WikimediaIndia-l February 2014

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WikiWomen's History
by Tejaswini Niranjana 17 Feb '14

17 Feb '14

Seemed appropriate to post this: http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/11/uttar-pradesh-festival-honors-uns… Would be good to see articles on some of the women who were part of the festival. Tejaswini -- Tejaswini Niranjana, PhD Lead Researcher - Higher Education Innovation and Research Applications (HEIRA) Senior Fellow - Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (CSCS) Visiting Professor - Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Humanities, Lingnan University, Hong Kong Advisor, Access to Knowledge Programme, Centre for Internet and Society Visiting Faculty - Centre for Contemporary Studies, Indian Institute of Science (CCS-IISc) t: 91-80-41202302 http://heira.in www.cscs.res.in

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Women's Day events and WikiWomen's History Month, 2014
by Rohini Lakshané 16 Feb '14

16 Feb '14

The project page for coordinating online and offline events for International Women's Day (March 8) and Women's History Month has been published on Meta at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_History_Month,_India-2014 I urge Indian language editors to add lists of articles to create and expand as a part of the edit-a-thon: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_History_Month,_India-2014/To_do_l… The theme of the edit-a-thon this year on the English Wikipedia is Women Parliamentarians. The articles listed for creation, expansion and improvement as a part of the Lilavati's Daughters edit-a-thon on women scientists could be taken up again during Women's History Month. Rohini Lakshané -- Chairperson (Special Interest Group), Gender gap, Wikimedia Chapter (India) Blog: WikipeDNA <http://www.dnaindia.com/blogs/wikipeDNA> Facebook: WikiWomen's Collaborative India<https://www.facebook.com/groups/gendergapindia/>

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Wikipedia Takes Kolkata
by Kalyan Sarkar 16 Feb '14

16 Feb '14

All, We are pleased to announce that the third edition of Wikipedia Takes Kolkata would be held on 23 February 2014. We are going to cover the following places. 1. Dargah of Manik Pir 2. Maniktala Kabarsthan 3. Pareshnath Mandir 4. Mohun Bagan Row 5. House of Nandalal Bose 6. House of Girish Ghosh 7. Naba Vrindaban Mandir 8. Gaudiya Math 9. Ghat of Sarada Ma 10. Galiff Street Bird Market 11. Sahu Ballabh House 12. Belgachhia Pareshnath Mandir 13. Veterinary College 14. Belgachia Rajbari The relevant details are available at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_Kolkata_III Thanks and regards, Kalyan Sarkar

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Decennial celebrations of Telugu Wikipedia
by Sowmyan Tirumurti 15 Feb '14

15 Feb '14

Congratulations to the Telugu Wikipedia Community on the 10th year anniversary of Telugu Wikipedia. By your selfless actions you have helped spread knowledge, and make this world a better place. The satisfaction you derive from this has been your only reward. We salute you for your spirit and wish you many more happy anniversaries. With best wishes, Sowmyan

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WMF visit to Bangalore next week
by Asaf Bartov 14 Feb '14

14 Feb '14

Dear Indian Wikimedians, I pleased to announce a group from the Wikimedia Foundation will be visiting India next week, staying in Bangalore from Feb 10th through Feb 16th. The group includes: 1. Garfield Byrd (WMF's Chief of Finance and Administration) 2. Anasuya Sengupta (WMF's Senior Director of Grantmaking) 3. Sydney Poore (volunteer member of the Funds Dissemination Committee [FDC]) and will be joined in India by WMF Trustee Bishakha Datta. (I had also been intending to come, but am prevented this time around due to unexpected issues securing a travelling visa to India.) WMF staff have been visiting partner organizations and communities over the past few months, to learn more about their context, achievements and challenges. More recently, FDC members have been joining them in this effort. Currently, WMF staff and FDC members are visiting Germany. One purpose of this visit is to conduct working meetings with the Foundation's two major partners and grantees in India: the Wikimedia India (WMIN) chapter and the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), operating the Access To Knowledge (A2K) programme. Additionally, we would like to meet as many Wikimedians as we can, via a community meetup in Bangalore, and to make ourselves available over digital channels (at least taking advantage of being in the same timezone) to community members across India, via open group discussions over IRC. We are also open to discussion with any interested smaller groups or individuals, over Skype, Hangout, or telephone, time permitting. We have put up a rough agenda page up on Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_India_Visit_Feb_2014 Please feel free to sign up for the meetup or the conversations, and to raise topics you would like to see addressed, on the talk page. We greatly regret that logistical issues are preventing us from visiting other communities in person this time around, and from attending the Telugu community's 10th anniversary celebrations in Vijayawada. Cheers, Asaf Bartov -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation <http://www.wikimediafoundation.org> Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org

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Gnunify 2014
by Sudhanwa Jogalekar 11 Feb '14

11 Feb '14

Hi, Gnunify, a major Free/Open Source conference in India is being held this week on 14-15 Feb. This time, we will be having sessions about Wikipedia related activities on both the days. On 14th, there will be a talk on Wikipedia and sister projects. On 15th, There will be a hands on editing session for the newbies. Also, there will be 2 more sessions on Wikipedia localisation and Mediawiki related development. Please check out the website www.gnunify.in for the conference details. There is no entry fee and all are welcome to join the event. Regards -Sudhanwa -- ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~! web: www.sudhanwa.com blog: www.sudhanwa.in Twitter: sudhanwa Check on FB, Linkedin for more.

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India-Pakistan rivalry on English WP
by Saqib Qayyum 09 Feb '14

09 Feb '14

Greetings from Karachi to my follow Wikimedians in India. I was actually thinking of writing a blog post for the WMIN chapter official blog on the subjected issue. Wondering if such post even could be allowed to posted on the blog. But I'll make sure you guys that its going to be a positive post and cover the recent events happened on-wiki (English WP) between the editors of both the countries. The post will also cover if how the editors from both countries can co-operate with each other and even have some kind of collaboration… Also, if anyone would be interested to join me in writing the post, very much appreciated because I'm not good in writing skills. regardsSaqib Wikimedia Pakistan User Group and a Wikivoyagerhttps://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/User:Saqib

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