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Today's Topics:

1. Oral citations project update: more articles + full English
subtitle track (Achal Prabhala)
2. Re: Welcome to the India Team! : Shiju & Nitika (Erik Moeller)
3. Re: Welcome to the India Team! : Shiju & Nitika
(Arjuna Rao Chavala)
4. Re: Welcome to the India Team! : Shiju & Nitika (Bishakha Datta)
5. Re: Welcome to the India Team! : Shiju & Nitika (Arun Ramarathnam)
6. Re: Welcome to the India Team! : Shiju & Nitika (Hisham Mundol)

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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 03:08:05 +0530
From: Achal Prabhala <aprabhala@gmail.com>
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Oral citations project update: more
articles + full English subtitle track
To: "Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia."
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*apologies for cross-posting*

Dear friends,

A quick update on the oral citations project.

1) We have now posted sample articles in all 3 project languages,
Malayalam, Sepedi and Hindi:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Oral_Citations#Articles.2F_Discussions_.28in_development.29

2) A full English subtitle track for the film is now available on
Wikimedia Commons (the previous one only covered non-English speech):
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/TimedText:People-are-Knowledge.ogv.en.srt

---

There are a couple of things yet to come, some of which are
intrinsically linked to the suggestions and comments coming in from the
discussion on the previous thread. These are:

a) A few more articles in development, which will be posted when done

b) Transcripts of the audio interviews in Hindi, Sepedi and Malayalam,
each accompanied by an English transcript (in development)

c) An FAQ, where we can begin thinking collaboratively about ways in
which an exercise like this could work/be made to work under existing
policies within the Wikimedia movement, and Wikipedia specifically; as
well as ways in which this project could be extended to think about
sources and citations generally.

---

Lastly, if you haven't had a chance to see the work of the project, you
can do that here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Oral_Citations

...and if you would like to watch the film made during the course of the
project, please check it out:
on Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:People-are-Knowledge.ogv
or on Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/26469276

Cheers,
Achal

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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 19:16:05 -0700
From: Erik Moeller <erik@wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Welcome to the India Team! : Shiju &
Nitika
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Fantastic news - a warm welcome to both of you. :-)

A small team, with the help of our vast community of volunteers, can
make a huge difference. Really excited to see what you will come up
with.
--
Erik M?ller
Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation

Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 10:31:33 +0530
From: Arjuna Rao Chavala <arjunaraoc@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Welcome to the India Team! : Shiju &
Nitika
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On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Hisham Mundol <hmundol@wikimedia.org>wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> I'm really pleased to send out this email welcoming the first 2 new members
> of the India Programs team.
> --cut--
>
Shiju, Nitika,

Congratualtions on your new roles.

I am confident that your work will help growth of Wikimedia movement at a
rapid pace.

Best wishes

Arjun
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Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 10:31:44 +0530
From: Bishakha Datta <bishakhadatta@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Welcome to the India Team! : Shiju &
Nitika
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Lovely news!

Welcome aboard, and look forward to meeting you soon, Nitika, and you Shiju,
now in this new avatar. :)

Cheers
Bishakha
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Message: 5
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 11:23:03 +0530
From: Arun Ramarathnam <arunram25@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Welcome to the India Team! : Shiju &
Nitika
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This is great news.

A warm welcome and best wishes to Shiju and Nitika in their new roles.

Regards
Arun
On Jul 29, 2011 1:42 PM, "CherianTinu Abraham" <tinucherian@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Congratulations to Shiju and Nitika.
>
> It has been great working along with Shiju, closely for years now and I
> don't have to tell that how much he deserves this. I wondered how he gets
> time to "really" work with ABB with all his wiki activities ;) and I am
sure
> that this position would help him concentrate on one thing he is really
> passionate about.
>
> Welcome on-board, Nitika ! Looking forward to work with you too.
>
> Best wishes again to both Shiju and Nitika !
>
> Regards
> Tinu Cherian
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Hisham Mundol <hmundol@wikimedia.org
>wrote:
>
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> I'm really pleased to send out this email welcoming the first 2 new
members
>> of the India Programs team. Just before I introduce them, I thought I'd
>> share with you the background of their selection.
>>
>> *Context*
>>
>> As you might be aware, the Foundation had decided to undertake a catalyst
>> operation in India to promote the growth of the community and projects
here.
>> The team is expected to be a small, nimble 5 person group. We had put out
>> 2 job postings - for Indic Initiatives and for Participation. (Please
>> refer:
>>
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-May/003007.html)
>> We posted them on linkedin and on the Indian FOSS community list as well
>> as announcing them on various Facebook pages and Twitter feeds.
>>
>> The response was wonderful. >110 applications for Indic Initiatives and
>> nearly 175 applications for Participation. These were short-listed to 10
(3
>> for Indic Language and 7 for Participation.) These were a mix of existing
&
>> previous Wikipedians, Wikipedia newbies and open source advocates.
>>
>> In June, the shortlisted 10 were interviewed and further down-selected to
>> 4. These 4 were then further interviewed by a group of other staff
members
>> from the Foundation. I am pleased to inform the community of the final
>> selected 2.
>>
>> *Shiju Alex - Indic Initiatives*
>>
>> Most of you already know Shiju. For those who don't, Shiju is a long-time
>> Wikipedian [User: shijualex] and is active on Malayalam Wikipedia,
English
>> wikiprojects and Wikimedia Commons, as well as Wikisource and offline. He
>> has been passionately involved with the establishing and building of
Indic
>> language Wikipedias. He's participated in a series of outreach activities
>> and is also (jointly) undertaking a grant from the Foundation for
outreach
>> across India. He's a regular member of the Bangalore community.
>>
>> Shiju is from Palakkad, Kerala and is married with a 2 year old baby. He
>> currently works as a Senior Technical Writer with ABB in Bangalore.
>>
>> Even those of you who know him might not know the following 2 things that
I
>> was lucky to discover during the selection process. Shiju is an MSc in
>> Physics with a specialisation in Astronomy and Astrophysics - and he
retains
>> a deep interest in anything astronomical. Feel free to quiz him
vigorously
>> on this! He also enjoys trekking and misses his time in Pune where he
could
>> be up & close the gorgeous Sahyadri Hills.
>>
>> Shiju is going to lead our work on promoting Indic language projects
across
>> India. The challenges are enormous - from technical constraints to low
>> levels of awareness of these projects to vibrant but nascent communities.
>> However, these only point to the massive size of the opportunity for
Indic
>> language projects - which is the joint top-2 strategic priority of the
>> movement in India. After he joins, he'll collaboratively put together a
>> plan for Indic language projects and work towards quality execution of
>> high-impact initiatives.
>>
>> Shiju is currently serving out his notice period so will be able to join
us
>> only around September - October.
>>
>> *Nitika Tandon - Participation*
>>
>> Nitika [User:nitika.t] is relatively newer to the community - and has
been
>> brushing up her editing. She's been immersing herself in the Wikimedia
>> world and attended community meet-ups as well as reviews of the Wikipedia
>> India Education Program. She is from Delhi - and is currently based in
>> Mumbai - where she works as a Strategic Partnerships Manager with
Directi.
>> (If you're not aware, they are one of the most prominent internet domain
&
>> solutions providers in India.)
>>
>> Nitika has an MBA and has also worked on research analytics. A
fascinating
>> detail I discovered about a previous assignment of hers - and you must
ask
>> her about it - is how African drums can be used for management coaching!
>> She also reliably informs me that there are 7 Spanish dance forms and she
>> instructs in all of them!
>>
>> Nitika is going to be working on Participation - which is primarily
>> focussed on increasing the contributor base of non-Indic language
projects,
>> primarily Wikipedia. One of her first tasks will be to expand the
>> Wikipedia India Education Program from the Pune pilot to a more national
>> footprint. She'll also work on other initiatives to promote participation
-
>> and I can foresee Wikimedia Commons being a potential initiative.
>>
>> Nitika will join us on August 1st.
>>
>> *Introductions*
>>
>> I'm going to be scheduling the August Monthly India Programs IRC on
>> Thursday August 18th to introduce them both to you. Please do join us.
>> I'll send a reminder closer to the date. Also, needless to say, they'll
>> be attending a series of community meet-ups over the next months.
>>
>> In the meantime, please do join me in welcoming them onboard. I'm really
>> excited because this means that we will now have the capacity and
capability
>> to dramatically accelerate our activities in India.
>>
>> Warmest Regards,
>>
>> *Hisham Mundol*
>> *
>> *
>> ***
>>
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>>
>> India Programs<
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs>
>> *
>> *
>>
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>> gtalk : hmundol@wikimedia.org
>> **
>> twitter : @mundol
>> *
>>
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Message: 6
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 19:33:25 +0530
From: Hisham Mundol <hmundol@wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Welcome to the India Team! : Shiju &
Nitika
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Yes we do, Gaurav!

Someone from the community in Delhi will be in touch with you shortly!

btw, if there's anyone else on the list in Delhi who's interested in getting to know more about the movement and projects and the community, do shout out! ...I'm marking the Delhi community list as well.

Best

Hisham Mundol

Wikimedia India Programs
skype : hisham.wikimedia
gtalk : hmundol@wikimedia.org
twitter : @mundol

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On Jul 29, 2011, at 6:10 PM, Gaurav Garg wrote:

> Guys do u have any community members in Delhi to meet and learn from?
>
> Sent on my BlackBerry? from Vodafone
>
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