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[Translators-l] Help in translating Wikimania scholarship page
by Anirudh Bhati 17 Jan '12

17 Jan '12

For your information. anirudh ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jessie Wild <jwild(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 12:49 AM Subject: [Translators-l] Help in translating Wikimania scholarship page To: translators-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Hi everyone! I'm not sure the proper procedure for this, but is there a way we could get some volunteers to help translate the WIkimania scholarship page? http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships As English aptitude is critical for maximum benefit from the event, the application is all in English. But we like to have the information page available in multiple languages, so that people can be 100% clear on the details of the program, and what they will be "judged" on. Thanks for your help -= please redirect me elsewhere if this was an inappropriate avenue :) Jessie -- *Jessie Wild Global Development, Manager Wikimedia Foundation * _______________________________________________ Translators-l mailing list Translators-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/translators-l

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Re: [Wikipedia-gu] [Wikimediaindia-l] Report on Ahmedabad meetup-2
by Anirudh Bhati 17 Jan '12

17 Jan '12

Thank you, Abhishek, for the post. Abhishek and Konarak are potential long-term and high-quality contributors to Gujarati and English Wikipedia projects. Please join me in welcoming them. anirudh On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:27 PM, Abhishek Joshi <abhishek2185(a)gmail.com>wrote: > Dear all, > > Let me give you a brief update on things we did in Ahmedabad Meet Up to > celebrate Wikipedia's 11th birthday. > > *Our Main Agenda:* > > > 1. Celebrating Wikipedia 11th Birthday > 2. Spreading awareness of Wikipedia in Gujarat/Ahmedabad > 3. Introducing Wikipedia project Gujarat to the Ahmedabad > community > > > > > On *11th Birthday of Wikipedia* Ahmedabad Wikimedia Community organize > the Ahmedabad Second Meetup at Gandhi Ashram (Sabarmati Ashram). The meet > up was organized by Anirudh Bhati & Abhishek Joshi. > > > Due to the Sankrant festival a very few wikipedian’s turned out in the > meet up so we met with few community members (Parag Patel, Konark Ratnakar > and Nakul Chugan). As we were *5 members* we had gone to nearest > restaurant for the celebration. > > > Anirudh started with giving a presentation on Wikipedia Project India and > Wikipedia Project Gujarat. > > > He further mentioned the role they would play to bridge the gap between > people who have the freedom to edit Wikipedia and those who actually do > > so. He encouraged them to join one of the finest groups of people in the > world - Wikipedians. He outlined the sequence of events, the training they > would receive. He said that due to the need to start off the program right > away, the program would begin with those aspirants who already had the > skills being looked for especially the knowledge of the Wikipedia world. > > Our main focus is on Wikipedia Project Gujarat and on improving the > articles and spreading awareness of Wikipedia over Gujarat region. The > aspirants responded with interest and a lot of questions. > > After some discussion we have celebrated the Wikipedia’s 11th Birthday by > cutting the beautiful chocolate flavoured cake. > > This meetup was quite productive and the Ahmedabad community took the > contact details of all participants, promising to get back to them soon > with different meet ups. > > Below are the links of Ahmedabad Meet up Details and Photographs of the > same. > *Ahmedabad Meetup-2<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Ahmedabad/Ahmedabad2> > * > *Ahmedabad Meetup-2 Photographs<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Ahmedabad_Meetup_Jan2012> > * > > -- > * > > Regards, > > Abhi > * > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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Re: [Wikipedia-gu] [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-IN-AMD] Wikipedia Gujarati is quite active and not at all Dead
by Arnav Sonara 17 Jan '12

17 Jan '12

Hello everyone, I think the issue has been solved. I request everyone to peace out. Please. Keep Editing ! Keep Inspiring ! On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:42 PM, Abhishek Joshi <abhishek2185(a)gmail.com>wrote: > Dhaval, > > I am Abhishek Joshi the Organizer of Ahmedabad Meetup and first of the > thing who told you such a scrap as your are not at the meetup and you don't > even know what the all we have done. We had healthy discussion on Wiki > Project Gujarat and Infact Anirudh encourage us to write on Gujarati > articles. Please before writing such a email verified your self and really > its a shameful act to attack someone personally. > > On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Anirudh Bhati <anirudhsbh(a)gmail.com>wrote: > >> Dhaval, >> >> Before writing such a scathing email criticizing an administrator (which >> is me) who allegedly made this statement, perhaps you should have verified >> it with me first? >> >> I was making a reference to Wikiproject Gujarat on the English Wikipedia, >> which has run out of contributors. You can independently confirm it with >> the others who were present at the meet up. >> >> I encouraged the rest of the participants to contribute to guwp. >> >> It's shameful that you are drawn to make personal attacks on a public >> platform without checking your facts in the first place. >> >> And I'll really appreciate if you drop the polemics. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Anirudh >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On 17-Jan-2012, at 4:30 AM, "Dhaval S. Vyas" <dsvyas(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > Hi All, >> > >> > I have come to know a surprising fact that in the Wiki meetup recently >> held in Ahmedabad, while discussing about Gujarati Wikipedia, one of the >> administrators conveyed that Gujarati project is almost inactive or dead >> (in gujarati વિકિપીડિયા ગુજરાતી પ્રોજેક્ટ લગભગ બંધ છે.). >> > >> > This is very shameful for anybody to convey wrong message. If one is >> not aware of the project activity, despite of presentation made by one of >> the Gujarati Wikipedian in WikiConference India and from the site >> statistics/traffic report shared with all Indian WIki Language wikipedia by >> Wikimedia Foundation's India chapter (Shiju Alex recently shared this), >> they should have accepted their lack of knowledge and conveyed that they >> are not aware of what's happening with Gujarati Wikipedia or they are >> ignorant of its state. It is damaging for the growing community that in >> such vital events people convey wrong message to the masses. >> > >> > I hope some of the attendess of the meetup would read this and correct >> their mistake by spreading the word of Gujarati WIkipedia and its current >> state in successive meetups as their moral duty to pay back the debt. >> > >> > This email is not at all intended to hurt anyone, but just to make >> everyone aware that there has never been a single day, including Gujarati >> New Year day or Uttarayan, when gu.wiki would have fewer than 50 edits. >> What else could be an indication of how active this project is? We have >> almost 22,000 pages on gu.wiki. If anyone need full statistics, please >> contact me and I will be more than happy to share the same. >> > >> > Regards, >> > Dhaval >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Wikipedia-gu mailing list >> > Wikipedia-gu(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-gu >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-IN-AMD mailing list >> Wikimedia-IN-AMD(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-amd >> > > > > -- > * > > Regards, > > Abhi > * > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > -- Thanks Arnav (ricku). (User:Rangilo_Gujarati) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rangilo_Gujarati>

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[Wikimedia-BD] SOPA protest - Bengali Wikipedia placed a banner, what about other Indic language wikis?
by Anirudh Bhati 17 Jan '12

17 Jan '12

FYI. For those interested. Thanks. Yours sincerely, Anirudh Bhati +855 975 529 803 Skype: anirudhsbh ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Tanvir Rahman <wikitanvir(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 6:52 PM Subject: [Wikimedia-BD] SOPA protest - Bengali Wikipedia placed a banner, what about other Indic language wikis? To: Wikimedia India list <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia BD List <wikimedia-bd(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikipedia BN List <wikipedia-bn(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, "Wikimedians in and from West Bengal, India" <wikimedia-in-wb(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hello everyone, Just to let you know that Bengali Wikipedia [1] has placed a banner on their site notice protesting SOPA and PIPA. Maybe other Indic language Wikipedias can take similar initiatives or maybe they have taken one already? If so, share with us! In the mean time, I have an translation request for you. Maybe you have read Sue's letter [2] to the community about the blackout. I invite you all to translate that letter in your language. Since we have little time (less than 17 hours), we need be prompt. See the translation request on Meta-Wiki [3] and start your translation. Get yourself up and let your people know in your language! Regards, Tanvir Rahman Wikitanvir on Wikimedia [1] bn.wikipedia.org [2] http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/English_Wikipedia_anti-SOPA_blackout [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Translation_requests/WMF/English_Wikipedia_… _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-BD mailing list Wikimedia-BD(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-bd

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(no subject)
by nilesh bandhiya 17 Jan '12

17 Jan '12

Hi, We should write the email to wikipedia-gu into Gujarati, but due to my mobile limitation, I cant write into Gujarati. Well, I was thinking that we should share Gujarati Wikipedia Topics to write articles. Suppose, a wikipedian who writes only for some particular topic. For e.g. I am writing article about Computer related. And I also edit it if it already exists. So we should be create community for particular topics, the community member will edit related article. What's your idea ?

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Wikipedia Gujarati is quite active and not at all Dead
by Dhaval S. Vyas 17 Jan '12

17 Jan '12

Hi All, I have come to know a surprising fact that in the Wiki meetup recently held in Ahmedabad, while discussing about Gujarati Wikipedia, one of the administrators conveyed that Gujarati project is almost inactive or dead (in gujarati વિકિપીડિયા ગુજરાતી પ્રોજેક્ટ લગભગ બંધ છે.). This is very shameful for anybody to convey wrong message. If one is not aware of the project activity, despite of presentation made by one of the Gujarati Wikipedian in WikiConference India and from the site statistics/traffic report shared with all Indian WIki Language wikipedia by Wikimedia Foundation's India chapter (Shiju Alex recently shared this), they should have accepted their lack of knowledge and conveyed that they are not aware of what's happening with Gujarati Wikipedia or they are ignorant of its state. It is damaging for the growing community that in such vital events people convey wrong message to the masses. I hope some of the attendess of the meetup would read this and correct their mistake by spreading the word of Gujarati WIkipedia and its current state in successive meetups as their moral duty to pay back the debt. This email is not at all intended to hurt anyone, but just to make everyone aware that there has never been a single day, including Gujarati New Year day or Uttarayan, when gu.wiki would have fewer than 50 edits. What else could be an indication of how active this project is? We have almost 22,000 pages on gu.wiki. If anyone need full statistics, please contact me and I will be more than happy to share the same. Regards, Dhaval

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[Wikimediaindia-l] GLAM Lakhota Museum Jamnagar (Gujarat) on Commons
by Arnav Sonara 16 Jan '12

16 Jan '12

Hello everyone, As said earlier couple of weeks ago in my mail, I covered the Lakhota Museum Jamnagar through my camera as a part of small GLAM activity, I am happy to announce that my work is almost over. I urge everyone to have a look at Lakhota Museum Jamnagar<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Lakhota_Museum_Jamnagar> Gallery. Two of the images from it Lakhota (building)<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lakhota_Lake_Museum.JPG> and Shri Ranjit Singh<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shri_Ranjit_Singhji.JPG> got rated as Quality Image too. Also some of the images in exhibit section at the bottom have some problems like reflection of light from the room, its simply because I was in a bit hurry to cover the entire museum, and it was my debut to cover any museum. I would love to hear from you guys about it. Please do reply. -- Thanks Arnav (ricku). (User:Rangilo_Gujarati) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rangilo_Gujarati>

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[Press]: Ahmedabad Mirror : "Amdavadis explore city through their lens"
by CherianTinu Abraham 05 Jan '12

05 Jan '12

*Ahmedabad Mirror : "Amdavadis explore city through their lens"* http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/index.aspx?page=article&sectid=3&contentid=2… Epaper : http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Default/Client.asp?Daily=AMIR&showST=true&lo… 4Jan2012 , Page 11 http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Default/Scripting/ArticleWin.asp?From=Archiv… *As many as 70 people, including 20 students, participated in the ‘Wiki Takes The City’ walk organised by Wikimedia Foundation and captured glimpses of the city; 197 photographs of the city were uploaded on Wikipedia website within two hours of the event* * * *A group of amateur photographers, decked up in woollens and armed with their cameras, set out to capture glimpses of the city on Tuesday morning. They had gathered at Gandhi Ashram for the ‘Wiki Takes The City’ walk organised by Wikimedia Foundation, which had invited Amdavadis to take photographs of the city. The selected photographs will be uploaded on Wikipedia. * * * *The walk witnessed participation from 70 people, including 20 school students. Then the participants dispersed in their respective groups to three locations — Walled city, Gujarat University area and ISRO area. The walk concluded at 1 pm after which the participants had to upload their best photographs. * * * *197 pictures, two hours * * * *Noopur Raval, coordinator of Wikimedia India Chapter, said, “As many as 197 photographs were uploaded within two hours of the event. Every participant was sent on a route that had ten monuments. Hence, we expected around 50 photos to be clicked by each of them.”* * * *Like Maulik Joshi and Abhishek Joshi, both software engineers, many participants had taken a leave from work to participate in the event. Maulik, who was in the group that took pictures of Gujarat University area, said, “This is an attempt to portray best of Ahmedabad through photographs.” * * * *Agreed Maulik, “Photography is my passion. It feels great to be part of such events wherein we get a chance to show the real Ahmedabad to the world with our photos. We also got to capture nooks and corners of the city which we had never noticed earlier.”* * * *Platform to meet * *Twenty-year-old Bijal Parikh, who is pursuing graphic designing in Ahmedabad, said, “It is a great platform to meet new people who have a passion for photography. I have clicked more than 100 photos and they are people-centric. Since they would be uploaded on Wikipedia, I clicked photos which people can connect to.”* * * *She added, “Many youngsters participated in the walk. This shows that we youngsters are concerned about our heritage, monuments and the city itself.” * * * *Encourage people* *The aim was to encourage people to take photographs of as many local sites and city specific objects of cultural heritage as possible for Wikipedia articles, according to an information on ‘Wikipedia Takes Ahmedabad’ page.* Regards Tinu Cherian press(a)wikimedia.in http://wiki.wikimedia.in/In_the_news Important Note : The publisher ( Ahmedabad Mirror / Times of India Group ) of the above news article owns the copyrights of the article / content. Request to kindly not reproduce or circulate the content further. The information is only shared only with an internal community who have been featured on this article. All copyrights are duly acknowledged.

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Wikipedia Takes Ahmedabad
by Arnav Sonara 04 Jan '12

04 Jan '12

Hello everyone, I don't know if you all are aware about "Wikipedia Takes Ahmedabad". It was a first ever kind of photo walk held in Ahmedabad on 3rd Jan 2012 with the help of Noopur, Anirudh (en wp admin) and Srikeit(en wp admin). The buzz had already been created in press and media about it, and to a surprise about 80+ people turned up on that morning and different routes were decided previously with respective Team Coordinators, and thus they were set free in the city. And the result turned out to be marvelous. 676 images of Ahmedabad so for on Commons right now. Do have a look at it http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Ahmedabad_1. This category was specially created for this event only. Now feel free to use these images on Gujarati WP on relevant articles. Do please leave a "Thanks" to Noopur, Anirudh and Srikeit. They deserve it. -- Thanks Arnav (ricku). (User:Rangilo_Gujarati) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rangilo_Gujarati>

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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 Gujarati wikipedia is on *December 09*. The first edit in Odia wikipedia had happened on *2003-December-09<http://gu.wikipedia.org/wiki/?diff=1> * which means Gujarati wikipedia will celebrate 9th anniversary this year. 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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