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,
Odia Wikisource went live yesterday and is available at:
https://or.wikisource.org. It was in the main Wikisource for about 1.9
years and has an active community consisting 8 contributors. So far almost
3 books have been digitized. Recently a few new contributors joined and
are digitizing Odia Bhagabata.
CIS-A2K congratulates the community and thank all the contributors,
Wikimedia Language Committee, Wikimedia Foundation Board and all the
Wikimedians who have helped to set up the wiki.
A brief post on this:
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/10/21/more-than-40-million-people-await-the-…
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Best!
Subhashish Panigrahi
Programme Officer, Access To Knowledge (CIS-A2K)
Centre for Internet and Society
@psubhashish
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.
Ravi,
Still New user account creation has been disabled temporarily. Contact
membership at wikimedia dot in if you need one.
please remove this restriction till election is over .
*WMIN wiki is a public wiki and not a members wiki . Most of our members
does not have a chapter wiki account This restriction is affecting
election Q&A *participation
Election Q& A is initiated in larger interest of the movement and not for
members alone
~ regards
Anivar
On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 9:54 PM, Anivar Aravind <anivar.aravind(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> Just noticed Ravi put up a sitenotice on WMIN wiki have a sitenotice
> mentioning "New user account creation has been disabled temporarily.
> Contact membership at wikimedia dot in if you need one."
>
> Please re-enable this because Q&A with candidates is going on
> http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Elections2014/Nominations/Q%26A
>
> Also requesting to put up a sitenotice with Q&A Page link
>
> Anivar
>
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Anivar Aravind <anivar.aravind(a)gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> Dear WMIN Members and Wikimedia Community,
>>
>> As there were no withdrawals, the draft slate is confirmed as the final
>> slate.
>> We have 13 candidates .
>> You can find profiles at a glance at
>> http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Elections2014/ProfilesAtAGlance
>>
>> We are in working in coordination with Sowmyan to send postal ballots as
>> early as possible
>> This will be dispatched by Nov 1st .
>>
>> Public Question and Answer page with candidates is now Open
>> http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Elections2014/Nominations/Q%26A
>> We request wikimedia community , members and candidates to make use of
>> this page
>> The suggested time line for adding questions is Nov 10, 2014 and the
>> discussions is Nov 15, 2014
>>
>> For Elecom
>> Anivar Aravind
>> Returning Officer
>> WMIN Elections 2014
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
Dear Wikimedians,
Based on the feedback and suggestions given by the community and FDC and
based on participation in the India Community Consultation (organized by
the Wikimedia Foundation), we have revised the work plans[1] and budget
that will guide our work until June 2015.
You are encouraged to share your feedback on the discussion pages on Meta.
We look forward to your continuous engagement in our collective dream of
further growing the Wikimedia and open knowledge movement in India.
Best,
Vishnu
CIS-A2K
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Work_plan_July_20…
Dear WMIN Members and Wikimedia Community,
As there were no withdrawals, the draft slate is confirmed as the final
slate.
We have 13 candidates .
You can find profiles at a glance at
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Elections2014/ProfilesAtAGlance
We are in working in coordination with Sowmyan to send postal ballots as
early as possible
This will be dispatched by Nov 1st .
Public Question and Answer page with candidates is now Open
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Elections2014/Nominations/Q%26A
We request wikimedia community , members and candidates to make use of this
page
The suggested time line for adding questions is Nov 10, 2014 and the
discussions is Nov 15, 2014
For Elecom
Anivar Aravind
Returning Officer
WMIN Elections 2014
Hi,
Wikimedia India is looking for a FEMALE representative to participate
in AdaCamp
Bangalore <http://bangalore.adacamp.org>.
The representative
- Need not be a chapter member. But, we would like you to become a
member in future and take an active role in our Gender Gap SIG
<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Gender_gap>.
- Shall submit a report to the chapter about the event and
participation.
- Shall fulfill the expecatations of AdaCamp's usual selection process
<http://bangalore.adacamp.org/how-we-select-attendees/>.
- Shall avail travel scholarship from the chapter.
Please apply before 31st October 05:00 PM IST at
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/AdaCamp_Bangalore
Ravi