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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Hello,
A few weeks ago we informed you that we were working on a "policies and
guidelines" handbook for Indic Wikipedia communities. Thanks to everyone
who helped us to create this handbook. We'll continue to communicate with
you.
This handbook is ready (still not uploaded on Commons, will be doing soon).
Please review the handbook (attached) and if you think something is missing
or needs to be improved, please let us know. Although we'll be continuously
taking feedback and communicate with Indic Wikipedians, please try to share
your feedback before 5 January. Please cross-post this email, if possible.
Thank you.
Forwarding for my colleague Chris Schilling. His original posting must be
stuck in moderation. (It's been a few days; does this list need
new/additional admins?)
A.
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From: Chris Schilling <cschilling(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 4:37 PM
Subject: What IdeaLab campaigns do you want to see next year?
To: wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Hello! I’m seeking your help to decide on topics for new IdeaLab campaigns
that could be run starting next year. These campaigns are designed to
attract proposals from contributors that address a need or problem in
Wikimedia projects. Here’s how to participate:
- Learn more about this consultation [1] and review submitted campaign
topics.[2]
- Vote on and submit new campaign topics in the AllOurIdeas survey [3]
(in English)
- Discuss campaign topics and ask questions on the IdeaLab talk page in
your language [4], or discuss and propose campaign ideas here on the
mailing list that we should consider.
With thanks,
Chris Schilling
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https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:IdeaLab/Future_IdeaLab_Campaigns
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for wider reach, writing in the Marathi Wikipedia to begin with —file
photos: K Murali Kumar and Paul Noronha]
Prof Gadgil and his team are looking at a bilingual approach for wider
reach, writing in the Marathi Wikipedia to begin with —file photos: K
Murali Kumar and Paul Noronha
Wants others to contribute too
With the Centre and successive State governments in Maharashtra dumping his
crucial report on the conservation of Western Ghats, ecologist Madhav
Gadgil has now turned to Wikipedia to record his findings and present his
solutions.
Prof Gadgil was feted with the prestigious 2015 Tyler Prize for
Environmental Achievement in March for penning the landmark report on the
preservation of the unique ecosystem of the Western Ghats and the inclusion
of local committees. The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) had
announced that it was ‘not processing’ the Western Ghats Ecology Expert
Panel (WGEEP) report for any further action.
Some of the content of Prof Gadgil’s comprehensive Wikipedia ‘exposition’
on the Western Ghats will be crowd-sourced, where people are free to
contribute and add to articles already uploaded.
The ecologist has chosen Wikipedia owing to the lack of advertisements on
the site and most importantly, out of government control, which will allow
him considerable latitude in revealing his researches on the actual state
of affairs.
“This is real democratisation of data wherein we shall be dealing with
issues like illegal sand and stone mining, deforestation, while putting up
photos. Moreover, we will be uploading extensive information about several
villages, their social parameters, and the problems the villagers face,”
said Prof Gadgil, adding that credible references from a variety of
sources, including newspapers and research articles, would constitute the
‘base’ article to which citizens could contribute their own observations.
“People can add a variety of problems threatening the ecosystem,
unpalatable facts that the government conveniently ignores. This would help
create a permanent record,” he said.
On the use of Wikipedia to deal with civic issues, he points to analogous
examples in western countries where promises made by political candidates
have been juxtaposed with the actuals delivered in the public domain.
At present, Prof Gadgil has uploaded information on villages affected by
the pollution of the Panchaganga and its tributaries.
“We have already written about two villages: Parite and Haldi. The base
article on Haldi has information about its sewage being flown into the
river, which leads to gastric diseases. Now, people can add to that
environmental, social, or other issues that they feel are a priority, along
with evidence and references,” said Subodh Kulkarni, an environment
activist, who is part of the project.
Prof Gadgil and his team are looking at a bilingual approach for wider
reach, writing in the Marathi Wikipedia to begin with. The articles will
then be translated into English. For crowd-sourcing, they are training
local communities to write in the Wikipedia format.
Parineeta Dandekar, associate coordinator of the South Asia Network for
Dams, Rivers and People, said data from government agencies is dubious,
just like that of the pollution control board for river pollution.
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I will be in Mumbai on 22 & 23, 2015 and at Pune on 24 & 25, 2015. I would like to meet Marathi Wikimedians during this trip. I would like to discuss the creation of resources needed for Marathi taking into consideration of available resources, their status, identifying the resources that have to be created and/or improved. Let us meet and discuss these things. Please send me an email at pavanaja AT cis-india DOT org and let us meet.
Regards,
Pavanaja
Ramya just posted a summary of map feature names in Indic languages [1] on
the OpenStreetMap Project which powers the new Wikimedia Maps [2].
In India, the Kannada community has been the most active by far adding over
32,000 feature lablels and have even created an interactive map of the
world [3] which is the first of its kind for any Indic language. Hindi is a
distant second with over 2,000 feature names.
If you are interested to view maps in your language try out the
multilingual map tool [4]. You can also make quick maps using existing OSM
data using Overpass [5] and export the data.
Localized maps like this are still largely experimental and need a lot of
work. It would be great to see more Wikimedians involved in leveraging this
open map data for local Wiki projects. One can contribute to the map by
editing http://osm.org
Hit me up if anyone would like help with OpenStreetMap. i have been mapping
for over 8 years now and know the ecosystem fairly well.
[1] http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/ramyaragupathy/diary/37569
[2] https://maps.wikimedia.org
[3] http://yogiks.github.io/osm-kn/map/
[4] http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/PlaneMad/diary/36119
[5] http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/dkh
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(planemad) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Planemad>
<http://j.mp/ArunGanesh>
Dear all,
The Hyderabad Joint Telugu-English Wikipedians meetup is scheduled on 20th
December at 10:00AM. (English Wikipedia page link
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Hyderabad/Hyderabad8>)
Venue: Theatre Outreach Unit, 1st Floor Golden Threshold, Nampally Station
Rd, Abids, Hyderabad, Telangana 500001
In addition we have an edit-a-thon on English-Telugu Wikipedia translations
and sessions on CIS-A2K initiatives and Telugu Wikipedia progress. I
request all Wikipedians in and around Hyderabad to attend the meetup.
Thank you,
Srikar Kashyap
(User:Strike Eagle)
