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.
Following this [1] discussion, it appears that the conditions into which
some documents are released by the Indian government are nearly the same as
CC-BY. However some people on Commons think that we need a confirmation.
Could the WM India ask whether the conditions specified here [2] are
compatible with such a license (or another free license)?
More precisely the requirement that images such be "Reproduced accurately"
is a moral rights clause -- a reproduction should not be modified to
misrepresent what the original work was. The rest of that clause also gives
a hint they are referring more to moral rights, as Carl Lindberg said.
Thanks,
Yann
(1)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump/Copyright#License_a…
(2) http://pib.nic.in/newsite/terms.aspx#copyright
Dear all,
We from the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS-A2K) thank you all for your support and collaboration and wish you a very Happy New Year. We bring you the details of our work for the month of January 2014:
CIS-A2K, KIIT University and Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences sign MoUs
KIIT University, Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences and the Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) have entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoUs) for furthering Odia Wikipedia. Dr.Achyuta Samanta, Founder-Chairman of KIIT and KISS inaugurated both the collaborations formally. Dr. Sasmitarani Samanta, Registrar, KIIT and Surjya Kanta Mohanty, Chief Operating Officer, KISS signed the MoUs of KIIT and KISS respectively whereas T. Vishnuvardhan, Programme Director, CIS-A2K was there to sign in both the MoUs on behalf of CIS along with Subhashish Panigrahi, Programme Officer, CIS-A2K: http://bit.ly/1j1qtFv.
Article
Odia Wikipedia: Three Years of Active Contributions Gives Life to a Ten Year Old Project (by Subhashish Panigrahi, HASTAC, January 31, 2014): http://bit.ly/1jvxD8r.
WikiSangamotsavam 2013 brings Indian Wikimedians together (by Netha Hussain and Subhashish Panigrahi, DNA, January 14, 2014). The article was edited by Rohini Lakshane: http://bit.ly/1jvynKP.
Blog Entries
Wikipedia Editing as Assessment Tool in the Indian Higher Education Classroom (by Dr. Tejaswini Niranjana, Ashwin Kumar A.P. and T. Vishnu Vardhan, January 30, 2014): http://bit.ly/1m5QHMD.
Wikipedia at Forefront in Christ University (by Syed Muzamiluddin, January 29, 2014): http://bit.ly/LTFA8E.
Events Organised
Odia WikiMeetup (Bhubaneswar, January 11, 2014): http://bit.ly/NBkFJi.
Introductory talk about "Wikipedia in Academics" (KIIT School of Technology, Bhubaneswar, January 12, 2014): http://bit.ly/1j1yv1f.
Wikipedia Editing Demonstration at NIE (Nirmala Institue of Education, Goa, January 15, 2014): http://bit.ly/1fmYkKK
Odia Wikipedia's 10th anniversary @ KISS (Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences, Bhubaneswar, January 28, 2014): http://bit.ly/1gsqkJC.
Odia Wikipedia 10th anniversary (Indian Institute of Mass Communication, Dhenkanal, January 29, 2014): http://bit.ly/1dGRBoy.
Event Participated In
The Dynamics of Education to Employment Journey: Opportunities and Challenges (organized by KIIT School of Management, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, February 21-22, 2014). T. Vishnu Vardhan gave a talk: http://bit.ly/1ePwqHc.
Media Coverage
CIS gave its inputs for the following media coverage:
Digitising contest to preserve rare books in Malayalam (The Hindu, January 4, 2014): http://bit.ly/NBtVgz.
‘With Internet in every pocket, power to the people’ (by Shubhadeep Chaudhury, The Tribune, January 12, 2014): http://bit.ly/1ojb1IZ. Shubhadeep interviews T. Vishnu Vardhan on internet and social media.
ଆଦିବାସୀ ଭାଷାର ଉନ୍ନତିକଳ୍ପେ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ (Odishan.com, January 12, 2014): http://bit.ly/1kAWJmG.
KIIT University to lead building free knowledge repository initiative (India Education Diary.com, January 20, 2014): http://bit.ly/1j1Rzwk.
Odisha: KISS to create tribal languages and heritage repository (Odisha Diary Bureau, January 20, 2014): http://bit.ly/1bLBhmB.
FDC recognition for the Centre for the Internet and Society (Wikimedia Foundation, January 30, 2014): http://bit.ly/1fYdxOz. Wikimedia Foundation published a resolution declaring CIS eligible for funding through the Annual Plan Grants program.
Tech-savvy students given tips to enter IT field (The Times of India, January 31, 2014): http://bit.ly/1j1QvIX.
Odia Wikipedia (Sanchar, January 31, 2014): http://bit.ly/1ePwAON.
Wikimedia Foundation has funded A2K to anchor the growth of Wikimedia movement in India. The A2K team consists of six members, four based in Bangalore: T. Vishnu Vardhan, Dr. U.B. Pavanaja, Subhashish Panigrahi and Muzammiluddin Syed, one member Nitika Tandon in Delhi and one Advisor Dr. Tejaswini Niranjana. Archives of our newsletters can be accessed here (http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters). Wikipedians from various communities can request for outreach programs, technical bugs, logistics-merchandize and media, public relations and communications at http://bit.ly/TOcXId.
About CIS
The Centre for Internet and Society is a non-profit research organization that works on policy issues relating to freedom of expression, privacy, accessibility for persons with disabilities, access to knowledge and IPR reform, and openness (including open government, FOSS, open standards, etc.), and engages in academic research on digital natives and digital humanities.
Follow us elsewhere
Twitter: https://twitter.com/CISA2K
CIS group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/cis.india
Visit us at: https://cis-india.org
Support Us
Please help us defend consumer / citizen rights on the Internet! Write a cheque in favour of ‘The Centre for Internet and Society’ and mail it to us at No. 194, 2nd ‘C’ Cross, Domlur, 2nd Stage, Bengaluru – 5600 71.
Request for Collaboration:
We invite researchers, practitioners, and theoreticians, both organisationally and as individuals, to collaboratively engage with Internet and society and improve our understanding of this new field. To discuss the research collaborations, write to Sunil Abraham, Executive Director, at sunil(a)cis-india.org or Nishant Shah, Director – Research, at nishant(a)cis-india.org. To discuss collaborations on Indic language wikipedia, write to T. Vishnu Vardhan, Programme Director, A2K, at vishnu(a)cis-india.org
CIS is grateful to its donors, Wikimedia Foundation, Ford Foundation, Privacy International, UK, Hans Foundation and the Kusuma Trust which was founded by Anurag Dikshit and Soma Pujari, philanthropists of Indian origin, for its core funding and support for most of its projects.
Thanks
Nitika Tandon
FYI
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Date: Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 4:48 AM
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Hi,
There is an old bug in bugzilla which requests single letter prefix 'c'
as a redirect to Wikimedia Commons (bug 4676 [1]), but c: is already
configured as a namespace alias for Category namespace (??????) in Hindi
Wikipedia (bug 29940 [2]). I don't know the popularity of use of c: in
Hindi Wikipedia, but hope it is ignorable (bug is actually one of the
/Mayur Bug/s :-)).
I hope Hindi community will support bug 4676, which help almost every
Wikimedia wikis in every supported languages.
[1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4676
[2] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29940
praveenp
Many here will be aware of the incredibly wonderful work being done by the
volunteers at WP:RX. Unfortunately, there seem to be no Indian librarians
(or even volunteers with access to the few good libraries around) involved
in this venture.
Here is a list of some of the India related requests that have failed to
get responses - wonder if anyone can help?
Here are some more recent requests
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Resource_Exchange/Resou…
Young India articles by M.K. Gandhi
requested by User:Yann on 6 November 2013
Debbarman's article on Sterculia khasiana In: Assam Forest Records.
Botany. Calcutta, India 1: 5, t. 3. 1934 [Jul 1934] (as Sterculia khasiana)
requested by User:Melly42 on 4 February 2014
Much older requests
page 193 of Donner, Henrike, ed. (2012). Being Middle-class in India: A Way
of Life. Routledge. ISBN 9781136513398 / 978-0-415-67167-5
requested by User:Sitush on 28 March 2013
pages 1437-1438 of Singh, Kumar Suresh, ed. (1996). Communities, segments,
synonyms, surnames and titles. People of India: National series 8.
Cambridge University Press & the Anthropological Survey of India. ISBN
9780195633542.
requested by User:Sitush on 17 December 2012
Sunil Kumar Sen (1985). The working women and popular movements in Bengal:
from the Gandhi era to the present day. K.P. Bagchi. pp. 104 to 106.
Bharati Ray (29 August 2002). Early feminists of colonial India: Sarala
Devi Chaudhurani and Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain. Oxford University Press. pp.
149 to 151. ISBN 978-0-19-565697-8.
Satyavrata Ghosh; Marxist Study Forum (1994). Remembering our
revolutionaries. Marxist Study Forum. pp. 77 to 82.
requested by User:Titodutta on 8 December 2012
"For a Free Press," Mean Time (India) July 20, 2005
requested by User:Crtew on 24 May 2013
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:RX
best wishes
Shyamal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Shyamal
Dear all,
The deadline to apply for Wikimania scholarship is today. Apply here in
case you haven't: http://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships
"Wikimania 2014, the 10th annual international conference of the Wikimedia
movement, is being held between 6 and 10 August 2014. The venue is in the
Barbican Centre, London. The Wikimedia Foundation is offering a limited
number of scholarships to offset the cost of selected individuals'
attendance at Wikimania."
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Regards from Mumbai,
Karthik Nadar.
(+91) 977-360-8862
Secretary, Wikimedia India Chapter.
Bangalore, India.
http://wiki.wikimedia.in
