Cross Posting ! I found it interesting and important.
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From: Audrey Abeyta <audrey.abeyta(a)gmail.com>
Date: 2012/4/24
Subject: [Wikimedia-in-en] We're Almost There!
To: wikimedia-in-en(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Dear Wikipedia contributors,
In the past few weeks, I have reached out to this community on
numerous occasions,
requesting help with my undergraduate honors thesis, which examines
Wikipedians’ motivations to contribute. For anyone who would like more
information about this project, a detailed description can be found here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Motivations_to_Contribute_to_Wikipe…
.
In my last email, I mentioned that I hoped to attain a sample size of at
least 100 Wikipedians, but had only received 52 responses. I am ecstatic to
report that I now have 82 responses – just 18 responses short of the
targeted sample size. If you have not taken the
questionnaire<https://us1.us.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_8ixU9RkozemzC4s>,
please consider donating approximately five minutes of your time to
complete it.
I am so grateful for the Wikipedia community’s support in this project and
will make a final draft of the paper available to the community.
If you have any questions or concerns about this study, please contact
Audrey Abeyta at audrey.abeyta(a)gmail.com.
Thank you in advance for your participation!
Audrey
UC Santa Barbara | Department of Communication
audrey.abeyta(a)gmail.com
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Kind Regards
ansuman
smileyansu <http://twitter.com/smileyansu>
*ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ <http://or.wikipedia.org/>*
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
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Noopur Raval
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
*FYI. Sorry for cross posting. *
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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
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Noopur Raval
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Noopur Raval
Congratulations, Odia Wikimedians, for an extraordinarily productive weekend.
You all should all be really proud of:
a) The sheer level of activity over 3 days: 3 outreach sessions and 1 meet-up is awe-inspiring!
b) The fact that even relatively new folks in the community are standing up and taking initiatives, such as MKar conducting (what I think) is his first outreach session! MKar, loved reading your mail about how you explained to folks that only the most interested need remain in the outreach session after the initial introductory bit (http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2012-April/007897.html). It came from the heart, and it was a delight to read!
c) Looking at all aspects of the various activities - from planning out the venues to getting a beautiful Odia version of the prezi presentation for your outreach sessions (http://prezi.com/ljk3w0m44w6x/copy-of-introduction-to-wikipedia/) to talking in detail about the next steps
d) Showing wonderful initiative like approaching work colleagues for an outreach session at work. We should try that in other places too.
e) Working collaboratively as a community on all the various activities - which you have done so magnificently across this weekend! You are a warm, friendly community - and that comes from each of you as individuals!
f) Having a constructive meetup which was focussed on specific issues and from emerged clear plans and way forward! I am sure this will encourage more meetups and more attendance in these meetups!
g) The press coverage that has been shared on this link is great, but I also have been seeing the social media that you are using (facebook, etc.) which is also going to be very useful for a language that has a decent level of activity on the Internet.
h) The medical outreach will give you great benefits for you Medicine Project. I know there are exams for the students right now, but let's approach them after that and see how they can join your community and projects.
i) You've put in huge physical effort and time - and I know some guys have travelled for hours to get to the various places!
All the very best for everything going forward. Also, as always, please reach out if you need any help from India Program. Do reach out to Subha or Shiju for anything.
Warmest Regards,
hisham
On Apr 9, 2012, at 2:30 PM, Mrutyunjaya Kar wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Apologies for the delayed report.
>
>
> Odia Wikimedia Community had a very eventful, exciting and constructive
> weekend last week! i want to share with you a report of 3 (yes THREE!)
> outreach sessions and the community meet up held between March 30 and April
> 1. Odia Wikipedia Editing Workshop - Anugul - March 30
> *Summary*
> An "Editing Odia Wikipedia" workshop was conducted on 30th March at the
> National Institute of Computer Education, Nalconagar, Anugul. It was
> attended by 14 newbies. Odia WikipedianMrutyunjay
> Kar<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/or:MKar> conducted
> the workshop by introducing Odia Wikipedia to the newbies. (In fact,
> Mrutyunjay single-handedly organized the session and most of the audience
> were his work colleagues who he had told about Odia Wikipedia.) He talked
> briefly about Wikipedia, five pillars and policies. Then there was a
> demonstration session on how to edit Odia Wikipedia. One of the attendees
> was called up to create his own account and then Mrutyunjaya demonstrated
> basics of editing by interacting with the audience. Once we had shown
> everyone this, we invited those who were interested to stay for a more
> detailed and hands-on editing to stay, and told everyone else they were
> free to leave. A few of the audience left the lab, and the remaining 9
> created their user accounts. 4 of the new wikipedians have made small but
> significant edits.
> *Challenges & Solutions*
>
>
> - An issue that was faced was that newbies initially had problems typing
> in Odia. We requested the newbies to check the *Typing
> Help*<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/or:Help:Typing> page
> to understand the key combination. Mrutyunjaya explained how they can
> improve by gradual exercise, using the "Show Preview" option and that
> making corrections is allowed on Wikipedia.
>
>
> *Next Steps*
>
> - Mrutyunjaya will personally interact with the new editors, either
> 1-on-1 or in groups to give them more support on editing and to address
> doubts
> - Mrutyunjaya could conduct more physical meetups in Anugul where help
> more newbies with editing
>
> *Lessons*
>
>
> - Mrutyunjaya's initiative to reach out to his colleagues and friends to
> introduce them to Odia Wikipedia and to encourage them to learn about
> editing by attending the session is really interesting because it increases
> the chances of like-minded folks attending outreach sessions.
> - When we do outreach sessions, it will be nice to share a small note
> about the session (with some useful links) beforehand - so that interested
> participants can read up and be more aware even before the session starts.
> - The idea of splitting the outreach session is very good because it
> allowed only the most committed to stay and allowed us to give them much
> better training.
>
>
> *Odia Wikipedia (Medical) Editing Workshop - Cuttack - March 31*
>
> *Summary*
>
> A outreach session was organized in SCB Medical College, Cuttack - to try
> and get newbies to join Odia Wikipedia community, and specifically to
> support the *WikiProject Medicine
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/or:WP:MED>* (where
> we are trying get the top 70-80 health related articles created in Odia
> Wikipedia. 21 Medical students attended the session which was attended by
> Odia Wikipedians
> Jnanaranjan<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/or:Jnanaranjan_sahu>,
> Srikant Kedia, Kamalakanta & Subha. Jnananranjan explained briefly about
> basics of Wikipedia. One of the student newbies was invited to create a
> username. Students were called for demonstration editing. 4[1] of them
> created usernames. Subha talked briefly about the *WikiProject
> Medicine*<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/or:WP:MED> and
> aim of the project. Student participants had queries about authenticity of
> articles, automatic translations, etc.
>
> *Challenges & Solutions*
>
> - Some of the medical students asked questions like "How will editing
> Odia Wikipedia help for our career?" or "What I will gain from editing
> Wikipedia?" These are standard questions that we all get and we answered
> them by telling them about how it will help their understanding of their
> subjects, will improve their writing skills, give them a larger audience
> for their work, improve their research skills and because it is so much
> fun! We also spoke about the social benefits of a project like medical
> articles on Odia Wikipedia and the social.
> - Lack of computers resulted in a more theoretical discussion rather
> than a practical editing.
>
> *Next Steps*
>
> - A proper editing workshop will be organized after the exams are over
> (in a month) where the students who have attended this session could learn
> more and do live editing. Local Odia Wikipedians will support them. This
> time, we will figure out how to make sure that everyone who attends has
> access to a computer.
> - Emails with quick instructions will be send on 4th April to the
> students with specific links to encourage working on various articles from
> the project page.
> - Welcome messages have been left on the talk pages of all new editors,
> and community members will stay in touch with them.
>
> *Lessons*
>
> - The idea of doing outreach in medical colleges to support the Medicine
> project is very interesting and should be pursued. Many times, we conduct
> outreach sessions but we leave it completely open to newbies to figure out
> what that they want to edit. Some times this works, but many times, they
> are just lost about what to edit. An idea of doing an outreach session to
> encourage them to edit a particular set of projects has a lot of potential.
>
> - Also, since they are joining a WikiProject straight away, there will
> hopefully be greater changes of interactions with existing community
> members so that the newbies can build relationships and get support.
> - This session was not adequately planned and even though 21 students
> attended - which is great (!) - it was all last minute. Going forward, we
> should try and plan these sessions with more time and get interested
> participants more aware by sending brief write-ups about Odia Wikipedia and
> the purpose & benefits of attending the outreach session.
> - Lastly, getting everyone to have computers or laptops is a must. Even
> if everyone does not have a laptop, we must encourage newbies to come up
> and create accounts and do live edits. Otherwise, it is just theory,
> theory, theory.
>
> *Odia Wikipedia Editing Workshop - Bhubaneswar - April 1*
> *Summary*
>
> This workshop was conducted on April 1 - which happens to be the Odisha day
> (or the foundation day of Odisha). It was attended by 20 newbies. The
> workshop started with a formal inauguration and opening talk about Odisha
> day by Manoranjan <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/or:ManXii> . Then Odia
> Wikipedian Mrutyunjay Kar <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/or:MKar> presented
> and explained the "Basics of
> Wikipedia"<http://prezi.com/ljk3w0m44w6x/copy-of-introduction-to-wikipedia/>.
> One of the participants were asked to come and create an user account and
> basic editing was demonstrated. After this, there was a press interaction
> with Kanak TV, MBC TV and STV - 3 local TV channels. There was a 10 minute
> tea break - after which newbies were encouraged to ask questions. Each
> experienced wikipedians were assigned to 2/3 new wikipedians - and they all
> then worked in groups to create their usernames and helped with basic
> editing. 13 participants created their user accounts[1] and of the new
> wikipedians actively edited several articles.[2][3][4]. This also includes
> a very young editor (around 15 years old) who was until then just a reader
> of Odia Wikipedia. With little guidance he has started contributing to
> several articles. [5] (His father later got in touch with the organisers
> and thanked them for helping his son get excited by typing in Odia!)
>
> *Challenges & Solutions*
>
> - Most of the newbies had an initial struggle because fo lack of
> experience in typing in Odia. We requested the newbies to check the *Typing
> Help* <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/or:Help:Typing> page to understand
> the key combination. Mrutyunjaya explained how they can improve by gradual
> exercise, using the "Show Preview" option and that making corrections is
> allowed on Wikipedia. They were also pointed to the page in the physical
> FAQ Booklet page for guidance.
> - Many newbies were still on Windows XP - so community members had to
> fix the font related issues.*
> *
>
> *Next Steps*
>
> - Emails will be sent to all those who attended with instructions for
> further editing by local Odia Wikipedians who conducted the sesssions.
> Odia Wikipedians will try to stay in touch through regular talk page
> messages with all those who created user accounts.
> - We will also connect with the participants by creating a facebook
> group so that it is easier for them to ask questions and feel part of a
> community, in a more casual setting like facebook.
>
> *Lessons*
>
> - More focus on editing during outreach sessions instead of just talking
> randomly about Wikipedia - and giving individual attention to newbies
> during the session.
> - It is really important to focus on how handholding of newbies will
> happen after the outreach session, instead of just leaving them all alone.
>
>
> *Notes*
>
> 1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 New Username
> creations<http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%AC%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%B6%E0%AD%87%E0%AC%B7:…>
> 2. ↑ User:Errajkishor<http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%AC%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%B6%E0%AD%87%E0%AC%B7:…>
> 3. ↑ User:Arup
> Samal<http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%AC%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%B6%E0%AD%87%E0%AC%B7:…>
> 4. ↑ User:Ucsahoo<http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%AC%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%B6%E0%AD%87%E0%AC%B7:…>
> 5. ↑ User:Saileshpat<http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%AC%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%B6%E0%AD%87%E0%AC%B7:…>
>
> *Odia Wikipedia Community Meet-Up - Bhubaneswar - April 1**Summary*
>
> The community meetup was held up to brainstorm about how to build the Odia
> wiki community and to identify issues & solutions that community members
> were facing. We also wanted to celebrate sucesses and have some fun!
> Despite several physical outreach events, Odia Wikipedia Community is still
> lagging behind in getting newbies to join and stay in the community.
> However, there are many examples of better results from successful turn up
> from online outreach programs.
>
> As the community is very small, the biggest idea we discussed is how to do
> more effective online outreach. (There are several examples of newbies
> joining due to online outreach - such as Suratha [1], Chinmaya Dash[2],
> Manoranjan [3], Prasanta Bhunya [4] - who are all active editors now. Subha
> had shared his experiences of reaching out to folks on facebook who were
> writing in Odia and introducing them to Odia Wikipedia and then giving them
> online editing advice as well as sharing tips and useful links.)
> *Next Steps*
>
>
> - The Facebook group <http://facebook.com/groups/odiawiki> will be used
> more effectively to bring more new editors. It was emphasised that
> facebook would be used only as an online gateway for Wikipedia related
> discussions and only to invite newbies to Wikipedia. Wikipedia discussions
> must always happen on village pumps and talk pages only. Newbies will be
> encouraged to have all wiki discussions on wiki itself, as soon as possible
> - Noopur will be asked to provide support on facebook by providing
> advice and tips on how to use facebook most effectively, and working
> closely with interested community members.
> - On-line chatting - where experienced Odia Wikipeidans could help out
> newbies to learn editing - will be made more frequent.
> - Standard presentations/tools in Odia will be prepared that can be used
> for online outreach (presentations, pdf cheatsheets, transliteration
> Roman-Odia Key combinations, revised FAQ booklet, etc.)
> - Chatasabha <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/or:WP::CS>, a platform for
> inviting newbies by answering their questions through an easy-to-find tab
> Odia Wikipedia homepage was shared - and it was agreed to use this for
> newbie interaction and support.
> - It is really important to improve collaboration and Wikiprojects are a
> really great way of doing this.
> User:Shisir_1945<http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%AC%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%B6%E0%AD%87%E0%AC%B7:…>
> started WikiProject
> Science<http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%89%E0%AC%87%E0%AC%95%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%AA%…>.
> On Wikiprojects, it is important to divide tasks based on time
> availability and personal interests so that there is better coordination
> and motivation.
>
>
> *Challenges & Solutions*
>
> - The available documents which community members share with newbies
> have too much text and they need to be simplified and illustrated with
> screenshots and How-To's.
> - Mrutyunjay asked what was the best way to answer questions like what
> will people gain from contributing to Odia Wikipedia, as well as the
> reducing level of interest in local languages. It was suggested that
> a limited, interested bunch of people should be targeted for outreach - and
> if we invest time in the most committed and motivated, we will get enough
> people who have the right mindset and abilites.
> - The fact that Odia Wikipedia is not too well known was discussed and
> it was agreed to try and build contacts so that the message can be spread
> (via web, print and other media) about the project and the community.
> Also, the message should include the fact that People still are unaware of
> its existence and the fact "They can also edit Wikipedia".
> - The current typing tool has some issues which need rectification.
>
> *Lessons*
>
> - This was a really useful meetup - and there were 3 reasons for it.
> Firstly, everyone was encouraged talk. Secondly, there was a specific
> agenda that everyone stuck to. Thirldy - we had FUN!
> - After meetups, it is important that there are clear plans of action -
> and each individual community member knows exactly what he or she is going
> to be doing. Experienced editors should focus community building and not
> only on individual editing. This includes outreach sessions, hand-holding
> newbies and starting / managing Wikiprojects.
>
> *Notes*
>
> 1. ↑ User:ସୁରଥ_କୁମାର_ପାଢ଼ୀ<http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%AC%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%B6%E0%AD%87%E0%AC%B7:…>
> 2. ↑ User:ଚିନ୍ମୟ
> ଦାଶ<http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%AC%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%B6%E0%AD%87%E0%AC%B7:…>
> 3. ↑ User:ManXiii<http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%AC%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%B6%E0%AD%87%E0%AC%B7:…>
> 4. ↑ User:Prasantabhunya<http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%AC%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%B6%E0%AD%87%E0%AC%B7:…>
>
>
> Thanks and regards
> Mrutyunjay Kar
> Jnanaranjan Sahu
> Manoranjan Behera
>
>
>
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ଏପ୍ରିଲ ୨୮ ତାରିଖରେ କେରଳର କୋଲାମଠାରେ ଅନୁଷ୍ଠିତ ହେବାକୁ ଥିବା ମାଲାୟାଲମ
ସଙ୍ଗମୋତ୍ସବମରେ ସମସ୍ତ ଭାରତୀୟ ଭାଷାର ଉଇକିଆଳିଙ୍କୁ ଅନୁରୋଧ କରାଯାଉଛି । ଏଥିରେ
ଜଣେ/ଅଧିକ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଯୋଗଦେଇ ପାରିବେ । ତେବେ ଏଥି ନିମନ୍ତେ କୌଣସି ବୃତ୍ତିର ସୁବିଧା ନାହିଁ
। ଯଦି ଉଇକିଆଳିଗଣ ଜଣଙ୍କୁ ବାଛି କୌଣସିମତେ ଅର୍ଥ ଯୋଗାଡ଼ କରିପାରିବେ ତେବେ ଜଣେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ
ଉଇକିଆଳି ଏଥିରେ ଯୋଗଦେଇ ଅଧିକ ଜ୍ଞାନ ଆହରଣ କରିବାର ସୁଯୋଗ ପାଇପାରିବେ ଓ ବାକିମାନଙ୍କୁ
ମଧ୍ୟ ବତାଇପାରିବେ । ସେଠାରେ ରହିବାର ସୁବିଧା କରାଯାଇଛି, କେବଳ ଉଡାଜାହାଜରେ ଯିବା ଖରଚ
(ଭୁବନେଶ୍ଵର-ତ୍ରିଭେନ୍ଦ୍ରମ) ଆପଣଙ୍କୁ ବହନ କରିବାକୁ ପଡିବ । ଯଦି କେହି ନିଜ ସଂସ୍ଥା
ତରଫରୁ ଅର୍ଥ ଯୋଗାଡ଼ କରିବାରେ ସକ୍ଷମ ହୋଇପାରନ୍ତି ତେବେ ଜଣେ ଉଇକିଆଳି ଏଥିରେ ଯୋଗ
ଦେଇପାରିବେ ।
*ତାରିଖ: ୨୮ ଓ ୨୯ ଏପ୍ରିଲ ୨୦୧୨*
*ସ୍ଥାନ: କୋଲାମ, କେରଳ*
ସାଧୁବାଦ
ସୁଭ
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From: Hisham <hisham(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 12:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiSangamolsavam - Annual WikiConference
of Malayalam Wikicommunity
To: Wikimedia India Community list <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Dear All
This is a sweet invite from the Malayalam community - and I thought I would
add a few points about why it might be useful for non-Malayalam Wikimedians
to attend.
The Malayalam community is one of India's largest Indic communities (with
nearly 100 active editors.) It also has a wonderful history of community
building and collaboration - and any non-Malayalam editor who attends this
even would gain tremendously from hearing at first hand about their
activities, which include (and I'm listing only a few here):
- systematic organisation of outreach (they have, for instance,
conducted outreach sessions in every district headquarters in Kerala)
- attracting, training & retaining newbies (in terms of reaching out and
providing the intial hand-holding that is so necessary)
- collaborative efforts such as wikiprojects (Wikiproject Gramapanchayat
- which created / improved articles on Malayalam Wikipedia on every gram
panchayat in Kerala)
- large scale organisation initiatives such as the offline project
(which contained 500 Wikipedia articles, and the world's first offline
version of Wikisource)
- Wikisource now has more than 500 Malayalam books (and includes a very
interesting model where 50 secondary schools students are currently helping
out as wikilibrarians!)
- ambitious community-wide communications efforts such as an annual
report<http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%…>
You will meet the Wikimedians who did all of this and be able to take back
ideas for your own communities and projects.
You will find the Malayalam community incredibly friendly - and I am sure
relationships that you build there will be useful when you return to your
communities.
Best
*hisham*
On Apr 10, 2012, at 11:08 AM, Ramesh N G wrote:
In continuation to the earlier announcement, here are the latest updates on
*
WikiSangamolsavam - The Annual WikiConference of Malayalam Wikicommunity. *
The conference is happening on April 28th and 29th at
Kollam<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kollam>,
Kerala <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerala>. We expect around 200 people
to attend this conference.
1. The Programs has been Finalized. Click *here* to view the page in En.
2. The registration is now
open<http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%…>.
Click *here *<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHhrRkFXNEF6SmU4LUhudk…>to
register. (currently only available in ml). If any non-ml users want to
register, Please send a mail to wikisamgamothsavam2012(a)gmail.com.
Registration is in full swing and already close to 100 people registered.
Some of the highlights of Malayalam conference:
1. We expect around 200 people to attend this conference which includes
around 50 students selected from different schools of Kollam district.
2. There are 26 Submissions / Presentation by Wikipedians / public in two
days.
3. A panel discussion regarding Copyright of Government documents. - Day-2
4. Parallel Wiki School Students Conference - on Day-2
5. An Analaysis of all Malayalam wiki projects and discussion about taking
the Malayalam wiki projects forward.
6. Public Speeches by prominent IT movement leaders of Kerala.
7. Wiki workshops to introduce malayalam wiki projects to new bies
If any non-ml users want to register, Please send a mail to
wikisamgamothsavam2012(a)gmail.com. Registeration fee is 300 Rs and there are
no scholarships available for this conference. We are planning to run a
special 2 hour session for non-Malayalam wikipedians attenduing the
malayalam confernce. We welcome all of you to God's own country.
*FAQ *<http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%…>is
available in ml.
If you still have any question, please write to
wikisamgamothsavam2012(a)gmail.com
User:Rameshng
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 7:45 AM, Adv. T.K Sujith <tksujith(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Friends,
> The annual meet-up of Malayalam Wikimedia Community - *Wikisangamolsavam
> 2012 *
> will be held on 28th and 29th of April 2012 at District Panchayath Hall,
> Kollam,<http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&sugexp=llsin&gs_nf=1&tok=bsHEj9zf5DvmQARC…>Kerala.
>
> We expect 200 participants for the event from inside and outside Kerala.
> This is an open event and in this meetup, along with the whole malayalam
> wiki community,
> any person those who interested in Malayalam Wikimeida Activities
> such as Students, Teachers, Computer Professionals, Educational and Social
> workers etc. can attend.
> Plz see the event page of Wikisangamolsavam2012
> <http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%…>for
> more details
>
> In these two days Meetup we will discuss annual reports of Malayalam
> Wikimedia Projects.
> There also 3 parallel sessions for presentations and discussions on
> general topics connected with wikipedia.
> We expecting papers on different subjects mainly come under the tracks of
> "Community, Knowledge, Technology and Outreach".
> Selected participants can present papers and talks.
> You can submit your paper through this<http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%…>link.
>
> General Speeches of eminent personalities in subjects like Internet
> Freedom is also included.
> A second edition of "Malayalam Loves WIkimedia"
> <http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%…>is
> successfully going on as a campaign for
> WikiSangamotsavam. At present 2819 more uploads done into Wiki Media
> Commons through this programme.
>
> The registration fees decided are Rs 200 for early bird, Rs 300 for
> regular and Rs 150 for students.
> We have also planned to arrange scholorships for selected students.
> We are cordially invite all, those who interested in Malayalam Wikipedia
> Activities
> into the *WikiSangamolsavam 2012*.
> The registration page<http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%…>is under construction.
> Now you can express your interest of participation on this<http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%…>page.
> Please give your valuable suggestions also.
>
> Be spread the word about WikiSangamotsavam 2012, thank you
>
> [[user:Adv.tksujith]]
>
>
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> Alappuzha, Kerala | *ആലപ്പുഴ, കേരളം*
> 09846012841
>
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