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കോഴിക്കോട് ഫറൂഖ് കോളേജിലെ വിക്കിപഠനം ശിബിരം ജൂലൈ 29 ബുധന്‍
by AKBARALI CHARANKAV 18 Jul '15

18 Jul '15

സുഹൃത്തുക്കളേ.... കോഴിക്കോട് ഫറൂഖ് കോളേജിലെ <https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%AB%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%B1%E0%B5%82%E0%B4%96…> ബിരുദ മലയാളം വിഭാഗം ഒരു വിക്കിപഠനം ശിബിരം *ഈ മാസം 29 ന് (2015 ജൂലൈ 29 ബുധന്‍)* നടത്താന്‍ കോളേജ് അധികൃതരും മലാളം വിക്കിപീഡിയയിലെ പ്രവര്‍ത്തകരും താത്പ്പര്യപ്പെടുന്നു. ഇതെ കുറിച്ചുള്ള ചര്‍ച്ച പഞ്ചായത്ത് താളില്‍ <https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95…> ചര്‍ച്ച ആരംഭിച്ചിരുന്നു. കഴിഞ്ഞ ദിവസം ഒരു സന്ദേശം മെയിലിംഗ് ലിസ്റ്റിലും ഉള്‍പ്പെടുത്തിയിരുന്നു. പദ്ധതി പേജ് ഇവിടെ കാണാം. <https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95…>പങ്കെടുക്കാനാഗ്രഹിക്കുന്നവര്‍ ഇവിടെ <https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95…> പേര് ചേര്‍ക്കുമല്ലോ.. സജീവ സഹകരണം പ്രതീക്ഷിക്കുന്നു. സ്‌നഹത്തോടെ അക്ബര്‍ അലി

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കോഴിക്കോട് ഫറൂഖ് കോളേജില്‍ പഠന ശിബിരം -
by AKBARALI CHARANKAV 17 Jul '15

17 Jul '15

സുഹത്തുക്കളേ.... കോഴിക്കോട് ഫറൂഖ് കോളേജിലെ ബിരുദ മലയാളം വിഭാഗം ഒരു വിക്കിപഠനം ശിബിരം നടത്താൻ താത്പ്പര്യപ്പെടുന്നു.2015 ജൂലൈ മാസത്തിലെ 28,29,30 എന്നീ തീയതികളിൽ ഏതെങ്കിലും ഒരു ദിവസമാണ് പഠന ശിബിരം നടത്താൻ ആഗ്രഹിക്കുന്നത്.വിക്കിസംരഭങ്ങളെ പരിചയപ്പെടൽ,മലയാളം ടൈപ്പിംഗ്,എഡിറ്റിംഗ്,ലേഖനം തയ്യാറാക്കൽ തുടങ്ങിയ മേഖലകളിലെ പരിജ്ഞാനമാണ് കോളേജിലെ മലയാളം വിഭാഗം പ്രതീക്ഷിക്കുന്നത്.വിദ്യാർഥികളുടെ താൽപ്പര്യപ്രകാരം തുടർ പഠന പ്രവർത്തനങ്ങൾ സംഘടിപ്പിക്കാനും ഉദ്ദേശിക്കുന്നു.വിക്കി പഞ്ചായത്തില്‍ താള്‍ ആരംഭിച്ചിരിക്കുന്നു.ഇക്കാര്യത്തിൽ മലയാളം വിക്കിപീഡിയ പ്രവർത്തകരുടെ നിർദേശങ്ങൾ,സഹായങ്ങൾ പ്രതീക്ഷിക്കുന്നു. ___________ അക്ബര്‍ അലി

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Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] "Can Wikipedia Survive?" op-ed
by Adv. T.K Sujith 22 Jun '15

22 Jun '15

അറിവിലേക്ക്... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: MZMcBride <z(a)mzmcbride.com> Date: 2015-06-22 0:17 GMT+05:30 Subject: [Wikimedia-l] "Can Wikipedia Survive?" op-ed To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hi. This op-ed by Andrew Lih appeared in today's New York Times. I'm sending it here in case anyone is interested in reading or discussing it. I enjoyed the piece; congrats to Mr. Lih on getting this published! MZMcBride ---- http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/21/opinion/can-wikipedia-survive.html Can Wikipedia Survive? By Andrew Lih June 20, 2015 WASHINGTON — WIKIPEDIA has come a long way since it started in 2001. With around 70,000 volunteers editing in over 100 languages, it is by far the world’s most popular reference site. Its future is also uncertain. One of the biggest threats it faces is the rise of smartphones as the dominant personal computing device. A recent Pew Research Center report found that 39 of the top 50 news sites received more traffic from mobile devices than from desktop and laptop computers, sales of which have declined for years. This is a challenge for Wikipedia, which has always depended on contributors hunched over keyboards searching references, discussing changes and writing articles using a special markup code. Even before smartphones were widespread, studies consistently showed that these are daunting tasks for newcomers. “Not even our youngest and most computer-savvy participants accomplished these tasks with ease,” a 2009 user test concluded. The difficulty of bringing on new volunteers has resulted in seven straight years of declining editor participation. In 2005, during Wikipedia’s peak years, there were months when more than 60 editors were made administrator — a position with special privileges in editing the English-language edition. For the past year, it has sometimes struggled to promote even one per month. The pool of potential Wikipedia editors could dry up as the number of mobile users keeps growing; it’s simply too hard to manipulate complex code on a tiny screen. The nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation, which oversees Wikipedia’s operations but is not directly involved in content, is investigating solutions. Some ideas include touch-screen tools that would let Wikipedia editors sift through information and share content from their phones. What has not suffered is fund-raising. The foundation, based in San Francisco, has a budget of roughly $60 million. How to fairly distribute resources has long been a topic of debate. How much should go to regional chapters and affiliates, or to groups devoted to non-English languages? How much should stay in the foundation to develop software, create mobile apps and maintain infrastructure? These tensions run through the community. Last year the foundation took the unprecedented step of forcing the installation of new software on the German-language Wikipedia. The German editors had shown their independent streak by resisting an earlier update to the site’s user interface. Against the wishes of veteran editors, the foundation installed a new way to view multimedia content and then set up an Orwellian-sounding “superprotect” feature to block obstinate administrators from changing it back. The latest clash had repercussions in the election this year for seats to the Wikimedia Foundation’s board of trustees — the most influential positions that volunteers can hold. The election — a record 5,000 voters turned out, nearly three times the number from the previous election — was a rebuke to the status quo; all three incumbents up for re-election were defeated, replaced by critics of the superprotect measures. Two other members will leave the 10-member board at the end of this year. Meanwhile, the foundation’s new executive director, Lila Tretikov, has been hiring developers from the world of open-source technology, and their lack of experience with Wikipedia content has concerned some veterans. Could the pressure from mobile, and the internal tensions, tear Wikipedia apart? A world without it seems unimaginable, but consider the fate of other online communities. Founded in 1985, at the dawn of the Internet, the Well, the self-proclaimed “birthplace of the online community movement,” hosted an influential cast of dot-com luminaries on its electronic bulletin board discussion forums. By 1995, it was in steep decline, and today it is a shell of its former self. Blogging, celebrated a decade ago as pioneering an exciting new form of personal writing, has decreased significantly in the social-media age. These are existential challenges, but they can still be addressed. There is no other significant alternative to Wikipedia, and good will toward the project — a remarkable feat of altruism — could hardly be higher. If the foundation needed more donations, it could surely raise them. The real challenges for Wikipedia are to resolve the governance disputes — the tensions among foundation employees, longtime editors trying to protect their prerogatives, and new volunteers trying to break in — and to design a mobile-oriented editing environment. One board member, María Sefidari, warned that “some communities have become so change-resistant and innovation-averse” that they risk staying “stuck in 2006 while the rest of the Internet is thinking about 2020 and the next three billion users.” For the last few years, the Smithsonian Institution, the National Archives and other world-class institutions, libraries and museums have collaborated with Wikipedia’s volunteers to improve accuracy, quality of references and depth of multimedia on article pages. This movement dates from 2010, when the British Museum saw that Wikipedia’s visitor traffic to articles about its artifacts was five times greater than that of the museum’s own website. Grasping the power of Wikipedia to amplify its reach, the museum invited a Wikipedia editor to work with its curatorial staff. Since then, similar parternships have been set up with groups like the Cochrane Collaboration, a nonprofit organization that focuses on evidence-based health care, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. These are vital opportunities for Wikipedia to tap external expertise and enlarge its base of editors. It is also the most promising way to solve the considerable and often-noted gender gap among Wikipedia editors; in 2011, less than 15 percent were women. The worst scenario is an end to Wikipedia, not with a bang but with a whimper: a long, slow decline in participation, accuracy and usefulness that is not quite dramatic enough to jolt the community into making meaningful reforms. No effort in history has gotten so much information at so little cost into the hands of so many — a feat made all the more remarkable by the absence of profit and owners. In an age of Internet giants, this most selfless of websites is worth saving. --- Andrew Lih is an associate professor of journalism at American University and the author of “The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World’s Greatest Encyclopedia.” _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/GuidelinesWikimedia-l@lists.w…> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> -- Adv. T.K Sujith | *അഡ്വ. ടി.കെ സുജിത്* Alappuzha, Kerala | *ആലപ്പുഴ, കേരളം* 09846012841

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MediaWikiTTT-2015
by Dr.U.B. Pavanaja 10 Jun '15

10 Jun '15

Dear Wikimedians, It gives WMIN and CIS-A2K great pleasure to announce that we have started preparations for MediaWiki Train the Trainer Program. It is a matter of grave concern that while the Indian Language Wikipedias are slowly improving their content and expanding their volunteer base, there is very less and often zero representation from the Indian Language Communities towards MediaWiki software and the available tools around. CIS-A2K intends to bridge this gap by creating and grooming 'tech' leaders in the MediaWiki sphere from the existing Indian Language Wikipedians. MediaWiki Train the Trainer program aims to facilitate discussions around nurturing leadership regarding tech related issues, file bugs that hinder the growth of Indian Language Wikipedias, active contribution towards improving the existing MediaWiki software and understanding the importance of mediating technology for outreach activities. The 4 day residential event will happen in last week of June, 2015. Exact dates and venue will be announced soon. We welcome specific issues that should be discussed during the MWTTT as well as feedback and suggestions. Please write to us if there are any concerns. The event page : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/Mediawiki_Train_the_Trainer_P rogram Thanks and regards, Pavanaja ---------------------------------------------------- U.B. Pavanaja, MSc, PhD Programme Manager <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pavanaja> - Indian languages, Access to Knowledge program The Centre for Internet & Society

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Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Results of 2015 WMF Board elections
by Adv. T.K Sujith 06 Jun '15

06 Jun '15

*FYI* Greetings, The certified results of the 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election are now available on Meta-Wiki: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2015/Results Congratulations to Dariusz Jemielniak (User:pundit), James Heilman (User:Doc James), and Denny Vrandečić (User:Denny), for receiving the most community support. They will join the Wikimedia Foundation as Trustees, after they are appointed by the Board at their July meeting at Wikimania. These results have been certified by the committee, the Wikimedia Foundation's legal department, and the Board of Trustees. There were 5512 votes cast, with 5167 of those being valid. The 345-vote difference comes from recast ballots, where eligible voters recast ballots to change their votes, and struck votes, of which there were 4. Additional information is available on the Wikimedia Blog: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/06/05/board-election-results More statistics on the elections, a post mortem from the committee, and a blog post on the process behind the elections will be published in the coming days. In the meantime, we would appreciate your input—what went well for you in this election? What could we do better next time? These reports are crucial to helping future elections be even more successful, and we hope that you will offer your feedback and ideas: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2015/Post_mo… The committee thanks everyone that participated in this year’s election for helping make it one of the most diverse and representative in the movement’s history. Sincerely, – 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee Adrian, Anders Wennersten, Daniel, Gregory Varnum, Katie Chan, Mardetanha, Ruslan, Savh, and Trijnstel _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/GuidelinesWikimedia-l@lists.w…> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> -- Adv. T.K Sujith | *അഡ്വ. ടി.കെ സുജിത്* Alappuzha, Kerala | *ആലപ്പുഴ, കേരളം* 09846012841

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CIS-A2K Newsletter April, 2015
by Tanveer 01 Jun '15

01 Jun '15

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CIS-A2K Newsletter March, 2015
by Tanveer 01 Jun '15

01 Jun '15

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Newsletter CIS-A2K February, 2015
by Tanveer 01 Jun '15

01 Jun '15

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Fwd: [smc-discuss] Indic Keyboard v2.0
by manoj k 28 May '15

28 May '15

Indic Keyboard version 2.0 is out ! http://blog.smc.org.in/indic-keyboard-version-2-0-is-out/ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Jishnu" <jishnu7(a)gmail.com> Date: 28 May 2015 16:14 Subject: [smc-discuss] Indic Keyboard v2.0 To: "Discussion list of Swathanthra Malayalam Computing" < discuss(a)lists.smc.org.in> Cc: Hi, > Indic Keyboard ന്റെ പുതിയ പതിപ്പ് v2.0 ഇന്ന് പുറത്തിറക്കി. 23 ഭാഷകളും 54 > ലെയൗട്ടുകളും ഉള്‍പ്പെടെ വളരെയധികം മെച്ചപ്പെടുത്തലുകല്‍ ഇതിലുണ്ട്. > > കൂടുതല്‍ വിവരങ്ങള്‍ക്ക് - > http://blog.smc.org.in/indic-keyboard-version-2-0-is-out/ > > -- > Regards, > Jishnu > > http://j15h.nu > > _______________________________________________ > Swathanthra Malayalam Computing discuss Mailing List > Project: https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/smc > Web: http://smc.org.in | IRC : #smc-project @ freenode > discuss(a)lists.smc.org.in > http://lists.smc.org.in/listinfo.cgi/discuss-smc.org.in > > >

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ഹോര്‍ത്തൂസ് മലബാറിക്കസ് - ഡിജിറ്റലൈസേഷന്‍
by kannan shanmugam 27 May '15

27 May '15

സുഹൃത്തുക്കളെ, കഴിഞ്ഞ ദിവസം വിക്കി മലയാളത്തിന്റെ ചിര സുഹൃത്ത് അശോകന്‍ ഞാറയ്ക്കല്‍ ചേട്ടന്‍ വിളിച്ചിരുന്നു. കോഴിക്കോട്ടെ ഹോര്‍ത്തൂസ് മലബാറിക്കസ് ഗാര്‍ഡനില്‍ <http://hortusmalabaricus.net/new-hortus-malabaricusgarden-malabar> പുസ്തകത്തില്‍ പരാമര്‍ശിച്ചിട്ടുള്ള 750 ലധികം സസ്യങ്ങള്‍ പരിപാലിക്കുന്നുണ്ട്. അവയാകെ വിക്കിയിലെത്തിക്കാന്‍ എന്തെങ്കിലും പദ്ധതിയിടാമോന്നാണ് ചേട്ടന്‍ ചോദിക്കുന്നത് ? അവിടുത്തെ ഉദ്യോഗസ്ഥരുടെ പൂര്‍ണ്ണ പിന്തുണയുണ്ടാകും. അവിടുത്തെ ഉദ്യോഗസ്ഥര്‍ക്ക് വിക്കി പരിചയപ്പെടുത്താനും തുടര്‍ന്ന് ഇടപെടാനും കോഴിക്കോട്ടോ പരിസരത്തോ ആരെങ്കിലുമുണ്ടോ ? അവിടുത്തെ ഉദ്യോഗസ്ഥര്‍ക്കായി ഒരു വിക്കി പഠന ശിബിരത്തോടെ തുടങ്ങാം. അധികം വൈകരുത്. -- കണ്ണന്‍ ഷണ്‍മുഖം

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