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*
N.A.Nazeer Participating in Malayalam Loves Wikimedia
3<http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/MLW3>,
the Photo Uploading Event as Solidarity to Free Knowledge Movement.
N.A.Naseer is Wildlife photographer and Nature conservation activist. He
is incessantly traveling in the forests of Kerala for the last 35 years.
In addition to Malayalam periodicals, he writes on wild life with
magnificent photographs, in magazines like Sanctuary Asia, Hornbill,
Frontline, Outlook, Traveller etc. He is a life member of Bombay Natural
History Society. He founded the Nature conservation society of
photographers. Also, a society for nature conservation and martial arts.
His book ' Woods and Photographer " on wild life, is the first of its kind
written in his mother tongue, Malayalam. It contains exciting real life
photographs of wild fauna of South India.The book was sold out in three
months .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N.A.Nazeerhttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:N_A_Nazeer%27s_uploads(uploading
just started.
)
Joseph Lazer 's Clicks
<http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&limit=250&off…>
Naseer's Website : http://www.nilgirimarten.com/
-FWD-
Subject: നസീറിന്റെ ചിത്രങ്ങൾ സ്വതന്ത്രലൈസൻസിൽ കോമൺസിലേക്ക്
To: Malayalam Wikimedia Project Mailing list <wikiml-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>,
Discussion list of Swathanthra Malayalam Computing <discuss(a)lists.smc.org.in
>
ഏവര്ക്കും ലോകഫോട്ടോഗ്രാഫി ദിനാശംസകള്.
*പ്രശസ്ത വന്യജീവിഫോട്ടോഗ്രാഫർ എൻ എ നസീറിന്റെ ചിത്രങ്ങൾ സ്വതന്ത്രലൈസൻസിൽ
വിക്കിമീഡിയ കോമൺസിലേക്ക്..*
മലയാളം വിക്കിമീഡിയ സമൂഹത്തിന്റെ ആഭിമുഖ്യത്തിൽ സംഘടിപ്പിക്കുന്ന മലയാളം
വിക്കിമീഡിയയെ <http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/MLW3>
<http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/MLW3>സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു<http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/MLW3>എന്ന
ഫോട്ടോ അപ്ലോഡിങ് ഇവ
ന്റിൽ പങ്കെടുക്കുന്ന നൂറിലധികം വിക്കിമീഡിയ പ്രവർത്തകർക്ക് ഐക്യദാർഢ്യവുമായി
പരിസ്ഥിതിപ്രവർത്തകനും വന്യജീവിഫോട്ടോഗ്രാഫറുമായ എൻ എ നസീറും സുഹൃത്ത് ജോസഫ്
ലാസറും. 350 ലധികം ചിത്രങ്ങള് സ്വതന്ത്രലൈസന്സില് പ്രസിദ്ധീകരിക്കാനായി
മുന്നോട്ടുവന്നിട്ടുണ്ട്.
അപൂര്വ്വവും ഉയര്ന്ന റെസല്യൂഷനിലുള്ളതുമായ ഒരു പിടി ചിത്രങ്ങളാണ് ഇതിലൂടെ
പകര്പ്പാവകാശം സ്വതന്ത്രമായി നമുക്ക് ലഭ്യമാവുന്നത്. 350ലധികം ചിത്രങ്ങള്
(ഏകദേശം 2.8 ജിബി) ആണ് ഈ ഒരു ചിത്രങ്ങള് അപ്ലോഡ് ചെയ്യുന്ന
ഇവന്റിനെക്കുറിച്ച് പറഞ്ഞപ്പോള് എന്.എ നസീറും ജോസഫ് ലാസറും സംഭാവനയായി
ക്രിയേറ്റീവ് കോമണ്സില് പ്രസിദ്ധീകരിക്കാനായി ഏല്പ്പിച്ചത്. ഡാറ്റയുടെ
വലിപ്പം കുറച്ചധികമായതിനാല് അപ്ലോഡിങ്ങ് പതുക്കെയേ നടക്കുന്നുള്ളൂ.
ഇതുപോലുള്ളവരുടെ ചിത്രങ്ങള് കോമണ്സിലെത്തുന്നതോടെ വിക്കി സംരംഭങ്ങളിലേക്ക്
സംഭാവന ചെയ്യാനെത്തവരെ കൂടുതല് ഇതിലേക്ക് ആകര്ഷിക്കാനാകുമെന്ന്
പ്രതീക്ഷിക്കാം :)
ക്രിയേറ്റീവ് കോമണ്സ് ലൈസന്സില് പ്രസിദ്ധീകരിക്കാന് മൂന്നോട്ട് വന്നതിന്റെ
പിന്നില് ലൈസന്സിങ്ങിനെ ചുറ്റിപ്പറ്റി ഒരു സംഭവമുണ്ട്. എന് എ നസീറിന്റെ
ചിത്രങ്ങള് ആട്രിബ്യൂഷന് നല്കാതെ കേരളം വനം വകുപ്പ് മാഗസീനുകളില്
പ്രസിദ്ധീകരിച്ചതിനെ ചോദ്യം ചെയ്തപ്പോള് നസീറിനേയും കൂടെയുള്ള സംഘത്തേയും
നിയന്ത്രിയ്ക്കാനെന്നപ്പോലെ കാട്ടിലെ ഫോട്ടോഗ്രാഫി നിയന്ത്രണം
ഏര്പ്പെടുത്തിക്കൊണ്ട് ഉത്തരവ് ഇറങ്ങുകയും ഇതിനെതിരെ വലിയ
പ്രതിഷേധങ്ങളുണ്ടാക്കുകയും നടന്നിട്ടുണ്ട്.
സ്വതന്ത്രലൈസന്സില് പ്രസിദ്ധീകരിച്ച ഈ ചിത്രങ്ങളെല്ലാം ആട്രിബൂഷനോടെ
പുനരുപയോഗിക്കാനും ജനങ്ങളിലേക്ക് സ്വതന്ത്രമായി ഉപയോഗിക്കാനായി എത്തിച്ചേരാനും
ഇതുവഴി സാധിക്കും. നിങ്ങളുടെ ഫോട്ടോഗ്രാഫി സുഹൃത്തുക്കളോടും ഈ വിധത്തില്
ചിത്രങ്ങള് പ്രസിദ്ധീകരിക്കാമെന്നുള്ള ആശയത്തെക്കുറിച്ച് പങ്കുവയ്ക്കുമല്ലോ :)
ചിത്രങ്ങളുടെ അപ്ലോഡിങ്ങ് പൂര്ത്തിയായിട്ടില്ല. കാടകത്തിലെ ചിത്രങ്ങള്
താഴെയുള്ള ലിങ്കില് കാണാം
എന് എ നസീറിന്റെ ചിത്രങ്ങൾ
<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:N_A_Nazeer%27s_uploads>
<http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&limit=250&off…>ജോസഫ്
ലാസറിന്റെ ചിത്രങ്ങള് :(വര്ഗ്ഗം ഇപ്പൊ കാണാനില്ല.സായിപ്പ് നീക്കം ചെയ്തു.)
Manoj.K/മനോജ്.കെ
www.manojkmohan.com
"We are born free...No gates or windows can snatch our freedom...Use
GNU/Linux - it keeps you free."
Dear all,
Wiki Loves Monuments India 2013 has started. You might have been seeing
banners in all Wikimedia sites. www.wikilovesmonuments.in Do participate
and encourage your friends and everyone else to participate too.
A very thanks to all the volunteers who have helped us so far, and who will
be helping us through out the process. If you wanna help in anything,
please put an email to the WLM India mailing list (
wlm-in(a)lists.wmnederland.nl) and everyone shall be welcoming your help.
Hope we have success again, and see a winner attending next Wikimania ;)
Regards,
Karthik Nadar.
Secretary, Wikimedia India Chapter.
http://wiki.wikimedia.in
Hello All,
I'am very glad to inform you that we the members of WMIN & Wikipedia Club
Pune are planning to conduct Workshops and Edit-a-thons in Pune on 14th &
15th of August '13.
The details are as follows,
Date :: 14th August '13
Venue :: Sinhgad Academy of Engineering, Kondhwa Bk, Pune.
Timings :: 3:30 pm onwards
Flow :: Introductory session followed by an Edit-a-thon.
Date :: 15th August '13
Venue :: Janana Prabodhini, Sadashiv Peth, Tilak Road, Pune.
Timings :: 10:00 am onwards
Flow :: Introductory session followed by Editing & Updating the articles
created on and after Republic Day '13 during the Republic Day Workshop
conducted at the same venue.
Looking forward for a great response & wishing you a happy Independence Day
in advance.
Regards & Thanks
Niraj Suryawanshi
Hi ,
I'm an IEG grantee from India. My
proposal<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Replay_Edits> was
to build a tool to visualise the edits in an article.
It aims to make it easier for an editor to go through the edits/revisions
in an article. Rather than showing the changes in wikitext the tool shows
the page as a reader would see it. The content that was removed/ deleted in
a revision disappears & the new content/ modifications appears.
- Please checkout the live
demo<https://googledrive.com/host/0B1hJO1N6piYFTTVZdW1mU2c0S28/visualise.html>
.
- An updated
mockup<https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B1hJO1N6piYFMWUzVkpsR2dmUFU/edit?usp=sharing>
of the tool
It is a work in progress and I'm working on the following features.
- Pause/Forward/Rewind buttons
- Draggable timeline , you can select from where to start playing &
where to end.
- Skipping minor edits etc
- Playback of a specific users edits alone. (I'm not sure how I'll do
this)
Would be awesome if you could add features you would like to see
here<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:IEG/Replay_Edits#Features_for_t…>.
Moreover now that wikipedia has gone live with editing on mobiles
I'm hoping the tool would be really useful there too as mobiles are much
more interactive than desktops. I'm trying to talk to as many people as
possible about the tool so that people will use it once I'm done building
it & also to be sure that what I'm building is useful :-) Please share the
demo link around.
Thanks
Jeph
Dear All,
CIS-A2K would like to invite you to our first monthly IRC to receive
feedback on our work. We are slowly rolling out the work-plans that we
have developed with your collaboration and input. We have received
some useful feedback from some of you on Meta specifically on two
important aspects, which informed the agenda for this IRC.
IRC details:
Channel: #Wikimedia-in
Date: September 5, 2013 (Thursday)
Time: 8-9 pm
Agenda:
What more measures can CIS-A2K take to increase community participation?
Pilot Projects - Discussion on possible topics, strategies of
execution and community involvement.
Any specific aspect of CIS-A2K's work that majority of the community
members, present for IRC, would like to discuss.
For those who are attending IRC for the first time please check this
link to join: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IRC/Tutorial
--
Best!
Subhashish Panigrahi
Programme Officer, Access To Knowledge
Centre for Internet and Society
@psubhashish
Dear All,
CIS-A2K is organising a 4 day Train the Trainer (TTT) program in Bangalore during 1st week of October 2013. The idea of the program is to build capacity and enable community members to conduct outreach sessions independently or with minimal support to introduce Wikipedia to prospective editors in their respective Indian languages.
By way of this program, CIS-A2K wants to support and enable community members who might be interested to conduct Wikipedia outreach sessions in their own cities/languages. The event is open to all Wikimedia volunteers from India who can and want to support outreach events in the coming year.
CIS-A2K is calling for applicants for it's Train the Trainer Program. If you'd like to be part of this program please make sure that you meet the selection criterion [1] and submit Train the Trainer Program Application From [2] by 13th September, 2013.
To know more about the program, rationale, overview, timeline etc. please check the attached document or visit the Meta page.[3]
We look forward to hearing from you soon. For any further queries please mail at a2k(a)cis-india.org
Thanks
Nitika Tandon
Program Manager
Access to Knowledge
The Centre for Internet & Society
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Events/TTT#Select…
[2] http://bit.ly/A2Kttt
[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Events/TTT
FYI
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Michelle Paulson <mpaulson(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 12:01 AM
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Licence violation
Yes, we actually cracked down on them 2 years ago from not making it clear
that the content was from Wikipedia. They have since changed their ways
and have it clearly stated in the "Overview" section and properly
attributed the Wikipedia contributors involved in the book. We looked into
how they could change the "Authors" section, but the online sellers'
platforms they were using (such as Barnes and Noble) don't permit more than
a few names, which makes listing all of the contributors impossible and we
didn't want them to say that Wikipedia was the author because that
erroneously makes people think that they books were sponsored or introduced
by WMF or the contributors involved, neither of which is true.
Additionally, we do not believe that not listing the contributors under the
"Author" section online is necessarily a violation of the license.
However, not listing them in the book, where the content actually is
reproduced, was and they have since corrected that to the best of my
knowledge.
Hope that helps clear things up!
-Michelle
--
Michelle Paulson
Legal Counsel
Wikimedia Foundation
149 New Montgomery Street, 6th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105
mpaulson(a)wikimedia.org
415.839.6885 ext. 6608 (Office)
415.882.0495 (Fax)
NOTICE: *This message might have confidential or legally privileged
information in it. If you have received this message by accident, please
delete it and let us know about the mistake. For legal reasons, I may only
serve as an attorney for the Wikimedia Foundation. This means I may not
give legal advice to or serve as a lawyer for community members,
volunteers, or staff members in their personal capacity.*