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.
Hi All,
On 23rd Monday, we got Invite from CDOT for giving a wikimedia presentation
on 27th Friday @ CDOT, Bangalore. (Thanks to Dr.YVS Lakshmi, for Initiating
this)
I quickly reached out Bangalore Wikimedians and Carolynne Schloeder (as
Carolynne would be in Bangalore on that day).
Myself and Carolynne gave presentation @ CDOT.
We were happy to see very positive response from audience.
some photos attached.
https://www.facebook.com/radhakrishna.arvapally/posts/10152578792544516
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Thanks & Regards,
A.Radha Krishna
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Arkrishna
Hi,
I had sent following mail to the WMIN members list about 10 days back.
As there was no reply for 5 days, I sent the same again adding
individual ids of EC members.
There is not a single line of reply to the mail. Not even any
acknowledgment of receiving the mail.
I am wondering if my email id is blacklisted by EC members or there is
no one in the current EC who is nominated/interested in responding OR
WMIN is completely shutdown.
If any list members have any idea about the current status of WMIN,
please let others know.
Regards
-Sudhanwa
Here is the mail I sent to members list 10 days back.
Dear WMIN members,
There are no updates of any kind from the EC in the last few months.
What is the current status of Sowmyan? Is he still there or really gone?
There are not even membership renewal reminders now. Assuming that
Sowmyan is not there, where the forms are to be sent?
What is the status of the grants-earlier ones and the new ones applied for..
What are the current projects happening in/through WMIN?
What is the current membership renewal status? What is the current count?
WMIN website is not updated for quite some time. Who is looking into
those activities?
Can someone from the EC enlighten the members please.
Thanks and regards
-- Sudhanwa
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web: www.sudhanwa.com blog: www.sudhanwa.in
Twitter: sudhanwa Check on FB, Linkedin for more.
Dear all,
A complaint about this page first surfaced on the feministsindia list on
Saturday; Rohini and I are both members of this list. I've been cleaning
the article in bits and pieces this week, but there's still much work ahead.
Do see the article on it that was posted on Kafila.org just now:
http://kafila.org/2014/06/27/wikipedia-bhanwari-devi-and-the-need-for-an-al…
(Also posted to wikimedians working on india-related content in english
list)
Best
Bishakha
*<cross-posting>*
Dear All,
I'm happy to share with you that '22nd Cochrane Colloquium', an annual
celebration of Cochrane Collaboration is going to take place in Hyderabad
this year. Cochrane Collaboration is an independent, non-for profit,
international organisation. It helps provide evidence-based, relevant,
systematic, up-to-date reviews to people on health which is widely referred
by healthcare-professionals, patients and general public.[1]
Last year in the Colloquium, there were nearly 2000 scientists from around
the world in Quebec where Cochrane and Wikipedia initiated a partnership to
populate Wikipedia articles with evidence from Systematic Reviews. This
partnership was initiated on the Wikipedia front by Dr. James and his team
of Wiki Project Med Foundation
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Project_Med_Foundation>. As a part of
it there has been appointment of Sydney Poore as a Wikipedian-In-Residence. For
more
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/05/05/cochrane-recruits-wikipedian-in-resid…>.
The Colloquium is going to happen from 21st - 26th September this year.
A Pre-colloquium Symposium 'Wikipedia and Cochrane' is planned on 21st
Sept. Cochrane Collaboration has offered free entries for upto 50
Wikipedians to this session! For registration and further details please
read the event page on meta
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_and_Cochrane_Symposium,_2014>.
Cochrane has also allotted two slots for WP workshops in addition to a
Wikipedia Booth during the colloquium.
Would love to hear more from you and make the best of this opportunity.
Ccd. in this mail are, James, Sydney and Manu (from Cochrane). Interested
folks please contact me off-list.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochrane_Collaboration
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochrane_Collaboration>
*-- *
*Warm Regards,*
*Nikita Belavate.*
Hi all,
Rohini Lakshane has resigned as chairperson of the Gender gap SIG at the
Chapter to focus on her personal and professional life.
--
Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Treasurer,
Wikimedia Chapter [India]
Donate to the Wikimedia India Chapter today
<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Donations>
Hi friends
MANIFESTO FOR EDUCATIONALISTS
Here I am sharing some photos from our learning center in vishwalaya
here around 5 students are learning from here. All are falls in the
class of “Untouchables as well as economically poor” This learning
center is designed in the manner of “self driven self learning” to
achieve this FOSS (Free and Open Source Softwears.) are the best
option thanks to ‘GNU open source movement.’
The story behind this learning center is starting from two months
before I realized one think the power of “Education technology” is not
reaching rural areas especially in Karnataka. So I want to start a
learning center in One of the NGO named Vishwalaya. I am not having
money so that I asked two computers from one of well reputed
engineering collage in Bangalore. The management of the engineering
collage is ready to give what I asked but the principal of the same
collage is said “I will come and verify” I waited one month’s He never
showed a courage to say “NO” if he does that I could have realized NO
is nothing but it is just an acronym of ‘Next opportunity ’ so I
stopped to waiting for him.
The first book I ever read is “What is Historical materialism – Carl
marx” Yes I am a ‘communist’ The real power is residing in rural areas
of india. “You can kill me but you cant stop me.”Other two friends of
mine come with two computers in there hand. and a bunch of mobile
phones. they don’t like to share their name here then I started this
learning center now 5 students from different back grounds are
studying here. Two different classes entirely free ‘Mobile phone
servicing and DTP’ What society so calls them “The untouchables and
poor”
