Hii All,
Sorry for not been able to write in detail about the event yesterday.
On 28th Morning, the participants arrived exactly at 8am. Few, who could
not arrive on time made it a point to inform one of us, about it.
We spoke to them about their preference of places to click which went on
Good. There after, around 8.45am people dispersed on respective routes.
I along with three others covered the extreme north of churchgate(
Jogeshwari, Borivali and Dahisar ). While Karthik covered the Chatrapati
Shivaji Vastu Sangrahalay interiors besides other places and headed to
HBCSE for keeping the lab ready for participants with the tool installed.
Not many could make it to HBCSE though, owing to the distance. In all there
were 10 of us who reached there by 2.30pm.
The major technical challenge started here while uploading the images. The
system would not allow upload from many people simultaneously and only one
person's images were uploaded at a time ! On informing this to Dr.
Nagarjuna, he mentioned about asking help from the IRC center but
unfortunately, none of the wikipedians were online at that time. We tried
calling few , but for some reason they cwere not available then. After
this, we waited for sometime for the one person's upload to get over and
till then the others filled the data for the images. Two people
successfully uploaded images using 'Commonist' tool for mass upload.
The participants were comfortable with the process absolutely but the
problem was when they pressed 'UPLOAD'. It said, There is an 'unknown
error'. In order to overcome this, we tried to upload using the basic 5
steps of upload in commons, but it showed the message, 'The files are
empty' !!! no idea How and Why this happened..!
After trying this, Nagarjuna Sir sat with us for trying Python. And the
rest as he mentioned earlier in this thread:
"while running the script, it cribbed about 'missing module poster'. I
have installed it using pip. then another missing dependency was
python-pyexiv2. apt-get install python-pyexiv2 took care of this.
after that the script ran successfully". Took lot of time in getting the
script working though.
However we could not run Python on other PCs since by the time it was post
8pm.
We could only upload images of 4 people successfully. However this is
something to discuss as why the tools did not work as they should have
been. Partcipants left the campus by 7.30pm after copying the images on
desktop.
Big Thanks to Nargarjun Sir for being there with us for the entire time
till 9pm in HBCSE and his efforts in upload procedure !!
Besides, there are many people who helped in particular stages of the
event. Starting Noopur , Pranav, Moksh, Netra, Vickram uncle,
Dr.Nagarjuna, Kundan
Sir, Aditya and Krutika for attending the event. Also would like to make
mention of Ajit Sahu who created the logo for the event with just little
briefing. Thanks to ALL !
Warm Regards,
Nikita Belavate.
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 1:21 PM, <wheredevelsdare(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
We seem to be called in to the cop station a bit too
often - visit #2 for
Wikipedia (1st was for WCI 11), this time it got better, taken in a Police
Van to MRA Marg. The worst part, they dont drop you back, you need to make
your own way :(
The guards at Bombay House were pretty clear, we have orders not to allow
photography on Homy Mody Street in front of the building for security
reasons. Its odd that such orders are given in the first place, as public
roads are not under their purview and we were certainly not trespassing
their property. Aditya offered to delete the pics if they could show that
its illegal, obviously they could not. Just because they are scared of
terror threats, whoever gave the order seems to think they have the right
to deny the public of their rights and curtail freedom. Talk about misuse
of power.
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From: apsengupta(a)gmail.com
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:52:17 +0530
To: wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
CC: wikimedia-in-mum(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-in-mum] [Wikimediaindia-l] Report on Wikipedia
Takes Mumbai II
Harriet,
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 05:32, Outofindia <outofindia(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Sounds like a fun time was had by all.
A question:
Is there anyway of finding out in advance what buildings are considered to
have have "Security fears"?
Yes- if there is a yellow board that declares the building as a
"Prohibited Area", you are not allowed to photograph such buildings. We saw
quite a few of these buildings- such as the RBI building. These boards are
required to be registered with the police/government, so it isn't like
anyone can put them up.
Everything else is fair game- as long as you are not trespassing on their
property (which we weren't) or harassing them (we were super nice and
polite with the Bombay House folks as well as the police- so this wasn't a
problem either).
Warm regards
Harriet
Still in NYC.
Harriet Vidyasagar
www.outofindia.net
www.womenofindia.net
INDIA: 91-99011 66276
USA: 1-301-649-2240
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Anshuman Fotedar <
anshuman.fotedar(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Greetings! This is a short note on Wikipedia Takes Mumbai II. Forty
people turned up near the Oval Maidan at Churchgate at 8 am yesterday. The
landmarks that were photographed included the Babulnath Temple, Nehru
Science Centre, Opera House, St Thomas Cathedral, INS Vikrant and Yazdani
Bakery. After the photos had been clicked many of the participants
proceeded to Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, TIFR where they were
shown how to upload to Commons using both the usual upload process and by
using the mediawiki-uploader mass upload script.
Nikita Belavate and Karthik Nadar put in a lot of work into the event.
They helped many people contribute to the Commons while having a good time,
and they deserve praise for making all of this happen.
Our heartfelt gratitude to Pranav Curumsey, Vickram Crishna, Dr
Nagarjuna, Noopur Raval and Moksh Juneja for all the help and mentoring.
Thanks to Shrinivasan T for mediawiki-uploader :) And apologies if I missed
anyone out.
Do visit our maintenance category
WTM<http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:WTM>TM>,
specially created for the event. 313 pictures have been uploaded so far.
Sincerely
Anshuman Fotedar
PS:
1.
During the photowalk, some of the participants who were taking pictures of
Bombay House were interrupted by private security personnel and asked to
handover their cameras so that the pictures could be removed. Pranav
and Aditya Sengupta, who were among them, peacefully put forth the fact
that they were not not breaking any laws by photographing the structure
from the outside since it was not a legally protected one. They were
standing on the road, and not trespassing. To resolve the matter, Aditya,
Pranav and Krutikaa Jawanjal accompanied the security personnel to the
police station where they explained that they were within their rights to
do what they did, and that citizens of the country need not take prior
permission to take exterior photographs of private property that was not
accorded legal protection. The PSI on duty made a noting in his station
diary and informed us that Bombay House has security fears, which is why
one should speak to their bosses before taking pictures, but agreed with
them per se that there is no law that prohibits people from taking pictures
there.
2.
The group that went to Bombay House (and subsequently to Yazdani Bakery,
St. Thomas Cathedral) and other places was delayed owing to the incident
at Bombay House and discovered serendipitously that entry to INS Vikrant
was open. Covering Vikrant took a while, adding to the delay. Consequently
they (this includes me) never reached HBCSE but uploaded from home
instead. Although we did get several good contributions from the
participants in this group as well, I do recognise that it may have been
nice if we could have joined in with the participants who uploaded together
at HBCSE. I apologise.
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