[Wikimediaindia-l] Online Volunteers needed for "India Loves Wikipedia" - Outreach

[Deepon Saha]

I am a masters student of Jadavpur University and an active member of
Wikipedia. I have contributed & edited quite a few articles. I love
photography, and willing to submit in Wikimedia commons.



Deepon Saha
M.Tech Student,
ETCE Department,
Jadavpur University,
Kolkata

On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 12:38 AM, Mandar Kulkarni
<mvkulkarni23 at yahoo.co.uk>wrote:

> The correct category on commons is [[Category:India loves Wikipedia-
> 2011]]. This is been posted for easy search in commons.
>
> With Regards,
>
> Mandar V. Kulkarni
>
>   *From:* ramkishan bhise <ram.bhise2009 at gmail.com>
> *To:* Wikimedia India Community list <wikimediaindia-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> >
> *Sent:* Sunday, 28 August 2011, 9:41
> *Subject:* Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Online Volunteers needed for "India
> Loves Wikipedia" - Outreach
>
>  Respected Sir/Madam,
> Greetings from Wikimedia India Chapter. We are pleased to let you know we
> can arrange a talk/lecture on Wikipedia at your college if you could arrange
> a lab for 3 hours with some students. Below is the sample call for program
> and we can structure the agenda based on the below one. We could also
> include specific areas within Wikipedia in the agenda which your students
> might be interested in.(Ex:- Wikipedia as media resource for journalism
> students / Technical talk on Wikipedia for Computer Science students) We
> could send a local Wikipedian to talk about Wikipedia and how students can
> benefit out of it by knowing more than just a site to get assignment notes.
> Please let us know if you are interested.we are interested please tell us
> what to do
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Ashwin Baindur <ashwin.baindur at gmail.com>wrote:
>
> This is relevant to all those who have written to the various lists and
> asked how one can participate. volunteer or help in any way.
>
> We need people to upload images to Wikimedia Commons.
>
>    - We face a problem in that photographers are willing to go out & shoot
>    and donate images. But they are unfamiliar with Commons and do not upload it
>    there. However, we find that they know Flickr and are willing to upload it
>    under a suitable Creative Commons license.
>    - There are hundreds of free images on the net, we can show you how to
>    locate them. These can be uploaded to Commons. We are at this point of time
>    interested in images pertaining to India only.
>
> It is a job requiring patience, care for details and intelligence as the
> images need to be categorised also. Where relevant we would like to add them
> to articles too.
>
> We need a small TEAM of three to five - people, age, sex, religion, etc,
> etc, no bar, except that they should have:
> * Knowledge of uploading images to Commons
> * know how to categorise
> * know how to load images into Wikipedia
> * Possess good judgement.
> * Possess an abiding love for Wikipedia and willing to contribute to it.
>
> If you are interested, let us know. This is a serious commitment under the
> "India Loves Wikipedia" initiative. Dont apply if just for "time paas".
>
> Helpers will be awarded barnstars at a suitable date after the project is
> done.
>
> Warm regards,
>
> Ashwin Baindur
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