WikimediaIndia-l May 2013

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Exceptional and inspiring Wikipedians from India
by CherianTinu Abraham 25 May '13

25 May '13

Hi all, I am helping a journalist on a national newspaper, who is working on a story that features some of our Exceptional and inspiring Wikipedians from India. The people I have already in mind as Sengai Podhuvan, Babu G. Gopalan , Aniruddha Kumar and many others.. Do you know more of such amazing Wikipedians who have touching stories to tell? Can you share the details of such Wikipedians whom you know but less known to many ? Please do reply to me *privately*. Regards Tinu Cherian

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Wikimedia India - April report
by Bala Jeyaraman 24 May '13

24 May '13

Dear all, Greetings from Wikimedia India ! Here is the activity report for the month of April. Organisational Updates *Membership:* Membership count as of 30 April is 59.(Does not include members who are in the 90 day grace period for renewal) *Donations:* During April we received INR 11,010 as donations from 3 individual donors. *Meetings:* WMIN Secretary Karthik Nadar and Executive Council member Pranav Curumsey represented WMIN at the Wikimedia Chapters Conference at Milan. Karthik also attended the WLM International Committee meeting which took place along the sidelines. Pranav attended the WCA meeting on our behalf (as our representative Karthik was at the WLM Meeting). Community & Special Interest Groups Events Conducted / Supported - April 6, 2013 : Gujarati Wikisource I anniversary celebrations, Mumbai - April 9, 2013 : Wiki Academy, CGG Hyderabad - April 10-11, 2013: Telugu Wiki Mahotsavam, Hyderabad - April 21, 2013 : Wikipedia Introduction, Collabnet Chennai Upcoming A round-up of Wikimedia events, academies and initiatives around the nation are updated here <http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Events>. Media coverage - Telugu Mahotsavam 2013 coverage<http://telugu.oneindia.in/feature/general/2013/photos-telugu-wikipedia-maho…> - Telugu Mahotsavam 2013 coverage<http://telugu.oneindia.in/news/2013/04/04/andhrapradesh-wikipedia-mahotsava…> Grants Funded 1. Telugu Mahotsavam 2013 support grant. We look forward to your continued support and active participation. Best, On behalf of Wikimedia Chapter (India) Karthik Nadar, Secretary.

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Is there any easy way to add photo link to wikipedia articles?
by Shrinivasan T 23 May '13

23 May '13

When I upload photos to commons, I try to add the photos to relevant pages. It seems a tough process. 1. copy the info of the image from commons.( using use this file ) 2. open the relevant page in wikipedia 3. click the edit page. 4. paste the image info from the clip board. 5. save the page. Every time, I have to do the same for all the images. Is there any easy way or widget to automate this? A gallery can be added by clicking a link in wikipedia page, with the images link we paste. Share your thoughts on this. Thanks. -- Regards, T.Shrinivasan My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com Free E-Magazine on Free Open Source Software in Tamil : http://kaniyam.com Get CollabNet Subversion Edge : http://www.collab.net/svnedge

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Learn photography basics at Tamil Wikipedia meet on 26th May, Chennai.
by Ravishankar 23 May '13

23 May '13

Hey, We have a Tamil Wikipedia meet organized as part of the "Open Weekends" in Chennai on 26th May. Here is the event page in Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/152064334973643/?ref=2 There will be a special session on Photography basics. So, all Wikimedians interested in contributing to Commons are also invited. Thanks, Ravi

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Today's featured article: Tripura
by Karthik Nadar 22 May '13

22 May '13

Good morning everyone! Was happy to see Tripura as featured article of the day. Congratulations and thanks to everyone who worked on the article! -- Karthik Nadar. Secretary, Wikimedia India Chapter.

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Request for an announcement mailing list
by Karthik Nadar 19 May '13

19 May '13

Dear all, I suggest we have an announcement mailing list. I sometimes see certain mails flooding too mailing list, and it really spams the inbox. If we have an announcement list, we can suggest everyone to subscribe to the list who is interested in announcement from Indian communities like the Chapter , the A2K and various other cities and languages communities. Preferably, the mailing list should be only for one way communication. Admins at this (Wikimedia India) mailing list shall subscribe the announcement mailing list with this email-id wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, so that it reaches mass. Regards, Karthik.

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Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Hiring Community Liaisons (Contract)
by Thehelpfulone 18 May '13

18 May '13

Forwarding to a few chapter mailing lists, please feel free to forward to any that I might have missed! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Howie Fung <hfung(a)wikimedia.org> Date: 18 May 2013 06:58 Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Hiring Community Liaisons (Contract) To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> * Hey all, For the last 18 months, the Engineering & Product Development department has been experimenting with the role of “Community Liaison, Product Development” - a staff member embedded in the Product team and tasked with factoring community concerns into our software development process, keeping editors informed about what we’re doing, and maintaining a dialogue between those who write code and those who write articles. While there is always room for improvement, I think this role has shown a lot of promise. We have a number of large projects coming down the pipeline (e.g., visual editor, discussion systems) and we need more help reaching out to our contributor communities, especially our non-English speaking projects, as our outreach there has traditionally been challenged. We’d like to recruit a small number of English-speaking or multilingual editors to do the Community Liaison job with different development teams and focuses. In particular we’re looking for people with a strong history of contributions to our projects who can provide sound and reasoned judgment and are trusted to do so by their community. Speaking other languages in addition to English is a major plus, as one of the objectives here is to ensure we can properly interact with and support non-English projects. I’ve included the full job description below. Our immediate need is for help with the Visual Editor. We’d like to hire a few community liaisons to help inform different Wikipedia language communities of the upcoming launch, create spaces for feedback and discussion, synthesize feedback for the Visual Editor team, and other activities required to support the Visual Editor launch later this year. If this is a role that would interest you, please e-mail Philippe Beaudette at pbeaudette(a)wikimedia.org< https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=pbeaudette@wikimedia.org >. And if you know someone else who might fit the role, let them know about it :-). We’re provisionally interested in hiring 2-3 liaisons, at an hourly rate commensurate with experience. This can be a part-time role, but we’ll need at least 15 hours/week for the length of the engagement (minimum 3 months). Please do apply if you think it’s a role that suits you, and if you find places we haven’t notified, spread the word! Thanks. Howie * _________________________ Howie Fung Director of Product Development Wikimedia Foundation * Community Liaison Job Description Background Information and Statement of Purpose The Wikimedia Foundation’s Engineering & Product Development Department is looking at ways to more effectively incorporate broad community perspectives in decisions and hold dialogues with our editors about the scope, pace and features of upcoming changes to Wikimedia projects. As part of this, it is hiring additional Community Liaisons from our volunteer community. Scope of Work Support and improve our ongoing software development projects, in particular: - Building up a network of volunteers from both English language and non-English language wikis, increasing the number of projects we can interact with; - Engaging the community in the software development process, by acting as a conduit for community questions, bugs and and feature requests, talking to editors about our work and how they can participate in it effectively, and recruiting them for workgroups and studies; - Being available from time to time to provide expertise and knowledge about our projects, including but not limited to training externally-sourced staff in the way our projects work, answering their questions, and providing expert advice on an ad-hoc basis; - Ensuring that our community is represented in the decision-making process and that our planned software adequately reflects user needs; - Monitoring Wikimedia projects, with the assistance of a network of volunteers, for emerging issues that have an impact on Engineering programmes; and - Other duties as needed. Requirements Effective Community Liaisons will be: - Experienced users of Wikimedia projects, capable of representing our community within the Foundation and vice-versa. - Strong communicators (both verbally and with the written word), able to explain our products to different groups of users with different levels of technical understanding. - Able to focus on the larger picture, understanding which concerns and views are widespread and which are marginal or individual. - Approachable, as both users and product developers must be able to trust these people for the relationship to function. - Self-motivated - they will be given important projects and expected to execute with little to no supervision. - Strongly empathetic - they excel at understanding the perspectives of others and bridging the gap between different approaches to the world. - Willing and able to remain resilient in the face of frustration from our users, in order to get the job done. Pluses Other positive attributes or areas of knowledge include: - Diverse language skills. While the Wikimedia Foundation communicates internally in English, we aim to be able to talk to our different communities natively. - Experience with the software development process. You will be thrown into teams that are actively working on new features; having a background that reduces the slope of your learning curve is a plus. - Familiarity with multiple Wikimedia projects is a major plus; we are about more than just Wikipedia. * _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Thehelpfulone https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Thehelpfulone

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Open Week invitation CIS-A2K
by Vishnu t 17 May '13

17 May '13

Dear All, The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) is celebrating 5 years of its existence with an exhibition showcasing its activities and accomplishments. The exhibition will be held at its offices in Bangalore and Delhi from May 20 to 23, 2013. The Access to Knowledge (A2K) programme work will also be showcased. As a move to promote transparency, CIS is inviting the general public to be its auditors by throwing open its account books and contracts which show how it has spent the Rs. 13.3 crore that was received from its donors over the last 5 years. I am writing precisely to invite you to see the accounts books and contracts pertaining to the A2K grant given by the Wikimedia Foundation [1]. The four-day event will see renowned artists like Kiran Subbaiah, Tara Kelton, Navin Thomas and Abhishek Hazra featuring their work and also giving live demonstrations. For more details see the invitation [2]. Look forward to receiving you at CIS [3]. Apologies for cross-posting. Warmly, Vishnu [1] Please note that the account books, contracts and vouchers, etc will only be available in the Bangalore office. [2] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CIS-Open_Week_Poster_2013.pdf [3] This invitation is being circulated on the WMIN, WM Bangalore and WM Delhi lists only.

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Access to Knowledge - Bulletin - April '13
by Nitika Tandon 17 May '13

17 May '13

Dear all, Here is the A2K newsletter for the month of April, 2013. Wikimedia Foundation, beginning from September 1, 2012, awarded the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) a two-year grant of INR 26,000,000 to support and develop free knowledge in India. Consequently, Wikimedia Foundation’s India Program became the Access to Knowledge (A2K) program of CIS. In the third issue of our newsletter for 2013, we are pleased to bring you updates from the Indic Wikipedia Visualisation project, reports of events organised in Goa, and press coverage of the Kannada Wikipedia Workshop held in Mysore. The A2K team consists of three members based in Delhi: T. Vishnu Vardhan, Nitika Tandon and Subhashish Panigrahiand one member Dr. U.B. Pavanaja who is working from Bangalore office. Noopur Raval, Programme Officer (Access to Knowledge) has resigned. April 24, 2013 was her last working day. Archives of our newsletters are here. Wikipedians from various communities can request for outreach programs, technical bugs, logistics-merchandize and media, public relations and communications athttp://bit.ly/TOcXId. # Indic Wikipedia Visualisation Project Indic Wikipedia Visualisation Project #2: Visualising Page Views and Project Pages. # Blog Entries Indian WikiWomen celebrate Women’s History Month (by Netha Hussain, April 29, 2013). Analysis of Konkani Wikipedia: Facts & Challenges (by Nitika Tandon, April 30, 2013). Odia Wikipedia: Needs Assessment (by Subhashish Panigrahi, April 30, 2013). # Event Organised Kannada Wikipedia Workshop (April 29, 2013, Govinda Pai Research Centre, MGM College Udupi). Dr. U.B. Pavanaja led the workshop and gave a talk on Kannada Wikipedia. # Events Co-organised The following events were organised in the month of March but reports were written during the month of April. Vishnu Vardhan and Subhashish Panigrahi held meetings with wikipedians: Kolkata Wiki Community Meetup (organised by CIS and Kolkata Wiki Community, March 14, 2013). Odia Wikipedia - Cuttack Community Meetup (organised by CIS and Odia Wiki Community, Cuttack, March 16, 2013). Odia Wikipedia – Bhubaneswar Community Meetup (organised by CIS and Odia Wiki Community, Bhubaneswar, March 17, 2013). The following event was organised in the month of April. We will be publishing the report soon: Telugu Wiki Mahotsavam 2013 (organised by Telugu Wikipedia Community and CIS, Hyderabad, April 9 – 11, 2013). Vishnu Vardhan was one of the trainers at the Wikipedia Academy at Centre for Good Governance on April 9, 2013. Vishnu Vardhan spoke about the Access to Knowledge work in one of the sessions of Wikimedia Meeting with Media Heads on April 10, 2013. Vishnu Vardhan gave a talk on A2K’s plans for the growth of Telegu Wikipedia in 2013-14 at the Telegu Wikipedia general meeting on April 11, 2013. Vishnu Vardhan also gave a talk about Access to Knowledge in the digital era at the Wiki Chaitanya Vedika on April 11, 2013. *About CIS* CIS was registered as a society in Bangalore in 2008. As an independent, non-profit research organisation, it runs different policy research programmes such as Accessibility, Access to Knowledge, Openness, Internet Governance, and Telecom. The policy research programmes have resulted in outputs such as the e-Accessibility Policy Handbook for Persons with Disabilitieswith ITU and G3ict, and Digital Alternatives with a Cause?,Thinkathon Position Papers and the Digital Natives with a Cause? Report with Hivos, etc. We have conducted policy research for the Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, etc., on WIPO Treaties, Copyright Bill, NIA Bill, etc. CIS is accredited as an observer at WIPO. CIS staff participates in the Standing Committee for Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) meetings regularly held in Geneva, and participate in the discussions and comments on them from a public interest perspective. Our Policy Director, Nirmita Narasimhan won the National Award for Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities from the Government of India and also received the NIVH Excellence Award. *Follow us elsewhere* · Get short, timely messages from us on Twitter · Join the CIS group on Facebook · Visit us at http://cis-india.org *Support Us* Please help us defend consumer / citizen rights on the Internet! Write a cheque in favour of ‘The Centre for Internet and Society’ and mail it to us at No. 194, 2nd ‘C’ Cross, Domlur, 2nd Stage, Bengaluru – 5600 71. *Request for Collaboration* We invite researchers, practitioners, and theoreticians, both organisationally and as individuals, to collaboratively engage with Internet and society and improve our understanding of this new field. To discuss the research collaborations, write to Sunil Abraham, Executive Director, at sunil(a)cis-india.org or Nishant Shah, Director – Research, at nishant(a)cis-india.org CIS is grateful to its donors, Wikimedia Foundation, Ford Foundation, Privacy International, UK, Hans Foundation and the Kusuma Trust which was founded by Anurag Dikshit and Soma Pujari, philanthropists of Indian origin, for its core funding and support for most of its projects. Thanks Nitika Tandon Program Manager Access to Knowledge The Centre for Internet & Society

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CIS-A2K Budget, Utilization Report and proposed revision
by Vishnu t 16 May '13

16 May '13

Dear All, In our effort to increase transparency with the working of CIS-A2K programme, we are sharing with you the A2K Programme Budget along with the Utilization for the period Sept. 2012 to February 2013 [1]. We intended to share this with you by mid April, but it got delayed, as we felt the need to propose revisions to the budget in the context of the A2K Work Plans. Apologies for this delay. The proposed revisions to the budget along with some notes are here [2]. We would appreciate your feedback and suggestions on this. Based on the feedback received from you, we will approach the Wikimedia Foundation seeking for approval of the revised budget. It will be very useful to hear from you on the proposed revisions to the A2K grant budget before May 20, 2013. Looking forward to your feedback. Warmly, Vishnu Programme Director Access to Knowledge Programme CIS [1] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WMF-A2K_Grant_Budget_and_Utilization… [2] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WMF-A2K_Revised_Budget_(draft)_and_U…

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