WikimediaIndia-l June 2014

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Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Wicnik reminder
by Srikanth Ramakrishnan 24 Jun '14

24 Jun '14

FYI, thought this might be some fun to try out in India. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 12:38 AM Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Wicnik reminder To: Wikimedia Mailing List <Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, wikimediaus-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org This is a reminder mostly for US Wikimedians and US-based WMF office employees but also in case Wikimedians in other parts of the world want to join us. Wicnik, Wikimedia's annual summer picnic event, is happening again this year. Are you signed up to participate? Bring food, sports equipment, sunscreen, and/or your significant other(s). So far there are Wicniks planned for these locations: Cape Cod, Massachusetts - happened already New York City, New York - July 6 Frederick, Maryland - July 6 Washington, DC - July 13 Detroit, Michigan - July 6 Evansville/Bloomington, Indiana - date TBD Chicago, Illinois - July 12 St Louis, Missouri - July 6 St Paul, Minnesota - July 6 Arvada, Colorado - July 6 Seattle, Washington - July 6 San Francisco, California - July 6 Los Angeles, California - July 6 Under discussion: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Portland, Oregon Sign up at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wicnik Pine _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> -- Srikanth Ramakrishnan Treasurer, Wikimedia Chapter [India] Donate to the Wikimedia India Chapter today <http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Donations>

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Help this world
by arun vm 23 Jun '14

23 Jun '14

Open world required an Open library is int it?.Now it is the time to "Give and take books save paper save money save trees Open library is designed to reduce the cost of education Here every one is librarian as well as reader This program also having one centralized library in vishwalaya. List your books and exchange your books against books enjoy "free as freedom philosophy Even the bokks which they are ideal for years also can be brought back to usage. Expecting continues support from each of you to make education free as possible

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[Wikimedia-l] The Wikipedia Library: New Free Accounts Available
by Vishnu T 20 Jun '14

20 Jun '14

Dear Wikimedians, The Wikipedia Library has new, free research account signups available for variuos sources across disciplines. Please see the below. Best, Vishnu ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jake Orlowitz <jorlowitz(a)gmail.com> Date: Friday, 20 June 2014 Subject: [Wikimedia-l] The Wikipedia Library: New Free Accounts Available To: Wikimedia & Libraries <Libraries(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, North American Cultural Partnerships <glam-us(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, cultural-partners(a)wikimedia.ch, wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org The Wikipedia Library has new, free research account signups available: New * British Newspaper Archive <http://enwp.org/WP:BNA> (50 accounts) * Keesing's World News Archive <http://enwp.org/WP:Keesings> (25 accounts) Expanded * Credo Reference <http://enwp.org/WP:CREDO> (200 new accounts) * JSTOR!! <http://enwp.org/WP:JSTOR> (400 new accounts). Medical * BMJ <http://enwp.org/WP:BMJ> (25 accounts) * Cochrane Library <http://enwp.org/WP:Cochrane> (100 accounts) Other *Questia Online Library <http://enwp.org/WP:Questia (500 accounts) *HighBeam Research <http://enwp.org/WP:HighBeam (500 accounts) Sign up! Accounts are available to ALL global editors with a 1 year old account and 1000 edits. Please notify your local community about the signups. You can signup today on English Wikipedia. But! If you have started a local Wikipedia Library branch you can host signups on your local Wiki (Arabic, Chinese...). To set up a Wikipedia Library branch email Ocaasi at jorlowitz(a)gmail.com. Thanks! Jake Orlowitz (Ocaasi) The Wikipedia Library <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>

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Univercity of brahmavidya
by arun vm 18 Jun '14

18 Jun '14

Hi We are introducing a brand new concept of mystic education "Univercity of brahmavidya" Are you aware about your past future and present want to learn about those then learn it from the leader Classes are taken by Kaniyan arun webber and Dr:Arun raveendran kaniyan is a community in kerala known by different names like kaniyan, panikar,ganaka,kalarikurup etc,they are traditional astrologer,they also practice ayurveda , Their ancestors were the first group of ancientalien Brahmins of pre medieval era. They (predecessors of Ganaka/kaniyar) were earlier known by the name Arivor . They had a supreme status in social hierarchyby virtue of their excellent sense of past ,future and present (Trikaalangani)and profound skills in guiding the society. They are actually descendants of sakadwipi Brahmins. Origin dates back to vedic period ,Before 2000BC . Their ancestors were " Maga"people came from indo- Iranian region, eventually migratedand settled at various parts of ancient India .Some of them had taken up the practice and belief of heterodox groups (Ajivka , Jainism, Budhism) . Latertheir predecessors become separated and segregated in to different groups by taking up different calling or names at different places. Ganak Brahmins in Assam , Acharya in Tripura , Graha Bipra in Bihar, Nakshtra Darsa, Jothishi in Orrisa, Joshi in western and central India, Kaniyar, Ganaka , Kaniyan kanikal,kaniyar panicker, kalari panicker in south India. They were scholarly peopleand were traditionally engaged in intellectual vocations such as Astronomy Astrology,Literature, Ayurveda, Teaching , physicking etc. Kannassa Panickers,Ayyappilli asan, and Ezhuthachan are some of the noted personalities among them who set out the process of development of a regional language ''Malayalam'' Generally they had taken up the role of astute physical and psychic healers ,as astrology is said to have a major role in social regulation by means of social and individual psychological intervention Like us on facebook:https://www.facebook.com/pages/Eduladder/384919901583797 Univercity in eduladder:http://eduladder.com/viewunivercity.php?univerid=32

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WMIN Chapter membership drive
by Sowmyan Tirumurti 18 Jun '14

18 Jun '14

Dear Wikimedians, The membership enrollment drive is on. Kindly send your membership / renewal applications before June 30. For membership details please see: http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Membership-FAQ Those who sent in a id proof need not send again. We prefer NEFT transfer through bank rather than cheques. The AGM is tentatively scheduled for August 16, 2014. The Secretary will send a formal communication soon. Regards, Sowmyan

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Facilitating attending of Wikimania by Wikimedians from India
by Karthik Nadar 16 Jun '14

16 Jun '14

Dear all, There is a requirement of a letter from local organsation for Visa purpose when applying for a UK visa for Wikimania. Moksh, Srikanth and I as office bearers of Wikimedia India, would be happy to provide relevant letters to felicitate this. Kindly contact us privately if you require any help! Regards from Mumbai, Karthik Nadar. Secretary, Wikimedia India Chapter. Bangalore, India. http://wiki.wikimedia.in

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Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] "Statement on Wikipedia from participating communications firms"
by Bishakha Datta 11 Jun '14

11 Jun '14

Dear all, I've informally had discussions with some of you about how to tackle this in the Indian context, so cross-posting this. Best Bishakha ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: William Beutler <williambeutler(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 12:05 AM Subject: [Wikimedia-l] "Statement on Wikipedia from participating communications firms" To: wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Hi, everybody. Longtime lurker, first time writing to the list—the first in a few years at least. You may have seen some news coverage today about an initiative from a group of public relations, marketing, and communications agencies offering a statement, posted as a user essay on Wikipedia, stating in a public way their intention to follow Wikipedia's rules—especially regarding WP:COI—to educate themselves more about Wikipedia, and educate their colleagues and clients in turn. - Here's the statement on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Statement_on_Wikipedia_from_partici… - Here's a good treatment of the subject from PR Week: http://www.prweek.com/article/1297798/pr-firms-outline-wikipedia-compliance… - Here's a good blog post from Phil Gomes (User:Philgomes) about his agency's participation in it: http://www.edelman.com/post/todays-multi-agency-wikipedia-statement/ This is a project I've led for a few months now, following a meeting in DC in February, bringing together a number of big agency representatives with individuals from the Wikipedia community, and some with academic backgrounds. These included User:Ocaasi, User:Harej, and User:Fuzheado. Some who watch this list may well have been invited as well, and while I'd love to have had a bigger group, the conversation that day was very good, and has led us to this point. We're also very mindful that this was only one step—as User:Pigsonthewing has reminded me, not the first such step—but I think it could be a good one. U.S. agencies going on the record as pledging to follow Wikipedia's rules is a new thing, and we hope can renew this conversation. Following this message you'll find the statement in full, and a list of all agencies (and other organizations) signed to it, as well as names + usernames of the representative from each. Cheers, Bill (User:WWB / User:WWB Too) +++ *Statement on Wikipedia from participating communications firms* On behalf of our firms, we recognize Wikipedia's unique and important role as a public knowledge resource. We also acknowledge that the prior actions of some in our industry have led to a challenging relationship with the community of Wikipedia editors. Our firms believe that it is in the best interest of our industry, and Wikipedia users at large, that Wikipedia fulfill its mission of developing an accurate and objective online encyclopedia. Therefore, it is wise for communications professionals to follow Wikipedia policies as part of ethical engagement practices. We therefore publicly state and commit, on behalf of our respective firms, to the best of our ability, to abide by the following principles: - To seek to better understand the fundamental principles guiding Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. - To act in accordance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, particularly those related to "conflict of interest." - To abide by the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use. - To the extent we become aware of potential violations of Wikipedia policies by our respective firms, to investigate the matter and seek corrective action, as appropriate and consistent with our policies. - Beyond our own firms, to take steps to publicize our views and counsel our clients and peers to conduct themselves accordingly. - We also seek opportunities for a productive and transparent dialogue with Wikipedia editors, inasmuch as we can provide accurate, up-to-date, and verifiable information that helps Wikipedia better achieve its goals. A significant improvement in relations between our two communities may not occur quickly or easily, but it is our intention to do what we can to create a long-term positive change and contribute toward Wikipedia's continued success. *Participating agencies* - Beutler Ink (William Beutler, User:WWB + User:WWB Too) - Ogilvy & Mather (Marshall Manson, User:Tmmanson) - FleishmanHillard (Sam Huxley, User:SamHuxleyFH) - Peppercomm (Sam Ford, User:Leumas712) - Burson-Marsteller (Patrick Kerley, User:Patrick at Burson) - Ketchum (Tim Weinheimer) - Porter Novelli (Dave Coustan, User:Extraface) - Voce Communications (Dave Coustan, User:Extraface) - Edelman (Phil Gomes, User:Philgomes) - Allison+Partners (Jeremy Rosenberg, User:Jeremy at A+P) - Glover Park Group, (Brian Gluckman, User:Bgluckman) *Other participating organizations* - MDC Partners (Michael Bassik, User:Mbassik) - Chartered Institute of Public Relations, (Andrew Ross, User:Andrew_ross_ajmross) _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>

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Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] First _draft_ goals for WMF engineering/product
by Asaf Bartov 10 Jun '14

10 Jun '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Erik Moeller" <erik(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Jun 9, 2014 6:24 PM Subject: [Wikimedia-l] First _draft_ goals for WMF engineering/product To: "Wikimedia developers" <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, "Wikimedia Mailing List" <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Cc: Hi all, We've got the first DRAFT (sorry for shouting, but can't hurt to emphasize :)) of the annual goals for the engineering/product department up on mediawiki.org. We're now mid-point in the process, and will finalize through June. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2014-15_Goals Note that at this point in the process, teams have flagged inter-dependencies, but they've not necessarily been taken into account across the board, i.e. team A may say "We depend on X from team B" and team B may not have sufficiently accounted for X in its goals. :P Identifying common themes, shared dependencies, and counteracting silo tendencies is the main focus of the coming weeks. We may also add whole new sections for cross-functional efforts not currently reflected (e.g. UX standardization). Site performance will likely get its own section as well. My own focus will be on fleshing out the overall narrative, aligning around organization-wide objectives, and helping to manage scope. As far as quantitative targets are concerned, we will aim to set them where we have solid baselines and some prior experience to work with (a good example is Wikipedia Zero, where we now have lots of data to build targets from). Otherwise, though, our goal should be to _obtain_ metrics that we want to track and build targets from. This, in itself, is a goal that needs to be reflected, including expectations e.g. from Analytics. Like last year, these goals won't be set in stone. At least on a quarterly basis, we'll update them to reflect what we're learning. Some areas (e.g. scary new features like Flow) are more likely to be significantly revised than others. With this in mind: Please leave any comments/questions on the talk page (not here). Collectively we're smarter than on our own, so we do appreciate honest feedback: - What are our blind spots? Obvious, really high priority things we're not paying sufficient attention to? - Where are we taking on too much? Which projects/goals make no sense to you and require a stronger rationale, if they're to be undertaken at all? - Which projects are a Big Deal from a community perspective, or from an architecture perspective, and need to be carefully coordinated? These are all conversations we'll have in coming weeks, but public feedback is very helpful and may trigger conversations that otherwise wouldn't happen. Please also help to carry this conversation into the wikis in coming weeks. Again, this won't be the only opportunity to influence, and I'll be thinking more about how the quarterly review process can also account for community feedback. Warmly, Erik -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>

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WikiProject Highways - HWY Cup
by Naveen Francis 06 Jun '14

06 Jun '14

Hi all, WikiProject Highways is conducting HWY Cup If you are interested in Highway editing, map creations ? Join HWY Cup <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Highways/HWY_Cup> !!! Thanks, Naveen Francis <http://wikibooks.in>

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Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Please spread the word: Tools only on Tool Labs from July 1
by Vishnu 05 Jun '14

05 Jun '14

Below FYI. Vishnu -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Please spread the word: Tools only on Tool Labs from July 1 Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2014 12:50:34 +0200 From: Silke Meyer <silke.meyer(a)wikimedia.de> Reply-To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Organization: Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hi all, please spread the word: Tools only on Tool Labs from July 1 About one year ago, we, Wikimedia Deutschland e. V., announced June 30th as the deadline of the Toolserver migration (Roadmap at [1]). This deadline is approaching. The Toolserver will stop working on June 30th. What will happen afterwards? Background information The Toolserver is a community based infrastructure that hosts software supporting Wikipedia and its sister projects. Over the years many active volunteers have developed helpful and great software tools that are running on several Wikimedia projects. The Toolserver is operated by Wikimedia Deutschland with assistance from the Wikimedia Foundation and several chapters. For many reasons, the Toolserver will be discontinued and replaced by Tool Labs [2], a platform operated by the Wikimedia Foundation. Please see the reasons at [3]. For more than one year Wikimedia Deutschland has been coordinating the migration of software tools from Toolserver to Tool Labs. What editors should know The toolserver is a community-driven project. The tools shall be migrated by the developers resp. maintainers themselves. Many of them have already migrated their tools or have indicated that they will do so before the end of this month. We have a special agreement with the OpenStreetMap projects and with the developer of Merlbot [4] to ensure these tools don’t stop working. All other tools will stop working by July 1st. What editors can do * On Tool Labs [2], you can look up if the tools that you use and need have already moved there. * Talk to the developers of your favourite tools: It is important to let them know how much you appreciate their tools and that you need them to do your work. * Contact us if you don’t know who these developers are or if you have any questions or if you want us to forward wishes or requests to tool developers. Contact information is given at the end of this text. Information for tool developers If you are still facing the migration of your tools, please keep in mind that lots of people use your tools. They are a great support for their daily work and will be missed when they fail. Please take the time to migrate them or poke us: WMDE can still support you during migration - what we can’t do is maintain abandoned tools in the long run. From July 1st on, the toolserver admins will still hand you over your backups upon request and create redirects to Tool Labs for you. *You won’t be able to log in to the toolserver anymore though.* If anyone wants to have and reuse other people’s code, we recommend to seek approval from them directly, even if from a legal point of view there is no problem. Don’t hesitate to talk to us if you need a contact person. Here is a collection of the relevant links for you again: * Tool Labs: http://tools.wmflabs.org * Tool Labs help pages: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nova_Resource:Tools/Help * How to create redirects to Tool Labs: https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/.htaccess#.htaccess * Magnus Manske’s migration manual: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Magnus_Manske/Migrating_from_tools… * Scripts to clean up your toolserver account]] after migration: https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Main_Page * Mailing list Labs-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l * IRC channel #wikimedia-labs: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#wikimedia-labs * Marc-André Pelletier (Coren) and Andrew Bogott (andrewbogott) are the WMF Tool Labs ops. Petr Bena (petan) and Tim Landscheidt (scfc_de) are voluntary Tool Labs admins. We invite you to join our IRC office hour in #wikimedia-office on Wednesday, June 11th, at 5 p.m. UTC. Contact: The migration is coordinated by Silke Meyer (WMDE). Birgit Müller supports her in communications. The two toolserver admins Marlen Caemmerer und Alexander Mette are glad to help you with advice. Marc-André Pelletier can answer all questions concerning Tool Labs. Contact us at Silke: silke.meyer(a)wikimedia.de, Talk page at [5], IRC: Silke_WMDE Birgit: birgit.mueller(a)wikimedia.de, Talk page at [6], IRC: Birgit_WMDE We hope that the transition will happen as smoothly as possible! Best, Silke [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Tool_Labs/Roadmap_en [2] http://tools.wmflabs.org [3] https://toolserver.org/ [4] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:MerlBot [5] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer_Diskussion:Silke_WMDE [6] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer_Diskussion:Birgit_Müller_(WMDE) -- Silke Meyer Internes IT-Management und Projektmanagement Toolserver Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Obentrautstr. 72 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 260 http://wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>

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