[Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] The Hindu : "Indians win in Wiki mega photo contest"

[Pranav Curumsey]

*The Hindu : "Indians win in Wiki mega photo contest"*
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/indians-win-in-wiki-mega-photo-contest/article4172761.ece

http://www.twitpic.com/bjqjvm ( Print coverage) - Large coverage on rear
cover page !!

*WLM beat its own record this year with more than 3,50,000 images

Two photographs sent by Indians have won the first and sixth places in what
Guinness World Records has called the largest photo competition. Called
‘Wiki Loves Monuments 2012!’ (WLM), the online competition was organised by
Wikipedians all over the world, Karthik Nadar, secretary and Board member,
Executive Committee, Wikimedia India Chapter, told The Hindu .

Pranav Singh’s photo of Safdarjung’s tomb in New Delhi secured the first
place internationally while Narender Kumar’s photo of the Taj Mahal got the
sixth place. The two photos had been rated ninth and first respectively in
the competition held at the India level. Other Indian finalists sent photos
of the country’s tombs, temples and military forts. Narender Kumar told The
Hindu that most photos of the Taj are “touristy,” so he took an unusual
angle. “Luckily, there was foggy weather,” he said.

A record

While WLM had set the Guinness record for the world’s largest photo contest
with 1,68,208 images in 2011, it beat its own record this year with more
than 3,50,000 images.

India participated for the first time in the competition this year. It sent
the highest number of participants, representing 15 per cent of the 15,000
total contributors from around the world. Over 2,200 photographers
contributed nearly 16,000 photos, according to sources in Wikimedia India
Chapter.

There is no free-to-use image of more than 99 per cent of monuments in
India listed by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI). The aim of the
contest was to encourage people to contribute photos to Wikimedia Commons,
said Mr. Nadar. The Wikimedia Commons is a sister project of Wikipedia. It
is a media file repository that makes available freely licensed educational
content (such as images, sound and video clips) to everyone in the world.
It acts as a common repository for various projects of the Wikimedia
Foundation, including Wikipedia. (Wikipedia.org )

He said anyone could use the photos from the Commons, including for
commercial purposes provided the photographer’s name was mentioned. A
‘Photo Walk’ was organised in Mumbai in September (when the contest was on)
during which participants took photos for the contest.

Naveen Francis, former secretary and board member, Wikimedia India chapter,
told The Hindu that participation from India was “almost uniform” with
photos coming from contestants from across the country. The highest
participation was from Delhi, with more photos taken of the Taj Mahal and
the Qutub Minar. Mumbai followed with photos of Gateway of India.

Mr. Francis said contestants were asked to photograph those monuments
recognised by the ASI. The focus was on structures of national and
international importance. However, some contestants sent photos of
monuments not recognised by the ASI. Those were excluded from the
competition. However, they will be used in Wiki Voyage, a new travel
website that has launched recently.

The international jury considered 324 images from 33 participating
countries in the finale. There were 10 nominations from each participating
country for the international round. The Indian jury for the country round
had six jury members, who nominated 10 photos from 16,000. Three
professional photographers, Gauri Gill, Anup Mathew Thomas and Ryan Lobo,
made up the team along with three Wikipedians Arun Ganesh, Kiran Ravikumar,
and Sreejith K. *


Regards
Pranav Curumsey
Press Team, Wikimedia India Chapter
pr...@wikimedia.in
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/In_the_news

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki Academy in Goa in Dec

[Nitika Tandon]

On 06-Dec-2012, at 1:21 PM, Frederick FN Noronha * फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك 
نورونيا wrote:

> Dear Nitika, Is it possible to get in touch with others who have been 
> contributing to the Goa pages in the past?
Absolutely! We can invite Wikipedians from Goa and members of WikiProject Goa. 

> Also, some of us have bandwidth problems here, otherwise we would have 
> contributed more. Is it possible to set up a small team to continue this 
> process, in Goa itself, after the workshop is done? 
> 
> The Central Library has a lot of space and tend to be supportive in such 
> work. Its Curator, Carlos Fernandes, was even supportive when Richard 
> Stallman of the FSF visited many years ago. They understand the importance of 
> creating sharable resources. At the library, you can spot some displays of 
> open journal websites, etc which researchers can freely access. You could 
> build on such synergies.
We have a meeting scheduled with the State Central Library on the 13th Dec at 
10.30am. We can most definitely work out a plan with them. I'm hoping you'll be 
able to join for this meeting too.

I have raised a ticket to lift IP rate limit: 
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42767. Hope it gets resolved at 
the earliest.

Thanks
Nitika


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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Most recent updates on the hiring of the Programme Director for the A2K programme

[Ravishankar]

Jadine,

I appreciate the transparent methodology and engaging the community in
hiring the programme director.

Ravi
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Summit India 2013 for Spoken Indian Language Wikipedia!

[Ravishankar]

Hi,

I appreciate the effort by the Wikipedia club Pune.

Please let me know if the idea for the summit was widely discussed in the
community well in advance.

Somehow I feel that such an event may dilute the importance of
Wikiconference India event and may even confuse audience which is what.

It will be good to know if the chapter was consulted on any national level
event.

Right now, the whole planning of the event seems arbitrary.

Ravi.

P.S: Who created this story that Pune is the education hub of India? :)
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Summit India 2013 for Spoken Indian Language Wikipedia!

[Abhishek Suryawanshi]

>
> *Is it so? I've been told that there are other cities which have more
> untapped potential wrt Wikimedia projects. Perhaps we can collaborate.*


Sure, we can collaborate :)

*What about foreign nationals contributing to Spoken Wikipedia [Indian
> languages and articles]?
> *


For 2014 Summit, definitely we will make sure we have support to give
scholarships to foreign nationals.

Thanks for suggestions.


Hope to see you soon in Pune on 12th and 13th January 2013 for Wikipedia
Summit India :-)



Best Regards,
Abhishek Suryawanshi,
User:AbhiSuryawanshi 
On Behalf of Wikipedia Club Pune


On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <
parakara.gh...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Abhishek, I have two questions:
>
> A:
>  *As Pune is central hub for students all across India, city is having
> students from various states and linguistic backgrounds. It will be easy to
> focus on maximum Indian Languages.
> *
> Is it so? I've been told that there are other cities which have more
> untapped potential wrt Wikimedia projects. Perhaps we can collaborate.
>
>
> * We are also having scholarships available for Indian citizens willing
> to participate in Summit to promote Spoken Wikipedia *
>
> What about foreign nationals contributing to Spoken Wikipedia [Indian
> languages and articles]?
>
> --Cheers,
> Srikanth.
>
>
>  On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Pradeep Nair  wrote:
>
>>  Hi Abhishek,
>>
>> Is the Program page updated? The page refers to Education and Gender Gap
>> whereas your email suggests that the Summit is about Spoken Wikipedia.
>>
>> Since there are only 9 more days for scholarships this information would
>> help.
>>
>> Warm regards,
>> Pradeep
>>
>>
>> Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android
>>
>>  --
>> * From: * Abhishek Suryawanshi ;
>> * To: * ;
>> * Cc: * Wikipedia India ;
>> * Subject: * [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Summit India 2013 for Spoken
>> Indian Language Wikipedia!
>> * Sent: * Wed, Dec 5, 2012 11:16:30 PM
>>
>>   Hi,
>>
>> Thanks to everyone for suggestions over Indic/Indian Language Spoken
>> Wikipedia.
>>
>> To promote and support Spoken Wikipedia in Indian Languages, we are
>> hosting 'Wikipedia Summit 
>> India'
>> on 12th and 13th January 2013 at Suzlon, Pune.
>>
>> As Pune is central hub for students all across India, city is having
>> students from various states and linguistic backgrounds. It will be easy to
>> focus on maximum Indian Languages.
>>
>>  We are also having scholarships available for Indian citizens willing to
>> participate in Summit to promote Spoken Wikipedia -
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Summit_India/Scholarships
>>
>> Facebook RSVP Link for event :
>> https://www.facebook.com/events/493101294054194/
>>
>>
>> If you have suggestions, idea's - please do send on
>> WikipediaSummitIndia(at)gmail(dot)com.
>>
>>
>> Keep Supporting, Keep Inspiring! :)
>>
>>
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Abhishek Suryawanshi,
>> User:AbhiSuryawanshi 
>> On Behalf of Wikipedia Club Pune
>>
>>
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>
> --
> Regards,
> Srikanth Ramakrishnan.
>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Summit India 2013 for Spoken Indian Language Wikipedia!

[Srikanth Ramakrishnan]

Abhishek, I have two questions:

A:
*As Pune is central hub for students all across India, city is having
students from various states and linguistic backgrounds. It will be easy to
focus on maximum Indian Languages.
*
Is it so? I've been told that there are other cities which have more
untapped potential wrt Wikimedia projects. Perhaps we can collaborate.


* We are also having scholarships available for Indian citizens willing to
participate in Summit to promote Spoken Wikipedia *

What about foreign nationals contributing to Spoken Wikipedia [Indian
languages and articles]?

--Cheers,
Srikanth.


On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Pradeep Nair  wrote:

> Hi Abhishek,
>
> Is the Program page updated? The page refers to Education and Gender Gap
> whereas your email suggests that the Summit is about Spoken Wikipedia.
>
> Since there are only 9 more days for scholarships this information would
> help.
>
> Warm regards,
> Pradeep
>
>
> Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android
>
>  --
> * From: * Abhishek Suryawanshi ;
> * To: * ;
> * Cc: * Wikipedia India ;
> * Subject: * [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Summit India 2013 for Spoken
> Indian Language Wikipedia!
> * Sent: * Wed, Dec 5, 2012 11:16:30 PM
>
>   Hi,
>
> Thanks to everyone for suggestions over Indic/Indian Language Spoken
> Wikipedia.
>
> To promote and support Spoken Wikipedia in Indian Languages, we are
> hosting 'Wikipedia Summit 
> India'
> on 12th and 13th January 2013 at Suzlon, Pune.
>
> As Pune is central hub for students all across India, city is having
> students from various states and linguistic backgrounds. It will be easy to
> focus on maximum Indian Languages.
>
>  We are also having scholarships available for Indian citizens willing to
> participate in Summit to promote Spoken Wikipedia -
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Summit_India/Scholarships
>
> Facebook RSVP Link for event :
> https://www.facebook.com/events/493101294054194/
>
>
> If you have suggestions, idea's - please do send on
> WikipediaSummitIndia(at)gmail(dot)com.
>
>
> Keep Supporting, Keep Inspiring! :)
>
>
>
> Best Regards,
> Abhishek Suryawanshi,
> User:AbhiSuryawanshi 
> On Behalf of Wikipedia Club Pune
>
>
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-- 
Regards,
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