hi, I hope some of the IRC-veterans can pitch in here. Not everyone is comfortable with IRC. I think these sessions will be more helpful for all involved if we had a statement put up on a wiki or on the mailing list by individuals who want to make these statements and then have a round of questions around the topics (as an example: community and outreach) which were meant to be discussed at the meeting. Then, perhaps throw the floor open for general questions that members of the community want to raise. I think this will make it interactive and not be percieved as a narrative or a one-sided discussion. These may not have been intentional and should have been raised earlier. I hope the Office continues this practice and tries to improve its effectiveness as they move forward. warm regards, User:Prad2609 On 15 March 2012 20:45, Hisham <hisham(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: -- How Pradeep uses email - http://goo.gl/6v1I9

hi, I agree, Vickram. The more we use it the more we'll learn. My intention of stating our discomfort with IRC was that the meeting on it becomes more complicated if many people are not used to the platform. It then becomes the question of both following a discussion and understanding and learning about IRC. That would involve learning about too many things at the same time. Pradeep On 16 March 2012 10:04, Vickram Crishna <vvcrishna(a)radiophony.com> wrote: -- How Pradeep uses email - http://goo.gl/6v1I9

To clarify: I have nothing against IRC. Just the way it was conducted on IRC. Please share best practices on how to do an IRC chat well! User:prad2609 Handheld On Mar 16, 2012 5:00 PM, "Srikanth Ramakrishnan" <parakara.ghoda(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Pradeep, do remember it's a multiway chat system. If you feel it is one sided, all you need to do is ask a question. A simple question can lead to an interactive session leaving everyone satisfied. Sankarshanan, thanks for the links. I guess we could implement something like that. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on February 12th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore Aliens invaded Tamil Nadu, left their Spacship and now it is a Toll Plaza. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IVRCL-Vijayamangalam-Toll-Plaza.JPG

Here's the link that gives the log of this meeting - for those who couldn't attend. As planned, the major topic of discussion was the Indic Languages initiatives. We talked about the overall approach that Shiju has been following with several dozen community members. We walked through the Medical project - currently underway in Assamese, Telugu, Oriya (Odia) & Malayalam. (This seeks to create vital articles in Indic wikis with the help of community members with medical/healthcare background, or users who are interested in healthcare articles.) During the IRC, Jayanta informed us that the Bengali community have also started it - which is great. We also discussed the Translated Articles Enhancement Project which has been started by the Kannada community. Thank you to every one but a special thank you to the new folks who came on today. It's always nice to see new faces! We ran out of time on this IRC. As discussed, I would like to suggest Thursday March 22nd @9pm IST for another IRC. (This is in addition to the IRC planned for March 29th.) The March 22nd IRCwill be an open house - and will not therefore have a predetermined agenda. As always, do visit the India Program page for more information on everything we do. Best hisham On Mar 15, 2012, at 8:45 PM, Hisham wrote:

Just a question. Is it possible to ever schedule a session in the afternoon/evening? On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 7:14 AM, Hisham <hisham(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. You don't think it is possible to reroute National Highway 7 to Coimbatore and replace the one in Madurai with 47 do you? Oh god No! It would possibly mean that IVRCL has ruined the country's longest National Highway.

We're starting in 15 minutes at 9pm IST. Speak soon. hisham On Mar 22, 2012, at 7:14 AM, Hisham wrote:

Last log was on 12 October http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program . Please update On 23 March 2012 22:11, Srikanth Ramakrishnan &lt;parakara.ghoda(a)gmail.com&gt;wrote;wrote: -- Kind Regards ansuman smileyansu <http://twitter.com/smileyansu> *ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ <http://or.wikipedia.org/>*

This was all getting a bit complicated. I made those sub-pages earlier so the content can scale, I was also trying to keep the Indian IRC hours separate from the usual WMF IRC office hours. I reorganized things a bit. The meetings page is now a template that transcludes to other locations, the main India programs page, etc. All the India staff has to do is just update a single page from now, and the rest will be updated on its own. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:India_Program/meetings It will automatically transclude and update here- http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program#Communication You can add more locations with the template and it will update on its own. Regards Theo On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 12:32 AM, CherianTinu Abraham &lt;tinucherian(a)gmail.com > Logs of the previous IRC meeting ( March 15, 2012) is available on this > page http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/meetings > but it is not linked here > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program#Communication > > Hisham/ Noopur, may be you want to update there too or just avoid the need > to update on both pages. > > -TC > > > On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 12:19 AM, ansuman &lt;ansumang(a)gmail.com> >> Last log was on 12 October http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program . >> Please update >> >> >> On 23 March 2012 22:11, Srikanth Ramakrishnan &lt;parakara.ghoda(a)gmail.com&gt;wrote;wrote: >> >>> Heya, since I was unable to join in yesterday, can I have a link to the >>> archive/log? >>> >>> On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 8:45 PM, Hisham &lt;hisham(a)wikimedia.org>>> >>>> We're starting in 15 minutes at 9pm IST. >>>> >>>> Speak soon. >>>> >>>> *hisham* >>>> >>>> On Mar 22, 2012, at 7:14 AM, Hisham wrote: >>>> >>>> Dear All >>>> >>>> Reminder that there's an IRC for the community with India Program on >>>> 22nd March at 9:00 pm IST in #wikimedia-office. This session is an open >>>> house with no specific topics to be discussed. (This was scheduled because >>>> we ran out of time in the previous IRC. To avoid spamming lists, I won't >>>> be sending this to any other lists apart from this one. Please do share >>>> this mail with whoever you know might be interested. >>>> >>>> (To join the IRC, all you have to do is go to: >>>> http://webchat.freenode.net/ and enter a nickname ( it does not >>>> require prior registration) and enter #wikimedia-office as the channel >>>> name.) >>>> >>>> I'll send a reminder 15 minutes before the session. >>>> >>>> *hisham* >>>> >>>> On Mar 17, 2012, at 7:35 PM, Hisham wrote: >>>> >>>> Here's the link<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Program… that >>>> gives the log of this meeting - for those who couldn't attend. >>>> >>>> As planned, the major topic of discussion was the Indic Languages >>>> initiatives. We talked about the overall approach that Shiju has been >>>> following with several dozen community members. We walked through the >>>> Medical project - currently underway in Assamese<http://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A7%B1%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%… >>>> , Telugu<http://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80… >>>> , Oriya (Odia)<http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%89%E0%AC%87%E0%AC%95%E0%AC%BF%… >>>> & Malayalam<http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5…82>. >>>> (This seeks to create vital articles in Indic wikis with the help of >>>> community members with medical/healthcare background, or users who are >>>> interested in healthcare articles.) During the IRC, Jayanta informed us >>>> that the Bengali community have also started it<http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:MED> >>>> - which is great. We also discussed the Translated Articles >>>> Enhancement Project<http://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%B5%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%95%E0%B2%B… which >>>> has been started by the Kannada community. >>>> >>>> Thank you to every one but a special thank you to the new folks who >>>> came on today. It's always nice to see new faces! >>>> >>>> We ran out of time on this IRC. As discussed, I would like to suggest >>>> Thursday March 22nd @9pm IST for another IRC. (This is in addition to the >>>> IRC planned for March 29th.) The March 22nd IRCwill be an open house - and >>>> will not therefore have a predetermined agenda. >>>> >>>> As always, do visit the India Program page<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program> for >>>> more information on everything we do. >>>> >>>> Best >>>> >>>> *hisham* >>>> >>>> On Mar 15, 2012, at 8:45 PM, Hisham wrote: >>>> >>>> Reminder that we are starting in 15 minutes. >>>> >>>> Do join in! Details below. >>>> >>>> *hisham* >>>> >>>> On Mar 15, 2012, at 8:38 AM, Hisham wrote: >>>> >>>> Gentle reminder. Do join in. >>>> >>>> *hisham* >>>> >>>> On Mar 11, 2012, at 6:41 AM, Hisham wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi Folks >>>> >>>> One of the essential things that India Program needs to constantly work >>>> out is keeping the community informed of the work that we are doing - so >>>> that this work is clearer but also to help cross-pollinate ideas amongst a >>>> wider set of community members who might not have been engaged on specific >>>> village pump / talk page discussion or involved in particular activities >>>> (e.g. outreach events) or wikiprojects. >>>> >>>> We used to have a monthly IRC with the community and India Program. >>>> (For those who are not familiar with IRC, it is an Internet messaging >>>> system similar to a regular chat room. It's very simple to use and you can >>>> join in by clicking on the following link:* >>>> http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#wikimedia-office*.) I have >>>> been remiss in conducting these for the past few months - and I'd like to >>>> make amends by restarting, with a couple of modifications. >>>> >>>> a) I'd like to propose fortnightly instead of monthly. (I was wary of >>>> doing it any more frequently than monthly earlier because I didn't know if >>>> there would be enough on the plate to discuss. I have changed my mind now >>>> - because there is too much to discuss to cover in a single monthly >>>> session.) I'd like to propose that we do it in the 1st and 3rd Thursdays >>>> of every month at 9pm IST (which is GMT + 0530) - THOUGH NOT THIS MONTH - >>>> BECAUSE I HAVE MISSED THE TIMELINE. Just for March, we will do it on *March >>>> 15th* and March 29th (both at *9pm IST* which is GMT + 0530) >>>> b) I'd like to propose that we do it focussed on specific work streams >>>> instead of general. The reason I say this is that - as with many community >>>> meet-ups, folks will give time to attend a meet-up or participate in an IRC >>>> only if there is a topic of relevance to them. To that extent, we could do >>>> one IRC on Indic languages and one on Outreach & Communications. I'd start >>>> both the IRCs with a re-cap of India Programs activities for the fortnight >>>> (or so) prior to the IRC and forward from the IRC - and then we could talk >>>> about either Indic langauges or Outreach & Communications. >>>> >>>> The *March 15th one will be focussed on Indic Languages* and the one >>>> on March 29th will be on Outreach & Communications. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >>>> Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>>> To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Regards, >>> Srikanth Ramakrishnan. >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >>> Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>> To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Kind Regards >> ansuman >> smileyansu <http://twitter.com/smileyansu> >> *ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ <http://or.wikipedia.org/>* >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >> Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > >

ya, anyway thanks Tinu and salman bhai !! On 24 March 2012 11:15, Srikanth Ramakrishnan &lt;parakara.ghoda(a)gmail.com&gt;wrote;wrote: -- Kind Regards ansuman smileyansu <http://twitter.com/smileyansu> *ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ <http://or.wikipedia.org/>*

Hisham, the logs show that matters are serious indeed, and that you are taking matters a little too lightly. Whatever said by freakofmimsy, is true and the entire English WP team, including some of us Indians would support it. On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Hisham &lt;hisham(a)wikimedia.org&gt; wrote: -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan.

On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 12:54 AM, Pradeep Mohandas &lt;pradeep.mohandas(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: Please be clear when making statements such as these. What scrutiny are you talking about? Stating that a recently hired communications consultant has close to zero experience editing Wikpedia is quite relevant to discussions that happen during IRC office hours, specially in the light of the fact that Hisham has previously stated that no established Wikipedians applied for work with India Programs. Foundation employees and consultants are likely to be scrutinized more than regular WP'ians, because they are paid for the work they do. These are community funds we are talking about raised because our community works their ass off to produce the content that's present on our projects. In the discussion linked above, it is quite apparent that Hisham hired a newbie user even when there was a much more qualified candidate available. For now, nobody on the India Programs team has any decent experience editing articles on the English Wikipedia, in short, they are all newbies. And this has continued despite the community asking for old-hands and despite Hisham's assurances that he is looking for someone intimately familiar with WP processes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:India_Education_Program/Analysi… http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:India_Education_Pr… Is this too much to ask for? I must also point out that the stated selection criteria and responsibilities in the case of the Communications Consultant and Operations Consultant were altered after the candidates were announced. We want expert Wikipedians and not social media consultants because we are looking at increasing participation on our projects, and not enhancing the social media experience.

A wikipedian messaged me the following just now: " I see you're doing a nice job of defending Miss Raval. You should be a lawyer." My email is not meant to defend any person nor accuse any person. On an unrelated note, there is a fall in the level of trust around here that I have experienced. There is no good faith, any longer. Regards, Pradeep On 25 March 2012 15:58, Pradeep Mohandas &lt;pradeep.mohandas(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: -- How Pradeep uses email - http://goo.gl/6v1I9

Pradeep, levels of trust be good faith are built over a period of time, not overnight. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan.

Agreed. But that Trust is to come from th community. As for Good Faith, it is assumed when the facts are obscure. In this case, the facts are there for all to see. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan.

While I humbly request Pradeep to reconsider his decision of retirement, I personally agree with one of his statements. *"I find that the level of trust and even the assumption of good faith seems to have gone down. Every action is seen through the lens of forwarding or stopping a particular agenda. '* http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User%3APrad2609&diff=48387123… To add up my thoughts here, the passion and joy of contributing to the movement is subsiding...But personal agendas & caballing are on high tide here... Sad, but the truth... :( I just hope ( and pray that) good faith , sense & conscience prevails among us .. -TC On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 11:20 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan < parakara.ghoda(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

Hi, The conversation is moving off topic. Perhaps the question to mull over is what to do next? Pradeep Handheld On Mar 26, 2012 9:09 AM, "Srikanth Lakshmanan" &lt;srik.lak(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

You have hired someone who is paid for this very role. Let that person submit their plan of action on all these to the community for comments. Why are you posting all of this to us? From: hisham(a)wikimedia.org Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:14:17 +0530 To: wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Programs Additional IRC: Thursday March 22nd @ 9pm IST(Open House) (#wikimedia-office) On Mar 26, 2012, at 11:01 AM, Pradeep Mohandas wrote:Hi,The conversation is moving off topic. Perhaps the question to mull over is what to do next? How do we move the predominance of media coverage beyond mainstream English print into local language print and other media channels such as radio and the Internet?How do we encourage volunteers from as many Indic communities as possible to volunteer for communications activities so that as many languages are covered?How do we ensure that news coverage is not all warm fuzzy stuff about Wikipedia - but also provides a call to action to potential newbies as well as links or contacts that they can reach out?How do we build and expand our network of media contacts?How do we build a toolkit for media/PR/social media such that community members are able to rapidly deploy to support specific initiatives such as Wikiprojects or to celebrate community or project milestones?How can we use media to support specific community events such as meet-ups or outreach sessions?Can we use media/PR to celebrate editing excellence - by showcasing select articles - and also sharing insights and invitations into the movement that is behind this content?Can we acknowledge individual life / wiki stories of editors to promote editor retention and newbie attraction?Can we build a digital outreach model that is effective? What will it take - in terms of resources such as online tutorials or videos or help pages or chat rooms?How does a digital outreach model not duplicate existing efforts already underway or in advanced stages of planning?Can we integrate community building into the digital outreach model?How do we determine if a language community is able to manage the potential newbie load from such a digital outreach model?How do we teach the media about the movement and community and projects - given relatively low levels of understanding within such an influential group?How do we support a community initiative like Wikipatrika in a manner that it remains entirely owned by the individual community members - but we are still able to help them? How do we do this without taking away credit and also without building dependence?How do we make the India Program monthly newsletters richer and more useful to community members?Can we introduce story-telling as a effective means of sharing the work that is done by community members such that we are able to cross-pollinate ideas?How can social media be used to drive not just attendance of events (such as photothons) but can be used to introduce newbies to Wikimedia policies?How can we adapt the WikimediaIndia handle on facebook so that it expands in popularity - but remains relevant to newbies and more experienced community members?How do we build the WikimediaIndia handle on twitter?How do we constantly remain on top of trends in social media so that we are present and relevant in channels where potential newbies might be?Do we need to localise swag and if so what do we do we need?How do we work intimately with the Chapter's communications team - but remain accessible to non-Chapter members as well?How do we ensure that everything we do on communications is rooted in community building and not marketing mumbo jumbo? How do we measure results in communications?How do we constantly ensure that everything done on communications - which will require the communications expertise - can be done in a manner where capability is transferred to interested community members? hisham _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 14:37, Srikanth Ramakrishnan < parakara.ghoda(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: Perhaps you could enlighten the rest of us about how you went about trying to get more Wikipedians through Twitter? I suspect that would help the rest of these guys who are trying to use social media to recruit more Wikipedians determine whether all of social media is used only by a bunch of douchebags (who, on finding how awesomely incredible the community scene is here, will flock to your (and all of our) Talk pages and post fraandsheep requests (when they find no Wikifraand button)) so they can quit all their social media efforts OR that could perhaps help them determine what they should _not_ do, should they decide that there are indeed _some_ people who are not douchebags using social media who have the potential to be recruited to the Wikiverse (I know- how unlikely)? Just a thought.

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 15:14, Srikanth Ramakrishnan < parakara.ghoda(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: Of course. Of course. But perhaps an explanation of your very valuable experience on this matter might help save everyone who is 'working' on these things some time and effort, no? It would be so helpful of you to do this, so that everyone involved can say that it is pointless to work on social media efforts because of such and such reasons; instead of "because Srikanth Ramakrishnan said so" (I'm sure you are correct, nonetheless). I beg you send the email to the list for everyone's welfare. So that I am not alone in learning how to use (or not to use) this Twitter thingy. In the spirit of Wikipedia and sharing knowledge and all that.

On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 11:41, Srikanth Ramakrishnan < parakara.ghoda(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: Thank you. This body of data is fascinatingly insightful. I should hope the foundation folks are taking notes. I will ensure I represent this point about the consequences of social media personally with the greatest intensity I can gather to the appropriate foundation folks during my next trip to Delhi.

On 26 March 2012 14:37, Srikanth Ramakrishnan &lt;parakara.ghoda(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: I'm curious. Why do you say, so? What are the other paths to get new editors in to the fold? Thank you. Best, Gautam ________ http://blog.prathambooks.org/p/social-media.html

On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 15:58, Pradeep Mohandas &lt;pradeep.mohandas(a)gmail.com&gt;wrote;wrote: There is something called Requests for Comments. There was a mail recently about an RfC on a Hindi Wikipedia admin recently. So it looks like community scrutinizes wikipedians too, at least to me, you can have your opinion if you differ. IMHO it would be inaccurate to say single / group of Wikipedians are pushing POV because others are silent. ("Push" in pushing POV happens only when there is a resistance), if there is no one else responding to conversation, it would just to putting forth views. -- Regards Srikanth.L

Pradeep, your age on Wiki and edit count does not matter. It's the understanding of OUR policies and principles that matter. I say our as it is Community centric. I agree with Anirudh and would personally term Noopur being hired as a hasty decision. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan.

Here's the log for March 22nd There were very interesting discussions on how the community building work for Indic languages was conceptualised and how it is evolving. It is especially interesting to see how WikiProjects (like Medical or Translation Enhancement) in Indic communities can play multiple roles apart from the most obvious one of improving content. Projects of this nature hold tremendous potential in community building - from facilitating collaboration, encouraging communication, attracting newbies as well as inviting back retired editors. All Indic wikipedians: If you want any support or clarifications on these points, please do reach out to Shiju (shiju(a)wikimedia.org) There was also a very useful conversation started on the role of India Program within communities. Please note that in the IRC log, I have blanked out content in 2 lines. (I have marked them BLANKBLANKBLANK) This was done so that the privacy of a fellow community member is not violated. All of us should remember that IRCs (and for that matter, mailing lists such as this, user pages and talk pages) are publicly logged. We need to be sensitive to personal details - of other community members as well as ourselves. Please do pass on this message to other community members, especially newbies. As always, please do put any additional comments on the talk page for this report. Don't forget we are back on IRC on March 29th at 9pm India and will talk a lot about outreach and a little about communications. hisham On Mar 22, 2012, at 8:45 PM, Hisham wrote:

Hisham, you say you're conducted 22+ sessions. How would you rate the relative success of each of them? Four people editing on the day isn't good enough. Long term editors should be used to measure success. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan.

Vickram, what you said is an 'expanded' version of what I meant. I see no point in wasting time and efforts on such sessions if the net result is zero. On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Vickram Crishna &lt;vvcrishna(a)radiophony.com&gt;wrote;wrote: -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan.

Here's the log. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/IRC_meeting_2012-03-29 Do go through it. It covers a lot of the work that is being done in outreach - including the kind of material that is available on (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Outreach_Programs/Handbook#Res…) as well as ideas and suggestions on how best to conduct outreach sessions. Am repeating the request for Indic community folks to help translate the documents so that (they) and others in their respective communities can use this material. I'm also reiterating Nitika's point about the need to do more outreach in Indic languages and if anyone needs any support, please do reach out to her at nitika(a)wikimedia.org Also, we discussed Wikipatrika and storytelling. Wikipatrika needs involvement from all communities so that all are covered well. For storytelling, we are looking at individual editors from all communities for us to celebrate their stories. For any help on either, please do reach out to noopur(a)wikimedia.org. Thank you. From April onwards, we will move to our regular routine of 1st and 3rd Thursdays of every month. Next IRC is planned for this Thursday (April 5th at 9pm IST.) It will be about Indic languages. More details will follow. Best hisham On Mar 29, 2012, at 8:52 PM, Nitika Tandon wrote: