[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimania 2013 scholarship now accepting application
FYI! On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Simon Shek simon.s...@wikimedia.hk wrote: Hi all, Scholarship applications for Wikimania 2013 in Hong Kong are being accept. The application window is one month (through 22 February). Wikimania 2013 scholarship is an award given to an individual to enable them to attend Wikimania in Hong Kong from 7-11 August, 2013. Two type of scholarships will be available this year. Partial scholarships will cover travel expenses to Wikimania, capped at 50% of the estimated air fare from your nearest international airport according to [[wm2013:Getting to Hong Kong]]. Full scholarships will cover round-trip travel, dorms accommodations as arranged by the Wikimania Team, and registration for Wikimania 2013. Applicants will be rated on the following four dimensions: 1. Activity within Wikimedia (on-wiki and off-wiki) - 50% 2. Activity outside of Wikimedia and other free knowledge/software projects - 15% 3. Interest in Wikimania and the Wikimedia movement - 25% 4. Fluency of English language - 10% To learn more about Wikimania 2013 scholarships, please visit https://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships To apply for a scholarship, you can fill out the application form here: https://scholarship.wikimedia.hk If you have any question, email us at wikimania-shcolars...@wikimedia.org. Good luck! Simon Shek Community coordinator - Wikimania 2013 / Wikimedia Hong Kong wikimedia.hk ___ Wikimania-l mailing list wikimani...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l -- Thanks and regards, Karthik Nadar, Secretary, Wikimedia India Chapter. ___ 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] Wiki Loves Monuments Winners from India
Hi, WLM news is published in India's leading Photography magazine Smart Photography. Check out January 2013 issue now available on stands. Their Website: http://www.smartphotography.in -Sudhanwa ___ 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] Wiki Loves Monuments Winners from India
Sudhanwa, can you ask them for a scanned copy of the coverage? On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 4:54 PM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar sudhanwa@gmail.comwrote: Hi, WLM news is published in India's leading Photography magazine Smart Photography. Check out January 2013 issue now available on stands. Their Website: http://www.smartphotography.in -- Thanks and regards, (User:Karthikndr http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Karthikndr) *Karthik Nadar.* ___ 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] Celebrating The Success of Wikipedia in Wikipedia Summit Pune 2013
Kudos to Abhishek and Niraj Suryawanshi and others at Wikipedia Club Pune! Best, Vishnu On 22 January 2013 11:02, Subhashish Panigrahi subhash...@cis-india.orgwrote: (Originally published at: http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/celebrating-the-success-of-wikipedia-in-wikipedia-summit-pune-2013 )* * *Wikipedia Club Pune, a local community based outreach user group in Pune has recently organized Wikipedia Summit Pune 2013 to spread words about “Spoken Wikipedia”, a project to add recorded audio for Indic language Wikipedia articles which will help the disabled to access Wikipedia and “Bridging Editor Gender Gap.” It was supported by Centre for Internet and Society, Wikimedia India Chapter, PAI International Learning Solutions and Kusuma Foundation. Here is a sumary of activities of this two day event. * I was in Pune from 12-13th January to attend Wikipedia Summit Pune 2013http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Summit_Pune, a two day event organized by Wikipedia Club Punehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Club_Puneto promote Wikipedia as an effective means of education, to empower and reach out to India, to bring the country under a spotlight through Spoken Wikipediahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Spoken_Wikipedia/Indic_Languages, and to bridge the gender gaphttp://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/04/27/nine-out-of-ten-wikipedians-continue-to-be-men/of Wikipedia editors. Here is a summary of the activities. *Day 1:* 12 January has seen more than 100 participants which includes students from almost 10 different schools, housewives, working professionals and free and open source activists. Myself from the A2K team of Centre fro Internet and Society, Sudhanwa Jogelker and Nikita Belavate from the Wikimedia India Chapter joined for this event. The opening ceremony was started with talks from Abhishek Suryawanshi, founder member of Wikipedia Club Pune, Sudhanwa Jogelkar, President of Wikimedia India Chapter, Rishi Aacharya, Principal, PAI International Learning Solutions, and social activist Mrs. Vibha. Before the formal opening Abhishek spoke for a while about the Spoken Wikipedia project which is one of the main agenda of the two day event. He explained about the need of spoken Wikipedia, especially for people with disabilities and how effective it would be when it spreads in 20 Indic languages. In the past Wikipedians in Pune gathered and recorded articles in various Indian and international languages. Sudhanwa Jogelkar, President, Wikimedia India Chapter introduced the chapter's role for Wikimedia movement to the audience. He spoke Chapter's in few of national events/projects like Wiki Loves Monument, GLAM project in Crafts Museum, Delhi and many other outreach events. There were few announcements about the chapter on the MoU to be signed from the chapter with district collector of Kanyakumari, Chapter being partner to Springfest, IIT, Kharagpur, Commons day celebration in February and GNUnify 2013, Pune. Vibha, a social activist based in Delhi spoke about gender discrimination in many aspects of our social and professional life. Access to knowledge for free could bridge this and Wikipedia, being so known universally and accessed by millions of people every day could be the best platform for this.' says Vibha. Rishi Aacharya, Principal of PAI International brought the vedic saying “Ya vidya sa vimuktaye” to explain the real meaning of knowledge which is free its existence in an Indian context. He spoke about open source movement and Wikipedia's part in it. After the formal opening there was a QA session for the participants to clarify various questions they had about Wikipedia. Then they were explained about the 3 parallel sessions; An open discussion about Gender gap, Workshop for Indic languages and Spoken Wikipedia. Gender gap session was attended by many school students. Vibha and few more activists were coordinating this event. In the Workshop for Indic languages and Spoken Wikipedia Wikipedians helped participants for the workshop with basic editing and the participants edited Marathi and Hindi Wikipedia. Articles from various medical subjects of common interest were chosen. There were 3 medical professionals to support with the medical terminologies for editors contributing to Marathi and Hindi Wikipedia. At the end of the day there were separate wrap up tracks to summarize the learning of whole session. All of the participants gathered together to educate each other about the work they have done. Many of the participants spoke about their experience and learnings. Plans for the next day was announced. Wikipedians gathered for a group photo and socialized after the closing talks. *Day 2:* Second day of Wikipedia Summit Pune was a sequel of the activities which happened in the first day.More than 40 students took part in this session. Vibha, Srishti and team were
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Status of Indian language wikipedias in 2012 and priorities, Telugu WP report
Hi Sankarshan, 2013/1/22 sankarshan foss.mailingli...@gmail.com On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 4:35 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] Please check out my blogpost on Indian Wikipedia languages status in 2012 and priorities http://blog.wikimedia.in/2013/01/22/analysis-of-indian-language-wikipedias-for-2012/ You write As each one of us intuitively understand that number of page views and number of edits are correlated, I derived a metric called ‘Activity’ as their product - would it be possible for you to explain why arriving at a product of these two factors is a measure of activity ? Both are key measures of activity for the outcome of Wikipedia, that is sharing the sum of human knowledge. If there are not many page views resulting from less number of readers, there will be less enthusiasm on the part of Editors to contribute. If there are more page views, more people will be interested to become Editors. Given the nature of these metrics and different ranges, each one will not be a reliable measure by itself as it is the interaction in the Wikipedia eco-system that will be a more appropriate measure. I also heard during some of wiki interactions that when Chinese language wikipedia was banned in China, the number of editors fell a lot. Note that I have considered overall database edits in the metric, which also includes the edits that could be made through bots. Bots can be used to improve the quality of Wikipedia by correcting for spelling mistakes apart from less useful interwiki links. By one estimate, bots are said to be contributing to 10% to 30% of edits in top ranked language wikipedias.[1] Cheers Arjuna [1] THE LIVES OF BOTS-R. STUART GEIGER in Critical Point of View-A wikipedia reader, Page 78http://p2pfoundation.net/Critical_Wikipedia_Reader Simple statistics indicate the growing influence of algorithmic actors on the editorial process:in terms of the raw number of edits to the English-language version of Wikipedia, automated bots are 17 of the top 20 most prolific editors 2 and collectively make about 16% of all edits to the encyclopedia project. 3 On other major language versions of the project, the percentage of edits made by bots ranges from around 10% (Japanese) to 30% (French). -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan ___ 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] Fwd: Status of Indian language wikipedias in 2012 and priorities, Telugu WP report
Hi, 2013/1/22 Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com Arjuna, Your approach to have an idea of a community's activity by combining some metrics is interesting. Also, to compare monthly averages instead of end of year performance is also good. Thanks. One clarification. I took the sum of the metrics for the entire year rather than average. *Increase in database size, number of most active contributors (making more than 100 edits a month) and page views can be real indicators of growth and activity*. Is there any way to find database size? We don't have that and many other useful stats after May 2010. Check http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaTA.htm for example. Yes and No, as any metric can be compromised. If database size is a parameter, too many stub articles may adversely affect the quality. Number of most active contributors is too small a number in most Indian language Wikipedias. There has been debate about the % of people who contribute to Wikipedia in English. While Jimmy is reported to have said that it is small fraction which contributes the bulk, Aron Swartz did an analysis that the bulk of contribution is made by large number of wikipedians based on the bytes added metric. In wikipedia, I think the former is more true, though it could be different if there are people who are contributing stubs rather than reasonable sized articles. You can get an account on Toolserver and obtain the database size information. Also, any inference based on page views should normalize it based on the population of native speaking people to have a better perspective of the community's performance compared to its potential / size. My analysis is more focussed on relative change in each language than absolute numbers. The graphs included the information for all the languages to get a general feel of the languages together. It is not the population alone which can be a significant factor, as there are several other factors like the love for language and geographic distribution of its speakers. Population numbers could be considered, but then there is lot of variation depending on the sources. An exhaustive study would be useful, if we can determine a independent measure (may be by annual survey) as an impact of Wikipedia in accomplishing its mission, then the various metrics available like edits, page views and their combinations can be tried using statistical algorithms to arrive at key parameters or parameter combinations. I think it would be good for WMF to work on such a thing, as otherwise our focus could be lost by looking at simple metrics like active editor/page views. Cheers Arjuna ___ 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] Fwd: Status of Indian language wikipedias in 2012 and priorities, Telugu WP report
Isn't Konkani in incubation too? FN -- FN Land +91-832-240-9490 Cell +91-982-212-2436 f...@goa-india.org Goa,1556's updated list of books available on and from Goa: http://www.scribd.com/doc/76671049/Goa1556-Catalogue-Books-from-Goa On 22 January 2013 16:35, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.com wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.com Date: 2013/1/22 Subject: Status of Indian language wikipedias in 2012 and priorities, Telugu WP report To: wmin-members wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com Hi Please check out my blogpost on Indian Wikipedia languages status in 2012 and priorities http://blog.wikimedia.in/2013/01/22/analysis-of-indian-language-wikipedias-for-2012/ Report on Telugu Wikipedia for 2012 is available at http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/41/Telugu_Wikipedia_-2012_Review.pdf Cheers Arjuna Rao Chavala ___ 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] Fwd: Status of Indian language wikipedias in 2012 and priorities, Telugu WP report
2013/1/22 sankarshan foss.mailingli...@gmail.com On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 6:01 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.com wrote: Both are key measures of activity for the outcome of Wikipedia, that is sharing the sum of human knowledge. If there are not many page views resulting from less number of readers, there will be less enthusiasm on the part of Editors to contribute. If there are more page views, more people will be interested to become Editors. Given the nature of these metrics and different ranges, each one will not be a reliable measure by itself as it is the interaction in the Wikipedia eco-system that will be a more appropriate measure. I also heard during some of wiki interactions that when Chinese language wikipedia was banned in China, the number of editors fell a lot. When I realized that Activity is a product of the entities I understood that the two entities are commutative. However, there was a particular aspect which puzzled me - the number of views/viewers is a function of the richness of the content. In other words, while that value can certainly be influenced by the language community, it cannot be controlled. Against that, the number of edits is a value that is under the sphere of control of a language community. And, within that, edits can perhaps be classified (in context of whether the data available facilitates that deep dive) as : human and bots. Within the human-edited subset, there are ways to visualize the trend of data edits. Kiran did a bit of this way back - http://jace.zaiki.in/tag/mwclient TL;DR : the measure of activity could perhaps be accurately reflected when specific data points around editing are considered rather than using a relationship with views. Rather than just the views, we need to look at the value felt by the viewers (may be by an annual survey) as a measure of the impact of Wikipedia's mission. In the absence of such a measure, we are looking at Page views as an outcome. As page views itself may depend upon edits and several other factors and influence other factors, I have considered it as an input itself, as it is an important contributor to the activity. There can be several ways to compute the quality of the Wikipedia. But that is a different topic. Cheers Arjuna ___ 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
