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Wikisource Logo Discussion
by Abhiram C 15 Feb '12

15 Feb '12

Dear fellow sa-wiki members, The logo for the Samskrit Wikisource has been provided by User: VIGNERON and is ready for the bug to be filed for updation, But it needs the community consensus and hence I request the community people for the approval. The approval can be done at http://sa.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%….... -- Regards, Abhiram Samskrit Wikisource Administrator

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Sanskrit Wikipedia statistics
by Swaroop Rao 05 Feb '12

05 Feb '12

This should be very heartening. Steady growth in Editor numbers, article numbers, and in most other places as well. Statistics are good. Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch>)

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[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimania 2012 - scholarship applications, Deadline : 16 Feb 2012
by Tinu Cherian (Wikimedia India) 31 Jan '12

31 Jan '12

Cross-posting to other lists. Ignore this if you have already seen it on another mailing list. Hi all, Wikimania is the annual international conference of Wikimedians , jointly hosted by the local team ( usually local chapter) and the Wikimedia Foundation. The previous conferences were held in Frankfurt, Germany (2005), Boston, USA (2006), Taipei, Taiwan (2007), Alexandria, Egypt (2008), Buenos Aires, Argentina (2009), Gdan'sk, Poland (2010), and Haifa, Israel (2011). This year, it is to be held in Washington DC, United States of America, on July 12-14 , 2012. http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page <http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page> I have attended the Wikimanias in Gdansk and Haifa, along with several other Wikipedians from India. http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wikimania2011 <http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wikimania2011> I highly recommend everyone to apply and attend Wikimania ! Like every year, The Wikimedia Foundation is offering a limited number of scholarships to offset the cost of select individuals' attendance at Wikimania. Both full and partial scholarships are available for Wikimania 2012: Full scholarships will award round trip travel, dorms accommodations and registration. Partial scholarships will subsidize up to 300EUR of travel expenses. Scholarship recipients have to bear themselves the additional costs of taxis, visa & travel agent charges etc. More Information : http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships <http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships> Apply here : https://secure.wikidc.org/wm/schols/ <https://secure.wikidc.org/wm/schols/> Deadline : *16 Feb 2012* Around 30 % of the scholarship are allocated to Asia & Pacific, so there are more chances of scholarship applications from India to be selected. :) Please note that the selection is mostly based on the merit of the applications. One of the common mistakes that Wikimedians in India make is that we aren't enough vocal of what we do. So please do write in detail about your Wikimedia activities. Please feel free to forward this to various language and city mailing lists and encourage other Wikimedians to apply. All the best wishes! Regards Tinu Cherian

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Threemore suggested sets of Devanagari Unicode FREE fonts
by ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ) 21 Jan '12

21 Jan '12

Please visit this and associated pages to see three Devanagari Unicode font sets viz. Chandas, Uttara and Siddhanta. These fonts have also variation versions incorporating extra characters and ligatures used specifically in vedic sanskrit. (Some of them are yet to get a Unicode value). http://svayambhava.blogspot.com/p/siddhanta-devanagariunicode-open-type.html These are free for use and adaptation as per the information on the relevant web pages. It is suggested that you use any of the suitable fonts from this set as the default devanagari font for your browser. These fonts may also be added to our Input methods by the 'narayam' team. Administrators may please consider along this direction. -ViswaPrabha

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Wikimedia India Chapter : December 2011 Report
by CherianTinu Abraham 20 Jan '12

20 Jan '12

Cross-posting to other lists. Kindly excuse if you have already received this via another mailing list. Regards Tinu Cherian Head of Communications, Wikimedia India Chapter http://wiki.wikimedia.in/ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Naveen Francis <naveenpf(a)wikimedia.in> Date: Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:39 AM Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter : December 2011 Report To: Wikimedia India Community list <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Dear all, Greetings from Wikimedia India !!! We are delighted to present the last monthly Wikimedia India report of the year 2011, almost a year after the chapter received the formal recognition from the Government of Karnataka on 3 January 2011. The journey so far wasn't easy, but we appreciate your continued patronage , support and participation. *Organisational Updates* *Formation of Task Forces:* As announced earlier, with the objective of increasing the engagement and participation of the members of the chapter actively in various initiatives, the India chapter has come up with focused Task Forces for coordinating and driving various chapter activities [1]. There are two types of Task Forces - Project Task Forces and Operations Task Forces. The Project Task Forces are focused on growing the Wikimedia projects. The Operations Task Forces are critical functions to enable the Project Task Forces and the Chapter in growing the movement. The operations group consists of Administration, Fund raising, & Communications. The Projects task force consists of City and Langugage SIGs and Special Projects. The new task forces will be led by the following people: - Anirudh Bhati, Head, Fundraising. - Arun Ramarathnam, Chair, Special Projects. - Srinivas Gunta, Head, Administration. - Sudhanwa Jogalekar, Chair, City and Language Special Interest Groups. - Tinu Cherian, Head, Communications, PR & Media Relations. *Membership:* The Chapter membership stands at 190 members as of 31 December 2011. *Donations:* Total donations received in Dec 2011 - INR 700 Average donations in Dec 2011 - INR 350 *FCRA:* Our application for FCRA prior permission under the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act with the Government of India is still pending. An official from the Home Ministry has visited Arjuna Rao Chavala, President. *Internet Relay Chat(IRCs):* >From time to time, Wikimedia India conduct planned online IRC chat sessions. The Dec 17, 2011 was anchored by Arun with the focus on Chapter City & Language Special Interest Groups. [2] *Board Meetings:* The Chapter Executive Committee had two Tele-conference meetings in the month of December (dated 07 Dec and 14 Dec, 2011). The Wikimedia India chapter and Wikimedia Foundation had one joint co-ordination call on 21 Dec 2011, which was attended by Arjuna Rao Chavala, Arun Ramaratnam, Naveen Francis, Sudhanwa Jogalekar, Tinu Cherian, Anirudh Bhati, Asaf Bartov and Hisham Mundol. The summary of the joint coordination call was shared earlier [3]. Community City and Language Special Interest Groups City and Language Special Interest Groups are a mechanism to engage the diverse interests of members across India. The objective is to grow the wiki projects in their areas of interest by reviewing the status, planning and executing events of interest through growing the community involvement. The leadership of these groups is part of the extended leadership of the Chapter. The Wikimedia Chapter is proud to announce the appointment of the next batch of City and Language Special Interest Group Chairs [4] as given below: *City* - Delhi SIG - Noopur Raval (noopur [at] wikimedia [dot] in) - Bangalore SIG - RadhaKrishna (Arkrishna [at] wikimedia [dot] in) - Mumbai SIG - Kundan Amitabh (kundan.amitabh [at] wikimedia [dot] in) - Pune SIG - Mandar Kulkarni(mandar.kulkarni [at] wikimedia [dot] in) - Kolkata SIG - Kalyan Sarkar (kalyan [at] wikimedia [dot] in) *Languages* - English SIG - Ashwin Baindur (ashlin [at] wikimedia [dot] in) - Kannada SIG - Omshivaprakash H L (omshivaprakash [at] wikimedia [dot] in) - Marathi SIG - Mahitgar (mahitgar [at] wikimedia [dot] in) - Telugu SIG - Rahimanuddin Shaik (rahimanuddin [at] wikimedia [dot] in) The current sign-ups of Members for the SIGs are as follows: *City Special Interest Groups* City Members Bangalore 10 Delhi 2 Mumbai 3 Pune 6 Kolkata 2 *Language Special Interest Groups* Language Volunteers Bengali 1 English 15 Hindi 1 Kannada 3 Marathi 4 Malayalam 8 Nepali 1 Odia 3 Sanskrit 2 Telugu 3 Events A round-up of Wikimedia events and initatives around the nation is as follows. - *Wiki Academy @Jaya Engineering college * ( 10 Dec 2011) : The first Wiki Academy in Jaya Engineering college, Chennai,[5] was organized by the Wikimedia chapter and co-hosted by Jaya FOSS Club. Odia Wiki Chair & Chapter member, Subhashish Panigrahi explained basics of Wikipedia, how it is edited by millions of volunteers, how Wikipedia is exclusively encyclopedic and kind of articles and notability of articles in Wikipedia, how Wikipedians communicate and form community, and organization of Wikimedia foundations and active projects. Then he took the audience through active editing by signing up, searching for articles, choosing articles to create. Then he demonstrated about creating an article by using the Edit toolbar, citing the text by searching the web and uploading and adding pictures in articles. The editing session was followed by a Q & A session. Hisham Mundol, Consultant, Wikimedia Foundation India Programs, connected with the audience via Google Hangout. Hisham interacted with the audience by giving a talk about the nature of the event, few details about Wikipedia, WMF and Chapter and foundation are trying to do in India. He answered questions raised by the audience. Nitika Tandon , Consultant, Wikimedia Foundation India Programs, later explained about the India Education program (IEP), how it functions and the student-teacher-foundation collaborations through the education program. The photos of the event are available here [6]. - *Coimbatore 1st Meetup*( 10 Dec 2011) : The first Kovai (Coimbatore) meetup [7] was held at KGISL Campus, Saravanampatti, Coimbatore. The Meetup was organised by Srikanth Ramakrishnan (User:Rsrikanth05) and User:Sodabottle. - *Bangalore Wikimeetup 40* ( 11 Dec 2011) : Around 11 people attended the 40th Wikimeetup in Bangalore [8]. The Bangalore SIG Chair, RadhaKrishna presented a talk on the experiences on WikiConference India 2011 and WikiAcademy events in IT companies. Experiences of Wiki Academy in Jaya engineering college and way forward was shared by by Subhashish Panigrahi. Plans regarding Wiki Eleven in January 2012 was discussed. The photos of the event are available here [9]. - *Wikipedia Meetup1 Salem*( 11 Dec 2011) : A Wikimeetup was organised at Salem, Tamil Nadu, [10] by Tamil Wikipedians Sodabottle and Surya Prakash. - '*Wikipedia Takes Kolkata /Kolkata Photo Walk* (18 Dec 2011) : A Photo Walk was organised in Kolkata, West Bengal [11] by Kalyan Sarkar (Kolkata SIG Chair), Jayanta Nath (Bengali SIG Chair) and Biswarup Ganguly. Around 437 images were uploaded to Wikimedia Commons as a part of this initiative.[12] - *GLAMcamp Amsterdam * Noopur Raval ( Delhi SIG Chair and GLAM enthusiastic) attended GLAM worskop in Amsterdam, hosted by Wikimedia Nederland. [13] - *Wikipedians participation in CMDA IT Expo , 2011*: Indian Wikipedians participated in the annual CMDA IT Expo 2011, Pune.[14] The stall were manned by Sudhanwa Jogalekar ( EC member), Mahitgar ( Marathi SIG Chair), Ashwin Baindur ( English SIG Chair) , Hisham Mundol and Nitika Tandon ( WMF India Programs), and Campus Ambassador (IEP) volunteers. - *Malayalam Wiki-Academies:* Malayalam Wiki-community organised two Wiki-Academies in Kerala in the month of December at Alappuzha ( Dec 13) and Kollam (Dec 31). The Alappuzha (2nd Wikiacademy) held at St.Joseph Vanitha College was led by Adv. T.K Sujith, Adv. M.P.Manojkumar and Akhil Krishnan. The Kollam (4th Wikiacademy) held at Govt. Higher Secondary School, Anchal West, was led by Kiran Gopi ( User:Kiran_Gopi) , Faud A.J. ( User:Faudaj) , Kannan Shanmugam ( User:Fotokannan)and Sugeesh ( User:Sugeesh) Other News - A new initiative named *"Featured Wikimedian* was started on the public wiki of Wikimedia India. Every month, one Indian wikimedian will be featured. [15] - * Tamil Wikimedia contest*: The Tamil Wikimedia community has organised an international contest to get more photos, videos and audios related to Tamil, Tamilians and Tamil culture to the Tamil Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons. [16] (themed “Eluthu mattum arivanru” or “Knowledge beyond text”) . The Tamil Wikipedia Community and the Wikimedia Foundation have jointly sponsored a prize money of $850 (with nine prizes) for winners. (The first, second and third prizes are $200, $100 and $50. Three prizes of $100 each are for those uploading the maximum number of quality entries. A special prize of $150 is for media files on traditional Tamil arts and crafts. Winners would be announced on March 15, 2012 and they would get certificates with their entries displayed on the front pages of Tamil Wiki projects. The contest (, November 15, 2011 to February 29, 2012) is open to all and is on Facebook [17]. - India Wikipedians Sengai Podhuvan , Karthik Nadar and Aniruddha Kumar joins Jimmy Wales among others in the *Wikimedia Fundraising 2011 banners * [18]. - *New Mailing lists* are created for Gujarati Wikipedia[19], Assamese Wikipedia [20], GLAM India [21] and India related content on English Wikipedia & related projects. [22]. Milestones & Anniversaries * December 2011* [23] 25 - The Tamil Wikipedia<http://internal.wikimedia.in/index.php?title=Ta:&action=edit&redlink=1>has reached 1,000,000 page edits. - The Urdu Wiktionary <http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ur:> has reached 10,000 total pages. 21 - The Malayalam Wikipedia<http://internal.wikimedia.in/index.php?title=Ml:&action=edit&redlink=1>has turned 9. 18 - The Bengali Wiktionary <http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bn:> has reached 2,000 entries, as a user adds over 1,300 entries for Malagasy words in 5 hours. 16 - The Bihari Wikipedia<http://internal.wikimedia.in/index.php?title=Bh:&action=edit&redlink=1>has reached 100,000 page edits. 9 - The Sanskrit Wiktionary <http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sa:> has reached 100 entries. - The Urdu Wiktionary <http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ur:> has reached 5,000 entries. 5 - The Marathi Wikibooks<http://internal.wikimedia.in/index.php?title=B:mr:&action=edit&redlink=1>has reached 1,000 registered users. 4 - The Kannada Wiktionary <http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kn:> has reached 150,000 entries. Media Coverage - 28 Dec : Financial Chronicle : Wikipedians say Indian govt should ease copyright curbs<http://www.mydigitalfc.com/knowledge/wikipedians-say-indian-govt-should-eas…> - 27 Dec : Ahmedabad Mirror : " Ahmedabad to go Wiki with your clicks" <http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/article/2/2011122720111227022617405d732bc46/…> - 24 Dec : The Economic Times : "Wikipedia enlists Indians to be the standard-bearers for its fund-raising efforts"<http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/internet/wikipedia-enlists-indians…> - 18 Dec : The Hindu : "Creative Commons: the licence to evolve"<http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/article272537…> - 16 Dec : The Hindu : "Contest to add files to Tamil Wikipedia gathers steam"<http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/article2719118.ece?textsiz…> - 1 Dec : Tech Marathi: मराठी विकिपीडिया संपादन – अवघड की सोपे?<http://techmarathi.com/?p=1243>( Marathi) We look forward to your continued support and active participation. Best, On behalf of Wikimedia Chapter (India) Naveen Francis Secretary Notes: - 1) http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Announcements/Call_for_participation_of_Members_in… - 2) http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Internet_Relay_Chats/Dec_17,2011 - 3) http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Announcements/Chapter-Foundation:_Co-Ordination_Ca… - 4) http://wiki.wikimedia.in/City_and_Language_SIG_subcommittee_chair - 5) http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wiki_Academy/Jaya_Engineering_College - 6) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Jaya_Engineering_College_Wiki_Ac… - 7) http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore/Coimbatore1 - 8) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore40 - 9) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Bangalore_Meetup_December2011 - 10) http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:SALEM1 - 11) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_Kolkata - 12) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_Takes_Kolkata - 13) http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAMcamp_Amsterdam - 14 http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-December/006135.… - 15) http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Category:Featured_Wikimedian - 16) http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contest/en - 17) http://www.facebook.com/tawmc - 18) http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2011#A_Parade_of_Appeals.21_Dece… - 19) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-gu - 20) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-as - 21) http://lists.wmnederland.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/wlm-in - 22) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-en - 23) http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Milestones_and_Anniversary _______________________________________________ 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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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 Sanskrit wikipedia is on *December 21*. The first edit in Sanskrit wikipedia had happened on *2003-December-21<http://sa.wikipedia.org/wiki/?diff=1> * which means Assamese 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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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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Indian Language wikipedia Statistics – 2011 October
by Shiju Alex 12 Dec '11

12 Dec '11

Dear All, I am sharing the statistical report of Indian language wiki projects for the month of 2011 October. It is available here. https://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/12/12/indian-language-wikipedia-statistics-… Some interesting facts that I discovered this month are: - Nearly *4.3 crore* readers are there for all Indic language wikipedias! This number is huge and increased by nearly 1/3 in just 1 month! So Indic wikis has huge reader base. - Marathi wiki community has increased its active editor base by nearly 33% in just 1 month. - Sanskrit wikipedia has been amongst the shining stars of *all* Indic language wikipedias in terms of adding new articles (12 new articles every day in October) and edits per article (nearly 18 edits across all articles, old and new.) You can find more interesting facts from the report at https://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/12/12/indian-language-wikipedia-statistics-… Shiju

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Image editing
by abhiram vasishta 05 Dec '11

05 Dec '11

Dear all, There is an urgent need of image editing at Sanskrit Wikipedia community.. The images to be edited are the logos of sa-wikipedia, sa-wikisource and sa-wiktionary.. The text part in the logo of sa-wikipedia should be changed from विकिपीडिय to विकिपीडिया. While the other two logos should be translated to sanskrit and then put up.. -- Regards, Abhiram

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Sharing insights and experiences from Indian language wikipedias - Sanskrit
by Shiju Alex 26 Nov '11

26 Nov '11

Dear All, As mentioned in the last two mails, as part of the Indic Languages initiatives of India Programs<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_…>, I have been having detailed discussions with a wide range of Indic language wikipedians for the past few weeks. I already shared the summary of the discussions I had with with the Assamese<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_…>and Hindi<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_…>wikimedians. Today I'm sharing a summary of the discussions I had with the Sanskrit wikipedians. It is available here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_… I must say the progress made by Sanskrit wiki projects in the past 2 years is marvelous, especially considering the fact that its speaker base is too low (compared to the rest of the 20 indic languages having wikipedia). The amount of activism is Sanskrit wikisource is also very high. I am sure Sanskrit wiki community is the one wiki community that is going to utilize all the sister projects at its fullest. Sanskrit wiki workshops are happening all over the country. Today I attended a Sanskrit wiki workshop in a Sanskrit institution at New Dellhi. In Delhi itself Sanskrit wikipedians are planning many other Sanskrit wiki activities. With so many volunteers involved in the projects I am sure Sanskrit is going to make good progress. Inviting your comments on the talk page. Regards, Shiju Alex

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