Sir, I have been editing in wikipedia and uploading pics on wikimedia. and
use them for my articles.
I'm an editor for kannada language wikipedia.(Radhatanaya)
I'm an editor for english mediam wikipedia. (Ragakuvara)
I have contributed more than 900+ articles for kannada.
For english nearly 10-12 articles. all approved.
This information I have given in my page. Why I have been banned. Please
try to help me. I'm very hardworking and faithful person. I have not done
any adverse work. I was a technical offier (Retired in 2004) in a reknowned
Research organisation for cotton !
Please help me so that I can upload photos and fix them for the articles I
write both in kannada & English
Regards,
-Holalkere rangarao laxmivenkatesh
Mumbai-400084
M : 9004356819
M : 9867606819
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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Mr.Yercaud Elango is a regular contributor for Commons from Tamilnadu.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Files_by_User:Yercaud-elango
He shared 11711 Photos related to Botony with all scientific name and
family details.
He wrote 85 books related to science In Tamil.
He is donating his books to FreeTamilEbooks.com too
He is in Kolkota now. He will be there till July 5.
He came there for a training at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acharya_Jagadish_Chandra_Bose_Indian_Botanic_…
He explained his works for commons to the fellow people there.
Many of them showed interest and asking him on how they can also contribute.
As they speak Bengali,Hindi, he feels that it will be better for them
to have a local wikipedian's guidance.
Do we have someone who can meet Yercaud Elango and his colleagues at
Botoncal garden?
Or is there any wikipedian's meeting happening in kolkata this
weekend, so that he can attend?
Reply here or contact him at
yercaudelango(a)gmail.com
It will be great help, if any local wiki community persons can meet
them and guide them for their regular contributions.
Thanks.
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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
Hello friends,
We are pleased to announce that *Wiki Loves Love* is recruiting volunteers
for the international team.
Application deadline: August 1, 2018
*But What Is WLL?*
Wiki Loves Love (WLL) is an international photography competition of
Wikimedia Commons that is to take place — with the subject love
testimonials — in various locale places. The primary goal of the
competition is to collect photos of love testimonials through human
cultural diversity such as monuments, ceremonies, snapshot of tender
gesture, and miscellaneous objects used as symbol of love; to illustrate
articles in the worldwide free encyclopedia Wikipedia, and other Wikimedia
Foundation (WMF) projects.
*Positions Open:*
Communication and media
Community liaison
Community outreach
Finance team
Tech team: to design banners and templates
Find out more on: https://t.co/D1yeNclTRm
Don't forget to spread the word!
Cheers!
*Wiki Advanced Training* or *WAT* is a residential training workshop to be
conducted on 29 June to 1 July (Friday to Sunday) at Ranchi, Jharkhand,
India. Participants are expected to reach the venue at Ranchi by 28 June
2018 evening
The objectives of the events are:
- To optimize contribution and increase skills of Indic Wikimedians
- To introduce and initiate best practices across Indic Wikimedia
projects with reference to Global projects
- Raise awareness towards initiative such as #1Lib1Ref, TWL and use of
scripts, gadgets, and Wikimedia tools.
- Develop capacity across Indic Wikimedians to participate in events
Global hackathon, Wikidatacon
Please read more about the workshop and participation process:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/Wiki_Advanced_Training
The last date application is 9 June
Please feel free to ask questions
Thanks
Greetings everyone,
We are delighted to announce that applications to participate in *Wikigraphists
Bootcamp (2018 India*) to be tentatively held in the last weekend of
September 2018 at Hyrderabad are now open.
This is going to be a three-day training workshop to equip the participants
with the skills to create illustrations and digital drawings in SVG format,
using software like Inkscape.
Minimum eligibility criteria to participate is as below:
- Active Wikimedians from India contributing to any Indic language
Wikimedia projects.
- At least 1,500 global edits till 30 May 2018.
- At least 500 edits to home-Wikipedia (excluding User-space).
Please apply at the link below before *16th June 2018*:
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf1Ow_o7z2gEIsJy3PYbt0ippnwgU8tMbH…>
Wikigraphists Bootcamp application form
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf1Ow_o7z2gEIsJy3PYbt0ippnwgU8tMbH…>
Looking forward to some serious wikilearning and some serious wikifun at
the same time.
Best
Satdeep Gill
On behalf of the organizing team,
Wikigraphists Bootcamp (2018 India)
Greetings,
I am happy to announce the Featured Wikimedian of the Month for June
2018, User:Nizil
Shah <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Nizil_Shah> from Gujarat.
Nizil started editing in 2008, his first article on English Wikipedia was
deleted. In 2012 when he could not find an article on a topic related to
the history of Gujarat, he decided to write about it himself. Being an avid
reader, he observed that Indian topics are lacking in coverage on English
Wikipedia. So he kept writing about topics related to Gujarat such as
history, language, literature, culture, people, politics, geography,
archaeology and many more. With more than 34000 edits and 400+ articles, he
is now among the top 2500 English Wikipedians. He also contributes to
Gujarati Wikipedia, Gujarati Wikisource, English Wiktionary, Hindi
Wikipedia and English Wikivoyage. He has uploaded and curated more than 500
images on Commons. He considers mentoring of a few Wikimedians is his best
contribution to the Wikimedia movement.
He sees lots of potential in the Wikidata and has been its contributor
since its inception. He briefly served as an administrator there and has
now 39000+ edits. He believes that it will be the central data repository
of the internet with its effects going very far. He wants to revive
Gujarati Wiktionary through upcoming Lexicographic Data on Wikidata.
Though by profession he is a dentist, he rarely contributes to the
health-related subjects. He now wants to expand his contributions to dental
and other health topics on English and Gujarati Wikipedias. He considers
the lack of good resources in Indian languages and on Indian topics is a
challenge and he is working to improve the situation with help of fellow
Gujarati editors. He says; One edit is too many and thousand is never
enough.
Regards,
Krishna Chaitanya Velaga
Wikimedia India