Congrats to all folks who got through, specially to Ankur Anand, Akshay
Chugh, Ashish Dubey, Suhas HS, Nischay Nahata who are the 5 Indians to get
through under WMF.
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From: Sumana Harihareswara <sumanah(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 00:58
Subject: [Wikitech-l] GSoC announcement of students for 2012
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/04/23/wmf-selects-9-students-for-gsoc/
Ankur Anand, integrating Flickr upload and geolocation into
UploadWizard. Mentor: WMF engineer Ryan Kaldari
Harry Burt, TranslateSvg ("Bringing the translation revolution to
Wikimedia Commons"). Mentor: WMF engineer Max Semenik
Akshay Chugh, making a convention/conference extension for
MediaWiki. Mentor: volunteer developer Jure Kajzer
Ashish Dubey, realtime collaboration in the upcoming visual editor.
Mentor: WMF engineer Trevor Parscal
Suhas HS, improvements to the OpenStackManager extension. Mentor:
WMF engineer Ryan Lane
Nischay Nahata, optimizing the performance of the Semantic MediaWiki
extension. Mentor: volunteer developer Markus Krötzsch
Aaron Pramana, watchlist grouping and workflow improvements. Mentor:
volunteer developer Alex Emsenhuber
Robin Pepermans, working on Incubator improvements and language
support, Mentor: WMF engineer Niklas Laxström
Platonides, a desktop application for mass-uploading files to
Wikimedia Commons. Mentor: me (as project manager and mentor of record;
Platonides will consult with technical experts)
Congratulations. You are the most promising students among the 63 who
applied, so we chose you to participate in our Google Summer of Code
program. Please consult your mentor to discuss what you ought to do
during the community bonding period (now till May 21).
Students whom we did not accept: please don't despair. As you can see,
you had a lot of very strong competition, and we only had nine slots.
We encourage you to keep learning about open source, use our IRC
channels and mailing lists, and even work on your projects as
volunteers! Most of us got into this hobby without GSoC, and you can
too. :-)
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Srikanth.L
Dear all,
A quick update on Wikipatrika. Here's the current draft of the next issue
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiPatrika/2012-05/Community_News
As you can see, most of the sections have been updated with information on
events, meetups and Wikipedia news of our various language communities.
This time, we've also added an interview of a community member (Bpositive's
report on INCOTM) and an external interview (interview with a GLAM
Director) to make Patrika more informative and interesting.
Quite a few of you may already have contributed to this draft. The pages
for as, bn, gu, hi, en, kn, ne, or, sa, te and ta have already been
translated from the respective languages. There is also a Commons tab where
we can add information on various photo walks. The reason why I'm sharing
this update is for everyone else to add material that may have been left
out or any other details. Do remember that we are planning to release this
on May 10th so please do add your edits / sections by May 9th.
Also, going forward, we hope to coordinate the issue on the Wikipatrika
mailing list. So, I invite all those interested to join the Wikipatrika
mailing list here:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-newsletter
Regards
Noopur
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Noopur Raval
Dear all,
I am extremely sorry that this report is long overdue but as I was busy
with my exams and other stuff, I literally did not get time to compile
this. This is related to the Wikipedia Stall I helped set up in Netaji
Subhash Engineering College, Kolkata. NSEC had their annual
techno-management fest, Avenir, 2012 from 16th - 18th March, around the
time I got back to Kolkata from Pune during my prep leave. As there was
already a WikiAcademy, in NSEC, I tried to procure a lab for an editothon,
however, Sucheta who awesomely spearheaded everything for me from her
college part informed me that labs were not available, however, a stall was.
I sent out to set up the stall for the three day fest. I contacted the
local community as well as the India Programs team as this was my first
ever Outreach that I organized. I sent a mail on both the India mailing
list as well as the West Bengal mailing list. Unfortunately, there was a
lack of volunteers as almost everyone was busy. On day 1, Sucheta
accompanied me at the stall for the whole day, however, on Day 2 even she
was busy with her own fest work.
Also Day 1 saw much better numbers that Day 2 and as I was not available on
Day 3, Day 3 was dropped completely. The pros and the cons are as follows:
The Cons:
1. There was serious lack of volunteers and hence at times I felt very
overburdened having to deal with over 10 people at one go.
2. Lack of banners/posters - Though this might not be a big issue but as
there was no large poster available. It was very difficult to inform people
about the stall. I tried my best with A4 documents I printed myself, but
the problem still remained because of the size.
3. Lack of numbers - Perhaps this might be my take, but am used to fests in
the Pune/Mumbai circuit and hence the numbers to me, seemed very less,
although I was informed this was the largest turnout, even more than last
year. Still on Day 1, about 30 people at most visited the stall. On Day 2,
the number was far less.
The Pros:
1. I was highly impressed with the amount in interest in Kolkata. The
students were not only highly interested, they had an array of curious
questions.
2. Certain students even waited for me to finish with others so that they
could get a deeper understanding of Wikipedia and even do some hands on.
3. Two students were so interested, they were coming back again and again
and I even helped them upload pics to their user profile.
4. One student, User:Sanu531 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sanu531>1 first
tried a live edit uploaded his own pic and updated his user page himself.
In my opinion, if there is this level of interest, I think, a student club
of types could do wonders here. I did not create any page on WMIN as this
was only a stall, however, I did upload pics
here<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:NSEC_Kolkata_Outreach>
2. Also as there was no flier/handout available for such I tried to make a
very rookie version in both Bengali and English back to back in one page,
here <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kolkata_Outreach_Doc.pdf>3.
Special thanks to Nitika Tandon for the Presentations which enabled me to
create the poster as well as the whole of India Teams for the support as
well as both the India and Bengali Community for the encouragement.
1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sanu531
2 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:NSEC_Kolkata_Outreach
3 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kolkata_Outreach_Doc.pdf
--
Regards,
Debanjan*
- Lets make this world a better and more informative place*
We have the complete book available on wikisrot, see
http://gu.wikisource.org/wiki/સત્યના_પ્રયોગો_અથવા_આત્મકથા
Also, now you don't need to worry about its disappearing, as this is a
permanent link, this book will always remain there. Not only this, any new
book that we make available, will also remain there forever...
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 8:42 AM, Maharshi Mehta
<maharshi_d_mehta(a)yahoo.com>wrote:
> Some years ago I downloaded attached files for my PDA device in order to
> read it during my travel. May be it can be useful.
>
> I am not sure but
> http://www.forumakademi.info/archive/index.php/t-1690.html was the
> link.Its not working so I have to attach such big files.
>
> Best Regards,
> Maharshi
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Dhaval S. Vyas <dsvyas(a)gmail.com>
> *To:* Wikimedia India Community list <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
>
> *Cc:* wikipedia-gu(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> *Sent:* Wednesday, 2 May 2012 8:02 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [Wikipedia-gu] [Wikimediaindia-l] Autobiography of Mahatma
> Gandhiji is added to Gujarati Wikisource
>
> Thanks once again Ashwin,
>
> I have been considering to release the books officially, but
> unfortunately, PDF conversion is not working with Gujarati. The bug is
> filed a while ago, and I have been told that it may get quite a long time
> to fix the issue. Without having capability of exporting the page as PDF or
> preparing a book, I won't really feel to rush for the book release.
>
> Regards,
> Dhaval
>
> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 6:54 PM, Ashwin Baindur <ashwin.baindur(a)gmail.com>wrote:
>
> Hi Dhaval,
>
> That is really very good to hear. We must maintain the highest
> standards in all things WikiSource. Unlike Wikipedia, errors cannot be
> allowed to co-exist. Well done to all Gujarati Wiki-Source-ians. Keep
> yup your great work.
>
> I request that this book may be please be got "officially" released to
> gain publicity and attention to Gujarati WikiSource & the community.
>
> Ashwin
>
> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 9:56 PM, Dhaval S. Vyas <dsvyas(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > Thanks Ashwin,
> >
> > Not only this book, but the other one that is completed and the one
> > underway, are all proof read against original. These are all manually
> typed
> > and not OCR'd. Thanks to the lack of available OCR Tool/software for
> indic
> > scripts.
> >
> > If you or anybody else here is aware of good and reliable tool for Indic,
> > especially Gujarati, script please share. That will help us upload book
> in
> > remarkably less time than it has taken.
> >
> > Best,
> > Dhaval
> >
> > On 2 May 2012 17:01, "Ashwin Baindur" <ashwin.baindur(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Dhaval,
> >>
> >> No doubt a great achievement and my very sincere congratulations. I
> >> just wanted a clarification. This is very important! Have you checked
> >> each word for correctness against the original text? Or is it OCR'd
> >> text?
> >>
> >> Sincerely
> >>
> >> Ashwin
> >>
> >> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 9:04 PM, Dhaval S. Vyas <dsvyas(a)gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> > Dear Shiju,
> >> >
> >> > Thanks a million for sharing this with the wider community.
> >> >
> >> > An update:
> >> >
> >> > The next collaborative work is already started and in just a week's
> >> > time, it
> >> > is almost 25% completed as well.
> >> >
> >> > Kind Regards,
> >> > Dhaval
> >> >
> >> > On 2 May 2012 16:11, "Shiju Alex" <shiju(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> Dear All,
> >> >>
> >> >> On behalf the Gujarati community, I wanted to share a nice update.
> On
> >> >> 22nd April, Gujarati Wikisource reached a major milestone with the
> >> >> completion of " સત્યના પ્રયોગો અથવા આત્મકથા" (Saty Naa Prayogo
> Athavaa
> >> >> Aatmakathaa) It is the Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi (The story of
> >> >> my
> >> >> experiments with truth). This book has 454 pages in 169 chapters in
> 5
> >> >> sections.
> >> >>
> >> >> The work to digitize this book was started less than 1 month before.
> >> >>
> >> >> The following Gujarati wiki librarians contributed to this project.
> >> >>
> >> >> સુશાંત સાવલા (Sushant Savla)
> >> >> ધવલ વ્યાસ (Dhaval Vyas)
> >> >> vyom25 (Vyom)
> >> >> સતિષ પટેલ (Satish Chandra)
> >> >> જેઠાભાઇ ઓડેદરા (Jethabhai Odedara)
> >> >> અશોક મોઢવાડીયા (Ashok Modhavadia - Captain)
> >> >> jaishree
> >> >> Roopal Mehta
> >> >> સંજય બાલોતિયા (Sanjay Balotia)
> >> >> જીતેન્દ્રસિંહ (Jinedrasinh)
> >> >> નિલેશ બંધીયા (Nilesha Bandhia)
> >> >> Findjigar
> >> >> દેવેન્દ્રસિંહ ગોહિલ (Devendrasinh Gohil)
> >> >>
> >> >> To me, this is actually the biggest part of this story! 13
> >> >> wikilibrarians
> >> >> from all over the world collaborated on this! That is amazing for
> >> >> a relatively new community.
> >> >>
> >> >> I would like to acknowledge the contributions of Ashok Modhavadia
> from
> >> >> Junagadh for managing the project, and for Sushant Savla and Dhaval
> >> >> Vyas for
> >> >> being inspirations behind it. Incidentally, Ashok managed the
> scanning
> >> >> of
> >> >> all the pages, the allotment of chapters, and all other aspects of
> >> >> project
> >> >> management.
> >> >>
> >> >> For anyone interested in how to manage a Wikisource initiative, do
> look
> >> >> at
> >> >> the discussions on this page
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> [
> http://gu.wikisource.org/wiki/%E0%AA%9A%E0%AA%B0%E0%AB%8D%E0%AA%9A%E0%AA%BE…
> ]
> >> >>
> >> >> Digitization of the next book will be managed by Vyom.
> >> >>
> >> >> There is an lovely quote I will close this mail with: આજ આનંદ મારા
> >> >> આંગણે
> >> >> રે લોલ! (Aaj aanand maara aangane re lol!) which means "Today is a
> >> >> joyous
> >> >> day for us!"
> >> >> Congratulations to the Gujarati community.
> >> >>
> >> >> Wishing Gujarati wiki community all the best.
> >> >>
> >> >> Warmest Regards,
> >> >>
> >> >> Shiju Alex
> >> >>
> >> >> _______________________________________________
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> >> >>
> >> >
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> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Warm regards,
> >>
> >> Ashwin Baindur
> >> ------------------------------------------------------
> >>
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>
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>
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>
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For those who are interested on mobile partnerships.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Steven Walling <swalling(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Fri, May 4, 2012 at 4:31 AM
Subject: [WikimediaMobile] Fwd: IRC office hours with Kul and Amit, about
Wikipedia Zero and other mobile work
To: mobile-l <mobile-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
FYI...
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Steven Walling <swalling(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Thu, May 3, 2012 at 4:01 PM
Subject: IRC office hours with Kul and Amit, about Wikipedia Zero and other
mobile work
To: wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Hi everyone,
On May 17th at 16:00 UTC, Kul Wadhwa (Head of Mobile and Business
Development) and Amit Kapoor (Senior Manager, Mobile Partnerships) will be
in #wikimedia-office to talk about Wikipedia Zero,[1] as well as the other
initiatives underway on the mobile team.
As usual, details and time conversion links are on Meta.[2] We have
scheduled this at a time that we hope works for Wikimedians from Africa and
Asia, since it was Abbasjnr's idea to have a mobile office hours. (Thanks
Abbas!)
1. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Zero
2. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours
--
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https://wikimediafoundation.org/
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https://wikimediafoundation.org/
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Srikanth.L
Dear All,
On behalf the Gujarati community, I wanted to share a nice update. On 22nd
April, Gujarati Wikisource reached a major milestone with the completion
of " સત્યના પ્રયોગો અથવા
આત્મકથા<http://gu.wikisource.org/wiki/%E0%AA%B8%E0%AA%A4%E0%AB%8D%E0%AA%AF%E0%AA%A8…>"
(Saty Naa Prayogo Athavaa Aatmakathaa) It is the Autobiography of Mahatma
Gandhi (The story of my experiments with
truth<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_My_Experiments_with_Truth>).
This book has 454 pages in 169 chapters in 5 sections.
The work to digitize this book was started less than 1 month before.
The following Gujarati wiki librarians contributed to this project.
1. સુશાંત સાવલા (Sushant Savla)
2. ધવલ વ્યાસ (Dhaval Vyas)
3. vyom25 (Vyom)
4. સતિષ પટેલ (Satish Chandra)
5. જેઠાભાઇ ઓડેદરા (Jethabhai Odedara)
6. અશોક મોઢવાડીયા (Ashok Modhavadia - Captain)
7. jaishree
8. Roopal Mehta
9. સંજય બાલોતિયા (Sanjay Balotia)
10. જીતેન્દ્રસિંહ (Jinedrasinh)
11. નિલેશ બંધીયા (Nilesha Bandhia)
12. Findjigar
13. દેવેન્દ્રસિંહ ગોહિલ (Devendrasinh Gohil)
To me, this is actually the biggest part of this story! *13
wikilibrarians*from all over the world collaborated on this! That is
amazing for
a relatively new community.
I would like to acknowledge the contributions of Ashok Modhavadia from
Junagadh for managing the project, and for Sushant Savla and Dhaval Vyas
for being inspirations behind it. Incidentally, Ashok managed the scanning
of all the pages, the allotment of chapters, and all other aspects of
project management.
For anyone interested in how to manage a Wikisource initiative, do look at
the discussions on this page
[
http://gu.wikisource.org/wiki/%E0%AA%9A%E0%AA%B0%E0%AB%8D%E0%AA%9A%E0%AA%BE…
]
Digitization of the next book will be managed by Vyom.
There is an lovely quote I will close this mail with: આજ આનંદ મારા આંગણે
રે લોલ! (Aaj aanand maara aangane re lol!) which means "Today is a joyous
day for us!"
Congratulations to the Gujarati community.
Wishing Gujarati wiki community all the best.
Warmest Regards,
Shiju Alex
Winning bid for Wikimania 2013: Hong Kong
--
naveenpf
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: James Forrester <jdforrester(a)gmail.com>
Date: Wed, May 2, 2012 at 4:52 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Selection of winning bid for Wikimania 2013: Hong
Kong
To: "Wikimania general list (open subscription)" <
wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
On behalf of the Wikimania 2013[0] selection Jury[1], I can announce
that we have awarded the conference to Hong Kong. Congratulations to
the bidding team, and to the London team who also did a particularly
excellent job.
There were five official bids: Bristol, Naples and Surakarta, as well
as the two finalists of Hong Kong and London[2]. The Jury and the
bidding teams discussed them in three public IRC meetings in April. We
determined that Hong Kong and London were the strongest contenders,
and decided to focus on these two as the finalists. After further
e-mail enquiries, and considering evaluation by Wikimedia Foundation
staff, a final, private meeting was held to reach a final decision.
The Jury was pleased by the high quality in both the final bids, and
required over three hours' discussion to reach the final verdict. We
considered each bid according to the criteria[3], focussing on
following factors: Venue, Program, Geo-location & Logistics, Local
Opportunities, Accommodations, Team & Chapter, and Budget & Finances.
We found consensus that the Hong Kong bid was the stronger, especially
because of their strong advance planning; solid support by the local
Wikimedia Chapter, the community, local government, and a partner
organisation that is experienced in planning conferences; and their
good combination of venue and accommodation.
The Jury has confidence that the Hong Kong bidding team will pull off
a magnificent Wikimania, and we are pleased for our global community
to return to Asia once again. With a motivated group of volunteers who
have experience in organizing smaller Wikimedia activities, and a
partner with experience in organizing larger-scale events, they have
found a good mix to create a successful conference. The Jury did also
identify some weaker points in each the bids, and will be happy to
share those privately with the teams so that the Hong Kong team can
use that to their advantage in organizing Wikimania 2013, and the
other teams can use the feedback to improve their bids for a future
year.
We thank all candidate teams - the process is gruelling and requires a
very substantial time investment. They are all to be commended for
their submissions.
To use this soap-box for a moment, as Moderator I would like to remind
the community that we hope that this time was the last that we use
this ad-hoc process to decide on the Wikimania venue, and encourage
everyone to engage with the discussion on Meta[4] about how we might
select Wikimania 2014 and beyond in a more open, community-led way.
Please, do join in the discussions.
Yours,
James Forrester
Moderator, Wikimania 2013 Jury
For the Wikimania 2013 Jury
[0] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013
[1] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013_jury
[2] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013_bids
[3] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013_judging_criteria
[4] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_Advisory_Group
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Hi all,
WMF Exec. Director Sue Gardner has started a poll about the preferred times
for IRC office hours. This is for any team or person holding the office
hours, and if Indian Wikimedians could contribute to this it will help
inform when staff hold these meetings.
The link is: http://doodle.com/hnivrcvz3t5sf2gf#table
Thank you!
--
Steven Walling
https://wikimediafoundation.org/