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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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
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Regards,
T.Shrinivasan
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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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T.Shrinivasan
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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
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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
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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
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)
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)
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
