WikimediaIndia-l March 2013

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[Press]: Lessons and tips on getting media coverage
by Noopur Raval 25 Sep '18

25 Sep '18

Dear all, Over the past one month, we've been working with community members from Assamese, Kannada Malayalam and Nepali communities to get maximum possible media coverage and press support in order to highlight their community and events and hopefully get new editors for our movement. In all cases, I help prepare the press release<http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%…>(as, kn, ml, ne), then community members translate it and then we work together to try and reach out to the widest possible audience. Here are a few links to the press releases and newspaper articles. There are a few in local language papers that are not online. Also, all these reports are due to the collaborative effort and very important follow up by community members like Jyoti, Bishnu, Gitartha, Omshivaprakash, Anoop, Ramesh, Kannan, Sujith, Saroj and Ganesh for the communities respectively. Assamese: http://www.northeasttoday.in/our-states/assam/assamese-wikipedia-celebrates… http://news.outlookindia.com/items.aspx?artid=765639 http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/info-tech/article3… http://www.sify.com/news/assamese-wikipedia-completes-10-years-of-existence… http://ibnlive.in.com/generalnewsfeed/news/assamese-wikipedia-completes-10-… http://issuu.com/assamese/docs/ghy_13062012?mode=window&backgroundColor#222… http://www.telegraphindia.com/1120611/jsp/northeast/story_15594299.jsp http://sevensisterspost.com/?p=17895 http://amarasom.glpublications.in/Details.aspx?id=9509&boxid=103211609 Kannada: http://epaper.udayavani.com/Display.aspx?Pg=H&Edn=MN&DispDate=6/18/2012 http://allevents.in/Bangalore/483961428297721 Malayalam: http://www.efytimes.com/e1/fullnews.asp?edid=82424 http://keralaitnews.com/state-scan/other-cities/4717-kollam-to-host-malayal… http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-kerala/article3351423.e… http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-04-14/social-media/3134186… http://www.techgoss.com/Story/557S12-Wiki-Malayalam-Meet-held-at-Kerala.aspx http://article.wn.com/view/2012/04/28/Malayalam_wiki_most_innovative/ http://www.deccanchronicle.com/channels/sci-tech/hitech/malayalam-wiki-most… http://ibnlive.in.com/news/malayalam-wikipedia-could-be-emulated/253196-60-… http://newindianexpress.com/states/kerala/article390787.ece Nepali: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/34914418/Nagarik_Article.png https://dl.dropbox.com/u/34914418/karobar_article.png Radio Sagarmatha broadcasted an interview with a Wikipedian Ganesh Paudel... Radio Nepal Bani Broadcasted an interview with Wikipedians located in Kathmandu (Mr. Ganesh Paudel and Mr. Saroj Dhakal) Just thought I'd share a few pointers based on what went right and what could have been better on my part. This may help you in the future if you too are looking to get media attention for your community and events. A few lessons: *Planning:* - Database of contacts: We have put in place a fairly comprehensive database of English as well as local press, television and radio contacts. I'd be happy to share them with anyone who needs to get in touch with journalists. - In case of local language newspapers, calling a journalist/newspaper office or personally visiting them to give the press brief always works better than e-mailing. Most local language newspapers still prefer a hard copy of the brief or even ask for a fax sometimes. - For the Assamese anniversary celebrations, we had an agenda well in advance and we (the community members and I) made sure the press release was ready in English as well as in Assamese so we could send it out to newspapers, television channels and radio stations. - Regarding English language newspapers, it is always advisable to call first and then e-mail the brief to a senior editor as well as a staff reporter (at least two people within the organization) to ensure the story receives due attention. Attaching a few photographs of your past meetups is a good idea. - It is advisable to translate the press release and attach both versions while sending it to the journalist. - If you are planning to have an event on the weekend, make sure you call and e-mail much earlier during the week. *Event:* - Always make sure to invite the journalists to your event. This will not only help in getting a comprehensive story but will also encourage them to take up editing. - Dealing with news channels and radio stations: While DY 365 channel covered the Assamese meetup, other channels did not bother to follow up. For radio, it *only* works if you speak to them in local language. *Other tips:* - It is a *must* to put in a contact number of preferably an email ID at the end of a press release. Maybe all communities should have either a chapter email ID (like bengali(a)wikimedia.in) or a gmail ID run by an active community member. This can be super useful and will avoid giving out personal details. - Building a quote pool: How about we keep a few quotes from different community members on the basics - (examples: why I edit, how I edit, what is your message to fellow Marathi/Tamil/Gujarati speakers) ? Of course, quotes from people are crucial and must not be misused but, this can help the Chapter communications team too - Getting the article right: Spelling mistakes, misquoted information, erroneous figures are a common problem with Wikipedia stories. Although it may not always be possible, do request the journalist to show you the article before publishing it. - Targeting news agencies: After the Assamese press experience, I realized having one PTI press release ensures that the story reaches at least 4-5 newspapers. This is a very effective way of maximizing media coverage. I might have missed out on a few lessons and invite community members and the chapter communication team to contribute with more inputs. Maybe we can even document this on Meta for future reference. Thank you, Best Noopur -- Noopur Raval

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Please add your name to the Geographical List of Indian Wikipedians
by Ashwin Baindur 31 Jul '18

31 Jul '18

Hello friends, This is a link I recommend you to bookmark. http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Geographical_distribution_of_Indian_Wikipedians This list is useful for outreach & also whenever someone needs Wiki-Help in a particular city. It would be great if Wikipedians could update this list.:) We have the following completely unrepresented states/UTs: * Andaman & Nicobar Islands * Arunachal Pradesh * Assam * Chandigarh * Chhattisgarh * Dadra, Nagar & Haveli * Daman & Diu * Goa * Himachal Pradesh * Jammu & Kashmir * Jharkhand (AngPradesh is in Mumbai) * Lakshadweep * Manipur * Meghalaya * Mizoram * Puducherry * Punjab (oye, ye ki hoya!) * Nagaland * Uttar Pradesh * Uttarakhand Okay, all you admins, please update your status (Mikey my boy, that means you too)! Abroad, we dont have Indic Wikipedians listed for: * Africa * Australia * Asia (other than India) * Middle East * North America * South America Unless you would like to stay off list, of course that's acceptable too. May I also request Tinu / list admins to please forward it all the Indic language & city Wikimedia lists. We need this resource to be as comprehensible as possible. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur ------------------------------------------------------

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Featured Wikimedian profile on Wikimedia India Chapter wiki
by Netha Hussain 03 Nov '13

03 Nov '13

Dear all, On a casual request, I was prompted to support some of the tasks the India Chapter and the India community would benefit together, and I decided to take up the responsibility of creating profiles for the 'Featured Wikimedian' section in the Wikimedia India Chapter wiki<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Main_Page>. This section aims to showcase the achievements of active Wikimedians who have contributed significantly to the Wikimedia projects in English and/or Indian languages. The featured profile for January is that of Mr. Balachandran G <http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Featured_Wikimedian/Archive/2013//January> from Malayalam Wikipedia. If you know an inspiring Wikimedian whose profile hasn't been featured yet, do let me know! Please also go through the profile of the featured Wikimedian of this month and send your suggestions and comments for improving this section. Happy new year! Regards User: Netha Hussain -- Netha Hussain Student of Medicine and Surgery Govt. Medical College, Kozhikode Blogs : *nethahussain.blogspot.com swethaambari.wordpress.com*

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Photography event on Indian food
by Yohann Thomas 09 Apr '13

09 Apr '13

I was thinking of proposing an online photography event on Indian food. Please suggest some ideas. Respectfully, Yohann Thomas Wikipedia Club Pune yohannvt(a)gmail.com

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Call for volunteer support to conduct a workshop in Bhopal
by Karthik Nadar 01 Apr '13

01 Apr '13

Dear Wikipedians, there has been request from an university team to conduct a workshop in Bhopal. If you're interested (staying in Bhopal, or somewhere nearby) or, please do mail me. Accommodations will be provided by the organising team. Thanks! -- Regards, Karthik Nadar. (Secretary, Wikimedia India Chapter).

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Servers in India for Wikipedia & other Wiki projects
by Pavanaja U B 01 Apr '13

01 Apr '13

Hi all, Hope you are aware of the slowing of Internet in India due to the cut in undersea cable near Egypt. I am finding websites hosted outside India opening very very slowly, or some don’t open at all. Websites hosted in India open quickly. Google has servers in India. Wikipedia opens very very slowly. This brings up the idea that there must be servers in India for Wikipedia and other Wiki projects. Thanks and regards, Pavanaja

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Fwd: [FSFTN] Wikipedia workshop for women
by Shrinivasan T 31 Mar '13

31 Mar '13

Hello, FSFTN will be conducting a workshop on Wikipedia for women on Sunday,31st March from 10 am - 3 pm. The venue is Systems Lab,CS-Dept, IIT-Madras. The workshop intent is to: 1. Encourage more women to contribute actively to Wikipedia and get us started 2. Put across to more women, the concept of Free Content Most of us have stumbled upon Wikipedia when searching for information on topics. This is an opportunity to understand how your non-monetary contributions would make a positive difference in the shaping of this encyclopedia. Women/girls who are interested/want to know more are welcome Anupama FSFTN _______________________________________________ Mailinglist mailing list Mailinglist(a)fsftn.org http://fsftn.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_fsftn.org

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Wikipedia Workshop for Women, Chennai
by Bala Jeyaraman 30 Mar '13

30 Mar '13

Hi all, The Free Software Foundation Tamil Nadu (FSFTN) is organising a Wikipedia Workshop for Women in Chennai. Wikimedia India is supporting this event in an advisory capacity. *Location*: Systems Lab, Computer Sciences Department, IIT Madras *Date *: 31 March, 10 AM - 3 PM *Organiser *: Anupama Srinivas, FSFTN *Facebook page* : https://www.facebook.com/events/470510356338296/ *Events page*: http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wikipedia_Workshop_for_Women,_Chennai regards Bala Jeyaraman Executive Council Member Wikimedia India

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Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing Round 1 Individual Engagement Grantees
by Harsh Kothari 29 Mar '13

29 Mar '13

FYI ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Siko Bouterse <sbouterse(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 2:54 AM Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing Round 1 Individual Engagement Grantees To: wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Hi all, I’m happy to announce the first round of Individual Engagement Grantees today! The Wikimedia Foundation makes a variety of types of grants, many of which focus on groups and organizations. Individual Engagement Grants exemplify our commitment to increase support to individual contributors to Wikimedia projects, with a particular focus on making online improvements. These grants will support 8 Wikimedians working individually and in small teams for 6 months to complete projects that benefit the Wikimedia movement, serve our mission, and strengthen our communities.[1] For this pilot round, which began in February 2013, Wikimedians submitted over 50 ideas and drafts from around the world. WMF grantmaking staff narrowed these down to 22 complete proposals meeting the eligibility criteria for review.[2][3] 18 Wikimedians formed a volunteer committee, with participants from 12 countries and from Wikimedia projects in 14 languages. .[4] Committee members reviewed each proposal carefully, scoring them against a rubric of pre-defined selection criteria and making recommendations based on available funding for this round.[5] WMF grantmaking staff shared aggregated scores and comments back with the community, while the committee continued its deliberations to finalize a recommendation to WMF to fund 8 projects in total. All eight projects have been approved for funding by the WMF. In examining the recommendations, we were struck by how varied these projects are in terms of grant size, project methodology and engagement targets. A central aim of Individual Engagement Grants is to foster innovation, with a particular focus on online impact. We think that innovative ideas and the skills that various contributors bring to Wikimedia projects can lead to better online environments for everyone, and we hope to learn a lot from these grantees about how we can support more of this across the movement. The round 1 selected projects are: “Build an effective method of publicity in PRChina,” led by Chinese Wikipedian User:AddisWang, funded at $350.[6] Addis and a small team of volunteers based in mainland China will be experimenting with social media campaigns to grow awareness of Wikipedia in China. “Reply Edits,” led by User:Jeph paul, funded at $500.[7] Jeph is building a MediaWiki gadget that creates a visual playback of the edit history of a Wikipedia article, allowing users to see an article’s change over time. “The Wikipedia Library,” funded at $7500 and “The Wikipedia Adventure,” funded at $10,000, will both be led by User:Ocaasi.[8][9] It is worth noting that we hadn’t anticipated a dual project situation and don’t expect it to be a usual circumstance. We’ve decided to fund both ideas in this round, though, because IEGrants focus on funding promising, feasible projects with good community support wherever we find them. For the Wikipedia Library, Ocaasi will be building and consolidating partnerships with reference providers donating access to reliable sources for Wikipedia editors, and improving the systems for managing these programs. The Wikipedia Adventure is an on-wiki game that will be piloted on English Wikipedia using the Guided Tours extension to determine whether this type of interactive learning is an effective engagement strategy for new editors. “Consolidate wikiArS to involve art schools,” led by Catalan Wikimedian User:Dvdgmz, funded at 7810 Euros.[10] The WikiArS outreach program builds partnerships with art and design schools to teach students to create images for donation to Wikimedia Commons and use in Wikipedia articles. This grant will support focused experimentation in the existing Catalan program’s models that can allow the initiative to scale and to be sustained as an international program. “Elaborate Wikisource strategic vision,” led by Catalan Wikisource User:Micru and Italian Wikisource User:Aubrey, funded at 10,000 Euros.[11] This project brings together the global Wikisource community and other stakeholders to define a vision for the project’s future. They’ll begin work on near-term goals that can be accomplished by volunteers on-wiki, and investigate paths forward for longer term improvements to Wikisource. “MediaWiki data browser,” led by User:Yaron K, partially funded at $15,000 in order to pilot the initial concept.[12] Yaron’s project will create a framework to allow any user to easily generate apps or websites to browse sets of structured data that exist on Wikipedia and other projects running on MediaWiki. Finally, we’ve provisionally approved an 8th project for funding -- “MediaWiki and Javanese script,” led by User:Bennylin, funded at $3000 -- provided that a couple of dependencies can be satisfied.[13] This project will provide technical support using a “train-the-trainers” model that teaches volunteers how to use Javanese script online, facilitating the transcription of Javanese texts to projects like Javanese Wikisource. The newly developed Universal Language Selector extension for MediaWiki makes the use of this script online increasingly possible. Because Benny’s project will rely on the availability of this extension on all Javanese Wikimedia projects, the start of this grant depends on the WMF Internationalization team’s completing its scheduled deployment in coming months. We would also like to see more discussion and input from other members of the Javanese community demonstrating the potential of this project, and will be working with Benny to figure out how to support those conversations while we await the deploy. The new grantees will begin work on their projects in the coming weeks and they’ll be sharing progress and learnings with us all along the way. Please visit their pages on Meta-Wiki for complete project information and updates.[1] Thanks to everyone who participated in this round! We look forward to seeing even more of your ideas and input in preparation for round 2, which begins on August 1st.[14] Warm regards, Siko Bouterse, on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation and the IEG committee [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG#ieg-engaging [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG#ieg-learn [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Committee/Workroom/Review/All [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Committee#ieg-members [5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Committee/Workroom/Review#review… [6] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Build_an_effective_method_of_pub… [7] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Replay_Edits [8] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/The_Wikipedia_Library [9] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/The_Wikipedia_Adventure [10] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Consolidate_wikiArS_to_involve_a… [11] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Elaborate_Wikisource_strategic_v… [12] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/MediaWiki_data_browser [13] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/MediaWiki_and_Javanese_script [14] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab -- Siko Bouterse Head of Individual Engagement Grants Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. sbouterse(a)wikimedia.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Donate or click the "edit" button today, and help us make it a reality! _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Harsh Kothari Engineering Trainee, Physical Research Laboratory. Follow Me : harshkothari410 <https://twitter.com/harshkothari410/>

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [A2K]: Indic Wikipedia Visualization Project #1
by Pradeep Mohandas 29 Mar '13

29 Mar '13

Hi, Wondering if we could add milestones for each language and also important events undertaken by language Wikipedias to assess their impact. For eg, did WikiConference India 2011 have an impact or did Wikisangamotsavam have an impact on these figures considered here? Pradeep Handheld Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android

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