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Today's Topics:

   1. Re: Kolkata Bookfair report (Jayanta Nath)
   2. Re: WMIN meet at Lal Bagh Bangalore- Schedule (Sowmyan
      Tirumurti) (Moksh Juneja)
   3. Komarraju Lakshmana Rao Wikimedia Puraskaram      Results
      (Ravi Vyzasatya)
   4. How can we make Wikidata useful (Gerard Meijssen)


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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2013 13:08:55 +0530
From: Jayanta Nath <jayantanth@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Kolkata Bookfair report
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Dear Vishnu,

We should published Press-Note ASAP.

Jayanta


On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 9:13 PM, Vishnu <visdaviva@gmail.com> wrote:

>  Dear Jayanta,
>
> It's difficult to work with journalists who may be rushing to meet
> submission deadlines and end up mis-quoting the facts or give wrong
> details  :)
>
> Probably, it may help if you could do a Press-Note and send it to all the
> Media agencies. At least they will have the correct details in hand.
>
> All the best!!
>
> Vishnu
>
>
>
> On Saturday 21 December 2013 11:44 PM, Jayanta Nath wrote:
>
> KOLKATA: In an effort to enthuse people to become regular contributors to
> its site, Wikipedia will launch a campaign at the Kolkata Book Fair<http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Kolkata-Book-Fair>next year. It has already booked a stall and lined up an awareness
> programme to sign up volunteers. Incidentally, Kolkata fares poorly when it
> comes to contribute to the world's biggest online encyclopedia. At present,
> the city has only five contributors.
>
> Wikipedia needs people from Kolkata to contribute voluntarily not only to
> the mother website but also to its Bengali link, Banglapedia. "We would
> hold workshops where we would give presentations about how to edit existing
> material on Wiki/Banglapedia. The biggest incentive for any contributor is
> that, the moment he/she writes a piece or edits something, it gets updated
> and is published for the world to see," explained Jayanta Nath, chief of
> Banglapedia.
>
> The Book Fair authorities have already sealed the deal and are looking
> forward to this heavyweight participant.
>
> "Wikipedia's participation will add glamour to the fair," said Tridib
> Chatterjee, general secretary of the Publishers and Booksellers Guild<http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Publishers-and-Booksellers-Guild>
> .
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 11:32 PM, Jayanta Nath <jayantanth@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>  Dear all,
>>
>> Now another wrong report....
>>
>>
>> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/Wikipedia-stall-at-book-fair-next-year/articleshow/27695829.cms
>>
>>  Jayanta
>>
>
>
>
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Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2013 08:09:42 +0530
From: Moksh Juneja <moksh@wikimedia.in>
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This is a brilliant initiative and thanks for spearheading. QR Code only
help people learn more about the flora of Bangalore.


On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 11:21 PM, Sanket Oswal <sankoswal@gmail.com> wrote:

> Congrats and Best Wishes.
>
> Regards,
> Sanket.
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 10:56 PM, Yohann Thomas <yohannvt@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Congrats on having this event successfully & hoping fr many such
>> successful events in the future.
>>
>>
>> Yohann Thomas
>> Wikipedia Club Pune
>>  yohannvt@gmail.com
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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2013 01:19:47 -0500
From: Ravi Vyzasatya <vyzasatya@gmail.com>
To: wikimedia-in-en@lists.wikimedia.org,
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Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Komarraju Lakshmana Rao Wikimedia
        Puraskaram      Results
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Dear fellow Wikimedians,

Thank you all for your encouragement of Telugu Wikipedia community's
initiative to recognize the contributors by a special award called
Komarraju Lakshmana Rao Wikimedia Puraskaram[1], named after first modern
encyclopedist in Telugu, perhaps the first among Indian languages
(c.1912-13).

We got 28 nominated proposals for the awards[2] out of which 18 were
complete, based on the acceptance criteria outlined in the initial
announcement. Selection council analyzed all proposals based on
quantitative metrics like wiki statistics and qualitative assessment of
each nominee's contribution and it's impact on Wiki 's growth and
development. We would like to thank all the people who participated in the
nomination and proposal development process and also those who helped to
improve the process by their feedback during its roll out. As this is the
debut year for the awards, Selection council decided to award 10 recipients
recognizing their contributions during the last decade of Telugu Wikipedia.
In the order of final assessment score, the awardees are *Chaduvari, M
Pradeep, Chava Kiran, Veeven, Palagiri, Ravichandra, Ahmed Nisar, Veera.sj,
JVRK PRASAD and Bhaskaranaidu.* They will be presented with cash prize and
certificate during the Telugu Wiki Ten Celebrations . You can see their
pictures, citation remarks in Telugu and English [3]. The background
material[4] and scoring sheet[5] are also available, if you are interested.

To recognize members who contributed significantly to Telugu wikimedia
projects but could not/ did not give their consent for the award nomination
and/or did not get selected for the award, Selection council decided to
award Jury appreciation certificates. These will be given to 30 members
selected by the council[6]. An electronic certificate will be presented in
their user talk pages shortly

It's been an arduous effort and the selection council members have put in
nearly 1000 hours of effort as a group in the past couple of months since
award conception. Can't thank enough the selection council members Arjuna
Rao Chavala, A. Rajasekhar, T. Sujatha and A. Radhakrishna. Special thanks
to Arjuna Rao Chavala, Selection council secretary for taking the major
responsibility for this initiative. We also thank Tewiki 10 Celebrations
committee[7] for ensuring necessary funds to support this award.

As with any first time endeavor, I am sure there is room for improvements
in this process. We appreciate your feedback and suggestions for future
attempts.

Sincerely,

Ravi Vyzasatya

1. Award details and rules (in Telugu) https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:KLRWP
2.  Proposals  https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Komarraju_LakshmanaRao_Wikimedia_Award_Proposals
3.  Award winner details  https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:KLRWP/2013/Winners
4. Applicants work statistics and factors aiding growth
https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KLRWP-2013_Applicants_work_Statistics_and_Factors_Aiding_Growth.pdf
5.Scoring sheet  https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:KLRWP/2013/Scoring
6. Jury Appreciation certificate winners
https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:KLRWP/2013/Jury_Appreciation_Winners
7. Tewiki 10 Celebrations Committee
https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:TEWIKI10/Committee
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Message: 4
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2013 11:12:25 +0100
From: Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen@gmail.com>
To: Wikimedia India <wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] How can we make Wikidata useful
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Hoi,
I blogged [1] about the question how we can make Wikidata useful. In it I
refer to Muhammad Shah [2] who was a mogul and relevant to the history of
India.

What is necessary for it to work in a language anyway is that the labels
exist in "your" language. The information for Muhammad Shah is shown [3]
here in Gujarati with a fall back to Hindi and a final fall back to
English.. You can add labels starting from this and, you will notice how
quickly it has an effect to related / similar content. Obviously you can
change the language codes in the URL to suit your needs..

What I am looking for is ideas on how we can make Wikidata useful for you
and for our readers. I hope to get many ideas from you that can we can put
into practice.

At this time what I think is most useful is that we can point to pictures
that exist in Commons categories. This too will work when we have labels in
your language..

The challenge I give you is to come up with ideas that we can put into
practice that makes Wikidata useful for the people in India.
Thanks,
      GerardM

[1]
http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2013/12/wikidata-how-to-reach-its-tipping-points.html
[2] http://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/?q=558714
[3] http://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/?q=558714&lang=gu,hi<http://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/?q=Q558714&lang=gu,hi>
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