Today, I demonstrated how to upload photos to commons, to a group of
people, using uploadwizard.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UploadWizard
But, this link is not not visible in the leftside bar of commons.
It showed the following link
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Upload
which is a plain form to upload media.
People found UploadWizard more useful then the simple Upload link.
How to make the UploadWizard to be displayed on the leftside bar?
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Regards,
T.Shrinivasan
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A converter to convert Odia to the International Phonetic Alphabet and
Roman alphabet is finally live here: https://or.wikipedia.org/s/14jk
The converter can be used for any purpose—transliterating a piece of text
for no-native speakers or some other publication, linguistic research, and
beyond.
Fellow Wikimedian Prateek Pattanaik and I have been working on building
this since last few weeks. We used an existing code that another Wikimedian
Jnanaranjan Sahu wrote to combine multiple converters that he himself,
Shitikantha Dash, Manoj Sahukar and I built together.
The source code can be found at: https://goo.gl/JU5Puu, available under a
GNU GPL v 3.0 license. More details at https://goo.gl/P2E3EB
A tutorial how to use the converter is embedded in the converter page:
https://or.wikipedia.org/s/14jj
This one has been added to the family of converters in the Odia Wikimedia
GitHub repo (https://github.com/OdiaWikimedia/Converter).
P.S.: Ping us for any bugs you notice/create an issue on the repo.
Thanks,
Subha
Subhashish Panigrahi
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Forwarded email for the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Board Elections
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From: Michael Maggs <Michael(a)maggs.name>
Date: Tue, May 2, 2017 at 12:18 PM
Subject: [Chapters] 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Board Elections
Hi everyone
Just a reminder that it’s time for our communities to vote in the 2017
Wikimedia Foundation Board Elections. If you haven't done so already,
could you make sure your members and volunteers know about the election and
encourage them to vote?
Details of the candidates can be found here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_electio
ns/2017/Board_of_Trustees/Candidates
from where there is a link to the voting page.
Questions and answers are here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_electio
ns/2017/Board_of_Trustees/Questions
And the candidates are:
▪ Chris Keating (The Land)
▪ Milos Rancic (millosh)
▪ Dariusz Jemielniak (pundit)
▪ James Heilman (Doc James)
▪ Abbad Diraneyya (عباد ديرانية)
▪ María Sefidari (Raystorm)
▪ Peter Gallert (Pgallert)
▪ Yuri Astrakhan (yurik)
▪ Abel Lifaefi Mbula (BamLifa)
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I do agree with Kishor Sir, Wikimedia need to adopt best practice from IEEE.
Suyog Vyawahare
Vice Chair Young Professionals Affinity Group, IEEE Bombay Section
Individual Benefits and Services committee member R10
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On 1 May 2017 12:56 pm, "kishore annam thyagaraja" <
annamthyagarajakishore(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Wikimedia INDIA,
>
> Results of VOTES COUNTED @ WIKIMEDIA INDIA OFFICE YESTERDAY IN PRESENCE OF
> ON GOING EXECOM OF YOURS...
>
> Highest Votes that secured First position is conferred to Sri Yohan
>
> The other six members were:
>
> Rahul
> Sanketh
> Krishna
> Vishwa
> Santhosh
> Suyash
>
> Based on a tie break and aftermath of the lottery that were supposed to do
> as per the by laws, we have to un-list one who shared same votes with two
> others
>
> All documents and our processing is submitted to the execom. meeting that
> was ongoing for their perusal
>
> At the end, I have a very humble submission to TEAM to consider, including
> for this instance, not just for next elections
>
> As a senior member of several professional bodies, I suggest the team of
> India Wiki consider making changes if it likes to on the process to
> include, rather than eliminate especially if the tie is not for the first
> position.
> For instance in IEEE we do not restrict number of members of Execom Team
> to seven for instance
>
> Annam Thyagaraja Kishore, OFFICER OF ELECTION COMMISSION WIKI MEDIA INDIA
> 2016 ELECTIONS
>
> *Thanks & Regards,*
>
>
>
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>
> “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest”* - Benjamin Franklin
> <http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/b/benjamin_franklin.html>*
>
> On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 11:26 AM, Yohann Thomas <yohannvt(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear Member,
>>
>>
>> *Subject: Second IRC for Wikimedia Chapter Executive Committee
>> Elections-2016*
>> *Q&A session with EC Election Candidates.*
>>
>>
>>
>> Second IRC for Wikimedia Chapter Executive Committee Elections-2016 is
>> scheduled on 9-April-2017 9:00PM - 10:30PM.
>>
>> This session is for community and members for a Q&A session for the new
>> EC election candidates.
>>
>> The announcement for the same can be found on
>>
>> http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Internet_Relay_Chats#Upcoming_Planned_Session .
>>
>> The above link also provides details on how to participate.
>>
>>
>>
>> The link to the IRC is as below:
>>
>> http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Internet_Relay_Chats/April_9,_2017
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *Following guidelines will help facilitate the smooth conduct of the *
>> *IRC**:*
>>
>>
>>
>> - Please be on-time, IRC starts at 9:00 PM.
>>
>> - If you have not participated in IRC earlier, it is recommended that
>> you go through the following in advance
>>
>> http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Internet_Relay_Chats#How_to_participate
>>
>> - Participants to identify themselves on joining
>>
>> - Please go through the election rules and related documentation
>> available at
>>
>> http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Elections_2016#Related_documents
>>
>> - Questions may be posted on http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Ta
>> lk:Elections_2016#Questions_for_IRC in advance. These will be taken up
>> first.
>>
>> - Please await confirmation from facilitator before putting up new topics
>> during the IRC. Topics will be taken up one by one to allow everyone to
>> contribute.
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Yohann Thomas
>>
>> Wikimedia India
>>
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Dear Community
It gives me great pleasure to inform that Mr J.M. Garg is the Wikimedian of
the month for May 2017. Please find an excerpt on him below.
J.M. Garg is a Wikimedian who contributes on Wikimedia Commons. He is a
nature photographer largely working on Indian flora and has more than
20,000 edits on Wikimedia Commons. Thousands of his images are used in
Wikimedia projects and can be seen on Wikipedia and Wikispecies.
He is the owner of Efloraofindia
<https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/indiantreepix>,largest Google
e-group in this field and also the largest nature related group in India
devoted to creating awareness, helping in identification etc. along with
discussion & documentation of Indian Flora. More than 11,000 species' pages
of seed plants, alphabetically sized- Seed plants
<https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/> etc., ferns, fungi &
others are available with details for those species which have already been
discussed in effloraofindia e-group. It has the largest database on net on
Indian Flora.He is also the author of 'A Photo guide to the birds of
Kolkata & Common birds of India'.
He has also worked on 'Wikiproject Lepidoptera'
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Lepidoptera> &
'WikiProject
Birds' <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Birds> &
contributing to 'Tree of Life Wikiproject'
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Tree_of_Life> of
Wikipedia. Websites such as 'The Better India
<http://www.thebetterindia.com/12784/database-gives-access-8000-indian-flora…>;
have also done cover story on him.
If you know any such contributors who deserve to be the featured
as wikimedian of the month,please nominate him here -
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Featured_Wikimedian/Nominations
Regards,
Yohann Thomas
yohannvt(a)gmail.com