[Wikimedia-l] Good Bye as CIS-A2K Program Director
Dear Wikimedians, This is my last day as the CIS-A2K Program Director. The last 2 years and 3 months have been immensely exciting with tons of learning and work! I have loved meeting many Wikimedians, face to face, across the length and breadth of India. The interactions I had with many of the Wikimedians in India have been immensely useful to my learning. The diversity of our community and the Wikimedia projects in India is so rich and intricate - I wish I could map out my entire set of impressions, to only give a slight glimpse of it!! Signing off as the Program Director for now. See you on-wiki, here on the lists and in real life whenever our paths cross. A quick update: The next A2K Program Director selection is under process and hopefully we should all be able to welcome the new incumbent in June, 2015. Until then the A2K team is being internally monitored by CIS leadership. Best wishes, Vishnu ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] CIS-A2K draft work plan for July 2015 to June 2016
Dear Wikimedians, We are happy to share with you the draft work plans for the period July 2015 to June 2016 [1]. We have more or less followed the same work plan templates from last year. Some of these plans have been done in consultation with the community members. We look forward to receiving your feedback and inputs on the talk pages. This time we have included an endorsement section at the end of every program plan for the community members to endorse, should they wish to do so. Based on these plans we have also put up the next round of FDC proposal here[2]. We intend to revise these draft work plans based on your and FDC feedback in July, 2015, subject to grant support from FDC. Best, Vishnu [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Work_plan_July_2015_-_June_2016 [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015_round2/The_Centre_for_Internet_and_Society/Proposal_form ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] CIS-A2K Quarterly Reports
Dear Wikimedians, We are happy to share with you the quarterly reports of CIS-A2K for the period July to December 2014. These reports give a comprehensive overview of all the Wikimedia activities undertaken by CIS-A2K under the current FDC Grant in India. We welcome your suggestions and feedback on the Talk page of the reports. July-September 2014: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2013-2014_round2/The_Centre_for_Internet_and_Society/Progress_report_form/Q1 October-December 2014: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2013-2014_round2/The_Centre_for_Internet_and_Society/Progress_report_form/Q2 Apologies for the delayed submission of the first quarterly report. Best, Vishnu ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Train the Trainer Program-India
Dear Wikimedians, The Wikimedia TTT-2015, a four day residential training workshop to groom leadership skills among the Indian Wikimedia volunteer community, will begin tomorrow. This is curated and run by CIS-A2K [1] with the help of Wikimedia volunteers. About 30 Wikimedians from across 12 Indian languages and from various part of the country will be taking part in this workshop in Bangalore. This time we also have some Wikimedians from Nepal joining the program. This is the second such event held in India, the first one was in 2013. For more details see the event page here [2]. Best, Vishnu [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Events/Train_the_Trainer_Program/2015 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] New ED of Wikimedia Norway
Many congratulations, Astrid and WMNO! Wishing you all many more successes. Best, Vishnu On 02/23/2015 10:10 PM, Katy Love wrote: Congratulations, Astrid and Wikimedia Norge! Astrid, you have been a wonderful colleague over the last year plus. I wish you well in the new role, and I look forward to working together more closely. Warmly, Katy On Feb 23, 2015, at 3:15 AM, Tanweer Morshed wiki.tanw...@gmail.com wrote: Congratulations Astrid for being ED! Wish you and WMNO a prosperous future ahead. Tanweer Wikimedia Bangladesh -- Regards, Tanweer Morshed ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Its not goodbye, but au revoir
Dear Pavel, Best wishes for day 2013 and onward! See you around. Vishnu On 01/29/2015 11:50 PM, Andrea Zanni wrote: Goodbye Pavel, it has been a pleasure. And as you said last Chapters Conference, please take care of yourself. Of course, we hope to see you around :-) Aubrey On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 5:05 PM, Pavel Richter m...@pavelrichter.de wrote: Dear Friends of Free Knowledge, today is my last day at the office as the former Executive Director of Wikimedia Deutschland. For 2012 days, I had the great opportunity and the tremendous pleasure to work for one of the greatest causes I can think of: Free Knowledge for everybody. What Wikimedia does is nothing short of changing the world, one edit at a time. I reflect a little about this in this blog post: http://blog.pavelrichter.de/2012-days-later/ Thank you all for the best time I had in my (professional) life. Of course, while I leave my job, I will not leave the Wikimedia movement. Looking forward to this! Cheers, Pavel ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Warning: Wikimedia-l Google Group
Thanks for the alert, Austin! Vishnu On 01/07/2015 11:56 PM, Austin Hair wrote: You may have already received a message indicating that you've been added to the Wikimedia-l Google Group; if not, you likely will soon. In case it's not clear, this Google Group is in no way affiliated with Wikimedia-l, the Wikimedia Foundation, me, or anybody you'd ever want to be friends with. If you do find yourself subscribed, I strongly urge you not to engage in any way. Report it to Google (not to me or the list) as an abusive subscription using the link at the bottom of the message, and leave it be. If you find yourself being impersonated or wrongly implicated in this latest round of troublemaking, don't fret. Nobody will hold it against you, and in fact you'll have everyone's sympathies. Austin ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedian-In-Residence at NIOSH
Dear Emily, Congratulations! OSH is a major concern in countries like India, especially when it is linked to the livelihoods of millions of people who work in the informal sector with little safeguards. With grossly inadequate regulation and monitoring, free and open knowledge about OSH issues on Wikipedias could have a significant intangible impact, Best wishes, Vishnu [[User:Visdaviva]] On 01/03/2015 02:30 AM, Keilana wrote: Dear Wikimedia Community, I am excited to announce that I am starting today as the Wikipedian-in-Residence for NIOSH, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, a subsidiary of the CDC. NIOSH is a research institution dedicated to the prevention of illness and injury related to work, and they have a wealth of information just begging to be used by Wikimedia. Our missions are very much aligned, especially with WikiProject Medicine, and have the potential to create a huge impact worldwide. As Wikipedian-in-Residence, I will be helping to connect NIOSH and the WIkimedia communities, creating a WikiProject NIOSH, and helping to organize content on occupational health and use NIOSH's public domain resources to improve Wikimedia. I will not, in the foreseeable future, be editing anything about NIOSH itself or any of its scientists. Nevertheless, for full disclosure, I'll be placing a comprehensive COI notice on my user page and keeping a separate account (as many other WIR's do) at [[User:Emily Temple-Wood (NIOSH)]] on any project I'm working on. I'm very excited to work on this project and am always happy to accept feedback. You can read more about NIOSH at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Institute_for_Occupational_Safety_and_Health, and see my personal userpage at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Keilana. All the best, Emily Temple-Wood ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] Med-GLAM Help
Dear Wikimedians, I would like to draw your attention to the Med GLAM Project from India[1]. The main objective of this project is to create, curate and make openly available images from the Department of Pathology (DoP), Calicut Medical College (CMC), India; for the benefit of medical and para-medical students specifically and for the larger medical fraternity across the world. I am glad to inform you that this project has kick-started in October 2014 and is gaining momentum. Netha Hussain, is the Wikipedian-in-Residence for this project. Dr. K.P. Aravindan, Head of DoP, CMC and Netha Hussain have played a pivotal role in putting this project together and successfully partnering with the CMC. So far 146 images are uploaded on the Commons under the project and are available here [2]. Most of the credit goes to Netha for this successful Med-GLAM project in progress. Help and support, especially from Wikimedians with Pathology background, is welcome in writing descriptions for the images uploaded, categorizing them and reviewing the quality of images. Any other feedback would be useful. Thank you, Vishnu [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Work_plan_July_2014_-_June_2015/Med_GLAM_Project [2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_Department_of_Pathology,_Calicut_Medical_College ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter Announcements:Executive Committee for 2014-15 takes charge
Thank you for the update, Jayanta. Congratulations to the new office bearers of WMIN! At CIS-A2K, we look forward to further strengthening our collaboration to grow the movement. Best wishes, Vishnu On 12/17/2014 12:54 AM, Jayanta Nath wrote: Dear Wikimedia India Chapter members and other interested stakeholders in the list, Dear members, At the outset, on behalf of Wikimedia India Executive Committee for 2013-14, I would like to thank you all for the support for the Chapter during the past year, as we strive hard to complete the difficult phase of the Chapter. I am glad to report that the huddle phase is now complete, as the Chapter is financially healthy, staffed and has conducted AGM and Elections for EC of six vacancies successfully. I would like to place on record my thanks to all co-founders and EC team members,volunteers from members and community, , WMF staff,WMF board members and partners and consultants for all the contributions and support towards reaching this important milestone. Last weekend we had inducted the newly elected EC members with an EC induction program at Bangalore. As part of it, we have completed the office bearer elections for the 2014-15. I would like to introduce the new team that has taken charge. The results of the office bearer elections are as follows: * Dr. Abhiraj Suryawanshi : President * Jayanta Nath : Secretary * Sanket Oswal : Treasurer * Priyanka Tiwari : Member * Yohann Varun Thomas : Member * Dr. Ekbal Bappukunju : Member * Nikhil Kawale : Member We are confident that under the new EC's leadership Wikimedia Movement and Chapter in India will grow to greater heights in the year to come. We request you all to extend the support and actively engage with Wikimedia India to achieve the vision of sharing free knowledge with every one for building a Knowledge Society. Please join me in wishing the new team all success. Cheers Jayanta Nath Secretary,Wikimedia India ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list wikimediaindi...@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Project Med
Congratulations team Wiki Project Med! Best wishes. Vishnu On Wednesday 12 November 2014 05:44 PM, Kirill Lokshin wrote: Hi everyone, I'm pleased to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized Wiki Project Med [1] as a Wikimedia User Group [2]. The group is working to promote the development of medical content on Wikimedia projects. Let's welcome them to the family of Wikimedia affiliates! Regards,Kirill LokshinAffiliations Committee [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Project_Med [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Wiki_Project_Med_-_Liaison_approval,_November_2014 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Algeria Wikimedians User Group
Many congratulations!! Happy to hear this. Vishnu CIS-A2K ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Re-licensing Wikimedia logos on Commons to CC BY-SA 3.0
Thanks! A much needed and appreciated move!!
Cheers,
Vishnu
On Monday 27 October 2014 11:21 PM, Yana Welinder wrote:
Hi folks,
I'm happy to announce that we are re-licensing the Wikimedia logos on
Commons to CC BY-SA 3.0:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/10/24/wikimedia-logos-have-been-freed/
I would really appreciate your help with replacing the {{Copyright by
Wikimedia}}
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Copyright_by_Wikimedia[1]
templates on the logos with the {{Wikimedia trademark}}
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Wikimedia_trademark[2] and
{{cc-by-sa-3.0}} https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Cc-by-sa-3.0[3]
templates. But we don't want to replace templates on the MediaWiki
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MediaWiki.svg[4] and the Community
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Community_Logo.svg[5]
logos, which were originally released under free licenses.
There are also some pages on Commons, like this one
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Licensing[6], that may need to
be updated based on the re-licensed logos.
Thanks,
Yana
[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Copyright_by_Wikimedia
[2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Wikimedia_trademark
[3] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Cc-by-sa-3.0
[4] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MediaWiki.svg
[5] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Community_Logo.svg
[6] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Licensing
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Jake Orlowitz/Ocaasi comes onto the Grantmaking team at WMF with The Wikipedia Library
Congratulations, Jake! Please count me in for TWL type of efforts in India and in Indian languages. Cheers, Vishnu On Tuesday 07 October 2014 09:13 AM, Steven Zhang wrote: Congrats buddy. You've earned it Sent from my iPhone On 7 Oct 2014, at 2:40 pm, Keilana keilanaw...@gmail.com wrote: A big big congratulations to Jake! His work is so important to our mission. -Emily On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 10:07 PM, Anasuya Sengupta asengu...@wikimedia.org wrote: Dear friends and colleagues, I am delighted to announce that Jake Orlowitz (User:Ocaasi, User:Ocaasi (WMF)) is joining the Grantmaking department at WMF to lead The Wikipedia Library (TWL)[1], an online resource for Wikipedians to get free access to journal subscriptions. In the last year, TWL has helped nearly 2000 unique users access 3000 accounts of sources like JSTOR, Elsevier, De Gruyter, and Oxford University Press,[2] and is now experimenting with community-run branches in Arabic, German and other languages. Jake will be a full-time contractor with part-time support from Alex Stinson (User:Sadads, User:Astinson (WMF)) for an initial period of six months. They are both working with an amazing volunteer team of Wikipedians guided by Head of Volunteer Coordination (User:Nikkimaria). We're particularly looking forward to seeing how TWL can expand its global (non-English) work, and what it can teach us about the best ways to support some of our top contributors, and improve content on our projects. Many of you know Jake well, but for those who don't: Jake (Ocaasi) is a long time Wikipedian, with two Individual Engagement Grants from us, and he has been on the IEG grants committee for the past two years. Jake works remotely from Philadelphia but is frequently in the Bay Area, especially during long and dark East Coast winters. Alex has been involved for many years with both Education and GLAM outreach. He resides in Kansas where he works on Digital Humanities at Kansas State. You can catch up on all of TWL's new happenings in the latest edition of the Books and Bytes newsletter.[7] We're excited to bring The Wikipedia Library on board and look forward to its growth and evolution! Warmly, Anasuya Jake Orlowitz (User:Ocaasi) started editing in 2007 as an ip. Early on he worked on articles about religious groups, political movements, and alternative health. Around 2010 he shifted focus from editing to helping new users, working in the irc-help channel and developing the Plain and Simple guide for New Editors [3] and its COI counterpart [4]. In 2012 Jake began developing projects through the Individual Engagement Grants department at WMF. He built The Wikipedia Adventure,[5] a playful interactive game to onboard new editors. He also began establishing and expanding donation partnerships in The Wikipedia Library to provide free research access to top article contributors. He helps out as a board member of Wiki Project Med Foundation [6] and gives talks about Wikipedia's role in education. Jake grew up in the Philadelphia suburbs and studied political theory at Wesleyan, before starting a tutoring company in Colorado. He currently splits his time between coasts, working full-time on Wikipedia projects. His contract with WMF will focus on expanding the number and global reach of Wikipedia Library partnerships. Alex Stinson (User:Sadads) is a 9-year editor with over 80,000 contributions, actively involved in different forms of outreach. He is currently a project manager with the The Wikipedia Library, a long time volunteer with The Wikipedia Education Program, and supporter of GLAM-Wiki outreach. Alex has a Masters degree in English Literature from Kansas State University with research focused on cultural studies and the digital humanities. He works as a digital humanist at K-State, where he helps develop projects and create partnerships with educators and cultural institutions. [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/The_Wikipedia_Library/Renewal/Final [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:PANDS [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:PSCOI [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Adventure [6] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WPMED [7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Library/Newsletter/August-September2014 -- *Anasuya SenguptaSenior Director of GrantmakingWikimedia Foundation* Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! Support Wikimedia https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list wikimediaannounc
Re: [Wikimedia-l] First Wikipedia Article has been Formally Peer Reviewed and Published
Congratulations! A great model that could be emulated by many of us across other disciplines too. Cheers, Vishnu On Friday 03 October 2014 04:54 AM, James Heilman wrote: Article published by the journal Open Medicine http://www.openmedicine.ca/article/viewFile/562/564 Will soon be pubmed indexed. Editorial regarding the efforts are here http://www.openmedicine.ca/article/view/652/565 Hope these sorts of efforts will improve the reputation of Wikipedia and the number of contributors. I guess we will see. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group
Great to hear this! Congratulations!! Will spread this news to some of the LGBTQI communities in India, with whom we (CIS-A2K) recently partnered in organizing Wiki Loves Pride, India [1]. I am sure many from India would be keen to join this User Group. You can count on CIS-A2K support. Best, Vishnu [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Events/Wiki_Loves_Pride_2014 On Sunday 14 September 2014 05:50 PM, Arnau Duran wrote: Congratulations! *Arnau Duran Ferrero *[image: Twitter] http://www.twitter.com/arnauduran President d'Amical Wikimedia Telèfon personal: (+34) 696475418 *Organització independent de voluntaris en pro de la llengua i cultura catalanes* www.wikimedia.cat 2014-09-14 13:57 GMT+02:00 Michael Maggs mich...@maggs.name: Congratulations to all! Michael On 14 September 2014 at 12:52:06, Jon Davies (jon.dav...@wikimedia.org.uk) wrote: Great stuff, well done. You can count on WMUK support. On 14 September 2014 02:51, Kirill Lokshin kirill.loks...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, I'm pleased to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group [1] as a Wikimedia User Group [2]. The group is focused on developing the community of LGBT Wikimedians and LGBT content within Wikimedia projects, and plans to be active around the world. Let's welcome them to the family of Wikimedia affiliates! Regards, Kirill Lokshin Affiliations Committee [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_LGBT/Portal [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Wikimedia_LGBT%2B_User_Group_-_Liaison_approval,_September_2014 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- *Jon Davies - Chief Executive Wikimedia UK*. Mobile (0044) 7803 505 169 tweet @jonatreesdavies Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). Telephone (0044) 207 065 0990. Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] CAPTCHA for people with poor eyesight
Hi, I thought I should acknowledge that this is a problem not just with people with poor eye sight but also when using a low resolutulion screen. In most of the outreach sessions done in non-metros in India, I have come across people (the ones with good eye sight) face this problem more, as the monitors they use are not great. It would be helpful if good alternatives could be worked upon. Best, Vishnu On Wednesday, 27 August 2014, Bohdan Melnychuk bas...@yandex.ru wrote: Hola la todos. I'm being curios how the blind or just people with quite poor eyesight are supposed to join Wiki(m|p)edia. Fortunately though my own eyesight isn't what you call perfect, low myopia gives me no obstacles to use computer without spectacles. But unfortunately not every human being can boast not having such problems. And I'm sure some of them could be potential wikimedians. But when I e.g. want to proceed with registration I've got to fill a field with what CAPTCHA says (and except for registration there are also other cases when it's shown for nonautoconfirmed guys). But assume you don't see it well — how on Earth are you to pass it then? It's not uncommon to see audio version on many sites. But we have it not. On Wikidata there is a link to https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Captcha which actually acknowledges the problem, there is similar page on Meta, I believe there are some more like this but the solution to contact siteadmins doesn't seem too good for me - user at least needs to reveal his email publicly or contact a sysop using some external to wikipages way. Not all people'd like to do it. Enwiki provides with a link to a tool https://accounts.wmflabs.org/ but still you need to give your email to somebody. But on the other hand even such a solution is better than nothing. But it's local ones in perhaps dozen or two wikis while there are over 700 of them. So what's the current status of dealing with the problem? Is someone working on audio CAPTCHAs? Or perhaps there are some ideas how to make other passages for such cases? Spambots do exist anyway but it's sad if some potential users are being stopped from joining us this way. Yours, Base ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] Statement on CIS-A2K's FDC proposal discussion
Dear Wikimedians, We have put out a statement on the CIS-A2K's FDC proposal discussion here [1]. As you will note the statement reflects on some of the critical points of feedback that we received and outlines the steps that we have taken and plan to take. On behalf of everyone at CIS, we thank the Wikimedians, WMIN EC, FDC Staff, FDC Members and the WMF Board who actively engaged with our FDC proposal. We have learnt some useful lessons because of the FDC discussions and assure you that we will continue to improve upon our programmatic efficiency, efficacy, accountability and transparency. Apologies, that this mail is coming at least a couple of weeks late. Best, Vishnu [[User:Visdaviva]] Program Director (A2K) CIS, India [1] http://bit.ly/1m0fQn0 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Affiliations Committee's first Secretary - Tanvir Rahman (Wikitanvir)
Many congratulations, Tanvir! Best wishes, Vishnu On Friday 08 August 2014 11:46 AM, Gregory Varnum wrote: Greetings, I am pleased to share that the Affiliations Committee has created a new Secretary role for the committee and has elected Tanvir Rahman (User:Wikitanvir) to serve in this role for the upcoming year. Tanvir will be taking on the tough task of facilitating the documentation of the committee's activities. I am confident that he is up to the task and will do a fine job serving as the committee's first-ever Secretary. Please join me in congratulating Tanvir! Resolution: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Secretary_creation_and_selection_2014 -greg aka varnent Vice Chair, Wikimedia Affiliations Committee ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Bangladesh has completed its local registration in Bangladesh
Excellent news, Tonmoy! Congratulations!! Best, Vishnu On Tuesday 10 June 2014 10:58 PM, Tonmoy Khan wrote: Dear All, It gives me great pleasure to announce that Wikimedia Bangladesh (WMBD) has successfully completed its local registration in Bangladesh. Our application for registration was approved by the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies Firms - Bangladesh on 9th June, 2014 and I have collected the certificate of registration today (10th June, 2014). Wikimedia Bangladesh has been registered under the Societies Registration Act of Bangladesh our official name is Wikimedia Bangladesh Foundation. The registration process was a very long and demanding one, but our perseverance and determination finally prevailed. It has become very difficult to get registration of a society/foundation in Bangladesh as the incumbents have to have security clearance from the National Security Intelligence (NSI) of Bangladesh, which is very difficult to get if not impossible. In the course of dealing with the registration process of WMBD, I learned that less than 5 applications for registration as societies get approved out of every 100. We submitted our application in May 2012 and it took us a little over two years to get the security clearance from NSI complete all the bureaucratic process! It gives us a great sense of achievement that we could uphold the Wikimedia movement volunteerism spirit with passion, integrity and professionalism despite being a small volunteer community. The pending registration issue could not hold us from doing outreach activities locally taking in the greater Wikimedia Movement. We organized some excellent programs, workshops meet-ups with our limited resources during this time period. This effort successfully brought in good number of new contributors to Bengali Wikipedia increased the article count. Volunteers from WMBD/Bangladesh are also actively participating in the international Wikimedia movement by taking part in discussions, conferences as committee members in different Wikimedia committees. We, as a chapter, want to make small but steady steps towards sustainable progress in fostering the Wikimedia movement in Bangladesh so that we can make the sum of all human knowledge accessible to the people of this region. Cheers Ali Haidar Khan (tOnmOy) Treasurer Wikimedia Bangladesh ভাবুনতো এমন এক পৃথিবীর কথা, যেখানে প্রতিটি মানুষ সমস্ত জ্ঞান বাধাহীন ভাবে আদান প্রদান করতে পারবে। এটাই আমাদের অঙ্গীকার। ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Affiliations Committee Vice-Chair
Thank you for the information, Bence. Gregory Varnum, congratulations!! Best, Vishnu On Sunday 25 May 2014 03:53 PM, Bence Damokos wrote: Hi all, It is with great pleasure that I can announce that the Affiliations Committee has selected Greg Varnum as its vice chair for the next year. He ran on a platform of helping the committee improve communication with the WMF Board (and other stakeholders) and shifting the committee's work toward a more active capacity building role. You can learn more about Greg at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Members#Current_members(scroll down). The appointing resolution has been posted at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Vice_Chair_selection_2014_-_May_2014 Best regards, Bence Damokos, Affiliations Committee @WikimediaAffCom ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] CIS-A2K Work Plan for July 14-June 15
Dear Wikimedians, I am glad to share with you the detailed work plan of CIS-A2K for the period July 2014-July 2015 [1] . This work plan consists of 21 plans across 6 verticals. These are: * 7 Language Area Plans * 3 Community Strengthening Initiatives * 8 Stand-alone Wikimedia Projects * Creating Movement Resources * Publicity, Research and Documentation * General Support and Service to the Movement The work plan includes details of aims, objectives, programme activities and expected outcomes. Most of the language area plans were put together in active consultation with the respective Wikimedia language communities. Various inputs and ideas contributed, opportunities provided, and challenges thrown at the CIS-A2K program during the last year by the Wikimedia communities in India, our institutional partners, Executive Committee (EC) of Wikimedia India Chapter (WMIN) and the Wikimedia Foundation's Grantmaking Team have significantly informed our work plans. Each plan has an independent budget and is closely mapped on to the implementation plan. An attempt is made to correlate why we are spending a certain amount on a certain activity. Thus all these budgets are very optimally planned and the overall budget is an assimilation. CIS-A2K believes that this will give mission level transparency to our work and provide a clearer structure of accountability to the movement and the community. Please do share your feedback and inputs on the respective plan discussion pages. We would be glad to correct ourselves if you could point out to any major omissions and errors in plans. We will be approaching the FDC requesting support for this work plan [2]. Thanks, Vishnu (Program Director, CIS-A2K) [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Draft_Work_plan_July_2014_-_June_2015 [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2013-2014_round2/The_Centre_for_Internet_and_Society/Proposal_form ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of two new user groups
Congratulations Community User Group Brasil and New England Wikimedians!! Best, Vishnu On Wednesday 29 January 2014 05:30 PM, Bence Damokos wrote: Dear Community Members, It is with great pleasure that I can announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized two new user groups in the movement in December. The Wikimedia Community User Group Brasil and New England Wikimedians are two active groups of Wikimedians on the American continents with a history of projects and great plans for the future. You can learn more about their work on their respective websites at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Brasil_user_group https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_England_Wikimedians The resolutions are published at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions, and the groups are in the process or have already completed the execution of the user group agreement, the final step in the process towards recognition. Please give a warm welcome to these groups and provide them encouragement for their future. Best regards, Bence Damokos Chair, Affiliations Committee ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] A five-minute task new volunteers can do
Great idea!! Will circulate it :) In India we have recently attempted translating the Malayalam Wikimedia 11th Anniversary banner into various Indian languages using FB. Here is the work-in-progress https://www.facebook.com/sajsugeesh/media_set?set=a.692345024117024.1073741835.10245984739type=1 For me this was a useful experiment in trying to harness social media time for Wikimedia purposes. Not sure if it is (technically) possible to explore this linkage for something like the commons transcribe or translatewiki.net. Cheers, Vishnu On Tuesday 03 December 2013 08:50 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote: I've just blogged about a five-minute task new volunteers can do: http://pigsonthewing.org.uk/help-wikipedia-wikimedia-commons-transcribe-text/ transcribing small pieces of text in images such as foundation stones or signposts. Please feel free to circulate that through your networks, especially outside the existing Wikimedia community ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikisource Community User Group recognized
Congratulations! Look forward to seeing this WSCUG grow and thrive!! Vishnu On 24 November 2013 17:24, Bence Damokos bdamo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, It is with great pleasure that I can announce that the Wikisource Community User Group has been recognized as the 7th user group of our movement. The group aims *to support the Wikisource community in international communication tasks, outreach to external groups, coordination of software tools development, and facilitate fundraising according to its member needs.* You can learn more about the group and how to join at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikisource_User_Group The Affiliations Committee resolution is at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Wikisource_Community_User_Group_%E2%80%93_November_2013 . The group has already signed the user group agreement, their first round of recognition runs until 31 November 2014. Please join me in welcoming them and wishing them luck. Best regards, Bence Damokos Chair, Affiliations Committee P.S. The Affiliations Committee is still accepting membership applications at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Call_for_Candidates_2014 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: A2K, its lies and irresponsibilities
Dear Ansuman, Thanks for flagging this. All the profiles of the CIS-A2K team members are now updated. Please see [1]. Best, Vishnu [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Team On 28 October 2013 16:46, ansuman ansum...@gmail.com wrote: Me: Please make available the job descriptions/roles for all the employees at meta and share the same in the mailing list. Vishnu: YES WE ARE REWORKING THE PROFILES AS THE EARLIER ROLES ARE NO MORE RELEVANT. WE WILL TAKE THIS UP ON PRIORITY AND PUT IT UP ON META. THE LINKS TO A2K TEAM MEMBER PROFILES, SHARED EVERY MONTH IN A2K NEWSLETTERS, WILL IN FUTURE BE LINKED TO THE META PAGES. --To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: A2K, its lies and irresponsibilities
Dear Ansuman, On 28 October 2013 16:46, ansuman ansum...@gmail.com wrote: Why still *2* new recruits are missing even after several months, at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Teamhttp://bl-1.com/click/load/ADAAMlM2Um8Hb1w7CTw-b0231 , Why there is no *monthly reports* updated on meta, https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Reportshttp://bl-1.com/click/load/VGRaaABlVmtQOFA3AjA-b0231 Why there is no *community Mid-year reports* updated, https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Reportshttp://bl-1.com/click/load/VmZZawdiAj9ROVUyBDc-b0231 A comprehensive mid-term grant report for the period Sept. 2012 to June 2013 of CIS-A2K is published on Meta here [1]. CIS-A2K had been publishing monthly newsletters and circulating it widely to the community through the Indian mailing lists. These give an accurate picture of the CIS-A2K activities on a monthly basis and serve as a monthly report of the work done. We will also initiate measures to put up these details on Meta as indicated here [2]. Best, Vishnu [1] http://bit.ly/A2K-NR [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Reports#Monthly_Reports ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: A2K, its lies and irresponsibilities
Dear Ansuman, On 28 October 2013 16:46, ansuman ansum...@gmail.com wrote: Why there is no response to this, Evaluation results after months? *How long are your two weeks?* https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:India_Access_To_Knowledge/Work_plan_April_2013_-_June_2014/Learning_and_Evaluationhttp://bl-1.com/click/load/UGAKOFw5WmcCagZhV2c-b0231 We have clarified it here [1] What about *Quarterly Community Survey* mentioned here, https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Work_plan_April_2013_-_June_2014/Learning_and_Evaluationhttp://bl-1.com/click/load/XW0PPQdiBzoFbVA3VGU-b0231? Is there any plan to do this ever? Yes, we are working on the Quarterly report for the period July-Sept. 2013 and will be sharing soon. However, in terms of participatory and continuous mode of evaluationhttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Work_plan_April_2013_-_June_2014/Learning_and_Evaluation, we foresee a challenge in actively involving the respective language community members in quarterly evaluation cycles. Firstly in the five language communities that we are focusing on, such an introspection exercise was not done systematically before and secondly a mandatory imposition may not be productive either for the Community or for CIS-A2K. We do not want it to end-up becoming a task to be ticked against. Our effort is to train the community to systematically introspect, which will go a long way in strengthening the Indian language Wikipedias and the associated communities. For instance, we have a beginning with Telugu Wikimedia community. See this [2]. Best, Vishnu [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:India_Access_To_Knowledge/Work_plan_April_2013_-_June_2014/Learning_and_Evaluation [2] https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%A1%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BE:%E0%B0%89%E0%B0%97%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A6%E0%B0%BF_%E0%B0%AE%E0%B0%B9%E0%B1%8B%E0%B0%A4%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B8%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%82-2013_%E0%B0%A4%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A4_%E0%B0%A4%E0%B1%86%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80_%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%97%E0%B0%A4%E0%B0%BF ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Preparing a proofreading contest for Wikisource's 10th aniversary
Dear Micru, Wonderful initiative! From India the Malayalam Wikisource community might be keen to take part in this. They have also recently released an offline CD (volume 2) of the Malayalam Wikisource. Taking the liberty to copy the Malayalam list on this for them to take lead on this. CIS (not from the A2K Grant) will be glad to sponsor two prizes (one e-book reader and one portable pen-scanner), if the ML community take lead on this. Cheers, Vishnu On 7 November 2013 05:28, David Cuenca dacu...@gmail.com wrote: On the Wikisource mailing list we are discussing about a contest to celebrate Wikisource's 10th aniversary. The contest would be from Nov 24th till Dec 1st. During that time the participants would proofread a selection of books and they would get points per page. The one with the most points would win an ebook reader. So far WM-IT and Amical Wikimedia have comited each the prize for their respective contests on the Italian and Catalan Wikisource. WM-AU and WM-DC are considering to sponsor the English edition. If you would like to help us to organize more language editions or find more sponsors, get in touch. If you would like to participate, stay tuned! :) Cheers, Micru ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcement] CIS-A2K Grant Report for September 2012-June 2013
Greetings from the Centre for Internet and Society's(CIS) Access to Knowledge (A2K) Program, India! As many of you know that the Wikimedia Foundation approved a 22 month grant to the CIS-A2K. The aim of the grant was to support the growth of Wikimedia movement in India. Please find the Grant Report for the first 10 months period (i.e. September 2012-June 2013) on Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Reports/CIS-A2K_Narrative_Report:_%28September_2012_%E2%80%93_June_2013%29https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Reports/CIS-A2K_Narrative_Report:_%28September_2012_–_June_2013%29 CIS-A2K will be happy to receive your feedback. Please let us know if you have any suggestions, questions and concerns about the report and our work. We would be glad to have this feedback on Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:India_Access_To_Knowledge/Reports/CIS-A2K_Narrative_Report:_%28September_2012_%E2%80%93_June_2013%29https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:India_Access_To_Knowledge/Reports/CIS-A2K_Narrative_Report:_%28September_2012_–_June_2013%29 We are thankful to the Wikimedia community in India, Wikimedia India Chapter and the Wikimedia Foundation for actively engaging with our work. We will continue to work upon our deficiencies, failures and successes. Warm regards, Vishnu Program Director, CIS-A2K ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: A2K, its lies and irresponsibilities
Dear Ansuman, On 28 October 2013 16:46, ansuman ansum...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, This is part of the replies of Vishnu four months ago. --- --- Me: And also tell the community, who are all involved in the interview process and selection process, and why? Vishnu: BEFORE EVEN PUBLISHING THE JOB ADVERTISEMENT WE HAD DECIDED TO PUBLISH A BLOG POST/WRITE-UP ON THE SELECTION PROCESS AND SHARE IT WITH THE WIKIMEDIA INDIA COMMUNITY AS PART OF OUR TRANSPARENCY MEASURE. ONCE THIS IS UP, WILL SHARE THE LINK. We have published a blog post on the Program Officer selection process on September 10, 2013.[1] This has also been shared with the Indian Wikimedia community as part of the September A2K Newsletter [2], which was posted on all the Indian Wikimedia lists. Best, Vishnu [1] http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/selection-of-programme-officer-pilot-projects-a2k [2] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2013-October/010575.html ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] The Wikipedia Adventure, alpha testers needed
Hello Jake, This is fantastic for an Alpha sage! Have gone through the entire mission. There was some problem in loading the next levels at certain stages and I had to refresh the page couple of times. Would be nice if this could be tested with a completely new set of users across geographies and age-groups in Beta stage. I could help finding people from India. Would like this to be finalized soon and try to customize it to the Indian languages. Great work! Cheers, Vishnu On 29 October 2013 21:40, Strainu strain...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Went through mission 1 and the main feedback is that it's just too long. You should break the missions in smaller, quicker steps. The interface is visually pleasant and as far as I can see, it gets you through all the basic editing skills, which is nice. However, the messages are not always in the same place and sometimes are not visible in the visible part of the page, making it a little confusing for people without much computer skills. It would also help to be able to move the box. I especially like the little badges you get, but I'm not quite sure how they are aligned (perhaps because I only got 1): the first one was put in the middle of the page (horizontally) Are there any technical details on the game and the difficulty of implementing it on other wikis? Thanks, Strainu 2013/10/28 Katherine Casey fluffernutter.w...@gmail.com: Some thoughts upon running through this (roughly in the order I am experiencing them): - This is actually pretty cool. Cooler than I expected it to be! - Instructions sometimes tell me to click edit source and sometimes to click edit, even though it always means that I should click edit source. Since the VE button says edit, this is potentially pretty confusing. - At the end of missions, the button says Congrats me!. That's pretty jarring English - more natural would be either, Congrats, me! or Congrats to me! - The select how you would reply to this person challenges are...patronizing? That's not quite the right word, but I don't think they're modelling anything useful by basically pointing out hey, you shouldn't be a rude jackass as if it's someone's going to read those options and go yes! this is clearly how I should act!. More useful would be modelling interaction strategies and tricks, like how to engage with some who's left you a rude message or even just what information is useful to provide to other users. - Galactic challenges keep launching new tabs for me when they don't seem like they ought to (i.e. there's no reason I need to have the results of that challenge preserved in one firefox tab while I move on in another) - The watchlist module has instructions that are a little bit confusing - it instructs you on *how *to watchlist (blue star, etc), but then tells you to *click *on watchlist on the top right. Since both the star and the actual watchlist link are on the top right, it's likely going to be unclear to newbies whether you want them to click on the star you just explained, or the link you didn't. - In general when you're telling people to click X above, it might be useful to use quotes so they know you're telling to click on something that literally says that - tell them to *click contributions above *rather than to *click contributions above* - When doing spelling corrections, the hover box listing what I needed to correct obscured part of the text that needed correcting. I couldn't correct that until I closed the box. Once I did that, I was bumped out of the lesson entirely. Couldn't figure out how to the mission to pick back up there, so I had to stop. Why can't we either minimize the instructions box, or have it resurrect when we complete a step (that is, if I did what it wanted me to do, it should pick back up smoothly when I save the page with its next instruction, rather than just disappearing forever because I had to click the X) In short: really very cool, but in the parts I managed to get through (Missions 1-2 and part of 3) there are some small interface issues that need work, and one *glaring *one that short-circuited my attempt to get through a mission and, I guess, the entire adventure. -Fluffernutter On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 5:56 PM, Jake Orlowitz jorlow...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks! I've been working for the past 7 months on an interactive guided tour for new editors called '''The Wikipedia Adventure''', as part of a WMF Individual Engagement Grant. The game is an experiment in teaching our aspiring future editors in an educational but playful way. *This week I need some '''alpha-testers''' to kick the tires and basically try to break it. I'm interested in general impressions and suggestions of course, but I'm really looking
Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: A2K, its lies and irresponsibilities
Dear Ansuman, Thanks for flagging your concerns pertaining to the Access to Knowledge (A2K) program at the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS). Most of these are in the pipe-line (or works in progress) and we will share updates on each one of the queries you have posted, on the mailing lists and/or on-wiki in the next 15-20 days. We will also update on our failures in meeting some of the plans. There are some delays with the taking off of some of our current year plans [0]. However, I fail to understand where we have lied? All the A2K work is periodically i.e. monthly, (except for once where we clubbed two months newsletters as we were redesigning the newsletter based on feedback received from some Indian Wikimedia community members0 published through A2K Newsletter. The Newsletters were widely circulated on all Indian Wikimedia mailing lists. Please also see: a) All CIS-A2K Newsletters here [1] under the section The Access to Knowledge Bulletin. b) All the Events CIS-A2K has organized towards strengthening the Wikimedia movement in India. We are currently updating all the events on this [2] Meta page and soon you will see all the events conducted/supported by A2K since September 2012. c) Support to various requests placed by the Indian Wikimedia community. [3] More updates to follow. Vishnu [[:m:User:Visdaviva]] [0] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Work_plan_April_2013_-_June_2014 [1] http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Events [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Requests https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:India_Access_To_Knowledge/Requests On 28 October 2013 16:46, ansuman ansum...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, This is part of the replies of Vishnu four months ago. --- --- Me: And also tell the community, who are all involved in the interview process and selection process, and why? Vishnu: BEFORE EVEN PUBLISHING THE JOB ADVERTISEMENT WE HAD DECIDED TO PUBLISH A BLOG POST/WRITE-UP ON THE SELECTION PROCESS AND SHARE IT WITH THE WIKIMEDIA INDIA COMMUNITY AS PART OF OUR TRANSPARENCY MEASURE. ONCE THIS IS UP, WILL SHARE THE LINK. Me: Please make available the job descriptions/roles for all the employees at meta and share the same in the mailing list. Vishnu: YES WE ARE REWORKING THE PROFILES AS THE EARLIER ROLES ARE NO MORE RELEVANT. WE WILL TAKE THIS UP ON PRIORITY AND PUT IT UP ON META. THE LINKS TO A2K TEAM MEMBER PROFILES, SHARED EVERY MONTH IN A2K NEWSLETTERS, WILL IN FUTURE BE LINKED TO THE META PAGES. -- If I've missed any updates on this from A2K, let me know. What happened to the decision? When do you plan to share this, next year? If so you should have told the community. Don't you think so? Besides user pages (User pages don't have detailed information about the job description) there is no proper work details of anybody on meta officially . I don't think there is any even off-wiki . (Profiles at CIS site are not detailed enough to know their works) We don't know who is responsible for which work!! Who is doing what? Few more questions.. Why still *2* new recruits are missing even after several months, at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Teamhttp://bl-1.com/click/load/ADAAMlM2Um8Hb1w7CTw-b0231 , Why there is no *monthly reports* updated on meta, https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Reportshttp://bl-1.com/click/load/VGRaaABlVmtQOFA3AjA-b0231 Why there is no *community Mid-year reports* updated, https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Reportshttp://bl-1.com/click/load/VmZZawdiAj9ROVUyBDc-b0231 If there is any report available anywhere, when do you plan to update the meta pages? Why there is no response to this, Evaluation results after months? *How long are your two weeks?* https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:India_Access_To_Knowledge/Work_plan_April_2013_-_June_2014/Learning_and_Evaluationhttp://bl-1.com/click/load/UGAKOFw5WmcCagZhV2c-b0231 What about *Quarterly Community Survey* mentioned here, https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Work_plan_April_2013_-_June_2014/Learning_and_Evaluationhttp://bl-1.com/click/load/XW0PPQdiBzoFbVA3VGU-b0231? Is there any plan to do this ever? And on this https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Forum/Archives/2013-08#Terms_.2F_MoU_for_India_A2K_projecthttp://bl-1.com/click/load/BDRcblQxATwFbQFmUmw-b0231, which Shyamal brought it up; I'd like to see something concrete from the Foundation. I don't know about off-wiki, but there hasn't been proper communication on anything on-wiki. If there is a change in plans or updates on any event, we don't get to see that! Why? * Who is accountable for all these discrepancies??* I request the foundation or whoever
Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia France] Welcome to Nathalie, our new ED
Many congratulations from India, Nathalie!! Vishnu On Tuesday, 1 October 2013, Christophe Henner christophe.hen...@wikimedia.fr wrote: Hi everyone, We have the great pleasure to announce Nathalie Martin is starting today as the new Executive Director of Wikimédia France! Her hiring is the tipping point of a process we started last January when we hired a HR firm to audit our organization and support us in finding the right person for this key role. With a background in political science and organizations strategy, Nathalie has a deep experience managing several associations of similar or bigger size as Wikimedia France. Even though she is not from the movement, we believe she'll adapt quickly to who we are. She came to Wikimania in Hong-Kong, and some of you may have had the pleasure to meet her. By coming to Wikimania she had the luck to experience in 3 day what Wikimedia is at large, to meet wikimedians from all around the world. I'm happy to say that she too suffered from PWD (Post-Wikimania Depression). If you need to contact her, her email address is nathalie.mar...@wikimedia.fr. Please keep in mind that it's her first day within our movement and she still will need few days to adapt to our awesomeness Please join us in welcoming Nathalie! Best, PS: please keep her in copy of your answers :) Christophe HENNER | Vice-chair --- › Mail : christophe.hen...@wikimedia.fr › Mobile : +33(0)6 29 35 65 94 › Tel : +33(0)5 62 89 12 01 › Twitter : @Wikimedia_Fr - Wikimédia France | Association pour le libre partage de la connaissance | Visitez notre blog http://blog.wikimedia.fr ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
