Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Program: Community Monthly Report: Feb 2012

[Anirudh Bhati]

On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Hisham  wrote:

>
> Nothing is conducted solely by India Program - and hence I said
> "supported."  Everything is conducted by the community - sometimes under
> the aegis of the Chapter and sometimes independently.  The support that we
> have provided varies - from getting the actual event fixed up to providing
> presentation material to interested community members to participating in
> these events.
>

Can this be clearly specified in the report?  That is more helpful than
simply "supported".  For instance, when you say "Supported the community to
get a venue in Guwahati University", it would help us understand more if
you could tell us how.

 On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 12:45 PM, CherianTinu Abraham  wrote:

> Hi Pranav,
> In India, it is extremely difficult to hairline separate who has done
> which event. - Chapter, Community and WMF India Programs.
>

I agree it's not possible to do that, but it is entirely possible to list
out the work done in specific.  This enhances our accountability and
transparency towards the community.


> Let us take the case of the Trichy event, the request came to a community
> member Rsrikanth to the chapter. Nitika was actively involved along with me
> and Naveen. The chapter signed the MoU and supplied some goodies. Nitika
> was actively involved in coaching Sohan, a chapter member and Rsrikanth.
> One must not also forget that both Hisham & Nitika are also chapter
> members.


Fact: Nitika is a paid employee of the WMF India Programs and is not a
chapter/community volunteer.


>
> Another event in Chennai (Jaya eng college) , where Subha led, his travel
> expenses was reimbursed by the Chapter, Subha is a Chapter SIG Chair .. The
> event is supported by Hisham & Nitika too. Subha is also an India Programs
> executive.
>

Fact:  Subhashish, former volunteer, and now paid consultant with India
Programs.


>
> I actively organize Bangalore Meetups and support several others .. Should
> I be worrying whether I am doing as a chapter member, board member or a
> community member?
>

By a matter of principle, chapter and community volunteers are just...
volunteers.  Paid consultants are hired to executive specific programs, and
hence the results of their work and reports should be presented with
clarity.  Simply "supporting" something does not clarify the extent of
their involvement.


> As with Assam meetup recently, coordinated by Shiju, some of the expenses
> were met from a personal grant from the Foundation to me & Shiju.
>
> There was a recent Malayalam Wiki Academy in Bangalore organised by
> Malayalam Community. Some of them are also Chapter members. People like me
> and Naveen actively helped the event ..Are we doing as chapter board member
> or community member? We don't really know.. But we are just genuinely
> helping the movement, with worrying about what capacity we are doing it.
>

I don't think it's a good idea to separate the chapter and the community.
 The chapter is a membership-based organization and by definition an
umbrella organization which represents the community.  There is no reason
for differentiation as long as it is volunteer work done by a chapter
member.


>
> The various academies that we do, some of the requests comes directly to
> the chapter, community or India programs, but each supporting each other in
> different capacities.
>
> Now Noopur is a GLAM Champion, Chapter member and Delhi SIG Chair and also
> part of Chapter Communications Team. She now also heads the Communication &
> PR for the India Programs.
>
> As I explained, it is difficult to separate the contributions of different
> entities or individuals for the Wikimedia  movement in India.
>
> IMHO, we should be only concerned about the outcomes of the event and not
> who gets the credit.
>

Even though the possibility of interfacing each other is high for different
entities and groups of volunteers working in India, there is a need for
differentiation and it is a question which cannot be avoided.  The
volunteers who work on their pet-projects while not being associated with
any of the entities are not expected to be as accountable as (i) the
chapter which receives or may receive grants from the Wikimedia Foundation
and donations from individuals and organizations in the country AND (ii)
the WMF India Programs which is run by multiple paid consultants.

So I don't see why we shouldn't care about differentiation, or why it may
be an undesirable thing to want to differentiate.  Ultimately we all want
results, yes, but we also need to understand causality because there are
significant amount of funds involved.  We need to differentiate because
there are different degrees of accountability involved both with the
chapter, the WMF India Programs and the volunteer who works with a grant.

Hope this helps.

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Program: Community Monthly Report: Feb 2012

[wheredevelsdare]

The only reason I requested this was so that there is a distinction and one arm 
does not claim credit for what the other is doing. If we have a separate 
chapter and India Programs (IP), there must be separate accountability. In 
practice, Chapter and IP may be working together, which is fantastic, but the 
report should then give details on who did what for there to be transparency.

Today we have both the Chapter and IP. Tomorrow, things may change. The 
foundation has not said that IP is here to stay, if tomorrow we dont have 
support from IP, the community/chapter should be prepared for that eventuality. 
Eg. if it is IP doing all the donkey work, we will understand where the chapter 
needs to ramp itself up. On the other hand, if the chapter/community is 
managing most of the outreach by itself and IP is concentrating on other 
things, that too must be underlined.

Hisham: IP has taken initiatives that need to be commended as well. For eg. 
Virtual Outreach via Google Hangout is Nitikas initiative. 

> Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 12:47:11 +0530
> From: pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com
> To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Program: Community Monthly Report: Feb  
> 2012
> 
> hi,
> 
> I don't think all events will fall so neatly into categories. I do not
> want to see a situation where Chapter and Foundation wrestle for any
> event.
> 
> Pradeep
> Handheld
> 
> On 07/03/2012, wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com  
> wrote:
> >
> > Im a bit confused. IIRC, for the Trichy event, the Chapter signed an MoU,
> > which means it was a chapter outreach session which India Programs may have
> > supported (correct me if I am wrong).
> >
> > Hisham, can you please divide outreach activities into two - those conducted
> > by India Programs and those conducted by Community/Chapter but supported by
> > India Programs, giving details on how you supported them? Likewise, if the
> > chapter supports an India Programs initiative, it must mention in its report
> > that it was a supportive role and not a chapter event.
> >
> > As things stand, both the Chapter and India Programs will put in a report
> > stating they conducted x events, which will overlap with one and other, thus
> > not giving a clear picture of who conducted how many events.
> >
> > From: his...@wikimedia.org
> > Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 12:06:10 +0530
> > To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
> > Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Program: Community Monthly Report: Feb
> > 2012
> >
> >
> >
> > I'm starting a monthly update on India Program activities.  The report for
> > February is posted here.  I hope you find it useful.  Please do add comments
> > on the discussion page, or on this mail trail, or offlist to me.
> > Many thanks.
> >
> > hisham
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Program: Community Monthly Report: Feb 2012

[Pradeep Mohandas]

hi,

I don't think all events will fall so neatly into categories. I do not
want to see a situation where Chapter and Foundation wrestle for any
event.

Pradeep
Handheld

On 07/03/2012, wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com  wrote:
>
> Im a bit confused. IIRC, for the Trichy event, the Chapter signed an MoU,
> which means it was a chapter outreach session which India Programs may have
> supported (correct me if I am wrong).
>
> Hisham, can you please divide outreach activities into two - those conducted
> by India Programs and those conducted by Community/Chapter but supported by
> India Programs, giving details on how you supported them? Likewise, if the
> chapter supports an India Programs initiative, it must mention in its report
> that it was a supportive role and not a chapter event.
>
> As things stand, both the Chapter and India Programs will put in a report
> stating they conducted x events, which will overlap with one and other, thus
> not giving a clear picture of who conducted how many events.
>
> From: his...@wikimedia.org
> Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 12:06:10 +0530
> To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Program: Community Monthly Report: Feb
> 2012
>
>
>
> I'm starting a monthly update on India Program activities.  The report for
> February is posted here.  I hope you find it useful.  Please do add comments
> on the discussion page, or on this mail trail, or offlist to me.
> Many thanks.
>
> hisham
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Program: Community Monthly Report: Feb 2012

[CherianTinu Abraham]

Hi Pranav,
In India, it is extremely difficult to hairline separate who has done which
event. - Chapter, Community and WMF India Programs.

Let us take the case of the Trichy event, the request came to a community
member Rsrikanth to the chapter. Nitika was actively involved along with me
and Naveen. The chapter signed the MoU and supplied some goodies. Nitika
was actively involved in coaching Sohan, a chapter member and Rsrikanth.
One must not also forget that both Hisham & Nitika are also chapter
members.

Another event in Chennai (Jaya eng college) , where Subha led, his travel
expenses was reimbursed by the Chapter, Subha is a Chapter SIG Chair .. The
event is supported by Hisham & Nitika too. Subha is also an India Programs
executive.

I actively organize Bangalore Meetups and support several others .. Should
I be worrying whether I am doing as a chapter member, board member or a
community member?

As with Assam meetup recently, coordinated by Shiju, some of the expenses
were met from a personal grant from the Foundation to me & Shiju.

There was a recent Malayalam Wiki Academy in Bangalore organised by
Malayalam Community. Some of them are also Chapter members. People like me
and Naveen actively helped the event ..Are we doing as chapter board member
or community member? We don't really know.. But we are just genuinely
helping the movement, with worrying about what capacity we are doing it.

The various academies that we do, some of the requests comes directly to
the chapter, community or India programs, but each supporting each other in
different capacities.

Now Noopur is a GLAM Champion, Chapter member and Delhi SIG Chair and also
part of Chapter Communications Team. She now also heads the Communication &
PR for the India Programs.

As I explained, it is difficult to separate the contributions of different
entities or individuals for the Wikimedia  movement in India.

IMHO, we should be only concerned about the outcomes of the event and not
who gets the credit.


-TC



On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 12:12 PM,  wrote:

>  Im a bit confused. IIRC, for the Trichy event, the Chapter signed an MoU,
> which means it was a chapter outreach session which India Programs may have
> supported (correct me if I am wrong).
>
> Hisham, can you please divide outreach activities into two - those
> conducted by India Programs and those conducted by Community/Chapter but
> supported by India Programs, giving details on how you supported them?
> Likewise, if the chapter supports an India Programs initiative, it must
> mention in its report that it was a supportive role and not a chapter event.
>
> As things stand, both the Chapter and India Programs will put in a report
> stating they conducted x events, which will overlap with one and other,
> thus not giving a clear picture of who conducted how many events.
>
> --
> From: his...@wikimedia.org
> Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 12:06:10 +0530
> To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Program: Community Monthly Report: Feb
> 2012
>
>
> I'm starting a monthly update on India Program activities.  The report for
> February is posted 
> here.
>  I hope you find it useful.  Please do add comments on the discussion 
> page,
> or on this mail trail, or offlist to me.
>
> Many thanks.
>
>  *hisham*
>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Program: Community Monthly Report: Feb 2012

[Hisham]

On Mar 7, 2012, at 12:12 PM,  
 wrote:

> Im a bit confused. IIRC, for the Trichy event, the Chapter signed an MoU, 
> which means it was a chapter outreach session which India Programs may have 
> supported (correct me if I am wrong).
> 
> Hisham, can you please divide outreach activities into two - those conducted 
> by India Programs and those conducted by Community/Chapter but supported by 
> India Programs, giving details on how you supported them? Likewise, if the 
> chapter supports an India Programs initiative, it must mention in its report 
> that it was a supportive role and not a chapter event.
> 
> As things stand, both the Chapter and India Programs will put in a report 
> stating they conducted x events, which will overlap with one and other, thus 
> not giving a clear picture of who conducted how many events.

Nothing is conducted solely by India Program - and hence I said "supported."  
Everything is conducted by the community - sometimes under the aegis of the 
Chapter and sometimes independently.  The support that we have provided varies 
- from getting the actual event fixed up to providing presentation material to 
interested community members to participating in these events.  

hisham

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: Medianama : "Wikimedia India Rolls Out Realtime Search; Supports Indic Editions"

[Shiju Alex]

>
> Correct me if am wrong, this is not due to the transliteration, it might
> occur for any Indic / language text which is entered through more than one
> keystrore(which might include Inscript as well) due to the nature of
> algorithm used for instant search?.


I am not sure about the technical details of the
project. Santhosh, Shreyas, Junaid, or some one else involved in this
project can clarify this.

What I felt is, the reader (here a Medianama employee) tried to search some
article in Kannada wikipedia using Kannada transliteration scheme. He
didn't got the desired results. This might have happened due to two reasons

   - the articles he searched might not be there in kananda wikipedia
   - the typing scheme he tried was different


If we can enhance the typing tool as per the requirement of reader then
that would be nice.

Shiju





On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 12:27 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 11:54, Shiju Alex  wrote:
>
>> Irrelevant Results? We weren’t too happy with results generated through
>> Indic language transliteration input
>
>
> Correct me if am wrong, this is not due to the transliteration, it might
> occur for any Indic / language text which is entered through more than one
> keystrore(which might include Inscript as well) due to the nature of
> algorithm used for instant search?. Somewhat relevant post by Santhosh
> here[1] although its about fuzziness.
>
> [1]  https://plus.google.com/105440198958793955794/posts/ekSPWgodBzU
>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: Medianama : "Wikimedia India Rolls Out Realtime Search; Supports Indic Editions"

[Srikanth Lakshmanan]

On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 11:54, Shiju Alex  wrote:

> Irrelevant Results? We weren’t too happy with results generated through
> Indic language transliteration input


Correct me if am wrong, this is not due to the transliteration, it might
occur for any Indic / language text which is entered through more than one
keystrore(which might include Inscript as well) due to the nature of
algorithm used for instant search?. Somewhat relevant post by Santhosh
here[1] although its about fuzziness.

[1]  https://plus.google.com/105440198958793955794/posts/ekSPWgodBzU

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Program: Community Monthly Report: Feb 2012

[wheredevelsdare]

Im a bit confused. IIRC, for the Trichy event, the Chapter signed an MoU, which 
means it was a chapter outreach session which India Programs may have supported 
(correct me if I am wrong).

Hisham, can you please divide outreach activities into two - those conducted by 
India Programs and those conducted by Community/Chapter but supported by India 
Programs, giving details on how you supported them? Likewise, if the chapter 
supports an India Programs initiative, it must mention in its report that it 
was a supportive role and not a chapter event.

As things stand, both the Chapter and India Programs will put in a report 
stating they conducted x events, which will overlap with one and other, thus 
not giving a clear picture of who conducted how many events.

From: his...@wikimedia.org
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 12:06:10 +0530
To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Program: Community Monthly Report: Feb 2012



I'm starting a monthly update on India Program activities.  The report for 
February is posted here.  I hope you find it useful.  Please do add comments on 
the discussion page, or on this mail trail, or offlist to me.
Many thanks.

hisham
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[Wikimediaindia-l] India Program: Community Monthly Report: Feb 2012

[Hisham]

I'm starting a monthly update on India Program activities.  The report for 
February is posted here.  I hope you find it useful.  Please do add comments on 
the discussion page, or on this mail trail, or offlist to me.

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: Medianama : "Wikimedia India Rolls Out Realtime Search; Supports Indic Editions"

[Shiju Alex]

>
> *We hope that Wikimedia works on delivering better transliteration
> support or improving the results for Indic languages. *


Typing scheme for Transliteration is an issue (for readers) since there is
no standard transliteration scheme for any language. For editors it is not
an issue since they use that in wiki. Providing *help link* to typing
schemes (transliteration/Inscript or other schemes) once a scheme is
selected can be one solution. But the issue here is live.wikimedia is meant
for readers. So they may not really like to go and understand the typing
scheme. So it is a tricky situation.

In addition to the existing typing schemes we can think about providing
more typing schemes to readers (including the google transliteration
option, but not sure that is viable since it is not open source ).

*However, we got accurate results with the Hindi Inscript input option.*


since Inscript uses same layout for all indic scripts if Inscript solution
works for Hindi then it work for all other indic languages including
Kannada.



*
*
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Tinu Cherian wrote:

> *Medianama : "Wikimedia India Rolls Out Realtime Search; Supports Indic
> Editions"
> *
>
> http://www.medianama.com/2012/03/223-wikimedia-india-rolls-out-realtime-search-supports-indic-editions/
>
>
> *It looks like Wikimedia India has implemented a project by engineering
> student Shrey Gokani to roll out an instant search engine of its own at
> live.wikimedia.in. The site is under a creative commons license, with the
> code dual licensed under GPL and Creative Commons. The Wikimedia Instant
> site does appear to have additional functionality over Gokani’s version,
> with the ability to choose an Indic Input keyboard, since the service
> supports Indic language editions of Wikimedia services.
>
> The search engine works quite similar to Wikilive, another student project
> about which, we had written in November 2011. And similar to what we had
> wished, Wikimedia Live also covers Wikipedia, Wikitionary, Wikibooks,
> Wikiquotes, Wikiversity, Wikinews and Wikisource, and their Indic editions,
> in realtime. The site also offers other relevant Wikipedia search results
> on the top, followed by a preview of the most relevant Wikipedia article to
> the search query.
>
>
> Indic Language Support: The site allows users to type in queries in 21
> Indic languages including Kannada, Hindi, Telugu, Marathi, Sanskrit, Bangla
> and others. How it works is that the search engine allows the user to
> choose the language of his preference, following which he has to choose an
> input script which is apt for his language. For instance, if one chooses
> Kannada as his preferred language, he has to choose between the Kannada
> transliteration option or choose the Kannada Inscript option, however if
> you choose Hindi as your preferred language, you will have to select the
> sole Hindi Inscript option.
>
> Irrelevant Results? We weren’t too happy with results generated through
> Indic language transliteration input, since it delivered wrong results in
> most cases when we gave it a spin (we tried it on OS X Lion on Google
> Chrome). We hope that Wikimedia works on delivering better transliteration
> support or improving the results for Indic languages. However, we got
> accurate results with the Hindi Inscript input option.
>
> Similar Portals: Deepanshu Mehndiratta, a second year engineering student
> at BITS-Pilani KK Birla Goa Campus, had created an instant Wikipedia search
> called ‘Wikilive‘ which allowed users to type in a search query and get
> relevant Wikipedia article and topics instantly. WikiInstant and The
> Instant Wiki are other portals which allow users to search Wikipedia in
> realtime. *
>
>
>
> Regards
> Tinu Cherian
> pr...@wikimedia.in
> http://wiki.wikimedia.in/In_the_news
>
> Important Note : Non-commercial reproduction for informative purposes
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> copyrights of the article / content. All copyrights are duly acknowledged.
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Implementation of QR Pedia in India

[Arun Ramarathnam]

Srikanth,

I would concur with Ashwin and Pradeep.
Go for it with all your heart, the potential for QRpedia is immense.

You ideas on making an impact on the Bangalore Metro are great.

In the last Bangalore meetup I spoke about about the opportunity Wikipedia
in an Indian context, including some surmountable challenges.

regards
Arun

On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <
rsrikant...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hiya all.
> This is a quick summary of one of my silliest ideas.
> Thanks to my Wiki-friend PhantomSteve, and real life buddy @aagan86 [from
> Twitter] who got me interested in QR codes.
> I kept this a secret, telling it partly to Pradeep Mohandas, and Nitika
> Tandon. [SBC-YPR knew it the whole time].
> I had contacted Roger Bamkin of the UK Chapter, and he connected me with
> Terence Eden. As you all know, the two of them created QR Pedia together.
>
> Sent on 28-12-11 to Roger Bamkin.
> *Hi,
> I'm Srikanth, from India, known on Wiki and Twitter as Rsrikanth05.
> I've been on the English Wikipedia from June '05 and I have a little over
> 10,000 edits. I've been editing since I was 13.
>
> I got really interested in QR Codes a while back, and I tried using one to
> promote a WikiMeetup in Coimbatore.
>
> I stumbled across QR Pedia on Google, and thought I'd get in touch with
> you.
> I thought of this crazy idea to promote learning History and Geography via
> Wikipedia in India, using QR Codes. Seeing that a VAST majority of kids
> today roam around with BlackBerrys, iPhones, et al, I thought this would be
> a good opportunity.
>
> I'm a mega transport enthusiast, so I thought I'd write to the Bangalore
> Metro Rail Corporation Limited, who operate the Bangalore Metro. I chose
> BMRCL, because:* *
> 1> Out of the three Metro systems in the country, it is the most
> approachable.
> 2> Out of the various agencies in Bangalore and it's parent state of
> Karnataka, again it is the most approachable and tech savvy.
>
> My plan is to convince the BMRCL about providing QR codes to the various
> localities and landmarks along the route of the first track.
> Ideas in my brain are:
> 1> Each station has multiple exits, each of those can be linked to an
> article. Eg: At MG Road station, there is an exit towards Commercial
> Street, one towards Brigade Road, and one towards the Parade Ground. The
> Brigade Road exit can have a QR code pointing to Brigade Road, while the
> Comm. St, one can have one pointing to it's article.
> 2> Where the board says the station name, place a Code for the article of
> that area.
> 3> Presently, two stations are named after people: Mahatama Gandhi and
> Swami Vivekananda. More are in the pipeline, once the construction is
> completed. We could link the Code to the article on that person.
>
> I agree that articles should be in all possible languages and should be of
> high quality with good media. I am working on this, hoping the community
> will join me.* *
> *
> *This came in response:*
>
> *I don't think its silly at all. What can we do to help you? Most of our
> best successes have been silly ideas (who would think you could allow
> everyone to edit a good source of information?)
>
> We have a following of people who like writing articles and the Wikimedia
> UK board are keen on this idea. (We were also in the Wikimedia Foundation
> annual report)
>
> We can show you how we ran the Derby project * *
> http://midea.nmc.org/2011/12/one-small-museum-making-a-big-impact-an-interview-with-roger-bamkin/
>
> One of our most repected editors in the UK is 13 now!* *
>
> Do you have some "sources" that we could write these articles from? You
> may be able to convince the bus company by doing one stop?
>
> Very interested in helping you, the bus passemgers etc and of course
> Wikipedia
>
> regards* *
> Roger*
>
> *Further*:
> *Srikanth
>
> Obviously Ive never tried to sell this idea to a bus company, but I have
> given talks in Bristol about how QRpedia can move a museum or a city up the
> google rankings.
>
> I have also copied in Terence Eden as he has also spoken about this idea
> (we both made QRpedia together). He'll be intrigued by the India link and
> he may be able to suggest other business cases.
>
> If you look on my wikipedia page and try the links ...* *
>
> regards
> Victuallers - Roger*
>
> *From Terence:*
> *Sounds really good. I currently work for [placeholder]- who are based in
> Bangalore.  Hopefully I'll be able to come out and visit the
> installation in 2012 :-)
>
> You could also link to the transport company's Wikipedia page - they* *
> may like to see that as an example.*
>
>
> Hopefully, something can happen.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Srikanth Ramakrishnan,
>
> P.S: I'm sending my Chapter membership form.
>
>
>
>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Implementation of QR Pedia in India

[Ashwin Baindur]

Pradeep's lament is an unrecognised truth of GLAM. The feeling is
everywhere. The problem is that we do not realise that unless one is
already an afficianado, bare objects (whether they are trees in a garden or
objects in a museum) are "dumb" to a person. We need human intervention, a
story-teller, a person who brings these objects to life, who tells us how
they affect us, our interests and our situation in life.

So whether it is a trip by the nature-club to our campus wetlands, or
visitors coming to the museum I curate, I see my role as an "interpreter".
This is a concept not widely known but developed by the American National
Parks Service in the fifties.

An object as inherently interesting as a [[katana]] is there on the stand
in our museum, within reach but dumb - an amber coloured handle with brown
leather encompassing its blade, reposing unobtrusively on its stand. By
itself it only says here is a sword. If I were not there,the visitor moves
on unperturbed, to be forgotten when they view the next object, and so on
in its turn.

But when I encourage the visitor to reach out, unsheath it, the sword
begins to come alive to them as a potent weapon of war. Their interest is
aroused.  Now is the time to highlight the sword as an object of technical
excellence.  The description of the exquisite unmatched sword-making
technique of the Japanese which made it one of the finest swords in
existence, fuels their appetite. I tell them of the sharpness of the edge
(it is now safe and blunt) - so sharp, it can slice apart a silk
handkerchief drifting down onto it. They see the brilliant surface, now
parti-rusted and ask them to hold it in the position horizontal at face
level, where they can see the enemy behind. They understand that the sword
is hard, sharp and tough, all at once, and it can slice a man in half from
head to groin.

The sword comes into context when I tell them it was carried by an officer
of the Empire of Japan in World War II. He would have been a proud samurai
warrior - the head of the family the sword belonged to and the sword itself
handed from generation to generation to the eldest or senior-most in
succession. He would have come to Burma in World War II in 1941 as part of
an invading army from which the British and Indians fled. The Japanese were
merciless to their captives - they themselves preferred death to dishonour
or surrender. They tortured their prisoners and bayonetted them for
pleasure or training. This sword itself may have beheaded many a hapless
prisoner.

The Indian Army's counter-offensive in 1944-45 was merciless and crushing.
Less than 100 of the 5 lakh Japanese who invaded Burma returned to Japan.
The sword was picked up off the body of the officer by a JCO who attempted
to appropriate the sword for himself. It was confiscated by the company
commander Maj RM Rau and presented to the Museum.

For the Japanese family, the loss of the heirloom was as great as a
disaster as the loss of its wielder. The family sword alongwith the samurai
armour was as much part of the family shrine as the Buddha statue. Its loss
in an alien land was a catastrophe. The sword was thus a symbol of tragedy
- to its former owners and the luckless who were its victims. It is also a
metaphor for how a value-neutral technology is misused for man's warlike
purposes.

After such an encounter with a museum object where the uniqueness,
marvellousness, history and symbolism are all brought out to the visitor,
the sword is imprinted in the visitor's mind. Years after they have visited
my museum, they have told me how they remembered the samurai sword that I
showed them.

Warm regards,

Ashwin Baindur
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On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 8:58 AM, Pradeep Mohandas 
wrote:
>
> It would make up for the feeling of the lack of information that one
feels when one visits a botanical garden.
>
> Pradeep
>
>
> On 7 March 2012 08:44, Srikanth Ramakrishnan 
wrote:
>>
>> Thank you both for the encouragement. As for the tree, Pradeep, the
>> idea is excellent. It could be used in a Botanical Garden like
>> Lalbagh, scan the tree indeed. And yes, there is no tree higher than
>> the Metro.
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Srikanth Ramakrishnan.
>> Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on February 12th.
>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore
>> Aliens invaded Tamil Nadu, left their Spacship and now it is a Toll
Plaza.
>>
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IVRCL-Vijayamangalam-Toll-Plaza.JPG
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Implementation of QR Pedia in India

[Pradeep Mohandas]

It would make up for the feeling of the lack of information that one feels
when one visits a botanical garden.

Pradeep

On 7 March 2012 08:44, Srikanth Ramakrishnan wrote:

> Thank you both for the encouragement. As for the tree, Pradeep, the
> idea is excellent. It could be used in a Botanical Garden like
> Lalbagh, scan the tree indeed. And yes, there is no tree higher than
> the Metro.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Srikanth Ramakrishnan.
> Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on February 12th.
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore
> Aliens invaded Tamil Nadu, left their Spacship and now it is a Toll Plaza.
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IVRCL-Vijayamangalam-Toll-Plaza.JPG
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Implementation of QR Pedia in India

[Srikanth Ramakrishnan]

Thank you both for the encouragement. As for the tree, Pradeep, the
idea is excellent. It could be used in a Botanical Garden like
Lalbagh, scan the tree indeed. And yes, there is no tree higher than
the Metro.

-- 
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Srikanth Ramakrishnan.
Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on February 12th.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore
Aliens invaded Tamil Nadu, left their Spacship and now it is a Toll Plaza.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IVRCL-Vijayamangalam-Toll-Plaza.JPG

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Implementation of QR Pedia in India

[Pradeep Mohandas]

In Srikanth's case I hope he hits the Bangalore Metro and not the
trees. Ergo, pointing your mobile at a tree and getting info on that
tree would be an out of this world experience!

Pradeep
Handheld

On 07/03/2012, Ashwin Baindur  wrote:
> Srikanth, go for it. If you aim for the sky, you may hit the trees!
>
> Warm regards,
>
> Ashwin Baindur
> --
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <
> rsrikant...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hiya all.
>> This is a quick summary of one of my silliest ideas.
>> Thanks to my Wiki-friend PhantomSteve, and real life buddy @aagan86 [from
>> Twitter] who got me interested in QR codes.
>> I kept this a secret, telling it partly to Pradeep Mohandas, and Nitika
>> Tandon. [SBC-YPR knew it the whole time].
>> I had contacted Roger Bamkin of the UK Chapter, and he connected me with
>> Terence Eden. As you all know, the two of them created QR Pedia together.
>>
>> Sent on 28-12-11 to Roger Bamkin.
>> *Hi,
>> I'm Srikanth, from India, known on Wiki and Twitter as Rsrikanth05.
>> I've been on the English Wikipedia from June '05 and I have a little over
>> 10,000 edits. I've been editing since I was 13.
>>
>> I got really interested in QR Codes a while back, and I tried using one to
>> promote a WikiMeetup in Coimbatore.
>>
>> I stumbled across QR Pedia on Google, and thought I'd get in touch with
>> you.
>> I thought of this crazy idea to promote learning History and Geography via
>> Wikipedia in India, using QR Codes. Seeing that a VAST majority of kids
>> today roam around with BlackBerrys, iPhones, et al, I thought this would
>> be
>> a good opportunity.
>>
>> I'm a mega transport enthusiast, so I thought I'd write to the Bangalore
>> Metro Rail Corporation Limited, who operate the Bangalore Metro. I chose
>> BMRCL, because:* *
>> 1> Out of the three Metro systems in the country, it is the most
>> approachable.
>> 2> Out of the various agencies in Bangalore and it's parent state of
>> Karnataka, again it is the most approachable and tech savvy.
>>
>> My plan is to convince the BMRCL about providing QR codes to the various
>> localities and landmarks along the route of the first track.
>> Ideas in my brain are:
>> 1> Each station has multiple exits, each of those can be linked to an
>> article. Eg: At MG Road station, there is an exit towards Commercial
>> Street, one towards Brigade Road, and one towards the Parade Ground. The
>> Brigade Road exit can have a QR code pointing to Brigade Road, while the
>> Comm. St, one can have one pointing to it's article.
>> 2> Where the board says the station name, place a Code for the article of
>> that area.
>> 3> Presently, two stations are named after people: Mahatama Gandhi and
>> Swami Vivekananda. More are in the pipeline, once the construction is
>> completed. We could link the Code to the article on that person.
>>
>> I agree that articles should be in all possible languages and should be of
>> high quality with good media. I am working on this, hoping the community
>> will join me.* *
>> *
>> *This came in response:*
>>
>> *I don't think its silly at all. What can we do to help you? Most of our
>> best successes have been silly ideas (who would think you could allow
>> everyone to edit a good source of information?)
>>
>> We have a following of people who like writing articles and the Wikimedia
>> UK board are keen on this idea. (We were also in the Wikimedia Foundation
>> annual report)
>>
>> We can show you how we ran the Derby project * *
>> http://midea.nmc.org/2011/12/one-small-museum-making-a-big-impact-an-interview-with-roger-bamkin/
>>
>> One of our most repected editors in the UK is 13 now!* *
>>
>> Do you have some "sources" that we could write these articles from? You
>> may be able to convince the bus company by doing one stop?
>>
>> Very interested in helping you, the bus passemgers etc and of course
>> Wikipedia
>>
>> regards* *
>> Roger*
>>
>> *Further*:
>> *Srikanth
>>
>> Obviously Ive never tried to sell this idea to a bus company, but I have
>> given talks in Bristol about how QRpedia can move a museum or a city up
>> the
>> google rankings.
>>
>> I have also copied in Terence Eden as he has also spoken about this idea
>> (we both made QRpedia together). He'll be intrigued by the India link and
>> he may be able to suggest other business cases.
>>
>> If you look on my wikipedia page and try the links ...* *
>>
>> regards
>> Victuallers - Roger*
>>
>> *From Terence:*
>> *Sounds really good. I currently work for [placeholder]- who are based in
>> Bangalore.  Hopefully I'll be able to come out and visit the
>> installation in 2012 :-)
>>
>> You could also link to the transport company's Wikipedia page - they* *
>> may like to see that as an example.*
>>
>>
>> Hopefully, something can happen.
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Srikanth Ramakrishnan,
>>
>> P.S: I'm sending my Chapter membership form.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Mediawiki-l] Invitation to help beta-test the MediaWiki 1.19 extension for the Wikipedia Education Program

[Ashwin Baindur]

Thanks Srikanth, that explains a lot. Stragely this link is not available
on thw wmflabs page where I would have thought it would be relevant.

Warm regards,

Ashwin Baindur
--


On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 1:03 AM, Srikanth Lakshmanan wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 23:43, Ashwin Baindur wrote:
>
>> What exactly is Wikipedia Education Programs?
>>
>
> Its an extension designed to manage *EPs. Read more here[1]
>
>
>> How does it work? Does it provide a private workspace to EP participants
>> in Wikipedia completely invisible to other editors?
>>
>
> If am not wrong it provides set of dashboards / special pages for
> people(instructors,OA,CA,staff) to oversee edits by students enrolled in
> the program in a much easier way. I dont think there will be any data that
> will be closed / completely invisible to others. I am not sure if profiles
> would be closed / kept open.
>
>
>> Why are sock-puppets encouraged?
>>
>
> That link was a test wiki for people who are interested in EP to test the
> software that's developed. Since you cant conduct a Ashwin-EP for the sake
> of testing, you are encouraged to sock on that wiki creating different
> accounts(of varied roles) and to test if you could utilize the special
> pages and make use of the features and it isn't buggy.
>
>
>> What elevated permissions are being provided to EP members?
>>
>
> Specific permissions only for EP. Otherwise they are too have same rights
> as any other new wiki user. A more detailed note on roles is available on
> the page linked.
>
>
>> Will the community be able to transparently oversee content introductions
>> by Education Programs?
>>
>
> Yes, the extension will only make it even more easier for those interested
> to oversee at a greater level of detail.
>
> [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Education_Program
>
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[Srikanth Lakshmanan]

On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 23:43, Ashwin Baindur wrote:

> What exactly is Wikipedia Education Programs?
>

Its an extension designed to manage *EPs. Read more here[1]


> How does it work? Does it provide a private workspace to EP participants
> in Wikipedia completely invisible to other editors?
>

If am not wrong it provides set of dashboards / special pages for
people(instructors,OA,CA,staff) to oversee edits by students enrolled in
the program in a much easier way. I dont think there will be any data that
will be closed / completely invisible to others. I am not sure if profiles
would be closed / kept open.


> Why are sock-puppets encouraged?
>

That link was a test wiki for people who are interested in EP to test the
software that's developed. Since you cant conduct a Ashwin-EP for the sake
of testing, you are encouraged to sock on that wiki creating different
accounts(of varied roles) and to test if you could utilize the special
pages and make use of the features and it isn't buggy.


> What elevated permissions are being provided to EP members?
>

Specific permissions only for EP. Otherwise they are too have same rights
as any other new wiki user. A more detailed note on roles is available on
the page linked.


> Will the community be able to transparently oversee content introductions
> by Education Programs?
>

Yes, the extension will only make it even more easier for those interested
to oversee at a greater level of detail.

[1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Education_Program

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Implementation of QR Pedia in India

[Ashwin Baindur]

Srikanth, go for it. If you aim for the sky, you may hit the trees!

Warm regards,

Ashwin Baindur
--


On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <
rsrikant...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hiya all.
> This is a quick summary of one of my silliest ideas.
> Thanks to my Wiki-friend PhantomSteve, and real life buddy @aagan86 [from
> Twitter] who got me interested in QR codes.
> I kept this a secret, telling it partly to Pradeep Mohandas, and Nitika
> Tandon. [SBC-YPR knew it the whole time].
> I had contacted Roger Bamkin of the UK Chapter, and he connected me with
> Terence Eden. As you all know, the two of them created QR Pedia together.
>
> Sent on 28-12-11 to Roger Bamkin.
> *Hi,
> I'm Srikanth, from India, known on Wiki and Twitter as Rsrikanth05.
> I've been on the English Wikipedia from June '05 and I have a little over
> 10,000 edits. I've been editing since I was 13.
>
> I got really interested in QR Codes a while back, and I tried using one to
> promote a WikiMeetup in Coimbatore.
>
> I stumbled across QR Pedia on Google, and thought I'd get in touch with
> you.
> I thought of this crazy idea to promote learning History and Geography via
> Wikipedia in India, using QR Codes. Seeing that a VAST majority of kids
> today roam around with BlackBerrys, iPhones, et al, I thought this would be
> a good opportunity.
>
> I'm a mega transport enthusiast, so I thought I'd write to the Bangalore
> Metro Rail Corporation Limited, who operate the Bangalore Metro. I chose
> BMRCL, because:* *
> 1> Out of the three Metro systems in the country, it is the most
> approachable.
> 2> Out of the various agencies in Bangalore and it's parent state of
> Karnataka, again it is the most approachable and tech savvy.
>
> My plan is to convince the BMRCL about providing QR codes to the various
> localities and landmarks along the route of the first track.
> Ideas in my brain are:
> 1> Each station has multiple exits, each of those can be linked to an
> article. Eg: At MG Road station, there is an exit towards Commercial
> Street, one towards Brigade Road, and one towards the Parade Ground. The
> Brigade Road exit can have a QR code pointing to Brigade Road, while the
> Comm. St, one can have one pointing to it's article.
> 2> Where the board says the station name, place a Code for the article of
> that area.
> 3> Presently, two stations are named after people: Mahatama Gandhi and
> Swami Vivekananda. More are in the pipeline, once the construction is
> completed. We could link the Code to the article on that person.
>
> I agree that articles should be in all possible languages and should be of
> high quality with good media. I am working on this, hoping the community
> will join me.* *
> *
> *This came in response:*
>
> *I don't think its silly at all. What can we do to help you? Most of our
> best successes have been silly ideas (who would think you could allow
> everyone to edit a good source of information?)
>
> We have a following of people who like writing articles and the Wikimedia
> UK board are keen on this idea. (We were also in the Wikimedia Foundation
> annual report)
>
> We can show you how we ran the Derby project * *
> http://midea.nmc.org/2011/12/one-small-museum-making-a-big-impact-an-interview-with-roger-bamkin/
>
> One of our most repected editors in the UK is 13 now!* *
>
> Do you have some "sources" that we could write these articles from? You
> may be able to convince the bus company by doing one stop?
>
> Very interested in helping you, the bus passemgers etc and of course
> Wikipedia
>
> regards* *
> Roger*
>
> *Further*:
> *Srikanth
>
> Obviously Ive never tried to sell this idea to a bus company, but I have
> given talks in Bristol about how QRpedia can move a museum or a city up the
> google rankings.
>
> I have also copied in Terence Eden as he has also spoken about this idea
> (we both made QRpedia together). He'll be intrigued by the India link and
> he may be able to suggest other business cases.
>
> If you look on my wikipedia page and try the links ...* *
>
> regards
> Victuallers - Roger*
>
> *From Terence:*
> *Sounds really good. I currently work for [placeholder]- who are based in
> Bangalore.  Hopefully I'll be able to come out and visit the
> installation in 2012 :-)
>
> You could also link to the transport company's Wikipedia page - they* *
> may like to see that as an example.*
>
>
> Hopefully, something can happen.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Srikanth Ramakrishnan,
>
> P.S: I'm sending my Chapter membership form.
>
>
>
>
>
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[Ashwin Baindur]

* for the word "post" read "link".

Warm regards,

Ashwin Baindur
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On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 11:43 PM, Ashwin Baindur wrote:

> Thanks for the link, srik.lak! But from reading that post, certain
> alarming questions arise.
>
> What exactly is Wikipedia Education Programs? How does it work? Does it
> provide a private workspace to EP participants in Wikipedia completely
> invisible to other editors? Why are sock-puppets encouraged? What elevated
> permissions are being provided to EP members? Will the community be able to
> transparently oversee content introductions by Education Programs?
>
> Warm regards,
>
> Ashwin Baindur
> --
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 1:51 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan wrote:
>
>> FYI, Since there is a lot of Interest in Education Program here.
>>
>> -- Forwarded message --
>> From: Rob Schnautz 
>> Date: Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 01:30
>> Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Invitation to help beta-test the MediaWiki 1.19
>> extension for the Wikipedia Education Program
>> To: mediawik...@lists.wikimedia.org, wikie...@lists.wikimedia.org
>>
>>
>> The MediaWiki developers have been working hard to integrate certain
>> elements of the Wikipedia Education Program into MediaWiki. If anyone is
>> interested in helping beta-test the new extension, click (or copy and
>> paste) the link below to get started:
>>
>>
>> http://education.wmflabs.org/index.php/MW_1.18:Community_portal/Welcome,_beta_testers
>> !
>>
>> Please note that this site does not will not represent official Wikipedia
>> Education Program data. Feel free to alter the data on the wiki however you
>> wish; the more testing you do, the better!
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Rob Schnautz
>> Online Communications Contractor
>> Global Development
>> Wikimedia Foundation
>>
>> 11450 Northridge Dr
>> Evansville IN 47720
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Mediawiki-l] Invitation to help beta-test the MediaWiki 1.19 extension for the Wikipedia Education Program

[Ashwin Baindur]

Thanks for the link, srik.lak! But from reading that post, certain alarming
questions arise.

What exactly is Wikipedia Education Programs? How does it work? Does it
provide a private workspace to EP participants in Wikipedia completely
invisible to other editors? Why are sock-puppets encouraged? What elevated
permissions are being provided to EP members? Will the community be able to
transparently oversee content introductions by Education Programs?

Warm regards,

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> FYI, Since there is a lot of Interest in Education Program here.
>
> -- Forwarded message --
> From: Rob Schnautz 
> Date: Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 01:30
> Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Invitation to help beta-test the MediaWiki 1.19
> extension for the Wikipedia Education Program
> To: mediawik...@lists.wikimedia.org, wikie...@lists.wikimedia.org
>
>
> The MediaWiki developers have been working hard to integrate certain
> elements of the Wikipedia Education Program into MediaWiki. If anyone is
> interested in helping beta-test the new extension, click (or copy and
> paste) the link below to get started:
>
>
> http://education.wmflabs.org/index.php/MW_1.18:Community_portal/Welcome,_beta_testers
> !
>
> Please note that this site does not will not represent official Wikipedia
> Education Program data. Feel free to alter the data on the wiki however you
> wish; the more testing you do, the better!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rob Schnautz
> Online Communications Contractor
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Tamil Wiki Media Contest

[Srikanth Ramakrishnan]

As someone who uploaded a measly 22 files out the 15k+ Odd files, I
feel immensly proud as there are some mind blowing images from the Sri
Lankan tamil community and I feel great to be associated with
something so amazing.

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Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on February 12th.
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Video: First GLAM event in Asia (GLAM-Creative Commons Workshop, Mumbai 2011)

[Ashwin Baindur]

Hey thanks. I never thought I'd get onto Pad.me.

Warm regards,

Ashwin Baindur
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On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 7:57 PM,  wrote:

>  Hiya,
>
> The Mumbai Community hosted the GLAM-Creative Commons 
> Workshopin 
> June 2011. The event was video-graphed by Pad.ma and the video of the
> event is now available here . The video has
> been uploaded  under a CC-BY-SA license and will
> be uploaded on Commons as well in the next few days.
>
> Apologies in the delay in providing this link, Pad.ma were restructuring
> their website.
>
> We hope that through this video, those new to CC licensing and wanting to
> understand it will have something to help them.
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Workshop/Mumbai_Workshop_1
> [2] pad.ma/ARB/video/
> [3] http://pad.ma/ARB/info
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Video: First GLAM event in Asia (GLAM-Creative Commons Workshop, Mumbai 2011)

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Hiya,

The Mumbai Community hosted the GLAM-Creative Commons Workshop in June 2011. 
The event was video-graphed by Pad.ma and the video of the event is now 
available here. The video has been uploaded under a CC-BY-SA license and will 
be uploaded on Commons as well in the next few days.

Apologies in the delay in providing this link, Pad.ma were restructuring their 
website.

We hope that through this video, those new to CC licensing and wanting to 
understand it will have something to help them.

Kind Regards,

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Workshop/Mumbai_Workshop_1
[2] pad.ma/ARB/video/ 
[3] http://pad.ma/ARB/info


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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Sreejithk2000 is now an admin on Commons

[Srikanth Lakshmanan]

A strange coincidence, Arjuna was saying "We need more 'Indian hands' on
#commons".[1], this happened. Now who wants to put more Indian hands on
commons?

[1] http://twitter.com/arjunaraoc/status/176330764781236226
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Sreejithk2000 is now an admin on Commons

[Arjun Mangol Kanoth]

Congrats!! :)

On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar
wrote:

> Congrats Sreejith !!
>
> Please help us in clearing the confusion for copyrights and licensing
> of images/AV files and also their formats.
>
> Congrats again!!
> -Sudhanwa
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 4:17 AM, CherianTinu Abraham
>  wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I am happy to share the news  that  User:Sreejithk2000 is now an
> > administrator on Wikimedia Commons.
> >
> >
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Administrators/Requests/Sreejithk2000
> >
> > AFAIK, Sreejith is the only Indian  with administrative rights on the
> > Commons.
> >
> > Do note that User:Yann and User:Wikitanvir ( Bangladesh ) are also
> sysops on
> > Commons.
> >
> > Sreejith is a prolific contributor to English & Malayalam Wikipedias and
> > Commons. He has been a registered user since 2006, and has 88,000 global
> > edits, including 33,000 on Commons. He is also an administrator on
> Malayalam
> > Wikipedia.
> >
> > So next time if you have doubts about Commons and Image Copyrights, you
> know
> > whom to sees help.  :)
> >
> > Wishing the very best to Sreejithk2000!
> >
> > Looking forward to see more people from India active in Commons.
> >
> > Regards
> > Tinu Cherian
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Open GLAM Serbia conference report

[Noopur]

Dear all,

This is a slightly belated update of my experience at the Open GLAM
conference in Serbia on 24-25th February. Held in Belgrade, the conference
was one of the best events I've attended in terms of hospitality. I had a
great time and thank the organizers WM-Serbia for taking special care of
all of us.

*Highlights: *
Regarding the conference, although it was more concentrated on local
language programs, we had a few sessions in English where all of us
presented on perspectives and on going GLAM projects in our respective
countries. One of the key questions of the Serbian community was *how to
kick start their first project*. During the internal meeting on the second
day we discussed these questions in detail. I presented on the role of
outreach as crucial to GLAM developments and how  a systematic approach is
needed while working with or contacting GLAMs in bureaucratic setups. We've
learnt that many institutions are already approaching them for talks.

It was great to hear Adrienne and Cristina talk about their projects which
concentrated on a variety of things including *minor language* communities,
institutional collaborations in *WikiAfrica*, training for GLAM volunteers.
We had wonderful conversations with Mile, Milos and Philip about their own
community, how things are working, the need for more volunteers.

You can find my presentation at the conference Wiki on Outreach and I have
pledged full support and help in terms of documentation, sharing best
practices and community building tips. Just to make a* link to the
Amsterdam GLAMcamp*, we realized that only reaching out to cultural
institutions and getting them to understand how GLAM works maybe a one time
challenge, but it is essential to maintain community support and interest
if we want to deliver results. There were presentations by Orsoya, Jan and
talks with Kirill, hopefully summaries and translations of which exist on
the wiki.

A big thanks to Asaf for facilitating things, Mile and Ivan for impeccable
hospitality and warmth, and all my fellow participants for the stories
shared over Rakija. :)

Thank you,
Warm regards
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Workshop at BVCOE

[Piyush Aggarwal]

Hii Everyone,

Wikipedia has been invited by Bharati Vidyapeeth's College of Engineering,
New 
Delhi
(BVCOE)
to conduct a workshop during their technical fest gCON
2012.
There will be a session on the 14th March (Wednesday). The agenda includes
explaining the basics of Wikipedia, 5 Pillars, few policies, anatomy of an
article, basic editing Wikipedia etc.

Here is the link to the event:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Workshop/Delhi_Workshop_2

If you'd like to help out please add your details here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Workshop/Delhi_Workshop_2#Facilitators

Cheers,
Piyush Aggarwal
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Announcing Noopur Raval as Consultant, Wikimedia Foundation (India Program, Communications)

[Jayanta Nath]

Congratulations Noopur!!

from Calcutta community...
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Sreejithk2000 is now an admin on Commons

[Sudhanwa Jogalekar]

Congrats Sreejith !!

Please help us in clearing the confusion for copyrights and licensing
of images/AV files and also their formats.

Congrats again!!
-Sudhanwa


On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 4:17 AM, CherianTinu Abraham
 wrote:
> Hi all,
>     I am happy to share the news  that  User:Sreejithk2000 is now an
> administrator on Wikimedia Commons.
>
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Administrators/Requests/Sreejithk2000
>
> AFAIK, Sreejith is the only Indian  with administrative rights on the
> Commons.
>
> Do note that User:Yann and User:Wikitanvir ( Bangladesh ) are also sysops on
> Commons.
>
> Sreejith is a prolific contributor to English & Malayalam Wikipedias and
> Commons. He has been a registered user since 2006, and has 88,000 global
> edits, including 33,000 on Commons. He is also an administrator on Malayalam
> Wikipedia.
>
> So next time if you have doubts about Commons and Image Copyrights, you know
> whom to sees help.  :)
>
> Wishing the very best to Sreejithk2000!
>
> Looking forward to see more people from India active in Commons.
>
> Regards
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Announcing Noopur Raval as Consultant, Wikimedia Foundation (India Program, Communications)

[Sudhanwa Jogalekar]

Congratulations Noopur!!

Do come to Pune for some meetups and academies.

-Sudhanwa


On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 7:19 PM, Hisham  wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I am pleased to announce that Noopur Raval ([User:Noopur28] has been
> selected as Consultant to the Wikimedia Foundation, and will support
> Communications for India Program.
>
> This position will perform 4 key functions.  Firstly, it will support
> communications with our community.  This involves a regular set of updates
> (such as newsletters) as well as specific communication projects such as
> story-telling of local community initiatives (to document experiences,
> celebrate successes and cross-pollinate ideas.)  This is not for day-to-day
> program communications - which is a core part of each of our
> responsibilities in the India Program team.  Second will be to support media
> & PR for local community initiatives.  The single biggest challenge here
> will to be get more Indic language media coverage to support community
> building efforts. This will be done directly with community members and also
> in co-ordination with the India Chapter's Communications Media & PR team.
>  The third aspect is to build and expand existing community social networks
> (such as WikimediaIndia on facebook) and to help with the use of social
> networks to support community building.  Lastly, there is untapped potential
> of using digital outreach - to augment existing physical outreach efforts.
>  We need to (very, very carefully) explore if we can reach out to our large
> and growing reader base and inform, encourage and enable them to become
> editors using online channels and resources.
>
> Noopur is a community member and has supported outreach activities
> (in Ahmedabad & Delhi), is a member of Delhi SIG of the Chapter, has
> participated in community collaborations like Collaboration of the Month and
> has been actively trying to start GLAM in India.
>
> Noopur is from Gandhinagar and is graduating from JNU with a Master's in
> Arts & Aesthetics.  She has a triple honors Bachelor's in Media Studies,
> Literature and Psychology from Christ College, Bangalore.  She has interned
> with Radio Mirchi, Times of India and the Centre for Internet & Society
> (amongst others) - as well as done some teaching assignments.  She is an
> active blogger (including for the India Art Summit, 2011.) She has published
> a novella and co-authored an anthology of poems, plays & short stories and
> has co-presented a paper on "Wikiwars" with [User:Srikeit.]  She is also an
> amateur photographer and has contributed to Commons as well as other
> platforms.
>
> The Communications position has taken a long time to fill.  The initial call
> for selection was in September.  I reported back to the community
> in December that I had failed to find the right candidate and hence the
> delay.  There were a number of deserving candidates and this selection has
> taken time because of the need to find the most suitable profile for a
> complex role.  This role requires the right mix of an academic foundation in
> communications, domain expertise as well as adequate familiarity with our
> community.  It also requires adaptability and strong learning skills -
> because so much of what we are trying to do is pioneering.  I am confident
> that she brings the right level of experience and competencies  - and I'm
> very excited by the opportunity of making a step jump in the impact of
> communications for our community.
>
> Do join me in welcoming Noopur.  She will start on March 12 and will be
> based in New Delhi.
>
> Best
>
> hisham
>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Register: Learn Wikipedia editing while you sit at home

[Srikanth Lakshmanan]

On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 14:31, ansuman  wrote:

> Can anybody tell me the difference here :
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&campaign=ACP1&type=signup&returnto=Main+Page
>
> and
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:UserLogin/signup
>
>  What is campaign=ACP1  ??
>

We could track signup based on campaign. Read more here[1]

Akshay,
Would you be interested to throw more light about your work?

[1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Account_creation

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Register: Learn Wikipedia editing while you sit at home

[ansuman]

Ya you are right, but we can do this for one Wikipedia per session.

Can anybody tell me the difference here :
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&campaign=ACP1&type=signup&returnto=Main+Page

and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:UserLogin/signup

 What is campaign=ACP1  ??

On 6 March 2012 14:19,  wrote:

>  1. Lets not overuse site notices
> 2. There are only 10 places, if you put a site-notice you must have
> atleast 10 times that number, if not more.
>
> --
> From: ansum...@gmail.com
> Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 14:15:48 +0530
> To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Register: Learn Wikipedia editing while
> you sit at home
>
>
> This would be a really brilliant session, no doubt. but I see very few or
> no new user here on this mailing list.
> How about adding a link to the Indic Wikipedias MediaWiki:Sitenotice ??
>
> On 6 March 2012 11:48, Srikanth Ramakrishnan wrote:
>
> Brilliant work Nitika! While I won't be available this time, I sure hope I
> can participate on one of these one day.
> Good luck with the initiative.
>
> On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Nitika  wrote:
>
> Hey All,
>
> It's feels great to receive so much enthusiasm and support from all of you
> regarding experimenting online outreach. But unfortunately, until now I
> haven't heard from anyone who'd want to participate in this session. I'm
> writing to invite all the people who are on this list but are not
> comfortable to edit - please come forward and register for this session.
> Here is the link to the registration form:
> http://tinyurl.com/RegistrationWikisession.
>
> Here are some more details about the session:
>
> *Date:* 10th March, Saturday (Sorry the date had to be changed. My earlier
> mail
>  mentioned
> 11th March but we have a Delhi monthly meet-up at the same time)
> *Time:* 3pm-6pm
> *Medium: *Google hangout. Google hangout lets you do a group video
> conferencing, and it's completely free. Thou, you might have to install
> plug ins.
> *Logistics:* Please make sure that you have a webcam installed and that
> your speaker and mic are functioning well. If you'd like to test audio,
> video, screen sharing, internet stability or just to test how Google
> hangout works please log in 15-30 mins before the start of the session
> - I'll be available on Google hangout starting 2.30pm to help you out with
> all the technical issues.
> *Maximum no. of participants:* 9 participants + 1 facilitator. Up to10
> people can do a google hangout together. Participation will be confirmed on
> the basis of first come first registration.
>
> Please feel free to forward this mail to anyone who you think might be
> interested. Let me know if you have any questions at all about the session.
> Hoping to hear from many of you! :-)
>
> Thanks
> Nitika
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1. Lets not overuse site notices
2. There are only 10 places, if you put a site-notice you must have atleast 10 
times that number, if not more.

From: ansum...@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 14:15:48 +0530
To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Register: Learn Wikipedia editing while you sit 
at home

This would be a really brilliant session, no doubt. but I see very few or no 
new user here on this mailing list.How about adding a link to the Indic 
Wikipedias MediaWiki:Sitenotice ?? 



On 6 March 2012 11:48, Srikanth Ramakrishnan  wrote:


Brilliant work Nitika! While I won't be available this time, I sure hope I can 
participate on one of these one day.
Good luck with the initiative.


On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Nitika  wrote:

Hey All,
It's feels great to receive so much enthusiasm and support from all of you 
regarding experimenting online outreach. But unfortunately, until now I haven't 
heard from anyone who'd want to participate in this session. I'm writing to 
invite all the people who are on this list but are not comfortable to edit - 
please come forward and register for this session. Here is the link to the 
registration form: http://tinyurl.com/RegistrationWikisession. 



Here are some more details about the session:
Date: 10th March, Saturday (Sorry the date had to be changed. My earlier mail 
mentioned 11th March but we have a Delhi monthly meet-up at the same time)


Time: 3pm-6pmMedium: Google hangout. Google hangout lets you do a group video 
conferencing, and it's completely free. Thou, you might have to install plug 
ins. Logistics: Please make sure that you have a webcam installed and that your 
speaker and mic are functioning well. If you'd like to test audio, video, 
screen sharing, internet stability or just to test how Google hangout works 
please log in 15-30 mins before the start of the session - I'll be available on 
Google hangout starting 2.30pm to help you out with all the technical issues.


Maximum no. of participants: 9 participants + 1 facilitator. Up to10 people can 
do a google hangout together. Participation will be confirmed on the basis of 
first come first registration. 



Please feel free to forward this mail to anyone who you think might be 
interested. Let me know if you have any questions at all about the session. 
Hoping to hear from many of you! :-)
Thanks


Nitika
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Mediawiki-l] Invitation to help beta-test the MediaWiki 1.19 extension for the Wikipedia Education Program

[Srikanth Lakshmanan]

FYI, Since there is a lot of Interest in Education Program here.

-- Forwarded message --
From: Rob Schnautz 
Date: Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 01:30
Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Invitation to help beta-test the MediaWiki 1.19
extension for the Wikipedia Education Program
To: mediawik...@lists.wikimedia.org, wikie...@lists.wikimedia.org


The MediaWiki developers have been working hard to integrate certain
elements of the Wikipedia Education Program into MediaWiki. If anyone is
interested in helping beta-test the new extension, click (or copy and
paste) the link below to get started:

http://education.wmflabs.org/index.php/MW_1.18:Community_portal/Welcome,_beta_testers
!

Please note that this site does not will not represent official Wikipedia
Education Program data. Feel free to alter the data on the wiki however you
wish; the more testing you do, the better!

Thanks,

Rob Schnautz
Online Communications Contractor
Global Development
Wikimedia Foundation

11450 Northridge Dr
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[Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: Medianama : "Wikimedia India Rolls Out Realtime Search; Supports Indic Editions"

[Tinu Cherian]

*Medianama : "Wikimedia India Rolls Out Realtime Search; Supports Indic
Editions"
*
http://www.medianama.com/2012/03/223-wikimedia-india-rolls-out-realtime-search-supports-indic-editions/


*It looks like Wikimedia India has implemented a project by engineering
student Shrey Gokani to roll out an instant search engine of its own at
live.wikimedia.in. The site is under a creative commons license, with the
code dual licensed under GPL and Creative Commons. The Wikimedia Instant
site does appear to have additional functionality over Gokani’s version,
with the ability to choose an Indic Input keyboard, since the service
supports Indic language editions of Wikimedia services.

The search engine works quite similar to Wikilive, another student project
about which, we had written in November 2011. And similar to what we had
wished, Wikimedia Live also covers Wikipedia, Wikitionary, Wikibooks,
Wikiquotes, Wikiversity, Wikinews and Wikisource, and their Indic editions,
in realtime. The site also offers other relevant Wikipedia search results
on the top, followed by a preview of the most relevant Wikipedia article to
the search query.


Indic Language Support: The site allows users to type in queries in 21
Indic languages including Kannada, Hindi, Telugu, Marathi, Sanskrit, Bangla
and others. How it works is that the search engine allows the user to
choose the language of his preference, following which he has to choose an
input script which is apt for his language. For instance, if one chooses
Kannada as his preferred language, he has to choose between the Kannada
transliteration option or choose the Kannada Inscript option, however if
you choose Hindi as your preferred language, you will have to select the
sole Hindi Inscript option.

Irrelevant Results? We weren’t too happy with results generated through
Indic language transliteration input, since it delivered wrong results in
most cases when we gave it a spin (we tried it on OS X Lion on Google
Chrome). We hope that Wikimedia works on delivering better transliteration
support or improving the results for Indic languages. However, we got
accurate results with the Hindi Inscript input option.

Similar Portals: Deepanshu Mehndiratta, a second year engineering student
at BITS-Pilani KK Birla Goa Campus, had created an instant Wikipedia search
called ‘Wikilive‘ which allowed users to type in a search query and get
relevant Wikipedia article and topics instantly. WikiInstant and The
Instant Wiki are other portals which allow users to search Wikipedia in
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Important Note : Non-commercial reproduction for informative purposes only.
The publisher ( Medianama) of the above news article owns the copyrights of
the article / content. All copyrights are duly acknowledged.
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Sreejithk2000 is now an admin on Commons

[wheredevelsdare]

Heartiest Congratulations, Shreejith!

Its good to know there is an admin from India who can understand our issues on 
Commons - which are quite complicated, especially the licensing issues.

From: ansum...@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 13:42:57 +0530
To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Sreejithk2000 is now an admin on Commons

great news... I was wondering when ? Congrats Sreejith :-) All the best :)

On 6 March 2012 13:26, Subhashish Panigrahi  wrote:


Thanks a lot Sujeeth, I have loads of questions now to ask you :-)



On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan 
 wrote:

Congrats to Sreejith, you've done excellent work. 
Personally, thanks for cleaning up image details of stuff I've uploaded. 


: ) Cheers,
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 10:07 AM, Noopur  wrote:




Congrats Sreejith! This is really good news :) W00t


On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Jobin Raju  wrote:

Congratulations, Sreejith! All the Best for all future assignments!
Best wishes,
Jobin Raju
User: Jobin RV







On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Pratik Lahoti  wrote:


Congratulations Sreejith! Good luck! :)

Best Wishes,
Pratik Lahoti
User:BPositive







On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 8:30 AM, Arun Ramarathnam  wrote:



On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 4:17 AM, CherianTinu Abraham  
wrote:








Hi all,
I am happy to share the news  that  User:Sreejithk2000 is now an 
administrator on Wikimedia Commons.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Administrators/Requests/Sreejithk2000 











Congrats Sreejith.This is indeed great to hear.
regardsArun   



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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Sreejithk2000 is now an admin on Commons

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great news... I was wondering when ?
Congrats Sreejith :-) All the best :)

On 6 March 2012 13:26, Subhashish Panigrahi  wrote:

> Thanks a lot Sujeeth, I have loads of questions now to ask you :-)
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <
> parakara.gh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Congrats to Sreejith, you've done excellent work.
>> Personally, thanks for cleaning up image details of stuff I've uploaded.
>> : ) Cheers,
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 10:07 AM, Noopur  wrote:
>>
>>> Congrats Sreejith! This is really good news :) W00t
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Jobin Raju  wrote:
>>>
 Congratulations, Sreejith! All the Best for all future assignments!
 Best wishes,
 Jobin Raju
 User: Jobin RV



 On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Pratik Lahoti 
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> Congratulations Sreejith! Good luck! :)
>
> Best Wishes,
> Pratik Lahoti
> User:BPositive
>
> On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 8:30 AM, Arun Ramarathnam 
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 4:17 AM, CherianTinu Abraham <
>> tinucher...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>> I am happy to share the news  that  User:Sreejithk2000 is
>>> now an administrator on Wikimedia Commons.
>>>
>>>
>>> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Administrators/Requests/Sreejithk2000
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Congrats Sreejith.
>> This is indeed great to hear.
>>
>> regards
>> Arun
>>
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>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore
>> Aliens invaded Tamil Nadu, left their Spacship and now it is a Toll
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