On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 11:16 PM, Pradeep Mohandas < pradeep.mohandas(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: [..snip..] 5. c. *The office is also (hopefully) to be registered as a public trust (emphasis mine) This is big news! Thanks for the update, Pradeep. -- Hari Prasad Nadig http://hpnadig.net | http://twitter.com/hpnadig http://flickr.com/hpnadig _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l

There are many star students and star teachers from India Education Programme. Just loves how the program is turning out. Naveen Francis Signature powered by WiseStamp On 21 August 2011 17:44, Hari Prasad Nadig &lt;hpnadig(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 11:16 PM, Pradeep Mohandas &lt;pradeep.mohandas(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: [..snip..] 5. After the round of introductions, Hisham Mundol from the Wikimedia Foundation India office provided an update. 5. a. He said that two members were added to office staff - Nitika Tandon and Shiju Alex. Nitika would be working with the Pune Education Program. Shiju will join them in the end of October. 5. b. He said that the Educations Program was successful. They expected 250 students but have now got about 1000 students. They are working on how to manage this larger than expected outcome. One of the things they are considering is having more Campus Ambassadors in Pune. 5. c. The office is also (hopefully) to be registered as a public trust soon.Various options were considered before they reached this decision. They are also looking for premises in the National Capital Region. (emphasis mine) This is big news! Thanks for the update, Pradeep. 5. d. Hisham introduced Nitika Tandon to the members present. 6. Nitika provided an update on the India Education Programme. 6. a. She said that she had recently taken up her work at posting in Pune. 6. b. She has also been talking to 2-3 colleges in Pune but they have been taking it slow since they have to manage the current student count. 7. Hisham suggested that one of the star students is user:basic.atari (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Basic.atari) who has been great and requested Mumbai community members to send him some wikilove. (How? - Once you log in, click on the heart in the top right of the user page to whom you want to send wikilove and be led through some steps to send people wikilove) 8. Achal gave a small talk on Oral Citations project. We were (Again) not able to show the video. 8. a. Achal said that the Wikipedia before ~2004 did not have citations and they grew as the Wikipedia project grew over the years. 8. b. He said citations currently was currently done from the publications industry which has stronger and wider presence in European and North American countries. 8. c. This combined with the limitations on what are rules on what could get cited, could be one of the reasons for decrease in the growth of new editors on Wikipedia. 8. d. The limitation on citation and deletion of articles without good citations turned off new Wikipedia users and also took away some of the revolutionary ideas around which Wikipedia was born. Other form of citations were thus to be considered. 8. e. Wikipedians in India and South Africa worked on the Oral Citations project - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Oral_Citations 9. The meeting was concluded at 6 pm. -- Pradeep Mohandas How Pradeep uses email - http://goo.gl/6v1I9 -- Hari Prasad Nadig http://hpnadig.net | http://twitter.com/hpnadig http://flickr.com/hpnadig _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l

Sure Hisham, Can you please ask all those who are involved in this project to keep {{User WikiProject India Education Program}} in there user page ? I have passed this message to few via following template. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:India_Education_Program/Invite Naveen Francis Signature powered by WiseStamp On 22 August 2011 09:14, Hisham Mundol &lt;hmundol(a)wikimedia.org&gt; wrote: Thanks for the kind words, Naveen! I agree fully (though I may be slightly biased! :-)) ...Don't forget the superstar Campus Ambassadors!!! Details at WP:INDIAEDU! Send them some WikiLove as well! Hisham Mundol Wikimedia India Programs skype : hisham.wikimedia gtalk : hmundol(a)wikimedia.org twitter : @mundol Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! On Aug 21, 2011, at 7:36 PM, Naveen Francis wrote: _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l