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Wikipedia Bangalore Meet-up April 11, 2010
by Hari Prasad Nadig 14 Apr '10

14 Apr '10

People, Some photos from today's Bangalore meet-up: http://is.gd/bowby (FlickR) -- Hari Prasad Nadig http://hpnadig.net | http://twitter.com/hpnadig http://flickr.com/hpnadig

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Wikipedia Bangalore Meet-up April 11, 2010
by Achal Prabhala 12 Apr '10

12 Apr '10

Sorry about that - don't know how or why it happens. What I said was that with the participation of a critical mass of Wikipedians, each language Wikipedia could possibly reflect the culture of those language-speakers, i.e. what they want to see on Wikipedia - I certainly did not mean to imply that Japanese Wikipedia has no citations or that they are not required in India (just that we might have to try harder for this in cultures with a strong oral tradition)...and that a good measure of an Indian language Wikipedia's success might be to compare it's readership with that of an online news or entertainment portal in that language. Here's to more clarity in the future?!

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Fwd: [Foundation-l] Living Person Task Force: Phase Two
by Bishakha Datta 11 Apr '10

11 Apr '10

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Keegan Peterzell <keegan.wiki(a)gmail.com> Date: Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 1:52 AM Subject: [Foundation-l] Living Person Task Force: Phase Two To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hello, Wikimedians. This weekend I plan on finalizing the timeline for phase two of the Living Person Task Force: a community findings recommendation. What we are interested in is people from all size wikis participating in discussing common interests and problems on interpersonal and intrapersonal interaction relating to Wikimedia projects. This includes statistics gathering, examination of how projects handle OTRS complaints/issues, image use, quotation use, and sourcing. It is very important that we get participation in these areas, if anything just to received feedback on the wiki. I have subpages set up for these discussion on the Strategy site, < http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Task_force/Living_People>. In six to eight weeks we'd like to develop recommendations from the Task Force that are more in-depth than the proposed recommendations to be passed by the Board this month, to assist in developing projects identify and set up structures for the issues that come with societies. If you have experience dealing with living people on any of our wikis, or if you have ideas on how policies can be established/improved, please participate in the discussions so that we can adequately asses the projects as a whole. Thanks for your time, see you on the wiki! -- ~Keegan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Keegan _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

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Special Wikipedia meetup tomorrow
by Arun Ram 10 Apr '10

10 Apr '10

Dear Wikipedians: Please do not miss the monthly wikipedia meetup tomorrow. We have an interesting session with a catch up with Bishakha Datta the newly appointed WMF board member. She has come down from Mumbai. This will be followed by numerous updates by Telugu, Tamil and Malayalam wikipedians. There are going to be discussions on the India context for the chapters meeting and the Developer meeting in Berlin. More details at the Meetup page. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore13 Pass the word around - call and invite wikipedians you know. Please signup if you already haven't done so. Agenda - Introductions by Wikipedians. - *Meet and connect* - Bishakha Datta<http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Board_of_Trustees#Bishakha_Datta> - Newly appointed WikiMedia Foundation Board<http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Board_of_Trustees> member. - *Updates* - Chapter formation updates - Srinivas<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Gurubrahma> - Telugu Wikipedia Academy - Arjunarao<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Arjunaraoc> - 9th World Tamil conference<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Tamil_Conference> at Coimbatore <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coimbatore> and Wikipedia advocacy - Sundar <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sundar> - Malayalam Wikipedia meetup<http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meetup-2010_April>, 17-Apr-2010 - Shiju Alex <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Shijualex> / Tinu Cherian <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Tinucherian> - *Discussions* - Wikimedia Conference<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2010> at Berlin <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin>. Chapter's committee<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapters_meeting_2010> and Developers' Workshop<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2010/Developers%27_Work…> sessions. - Arun <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Arunram> and HP Nadig<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:HPN> - *Talks* - Introduction to Bots <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:BOTS> on Wikipedia. -- Tinu Cherian<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Tinucherian> regards Arun

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by guru brahma 09 Apr '10

09 Apr '10

Dear Fellow India Wikimedians, I take great pleasure in informing you all that with the submission of a draft of MoA to the Chapters Committee for their final ratification and approval, the objective of establishing Wikimedia India is closer to fruition. This latest draft of MoA has taken all (y)our discussions so far into consideration and has been given its final shape after due deliberations with legal experts. A copy of the latest draft can be accessed at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_India/MoA-ChapComVer. I also take this opportunity for thanking one and all in making this a reality. Cheers, Srinivas. Unified login across all Wikimedia projects: Gurubrahma The INTERNET now has a personality. YOURS! See your Yahoo! Homepage. http://in.yahoo.com/

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Scholarship applications for Wikimania 2010 - deadline April 11
by Achal Prabhala 07 Apr '10

07 Apr '10

If you are interested in applying for a scholarship to attend Wikimania in 2010, please see: http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships The deadline for applications is *April 11*. The call for proposals (talks and sessions) is not yet out, but should be soon.

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WMIN: MoA with ChapCom
by guru brahma 07 Apr '10

07 Apr '10

Dear Fellow India Wikimedians, I take great pleasure in informing you all that with the submission of a draft of MoA to the Chapters Committee for their final ratification and approval, the objective of establishing Wikimedia India (WMIN) is closer to fruition. This latest draft of MoA has taken all (y)our discussions so far into consideration and has been given its final shape after due deliberations with legal experts. A copy of the latest draft can be accessed at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_India/MoA-ChapComVer. I also take this opportunity for thanking one and all in making this a reality. Cheers, Srinivas. Unified login across all Wikimedia projects: Gurubrahma p.s. Pls. ignore my last message as it had some unintended formatting errors. Your Mail works best with the New Yahoo Optimized IE8. Get it NOW! http://downloads.yahoo.com/in/internetexplorer/

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Welcome Bishakha!
by Achal Prabhala 05 Apr '10

05 Apr '10

In case you haven't seen the posting on Foundation-l, here is Michael Snow's message welcoming Bishakha Datta from India on to the board of trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation. A warm welcome to you on the Wikimedia India mailing list, Bishakha - great to have you here. http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2010-April/057537.html Text of message from Foundation-l: As many of you know, we have had one vacant seat left on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees for the board to appoint. We have now filled that seat by appointing Bishakha Datta, a journalist, filmmaker, and nonprofit leader from India. In the course of finding Bishakha, we met with a number of great people and had a lot of support going through the process, and I want to thank everyone who participated. I hope everyone will warmly welcome Bishakha as part of our community. By way of background, Bishakha runs a nonprofit based in Mumbai that focuses on conveying women's perspectives in culture and the media. She also has been involved in other international nonprofit work, and her knowledge of India should be a great help to us as we move forward with the strategic plan. In general, her experience will be a wonderful asset and I think she is an ideal fit for the remaining board seat. In a bit of an ironic twist, Bishakha's organization is called Point of View, but rest assured that she understands and endorses the neutral point of view approach for Wikimedia projects. Her journalistic background means she appreciates the value of an objective presentation, and throughout our conversations with her it was clear that she supports our mission and values. We will have an official press release in the next day or so with some more information. I'm excited to be able to work with Bishakha, and I know that she is looking forward to being involved as well. --Michael Snow

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Integration with OpenStreetMap
by Gerard Meijssen 01 Apr '10

01 Apr '10

Hoi, I have been so bold to write about getting information out about the villages, towns and cities of India. There are several problems that I see: - there are many villages, towns and cities in India - there are many Wikipedias that should be interested in all these places - the integration of OpenStreetMap and Wikipedia needs to get an initial product out In my blog I have written that in order to achieve the third objective we need a project manager. In order to achieve the first two, you need to make this one of your objectives.. It is with the localisation of the Indian languages a perfect objective for the Indian chapter.. I know that it is not my place, but hey, may I dream of something that will be worthwhile ? Thanks, GerardM http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2010/03/integration-of-openstreetmap-an…

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Bengali characters included in MediaWiki advance toolbar
by Belayet Hossain 01 Apr '10

01 Apr '10

Hi, I am exited to inform you that the advanced toolbar for MediaWiki will support the characters of the Bengali language[0]. I've sent a list of characters of Bengali in a natural order to GerardM[1] and he forward the list to usability team. Today Roan[2] inform us that he has added the characters set at [3] and staged them at [4] You can also include character set of your beloved language with some little effort. Just find or collect a list of the characters in an order the most people are use to. Email it to usability team. They'll include it to the software. And I'll be so happy if that kind of toolbar is possible for Mobile MediaWiki also. I hope all the Indian languages will take the benefits from the result of Wikipedia Usability Initiative[5]. I'd like to invite you all to give this little effort to include characters of your languages at the advance toolbar for MediaWiki. Blogs on this issue: * http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2010/03/improved-usability-for-bengali-… *http://wp.me/pcRF1-3i (Bangla) Thanks GerardM and the usability team to include Bangla characters at the toolbar. Belayet [0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengali_language [1]http://www.blogger.com/profile/14287269079265427282 [2]http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Catrope [3]http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/64405 [4] http://prototype.wikimedia.org/s-1/index.php?title=Category:Foo&action=edit [5]http://usability.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page -- Belayet Hossain http://www.facebook.com/bellayet Knowledge is universal ...so share it. Hillel____ If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am only for myself, what am I? If not now, when?

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