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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 04 Jan '12

04 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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Re: [Wikipedia-gu] New Year Resolution-Online Help Session (Update)
by Roopal Mehta 04 Jan '12

04 Jan '12

Dear Friends at Wiki, Thanks to the efforts of Dhavalbhai that I could join in the session - not on behalf of any organisation, but on my own. It was nice to discuss about a few points, that is, about Writing guidelines. We talked about issues, language, the content should be "to the point" rather than using ornamental language. It would be nice to have these sessions, fortnightly or monthly, depending on convenience, feasibility.. For future, maybe an agenda is framed beforehand, prior to the meeting, and circulated, so that everyone is aware of it. Dhavalbhai, thank you, once again. Sorry for the delay in replying, as I was unwell. Happy 2012 to everyone! On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Gujarati Wikipedia <gu.wikipedia(a)gmail.com>wrote: > Hello Friends, > > We had our very first successful online session this morning. I must thank > Roopalben (on behalf of Gujarati Sahitya Parishad) for joining it despite > of her prior social commitment, which she had to postponed just for this > session. > > I had confirmation of 5 users and was expecting a couple of more old wines > to join, but only one user joined and one apologised through email for not > being able to join due to power failure. > > We discussed a couple of issues in the session and it was very useful. I > will like Roopalben to share her experience here, what she thought about it > and whether it was really useful from her perspective. > > I would like these sessions to be made regular, at least fortnightly. As > there was not much attendance this morning, I assume it was not a right > time to have the session. If so, and you want to suggest a different > time/day/frequency, please don't be shy and drop a line to me or leave your > comments on the discussion on Wikipedia Chotaro. This is for the benefit of > community and for the benefit of Gujarati Wikipedia. > > Looking forward to your active participation. > > Yours, > > Dhaval S. Vyas > {User:Dsvyas) > > _______________________________________________ > Wikipedia-gu mailing list > Wikipedia-gu(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-gu > >

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New Year Resolution-Online Help Session (Update)
by Gujarati Wikipedia 04 Jan '12

04 Jan '12

Hello Friends, We had our very first successful online session this morning. I must thank Roopalben (on behalf of Gujarati Sahitya Parishad) for joining it despite of her prior social commitment, which she had to postponed just for this session. I had confirmation of 5 users and was expecting a couple of more old wines to join, but only one user joined and one apologised through email for not being able to join due to power failure. We discussed a couple of issues in the session and it was very useful. I will like Roopalben to share her experience here, what she thought about it and whether it was really useful from her perspective. I would like these sessions to be made regular, at least fortnightly. As there was not much attendance this morning, I assume it was not a right time to have the session. If so, and you want to suggest a different time/day/frequency, please don't be shy and drop a line to me or leave your comments on the discussion on Wikipedia Chotaro. This is for the benefit of community and for the benefit of Gujarati Wikipedia. Looking forward to your active participation. Yours, Dhaval S. Vyas {User:Dsvyas)

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Fwd: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia Traffic Analysis Reports
by Arnav Sonara 02 Jan '12

02 Jan '12

Please do have a look at the Traffic Analysis Report. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: CherianTinu Abraham <tinucherian(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 7:15 PM Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia Traffic Analysis Reports To: "Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia." < wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, wmin-members(a)googlegroups.com Hi , In case you haven't seen this : Wikimedia Traffic Analysis Reports *Wikipedia Page Views Per Country* - Overview http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportPageViewsPerCountryO… Only 1.9 % of traffic for Wikimedia Projects is from India. ( 13th position) *Page Views Per Wikipedia Language* http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportPageViewsPerLanguage… >From India : English (en) - 3.7 % Simple English (simple) - 5.9 % Hindi (hi) - 86.5 % Tamil (ta) - 60.5 % Malayalam (ml) - 66.3 % Telugu (te) - 79.5 % Bengali (bn) - 17 % Urdu (ur) -6.1 Kannada (kn) - 79.3 % Gujarati (gu) - 76.1 % Nepali (ne) -15.3 % Kapampangan (pam) 7.6 % Marathi (mr) 88.1 Sanskrit (sa) - 55.9 % Fiji Hindi (hif) - 23 % Punjabi (pa) -47 % Assamese (as) -25.9 Oriya (or) - 53.5% Bihari (bh) - 26.9 % Setswana (tn) - 8.2 % Pali (pi) - 5.2 % Nepal Bhasa (new) -21.6 % This also gives some idea of where the traffic to Indic language Wikipedias are coming from. Stats of some of Indic languages like Bhojpuri, Bishnupriya Manipuri , Kashmiri ,Sindhi are missing though. *Page Edits Per Wikipedia Languages* http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportPageEditsPerLanguage… >From India : English (en) -3.5 % Tamil (ta) - 51.3 % Persian (fa) -0.9 % Simple English (simple) 2.7 % Wishes if it included more of Indian languages. And the *India Report Card* http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN_India/ReportCardIndia.htm Regards Tinu Cherian _______________________________________________ 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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[Press]: DNA : "Wikimedia Commons to feature more of Ahmedabad"
by CherianTinu Abraham 01 Jan '12

01 Jan '12

*DNA : "Wikimedia Commons to feature more of Ahmedabad"* http://epaper.dnaindia.com/epapermain.aspx?pgNo=4&edcode=1310005&eddate=201… http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_wikimedia-commons-to-feature-more-of-a… *Members of Wikipedia's Wikimedia Commons (a repository of free images, sound and other multimedia files which may be used in other projects on the Wikimedia servers) will move around in Ahmedabad on January 3 from 8.30am to 1pm clicking pictures of prominent places of the city and will upload them on the internet through Creative Commons Licenses.* * * *Explaining this, treasurer, Wikimedia India, Anirudh Bhati, informed that under the aegis of this license, pictorial facts about the city will be available to users free of cost. "The license is called, 'Creative Commons Attribution - Sharealike License' and under this licensing certificate, we can release to media in a manner that can be used for commercial and non-commercial purposes without any royalty. Even now people make use of pictures without paying royalty, but that is unethical", Bhati said.* * * *Currently, pictures and matter available online are copyright of authors. However, this licence will help end users to download pictures and also modify them as per their requirements, without explicit permission of the authors, Bhati said.* * * *"By the release of creative works, free of cost, we are trying to create culture and environment which is free."* * * *"For this purpose, on January 3, nearly 230 people will gather outside Gandhi Ashram. We will divide the group into four teams and will coordinate accordingly. These pictures will then be uploaded in Wikimedia Commons and will be made available to all Wikipedias", Bhati informed. Noopur Raval,another member of Wikimedia India, said: "This will help us place Ahmedabad city on the global world."* Regards Tinu Cherian press(a)wikimedia.in http://wiki.wikimedia.in/In_the_news Important Note : The publisher ( DNA ) 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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New Year Resolution-Online Help Session
by Dhaval S. Vyas 30 Dec '11

30 Dec '11

Dear Gujarati Wikipedians, I am planning to have the first ever online help session/discussion forum for the contributors of Gujarati Wikipedia. I will be online on Sunday, the 1st December 2012 from 11 am IST. You can join me on skype (hope these days most of us has an account on skype), which I think is the best way to conference. I will even be online on google talk and yahoo messenger. ID is... *gu.wikipedia *Yes, it is the same ID on all three media, skype, google (gmail/talk) and Yahoo. I will prefer everyone join on skype, if not, yahoo messenger as both of these provide facility to conference with multiple users, and as a last resort only join on google talk. This will be an open discussion forum, so we will be mainly discussing the issues faced by users. Also, I would like to brief on certain things to remember while contributing/translating. Tips for Gujarati grammar conventions, etc. I am planning to run it for an hour max in first instance, and if you all find it useful, we may make it a regular event. So, please try your best to patch in for sometime. What a better start of a new year can be? So let us make it a New Year Resolution to join in the first ever online user conference for our own Gujarati Wikipedia and start contributing more quality work. Looking forward to seeing you all, Yours, Dhaval S. Vyas *RSVP: Plese confirm your attendance on gu [dot] wikipedia [at] gmail [dot] com (gu.wikipedia(a)gmail.com) so that I can have a rough Idea on number of participants.*

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Welcoming Subhashish Panigrahi
by Hisham 22 Dec '11

22 Dec '11

[cross-posting to reach pan-India; apologies if you have got it from some other mailing list.] Hi Folks, As you might be aware, the Consultant, Team Support position is to be filled as part of the India Programs team. (http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-September/004251….) I am really pleased and excited to announce that Subhashish Panigrahi has agreed to join as Consultant, Community & Program Support. Some of you might know Subhashish (or Subha as he's also called.) He is all of 23 and a wonderful Wikimedian from Odisha. He has a BE in Biotechnology from Sapthagiri College of Engineering, Bangalore. He has worked for about 1 1/2 years in business development and is currently based in Bangalore. He's been an active Wikimedian since a friend of his attended a Wikipedia 10th event in Bangalore in January and told Subha about Wikipedia. Subha then spent considerable time - quite a bit of it in Shiju Alex's living room apparently :-) - learning about Wikipedia. Since then, he's been on fire! He's helped the Bangalore community organise the monthly meet-ups, been a central figure in building community & momentum for Odia Wikipedia and has conducted outreach programs for Odia projects back home in Odisha as well as in Bangalore. He's also been helping out other projects and communities; a couple of weekends ago he was in Chennai conducting a WikiAcademy there. He is a fantastically inspiring example of a complete outsider being welcomed into the family, having his hand held in his growth as a newbie, charging forward taking responsibility & ownership and then spreading his skills & knowledge to others. He is also one of the sweetest human beings I have ever met. He is a perfect example of the Wikimedia Dream. His interests (outside of Wikimedia) are cooking, graphic design and handwriting analysis. (I bet most of you who know Subha don't know that last bit about him. So the next time you see him, show him your writing and get him to reveal your deep dark secrets!) He has also been involved with campaigns for social work during the floods and cholera outbreak in Odisha and been involved with a Odisha community organisation, eOdissa.com. Originally, the Consultant, Team Support position (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs#Team_S…) was to manage the back-end aspects of India Programs (basic accounting, basic personnel management, office administration, travel support, expense statement management, logistics support for the community, etc.) I have been looking at the actual work load involved and I do not think this is a full time role. The functions listed are essential and need to be done - but there is an opportunity to improve the richness of the position and it's value to the community. I'm therefore proposing that the Consultant, Team Support be redesignated to Consultant, Community & Program Support. I envisage this position to have about 1/3 of time spent on the back-end work listed above but 2/3 of time can be very productively utilised supporting community efforts - such as helping community building & outreach and supporting community-led initiatives. An important consideration I have for this redesignation is after looking at the specific skills that Subha brings to the table; I want to make sure that he has the required space to realise his potential and to support the community and movement. Subha will of course continue to pursue his personal voluntary work for and as part of the Wikimedia community. The one question that he emphasized during the selection process was whether he would retain the flexibility to continue to pursue his personal passions on Wikimedia; the answer he got was a loud Y-E-S!!! :-) I'm delighted to have another community member joining the team. He'll formally start in Delhi on January 9th 2012. Do join me in welcoming him. Warmest Regards, hisham

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