WikimediaIndia-l September 2015

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[Press]: Lessons and tips on getting media coverage
by Noopur Raval 25 Sep '18

25 Sep '18

Dear all, Over the past one month, we've been working with community members from Assamese, Kannada Malayalam and Nepali communities to get maximum possible media coverage and press support in order to highlight their community and events and hopefully get new editors for our movement. In all cases, I help prepare the press release<http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%…>(as, kn, ml, ne), then community members translate it and then we work together to try and reach out to the widest possible audience. Here are a few links to the press releases and newspaper articles. There are a few in local language papers that are not online. Also, all these reports are due to the collaborative effort and very important follow up by community members like Jyoti, Bishnu, Gitartha, Omshivaprakash, Anoop, Ramesh, Kannan, Sujith, Saroj and Ganesh for the communities respectively. Assamese: http://www.northeasttoday.in/our-states/assam/assamese-wikipedia-celebrates… http://news.outlookindia.com/items.aspx?artid=765639 http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/info-tech/article3… http://www.sify.com/news/assamese-wikipedia-completes-10-years-of-existence… http://ibnlive.in.com/generalnewsfeed/news/assamese-wikipedia-completes-10-… http://issuu.com/assamese/docs/ghy_13062012?mode=window&backgroundColor#222… http://www.telegraphindia.com/1120611/jsp/northeast/story_15594299.jsp http://sevensisterspost.com/?p=17895 http://amarasom.glpublications.in/Details.aspx?id=9509&boxid=103211609 Kannada: http://epaper.udayavani.com/Display.aspx?Pg=H&Edn=MN&DispDate=6/18/2012 http://allevents.in/Bangalore/483961428297721 Malayalam: http://www.efytimes.com/e1/fullnews.asp?edid=82424 http://keralaitnews.com/state-scan/other-cities/4717-kollam-to-host-malayal… http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-kerala/article3351423.e… http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-04-14/social-media/3134186… http://www.techgoss.com/Story/557S12-Wiki-Malayalam-Meet-held-at-Kerala.aspx http://article.wn.com/view/2012/04/28/Malayalam_wiki_most_innovative/ http://www.deccanchronicle.com/channels/sci-tech/hitech/malayalam-wiki-most… http://ibnlive.in.com/news/malayalam-wikipedia-could-be-emulated/253196-60-… http://newindianexpress.com/states/kerala/article390787.ece Nepali: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/34914418/Nagarik_Article.png https://dl.dropbox.com/u/34914418/karobar_article.png Radio Sagarmatha broadcasted an interview with a Wikipedian Ganesh Paudel... Radio Nepal Bani Broadcasted an interview with Wikipedians located in Kathmandu (Mr. Ganesh Paudel and Mr. Saroj Dhakal) Just thought I'd share a few pointers based on what went right and what could have been better on my part. This may help you in the future if you too are looking to get media attention for your community and events. A few lessons: *Planning:* - Database of contacts: We have put in place a fairly comprehensive database of English as well as local press, television and radio contacts. I'd be happy to share them with anyone who needs to get in touch with journalists. - In case of local language newspapers, calling a journalist/newspaper office or personally visiting them to give the press brief always works better than e-mailing. Most local language newspapers still prefer a hard copy of the brief or even ask for a fax sometimes. - For the Assamese anniversary celebrations, we had an agenda well in advance and we (the community members and I) made sure the press release was ready in English as well as in Assamese so we could send it out to newspapers, television channels and radio stations. - Regarding English language newspapers, it is always advisable to call first and then e-mail the brief to a senior editor as well as a staff reporter (at least two people within the organization) to ensure the story receives due attention. Attaching a few photographs of your past meetups is a good idea. - It is advisable to translate the press release and attach both versions while sending it to the journalist. - If you are planning to have an event on the weekend, make sure you call and e-mail much earlier during the week. *Event:* - Always make sure to invite the journalists to your event. This will not only help in getting a comprehensive story but will also encourage them to take up editing. - Dealing with news channels and radio stations: While DY 365 channel covered the Assamese meetup, other channels did not bother to follow up. For radio, it *only* works if you speak to them in local language. *Other tips:* - It is a *must* to put in a contact number of preferably an email ID at the end of a press release. Maybe all communities should have either a chapter email ID (like bengali(a)wikimedia.in) or a gmail ID run by an active community member. This can be super useful and will avoid giving out personal details. - Building a quote pool: How about we keep a few quotes from different community members on the basics - (examples: why I edit, how I edit, what is your message to fellow Marathi/Tamil/Gujarati speakers) ? Of course, quotes from people are crucial and must not be misused but, this can help the Chapter communications team too - Getting the article right: Spelling mistakes, misquoted information, erroneous figures are a common problem with Wikipedia stories. Although it may not always be possible, do request the journalist to show you the article before publishing it. - Targeting news agencies: After the Assamese press experience, I realized having one PTI press release ensures that the story reaches at least 4-5 newspapers. This is a very effective way of maximizing media coverage. I might have missed out on a few lessons and invite community members and the chapter communication team to contribute with more inputs. Maybe we can even document this on Meta for future reference. Thank you, Best Noopur -- Noopur Raval

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Please add your name to the Geographical List of Indian Wikipedians
by Ashwin Baindur 30 Jul '18

30 Jul '18

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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Call for Host City Bids - WikiConference India 2016
by Ashwin Baindur 02 Oct '15

02 Oct '15

Hi, We welcome you to place a bid for hosting WikiConference India 2016. The bid consists of two rounds. The first round will be a simple round to encourage participation. The aim of the first round is to confirm the local community support and strength. The first 5 qualifying cities of the first round will participate in the second and final round of bidding with an elaborate plan. First Round Bidding Criteria City and proposed venue. This city should have at least a domestic airport. Wikimedia signatures of active Wikimedia projects editors who commit to be involved in organizing this in your city Link to any Wikimedia project village pump where the bid has been approved with community consensus (not mandatory but highly recommended) Proposed overall budget to conduct an event with 500 registered participants (including the accommodation cost for 100 scholarship recipients for 3 days). Prior experience conducting similar event(s) Please place your bids here before 18th October 2015 11:59 PM IST. Please do indicate the names and contact details of two people from whom any clarifications or queries can be sought regarding your city bid. Please do note that bids need to be supported by consensus from the community and the link to the discussion where this is forthcoming may please be indicated. Regards, WCI 2016 Volunteers

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Visualizing Editor Trends on Wikipedia - Some graphs I created over the last few months.
by jeph 29 Sep '15

29 Sep '15

Hi All, I've been working on visualizing editor behaviour on wikipedia over the past few months. Below is the first set of graphs & some of the results. - This presentation will help explain the data in the graphs & how to interpret them. ( http://slides.com/cosmiclattes/edit-activity-graphs-analysis) - The graphs https://cosmiclattes.github.io/wikigraphs/data/wikis. Checkout the slides before you jump into the graphs :-) - The project page https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Editor_Behaviour_Analysis_%26_Grap… Some numbers about the graphs. - For the graphs showing data from 'en' - the english wikipedia I crunched 790~ million edits and turned it into a 180 * 180 matrix of data. - All the graphs are plotted from this 180 * 180 matrix, so it might take a few seconds to load. - The graphs are interactive, they have a filter on the top of the page. Play with them. Some preliminary results - The monthly decline in active editors in en may be attributed to the old timers. We see this across other languages too. - Only the articles in the (beginning - 2007) cohorts continue to see active edit activity. - Retention rates are much higher in languages like de. - zh (continues to show uptrend on many fronts. Active Editors, retention etc). Jeph

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WMIN Elections 2015
by Sanket Oswal 25 Sep '15

25 Sep '15

Greetings from Wikimedia India. The current WMIN EC is doing its best to bring better governance & transparency initiatives. Election for the 2 executive committee seats is just around the corner. As we have no serving president right now, the WMIN Executive Committee has appointed Yohann Thomas as the President for the interim period. As soon as the new Executive Committee is formed, new office bearers will be elected. WMIN EC has also appointed Election Committee which comprises of the following members: - *Srinivas Rao DB : Returning Officer * - *Chinmayi SK: Polling Officer* - *Subas Chandra Rout: Polling Officer* - *Yogesh KS: Polling Officer* The Election Committee will be notifying & conducting the election to Wikimedia India Chapter EC for the term of two year. They'll be announcing the election timeline & electrol list very soon WMIN EC requests you all to please cooperate with the Election Committee during the entire process. Regards, Sanket Oswal

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Software Freedom Day 2015, Bengaluru
by Subhashish Panigrahi 18 Sep '15

18 Sep '15

Dear all, We're planning to celebrate "Software Freedom Day" in Bengaluru tomorrow. This wasn't planned before and it is such a short notice for you all. We would keep it an open discussion related to software freedom, free software policy lobbying and what each of us could do in our individual/organizational capacity to take free software to more users. We could also do a small sprint to install or share details about free software tools for those who are interested. The registration page is here: http://cis-india.org/openness/events/software-freedom-day-2015-bengaluru We'd take the event details to an Wiki soon. Please bear with the very quick last minute update, sincere apologies. Please do see if you could take some time out after all your scheduled commitments and join. :) Those who cannot make it could wave on social media with the hash #sfd2015SFD. best, Subha @subhapa

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[CIS-A2K] August Newsletter
by Dr.U.B. Pavanaja 15 Sep '15

15 Sep '15

Dear all, CIS-A2K would like to share with you the newsletter below for the month of August 2015. We look forward to hear any feedback or input you might have. Odia Wikipedia (available at <https://or.wikipedia.org> or.wikipedia.org), an Indian-language Wikipedia project, celebrated thirteen years of free knowledge contribution in June 2015. It was one of the first four Indic Wikipedias (Assamese, malayalam and Punjabi being the other three)to have started in 2002. The first edit on the Wikipedia was made on 3 June 2002. Currently the project has over 8,900 articles and about 17 active editors (also known as "uikiali"). The voluntary editor community has put its efforts into acquiring valuable content, re-licensing them under Creative Commons (CC) licenses, and building tools for acquiring more encyclopedic content from various sources. Odia Wikipedia community assessment survey June 2015. It gives an overview about the various hindrances for the growth of Odia Wikipedia and the community. During the thirteenth anniversary celebrations, the community came together to assess community needs, address issues that had been identified earlier via irc and mailing list discussions, and identify priority areas to focus on in the future. Odia Wikipedia administrators Mrutyunjaya Kar and Subhashish Panigrahi designed a needs assessment survey. (https://or.wikipedia.org/s/tnp) Participating Wikimedians were asked to discuss various problems they face in editing and outreach two major areas that ensures quality standards. . Two-fifths of participants said that problems with the rendering of Odia characters in different operating systems, ignorance or lack of more documentation about enabling encoding for Odia, input methods and keyboard layouts, and other font- and keyboard-related issues as the major reason for low readership and contribution on Wikipedia. . . .Read more in the Wikimedia blog at: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/08/21/odia-wikipedia-celebrates-13/ == Event organized/participated == (CIS-A2K events page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events) ⬤ Telugu Wikipedia edit-a-thon at Annamacharya library (http://cis-india.org/openness/events/rare-telugu-religious-and-historical-w… ): On 6 August a Telugu Wikipedia edit-a-thon was conducted at Annamacharya library to preserve rare Telugu literature text. Annamacharya library has a rare collection of the religious and historical works in Telugu language. This event was conducted by Telugu Wikipedia Community and the Centre for Internet & Society's Access To Knowledge program. The second iteration of the event was organized on 31 August. ⬤ Tamil Virtual University workshop (http://cis-india.org/openness/events/workshop-on-digital-collaborations-in-… ): On 8-9 August, a two-day long workshop on digital collaborations in Tamil-language was organized by Tamil Virtual University, Anna University Campus, Chennai. U.B.Pavanaja, on behalf of CIS-A2K, participated in this event. Four major topics discussed during the event were: Digitization, Research and Development, e-learning and Open source and Outreach. ⬤ SDM Ujire Kannada workshop: (http://cis-india.org/openness/events/kannada-wikipedia-workshop-at-shree-dh…) CIS-A2K has ongoing partnership with SDM College, Ujire. The college's academic year started on 12 August. It was followed by a one-day workshop where the students were introduced to editing in Kannada Wikipedia. The head of the journalism department of the College Bhaskar Shetty and others supported the event. ⬤ Tulu Wikipedia edit-a-thon at Mangalore (http://cis-india.org/openness/wikipedia-edit-a-thon-in-mangalore-to-bring-t… ): A three-day edit-a-thon was organized between 14-16 August in Mangalore for bringing good quality content in Tulu Wikipedia. This event, organized in collaboration with the Tulu Sahitya Academy and Ramakrishna Pre University College, saw 30 Wikipedia editors participating and creating about 89 new articles. 12 of these 30 participants crossed more than 10 edits. Some of the new participants faced problems with using the input methods and the Wiki-markup. It is important to note that because of the lack of addition of Tulu-alphabet code points in the Unicode chart, and the speakers being well conversant in Kannada, they are using Kannada script for Tulu Wikipedia Incubator project. There is a plan to organize a monthly meetup and/or edit-a-thon to continue the momentum these editors have brought in. ⬤ Kannada Wikipedia workshop at DSERT (http://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/edit-a-thon-to-improve-kannada-langu…): A Kannada Wikipedia workshop was organized between 18-20 August at the Department of State Educational Research and Training to improve science-related articles that are part of the Government of Karnataka's high school syllabus. During the workshop the lecturers were taught about the basics of Kannada Wikipedia, article editing policies, Kannada input, creating and editing articles on Kannada Wikipedia. U.B. Pavanaja and Tito Dutta from CIS-A2K conducted the workshop, behalf of CIS-A2K. === Sau Dhuni Teen project === ⬤ Wikipedia workshop in Pune (http://cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-workshop-in-theme-of-sou-dhu…: A Wikipedia workshop was organized at Srimati Savitribai Phule Pune University on 20 August 2015. Under the scope of “Sau Dhuni Teen” project, the workshop focused on building resources in Indian languages for women's studies on Wikipedia. ⬤ Wikipedia workshop in TISS, Mumbai: (http://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/sau-dhuni-teen-project-wikipedia-wor…) A two-day long and multilingual Wikipedia workshop was organized at the Women's Studies Department of Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai between 22-24 August. This was an outreach event conducted under the scope of the "Sau Dhuni Teen" project. == Blog posts == ⬤ Pavanaja, U. B. "Tulu Wikipedia edit-a-thon in Mangalore" (http://goo.gl/ZxJVnS) (18 August 2015) ⬤ Pavanaja, U. B. "Edit-a-thon to improve Kannada-language science-related Wikipedia articles" (http://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/edit-a-thon-to-improve-kannada-langu…) (19 August 2015) ⬤ Panigrahi, Subhashish. "Odia Wikisource has a new Wikisourcer, and he is the youngest in the Odia Wikimedia community!" (http://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/kisorachandrananachampu-on-odia-wiki…) (21 August 2015) == Media coverage == 1. ಬೆಳ್ತಂಗಡಿ:ಎಲ್ಲಾ ಕಾಲಕ್ಕೂ ಲಭ್ಯ ಇರುವ ಸ್ವತಂತ್ರ ಹಾಗೂ ಮುಕ್ತ ವಿಶ್ವಕೋಶ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಾ-ಪವನಜ (http://cis-india.org/openness/news/sahil-online-august-14-2015 ) SahilOnline; 14 August 2015 2. ಗ್ರಾಮೀಣ ಪ್ರದೇಶದ ಆರ್ಥಿಕ ಪ್ರಗತಿಯಿಂದ ದೇಶದ ಆರ್ಥಿಕ ಪ್ರಗತಿ ಸಾಧ್ಯವಾಗುತ್ತದೆ ( <http://cis-india.org/openness/news/mangalorean-dotcom-august-13-2015> http://cis-india.org/openness/news/mangalorean-dotcom-august-13-2015 ) Mangalorean.com; 13 August 2015 3. Telugu religious and historical work preserved at Annamacharya library to come on Wikisource! ( <http://www.thehansindia.com/posts/index/2015-08-07/Rare-Telugu-religious-an…> http://www.thehansindia.com/posts/index/2015-08-07/Rare-Telugu-religious-an… ) The Hans India; 7 August 2015 This newsletter is also available on Meta at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/August_2015

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Fwd: [OSM-talk] Wikimedia Maps (beta)
by Yogesh योगि 14 Sep '15

14 Sep '15

This has some interesting use-cases - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps#Use_cases -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [OSM-talk] Wikimedia Maps (beta) Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 15:22:47 +0200 From: Daniel Koć <daniel(a)xn--ko-wla.pl> To: Talk Openstreetmap <talk(a)openstreetmap.org> Wikimedia is working with their own maps based on OSM data (currently still beta): https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps This style is quite simple (even less data than MapQuest Open) and I've heard it's based on OSM Bright. Interesting features: Starting with this tile: https://maps.wikimedia.org/osm-intl/10/511/340.png you can see JSON-formatted vector data for visible elements (unfortunately it means there's not too much of them): https://maps.wikimedia.org/osm-intl/10/511/340.json and also some higher-DPI versions: https://maps.wikimedia.org/osm-intl/10/511/340@1.3x.png https://maps.wikimedia.org/osm-intl/10/511/340@2x.png -- "The train is always on time / The trick is to be ready to put your bags down" [A. Cohen] _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk(a)openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

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Wiki loves expensive expeditions (Was: Re: Chapter public communication requirements)
by Shyamal Lakshminarayanan 11 Sep '15

11 Sep '15

Thanks Yohann for explaining the accepted mode of functioning of WMIN. I have several objections to the specific proposal and more importantly I think WMIN ought to have more general guiding principles and perhaps evolve explicit guidelines so that proposals are treated fairly, in ways that are more inclusive, long-term and not one-off, sustainable and offer greater impact at lower cost. * There are numerous contributor to Wikimedia Commons who have hitherto travelled at their own cost and contributed images and media. Many of them are extremely knowledgeable, identifying the subjects and choosing images that have encyclopedic value. I suppose that in future, every WMIN member is going to ask for travel expenses to be covered. * There are a number of specialist organizations that exist to support specialized interests. In other words, Special Interest Groups exist independently of the Wikimedia movement. Partnership with these groups ought to be the way to go, because it adds the greatest value and is a viable long-term option. There are a very large number of mountaineering, trekking and travel groups operating in the area of the proposal - many of them with qualified subject matter experts involved (with masters or Ph.D. level expertise in geology, paleontology, glaciology, botany etc.). Some organizations like the Youth Hostels or the Himalayan Club could easily be introduced to the idea of contributing images related to travel under a free-license. [One of the proposers kindly sent me a mail in response to my earlier mail explaining that the team members had interest and expertise in photography, ornithology (actually said someone was an ornithologist!), lepidoptera, botany and geology - I have not seen the publication record of the said members but based on their wiki activity I am unable to see an acceptable level of expertise] In terms of these subjects, there is a lot more to see at mid-altitudes and there is no ethnology involved once you go above the tree-line. * There is a vast literature on the Himalayas (See for instance http://pahar.in/ ) and none of the proposers appear to have substantially contributed to articles related to the project. There are a few image additions and minor edits. Adding images is probably the easiest activity. It is possible to add a large number and it can appear impressive but using these images in articles is a lot tougher. Even tougher is to make articles of sufficient depth and value. If the list of proposed articles that will be augmented by this project is offered, it will be easy to demonstrate that relevant images can be sourced without the need for this project and that images are *not* the stumbling block for most part. * The proposal costing is also somewhat disturbing. I see the proposed costs as something disturbingly akin to the ploy of a tele-sales commercial, unintended though it probably is. The full cost of the expedition is a large amount which we show here and the amount we ask is only a fraction of it - ie it appears as if you are saving a great deal of money and therefore that this is a very valuable mission to fund. Someone with some interest in sailing could show how expensive a yacht is and what special training it takes to be on it and write up a proposal asking for a fraction of a supposed budget to be defrayed. Someone interested in skydiving or gliding could put a cost of the sport and ask for a fraction of it to get some aerial photographs. [And of course we can always point out that there is a shortage of aerial images and mariners views from around India] [The Telesales method for those who are not aware of it is to show how much you save by buying a product and these figures are often dramatically boosted and augmented by delivery and voice effects] * The Wiki Loves Food is an excellent case to study for comparison - it might be considered successful if the number of images is counted but if we look at image usage in articles and the quality of articles containing them - we will see that the impact is low. Of the 9129 images in the category for 2015 - 247 have been used in articles - about 2% (using https://tools.wmflabs.org/glamtools/glamorous.php ) Wiki Loves Food however is a far more inclusive project - and the expenses are low and only for prize money and it is quite different in the way of functioning (as also things like Wiki Loves Earth, Wiki Takes * ) Compare this level of image usage with some Indian users: User:AshLin 222 used out of 362 images - 61% used in articles; User:Vinayraj: 2594 used out of 16086 16% ; User:Jkadavoor 638 used out of 1342 47%; User:Shyamal 6710 used out of 11984 56% used in articles. * Here are some alternate ideas I can think of for the 2 Lakh INR being proposed - if you took a 7000 rupee compact camera (would be even cheaper if we tried second-hand) and lent 25 of them to a well-established organization we could do a variety of interesting experiments - views of the mountains through the eyes of Sherpas or views of an Uttarakhand village through the eyes of a resident over the course of year. I am fairly certain that the organizations to support the idea can be found. I pointed out the proposal to some people who live in the Himalayas and are veteran mountaineers and they felt the prices indicated were on the higher side. One of the jokingly asked why there were no budget items for Wikipedia flags to be planted along the way. Satire aside, I am sure WMIN can think of wonderful activities that are inclusive, have high impact, cost little and build community goodwill and demonstrate good judgement. It is about whether WMIN can open up the organization to ideas from outside, to not behave as a club but be an ennabling organization with everyone being as useful as a member. And that should give me and millions of Indians an excellent reason why we can remain non-members and expect organizations to be useful. best wishes Shyamal On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 4:00 PM, Yohann Thomas <yohannvt(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Shyamal > > The Executive committee is given that much liberty to take decisions which > are in the benefit of the community. > > In this case, for the above mentioned grant the applicants are well known > Bengali community members. Also as seen in the grant application, > endorsements are made from the bangla community members of both India & > Bangladesh > > If the chapter members feel that the EC has taken a decision in haste , > the members are welcome to discuss this in our WMIN mailing list. > > Regards > Yohann Thomas > Executive Committee Member > Wikimedia India > > PS Shyamal, I strongly suggest that you become a member of the chapter :) > !! > > Yohann Thomas > yohannvt(a)gmail.com > > On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 11:51 AM, Shyamal Lakshminarayanan < > lshyamal(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> I am not a member of the Wikimedia India Chapter although I am very much >> interested in seeing it function as a mature organization. I suppose that >> Wikimedia Chapters from around the world have evolved a set of best >> practices and have ensured that these are shared somewhere. These ideas >> will probably make the requirements of chapters a little more than just the >> minimum legal requirements involved in maintaining the status of a legal >> entity according to the laws of the lands in which the chapters operate. >> >> I raise this point as a rank outsider because there is a claim in a >> recent project proposal that it has been "endorsed" by the Wikimedia India >> Chapter. My expectation then is that this has been given due diligence, >> discussed by all members and the summary/minutes/transcripts made public. >> Even ideas on Wikipedia that do not involve any money go through a greater >> amount of (not to mention transparent) discussion than what we see here and >> it seems to me that some of these basic discussion procedures that we take >> for granted as part of the spirit of Wikipedia should be compulsory for >> organizations associated with the WMF. >> >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:PEG/Sujay25/Wikipedia_Treks_Kal… >> >> Would be very happy to be proved wrong here. >> >> best wishes >> Shyamal >> en:User:Shyamal >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >> Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > >

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Wikipedia workshop @ Enginerds 2K15
by Kalyan Sarkar 09 Sep '15

09 Sep '15

Hello everyone, We are going to conduct a Wikipedia workshop at the Govt. College of Engineering & Leather Technology <http://www.gcelt.gov.in/> on 5 September 2015 as a part of their tech fest Enginerds 2K15 <http://enginerds.co.in/>. The details are given below: Venue: Government College of Engg & Leather Technology, Block LB, Sector III, Salt Lake (near Chingrihata) Date & Time: 5 Sep 2015 (Saturday) 11 AM - 1 PM Attendees: 30 - 40, will be asked to bring laptops Facilities: Projector, WiFi & LAN (100Mbps) Contact Person: Koustuv Dutta Workshop will be conducted by Rangan Datta & Indrajit Das. Thanks and regards, Kalyan Sarkar

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