Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikipedia-l] Creation of new language - Ahirani
Hoi, It would be cool when the request for the Ahirani language is completed. What is necessary is information of the proposer and people interested in working on this language. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Ahirani In the mean time I have written a Mingle story asking for the support for the Ahirani language. The request is to have a configuration *exactly* like Marathi for WebFonts and Narayam. It will likely take three weeks before this is implemented on the Incubator. Before this we will have it implemented on translatewiki.net. When it has been implemented at twn, we want to get confirmation that it is as it needs to be. Having a language support team for Ahirani (and any other language) really helps. http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Language_support_team Thanks, Gerard On 3 December 2011 06:38, deepak sapkale deepak_sapk...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi, I am Deepak Sapkale, 27 year old software engineer, currently working at L T Infotech. I had attended Wiki Conference India 2011 and was really inspired to create new language which is spoken in my native town. The language is called Ahirani . The script of Ahirani is Devanagari which used for Hindi and Marathi languages. Please advise me, how can I proceed with this one. Regards, Deepak Sapkale contact no, home: +91-022-21717690 mobile no: +91-9920997888 Home is behind The world ahead. And there are many paths to tread. Through shadow, To the edge of night Until the stars are all alight Mist and shadow Cloud and shade All shall fade All shall...fade. ___ Wikipedia-l mailing list wikipedi...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikipedia-l] Creation of new language - Ahirani
Very encouraging! Whole support for you, Ahirani! Welcome to the world of Indic Wikipedias, you little dear! :) -Viswam On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 14:19, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.comwrote: Hoi, It would be cool when the request for the Ahirani language is completed. What is necessary is information of the proposer and people interested in working on this language. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Ahirani In the mean time I have written a Mingle story asking for the support for the Ahirani language. The request is to have a configuration *exactly*like Marathi for WebFonts and Narayam. It will likely take three weeks before this is implemented on the Incubator. Before this we will have it implemented on translatewiki.net. When it has been implemented at twn, we want to get confirmation that it is as it needs to be. Having a language support team for Ahirani (and any other language) really helps. http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Language_support_team Thanks, Gerard On 3 December 2011 06:38, deepak sapkale deepak_sapk...@hotmail.comwrote: Hi, I am Deepak Sapkale, 27 year old software engineer, currently working at L T Infotech. I had attended Wiki Conference India 2011 and was really inspired to create new language which is spoken in my native town. The language is called Ahirani . The script of Ahirani is Devanagari which used for Hindi and Marathi languages. Please advise me, how can I proceed with this one. Regards, Deepak Sapkale contact no, home: +91-022-21717690 mobile no: +91-9920997888 Home is behind The world ahead. And there are many paths to tread. Through shadow, To the edge of night Until the stars are all alight Mist and shadow Cloud and shade All shall fade All shall...fade. ___ Wikipedia-l mailing list wikipedi...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Internal-l] Community Fellowships open call
Sent to Foundation-L, might be useful for someone here. _ *Béria Lima* Wikimedia Portugal http://wikimedia.pt (351) 963 953 042 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho. http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos* On 7 December 2011 20:45, Siko Bouterse sboute...@wikimedia.org wrote: Dear colleagues, WMF is now seeking fellowship applicants and project ideas for the Community Fellowships Program http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Fellowships. Community members from all Wikimedia projects and all languages are strongly encouraged to apply by the deadline of January 15th 2012! Could you please help spread the word by sharing this open call in your communities? Wikimedia Community Fellows are spearheading community projects, undertaking research, and piloting new models for engagement to help scale and increase sustainability of volunteer work in the Wikimedia movement. The Foundation provides intensive, time-limited financial and logistical support for fellows to focus on projects of strategic importance. Submissions for Spring 2012 are encouraged to focus on the theme of improving editor retention and increasing participation in Wikimedia Projects. If you'd like to work with WMF on projects to boost participation and retention, or know someone who should be recommended for a fellowship, or if you've got ideas for a fellowship project WMF could support, we'd like to hear from you! Please visit http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Fellowships, or contact Siko Bouterse at sboute...@wikimedia.org for more information. (Note: I'll be circulating on other lists as well, including some chapter mailing lists, in hopes of reaching a broad range of applicants - apologies in advance for cross-posting!) Best regards, -- Siko Bouterse Head of Community Fellowships Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. sboute...@wikimedia.org ___ Internal-l mailing list interna...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/internal-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Re: [Foundation-l] Indian Minister Kapil Sibal wants to censor social media
A useful update on the situation: http://blogs.outlookindia.com/default.aspx?ddm=10pid=2665 On Wednesday 07 December 2011 10:36 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan wrote: Vickram, while I agree with you my point was something else. What I meant to say was that if you add a source, you make your point, you're being neutral, and thus what you're doing is factually correct. On 07/12/2011, Vickram Crishnavvcris...@radiophony.com wrote: Exactly my point. I suspect that the addition of a line referring to the current controversy, where the hashtag #IdiotKapilSibal has been trending, and to quote some of the numbers over time during this crisis, would not be out of place. On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 5:29 PM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.comwrote: Adding Kapil Sibal is an idiot on the Wikipedia article is vandalism http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kapil_Sibalaction=historysubmitdiff=464355055oldid=464353638 Addling verifiable facts is acceptable ( including controversies and criticism http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kapil_Sibalaction=historysubmitdiff=464367647oldid=464366606 Hope I clarified the difference. Regards Tinu Cherian P.S. On a lighter note, Please feel to add Kapil Sibal is an idiot , if you can provide/prove that with Verifiable references from Reliable Sources :) On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Vickram Crishna vvcris...@radiophony.comwrote: Oh, the mention of 'idiot' on that page is vandalism (no, I haven't done it - yet)? I thought we had a very interesting discussion about current affairs at WikiConf where there seemed to be a consensus that presenting every side of the picture is important. Is reporting the fact that major websites like Kafila.org and literally hundreds or thousands of Twitter users are tweeting the hashtag #IdiotKapilSibal wrong, in that case? On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 5:05 PM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: On a related note, this has appeared on *The Economic Times* : Five reasons why India can't censor the Internet http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/internet/five-reasons-why-india-cant-censor-the-internet/articleshow/11018330.cms *Yes, Internet content has the permanence and public-impact potential that a phone call does not, but equally, it lends itself brilliantly to self-regulation. * * * *3. Peer review works: Wikipedia is the best example. Who could have imagined that a user-created encyclopedia could be so objective, and comprehensive? Yes, anyone can go in and edit anything (barring entries like Kapil Sibal, which have been locked due to vandalism!). * * * *If you make an inappropriate change, someone will come in and correct it.* Regards Tinu Cherian On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: This is basically restriction of freedom of expression and it will hurt Wikipedia much more than it hurts Twitter or Facebook. On 07/12/2011, Srikanth Lakshmanansrik@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 12:06, Achal Prabhalaaprabh...@gmail.com wrote: fyi Original Message Subject:Re: [Foundation-l] Indian Minister Kapil Sibal Wants to Censor social Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:02:10 +0530 From: Achal Prabhalaaprabh...@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundatio...@lists.wikimedia.org I just want to write that there was a community member who seemed to be of the notion ImageFilter is the technical fix for what Kapil Sibal is proposing(without probably understanding / knowing much) and connecting the two distinct things. Yes Sibal showed some images as examples for his support, but what Sibal means is much more and prescreening of every byte of user generated content. Please tell that member that linking up 2 different things is not a good idea. ImageFilter needs to be discussed with its own merits / demerits and this thing that Sibal proposes means much more than images. If at all the legislation comes and is being enforced, I think Wikimedia projects are better equipped *technically* than other social media sites cited to support the local laws(so that we need not be banned if that goes to that extreme) with a combination of ImageFilter / FlaggedRevisions and some more customizations, but thats not where we would like to go. Community is already not so strong and needs support, there is so much work to do in increasing content, censorship will cripple Indian community if such a thing happens. There are many questions that the communities need to decide as to submit to Indian laws (if at all they come through) and I hope the situation does not arise for us to take those tough calls. PS : I would not like to post / join foundation-l myself since it has high SNR IMO. -- Regards Srikanth.L -- Sent from my mobile device Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th.
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Internal-l] Community Fellowships open call
I don't understand. What are community fellowships for? On 08/12/2011, Béria Lima beria.l...@wikimedia.pt wrote: Sent to Foundation-L, might be useful for someone here. _ *Béria Lima* Wikimedia Portugal http://wikimedia.pt (351) 963 953 042 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho. http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos* On 7 December 2011 20:45, Siko Bouterse sboute...@wikimedia.org wrote: Dear colleagues, WMF is now seeking fellowship applicants and project ideas for the Community Fellowships Program http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Fellowships. Community members from all Wikimedia projects and all languages are strongly encouraged to apply by the deadline of January 15th 2012! Could you please help spread the word by sharing this open call in your communities? Wikimedia Community Fellows are spearheading community projects, undertaking research, and piloting new models for engagement to help scale and increase sustainability of volunteer work in the Wikimedia movement. The Foundation provides intensive, time-limited financial and logistical support for fellows to focus on projects of strategic importance. Submissions for Spring 2012 are encouraged to focus on the theme of improving editor retention and increasing participation in Wikimedia Projects. If you'd like to work with WMF on projects to boost participation and retention, or know someone who should be recommended for a fellowship, or if you've got ideas for a fellowship project WMF could support, we'd like to hear from you! Please visit http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Fellowships, or contact Siko Bouterse at sboute...@wikimedia.org for more information. (Note: I'll be circulating on other lists as well, including some chapter mailing lists, in hopes of reaching a broad range of applicants - apologies in advance for cross-posting!) Best regards, -- Siko Bouterse Head of Community Fellowships Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. sboute...@wikimedia.org ___ Internal-l mailing list interna...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/internal-l -- Sent from my mobile device Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Re: [Foundation-l] Indian Minister Kapil Sibal wants to censor social media
Interesting to note that the article mentions Sunil and Pranesh of the Centre for Internet and Society ... On 08/12/2011, Achal Prabhala aprabh...@gmail.com wrote: A useful update on the situation: http://blogs.outlookindia.com/default.aspx?ddm=10pid=2665 On Wednesday 07 December 2011 10:36 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan wrote: Vickram, while I agree with you my point was something else. What I meant to say was that if you add a source, you make your point, you're being neutral, and thus what you're doing is factually correct. On 07/12/2011, Vickram Crishnavvcris...@radiophony.com wrote: Exactly my point. I suspect that the addition of a line referring to the current controversy, where the hashtag #IdiotKapilSibal has been trending, and to quote some of the numbers over time during this crisis, would not be out of place. On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 5:29 PM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.comwrote: Adding Kapil Sibal is an idiot on the Wikipedia article is vandalism http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kapil_Sibalaction=historysubmitdiff=464355055oldid=464353638 Addling verifiable facts is acceptable ( including controversies and criticism http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kapil_Sibalaction=historysubmitdiff=464367647oldid=464366606 Hope I clarified the difference. Regards Tinu Cherian P.S. On a lighter note, Please feel to add Kapil Sibal is an idiot , if you can provide/prove that with Verifiable references from Reliable Sources :) On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Vickram Crishna vvcris...@radiophony.comwrote: Oh, the mention of 'idiot' on that page is vandalism (no, I haven't done it - yet)? I thought we had a very interesting discussion about current affairs at WikiConf where there seemed to be a consensus that presenting every side of the picture is important. Is reporting the fact that major websites like Kafila.org and literally hundreds or thousands of Twitter users are tweeting the hashtag #IdiotKapilSibal wrong, in that case? On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 5:05 PM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: On a related note, this has appeared on *The Economic Times* : Five reasons why India can't censor the Internet http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/internet/five-reasons-why-india-cant-censor-the-internet/articleshow/11018330.cms *Yes, Internet content has the permanence and public-impact potential that a phone call does not, but equally, it lends itself brilliantly to self-regulation. * * * *3. Peer review works: Wikipedia is the best example. Who could have imagined that a user-created encyclopedia could be so objective, and comprehensive? Yes, anyone can go in and edit anything (barring entries like Kapil Sibal, which have been locked due to vandalism!). * * * *If you make an inappropriate change, someone will come in and correct it.* Regards Tinu Cherian On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: This is basically restriction of freedom of expression and it will hurt Wikipedia much more than it hurts Twitter or Facebook. On 07/12/2011, Srikanth Lakshmanansrik@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 12:06, Achal Prabhalaaprabh...@gmail.com wrote: fyi Original Message Subject:Re: [Foundation-l] Indian Minister Kapil Sibal Wants to Censor social Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:02:10 +0530 From: Achal Prabhalaaprabh...@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundatio...@lists.wikimedia.org I just want to write that there was a community member who seemed to be of the notion ImageFilter is the technical fix for what Kapil Sibal is proposing(without probably understanding / knowing much) and connecting the two distinct things. Yes Sibal showed some images as examples for his support, but what Sibal means is much more and prescreening of every byte of user generated content. Please tell that member that linking up 2 different things is not a good idea. ImageFilter needs to be discussed with its own merits / demerits and this thing that Sibal proposes means much more than images. If at all the legislation comes and is being enforced, I think Wikimedia projects are better equipped *technically* than other social media sites cited to support the local laws(so that we need not be banned if that goes to that extreme) with a combination of ImageFilter / FlaggedRevisions and some more customizations, but thats not where we would like to go. Community is already not so strong and needs support, there is so much work to do in increasing content, censorship will cripple Indian community if such a thing happens. There are many questions that the communities need to decide as to submit to Indian laws (if at all they come through) and I hope the situation does not arise for us to take those tough calls. PS : I would not like to post / join foundation-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] FW: [Foundation-l] WP being edited by lobbying firm
A follow up was published by the Independent after Jimmy Wales reacted to the matter ... http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/the-dark-arts-Wikipedia-founder-attacks-bell-pottinger-6273836.html On 07/12/2011, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: High time people realised that Marketing and Wikimedia don't go together. On 06/12/2011, wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com wrote: I believe Srikanth R mentioned this a few days ago on the India list. From: bodnot...@gmail.com Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 10:14:26 + To: foundatio...@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Foundation-l] WP being edited by lobbying firm Hello, Hardly surprising or new, but something we need to be aware of: Wikipedia is being edited by a large lobbying company, Bell Pottinger. It removes negative coverage of its clients: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/caught-on-camera-top-lobbyists-boasting-how-they-influence-the-pm-6272760.html Bodnotbod ___ foundation-l mailing list foundatio...@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l -- Sent from my mobile device Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore -- Sent from my mobile device Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Internal-l] Community Fellowships open call
Well, is on the page: *A fellowship is a temporary position at the Wikimedia Foundation in order to work on a specific project or set of projects. Fellowships can be awarded for periods as short as 2 months and as long as 12 months. Duration is determined by the scope of the fellow's project.* Being a Community Fellow means that your project falls into the Community Department of WMF. In a nutshell: If anyone wants to apply for, they need a project to help the community (not necessary to be the Global one) until 15 Jan and this project need to be approved by WMF. _ *Béria Lima* http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho. http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos* On 8 December 2011 12:10, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.comwrote: I don't understand. What are community fellowships for? On 08/12/2011, Béria Lima beria.l...@wikimedia.pt wrote: Sent to Foundation-L, might be useful for someone here. _ *Béria Lima* Wikimedia Portugal http://wikimedia.pt (351) 963 953 042 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho. http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos* On 7 December 2011 20:45, Siko Bouterse sboute...@wikimedia.org wrote: Dear colleagues, WMF is now seeking fellowship applicants and project ideas for the Community Fellowships Program http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Fellowships. Community members from all Wikimedia projects and all languages are strongly encouraged to apply by the deadline of January 15th 2012! Could you please help spread the word by sharing this open call in your communities? Wikimedia Community Fellows are spearheading community projects, undertaking research, and piloting new models for engagement to help scale and increase sustainability of volunteer work in the Wikimedia movement. The Foundation provides intensive, time-limited financial and logistical support for fellows to focus on projects of strategic importance. Submissions for Spring 2012 are encouraged to focus on the theme of improving editor retention and increasing participation in Wikimedia Projects. If you'd like to work with WMF on projects to boost participation and retention, or know someone who should be recommended for a fellowship, or if you've got ideas for a fellowship project WMF could support, we'd like to hear from you! Please visit http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Fellowships, or contact Siko Bouterse at sboute...@wikimedia.org for more information. (Note: I'll be circulating on other lists as well, including some chapter mailing lists, in hopes of reaching a broad range of applicants - apologies in advance for cross-posting!) Best regards, -- Siko Bouterse Head of Community Fellowships Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. sboute...@wikimedia.org ___ Internal-l mailing list interna...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/internal-l -- Sent from my mobile device Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Internal-l] Community Fellowships open call
Thank you Beria for your short note. :) *$U®¥∩* http://goo.gl/RoMyo.com http://FirefoxSurya.blogspot.com http://about.me/suryaceg On 8 December 2011 18:42, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote: Well, is on the page: *A fellowship is a temporary position at the Wikimedia Foundation in order to work on a specific project or set of projects. Fellowships can be awarded for periods as short as 2 months and as long as 12 months. Duration is determined by the scope of the fellow's project.* Being a Community Fellow means that your project falls into the Community Department of WMF. In a nutshell: If anyone wants to apply for, they need a project to help the community (not necessary to be the Global one) until 15 Jan and this project need to be approved by WMF. _ *Béria Lima* http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho. http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos* On 8 December 2011 12:10, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.comwrote: I don't understand. What are community fellowships for? On 08/12/2011, Béria Lima beria.l...@wikimedia.pt wrote: Sent to Foundation-L, might be useful for someone here. _ *Béria Lima* Wikimedia Portugal http://wikimedia.pt (351) 963 953 042 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho. http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos* On 7 December 2011 20:45, Siko Bouterse sboute...@wikimedia.org wrote: Dear colleagues, WMF is now seeking fellowship applicants and project ideas for the Community Fellowships Program http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Fellowships. Community members from all Wikimedia projects and all languages are strongly encouraged to apply by the deadline of January 15th 2012! Could you please help spread the word by sharing this open call in your communities? Wikimedia Community Fellows are spearheading community projects, undertaking research, and piloting new models for engagement to help scale and increase sustainability of volunteer work in the Wikimedia movement. The Foundation provides intensive, time-limited financial and logistical support for fellows to focus on projects of strategic importance. Submissions for Spring 2012 are encouraged to focus on the theme of improving editor retention and increasing participation in Wikimedia Projects. If you'd like to work with WMF on projects to boost participation and retention, or know someone who should be recommended for a fellowship, or if you've got ideas for a fellowship project WMF could support, we'd like to hear from you! Please visit http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Fellowships, or contact Siko Bouterse at sboute...@wikimedia.org for more information. (Note: I'll be circulating on other lists as well, including some chapter mailing lists, in hopes of reaching a broad range of applicants - apologies in advance for cross-posting!) Best regards, -- Siko Bouterse Head of Community Fellowships Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. sboute...@wikimedia.org ___ Internal-l mailing list interna...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/internal-l -- Sent from my mobile device Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Internal-l] Community Fellowships open call
Yes, thank you for the explanation. Meta and the foundation site don't work to well with my phone browser. On 08/12/2011, Surya Prakash suryasalem2...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you Beria for your short note. :) *$U®¥∩* http://goo.gl/RoMyo.com http://FirefoxSurya.blogspot.com http://about.me/suryaceg On 8 December 2011 18:42, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote: Well, is on the page: *A fellowship is a temporary position at the Wikimedia Foundation in order to work on a specific project or set of projects. Fellowships can be awarded for periods as short as 2 months and as long as 12 months. Duration is determined by the scope of the fellow's project.* Being a Community Fellow means that your project falls into the Community Department of WMF. In a nutshell: If anyone wants to apply for, they need a project to help the community (not necessary to be the Global one) until 15 Jan and this project need to be approved by WMF. _ *Béria Lima* http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho. http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos* On 8 December 2011 12:10, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.comwrote: I don't understand. What are community fellowships for? On 08/12/2011, Béria Lima beria.l...@wikimedia.pt wrote: Sent to Foundation-L, might be useful for someone here. _ *Béria Lima* Wikimedia Portugal http://wikimedia.pt (351) 963 953 042 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho. http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos* On 7 December 2011 20:45, Siko Bouterse sboute...@wikimedia.org wrote: Dear colleagues, WMF is now seeking fellowship applicants and project ideas for the Community Fellowships Program http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Fellowships. Community members from all Wikimedia projects and all languages are strongly encouraged to apply by the deadline of January 15th 2012! Could you please help spread the word by sharing this open call in your communities? Wikimedia Community Fellows are spearheading community projects, undertaking research, and piloting new models for engagement to help scale and increase sustainability of volunteer work in the Wikimedia movement. The Foundation provides intensive, time-limited financial and logistical support for fellows to focus on projects of strategic importance. Submissions for Spring 2012 are encouraged to focus on the theme of improving editor retention and increasing participation in Wikimedia Projects. If you'd like to work with WMF on projects to boost participation and retention, or know someone who should be recommended for a fellowship, or if you've got ideas for a fellowship project WMF could support, we'd like to hear from you! Please visit http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Fellowships, or contact Siko Bouterse at sboute...@wikimedia.org for more information. (Note: I'll be circulating on other lists as well, including some chapter mailing lists, in hopes of reaching a broad range of applicants - apologies in advance for cross-posting!) Best regards, -- Siko Bouterse Head of Community Fellowships Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. sboute...@wikimedia.org ___ Internal-l mailing list interna...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/internal-l -- Sent from my mobile device Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Sent from my mobile device Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Meetup at Salem - Dec 11
Hi All, A Wikipedia meet is being organized in Salem this Sunday. Agenda would primarily be discussion about Tamil Wikipedia and Wiktionary and a photo walk post meetup to click pics for Media contest[1]. Meetup page[2]. If you are interested( dont follow Tamil) and need more details to attend, please contact Sodabottle / SuryaPrakash who are in cc of this mail. [1] http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contest/en [2] http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:SALEM1 -- Regards Srikanth.L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Meetup at Salem - Dec 11
Wow! 3 academies/meetups in Tamilnadu this weekend, seem like Tamilnadu is following the leading track of Malayalam as a good neighbour. All the best for a successful event and all the Tamil Wikipedians. regards Subha On 8 December 2011 21:07, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, A Wikipedia meet is being organized in Salem this Sunday. Agenda would primarily be discussion about Tamil Wikipedia and Wiktionary and a photo walk post meetup to click pics for Media contest[1]. Meetup page[2]. If you are interested( dont follow Tamil) and need more details to attend, please contact Sodabottle / SuryaPrakash who are in cc of this mail. [1] http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contest/en [2] http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:SALEM1 -- Regards Srikanth.L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- * ସୁ ଭା ସି ସ ପା ଣି ଗା ହି ** S u b h a s i s a P a n i g a h i ** ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ ___ Wikipedia Odia (Oriya) mailing list wikipedia...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-or facebook.com/OdiaWiki Tweet @OdiaWiki * ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Meetup at Salem - Dec 11
This is great news. Coimbatore on Saturday and Salem on Sunday! I do hope that the attendees of Kovai and Salem are able to attend both the meetups. While I'll be leading Kovai, I won't be able to make it on Sunday. All the very best guys. On 08/12/2011, Subhashish Panigrahi psubhash...@gmail.com wrote: Wow! 3 academies/meetups in Tamilnadu this weekend, seem like Tamilnadu is following the leading track of Malayalam as a good neighbour. All the best for a successful event and all the Tamil Wikipedians. regards Subha On 8 December 2011 21:07, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, A Wikipedia meet is being organized in Salem this Sunday. Agenda would primarily be discussion about Tamil Wikipedia and Wiktionary and a photo walk post meetup to click pics for Media contest[1]. Meetup page[2]. If you are interested( dont follow Tamil) and need more details to attend, please contact Sodabottle / SuryaPrakash who are in cc of this mail. [1] http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contest/en [2] http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:SALEM1 -- Regards Srikanth.L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- * ସୁ ଭା ସି ସ ପା ଣି ଗା ହି ** S u b h a s i s a P a n i g a h i ** ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ ___ Wikipedia Odia (Oriya) mailing list wikipedia...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-or facebook.com/OdiaWiki Tweet @OdiaWiki * -- Sent from my mobile device Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Sharing insights and experiences from Indian language wiki communities - Marathi
Dear All, As part of my discussions with Indic language Wikipedians I spoke with few Marathi wikimedians (Abhay, Mahitgar, and Mandar) also. All of them are highly experinced wikimedians. They their editing experiences, their vision about ml wiki projects, and other related topics. I have summarized the discussions in meta wiki. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages/Marathi/Discussions/2011 For the past few years I got the opportunity to interact and with highly experienced wikimedians of Marathi wikipedia like Abhay, Mahitgar, and Sankalp. The ideas they had shared about Indic wikis had defintely helped when Indic wikipedians came together for some of the common projects. The focus that Marathi wikipedians given to mediawiki translation at Translate wiki had inspired many other Indic language wikipedians. Many of them contributed to the interface translation of Hindi and Sanskrit wikis also. Right now Marathi wikipedia has close to 35,000 articles, and about 40 active editors. During and beyond WikiConference, it has been really inspiring to see the increase in the activity levels across many communities in the country. In particular, Marathi community have been exploring opportunities and formulating plans to drive community growth and project quality. WikiConference gave a big boost to the Marathi community because of the increased profile of the projects, especially the press. To illustrate, between September and October 2011, the number of active editors increased from 31 to 40. It will be really important to keep us this momentum and to translate this into sustained community building for a small but vibrant community. Community is working very hard to make Wikisource a reality for Marathi. Hope that will happen soon. I am personally very optimistic that Marathi is at an inflection point - and this the right time to make concerted efforts at community building to realize this opportunity. Kindly read the experience of Marathi Wikimedians at: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages/Marathi/Discussions/2011 Regards Shiju ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] SocialShare Gadget on Tamil Wikipedia
Hi all, Just as we started the Tamil Wiki Media Contest[1], we have realized the power of social media[2] and virality. In an attempt to increase page views even by single digits and having more visibility for content pages, I was looking around and found the share gadget on Hebrew wikipedia and have adapted the gadget code[3] to Tamil[4]. Since Indic wikipedias need more people to read the articles, this might be useful gadget you might want to your Indic wikiprojects. Should you need any help to get this on your wiki, please ping me off-list. Thanks Hebrew community for the code Bala/Surya for helping out. Okay, next time you read a good article on Tamil Wikipedia, just share with your friends :) [1] http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contest [2] http://www.facebook.com/tawmc [3] http://tawp.in/r/2v3x [4] http://tawp.in/r/2v42 -- Regards Srikanth.L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] SocialShare Gadget on Tamil Wikipedia
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote: Hi all, Just as we started the Tamil Wiki Media Contest[1], we have realized the power of social media[2] and virality. In an attempt to increase page views even by single digits and having more visibility for content pages, I was looking around and found the share gadget on Hebrew wikipedia and have adapted the gadget code[3] to Tamil[4]. Since Indic wikipedias need more people to read the articles, this might be useful gadget you might want to your Indic wikiprojects. Should you need any help to get this on your wiki, please ping me off-list. Thanks Hebrew community for the code Bala/Surya for helping out. Okay, next time you read a good article on Tamil Wikipedia, just share with your friends :) [1] http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contest [2] http://www.facebook.com/tawmc [3] http://tawp.in/r/2v3x [4] http://tawp.in/r/2v42 -- Regards Srikanth.L Very cool. :) Is there going to be any way to measure how often this happens, and for what pages? Other communities have spent many hours discussing this (including English Wikipedia) with little success. Data on how social sharing leads to greater readership, enthusiasm for Wikipedia, and even possibly editing would be fantastic to have. Steven Walling Community Organizer at Wikimedia Foundation wikimediafoundation.org ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] SocialShare Gadget on Tamil Wikipedia
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 02:13, Steven Walling swall...@wikimedia.org wrote: Very cool. :) Thank you! Is there going to be any way to measure how often this happens, and for what pages? Other communities have spent many hours discussing this (including English Wikipedia) with little success. Data on how social sharing leads to greater readership, enthusiasm for Wikipedia, and even possibly editing would be fantastic to have. For us any number is good :) Having said that, I have subscribed to the hashtag on twitter, so can get some numbers in sometime, not sure about checking facebook. Absolutely no way to get a count of emails :D. We need more readership, so we knock all the doors without worrying much on effect, but most of the efforts we take(Contests, Featured Wikimedians, Sitenotice campaigns) give us good results for our scale.(IMO except physical outreach which gives the least RoI). We are also planning to start a full fledged facebook page soon(may be post the media contest) to leverage facebook more to showcase DYK, ITN, FA, FPX and hope to get more visitors,editors. On English community's debate, its in a very different galaxy, am not even sure if we are in same universe(on numbers etc), So things differ. -- Regards Srikanth.L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] SocialShare Gadget on Tamil Wikipedia
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 2:03 AM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote: Hi all, Just as we started the Tamil Wiki Media Contest[1], we have realized the power of social media[2] and virality. In an attempt to increase page views even by single digits and having more visibility for content pages, I was looking around and found the share gadget on Hebrew wikipedia and have adapted the gadget code[3] to Tamil[4]. Since Indic wikipedias need more people to read the articles, this might be useful gadget you might want to your Indic wikiprojects. Should you need any help to get this on your wiki, please ping me off-list. Thanks Hebrew community for the code Bala/Surya for helping out. Okay, next time you read a good article on Tamil Wikipedia, just share with your friends :) [1] http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contest [2] http://www.facebook.com/tawmc [3] http://tawp.in/r/2v3x [4] http://tawp.in/r/2v42 Nice idea. Other indic wikipedias could leverage the same. Thanks Arjun ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] SocialShare Gadget on Tamil Wikipedia
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 2:27 AM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 02:13, Steven Walling swall...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Very cool. :) Thank you! Is there going to be any way to measure how often this happens, and for what pages? Other communities have spent many hours discussing this (including English Wikipedia) with little success. Data on how social sharing leads to greater readership, enthusiasm for Wikipedia, and even possibly editing would be fantastic to have. For us any number is good :) Having said that, I have subscribed to the hashtag on twitter, so can get some numbers in sometime, not sure about checking facebook. Absolutely no way to get a count of emails :D. We need more readership, so we knock all the doors without worrying much on effect, but most of the efforts we take(Contests, Featured Wikimedians, Sitenotice campaigns) give us good results for our scale.(IMO except physical outreach which gives the least RoI). We are also planning to start a full fledged facebook page soon(may be post the media contest) to leverage facebook more to showcase DYK, ITN, FA, FPX and hope to get more visitors,editors. On English community's debate, its in a very different galaxy, am not even sure if we are in same universe(on numbers etc), So things differ. I saw this used on Wiki Conference India page http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2011earlier If there is some easier analysis of the number of view of the conference, pre and post the introduction of sharing buttons, it may give idea the usefulness of the idea. Probably this could apply to Tamil contest. Cheers Arjuna Rao Chavala ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] SocialShare Gadget on Tamil Wikipedia
User:ManojK had that in http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wiki_Academy/National_Institute_of_Technology,_Calicut_2011page too .. I think it should practice now . Thanks, naveenpf On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 4:05 AM, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 2:27 AM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 02:13, Steven Walling swall...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Very cool. :) Thank you! Is there going to be any way to measure how often this happens, and for what pages? Other communities have spent many hours discussing this (including English Wikipedia) with little success. Data on how social sharing leads to greater readership, enthusiasm for Wikipedia, and even possibly editing would be fantastic to have. For us any number is good :) Having said that, I have subscribed to the hashtag on twitter, so can get some numbers in sometime, not sure about checking facebook. Absolutely no way to get a count of emails :D. We need more readership, so we knock all the doors without worrying much on effect, but most of the efforts we take(Contests, Featured Wikimedians, Sitenotice campaigns) give us good results for our scale.(IMO except physical outreach which gives the least RoI). We are also planning to start a full fledged facebook page soon(may be post the media contest) to leverage facebook more to showcase DYK, ITN, FA, FPX and hope to get more visitors,editors. On English community's debate, its in a very different galaxy, am not even sure if we are in same universe(on numbers etc), So things differ. I saw this used on Wiki Conference India page http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2011earlier If there is some easier analysis of the number of view of the conference, pre and post the introduction of sharing buttons, it may give idea the usefulness of the idea. Probably this could apply to Tamil contest. Cheers Arjuna Rao Chavala ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Regarding WikiAcademy @ Jaya Engineering College
Hi All, Wikimedia India chapter is organizing a Wiki Academyhttp://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wiki_Academy/Jaya_Engineering_Collegein FOSS Centre, *Jaya Engineering College*, Thiruninravurhttp://maps.google.com/maps/ms?authuser=0vps=2hl=enie=UTF8oe=UTF8msa=0msid=202939339109712329641.0004b36a6b49d3945de8a. The schedule as follows: 1. Introduction of chief guest by Subhashish. (5 mins) 2. Formal inauguration of the first Wiki Academy in Jaya Engg. College (10-15 mins) 3. Introductory talk by Hisham Mundolhttp://wiki.wikimedia.in/User:Hisham, Consultant, India Programs, Wikimedia Foundation - Brief introduction about : Wikipedia and other Wikimedia foundation initiatives (10-15 mins) (Through Skype) 4. Session about How to edit Wikipedia (40 mins) 5. QA session (30 mins) 6. Closing talk way forward by Nitika Tandonhttp://wiki.wikimedia.in/User:Nitika.t (Consultant, Participation at Wikimedia Foundation) Hisham Mundolhttp://wiki.wikimedia.in/User:Hisham, Consultant, India Programs, Wikimedia Foundation. (Through Skype) Looking forward to seeing you to take this mission forward with a hope for more sessions. Good day! * regards * * Subha Wikimedia India Chapter http://wiki.wikimedia.in/ [image: File:Wikimedia India logo.svg] http://wiki.wikimedia.in/ reachout Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.That’s our commitment. .. facebook.com/WikimediaIndia Tweet @subhashishp * ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] SocialShare Gadget on Tamil Wikipedia
Good one Srikanth. This is exactly what we need now. Publicity. On 09/12/2011, Naveen Francis navee...@gmail.com wrote: User:ManojK had that in http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wiki_Academy/National_Institute_of_Technology,_Calicut_2011page too .. I think it should practice now . Thanks, naveenpf On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 4:05 AM, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 2:27 AM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 02:13, Steven Walling swall...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Very cool. :) Thank you! Is there going to be any way to measure how often this happens, and for what pages? Other communities have spent many hours discussing this (including English Wikipedia) with little success. Data on how social sharing leads to greater readership, enthusiasm for Wikipedia, and even possibly editing would be fantastic to have. For us any number is good :) Having said that, I have subscribed to the hashtag on twitter, so can get some numbers in sometime, not sure about checking facebook. Absolutely no way to get a count of emails :D. We need more readership, so we knock all the doors without worrying much on effect, but most of the efforts we take(Contests, Featured Wikimedians, Sitenotice campaigns) give us good results for our scale.(IMO except physical outreach which gives the least RoI). We are also planning to start a full fledged facebook page soon(may be post the media contest) to leverage facebook more to showcase DYK, ITN, FA, FPX and hope to get more visitors,editors. On English community's debate, its in a very different galaxy, am not even sure if we are in same universe(on numbers etc), So things differ. I saw this used on Wiki Conference India page http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2011earlier If there is some easier analysis of the number of view of the conference, pre and post the introduction of sharing buttons, it may give idea the usefulness of the idea. Probably this could apply to Tamil contest. Cheers Arjuna Rao Chavala ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Sent from my mobile device Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] WikiAcademy @ P S R Rengasamy college of engineering for women, 2011
Hi all, We are looking for experienced Wikipedians from places preferably near to Sivakasi for conducting Wiki Academy at P S R Rengasamy college of engineering for women, 2011 http://wiki.wikimedia.in/P_S_R_Rengasamy_college_of_engineering_for_women,_2011 on Dec 26, 2011 Monday. Necessary travel (by bus/train) expense will be reimbursed by Chapter. General information on Wiki Academy is available @ http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wiki_Academy http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Behind_a_WikiAcademy Please contact at ash...@wikimedia.in for more info. Thanks, naveenpf ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] SocialShare Gadget on Tamil Wikipedia
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 04:05, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.comwrote: I saw this used on Wiki Conference India page http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2011earlier If there is some easier analysis of the number of view of the conference, pre and post the introduction of sharing buttons, it may give idea the usefulness of the idea. Probably this could apply to Tamil contest. As such numerical analysis on the usage of social media is not black and white. For WikiConference, Tamil Contest and others we do all kind of PR, so we cannot bucket the page views, but social media does play a key role. On a slightly related note(unrelated to social media, but related to numbers) of campaign tracking, am looking to gather numbers for the SiteNotice campaign atleast and have talked to Howie Fung during the Hackathon for some improvements in SiteNotice mechanisms taking inputs from Fundraising team. I hope we will work on it sooner. For people who are not aware, extensive analysis goes behind the fundraising and they gather numbers on many things(from clicks to actual payments) to see which campaigns are effective and use them. -- Regards Srikanth.L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] SocialShare Gadget on Tamil Wikipedia
Hi On the same note... we are having 24 admins handling Wikimedia India Facebook page. We are updating with stats,news,discussions etc... Is there anyone in the list who has started editing bcoz of that ? -- naveenpf On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 10:07 AM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 04:05, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.comwrote: I saw this used on Wiki Conference India page http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2011earlier If there is some easier analysis of the number of view of the conference, pre and post the introduction of sharing buttons, it may give idea the usefulness of the idea. Probably this could apply to Tamil contest. As such numerical analysis on the usage of social media is not black and white. For WikiConference, Tamil Contest and others we do all kind of PR, so we cannot bucket the page views, but social media does play a key role. On a slightly related note(unrelated to social media, but related to numbers) of campaign tracking, am looking to gather numbers for the SiteNotice campaign atleast and have talked to Howie Fung during the Hackathon for some improvements in SiteNotice mechanisms taking inputs from Fundraising team. I hope we will work on it sooner. For people who are not aware, extensive analysis goes behind the fundraising and they gather numbers on many things(from clicks to actual payments) to see which campaigns are effective and use them. -- Regards Srikanth.L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] SocialShare Gadget on Tamil Wikipedia
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 04:01, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.comwrote: Nice idea. Other indic wikipedias could leverage the same. There is one thing that is required for other wikipedias to use the same. ShortURL[1] is required for sharing on twitter. The development is done(Thanks Yuvi!) and its sitting for review. I know there is a significant interest for getting the extension deployed among Indic wikis, but this bug is sitting there for quite a long time. I have poked the bug enough number of times, please feel to comment spam the bug[2] for it to get some attention and/or add a vote. The bug is on its way to 6th birthday and lets hope it gets closed soon. [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ShortUrl [2] bugzilla.wikimedia.org/1450 -- Regards Srikanth.L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Telugu e-zine special issue on Wiki Conference 2011 released
Please check for Telugu e-zine Tewiki Vartha speciall issue on Wiki Conference 2011 http://te.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%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%3A%E0%B0%A4%E0%B1%86%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80_%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%A4oldid=625497 http://te.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%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%3A%E0%B0%A4%E0%B1%86%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0 %95%E0%B1%80_%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%A4oldid=625497 Cheers Arjuna Rao Chavala ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
