WikiX-l January 2011

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Sweden: First event success, moving on to second event
by Lennart Guldbrandsson 15 Jan '11

15 Jan '11

Hello, Just to let you a little bit about what happens in Sweden: It has been a media frenzy, with us in Wikimedia Sverige and regular Wikipedians being interviewed in most major news outlets, including TV and the big newspapers. There have been some blog actvity, and there is a steady flow of Tweets. Most of the stories and posts have been of generally higher quality than is usual, with the biggest newspaper, Dagens nyheter being among the best. A little bit surprising to us is that the reporter Adam Svanell who wrote a story this autumn where he tested adding silly things to his Wikipedia article would get noticed (which is wasn't, since he's barely notable), and appeared quite critical towards Wikipedia, despite stating that he liked it - well, he has been seen everywhere during the anniversary media coverage. Apparently he's the go-to guy among journalists for the inside scoop about how bad Wikipedia is. The second twist in the story is that he has actually tried to say nice things about us, but the other journalists keep coming back to him with questions that focus on his article, which he admits is very un-scientific. Some of the blog posts about our panel debate and party on the 13th have been a little critical, as well. Mostly they have complained that 1) we are very bad at organising events (which is why we paid a PR firm to do it for us - and also is somewhat positivt, since it means that we focus on other things), 2) the participants in the panel debate being badly selected, and 3) the debate itself being a little bit off-topic instead of concentrating on some of the hard questions about Wikipedia. I have blogged about it: http://wikimediasverige.wordpress.com (in Swedish). We have a film of the panel debate, which we hopefully will upload today. And in about four hours I will have to get up, so I'll get to bed now. Have a good Wikipedia-day, everyone! Best wishes, Lennart Guldbrandsson, Fellow of the Wikimedia Foundation / Wikimedia Foudation-stipendiat Chair of Wikimedia Sverige / ordförande för Wikimedia Sverige http://wikimedia.se Tfn: 031 - 12 50 48 Mobil: 070 - 207 80 05 Epost: l_guldbrandsson(a)hotmail.com Användarsida: http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anv%C3%A4ndare:Hannibal Blogg: http://mrchapel.wordpress.com/

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Fwd: LOGO design of Burmese (Myanmar) Language in Wikipedia 10 anniversary
by Erik Moeller 15 Jan '11

15 Jan '11

I'm assuming this was directed at the list. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Thatoe Kyaw <myanmardj(a)gmail.com> Date: 2011/1/14 Subject: LOGO design of Burmese (Myanmar) Language in Wikipedia 10 anniversary To: wikix-l-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org Hello Wikipedia Congratulation of your 10 years anniversary. This attache file is the Burmese language logo of Wikipedia 10 anniversary. Here is the 10 years anniversary of Wikipedia celebrates in Burma(Myanmar) http://freedomnewsgroup.com/2011/01/14/wikipedia-10-year-anniversary/ -- Sincerely Thatoe -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

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About 400 people on Wikipedia 10th anniversary event in Tel Aviv, Israel
by Itzik Edri 15 Jan '11

15 Jan '11

Hey, Just quick update (we will send soon full update about the events that we arranged in Israel) but this morning we had about 400 people on "Lev" cinema in Tel aviv, Israel. I think it was a great event, the people love that, the press love that. some photos from the event: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=43890&id=135920589795939 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_10_in_Israel Video will come i hope during the next week... Thanks to the foundation for the help. Happy anniversary / Mazal Tov! Itzik

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Wikipedia 10 Bangalore event on Jan 15th (whole day event)
by Arun Ramarathnam 15 Jan '11

15 Jan '11

Dear all, Greetings for WP10 to all from India! Happy to share with you all that Bangalore is having a whole day event to celebrate the Wikipedia 10th anniversary. http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangalore The program for the event is as follows: Agenda <http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NIAS_Bangalore_MainAudi.jpg> <http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NIAS_Bangalore_MainAudi.jpg> Main Auditorium, NIAS Evening session: Main Public event Time: 17:00 to 20:15 IST Audience: Everyone is invited. (Every Wikipedian!) Purpose: Communicate Wikipedia Mission, facts, showcase its coolness, reach out to public, share India focus, discussion. - 04:30 PM Coffee and Networking - 05:00 PM Welcome and Introductions by Gautam John - 05:15 PM Did you know (DYK) on Wikipedia & Wikipedia video snippets by Srikanth L. - 05:45 PM 06:00 PM *"Namma Wikipedia"* - Sharing of audience experience of using Wikipedia facilitated by Arjuna Rao. - *06:00 PM Invited Talk* - Lawrence Liang - Legal researcher, lawyer and Author (more<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Liang> ) - 06:30 PM *"How I became a Wikipedian"* - sharing of experiences by Wikipedia contributors by Sundar - *06:45 PM Live address by Jimmy Wales via skype* - 07:00 PM Short Break - 07:10 PM Chapter update by Hari Prasad Nadig - What is chapter, need for it, Impact on public policy making towards open access, Call for support, Current status. - *07:20 PM Panel Discussion on Wikipedia* by Arun Ramarathnam - Wikipedia, India and the opportunities ahead - *Panelists* - Prof. S. Sadagopan - Founder Director IIIT-B (more<http://ssadagopan.com/about.htm> ) - Dr. Madan Mohan Rao - Research Director AMIC, Consultant and Writer (more) <http://www.isim.ac.in/pdf/Modan's_bio.pdf>) - Achal Prabhala - Member, Advisory Board, Wikimedia Foundation ( more<http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Advisory_Board#Achal_Prabhala> ) - Sunil Abraham - Executive Director, Centre for Internet and Society (more <http://www.cis-india.org/publications/cis/sunil>) - 08:00 PM Thank you video by Jimmy Wales [edit<http://ten.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bangalore&action=edit&section=3> ]Forenoon session: Segment 1: Wikipedian Community Time: 09:00 to 13:00 IST Audience: Wikipedia editors (others welcome too) Purpose: Share Updates, experiences and Best practices - 09:00-09:30: Welcome, Networking, Informal introductions by Sundar<http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sundar> - 09:30-10:30: State of Wikimedia India-> reports from all Indian Wikipedia communities. (in person or remotely) - Wikipedias - Tamil (Sundar<http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sundar>), Bengali (Bellayet <http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Bellayet>), Kannada (HP Nadig <http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:HPN>), Malayalam (Shiju Alex <http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Shijualex>), Telugu (Arjuna Rao <http://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Arjunaraoc>), Marathi Mahitgar<http://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mahitgar>, Sanskrit (Arunram <http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Arunram>, and English (Tinu Cherian <http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Tinucherian> ). - 10:30-11:30: Discussion: Expectations from the Chapter. Facilitated by Arun Ramarathnam. <http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Arunram> - 11:30-11:45: Tea Break - 11:45-13:00: Discussion: Plans for the Year 2011. Facilitated by Sundar<http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sundar> - Outreach, India Wikimedia event, Wikimania, Coordination between cities, Translation initiatives, Offline CD [edit<http://ten.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bangalore&action=edit&section=4> ]Afternoon session: Segment 2: Connect with other city Special Interest Groups Time: 14:00 to 16:30 IST Audience: Wikipedians and SIG members (others welcome too) Purpose: Explore possibilities of working together and collaboration. Identify common projects. [edit<http://ten.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bangalore&action=edit&section=5> ]Photography - Photography and Wikipedia. [edit<http://ten.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bangalore&action=edit&section=6> ]Technology - Mediawiki & Extensions - Hacking around Wikipedia - Offline & Mobile Wikipedia - Using bots for automated tasks with an emphasis on Pywikipediabot regards Arun Bangalore, India www.twitter.com/arunram

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Photos coming in of events
by Steven Walling 14 Jan '11

14 Jan '11

Hi everyone, So tomorrow is the actual anniversary, but there are already photos rolling in on Commons of the events, which you can see at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_10_events Israel definitely wins the prize for most comprehensive coverage so far with 97 photos. Go Itzik and Wikimedia Israel! Stockholm is the runner up, with 46 photos. There are also some very nice shots from Poland, Amsterdam, Indore and Jaipur. Even just one good photo does the job in my opinion. Thank you to everyone who has uploaded so far. I cannot understate how excited it makes everyone at the Foundation to see these. I will be adding some of them to the photo gallery on tenwiki (http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photo_gallery) and I'm going to highlight the gallery on the main page. I also know there are some photos of events (like the awesome kite flying in Bangladesh) that are on Facebook but not on Commons yet. If there's any way we can share those outside Facebook, that would be great. If not, just be sure to post them to the "10 years of Wikipedia" event page. Let me know if you need any help getting things on Commons. I am happy to upload anything if you want to send me the files. Of course, there's also the guide created by Jay at http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organize/Record_our_history Thank you, and happy anniversary! Steven Walling Fellow at the Wikimedia Foundation wikimediafoundation.org

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Wikimeeting in Rijeka
by Roberta Flod 14 Jan '11

14 Jan '11

Hello, please help. User whom I mentioned before who is organizing the alleged Wikimeeting in Rijeka continues to refuse to publish anything about this meeting. Now on IRC he says that there he will meet with his friends who are not Wikipedia users. How can be something called Wikimeeting if it is hidden from Wikipedia users, and if on this meeting there will be one new user and others who are not really part of the community? http://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razgovor_sa_suradnikom:Anton008#Susret http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rijeka http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Rijeka Roberta

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red dots
by Przykuta 14 Jan '11

14 Jan '11

http://ten.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Eventmap&curid=514&acti… Does anybody help to update this map...? przykuta

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Wikipedia Merchandise and celebration
by Apurva Tripathi 14 Jan '11

14 Jan '11

Hello Everyone, We Wikipedians in Jaipur celebrated the anniversary (First Wikipedia chapter) without the goodies and we don't complaint because we know Jay and Steven are really very busy with other stuffs as well. I appeal everyone to keep patience and wait for the goodies. Hope they will arrive to you all at time but believe me it is a great fun to celebrate the event. I wish all you all the very best for the event. May god bless all of you. Cheers Wikipedia!! Apurva Tripathi

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Hindi Main Page for wiki-X! Some minor help needed
by kshitij gupta 14 Jan '11

14 Jan '11

Hello everyone, I hope you speak hindi and can write it too. I realise that I'm a little late in translating the page but I was pretty with studies now I have done quite a lot of translation on the page but need some help with a line or two I cant get the link to work with translatin(the one that says today there are these many events) and get the page added to the translated pages list. Also please check a few translation like for the word "event" I couldnt figure out any better translations. The link is: http://ten.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page/hi&uselang=hi Thanx in advance and hope u do it before 15th :P... Regards Kshitij Pls ignore typos.

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Fwd: [Wikimediaindia-l] Banners, India
by Srikanth Lakshmanan 14 Jan '11

14 Jan '11

Forwarding to Ten list. Regards Srikanth.L ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Hari Prasad Nadig <hpnadig(a)gmail.com> Date: Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 15:41 Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Banners, India To: Wikimedia India List <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, "Executive Committee, Wikimedia India" <Wikimedia-IN-Exec(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Here are some banners readied for Bangalore, Mysore events: http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Banner-6X2ft.svg http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Banner-6X2ft-chapter.svg http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Banner-6X2ft-languages.svg http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mysore-banner-6X2ft.svg Feel free to use those or build on those or modify those to the requirement. All graphcis above are in SVG. The 'languages' banner specifically needs further improvement (in terms of adding more Indian languages, improving the banner). Feel free to add/edit and post new versions back to commons. Cheers, -- Hari Prasad Nadig http://hpnadig.net | http://twitter.com/hpnadig http://flickr.com/hpnadig _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l

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