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Fwd: Wikimania 2012 - scholarship applications, Deadline : 16 Feb 2012
by Tinu Cherian (Wikimedia India) 31 Jan '12

31 Jan '12

Cross-posting to other lists. Hi all, Wikimania is the annual international conference of Wikimedians , jointly hosted by the local team ( usually local chapter) and the Wikimedia Foundation. The previous conferences were held in Frankfurt, Germany (2005), Boston, USA (2006), Taipei, Taiwan (2007), Alexandria, Egypt (2008), Buenos Aires, Argentina (2009), Gdan'sk, Poland (2010), and Haifa, Israel (2011). This year, it is to be held in Washington DC, United States of America, on July 12-14 , 2012. http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page <http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page> I have attended the Wikimanias in Gdansk and Haifa, along with several other Wikipedians from India. http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wikimania2011 <http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wikimania2011> I highly recommend everyone to apply and attend Wikimania ! Like every year, The Wikimedia Foundation is offering a limited number of scholarships to offset the cost of select individuals' attendance at Wikimania. Both full and partial scholarships are available for Wikimania 2012: Full scholarships will award round trip travel, dorms accommodations and registration. Partial scholarships will subsidize up to 300EUR of travel expenses. Scholarship recipients have to bear themselves the additional costs of taxis, visa & travel agent charges etc. More Information : http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships <http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships> Apply here : https://secure.wikidc.org/wm/schols/ <https://secure.wikidc.org/wm/schols/> Deadline : *16 Feb 2012* Around 30 % of the scholarship are allocated to Asia & Pacific, so there are more chances of scholarship applications from India to be selected. :) Please note that the selection is mostly based on the merit of the applications. One of the common mistakes that Wikimedians in India make is that we aren't enough vocal of what we do. So please do write in detail about your Wikimedia activities. Please feel free to forward this to various language and city mailing lists and encourage other Wikimedians to apply. All the best wishes! Regards Tinu Cherian

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গুৱাহাটী মিটআপৰ কাৰ্য্যসূচী
by JyotiPrakash Nath 27 Jan '12

27 Jan '12

পৰহিলৈ ৱিকিমিটআপ আৰু আমাৰ হাতত মাত্ৰ এটা সম্পূৰ্ণ দিন আছে, ইতিমধ্যে প্ৰভাকৰ দা , চিযু এলেক্স ডাঙৰীয়া , গীতাৰ্থ দা আপোনালোক সকলোৱে আহি গুৱাহাটীত বাহৰ পাতিছেহি বাকি আছে বিষ্ণু দা, উদ্দীপ দা আৰু বাবুল দা । যদিও প্ৰথমেই মই কৰ্মশালা এখন পতাৰ কথা কৈছিলো আপোনালোকে মোক সৰুকৈ মিটআপ এখন পতাৰ হে উপদেশ দিছিলে । যি কি নহওক অৱশেষত কিবা এটা হ'লগৈ আৰু হবলগীয়া মিটআপখন এখন কৰ্মশালায়ে হবলৈ গৈ আছে যিহেতু ইতিমধ্যে ভালেকেইগৰাকী মানুহক নিমন্ত্ৰন কৰা হৈছে । লগতে বাতৰি কাকত আৰু ইলেকট্ৰনিক্স মাধ্যমৰ কিছু সাংবাদিককো নিমন্ত্ৰন জনোৱা হৈছে । যি হৈছে সকলো ভালেই হৈছে আৰু হব বুলিও আশা কৰিছো । আৰু কেইজনমান গুৱাহাটী বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ৰ ছাত্ৰ ছাত্ৰী আহিব যিয়ে ইউনিক'ডত অসমীয়া লিখাৰ কথা একো নাজানে অসমীয়া ৱিকিপিডিয়া তো দুৰৰে কথা । যোৱা সোমবাৰে তেওঁলোকৰ লগত মই ভালেখিনি সময় হোষ্টেলত বহি কথা পাতিছো আৰু তেওঁলোক এই ক্ষেত্ৰত খুউৱ আগ্ৰহী যেন লাগিল । যোৱা কেইদিনমান ধৰি হোৱা আলোচনাৰ পিছত সকলোখিনি গমি পিতি চাই মই নিৰ্দিষ্ট কাৰ্য্যসূচী খন আপোনালোকলৈ আগবঢ়ালো (আগৰ খনৰ লগত দুটামান কথা যোগ দিলো)---------- ১. সভাৰ আৰম্ভনী (আহ্বায়কৰ উপস্থিত ৰাইজক স্বাগতম) ২. চিযু এলেক্সক ৰাইজৰ লগত চিনাকী কৰাই গামোছাৰে সম্বৰ্ধনা । লগে লগে তেখেতে ৱিকিৰ বিষয়ে অলপ কব । (লগতে HOD শ্ৰীমতি কাকতি বাইদেউক ও সম্বৰ্ধনা জনালে ভাল হ'ব যেন লাগে ।) ৩. ৰাইজক অসমীয়া ৱিকিপিডিয়াৰ লগত চিনাকী কৰাই দিয়া । (বিষ্ণু দায়ে বনোৱা শ্লাইড প্ৰদৰ্শন) ৪. ইউনিক'ডত অসমীয়া লিখাৰ বিষয়ে থুলমুলকৈ (বাৰাহা, অভ্ৰ, ইণ্ডিক ইন্‌পুট, আদি)। অসমীয়া ৱিকিৰ লিপ্যন্তৰ কী-ব'ৰ্ডৰ আভাস। ৫. ৱিকিপিডিয়াৰ বিষয়ে, কিয় আৰু কেনেকৈ লিখিব লাগে, নিয়মসমূহ (FAQ booklet বিলাব লাগে) ৬. প্ৰশ্ন-উত্তৰ শিতান (এইখিনেতে মই অভিজ্ঞ সদস্য সকলক কিছুমান technical প্ৰশ্ন সুধিম আপোনালোকে উত্তৰ দিব, লগে লগে নতুন মানুহখিনিয়ে কথা বিলাক গম পাব ।) ৭. অসমীয়া ৱিকিপিডিয়াৰ সমস্যাসমূহ। আন আন ৱিকি প্ৰকল্পৰ আভাস। ৮. নিখুঁত প্ৰবন্ধ কেনেকৈ লিখিব লাগে। নতুন সদস্যৰ বাবে আন প্ৰয়োজনীয় নিয়মাৱলী। ৯. অসমীয়া ৱিকিপিডিয়াৰ প্ৰচলিত নীতিসমূহৰ ওপৰত আলোচনা আৰু প্ৰয়োজনীয় নতুন নীতিৰ প্ৰস্তাৱ। ১০. অসমীয়া ৱিকিপিডিয়াৰ উপ-প্ৰকল্প কিছুমান গঠন (যেনে- পোখালি বিস্তাৰ, জিলাৰ প্ৰবন্ধ লিখাৰ প্ৰকল্প আদি)। জনপ্ৰিয়তা বৃদ্ধিৰ বাবে ভৱিষ্যত কাৰ্যপন্থা সম্পৰ্কে আলোচনা। ১১. চাহ-চিঙৰাৰ ওপৰত আক্ৰমণ। Regards JyotiPrakash Nath SSL-Guwahati +919864917706

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Tezpur meetup
by Bishnu Saikia 26 Jan '12

26 Jan '12

The Wikipedia Tezpur meetup is a get-together of wikipedians (contributors and users) to meet up, discuss, share experiences, reach out and advocate for wikipedia and wikimedia. The meetups are intended to be structured as follows —Introductions, a few focused talks by Wikipedians to share experience / expertise followed by demos and open discussions on topics of common interest. Pre-Meeting discussions can be on the following link please. English Wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Wikipedia:Meetup/Assam/Tezpur ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------- Shiju Alex (WMF) ডাঙৰীয়া পোনপ্ৰথমবাৰৰ বাবে তেজপুৰলৈ আহি আছে| গুৱাহাটীৰ মিটআপখন কৰি কাজিৰঙাত হাতীত উঠাৰ পণ কৰিছে| আমাৰো সেয়ে আগুৱাই যোৱাত সহায়ক হ’ব বুলি এই প্ৰস্থাৱটো উত্থাপন কৰিলোঁ| সকলোৱে জয়ধ্বনিৰে আদৰণি জনাই কামফেৰা সুকলমে কৰাই নিয়াত সহায় কৰে যেন| আপোনালোকৰ দিহা পৰামৰ্শ বাঞ্চনীয়। নিমোক্ত লিংঅকত আপোনাৰ মন্তৱ্য তথা পৰামৰ্শ আগবঢ়াই যেন| অসমীয়া ৱিকিপিডিয়া:- http://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A7%B1%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%95%E0% A6%BF%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A1%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC% E0%A6%BE:Meetup/TEZ1

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PPT for Ghy Workshop
by Bishnu Saikia 26 Jan '12

26 Jan '12

I have prepared the final PPT, Two pages are still blank, I left them for Chaipau Barua <https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000461099023> and Gitartha Bordoloi <https://www.facebook.com/gitartha.bordoloi>, if they can't help it we can also delete those pages. Please hv a look & give me feedback. And after the final changes please give me a copy of that for our Tezpur meetup. -- Bishnu Saikia

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Building the Assamese Wiki Community - Outreach programs during next week
by Shiju Alex 24 Jan '12

24 Jan '12

Dear All, I am writing - on behalf of the Assamese wiki community ( http://as.wikipedia.org) - to share some very promising news from the beautiful land of the Brahmaputra. Assamese wiki community is tiny and has about 20 active editors now, out of which 5 are very active editors. Assamese wikipedia has around 1050 articles now. Last year this time<http://shijualex.wordpress.com/2011/02/27/indian-language-wikipedias-2010-s…> Assamese wikipedia was having just 300 articles (that were created during the span of past 8 years) and just 4 active editors (and not a single very active editor). So during last one year lot of things happenned in the background which led to the current active status of Assamese. As an Indic wikipedia community member I congratulate all the members of Assamese wiki community who contributed to this change of status. Over the past few weeks the community has been working on basic community building blocks. As part of this, there are active community discussions on the village pump, through facebook<http://www.facebook.com/groups/assamwikigroup/> , mailing list <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-as> (which was created a few weeks ago<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-as/2011-December/000000.html>), and through various other channels. The community is actively planning for various outreach programs to increase the number of active members and there by to increase the number of articles. As a result of this Assamese wiki community has decided to conduct an Assamese wiki meetup cum Wikiworkshop in Guwahati on 2012 January 29. I do not believe there has ever been any outreach sessions in Assam - though I could be wrong. Atleast this is the first out reach program for Assamese wikipedia. Over the next one week, there are going to be not 1 but 2 Assamese wiki outreach sessions! One in *Guwahati* and another in *Tezpur* . - Sunday January 29th at Guwahati University (Meetup page<http://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A7%B1%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AA%…> ) - Wednesday February 2nd at Tezpur University (Meetup page<http://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A7%B1%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AA%…> ) Both these session are being promoted on facebook also to attract more Assamese speakers. Assamese wiki community expect around 20 participants in Guwahati, and at least 10 in Tezpur (though Tezpur has only just been posted so this is my guess; it could increase.) I am really excited by these developments. The Assamese community has realised both the importance of attracting newbies and also how to work collaboratively on outreach activities. There are also a couple of other things that I think are worth sharing. - Assamese community - like many community members in Indic languages - were struggling with how to go about doing outreach. To begin with, even something like a venue proved to be challenge and community members approached me since their resources are limited. I personally wrote to the Head of Guwahati University's Computer Sciences department, introducing Assamese wiki community and myself and asking for her help - and she has kindly agreed to give us a conference room with all the required facilities free of cost! The reason I am sharing this is, if other Indic wikipedians are wondering how to go about doing this, it is really simple: Be Bold! Just write and ask! Once you mention Wikipedia and what we are trying to do, there is a very decent chance of getting a positive reply. Remember that while we are doing a wikipedia program for our mother language wikipedia we are sending a powerful message to the speakers of the respective language. So be bold and continue to due more such programs for your respective mother language wikipedia. Language speakers will support us. - Assamese community is working on the FAQs booklet and other outreach materials that they plan to release as part of this meetup. These are being done in Assamese. I am helping them out. I am sharing this because if any Indic wikipedians need help on this, please feel free to reach out to me. I will help you. Also, do keep in mind that the only way things like this can work only if outreach materials are prepared in the respective language. Outreach materials in respective language has so much power to attract the newbies. Also, do share it with your fellow community members so they can use them. I want to conclude by sharing an Assamese quote ‘Bhāxār bikāx holehe jātir bikāx hobo’ which translate into "The nation develops only when the language develops." Do join in me in congratulating the Assamese community for their efforts and wishing them all the best for their community building efforts. This is the start of a very exciting journey! Kind Regards, Shiju Alex

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প্ৰথম অসমীয়া ৱিকিমিটআপ গুৱাহাটী আৰু তেজপুৰ
by JyotiPrakash Nath 23 Jan '12

23 Jan '12

প্ৰিয় ৱিকিপেডিয়ন্, প্ৰথমে ৱিকি নমস্কাৰ গ্ৰহণ কৰিব , আপোনাক জনাবলৈ পাই সুখী হৈছো যে অহা 29 জানুৱাৰী দেওঁবাৰে গুৱাহাটীত প্ৰথম খন ৱিকি মিটআপৰ আহ্বান কৰা হৈছে । স্থান : কম্পিউটাৰ বিজ্ঞান বিভাগ্, গুৱাহাটী বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় সময় : দিনৰ 2 বজাত উক্ত দিনা আপোনাৰ উপস্থিতি কমনা কৰিলো । অনুগ্ৰহ কৰি তলৰ লিংকত গৈ আপোনাৰ মতামত দিয়ে যেন------ http://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A7%B1%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AA%… লগতে আৰু জনাও যে গুৱাহাটীৰ লগতে সংগতি ৰাখি তেজপুৰতো আন এখনি ৱিকিমিটআপৰ আহ্বান কৰা হৈছে 1 ফেব্ৰুৱাৰী বুধবাৰে । স্থান : তেজপুৰ বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় উক্ত দিনাও আপোনাৰ উপস্থিতি কমনা কৰিলো । অনুগ্ৰহ কৰি তলৰ লিংকত গৈ আপোনাৰ মতামত দিয়ে যেন------ http://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A7%B1%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AA%… Regards JyotiPrakash Nath SSL-Guwahati +919864917706

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Wikimedia India Chapter : December 2011 Report
by CherianTinu Abraham 19 Jan '12

19 Jan '12

Cross-posting to other lists. Kindly excuse if you have already received this via another mailing list. Regards Tinu Cherian Head of Communications, Wikimedia India Chapter http://wiki.wikimedia.in/ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Naveen Francis <naveenpf(a)wikimedia.in> Date: Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:39 AM Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter : December 2011 Report To: Wikimedia India Community list <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Dear all, Greetings from Wikimedia India !!! We are delighted to present the last monthly Wikimedia India report of the year 2011, almost a year after the chapter received the formal recognition from the Government of Karnataka on 3 January 2011. The journey so far wasn't easy, but we appreciate your continued patronage , support and participation. *Organisational Updates* *Formation of Task Forces:* As announced earlier, with the objective of increasing the engagement and participation of the members of the chapter actively in various initiatives, the India chapter has come up with focused Task Forces for coordinating and driving various chapter activities [1]. There are two types of Task Forces - Project Task Forces and Operations Task Forces. The Project Task Forces are focused on growing the Wikimedia projects. The Operations Task Forces are critical functions to enable the Project Task Forces and the Chapter in growing the movement. The operations group consists of Administration, Fund raising, & Communications. The Projects task force consists of City and Langugage SIGs and Special Projects. The new task forces will be led by the following people: - Anirudh Bhati, Head, Fundraising. - Arun Ramarathnam, Chair, Special Projects. - Srinivas Gunta, Head, Administration. - Sudhanwa Jogalekar, Chair, City and Language Special Interest Groups. - Tinu Cherian, Head, Communications, PR & Media Relations. *Membership:* The Chapter membership stands at 190 members as of 31 December 2011. *Donations:* Total donations received in Dec 2011 - INR 700 Average donations in Dec 2011 - INR 350 *FCRA:* Our application for FCRA prior permission under the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act with the Government of India is still pending. An official from the Home Ministry has visited Arjuna Rao Chavala, President. *Internet Relay Chat(IRCs):* >From time to time, Wikimedia India conduct planned online IRC chat sessions. The Dec 17, 2011 was anchored by Arun with the focus on Chapter City & Language Special Interest Groups. [2] *Board Meetings:* The Chapter Executive Committee had two Tele-conference meetings in the month of December (dated 07 Dec and 14 Dec, 2011). The Wikimedia India chapter and Wikimedia Foundation had one joint co-ordination call on 21 Dec 2011, which was attended by Arjuna Rao Chavala, Arun Ramaratnam, Naveen Francis, Sudhanwa Jogalekar, Tinu Cherian, Anirudh Bhati, Asaf Bartov and Hisham Mundol. The summary of the joint coordination call was shared earlier [3]. Community City and Language Special Interest Groups City and Language Special Interest Groups are a mechanism to engage the diverse interests of members across India. The objective is to grow the wiki projects in their areas of interest by reviewing the status, planning and executing events of interest through growing the community involvement. The leadership of these groups is part of the extended leadership of the Chapter. The Wikimedia Chapter is proud to announce the appointment of the next batch of City and Language Special Interest Group Chairs [4] as given below: *City* - Delhi SIG - Noopur Raval (noopur [at] wikimedia [dot] in) - Bangalore SIG - RadhaKrishna (Arkrishna [at] wikimedia [dot] in) - Mumbai SIG - Kundan Amitabh (kundan.amitabh [at] wikimedia [dot] in) - Pune SIG - Mandar Kulkarni(mandar.kulkarni [at] wikimedia [dot] in) - Kolkata SIG - Kalyan Sarkar (kalyan [at] wikimedia [dot] in) *Languages* - English SIG - Ashwin Baindur (ashlin [at] wikimedia [dot] in) - Kannada SIG - Omshivaprakash H L (omshivaprakash [at] wikimedia [dot] in) - Marathi SIG - Mahitgar (mahitgar [at] wikimedia [dot] in) - Telugu SIG - Rahimanuddin Shaik (rahimanuddin [at] wikimedia [dot] in) The current sign-ups of Members for the SIGs are as follows: *City Special Interest Groups* City Members Bangalore 10 Delhi 2 Mumbai 3 Pune 6 Kolkata 2 *Language Special Interest Groups* Language Volunteers Bengali 1 English 15 Hindi 1 Kannada 3 Marathi 4 Malayalam 8 Nepali 1 Odia 3 Sanskrit 2 Telugu 3 Events A round-up of Wikimedia events and initatives around the nation is as follows. - *Wiki Academy @Jaya Engineering college * ( 10 Dec 2011) : The first Wiki Academy in Jaya Engineering college, Chennai,[5] was organized by the Wikimedia chapter and co-hosted by Jaya FOSS Club. Odia Wiki Chair & Chapter member, Subhashish Panigrahi explained basics of Wikipedia, how it is edited by millions of volunteers, how Wikipedia is exclusively encyclopedic and kind of articles and notability of articles in Wikipedia, how Wikipedians communicate and form community, and organization of Wikimedia foundations and active projects. Then he took the audience through active editing by signing up, searching for articles, choosing articles to create. Then he demonstrated about creating an article by using the Edit toolbar, citing the text by searching the web and uploading and adding pictures in articles. The editing session was followed by a Q & A session. Hisham Mundol, Consultant, Wikimedia Foundation India Programs, connected with the audience via Google Hangout. Hisham interacted with the audience by giving a talk about the nature of the event, few details about Wikipedia, WMF and Chapter and foundation are trying to do in India. He answered questions raised by the audience. Nitika Tandon , Consultant, Wikimedia Foundation India Programs, later explained about the India Education program (IEP), how it functions and the student-teacher-foundation collaborations through the education program. The photos of the event are available here [6]. - *Coimbatore 1st Meetup*( 10 Dec 2011) : The first Kovai (Coimbatore) meetup [7] was held at KGISL Campus, Saravanampatti, Coimbatore. The Meetup was organised by Srikanth Ramakrishnan (User:Rsrikanth05) and User:Sodabottle. - *Bangalore Wikimeetup 40* ( 11 Dec 2011) : Around 11 people attended the 40th Wikimeetup in Bangalore [8]. The Bangalore SIG Chair, RadhaKrishna presented a talk on the experiences on WikiConference India 2011 and WikiAcademy events in IT companies. Experiences of Wiki Academy in Jaya engineering college and way forward was shared by by Subhashish Panigrahi. Plans regarding Wiki Eleven in January 2012 was discussed. The photos of the event are available here [9]. - *Wikipedia Meetup1 Salem*( 11 Dec 2011) : A Wikimeetup was organised at Salem, Tamil Nadu, [10] by Tamil Wikipedians Sodabottle and Surya Prakash. - '*Wikipedia Takes Kolkata /Kolkata Photo Walk* (18 Dec 2011) : A Photo Walk was organised in Kolkata, West Bengal [11] by Kalyan Sarkar (Kolkata SIG Chair), Jayanta Nath (Bengali SIG Chair) and Biswarup Ganguly. Around 437 images were uploaded to Wikimedia Commons as a part of this initiative.[12] - *GLAMcamp Amsterdam * Noopur Raval ( Delhi SIG Chair and GLAM enthusiastic) attended GLAM worskop in Amsterdam, hosted by Wikimedia Nederland. [13] - *Wikipedians participation in CMDA IT Expo , 2011*: Indian Wikipedians participated in the annual CMDA IT Expo 2011, Pune.[14] The stall were manned by Sudhanwa Jogalekar ( EC member), Mahitgar ( Marathi SIG Chair), Ashwin Baindur ( English SIG Chair) , Hisham Mundol and Nitika Tandon ( WMF India Programs), and Campus Ambassador (IEP) volunteers. - *Malayalam Wiki-Academies:* Malayalam Wiki-community organised two Wiki-Academies in Kerala in the month of December at Alappuzha ( Dec 13) and Kollam (Dec 31). The Alappuzha (2nd Wikiacademy) held at St.Joseph Vanitha College was led by Adv. T.K Sujith, Adv. M.P.Manojkumar and Akhil Krishnan. The Kollam (4th Wikiacademy) held at Govt. Higher Secondary School, Anchal West, was led by Kiran Gopi ( User:Kiran_Gopi) , Faud A.J. ( User:Faudaj) , Kannan Shanmugam ( User:Fotokannan)and Sugeesh ( User:Sugeesh) Other News - A new initiative named *"Featured Wikimedian* was started on the public wiki of Wikimedia India. Every month, one Indian wikimedian will be featured. [15] - * Tamil Wikimedia contest*: The Tamil Wikimedia community has organised an international contest to get more photos, videos and audios related to Tamil, Tamilians and Tamil culture to the Tamil Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons. [16] (themed “Eluthu mattum arivanru” or “Knowledge beyond text”) . The Tamil Wikipedia Community and the Wikimedia Foundation have jointly sponsored a prize money of $850 (with nine prizes) for winners. (The first, second and third prizes are $200, $100 and $50. Three prizes of $100 each are for those uploading the maximum number of quality entries. A special prize of $150 is for media files on traditional Tamil arts and crafts. Winners would be announced on March 15, 2012 and they would get certificates with their entries displayed on the front pages of Tamil Wiki projects. The contest (, November 15, 2011 to February 29, 2012) is open to all and is on Facebook [17]. - India Wikipedians Sengai Podhuvan , Karthik Nadar and Aniruddha Kumar joins Jimmy Wales among others in the *Wikimedia Fundraising 2011 banners * [18]. - *New Mailing lists* are created for Gujarati Wikipedia[19], Assamese Wikipedia [20], GLAM India [21] and India related content on English Wikipedia & related projects. [22]. Milestones & Anniversaries * December 2011* [23] 25 - The Tamil Wikipedia<http://internal.wikimedia.in/index.php?title=Ta:&action=edit&redlink=1>has reached 1,000,000 page edits. - The Urdu Wiktionary <http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ur:> has reached 10,000 total pages. 21 - The Malayalam Wikipedia<http://internal.wikimedia.in/index.php?title=Ml:&action=edit&redlink=1>has turned 9. 18 - The Bengali Wiktionary <http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bn:> has reached 2,000 entries, as a user adds over 1,300 entries for Malagasy words in 5 hours. 16 - The Bihari Wikipedia<http://internal.wikimedia.in/index.php?title=Bh:&action=edit&redlink=1>has reached 100,000 page edits. 9 - The Sanskrit Wiktionary <http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sa:> has reached 100 entries. - The Urdu Wiktionary <http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ur:> has reached 5,000 entries. 5 - The Marathi Wikibooks<http://internal.wikimedia.in/index.php?title=B:mr:&action=edit&redlink=1>has reached 1,000 registered users. 4 - The Kannada Wiktionary <http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kn:> has reached 150,000 entries. Media Coverage - 28 Dec : Financial Chronicle : Wikipedians say Indian govt should ease copyright curbs<http://www.mydigitalfc.com/knowledge/wikipedians-say-indian-govt-should-eas…> - 27 Dec : Ahmedabad Mirror : " Ahmedabad to go Wiki with your clicks" <http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/article/2/2011122720111227022617405d732bc46/…> - 24 Dec : The Economic Times : "Wikipedia enlists Indians to be the standard-bearers for its fund-raising efforts"<http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/internet/wikipedia-enlists-indians…> - 18 Dec : The Hindu : "Creative Commons: the licence to evolve"<http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/article272537…> - 16 Dec : The Hindu : "Contest to add files to Tamil Wikipedia gathers steam"<http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/article2719118.ece?textsiz…> - 1 Dec : Tech Marathi: मराठी विकिपीडिया संपादन – अवघड की सोपे?<http://techmarathi.com/?p=1243>( Marathi) We look forward to your continued support and active participation. Best, On behalf of Wikimedia Chapter (India) Naveen Francis Secretary Notes: - 1) http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Announcements/Call_for_participation_of_Members_in… - 2) http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Internet_Relay_Chats/Dec_17,2011 - 3) http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Announcements/Chapter-Foundation:_Co-Ordination_Ca… - 4) http://wiki.wikimedia.in/City_and_Language_SIG_subcommittee_chair - 5) http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wiki_Academy/Jaya_Engineering_College - 6) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Jaya_Engineering_College_Wiki_Ac… - 7) http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore/Coimbatore1 - 8) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore40 - 9) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Bangalore_Meetup_December2011 - 10) http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:SALEM1 - 11) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_Kolkata - 12) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_Takes_Kolkata - 13) http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAMcamp_Amsterdam - 14 http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-December/006135.… - 15) http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Category:Featured_Wikimedian - 16) http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contest/en - 17) http://www.facebook.com/tawmc - 18) http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2011#A_Parade_of_Appeals.21_Dece… - 19) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-gu - 20) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-as - 21) http://lists.wmnederland.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/wlm-in - 22) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-en - 23) http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Milestones_and_Anniversary _______________________________________________ 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

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Assamese wikipedia crossed the 1000 article milestone
by Shiju Alex 09 Jan '12

09 Jan '12

Dear All, Assamese wikipedia has crossed the 1000 article milestone yesterday (2012 January 7). Congrats to all Assamese wikipedians who contributed to this. Started in 2002 June 2 <http://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/?diff=1>, Assamese wikipedia is the first Indic Language wikipedia. Assamese wikipedia will celebrate its 10th Anniversery this year June. I remember last year this time Assamese wikipedia<http://shijualex.wordpress.com/2011/02/27/indian-language-wikipedias-2010-s…>was having just 300 articles and just one highly active user. The excellent efforts put forward by some of the senior community members using various social networking sites are helping Assamese wikipedia to grow its community. Now it crossed 1000 article milestone and has more than 10 high active users. Hope community will be able to add more members to its crew this year. Shiju Consultant, WMF India Programs

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Fwd: Birthday of Indic language wikipedias
by Shiju Alex 04 Jan '12

04 Jan '12

Dear All, The below message is about the birthday of Indic wikipedias and the birthday of Assamese wikipedia is on *June 02*. The first edit in Assamese wikipedia had happened on *2002-June-02<http://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/?diff=1> * which means Assamese wikipedia will celebrate 10th anniversary this June. And Assamese wikipedia is the first Indic language wikipedia. Thanks Shiju Alex ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Shiju Alex <shiju(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 6:04 PM Subject: Birthday of Indic language wikipedias To: Wikimedia India Community list <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Dear Indic wikipedians One of the aspects that was raised during the discussions with almost all Indic language wiki communities was the need to build existing communities, motivate existing community members, attract new community members by increasing awareness of projects and communities, and to celebrate all the possible occasions. I have a suggestion that can contribute to all of these in some manner. The suggestion is to celebrate the anniversaries of Indic language wikipedias. And as you might agree, the first edit date of a wiki is the best * anniversary* that a community can celebrate. I have collected information for the birthdays of each Indic Wikipedia. This is the day on which the first edit happened on the respective language wikipedia. (The *Indian Standard Time* is used while recording the date and time). I am listing those days below for your reference, *Indic Language wikipedia* *Birthday/Anniversary (Date of first edit)* *Number of active editors* *Assamese* <http://as.wikipedia.org/> *June 02 (2002-June-02) <http://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/?diff=1>* 10 *Nepali* <http://ne.wikipedia.org/> *June 03 (2002-June-03) <http://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/?diff=1>* 13 *Punjab <http://pa.wikipedia.org/>i* *June 03 (2002-June-03) <http://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/?diff=1>* 3 *Malayalam* <http://ml.wikipedia.org/> *December 21 (2002-December-21) <http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/?diff=1>* 93 *Kannada* <http://kn.wikipedia.org/> *January 12 (2003-January-12) <http://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/?diff=1>* 20 *Bhojpuri* <http://bh.wikipedia.org/> *February 21 (2003-February-21) <http://bh.wikipedia.org/wiki/?diff=1>* 0 *Hindi* <http://hi.wikipedia.org/> *July 11 <http://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/?diff=1> (2003-July-11) <http://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/?diff=1>* 55 *Kashmiri* <http://ks.wikipedia.org/> *July 26 (2003-July-26) <http://ks.wikipedia.org/wiki/?diff=5>* 1 *Tamil* <http://ta.wikipedia.org/> *September 30 (2003-September-30) <http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/?diff=5>* 85 *Marathi* <http://mr.wikipedia.org/> *October 20 (2003-October-20) <http://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/?diff=1>* 44 *Gujarati* <http://gu.wikipedia.org/> *December 09 (2003-December-09) <http://gu.wikipedia.org/wiki/?diff=1>* 11 *Sanskrit* <http://sa.wikipedia.org/> *December 21 (2003-December-21) <http://sa.wikipedia.org/wiki/?diff=1>* 16 *Sindhi* <http://sd.wikipedia.org/> *December 26 (2003-December-26) <http://sd.wikipedia.org/wiki/?diff=1>* 5 *Bengali* <http://bn.wikipedia.org/> *January 27 <http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/?diff=6> (2004-January-27)<http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/?diff=6> * 52 *Urdu* <http://ur.wikipedia.org/> *January 27 (2004-January-27) <http://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/?diff=2>* 15 *Odia (Oriya <http://or.wikipedia.org/>)* *January 29 (2004-January-29) <http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/?diff=1>* 10 *Telugu* <http://te.wikipedia.org/> *January 29 (2004-January-29) <http://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/?diff=1>* 32 *Pali* <http://pi.wikipedia.org/> *July 29 (2004-July-29) <http://pi.wikipedia.org/wiki/?diff=1>* 0 *Newari* <http://new.wikipedia.org/> *October 01 (2006-October-01) <http://new.wikipedia.org/wiki/?diff=4>* 1 *Bishnupriya Manipuri* <http://bpy.wikipedia.org/> *October 01 (2006-October-01) <http://bpy.wikipedia.org/wiki/?diff=2>* 2 This list is available in meta also. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_… I recommend that we use these anniversary dates to do the following - Organize a small wikiconfernce or some other major event for the respective language wikipedia - Organize community meetups to celebrate this - Coincide community events around these meetups (such as outreach sessions, photo events, or launching specific WikiProjects) - Invite press to these meetups and use different platforms to spread word about respective language wikipedia. >From the above table we can see that *Assamese* is the first Indic language wikipedia, and 4 Indic language wikipedias will celebrate *10th anniversary* this year (2012). :) So it is time to get prepared for the celebration. Happy Birthday Celebrations! Regards, Shiju Alex India Programs of Wikimedia Foundation

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wikisource, wikibooks etc
by W Chaipau 04 Jan '12

04 Jan '12

we would like a resolution on what we should do with these names: should we transliterate them (wikisource -> ৱিকিচৰ্ছ) or translate them (wikisource -> ৱিকিউৎস). though it is easy to go overboard and translate them, as done in bengali, many other languages have transliterated them, as done in french etc. i prefer transliteration, because it is a proper noun, and also because of precedence (wikipedia is ৱিকিপিডিয়া not ৱিকিকোষ). transliterating them (wikisource -> ৱিকিচৰ্ছ) would let us be consistent. please state your views. -- Chaipau Wikipedia

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