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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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
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Netha Hussain
Student of Medicine and Surgery
Govt. Medical College, Kozhikode
Blogs : *nethahussain.blogspot.com
swethaambari.wordpress.com*
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
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!
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Regards,
Karthik Nadar.
(Secretary, Wikimedia India Chapter).
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
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
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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
FYI
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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
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Head of Individual Engagement Grants
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
sbouterse(a)wikimedia.org
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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
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