[Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] : The Hindu : Panoramic shot of Brihadeeswara wins Wiki India contest
*The Hindu : Panoramic shot of Brihadeeswara wins Wiki India contest* http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/panoramic-shot-of-brihadeeswara-wins-wiki-india-contest/article5387448.ece https://twitter.com/tinucherian/status/404881360113782785/photo/1/large A panoramic photo of the Brihadeeswara temple in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, has won the first prize at the ‘Wiki Loves Monuments India 2013’ contest. Ten photographs were nominated from a pool of 11,786 images for the award. The results were announced on Wednesday. *Karthik Nadar*, Secretary, Wikimedia India, organiser of Wiki Loves Monuments (WLM) India, and member, WLM International team, told The Hindu that the photo of the temple was taken by Mugilkv (username). The second prize was of Itimad-ud-Daula’s Tomb, Agra, taken by Amaninder, and the third prize was for Ibrahim Roza, clicked by Aanand. The other seven winning photos at the national contest are of Mehtab Bagh facing Taj Mahal by G. Kaustav (fourth); Pushkarni tank opposite Krishna Temple, Hampi, by Dey.sandip (fifth); Jama Masjid Champaner by Hriya (sixth); Lakshmi Vilas Palace, Vadodara, by Birsa Murmu (seventh); Jal Mahal at Jaipur by Sameer6303 (eighth); a row of saints by Zain Hashmy (ninth); and Sun Temple by Prayash Giria (10th). The website had only the usernames because it was yet to contact the winners. Wikimania Apart from getting awards, these photographs will be nominated at the international level, which has another jury. The main prize winner will get to attend Wikimania, the annual meeting where Wikimedians from all over the world meet, to be held in London in July or August 2014. *Kiran*, jury member in 2012 and jury head in 2013 for WLM, said this year the jury reviewed 11,786 images, looking for photo quality and seeing if these were rare photographs. In case of a much-photographed subject, a different shot (for example, a shot of the gardens behind Taj Mahal), got importance. Emphasis was given to places that were not prominent. Participation A higher number of countries participated this year compared to last year (when Indians had participated for the first time and won the first and sixth places). *Naveen Francis*, former Secretary, Wikimedia India, organiser of WLM India 2012 and 2013, said 36 countries participated last year and 52 countries this year. This year the competition received photos, for the first time, from Antarctica. In terms of number of photos uploaded, India is ninth this year with 11,786 entries from 1,485 people. Russia is 7th with 18,897 photos, U.K. is 8th (11,995 photos), Austria is 10th (11,074 photos) and the U.S. is 11th (10,191 photos). Poland tops the list with 49,976 photos and Ukraine is second with 35,674 photos. Mr. Nadar said Wikipedians in Sri Lanka and Pakistan said they would organise similar competitions in their countries next year. He said Google had partnered with the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) for photos for Google Maps but Wikipedia photos are different as they are not copyrighted and anybody can use them. Also, those participating in WLM are volunteers. He said this year, the competition has a parallel Asia-level contest with nine countries participating: India, Nepal, China, Thailand, Taiwan, Philippines and Hong Kong. The results will be out on November 30 this year. According to their website, WLM has been certified as the largest photo competition in the world by Guinness World Records. It says: “More than 15,000 photographers around the world participated in the 2012 edition of Wiki Loves Monuments, uploading over 350,000 freely-licensed images of historic buildings, monuments and cultural heritage sites in 35 countries to Wikimedia Commons.” The website also said, “More than 15,000 photos were uploaded from India in WLM 2012. In WLM 2012, 2,230 participants from India, making our country rank number one in number of participants.” Regards Tinu Cherian pr...@wikimedia.in http://wiki.wikimedia.in/In_the_news Important Note : Non-commercial reproduction for informative purposes only. The publisher (The Hindu ) of the above news article owns the copyrights of the article / content. All copyrights are duly acknowledged. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Tamil Wikipedia crosses 1000 total contributors milestone
Congrats!!! to Tamil Wikipedian Community. :) Cheers, Abhinav On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 7:41 AM, Subhashish Panigrahi subhash...@cis-india.org wrote: Congratulations all of you for this noble effort! This is coming soon after the 10th anniversary :) Best! Subha On 25-Nov-2013, at 5:44 am, Dr Pavanaja pavan...@vishvakannada.com wrote: Congratulations to Tamil Wikipedian community Thaks and regards, Pavanaja Sent from phone. Regret pselling mixtakes On 24 Nov 2013 23:55, Karthik Nadar karthik...@wikimedia.in wrote: Congratulations to the Tamil community; indeed a good news. I'm happy to be one among them :-) On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 11:19 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan srik.r...@wikimedia.in wrote: This is very good news Ravi. Kudos to the community! Sent from the touchscreen equivalent of a Nokia 1100, pardon the sender. -- Srikanth Ramakrishnan, Treasurer. On Nov 24, 2013 11:17 PM, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, October 2013 stats for Tamil Wikipedia is out. We have crossed many milestones in one jump coinciding with our Tenth Anniversary Celebrations! * 1017 Total contributors . We have crossed the 1000 milestone after Malayalam Wikipedia. Next in line is Hindi Wikipedia with 988 total contributors. * 118 active editors who edit 5 times a month. Highest in ten years and the first time we crossed 100. * 27 new editors joined this month. This is the second highest enrollment in ten years after the 2010 June state wide essay contest time. * 25 very active editors who edit 100 times a month. Highest in ten years. * We went from 1 to 2 contributors for every one million Tamil speaking population now. * Registered 8.5m million page views. That is 2,83,000 per day. Highest in ten years. We hope to sustain this activity through various initiatives. Thanks, Ravi References: 1. http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaTA.htm 2. http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/SummaryTA.htm 3. http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthlyCombined.htm ___ 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 -- Regards from Mumbai, Karthik Nadar. (+91) 977-360-8862 Secretary, Wikimedia India Chapter. Bangalore, India. http://wiki.wikimedia.in ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l 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] Tamil Wikipedia crosses 1000 total contributors milestone
Congratulations! Is there anything special being done for the 10th anniversary. On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 7:41 AM, Subhashish Panigrahi subhash...@cis-india.org wrote: Congratulations all of you for this noble effort! This is coming soon after the 10th anniversary :) Best! Subha On 25-Nov-2013, at 5:44 am, Dr Pavanaja pavan...@vishvakannada.com wrote: Congratulations to Tamil Wikipedian community Thaks and regards, Pavanaja Sent from phone. Regret pselling mixtakes On 24 Nov 2013 23:55, Karthik Nadar karthik...@wikimedia.in wrote: Congratulations to the Tamil community; indeed a good news. I'm happy to be one among them :-) On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 11:19 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan srik.r...@wikimedia.in wrote: This is very good news Ravi. Kudos to the community! Sent from the touchscreen equivalent of a Nokia 1100, pardon the sender. -- Srikanth Ramakrishnan, Treasurer. On Nov 24, 2013 11:17 PM, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, October 2013 stats for Tamil Wikipedia is out. We have crossed many milestones in one jump coinciding with our Tenth Anniversary Celebrations! * 1017 Total contributors . We have crossed the 1000 milestone after Malayalam Wikipedia. Next in line is Hindi Wikipedia with 988 total contributors. * 118 active editors who edit 5 times a month. Highest in ten years and the first time we crossed 100. * 27 new editors joined this month. This is the second highest enrollment in ten years after the 2010 June state wide essay contest time. * 25 very active editors who edit 100 times a month. Highest in ten years. * We went from 1 to 2 contributors for every one million Tamil speaking population now. * Registered 8.5m million page views. That is 2,83,000 per day. Highest in ten years. We hope to sustain this activity through various initiatives. Thanks, Ravi References: 1. http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaTA.htm 2. http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/SummaryTA.htm 3. http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthlyCombined.htm ___ 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 -- Regards from Mumbai, Karthik Nadar. (+91) 977-360-8862 Secretary, Wikimedia India Chapter. Bangalore, India. http://wiki.wikimedia.in ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Aarti K. Dwivedi ___ 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] Invite to WikiSangamotsavam-2013, the annual gathering of Malayalam Wikimedians
Thanks Netha. Congratulations to the Malayalam Wikimedia community for doing such detailed planning! Inviting Wikimedians from across India is a wonderful idea!! It's a new bench mark!!! Wishing you all lots of fun filled learning. With a belief that this will bring more energy to the Wikimedia movement in India, Vishnu On Friday, 22 November 2013, Netha Hussain nethahuss...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, WikiSangamotsavam 2013, the annual gathering of users and well wishers of Malayalam Wikimedia projects, will take place from 21-23 December, 2013 in YMCA Alappuzha, Kerala. Please click here to go to the official page to see more details. . WikiSangamotsavam - 2013 is our first attempt to invite and host selected members from other Indian Wikipedia communities. We are planning to invite our friends and well-wishers from 14 different language wiki communities in India to this most auspicious occasion hosted by Malayalam wiki community! We are also planning to arrange few scholarships for non-Malayalam Wikimedians who are interested in participating in this event. With all these, we expect this year’s conference shall become the largest outreach program any Indian wiki community have ever attempted. As a part of WikiSangamotsavam-2013, we are organizing edit-a-thons, WikiVidyarthiSangamam (a conference of students interested in Wikimedia projects), WikiYuvaSangamam (a meetup of youth interested in Wikimedia projects), a computer training session for the differently-abled, a digitization drive to digitize the information regarding wetlands in Kerala and WikiJalaYathra, a wiki voyage through Vembanadu backwaters. We cordially invite you to participate in WikiSangamotsavam-2013 to share your experiences, to connect with your peers and create partnerships thereby strengthening the Indian Wikimedia community. To participate in WikiSangamotsavam, please register here Looking forward to meeting you in Alappuzha from 21-23 December, 2013! On behalf of Malayalam Wikimedia Community, Netha Hussain User: Netha Hussain on Wikimedia projects -- Netha Hussain Student of Medicine and Surgery Govt. Medical College, Kozhikode Blogs : nethahussain.blogspot.com swethaambari.wordpress.com ___ 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] Tamil Wikipedia crosses 1000 total contributors milestone
Congratulations to the community!! This is awesome growth news! On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 11:17 PM, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, October 2013 stats for Tamil Wikipedia is out. We have crossed many milestones in one jump coinciding with our Tenth Anniversary Celebrations! * 1017 Total contributors . We have crossed the 1000 milestone after Malayalam Wikipedia. Next in line is Hindi Wikipedia with 988 total contributors. * 118 active editors who edit 5 times a month. Highest in ten years and the first time we crossed 100. * 27 new editors joined this month. This is the second highest enrollment in ten years after the 2010 June state wide essay contest time. * 25 very active editors who edit 100 times a month. Highest in ten years. * We went from 1 to 2 contributors for every one million Tamil speaking population now. * Registered 8.5m million page views. That is 2,83,000 per day. Highest in ten years. We hope to sustain this activity through various initiatives. Thanks, Ravi References: 1. http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaTA.htm 2. http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/SummaryTA.htm 3. http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthlyCombined.htm ___ 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] Tamil Wikipedia crosses 1000 total contributors milestone
Kudos to Tamil Wikipedian community!! Spread the Knowledge !! Yohann Thomas Wikipedia Club Pune yohan...@gmail.com ___ 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] Tamil Wikipedia crosses 1000 total contributors milestone
Oh Tamil, Welcome to the coveted 1000+ users' club! :) Be inspired and inspire others too! Together we, all communities of India, have a long way to go. And we shall all walk hand in hand. -Viswam On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 10:58 PM, Yohann Thomas yohan...@gmail.com wrote: Kudos to Tamil Wikipedian community!! Spread the Knowledge !! Yohann Thomas Wikipedia Club Pune yohan...@gmail.com ___ 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] Tamil Wikipedia crosses 1000 total contributors milestone
Awesome, Ravi! Congratulations to the diverse Tamil WP community!! Loads of wishes for a wonderful wiki year ahead! Hope to see you all during the 11th year Tamil Wiki celebrations :-) Cheers, Vishnu On 24 November 2013 23:17, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, October 2013 stats for Tamil Wikipedia is out. We have crossed many milestones in one jump coinciding with our Tenth Anniversary Celebrations! * 1017 Total contributors . We have crossed the 1000 milestone after Malayalam Wikipedia. Next in line is Hindi Wikipedia with 988 total contributors. * 118 active editors who edit 5 times a month. Highest in ten years and the first time we crossed 100. * 27 new editors joined this month. This is the second highest enrollment in ten years after the 2010 June state wide essay contest time. * 25 very active editors who edit 100 times a month. Highest in ten years. * We went from 1 to 2 contributors for every one million Tamil speaking population now. * Registered 8.5m million page views. That is 2,83,000 per day. Highest in ten years. We hope to sustain this activity through various initiatives. Thanks, Ravi References: 1. http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaTA.htm 2. http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/SummaryTA.htm 3. http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthlyCombined.htm ___ 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] Tamil Wikipedia crosses 1000 total contributors milestone
HI Ravi, 2013/11/24 Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com Hi, October 2013 stats for Tamil Wikipedia is out. We have crossed many milestones in one jump coinciding with our Tenth Anniversary Celebrations! * 1017 Total contributors . We have crossed the 1000 milestone after Malayalam Wikipedia. Next in line is Hindi Wikipedia with 988 total contributors. * 118 active editors who edit 5 times a month. Highest in ten years and the first time we crossed 100. * 27 new editors joined this month. This is the second highest enrollment in ten years after the 2010 June state wide essay contest time. * 25 very active editors who edit 100 times a month. Highest in ten years. * We went from 1 to 2 contributors for every one million Tamil speaking population now. * Registered 8.5m million page views. That is 2,83,000 per day. Highest in ten years. Congratulations to Tamil community on these achievments. Best wishes 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
