Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Takes Mumbai 2012
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.com wrote: Actually, 'on the spot' was deliberately chosen following earlier walks, where it was noticed that not everyone who participated actually uploaded the content later, or partially uploaded with no captions or details. This makes extra work for other people later. Maybe this is an assumption? We thought the same but took our chances with manuals and people went back home and actually uploaded over 800 pictures. I wouldn't know. I am not such an enthusiastic photographer, nor was I directly involved in the Photowalk, just assisting from the sidelines. I extrapolated from earlier discussions that probably took place here, or on the Mumbai list (or both), or at our Meetup. Regarding the geeky tools- making life simple, again, the moment you push photographers/non Linux users into a Linux lab and talk Python and metadata problems, one is bound to get slightly intimidated. On the back end of course, you can build the geekiest tool and talk about it, but on the front end, it should have been a 'clear solution'. People who struggled with uploads and metadata will surely not go back home and try it again. That was my point. Metadata is just a big word for the text and other attributes attached to a photograph (in this context). A photograph without credentials is a bad idea for a resource, and this was pointed out on the list earlier. If the data is not added by the user herself, it becomes a chore for someone else to research and correctly annotate it. The fact that a digital photograph can have such attributes integrated is a boon, big words notwithstanding. This attributes feature also works for music and videos btw, in fact it works for all standard media, and if anyone comes up with a new media form, a similar standard will be set. The talk about Python was a side-discussion about getting the tool working in time for the crowd to arrive: would it have made anyone feel better if it was called Photoshop or Picture Manager or something? Why would that be? Not a rhetorical question, merely one of checking assumptions. The tool is for mass upload, the issue was enabling multiple people to upload from a single location. The issue there is protective tools built into wikimedia that control such things, in order to prevent malware people from uploading rubbish, running denial of service attacks and the like. Everyone who becomes a wikimedian should understand that, and organisers of wikievents of this nature must learn in advance how to get around this. India is one of the world's biggest sources of such malware (malware superpower), so it is very understandable that people concerned about Wikimedia's credibility and reputation will view such activities from India as a threat. We need to evolve a protocol whereby lead wikimedians at any event notify this intent so that the gates are temporarily opened and the event can take place to everyone's convenience. When this is not done, the experience is not so great, but as I suggested, there are workarounds that will still keep everyone engaged and enthusiastic at the upload venue (which could be a cybercafe stuffed with Windows machines; wikimedia tools try to be as agnostic and inclusive as possible) and the need for such things can only come out of discussion - f2f as well, if the Walkers have a mix of newbie and experienced wikimedians, but the potential to be much richer and more informative if more people can participate, like on this mailing list. The geeky part, the actual design and development of an offline component of the tool (that was only my suggestion: it is possible there may be some more effective way of handling it as well), will be handled by wikimedians who like doing such things, but without this discussion to highlight the need, why would they? And what would they design, if there was no discussion about what it should do? The alternative is everyone goes home, uploads individually, and loses out on any chance for discussing and evolving best practices about that aspect, the addition of captions and metadata. Both options have their merits and demerits, for it is not even necessary that every photosession be a PhotoWalk. On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Vickram Crishna vvcris...@radiophony.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 12:16 PM, Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.com wrote: IMHO, the point of the photo walk is not just to get pictures but, also to ask people to log on to Commons and check it out by themselves so that they continue uploading pictures etc. This thread seems so complex that a participant must have felt crippled and left thinking that Wikipedia (and Commons) is all so complicated and geeky, it's not my cup of tea. The nuts and bolts will always be geeky (although only some highly specific mails actually had any geeky content in them). The point of all the geeky stuff is to make life simple for persons who do not need to know
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Article on Marathi Wikipedia in the second edition of Marathi e-Sahitya_Sammelan
Some correction. The second edition of e-Sahitya Sammelan was inagurated by Vivek sawant, managing director, MKCL. The sammelan will be presided over by noted poet Grace. The news about this Sammelan is already in the media. eg. http://www.indianexpress.com/news/2nd-edition-of-esahitya-sammelan-inaugurated/905061/ Regards -Sudhanwa On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 12:59 AM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar sudhanwa@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Article on Marathi wikipedia is published in the second edition of Marathi e-Sahitya_Sammelan. Marathi e-Sahitya_Sammelan.was inaugurated by the famous Marathi poet Grace ( http://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B8) on 28 Jan 2012. Please read it here: http://uniquefeatures.in/e-sammelan-12/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A0%E0%A5%80-%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE Marathi wikipedians are proud to be part of e-Sahitya_Sammelan!! Best regards -Sudhanwa -- ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~! web: www.sudhanwa.com blog: www.sudhanwa.in Twitter: sudhanwa Check on FB, Linkedin for more. -- ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~! web: www.sudhanwa.com blog: www.sudhanwa.in Twitter: sudhanwa Check on FB, Linkedin for more. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Copyright Violation by aahwaan.com
Statistics : http://www.aahwaan.com/wiki/index.php?title=Special:Statistics On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 3:58 PM, Srikant Kedia wikiodis...@gmail.comwrote: Hello, Please see the site http://www.aahwaan.com/wiki/ , Here there is a copyright violation, as the content is used from Wikipedia.. So please take the appropriate action. -- Thanks Regards, Srikant Kedia Odia (Oriya) Wiki Community http://or.wikipedia.org Mail ID - odiaw...@gmail.com Facebook- facebook.com/OdiaWiki Tweet @OdiaWiki ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- * *Thanks n Regards Ansuman * ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ * http://twitter.com/smileyansu * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:ansumang * * ___ * * Wikipedia Odia (Oriya) mailing list wikipedia...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-or facebook.com/OdiaWiki Tweet @OdiaWiki * ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Copyright Violation by aahwaan.com
I think WMF people could take an action against it, no need to ponder over this stupidity! ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Copyright Violation by aahwaan.com
The Logo is certainly a copyvio, but the text and content gets off easier. Its a simple matter of asking them to license text under CC-BY-SA. Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch) On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 19:31, Subhashish Panigrahi psubhash...@gmail.comwrote: I think WMF people could take an action against it, no need to ponder over this stupidity! ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Copyright Violation by aahwaan.com
Yes, Logo is copyrighted by WMF, but text is not. Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch) On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 19:47, Subhashish Panigrahi psubhash...@gmail.comwrote: No Swaroop, the logo is a modification version of original Wikipedia Odia logo and can't be in a CC-BY-SA, the admin has to remove it by all chances as it is a WMF's copyrighted logo and can't be used anywhere except foundation's work. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Copyright Violation by aahwaan.com
As I understand it, the text is not licensed to WMF, but we've definitely got a case with the logo. Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch) On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 20:07, Srikant Kedia wikiodis...@gmail.com wrote: there is not only the matter of logo.. but also the text.. as it means Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia in the logo. On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 7:51 PM, Swaroop Rao raul.swar...@gmail.comwrote: Yes, Logo is copyrighted by WMF, but text is not. Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch) On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 19:47, Subhashish Panigrahi psubhash...@gmail.com wrote: No Swaroop, the logo is a modification version of original Wikipedia Odia logo and can't be in a CC-BY-SA, the admin has to remove it by all chances as it is a WMF's copyrighted logo and can't be used anywhere except foundation's work. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Thanks Regards, Srikant Kedia Odia (Oriya) Wikipedia Community http://or.wikipedia.org Mail ID - odiaw...@gmail.com Facebook- facebook.com/OdiaWiki Tweet @OdiaWiki ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Copyright Violation by aahwaan.com
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 8:18 PM, Subhashish Panigrahi psubhash...@gmail.com wrote: +1 Swaroop, even the UI is somewhat similar but doesn't cause any harm, but the name Wikipedia and the usage of the logo is not permitted. I think the UI is just mediawiki. Srikant, can you send them a polite mail explaining why they cannot use Wikipedia and other Wikimedia related trademarks? That works most of the time. anirudh ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Report on Wikipedia Takes Mumbai II
Greetings! This is a short note on Wikipedia Takes Mumbai II. Forty people turned up near the Oval Maidan at Churchgate at 8 am yesterday. The landmarks that were photographed included the Babulnath Temple, Nehru Science Centre, Opera House, St Thomas Cathedral, INS Vikrant and Yazdani Bakery. After the photos had been clicked many of the participants proceeded to Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, TIFR where they were shown how to upload to Commons using both the usual upload process and by using the mediawiki-uploader mass upload script. Nikita Belavate and Karthik Nadar put in a lot of work into the event. They helped many people contribute to the Commons while having a good time, and they deserve praise for making all of this happen. Our heartfelt gratitude to Pranav Curumsey, Vickram Crishna, Dr Nagarjuna, Noopur Raval and Moksh Juneja for all the help and mentoring. Thanks to Shrinivasan T for mediawiki-uploader :) And apologies if I missed anyone out. Do visit our maintenance category WTMhttp://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:WTM, specially created for the event. 313 pictures have been uploaded so far. Sincerely Anshuman Fotedar PS: 1. During the photowalk, some of the participants who were taking pictures of Bombay House were interrupted by private security personnel and asked to handover their cameras so that the pictures could be removed. Pranav and Aditya Sengupta, who were among them, peacefully put forth the fact that they were not not breaking any laws by photographing the structure from the outside since it was not a legally protected one. They were standing on the road, and not trespassing. To resolve the matter, Aditya, Pranav and Krutikaa Jawanjal accompanied the security personnel to the police station where they explained that they were within their rights to do what they did, and that citizens of the country need not take prior permission to take exterior photographs of private property that was not accorded legal protection. The PSI on duty made a noting in his station diary and informed us that Bombay House has security fears, which is why one should speak to their bosses before taking pictures, but agreed with them per se that there is no law that prohibits people from taking pictures there. 2. The group that went to Bombay House (and subsequently to Yazdani Bakery, St. Thomas Cathedral) and other places was delayed owing to the incident at Bombay House and discovered serendipitously that entry to INS Vikrant was open. Covering Vikrant took a while, adding to the delay. Consequently they (this includes me) never reached HBCSE but uploaded from home instead. Although we did get several good contributions from the participants in this group as well, I do recognise that it may have been nice if we could have joined in with the participants who uploaded together at HBCSE. I apologise. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Report on Wikipedia Takes Mumbai II
Hi, On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 9:54 PM, Anshuman Fotedar anshuman.fote...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings! This is a short note on Wikipedia Takes Mumbai II. Forty people turned up near the Oval Maidan at Churchgate at 8 am yesterday. The landmarks that were photographed included the Babulnath Temple, Nehru Science Centre, Opera House, St Thomas Cathedral, INS Vikrant and Yazdani Bakery. After the photos had been clicked many of the participants proceeded to Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, TIFR where they were shown how to upload to Commons using both the usual upload process and by using the mediawiki-uploader mass upload script. Nikita Belavate and Karthik Nadar put in a lot of work into the event. They helped many people contribute to the Commons while having a good time, and they deserve praise for making all of this happen. Our heartfelt gratitude to Pranav Curumsey, Vickram Crishna, Dr Nagarjuna, Noopur Raval and Moksh Juneja for all the help and mentoring. Thanks to Shrinivasan T for mediawiki-uploader :) And apologies if I missed anyone out. Do visit our maintenance category WTMhttp://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:WTM, specially created for the event. 313 pictures have been uploaded so far. Fantastic !!! I was not there in this photography event. However, getting inspiration from these pictures, I have uploaded some of the pictures I have taken during WCI. These include some night pictures from Marine Drive and the beautiful glass pane in the ocnvocation hall. Hope you will like them. I will add a few more later on. You can find it here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles/Sudhanwa_j Will love to see more images from WTM. Best regards -Sudhanwa ps: Usually, we are supposed to ask for permission of sensitive places like temples, corporate houses etc. Even though it may be legally possible, usually, photography is not permitted/done in such places. A balance of wasting a lot of time and energy (and equipment) with the cops and security people and a few pictures is to be achieved. ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~! web: www.sudhanwa.com blog: www.sudhanwa.in Twitter: sudhanwa Check on FB, Linkedin for more. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Report on Wikipedia Takes Mumbai II
Great report! Sounds like a wonderful event with good advocacy on the question of maintaining respect for basic freedoms of citizens when governments take security concerns a bit too far. Warmest wishes from sunny San Francisco. Barry On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar sudhanwa@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 9:54 PM, Anshuman Fotedar anshuman.fote...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings! This is a short note on Wikipedia Takes Mumbai II. Forty people turned up near the Oval Maidan at Churchgate at 8 am yesterday. The landmarks that were photographed included the Babulnath Temple, Nehru Science Centre, Opera House, St Thomas Cathedral, INS Vikrant and Yazdani Bakery. After the photos had been clicked many of the participants proceeded to Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, TIFR where they were shown how to upload to Commons using both the usual upload process and by using the mediawiki-uploader mass upload script. Nikita Belavate and Karthik Nadar put in a lot of work into the event. They helped many people contribute to the Commons while having a good time, and they deserve praise for making all of this happen. Our heartfelt gratitude to Pranav Curumsey, Vickram Crishna, Dr Nagarjuna, Noopur Raval and Moksh Juneja for all the help and mentoring. Thanks to Shrinivasan T for mediawiki-uploader :) And apologies if I missed anyone out. Do visit our maintenance category WTMhttp://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:WTM, specially created for the event. 313 pictures have been uploaded so far. Fantastic !!! I was not there in this photography event. However, getting inspiration from these pictures, I have uploaded some of the pictures I have taken during WCI. These include some night pictures from Marine Drive and the beautiful glass pane in the ocnvocation hall. Hope you will like them. I will add a few more later on. You can find it here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles/Sudhanwa_j Will love to see more images from WTM. Best regards -Sudhanwa ps: Usually, we are supposed to ask for permission of sensitive places like temples, corporate houses etc. Even though it may be legally possible, usually, photography is not permitted/done in such places. A balance of wasting a lot of time and energy (and equipment) with the cops and security people and a few pictures is to be achieved. ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~! web: www.sudhanwa.com blog: www.sudhanwa.in Twitter: sudhanwa Check on FB, Linkedin for more. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Barry Newstead Chief Global Development Officer Wikimedia Foundation Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] General congrats and some data
Hi all, I just wrote an appreciation for the Mumbai photowalk, but in reading through the whole list I noted that there has been a large increase in activities in the community as a whole over the past few weeks. Some of this is probably attributable to the 11th anniversary of Wikipedia, but it is mostly attributable to the growing efforts of all of you to build our community in India, Bangledash (noting the 8th birthday of Bengali WP!). Congrats on all the events - this is the way we build a community. I'd like to add that your efforts are working, though the data I have is a bit imperfect and has some reliability issues. I measured the share of total edits to all Wikipedia projects from India in July 2010 (in preparation for my first trip to India in September 2010). The share was 1.3% of total. Our most recent analysis shows we have grown to 1.7% of edits. That is a 31% increase in share. It is even more impressive to note that this implies that total edits from India increased by 42.5% in a time period when edits worldwide increased 9%. CONGRATS team India! Warmest regards, Barry -- Barry Newstead Chief Global Development Officer Wikimedia Foundation Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] General congrats and some data
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 2:57 AM, Barry Newstead bnewst...@wikimedia.orgwrote: I'd like to add that your efforts are working, though the data I have is a bit imperfect and has some reliability issues. I measured the share of total edits to all Wikipedia projects from India in July 2010 (in preparation for my first trip to India in September 2010). The share was 1.3% of total. Our most recent analysis shows we have grown to 1.7% of edits. That is a 31% increase in share. It is even more impressive to note that this implies that total edits from India increased by 42.5% in a time period when edits worldwide increased 9%. Don't these numbers have a margin of error? like +/- 1%? I ask because you yourself start out, that the data is imperfect and has reliability issues. Even under that assumption, the increase would be from 1.3% to 1.7%, an increase of 0.4% considering variables like Wikiconference, IEP, India offices and political situation that brought a limelight on the projects. That doesn't sound that inspiring, I hope we can do better, I know we can. Regards Theo ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-mum] Report on Wikipedia Takes Mumbai II
Sounds like a fun time was had by all. A question: Is there anyway of finding out in advance what buildings are considered to have have Security fears? Warm regards Harriet Still in NYC. Harriet Vidyasagar www.outofindia.net www.womenofindia.net INDIA: 91-99011 66276 USA: 1-301-649-2240 On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Anshuman Fotedar anshuman.fote...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings! This is a short note on Wikipedia Takes Mumbai II. Forty people turned up near the Oval Maidan at Churchgate at 8 am yesterday. The landmarks that were photographed included the Babulnath Temple, Nehru Science Centre, Opera House, St Thomas Cathedral, INS Vikrant and Yazdani Bakery. After the photos had been clicked many of the participants proceeded to Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, TIFR where they were shown how to upload to Commons using both the usual upload process and by using the mediawiki-uploader mass upload script. Nikita Belavate and Karthik Nadar put in a lot of work into the event. They helped many people contribute to the Commons while having a good time, and they deserve praise for making all of this happen. Our heartfelt gratitude to Pranav Curumsey, Vickram Crishna, Dr Nagarjuna, Noopur Raval and Moksh Juneja for all the help and mentoring. Thanks to Shrinivasan T for mediawiki-uploader :) And apologies if I missed anyone out. Do visit our maintenance category WTMhttp://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:WTM, specially created for the event. 313 pictures have been uploaded so far. Sincerely Anshuman Fotedar PS: 1. During the photowalk, some of the participants who were taking pictures of Bombay House were interrupted by private security personnel and asked to handover their cameras so that the pictures could be removed. Pranav and Aditya Sengupta, who were among them, peacefully put forth the fact that they were not not breaking any laws by photographing the structure from the outside since it was not a legally protected one. They were standing on the road, and not trespassing. To resolve the matter, Aditya, Pranav and Krutikaa Jawanjal accompanied the security personnel to the police station where they explained that they were within their rights to do what they did, and that citizens of the country need not take prior permission to take exterior photographs of private property that was not accorded legal protection. The PSI on duty made a noting in his station diary and informed us that Bombay House has security fears, which is why one should speak to their bosses before taking pictures, but agreed with them per se that there is no law that prohibits people from taking pictures there. 2. The group that went to Bombay House (and subsequently to Yazdani Bakery, St. Thomas Cathedral) and other places was delayed owing to the incident at Bombay House and discovered serendipitously that entry to INS Vikrant was open. Covering Vikrant took a while, adding to the delay. Consequently they (this includes me) never reached HBCSE but uploaded from home instead. Although we did get several good contributions from the participants in this group as well, I do recognise that it may have been nice if we could have joined in with the participants who uploaded together at HBCSE. I apologise. ___ Wikimedia-in-mum mailing list wikimedia-in-...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-mum ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Analysis of IEP: Quantitative Analysis Tory Read's Report
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 1:28 AM, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote: I found Tory's report neutral, informative, exhaustive and professional. Since this issue involves people from all spheres of Wikipedia movement, I feel it is wise that she was chosen to do this to given an objective view. We don't need an Indian to analyze this issue. I found it to be an eyewitness account, not an analysis. I have raised this point elsewhere multiple times, this is the problem that is responsible for getting us here. Hiring individuals not from the community or the geography, to fix what is wrong with either or both. I used an analogy on the page, about hiring a lawyer from Australia, to fix a problem with farmers in Africa, he would not know about either. Individual community members leave too. But the community exists. Similarly, employees and consultants may leave. But, WMF will be there and I can see that Barry and others are trying their best to address this issue in their official capacity. You do know WMF came after Wikipedia? or the current incarnation with consultants and staff, with a focus and offices in developing countries even more recently? But those are other discussions for other places. Let me explain, community members are unpaid volunteers, who can join and leave as they wish, they are not bound by anything. Paid staff and contractors, are usually *paid* to undertake a project, if they leave mid-discussion, that is really not the same thing. Let's please discuss the issues put forward by the report instead of discussing how the report itself should have been done. The former is more important. I was. I found it lacking, and the person in-charge of the report, abandoning before the discussion started. Another volunteer editor, goes further to give a better view on how to fix this on the page, than the report. Regards Theo ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-mum] Report on Wikipedia Takes Mumbai II
How wonderful, I do wish I was there. You guys have done a great job. My personal congrats to each of the participants. Do we have a master list for articles about Mumbai? Does one need to be made? Well begun is half done. Please remember that with all this raw material (images), you now have to make cakes pastries (i.e. better-illustrated articles newly-made stubs). So the process of cooking must now start. Just to remind every-one once again, :) We need to : * categorise the images. * add the images to articles, where possible. * create stubs where necessary and add images to them. Congratulations once again Mumbai community, but don't halt just yet, complete the cycle see Mumbai represented much better in Wikipedia. Bumping this to the Wikiproject India mailing list also. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- -- Forwarded message -- From: Anshuman Fotedar anshuman.fote...@gmail.com Date: Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 9:54 PM Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Report on Wikipedia Takes Mumbai II To: Wikimedia India Community list wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, Mailing list for Wikimedians / Wikipedians in from Mumbai , India. wikimedia-in-...@lists.wikimedia.org Greetings! This is a short note on Wikipedia Takes Mumbai II. Forty people turned up near the Oval Maidan at Churchgate at 8 am yesterday. The landmarks that were photographed included the Babulnath Temple, Nehru Science Centre, Opera House, St Thomas Cathedral, INS Vikrant and Yazdani Bakery. After the photos had been clicked many of the participants proceeded to Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, TIFR where they were shown how to upload to Commons using both the usual upload process and by using the mediawiki-uploader mass upload script. Nikita Belavate and Karthik Nadar put in a lot of work into the event. They helped many people contribute to the Commons while having a good time, and they deserve praise for making all of this happen. Our heartfelt gratitude to Pranav Curumsey, Vickram Crishna, Dr Nagarjuna, Noopur Raval and Moksh Juneja for all the help and mentoring. Thanks to Shrinivasan T for mediawiki-uploader :) And apologies if I missed anyone out. Do visit our maintenance category WTMhttp://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:WTM, specially created for the event. 313 pictures have been uploaded so far. Sincerely Anshuman Fotedar PS: 1. During the photowalk, some of the participants who were taking pictures of Bombay House were interrupted by private security personnel and asked to handover their cameras so that the pictures could be removed. Pranav and Aditya Sengupta, who were among them, peacefully put forth the fact that they were not not breaking any laws by photographing the structure from the outside since it was not a legally protected one. They were standing on the road, and not trespassing. To resolve the matter, Aditya, Pranav and Krutikaa Jawanjal accompanied the security personnel to the police station where they explained that they were within their rights to do what they did, and that citizens of the country need not take prior permission to take exterior photographs of private property that was not accorded legal protection. The PSI on duty made a noting in his station diary and informed us that Bombay House has security fears, which is why one should speak to their bosses before taking pictures, but agreed with them per se that there is no law that prohibits people from taking pictures there. 2. The group that went to Bombay House (and subsequently to Yazdani Bakery, St. Thomas Cathedral) and other places was delayed owing to the incident at Bombay House and discovered serendipitously that entry to INS Vikrant was open. Covering Vikrant took a while, adding to the delay. Consequently they (this includes me) never reached HBCSE but uploaded from home instead. Although we did get several good contributions from the participants in this group as well, I do recognise that it may have been nice if we could have joined in with the participants who uploaded together at HBCSE. I apologise. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
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Harriet, On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 05:32, Outofindia outofin...@gmail.com wrote: Sounds like a fun time was had by all. A question: Is there anyway of finding out in advance what buildings are considered to have have Security fears? Yes- if there is a yellow board that declares the building as a Prohibited Area, you are not allowed to photograph such buildings. We saw quite a few of these buildings- such as the RBI building. These boards are required to be registered with the police/government, so it isn't like anyone can put them up. Everything else is fair game- as long as you are not trespassing on their property (which we weren't) or harassing them (we were super nice and polite with the Bombay House folks as well as the police- so this wasn't a problem either). Warm regards Harriet Still in NYC. Harriet Vidyasagar www.outofindia.net www.womenofindia.net INDIA: 91-99011 66276 USA: 1-301-649-2240 On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Anshuman Fotedar anshuman.fote...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings! This is a short note on Wikipedia Takes Mumbai II. Forty people turned up near the Oval Maidan at Churchgate at 8 am yesterday. The landmarks that were photographed included the Babulnath Temple, Nehru Science Centre, Opera House, St Thomas Cathedral, INS Vikrant and Yazdani Bakery. After the photos had been clicked many of the participants proceeded to Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, TIFR where they were shown how to upload to Commons using both the usual upload process and by using the mediawiki-uploader mass upload script. Nikita Belavate and Karthik Nadar put in a lot of work into the event. They helped many people contribute to the Commons while having a good time, and they deserve praise for making all of this happen. Our heartfelt gratitude to Pranav Curumsey, Vickram Crishna, Dr Nagarjuna, Noopur Raval and Moksh Juneja for all the help and mentoring. Thanks to Shrinivasan T for mediawiki-uploader :) And apologies if I missed anyone out. Do visit our maintenance category WTMhttp://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:WTM, specially created for the event. 313 pictures have been uploaded so far. Sincerely Anshuman Fotedar PS: 1. During the photowalk, some of the participants who were taking pictures of Bombay House were interrupted by private security personnel and asked to handover their cameras so that the pictures could be removed. Pranav and Aditya Sengupta, who were among them, peacefully put forth the fact that they were not not breaking any laws by photographing the structure from the outside since it was not a legally protected one. They were standing on the road, and not trespassing. To resolve the matter, Aditya, Pranav and Krutikaa Jawanjal accompanied the security personnel to the police station where they explained that they were within their rights to do what they did, and that citizens of the country need not take prior permission to take exterior photographs of private property that was not accorded legal protection. The PSI on duty made a noting in his station diary and informed us that Bombay House has security fears, which is why one should speak to their bosses before taking pictures, but agreed with them per se that there is no law that prohibits people from taking pictures there. 2. The group that went to Bombay House (and subsequently to Yazdani Bakery, St. Thomas Cathedral) and other places was delayed owing to the incident at Bombay House and discovered serendipitously that entry to INS Vikrant was open. Covering Vikrant took a while, adding to the delay. Consequently they (this includes me) never reached HBCSE but uploaded from home instead. Although we did get several good contributions from the participants in this group as well, I do recognise that it may have been nice if we could have joined in with the participants who uploaded together at HBCSE. I apologise. ___ Wikimedia-in-mum mailing list wikimedia-in-...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-mum ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
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On Monday 30 January 2012 03:28 AM, Theo10011 wrote: Looks great Anshuman! My best wishes to you and the Mumbai community! I wish we could figure out an easier way to upload, possibly direct mobile uploads to common for events like this. I know it would be a gold-mine for participation when it comes to events like this. For anyone who'd like to send images to commons directly from your android camera phone, there is an app that does exactly this - I've used it to send images directly from my phone to commons; it's simple, easy-to-use and extremely useful: https://market.android.com/details?id=nl.michiel1972.main (Other than this android app, there appears to be an IPhone app under development: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WikiSnaps) Regards Theo On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 9:54 PM, Anshuman Fotedar anshuman.fote...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings! This is a short note on Wikipedia Takes Mumbai II. Forty people turned up near the Oval Maidan at Churchgate at 8 am yesterday. The landmarks that were photographed included theBabulnath Temple,Nehru Science Centre, Opera House, St Thomas Cathedral, INS Vikrant and Yazdani Bakery. After the photos had been clicked many of the participants proceeded toHomi BhabhaCentre for Science Education, TIFR where they were shown how to upload to Commons using both the usual upload process and by using the mediawiki-uploader mass upload script. Nikita Belavate and Karthik Nadar put in a lot of work into the event. They helped many people contribute to the Commons while having a good time, and they deserve praise for making all of this happen. Our heartfelt gratitude to Pranav Curumsey, Vickram Crishna, Dr Nagarjuna,Noopur Raval andMoksh Juneja for all the help and mentoring. Thanks to Shrinivasan T for mediawiki-uploader :) And apologies if I missed anyone out. Do visit our maintenance category WTM, specially created for the event. 313 pictures have been uploaded so far. Sincerely Anshuman Fotedar PS: 1. During the photowalk, some of the participants who were taking pictures of Bombay House were interrupted by private security personnel and asked to handover their cameras so that the pictures could be removed.Pranav andAditya Sengupta, who were among them, peacefully put forth the fact that they were not not breaking any laws by photographing the structure from the outside since it was not a legally protected one. They were standing on the road, and not trespassing. To resolve the matter, Aditya, Pranav and Krutikaa Jawanjal accompanied the security personnel to the police station where they explained that they were within their rights to do what they did, and that citizens of the country need not take prior permission to take exterior photographs of private property that was not accorded legal protection.The PSI on duty made a noting in his station diary and informed us that Bombay House has security fears, which is why one should speak to their bosses before taking pictures, but agreed with them per se that there is no law that prohibits people from taking pictures there. 2. The group that went to Bombay House (and subsequently to Yazdani Bakery, St. Thomas Cathedral) and other places was delayed owing to the incident at Bombay House and discoveredserendipitouslythat entry to INS Vikrant was open. Covering Vikrant took a while, adding to the delay. Consequently they (this includes me)never reached HBCSEbut uploaded from home instead. Although we did get several good contributions from the participants in this group as well, I do recognise that it may have been nice if we could have joined in with the participants who uploaded together at HBCSE. I apologise.
[Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] DNA : Wikipedians set out on mission to capture Mumbai landmarks
DNA : Wikipedians set out on mission to capture Mumbai landmarks http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report_wikipedians-set-out-on-mission-to-capture-mumbai-landmarks_1643625 Armed with cameras and the belief that some of the city’s landmarks deserve to be featured in cyberspace, a group of Wikipedia volunteers trudged along Mumbai’s streets on Sunday, identifying notable spots and capturing them on film. The photographs will be contributed to Wikimedia Commons, a repository for copyright-free images, sound and other media files. “Mumbai has several monuments and famous spots. But, some of them find little or no mention on Wikipedia,” said Anshuman Fotedar, a financial analyst and member of the group. The aim of the exercise was not just to put the city’s landmarks on the virtual map but also to increase awareness of Wikipedia and its culture in the city. Fotedar added that many people want to give something back to the vast online encyclopaedia but are unable to figure out how to start contributing. “The English-language Wikipedia has grown quite a lot over the years, thanks to the efforts of regular contributors. This exercise was meant to introduce new contributors to areas they can help with,” he said. The group, comprising mostly students and young professionals, was, however, stopped from taking pictures by security guards at the Bombay House. In the end, the authorities agreed that shooting the building was not prohibited. Besides the photowalk, the group took part in discussions on other projects that Wikipedia India volunteers are working on. “There is an initiative called GLAM through which Wikipedia collaborates with prominent art galleries and museums to help with articles related to culture,” Fotedar said. Another project focuses on promotion of Indian language Wikipedias. -- Regards Tinu Cherian pr...@wikimedia.in http://wiki.wikimedia.in/In_the_news Important Note : The publisher ( DNA ) 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. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] : Times of India : Shooting city for web viewers
Times of India : Shooting city for web viewers http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-01-29/mumbai/30675607_1_wikipedia-wikimedia-commons-photos MUMBAI: On Saturday morning, a group of 40 Mumbaikars armed with cameras gathered outside the Oval Maidan before setting out on a photo-walk to ensure their city is well-represented in the realms of cyberspace where information can be accessed for free. Speaking about the popular free online encyclopaedia, Wikipedia, Nikita Belavate, a student, said, Many Wikipedia articles on city landmarks do not have photos. We want to change that. Belavate was one of the organizers of the photo scavenger hunt, 'Wikipedia Takes Mumbai', which concluded in the afternoon. At the end of the shoot, the group uploaded over 200 pictures to Wikimedia Commons, the repository of free multimedia files that supplies photos to all Wiki sites. We took over 800 photos and will soon upload the others, Belavate said. The landmarks photographed included Babulnath Temple, Nehru Science Centre and Bandra Talao. We had a list of places like the mint and Arthur Road Jail, said Neeraj Pattath, a volunteer photographer. For pictures that don't have a mention on the website yet, a new stub can be created with a few lines describing them, said Pranav Curumsey, a regular contributor to the site. Financial analyst Anshuman Fotedar, who took pictures of St Thomas Cathedral, INS Vikrant and Yazdani Bakery, said, It was a way to learn more about the city and its cultural history. For civil engineer Milind Vedpathak, who photographed Kanheri, Mahakali and Mandapeshwar caves, it was a campaign to promote a side of Mumbai that wasn't about slums and beggars. The event was also meant to spread awareness about Wiki culture. We helped people set up their Wiki user IDs and showed them how to use Commonist, a tool that lets users upload large number of images, said Karthik Nadar, a banking student. -- Regards Tinu Cherian pr...@wikimedia.in http://wiki.wikimedia.in/In_the_news Important Note : Non-commercial reproduction for informative purposes only. The publisher ( Times of India ) of the above news article owns the copyrights of the article / content. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Report on Wikipedia Takes Mumbai II
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Achal Prabhala aprabh...@gmail.comwrote: On Monday 30 January 2012 03:28 AM, Theo10011 wrote: Looks great Anshuman! My best wishes to you and the Mumbai community! I wish we could figure out an easier way to upload, possibly direct mobile uploads to common for events like this. I know it would be a gold-mine for participation when it comes to events like this. For anyone who'd like to send images to commons directly from your android camera phone, there is an app that does exactly this - I've used it to send images directly from my phone to commons; it's simple, easy-to-use and extremely useful: https://market.android.com/details?id=nl.michiel1972.main Achal, this is great! It will help such events enormously, as many of the users will be able to perform 'instant uploads' - Photowalks can be organised with regular breaks to allow successive images to be populated with metadata. (Other than this android app, there appears to be an IPhone app under development: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WikiSnaps) Regards Theo On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 9:54 PM, Anshuman Fotedar anshuman.fote...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings! This is a short note on Wikipedia Takes Mumbai II. Forty people turned up near the Oval Maidan at Churchgate at 8 am yesterday. The landmarks that were photographed included the Babulnath Temple, Nehru Science Centre, Opera House, St Thomas Cathedral, INS Vikrant and Yazdani Bakery. After the photos had been clicked many of the participants proceeded to Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, TIFR where they were shown how to upload to Commons using both the usual upload process and by using the mediawiki-uploader mass upload script. Nikita Belavate and Karthik Nadar put in a lot of work into the event. They helped many people contribute to the Commons while having a good time, and they deserve praise for making all of this happen. Our heartfelt gratitude to Pranav Curumsey, Vickram Crishna, Dr Nagarjuna, Noopur Raval and Moksh Juneja for all the help and mentoring. Thanks to Shrinivasan T for mediawiki-uploader :) And apologies if I missed anyone out. Do visit our maintenance category WTMhttp://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:WTM, specially created for the event. 313 pictures have been uploaded so far. Sincerely Anshuman Fotedar PS: 1. During the photowalk, some of the participants who were taking pictures of Bombay House were interrupted by private security personnel and asked to handover their cameras so that the pictures could be removed. Pranav and Aditya Sengupta, who were among them, peacefully put forth the fact that they were not not breaking any laws by photographing the structure from the outside since it was not a legally protected one. They were standing on the road, and not trespassing. To resolve the matter, Aditya, Pranav and Krutikaa Jawanjal accompanied the security personnel to the police station where they explained that they were within their rights to do what they did, and that citizens of the country need not take prior permission to take exterior photographs of private property that was not accorded legal protection. The PSI on duty made a noting in his station diary and informed us that Bombay House has security fears, which is why one should speak to their bosses before taking pictures, but agreed with them per se that there is no law that prohibits people from taking pictures there. 2. The group that went to Bombay House (and subsequently to Yazdani Bakery, St. Thomas Cathedral) and other places was delayed owing to the incident at Bombay House and discovered serendipitously that entry to INS Vikrant was open. Covering Vikrant took a while, adding to the delay. Consequently they (this includes me) never reached HBCSE but uploaded from home instead. Although we did get several good contributions from the participants in this group as well, I do recognise that it may have been nice if we could have joined in with the participants who uploaded together at HBCSE. I apologise. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing listwikimediaindi...@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Vickram Fool On The Hill http://communicall.wordpress.com ___
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-mum] Report on Wikipedia Takes Mumbai II
We seem to be called in to the cop station a bit too often - visit #2 for Wikipedia (1st was for WCI 11), this time it got better, taken in a Police Van to MRA Marg. The worst part, they dont drop you back, you need to make your own way :( The guards at Bombay House were pretty clear, we have orders not to allow photography on Homy Mody Street in front of the building for security reasons. Its odd that such orders are given in the first place, as public roads are not under their purview and we were certainly not trespassing their property. Aditya offered to delete the pics if they could show that its illegal, obviously they could not. Just because they are scared of terror threats, whoever gave the order seems to think they have the right to deny the public of their rights and curtail freedom. Talk about misuse of power. From: apsengu...@gmail.com Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:52:17 +0530 To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org CC: wikimedia-in-...@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-in-mum] [Wikimediaindia-l] Report on Wikipedia Takes Mumbai II Harriet, On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 05:32, Outofindia outofin...@gmail.com wrote: Sounds like a fun time was had by all. A question: Is there anyway of finding out in advance what buildings are considered to have have Security fears? Yes- if there is a yellow board that declares the building as a Prohibited Area, you are not allowed to photograph such buildings. We saw quite a few of these buildings- such as the RBI building. These boards are required to be registered with the police/government, so it isn't like anyone can put them up. Everything else is fair game- as long as you are not trespassing on their property (which we weren't) or harassing them (we were super nice and polite with the Bombay House folks as well as the police- so this wasn't a problem either). Warm regards Harriet Still in NYC. Harriet Vidyasagar www.outofindia.net www.womenofindia.net INDIA: 91-99011 66276 USA: 1-301-649-2240 On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Anshuman Fotedar anshuman.fote...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings! This is a short note on Wikipedia Takes Mumbai II. Forty people turned up near the Oval Maidan at Churchgate at 8 am yesterday. The landmarks that were photographed included the Babulnath Temple, Nehru Science Centre, Opera House, St Thomas Cathedral, INS Vikrant and Yazdani Bakery. After the photos had been clicked many of the participants proceeded to Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, TIFR where they were shown how to upload to Commons using both the usual upload process and by using the mediawiki-uploader mass upload script. Nikita Belavate and Karthik Nadar put in a lot of work into the event. They helped many people contribute to the Commons while having a good time, and they deserve praise for making all of this happen. Our heartfelt gratitude to Pranav Curumsey, Vickram Crishna, Dr Nagarjuna, Noopur Raval and Moksh Juneja for all the help and mentoring. Thanks to Shrinivasan T for mediawiki-uploader :) And apologies if I missed anyone out. Do visit our maintenance category WTM, specially created for the event. 313 pictures have been uploaded so far. Sincerely Anshuman Fotedar PS: 1. During the photowalk, some of the participants who were taking pictures of Bombay House were interrupted by private security personnel and asked to handover their cameras so that the pictures could be removed. Pranav and Aditya Sengupta, who were among them, peacefully put forth the fact that they were not not breaking any laws by photographing the structure from the outside since it was not a legally protected one. They were standing on the road, and not trespassing. To resolve the matter, Aditya, Pranav and Krutikaa Jawanjal accompanied the security personnel to the police station where they explained that they were within their rights to do what they did, and that citizens of the country need not take prior permission to take exterior photographs of private property that was not accorded legal protection. The PSI on duty made a noting in his station diary and informed us that Bombay House has security fears, which is why one should speak to their bosses before taking pictures, but agreed with them per se that there is no law that prohibits people from taking pictures there. 2.The group that went to Bombay House (and subsequently to Yazdani Bakery, St. Thomas Cathedral) and other places was delayed owing to the incident at Bombay House and discovered serendipitously that entry to INS Vikrant was open. Covering Vikrant took a while, adding to the delay. Consequently they (this includes me) never reached HBCSE but uploaded from home instead. Although we did get several good contributions from the participants in this group as well, I do recognise that it may have been nice if we could have joined in with the participants who uploaded together at HBCSE.
