Wikipedia-AS February 2012

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Wiki meetups in Assam - A small report
by Shiju Alex 28 Apr '12

28 Apr '12

Dear All, 2 weeks back I had informed the news of Assamese Wikipedians getting ready for their first wiki meetup<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2012-January/006599.h…>. Last week we had two wiki meetup-cum-workshops for the Assamese language wikipedia. I got the opportunity to attend both these wiki meetups and meet many wonderful Assamese Wikipedians. Here is a brief report about these meetups. As some of you might know Assamese wikipedia is the first Indic langiuage wikipedia <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Indic_Languages>. The first edit on assamese Wikipedia was happened on 2002 June 02 which means Assamese wikipedia will celebrate its 10th Anniversary in next few months. Even though wiki was created in 2002 nothing much had happened in AS wiki till the beginning of 2011. If you look at the statistical report for 2010<http://shijualex.wordpress.com/2011/02/27/indian-language-wikipedias-2010-s…>you could see that the number of articles on AS wiki was just over 300 during January 2011. And the number of active users was just 4. But in 2011 many things happened in wiki and many online outreach activities had done by few community memebers which had resulted in the change of scenario for AS wiki. Now AS wiki has more than 1100 articles and close to 20 active users. Even though AS wikipedia is in exitence for the past 9 years, only last week (*2012 January 29* to be exact) Assamese wikipedians got an oppurtunity to arrange their first wiki meetup. As an after effect of the first meetup at Guwahati, second meetup also happened just after 3 days in Tezpur. I am very happy to be part of both these meetups. here is a brief report of the meetup (This report is based on the meetup reports created by Assamese wikipedians* Jyothi*, *Bishnu*, and *Dipankar*) *Meetup 1 - 2012 January 29 - Venue - Gawahati University Computer Science Departmen*t This was the first meetup of Assamese wikipedians and I am very happy to be part of this historic meetup. Wiki page of this meetup is available in Assamese wikipedia<http://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A7%B1%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AA%…> (in Assamese). The meetup started at 2:30 PM with the welcome speech by Assamese Wikipedian Jyothi Prasad (User:Jpnath008<http://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%A6%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF:…>) who was the main organizer of the first wikimeetup. After the welcome speech computer science department HOD Dr. Anjana Kakati Mahanta inaugurated the first wiki meetup. In the inaguaration speech she mentioned that she is very glad that she could host the first wiki meetup of Assamese wikipedians and extended support for future wiki meetups also. Then User:Psneog<http://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%A6%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF:…> a senior Assamese Wikipedian and Asst. Prof at NIT Silchar, shared his experience with the Assamese Wikipedia and his vision about the future of Assamese wiki projects. After that all the participants introduced themselves. Then User: Gitartha.bordoloi<http://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%A6%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF:…> started the Introduction to Wikipedia session. Some of the important points that Gitaratha covered in this session are: - What is Wikipedia? - What is Wiki? - History of Wikipedia. - Introduction to Assamese Wikipedia. - Present status of Assamese wikipedia - Current status of Assamese wiki communoity - Sister projects of Assamese Wikipedia, and so on Then we started the editing session. User:Jpnath008<http://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%A6%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF:…> explained how to approach Assamese wikipedia as a reader and how to search for articles in AS wiki. He also showed how to open a new account. This is demonstrated with the help of new user Amrit who created his account during the session. Then User:Simbu123<http://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%A6%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF:…> demonstrated the users how to create an article in Assamese wikipedia and expalined the basic wiki syntaxes. He also explained about the Narayam keyboard and how to activate it and how one can write in Assamese script using the Narayam typing tool. This is followed by a question answer session. The queries are answered by experienced Assamese wikipedians. Meanwhile all the guests were served with tea and Assamese snacks like Tillpitha, Narikolor Ladu, Tilor Ladu, Sirar Ladu, etc. The first wiki meetup was wonderful. We finished this first historic meetup of Assamese Wikipedians by 5 PM. Around 35 people had attended this meetup. I am sure for the first meetup 35 attendees is a very big number. That itself shows how people are waiting for these type of outreach programs across various regions of India. Wiki page of this meetup page with more details are available in Assamese wikipedia<http://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A7%B1%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AA%…> . I would like to specially congratulate User:Jpnath008<http://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%A6%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF:…> for taking all the efforts to make this first meetup a reality. Also Users Chaipu and Gitartha had helped very much to release the first edition of the Assamese Wikipedia FAQ booklet. User Bishnu has helped to create the Assamese wiki presnetaion. Thanks to all of them for making the first meetup a success. Few photographs from this meetup are uploaded to Commons. It is available here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Assamese_Wikimedians_Meetup_Guwa… *Meetup 2 - 2012 February 01 - Venue - Tezpur University Computer Science Department * The Meetup began at 11.30 a.m with the welcome speech by user Dipankar Chetia. The CS Departmental Head of Tezpur University Utpal Sarma has also attended this meetup. The welcome speech was followed by the introduction of all the attendees. During the introduction the Assamese Wikipedia FAQ booklets were distributed among the participants. Most of the attendees were new to Wikipedia or to Assamese Unicode writing. After Welcome speech and introduction, CS Department Head of Tezpur University Utpal Sarma gave a short speech on the importance of Assamese content in web and expanding the Assamese Wikipedia. After this Dipankar Chetia gave a presentation on different Wikimedia projects and present scenario of Assamese Wikipedia. The presentation also provided a basic introduction of Assamese Wikipedia to the new people. This is followed by a small editing session which is lead by Bishnu Saikia. Bishnu did the editing session in the following order. - Bishnu first showed the particptants how to approach wiki as a reader and how to search for articles in Assamese wiki - Introduced narayam typing tool that is integrated to Assamese wikipedia - Explained the particpants the different compontents of a wiki page (article page, discussion page, edit, page history, and so on) - Invited one of the the participant and helped him to create a new user account. - Showed the basic wiki syntaxes. This is done by creating the new article বৌদ্ধ ধৰ্ম<http://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AC%E0%A7%8C%E0%A6%A6%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A7_…>. following are the wiki sysntaes showed during this session. - Bold/Italic - heading levels - Section editing - Hyper linking - Bullet list - Numbered list Bishnu handled the session so well and in a systemetic way so that users are able to follow it easily. Bishnu also answered all the quries raised by new users during this session. After this a small session on the topic “Assamese Unicode writing and the typing tools” by Pallab Pran Goswami (Editor of Assamese online Magazine Nila Chorai) was also there. Few other participants like Dwijen Mahanta and editor of online magazine Gonit Sora Pankaj Jyoti Mahanta shared their thoughts regarding different aspects of Assamese Wikipedia. In the Meetup it was decided that the active Wikipedians of Tezpur region will soon form a Wikipedia (voluntary) group. They also decided to organise a wiki workshop outside Tezpur university Campus very soon so that more common people will be able to join the AS wiki introductory session. The meetup ended with Tea and Snacks by 1 PM. After the conclusion of the meetup some interested participants learned about wiki templates and some other tools from Bishnu Saikia. Special thanks to Dipankar for making all the arrangements for this meetup. Total number of participants were* 78*. There were almost 12 active or semi active (or non-active) AS wikipedians for the Meetup. Wiki page of this meetup with more details is available in Assamese wikipedia<http://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A7%B1%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AA%…> (in Assamese). Few photographs from this meetup are uploaded to commons. It is available here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Assamese_Wikimedians_Meetup_Tezp… ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- I thank all Assamese wikipedians for these wonderful meetups. Assamese wikipedians are wonderful (Forgot to tell Assam is beautiful :) ). With many great users joined the project I am sure Assamese wikipedia is going to achieve great heights. Soon AS wiki wiki celebrate its 10th anniversary. I am sure community will have big plans to celebrate it. Regards Shiju

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: [Cross-posting] Wikimedia India Chapter : Jan 2012 Report
by Tinu Cherian (Wikimedia India) 23 Feb '12

23 Feb '12

Cross posting across India related lists. Kindly ignore if you have read this on another mailing list. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [WMIN-Members] Wikimedia India Chapter : Jan 2012 Report Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:08:57 +0530 From: Naveen Francis <naveenpf(a)wikimedia.in> Reply-To: wmin-members(a)googlegroups.com To: Wikimedia India Community list <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, wmin-members <wmin-members(a)googlegroups.com> Dear all, Greetings from Wikimedia India !!! The Wikimedia Chapter (India) celebrated its first anniversary on 3rd January 2012. Organisational Updates Formation of Task Forces: The formation of the different task forces are still in progress. The various task forces are a) Fundraising, b) Special Projects, c) Administration, d) City and Language Special Interest Groups, and e) Communications, PR & Media Relations. We are seeking more volunteers for the task forces. If you are interested, please feel free to contact the respective task force stewards or find more information here [1] Membership: The Chapter membership stands at 196 members as of 31 January 2012. Six new members were added to the chapter membership in this month. We extend a very warm welcome to the family. Donations: Total donations received in Jan 2012 - INR 10700 Average donations in Jan 2012 - INR 3566 FCRA: Our application for prior permission under the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act FCRA 2010, with the Government of India is under process. As the stated time for response is over recently, chapter will be following up with the authorities. [ As we write this report, our application was approved by the Government of India] Internet Relay Chat(IRCs): >From time to time, Wikimedia India conduct planned online IRC chat sessions. The IRC on Jan 05, 2011 was anchored by Sudhanwa Jogalekar with the focus on Chapter Specia Interest Groups (SIG) co-ordination [2]. The IRC on Jan 07, 2010, anchored by Arun Ramarathnam discussed on the Jan 15th Celebration plans, SIGs and GLAM projects. [3] Board Meetings: The Wikimedia Chapter Executive Committee had two tele-conference EC meetings (dated 04 Jan and 18 Jan, 2012) in the month of January.The Wikimedia India chapter and Wikimedia Foundation had one joint co-ordination call on 25 Jan 2012, which was attended by Arjuna Rao Chavala, Naveen Francis, Tinu Cherian and Hisham Mundol. The main agenda of the call was on Chapter - Foundation India programs Collaboration Framework . WikiConference 2011 The Chapter and Mumbai Conference organisers are working closely for the closure and audit of accounts related to WikiConference Mumbai 2011. Community & Special Interest Groups. SOPA and Wikipedia Blackout: The global community of volunteers who edit the English Wikipedia had decided to support the protest against the introduction of the “Stop Online Piracy Act” (SOPA) in the US House of Representatives and the “Protect IP Act” in the US Senate. To that end, the English Wikipedia was blacked out globally for a period of 24 hours on 18 January 2012. The black out in India commenced at 10.30am IST on 18 January 2012. The Press release and Communication to the members related to Wikipedia Blackout can found here [4],[5]. Wikipedia eleventh anniversary : Wikipedia turned eleven on the 15th of January 2012. The eleventh anniversary of Wikipedia was celebrated in different parts of the country [6]. More than 8 Indian cities and towns and over 200 Wikimedians & Wiki enthusiasts celebrated this occasion of Wikipedia anniversary, around the nation. Some of the meetups had a Wikipedia anniversary cake to celebrate the occasion. Google Hangout was also conducted between different cities celebrating at the same time. The New Wikimedia India portal ( wikimedia.in <http://wikimedia.in> ) was launched on this day. It is designed to provide quick and rapid access to Indic wikimedia projects - Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikibooks, Wikinews, Wikiquote and Commons. A full collection of images related to the celebrations, around the nation, can be found here [7]. Events: A round-up of Wikimedia events, academies and initiatives around the nation is as follows. Wikipedia Takes Ahmedabad (3 Jan 2012): Wikipedia Takes Ahmedabad [8] is a scavenger hunt for free content photography in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, organised by Noopur Raval , Anirudh Bhati and Srikeit Tadepalli. The aim of this exercise is to encourage participants to compete to take photographs of as many local sights and city specific objects of cultural heritage as possible for Wikipedia articles. Over 75 participants attended and around 815 images were uploaded to the Wikimedia Commons as a part of this initiative [9]. Wikipedia Takes Mumbai II ( 28 Jan 2012) : This is the second photography drive in Mumbai. [10] The event was led by Nikita Belavate, Anshuman Fotedar and Karthik Nadar and other members of the Mumbai Community. Over 625 images were uploaded to the Wikimedia Commons as a part of this initiative [11] Wiki Academies/Workshops : Several Wiki Academies were held in different parts of the nation , organised and conducted by the Chapter, its members ,WMF India Programs and the Wikimedia community in India. . a) Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi , Kerala (05-Jan) [12] b) Workshop at Text100, Mumbai (webcast to Text100 Delhi and Bangalore) (06-Jan) [13] c) SSN College of Engineering, Chennai (11-Jan ) [14] d) P S R Rengasamy college of engineering for women, Sivakasi, Tamil Nadu. (20-Jan) [15] e) Netaji Subhash Engineering College, Kolkata, West Bengal (25-Jan) [16] f) Jadavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal (25-Jan) [17] g) Amrita School of Communication, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu (28-Jan) (18) h) Jamia Millia Islamia, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Delhi (30-Jan) [19] i) Kerala Sahitya Academy, Trissur, Kerala (8-Jan) [20] j) Jnana Prabodhini - Wikiacademy, Pune (15-Jan) [21] A session on Commons was conducted for photography group called ‘Tassavurrati’. [22] They have successfully started uploading pictures of their trips (most recent: Surajkund Mela) to the Wkimedia Commons. Other News: * Telugu SIG celebrated the Wikipedia day on 29 Jan 2012 at Hyderabad. Top 10 contributors in the articles category and non article category were recognised at the function. [23] * Sanskrit Wikipedia saw an excellent editor growth (50%) compared to last month, and a 234% increase in the number of edits. * The 1st Delhi Odia Wikimeetup and Academy was conducted on 29 Jan 2012 by Odia SIG Chair and WMF India Programs Consultant , Subhashish Panigraphi. [24] * One of the first Assamese Wikipedia community meetup and Wikipedia Workshop was held on Jan 29 at Guwahati University, Guwahati, Assam [25] Milestones & Anniversaries January 2012 24 * TheSanskrit Wiktionary <http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sa:>has reached 200 entries with the addition of over a dozen entries all apparently meaning "sun". 20 * TheDivehi Wikipedia <http://wiki.wikimedia.in/index.php?title=Dv:&action=edit&redlink=1>has reached 100,000 page edits. * TheAssamese Wikipedia <http://wiki.wikimedia.in/index.php?title=As:&action=edit&redlink=1>has reached 500 uploaded files. 17 * TheBengali Wikipedia <http://wiki.wikimedia.in/index.php?title=Bn:&action=edit&redlink=1>has reached 1,000 uploaded files. * TheOriya Wikipedia <http://wiki.wikimedia.in/index.php?title=Or:&action=edit&redlink=1>has reached 2,000 articles. 15 * TheBengali Wikipedia <http://wiki.wikimedia.in/index.php?title=Bn:&action=edit&redlink=1>has reached 1,000 uploaded files. * TheUrdu Wiktionary <http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ur:>has reached 10,000 entries. 13 * Wikimedia Commons <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/>has reached 12,000,000 files. * TheTamil Wikibooks <http://wiki.wikimedia.in/index.php?title=B:ta:&action=edit&redlink=1>has reached 10,000 page edits. 10 * TheEnglish Wikibooks <http://wiki.wikimedia.in/index.php?title=B:&action=edit&redlink=1>has reached 40,000 book modules. 7 * TheMarathi Wikipedia <http://wiki.wikimedia.in/index.php?title=Mr:&action=edit&redlink=1>has reached 100,000 total pages. * TheAssamese Wikipedia <http://wiki.wikimedia.in/index.php?title=As:&action=edit&redlink=1>has reached 1,000 articles. Media Coverage There was a huge coverage for Wikipedia on Indian media in this month, mainly related to Wikipedia Blackout. A comprehensive list of the coverage can be found here [24] We look forward to your continued support and active participation. Report compiled by Executive members,SIG chairs and The Communications team. Best, On behalf of Wikimedia Chapter (India) Naveen Francis Secretary Notes: 1) http://members.wikimedia.in/Main_Page#Task_forces 2) http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Internet_Relay_Chats/Jan_05,2012 3) http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Internet_Relay_Chats/Jan_07,2012 4) http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Press_Releases/2012/_English_Wikipedia_to_go_dark_… 5) http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Announcements/Communication_regarding_SOPA_and_Wik… 6) http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Eleven 7) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_11_in_India 8) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_Ahmedabad 9) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Ahmedabad_1 10) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_Mumbai_II 11) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_Takes_Mumbai_2 12) http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wiki_Academy/Cochin_University_of_Science_and_Tech… 13) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Workshop/Mumbai_Workshop_2 14) http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wiki_Academy/SSN_College_of_Engineering,_Chennai 15) http://wiki.wikimedia.in/P_S_R_Rengasamy_college_of_engineering_for_women,_… 16) http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wiki_Academy/Netaji_Subhash_Engineering_College 17) http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wiki_Academy/Jadavpur_University 18) http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wiki_Academy/Amrita_School_of_Communication,_Coimb… 19) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:MDHJMI1 20) http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:WATSR2 21) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Pune/W11_celebration_Pune_wit… 22) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tassavurrati_1.jpg 23) http://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA%… 24) http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:MDEL1 25) http://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A7%B1%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AA%… 24) http://wiki.wikimedia.in/In_the_news#Jan_2012

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Improving the Health of the Community
by Shiju Alex 22 Feb '12

22 Feb '12

Dear All, I am writing to share with you a very inspiring initiative regarding health and medicine articles on Wikipedia. Crores of Wikipedia readers read up about health related issues either when they or their loved ones fall ill or before or after they have consulted doctors or when they are curious about a particular disease or drug. In fact, quite a few doctors and nurses also read up these articles to improve their knowledge. Wikipedia's medical articles have 15-20 crore page views every month. The top 300 articles are viewed more than 1 lakh times every month. The challenge is that the majority of these articles are only available in English. This initiative ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Translation_tas…) has been conceptualised by WikiProject Medicine, Wikimedia Canada and very interesting organisation called Translators Without Borders. It seeks to translate a set of 80 of the most important health care articles into as many languages as possible. Given the state of our health care system as well as the increasing readership of Indic language projects, there is huge positive impact that we can have if we participate in this initiative and have these articles in all Indic languages. The project page (referenced above) includes an outline of the project, FAQs, useful links and a sign up for interested volunteers. The ways that we can participate are as follows - English Editors to improve articles on en-wp - English Editors to convert articles into simple English Wikipedia (so that non-English editors who don't have a medical background can also help out) - Indic editors to help translating either by themselves or by helping the translators at Translators Without Borders Remember, you don't have to be a health care professional to help out. All you have to do is simply care. I am really happy to note that 5 editors from 5 Indic languages have already signed up<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Translation_tas…>for this wonderful project. Of these 2 languages - Assamese and Malayalam - have already started wiki project and started working on articles (really big comprehensive articles) related to Medicine. Assamese wikipedia medicine project page: ৱিকিপিডিয়া:ৱিকিপ্ৰকল্প চিকিৎসাবিজ্ঞান<http://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A7%B1%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AA%…> Some of the articles created: - কৰ্কট ৰোগ<http://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%B0%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%9F_…> (Cancer) - সৰ্পদংশন<http://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%B0%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%A6%…> (Snakebite) Malayalam wikipedia biology project page: വിക്കിപീഡിയ:വിക്കിപദ്ധതി/ജീവശാസ്ത്രം<http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%…> Some of the articles created: - ആസ്മ (Asthma) <http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asthma> - ന്യുമോണിയ (Pneumonia) <http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumonia> - മസ്തിഷ്കാഘാതം (Stroke) <http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroke> Please note that this project do not involve machine translation or bots. It is really happy to note that both in Assamese and Malayalam wiki these projects are run by doctor (or medicine students) wikipedians :) Yes, Indic wikipedias has editors from all wakes of life. There is so much potential on the articles related to medicine both in Indic and English. I encourage interested wikipedians to join this project by adding your name here<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Translation_tas…> . I welcome and invite everyone to join in. Healthy Editing Shiju Alex

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Creating video of Indian Editors "We Edit Wikipedia"
by Subhashish Panigrahi 22 Feb '12

22 Feb '12

Deal all, As a part of helping the community to reach out to more people apart from the presentations, handouts, FAQs and mailing list support we also have need for more visuals. Audio/Video clips containing Indian Wikipedians sharing their message "I EDIT WIKIPEDIA" or "I EDIT WIKIPEDIA IN MY INDIAN LANGUAGE" to create some more impact to inspire people to contribute to Wikipedia. Community folks conducting outreach events could use such a video while presenting. We are requesting you to shoot the video saying: - "I [Edit] Wikipedia" in XYZ language. (XYZ is your language) And then answer any of the following few questions; - "Why do you edit in XYZ language?" - "What do you gain from editing Wikipedia?" - "How has Wikipedia changed your life"? - "How does Wikipedia help readers?" OR - "What imact does Wikipedia have on readers"? - "What do you gain by being part of the community"? - "How do you invite to join the community?" We will love if you answer some fun questions like; - "If wikipedia was an animal, what would it be?" - "What would happen to you if you lost you internet connection for 1 month and could not edit Wikipedia?" This will be a motivational video to reach out to more Indian editors and make them aware about editing Wikipedia of their languages. All the Indic language communities are invited to take part in this event. We request all the language communities to shoot the video of some of the active editors of their respective communities and send them back to us. The few criteria you need to keep in mind before shooting would be: - Put this message on your next meetup agenda. Shoot the video in the meet up itself so that you would be having more people. We would love to more no of videos from you. - It could be one single person saying "*I [edit] wikipedia*" or a group of Wikipedians saying "*We [edit] wikipedia*" in their own languages. - For editing purposes, it is better if you record video in room with LESS noise and MORE light. - It is better to keep the camera still, preferably on a tripod or an elevated place to avoid shaking of the video. - Try and keep video in .MPEG, .AVI or .MP4, so that while editing we don't have to convert and lose quality. - You can use any normal digital camera, even your (iPhone) camera or preferably a good quality handycam/video camera. After shooting the video please let us know and we will help you to send it to us. Please feel fee write in my talk page<http://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%A6%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF_…> or drop me a mail at subha(a)wikimedia.org mail to ask any question . Subha [[User:Subha WMF]]

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Fw: ইংৰাজী নামৰ পুনৰ্নিৰ্দেশনা
by JyotiPrakash Nath 20 Feb '12

20 Feb '12

Hello Tanvir, That is great, aswiki welcomes your bot. Regards JyotiPrakash Nath SSL-Guwahati +919864917706 ----- Forwarded Message ----- >From: Tanvir Rahman <wikitanvir(a)gmail.com> >To: JyotiPrakash Nath <jpnath008(a)yahoo.co.in> >Sent: Sunday, 19 February 2012 2:27 AM >Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-AS] ইংৰাজী নামৰ পুনৰ্নিৰ্দেশনা > > >Hello, > >I just want to say, I don't know how you are making these redirects in aswiki. But I have a bot to do this, and if you think it will be useful for you to do with a script, I can run that bot for you. :) > >Regards, >Tanvir Rahman >Wikitanvir on Wikimedia > > >

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Fwd: [Wikimedia-in-en] Please add your name to the Geographical List of Indian Wikipedians
by Naveen Francis 20 Feb '12

20 Feb '12

Hi all, Please add your names. http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Geographical_distribution_of_Indian_Wikipedians Thanks, naveenpf ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ashwin Baindur <ashwin.baindur(a)gmail.com> Date: 2012/2/16 Subject: [Wikimedia-in-en] Please add your name to the Geographical List of Indian Wikipedians To: WikiProject India mailing list <wikimedia-in-en(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Cc: Wikimedia Ahmedabad <wikimedia-in-amd(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, wikimediaindia-l <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Marathi Wikimedia < mr-wiki(a)yahoogroups.com>, Wikipedia Club Pune <wcp_team(a)googlegroups.com>, "Mailing list for Wikimedians in Pune, India" < wikimedia-in-pun(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hello friends, This is a link I recommend you to bookmark. http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Geographical_distribution_of_Indian_Wikipedians This list is useful for outreach & also whenever someone needs Wiki-Help in a particular city. It would be great if Wikipedians could update this list.:) We have the following completely unrepresented states/UTs: * Andaman & Nicobar Islands * Arunachal Pradesh * Assam * Chandigarh * Chhattisgarh * Dadra, Nagar & Haveli * Daman & Diu * Goa * Himachal Pradesh * Jammu & Kashmir * Jharkhand (AngPradesh is in Mumbai) * Lakshadweep * Manipur * Meghalaya * Mizoram * Puducherry * Punjab (oye, ye ki hoya!) * Nagaland * Uttar Pradesh * Uttarakhand Okay, all you admins, please update your status (Mikey my boy, that means you too)! Abroad, we dont have Indic Wikipedians listed for: * Africa * Australia * Asia (other than India) * Middle East * North America * South America Unless you would like to stay off list, of course that's acceptable too. May I also request Tinu / list admins to please forward it all the Indic language & city Wikimedia lists. We need this resource to be as comprehensible as possible. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur ------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-in-en mailing list Wikimedia-in-en(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-en

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Fwd: New Wikimedia India Portals
by Tinu Cherian (Wikimedia India) 19 Feb '12

19 Feb '12

Cross-posting to other mailing lists. Kindly ignore if you have read this on another mailing list. Sorry for the inconvenience. Thanks Tinu Cherian Wikimedia India. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [WMIN-Members] New Wikimedia India Portals Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 08:18:34 +0530 From: Naveen Francis <naveenpf(a)wikimedia.in> Reply-To: wmin-members(a)googlegroups.com To: Wikimedia India Community list <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, wmin-members <wmin-members(a)googlegroups.com> Hi all, We are pleased to formally announce the launch of the following new Wikimedia India Portals: http://wikimedia.in/- The new landing page will be the gateway to the various Project pages and Wikis. http://wiki.wikimedia.in <http://wiki.wikimedia.in/>The public wiki is now revamped with an all-new look and lots of information. Feel free to add more information to the wikis. http://members.wikimedia.in <http://members.wikimedia.in/>Wiki for India Chapter Members http://blog.wikimedia.in/Wikimedia India Blog - to post a blog, contact Arjuna Rao Chavala or Tinu Cherian We are pleased to introduce the following new Wikimedia Project gateways for the various Indic languages: http://wikisource.in<http://wikisource.in/> http://wikiquote.in<http://wikiquote.in/> http://wikibooks.in<http://wikibooks.in/> http://wikinews.in<http://wikinews.in/> http://wikibooks.org.in<http://wikibooks.org.in/> http://wikisource.org.in<http://wikisource.org.in/> http://wiktionary.org.in<http://wiktionary.org.in/> The planned landing page for http://wikipedia.in is available here <http://wikimedia.in/wikipedia.html>. Efforts are currently underway to obtain control of a few more important domains and announcements will be made as and when we get them. We sincerely believe this initiative will help drive more traffic to Indic language Wikimedia Projects. We would like to express our sincere gratitude to the Wikimedia CH / Switzerland Chapter and Manuel Schneider (Wikimedia CH / Switzerland) for hosting our websites and portals at no cost. A number of people need to be thanked, who helped in the this initiative. Rajesh K Oayanchal who designed the portals and Jyothis E who gave his webspace for the testing purposes. Anirudh, Noopur Raval, ,Surya, Radhakrishna, Omshivaprakash, Debanjan, Saroj, Swaroop, Abhishek Suryawanshi and others have helped in translations . Tanvir Rahman , Tinu Cherian and Arun Ram helped in revamping the public wiki. We hope that you will find these portals useful and informative. Please do get back to us with your feedback and suggestions. Regards, Naveen Francis Wikimedia India Chapter

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ইংৰাজী নামৰ পুনৰ্নিৰ্দেশনা
by gitartha bordoloi 18 Feb '12

18 Feb '12

বন্ধুসকল, ৰাইজৰ চ'ৰাত হোৱা আলোচনাৰ সিদ্ধান্তমৰ্মে ইংৰাজী শিৰোনামাসমূহ অসমীয়া প্ৰবন্ধলৈ পুনৰ্নিৰ্দেশ কৰা কাম আৰম্ভ কৰা হৈছে। আলোচনাখিনি তলৰ লিংকটোত পাব। http://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A7%B1%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AA%… -- *~~ গীতাৰ্থ বৰদলৈ (Gitartha Bordoloi) *

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Indic language wikipedias - 2011 annual update
by Shiju Alex 16 Feb '12

16 Feb '12

Dear All, I have compiled the, statistical update of the Indic language Wikipedias for the year 2011. In this report, my aim is to provide an *analysis* as well as *my perspectives* on the health of various Indic language communities as well as the state of various Indic language wikipedias for the year 2011. (The period of analysis is editor contributions between 2011 January 1 and 2011 December 31). As always, a lot of the data for this report and analysis are based on the statistical data published at http://stats.wikimedia.org. Thanks to Erik Zachte for compiling all this information. I must also point out that this annual update contains a number of insights *that are derived not only from this data but directly from community members* who have shared a very real-world picture. Read the annual update here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Indic_Languages/Statistics/201… I welcome your comments on this annual update. Please discuss it on the talk page. You can also reach me at shiju(a)wikimedia.org Thanks Shiju Alex

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by Prabhakar Sarma Neog 13 Feb '12

13 Feb '12

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