If India is interested.
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From: "Manuel Schneider" <manuel.schneider(a)wikimedia.ch>
Date: 20-Sep-2014 2:05 pm
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2016 - Jury Announcement and Start of
Bidding
To: "Wikimedia Mailing List" <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, "Wikimania
general list (open subscription)" <wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc:
> Dear Wikimedians,
>
> Wikimania is the global, annual conference of the Wikimedia movement,
> organised by the Wikimedia community. Organizing team and location are
> chosen by a jury in a public bidding process.
>
> Due to the growing requirements and complexity for this growing
> conference the Wikimania Committee decided to revise the bidding
> timeline to give more time to prepare the conference.
>
> Here it is:
> * https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2016_bid_selection_timeline
>
> == Jury ==
> The Wikimania Committee is pleased to announce the jury for Wikimania
2016:
>
> Richard Symonds
> Stuart Prior
> Claudia Garad
> Esteban Zarate
> Daniel Bryant
> Finne Boonen
> Ellie Young
>
> == Accepting Bids ==
> We invite anyone in our community to submit a proposal for Wikimania
> 2016 on Meta Wiki:
> * https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2016_bids
>
> Please consult the timeline and Judging Criteria that are posted at:
> * https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2016_bids
>
> The deadline for bids is November 15, 23:59 UTC. You should setup a
> bidding page and contact Ellie Young, WMF Conference Coordinator before
> the deadline. She will help you prepare your bid. All bids which have
> been confirmed until November 15 will be considered by the jury, others
> will be dismissed.
>
> Subsequently there will be a two week period where the community can
> comment and offer feedback on the proposal.
>
> In December your team must be available for conference calls with the
> jury, after deliberations the host for Wikimania 2016 will be announced
> by the end of 2014.
>
> On behalf of the Wikimania Committee with regards,
>
>
> Manuel
> --
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Hi,
Some Wikimedia projects in languages of India have Indian time defined as
the default time zone. Some don't. For precise info see:
http://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=InitialiseSettings.php
Search that file for wgLocaltimezone. You'll see that some projects have
"Asia/Kolkata" as the timezone, for example guwiki (Gujarati Wikipedia),
but some don't appear at all, which means that their default timezone is
UTC. So for example if one goes to recent changes on the Assamese
Wikisource, then the times will show by default in IST, but on Assamese
Wikipedia it will be UTC.
I guess that at least some of the projects will want to switch to the
timezone of India. It's easy to do - a line for each project needs to be
added for each site, but this should come in as requests from each site's
community.
If you have a few minutes, please check whether your favorite Wikimedia
uses the appropriate default time zone. If it doesn't, please bring this up
for community discussion, and if the community agrees, please request to
change it in Bugzilla (or just submit a patch directly to Gerrit).
If you need any technical explanation (for example, if you have no idea how
to work with Bugzilla and Gerrit), I am available for questions.
Thank you!
--
Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
http://aharoni.wordpress.com
“We're living in pieces,
I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
Myself and Rahmanuddin will be taking sessions at Barcamp Bangalore on Oct
12, 2014.
https://barcampbangalore.org/bcb/monsoon-2014/dissecting-wikipedia
In the first session we will explore various technical aspects of Wikipedia
with demonstrations. Wikipedia has its own set of APIs using which we can
retrieve information by using various queris and parameters. The output can
be generated in various formats. These output can be used for processing by
programming languages as input. These will be demonstrated.
https://barcampbangalore.org/bcb/monsoon-2014/pywikipedia-and-wikimetrics
In the sub-section we will cover in detail how wikimetrics work in terms of
tracking a Wikipedia user’s contributions. On the flip side, we will be
learning how to use Pywikipedia bot framework to improve and enhance
Wikipedia articles. Prior python knowledge is required. Working with
databases, spreadsheets would be a plus.
Thanks and regards,
Pavanaja
This can be done in India too.
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From: "Jon Harald Søby" <jhsoby(a)gmail.com>
Date: 09-Oct-2014 2:38 am
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Nobel Peace Prize announcement and editathon
To: "Wikimedia Mailing List" <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc:
> Hi, all!
>
> The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize will be announced this Friday, and in
> cooperation with Wikimedia Norge, the Nobel Peace Center
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Peace_Center> has invited Wikipedians
> from the Norwegian Wikipedia community to an editathon to improve the
> article about the winner(s?) as soon as possible. We'll be sitting
> practically in the next room from where the announcement is made, updating
> relevant articles as fast as we can.
>
> For this to be a global event, I'd like to invite anyone who's interested
> to join us in the IRC channel #wikipedia-nobel
> <irc://freenode/#wikipedia-nobel>, where we'll be talking and
coordinating.
> We'll also try to livetweet the event using the hashtag #wikinobel
> <https://twitter.com/hashtag/wikinobel>, probably mainly from the account
> @WikimediaNorge <https://twitter.com/WikimediaNorge>.
>
> The press conference will be start around 10:30 Norwegian time, which is
*08:30
> UTC*, like I said on *Friday, 10th of October*. Please join us, and help
> spread this invitation to your community.
>
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> Jon Harald Søby <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jon_Harald_S%C3%B8by>
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Dear all,
I would be sending details and links to projects that the current indic
language enthusiasts and linguists are working on from Telugu world, one at
a time.
This project called Indicpdf tries to have a lossless pdf conversion.
http://indicpdf.apphb.com/
Currently working for Telugu, Kannada and Devanagari as a service, it can
work with any indian language script provided the font is available.
The developer is looking for some support for his project. If the
Government recognises his work, he would be releasing it to public under a
free licnse.
--
With thanks & regards
*Rahimanuddin Shaik*
నాని
[image:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/meta/0/08/Wikipedia-logo-v2_1x.png]
reachout
ఒక విశ్వాన్ని ఊహించండి, ఎక్కడయితే ప్రతి మనిషి ఒక సంపూర్ణ విజ్ఞానభాండారాన్ని
అందరితో పంచుకోగలడో, ఆ విశ్వాన్ని ఊహించండి. *అటువంటి విశ్వాన్ని నెలకొల్పడమే
మా సంకల్పం.*
తెలుగు వికీపీడియా : http://te.wikipedia.org
CIS-A2K Program : http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge
CIS-INDIA : http://cis-india.org
A new address for ebooks : http://kinige.com
*తెలుగువారికి సాంకేతిక సహాయం - http://techsetu.com <http://techsetu.com/>*
Dear Wikimedians,
We are glad to invite you to join us for an event in Mumbai on October
7th where Pandita. Neela Bhagwat [1] will donate her comprehensive
textual compilation of Gwalior Gharana [2] bandishes.
Timing: 5.30 to 7 pm
Venue: Shivaji Park Nagarik Sangh, (hall next to Shivaji statue at
Shivaji Park, Dadar)
As some of you may know that Gwalior Gharana is one of the old
traditions of Hindustani gayaki and like other gayaki's the tradition
has been passed on orally in the guru-shishya parampara. Pt. Neela
Bhagwat has over a period of 30 years (of learning and teaching music)
meticulously compiled most of the Gwalior Gharana bandishes with
notations and notes. Upon the request of CIS-A2K, she has agreed to
donate this comprehensive collection which will be scanned and hosted on
Wikisource. We hope that this will be of interest to music aficionados
and those interested in the study of Hindustani Music.
CIS-A2K is thankful to the event hosts, Khayal Trust. The event will
attract a community of Hindustani music lovers and we hope to orient
them to consider improving the quality of content on Hindustani music
and musicians on Wikipedia during the event. We welcome the community
members in Mumbai to join us in this effort. Please help spread the word.
Best,
Vishnu
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neela_Bhagwat
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwalior_gharana (needs wiki love)
Extraordinary Circular
Dated: 03/10/2014
During the past several weeks, there has been significant developments and
major changes in the team of governance of Wikimedia India Chapter
(WMIN). The Executive Committee (EC) effective as of now, would like to
clarify the sequence of events that unfolded and the remedial steps the EC
took as and when necessary.
-
On August 27th, Moksh at 8:03pm tendered his resignation as the
President of WMIN Chapter as well as a member of the Executive Committee.
Within minutes, Pranav Curumsey too sent in his resignation from the
position as an EC member.
-
With this, the number of remaining EC members became 5 (Five).
-
On 30th August, the remaining EC members immediately put up and passed
an emergency Resolution accepting the resignation of both Moksh Juneja and
Pranav Curumsey. This resolution was signed for by Jayanta, ViswaPrabha and
Nikita. Srikanth signed against this. Karthik did not participate in this
resolution.
-
Further, on the same day, another Emergency Resolution was passed to
co-opt two new members to fill those two vacancies. By consensus, two
senior Chapter members were selected to be the new EC members. All the
then existing EC members viz. Jayanta Nath, ViswaPrabha, Srikanth, Nikita
and Karthik unanimously voted for both these candidates.
Radhakrishna Arvapally, a senior Chapter member and former Chairperson
of Bangalore SIG was one among them. Due to severe personal engagements,
the other person gracefully refused to be an EC Member. Due to privacy
concerns, we prefer to conceal his identity.
-
With this, the number of effective EC members became 6.
-
On 31st August, an Emergency Telecon was held. Jayanta Nath was elected
as the new President as well as Radhakrishna as the new Secretary and
ViswaPrabha as the Treasurer. All the existing EC members (viz. Jayanta,
Radhakrishna, ViswaPrabha, Srikanth, Nikita and Karthik) attended this
telecon and all of them had voted for the new office bearers unanimously.
-
On 2nd September 2014, there was another Telecon mainly to discuss about
the urgent pending matters such as elections, AGM, formation of an advisory
committee etc. All the Six EC members (viz. Jayanta, Radhakrishna,
ViswaPrabha, Srikanth, Nikita and Karthik) had attended this meeting.
-
Soon after this meeting was over, Srikant submitted his resignation.
With this, the number of effective EC members fell back to 5 (five). This
necessitated the co-opting of two more members to the board of directors.
-
During the next EC telecom, which was held on 5th September, Dr. Ekbal
Bappukunju was co-opted in. This was supported by all attendees (viz.
Jayanta, Radhakrishna, ViswaPrabha, Nikita and Karthik) unanimously. The EC
was now back with a strength of Six members. There was still one more
vacancy in the board to be filled up. EC decided to seek out and absorb one
more potential candidate from the list of chapter members.
-
Finally, on 10th September, during yet another Telecon, Nikhil Kawale
was co-opted to the remaining one position. This meeting was attended by
Jayanta, ViswaPrabha, Dr. Ekbal, Nikita and Karthik) all of them
unanimously voted in favour of Nikhil.
-
As is evident from the above, Wikimedia India Chapter would like to
state explicitly and assure everybody who may be concerned that at no point
of time during this period, there was a decision or deliberation that took
place without sufficient quorum or majority as stipulated by its Memorandum
of Association. Further, the Executive Committee itself was never in
minority as suggested by certain messages appeared in open mail lists.
The above circular is signed by the following members of the Executive
Committee of Wikimedia India Chapter effective as on date:
President: Jayanta Nath
Secretary: Radhakrishna Arvapally
Treasurer: ViswaPrabha
Karthik Nadar
Nikita Belavate
Dr. Ekbal Bappukunju
Nikhil Kawale
Regards,
Jayanta Nath
President
Wikimedia India Chapter
The PDF copy of the the same you could found at
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/images/8/80/Extraordinarycircular.pdf
Another pioneering achievement for Wikipedia, by the indefatigable Doc
James. :)
A.
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From: James Heilman <jmh649(a)gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 4:24 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] First Wikipedia Article has been Formally Peer
Reviewed and Published
To: wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Article published by the journal Open Medicine
http://www.openmedicine.ca/article/viewFile/562/564
Will soon be pubmed indexed. Editorial regarding the efforts are here
http://www.openmedicine.ca/article/view/652/565
Hope these sorts of efforts will improve the reputation of Wikipedia and
the number of contributors. I guess we will see.
--
James Heilman
MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine
www.opentextbookofmedicine.com
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