Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] mediawiki-uploader

[Hisham]

+1 to Philippe & Tinu's comments.

Thanks, Shrini, for such wonderful initiative and great work!  I read you 
saying you are relatively new so, Big Welcome!  

Warmest Regards,

hisham

On Dec 20, 2011, at 8:20 AM, CherianTinu Abraham wrote:

> #WIN. 
> 
> -TC
> 
> On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 8:48 PM, Philippe Beaudette  
> wrote:
> This is really fantastic, and makes me very very happy.  This represents the 
> best of what makes the Wikimedia projects great - someone identifies a need 
> and then rolls up their sleeves and fills that need.  Well done, Shrini, and 
> thank you.
> 
> pb 
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> 
> 415-839-6885, x 6643 
> 
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> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 5:10 AM, Shrinivasan T  wrote:
> Friends.
> 
> Tamil Wikipedia announced a Media Contest to increase the commons
> media files like photos, audio and video in the wikipedia world.
> see the announcement here.
> http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contest/en
> 
> To upload the photos there are two ways available so far.
> 
> 1. The web based upload wizard
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UploadWizard
> 
> 2. Java based upload tool - Commonist
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Tools/Commonist
> 
> We have to provide a detailed filename and description to the images
> for uploading.
> 
> When we have a bunch of photos to upload, we have to select them,
> crop, or edit them before uploading.
> 
> Found that that "GThumb Image Viewer" can show the files, edit the
> files and add IPTC tags to the images.
> 
> We can view,edit,delete,rotate,crop and add the required Description
> and Title to the images
> for uploading to wikimedia commons.
> 
> How to upload the files?
> There are two tools already.
> But, I wanted to plugin to any image viewer to upload to wikimedia
> commons directly.
> No image viewer has that plugin.
> 
> DigiKam has it, but due to some issues, the mediawiki plugin is not released.
> 
> So, I started to write my own script for uploading all the files in a
> folder to upload to mediawiki.
> 
> Here is it.
> http://code.google.com/p/mediawiki-uploader/
> 
> Usage details are available in INSTALL and README files.
> 
> Thanks for the wikipedia users Surya and Sodabottle for their valuable
> suggestions.
> 
> Please report if there are any issues.
> 
> Provide your suggestions for improving too.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Call for participation : Communications, PR & Media Relations Team

[Tinu Cherian]

Hello,
 The Wikimedia India chapter is forming a volunteer team/task force
to manage *Communications, Public & Media Relations* ( In short,
Communications) and various aspects of communications (internal & external
) related to India chapter and the Wikimedia movement in India. This
includes development & execution of a communications plan for India,
digital outreach (including social media) to increase participation (both
reading and editing) & awareness, all aspects of PR as well as preparation
of collateral to support various outreach efforts in the country. This
doesn't include statutory communications to Auditing agencies/persons,
Governmental or legal bodies and the Wikimedia Foundation, the
responsibilities which resides primarily with the President, Secretary and
Treasurer of the Wikimedia Chapter.

The primary aim of the Communications, PR & Media Relations Team is to
facilitate communication between the Wikimedia Chapter, community at large
and the public including the media.

*Scope of Work*

Duties and Responsibilities of the team include, but are not limited to the
following:

   - Supporting and overseeing communication with Wikimedia community which
   includes Chapter members, general public and media.
   - Helping the Chapter Secretary in the monthly report that is send to
   the members and the community.
   - Handling press enquiries and answering them.
   - Coordinating communications with the press, including press releases,
   interviews, and inquiries.
   - Build a close partnership and working relation with a network of
   journalists and news editors all over India and abroad.
   - Maintaining a list of people willing to be contacted & interviewed by
   the media.
   - Identify potential "media worthy" stories and getting them published
   into the mass media.
   - Contacting editors and publishers of Wikipedia press coverage to
   request that corrections be published as needed.
   - Development of a comprehensive multi-language Communications Plan for
   Wikimedia Movement in India to support the Chapter's strategic objectives.
   This plan must include social media, digital outreach, Public Relations
   (PR) and supporting community and chapter outreach.
   - Implementation of the Communications Plan - including measuring of
   results focused on growth in participation and readership within India and
   continuous improvement as required.
   - Identification, selection and on boarding of specialised agencies as
   required.
   - Public Relations (PR) to build and manage relationships with media and
   drive messaging that promotes participation.
   - Build a close partnership with the Community and Wikimedia Foundation
   India Programs to support communications and media outreach.
   - Providing ad hoc support to the Community on all aspects of
   communications as may be deemed necessary.
   - Researching press lists, monitoring and analyzing media coverage, both
   negative and positive.
   - will be responsible for executing and carrying out PR campaigns on
   behalf of the chapter.
   - Improve Wikimedia media coverage especially on Indian local languages.
   - Digital outreach comprises how to drive awareness and education
   and motivation to participate in various projects from within the existing
   readership base.
   - Social media includes managing and driving social media vehicles to
   drive participation (i.e., building awareness and driving traffic to Indic
   language editions, raising awareness of how content is created on various
   projects and motivating and enabling participation.)
   - Maintain the official IRC channel on freenode: #wikimedia-in and
   regularly conduct planned IRC sessions.
   - Maintain the social media properties including the ones on facebook &
   twitter and Youtube channels, and all Public facing Digital resources like
   the wiki, blog and website.
   - Keeping the Wikimedia India Press kit and In the News sections on the
   public wiki up to date.
   - Interacting with the Chapter OTRS team.
   - Working on contingency and PR response plans in the event of PR crisis
   related to the chapter or the Wikimedia movement in India.
   - Participating in Global Wikimedia Communications committee and
   subscribed to its mailing list: wmfc...@mail.wikimedia.org
   - Help and co-ordinate the Community Newsletter, WikiPatrika
   - Supporting media coverage of Chapter , Wikimedia Foundation and
   Community led events and initiatives in India like Wikiconference,
   wikimeeetups, wikiacademies, workshops etc

More Information : http://members.wikimedia.in/Communications

*How to Volunteer?*

If you are interested to volunteer to this team, please drop a private mail
to *tinucherian(at)wikimedia(dot)in* expressing your interest, expertise
and previous experience in field of Communications, PR & Media Relations
and Social Media.
 Looking forward to hear from you.

Regards
Tinu Cherian
Head of Communications, PR & Media Relations, Wiki

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Event on online free speech on Wednesday

[Gautam John]

That would indeed be a good idea. Have sent it on to Sunil and Anja.

Thank you.

Best,

Gautam

http://blog.prathambooks.org/p/social-media.html

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Webfonts deployment on Indic Wikiprojects

[Srikanth Ramakrishnan]

I heard the Tamil font story. Can we try and get some official person
to send out a request to font vendors?

On 12/20/11, Srikanth Lakshmanan  wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 07:33, Subhashish Panigrahi
> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> While testing both Lohit and Utkal has hinting problems in or wp, is that
>> possible to keep them optional? As of now automatically the default font
>> changes to Lohit when you open or wp, instead of that is that possible to
>> make it optional which someone can choose the dropdown?
>
>
> Welcome to the world finally! Go read the bug[1] for a start. In summary
> i18n team feels the purpose of extension gets defeated if its not set as
> default. I tried convincing them for days it wont get defeated, but this is
> a PoV debate and solution remains at heart :). If you feel having the
> default fonts with hinting issue will affect many more people than it would
> benefit(In case of Tamil it was over 10x), then file a bug for removing
> WebFonts for or wp. But what next? 2 options.
>
> 1. If fonts are bad and have hinting issues, {{SOFIXIT}} . Suggest to
> Santhosh what are the issues, where it could get better, he will try his
> best and do as much as he can do. We did the same for Tamil, Lohit-Tamil is
> improved than what upstream gave, but there is a limitation here as to how
> much Santhosh can help since he is not a professional typographer and you
> may not be satisfied very much with font even after the exercise (like we
> are). There is also delivery issue which needs to be sorted if we are going
> to go this way since Win 7, most linux OS dont have hinting issue but win
> xp has it.
>
> 2. Get more free fonts. Look out for other free(ly licensed) fonts,
> convince people to release fonts under free license.Create a new
> font(Easier said than done,but its not Impossible). Beg,Borrow (no Steal
> doesnt apply here :D, Acquire probably applies in case money is only thing
> stopping, then a reasonable grant request might help). In short get
> alternative fonts which can be used.
>
> [1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31936#c2
>
> --
> Regards
> Srikanth.L
>


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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ONE simple step to double or triple visits to Indic Wikipedias

[Ravishankar]

>
> This is a really useful discussion and there's a powerful idea.  I agree
> with Ravi that there is an opportunity to build awareness and traffic to
> Indic language sites.  While we are already seeing considerable readership
> of Indic languages, there's clearly a lot more that can be done to support
> this and also to help build Indic language communities.  I also hear Theo's
> point that it didn't work last time, or maybe wasn't adequately measured.
>
> I'd like to suggest that - even as the technical challenges are resolved -
> to explore this.  The first step would be finalise what the objectives are
> (e.g., is it basic awareness building of the existence of Indic language
> projects or to is it to drive readership of these projects or is it
> encourage more active participation in these proejcts?)  The next stage
> would be to test different banner/notice/page design options and figure out
> the most appropriate solution (in the same systematic way that the WMF
> fundraising team tests banners and optimises the ones that work best.)  If
> you see value and you think we need resources for this, I'm happy to see
> what we can do about it.  (Maybe see if any of the fundraising team's
> people are free after the fundraiser to help with the analytics for
> determining what might work best?)
>
> What say?
>
> hisham
>

+1.

Instead of saying it won't work, we have to think how to make it work as
the ultimate goal of increasing awareness about Indic projects should not
be neglected !

Ravi
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ONE simple step to double or triple visits to Indic Wikipedias

[Srikanth Ramakrishnan]

I agree with Ravi.

On 12/20/11, Ravishankar  wrote:
>>
>> This is a really useful discussion and there's a powerful idea.  I agree
>> with Ravi that there is an opportunity to build awareness and traffic to
>> Indic language sites.  While we are already seeing considerable readership
>> of Indic languages, there's clearly a lot more that can be done to support
>> this and also to help build Indic language communities.  I also hear
>> Theo's
>> point that it didn't work last time, or maybe wasn't adequately measured.
>>
>> I'd like to suggest that - even as the technical challenges are resolved -
>> to explore this.  The first step would be finalise what the objectives are
>> (e.g., is it basic awareness building of the existence of Indic language
>> projects or to is it to drive readership of these projects or is it
>> encourage more active participation in these proejcts?)  The next stage
>> would be to test different banner/notice/page design options and figure
>> out
>> the most appropriate solution (in the same systematic way that the WMF
>> fundraising team tests banners and optimises the ones that work best.)  If
>> you see value and you think we need resources for this, I'm happy to see
>> what we can do about it.  (Maybe see if any of the fundraising team's
>> people are free after the fundraiser to help with the analytics for
>> determining what might work best?)
>>
>> What say?
>>
>> hisham
>>
>
> +1.
>
> Instead of saying it won't work, we have to think how to make it work as
> the ultimate goal of increasing awareness about Indic projects should not
> be neglected !
>
> Ravi
>


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Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore

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[Wikimediaindia-l] Hello from AsWiki

[Prabhakar Sarma Neog]

My name is Prabhakar Sarma Neog, from Assamese Wikipedia.

The members of Indic wikis have been helping, and inspiring the Assamese
Wikipedia. It was almost dying two years ago, and would have been closed,
if it were not for Shiju Alex and other wikimedians.

We have just opened a mailing list for Assamese Wikipedia, thanks to Shiju,
Naveen, CheritanThiru Abraham and others. We already have a facebook group
but now want to gradually shift major discussions To the new list.

Recently there are talks in Assam wiki about arranging wiki awareness
sessions, workshops etc. to attract and groom more editors and to inspire
the existing ones.. Since we don't have experience, we'll look for other
wikipedians to guide us.

Thank you again for your inspiration,
-Prabhakar
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Hello from AsWiki

[Subhashish Panigrahi]

Dear Prabhakar,

This is a great news, hope you reach to more Assamese speakers and bring
into Wikipedia. Good luck and keep the discussion alive both in the mailing
list and Village pump.

Best
Subha

On 20 December 2011 18:09, Prabhakar Sarma Neog  wrote:

> My name is Prabhakar Sarma Neog, from Assamese Wikipedia.
>
> The members of Indic wikis have been helping, and inspiring the Assamese
> Wikipedia. It was almost dying two years ago, and would have been closed,
> if it were not for Shiju Alex and other wikimedians.
>
> We have just opened a mailing list for Assamese Wikipedia, thanks to
> Shiju, Naveen, CheritanThiru Abraham and others. We already have a facebook
> group but now want to gradually shift major discussions To the new list.
>
> Recently there are talks in Assam wiki about arranging wiki awareness
> sessions, workshops etc. to attract and groom more editors and to inspire
> the existing ones.. Since we don't have experience, we'll look for other
> wikipedians to guide us.
>
> Thank you again for your inspiration,
> -Prabhakar
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Kolkata Bookfair 2012-Application submitted

[Debanjan Bandyopadhyay]

Hello all,

I'm really eagerly waiting news from the Kolkata Book fair. Excuse me for
my impatience, but the concept of such a large outreach in my home city is
just too enthralling for me to keep quiet.

What is the current situation? Are there any updates? Any news on the
contract with the Book Fair people? What's the word on WMF regarding
funding? How many volunteers are required? Does the Kolkata community have
adequate man-power? What about posters and freebies? Can any of the Campus
Ambassadors, including myself from the India Education Program provide any
assistance?

Sorry if there are too many questions, I'm just too excited. :)

-- 
Regards,
Debanjan*

- Lets make this world a better and more informative place*



On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Debanjan Bandyopadhyay  wrote:

> Go Jayanta da +1000
>
> --
> Regards,
> Debanjan*
>
> - Lets make this world a better and more informative place
>
> *
>
> On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 8:18 PM, Deepon Saha wrote:
>
>> Will be there...:)
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Surya Prakash 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Great efforts Jayanta.
>>>
>>> All the very best for your efforts. :)
>>>
>>>
>>> *$U®¥∩*
>>> http://goo.gl/RoMyo.com 
>>> http://about.me/suryaceg
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 9 December 2011 10:31, Jayanta Nath  wrote:
>>>
 Dear All,
 Yesterday, 8 December 2011, the application was submitted (attached the
 receipt copy) by Mr Biswarup Ganguly, they mentioned as 'Late Receipt'. The
 application contained;

 1. The cover letter.
 2. Print out registration certificate.
 3. en copy of the certificate.
 3. Main page of Wikimedia Foundation site.
 4. Main page of en. wikipedia
 5. Main page of bn. wikipedia.
 6. Main page of hi. wikipedia
 7. Main page of Wikimedia Chapter.

 It is known that the will call a meeting for finalizing the contract at
 late December, 2011.

 With regards.

 --
 With Warm Regards,
 *Jayanta Nath*
 Calcutta,West Bengal





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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Webfonts deployment on Indic Wikiprojects

[Bala Jeyaraman]

*
*
*While testing both Lohit and Utkal has hinting problems in or wp, is that
possible to keep them optional? As of now automatically the default font
changes to Lohit when you open or wp, instead of that is that possible to
make it optional which someone can choose the dropdown?*

Welcome to the club Subha. Finally we have some company :-)

We have been having the same difference of opinion with the i18n team since
late october (whole story in the bug linked by srikanth). It is a POV issue
as Srikanth points out. The i18n team aims to avoid the occurrence of
square boxes in any of the wikiprojects using webfonts. While we feel that
shouldnt occur till quality of default webfont = system font. Especially
for cases like Tamil, where people with system fonts are 9-10x the number
of people who see square boxes (all windows systems post XP SP2 have tamil
unicode support by default and also people are very knowledgeable about
font issues because of  a history of competing encoding formats)

While we still insist on the "webfont as non-default option", we are
exploring both solutions Srikanth lists to arrive at the "default webfont
with same quality as system font" result.  Currently the Tamil community is
a) working with santosh as he tries to improve lohit tamil b) and is
searching for a professional font developer to donate a good quality
"webfont ready" font under OFL/GPL font exclusion.

You can try either or both of these (or request the i18n for a non-default
webfont feature)

-
Bala
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-WB] Kolkata Photo Walk (Esplanade & Dalhousie)

[Kalyan Sarkar]

We met at the foot of Shahid Minar at 7AM in the morning. It was a bit
foggy and chilly. We are enjoying an early winter chill and record low
temperatures in Kolkata this year. After enjoying a steaming cup of tea at
the CSTC Canteen and began our walk.

ROUTE
We crossed the J.L.Nehru Road and Lenin Sarani crossing and took Bentinck
Street. Then we took left along the Waterloo Street, reaching the Great
Eastern Hotel, we took right along the Hemanta Basu Sarani to B.B.D.Bagh
Square. Then we proceeded along B.B.D.Bagh Sarani and took left turn to Red
Cross Place to reach the entrance of Raj Bhawan. From there we proceeded
along the Government Place to St John's Church and took right along Council
House Street and Netaji Subhash Road and ended at the  Writers Buildings.

MONUMENTS
We covered the following monuments.
1. Shahid Minar
2. Metropolitan Building
3. Tipu Sultan Mosque
4. Victoria House
5. Statesman House
6. Aaykar Bhawan
7. Great Eastern Hotel
8. Central Telegraph Office
9. National Assurance Building
10. Junior Staff Quarters of the Governor
11. Raj Bhawan
12. St. John's Church
13. General Post Office
14. Kolkata Collectorate
15. Writers' Building
16. St. Andrews Chapel

STATUES
1. Lenin
2. Asutosh Mookerjee
3. Prafulla Chaki
4. Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy
5. Binay Badal Dinesh

Please correct me if I missed out something.

Thanks and regards,
Kalyan Sarkar


On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Jayanta Nath  wrote:

> Congratulation to all for our first step of success. Please anyone tell
> what we cover
>
> --
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> *Jayanta Nath*
> Calcutta,West Bengal
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-WB] Kolkata Photo Walk (Esplanade & Dalhousie)

[wheredevelsdare]

Thanks for the report Kalyan, the first Kolkata Photowalk was a resounding 
success from what I gather. What is the Commons Category under which your 
uploading these pictures? Would love to see them.

Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:01:47 +0530
From: kalyan.sar...@gmail.com
To: wikimedia-in...@lists.wikimedia.org
CC: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-WB] Kolkata Photo Walk
(Esplanade & Dalhousie)


We met at the foot of Shahid Minar at 7AM in the morning. It was a bit foggy 
and chilly. We are enjoying an early winter chill and record low temperatures 
in Kolkata this year. After enjoying a steaming cup of tea at the CSTC Canteen 
and began our walk.

ROUTEWe crossed the J.L.Nehru Road and Lenin Sarani crossing and took Bentinck 
Street. Then we took left along the Waterloo Street, reaching the Great Eastern 
Hotel, we took right along the Hemanta Basu Sarani to B.B.D.Bagh Square. Then 
we proceeded along B.B.D.Bagh Sarani and took left turn to Red Cross Place to 
reach the entrance of Raj Bhawan. From there we proceeded along the Government 
Place to St John's Church and took right along Council House Street and Netaji 
Subhash Road and ended at the  Writers Buildings.

MONUMENTSWe covered the following monuments.1. Shahid Minar2. Metropolitan 
Building3. Tipu Sultan Mosque4. Victoria House5. Statesman House
6. Aaykar Bhawan7. Great Eastern Hotel8. Central Telegraph Office9. National 
Assurance Building10. Junior Staff Quarters of the Governor11. Raj Bhawan
12. St. John's Church13. General Post Office14. Kolkata Collectorate15. 
Writers' Building16. St. Andrews Chapel
STATUES1. Lenin
2. Asutosh Mookerjee3. Prafulla Chaki4. Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy5. Binay Badal 
Dinesh
Please correct me if I missed out something.
Thanks and regards,
Kalyan Sarkar

On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Jayanta Nath  wrote:

Congratulation to all for our first step of success. Please anyone tell

what we cover



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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-WB] Kolkata Photo Walk (Esplanade & Dalhousie)

[Jayanta Nath]

Hi all the Commons Category

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_Takes_Kolkata

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 9:05 PM,  wrote:

>  Thanks for the report Kalyan, the first Kolkata Photowalk was a
> resounding success from what I gather. What is the Commons Category under
> which your uploading these pictures? Would love to see them.
>
> --
> Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:01:47 +0530
> From: kalyan.sar...@gmail.com
> To: wikimedia-in...@lists.wikimedia.org
> CC: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-WB] Kolkata Photo Walk
> (Esplanade & Dalhousie)
>
>
>
> We met at the foot of Shahid Minar at 7AM in the morning. It was a bit
> foggy and chilly. We are enjoying an early winter chill and record low
> temperatures in Kolkata this year. After enjoying a steaming cup of tea at
> the CSTC Canteen and began our walk.
>
> ROUTE
> We crossed the J.L.Nehru Road and Lenin Sarani crossing and took Bentinck
> Street. Then we took left along the Waterloo Street, reaching the Great
> Eastern Hotel, we took right along the Hemanta Basu Sarani to B.B.D.Bagh
> Square. Then we proceeded along B.B.D.Bagh Sarani and took left turn to Red
> Cross Place to reach the entrance of Raj Bhawan. From there we proceeded
> along the Government Place to St John's Church and took right along Council
> House Street and Netaji Subhash Road and ended at the  Writers Buildings.
>
> MONUMENTS
> We covered the following monuments.
> 1. Shahid Minar
> 2. Metropolitan Building
> 3. Tipu Sultan Mosque
> 4. Victoria House
> 5. Statesman House
> 6. Aaykar Bhawan
> 7. Great Eastern Hotel
> 8. Central Telegraph Office
> 9. National Assurance Building
> 10. Junior Staff Quarters of the Governor
> 11. Raj Bhawan
> 12. St. John's Church
> 13. General Post Office
> 14. Kolkata Collectorate
> 15. Writers' Building
> 16. St. Andrews Chapel
>
> STATUES
> 1. Lenin
> 2. Asutosh Mookerjee
> 3. Prafulla Chaki
> 4. Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy
> 5. Binay Badal Dinesh
>
> Please correct me if I missed out something.
>
> Thanks and regards,
> Kalyan Sarkar
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Jayanta Nath wrote:
>
> Congratulation to all for our first step of success. Please anyone tell
> what we cover
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Is there a code4lib in India?

[Pradeep Mohandas]

hi,

>From another list -
Code4Lib is having their 2012 conference in Feb. in Seattle. Might be
something of interest if you're into tech-ness and how open source
communities can work together. Here is how they describe their organization:

" code4lib isn't entirely about code or libraries. It is a volunteer-driven
collective of hackers, designers, architects, curators, catalogers, artists
and instigators from around the world, who largely work for and with
libraries, archives and museums on technology "stuff." It started in the
fall of 2003 as a mailing
listwhen a group
of library programmers decided to create an overarching
community agnostic towards any particular language or technology."

I'm unable to attend due to other obligations, but, it might be something
others have interest in. Would be a great opportunity to "combine our
powers" or see where we can work together.

http://code4lib.org/

Is there any such grouping in India? Exploring their website, they are
geared towards GLAM as well. Wondering that if we're going to do GLAM stuff
in India we might benefit from interacting with such a group in India as
well.

warm regards,
Pradeep Mohandas

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ONE simple step to double or triple visits to Indic Wikipedias

[Anirudh Bhati]

Most of the visitors on Wikipedia end up there through search engines.  But
there is another group which attempts to access Wikipedia directly by
typing in www.wikipedia.com or www.wikipedia.org in the address bar of
their browsers.

Currently, the landing page for www.wikipedia.org (wikipedia.com redirects
to wikipedia.org) lists the ten largest Wikipedia projects.  Apart from the
English Wikipedia, the rest of the projects are practically useless for
most of us in this country.  Replacing the foreign language projects (for
Indian IPs) with Indic language projects will help drive more traffic.

Yours sincerely,

Anirudh Bhati

+855 975 529 803
Skype: anirudhsbh


On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <
parakara.gh...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I agree with Ravi.
>
> On 12/20/11, Ravishankar  wrote:
> >>
> >> This is a really useful discussion and there's a powerful idea.  I agree
> >> with Ravi that there is an opportunity to build awareness and traffic to
> >> Indic language sites.  While we are already seeing considerable
> readership
> >> of Indic languages, there's clearly a lot more that can be done to
> support
> >> this and also to help build Indic language communities.  I also hear
> >> Theo's
> >> point that it didn't work last time, or maybe wasn't adequately
> measured.
> >>
> >> I'd like to suggest that - even as the technical challenges are
> resolved -
> >> to explore this.  The first step would be finalise what the objectives
> are
> >> (e.g., is it basic awareness building of the existence of Indic language
> >> projects or to is it to drive readership of these projects or is it
> >> encourage more active participation in these proejcts?)  The next stage
> >> would be to test different banner/notice/page design options and figure
> >> out
> >> the most appropriate solution (in the same systematic way that the WMF
> >> fundraising team tests banners and optimises the ones that work best.)
>  If
> >> you see value and you think we need resources for this, I'm happy to see
> >> what we can do about it.  (Maybe see if any of the fundraising team's
> >> people are free after the fundraiser to help with the analytics for
> >> determining what might work best?)
> >>
> >> What say?
> >>
> >> hisham
> >>
> >
> > +1.
> >
> > Instead of saying it won't work, we have to think how to make it work as
> > the ultimate goal of increasing awareness about Indic projects should not
> > be neglected !
> >
> > Ravi
> >
>
>
> --
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ONE simple step to double or triple visits to Indic Wikipedias

[Pradeep Mohandas]

hi,

Perhaps somebody here has already brought this up, but you can now switch
languages on Commons using a drop down menu. You can spot the drop down
just below the Village Pump link. There is also a helpful site notice, that
suggested I read Commons in British English :).

It seems to do this change by detecting the change in the script in the url
- http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page. Neat.

warm regards,
Pradeep

On 20 December 2011 22:01, Anirudh Bhati  wrote:

> Most of the visitors on Wikipedia end up there through search engines.
>  But there is another group which attempts to access Wikipedia directly by
> typing in www.wikipedia.com or www.wikipedia.org in the address bar of
> their browsers.
>
> Currently, the landing page for www.wikipedia.org (wikipedia.comredirects to
> wikipedia.org) lists the ten largest Wikipedia projects.  Apart from the
> English Wikipedia, the rest of the projects are practically useless for
> most of us in this country.  Replacing the foreign language projects (for
> Indian IPs) with Indic language projects will help drive more traffic.
>
> Yours sincerely,
>
> Anirudh Bhati
>
> +855 975 529 803
> Skype: anirudhsbh
>
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <
> parakara.gh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I agree with Ravi.
>>
>> On 12/20/11, Ravishankar  wrote:
>> >>
>> >> This is a really useful discussion and there's a powerful idea.  I
>> agree
>> >> with Ravi that there is an opportunity to build awareness and traffic
>> to
>> >> Indic language sites.  While we are already seeing considerable
>> readership
>> >> of Indic languages, there's clearly a lot more that can be done to
>> support
>> >> this and also to help build Indic language communities.  I also hear
>> >> Theo's
>> >> point that it didn't work last time, or maybe wasn't adequately
>> measured.
>> >>
>> >> I'd like to suggest that - even as the technical challenges are
>> resolved -
>> >> to explore this.  The first step would be finalise what the objectives
>> are
>> >> (e.g., is it basic awareness building of the existence of Indic
>> language
>> >> projects or to is it to drive readership of these projects or is it
>> >> encourage more active participation in these proejcts?)  The next stage
>> >> would be to test different banner/notice/page design options and figure
>> >> out
>> >> the most appropriate solution (in the same systematic way that the WMF
>> >> fundraising team tests banners and optimises the ones that work best.)
>>  If
>> >> you see value and you think we need resources for this, I'm happy to
>> see
>> >> what we can do about it.  (Maybe see if any of the fundraising team's
>> >> people are free after the fundraiser to help with the analytics for
>> >> determining what might work best?)
>> >>
>> >> What say?
>> >>
>> >> hisham
>> >>
>> >
>> > +1.
>> >
>> > Instead of saying it won't work, we have to think how to make it work as
>> > the ultimate goal of increasing awareness about Indic projects should
>> not
>> > be neglected !
>> >
>> > Ravi
>> >
>>
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Srikanth Ramakrishnan.
>> Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th.
>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ONE simple step to double or triple visits to Indic Wikipedias

[Shiju Alex]

>
> Currently, the landing page for www.wikipedia.org (wikipedia.comredirects to
> wikipedia.org) lists the ten largest Wikipedia projects.  Apart from the
> English Wikipedia, the rest of the projects are practically useless for
> most of us in this country.  Replacing the foreign language projects (for
> Indian IPs) with Indic language projects will help drive more traffic.
>


I think this is a very good suggestion. I remember  seeing many of friends
using wikipedia.org to reach English wikipedia. Replacing the current
non-english wikipedias with Indic wikipedias (for Indian IPs) can also be
one of the solution. It will definitely catch the attention of a few
percentage of Indian readers.

Shiju





On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Anirudh Bhati wrote:

> Most of the visitors on Wikipedia end up there through search engines.
>  But there is another group which attempts to access Wikipedia directly by
> typing in www.wikipedia.com or www.wikipedia.org in the address bar of
> their browsers.
>
> Currently, the landing page for www.wikipedia.org (wikipedia.comredirects to
> wikipedia.org) lists the ten largest Wikipedia projects.  Apart from the
> English Wikipedia, the rest of the projects are practically useless for
> most of us in this country.  Replacing the foreign language projects (for
> Indian IPs) with Indic language projects will help drive more traffic.
>
> Yours sincerely,
>
> Anirudh Bhati
>
> +855 975 529 803
> Skype: anirudhsbh
>
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <
> parakara.gh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I agree with Ravi.
>>
>> On 12/20/11, Ravishankar  wrote:
>> >>
>> >> This is a really useful discussion and there's a powerful idea.  I
>> agree
>> >> with Ravi that there is an opportunity to build awareness and traffic
>> to
>> >> Indic language sites.  While we are already seeing considerable
>> readership
>> >> of Indic languages, there's clearly a lot more that can be done to
>> support
>> >> this and also to help build Indic language communities.  I also hear
>> >> Theo's
>> >> point that it didn't work last time, or maybe wasn't adequately
>> measured.
>> >>
>> >> I'd like to suggest that - even as the technical challenges are
>> resolved -
>> >> to explore this.  The first step would be finalise what the objectives
>> are
>> >> (e.g., is it basic awareness building of the existence of Indic
>> language
>> >> projects or to is it to drive readership of these projects or is it
>> >> encourage more active participation in these proejcts?)  The next stage
>> >> would be to test different banner/notice/page design options and figure
>> >> out
>> >> the most appropriate solution (in the same systematic way that the WMF
>> >> fundraising team tests banners and optimises the ones that work best.)
>>  If
>> >> you see value and you think we need resources for this, I'm happy to
>> see
>> >> what we can do about it.  (Maybe see if any of the fundraising team's
>> >> people are free after the fundraiser to help with the analytics for
>> >> determining what might work best?)
>> >>
>> >> What say?
>> >>
>> >> hisham
>> >>
>> >
>> > +1.
>> >
>> > Instead of saying it won't work, we have to think how to make it work as
>> > the ultimate goal of increasing awareness about Indic projects should
>> not
>> > be neglected !
>> >
>> > Ravi
>> >
>>
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Srikanth Ramakrishnan.
>> Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th.
>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ONE simple step to double or triple visits to Indic Wikipedias

[Srikanth Ramakrishnan]

Rather than replacing, I suggest reorganising the order. Indic ones on
top and others below. Who knows, an Indian may try and access European
or African languages too.

On 12/20/11, Shiju Alex  wrote:
>>
>> Currently, the landing page for www.wikipedia.org (wikipedia.comredirects
>> to
>> wikipedia.org) lists the ten largest Wikipedia projects.  Apart from the
>> English Wikipedia, the rest of the projects are practically useless for
>> most of us in this country.  Replacing the foreign language projects (for
>> Indian IPs) with Indic language projects will help drive more traffic.
>>
>
>
> I think this is a very good suggestion. I remember  seeing many of friends
> using wikipedia.org to reach English wikipedia. Replacing the current
> non-english wikipedias with Indic wikipedias (for Indian IPs) can also be
> one of the solution. It will definitely catch the attention of a few
> percentage of Indian readers.
>
> Shiju
>
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Anirudh Bhati wrote:
>
>> Most of the visitors on Wikipedia end up there through search engines.
>>  But there is another group which attempts to access Wikipedia directly by
>> typing in www.wikipedia.com or www.wikipedia.org in the address bar of
>> their browsers.
>>
>> Currently, the landing page for www.wikipedia.org (wikipedia.comredirects
>> to
>> wikipedia.org) lists the ten largest Wikipedia projects.  Apart from the
>> English Wikipedia, the rest of the projects are practically useless for
>> most of us in this country.  Replacing the foreign language projects (for
>> Indian IPs) with Indic language projects will help drive more traffic.
>>
>> Yours sincerely,
>>
>> Anirudh Bhati
>>
>> +855 975 529 803
>> Skype: anirudhsbh
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <
>> parakara.gh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I agree with Ravi.
>>>
>>> On 12/20/11, Ravishankar  wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> This is a really useful discussion and there's a powerful idea.  I
>>> agree
>>> >> with Ravi that there is an opportunity to build awareness and traffic
>>> to
>>> >> Indic language sites.  While we are already seeing considerable
>>> readership
>>> >> of Indic languages, there's clearly a lot more that can be done to
>>> support
>>> >> this and also to help build Indic language communities.  I also hear
>>> >> Theo's
>>> >> point that it didn't work last time, or maybe wasn't adequately
>>> measured.
>>> >>
>>> >> I'd like to suggest that - even as the technical challenges are
>>> resolved -
>>> >> to explore this.  The first step would be finalise what the objectives
>>> are
>>> >> (e.g., is it basic awareness building of the existence of Indic
>>> language
>>> >> projects or to is it to drive readership of these projects or is it
>>> >> encourage more active participation in these proejcts?)  The next
>>> >> stage
>>> >> would be to test different banner/notice/page design options and
>>> >> figure
>>> >> out
>>> >> the most appropriate solution (in the same systematic way that the WMF
>>> >> fundraising team tests banners and optimises the ones that work best.)
>>>  If
>>> >> you see value and you think we need resources for this, I'm happy to
>>> see
>>> >> what we can do about it.  (Maybe see if any of the fundraising team's
>>> >> people are free after the fundraiser to help with the analytics for
>>> >> determining what might work best?)
>>> >>
>>> >> What say?
>>> >>
>>> >> hisham
>>> >>
>>> >
>>> > +1.
>>> >
>>> > Instead of saying it won't work, we have to think how to make it work
>>> > as
>>> > the ultimate goal of increasing awareness about Indic projects should
>>> not
>>> > be neglected !
>>> >
>>> > Ravi
>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Regards,
>>> Srikanth Ramakrishnan.
>>> Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th.
>>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore
>>>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Is there a code4lib in India?

[Srikanth Ramakrishnan]

I believe the FOSS guys will have an answer to your question.

On 12/20/11, Pradeep Mohandas  wrote:
> hi,
>
> From another list -
> Code4Lib is having their 2012 conference in Feb. in Seattle. Might be
> something of interest if you're into tech-ness and how open source
> communities can work together. Here is how they describe their organization:
>
> " code4lib isn't entirely about code or libraries. It is a volunteer-driven
> collective of hackers, designers, architects, curators, catalogers, artists
> and instigators from around the world, who largely work for and with
> libraries, archives and museums on technology "stuff." It started in the
> fall of 2003 as a mailing
> listwhen a group
> of library programmers decided to create an overarching
> community agnostic towards any particular language or technology."
>
> I'm unable to attend due to other obligations, but, it might be something
> others have interest in. Would be a great opportunity to "combine our
> powers" or see where we can work together.
>
> http://code4lib.org/
>
> Is there any such grouping in India? Exploring their website, they are
> geared towards GLAM as well. Wondering that if we're going to do GLAM stuff
> in India we might benefit from interacting with such a group in India as
> well.
>
> warm regards,
> Pradeep Mohandas
>
> --
> Pradeep Mohandas
> How Pradeep uses email - http://goo.gl/6v1I9
>


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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Call for participation : Communications, PR & Media Relations Team

[Steven Walling]

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 1:58 AM, Tinu Cherian wrote:

>
> Hello,
>  The Wikimedia India chapter is forming a volunteer team/task
> force to manage *Communications, Public & Media Relations* ( In short,
> Communications) and various aspects of communications (internal & external
> ) related to India chapter and the Wikimedia movement in India. This
> includes development & execution of a communications plan for India,
> digital outreach (including social media) to increase participation (both
> reading and editing) & awareness, all aspects of PR as well as preparation
> of collateral to support various outreach efforts in the country. This
> doesn't include statutory communications to Auditing agencies/persons,
> Governmental or legal bodies and the Wikimedia Foundation, the
> responsibilities which resides primarily with the President, Secretary and
> Treasurer of the Wikimedia Chapter.
>
> The primary aim of the Communications, PR & Media Relations Team is to
> facilitate communication between the Wikimedia Chapter, community at large
> and the public including the media.
>
> *Scope of Work*
>
> Duties and Responsibilities of the team include, but are not limited to
> the following:
>
>- Supporting and overseeing communication with Wikimedia community
>which includes Chapter members, general public and media.
>- Helping the Chapter Secretary in the monthly report that is send to
>the members and the community.
>- Handling press enquiries and answering them.
>- Coordinating communications with the press, including press
>releases, interviews, and inquiries.
>- Build a close partnership and working relation with a network of
>journalists and news editors all over India and abroad.
>- Maintaining a list of people willing to be contacted & interviewed
>by the media.
>- Identify potential "media worthy" stories and getting them published
>into the mass media.
>- Contacting editors and publishers of Wikipedia press coverage to
>request that corrections be published as needed.
>- Development of a comprehensive multi-language Communications Plan
>for Wikimedia Movement in India to support the Chapter's strategic
>objectives. This plan must include social media, digital outreach, Public
>Relations (PR) and supporting community and chapter outreach.
>- Implementation of the Communications Plan - including measuring of
>results focused on growth in participation and readership within India and
>continuous improvement as required.
>- Identification, selection and on boarding of specialised agencies as
>required.
>- Public Relations (PR) to build and manage relationships with media
>and drive messaging that promotes participation.
>- Build a close partnership with the Community and Wikimedia
>Foundation India Programs to support communications and media outreach.
>- Providing ad hoc support to the Community on all aspects of
>communications as may be deemed necessary.
>- Researching press lists, monitoring and analyzing media coverage,
>both negative and positive.
>- will be responsible for executing and carrying out PR campaigns on
>behalf of the chapter.
>- Improve Wikimedia media coverage especially on Indian local
>languages.
>- Digital outreach comprises how to drive awareness and education
>and motivation to participate in various projects from within the existing
>readership base.
>- Social media includes managing and driving social media vehicles to
>drive participation (i.e., building awareness and driving traffic to Indic
>language editions, raising awareness of how content is created on various
>projects and motivating and enabling participation.)
>- Maintain the official IRC channel on freenode: #wikimedia-in and
>regularly conduct planned IRC sessions.
>- Maintain the social media properties including the ones on facebook
>& twitter and Youtube channels, and all Public facing Digital resources
>like the wiki, blog and website.
>- Keeping the Wikimedia India Press kit and In the News sections on
>the public wiki up to date.
>- Interacting with the Chapter OTRS team.
>- Working on contingency and PR response plans in the event of PR
>crisis related to the chapter or the Wikimedia movement in India.
>- Participating in Global Wikimedia Communications committee and
>subscribed to its mailing list: wmfc...@mail.wikimedia.org
>- Help and co-ordinate the Community Newsletter, WikiPatrika
>- Supporting media coverage of Chapter , Wikimedia Foundation and
>Community led events and initiatives in India like Wikiconference,
>wikimeeetups, wikiacademies, workshops etc
>
> More Information : http://members.wikimedia.in/Communications
>
> *How to Volunteer?*
>
> If you are interested to volunteer to this team, please drop a private
> mail to *tinucherian(at)wikimedia(dot)in* expr

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Supporting Outreach

[Philippe Beaudette]

Nitika,

You folks are doing a great job with this on your own, but I wanted to be
sure you know that I can lift the cap of 7 account creations per day, if
you let me know what day you're doing something. :)

That's an open offer to anyone doing outreach...

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On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 4:15 AM, Nitika  wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
>- *There were no laptops for the participants or the internet
>connection was weak - so I could only give a lecture on wikipedia but could
>not give hands-on training*
>- *I conducted sessions but I really don't know if anything productive
>came out of it since I'm not confident that anyone of the participants will
>actually start editing.  My time is limited and I really want to figure out
>how to make the best use of it.*
>- *I keep reading that outreach sessions should be done in a fun
>manner - but I just don't know how to handle such a serious topic like
>Wikipedia in a fun manner.*
>- *I could not get more than 7 people to create user accounts because
>of the 7 per day limit for creating user logins from an single IP address -
>so the rest of the participants were not able to be more actively involved
>in the session.*
>- *I want to help out on outreach because I love doing it - but I'm
>relatively new to Wikipedia and not sure if I can convey the right 
> messages.
>*
>- *I prepared standard presentations introducing Wikipedia and the
>basics of editing - but I wish I had structured material available on the
>difference between paraphrasing, close paraphrasing and plagiarism/copyvio.
>*
>- *I asked the participants to write down their names and email IDs so
>that I could stay in touch with them after the session - but could not read
>the handwriting of a couple of them.*
>- *I really want to do outreach - but I am not confident of my public
>speaking skills.  I really wish I could help out but not sure how.*
>- *I got irritated preparing the presentations because I am sure many
>others would have already prepared these and it seem like a waste of time.
>*
>- *It would have been really good if I have left handouts for each
>participants so they could read and refer to them at leisure.*
>
>
> For all those who have conducted (or thought about) outreach sessions, do
> these sound familiar?  I've been talking to a whole host of community
> members and participating in outreach session and I wanted to share some
> thoughts with you and to ask your help and advice.  I'm a new mail thread
> on this because I am trying to combine some fantastic points from a series
> of recent, related (and somewhat related) threads
>
>
> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-December/005815.html(Srikanth
>  R's thread on "What's in it for me")
>
> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-December/005657.html(Pradeep's
>  thread on improving infrastructure)
>
> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-December/005453.html(Arnav
>  S' thread on help for outreach in Gujarat)
>
> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-December/005632.html(Noopur's
>  post on GLAM - and specfically the point that GLAM and outreach
> should inter-linked.)
>
> *Most of us believe that we need to attract more newbies to our projects
> to help our Indic projects grow and to improve Indian content on English
> Wikipedia.  I also think that many would agree that not enough outreach is
> happening and that results from the outreach that is happening can be
> improved.  I suspect that a lot more people might be interested in doing
> outreach but are often not sure how to do it. I think that we need to
> figure out what are all the various things we can do to make sure that
> every minute spent by volunteers on outreach is as productive as
> possible.   *
>
> I would like to propose that I start working on these aspects.  My current
> (very initial) thinking is as follows:
>
>1. Speak to as many more community members as possible who have
>conducted outreach sessions, plan to conduct them or even attended session
>and learn from them their experiences on outreach.  Document and share tips
>and best practices to the entire community.
>2. Create a repository for all presentations as well as handouts, FAQs
>pages, etc.  (prepared in English to begin with, but later translated to
>Indic languages).  These presentations must be in distinct module so that
>there could be a standard basic introduction section, editing basics and
>then separate sections for specific sub-topics such as NPOV, referencing,
>WP:MOS, etc.  These could be accessed at will by any community member and
>used / edited / adapted at will by them.  I realise there might be some
>duplicatio

[Wikimediaindia-l] autodetecting user's language(s) on Wikimedia sites

[Sumana Harihareswara]

On 12/20/2011 10:35 AM, wikimediaindia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org wrote:
> Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:24:41 +0530
> From: Ravishankar 
> Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] ONE simple step to double or triple visits
>   to  Indic Wikipedias
> To: Wikimedia India Community list
>   
> Message-ID:
>   
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Today, I went to download WordPress and it told me it is also available in
> Tamil. Very neatly done as it somehow detected that I am from Tamilnadu.
> 
> See the screenshot at: http://ravidreams.com/ta-wordpress.png
> 
> A similar announcement in English Wiki projects is sure to double or triple
> traffic to Indic Wiki projects.
> 
> We have been requesting this feature for years.
> 
> Curious when it will be implemented.
> 
> Ravi

Ravi (or others who know): is
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3665 an adequate summary
of your request?  Or perhaps there's another bug I missed when I was
searching Bugzilla -- you're not just looking to localise the interface
for people coming to our wikis, you want to alert them to the existence
of wikis in their language(s).

I think other people in this thread have mentioned some other facets and
possibilities around language selection and detection, so maybe you
could add your relevant thoughts/suggestions to the relevant bugs in
Bugzilla, so the MediaWiki developers have access to them when
considering this issue.  Thanks.

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[Wikimediaindia-l] Supporting Outreach

[Sumana Harihareswara]

On 12/20/2011 10:35 AM, wikimediaindia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org wrote:
> Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:45:31 +0530
> From: Nitika 
> Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Supporting Outreach
> To: Wikimedia India Community list
>   
> Message-ID: <9f8e609e-22f3-4d3f-b070-837d45a9c...@wikimedia.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

> Create a repository for all presentations as well as handouts, FAQs pages, 
> etc.  (prepared in English to begin with, but later translated to Indic 
> languages).  These presentations must be in distinct module so that there 
> could be a standard basic introduction section, editing basics and then 
> separate sections for specific sub-topics such as NPOV, referencing, WP:MOS, 
> etc.  These could be accessed at will by any community member and used / 
> edited / adapted at will by them.  I realise there might be some duplication 
> because a lot of this exists in various places - but it will be useful to 
> have them all together in one place.

I think it would be great for all of this to live on the existing
outreach wiki, https://outreach.wikimedia.org  (example:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bookshelf ).  That might be a useful
place to get cross-pollination from other people who are already working
on Wikimedia outreach.

-- 
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Volunteer Development Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation

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[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [WMIN-Members] Call for participation of Members in Chapter Task Forces

[Naveen Francis]

fyi

Thanks,
naveenpf


-- Forwarded message --
From: Arjuna Rao Chavala 
Date: Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 10:36 PM
Subject: [WMIN-Members] Call for participation of Members in Chapter Task
Forces
To: wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com


Dear Members,

With the objective of increasing the engagement of  members of the chapter
actively in various initiatives that would align to their interests and
passions, the Executive Committee (EC) has come up with focused Task Forces
for coordinating and driving various  chapter activities.

There are two types of Task Forces -  Project Task Forces and Operations
Task Forces. The Project Task Forces are focused on growing Wikimedia
projects. The Operations Task Forces are critical functions to enable the
Project Task Forces and the Chapter in growing the movement.

Project Task Forces


City and Language Special Interest
Groups

Chair, City and Language Special Interest Groups: Sudhanwa Jogalekar

Special Projects  (Special
projects requiring coordination across multiple SIGs. GLAM is one such
project)

Chair, Special Projects: Arun Ramarathnam

Operations Task Forces


Administration :

Head, Administration: Srinivas Gunta

Fundraising :

Head, Fundraising: Anirudh Bhati

Communications, PR & Media Relations
:

Head, Communications, PR & Media Relations: Tinu Cherian


Task Force Stewardship

The Task Force stewardship will be provided by EC members in terms of
 encouraging volunteers to join the Task Force,  coordinating for financial
resources and  other resources across the Task Forces and the EC.   EC
members will work with the Task Forces to grow volunteer base, support and
enable planning and execution.

Call for member participation

We encourage every member of the chapter to volunteer for a Project and/or
 a  Operations Task Force based on his/her interests. This would allow
members to actively participate in chapter activities and strengthen the
various projects and functions. The Task Forces also allow for creating a
leadership pipeline for the chapter EC.

Please review the scope of activities of the various Task Forces by
following the hyperlinks against the names of the task force (above)  on
 the members wiki  and use the discussion pages for seeking clarifications.
You can also reach the leads of the various Task Forces for any
clarifications.

Please sign up to the various Task Forces as per your interest and help in
shaping the chapter initiatives and executing  the same.

Looking forward to your active participation in the Task Forces.

Regards
Arjuna Rao Chavala,
President, Wikimedia Chapter.

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-WB] Kolkata Photo Walk (Esplanade & Dalhousie)

[Deepon Saha]

missed it..:(

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 9:05 PM,  wrote:

>  Thanks for the report Kalyan, the first Kolkata Photowalk was a
> resounding success from what I gather. What is the Commons Category under
> which your uploading these pictures? Would love to see them.
>
> --
> Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:01:47 +0530
> From: kalyan.sar...@gmail.com
> To: wikimedia-in...@lists.wikimedia.org
> CC: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-WB] Kolkata Photo Walk
> (Esplanade & Dalhousie)
>
>
>
> We met at the foot of Shahid Minar at 7AM in the morning. It was a bit
> foggy and chilly. We are enjoying an early winter chill and record low
> temperatures in Kolkata this year. After enjoying a steaming cup of tea at
> the CSTC Canteen and began our walk.
>
> ROUTE
> We crossed the J.L.Nehru Road and Lenin Sarani crossing and took Bentinck
> Street. Then we took left along the Waterloo Street, reaching the Great
> Eastern Hotel, we took right along the Hemanta Basu Sarani to B.B.D.Bagh
> Square. Then we proceeded along B.B.D.Bagh Sarani and took left turn to Red
> Cross Place to reach the entrance of Raj Bhawan. From there we proceeded
> along the Government Place to St John's Church and took right along Council
> House Street and Netaji Subhash Road and ended at the  Writers Buildings.
>
> MONUMENTS
> We covered the following monuments.
> 1. Shahid Minar
> 2. Metropolitan Building
> 3. Tipu Sultan Mosque
> 4. Victoria House
> 5. Statesman House
> 6. Aaykar Bhawan
> 7. Great Eastern Hotel
> 8. Central Telegraph Office
> 9. National Assurance Building
> 10. Junior Staff Quarters of the Governor
> 11. Raj Bhawan
> 12. St. John's Church
> 13. General Post Office
> 14. Kolkata Collectorate
> 15. Writers' Building
> 16. St. Andrews Chapel
>
> STATUES
> 1. Lenin
> 2. Asutosh Mookerjee
> 3. Prafulla Chaki
> 4. Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy
> 5. Binay Badal Dinesh
>
> Please correct me if I missed out something.
>
> Thanks and regards,
> Kalyan Sarkar
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Jayanta Nath wrote:
>
> Congratulation to all for our first step of success. Please anyone tell
> what we cover
>
> --
> With Warm Regards,
> *Jayanta Nath*
> Calcutta,West Bengal
>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Call for participation : Communications, PR & Media Relations Team

[CherianTinu Abraham]

Yes, That is one of the scopes mentioned
* Participating in Global Wikimedia Communications committee and subscribed
to its mailing list: wmfc...@mail.wikimedia.org

Regards
Tinu Cherian

On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 12:24 AM, Steven Walling wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 1:58 AM, Tinu Cherian wrote:
>
>>
>> Hello,
>>  The Wikimedia India chapter is forming a volunteer team/task
>> force to manage *Communications, Public & Media Relations* ( In short,
>> Communications) and various aspects of communications (internal & external
>> ) related to India chapter and the Wikimedia movement in India. This
>> includes development & execution of a communications plan for India,
>> digital outreach (including social media) to increase participation (both
>> reading and editing) & awareness, all aspects of PR as well as preparation
>> of collateral to support various outreach efforts in the country. This
>> doesn't include statutory communications to Auditing agencies/persons,
>> Governmental or legal bodies and the Wikimedia Foundation, the
>> responsibilities which resides primarily with the President, Secretary and
>> Treasurer of the Wikimedia Chapter.
>>
>> The primary aim of the Communications, PR & Media Relations Team is to
>> facilitate communication between the Wikimedia Chapter, community at large
>> and the public including the media.
>>
>> *Scope of Work*
>>
>> Duties and Responsibilities of the team include, but are not limited to
>> the following:
>>
>>- Supporting and overseeing communication with Wikimedia community
>>which includes Chapter members, general public and media.
>>- Helping the Chapter Secretary in the monthly report that is send to
>>the members and the community.
>>- Handling press enquiries and answering them.
>>- Coordinating communications with the press, including press
>>releases, interviews, and inquiries.
>>- Build a close partnership and working relation with a network of
>>journalists and news editors all over India and abroad.
>>- Maintaining a list of people willing to be contacted & interviewed
>>by the media.
>>- Identify potential "media worthy" stories and getting them
>>published into the mass media.
>>- Contacting editors and publishers of Wikipedia press coverage to
>>request that corrections be published as needed.
>>- Development of a comprehensive multi-language Communications Plan
>>for Wikimedia Movement in India to support the Chapter's strategic
>>objectives. This plan must include social media, digital outreach, Public
>>Relations (PR) and supporting community and chapter outreach.
>>- Implementation of the Communications Plan - including measuring of
>>results focused on growth in participation and readership within India and
>>continuous improvement as required.
>>- Identification, selection and on boarding of specialised agencies
>>as required.
>>- Public Relations (PR) to build and manage relationships with media
>>and drive messaging that promotes participation.
>>- Build a close partnership with the Community and Wikimedia
>>Foundation India Programs to support communications and media outreach.
>>- Providing ad hoc support to the Community on all aspects of
>>communications as may be deemed necessary.
>>- Researching press lists, monitoring and analyzing media coverage,
>>both negative and positive.
>>- will be responsible for executing and carrying out PR campaigns on
>>behalf of the chapter.
>>- Improve Wikimedia media coverage especially on Indian local
>>languages.
>>- Digital outreach comprises how to drive awareness and education
>>and motivation to participate in various projects from within the existing
>>readership base.
>>- Social media includes managing and driving social media vehicles to
>>drive participation (i.e., building awareness and driving traffic to Indic
>>language editions, raising awareness of how content is created on various
>>projects and motivating and enabling participation.)
>>- Maintain the official IRC channel on freenode: #wikimedia-in and
>>regularly conduct planned IRC sessions.
>>- Maintain the social media properties including the ones on facebook
>>& twitter and Youtube channels, and all Public facing Digital resources
>>like the wiki, blog and website.
>>- Keeping the Wikimedia India Press kit and In the News sections on
>>the public wiki up to date.
>>- Interacting with the Chapter OTRS team.
>>- Working on contingency and PR response plans in the event of PR
>>crisis related to the chapter or the Wikimedia movement in India.
>>- Participating in Global Wikimedia Communications committee and
>>subscribed to its mailing list: wmfc...@mail.wikimedia.org
>>- Help and co-ordinate the Community Newsletter, WikiPatrika
>>- Supporting media coverage of Chapter , Wikimedia Foundation and

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Call for participation : Communications, PR & Media Relations Team

[Ashwin Baindur]

All the best for this initiative, Tinu!

Warm regards,

Ashwin Baindur
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wrote:

> Yes, That is one of the scopes mentioned
> * Participating in Global Wikimedia Communications committee and
> subscribed to its mailing list: wmfc...@mail.wikimedia.org
>
> Regards
> Tinu Cherian
>
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 12:24 AM, Steven Walling 
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 1:58 AM, Tinu Cherian 
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>  The Wikimedia India chapter is forming a volunteer team/task
>>> force to manage *Communications, Public & Media Relations* ( In short,
>>> Communications) and various aspects of communications (internal & external
>>> ) related to India chapter and the Wikimedia movement in India. This
>>> includes development & execution of a communications plan for India,
>>> digital outreach (including social media) to increase participation (both
>>> reading and editing) & awareness, all aspects of PR as well as preparation
>>> of collateral to support various outreach efforts in the country. This
>>> doesn't include statutory communications to Auditing agencies/persons,
>>> Governmental or legal bodies and the Wikimedia Foundation, the
>>> responsibilities which resides primarily with the President, Secretary and
>>> Treasurer of the Wikimedia Chapter.
>>>
>>> The primary aim of the Communications, PR & Media Relations Team is to
>>> facilitate communication between the Wikimedia Chapter, community at large
>>> and the public including the media.
>>>
>>> *Scope of Work*
>>>
>>> Duties and Responsibilities of the team include, but are not limited to
>>> the following:
>>>
>>>- Supporting and overseeing communication with Wikimedia community
>>>which includes Chapter members, general public and media.
>>>- Helping the Chapter Secretary in the monthly report that is send
>>>to the members and the community.
>>>- Handling press enquiries and answering them.
>>>- Coordinating communications with the press, including press
>>>releases, interviews, and inquiries.
>>>- Build a close partnership and working relation with a network of
>>>journalists and news editors all over India and abroad.
>>>- Maintaining a list of people willing to be contacted & interviewed
>>>by the media.
>>>- Identify potential "media worthy" stories and getting them
>>>published into the mass media.
>>>- Contacting editors and publishers of Wikipedia press coverage to
>>>request that corrections be published as needed.
>>>- Development of a comprehensive multi-language Communications Plan
>>>for Wikimedia Movement in India to support the Chapter's strategic
>>>objectives. This plan must include social media, digital outreach, Public
>>>Relations (PR) and supporting community and chapter outreach.
>>>- Implementation of the Communications Plan - including measuring of
>>>results focused on growth in participation and readership within India 
>>> and
>>>continuous improvement as required.
>>>- Identification, selection and on boarding of specialised agencies
>>>as required.
>>>- Public Relations (PR) to build and manage relationships with media
>>>and drive messaging that promotes participation.
>>>- Build a close partnership with the Community and Wikimedia
>>>Foundation India Programs to support communications and media outreach.
>>>- Providing ad hoc support to the Community on all aspects of
>>>communications as may be deemed necessary.
>>>- Researching press lists, monitoring and analyzing media coverage,
>>>both negative and positive.
>>>- will be responsible for executing and carrying out PR campaigns on
>>>behalf of the chapter.
>>>- Improve Wikimedia media coverage especially on Indian local
>>>languages.
>>>- Digital outreach comprises how to drive awareness and education
>>>and motivation to participate in various projects from within the 
>>> existing
>>>readership base.
>>>- Social media includes managing and driving social media vehicles
>>>to drive participation (i.e., building awareness and driving traffic to
>>>Indic language editions, raising awareness of how content is created on
>>>various projects and motivating and enabling participation.)
>>>- Maintain the official IRC channel on freenode: #wikimedia-in and
>>>regularly conduct planned IRC sessions.
>>>- Maintain the social media properties including the ones on
>>>facebook & twitter and Youtube channels, and all Public facing Digital
>>>resources like the wiki, blog and website.
>>>- Keeping the Wikimedia India Press kit and In the News sections on
>>>the public wiki up to date.
>>>- Interacting with the Chapter OTRS team.
>>>- Working on contingency and PR response plans in the event of PR
>>>crisis related to the chapter or the Wi

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [WMIN-Members] Call for participation of Members in Chapter Task Forces

[Ashwin Baindur]

Hello friends,

Sometimes I think we forget that we are not just editors but participants
in a living, breathing, arguing and having fun community. A large number of
community initiatives are on this year - some from chapter, some from
Foundation Trust and some from wikipedias/city groups. Each of these
initiatives, if they succeed will add more value to Wikipedia, than plain
and simple editting alone can do. I know I'm generalising but the need of
the hour is not A or B but both ie not a choice between editting or
community involvement but for each of us to be involved in both.

If you are an active editor but not involved, perhaps its time for you to
help our people. Its a great way to make friends and offers a chance to
develop into well-rounded personalities.

If you are into outreach but not into editing, it is high time you editted
- otherwise you will miss out on great experiences and more importantly,
may also misread our Wikimedia culture - a phenomenon which seems to be
increasing.

So I suggest you eat your cake an have it too! Spend both sides of the
coin. Be a familiar face both on and off line. Edit & reach out.

Have fun & happy editting,

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On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 7:02 AM, Naveen Francis  wrote:

> fyi
>
> Thanks,
> naveenpf
>
>
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> From: Arjuna Rao Chavala 
> Date: Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 10:36 PM
> Subject: [WMIN-Members] Call for participation of Members in Chapter Task
> Forces
> To: wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com
>
>
> Dear Members,
>
> With the objective of increasing the engagement of  members of the chapter
> actively in various initiatives that would align to their interests and
> passions, the Executive Committee (EC) has come up with focused Task Forces
> for coordinating and driving various  chapter activities.
>
> There are two types of Task Forces -  Project Task Forces and Operations
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Supporting Outreach

[Subhashish Panigrahi]

This sounds very promising to me, the fiasco which I faced during a recent
academy will be ever in my mind :)

Thanks Philippe
Subha

On 21 December 2011 03:53, Philippe Beaudette wrote:

> Nitika,
>
> You folks are doing a great job with this on your own, but I wanted to be
> sure you know that I can lift the cap of 7 account creations per day, if
> you let me know what day you're doing something. :)
>
> That's an open offer to anyone doing outreach...
>
> pb
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> On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 4:15 AM, Nitika  wrote:
>
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>>- *There were no laptops for the participants or the internet
>>connection was weak - so I could only give a lecture on wikipedia but 
>> could
>>not give hands-on training*
>>- *I conducted sessions but I really don't know if anything
>>productive came out of it since I'm not confident that anyone of the
>>participants will actually start editing.  My time is limited and I really
>>want to figure out how to make the best use of it.*
>>- *I keep reading that outreach sessions should be done in a fun
>>manner - but I just don't know how to handle such a serious topic like
>>Wikipedia in a fun manner.*
>>- *I could not get more than 7 people to create user accounts because
>>of the 7 per day limit for creating user logins from an single IP address 
>> -
>>so the rest of the participants were not able to be more actively involved
>>in the session.*
>>- *I want to help out on outreach because I love doing it - but I'm
>>relatively new to Wikipedia and not sure if I can convey the right 
>> messages.
>>*
>>- *I prepared standard presentations introducing Wikipedia and the
>>basics of editing - but I wish I had structured material available on the
>>difference between paraphrasing, close paraphrasing and 
>> plagiarism/copyvio.
>>*
>>- *I asked the participants to write down their names and email IDs
>>so that I could stay in touch with them after the session - but could not
>>read the handwriting of a couple of them.*
>>- *I really want to do outreach - but I am not confident of my public
>>speaking skills.  I really wish I could help out but not sure how.*
>>- *I got irritated preparing the presentations because I am sure many
>>others would have already prepared these and it seem like a waste of time.
>>*
>>- *It would have been really good if I have left handouts for each
>>participants so they could read and refer to them at leisure.*
>>
>>
>> For all those who have conducted (or thought about) outreach sessions, do
>> these sound familiar?  I've been talking to a whole host of community
>> members and participating in outreach session and I wanted to share some
>> thoughts with you and to ask your help and advice.  I'm a new mail thread
>> on this because I am trying to combine some fantastic points from a series
>> of recent, related (and somewhat related) threads
>>
>>
>> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-December/005815.html(Srikanth
>>  R's thread on "What's in it for me")
>>
>> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-December/005657.html(Pradeep's
>>  thread on improving infrastructure)
>>
>> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-December/005453.html(Arnav
>>  S' thread on help for outreach in Gujarat)
>>
>> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-December/005632.html(Noopur's
>>  post on GLAM - and specfically the point that GLAM and outreach
>> should inter-linked.)
>>
>> *Most of us believe that we need to attract more newbies to our projects
>> to help our Indic projects grow and to improve Indian content on English
>> Wikipedia.  I also think that many would agree that not enough outreach is
>> happening and that results from the outreach that is happening can be
>> improved.  I suspect that a lot more people might be interested in doing
>> outreach but are often not sure how to do it. I think that we need to
>> figure out what are all the various things we can do to make sure that
>> every minute spent by volunteers on outreach is as productive as
>> possible.   *
>>
>> I would like to propose that I start working on these aspects.  My
>> current (very initial) thinking is as follows:
>>
>>1. Speak to as many more community members as possible who have
>>conducted outreach sessions, plan to conduct them or even attended session
>>and learn from them their experiences on outreach.  Document and share 
>> tips
>>and best practices to the entire community.
>>2. Create a repository for all presentations as well as handouts,
>>FAQs pages, etc.  (prepared in English to begin with, but later translated
>>to Indic languages).  These presentations must be in distinct module so
>>that there 

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Supporting Outreach

[Nitika]

> 
> but I wanted to be sure you know that I can lift the cap of 7 account 
> creations per day, if you let me know what day you're doing something. :)
> 
> That's an open offer to anyone doing outreach...
> 

Hey Phillipe, 

I am now aware that there is a possibility of releasing an IP from this rule. 
But I learnt this the hard way! I sat through an outreach session where we 
encountered blocking of IP and the participants were very disappointed because 
they could not create their usernames. There is another mail from Subhashish 
which echoes similar experience. 

By way of working on this document and putting together small tips like these 
will make sure that others don't go through this pain. I'd encourage everyone 
to put their thoughts/learnings here so that all of us can benefit out of it 
and make our outreach sessions more effective.

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Supporting Outreach

[Pradeep Mohandas]

hi Phillipe,

How much lead time would you need to enable this? Given that India and
US are in opposite sides of the world - you guys maybe sleeping while
we request an unblock.
What venues can we request an unblock - en email to you? On wiki-tech IRC?

Pradeep
Handheld

On 21/12/2011, Nitika  wrote:
>
>>
>> but I wanted to be sure you know that I can lift the cap of 7 account
>> creations per day, if you let me know what day you're doing something. :)
>>
>> That's an open offer to anyone doing outreach...
>>
>
> Hey Phillipe,
>
> I am now aware that there is a possibility of releasing an IP from this
> rule. But I learnt this the hard way! I sat through an outreach session
> where we encountered blocking of IP and the participants were very
> disappointed because they could not create their usernames. There is another
> mail from Subhashish which echoes similar experience.
>
> By way of working on this document and putting together small tips like
> these will make sure that others don't go through this pain. I'd encourage
> everyone to put their thoughts/learnings here so that all of us can benefit
> out of it and make our outreach sessions more effective.
>
> Thanks
> Nitika


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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Supporting Outreach

[Sudhanwa Jogalekar]

Probably some bot mechanism will work better.
People may not know the IP address from the venue before they start working.

Just setup a page where such IPs can be put up and a bot checks them
every 1-2 hours or so and enables IPs for 3-4 days. Authorisations for
specific users who are co-ordinating the event can be given well in
advance to add such IP entries.

That will help reduce communication and delay due to time zone related things.

Regards
-Sudhanwa


On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Pradeep Mohandas
 wrote:
> hi Phillipe,
>
> How much lead time would you need to enable this? Given that India and
> US are in opposite sides of the world - you guys maybe sleeping while
> we request an unblock.
> What venues can we request an unblock - en email to you? On wiki-tech IRC?
>
> Pradeep
> Handheld
>
> On 21/12/2011, Nitika  wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> but I wanted to be sure you know that I can lift the cap of 7 account
>>> creations per day, if you let me know what day you're doing something. :)
>>>
>>> That's an open offer to anyone doing outreach...
>>>
>>
>> Hey Phillipe,
>>
>> I am now aware that there is a possibility of releasing an IP from this
>> rule. But I learnt this the hard way! I sat through an outreach session
>> where we encountered blocking of IP and the participants were very
>> disappointed because they could not create their usernames. There is another
>> mail from Subhashish which echoes similar experience.
>>
>> By way of working on this document and putting together small tips like
>> these will make sure that others don't go through this pain. I'd encourage
>> everyone to put their thoughts/learnings here so that all of us can benefit
>> out of it and make our outreach sessions more effective.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Nitika
>
>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-WB] Kolkata Photo Walk (Esplanade & Dalhousie)

[Kalyan Sarkar]

I missed the following from my mention.

17. Metro Cinema
16. United Bank of India Building
18. Emerald House
19. Kolkata High Court
20. Town Hall
21. Hong Kong House (HSBC)

Thanks and regards,
Kalyan Sarkar


On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 7:57 AM, Deepon Saha  wrote:

> missed it..:(
>
> On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 9:05 PM,  wrote:
>
>>  Thanks for the report Kalyan, the first Kolkata Photowalk was a
>> resounding success from what I gather. What is the Commons Category under
>> which your uploading these pictures? Would love to see them.
>>
>> --
>> Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:01:47 +0530
>> From: kalyan.sar...@gmail.com
>> To: wikimedia-in...@lists.wikimedia.org
>> CC: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
>> Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-WB] Kolkata Photo Walk
>> (Esplanade & Dalhousie)
>>
>>
>>
>> We met at the foot of Shahid Minar at 7AM in the morning. It was a bit
>> foggy and chilly. We are enjoying an early winter chill and record low
>> temperatures in Kolkata this year. After enjoying a steaming cup of tea at
>> the CSTC Canteen and began our walk.
>>
>> ROUTE
>> We crossed the J.L.Nehru Road and Lenin Sarani crossing and took Bentinck
>> Street. Then we took left along the Waterloo Street, reaching the Great
>> Eastern Hotel, we took right along the Hemanta Basu Sarani to B.B.D.Bagh
>> Square. Then we proceeded along B.B.D.Bagh Sarani and took left turn to Red
>> Cross Place to reach the entrance of Raj Bhawan. From there we proceeded
>> along the Government Place to St John's Church and took right along Council
>> House Street and Netaji Subhash Road and ended at the  Writers Buildings.
>>
>> MONUMENTS
>> We covered the following monuments.
>> 1. Shahid Minar
>> 2. Metropolitan Building
>> 3. Tipu Sultan Mosque
>> 4. Victoria House
>> 5. Statesman House
>> 6. Aaykar Bhawan
>> 7. Great Eastern Hotel
>> 8. Central Telegraph Office
>> 9. National Assurance Building
>> 10. Junior Staff Quarters of the Governor
>> 11. Raj Bhawan
>> 12. St. John's Church
>> 13. General Post Office
>> 14. Kolkata Collectorate
>> 15. Writers' Building
>> 16. St. Andrews Chapel
>>
>> STATUES
>> 1. Lenin
>> 2. Asutosh Mookerjee
>> 3. Prafulla Chaki
>> 4. Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy
>> 5. Binay Badal Dinesh
>>
>> Please correct me if I missed out something.
>>
>> Thanks and regards,
>> Kalyan Sarkar
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Jayanta Nath wrote:
>>
>> Congratulation to all for our first step of success. Please anyone tell
>> what we cover
>>
>> --
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>> *Jayanta Nath*
>> Calcutta,West Bengal
>>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-WB] Kolkata Photo Walk (Esplanade & Dalhousie)

[Hisham]

Just went through the pictures. There are so many wonderful images from the 
firewood seller to the sugar cane juice machine to the road-side shave to the 
wonderful stained glass inside of St John to Kolkata's delightfully quaint 
trams!  

Thank you so much!

I am guessing the thank you should be directed to everyone in this image 
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Photowalk_-_Kolkata_2011-12-18_0009.JPG
 (and the photographer who took it!)  You all look like you had a wonderful 
time!

There's something cooking in the West Bengal community and it tastes sweet as 
sandesh!

Warm Regards,

hisham

On Dec 21, 2011, at 11:34 AM, Kalyan Sarkar wrote:

> I missed the following from my mention.
> 
> 17. Metro Cinema
> 16. United Bank of India Building
> 18. Emerald House
> 19. Kolkata High Court
> 20. Town Hall
> 21. Hong Kong House (HSBC)
> 
> Thanks and regards,
> Kalyan Sarkar
> 
> 
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 7:57 AM, Deepon Saha  wrote:
> missed it..:(
> 
> On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 9:05 PM,  wrote:
> Thanks for the report Kalyan, the first Kolkata Photowalk was a resounding 
> success from what I gather. What is the Commons Category under which your 
> uploading these pictures? Would love to see them.
> 
> Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:01:47 +0530
> From: kalyan.sar...@gmail.com
> To: wikimedia-in...@lists.wikimedia.org
> CC: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-WB] Kolkata Photo Walk  
> (Esplanade & Dalhousie)
> 
> 
> 
> We met at the foot of Shahid Minar at 7AM in the morning. It was a bit foggy 
> and chilly. We are enjoying an early winter chill and record low temperatures 
> in Kolkata this year. After enjoying a steaming cup of tea at the CSTC 
> Canteen and began our walk.
> 
> ROUTE
> We crossed the J.L.Nehru Road and Lenin Sarani crossing and took Bentinck 
> Street. Then we took left along the Waterloo Street, reaching the Great 
> Eastern Hotel, we took right along the Hemanta Basu Sarani to B.B.D.Bagh 
> Square. Then we proceeded along B.B.D.Bagh Sarani and took left turn to Red 
> Cross Place to reach the entrance of Raj Bhawan. From there we proceeded 
> along the Government Place to St John's Church and took right along Council 
> House Street and Netaji Subhash Road and ended at the  Writers Buildings.
> 
> MONUMENTS
> We covered the following monuments.
> 1. Shahid Minar
> 2. Metropolitan Building
> 3. Tipu Sultan Mosque
> 4. Victoria House
> 5. Statesman House
> 6. Aaykar Bhawan
> 7. Great Eastern Hotel
> 8. Central Telegraph Office
> 9. National Assurance Building
> 10. Junior Staff Quarters of the Governor
> 11. Raj Bhawan
> 12. St. John's Church
> 13. General Post Office
> 14. Kolkata Collectorate
> 15. Writers' Building
> 16. St. Andrews Chapel
> 
> STATUES
> 1. Lenin
> 2. Asutosh Mookerjee
> 3. Prafulla Chaki
> 4. Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy
> 5. Binay Badal Dinesh
> 
> Please correct me if I missed out something.
> 
> Thanks and regards,
> Kalyan Sarkar
> 
> 
> On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Jayanta Nath  wrote:
> Congratulation to all for our first step of success. Please anyone tell
> what we cover
> 
> --
> With Warm Regards,
> *Jayanta Nath*
> Calcutta,West Bengal
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-WB] Kolkata Photo Walk (Esplanade & Dalhousie)

[wheredevelsdare]

+1, Thanks for the link, you guys covered amazing ground!

From: his...@wikimedia.org
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 12:00:54 +0530
To: wikimedia-in...@lists.wikimedia.org; wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-WB] Kolkata Photo Walk
(Esplanade & Dalhousie)



Just went through the pictures. There are so many wonderful images from the 
firewood seller to the sugar cane juice machine to the road-side shave to the 
wonderful stained glass inside of St John to Kolkata's delightfully quaint 
trams!  
Thank you so much!
I am guessing the thank you should be directed to everyone in this image 
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Photowalk_-_Kolkata_2011-12-18_0009.JPG
 (and the photographer who took it!)  You all look like you had a wonderful 
time!
There's something cooking in the West Bengal community and it tastes sweet as 
sandesh!
Warm Regards,
hisham


On Dec 21, 2011, at 11:34 AM, Kalyan Sarkar wrote:I missed the following from 
my mention.
17. Metro Cinema16. United Bank of India Building18. Emerald House19. Kolkata 
High Court20. Town Hall21. Hong Kong House (HSBC)

Thanks and regards,Kalyan Sarkar

On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 7:57 AM, Deepon Saha  wrote:

missed it..:(

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 9:05 PM,   wrote:







Thanks for the report Kalyan, the first Kolkata Photowalk was a resounding 
success from what I gather. What is the Commons Category under which your 
uploading these pictures? Would love to see them.




Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:01:47 +0530
From: kalyan.sar...@gmail.com
To: wikimedia-in...@lists.wikimedia.org



CC: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-WB] Kolkata Photo Walk
(Esplanade & Dalhousie)





We met at the foot of Shahid Minar at 7AM in the morning. It was a bit foggy 
and chilly. We are enjoying an early winter chill and record low temperatures 
in Kolkata this year. After enjoying a steaming cup of tea at the CSTC Canteen 
and began our walk.




ROUTEWe crossed the J.L.Nehru Road and Lenin Sarani crossing and took Bentinck 
Street. Then we took left along the Waterloo Street, reaching the Great Eastern 
Hotel, we took right along the Hemanta Basu Sarani to B.B.D.Bagh Square. Then 
we proceeded along B.B.D.Bagh Sarani and took left turn to Red Cross Place to 
reach the entrance of Raj Bhawan. From there we proceeded along the Government 
Place to St John's Church and took right along Council House Street and Netaji 
Subhash Road and ended at the  Writers Buildings.




MONUMENTSWe covered the following monuments.1. Shahid Minar2. Metropolitan 
Building3. Tipu Sultan Mosque4. Victoria House5. Statesman House



6. Aaykar Bhawan7. Great Eastern Hotel8. Central Telegraph Office9. National 
Assurance Building10. Junior Staff Quarters of the Governor11. Raj Bhawan



12. St. John's Church13. General Post Office14. Kolkata Collectorate15. 
Writers' Building16. St. Andrews Chapel
STATUES1. Lenin



2. Asutosh Mookerjee3. Prafulla Chaki4. Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy5. Binay Badal 
Dinesh
Please correct me if I missed out something.
Thanks and regards,



Kalyan Sarkar

On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Jayanta Nath  wrote:

Congratulation to all for our first step of success. Please anyone tell

what we cover



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With Warm Regards,

*Jayanta Nath*

Calcutta,West Bengal



 

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-WB] Kolkata Photo Walk (Esplanade & Dalhousie)

[Jayanta Nath]

Hi  Hisham ,

The said image took by our Biswarup Ganguly(
Gangulybiswarup
),
( look at this image Biswarup Da teach his daughter Medha
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Photowalk_-_Kolkata_2011-12-18_(7).JPG
 )

On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Hisham  wrote:

> Just went through the pictures. There are so many wonderful images from
> the firewood seller to the sugar cane juice machine to the road-side shave
> to the wonderful stained glass inside of St John to Kolkata's delightfully
> quaint trams!
>
> Thank you so much!
>
> I am guessing the thank you should be directed to everyone in this image
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Photowalk_-_Kolkata_2011-12-18_0009.JPG(and
>  the photographer who took it!)  You all look like you had a wonderful
> time!
>
> There's something cooking in the West Bengal community and it tastes sweet
> as sandesh!
>
> Warm Regards,
>
> hisham
>
> On Dec 21, 2011, at 11:34 AM, Kalyan Sarkar wrote:
>
> > I missed the following from my mention.
> >
> > 17. Metro Cinema
> > 16. United Bank of India Building
> > 18. Emerald House
> > 19. Kolkata High Court
> > 20. Town Hall
> > 21. Hong Kong House (HSBC)
> >
> > Thanks and regards,
> > Kalyan Sarkar
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 7:57 AM, Deepon Saha 
> wrote:
> > missed it..:(
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 9:05 PM,  wrote:
> > Thanks for the report Kalyan, the first Kolkata Photowalk was a
> resounding success from what I gather. What is the Commons Category under
> which your uploading these pictures? Would love to see them.
> >
> > Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:01:47 +0530
> > From: kalyan.sar...@gmail.com
> > To: wikimedia-in...@lists.wikimedia.org
> > CC: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
> > Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-WB] Kolkata Photo Walk
>  (Esplanade & Dalhousie)
> >
> >
> >
> > We met at the foot of Shahid Minar at 7AM in the morning. It was a bit
> foggy and chilly. We are enjoying an early winter chill and record low
> temperatures in Kolkata this year. After enjoying a steaming cup of tea at
> the CSTC Canteen and began our walk.
> >
> > ROUTE
> > We crossed the J.L.Nehru Road and Lenin Sarani crossing and took
> Bentinck Street. Then we took left along the Waterloo Street, reaching the
> Great Eastern Hotel, we took right along the Hemanta Basu Sarani to
> B.B.D.Bagh Square. Then we proceeded along B.B.D.Bagh Sarani and took left
> turn to Red Cross Place to reach the entrance of Raj Bhawan. From there we
> proceeded along the Government Place to St John's Church and took right
> along Council House Street and Netaji Subhash Road and ended at the
>  Writers Buildings.
> >
> > MONUMENTS
> > We covered the following monuments.
> > 1. Shahid Minar
> > 2. Metropolitan Building
> > 3. Tipu Sultan Mosque
> > 4. Victoria House
> > 5. Statesman House
> > 6. Aaykar Bhawan
> > 7. Great Eastern Hotel
> > 8. Central Telegraph Office
> > 9. National Assurance Building
> > 10. Junior Staff Quarters of the Governor
> > 11. Raj Bhawan
> > 12. St. John's Church
> > 13. General Post Office
> > 14. Kolkata Collectorate
> > 15. Writers' Building
> > 16. St. Andrews Chapel
> >
> > STATUES
> > 1. Lenin
> > 2. Asutosh Mookerjee
> > 3. Prafulla Chaki
> > 4. Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy
> > 5. Binay Badal Dinesh
> >
> > Please correct me if I missed out something.
> >
> > Thanks and regards,
> > Kalyan Sarkar
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Jayanta Nath 
> wrote:
> > Congratulation to all for our first step of success. Please anyone tell
> > what we cover
> >
> > --
> > With Warm Regards,
> > *Jayanta Nath*
> > Calcutta,West Bengal
> >
> >  
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ONE simple step to double or triple visits to Indic Wikipedias

[Ravishankar]

Anirudh,

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Anirudh Bhati wrote:

> Most of the visitors on Wikipedia end up there through search engines.
>  But there is another group which attempts to access Wikipedia directly by
> typing in www.wikipedia.com or www.wikipedia.org in the address bar of
> their browsers.
>
> Currently, the landing page for www.wikipedia.org (wikipedia.comredirects to
> wikipedia.org) lists the ten largest Wikipedia projects.  Apart from the
> English Wikipedia, the rest of the projects are practically useless for
> most of us in this country.  Replacing the foreign language projects (for
> Indian IPs) with Indic language projects will help drive more traffic.
>

+1. Great idea.

Pradeep,

//Perhaps somebody here has already brought this up, but you can now switch
languages on Commons using a drop down menu. You can spot the drop down
just below the Village Pump link. There is also a helpful site notice, that
suggested I read Commons in British English :)..//

This is also neatly done. I chose Tamil interface and closed the window.
After a while I came back to see
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_Takes_Kolkatadirectly.
It remembered my earlier preference and gave me a notice that I
can also see in Tamil.

While we are looking for a similar notice based on IP / availability of
Indic interwiki links, giving interface language options for en wiki is not
much useful. As Sumana rightly pointed out, we need to alert the users
about the existence of local language Wiki. Most of the major Indic Wiki
projects are online for more than 7 years now. But, 90%+ users who browse
en wiki do not know that they exist :( If they knew about them and chose to
read in English, that is altogether a different issue and can't be solved
technically.

Ravi
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-WB] Kolkata Photo Walk (Esplanade & Dalhousie)

[Hisham]

Sweet!  

Thanks so much, Biswarup.  (...and Medha!)

Thanks for sharing, Jayanta.

hisham

On Dec 21, 2011, at 12:08 PM, Jayanta Nath wrote:

> Hi  Hisham ,
> 
> The said image took by our Biswarup Ganguly( Gangulybiswarup ), ( look at 
> this image Biswarup Da teach his daughter Medha 
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Photowalk_-_Kolkata_2011-12-18_(7).JPG
>  )
> 
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Hisham  wrote:
> Just went through the pictures. There are so many wonderful images from the 
> firewood seller to the sugar cane juice machine to the road-side shave to the 
> wonderful stained glass inside of St John to Kolkata's delightfully quaint 
> trams!
> 
> Thank you so much!
> 
> I am guessing the thank you should be directed to everyone in this image 
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Photowalk_-_Kolkata_2011-12-18_0009.JPG
>  (and the photographer who took it!)  You all look like you had a wonderful 
> time!
> 
> There's something cooking in the West Bengal community and it tastes sweet as 
> sandesh!
> 
> Warm Regards,
> 
> hisham
> 
> On Dec 21, 2011, at 11:34 AM, Kalyan Sarkar wrote:
> 
> > I missed the following from my mention.
> >
> > 17. Metro Cinema
> > 16. United Bank of India Building
> > 18. Emerald House
> > 19. Kolkata High Court
> > 20. Town Hall
> > 21. Hong Kong House (HSBC)
> >
> > Thanks and regards,
> > Kalyan Sarkar
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 7:57 AM, Deepon Saha  wrote:
> > missed it..:(
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 9:05 PM,  wrote:
> > Thanks for the report Kalyan, the first Kolkata Photowalk was a resounding 
> > success from what I gather. What is the Commons Category under which your 
> > uploading these pictures? Would love to see them.
> >
> > Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:01:47 +0530
> > From: kalyan.sar...@gmail.com
> > To: wikimedia-in...@lists.wikimedia.org
> > CC: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
> > Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-WB] Kolkata Photo Walk  
> > (Esplanade & Dalhousie)
> >
> >
> >
> > We met at the foot of Shahid Minar at 7AM in the morning. It was a bit 
> > foggy and chilly. We are enjoying an early winter chill and record low 
> > temperatures in Kolkata this year. After enjoying a steaming cup of tea at 
> > the CSTC Canteen and began our walk.
> >
> > ROUTE
> > We crossed the J.L.Nehru Road and Lenin Sarani crossing and took Bentinck 
> > Street. Then we took left along the Waterloo Street, reaching the Great 
> > Eastern Hotel, we took right along the Hemanta Basu Sarani to B.B.D.Bagh 
> > Square. Then we proceeded along B.B.D.Bagh Sarani and took left turn to Red 
> > Cross Place to reach the entrance of Raj Bhawan. From there we proceeded 
> > along the Government Place to St John's Church and took right along Council 
> > House Street and Netaji Subhash Road and ended at the  Writers Buildings.
> >
> > MONUMENTS
> > We covered the following monuments.
> > 1. Shahid Minar
> > 2. Metropolitan Building
> > 3. Tipu Sultan Mosque
> > 4. Victoria House
> > 5. Statesman House
> > 6. Aaykar Bhawan
> > 7. Great Eastern Hotel
> > 8. Central Telegraph Office
> > 9. National Assurance Building
> > 10. Junior Staff Quarters of the Governor
> > 11. Raj Bhawan
> > 12. St. John's Church
> > 13. General Post Office
> > 14. Kolkata Collectorate
> > 15. Writers' Building
> > 16. St. Andrews Chapel
> >
> > STATUES
> > 1. Lenin
> > 2. Asutosh Mookerjee
> > 3. Prafulla Chaki
> > 4. Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy
> > 5. Binay Badal Dinesh
> >
> > Please correct me if I missed out something.
> >
> > Thanks and regards,
> > Kalyan Sarkar
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Jayanta Nath  wrote:
> > Congratulation to all for our first step of success. Please anyone tell
> > what we cover
> >
> > --
> > With Warm Regards,
> > *Jayanta Nath*
> > Calcutta,West Bengal
> >
> >  
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