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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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Wikipedia Ahmedabad Meetup 3 - Report
by Konarak Ratnakar 20 Feb '12

20 Feb '12

Hi everyone, The 3rd Wikipedia Ahmedabad Meetup was arranged on 19th February 2012, at Seva Cafe Navarangpura.[1] Total 5 wikipedians attended the meetup(excluding a volunteer from the venue who also joined us, I've led him to Facebook Mumbai Wikipedia group, he might attend future meetups there.) The meetup started with the discussion on Wikipedians in Ahmedabad. There aren't many people from the city (even Gujarat) who actually edit wikipedia regularly, so we discussed the ideas on getting people aware of what Wikipedia is. Inspired by Bangalore Meetup 42 I'm planning to post a GeoNotice to Wikipedians from Ahmedabad, so if there are users that edit but aren't in active in the community, can come forward. The other ideas that we put on table included a proposal to Smit Shah, a student from LD college of Engineering to lead WikiAcademy in the same college in March or April and as part of GLAM project, try getting information on obtainable and/or given permissions in the Museums in Ahmedabad.[2] Afterwards Kartik Mistry talked about the Gujarati Wikipedia interface translation (on Translatewiki.net). He and another user translated about 1500 interface files to Gujarati, couple of weeks before the meetup. I introduced them to some major details of Wikipedia's Policies and Guidelines and Citing sources, some gadgets that can help them in editing Wikipedia more efficiently, the google books and JSTOR citation tool (which Ashwin Baindur posted on the mailing list some time ago).[3] Finally we had off project discussion about Raspberry Pi and Linux community and stuff like that, and a photo session of course.[4] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Ahmedabad/Ahmedabad3 [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Museums_in_Ahmedabad[3] http://reftag.appspot.com/ [4] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Ahmedabad_Meetup_Feb2012 I would like to thank the Wikimedia India Chapter for their help and guidance with organizing the event,On behalf of Wikimedia Ahmedabad Community, --Konarak Ratnakar | kondi

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Gujarati Wiki Source completes 500 Articles.
by sushant savla 20 Feb '12

20 Feb '12

Dear Friends, This is to inform you that Gujarati Wiki Source has completed 500 Articles. You are welcome to contribute. Next milestone 600 articles. Thank you, Sushant

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New Wikimedia India Portals -
by sushant savla 20 Feb '12

20 Feb '12

મિત્રો, આપ સૌને જાણ હશે કે ભારતીય ભાષાઓને આવરી લેતું વિકિનું પૃષ્ઠ બનાવાયું છે, જે તમે અહીં http://wikimedia.in/wikipedia.html જોઈ શકશો. આ પાના પર "ગુજરાતી" ભાષાની કડી નીચે વિકિની ઓળખ નિઃશુલ્ક જ્ઞાનકોષ તરીકે થઈ છે, મારા મતે આમાં ક્ષતિ છે. " નિઃશુલ્ક જ્ઞાનકોષ " ને બદલે તે "મુક્ત જ્ઞાનકોષ" અથવા "મુક્ત વિશ્વકોષ" કે "મુક્ત વિશ્વજ્ઞાનકોષ" એમ હોવી જોઈએ. આપણા ગુજરાતી વિકિના લોગોમાં પણ "મુક્ત વિશ્વજ્ઞાનકોષ" શબ્દ પ્રયોગ થયો છે. મારા મતે "નિ:શુલ્ક" શબ્દ એ ખૂબ ટૂંકી વ્યાખ્યા ધરાવે છે. પ્રાયઃ તેનો સંદર્ભ આર્થિક સંદર્ભે કે નાણા વ્યવહાર અર્થે થાય છે. જ્યારે "મુક્ત" શબ્દ તે વિકિ વિશ્વજ્ઞાન કોષના ઉદ્દેશ્યને વધુ સારી રીતે દર્શાવે છે. મારી સમજ અનુસાર "નિઃશુલ્ક જ્ઞાનકોષ" ને બદલીને "મુક્ત વિશ્વજ્ઞાનકોષ" કરવી જોઈએ. આપ સૌને નમ્ર વિનંતી કે આપના વિચારો માંડશો. Sushant Savla

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New Wikimedia India Portals
by Tinu Cherian (Wikimedia India) 20 Feb '12

20 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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Wikimedia Ahmedabad meetup 3 announced
by Anirudh Bhati 18 Feb '12

18 Feb '12

Hi, The next Wikipedia meetup in Ahmedabad is being scheduled for Sunday, 19 February 2012. The time and venue is still to be discussed. Please join in and contribute! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Ahmedabad/Ahmedabad3 Yours sincerely, Anirudh Bhati +91 9328712208 Skype: anirudhsbh

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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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Focus
by Dhaval S. Vyas 13 Feb '12

13 Feb '12

Hi All, I just wanted to remind you all that as per the mailing list info, this is a list dedicated to Gujarati Wikipedia. If you see the list homepage ( https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-gu), where you all joined this mailing list, its heading reads like... *Wikipedia-gu -- Discussion on Gujarati Wikipedia* Furthermore, going down we have described group's primary and subsidiary focus as well, which reads, "*This is a mailing List for Gujarati Wikipedia primarily, but we may discuss issues relating to other Gujarati projects, such as wiktionary, wikisource, wikiquote, etc.*" Hence, let us abide to this and keep this mailing list focused for the issues related to Gujarati Wikipedia, i.e. gu.wikipedia.org and any other Gujarati language wikiproject, i.e. gu.wikisource, gu.wiktionary, gu.wikiquote, etc. Thanks, Dhaval S. Vyas

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Resurrecting WikiProject Gujarat
by Konarak Ratnakar 12 Feb '12

12 Feb '12

Calling every Gujarati, The WikiProject Gujarat has been dead for quite a time now. There are lots of articles related to Gujarat that are messed up. I with help from Anirudh am trying to revive this project. If you are interested in helping leave a message on talk page [[User Talk:Kondicherry]] or just email me.--Konarak Ratnakar

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Fwd: [Wikimediaindia-l] GLAM-India: Wikipedia and NHHM collaboration
by Arnav Sonara 11 Feb '12

11 Feb '12

FYI See the quoted message below. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Noopur <noopur.raval(a)gmail.com> Date: Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 1:11 AM Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] GLAM-India: Wikipedia and NHHM collaboration To: Wikimedia India Community list <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, "Wikimedians working on India related content on English Wikipedia & related projects." <wikimedia-in-en(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia Chapters cultural partners coordination <cultural-partners(a)wikimedia.ch>, Wikimedia Chapter Membership <membership(a)wikimedia.in>, Wikipedia Mumbai Mailing List <wikimedia-in-mum(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikipedia Pune Mailing List <wikimedia-in-pun(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Dear all, I am extremely delighted to announce India's first (?) GLAM collaboration with a State institution in New Delhi, the capital of India. The* National Handicrafts and Handlooms Museum (NHHM)*, New Delhi has approved our draft and we will soon begin a 6 month pilot project with them. I have been corresponding with their director for over 2 months now, since the GLAMcamp in Amsterdam. After a series of conversations with the Director, Dr Ruchira Ghose, I sent in an approval and after two meetings, she sent in a revised proposal to the Ministry of Culture in India. Just two days ago, the Ministry approved this project and has also provided her a small grant to support our incidental expenses. NHHM has over 30,000 objects including pottery, textiles, metal work, paintings and more. *Goals:* - 6 month pilot project to churn out 25 'Good Articles'. - Training staff and capacity building - Recruiting 10 new editors from art colleges to work on site for digitization/documentation - Make the museum a regular avenue for GLAM meets Note: Good Articles here doesn't mean GA by en-WP standards. We intend to create at least 25 articles with substantial information. Would like your inputs on this. *Challenges: * - Delhi has a small community, so we *really *need help from EVERYONE possible, local and global - The staff members are only comfortable with Hindi, so we'd appreciate ALL help possible from hi-WP editors - *Biggest challenge: *India is a vast country with craft traditions in millions of villages. So, at the time of acquiring, many art objects do not come with published information, documentation and references. Much of this stuff is 'word of mouth', oral traditions and stories of artisans etc. We have asked the Museum to start documenting and publishing these stories under their Publication cell BUT that will take time. Do you think using oral citations in this case would be helpful? - Since this is my/our first time, we will appreciate guidance on scanning, making an MoU and help creating/maintaining the project page. Can someone please help? *makes puppy face* I apologize for this really long mail but, my next meeting with the Director is on the 14th of February when we will start our 'lead-up' program to the project. *To all the WiRs: *Did you make some sort of a program schedule or a timeline that I could use? I would love all your suggestions on this project and am *very* excited to make my own share of GLAM contributions and mistakes :) Of course, now we will also start contributing to TGIM. Cheers, Noopur -- Noopur Raval Student Arts and Aesthetics Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Ph: 9650567690 _______________________________________________ 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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