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 friends,
You may be aware that we (my family) have released a font family earlier.
Here is some background if you are not aware of it.
On the first death Anniversary of Yogini Joglekar(my aunt), our family
released AksharYogini (Normal) Font on 1st Nov. 2006. This font is
primarily for Marathi language but can also be used for Hindi (for any
language using Devanagari). It also has English support. Later on, on the
occasion of Gudhipadwa (Chaitra Shuddha 1, 1931; that is 27th March 2009) ,
we released the additional fonts to complete the "AksharYogini font
family". This font family was/is made available on the site
http://aksharyogini.sudhanwa.com for free usage/distribution/sharing.
Today, on the occasion of Eighth Death Anniversary of Yogini Joglekar, we
are now releasing an updated "AksharYogini font". This font is also
available on the same website http://aksharyogini.sudhanwa.com
This is an updated font and has support for the new (MS Windows) operating
systems where the internal mechanism for font rendering is changed. Also,
it has additional characters for the current Unicode standard and the Rupee
Sign is also included.
Most important is the licensing. The new release is under the Open Font
License. As such, all Linux distributions will be able to freely use it in
their packaging.
Please feel free to use, share, distribute the new font. You can download
it from http://aksharyogini.sudhanwa.com .
Give us feedback on my email id or the official id for the font "
aksharyogini at sudhanwa.com " You can also comment on the guestbook on the
website.
Do share this news and also the font.
Wishing you a Very Happy Diwali !!
Thanks and regards
-Sudhanwa
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web: www.sudhanwa.com blog: www.sudhanwa.in
Twitter: sudhanwa Check on FB, Linkedin for more.
Hello,
I read that Wikimedia India does not accept member who are not Indian
nationals.
This comes as a big surprise, and I don't see any reason for it.
As far as I know, membership in a non-profit in India is not limited to
Indian nationals.
A change whould be most welcomed.
Thanks,
Yann Forget, from Ahmedabad
[sorry for cross posting]
Hi All,
Happy to know this nice initiative. Specially i am proud & Honor of this
because my 2nd written book *Bangla Wikipedia Ke Abong Keno (বাংলা
উইকিপিডিয়া কী এবং কেন)* available at Kalkata Book Fair Wikipedia stall.
Specially thanks to Jayanta da for give me this opportunity.
I write this book last year & this book published last year Ekushey Book
Fair [1]. In this book basically i show the how to work in Bengali
Wikipedia, involvement process of Wikimedia activities, how to contribute
commons etc. This is the first book of Bengali Wikipedia published in
Bangladesh. For more about this book you may Rokomari.com [2].
Thanks you all. Hope to get feedback from reader.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekushey_Book_Fair
[2] http://www.rokomari.com/book/62905
--
*Nurunnaby Chowdhury Hasive*
Administrator | Bangla Wikipedia <http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:nhasive>
Social Media Interaction Expert &
Assignment Reporter | The Daily Prothom-Alo <http://www.prothom-alo.com>
Bangladesh Ambassador | Open Knowledge Foundation Network
<http://www.okfn.org>
Treasurer | Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN) <http://www.bdosn.org>
fb.com/nhasive | @nhasive <http://www.twitter.com/nhasive> | Skype: nhasive
| www.nhasive.com
জয়ন্তদাকে অভিনন্দন!!
"Banglapedia has less than 200 editors of which more than 150 are from
Bangladesh, while only ten are from West Bengal."
তবে এ লেখাটাতেও বাংলাপিডিয়া এবং বাংলা উইকিপিডিয়া গুলিয়ে ফেলা হয়েছে যা
দুঃখজনক। আশা করি এ বিষয়টি পরবর্তী নিউজগুলোতে খেয়াল রাখবেন।
ধন্যবাদান্তে,
বেলায়েত
On 30 January 2014 11:43, Nurunnaby Chowdhury <nh(a)nhasive.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
> Happy to know this nice initiative. Specially i am proud & Honor of this
> because my 2nd written book *Bangla Wikipedia Ke Abong Keno (বাংলা
> উইকিপিডিয়া কী এবং কেন)* available at Kalkata Book Fair Wikipedia stall.
> Specially thanks to Jayanta da for give me this opportunity.
>
> I write this book last year & this book published last year Ekushey Book
> Fair [1]. In this book basically i show the how to work in Bengali
> Wikipedia, involvement process of Wikimedia activities, how to contribute
> commons etc. This is the first book of Bengali Wikipedia published in
> Bangladesh. For more about this book you may Rokomari.com [2].
>
> Thanks you all. Hope to get feedback from reader.
>
>
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekushey_Book_Fair
> [2] http://www.rokomari.com/book/62905
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 8:54 AM, Subhashish Panigrahi <
> subhashish(a)cis-india.org> wrote:
>
> > Congratulations Jayantada and all of the organising committee! You all
> > have done a fabulous job. Hope this spreads a word about Bangla Wikimedia
> > projects. And now the nation demands a blog on Wikimedia global blog from
> > you :-)
> >
> > Best!
> > Subha
> >
> > > On 30-Jan-2014, at 1:21 am, Jayanta Nath <jayantanth(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Dear all,
> > >
> > > Please find the below link of PTI report about our Kolkata Bookfair
> > > wikipedia stall.
> > >
> > >
> >
> http://tech.firstpost.com/news-analysis/kolkata-book-fair-wikipedia-puts-st…
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Jayanta Nath
> > >
Hi,
My name is Aadil. I was a participant at the Wiki session in Startup
Village. I would like to appreciate both Jeph and Netha for their efforts
in conducting the session here. It was really informative and both of them
did a commendable job, introducing the basics of Wikipedia and editing to
us.
Really looking forward to more such sessions.
Thanks,
Aadil
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> Dear Sowmyan,
>
> Thank you for the great contribution to Wikimedia India community. It is
> very hard to find a qualified and yet passionate person next. So, we are
> really sad to see you go.
>
> You have only done good for the movement going beyond the requirements of
> your part-time commitment. So, please don't take any blame on yourself.
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> Looking forward to your contribution as community member henceforth.
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Hi,
Last saturday Netha Hussain and I had an interesting experience conducting
a Wikipedia workshop at Startup Village <http://www.startupvillage.in/>.
Startup Village is a private-public not-for-profit business incubator at
Ernakulam, Kerala. They wanted to help us in spreading the word about
Wikipedia and editing it. The event page can be viewed
here<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Workshop/Kochi_Workshop_1>
.
The workshop was an eye opener of sorts for us. It started half an hour
later than planned, as most of the participants took longer to make it to
the venue. We had the usual hiccups like microphones not being available
and the internet connectivity being too slow. The connectivity affected the
pace of the workshop. We found it difficult to demonstrate the examples we
had. The biggest challenge was not technical but connecting with the
audience. We had tailored our content for a crowd with a programming
background. We had even conducted a mock session over phone in order to be
sure of the roles the two of us should assume. However, the audience turned
out to be diverse and largely not technical. Most of the participants did
not have a mobile device, so the hands-on session was not as fruitful as we
had anticipated it to be. We ended up lecturing more and demonstrating less.
The workshop was structured into two halves. The first half was an
introduction to wikipedia and the wiki markup. The second half was a gentle
introduction to the mediawiki API or how to write programs using javascript
to access content from wikipedia. When we broke up for lunch after the
first half of the session, around half of the audience left. The second
half had too few takers, there were people who had come back but we doubt
if it had any tangible impact. Our biggest learning from the exercise was
that it is very important to know the audience well in advance and
structure the content accordingly.
On the brighter side, we had interesting queries from a few participants
who were already acquainted with editing Wikipedia. Startup Village has
invited us to conduct similar workshops in future. A couple of participants
and the organizers wrote to us, thanking us for volunteering.
Thanks
Jeph
Hi,
Last saturday Netha Hussain and I had an interesting experience conducting
a Wikipedia workshop at Startup Village <http://www.startupvillage.in/>.
Startup Village is a private-public not-for-profit business incubator at
Ernakulam, Kerala. They wanted to help us in spreading the word about
Wikipedia and editing it. The event page can be viewed
here<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Workshop/Kochi_Workshop_1>
.
The workshop was an eye opener of sorts for us. It started half an hour
later than planned, as most of the participants took longer to make it to
the venue. We had the usual hiccups like microphones not being available
and the internet connectivity being too slow. The connectivity affected the
pace of the workshop. We found it difficult to demonstrate the examples we
had. The biggest challenge was not technical but connecting with the
audience. We had tailored our content for a crowd with a programming
background. We had even conducted a mock session over phone in order to be
sure of the roles the two of us should assume. However, the audience turned
out to be diverse and largely not technical. Most of the participants did
not have a mobile device, so the hands-on session was not as fruitful as we
had anticipated it to be. We ended up lecturing more and demonstrating less.
The workshop was structured into two halves. The first half was an
introduction to wikipedia and the wiki markup. The second half was a gentle
introduction to the mediawiki API or how to write programs using javascript
to access content from wikipedia. When we broke up for lunch after the
first half of the session, around half of the audience left. The second
half had too few takers, there were people who had come back but we doubt
if it had any tangible impact. Our biggest learning from the exercise was
that it is very important to know the audience well in advance and
structure the content accordingly.
On the brighter side, we had interesting queries from a few participants
who were already acquainted with editing Wikipedia. Startup Village has
invited us to conduct similar workshops in future. A couple of participants
and the organizers wrote to us, thanking us for volunteering.
Thanks
