On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 16:48, Nagarjuna G <nagarjun(a)gnowgi.org> wrote: Agree with you that tecnical solutions exist, but then we are not the only one to use "proprietary social media". So its not bad using it. Everyone uses it, be it Jimmy or events like Wikimania. The primary intent is to reach out and in a simple way. Well as i mentioned before, If you want help out spreading the word by using free media, you are more than welcome. Lets not also get paranoid about Free stuff, which case the conference needs to have a hotel which only uses Free stuff (right from bubble top water,everything is proprietary) and so on. Lets get real, while we support free culture, we need not always be living for it. -- Regards Srikanth.L

On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Pradeep Mohandas < pradeep.mohandas(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: this was posted by CherianTinu abrakham: *Penn-Olson : "Its Wikipedia Season in India"* http://www.penn-olson.com/2011/09/07/wikipedia-indi/ *Wikipedia is now all set for it’s first WikiConference in India which is scheduled to be held in Mumbai on November 18th, 2011. Delegates from any country can participate, but the conference will be quite India-centric, according to the event page on Wikimedia.* * * *Here’s a quick overview of the schedule for the WikiConference which will act as a platform for Indian Wikimedians and Wikipedians to meet, discuss, and share their opinions regarding Wikipedia India issues, Indian language projects on Wikipedia, and discuss affairs in the Wikicommunity in India andabroad. * * * *Date 18th to 20th November, 2011* *Venue Convocation Hall, University of Mumbai (Fort Campus) & associated rooms* *Accommodation Sea Green Hotel and Chateau Windsor hotel (for those who receive scholarships)* *Hosts Mumbai and Pune Wikipedia communitites, Wikimedia India branch* *Sponsors Wikimedia Foundation, Eregnow.com* *Social Media Facebook and Linkedin event pages, and official Twitter account* *Email conference(a)wikimedia.in* * * * * *We recently spoke with the India program consultant to WikiMedia, Mr. Hisham Mundol. We discussed the WikiConference, a new Wiki course in the College of Engineering at Pune (CoEP), and how to be a Wikipedia contributor.* * * *What is the conference all about? Why is it being held and how do you think it’s beneficial for Wikipedia?* * * *This conference is going to be the first national conference held by the Wikimedia community in India. It’ll be fantastic for the existing community to meet up and share stories and knowledge and have a good time! We also hope that it will attract newcomers to Wikipedia.* * * *Also, Wikipedia’s activities in India have increased as it has recently collaborated with College of Engineering, Pune launching a course in which over 800 students will contribute to the Wikipedia’s page as a part of their first semester.* * * *Why did Wikipedia choose CoEP over top colleges like the Indian Institute of Technology (IITs) and National Institute of Technology (NITs)?* * * *The College of Engineering at Pune has a wonderful reputation, student body, and faculty. We decided to do the pilot in Pune – and we’re honored the CoEP has agreed to partner with us. Right now, the college has the highest number of students enrolled in our program, anywhere in the world.* * * *What benefits will this course add to Wikipedia as an organization?* * * *The Wikipedia movement will gain tremendously because of the quality of content that students are adding, and will be adding.* * * *What is the future plan? Is the organisation planning to launch this course in other colleges as well?* * * *Our immediate plans are to continue with this pilot at Pune in the short term. We are looking at a roll-out to other colleges and cities. We’d love to hear from whoever is interested. For those who want to get involved immediately, an option is to start a Wikipedia Students’ Club. There are further details available on our outreach page.* * * *How can one contribute towards the Wiki community?* * * *Anyone and everyone can contribute. You can check the Welcome to Wikipedia section and the Introduction Page.* * * *The basic process would be to read those two links, create a user account, go to the edit button on the top right of any article and start editing! You can also contribute images and other media files to Wikimedia Commons which is amongst the world’s largest storehouse of free-to-use media files.* * * *Lastly, How many Wikipedia contributors hail from India at the moment?* * * *Right now, there are about 1,500 active editors in India – but that number keeps growing. We’d like it to become many, many times larger, and we invite anyone and everyone to join in!* Regards Tinu Cherian http://wiki.wikimedia.in/In_the_news#Sep_2011 ______________________________ _________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l

On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 15:01, Aditya Sengupta &lt;apsengupta(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: That said, the Wikimedia page from which they've picked up this info ( http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2011) makes no mention of an "account", it only links to the hashtag. The author of the post at Penn-Olson is just probably not acquainted enough with Twitter. :-)