WikimediaIndia-l July 2017

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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 31 Jul '18

31 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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Fwd: Notes : Wikipedia Mini Hackathon Chennai July 23, 2017
by Shrinivasan T 23 Jul '17

23 Jul '17

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Shrinivasan T <tshrinivasan(a)gmail.com> Date: 2017-07-23 22:22 GMT+05:30 Subject: Notes : Wikipedia Mini Hackathon Chennai July 23, 2017 To: ilugc(a)freelists.org Today, from Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai, we conducted a mini hackathon on Wikipedia. We asked for ideas to the Tamil wiki community. Collected the ideas here - https://ta.wikipedia.org/s/6t7w We got 7 people. Balaji is a second year CS student. Syed Abuthahir is joining his first company as Python programmer tomorrow. His college senior Ajees is working. Neechalkaran is a well known contributor for wikipedia for his bots. Padmakumar is a C/C++ expert. Sankar is a full stack programmer. Myself a python kid. With this energetic team with various skillsets, today's hackathon got some interesting contributions. Balaji hacked the UI of Tamil wikisource to show the wiki editing tools to left side bar. He is exploring on adding Tamil typewriting keyboard to Jquery.ime of "Universal Language Selector" extension of mediaiwki. Padma Kumar explored the process of installing Tamil Text to speech system provided by IIT Madras. With very less and confusing documentation, he was downloading huge amount of software stack and compiling them for the entire day. Found that they had many hardcoded paths for various files in the code. Have to find and fix them manually. He will be exploring on this, further. Syed Abuthahir explored the features of wikitools, a python library. He started to build a reporting tool to list out the contributions by all the TamilNadu School Teachers. The tool is still backing. He will complete it soon. Neechalkaran explained and demonstrated his bots using Google Script Engine. He explained how mediawiki api works. He learned working with wikitools and python. Sankar started to explore wikipedia as he is very new to it. Myself was helping the participants to understand the requirements and to get into hacking easily. Will followup with the team to get the repo links and documentation. Thanks for Raja Manohar for providing the venue. Thanks for Sankar and Vasanth for nice hospitality. Thanks for all the participants. Hoping to see them all as great contributors to wikipedia. Let us conduct such events often. Meet you all soon. Photos are here - https://photos.app.goo.gl/SEjPkJUvF30qGUWg2 -- Regards, T.Shrinivasan My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com Free E-Magazine on Free Open Source Software in Tamil : http://kaniyam.com Get Free Tamil Ebooks for Android, iOS, Kindle, Computer : http://FreeTamilEbooks.com -- Regards, T.Shrinivasan My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com Free E-Magazine on Free Open Source Software in Tamil : http://kaniyam.com Get Free Tamil Ebooks for Android, iOS, Kindle, Computer : http://FreeTamilEbooks.com

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Diversity Conference
by Ravishankar 21 Jul '17

21 Jul '17

Hi, Check https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Diversity_Conference_2017 You can apply for a scholarship now. Ravi

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Fwd: [Wikinews-l] English Wikinews ArbCom election
by Abhinav Srivastava 19 Jul '17

19 Jul '17

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Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Hindi Wikimedians User Group
by Yohann Thomas 18 Jul '17

18 Jul '17

Dear community This is another amazing news I'm happy to forward to you all after hearing about it. The Hindi User group had been recognized by the AffCom. I'm also very much pleased to know that one of the members of this user group, Mr Suyash Dwivedi is also on the board of Wikimedia India. I am very much excited about the future & opportunities for this fledgling new user group & congratulate them on this.. Regards Yohann Thomas Wikimedia India ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Kirill Lokshin" <kirill.lokshin(a)gmail.com> Date: 08-Jul-2017 5:35 AM Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Hindi Wikimedians User Group To: "Wikimedia Mailing List" <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, "Wikimedia Movement Affiliates discussion list" <affiliates(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Cc: Hi everyone! I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized the Hindi Wikimedians User Group [1] as a Wikimedia User Group. The group aims to advance the work of the Wikimedia movement in the Hindi language. Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group! Regards, Kirill Lokshin Chair, Affiliations Committee [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hindi_Wikimedians_User_Group _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: 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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New Wikimedia India Executive Committee is Inducted
by Yohann Thomas 18 Jul '17

18 Jul '17

Dear One & all As you are aware, Wikimedia India (WMIN) recently in April had its election for all its 7 Executive Committee (EC) positions <http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Elections_2016/Results> At IIT Bombay, WMIN recently had an Induction meeting with the newly elected Executive committee members. This session was conducted from 30th June - 1st July 2017 in the IIT Bombay campus Since the new EC has a good mix of members from Past EC & new faces too, the Induction process was conducted in a very smooth & planned manner. Mr Ashwin Baindur also gave a session on the working of Community dynamics along with the expectations by the community from the new EC. On the last day of the Induction meeting, the EC members elected office bearers amongst themselves. Following are the new Office bearers - Mr Rahul Deshmukh : President - Mr Yohann Thomas : Secretary - Mr Sanket Oswal : Treasurer - Mr Viswa Prabha : Member - Mr Suyash Dwivedi : Member - Mr Santosh Shingare : Member - Mr Krishan Chaitanya Velaga : Member You can find the newly updated Board members page with their profiles here http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Executive_Committee_Members I would like to thank the community for their wholehearted support they have given to the chapter & hope to meet their expectations Regards, Yohann Thomas Wikimedia India

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Wikimedia India Quarterly Report (March – June 2017) and Executive Committee Induction Meet published
by Krishna Chaitanya Velaga 14 Jul '17

14 Jul '17

Hi everyone, I am happy to inform to inform you that the report on Wikimedia India's (registered as Wikimedia Chapter) activities during the period of March to June 2017 has been published. The report various activities including Elections for Executive Committee, 6th Annual General Meeting etc. Please go to the report page for complete report: http://wiki.wikimedia. in/Reports/Apr-Jun_2017. Also I am happy to inform you that the report of Wikimedia India Executive Committee Induction Meet has been published. The elections to Wikimedia India Chapter for year 2016 were held on 30 April 2017 along with Annual General Meeting for year 2016. Out of 22 nominations 18 made it into the final slate of candidates. Members of the Wikimedia India elected Seven candidates to a two-year term which will expire in 2018. The seven elected members are Yohann Thomas, Sanket Oswal, Rahul Deshmukh, Viswa Prabha, Suyash Dwivedi, Santosh Shingare, and Krishna Chaitanya Velaga. The induction meet for newly elected members to executive committee took place on 30 July – 2 July 2017, at IIT Bombay.The report includes various details on the election of office bearers, assignment of responsibilities, resolutions made etc. Please go the report page for complete report: http://wiki.wikimedia. in/Reports/ExCom_Induction_Meet_2017. Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga Member | Executive Committee Wikimedia Chapter (India)

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Deadline of Wiki Loves Uniformed services extended
by Krishna Chaitanya Velaga 12 Jul '17

12 Jul '17

Dear members, On behalf of the organization of Wiki Loves Uniformed services (India), I hereby inform that the deadline of Wiki Loves Uniformed services (India) has been extended by around two months. The final deadline is fixed at 15 September 2017. This decision has been taken in the view of 15 August (Independence Day) and various on-going photo walks. Apart from this I am here to inform that we'll happy to support individuals/groups to who wish to conduct photo-walk regarding WLUS. Please note that you may also conduct photo-walks are military museums, war memorials, forts etc. Looking forward for members. Please contact me regarding any queries. Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga Lead coordinator Wiki Loves Uniformed services (India)

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Congratulations!
by manasa＠cis-india.org 11 Jul '17

11 Jul '17

Dear Hindi Wikimedians, Greetings from CIS-A2K! Congratulations on the newly formed Hindi Wikimedians User Group! CIS-A2K is glad to note the efforts of the Hindi Wikimedians in aligning themselves more institutionally to engage with and empower the Wikipedia movement in India. User groups are an integral part of developing new editors and expanding outreach to new places. They represent the organic outcome of the community that emerges from the grassroots level. Hindi Wikimedians have always set themselves apart by their distinguished efforts to leverage their networks and maintain a healthy and functional community of Wikipedians. As a Wikimedia affiliate and a catalyst organization, CIS-A2K would like to take this opportunity to guarantee its fullest support in all your endeavours. We hope to continue partnering with you in our best capacity. Please feel free to approach us at any point. Looking forward to working with you, Team CIS-A2K

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