WikimediaIndia-l July 2012

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Fwd: Election Committee appointment for Wikimedia Chapter Elections-2012
by Arjuna Rao Chavala 25 Jul '12

25 Jul '12

FYI ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Arjuna Rao Chavala <arjunaraoc(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 3:47 PM Subject: Election Committee appointment for Wikimedia Chapter Elections-2012 To: wmin-members(a)googlegroups.com Dear Members, Greetings, I am glad to inform you that Election rules<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/File:WMINElectionAndAppointmentRules.pdf>for Wikimedia Chapter have been approved by EC. As per this, EC has constituted an Election Committee consisting of Mr Gautam K John, Returning officer, Mr Balasundara Raman, Polling officer The terms of reference for the committee include - Announce the elections and call for nominations by members - Ensure that there are at least the minimum number of nominations by encouraging members to submit their nomination forms - Screen the nominations and form a slate for Election - Work with EC to arrange for printing and posting of ballots - Conduct the voting for members participating in person during AGM - Count the valid ballots (both postal and in person) and announce the winners. I request your support and cooperation to the committee for the smooth conduct of Wikimedia Chapter Elections-2012 Regards Arjuna Rao Chavala President, Wikimedia Chapter

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[Blog]: Chronicling the Crafts – India’s First GLAM Initiative
by Noopur Raval 25 Jul '12

25 Jul '12

Dear all, Here's<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/07/24/chronicling-the-crafts-indias-first-g…>a blog post cum report on India's first GLAM initiative at the National Crafts Museum! The program started out in English but was taken forward in Hindi to suit the staff members who have been enthusiastically creating articles and editing in Hindi Wikipedia! The program has been a bold step to prove that GLAM can very well happen in India - with its own design and structure and it has also given the Hindi community a precious gift of 6 new editors. A special thanks to User: Roboture who has been with us in each and every meet and helped train editors, User:Yann for his first set of invaluable Commons contributions and to User:Aniruddhajnu and User:Siddharatha_ghai for coming down to the museum to inspire the staff members. Hope this gives more courage to any community that wants to start a similar project! Would love to provide any help needed. Thank you, Regards Noopur -- Noopur Raval

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[Blog]: Tag and assess drive 2012: the largest collaboration of WP:India on English Wikipedia!
by Noopur Raval 24 Jul '12

24 Jul '12

Dear all, I am delighted to give you a small summary of the Tag and assess drive that was conducted by members of WP:India by means of a blog post. Here<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/07/20/english-wikipedias-biggest-ever-india…>it is. As you can read in it, organizers and participants alike, unequivocally agree it is an unprecedented achievement for members of our community! Thanks to all of you for sparing precious time to give your inputs. Personally, it was also inspiring getting to know editors outside the mailing list. May I take this opportunity to propose a bigger project or a new collaboration like this one? Just starting a conversation :) Thank you, Best, Noopur -- Noopur Raval

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Wikimedia India - June 2012 report
by Naveen Francis 22 Jul '12

22 Jul '12

Dear all, Greetings from Wikimedia India ! Organisational Updates Chapter audit is expected to be complete in couple of weeks. Income tax department has responded to our income tax exemption (12A registration) application and requested for additional information. Arjuna Rao Chavala along with Chapter Consultant Mr MN Rao met with IT authorities and clarified how the Chapter activities are charitable. As IT authorities could not be convinced fully, it is decided to withdraw the application and reapply at a later date. *Elections* Election rules were approved by the EC. Election Committee consisting of Mr Gautam John and Mr Balasundara Raman were appointed. Further communication regarding Elections will follow soon from Election Committee. *Membership:* Membership as of 31 June, 2012 is 76, which includes all the renewals that were processed till 18 July 2012. *Donations:* Donations till date for the current FY is Rs 100/- *Internet Relay Chat(IRCs):* IRC on WLM was conducted and - Karthik Nadar - Noopur Raval - Yuvi Panda have been volunteered for core team of WLM India. *Board Meetings:* We had one meeting in June. *WikiConference 2011* Accounts are submitted to Auditor. We expect Audit report in couple of weeks. *Upcoming Events* - "The Fifth Elephant <http://fifthelephant.in/2012/>",Conference on the big data ecosystem, 27 & 28 July 2012, Bangalore - Wikimedia Chapter is participating as Partner Community & Special Interest Groups *Events:* A round-up of Wikimedia events, academies and initiatives around the nation are updated here <http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Events>. Media Coverage Media Coverage on Wikimedia India and Wikipedia is updated here<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/In_the_News> Grants Funded - Kannada Wikipedia Anniversary Celebration<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Grants/Kannada_Wikipedia_9th_Anniversary>was funded We look forward to your continued support and active participation. Best, On behalf of Wikimedia Chapter (India) Naveen Francis Secretary

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Good job
by nazmu66＠gmail.com 21 Jul '12

21 Jul '12

Special thanks to the wikimedia india.

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[Wikimedia-I] Report of 17th Wikipedia Community Meetup in Mumbai.
by nikita belavate 21 Jul '12

21 Jul '12

Dear All, We had the '17th Wikipedia Mumbai Community Meetup' on 14th July,Sat. at Flarepath office in Bandra, who were generous in providing us their place on the weekend. It started with informal introductions since there were new members attending Wiki-meetup for the very first time. There were 17 attendees in all, including members from Flarepath team, an Odia-Wiki contributor-Manoranjan Bahera (who also attended the meetup for the first time in Mumbai !),Vikram Crishna ji, Karthik, Vikram Vincent ( from Banglore community), myself and some more new folks. We had planned for an editing session this time followed by a brief about Wiki Loves Monuments.The session was decided to progress depending on the understanding and knowledge of attendees about Wikipedia, and was focussed more on a basic level. Also the meetup was just the day after Eng. Wikipedia crossed the milestone of 4-million articles ! Alot of people present did not know about it, and so we made it an initiation point, further into, - How Wikipedia managed to gather so many articles? - Who create these articles(it was not a one day task)? - Anyone can do it and How? They did not have an account or had one but hardly used or edited. So, the basic question of why you should have an account as well as how wikipedia respects anonymity was discussed. It was interactive and people were very enthusiastic about getting first hand insights and begin editing. Also, there was discussion regarding how a 'company' page should be like in wikipedia which would not be speedily deleted ! Vikram Crishna ji was present and we got to hear from him as well ! We also created an account for a new-comer and did few edits from her account. Then we discussed briefly about Wikimedia commons. We categorised some of the Mumbai Photowalk images using cat-a-lot. A brief about WLM was also made; they are willing to volunteer/help and wanted to know more. It was post 5pm by this time. Snacks and Coffee were sponsored by Flarepath, a Big Thanks to them ! I want to Thank Ashwin (user:AshLin) here :) for taking an editing sesson in WCI-2011, which was the first session I had attended, very organised wherein he had given each of the attendees a printout/handout explaining the basics of editing etc. We took some more printouts of that and distributed at the end as the summary of the past 2- 21/2 hours. Thank you Noopur for suggesting Flarepath as well as connecting us ! Thanks to Abhishek Suryawanshi, who was going to come to Mumbai, only for the meetup, however owing to something urgent, he could not; However he and Srikanth Ramakrishnan did support offline. Thanks Alot ! Few pictures of the meetup are here<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Mumbai_Meetup_July2012> ! We hope to keep in touch with the newbies and make them regular editors and have regular gatherings ! -- Warm Regards, Nikita Belavate. +91 99-20-30-9661

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Fwd: [GLAM-US] David Ferriero's Wikimania speech
by Jyothis E 18 Jul '12

18 Jul '12

Fellows, Please watch if you have 24 minutes to spare. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47pEcmXjt8E Regards, Jyothis. http://www.Jyothis.net [[User:Jyothis]] <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jyothis> Camerocks - Rock your digital world! <https://www.camerocks.com/> completion date = (start date + ((estimated effort x 3.1415926) / resources) + ((total coffee breaks x 0.25) / 24)) + Effort in meetings ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dominic McDevitt-Parks <mcdevitd(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 4:04 PM Subject: [GLAM-US] David Ferriero's Wikimania speech To: "Wikimedia & GLAM collaboration [Public]" <glam(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, glam-us(a)lists.wikimedia.org The Wikimania people were nice enough to prioritize the editing of David Ferriero's closing plenary speech at Wikimania so that he could embed it in his blog post which was published today. As a result, it's actually the only official video from Wikimania available yet! See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47pEcmXjt8E (blog post<http://blogs.archives.gov/aotus/?p=4298> ) I thought people on this list would be interested to view it, if you didn't get a chance to see it in person, and also to share and quote from it even if you did. It's all about putting our GLAM work in the context of ongoing trends in the cultural sector, and it was well-received by the live audience (though the cheering is a bit muted in the video). The full text will go up at archives.gov soon (here<http://www.archives.gov/about/speeches/ferriero/index.html> ). Dominic _______________________________________________ GLAM-US mailing list GLAM-US(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glam-us

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] English Wikipedia crossed 4 million articles milestone
by Tanvir Rahman 13 Jul '12

13 Jul '12

Just a note, today, English Wikipedia crossed 4 million articles milestone. Stay up forever old buddy! :-D \\o o// \o/ /o\ And today is the second day of Wikimania! Surely they have something new to celebrate and brag about now! :-D Regards, Tanvir -- Tanvir Rahman Wikitanvir

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] English Wikipedia crossed 4 million articles milestone
by nazmu66＠gmail.com 13 Jul '12

13 Jul '12

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Do not donate to Wikipedia
by Ravishankar 10 Jul '12

10 Jul '12

Hey, Do not donate to Wikipedia because your money will go for insane grants like http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Participation:AbhiSuryawanshi/NASA_LARSS_pro… I plan to run this campaign across all Social media networks if I continue to see any such donation. Ravi

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