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Anshuman Fotedar <anshuman.fotedar@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 9:54 PM
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Report on Wikipedia Takes Mumbai II
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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, 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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