely MediaWiki hackathon, and the aim
is to build hacks/tools/gadgets around the API/Content than mediawiki
extensions itself (Extensions/Patches to MW are welcome too, but not
the goal). So tools that make your life as an editor easier, tools
that make content discovery in multiple languages easier, tools that
help Wiki* spread, anything at all your mind can think of - please
post on the Ideas page.
Thanks!
--
Yuvi Panda T
http://yuvi.in/blog
FYI. Just saw on Santhosh's site:
Might interest the Indic guys if you've not seen it already! Do forward it
to Malayalam list too!
New Version of Malayalam fonts released
http://thottingal.in/blog/2012/03/10/new-version-of-malayalam-fonts-release…
--
Noopur Raval
Student
Arts and Aesthetics
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
Ph: 9650567690
Hi,
For those of you not on the foundation-l and who are interested in data and
its use and representation on Wikipedia.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Lydia Pintscher" <lydia.pintscher(a)wikimedia.de>
Date: Mar 9, 2012 10:43 PM
Subject: [Foundation-l] introduction (community communications for Wikidata)
To: <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, <wikidata-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, <
wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi everyone!
I wanted to take a moment to introduce myself. I'm Lydia and just
started working for Wikimedia Germany. Some of you might know me from
my work in Free Software projects.
I'll be a part of the team working on Wikidata
(http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata) - the goal of the project is
to create something similar to Wiki Commons for data). It's a huge
undertaking for the German and global community. Wikidata is a project
I am passionate about and I am even more passionate about doing it
right. Doing it right in this case obviously means making sure
everyone's input is heard and taken into consideration. My
responsibility will be exactly that - working with all of you to make
it a successful project. A lot of things concerning how, when and
where this will be used in Wikipedia are still up for discussion and
decisions need to be found in the community. I will be here to
facilitate this.
I assume many of you have not heard from me before so let me tell you
a bit about myself. I studied computer science at the Karlsruhe
Institute of Technology. There I worked on a program to plan
robot-assisted laser surgeries on human skulls and wrote my diploma
thesis on collaborative and transparent Free Software development. I'm
passionate about enabling people to make awesome happen around Free
Culture. I've spent most of my spare time in the last 7 years on
community work in KDE (http://kde.org). This includes running its
mentoring programs, co-founding its community working group, serving
on the board of the non-profit behind it and generally making sure
everything is running smoothly. I've also helped out other projects
occasionally like Kubuntu, VLC/VideoLan and openSUSE in that position.
Not long ago I released a free book called Open Advice
(http://open-advice.org) that is a collaborative effort to make it
easier for people to start contributing to Free Software. You probably
know 4 of the authors from around Wikipedia. When it comes to
MediaWiki I have done developer engagement for Semantic MediaWiki Plus
for the last two years and am on the steering committee of the
non-profit behind Semantic MediaWiki. Due to my day only having 24
hours (even if some people claim otherwise) I have not had a chance to
get into contributing to Wikipedia. Thankfully that's going to change
now. (As a very regular user: Thank you!)
For the next days/weeks my focus will be:
* collecting ideas/doubts/other input for Wikidata that you already
have for me now (I'll work through any existing discussions I can find
- if you want to make sure I see something please do send me a link.)
* creating some resources to explain the project better
* setting up some infrastructure to keep everyone updated on the
status and able to contribute
* work on collecting input in a structured manner and addressing it together
If you have any questions please let me know. I'll be around on the
English and German Wikipedia, IRC, XMPP, Skype or whatever else you
prefer ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Lydia_Pintscher_(WMDE) ).
You can subscribe to the Wikidata mailing list at
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l and join the
IRC channel #wikimedia-wikidata on freenode.
Cheers
Lydia, who is really looking forward to working with you
--
Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher
Community Communications for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Eisenacher Straße 2
10777 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg
unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das
Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
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