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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Twitter: sudhanwa Check on FB, Linkedin for more.
Hi. I'm more active on Hindi Wikipedia. My observation is that many people
who come from english wiki to local wikis tend to enforce quality too much.
Its like forcing diet of a body builder upon a kid. This takes toll on new
contributors who do have good intentions and may be groomed. Keeping in
view the life-cycle thing, we have to compromise a little on quality till a
critical mass is reached and enforce the quality slowly and steadily.
I've been here for last one year and i think hindi wiki is showing a steady
growing trend.
As far as new tech like tablets, smartphones are concerned, i feel they are
helpful as local language typing apps are more easy to operate on tablets
etc than on a pc.
Regards.
Manoj.
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> Hey,
>
> I have been noting declining contributions across Indian Wikipedias for the
> last few months.
>
>
> http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/telugu-wikipe…
>
> triggered to write this mail.
>
> This is my view on what's happening:
>
> 1. Most of the Indian Wikipedias have crossed 10 years. Many of the active
> and first generation contributors are burnt out, taking a leave or have
> left for good. If you are not creative, intentional and consistent in your
> efforts to replenish and nurture the next generation, you will see a
> declining trend.
>
> 2. Malayalam Wikipedia which once had 30 contributors who made 100+ edits a
> month registered only 10 such editors in May 2014. The last time they had
> activity this low was during May 2011. At the same time, their Wiki Source
> is registering a phenomenal growth. So, some resources could be split
> between projects too. This is a good reason to not start too many projects.
> Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikisource should be good enough unless you have a
> huge community.
>
> 3. Focus on offline projects like events, celebrations. While they are
> good, over doing can stress few active contributors. In my experience,
> every time after organizing some offline event, there is too much burn out
> and people return after months.
>
> 4. Things that plague all global Wikipedias - archaic editor, social media
> distractions, increasing use of tablets / smart phones.
>
> Future will be quite challenging :)
>
> Ravi
>
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
Hey,
I have been noting declining contributions across Indian Wikipedias for the
last few months.
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/telugu-wikipe…
triggered to write this mail.
This is my view on what's happening:
1. Most of the Indian Wikipedias have crossed 10 years. Many of the active
and first generation contributors are burnt out, taking a leave or have
left for good. If you are not creative, intentional and consistent in your
efforts to replenish and nurture the next generation, you will see a
declining trend.
2. Malayalam Wikipedia which once had 30 contributors who made 100+ edits a
month registered only 10 such editors in May 2014. The last time they had
activity this low was during May 2011. At the same time, their Wiki Source
is registering a phenomenal growth. So, some resources could be split
between projects too. This is a good reason to not start too many projects.
Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikisource should be good enough unless you have a
huge community.
3. Focus on offline projects like events, celebrations. While they are
good, over doing can stress few active contributors. In my experience,
every time after organizing some offline event, there is too much burn out
and people return after months.
4. Things that plague all global Wikipedias - archaic editor, social media
distractions, increasing use of tablets / smart phones.
Future will be quite challenging :)
Ravi
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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Twitter: sudhanwa Check on FB, Linkedin for more.
Dear Wikimedians,
Wiki Loves Pride is a global campaign to expand and improve LGBT-related
content across several Wikimedia projects [1]. We invite you to
participate in a two-week long edit-a-thon to help improve Wikipedia's
coverage of India relevant LGBT-related content. The edit-a-thon will
lead up to offline events on *Saturday, July 19, 2014 in Bangalore and
Delhi* [2]. You are welcome to join the offline events.
The event aims at creating new articles, expanding the existing stubs
and translating English articles to various Indian languages with a
focus on LGBT Rights, Culture and History in India. Please feel free to
chip in with ideas, articles and activities on the event page on Meta [3].
Everyone is welcome to join the event as enthusiasts, editors,
translators, bloggers or event managers. Start by signing up as a
participant [4].
Best,
Vishnu
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Loves_Pride
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Events/Wiki_Loves…
[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Events/Wiki_Loves…
[4]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Events/Wiki_Loves…
Dear all,
We from the Centre for Internet and Society's Access To Knowledge (CIS-A2K)
thank you all for your support and collaboration. Below is the details of
our work for the month of June:
Telugu Books Re-release Under Creative Commons License
Ten Telugu Books Re-released Under CC-BY-SA 3.0 License
<http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/ten-telugu-books-re-released-under-cc-by…>
(by Rahmanuddin Shaik, June 22, 2014). For the first time in the history of
Indian books, 10 Telugu books by a single author were released under
Creative Commons license (CC-BY-SA 3.0) on June 22, 2014 at 10 a.m. at
Golden Threshold, Abids, Hyderabad.
CIS-A2K has collaborated with Telugu Wikipedians in convincing Indu Gnaana
Vedika to re-release 10 of their books under CC-BY-SA 3.0 license which is
compatible with Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. Unlike the
predominant digitization efforts (which only makes scanned images
available), these books will be uploaded on Telugu Wikisource
<http://www.te.wikisource.org/> and converted into Unicode (searchable)
text. This will ensure that these books are freely read, both online and
offline in various formats like PDF, epub, mobi, text, etc. This is a major
milestone initiative by CIS-A2K to make the sum of all knowledge in Telugu
freely available to all Telugus over the internet and is part of its Telugu
language area plan
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Draft_Work_plan_J…>
.
Article
1. This Twitter Account Puts a Face to the Unsung Volunteer Editors
Behind Wikipedia
<http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/global-voices-online-june-18-2014-subhas…>
(by Subhashish Panigrahi, Global Voices, June 18, 2014).
Blog Entries
1. Twitter weekly Curation WeAreWikipedia brings one Wikipedian
<http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/twitter-weekly-curation-wearewikipedia-b…>
Every Week (by Diptiman Panigrahi, June 16, 2014).
2. Odia Language gets a new Unicode Font Converter
<http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/odia-language-gets-new-unicode-font-conv…>
(by Subhashish Panigrahi, June 20, 2014).
Events Organized
1. Kannada Wikipedia Workshop for Kannada Book Lovers
<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Kannada_Wikipedia_workshop_for_K…>
(co-organized by Navakarnataka Publications, Bangalore, June 4, 2014). Dr.
U.B.Pavanaja conducted the workshop.
2. Knowledge and Openness in the Digital Era
<http://cis-india.org/openness/events/knowledge-and-openness-in-digital-era>
(co-organized by Andhra Loyola College and CIS, Vijaywada, June 24-25,
2014).
News and Media Coverage
CIS gave its inputs to the following media coverage:
1. Knowledge and Openness in the Digital Era: Coverage in Sakshi
<http://cis-india.org/news/coverage-of-event-in-vijaywada-june-25-2014-sakshi>
(June 25, 2014).
2. Knowledge and Openness in the Digital Era: Coverage in Enadu
<http://cis-india.org/news/eenadu-june-25-2014-coverage-of-vijaywada-event>
(June 25, 2014).
3. Loyola Faculty Enlightened About Open Edn Resources
<http://cis-india.org/news/the-new-indian-express-june-25-2014-loyola-facult…>
(The New Indian Express, June 25, 2014).
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
Rahmanuddin Shaikh. One team member Nitika Tandon is based in Delhi. We
also have one Advisor Dr. Tejaswini Niranjana working with us. 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 here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Requests>.
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
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 primary donor the Kusuma Trust founded by Anurag
Dikshit and Soma Pujari, philanthropists of Indian origin for its core
funding and support for most of its projects. CIS is also grateful to its
other donors, Wikimedia Foundation, Ford Foundation, Privacy International,
UK, Hans Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, and IDRC for funding its various
projects.
The same newsletter is available on Meta at:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_to_Knowledge/Newsletter/June_2…
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Best!
Subhashish Panigrahi
Programme Officer, Access To Knowledge
Centre for Internet and Society
@psubhashish
