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From: Arjuna Rao Chavala <arjunaraoc(a)gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 7:56 PM
Subject: Wikimedia India Annual Report 2011-12 released in 2nd AGM
To: wmin-members <wmin-members(a)googlegroups.com>
>From Wikimedia India blog. <http://blog.wikimedia.in>
Chapter held its second Annual General body Meeting on 23 Sep 2012. Arjuna
Rao Chavala, President welcomed the members to the meeting. Naveen PF,
Secretary presented a brief account of Chapter activities during the year
2011-2012. He highlighted the launch of Membership, large number of Wiki
Academies across India, Wiki Conference India 2011 and Wikimedia India
portal launch. On behalf of Anirudh Singh Bhati, Treasurer who could not
be present in the meeting, Arjuna presented the report of Auditor. Report
of activities and auditor’s report were approved by the general
body.Annual report
2011-12<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WMIN-Annual-Report2011-2012TwoUp.pdf>covering
both the activities and financials was released. Read
more.<http://blog.wikimedia.in/2012/09/29/wikimedia-india-annual-report-2011-12-r…>
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Regards
Arjuna
Hi all.
Hope you are doing good.
This is to inform you all that due to academic reasons, *I wish to step
down from the post of volunteer co-ordinator* for the *INCOTM
WikiProject*.<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_India/Collaborations_of_…>
Being in my third year of engineering and a crucial phase of the journey, I
wish to give more time to academics. Continuous assignments and
mini-projects are always there in the pipeline for us and its getting
difficult for me to manage INCOTM alongside the busy schedule. I can't give
my 100% to the project and there are capable people who can devote complete
time. Hence, I would like to bid adieu to INCOTM as a volunteer
co-ordinator.
I have had an excellent experience working with Indian editors and
collaborating with them. My work was appreciated and I got the privilege to
be featured on main page of Wikimedia India as well. In the process, I got
to learn a lot as well.
I would like to thank Ashwin Baindur (User:AshLin) for giving me the
opportunity to lead a project of this caliber as well as Hisham Mundol and
Nitika Tandon for their time to time motivation.
The *nominations for the post of new volunteer co-ordinator are open*. You
can nominate yourself<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_India/Collaboration…>and
genuine editors can vote for you. Lets close this by the 25th of this
month.
Though I am on an {{Education wikibreak}}, I will certainly come online and
participate in the collaborations as an editor for sure.
Thank you once again. As always, happy editing and happy collaborating! :-)
--
Warm Regards,
*Pratik Lahoti*
User:BPositive <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:BPositive>
*Speak less, work more....*
Odia Wikipedians meeting up in Hyderabad tomorrow (29th). This news has
also been covered by The Hindu and TOI today. Do come if you are around :)
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From: swetapadma d. satpathy <swetapadma07(a)gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 3:32 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia-in-hyd] 1st Odia Wikipedia workshop in Hyderabad
To: wikimedia-in-hyd(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Hi All,
I am happy to inform you that the 1st Odia Wikipedia workshop in Hyderabad
is being scheduled on 29th October,12 at 4PM in Lamakaan, Banjara Hill. The
objective of the workshop is to learn and know more about Odia Wikipedia.
Till now there are 3000 Odia articles available in Odia Wikipedia. In a
view to consolidate the knowledge and in depth experience of participants
/fellow wikipedians through discussion and live demonstration of searching,
writing and editing an article in Odia language, the workshop has been
planned. This shall definitely encourage participants to create and develop
articles for Odia wikipedia.This is an open event for all who can read and
write Odia.
Best Wishes,
Swetapadma Satpathy
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Noopur Raval
Please do attend the Hyderabad meet up if you are in the city on 30th!
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From: Tausif Rahmathullah <s.tausifr(a)gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 3:01 PM
Subject: The Sunday meet-up
To: wikimedia-in-hyd <wikimedia-in-hyd(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc: Noopur Raval <nraval(a)wikimedia.org>
Folks,
A mild reminder of the our *meet-up* on *Sunday 30th September*. Amidst a
few confusions about postponing and things, we have all agreed upon moving
forward with the event without any change.
Incidentally, our meet-up has been mention in The Hindu and The Times of
India.
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/drumming-sess…
*Where*
LaMakaan, In lane Adjacent to CBay, Opposite GVKOne Road No 1, Banjara
Hills Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
*When*
Sunday 30th September,2012
11 AM to 1 PM
For any info, you can call
Tausif at 9885474156
Abhijit at 9866898311
See you all this Sunday!
Regards,
*Tausif*
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Noopur Raval
*Cross posting!*
Hi,
the Mumbai community had organised a photowalk to support Wiki Loves
Monuments in India; organised by Wikimedia India Chapter.
Scheduled on 22 September Saturday morning at 8 am, Dadar Nakshatra mall
was the meeting point for all. However, the morning wasn't good at all
because of heavy rains and hence had to go forward with 9 participants
after waiting for an hour at the meeting point.
We all went in a single group and firstly went to Mahim fort (which is no
longer left), Bandra Fort, Sion Fort, August Kranti Maidan and Banganga
Tank. If it wasn't heavy rains, things would have been different, though
whether was is not in our hands. Less participants also made possible in
better knowing of all and they were amazed with such plans and made sure to
participate in further events.
On behalf of Wiki Loves Monuments India team, I would like to thank *Nikita
Belavate, Krutikka Jawanjal and Manan Shah*. Nikita had worked on with
lists by preparing plans and also stayed in touch with participants post
Photowalk and guided them on how to upload to Wikimedia Commons. Krutikka
helped in inviting lots of friends, and stood till the end on-ground
lending a strong support. She also stood connected with participants
post-Photowalk. Missed Manan at the event, though he had poured in with
lots of ideas for the Photowalk. *Thank you again all three, for helping
make things possible. *Never to forget international organisers *Effiet
Sanders *and *Tomasz Kozlowshi* for helping organising and yeah, Naveen
deserves more than thanks :)
*
*
Not to forget all participants who stood with us in the rainy climate and
walked with us in all levels. Some of them have already uploaded images
while some of them will be doing it soon. Thanks all!
--
Thanks and regards,
(User:Karthikndr <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Karthikndr>)
*Karthik Nadar.*
(Ph: 91-9773608862)
Sundar and I are happy to announce the following nominees stand as elected:
Karthik Nadar - 19 votes
Nikita Belavate - 17 votes
Pranav Curumsey - 16 votes
Srikanth Ramakrishnan - 14 votes
Viswa Prabha - 13 votes
Abhijeet Safai - 6 votes
Shantanoo - 6 votes
Sivahari Nandakumar - 9 votes
Sohan Maheshwar - 9 votes
We had received a total of 28 valid ballots - both in person and postal.
Congratulations to the elected candidates and a big thank you to all
those who stood for the elections.
Heya,
Just to let you know,
Yuvipanda has created an App for Android users so they can read
the latest version of the Signpost.
>From Google Play:
*The Signpost is a community written and community edited newspaper,
covering stories, events and reports relating to Wikipedia and the
Wikimedia Foundation sister projects. A new issue is published every Monday.
*
*This app lets you read the Signpost issues from your Mobile phone, and
features push notifications so that you'll never miss a Signpost issue
again!*
*
*
The link is https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.yuvi.signpost
While this is currently for the English Wikipedia, I hope Yuvi can support
us in getting it across other Indian languages which may have similar
newsletters.
Cheers,
Happy Editing.
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Regards,
Srikanth Ramakrishnan,
Sathyamangalam-Gobichettipalayam Star Gazers.
Please sign this petition for Volvo buses in Coimbatore:
https://www.change.org/en-IN/petitions/the-transport-minister-tamil-nadu-in…
*Cross posting*
*
*
Hi all,
As part of Wiki Loves Monuments in India, the Mumbai Community is
organising a Photowalk this Saturday, i.e. 22 September. This photowalk
would primarily cover all the monuments in and around Mumbai and the
captured photos will be part of the international contest Wiki Loves
Monuments.
*Here, I invite all Mumbai Wikipedians and other to if around Mumbai for
the weekend to participate in the contest and make India proud among all
international participants and organiser.*
More details here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_Mumbai_III
Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/522517937762635/
Thanks! I again appologise for late notice.
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Thanks and regards,
(User:Karthikndr <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Karthikndr>)
*Karthik Nadar.*
(Ph: 91-9773608862)