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Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2012 20:57:43 +0530
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Summit India 2013 for Spoken Indian Language Wikipedia!
Hi,

I appreciate the effort by the Wikipedia club Pune.

Please let me know if the idea for the summit was widely discussed in the community well in advance. 

Somehow I feel that such an event may dilute the importance of Wikiconference India event and may even confuse audience which is what. 

It will be good to know if the chapter was consulted on any national level event. 

Right now, the whole planning of the event seems arbitrary.

Ravi. 

P.S: Who created this story that Pune is the education hub of India? :)

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Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Most recent updates on the hiring of the Programme Director for the A2K programme
Jadine, 

I appreciate the transparent methodology and engaging the community in hiring the programme director. 

Ravi

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Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2012 00:50:21 +0530
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki Academy in Goa in Dec

On 06-Dec-2012, at 1:21 PM, Frederick FN Noronha * फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا wrote:

Dear Nitika, Is it possible to get in touch with others who have been contributing to the Goa pages in the past?

Absolutely! We can invite Wikipedians from Goa and members of WikiProject Goa. 

Also, some of us have bandwidth problems here, otherwise we would have contributed more. Is it possible to set up a small team to continue this process, in Goa itself, after the workshop is done? 

The Central Library has a lot of space and tend to be supportive in such work. Its Curator, Carlos Fernandes, was even supportive when Richard Stallman of the FSF visited many years ago. They understand the importance of creating sharable resources. At the library, you can spot some displays of open journal websites, etc which researchers can freely access. You could build on such synergies.

We have a meeting scheduled with the State Central Library on the 13th Dec at 10.30am. We can most definitely work out a plan with them. I'm hoping you'll be able to join for this meeting too.

I have raised a ticket to lift IP rate limit: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42767. Hope it gets resolved at the earliest.

Thanks

Nitika

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Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2012 12:08:51 +0530
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] The Hindu : "Indians win in Wiki mega photo contest"
The Hindu : "Indians win in Wiki mega photo contest"
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/indians-win-in-wiki-mega-photo-contest/article4172761.ece 
http://www.twitpic.com/bjqjvm ( Print coverage) - Large coverage on rear cover page !!

WLM beat its own record this year with more than 3,50,000 images

Two photographs sent by Indians have won the first and sixth places in what Guinness World Records has called the largest photo competition. Called ‘Wiki Loves Monuments 2012!’ (WLM), the online competition was organised by Wikipedians all over the world, Karthik Nadar, secretary and Board member, Executive Committee, Wikimedia India Chapter, told The Hindu .

Pranav Singh’s photo of Safdarjung’s tomb in New Delhi secured the first place internationally while Narender Kumar’s photo of the Taj Mahal got the sixth place. The two photos had been rated ninth and first respectively in the competition held at the India level. Other Indian finalists sent photos of the country’s tombs, temples and military forts. Narender Kumar told The Hindu that most photos of the Taj are “touristy,” so he took an unusual angle. “Luckily, there was foggy weather,” he said.

A record

While WLM had set the Guinness record for the world’s largest photo contest with 1,68,208 images in 2011, it beat its own record this year with more than 3,50,000 images.

India participated for the first time in the competition this year. It sent the highest number of participants, representing 15 per cent of the 15,000 total contributors from around the world. Over 2,200 photographers contributed nearly 16,000 photos, according to sources in Wikimedia India Chapter.

There is no free-to-use image of more than 99 per cent of monuments in India listed by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI). The aim of the contest was to encourage people to contribute photos to Wikimedia Commons, said Mr. Nadar. The Wikimedia Commons is a sister project of Wikipedia. It is a media file repository that makes available freely licensed educational content (such as images, sound and video clips) to everyone in the world. It acts as a common repository for various projects of the Wikimedia Foundation, including Wikipedia. (Wikipedia.org )

He said anyone could use the photos from the Commons, including for commercial purposes provided the photographer’s name was mentioned. A ‘Photo Walk’ was organised in Mumbai in September (when the contest was on) during which participants took photos for the contest.

Naveen Francis, former secretary and board member, Wikimedia India chapter, told The Hindu that participation from India was “almost uniform” with photos coming from contestants from across the country. The highest participation was from Delhi, with more photos taken of the Taj Mahal and the Qutub Minar. Mumbai followed with photos of Gateway of India.

Mr. Francis said contestants were asked to photograph those monuments recognised by the ASI. The focus was on structures of national and international importance. However, some contestants sent photos of monuments not recognised by the ASI. Those were excluded from the competition. However, they will be used in Wiki Voyage, a new travel website that has launched recently.

The international jury considered 324 images from 33 participating countries in the finale. There were 10 nominations from each participating country for the international round. The Indian jury for the country round had six jury members, who nominated 10 photos from 16,000. Three professional photographers, Gauri Gill, Anup Mathew Thomas and Ryan Lobo, made up the team along with three Wikipedians Arun Ganesh, Kiran Ravikumar, and Sreejith K.


Regards
Pranav Curumsey
Press Team, Wikimedia India Chapter
press@wikimedia.in
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/In_the_news

Important Note : Non-commercial reproduction for informative purposes only. The publisher ( The Hindu ) of the above news article owns the copyrights of the article / content. All copyrights are duly acknowledged.

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Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2012 16:26:27 +0530
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Report of Ahmedabad Wiki meet up - 6

Hello all,

First of all, sorry for delayed report.

Wikipedia Meet up - 6 was held at Lois Kahn Plaza, IIM Campus on  1st Dec. 

After some brief introduction, new members were given some basic idea about things related to Wikipedia. Some discussions were carried out regrading Wikipedia. Conflicts of Interest was one of them.

Then we discussed about our new project on Ahmedabad named "વિકિપરિયોજના અમદાવાદ"(Wikiproject Ahmedabad) in Gujarati Wikipedia. In this we discussed lots of thing including how to make this project successful, what kind of strategies we can apply, which types of articles can be included and other stuff. 

Another key agendas of meetup discussed at large were how to make grow community in Ahmedabad, enlarge viewership of Gujarati Wikipedia? Everyone gave his own idea. We had some wonderful things to take on. After talking much about these issues,we decided that Wikipedia workshop will be the best way to increase potential editors. So we are planning to arrange one workshop on 16th December. After finalization, detail will be posted on mailing list soon. 

At the end, a small editing session was held to get newcomers' hands tested on Wikipedia. 

Here is the complete list of participants

1. Harsh Kothari
2. Samkit
3. Arjun
4. Hitarth
5. Dhaval
6. Akash
7. Amit Panchal
8. Harendrasingh
9. Ketan Raval

By and large, it was a successful meet up  concluding some useful points. 

Photos of this meet up is here

1. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=400338140040746&set=oa.491678384185832&type=1&theater

2. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=400338590040701&set=oa.491678384185832&type=1&theater

Thanks,

Harsh

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Harsh Kothari
Research Fellow, 
Physical Research Laboratory(PRL).
Ahmedabad.

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From: Srikanth Ramakrishnan <srik.ramk@wikimedia.in>
To: Pranav Curumsey <pranav@wikimedia.in>, Wikimedia India Community list <wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
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Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2012 17:22:55 +0530
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] The Hindu : "Indians win in Wiki mega photo contest"
Way to go India. We did it this time. Let's hope we contribute the max no of images next year!

On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Pranav Curumsey <pranav@wikimedia.in> wrote:

The Hindu : "Indians win in Wiki mega photo contest"
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/indians-win-in-wiki-mega-photo-contest/article4172761.ece 
http://www.twitpic.com/bjqjvm ( Print coverage) - Large coverage on rear cover page !!

WLM beat its own record this year with more than 3,50,000 images

Two photographs sent by Indians have won the first and sixth places in what Guinness World Records has called the largest photo competition. Called ‘Wiki Loves Monuments 2012!’ (WLM), the online competition was organised by Wikipedians all over the world, Karthik Nadar, secretary and Board member, Executive Committee, Wikimedia India Chapter, told The Hindu .

Pranav Singh’s photo of Safdarjung’s tomb in New Delhi secured the first place internationally while Narender Kumar’s photo of the Taj Mahal got the sixth place. The two photos had been rated ninth and first respectively in the competition held at the India level. Other Indian finalists sent photos of the country’s tombs, temples and military forts. Narender Kumar told The Hindu that most photos of the Taj are “touristy,” so he took an unusual angle. “Luckily, there was foggy weather,” he said.

A record

While WLM had set the Guinness record for the world’s largest photo contest with 1,68,208 images in 2011, it beat its own record this year with more than 3,50,000 images.

India participated for the first time in the competition this year. It sent the highest number of participants, representing 15 per cent of the 15,000 total contributors from around the world. Over 2,200 photographers contributed nearly 16,000 photos, according to sources in Wikimedia India Chapter.

There is no free-to-use image of more than 99 per cent of monuments in India listed by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI). The aim of the contest was to encourage people to contribute photos to Wikimedia Commons, said Mr. Nadar. The Wikimedia Commons is a sister project of Wikipedia. It is a media file repository that makes available freely licensed educational content (such as images, sound and video clips) to everyone in the world. It acts as a common repository for various projects of the Wikimedia Foundation, including Wikipedia. (Wikipedia.org )

He said anyone could use the photos from the Commons, including for commercial purposes provided the photographer’s name was mentioned. A ‘Photo Walk’ was organised in Mumbai in September (when the contest was on) during which participants took photos for the contest.

Naveen Francis, former secretary and board member, Wikimedia India chapter, told The Hindu that participation from India was “almost uniform” with photos coming from contestants from across the country. The highest participation was from Delhi, with more photos taken of the Taj Mahal and the Qutub Minar. Mumbai followed with photos of Gateway of India.

Mr. Francis said contestants were asked to photograph those monuments recognised by the ASI. The focus was on structures of national and international importance. However, some contestants sent photos of monuments not recognised by the ASI. Those were excluded from the competition. However, they will be used in Wiki Voyage, a new travel website that has launched recently.

The international jury considered 324 images from 33 participating countries in the finale. There were 10 nominations from each participating country for the international round. The Indian jury for the country round had six jury members, who nominated 10 photos from 16,000. Three professional photographers, Gauri Gill, Anup Mathew Thomas and Ryan Lobo, made up the team along with three Wikipedians Arun Ganesh, Kiran Ravikumar, and Sreejith K.


Regards
Pranav Curumsey
Press Team, Wikimedia India Chapter
press@wikimedia.in
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/In_the_news

Important Note : Non-commercial reproduction for informative purposes only. The publisher ( The Hindu ) of the above news article owns the copyrights of the article / content. All copyrights are duly acknowledged.
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Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2012 17:28:21 +0530
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Report of Ahmedabad Wiki meet up - 6
Harsh, thanks for the report.

Can you let us know what Project Ahmedabad is?

On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Harsh Kothari <harshkothari410@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello all,

First of all, sorry for delayed report.

Wikipedia Meet up - 6 was held at Lois Kahn Plaza, IIM Campus on  1st Dec. 

After some brief introduction, new members were given some basic idea about things related to Wikipedia. Some discussions were carried out regrading Wikipedia. Conflicts of Interest was one of them.

Then we discussed about our new project on Ahmedabad named "વિકિપરિયોજના અમદાવાદ"(Wikiproject Ahmedabad) in Gujarati Wikipedia. In this we discussed lots of thing including how to make this project successful, what kind of strategies we can apply, which types of articles can be included and other stuff. 

Another key agendas of meetup discussed at large were how to make grow community in Ahmedabad, enlarge viewership of Gujarati Wikipedia? Everyone gave his own idea. We had some wonderful things to take on. After talking much about these issues,we decided that Wikipedia workshop will be the best way to increase potential editors. So we are planning to arrange one workshop on 16th December. After finalization, detail will be posted on mailing list soon. 

At the end, a small editing session was held to get newcomers' hands tested on Wikipedia. 

Here is the complete list of participants

1. Harsh Kothari
2. Samkit
3. Arjun
4. Hitarth
5. Dhaval
6. Akash
7. Amit Panchal
8. Harendrasingh
9. Ketan Raval

By and large, it was a successful meet up  concluding some useful points. 

Photos of this meet up is here

1. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=400338140040746&set=oa.491678384185832&type=1&theater

2. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=400338590040701&set=oa.491678384185832&type=1&theater

Thanks,

Harsh

---

Harsh Kothari
Research Fellow, 
Physical Research Laboratory(PRL).
Ahmedabad.

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