Wikipedia-AS April 2012

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Assamese Wikipedia FAQ
by W Chaipau 21 Apr '12

21 Apr '12

Hi All, The original .odt (openoffice/libreoffice) file for Assamese Wikipedia FAQ version 1.4 is not with me. If you have a copy, could you please send it to me? Thanks, -- Chaipau Wikipedia

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চতুৰ্থ অসমীয়া ৱিকিপিডিয়া মিটআপ
by Jyoti Prakash Nath 21 Apr '12

21 Apr '12

প্ৰিয় ৱিকিপিডিয়ান, চতুৰ্থ খন অসমীয়া ৱিকিমিটআপ তথা অসমীয়া ৱিকিপিডিয়াৰ দশম বৰ্ষপুতি হিছাপে হ'বলগীয়া সভাখন জুন মাহত পাতিম বুলি ভাৱি ঠাই এটা ঠিক কৰা হৈছ। গুৱাহাটীৰ ছয় মাইলৰ সপ্তস্বহীদ পথত অৱস্থিত পংকজ নেওগ ডাঙৰীয়াৰ কাৰ্য্যালয়ৰ এটা কোঠা আমাক মিটিংৰ বাবে দিব বুলি কথা দিছে। মিটআপত আলোচ্য বিষয়সমূহ এতিয়াৰ পৰাই ঠিৰাং কৰিলে সজ হয়। সেয়ে আপোনালোকৰ মতামত বিছাৰিছো। লগতে সকলোকে অনুৰোধ জনালো এইবাৰ যেন ৱিকিপিডিয়াৰ লগত জড়িত সকলো ব্যক্তি যেনেতেনে মিটআপত উপস্থিত থাকে। তাৰ বাবে ৰাইজক তাৰিখ এটা ঠিক কৰিবলৈ অনুৰোধ কৰিলো, জুন মাহৰ যিকোনো এটা দেওঁবাৰ যেনে 3 জুন/ 10জুন/ 17 জুন/ 24জুন। লগতে আলোচিত ফটো আৰু প্ৰবন্ধ প্ৰতিযোগিতাৰ পুৰস্কাৰ আৰু ইতিমধ্যে আৰাম্ভ হোৱা ৱিকিপিডিয়া:অসমীয়া ৱিকিপিডিয়াৰ চিডি, সংখ্যা ১.০ প্ৰকল্পৰ চিডি সমূহৰ বিতৰণৰ বাবেও সেই দিনটোকে বাচনি কৰা হওক। সকলোৰে সহায় সহযোগ কামনা কৰিলো। Regards JyotiPrakash Nath SSL-Guwahati +919864917706

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India Program: Fortnightly IRC: Thursday April 19 at 9pm IST: Indic Outreach & Communications
by Noopur Raval 20 Apr '12

20 Apr '12

Hey folks The next India Program IRC (2nd for April) is scheduled for Thursday 19th April at 9 p.m. IST. Do join us using this link: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#wikimedia-office. We'll be discussing Outreach, Communications and Education in this one. Here is what we plan to discuss this time: *Outreach* Over the past few months we have conducted several outreach sessions and have been able to curate outreach standard presentation decks, best practices and tips. Now we want to assist community members in adopting/adapting these to conduct effective outreach sessions in their respective cities/languages. We'll be soon working on 2 aspects for increasing the number of outreach sessions we are doing on Indic languages but we need your help on this: 1. Start translating outreach supporting documents to Indic languages - To start with we want Indic language community members to help us translate outreach documents and presentations to Indic languages. 2. Create opportunities for Indic outreach - We have been mailing/calling a lot of institutes to organize a Wikipedia session (see list here<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Outreach_Programs/Corresponden…>)[1] in their regional language but we have not able to get as many outreach sessions as we'd like since they feel more comfortable corresponding in their own regional language. We want help from Indic langauge editors who are interested to do more outreach in their regional languages/cities to help us reach out to these institutes. I'd request all the Indic language editors who want to help us out on either of the two points mentioned above to show up on the IRC or write to us offlist since we'll be discussing ways of doing effective outreach in regional languages. *Communications:* *Wikipatrika:* 6 communities (Assamese, Gujarati, Marathi, Nepali,Odia, Telugu ) have already created Wikipatrika pages on their respective Wikipedias. The new template for Wikipatrika is up here<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiPatrika/2012-05/Community_News>.[2] In tomorrow's outreach, we could discuss ideas and suggestions to make Wikipatrika more useful. We could also discuss any problems that community members maybe facing. *Communications:* *Odia Social Media pilot:* As proposed earlier, here's<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Pilot_Designs/Social_Media>[3] the social media pilot to support the Odia community members. The end result of this pilot is to attract more newbies and introduce them to the Wikiverse. This pilot is to try out effective messaging strategies to use a platform like Facebook optimally and try to recruit more editors to the Odia Wikipedia. The most important nuance is that we have built a draft social media messaging strategy and plan to work closely with the Odia community to implement it - through the community members. We hope to discuss this plan and get your inputs on it. As always, the first 45 minutes will be focused on these and the last 15 minutes will be open to any other topic. Hope you all can join us. (For those who can't join, the logs will be put up the next morning at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/IRC_meeting_2012-04-19 Thanks [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Outreach_Programs/Corresponden… [2] http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiPatrika/2012-05/Community_News [3] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Pilot_Designs/Social_Media -- Noopur Raval

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[GLAM]: Update and Crafts Museum edit-a-thon!
by Noopur 17 Apr '12

17 Apr '12

Dear all, Here's an update on the GLAM initiative at Crafts Museum<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/CM> [1] and an invite to an edit-a-thon. There have been a number of meetings and conversations with the Director of the Crafts Museum and the museum staff over the past few weeks to plan out the project. In these meetings, we have explained what is Wikipedia, how it is used, how it can be useful to the Museum, how can staff members benefit if they edit and how can Indian handicrafts & handlooms benefit by more and better content on Wikipedia. A few things became clear very early on. The language of the project needs to be primarily in Hindi because the staff members are most comfortable in Hindi. Another point is that since they are all starting from the very basics, we should set realistic targets like taking things 5 articles at a time to begin with. Two outreach workshops for the museum staff have now been conducted in Hindi. These covered approximately 8-9 staff members - out of which 6 have created usernames and started editing. It gives an immense sense of satisfaction and inspiration to see that so many of them are excited by this project and they edit voluntarily even after the workshop is over! (In fact, the clear message sent by the Director was that it was not a compulsory task - so all the folks editing are doing so out of choice!) Check out the article on Crafts Museum (शिल्प संग्रहालय,_दिल्ली) in Hindi Wikipedia<http://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AA_…>! [2] The Hindi aspect is an important point to note because English would have been the preferred language because it gives greatest audience and is the most convenient for other language community (Indic and beyond) to use as a foundation if they want to create / improve the respective articles on their respective Wikipedias. In this case, I visualize articles primarily starting off in Hindi, and then moving to English - and then onwards to other languages. In fact, the project page has now been created here on Hindi Wikipedia!<http://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AA%…>[3] The MoU has been signed with Wikimedia India Chapter - for which I'd like to thank Arun and the EC. The MoU was also important because it formalizes the taking of pictures of objects and their uploading to Commons. User:Yann has already done a wonderful job as you can see on the Crafts Museum project page here at the GLAM project page for Craft Museum<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/CM>. [1] User:Arag0n also came in last week and took some wonderful images that we hope to see soon. I am currently working with the Director to see how Craft Museum can improve the infrastructure for its' staff and to figure out how best to free up time for the museum staff to support this initiative. There is an innovation that I have tried which I wanted to share because many community members might find it useful - and it's got nothing to do with GLAM! There have been a number of meetups and outreach sessions in Delhi - after a long time. One challenge I was facing was how to keep engaged with participants of meetups and outreach sessions - and to constantly encourage them to edit. What I did was shift the meetup up venue to Crafts Museum itself! Its fun to see new editors and museum staff get surprised that many people are editing one article at the same time. That's when they really experience the magic of Wikipedia. This is working well and I will continue to work on it. The next step is to invite existing Hindi community members to Crafts Museum - which should happen in the next couple of weeks. The next event that we are planning - which is also why I'm writing is to invite you to an *edit-a-thon on April 21st at 14:00 hrs (IST) (08:30 hrs GMT)*. This week, instead of the Delhi meetup, we plan to have an editing session at the Museum itself. You can sign up here. [4] You can be anywhere in India or the world(!) to join in - and you can choose to edit in any language - including Hindi, English, any other languages (Indic or otherwise!) We'll also be active on the *#wikimedia-in* IRC channel, tweet about it from @crafts_glam and have started a Facebook group<http://www.facebook.com/CraftsMuseumGlam>. The museum staff and Delhi community members will be editing at the Museum - but the museum staff will also be available to help out giving insights and references for articles. Really hoping to see all of you participate and make this a big success across languages! :) Thanks Noopur [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/CM [2] http://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AA_… [3] http://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AA%… [4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Delhi/Crafts_Museum1

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Fwd: [Blog]: Postcard from the Tamil Community
by Noopur Raval 17 Apr '12

17 Apr '12

*FYI. Sorry for cross posting. * ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Noopur Raval <nraval(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 11:57 AM Subject: [Blog]: Postcard from the Tamil Community To: Wikimedia India Community list <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hey folks, The Tamil Wikimedia Contest organized by User: Sodabottle and other members of the Tamil community recently got over. As you are all aware, it generated over 15,000 media files and got over 250 new contributors to Commons. A detailed report was published at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Tamil_Wikimedians/TamilWiki_Media_Con… There's also a blog post that we've been working on that takes a peek at TWMC behind the scenes with inputs from the organizing team. It might be really useful to any community planning to conduct a similar events in future. You can read the post here: http://blog.wikimedia.in/2012/04/17/postcard-from-the-tamil-community/. It's a great story of how an off-the-cuff conversation between 2 editors resulted in a massive community wide initiative - with participation of the Tamil community (and other communities) from across the world, the kind of intense efforts, the use of technology enablers and last - and most certainly not the least - some fantastic images (a sample of which can be seen at http://www.tawp.in/r/33zx) - which have now been used to create or improve articles (6122 on Tamil Wiktionary, 1659 on Tamil Wikipedia and more). Do go through the story and add comments. Please also share it with others. Don't forget to use the images to improve articles on your Wikipedia! (They are all available on Commons at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:TamilWiki_Media_Contest) I am thankful to Natkeeran for the wonderful story idea and to Sodabottle, Logicwiki and others for your inputs, insights and times! Regards Noopur -- Noopur Raval -- Noopur Raval

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Fw: List_of_most_important_1000_articles
by Jyoti Prakash Nath 12 Apr '12

12 Apr '12

FYI Regards JyotiPrakash Nath SSL-Guwahati +919864917706 ----- Forwarded Message ----- >From: gitartha bordoloi <gitartha.bordoloi(a)gmail.com> >To: Shiju Alex <shiju(a)wikimedia.org> >Cc: JyotiPrakash Nath <jpnath008(a)yahoo.co.in>; Dipankar Chetia <deep.jeet333(a)gmail.com>; Amlan Basumatari <amlan286(a)gmail.com>; Bishnu Saikia <Bisrin.tez(a)gmail.com> >Sent: Thursday, 12 April 2012 10:27 AM >Subject: Re: List_of_most_important_1000_articles > >Hmm..we'll work on this. Thank you. > >On 4/11/12, Shiju Alex <shiju(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: >> Dear All, >> >> I have prepared a special list here. >> List_of_most_important_1000_articles<http://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%A6%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF:…> >> >> >> Currently this list has 1000 articles selected mainly from the Western >> point of view. So this list might have few articles that are not relevant >> from Assamese speakers point of view. So at this point of time I request >> your support to just remove those articles that are not relevant to >> Assamese/Assam. >> >> While removing articles please be careful because only you know which >> articles are relevant to Assamese. For example, while doing such a thing in >> Malayalam we haven't removed the articles like >> Marxism<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxism>, Kafka >> and all since those articles are very much relevant to Malayalees due to >> its social political reasons. But we have removed articles like Bernhardt, >> Sarah <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Bernhardt>, Dietrich, >> Marlene<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlene_Dietrich> since >> those are not that much relevant when we take a list of most important 1000 >> articles. So we removed these type of articles and added >> Kerala/Malayalam/India centric articles to replace the removed articles. >> >> I request you to do the removal process at this point of time. Then we >> shall move this page to proper namespace and ask all community memebes to >> add Assam/Assamese/India centric articles. But before asking that let us >> finish this task. >> >> (I know the page I created now is almost similar to this >> list<http://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A7%B1%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AA%…>. >> But here our aim is to create an Assam/Assamese centric list. So removing >> non-priority articles are important) >> >> >> You might ask why we need to do this? This is mainly for helping you to >> create the vital important articles for your 10th Anniversary. We can use >> this to popularize Assamese wiki more. I can give you more ideas once we >> start working on this list. >> >> >> Shiju >> > > >-- >*~~ গীতাৰ্থ বৰদলৈ (Gitartha Bordoloi) >* > > >

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India Program: Fortnightly IRC: Indic Languages: Thursday April 5th 9pm (IST): #wikimedia-office
by Hisham 05 Apr '12

05 Apr '12

Hi Folks Reminder about the IRC today (9pm IST on Thursday April 5th) Do join us using this link: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#wikimedia-office. Here is what we would like to discuss today - which we shall do for the first 45 minutes and then throw it open for 15 minutes for any other topics that anyone wants to discuss related to India Program. You may have noticed that we are increasing our emphasis on Wikisource. Please see Shiju's post on using simple technology to support digitazation (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Indic_Languages/Digitization_o…) and Noopur's story of the Gujarati Wikisource (http://blog.wikimedia.in/2012/04/04/realizing-the-dreams-of-communities-3-y…) In addition, Shiju has been engaged with other communities on how to start or accelerate their respective language Wikisources. Wikisource has some very important characteristics that make it attractive. > It's a (relatively) easier way for newbies to start contributing than the respective Wikipedia > It's a great way to reach out to language lovers - and love for a language is an important motivator for contribution (on this and other projects) > There is a much lower gender gap on Wikisource, and it's easy for a wider age group to contribute > It's more "accessible" as an entry point to newbies because it has less policies than other projects > It's can act as a gateway to other projects In today's IRC, we'd like to talk through the work that's happening on Wikisource by many communities, discuss best practices and provide a channel of support for anyone interested in joining the project from any language. Speak soon. hisham

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Fwd: [Blog]: The source of Gujarati Wikisource
by Noopur Raval 04 Apr '12

04 Apr '12

Cross posting. FYI. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Noopur Raval <nraval(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 5:29 PM Subject: [Blog]: The source of Gujarati Wikisource To: Wikimedia India Community list <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Dear all, As you might have read earlier, the Gujarati Wikisource was launched recently on March 27th and is now active with 1000 articles and 1 book already. As part of the story telling series, here is the wonderful story<http://blog.wikimedia.in/2012/04/04/realizing-the-dreams-of-communities-3-y…>of a a journey that started with one member who filed the request to create Wikisource, 2 members who joined in for their love of Bhajans, and gradually a group of 6 members who helped reach the 1000 article mark. The passion and enthusiasm of the Gujarati community members for their language is very motivating, especially to all Indic Wikipedians who strive for the same cause. This story will also interest those communities interested in starting a Wikisource of their own. Most importantly, it shows the power of individual community members and how community collaboration is so magical and constructive! Thank you, Regards Noopur [1] http://blog.wikimedia.in/2012/04/04/realizing-the-dreams-of-communities-3-y… -- Noopur Raval -- Noopur Raval

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