Dear Members and Community,
In the last few days many of you have given your valuable feedback and
suggestions on our FDC proposal. We sincerely thank everyone for their
input.
We have tried to build a balanced proposal keeping everyones requirements
in mind. This has been a particularly tough job as the initial ideal budget
calculating all requests went over INR 2 crore. We have had to sadly cut
down on a lot of items to make it a more viable proposal. Though our
initial letter of intent was for $200,000, our goal was to submit a request
for around $100,000 so as to grow at a sustainable pace. However this has
been an extremely difficult task and in the end we decided to keep the
proposal to just under $150,000. We feel that we have included the needs of
the movement in India to a fair extent and at a sustainable level. We would
have loved to include a lot more, however we have had to restrict ourselves
with a heavy heart.
Kindly go through the link below and give your comments on the talk page
(Please DO NOT edit the budget itself).
Link: http://wiki.wikimedia.in/FDC_Proposal_2013/Budget
Regards,
Karthik Nadar.
Secretary, Wikimedia India Chapter.
http://wiki.wikimedia.in
Participate in world's largest photo contest Wiki Loves Monuments:
www.wikilovesmonuments.in
*NextBigWhat.com : " Piecing Together India’s Heritage One Photo at A Time
[Indians Top Contributors to World's Largest Photo Contest]"*
http://www.nextbigwhat.com/india-heritage-photo-wiki-loves-monuments-297/
With his point and shoot camera, *Anupam Ganguly* has been keeping busy for
the last few weeks. Unlike how most professionals in Gurgaon spend their
weekends, Ganguly has been frequenting architectural monuments and places
of historical significance with missionary zeal.
Taj Mahal
Taj Mahal by Anupam Ganguly
“I used to take photographs before too, but this month, I’ve been going
every weekend,” says Ganguly. It is that time of the year, when hundreds of
enthusiasts like him scour the country for pictures to upload to Wiki Loves
Monuments (WLM), a photo contest run by Wikipedia, the world’s largest
online encyclopedia.
With the help of these volunteers, India is now one of the top 10
contributing countries across the world to the contest. More than 900
contributors from India have uploaded nearly 6000 photographs to the site,
making it one of the highest contributing countries.
“I was not aware of the Mehrauli Archaeological Park in Delhi until I went
through WLM, and on my visit I ended spending a whole day there,” says
Ganguly, who is now one of the highest contributing Indian on the site. A
business analyst by professions, Ganguly works for an MNC in the National
Capital Region. In 2012 he submitted 794 photographs and became the highest
contributor in India and 55th in the world.
This year, India is leading the in the number of contributors by a huge
margin with 905 contributors so far*. Russia comes in at the second
position with only 458 contributing users.
Wiki Loves Monuments is an annual international photography competition
organized by Wikimedia, held in September every year. In 2011 The Guinness
Book of World Records named it the world’s largest photographic competition.
WLM 2013 Participating Countries
WLM 2013 Participating Countries
Participating Wikipedians take pictures of historical monuments and
heritage sites in their region, and upload them to Wikimedia Commons, which
is an online repository of free-use images, sound, and other media files.
The contest usually runs from 1 September to 30 September, and participants
should upload photographs during this period to take part in the
competition.
Last year, *Pranav Singh* from Delhi won the first prize in the
international contest and *Narender Kumar *from Delhi, came in 6th.
Tomb of Safdarjung By Pranav Singh Won WLM 2012
Tomb of Safdarjung By Pranav Singh Won WLM 2012
The interesting bit is that not all contributors are interested in the
prize. According to a survey conducted by Wikimedia, “75% of the people
said that they participated only because they wanted to contribute to
Wikipedia and not to win anything.”
*History of Wiki Loves Monuments*
The first WLM was held in Netherlands back in 2010 for “Rijksmonuments”,
which means national monuments in Dutch, was started as a project to
encourage photographers to seek out Dutch National Heritage Sites. During
its first event WLM participants submitted 12,500 photographs.
The following year WLM grew to 18 participating countries in Europe in a
collaboration with European Heritage Days. This time more than 5000
participants submitted 170,000 photographs making it the largest photo
competition in the world.
In 2012, the competition went global with 35 participating countries beyond
Europe and saw submissions of nearly 350,000 photographs. A picture of Tomb
of Safdarjung from Delhi, India, won the contest.
*How Wiki Loves Monuments Works*
National and regional heritage institutions provide official data regarding
monuments, heritage and archeological sites. Each monument is assigned a
unique identifier and these can be attached to the photographs at the time
of upload using “Wikipedia templates”. Using Wikipedia templates also
allows easy Wiki-editing.
A program called erfgoedbot (‘erfgoed’ in Dutch means heritage) collates
and sorts all the images and identifiers, organising them into correct
categories, and updates the Wikimedia Commons database.
The database then connects the photographs with the monuments list in
Wikipedia using the monuments ID accordingly.
Read more about WLM India here, and about the 2013 WLM contest here.
*At the time of writing.
Regards
Tinu Cherian
press(a)wikimedia.in
Important Note : Non-commercial reproduction for informative purposes only.
The publisher ( NextBigWhat ) of the above news article owns the copyrights
of the article / content. All copyrights are duly acknowledged.
Hi,
Need everyone's help with media coordination for our 10 years celebrations.
We are organizing a press meet at 4 PM tomorrow (September 25, wednesday)
at
Chennai Press club,
Government Estate, Behind State Guest House & Near Chepauk Cricket
Stadium, Mount Road, Chennai - 600002
Coud you please pass this info to journalists you know?
For those who cannot attend, here is our press release in English and Tamil:
https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:10pr
Thanks,
Ravi
Greetings from CIS-A2K!
We request the pleasure of your company at the event 'Re-releasing Konkani
Vishwakosh & Building Konkani Wikipedia' . The event will take place on the
26th September, Thursday,10am - 11am at the Conference Hall, Goa
University, Taleigao.
Upon CIS-A2K' explicit request, Goa University has approved the re-release
of Konkani Vishwakosh under Creative Commons License (CC‐BY‐SA 3.0) to make
it freely available to public and thus preserve Konkani language and
culture in the digital era. This encyclopedia will also serve as one of the
main sources of building and writing articles on Konkani Wikipedia (which
is currently under incubation).
We'd like you to be a part of this event and help showcase Konkani
community and language on a global digital platform such as Konkani
Wikipedia.
Please see the link for the invite.[1] We look forward to seeing you at the
event.
Best,
Vishnu
[1]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Re-release_of_Konkani_Vishwakosh_un…
> Thank you, Ravi and Tamil Wikipedians for all the suggestions/feedback.
> Will continue engaging with you on this.
>
> Request communities that haven't connected with us to do so at the
> earliest.
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Ravishankar <ravidreams(a)gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Karthik,
>>
>> Except for allocation for Innovative projects, GLAM acdtivities and
>> Digitisation (Budget items 3.5.1, 3.5.4, 3.5.5), I don't see any other
>> budget item that directly sustains any measurable impact on the growth of
>> language communities. Even this fund allocation will prove miniscule when
>> distributed for all the language communities.
>>
>> I strongly recommend to extend the budget proposal to make use of the
>> full $200,000 that you proposed in your letter of intent and allocate a
>> good budget for language communities and special interest groups.
>>
>> Please also see my feedback at
>>
>>
>> http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Talk:FDC_Proposal_2013/Budget#Funding_allocation_f…
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Ravi
>>
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> Pranav Curumsey
>
Dear All,
On behalf of CIS-A2K, I am glad to share with you that GOA University has
signed an MoU with CIS-A2K.
As part of this MoU Goa University and CIS-A2K will work together to
digitize “Konkani Vishwakosh” under Creative Common license and build a
Digital Knowledge Partnership in order to enhance digital literacy in the
Konkani language and facilitate collaborative knowledge production and
disseminate the same free of cost through Kokani Wikipedia (currently under
incubation). Gos University and CIS-A2K will co-design and jointly
implement relevant training programmes to achieve this objective.
CIS-A2K is grateful for the support and encouragement received from the Goa
University Vice-Chancellor Dr. Satish Shetye; Prof. Alito Siqueira; Prof.
Priyadarshini Tadkodkar; Dr. Madhavi Sardesai; Dr. Gopakumar; and other
faculty of Goa University.
We are also equally grateful to Wikipedians Harriet Vidyasagar and
Frederick Noronha who have engaged with CIS-A2K team and been a constant
source of support.
Wish us best of luck!
Vishnu
Hi<br/><br/>Can we look at transcribing files on oral history from India, then? This Project is important new ground on oral histories and how Wikipedia seems to be handling these. WikiSource seems to be taking it an interesting direction as well.<br/><br/>Pradeep<br/><br/>Sent from Yahoo! Mail for iPhone
Hi,
In connection to Tamil Wikipedia's 10 years celebrations,
we need recommendations for a Chennai based wifi service provider for a one
day closed door event.
Thanks,
Ravi
Hi,
We are looking for a Chennai based professional video / photographer who
can shoot pictures and videos for us during the Tamil Wikipedia 10 years
celebrations.
The event will be on 28th, 29th of September in Chennai.
We are looking for someone who can capture the community's spirit in a
unique way.
We need head shots and group pictures which can be used for volunteer
signup campaigns.
We need videographers who can mix and edit interviews to create promotional
videos.
If you know someone, please ask them to mail me with their portfolio and
Wikipedia user name.
*This is a paid opportunity for the talented within our own community. We
are not looking forward to receive quotations from professional agencies
outside our community. *
*
*
*Thanks, *
*
*
*Ravi*
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