[Wikimediaindia-l] You can't copy-paste this homework
You can't copy-paste this homework Padmaparna Ghosh | September 10, 2011 http://www.timescrest.com/life/you-cant-copypaste-this-homework-6226 http://www.timescrest.com/timthumb.php?src=http://www.timescrest.com/media/content/2011/Sep/img_6226_19431_Pc0080400.jpgw=500zc=1 The students of the Symbiosis School of Economics have suddenly rediscovered the college library. Like most other students, whenever asked to produce a research paper they would routinely look to every lazy researcher's best friend, Wikipedia. But all that changed four months back. Like most members of the academic world, Ishita Ghosh, assistant professor at the SSE, was worried about students turning into a copy-paste generation. Till she decided to beat them at their own game - she asked her students to write original entries for Wikipedia itself. There are others like Ghosh in various colleges across Pune. For more than 1, 000 students at SSE and the College of Engineering, Pune, Wikipedia, the world's largest online, collaborative encyclopedia, is not just a free online encyclopedia, but also a platform to prove their worth as researchers. Professors at these colleges, under an India Education Project by the Wikimedia Foundation, are not asking their students to write papers but original Wikipedia entries, complete with paper citations, references and facts. This novel idea of student contributions has sparked a flurry of activity on campus and is helping teachers judge fundamental research skills of their students. Unlike what it sounds like, writing an entry for the encyclopedia is not easy. They have to research primary sources. I judge their entries on the content, flow and argument of the piece, how many external sources and references they have used and how comprehensive the article is, says Ghosh. In a semester, Ghosh gives 10 per cent weightage to these Wikipedia entries. For the Foundation India and its participation, in fact, is important enough to warrant the foundation's first office out of San Francisco being in here. And it is here on a mission to help India represent itself better. The project had targeted 250 such students initially but already have more than 1, 000 and will spread to other cities next year. While initially reluctant, students have now warmed up to the idea. Every morning Abhilasha Sharma, a 20-yearold student at SSE, craves a hit. Over the last 30 days, she got 950 but this 20-year-old keeps wanting more. Sharma's day is now incomplete if she doesn't log on to Wikipedia, the world's largest online collaborative encyclopedia, at least once a day to check how many hits her entry received. But it hasn't been easy. Within five days of her putting up her article on Robinson Crusoe Economy her worst fear came true - the article got nominated for deletion. For these students, writing an academic paper is no longer an exercise in isolation. It means putting up your labour of weeks online to a prospective audience of 400 million worldwide, all of who can remark on the content and its quality, find holes in the argument and edit it. I went live with my article too soon, when I had little content. So I chatted with the guy who wanted it deleted, a 70-year-old guy in the UK. It was really cool. My work was being watched but not by my professor and he really pushed me to improve my content. This is a dog-eat-dog world but not Wikipedia. If a stranger can be so nice to me so can I, said Sharma, who intends to continue contributing to Wikipedia. And that is what the Foundation wants. Out of about 100, 000 editors worldwide, only about 1, 250 are from India, which is a shame. By population or internet access proportion one in every 5 or 6 editors should be from India, said Hisham Mundol, consultant to the foundation. The students are helped along the way by volunteer campus ambassadors, who are Wikipedia enthusiasts. This is about institutionalising the habit of writing and editing. This does not have a shelf life. Here is an audience of 400 million or even take 10 per cent of it. You are not writing for a dustbin, said Ram Shankar Yadav, a campus ambassador. The foundation, whose only office out of San Francisco is in India, had called for applications for volunteers for 20 positions and they received more than 700. This was unexpected because all I had promised was a T shirt and some love from me, laughed Mundol. Students are even putting their experience up on their resumes for campus placements in a bid to differentiate it from the crowd. The project has also brought out the intense competitor in Sharma thanks to the Leaderboard ranks for contributors according to the amount of content added in bytes. I am really obsessive about it. That has motivated me so much. I want to be on top, said Sharma. The India story of Wikipedia is, however, different from the solely English-speaking world. Though at present most of the editors and contributors are in the English language version, more and more
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] social media to use
hi, Thanks for bringing this to our attention. Can you share where you have spotted this? We're not planning to have a twitter account, just a hashtag - #wci11. This is also being used on identi.ca by a few users and we encourage this. We'd like to correct the error. warm regards, Pradeep Mohandas On 10 September 2011 08:18, Nagarjuna G nagar...@gnowgi.org wrote: In the recent announcement about the wikimedia conference I saw this: * Social Media Facebook and Linkedin event pages, and official Twitter account *Mediawiki as a media technology does not belong there. It is not the outcome and end that this group should be interested in, but also means of getting there. I personally think we should encourage and use the free software alternatives like identi.ca, diaspora so that the event takes an opportunity to promote these media which protects user's freedom. By linking your account to other facebook or twitter followers to identi.ca account you will help tell the world that microblogging can be done with free software as well and your event supports/sponsors identi.ca. I do hope the mediawiki conference supports free social media and uses this occasion to spread this message among the wikimedians. -- GN ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Pradeep Mohandas How Pradeep uses email - http://goo.gl/6v1I9 ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] social media to use
I think it is in the advertisement of communication position with foundation posted by Hisham sometimes back On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com wrote: hi, Thanks for bringing this to our attention. Can you share where you have spotted this? We're not planning to have a twitter account, just a hashtag - #wci11. This is also being used on identi.ca by a few users and we encourage this. We'd like to correct the error. warm regards, Pradeep Mohandas On 10 September 2011 08:18, Nagarjuna G nagar...@gnowgi.org wrote: In the recent announcement about the wikimedia conference I saw this: Social Media Facebook and Linkedin event pages, and official Twitter account Mediawiki as a media technology does not belong there. It is not the outcome and end that this group should be interested in, but also means of getting there. I personally think we should encourage and use the free software alternatives like identi.ca, diaspora so that the event takes an opportunity to promote these media which protects user's freedom. By linking your account to other facebook or twitter followers to identi.ca account you will help tell the world that microblogging can be done with free software as well and your event supports/sponsors identi.ca. I do hope the mediawiki conference supports free social media and uses this occasion to spread this message among the wikimedians. -- GN ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Pradeep Mohandas How Pradeep uses email - http://goo.gl/6v1I9 ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] social media to use
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com wrote: hi, Thanks for bringing this to our attention. Can you share where you have spotted this? We're not planning to have a twitter account, just a hashtag - #wci11. This is also being used on identi.ca by a few users and we encourage this. We'd like to correct the error. this was posted by CherianTinu abrakham: *Penn-Olson : Its Wikipedia Season in India* http://www.penn-olson.com/2011/09/07/wikipedia-indi/ *Wikipedia is now all set for it’s first WikiConference in India which is scheduled to be held in Mumbai on November 18th, 2011. Delegates from any country can participate, but the conference will be quite India-centric, according to the event page on Wikimedia.* * * *Here’s a quick overview of the schedule for the WikiConference which will act as a platform for Indian Wikimedians and Wikipedians to meet, discuss, and share their opinions regarding Wikipedia India issues, Indian language projects on Wikipedia, and discuss affairs in the Wikicommunity in India andabroad. * * * *Date 18th to 20th November, 2011* *Venue Convocation Hall, University of Mumbai (Fort Campus) associated rooms* *Accommodation Sea Green Hotel and Chateau Windsor hotel (for those who receive scholarships)* *Hosts Mumbai and Pune Wikipedia communitites, Wikimedia India branch* *Sponsors Wikimedia Foundation, Eregnow.com* *Social Media Facebook and Linkedin event pages, and official Twitter account* *Email confere...@wikimedia.in* * * * * *We recently spoke with the India program consultant to WikiMedia, Mr. Hisham Mundol. We discussed the WikiConference, a new Wiki course in the College of Engineering at Pune (CoEP), and how to be a Wikipedia contributor.* * * *What is the conference all about? Why is it being held and how do you think it’s beneficial for Wikipedia?* * * *This conference is going to be the first national conference held by the Wikimedia community in India. It’ll be fantastic for the existing community to meet up and share stories and knowledge and have a good time! We also hope that it will attract newcomers to Wikipedia.* * * *Also, Wikipedia’s activities in India have increased as it has recently collaborated with College of Engineering, Pune launching a course in which over 800 students will contribute to the Wikipedia’s page as a part of their first semester.* * * *Why did Wikipedia choose CoEP over top colleges like the Indian Institute of Technology (IITs) and National Institute of Technology (NITs)?* * * *The College of Engineering at Pune has a wonderful reputation, student body, and faculty. We decided to do the pilot in Pune – and we’re honored the CoEP has agreed to partner with us. Right now, the college has the highest number of students enrolled in our program, anywhere in the world.* * * *What benefits will this course add to Wikipedia as an organization?* * * *The Wikipedia movement will gain tremendously because of the quality of content that students are adding, and will be adding.* * * *What is the future plan? Is the organisation planning to launch this course in other colleges as well?* * * *Our immediate plans are to continue with this pilot at Pune in the short term. We are looking at a roll-out to other colleges and cities. We’d love to hear from whoever is interested. For those who want to get involved immediately, an option is to start a Wikipedia Students’ Club. There are further details available on our outreach page.* * * *How can one contribute towards the Wiki community?* * * *Anyone and everyone can contribute. You can check the Welcome to Wikipedia section and the Introduction Page.* * * *The basic process would be to read those two links, create a user account, go to the edit button on the top right of any article and start editing! You can also contribute images and other media files to Wikimedia Commons which is amongst the world’s largest storehouse of free-to-use media files.* * * *Lastly, How many Wikipedia contributors hail from India at the moment?* * * *Right now, there are about 1,500 active editors in India – but that number keeps growing. We’d like it to become many, many times larger, and we invite anyone and everyone to join in!* Regards Tinu Cherian http://wiki.wikimedia.in/In_the_news#Sep_2011 __ _ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l warm regards, Pradeep Mohandas On 10 September 2011 08:18, Nagarjuna G nagar...@gnowgi.org wrote: In the recent announcement about the wikimedia conference I saw this: * Social Media Facebook and Linkedin event pages, and official Twitter account *Mediawiki as a media technology does not belong there. It is not the outcome and end that this group should be interested in, but also means of getting there. I personally think we should encourage and use the free software alternatives
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] You can't copy-paste this homework
Good article on the INDIAEDU programs. :) On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 14:05, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.org wrote: You can't copy-paste this homework Well, but some reality check, quite a few have been found copying[1], the drive is on to educate more about copyrights and inform them copying is wrong. But this is a big cultural issue, we have to expect and work on it as more and more of the 1000 start to edit. If you wish to help, please sign up for online ambassadors and help the INDIAEDU program participants. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fluffernutter/checks -- Regards Srikanth.L http://srik.me ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] You can't copy-paste this homework
On 10 September 2011 14:44, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com wrote: Well, but some reality check, quite a few have been found copying[1], the drive is on to educate more about copyrights and inform them copying is wrong. A question - how hard is it to write a bot that runs contributions through Google and flags it based on the degree of match and whether a footnote exists or not? It's what https://turnitin.com/ and it's ilk offer as a service. Thank you. Best, Gautam http://blog.prathambooks.org/p/social-media.html ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] You can't copy-paste this homework
The subject of the mail is a bit ironic actually ;) Anyway, I guess the copyvios should be ironed out once Online Ambassadors step in. Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch) On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 14:44, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote: Good article on the INDIAEDU programs. :) On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 14:05, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.orgwrote: You can't copy-paste this homework Well, but some reality check, quite a few have been found copying[1], the drive is on to educate more about copyrights and inform them copying is wrong. But this is a big cultural issue, we have to expect and work on it as more and more of the 1000 start to edit. If you wish to help, please sign up for online ambassadors and help the INDIAEDU program participants. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fluffernutter/checks -- Regards Srikanth.L http://srik.me ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] You can't copy-paste this homework
On 10 September 2011 14:51, Swaroop Rao raul.swar...@gmail.com wrote: The subject of the mail is a bit ironic actually ;) Anyway, I guess the copyvios should be ironed out once Online Ambassadors step in. Now that you mention it... I wonder if they were trying to be sardonic. Thank you. Best, Gautam http://blog.prathambooks.org/p/social-media.html ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] social media to use
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 14:30, Nagarjuna G nagar...@gnowledge.org wrote: On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com wrote: hi, Thanks for bringing this to our attention. Can you share where you have spotted this? We're not planning to have a twitter account, just a hashtag - #wci11. This is also being used on identi.ca by a few users and we encourage this. We'd like to correct the error. this was posted by CherianTinu abrakham: *Penn-Olson : Its Wikipedia Season in India* http://www.penn-olson.com/2011/09/07/wikipedia-indi/ *Wikipedia is now all set for it’s first WikiConference in India which is scheduled to be held in Mumbai on November 18th, 2011. Delegates from any country can participate, but the conference will be quite India-centric, according to the event page on Wikimedia.* * * *Here’s a quick overview of the schedule for the WikiConference which will act as a platform for Indian Wikimedians and Wikipedians to meet, discuss, and share their opinions regarding Wikipedia India issues, Indian language projects on Wikipedia, and discuss affairs in the Wikicommunity in India and abroad.* * * *Date 18th to 20th November, 2011* *Venue Convocation Hall, University of Mumbai (Fort Campus) associated rooms* *Accommodation Sea Green Hotel and Chateau Windsor hotel (for those who receive scholarships)* *Hosts Mumbai and Pune Wikipedia communitites, Wikimedia India branch* *Sponsors Wikimedia Foundation, Eregnow.com* *Social Media Facebook and Linkedin event pages, and official Twitter account* The Twitter account mentioned here actually links (in the original article) only to a Twitter search: http://twitter.com/#!/search/%23wci11(the search for the hashtag, #wc11), not an actual Twitter account, per se. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] social media to use
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 15:01, Aditya Sengupta apsengu...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 14:30, Nagarjuna G nagar...@gnowledge.org wrote: On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com wrote: hi, Thanks for bringing this to our attention. Can you share where you have spotted this? We're not planning to have a twitter account, just a hashtag - #wci11. This is also being used on identi.ca by a few users and we encourage this. We'd like to correct the error. this was posted by CherianTinu abrakham: *Penn-Olson : Its Wikipedia Season in India* http://www.penn-olson.com/2011/09/07/wikipedia-indi/ *Wikipedia is now all set for it’s first WikiConference in India which is scheduled to be held in Mumbai on November 18th, 2011. Delegates from any country can participate, but the conference will be quite India-centric, according to the event page on Wikimedia.* * * *Here’s a quick overview of the schedule for the WikiConference which will act as a platform for Indian Wikimedians and Wikipedians to meet, discuss, and share their opinions regarding Wikipedia India issues, Indian language projects on Wikipedia, and discuss affairs in the Wikicommunity in India and abroad.* * * *Date 18th to 20th November, 2011* *Venue Convocation Hall, University of Mumbai (Fort Campus) associated rooms* *Accommodation Sea Green Hotel and Chateau Windsor hotel (for those who receive scholarships)* *Hosts Mumbai and Pune Wikipedia communitites, Wikimedia India branch* *Sponsors Wikimedia Foundation, Eregnow.com* *Social Media Facebook and Linkedin event pages, and official Twitter account* The Twitter account mentioned here actually links (in the original article) only to a Twitter search: http://twitter.com/#!/search/%23wci11http://twitter.com/#%21/search/%23wci11(the search for the hashtag, #wc11), not an actual Twitter account, per se. That said, the Wikimedia page from which they've picked up this info ( http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2011) makes no mention of an account, it only links to the hashtag. The author of the post at Penn-Olson is just probably not acquainted enough with Twitter. :-) ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] social media to use
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 08:18, Nagarjuna G nagar...@gnowgi.org wrote: I personally think we should encourage and use the free software alternatives like identi.ca, diaspora so that the event takes an opportunity to promote these media which protects user's freedom. By linking your account to other facebook or twitter followers to identi.ca account you will help tell the world that microblogging can be done with free software as well and your event supports/sponsors identi.ca. I do hope the mediawiki conference supports free social media and uses this occasion to spread this message among the wikimedians. I think its best not to confuse / group free knowledge and free software always. The primary intent of engaging in social media is to promote / reach out about the mission, not free social media. If you wish to promote Wiki Conference / Wikimedia in any of the free social media you mentioned, please come forward. Other social media will anyways link to it since it will have the content. :) -- Regards Srikanth.L http://srik.me ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] You can't copy-paste this homework
A question - how hard is it to write a bot that runs contributions through Google and flags it based on the degree of match and whether a footnote exists or not? One such bot existed called corensearchbot which used yahoo to flag copyvios. But yahoo changed its terms of service and it had be to stopped. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-09-05/Opinion_essay last week in a conversation in jimbowales talk page in en wiki, jimmy said he and coren were talking to google to allow this free of charge or something and something good is to be expected in the near future (i am not sure, i might be mangling his meaning). On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.orgwrote: On 10 September 2011 14:51, Swaroop Rao raul.swar...@gmail.com wrote: The subject of the mail is a bit ironic actually ;) Anyway, I guess the copyvios should be ironed out once Online Ambassadors step in. Now that you mention it... I wonder if they were trying to be sardonic. Thank you. Best, Gautam http://blog.prathambooks.org/p/social-media.html ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] You can't copy-paste this homework
On 10 September 2011 16:23, Bala Jeyaraman sodabot...@gmail.com wrote: last week in a conversation in jimbowales talk page in en wiki, jimmy said he and coren were talking to google to allow this free of charge or something and something good is to be expected in the near future (i am not sure, i might be mangling his meaning). Interesting. Sadly, the Google Search API is no longer free: http://code.google.com/apis/customsearch/v1/overview.html Thank you. Best, Gautam http://blog.prathambooks.org/p/social-media.html ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] You can't copy-paste this homework
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 16:23, Bala Jeyaraman sodabot...@gmail.com wrote: A question - how hard is it to write a bot that runs contributions through Google and flags it based on the degree of match and whether a footnote exists or not? One such bot existed called corensearchbot which used yahoo to flag copyvios. But yahoo changed its terms of service and it had be to stopped. Infact, we need not go all automatic way, the kind of copying here is very elementary. 1500+ chars without wiki syntax means something suspicious.None of us write paragraphs at one shot. I guess Huggle might already flag those(not sure). I just added watchlist to all course pages[1], so that ambassadors could monitor them and check manually. It will be great if some common template is applied on all talk pages where students edit so we could get one consolidated watchlist with some template. Will work over sometime during next week. On the other hand, if the teachers could monitor individual watch-list for content getting added as and when it will be good. Instead of doing one review at end, spotting diffs would mean lesser rework for students,shorter the duration junk stays(Some of the topics chosen by the program have very few watchers). But it cant be done by ambassadors without subject knowledge. I definitely cant review Artificial Intelligence topics :D [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:India_Education_Program/Courses -- Regards Srikanth.L http://srik.me ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] You can't copy-paste this homework
hi, Another way to look at it is that a few tried to copy paste their work and were caught - which is a good thing and proves, that you can't copy your homework. :) They're new to Wikipedia and I think these are important lessons for them to learn up-front. warm regards, Pradeep Sent from my Nokia E63 On 10/09/2011, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.org wrote: On 10 September 2011 16:23, Bala Jeyaraman sodabot...@gmail.com wrote: last week in a conversation in jimbowales talk page in en wiki, jimmy said he and coren were talking to google to allow this free of charge or something and something good is to be expected in the near future (i am not sure, i might be mangling his meaning). Interesting. Sadly, the Google Search API is no longer free: http://code.google.com/apis/customsearch/v1/overview.html Thank you. Best, Gautam http://blog.prathambooks.org/p/social-media.html ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Pradeep Mohandas How Pradeep uses email - http://goo.gl/6v1I9 ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] You can't copy-paste this homework
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 16:27, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.org wrote: On 10 September 2011 16:23, Bala Jeyaraman sodabot...@gmail.com wrote: last week in a conversation in jimbowales talk page in en wiki, jimmy said he and coren were talking to google to allow this free of charge or something and something good is to be expected in the near future (i am not sure, i might be mangling his meaning). Interesting. Sadly, the Google Search API is no longer free: http://code.google.com/apis/customsearch/v1/overview.html This is the Google Custom Search API, which in my understanding works only for a specific list of websites. The Google Web Search API is deprecated: https://code.google.com/apis/websearch/ ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Foundation Report and India Education Program
Here's what Foundation Report August 2011 has to say for our India Education program http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/09/08/wikimedia-foundation-report-august-2011/ *India Programs* - Two new consultants selected – Nitika Tandon (Participation) and Shiju Alex (Indic Initiatives). Nitika has joined and Shiju joins at the end of September. - Continued support of proposed WikiConference in Mumbai in November ($40k grant from WMF; Fellowship for organizer; Advisory services). - Wikipedia India Education Programhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:India_Education_Program pilot in Pune looking good in terms of numbers (1000 students) but requires intensive effort to provide adequate training, enabling and hand-holding of newbie students. Having said this, check out the following: - User: Abhilasha369 started a new article: Robinson Crusoe Economy - User: basic.atari is working on the Human capital article - User: SaurabhKB is editing Self-organizing list - User: Aishani Sharma on Social preferences - User: Jinchurikidan has been actively editing the article on Animation studio - 12 new Campus Ambassadors selected for the Pune pilot; training expected by September 12 - Continued progress on legal registration of the proposed independent public trust in India. - Initial meetings with major mobile carriers / manufacturers scheduled for next week. -- Thanks Arnav (ricku). (User:Rangilo_Gujarati) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rangilo_Gujarati ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] eBooks, Project Gutenberg, founder obituary
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Michael_S._Hart A fine tribute to a great achiever and source of inspiration for the progress of open knowledge. -- Vickram Fool On The Hill http://communicall.wordpress.com ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
