date:20120117

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 12:19, Anirudh Bhati  wrote:

> Just saw this.  I like the design a lot.  It's cleaner and attractive.
>  The free images can be rotated periodically.
>
> Thank you, Planemad and Yuvi!


+1

We could also probably have twitter feed of WikimediaIndia and link to like
FB page to make it more social?

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Design for Wikipdia India sites

2012-01-17 Thread Gerard Meijssen

Hoi,
Do the Devanagari characters indicate a similar page in an Indic language?
Thanks,
Gerard

On 10 January 2012 19:53, Yuvi Panda  wrote:

> Hello! Many of you would know PlaneMad (Arun Ganesh), and I had asked
> him to see if he can design anything for Wikipedia.in, etc. He's sent
> me a mockup that I absolutely love, and am willing to spend time
> htmlizing. Thoughts?
>
> /me hopes attachment goes through
>
> -- Forwarded message --
> From: Arun Ganesh 
> Date: Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 11:40 PM
> Subject: Re: Wiki India Designs
> To: Yuvi Panda 
>
>
> questions that a user has:
> 1) where am i?
> 2) what do i get here?
> 3) how do i find it?
>
> the current landing pages are actually quite cryptic to someone new.
> something like this would help someone explore and learn. click any
> language tab and all the text changes to that language. The project
> boxes stay visible, the search flyout loads on hover. will it work?
>
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 9:31 PM, Yuvi Panda  wrote:
> >
> > Anything?
> >
> > On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Arun Ganesh 
> wrote:
> > > indeed, figured if i dont get things done this month, i probably never
> will
> > > :)
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 12:05 AM, Yuvi Panda  wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Wah wah wah. Earmarking and organizing and all.
> > >>
> > >> On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 11:59 PM, Arun Ganesh 
> wrote:
> > >> > i have earmarked certain hours tomorrow for work. i'll let you know
> if i
> > >> > get
> > >> > somehing
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> > On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Yuvi Panda  wrote:
> > >> >>
> > >> >> http://www.malayalabhasha.org/indportal/india/wikipedia.html
> > >> >> http://www.malayalabhasha.org/indportal/india/index.html
> > >> >> http://www.malayalabhasha.org/indportal/india/wikisource.html
> > >> >>
> > >> >> is what they have. Planning on launch in a few weeks. Have a better
> > >> >> Idea I could code up?
> > >> >>
> > >> >> --
> > >> >> Yuvi T
> > >> >> http://yuvi.in/
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> > --
> > >> > j.mp/ArunGanesh
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >> Yuvi T
> > >> http://yuvi.in/
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > j.mp/ArunGanesh
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Yuvi T
> > http://yuvi.in/
>
>
>
>
> --
> j.mp/ArunGanesh
>
>
> --
> Yuvi T
> http://yuvi.in/
>
>
> --
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Experience of taking Wiki academy at lesser known site of digital devide

2012-01-17 Thread ansuman

Good job :) Students are getting to know more about wikipedia.

On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 9:47 AM, Mahitgar from Marathi Wikipedia <
mahit...@yahoo.co.in> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> 12.05 pm  13th Jan 2012 ,Principal's Cabin at Abasaheb Prashala Day School
> near 15August Square Rastapeth Pune ; A visibly anoyed mother with her
> middle school son visits principal to discuss her sons school absentism
> the mother informs sons father is expired five years ago , She is working
> as home maid at some  middle class families and making a living; Principal
> does her job very well ; seems such situations are quite regular and routin
> to the principal madam.
>
> 12.15-12.30 School prayer And at 12.30 bell  Wikipedia Academy -Sans any
> projector or laptop only help available  is the black board , a chalk and a
> duster-  begins in Standard 8A aprox 35-40 students (An equal mix of girls
> and boys)
>
>
> Students are asked to show their hands to find out what do they know about
> internet only one hand comes up and rest of the faces are blank and now
> the  Wikipedian knows the challenge at hand. Mind the fact that the day
> before School teacher informs that Wikipedia is part of School syllabus in
> english language for 8th standard since 1999 usually he teaches the first
> page of the lesson the rest of the pages can not be given justice without
> internet support (for aprox 20,00,000 every year ) students across
> Maharashtra .The class goes ahead the wikipedians requests to make stack of
> all their books on a table and request for a Home Work note book with a
> promis that it will not be opened, one girl gets convinced and provides the
> same .
>
> Childern smartly give different different answers when asked what is their
> in their bunch of school books , Most of them say "study" one Student
> answers as Mahiti ie.information and a shy girl answers as Knowldge.The
> students know that knowledge available in bunch of school is limited and
> there on concept of encyclopedia is explained the word they never heared
> before, they answer smartly  the wikipedian explains  By now children are
> getting in interactive mode discussion goes about curiosity information and
> knowldge . Without any teaching aid demo laptop how do one explains what is
> internet ? Luckily children knew about computers So with crude examples a
> book was a web portal and pages ther in were web pages and then rest of
> internet story without internet at hand .(May be few schools in rural areas
> still wont have computers too and wont know how a teacher explains what is
> Computer)
>
> Now the student who provided Home Work note book is asked What will be her
> reaction if not herself but other students from the class write her home
> work note book turn by turn  ,The entire class of students smiles freely
> and a smile comes even on the face of the class teacher , who was very
> patiantly sitting in last row of the class for wikipedia  academy.
>
> Wikipedia home page is drawn on black-board and The black board itself is
> edit window . When asked any doubts faces blank, about a thing they never
> saw what doubts they will ask ? But when asked what is Wikipedia ? a girl
> student Laxmi stands up and answers what she understood to her  best about
> wikipedia in learned in Wiki academy Students are requested to clap for her
> correct answer and a chorus of clapps begins !!
>
> Later Principal agrees to importance of introduction to internet and
> informs about their schools steps to upgradation of computer lab
> infrastructure , After a  cup of tea with the class teacher,the  Wikipedia
> leaves school premises for next meeting.
>
> Before one day that is on 12th Jan we receive info that a pilot project in
> some of Maharashtra schools will be extended from coming academic year to
> all schools mandatorily along with practical unicode Marathi  typing and
> internet , with a chance to explore further collaboration for marathi
> language wikisource and school board .
>
>
> Rgds
> -Mahitgar from Marathi Wikipedia
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Experience of taking Wiki academy at lesser known site of digital devide

hi Mahitgar,

Thank you for making me question some of the assumptions I have in my
mind when I talk to people about Wikipedia and for reminding me to
question them before every Academy and workshop.

Thanks.

warm regards,
Pradeep
Handheld

On 17/01/2012, ansuman  wrote:
> Good job :) Students are getting to know more about wikipedia.
>
> On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 9:47 AM, Mahitgar from Marathi Wikipedia <
> mahit...@yahoo.co.in> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> 12.05 pm  13th Jan 2012 ,Principal's Cabin at Abasaheb Prashala Day School
>> near 15August Square Rastapeth Pune ; A visibly anoyed mother with her
>> middle school son visits principal to discuss her sons school absentism
>> the mother informs sons father is expired five years ago , She is working
>> as home maid at some  middle class families and making a living; Principal
>> does her job very well ; seems such situations are quite regular and
>> routin
>> to the principal madam.
>>
>> 12.15-12.30 School prayer And at 12.30 bell  Wikipedia Academy -Sans any
>> projector or laptop only help available  is the black board , a chalk and
>> a
>> duster-  begins in Standard 8A aprox 35-40 students (An equal mix of girls
>> and boys)
>>
>>
>> Students are asked to show their hands to find out what do they know about
>> internet only one hand comes up and rest of the faces are blank and now
>> the  Wikipedian knows the challenge at hand. Mind the fact that the day
>> before School teacher informs that Wikipedia is part of School syllabus in
>> english language for 8th standard since 1999 usually he teaches the first
>> page of the lesson the rest of the pages can not be given justice without
>> internet support (for aprox 20,00,000 every year ) students across
>> Maharashtra .The class goes ahead the wikipedians requests to make stack
>> of
>> all their books on a table and request for a Home Work note book with a
>> promis that it will not be opened, one girl gets convinced and provides
>> the
>> same .
>>
>> Childern smartly give different different answers when asked what is their
>> in their bunch of school books , Most of them say "study" one Student
>> answers as Mahiti ie.information and a shy girl answers as Knowldge.The
>> students know that knowledge available in bunch of school is limited and
>> there on concept of encyclopedia is explained the word they never heared
>> before, they answer smartly  the wikipedian explains  By now children are
>> getting in interactive mode discussion goes about curiosity information
>> and
>> knowldge . Without any teaching aid demo laptop how do one explains what
>> is
>> internet ? Luckily children knew about computers So with crude examples a
>> book was a web portal and pages ther in were web pages and then rest of
>> internet story without internet at hand .(May be few schools in rural
>> areas
>> still wont have computers too and wont know how a teacher explains what is
>> Computer)
>>
>> Now the student who provided Home Work note book is asked What will be her
>> reaction if not herself but other students from the class write her home
>> work note book turn by turn  ,The entire class of students smiles freely
>> and a smile comes even on the face of the class teacher , who was very
>> patiantly sitting in last row of the class for wikipedia  academy.
>>
>> Wikipedia home page is drawn on black-board and The black board itself is
>> edit window . When asked any doubts faces blank, about a thing they never
>> saw what doubts they will ask ? But when asked what is Wikipedia ? a girl
>> student Laxmi stands up and answers what she understood to her  best about
>> wikipedia in learned in Wiki academy Students are requested to clap for
>> her
>> correct answer and a chorus of clapps begins !!
>>
>> Later Principal agrees to importance of introduction to internet and
>> informs about their schools steps to upgradation of computer lab
>> infrastructure , After a  cup of tea with the class teacher,the  Wikipedia
>> leaves school premises for next meeting.
>>
>> Before one day that is on 12th Jan we receive info that a pilot project in
>> some of Maharashtra schools will be extended from coming academic year to
>> all schools mandatorily along with practical unicode Marathi  typing and
>> internet , with a chance to explore further collaboration for marathi
>> language wikisource and school board .
>>
>>
>> Rgds
>> -Mahitgar from Marathi Wikipedia
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>>
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Off-topic: Re: Media : Gandhi would have been a Wikipedian

hi,

Just curious. Is there any other writing by Gandhi that goes under the
same license? Also, any ideas on where Gandhi might have put out this
note saying No Rights Reserved? Was there a precedent?

I know this is clearly off-topic but curiosity cannot be satiated.

Pradeep
Handheld

On 17/01/2012, Ashwin Baindur  wrote:
> FYI by our very own Achal Prabhala
>
> http://www.indianexpress.com/news/would-gandhi-have-been-a-wikipedian/900506/0
>
> Warm regards,
>
> Ashwin Baindur
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>

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Design for Wikipdia India sites

2012-01-17 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar

Hi,

The design looks nice. The photo mentions the person as a singer. Actually,
it is a photograph of a person smoking a Hukka and a covered sword on the
lap. Nothing to do with any musician.

I also liked the current design of wikimedia.in. Rather simple but clean.
If your last visit was a few days back, just have a look again.

-Sudhanwa

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 12:23 AM, Yuvi Panda  wrote:

> Hello! Many of you would know PlaneMad (Arun Ganesh), and I had asked
> him to see if he can design anything for Wikipedia.in, etc. He's sent
> me a mockup that I absolutely love, and am willing to spend time
> htmlizing. Thoughts?
>
> /me hopes attachment goes through
>
> -- Forwarded message --
> From: Arun Ganesh 
> Date: Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 11:40 PM
> Subject: Re: Wiki India Designs
> To: Yuvi Panda 
>
>
> questions that a user has:
> 1) where am i?
> 2) what do i get here?
> 3) how do i find it?
>
> the current landing pages are actually quite cryptic to someone new.
> something like this would help someone explore and learn. click any
> language tab and all the text changes to that language. The project
> boxes stay visible, the search flyout loads on hover. will it work?
>
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 9:31 PM, Yuvi Panda  wrote:
> >
> > Anything?
> >
> > On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Arun Ganesh 
> wrote:
> > > indeed, figured if i dont get things done this month, i probably never
> will
> > > :)
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 12:05 AM, Yuvi Panda  wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Wah wah wah. Earmarking and organizing and all.
> > >>
> > >> On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 11:59 PM, Arun Ganesh 
> wrote:
> > >> > i have earmarked certain hours tomorrow for work. i'll let you know
> if i
> > >> > get
> > >> > somehing
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> > On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Yuvi Panda  wrote:
> > >> >>
> > >> >> http://www.malayalabhasha.org/indportal/india/wikipedia.html
> > >> >> http://www.malayalabhasha.org/indportal/india/index.html
> > >> >> http://www.malayalabhasha.org/indportal/india/wikisource.html
> > >> >>
> > >> >> is what they have. Planning on launch in a few weeks. Have a better
> > >> >> Idea I could code up?
> > >> >>
> > >> >> --
> > >> >> Yuvi T
> > >> >> http://yuvi.in/
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> > --
> > >> > j.mp/ArunGanesh
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >> Yuvi T
> > >> http://yuvi.in/
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > j.mp/ArunGanesh
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Yuvi T
> > http://yuvi.in/
>
>
>
>
> --
> j.mp/ArunGanesh
>
>
> --
> Yuvi T
> http://yuvi.in/
>
>
> --
> Yuvi Panda T
> http://yuvi.in/blog
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Design for Wikipdia India sites

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 17:15, Sudhanwa Jogalekar wrote:

> I also liked the current design of wikimedia.in. Rather simple but clean.
> If your last visit was a few days back, just have a look again.
>

I think its important to keep the chapter landing page (wikimedia.in ) and
wikipedia / wikiprojects landing page seperate. wikimedia.in can continue
in form, probably add more details about the chapter on landing page (like
the twitter feed / facebook / donate links etc) and wikipedia.in can be to
explain about wikiprojects, can take the current design of globe / use
the proposed design.

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: The Indian Express : "Would Gandhi have been a Wikipedian?"

Tinu, can I FW to my chapter list (is also a closed list)?
_
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On 17 January 2012 04:08, CherianTinu Abraham  wrote:

>
> *The Indian Express : "Would Gandhi have been a Wikipedian?"*
> ( Article by Achal Prabhala)
>
>
> http://www.indianexpress.com/news/would-gandhi-have-been-a-wikipedian/900506/1
>
>
> http://www.indianexpress.com/news/would-gandhi-have-been-a-wikipedian/900506/0
> ( Single Page Version)
> *
> In 1941, a young Argentinian librarian who would soon go completely blind
> published a story about the futility of the “total” library. His
> inspiration was Kurd Lasswitz, a 19th century German philosopher and
> science-fiction pioneer, whose own idea of a “universal” library was a
> mathematical nightmare of frighteningly large but finite proportions. The
> writer was Jorge Luis Borges, and his story, The Library of Babel, (taking
> off from the mythical Tower of Babel, a place of linguistic dysfunction)
> spawned a minor publishing industry of its own. Borges’ library was not a
> happy place: its chronically overworked librarians were suicidal, thuggish
> cults periodically vandalised the books, people spent lifetimes searching
> for a catalogue without success, and — wondrous as it all was — no one
> expected to find anything useful there ever.
>
> Eighty years after it was written, Borges’ feverish fantasy is a
> cautionary tale for those who are tempted to take Internet-era fantasies at
> their word. When a Google executive was asked to describe the perfect
> search engine, he is reported to have said, “It would be like the mind of
> God.” Preposterous, yes; but also exciting. And anyone excited enough to
> adopt this as a mission statement would do well to have a cold shower, and
> heed Borges’ conclusion on the topic — “The library is unlimited and
> cyclical”.
>
> Happily, there are more human, and altogether more humble manifestations
> of the desire to learn and share and prosper. In ancient history, the
> pre-biblical city of Babylon was a working counterpoint to the biblical
> Tower of Babel; a bustling site where diverse crowds made good together. In
> the present day, we are no closer to knowing everything, but we have
> Wikipedia: a bustling website where diverse people from everywhere in the
> world create miracles. Wikipedia’s humility is the flip-side to its
> success, and it comes from wanting to be precisely the opposite of the
> total library: call it a perpetually partial library, if you will. No one
> who has spent even a minute contributing anything to it would dare assume
> that the job is done, the perspective complete, or the game won.
>
> Eleven years ago to this day, Jimmy Wales typed out “Hello world!” and
> Wikipedia was born. In 1989, Richard Stallman pioneered a form of copyright
> licensing for software that allowed programmers and users to do virtually
> anything they liked with it. This formed the basis for free and open source
> software, or FOSS. In 1995, Ward Cunningham used FOSS to build the
> underlying software for a novel form of collaboration — the “wiki”. By this
> time, the benefits of a generous copyright licence to software were
> apparent, and it was extended to mainstream culture — to words, sounds and
> images. Wikipedia was among the early exponents of this free culture
> experiment, quickly followed by sister projects of the Wikimedia
> Foundation: Wikimedia Commons, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikibooks and more.
>
> Wikipedia’s collaborative system of knowledge has exceeded everyone’s
> wildest expectations. Today, it is the world’s fifth most visited website —
> and the sole non-profit upstart in the oligarchical fiefdom that is our
> online landscape. There are thriving communities of volunteers in countries
> like India and South Africa, among several other places, who are helping us
> discover that learning does not have to be a passive act, and that the
> value of generosity can be productive and revolutionary at once.
>
> Interestingly enough, it was about a hundred years ago that a young,
> idealistic lawyer set off on a similar journey. Affected by colonialism in
> his home, India, and faced with debilitating segregation laws in his
> adopted home, South Africa, he saw the productive and revolutionary
> potential in generous knowledge. Over a long sea journey from London to
> Cape Town, he wrote down his ideas on self-determination and independence.
> The young lawyer was, of course, Gandhi, and his book, Hind Swaraj, would
> go on to become the intellectual blueprint for the Indian freedom movement.
> The original was written in Gujarati in 1909. One year later, it was
> translated into English and published as Indian Home Rule. On the cover of
> the first edition of this English translatio

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: The Indian Express : "Would Gandhi have been a Wikipedian?"

2012-01-17 Thread wheredevelsdare

Beria, you dont need to ask - please go ahead :)

Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:27:06 -0200
From: berial...@gmail.com
To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: The Indian Express : "Would Gandhi 
have been a Wikipedian?"

Tinu, can I FW to my chapter list (is also a closed list)?_
Béria Lima
(351) 925 171 484

Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre 
acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse 
sonho.

On 17 January 2012 04:08, CherianTinu Abraham  wrote:

The Indian Express : "Would Gandhi have been a Wikipedian?"
( Article by Achal Prabhala)

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/would-gandhi-have-been-a-wikipedian/900506/1 

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/would-gandhi-have-been-a-wikipedian/900506/0  
( Single Page Version) 

In 1941, a young Argentinian librarian who would soon go completely blind 
published a story about the futility of the “total” library. His inspiration 
was Kurd Lasswitz, a 19th century German philosopher and science-fiction 
pioneer, whose own idea of a “universal” library was a mathematical nightmare 
of frighteningly large but finite proportions. The writer was Jorge Luis 
Borges, and his story, The Library of Babel, (taking off from the mythical 
Tower of Babel, a place of linguistic dysfunction) spawned a minor publishing 
industry of its own. Borges’ library was not a happy place: its chronically 
overworked librarians were suicidal, thuggish cults periodically vandalised the 
books, people spent lifetimes searching for a catalogue without success, and — 
wondrous as it all was — no one expected to find anything useful there ever. 

Eighty years after it was written, Borges’ feverish fantasy is a cautionary 
tale for those who are tempted to take Internet-era fantasies at their word. 
When a Google executive was asked to describe the perfect search engine, he is 
reported to have said, “It would be like the mind of God.” Preposterous, yes; 
but also exciting. And anyone excited enough to adopt this as a mission 
statement would do well to have a cold shower, and heed Borges’ conclusion on 
the topic — “The library is unlimited and cyclical”.

Happily, there are more human, and altogether more humble manifestations of the 
desire to learn and share and prosper. In ancient history, the pre-biblical 
city of Babylon was a working counterpoint to the biblical Tower of Babel; a 
bustling site where diverse crowds made good together. In the present day, we 
are no closer to knowing everything, but we have Wikipedia: a bustling website 
where diverse people from everywhere in the world create miracles. Wikipedia’s 
humility is the flip-side to its success, and it comes from wanting to be 
precisely the opposite of the total library: call it a perpetually partial 
library, if you will. No one who has spent even a minute contributing anything 
to it would dare assume that the job is done, the perspective complete, or the 
game won.

Eleven years ago to this day, Jimmy Wales typed out “Hello world!” and 
Wikipedia was born. In 1989, Richard Stallman pioneered a form of copyright 
licensing for software that allowed programmers and users to do virtually 
anything they liked with it. This formed the basis for free and open source 
software, or FOSS. In 1995, Ward Cunningham used FOSS to build the underlying 
software for a novel form of collaboration — the “wiki”. By this time, the 
benefits of a generous copyright licence to software were apparent, and it was 
extended to mainstream culture — to words, sounds and images. Wikipedia was 
among the early exponents of this free culture experiment, quickly followed by 
sister projects of the Wikimedia Foundation: Wikimedia Commons, Wiktionary, 
Wikiquote, Wikibooks and more.

Wikipedia’s collaborative system of knowledge has exceeded everyone’s wildest 
expectations. Today, it is the world’s fifth most visited website — and the 
sole non-profit upstart in the oligarchical fiefdom that is our online 
landscape. There are thriving communities of volunteers in countries like India 
and South Africa, among several other places, who are helping us discover that 
learning does not have to be a passive act, and that the value of generosity 
can be productive and revolutionary at once.

Interestingly enough, it was about a hundred years ago that a young, idealistic 
lawyer set off on a similar journey. Affected by colonialism in his home, 
India, and faced with debilitating segregation laws in his adopted home, South 
Africa, he saw the productive and revolutionary potential in generous 
knowledge. Over a long sea journey from London to Cape Town, he wrote down his 
ideas on self-determination and independence. The young lawyer was, of course, 
Gandhi, and his book, Hind Swaraj, would go on to become the intellectual 
blueprint for the Indian freedom movement. The original was written in Gujarati 
in 1909. On

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: The Indian Express : "Would Gandhi have been a Wikipedian?"

Actually I do because there is a note: "I*mportant Note : The publisher (
The Indian Express ) of the above news article owns the copyrights of the
article / content. Request to kindly not reproduce or circulate the content
further. The information is only shared only with an internal community who
have been featured on this article.  All copyrights are duly acknowledged.*"
(bold is mine)

Anyway, thanks to both of you :D
_
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On 17 January 2012 10:28,  wrote:

>  Beria, you dont need to ask - please go ahead :)
>
> --
> Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:27:06 -0200
> From: berial...@gmail.com
> To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: The Indian Express : "Would
> Gandhi have been a Wikipedian?"
>
>
> Tinu, can I FW to my chapter list (is also a closed list)?
> _
> *Béria Lima*
> (351) 925 171 484
>
> *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter
> livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a
> construir esse sonho. *
>
>
> On 17 January 2012 04:08, CherianTinu Abraham wrote:
>
>
> *The Indian Express : "Would Gandhi have been a Wikipedian?"*
> ( Article by Achal Prabhala)
>
>
> http://www.indianexpress.com/news/would-gandhi-have-been-a-wikipedian/900506/1
>
>
> http://www.indianexpress.com/news/would-gandhi-have-been-a-wikipedian/900506/0
> ( Single Page Version)
> *
> In 1941, a young Argentinian librarian who would soon go completely blind
> published a story about the futility of the “total” library. His
> inspiration was Kurd Lasswitz, a 19th century German philosopher and
> science-fiction pioneer, whose own idea of a “universal” library was a
> mathematical nightmare of frighteningly large but finite proportions. The
> writer was Jorge Luis Borges, and his story, The Library of Babel, (taking
> off from the mythical Tower of Babel, a place of linguistic dysfunction)
> spawned a minor publishing industry of its own. Borges’ library was not a
> happy place: its chronically overworked librarians were suicidal, thuggish
> cults periodically vandalised the books, people spent lifetimes searching
> for a catalogue without success, and — wondrous as it all was — no one
> expected to find anything useful there ever.
>
> Eighty years after it was written, Borges’ feverish fantasy is a
> cautionary tale for those who are tempted to take Internet-era fantasies at
> their word. When a Google executive was asked to describe the perfect
> search engine, he is reported to have said, “It would be like the mind of
> God.” Preposterous, yes; but also exciting. And anyone excited enough to
> adopt this as a mission statement would do well to have a cold shower, and
> heed Borges’ conclusion on the topic — “The library is unlimited and
> cyclical”.
>
> Happily, there are more human, and altogether more humble manifestations
> of the desire to learn and share and prosper. In ancient history, the
> pre-biblical city of Babylon was a working counterpoint to the biblical
> Tower of Babel; a bustling site where diverse crowds made good together. In
> the present day, we are no closer to knowing everything, but we have
> Wikipedia: a bustling website where diverse people from everywhere in the
> world create miracles. Wikipedia’s humility is the flip-side to its
> success, and it comes from wanting to be precisely the opposite of the
> total library: call it a perpetually partial library, if you will. No one
> who has spent even a minute contributing anything to it would dare assume
> that the job is done, the perspective complete, or the game won.
>
> Eleven years ago to this day, Jimmy Wales typed out “Hello world!” and
> Wikipedia was born. In 1989, Richard Stallman pioneered a form of copyright
> licensing for software that allowed programmers and users to do virtually
> anything they liked with it. This formed the basis for free and open source
> software, or FOSS. In 1995, Ward Cunningham used FOSS to build the
> underlying software for a novel form of collaboration — the “wiki”. By this
> time, the benefits of a generous copyright licence to software were
> apparent, and it was extended to mainstream culture — to words, sounds and
> images. Wikipedia was among the early exponents of this free culture
> experiment, quickly followed by sister projects of the Wikimedia
> Foundation: Wikimedia Commons, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikibooks and more.
>
> Wikipedia’s collaborative system of knowledge has exceeded everyone’s
> wildest expectations. Today, it is the world’s fifth most visited website —
> and the sole non-profit upstart in the oligarchical fiefdom that is our
> online landscape. There are thriving com

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: The Indian Express : "Would Gandhi have been a Wikipedian?"

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 18:07, Béria Lima  wrote:

> Actually I do because there is a note: "I*mportant Note : The publisher (
> The Indian Express ) of the above news article owns the copyrights of the
> article / content. Request to kindly not reproduce or circulate the
> content further. The information is only shared only with an internal
> community who have been featured on this article.  All copyrights are duly
> acknowledged.*" (bold is mine)
>

You are free to forward just the links. Reproducing verbatim elsewhere
might not go well with "fair use". Also heard elsewhere on another list on
the same topic that news is meant to be shared, so no harm. Frankly all
this obsession on copyright only after editing Wikipedia, otherwise since
when people in India thought of copyright seriously.

-- 
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: The Indian Express : "Would Gandhi have been a Wikipedian?"

2012-01-17 Thread Shrinivasan T

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan  wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 18:07, Béria Lima  wrote:
>>
>> Actually I do because there is a note: "Important Note : The publisher (
>> The Indian Express ) of the above news article owns the copyrights of the
>> article / content. Request to kindly not reproduce or circulate the content
>> further. The information is only shared only with an internal community who
>> have been featured on this article.  All copyrights are duly acknowledged."
>> (bold is mine)


When we forward the emails with the above note, to other technical
mailing lists,
they scold me for forwarding the copyrighted material.

I do not see any info on copyright or have to put a footnote like
above in any of the news websites.

I request Tinu to remove the footnote or just share the links and some snippet.

Thanks.


>
>
> You are free to forward just the links. Reproducing verbatim elsewhere might
> not go well with "fair use". Also heard elsewhere on another list on the
> same topic that news is meant to be shared, so no harm. Frankly all this
> obsession on copyright only after editing Wikipedia, otherwise since when
> people in India thought of copyright seriously.
>
> --
> Regards
> Srikanth.L
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[Wikimediaindia-l] SOPA protest - Bengali Wikipedia placed a banner, what about other Indic language wikis?

2012-01-17 Thread Tanvir Rahman

Hello everyone,

Just to let you know that Bengali Wikipedia [1] has placed a banner on
their site notice protesting SOPA and PIPA. Maybe other Indic language
Wikipedias can take similar initiatives or maybe they have taken one
already? If so, share with us!

In the mean time, I have an translation request for you. Maybe you have
read Sue's letter [2] to the community about the blackout. I invite you all
to translate that letter in your language. Since we have little time (less
than 17 hours), we need be prompt. See the translation request on Meta-Wiki
[3] and start your translation.

Get yourself up and let your people know in your language!

Regards,
Tanvir Rahman
Wikitanvir on Wikimedia

[1] bn.wikipedia.org
[2] http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/English_Wikipedia_anti-SOPA_blackout
[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Translation_requests/WMF/English_Wikipedia_anti-SOPA_blackout
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: The Indian Express : "Would Gandhi have been a Wikipedian?"

oh common, we don't need to start a cruzade because of this. Isn't that big
deal
_
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On 17 January 2012 11:17, Shrinivasan T  wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan 
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 18:07, Béria Lima  wrote:
> >>
> >> Actually I do because there is a note: "Important Note : The publisher (
> >> The Indian Express ) of the above news article owns the copyrights of
> the
> >> article / content. Request to kindly not reproduce or circulate the
> content
> >> further. The information is only shared only with an internal community
> who
> >> have been featured on this article.  All copyrights are duly
> acknowledged."
> >> (bold is mine)
>
>
> When we forward the emails with the above note, to other technical
> mailing lists,
> they scold me for forwarding the copyrighted material.
>
> I do not see any info on copyright or have to put a footnote like
> above in any of the news websites.
>
> I request Tinu to remove the footnote or just share the links and some
> snippet.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> >
> >
> > You are free to forward just the links. Reproducing verbatim elsewhere
> might
> > not go well with "fair use". Also heard elsewhere on another list on the
> > same topic that news is meant to be shared, so no harm. Frankly all this
> > obsession on copyright only after editing Wikipedia, otherwise since when
> > people in India thought of copyright seriously.
> >
> > --
> > Regards
> > Srikanth.L
> >
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Off-topic: Re: Media : Gandhi would have been a Wikipedian

2012-01-17 Thread Ashwin Baindur

Few things are off-topic on en list as compared to India-list. Do consider
posting there too.

Warm regards,

Ashwin Baindur
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On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Pradeep Mohandas <
pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com> wrote:

> hi,
>
> Just curious. Is there any other writing by Gandhi that goes under the
> same license? Also, any ideas on where Gandhi might have put out this
> note saying No Rights Reserved? Was there a precedent?
>
> I know this is clearly off-topic but curiosity cannot be satiated.
>
> Pradeep
> Handheld
>
> On 17/01/2012, Ashwin Baindur  wrote:
> > FYI by our very own Achal Prabhala
> >
> >
> http://www.indianexpress.com/news/would-gandhi-have-been-a-wikipedian/900506/0
> >
> > Warm regards,
> >
> > Ashwin Baindur
> > --
> >
>
>
> --
> Pradeep Mohandas
> How Pradeep uses email - http://goo.gl/6v1I9
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Offtopic GLAM related : Anil Dharker on Museums, TOI

2012-01-17 Thread Ashwin Baindur

Pradeep's blog led to another thought train for me which you can find here
on my blog:

http://thebutterflydiaries.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/magic_shop/

regards,

Ashwin Baindur
--


On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Ashwin Baindur wrote:

> Pradeep Mohandas has responded with a blog post on his thoughts...
>
> http://pradx.me/2012/01/16/when-was-the-last-time-you-went-to-a-museum/
>
>
> Warm regards,
>
> Ashwin Baindur
> --
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 10:17 PM, Ashwin Baindur  > wrote:
>
>> Comments, anyone?
>>
>>
>> http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/dharkersdilemma/entry/dust-and-babudom-have-mummified-our-museums
>>
>>
>> Warm regards,
>>
>> Ashwin Baindur
>> --
>>
>
>
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimania 2012 now accepting scholarship applications

2012-01-17 Thread Jyothis E

FYI.

Regards,
Jyothis.

-- Forwarded message --
From: James Hare 
Date: Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 11:41 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimania 2012 now accepting scholarship
applications
To: wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org

Hello everyone,

Scholarship applications are now being accepted for Wikimania 2012 in
Washington, D.C.  The application window will be one month (through
February 16). To learn more about Wikimania scholarships, see
http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships

To apply for a scholarship, you can fill out the application form
here: https://secure.wikidc.org/wm/schols/

For the Wikimania 2012 team,
James Hare

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: The Indian Express : "Would Gandhi have been a Wikipedian?"

2012-01-17 Thread Mandar Kulkarni

Srikanth,

There is copyright law in India for last many decades and most people were/are 
following the same before wikipedia had not taken a birth. There is no need to 
make generic comments on Indians for no reason. We are Indians and we should be 
proud of that.
 
 
With Regards,

Mandar V. Kulkarni
http://mr.wikipedia.org



>
> From: Srikanth Lakshmanan 
>To: Wikimedia India Community list  
>Sent: Tuesday, 17 January 2012, 18:16
>Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: The Indian Express : "Would Gandhi 
>have been a Wikipedian?"
> 
>
>
>
>
>On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 18:07, Béria Lima  wrote:
>
>Actually I do because there is a note: "Important Note : The publisher ( The 
>Indian Express ) of the above news 
article owns the copyrights of the article / content. Request to kindly 
not reproduce or circulate the content further. The information is only 
shared only with an internal community who have been featured on this 
article.  All copyrights are duly acknowledged." (bold is mine)
>>
>You are free to forward just the links. Reproducing verbatim elsewhere might 
>not go well with "fair use". Also heard elsewhere on another list on the same 
>topic that news is meant to be shared, so no harm. Frankly all this obsession 
>on copyright only after editing Wikipedia, otherwise since when people in 
>India thought of copyright seriously.
>
>
>-- 
>Regards
>Srikanth.L
>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: The Indian Express : "Would Gandhi have been a Wikipedian?"

/me is proud of being indian too





Oh, I forgot I'm not indian! ;)
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On 17 January 2012 12:23, Mandar Kulkarni  wrote:

> Srikanth,
>
> There is copyright law in India for last many decades and most people
> were/are following the same before wikipedia had not taken a birth. There
> is no need to make generic comments on Indians for no reason. We are
> Indians and we should be proud of that.
>
>
> With Regards,
>
> Mandar V. Kulkarni
> http://mr.wikipedia.org
>
>   --
> *From:* Srikanth Lakshmanan 
> *To:* Wikimedia India Community list 
>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, 17 January 2012, 18:16
>
> *Subject:* Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: The Indian Express : "Would
> Gandhi have been a Wikipedian?"
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 18:07, Béria Lima  wrote:
>
> Actually I do because there is a note: "I*mportant Note : The publisher (
> The Indian Express ) of the above news article owns the copyrights of the
> article / content. Request to kindly not reproduce or circulate the
> content further. The information is only shared only with an internal
> community who have been featured on this article.  All copyrights are duly
> acknowledged.*" (bold is mine)
>
>
> You are free to forward just the links. Reproducing verbatim elsewhere
> might not go well with "fair use". Also heard elsewhere on another list on
> the same topic that news is meant to be shared, so no harm. Frankly all
> this obsession on copyright only after editing Wikipedia, otherwise since
> when people in India thought of copyright seriously.
>
> --
> Regards
> Srikanth.L
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Off-topic: Re: Media : Gandhi would have been a Wikipedian

2012-01-17 Thread Yann Forget

2012/1/17 Pradeep Mohandas :
> hi,
>
> Just curious. Is there any other writing by Gandhi that goes under the
> same license? Also, any ideas on where Gandhi might have put out this
> note saying No Rights Reserved? Was there a precedent?

You mean, like this one?
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gandhi-Home-Rule-First-Edition-1909.jpg

> I know this is clearly off-topic but curiosity cannot be satiated.
>
> Pradeep
> Handheld
>
> On 17/01/2012, Ashwin Baindur  wrote:
>> FYI by our very own Achal Prabhala
>>
>> http://www.indianexpress.com/news/would-gandhi-have-been-a-wikipedian/900506/0
>>
>> Warm regards,
>>
>> Ashwin Baindur

Regards,

Yann

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: The Indian Express : "Would Gandhi have been a Wikipedian?"

2012-01-17 Thread Anirudh Bhati

You don't have the blue Indian passport yet.

:p

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 7:58 PM, Béria Lima  wrote:

> /me is proud of being indian too
>
>
>
>
>
> Oh, I forgot I'm not indian! ;)
> _
> *Béria Lima*
>  (351) 925 171 484
>
> *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter
> livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a
> construir esse sonho. *
>
>
> On 17 January 2012 12:23, Mandar Kulkarni wrote:
>
>> Srikanth,
>>
>> There is copyright law in India for last many decades and most people
>> were/are following the same before wikipedia had not taken a birth. There
>> is no need to make generic comments on Indians for no reason. We are
>> Indians and we should be proud of that.
>>
>>
>> With Regards,
>>
>> Mandar V. Kulkarni
>> http://mr.wikipedia.org
>>
>>   --
>> *From:* Srikanth Lakshmanan 
>> *To:* Wikimedia India Community list <
>> wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, 17 January 2012, 18:16
>>
>> *Subject:* Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: The Indian Express : "Would
>> Gandhi have been a Wikipedian?"
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 18:07, Béria Lima  wrote:
>>
>> Actually I do because there is a note: "I*mportant Note : The publisher
>> ( The Indian Express ) of the above news article owns the copyrights of the
>> article / content. Request to kindly not reproduce or circulate the
>> content further. The information is only shared only with an internal
>> community who have been featured on this article.  All copyrights are duly
>> acknowledged.*" (bold is mine)
>>
>>
>> You are free to forward just the links. Reproducing verbatim elsewhere
>> might not go well with "fair use". Also heard elsewhere on another list on
>> the same topic that news is meant to be shared, so no harm. Frankly all
>> this obsession on copyright only after editing Wikipedia, otherwise since
>> when people in India thought of copyright seriously.
>>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: The Indian Express : "Would Gandhi have been a Wikipedian?"

2012-01-17 Thread Ashwin Baindur

You know me thinks that  WikiProject India should start giving out WITI
passports (Wikipedia interested in things Indian) ;)

Warm regards,

Ashwin Baindur
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On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 8:20 PM, Anirudh Bhati  wrote:

> You don't have the blue Indian passport yet.
>
> :p
>
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 7:58 PM, Béria Lima  wrote:
>
>> /me is proud of being indian too
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Oh, I forgot I'm not indian! ;)
>> _
>> *Béria Lima*
>>  (351) 925 171 484
>>
>> *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter
>> livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a
>> construir esse sonho. *
>>
>>
>> On 17 January 2012 12:23, Mandar Kulkarni wrote:
>>
>>> Srikanth,
>>>
>>> There is copyright law in India for last many decades and most people
>>> were/are following the same before wikipedia had not taken a birth. There
>>> is no need to make generic comments on Indians for no reason. We are
>>> Indians and we should be proud of that.
>>>
>>>
>>> With Regards,
>>>
>>> Mandar V. Kulkarni
>>> http://mr.wikipedia.org
>>>
>>>   --
>>> *From:* Srikanth Lakshmanan 
>>> *To:* Wikimedia India Community list <
>>> wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
>>> *Sent:* Tuesday, 17 January 2012, 18:16
>>>
>>> *Subject:* Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: The Indian Express : "Would
>>> Gandhi have been a Wikipedian?"
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 18:07, Béria Lima  wrote:
>>>
>>> Actually I do because there is a note: "I*mportant Note : The publisher
>>> ( The Indian Express ) of the above news article owns the copyrights of the
>>> article / content. Request to kindly not reproduce or circulate the
>>> content further. The information is only shared only with an internal
>>> community who have been featured on this article.  All copyrights are duly
>>> acknowledged.*" (bold is mine)
>>>
>>>
>>> You are free to forward just the links. Reproducing verbatim elsewhere
>>> might not go well with "fair use". Also heard elsewhere on another list on
>>> the same topic that news is meant to be shared, so no harm. Frankly all
>>> this obsession on copyright only after editing Wikipedia, otherwise since
>>> when people in India thought of copyright seriously.
>>>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Off-topic: Re: Media : Gandhi would have been a Wikipedian

hi Yann,

I think this is what the Indian Express article mentions. I mean are
there any more?

Pradeep
Handheld

On 17/01/2012, Yann Forget  wrote:
> 2012/1/17 Pradeep Mohandas :
>> hi,
>>
>> Just curious. Is there any other writing by Gandhi that goes under the
>> same license? Also, any ideas on where Gandhi might have put out this
>> note saying No Rights Reserved? Was there a precedent?
>
> You mean, like this one?
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gandhi-Home-Rule-First-Edition-1909.jpg
>
>> I know this is clearly off-topic but curiosity cannot be satiated.
>>
>> Pradeep
>> Handheld
>>
>> On 17/01/2012, Ashwin Baindur  wrote:
>>> FYI by our very own Achal Prabhala
>>>
>>> http://www.indianexpress.com/news/would-gandhi-have-been-a-wikipedian/900506/0
>>>
>>> Warm regards,
>>>
>>> Ashwin Baindur
>
> Regards,
>
> Yann
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-IN-AMD] [Wikipedia-gu] Wikipedia Gujarati is quite active and not at all Dead

2012-01-17 Thread Abhishek Joshi

Dhaval,

I am Abhishek Joshi the Organizer of Ahmedabad Meetup and first of the
thing who told you such a scrap as your are not at the meetup and you don't
even know what the all we have done. We had healthy discussion on Wiki
Project Gujarat and Infact Anirudh encourage us to write on Gujarati
articles. Please before writing such a email verified your self and really
its a shameful act to attack someone personally.

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Anirudh Bhati  wrote:

> Dhaval,
>
> Before writing such a scathing email criticizing an administrator (which
> is me) who allegedly made this statement, perhaps you should have verified
> it with me first?
>
> I was making a reference to Wikiproject Gujarat on the English Wikipedia,
> which has run out of contributors.  You can independently confirm it with
> the others who were present at the meet up.
>
> I encouraged the rest of the participants to contribute to guwp.
>
> It's shameful that you are drawn to make personal attacks on a public
> platform without checking your facts in the first place.
>
> And I'll really appreciate if you drop the polemics.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Anirudh
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 17-Jan-2012, at 4:30 AM, "Dhaval S. Vyas"  wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I have come to know a surprising fact that in the Wiki meetup recently
> held in Ahmedabad, while discussing about Gujarati Wikipedia, one of the
> administrators conveyed that Gujarati project is almost inactive or dead
> (in gujarati  વિકિપીડિયા ગુજરાતી પ્રોજેક્ટ લગભગ બંધ છે.).
> >
> > This is very shameful for anybody to convey wrong message. If one is not
> aware of the project activity, despite of presentation made by one of the
> Gujarati Wikipedian in WikiConference India and from the site
> statistics/traffic report shared with all Indian WIki Language wikipedia by
> Wikimedia Foundation's India chapter (Shiju Alex recently shared this),
> they should have accepted their lack of knowledge and conveyed that they
> are not aware of what's happening with Gujarati Wikipedia or they are
> ignorant of its state. It is damaging for the growing community that in
> such vital events people convey wrong message to the masses.
> >
> > I hope some of the attendess of the meetup would read this and correct
> their mistake by spreading the word of Gujarati WIkipedia and its current
> state in successive meetups as their moral duty to pay back the debt.
> >
> > This email is not at all intended to hurt anyone, but just to make
> everyone aware that there has never been a single day, including Gujarati
> New Year day or Uttarayan, when gu.wiki would have fewer than 50 edits.
> What else could be an indication of how active this project is? We have
> almost 22,000 pages on gu.wiki. If anyone need full statistics, please
> contact me and I will be more than happy to share the same.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Dhaval
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[Wikimediaindia-l] "Learning 2012" International Learning Convention

2012-01-17 Thread Jayan Dr

Hi Friends,

Second Internation Learning Convention " LEARNING 2012" will be held
at Kochi, Kerala. Facilitators from Europe facilitating workshops
realating to learning, counselling, personal development etc.

More details at: www.lllindia.org

Regards
Dr KK Jayan
Lifelong Learning Foundation



On 17/01/2012, Pradeep Mohandas  wrote:
> hi,
>
> Just curious. Is there any other writing by Gandhi that goes under the
> same license? Also, any ideas on where Gandhi might have put out this
> note saying No Rights Reserved? Was there a precedent?
>
> I know this is clearly off-topic but curiosity cannot be satiated.
>
> Pradeep
> Handheld
>
> On 17/01/2012, Ashwin Baindur  wrote:
>> FYI by our very own Achal Prabhala
>>
>> http://www.indianexpress.com/news/would-gandhi-have-been-a-wikipedian/900506/0
>>
>> Warm regards,
>>
>> Ashwin Baindur
>> --
>>
>
>
> --
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Communication regarding SOPA and Wikipedia Blackout on 18 January 2012.

2012-01-17 Thread CherianTinu Abraham

Dear Wikimedians,

You may already be aware that the English Wikipedia community has decided
to support the protest against the introduction of the “Stop Online Piracy
Act” (SOPA) in the US House of Representatives and the “Protect IP Act”
(PIPA) in the US Senate. To that end, the English Wikipedia will be
blacked out for a period of 24 hours on 18 January 2012.

A press release from the Wikimedia Foundation states that “if passed, this
legislation will harm the free and open Internet and bring about new tools
for censorship of international websites inside the United States.” [1], [2]

English Wikipedia response to SOPA and PIPA

- The English Wikipedia will be blacked out, worldwide at 10.30 am IST
on 18 January 2012 until 10.30 am IST, 19 January 2012.
- Wikimedia Commons and other sister sites will not be affected by the
planned blackout..

Please be aware of the following points:

1. The black out is a decision taken by the global community of
volunteers who edit Wikipedia, and will be implemented by the Wikimedia
Foundation.[3]
2. Wikipedia is a volunteer-led movement and country-specific Wikimedia
chapters have no direct role in the community decision making process.
3. The Wikimedia India Chapter is an independent organization and does
not have control over Wikipedia and sister projects hosted by the Wikimedia
Foundation.

Request to members and Wikimedians:

1. There is immense media interest in the Wikipedia’s role to the SOPA
issue. We request you to refrain from making comments and statements to the
local / national press on this issue on behalf of the Wikimedia chapter.
2. You could however choose to speak to the media as a community member
if you wish to voice your individual opinion. While you are free to state
your personal opinions, please do clarify that you are making these as
individual community members. A good to follow is to ask the journalist to
share the exact text quoting you.
3. Please redirect all press queries to the Wikimedia Foundation Press
Team (pr...@wikimedia.org) / Jay Walsh, Head of Communications,
Wikimedia Foundation jwa...@wikimedia.org or our Wikimedia India
Chapter Press Team (pr...@wikimedia.in)

Sincerely,

Tinu Cherian
Head of Communications, Wikimedia India Chapter

Notes :
1) The official Press Release from the Wikimedia Foundation
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/English_Wikipedia_to_go_dark
2) Blog post from Sue Gardner, Executive Director, Wikimedia Foundation
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/01/16/wikipedias-community-calls-for-anti-sopa-blackout-january-18/
3) English Wikipedia Community decision :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative#Summary_and_conclusion
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Report on Ahmedabad meetup-2

2012-01-17 Thread Abhishek Joshi

Dear all,

Let me give you a brief update on things we did in Ahmedabad Meet Up to
celebrate Wikipedia's 11th birthday.

*Our Main Agenda:*


   1.  Celebrating Wikipedia 11th Birthday
   2.  Spreading awareness of Wikipedia in Gujarat/Ahmedabad
   3. Introducing Wikipedia project Gujarat to the Ahmedabad
   community




On *11th Birthday of Wikipedia* Ahmedabad Wikimedia Community organize the
Ahmedabad Second Meetup at Gandhi Ashram (Sabarmati Ashram). The meet up
was organized by Anirudh Bhati & Abhishek Joshi.


 Due to the Sankrant festival a very few wikipedian’s turned out in the
meet up so we met with few community members (Parag Patel, Konark Ratnakar
and Nakul Chugan). As we were *5 members* we had gone to nearest restaurant
for the celebration.


Anirudh started with giving a presentation on Wikipedia Project India and
Wikipedia Project Gujarat.


He further mentioned the role they would play to bridge the gap between
people who have the freedom to edit Wikipedia and those who actually do

so. He encouraged them to join one of the finest groups of people in the
world - Wikipedians. He outlined the sequence of events, the training they
would receive. He said that due to the need to start off the program right
away, the program would begin with those aspirants who already had the
skills being looked for especially the knowledge of the Wikipedia world.

Our main focus is on Wikipedia Project Gujarat and on improving the
articles and spreading awareness of Wikipedia over Gujarat region. The
aspirants responded with interest and a lot of questions.

After some discussion we have celebrated the Wikipedia’s 11th Birthday by
cutting the beautiful chocolate flavoured cake.

This meetup was quite productive and the Ahmedabad community took the
contact details of all participants, promising to get back to them soon
with different meet ups.

Below are the links of Ahmedabad Meet up Details and Photographs of the
same.
*Ahmedabad 
Meetup-2
*
*Ahmedabad Meetup-2
Photographs
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-IN-AMD] [Wikipedia-gu] Wikipedia Gujarati is quite active and not at all Dead

2012-01-17 Thread Arnav Sonara

Hello everyone,

I think the issue has been solved. I request everyone to peace out. Please.

Keep Editing ! Keep Inspiring !

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:42 PM, Abhishek Joshi wrote:

> Dhaval,
>
> I am Abhishek Joshi the Organizer of Ahmedabad Meetup and first of the
> thing who told you such a scrap as your are not at the meetup and you don't
> even know what the all we have done. We had healthy discussion on Wiki
> Project Gujarat and Infact Anirudh encourage us to write on Gujarati
> articles. Please before writing such a email verified your self and really
> its a shameful act to attack someone personally.
>
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Anirudh Bhati wrote:
>
>> Dhaval,
>>
>> Before writing such a scathing email criticizing an administrator (which
>> is me) who allegedly made this statement, perhaps you should have verified
>> it with me first?
>>
>> I was making a reference to Wikiproject Gujarat on the English Wikipedia,
>> which has run out of contributors.  You can independently confirm it with
>> the others who were present at the meet up.
>>
>> I encouraged the rest of the participants to contribute to guwp.
>>
>> It's shameful that you are drawn to make personal attacks on a public
>> platform without checking your facts in the first place.
>>
>> And I'll really appreciate if you drop the polemics.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Anirudh
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On 17-Jan-2012, at 4:30 AM, "Dhaval S. Vyas"  wrote:
>>
>> > Hi All,
>> >
>> > I have come to know a surprising fact that in the Wiki meetup recently
>> held in Ahmedabad, while discussing about Gujarati Wikipedia, one of the
>> administrators conveyed that Gujarati project is almost inactive or dead
>> (in gujarati  વિકિપીડિયા ગુજરાતી પ્રોજેક્ટ લગભગ બંધ છે.).
>> >
>> > This is very shameful for anybody to convey wrong message. If one is
>> not aware of the project activity, despite of presentation made by one of
>> the Gujarati Wikipedian in WikiConference India and from the site
>> statistics/traffic report shared with all Indian WIki Language wikipedia by
>> Wikimedia Foundation's India chapter (Shiju Alex recently shared this),
>> they should have accepted their lack of knowledge and conveyed that they
>> are not aware of what's happening with Gujarati Wikipedia or they are
>> ignorant of its state. It is damaging for the growing community that in
>> such vital events people convey wrong message to the masses.
>> >
>> > I hope some of the attendess of the meetup would read this and correct
>> their mistake by spreading the word of Gujarati WIkipedia and its current
>> state in successive meetups as their moral duty to pay back the debt.
>> >
>> > This email is not at all intended to hurt anyone, but just to make
>> everyone aware that there has never been a single day, including Gujarati
>> New Year day or Uttarayan, when gu.wiki would have fewer than 50 edits.
>> What else could be an indication of how active this project is? We have
>> almost 22,000 pages on gu.wiki. If anyone need full statistics, please
>> contact me and I will be more than happy to share the same.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Dhaval
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>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Report on Ahmedabad meetup-2

2012-01-17 Thread Anirudh Bhati

Thank you, Abhishek, for the post.  Abhishek and Konarak are potential
long-term and high-quality contributors to Gujarati and English Wikipedia
projects.  Please join me in welcoming them.

anirudh

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:27 PM, Abhishek Joshi wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> Let me give you a brief update on things we did in Ahmedabad Meet Up to
> celebrate Wikipedia's 11th birthday.
>
> *Our Main Agenda:*
>
>
>1.  Celebrating Wikipedia 11th Birthday
>2.  Spreading awareness of Wikipedia in Gujarat/Ahmedabad
>3. Introducing Wikipedia project Gujarat to the Ahmedabad
>community
>
>
>
>
> On *11th Birthday of Wikipedia* Ahmedabad Wikimedia Community organize
> the Ahmedabad Second Meetup at Gandhi Ashram (Sabarmati Ashram). The meet
> up was organized by Anirudh Bhati & Abhishek Joshi.
>
>
>  Due to the Sankrant festival a very few wikipedian’s turned out in the
> meet up so we met with few community members (Parag Patel, Konark Ratnakar
> and Nakul Chugan). As we were *5 members* we had gone to nearest
> restaurant for the celebration.
>
>
> Anirudh started with giving a presentation on Wikipedia Project India and
> Wikipedia Project Gujarat.
>
>
> He further mentioned the role they would play to bridge the gap between
> people who have the freedom to edit Wikipedia and those who actually do
>
> so. He encouraged them to join one of the finest groups of people in the
> world - Wikipedians. He outlined the sequence of events, the training they
> would receive. He said that due to the need to start off the program right
> away, the program would begin with those aspirants who already had the
> skills being looked for especially the knowledge of the Wikipedia world.
>
> Our main focus is on Wikipedia Project Gujarat and on improving the
> articles and spreading awareness of Wikipedia over Gujarat region. The
> aspirants responded with interest and a lot of questions.
>
> After some discussion we have celebrated the Wikipedia’s 11th Birthday by
> cutting the beautiful chocolate flavoured cake.
>
> This meetup was quite productive and the Ahmedabad community took the
> contact details of all participants, promising to get back to them soon
> with different meet ups.
>
> Below are the links of Ahmedabad Meet up Details and Photographs of the
> same.
> *Ahmedabad 
> Meetup-2
> *
> *Ahmedabad Meetup-2 
> Photographs
> *
>
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>
>  Regards,
>
> Abhi
> *
>
>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] SOPA protest - Bengali Wikipedia placed a banner, what about other Indic language wikis?

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 18:52, Tanvir Rahman  wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> Just to let you know that Bengali Wikipedia [1] has placed a banner on
> their site notice protesting SOPA and PIPA. Maybe other Indic language
> Wikipedias can take similar initiatives or maybe they have taken one
> already? If so, share with us!
>

Great! Tamil Wikipedia is discussing a similar proposal to but sitenotice
banners.


> In the mean time, I have an translation request for you. Maybe you have
> read Sue's letter [2] to the community about the blackout. I invite you all
> to translate that letter in your language. Since we have little time (less
> than 17 hours), we need be prompt. See the translation request on Meta-Wiki
> [3] and start your translation.
>

IMHO Practically, its too late for translations.


> Get yourself up and let your people know in your language!
>

This is more important. Please write SOPA article in your language. Tamil
has a Wikipedia article on SOPA[1] and Wikinews article on the English
Wikipedia blackout against SOPA[2].

[1] http://tawp.in/r/2ygn
[2]
http://ta.wikinews.org/wiki/இணையத்_திருட்டு_நிறுத்தல்_சட்டமூலத்துக்கு_எதிராக_விக்கிப்பீடியா_குரல்

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] SOPA protest - Bengali Wikipedia placed a banner, what about other Indic language wikis?

2012-01-17 Thread Tanvir Rahman

Hello Srikanth,

IMHO Practically, its too late for translations.
>

I don't think so, it has been translated to 12 languages already (in few
hours). Just start, and you will see that it's ready within half an hours
at most. XD

And of course that SOPA article is also very important.

Regards,
Tanvir Rahman
Wikitanvir on Wikimedia
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] CfP - Wikipedia Academy 2012: Research and Free Knowledge.

hi,

FYI. If there is anyone working on any of these topics, etc.

Pradeep



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(Apologies for cross-postings)

CALL FOR PAPERS - Wikipedia Academy 2012: Research and Free Knowledge.
June 29 - July 1, 2012 | Berlin, Germany

Conference Website: http://wikipedia-academy.de/2012/wiki/Main_Page
Submit your papers here:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wpac2012

The “Wikipedia Academy 2012: Research and Free Knowledge” provides a
platform for the research community and the Wikipedia community to
connect, present, discuss and advance research on Wikipedia in
particular and on free knowledge in general.

The Wikipedia Academy 2012 is organized by Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
in collaboration with the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for
Internet and Society and Freie Universität Berlin. The conference will
take place in Berlin, June 29 to July 1, 2012. The event will be open
to all interested parties and features a variety of session formats,
ranging from panel discussions and tracks with traditional paper
presentations to break-out sessions, lightning talks, poster
presentations and a science fair. We particularly invite young
doctoral and postdoctoral researcher to participate and to submit
extended abstracts.

For research paper and poster sessions, we encourage the submission of
extended abstracts addressing issues in the overall nexus of Wikipedia
and free knowledge.

== Dates ==

* Submission of extended abstracts: March 31, 2012
* Notification of acceptance: May 01, 2012
* Submission of full papers: June 1, 2012
* Event: June 29 - July 1, 2012

== Topics of interest ==

Submissions are invited for the following categories, further details
will be available soon on the conference website:

http://wikipedia-academy.de/2012/wiki/Submission_process

=== Wikipedia Analytics ===

* Wikis and Wikipedia as a research tool
* Analyzing Wikipedia as a source of "Big Data"
* Assessing and measuring the quality of Wikipedia articles

=== Wikipedia Global ===

* Relations and Differences between national Wikipedias
* Differences between and critique of free/open knowledge ideologies
* Regional studies of Wikipedia and free knowledge with global lessons

=== Sharing Cultures and Practices ===

* Sharing culture(s) in Wikipedia and other projects of commons-based
peer production
* Incentives, innovation and community dynamics in open collaborative
peer production
* Wiki theory and wiki practices

=== Research on Users of and Contributors to Wikipedia ===

* Diversity among users of and contributors to Wikipedia
* Influencing participation by adapting user interfaces in open
collaborative settings
* Using information visualization as information instrument to users
and contributors

=== Economic and Regulatory Aspects of Free Knowledge ===

* Economic, regulatory and societal implications of (increased) access
to free knowledge
* Different Modes of Governance: Emergence of Order and Coordination
in Wikipedia
* The role of licensing decisions for Wikipedia and other
collaborative forms of knowledge production

== Submission Guidelines ==

Extended Abstracts must be submitted by the given deadline for peer
review. Conference language is English, exceptions can be made on a
case-by-case basis. Submission entails a commitment that at least one
author will attend the event in the case of acceptance and deliver a
full paper version prior to the event. Also, authors grant the
organizers the right to publish accepted papers in the form of online
proceedings or a similar format, to be determined at a later stage. In
addition, accepted submissions will be automatically licensed under a
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licensing agreement. We encourage authors to use said license in order
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way. In any case, authors of accepted submissions cannot opt out from
the basic condition that they grant the organizers the right to
publish at least the extended abstract online.

Please submit your extended abstract (about 2-3 pages) in PDF, Open
Document Format (ODF) or plain text format at:

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[Wikimediaindia-l] Kolkata W11 Meetup report

2012-01-17 Thread Kalyan Sarkar

Dear All,

Let me share some of the highlights from the WP 11 celebrations at the 8th
Kolkata Wikimedia Meetup on Sunday last.

To begin with, we had the largest turnout in recent times, with as many as
thirty Wikipedians attending the event. We had amongst us Bishakha di and
Nikita as well. (Thank you to both for coming down to Kolkata for the
event.) Our primary agenda besides our regular meetup and workshop
activities was the celebration of 11 years of WP and 1st year of Wikimedia
India Chapter. The other topic high on our priority list was to discuss the
issues that we were facing in having a WP stall at the Kolkata Book Fair
2012.

The session started off with a note from Nikita and the usual round of
questions from newbies. Bishakha di gave a talk on SOPA and how it would
affect WP. It was followed by Jayanta da's presentation on Bengali
Wikipedia. Then we had our celebrations. A beautiful chocolate cake with a
gel topping in the shape of the WP logo had been ordered for the purpose.
Refreshment consisting of *singara *(*samosa *is called *singara *in
Bengal), muffins and tea were served. After the break, we continued. I took
over and gave a hands on demo on how to upload photos in Commons, then link
it from a WP article and how to provide proper citations. Rangan da
proposed a couple of Photo Walks on the occasion of Chinese New Year in
Kolkata. Biswarup da, as usual, kept himself busy all through, capturing
the moments of the event.

After the main event Jayanta da and Nikita sat with Sucheta and some other
students from NSEC, where our maiden Wiki Academy would be held on
25th. Jayanta da, Nikita and myself discussed about the possible courses of
action on the Book Fair event.

I would request Biswarup da to kindly share the pictures.

Thanks and regards,
Kalyan Sarkar
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikipedia-gu] Report on Ahmedabad meetup-2

2012-01-17 Thread Noopur

I take special indulgence and pride in welcoming Abhishek and Konarak, the
great discoveries of our photo walk :) I hope you guys stick around and
contribute! thanks for keeping the Ahmedabad community going!

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:48 PM, Anirudh Bhati wrote:

> Thank you, Abhishek, for the post.  Abhishek and Konarak are potential
> long-term and high-quality contributors to Gujarati and English Wikipedia
> projects.  Please join me in welcoming them.
>
> anirudh
>
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:27 PM, Abhishek Joshi 
> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> Let me give you a brief update on things we did in Ahmedabad Meet Up to
>> celebrate Wikipedia's 11th birthday.
>>
>> *Our Main Agenda:*
>>
>>
>>1.  Celebrating Wikipedia 11th Birthday
>>2.  Spreading awareness of Wikipedia in Gujarat/Ahmedabad
>>3. Introducing Wikipedia project Gujarat to the Ahmedabad
>>community
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On *11th Birthday of Wikipedia* Ahmedabad Wikimedia Community organize
>> the Ahmedabad Second Meetup at Gandhi Ashram (Sabarmati Ashram). The
>> meet up was organized by Anirudh Bhati & Abhishek Joshi.
>>
>>
>>  Due to the Sankrant festival a very few wikipedian’s turned out in the
>> meet up so we met with few community members (Parag Patel, Konark Ratnakar
>> and Nakul Chugan). As we were *5 members* we had gone to nearest
>> restaurant for the celebration.
>>
>>
>> Anirudh started with giving a presentation on Wikipedia Project India and
>> Wikipedia Project Gujarat.
>>
>>
>> He further mentioned the role they would play to bridge the gap between
>> people who have the freedom to edit Wikipedia and those who actually do
>>
>> so. He encouraged them to join one of the finest groups of people in the
>> world - Wikipedians. He outlined the sequence of events, the training they
>> would receive. He said that due to the need to start off the program right
>> away, the program would begin with those aspirants who already had the
>> skills being looked for especially the knowledge of the Wikipedia world.
>>
>> Our main focus is on Wikipedia Project Gujarat and on improving the
>> articles and spreading awareness of Wikipedia over Gujarat region. The
>> aspirants responded with interest and a lot of questions.
>>
>> After some discussion we have celebrated the Wikipedia’s 11th Birthday
>> by cutting the beautiful chocolate flavoured cake.
>>
>> This meetup was quite productive and the Ahmedabad community took the
>> contact details of all participants, promising to get back to them soon
>> with different meet ups.
>>
>> Below are the links of Ahmedabad Meet up Details and Photographs of the
>> same.
>> *Ahmedabad 
>> Meetup-2
>> *
>> *Ahmedabad Meetup-2 
>> Photographs
>> *
>>
>> --
>> *
>>
>>  Regards,
>>
>> Abhi
>> *
>>
>>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter : December 2011 Report

2012-01-17 Thread ansuman

Thanks Naveen for the detailed report :)

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Ramesh N G  wrote:

> Wonderful report.
> Thanks for sharing Naveen
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Naveen Francis wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> Greetings from Wikimedia India !!!
>>
>> We are delighted to present the last monthly Wikimedia India report of
>> the year 2011, almost a year after the chapter received the formal
>> recognition from the Government of Karnataka on 3 January 2011. The journey
>> so far wasn't easy, but we appreciate your continued patronage , support
>> and participation.
>>  *Organisational Updates*
>>
>> *Formation of Task Forces:*
>>
>> As announced earlier, with the objective of increasing the engagement and
>> participation of the members of the chapter actively in various
>> initiatives, the India chapter has come up with focused Task Forces for
>> coordinating and driving various chapter activities [1]. There are two
>> types of Task Forces - Project Task Forces and Operations Task Forces. The
>> Project Task Forces are focused on growing the Wikimedia projects. The
>> Operations Task Forces are critical functions to enable the Project Task
>> Forces and the Chapter in growing the movement. The operations group
>> consists of Administration, Fund raising, & Communications. The Projects
>> task force consists of City and Langugage SIGs and Special Projects. The
>> new task forces will be led by the following people:
>>
>>- Anirudh Bhati, Head, Fundraising.
>>- Arun Ramarathnam, Chair, Special Projects.
>>- Srinivas Gunta, Head, Administration.
>>- Sudhanwa Jogalekar, Chair, City and Language Special Interest
>>Groups.
>>- Tinu Cherian, Head, Communications, PR & Media Relations.
>>
>> *Membership:*
>> The Chapter membership stands at 190 members as of 31 December 2011.
>>
>> *Donations:*
>> Total donations received in Dec 2011 - INR 700
>> Average donations in Dec 2011 - INR 350
>>
>> *FCRA:*
>> Our application for FCRA prior permission under the Foreign Contribution
>> (Regulation) Act with the Government of India is still pending. An official
>> from the Home Ministry has visited Arjuna Rao Chavala, President.
>>
>> *Internet Relay Chat(IRCs):*
>> From time to time, Wikimedia India conduct planned online IRC chat
>> sessions. The Dec 17, 2011 was anchored by Arun with the focus on Chapter
>> City & Language Special Interest Groups. [2]
>>
>> *Board Meetings:*
>> The Chapter Executive Committee had two Tele-conference meetings in the
>> month of December (dated 07 Dec and 14 Dec, 2011). The Wikimedia India
>> chapter and Wikimedia Foundation had one joint co-ordination call on 21 Dec
>> 2011, which was attended by Arjuna Rao Chavala, Arun Ramaratnam, Naveen
>> Francis, Sudhanwa Jogalekar, Tinu Cherian, Anirudh Bhati, Asaf Bartov and
>> Hisham Mundol. The summary of the joint coordination call was shared
>> earlier [3].
>> Community City and Language Special Interest Groups
>>
>> City and Language Special Interest Groups are a mechanism to engage the
>> diverse interests of members across India. The objective is to grow the
>> wiki projects in their areas of interest by reviewing the status, planning
>> and executing events of interest through growing the community involvement.
>> The leadership of these groups is part of the extended leadership of the
>> Chapter.
>>
>> The Wikimedia Chapter is proud to announce the appointment of the next
>> batch of City and Language Special Interest Group Chairs [4] as given
>> below:
>>
>>
>> *City*
>>
>>- Delhi SIG - Noopur Raval (noopur [at] wikimedia [dot] in)
>>- Bangalore SIG - RadhaKrishna (Arkrishna [at] wikimedia [dot] in)
>>- Mumbai SIG - Kundan Amitabh (kundan.amitabh [at] wikimedia [dot]
>>in)
>>- Pune SIG - Mandar Kulkarni(mandar.kulkarni [at] wikimedia [dot] in)
>>- Kolkata SIG - Kalyan Sarkar (kalyan [at] wikimedia [dot] in)
>>
>> *Languages*
>>
>>- English SIG - Ashwin Baindur (ashlin [at] wikimedia [dot] in)
>>- Kannada SIG - Omshivaprakash H L (omshivaprakash [at] wikimedia
>>[dot] in)
>>- Marathi SIG - Mahitgar (mahitgar [at] wikimedia [dot] in)
>>- Telugu SIG - Rahimanuddin Shaik (rahimanuddin [at] wikimedia [dot]
>>in)
>>
>> The current sign-ups of Members for the SIGs are as follows:
>>
>> *City Special Interest Groups*
>>   City  Members  Bangalore  10  Delhi  2  Mumbai  3  Pune  6  Kolkata  2
>>
>> *Language Special Interest Groups*
>>   Language  Volunteers  Bengali  1  English  15  Hindi  1  Kannada  3  
>> Marathi
>>  4  Malayalam  8  Nepali  1  Odia  3  Sanskrit  2  Telugu  3  Events
>>
>> A round-up of Wikimedia events and initatives around the nation is as
>> follows.
>>
>>- *Wiki Academy @Jaya Engineering college * ( 10 Dec 2011) : The
>>first Wiki Academy in Jaya Engineering college, Chennai,[5] was organized
>>by the Wikimedia chapter and co-hosted by Jaya FOSS Club. Odia Wiki Chair 
>> &
>>Chapter member, Subhashish Panigrahi explained b

[Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki 11 Pune report

2012-01-17 Thread Srikeit

Hello All

This is a slightly belated report of the Wiki 11 celebrations in Pune on
January 15, 2012.

The celebrations were coincided with the first gathering of Wikipedia Club
Pune . The Club
had met on the 14th where participants were instructed on the model, nature
and basics of Wikipedia.

The 15th saw 40+ participants gather in the computer lab at SICSR, Pune for
hands-on Wikipedia editing as well as the 11th anniversary celebrations.
The numbers therefore made this the *largest Wiki 11 celebration in India*.
The participants were largely high school and college students. The morning
session involved a detailed explanation of the five pillars of
Wikipedia
stressing
the importance of contributing neutral and free content. Feedback for each
sessions was immediately gathered on the Wikipedia Club Pune Facebook
Page
.

The second session involved hands-on editing beginning with talk page
posting, signing of posts, sandbox editing, wiki-linking etc. Then
following a detailed explanation of referencing, the participants were
encouraged (under supervision) to reference articles related to Pune.

The final session involved the business end of the Wiki-11 celebration with
a huge Wiki-globe
cake.
We were further buoyed by the presence of the WP English SIG chair Ashwin
who encouraged and helped the participants in editing and did the honours
cutting the cake. The participants and the organizers participated in a
Google+ Hangout with Hisham and the rest of the WMF office in Delhi and
Nitika and the WP 11 party in Kolkata. The participants were quite excited
with both Wikipedia and its community. Their enthusiasm was reflected in
both their editing as well as willingness to return for the next meeting of
the club.

The pictures of the event have been uploaded to commons and can be found
here .
The next meeting of the Wikipedia Club Pune will be on Saturday, 21st Jan.

The Wikipedia Club and celebrations were quite excellently organized by
Abhishek Suryavanshi and several other Campus Ambassadors in Pune.

Warm Regards
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] [Press]: The Indian Express : "Would Gandhi have been a Wikipedian?"

2012-01-17 Thread Anirudh Bhati

This article reminded me of one of the images on FayssalF's userpage on the
English Wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:FayssalF
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:FayssalF&oldid=429702014

Look at the image on the left and read the caption too.

anirudh


On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 11:38 AM, CherianTinu Abraham  wrote:

>
> *The Indian Express : "Would Gandhi have been a Wikipedian?"*
> ( Article by Achal Prabhala)
>
>
> http://www.indianexpress.com/news/would-gandhi-have-been-a-wikipedian/900506/1
>
>
> http://www.indianexpress.com/news/would-gandhi-have-been-a-wikipedian/900506/0
> ( Single Page Version)
> *
> In 1941, a young Argentinian librarian who would soon go completely blind
> published a story about the futility of the “total” library. His
> inspiration was Kurd Lasswitz, a 19th century German philosopher and
> science-fiction pioneer, whose own idea of a “universal” library was a
> mathematical nightmare of frighteningly large but finite proportions. The
> writer was Jorge Luis Borges, and his story, The Library of Babel, (taking
> off from the mythical Tower of Babel, a place of linguistic dysfunction)
> spawned a minor publishing industry of its own. Borges’ library was not a
> happy place: its chronically overworked librarians were suicidal, thuggish
> cults periodically vandalised the books, people spent lifetimes searching
> for a catalogue without success, and — wondrous as it all was — no one
> expected to find anything useful there ever.
>
> Eighty years after it was written, Borges’ feverish fantasy is a
> cautionary tale for those who are tempted to take Internet-era fantasies at
> their word. When a Google executive was asked to describe the perfect
> search engine, he is reported to have said, “It would be like the mind of
> God.” Preposterous, yes; but also exciting. And anyone excited enough to
> adopt this as a mission statement would do well to have a cold shower, and
> heed Borges’ conclusion on the topic — “The library is unlimited and
> cyclical”.
>
> Happily, there are more human, and altogether more humble manifestations
> of the desire to learn and share and prosper. In ancient history, the
> pre-biblical city of Babylon was a working counterpoint to the biblical
> Tower of Babel; a bustling site where diverse crowds made good together. In
> the present day, we are no closer to knowing everything, but we have
> Wikipedia: a bustling website where diverse people from everywhere in the
> world create miracles. Wikipedia’s humility is the flip-side to its
> success, and it comes from wanting to be precisely the opposite of the
> total library: call it a perpetually partial library, if you will. No one
> who has spent even a minute contributing anything to it would dare assume
> that the job is done, the perspective complete, or the game won.
>
> Eleven years ago to this day, Jimmy Wales typed out “Hello world!” and
> Wikipedia was born. In 1989, Richard Stallman pioneered a form of copyright
> licensing for software that allowed programmers and users to do virtually
> anything they liked with it. This formed the basis for free and open source
> software, or FOSS. In 1995, Ward Cunningham used FOSS to build the
> underlying software for a novel form of collaboration — the “wiki”. By this
> time, the benefits of a generous copyright licence to software were
> apparent, and it was extended to mainstream culture — to words, sounds and
> images. Wikipedia was among the early exponents of this free culture
> experiment, quickly followed by sister projects of the Wikimedia
> Foundation: Wikimedia Commons, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikibooks and more.
>
> Wikipedia’s collaborative system of knowledge has exceeded everyone’s
> wildest expectations. Today, it is the world’s fifth most visited website —
> and the sole non-profit upstart in the oligarchical fiefdom that is our
> online landscape. There are thriving communities of volunteers in countries
> like India and South Africa, among several other places, who are helping us
> discover that learning does not have to be a passive act, and that the
> value of generosity can be productive and revolutionary at once.
>
> Interestingly enough, it was about a hundred years ago that a young,
> idealistic lawyer set off on a similar journey. Affected by colonialism in
> his home, India, and faced with debilitating segregation laws in his
> adopted home, South Africa, he saw the productive and revolutionary
> potential in generous knowledge. Over a long sea journey from London to
> Cape Town, he wrote down his ideas on self-determination and independence.
> The young lawyer was, of course, Gandhi, and his book, Hind Swaraj, would
> go on to become the intellectual blueprint for the Indian freedom movement.
> The original was written in Gujarati in 1909. One year later, it was
> translated into English and published as Indian Home Rule. On the cover of
> the first edition of this English translation is a prominent, if unusual,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] SOPA protest - Bengali Wikipedia placed a banner, what about other Indic language wikis?

2012-01-17 Thread Alolita Sharma

HI Tanvir, Srikanth,

Great to hear No-SOPA banners being considered to be on Bengali and Tamil
wikipedias.

Having translations on SOPA articles would be great. Here is the whitelist
that we plan to have available on en.wp

SOPA/PIPA/OPEN en.wp articles
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOPA (redirects)
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PIPA (disambiguation page)
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPEN (redirects)
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PROTECT_IP_Act
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act
*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Protection_and_Enforcement_of_Digital_Trade_Act
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_Act
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_cache_poisoning
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship

Best,
Alolita

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Features Engineering
Wikimedia Foundation

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Tanvir Rahman  wrote:

> Hello Srikanth,
>
> IMHO Practically, its too late for translations.
>>
>
> I don't think so, it has been translated to 12 languages already (in few
> hours). Just start, and you will see that it's ready within half an hours
> at most. XD
>
> And of course that SOPA article is also very important.
>
>
> Regards,
> Tanvir Rahman
> Wikitanvir on Wikimedia
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: The Indian Express : "Would Gandhi have been a Wikipedian?"

I have a blue Brazilian one, is good enough? (At least is the same colour
;) )
_
*Béria Lima*
(351) 925 171 484

*Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter
livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a
construir esse sonho. *


On 17 January 2012 12:50, Anirudh Bhati  wrote:

> You don't have the blue Indian passport yet.
>
> :p
>
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 7:58 PM, Béria Lima  wrote:
>
>> /me is proud of being indian too
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Oh, I forgot I'm not indian! ;)
>> _
>> *Béria Lima*
>>  (351) 925 171 484
>>
>> *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter
>> livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a
>> construir esse sonho. *
>>
>>
>> On 17 January 2012 12:23, Mandar Kulkarni wrote:
>>
>>> Srikanth,
>>>
>>> There is copyright law in India for last many decades and most people
>>> were/are following the same before wikipedia had not taken a birth. There
>>> is no need to make generic comments on Indians for no reason. We are
>>> Indians and we should be proud of that.
>>>
>>>
>>> With Regards,
>>>
>>> Mandar V. Kulkarni
>>> http://mr.wikipedia.org
>>>
>>>   --
>>> *From:* Srikanth Lakshmanan 
>>> *To:* Wikimedia India Community list <
>>> wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
>>> *Sent:* Tuesday, 17 January 2012, 18:16
>>>
>>> *Subject:* Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: The Indian Express : "Would
>>> Gandhi have been a Wikipedian?"
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 18:07, Béria Lima  wrote:
>>>
>>> Actually I do because there is a note: "I*mportant Note : The publisher
>>> ( The Indian Express ) of the above news article owns the copyrights of the
>>> article / content. Request to kindly not reproduce or circulate the
>>> content further. The information is only shared only with an internal
>>> community who have been featured on this article.  All copyrights are duly
>>> acknowledged.*" (bold is mine)
>>>
>>>
>>> You are free to forward just the links. Reproducing verbatim elsewhere
>>> might not go well with "fair use". Also heard elsewhere on another list on
>>> the same topic that news is meant to be shared, so no harm. Frankly all
>>> this obsession on copyright only after editing Wikipedia, otherwise since
>>> when people in India thought of copyright seriously.
>>>
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Help needed for Wiki Academy in Kolkata

2012-01-17 Thread Sumana Harihareswara

On 01/12/2012 03:28 AM, wikimediaindia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org wrote:
> Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 18:44:55 +0530
> From: Sucheta Ghoshal 
> Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Help needed for Wiki Academy in Kolkata
> To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
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> Hi,
> 
> We are having a Wiki Academy for the first time in Kolkata at Netaji
> Subhash Engineering College . We would appreciate to have any kind of help
> to make this Wiki Academy a successful event, as of now We are looking for
> person who is willing to speak on the technical aspects of Wikipedia ( More
> specifically "How a developer can contribute to the Meta-Wiki Source Code).
> Since it is an engineering college,and we are hosting it as a college event
> only so Technical part is necessary according to the students concerned.
> Please help us.
> 
> Regards,
> Sucheta Ghoshal

Sucheta, I will email the Wikimedia developers' list to let them know
that you would like some MediaWiki developers to attend.

Here are some flyers or notes that you can use if they are suitable for you.

Ten things technically inclined volunteers can do to help Wikimedia
projects: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Sumanah/TechVolunteersCanDo

The "please contribute to MediaWiki" flyer --
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MediaWiki_flyer_2016_color.pdf

Also, I am the coordinator for MediaWiki's participation in the Google
Summer of Code, a selective paid summer internship for college students
who want to work remotely on open source software projects.  The
homepage for that effort is
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code and the best guide
is http://en.flossmanuals.net/GSoCStudentGuide/ .

I hope these are useful to you.  Please feel free to translate, print,
modify, link, and so on.  Thank you! Good luck and best wishes! Hope you
can realize great outcomes from this event.  :-)

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Sumana Harihareswara
Volunteer Development Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] SOPA protest - Bengali Wikipedia placed a banner, what about other Indic language wikis?

On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 02:12, Alolita Sharma wrote:

> HI Tanvir, Srikanth,
>
> Great to hear No-SOPA banners being considered to be on Bengali and Tamil
> wikipedias.
>
> Having translations on SOPA articles would be great. Here is the whitelist
> that we plan to have available on en.wp
>

Thanks for the whitelist. May I request you / WMF to consider adding pages
in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Internet_censorship_by_country to
whitelist as well? SOPA is a big thing in US, but similar insane things are
happening elsewhere too (India too!) and even if Wikimedia Community in
India prefers to be silent, protests needs to happen. We are have started
one such at http://publictransit.in (http://busroutes.in will soon have
this) and no better article than
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_India to explain. Time
will tell if protests need to intensify in India and I hope the online
community in India will rise to the situation if required.

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] A report on SSN College Academy

2012-01-17 Thread Sumana Harihareswara

On 01/16/2012 07:57 PM, wikimediaindia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org wrote:
> Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:47:04 +0530
> From: Bala Jeyaraman 
> Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] A report on SSN College Academy
> To: "Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia."
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> Hi,
> 
> A Wiki workshop/academy was conducted at SSN College of Engineering,
> Chennai on 11 January. It was organised by SSN opensource enthusiasts under
> the aegis of the SSN Tamil Club. Me, Srikanth Lakshmanan and Arunmozhi from
> the Tamizha FOSS group. [1] 60 students attended the academy.
> 
> The academy began at 9 in the morning with a presentation of open web and
> open source from SSN opensource enthusiasts. I followed it up with a intro
> section on wikipedia and a hands on editing session for about an hour. I
> covered the basics of wikipedia, notability standards, five pillars,
> copyright issues. I also covered basics of Wiktionary and Commons.  Next
> Srikanth took a session on technology behind wikipedia and how the students
> could contribute technically to Wiki projects. We broke for lunch at 12 and
> reconvened an hour later.
> 
> The afternoon session began with a audio recording exercise, where songs of
> the Tamil poet Subramania Bharathi  were sung and uploaded to commons.[2]
> This served as a hands on exercise to identify the common copyright
> problems and which material can be added to Wiki projects without copyright
> issues. Public domain, nationalisation, copyright term expiry, threshold of
> originality, open source file formats etc were discussed. Next Arunmozhi (
> a student of a College of Engineering Guindy and a developer of Tamil open
> source software) took a session on the initiatives of the Tamizha group.
> After that we went on a photo walk of the SSN campus. We split into two
> groups and walked around the SSN campus taking pictures. The images were
> uploaded to Commons. [3]. This served as an oppurtunity to explain
> copyright issues like freedom of panorama and derivative works. The academy
> ended with a vote of thanks from the Tamil Club convener.
> 
> Over all it was a highly successful exercise (IMO) and a lot of productive
> work was done. The attendees were highly motivated and asked a lot of
> pertinent questions which lead to some interesting discussions. They also
> gave a few interesting suggestions about improving the usability of Wiki
> pages from newbie perspective (Srikanth has already started work on
> implementing one of the suggestions).
> 
> I would like to thank the organising team (Dwaraka, Harvesh, Jason and
> others) for doing an excellent job in organising the event , SSN Tamil
> Mandram for its patronage and Wikimedia India Chapter for its help with
> swag and printed material (though the quantity was nowhere sufficient :-).
> Please ramp up the operation guys).
> 
> ==Links==
> [1]http://thamizha.com/
> [2]http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Tamil_audio_songs
> [3]http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:SSN_College_of_Engineering

Thank you very much for your work!  I would be interested specifically
in knowing what opportunities especially appealed to the students and
what kinds of snags and problems they ran into when considering, or
trying to start, contributing to MediaWiki and other Wikimedia technologies.

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Volunteer Development Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] SOPA protest - Bengali Wikipedia placed a banner, what about other Indic language wikis?

2012-01-17 Thread ansuman

+1 to Srikanth

On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 8:11 AM, Srikanth Lakshmanan wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 02:12, Alolita Sharma wrote:
>
>> HI Tanvir, Srikanth,
>>
>> Great to hear No-SOPA banners being considered to be on Bengali and Tamil
>> wikipedias.
>>
>> Having translations on SOPA articles would be great. Here is the
>> whitelist that we plan to have available on en.wp
>>
>
> Thanks for the whitelist. May I request you / WMF to consider adding pages
> in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Internet_censorship_by_country to
> whitelist as well? SOPA is a big thing in US, but similar insane things are
> happening elsewhere too (India too!) and even if Wikimedia Community in
> India prefers to be silent, protests needs to happen. We are have started
> one such at http://publictransit.in (http://busroutes.in will soon have
> this) and no better article than
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_India to explain.
> Time will tell if protests need to intensify in India and I hope the online
> community in India will rise to the situation if required.
>
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Blackout has started

hi,

The English Wikipedia black out has started -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

A little while before that anon editing was also switched off, another
creepy thing.

warm regards,
Pradeep

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