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[Fwd: Wikimedia India strategy: We need YOU]
by Achal Prabhala 06 Feb '10

06 Feb '10

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Wikimedia India strategy: We need YOU
by Achal Prabhala 06 Feb '10

06 Feb '10

Some time ago, the Wikimedia Foundation embarked on an ambitious strategy project that covered several topics, including India. That strategy project is now in discussion phase. Discussions on India were initially slow; now, however, there are tentative suggestions that need your input and help in refining. If you have a few minutes to help with this exercise, please go to: http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Task_force/India and add in your comments/ suggestions/ critiques - or your own recommendations. The strategy recommendations will serve as the Wikimedia Foundation's guide to strengthening work related to Wikipedia and sister projects within India, so the extent you can help craft the recommendations is the extent to which you will be helped back. Please participate: we need your input NOW!

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Wikimedia India chapter/ ET article
by Achal Prabhala 06 Feb '10

06 Feb '10

There's been some discussion on this list of an Economic Times article that appeared a few days ago (http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/infotech/internet/Wikipedia-may-soon-op…) and seeing as I am apparently quoted in the article, I thought I'd clarify a few things. On the ET article: 1) I did not in fact speak to the Economic Times - the quotes they've attributed to me are their own summaries of discussions that I've had with you and others on this mailing list and on the strategy project wiki (http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Task_force/India) as well as an interview with Bridgespan, the consultants who are working with the Wikimedia Foundation on this strategy exercise (http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Interviews/Achal_Prabhala). A pity that ET didn't think it necessary to make contact; I could have put them on to Wikipedians on this list, and if they had spoken to you, I think it would have made for a more complete article. On the India chapter: 2) As most of you know, there have been discussions around starting up an India chapter since about 2004. As you also know, the early initiatives stalled. In 2008, Jimmy Wales and Sue Gardner visited Kochi, Bangalore and Chennai - and during that visit, were able to stir up considerable enthusiasm among Wikipedians to get a chapter going. Since that time, I have helped a few interested Wikipedians to set up the infrastructure for a future Indian Wikimedia chapter - a few good people who were unwise enough to sign up for a long slog through the annals of bureaucracy, and who were furthermore willing to devote the better part of 2009 to understanding the minutiae of Indian tax law! (Not to mention extended - and extremely useful - discussions with the Wikimedia Chapters Committee). 3) The people who have been involved in the exercise thus far are: Gautam John (gkjohn at gmail dot com), Anirudh Singh Bhati (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sir_Nicholas_de_Mimsy-Porpington), Anoop (anoop dot ind at gmail dot com), Arjuna Rao Chavala (arjunaraoc at googlemail dot com), Arun Ram (arunram25 at gmail dot com), Hari Prasad Nadig (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:HPN), BalaSundaraRaman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sundar) and Kiruba Shankar (kiruba at kiruba dot com). The institution in India which has been helping them, along with me, is a Bangalore-based organisation that many of you might already be familiar with: the Centre for Internet and Society (www.cis-india.org). CIS is a non-profit that works to broaden the scope of the internet and related technologies in India; it has been providing weekly space for Wikipedia meet-ups, as well as some financial assistance with the actual drafting of registration documents. 4) As you have pointed out, the information on meta is not up to date. This, in part, is because the folks who have been working so hard on getting a chapter registered are yet to formulate an acceptable draft of the bye-laws to share with the broader Wikipedian community. However, they will soon have that information ready, and welcome your feedback and suggestions. Starting from the beginning of next week, the meta page will reflect the current status of chapter development, and a draft of bye-laws will be available for public comment by anyone interested in contributing to the process. Meanwhile, and after, please feel free to contact any of the people listed above for specific information that you might want. 5) Finally, a word on participation. It hardly needs saying that the ensuing Indian Wikimedia chapter is an entity that requires - and needs - the participation of every single Wikipedian who is interested in contributing time, energy and ideas. The work and administration of the chapter will be transparent, democratic and open; it will function in exactly the way you decide it should. I'm looking forward to it, as I am to seeing your ideas for Wikimedia in India take shape. Cheers.

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Wikipedia India Chapter ?
by Srikanth Lakshmanan 04 Feb '10

04 Feb '10

All, Is this real? I dont see any updates on meta page http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_India http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/infotech/internet/Wikipedia-may-soon-op… Hope this turns out to be true and happens fast. -- Regards Srikanth.L http://j.mp/SrikanthL

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wikipedia.org.in
by Naveen Francis 25 Jan '10

25 Jan '10

Can we have page wikipedia.org.in which have links to indian language ? -- Naveen Francis

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Academy Bangalore 1
by Naveen Francis 24 Jan '10

24 Jan '10

Hi Yesterday we had a Wikipedia Academy in Bangalore. Thanks to Arunram for organizing the Wikipedia Academy in Bangalore. *http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Academy/India/2010/Bangalore1* There are few issues to be resolved before next Wikipedia Academy for sanskrit - Support for search in Sanskrit in sa.Wikipedia-- I think Malayalam and Marathi wikipedians can help - Create Sanskrit Wikipedia logo -- it has english Wikipedia logo now. ( https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16857) -- Naveen Francis

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Indic wikipedia pages on mobile through newshunt
by Srikanth Lakshmanan 21 Jan '10

21 Jan '10

Hi all, I came across this wonderful mobile app Newshunt (www.newshunt.com). Can we talk to them to see if its feasible for them to put a wiki article daily This would take readership of indic wikipedia to a new level. -- Regards Srikanth.L http://j.mp/SrikanthL

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Indic Language Wikipedias - Statistics - 2009 December
by Shiju Alex 17 Jan '10

17 Jan '10

Hello All, Here is a brief statistical analysis of some of the major Indic language wikipedias for the month of 2009 December. http://shijualexonline.googlepages.com/2009_december_en.pdf The data for this report is taken from the statistical analysis (of all the WikiMedia foundation wikis) prepared and maintained by Erik Zachte (Website: http://infodisiac.com/). The statistics is available at http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/Sitemap.htm. Special thanks to Erik for all the support he has extended while I was compiling this report. The report is prepared by collecting the data available on the last day of every month. That is, the statistical data for the month of 2009 December is collected at 2009 December 31 23:59 PM GMT and so on. Kindly note that, for time being, I have included the statistical information of only those Indian language wikipedias that crossed the 1000 articles milestone. Following are those Indian Language Wikipedias. * Bengali * Bishnupriya Manipuri * Gujarathi * Hindi * Kannada * Malayalam * Marathi * Tamil * Telugu I have plans to add the following SEA language wikipedias in the future statistical reports (Statistical report for the month of January 2010 onwards) * Sinhala * Sanskrit * Bhojpuri * Oriya * Punjabi * Assamese I hope this initiative will improve the interaction between different Indic Language Wikipedias/wikipedians. We (Malayalam Wikipedians - http://ml.wikipedia.org) are maintaining a similar comparison study of the major Indic Language wikipedias for the past two years. This analysis has helped us to understand the status of Malayalam Wikipedia as compared to the other Indic Language Wikipedias. I hope this report will help other Indic language wikipedias also. The PDF of detailed analysis is available at http://shijualexonline.googlepages.com/2009_december_en.pdf Please let me know in case there are any issues. Regards Shiju Alex

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Wikipedia Day Celebration tomorrow in Bangalore (Saturday, Jan 16th)
by Hari Prasad Nadig 15 Jan '10

15 Jan '10

January 15 is known as Wikipedia Day to Wikipedians. On this date in the year 2001, the wiki-based Wikipedia project went public after spending five days on Nupedia. A Wikipedia Day celebration is being planned in Bangalore on Saturday January 16, 2010. * What: Wikipedia Day Bangalore — 16-Jan-2010 * When: Saturday, 16 Jan, 2010 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM * Where: The Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore * Who: Wikipedians from any part of India or the world and anyone who is interested in Wikipedia! Meetup is open to members of all Wikimedia projects and Wikipedians from all languages.All are welcome, and we are especially interested in seeing newcomers to join the experienced Wikipedians/Wikimedians. (from) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:MBL10 Venue: The Centre for Internet and Society No. D2, 3rd Floor, Sheriff Chambers 14, Cunningham Road, Bangalore, Karnataka 560052, India Phone: (+91)-80-4092-6283‎ -- Hari Prasad Nadig http://hpnadig.net | http://twitter.com/hpnadig

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Draft for W-Day 2010
by Srikanth Ramakrishnan 15 Jan '10

15 Jan '10

When will the draft be ready? I have limited time to translate, if NOT I'll get Rohitrrr, or MuntiPrasad to do it for me.. Regards -- Srikanth/R/ If any message seems out of the blue from this account, PLEASE call me up on my mobile to confirm it was sent by me.

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