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Contributing stories for the 10th anniversary
by Bishakha Datta 12 Dec '10

12 Dec '10

A Community Communications Kit<http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Communications_Kit>is being created for the 10th anniversary celebrations. Quoting from this: "The first—and most important—thing we can do right now is tell our own stories <http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Stories> in our own words and encourage others who care about our work to do the same. Over the past 10 years, what has Wikipedia come to mean to the world? How will it impact the next ten years? If you don't have a blog or aren't comfortable sharing your story with media, you can include it here<http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Stories> ." Hope we'll see some stories and contributions from India! Cheers Bishakha

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Wikipedia:Meetup /Mumbai / Mumbai 5 on 11th Dec'10 @6:30pm
by Kundan Amitabh 12 Dec '10

12 Dec '10

Hi ! A Meet up has been organised on 11th December, 2010 at Mumbai. *Erik Möller,Deputy Director,Wikimedia Foundation Danese Cooper , Chief Technical Officer, Wikimedia Foundation, Alolita Sharma , Engineering Programs Manager, Wikimedia Foundation and *Bishakha Datta<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishakha_Datta> , Board of Trustees, Wikimedia Foundation will be attending the meetup. For details please visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Mumbai/Mumbai5 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Mumbai/Mumbai1> All are invited to attend. -- Best Regards. Kundan Amitabh Managing Director, Ang India Technologies, www.angindia.org CH-2/52, Kendriya Vihar, Sector-11, Kharghar, Navi Mumbai, Mumbai-410210, INDIA ====================== 9320255450 / 9869478444 ====================== "Let's Keep Our World Green for Our Children's Future! Please don't print this email unless it's really necessary"

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Sharing Presentations
by Srikanth Lakshmanan 11 Dec '10

11 Dec '10

Hi all, More and more presentations are being made at meetups which have become frequent in various parts of the country and talks at other places. It would be great to reuse them / prepare from them. I have created a page[1] with links to presentations made. Please add more to the page if you know any. Thanks. [1] http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Presentations Regards Srikanth.L http://srik.me

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Wikimeetup @ Kolkata - Dec 11, 2010 Saturday
by CherianTinu Abraham 10 Dec '10

10 Dec '10

Please find the venue details for the first Kolkata Wikimeetup. *Venue:* The Computer Society of India (CSI) 5, Lala Lajpat Rai Sarani (Elgin Road), 4th Floor Kolkata, West Bengal 700020 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Kolkata/Kolkata1 Special thanks to Jayanta Nath for all the hardwork done in getting the venue. Please do spread the news .. If you know any publications / reporters in Kolkata , kindly share the news. Regards Tinu Cherian On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 5:08 PM, CherianTinu Abraham <tinucherian(a)gmail.com>wrote: > The first Wikimeetup @ Kolkata ( first one in eastern side of India) is > planned for Dec 11, Saturday. We are still working out on the venue details, > So kindly keep a watch on > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Kolkata/Kolkata1 > > Regards > Tinu Cherian > > > > On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 5:16 PM, CherianTinu Abraham < > tinucherian(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Wikipedians, >> We are planning for Wikipedia Wikimeetup @ Kolkata in >> near future. If you are from the city or can help in Wikimeetup or >> interested to attend the same, please drop me a personal mail. >> >> If you would like to see a Wikimeetup @ also in your town /city and can >> possibly help us seting it up , feel free to contact me. >> >> Regards >> Tinu Cherian >> > >

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Fwd: Re: Your business card
by Achal Prabhala 10 Dec '10

10 Dec '10

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Your business card Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 15:00:39 +0530 From: Kiruba @ Kiruba.com <kiruba(a)kiruba.com> To: Bishakha Datta <bishakhadatta(a)gmail.com> CC: Achal Prabhala <aprabhala(a)gmail.com>, wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, Barry Newstead <bnewstead(a)wikimedia.org> Hi Bikasha and Achal, These are set of old businesscards that was printed last year. I ran out of my present bunch of cards and since I had to travel to Lavasa for the INK conference, I had to pick my old bunch of unused cards because my new cards got delayed from the printers. I had consciously been striking out the position clearly on each of the cards ( attached are two photos of the entire bunch and a closeup of one such card) . I'm sorry that the card that your friend got missed out. If in doubt, you can check out with others (though your friend) that I consciously stuck it out. I, in no way, want to create a confusion especially since our last conversation last year. I have been consciously been clear about my association (or the lack of) with Wikimedia India. Regards, Kiruba Shankar CEO, Business Blogging Pvt Ltd +91-98415 97744 Kiruba(a)Kiruba.com http://twitter.com/kiruba On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Bishakha Datta <bishakhadatta(a)gmail.com <mailto:bishakhadatta@gmail.com>> wrote: Kiruba, I'd like to suggest that you systematically and sincerely go through all such online and offline references and undo/amend them so that this is inaccuracy is not repeated time and again. The same issue has already come up many times this year - dealing with, monitoring or policing this is truly not a good use of anyone's time or energy in the wikipedia communities, the India chapter, or at the Foundation level. It would be most productive if you could do a rigorous and thorough clean up at your end and this matter could be closed once and for all. Bishakha On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Achal Prabhala <aprabhala(a)gmail.com <mailto:aprabhala@gmail.com>> wrote: Kiruba, A friend who is at the INK conference in Lavasa sent me this scan of your business card; a card that you handed out yesterday. Can you please explain to all of us why it says you are a "Director of Wikimedia India" when as you perfectly well know - and has been publicly documented - you have had nothing to do with the chapter formation in India for over a year? As you know, you were asked to leave the founding group because of your promotion of yourself as a Director of a non-existent entity; as you also know, Wikipedians in India were/are extremely annoyed by your false representation. I'm going to send out a short and clear message to WikimediaIndia-l on the subject of your association with us. Meanwhile, please understand that this is absolutely ridiculous - you are wasting our time, and have done so repeatedly in the past. Achal

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Talk by Abhay Natu on Wikipedia in CMDA IT Expo Pune
by Sudhanwa Jogalekar 10 Dec '10

10 Dec '10

Hi, We will have a talk on Wikipedia by Abhay Natu in the CMDA IT expo in Pune. Date: 10 Dec. time 5-6 pm. Venue: CMDA ITExpo, Mariott hotel and convention centre, Senapati Bapat road, Pune. This talk is arranged at the last minute. We got this opportunity due to un-availability of their originally decided speaker and decided for a Wikipedia talk. Luckily Abhay is in town for the talk before he leaves for USA. Apart from this, we have meetups on 13th at SICSR and at RedHat on 14th. Do join for all these talks/meetups. Best regards, -Sudhanwa --

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Your business card
by Achal Prabhala 10 Dec '10

10 Dec '10

Kiruba, A friend who is at the INK conference in Lavasa sent me this scan of your business card; a card that you handed out yesterday. Can you please explain to all of us why it says you are a "Director of Wikimedia India" when as you perfectly well know - and has been publicly documented - you have had nothing to do with the chapter formation in India for over a year? As you know, you were asked to leave the founding group because of your promotion of yourself as a Director of a non-existent entity; as you also know, Wikipedians in India were/are extremely annoyed by your false representation. I'm going to send out a short and clear message to WikimediaIndia-l on the subject of your association with us. Meanwhile, please understand that this is absolutely ridiculous - you are wasting our time, and have done so repeatedly in the past. Achal

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Globalocal - Presentation
by Gautam John 09 Dec '10

09 Dec '10

Hello! Achal and I spoke at a publishing conference in Delhi last month - I had forgotten to send the presentation. I spoke about my experience from a publishing and Pratham Books experience while Achal spoke about Wikimedia, Wikipedia and the Commons. "Wikipedia is a stellar example of how collaborative material is being produced and published on the internet. Today, the idea of a knowledge commons has gained enough ground to have meaningful consequence. The real tragedy of the commons is that it's not being being adequately used - in publishing at least. This is puzzling, because publishers - especially in the "other English speaking world" - have long been bedevilled by 'content' or 'creators' (too little) and 'costs' (too much). Finally, we seem to have a way to do what we always wanted to but never could. Why then are people with enormous expertise in editing, design, marketing, distribution and packaging still wary of this vast, growing and completely free to use repository of work? And did we mention it's free to use?" Slides here: http://www.slideshare.net/prathambooks/commonssense-now-like-never-before Thank you. Best, Gautam ________ http://social.prathambooks.org/

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Wikimedia in Chennai - Mailing list
by Srikanth Lakshmanan 09 Dec '10

09 Dec '10

Hi all, In order to felicitate community meetups / outreach activities in and around Chennai, a mailing list has been created. Request people around Chennai to consider joining the list. http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-in-chn/ Regards Srikanth.L http://srik.me

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Fwd: Speaking at CSI annual convention
by Bishakha Datta 08 Dec '10

08 Dec '10

Sorry, was travelling all of last week and neglected to upload the presentation. (Arjuna's share was a good reminder). It is finally up here<http://www.slideshare.net/bishakhadatta/edit-by-edit-wikipedia-indic-langua…>at slideshare - an adaptation of a presentation that Sue Gardner, executive director, Wikimedia Foundation made earlier this year. I also showed videos of wikipedia editors and used this<http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/animations/growth/AnimationProjectsGro…>beautiful animated visualization of Wikipedia's growth created by Erik Zachte. Many of you shared suggestions and presentations with me offlist. I used these as talking points, although this is not evident from the presentation. Thanks Bishakha On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Bishakha Datta <bishakhadatta(a)gmail.com>wrote: > Dear all, > > I am speaking at the Computer Society of India's annual convention on > Friday in Mumbai in the ienterprise track. The programme is at: > http://www.csi-2010.org/cnvntnprog.html > > My presentation is tentatively titled: > Edit by Edit: Wikipedia, Indic Languages and Free Knowledge Creation > > I am working on this presentation this week, using WMF's decks which board > members often use - and a pile of material from the newsletter (thanks > again, all who worked on this - very very useful) and many emails that I've > saved from this list. > > If anyone has any thoughts that you feel it is important for me to include > in my presentation, do email me offlist. > > Cheers > Bishakha > > > > > > > >

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