[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia - Cochrane Symposium
Dear All, I'm happy to share with you that '22nd Cochrane Colloquium', an annual celebration of Cochrane Collaboration is going to take place in Hyderabad this year. Cochrane Collaboration is an independent, non-for profit, international organisation. It helps provide evidence-based, relevant, systematic, up-to-date reviews to people on health which is widely referred by healthcare-professionals, patients and general public. Last year in the Colloquium, there were nearly 2000 scientists from around the world in Quebec where Cochrane and Wikipedia initiated a partnership to populate Wikipedia articles with evidence from Systematic Reviews. This partnership was initiated on the Wikipedia front by Dr. James and his team of Wiki Project Med Foundation. As a part of it there has been appointment of Sydney Poore as a Wikipedian-In-Residence. For more. The Colloquium is going to happen from 21st - 26th September this year. A Pre-colloquium Symposium 'Wikipedia and Cochrane' is planned on 21st Sept. Cochrane Collaboration has offered free entries for upto 50 Wikipedians to this session! Cochrane has also allotted two slots for Wikpedia Workshops in addition to a Wikipedia Booth during the colloquium. Details are here: Wikipedia Cochrane Symposium Date: Sunday 21 September 2014 - 09:00 to 17:00 Location: Indian Institute of Public Health (IIPH) Cochrane and Wikipedia: Disseminating Evidence Session Workshop session 1 Workshop category: Knowledge translation and communicating evidence Date: Tuesday 23 September 2014 - 13:30 to 15:00 Location: Meeting Room 07 First Floor HICC Adding evidence to Wikipedia: edit-a-thon Workshop session 2 Workshop category: Knowledge translation and communicating evidence Date: Wednesday 24 September 2014 - 07:30 to 08:45 Location: Meeting Room 01- Computer Lab Second Floor HICC Would love to hear more from you and make the best of this opportunity. Interested folks please contact me off-list. regards Abhijith _Abhijith Jayanthi E: abhij...@wikimedia.inm: +91-9866898311 (India) +971-558638060 (UAE) _ 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] Poll War on Wikipedia
Hi All, This is something to watch out: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/lok-sabha-elections-2014/news/After-Facebook-and-Twitter-online-poll-war-breaks-out-on-Wikipedia/articleshow/3388.cms regards Abhijith _Abhijith JayanthiE: abhijithsince1...@yahoo.comm: +91-9866898311___ 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] Membership
We will need registration with Ministry of Home Affairs to allow foreign nationals to register. _Abhijith JayanthiE: abhij...@wikimedia.inm: +91-9866898311 On Saturday, 25 January 2014 6:40 PM, Pradeep Mohandas prad2...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, This question came up last February as well. Apparently, this was a restriction placed by the Registrar of Societies in Bangalore. See - http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2013-February/009280.html I have no idea. I just linked to the conversation because I remember it happening and searched for the same and found it. Warm regards, User:Prad2609 Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone From: Yann Forget yan...@gmail.com; To: Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia. wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org; Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Membership Sent: Sat, Jan 25, 2014 12:01:47 PM Hello, I read that Wikimedia India does not accept member who are not Indian nationals. This comes as a big surprise, and I don't see any reason for it. As far as I know, membership in a non-profit in India is not limited to Indian nationals. A change whould be most welcomed. Thanks, Yann Forget, from Ahmedabad ___ 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] WikiExperts
Hi, Did anyone hear about WikiExperts; http://www.wikiexperts.us/en/ I wanted to know if this is permitted? Or any possible intervention is though of. - Abhijith ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter: FDC Proposal Review Request
Hi All, I sense the budget is little beyond the line. I understand the tentative events planned will mean an aggressive growth plan, but do we have the resources to handle it? More so, can someone explain the status of our FCRA and how exactly is the fund routed into our account? An amount of this magnitude will need a reflection of our previous spend/ failing which we will attract unnecessary scrutiny. This will mean we will need to have full-time support staff - additional expense. For Wikimania, I support and wish to see a transparent call for interests and a due process for selection of travel/scholarship awards: more Indian representation at Wikimania is worthy and called for. For a national conference/4 regional conferences - I understand it will be an overstretch, it is best to have a single conference, through rotation in different cities every year to ensure good participation in the long run. Most of the attendees are volunteers, 5 conferences in total is a bit heavy on schedule. - Abhijith Jayanthi From: Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com To: Wikimedia India Community list wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Cc: Wikimedia Members List wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, 24 September 2013 1:00 PM Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter: FDC Proposal Review Request There is a very serious amount of money being spent on bureaucratic necessities indeed very little on community activities. For example, why do 6 people need to go for Wikimania Chapters conference? You have asked for money for 3 regional 1 national conference. Does anyone actually believe that the Chapter has the wherewithal to organise/conduct 4 conferences in a year? Add to that x number of academies one devcamp. Plus a whopping Rs 6 lakhs for Wiki Loves India/Monuments. There are also a huge grey areas - Event Participation, Unspecified general events. The amt 150,000 $ is not at all small. This is an extravagant budget and needs pruning down in the issues mentioned above more allocation to activities communities. My suggestion is to keep it much smaller but doable. Such huge amts demanded without any clear cut idea of whats to happen will only lead to non-utilisation at best misuse at worst. Dont bite off more than you can chew! On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote: Karthik, Except for allocation for Innovative projects, GLAM acdtivities and Digitisation (Budget items 3.5.1, 3.5.4, 3.5.5), I don't see any other budget item that directly sustains any measurable impact on the growth of language communities. Even this fund allocation will prove miniscule when distributed for all the language communities. I strongly recommend to extend the budget proposal to make use of the full $200,000 that you proposed in your letter of intent and allocate a good budget for language communities and special interest groups. Please also see my feedback at http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Talk:FDC_Proposal_2013/Budget#Funding_allocation_for_language_communities_and_SIGs Thanks, Ravi ___ 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 -- Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- ___ 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: Wikimedia India Board(EC) Elections-2013 - Results
Congratulations to new Team! All the best! From: Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.com To: Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia. wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Thursday, 15 August 2013 9:31 PM Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Wikimedia India Board(EC) Elections-2013 - Results -- Forwarded message -- From: Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.com Date: 2013/8/15 Subject: Wikimedia India Board(EC) Elections-2013 - Results To: wmin-members wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com, Wikimedia India EC wikimedia-in-e...@lists.wikimedia.org Cc: masked Hi, We completed the election process for Wikimedia India Chapter Executive Committee (EC) Elections for year 2013 in today's Annual General Body Meeting. We are happy to announce the results of the Election. Total eligible Voters: 66 (Excluding 3 members of the Election Committee, who cant' vote as per the Election rules) Votes polled: 27 (26 by post and 1 in person), (40.9%) Valid votes: 26 Invalid vote:1 Candidate- Votes polled Jayanta Nath - 17 Moksh Juneja - 17 Nikhil Kawale - 3 Santosh Shingare - 6 Yohann Thomas - 7 Hence, Jayanta Nath and Moksh Juneja are declared as elected to EC for the two vacant positions for term 2013-2015. We congratulate Jayanta and Moksh. We thank EC, all the candidates and members for active participation in the Election process. We thank the outgoing Executive Committee led by Sudhanwa for all their contributions. We wish the new EC all the best for growing the movement and the chapter in future. Sincerely, Arjuna Rao Chavala, Tinu Cherian, Radhakrishna A Election Committee for EC Elections-2013 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___ 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] [wlm-in] WLM India 2013
Count me in - Abhijith From: Harsh Kothari harshkothari...@gmail.com To: Wikimedia India Community list wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Thursday, 13 June 2013 7:57 PM Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [wlm-in] WLM India 2013 Me also :) Thanks Harsh On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 6:47 PM, Krutikaa Jawanjal krutika...@gmail.com wrote: Count me in! :) Regards, Krutikaa Jawanjal On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 6:32 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan srik.r...@wikimedia.in wrote: Hi all, I have volunteered earlier to help out with the backend work. I will also be able to do some Outreach work. I hope others will also volunteer. :) Cheerio, On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 3:11 AM, Lodewijk Gelauff lodew...@wmnederland.nl wrote: Hi all, After last year, I was thrilled to see the huge participation of Indian people in Wiki Loves Monuments! The huge amount of pictures and new users (from the top of my head, more than 2000 participants from India alone, ranking it with distance above all other countries) was unique, but also was the huge enthusiasm of those people. It clearly showed how proud Indians are of their cultural heritage. Of course this was perhaps best illustrated by having 2 (!) Indian pictures in the top-10 of the world best monument photos. For 2013, I hope that there will be another Indian contest, but that doesn't happen all by itself, for that your help is needed. Arnav and Karthik have requested your help (I'm not sure if you've seen it though), and I think that without some help, it would be very hard to organize the contest. I'm not 100% sure if the board of Wikimedia India has already committed itself to organizing the contest (and making available the necessary budget for prizes etc), but I'm confident that if there is enough enthusiasm, that will not be a big issue. So what do you say? Are you willing to help out organizing the Wiki Loves Monuments photo competition in 2013? Worl that needs to be done includes on-wiki work (tidying up the monument lists, adding information such as coordinates, categorizing and checking images as they come in etc - quite boring but you can do it whenever and where ever you like) but also a bit more organizational: setting procedures for judging, helping find suitable jury members, sponsors, translating the website and interfaces, doing some PR for the contest, finding government and NGO-partners for the contest in India etc. You have a wonderful base to work from, I sincerely hope some volunteers will pick up the challenge and beat last year's contribution! Looking forward to many more Taj Mahal pictures, Lodewijk Gelauff (member of the international coordinating team) 2013/6/6 Arnav Sonara sonara.ar...@gmail.com Hey, After (virtually) helping Karthik in WLM 2012 and seeing other countries expressing their interest to participate in WLM '13, I request Indian Community interested in helping organize WLM '13 to start planning and discussions for the same. If anyone is interested to help, please get in touch with Karthik or me so that we can start planning for India's successful participation in WLM '13. Thanks. -- Thanks Arnav (ricku). (User:Rangilo_Gujarati) ___ wlm-in mailing list wlm...@lists.wmnederland.nl https://lists.wmnederland.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/wlm-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 -- Srikanth Ramakrishnan Treasurer, Wikimedia Chapter [India] Donate to the Wikimedia India Chapter today ___ 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 -- Harsh Kothari Intern, Wikimedia Foundation Follow Me : harshkothari410 ___ 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] Wikimedia Hyderabad Meetup with CIS A2K Programme Director Mr. Vishnu : Minutes of Meeting
Hi All, The following are the minutes of the meeting: *In Attendance: * Mr. Vishnu - CIS A2K Programme Director Mr. Abhijith Jayanthi Mr. Rahimanuddin Shaik Dr. Rajasekhar Mr. Tausif Mr. Sai Anudeep Ms. Akhila Thumma Mr. Veera Venkata Chowdary (User: Veevan) *Minutes of Meeting:* (1) The meeting opened with a round of introductions about self and then Mr. Vishnu introduced CIS and A2K Programme - little history and his proposed ideas for shaping up the future course of the Programme and open up for discussions. The summary of the presentation and comments/suggestions that followed as indicated below: *Summary* (1) Greater Coordination is envisaged between CIS/ India Chapter + SIGs and the Wiki Community at large (2) Volunteering efforts of Wiki Community (snow balls) and the engagement needs to be better utilized with the support of CIS (positioning the start point for the snow ball to start rolling) so that impact is better captured. *Suggestions/Comments* Two approaches to volunteer engagement were suggested - merits/demerits need to be evaluated and are indicated below (a) Recognition in terms of participation certificates/ appreciation letters and setting an hierarchy of achievement will motivate the volunteers and engage them better. (b) Wiki Volunteering should stem out of passion for knowledge and should be structured on a ''No - Expectations-in-Return Model (3) Mr. Vishnu gave an update on the institutions in Hyderabad that he is trying to connect with (initial level) (4) Few proposals were discussed as part of the initiative: (a) Engaging on a Mobile Model for Wiki Academies: With volunteers and SIGs taking active role in engaging on a small-groups/local setup structures - making Wiki Academy a more sustained dialogue rather than touch and go activity (one day engagements); move towards a longer engagement pattern (b) WikiRTI#: A platform/initiative was discussed and received support from everyone present - to create a repository for anyone to upload RTI responses and thus move towards a general archive/knowledge bank schematic. # Mr. Tausif and Mr. Abhijith will be coordinating on creating a template design for this platform - anyone who is interested and wants to be part of this activity may contact Mr. Abhijith at abhij...@wikimedia.in (5) Mr. Vishnu proposed a tentative plan to engage a staff member based out of Hyderabad to roll-out activities in Hyderabad and around the state of Andhra Pradesh; proposal for which is expected to be discussed before taking forward. Mr. Abhijith expressed interest to make a necessary donation for the same post finalization The meeting concluded with all the participants seeking to have a greater engagement with A2K Team in Hyderabad involving various languages. regards Abhijith ___ 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] why to donate
Guys, I understand this might be a serious issue, but I trust all India mailing list is definitely not the platform for discussion. Please continue this conversation privately, also - wanted to check on couple of points: (1) Do we have a policy of permitted issues to be discussed over the all India Mailing list - if not, there is a necessity to work on it. (2) Disclosures and grievance handling procedures should be shared with each member upon joining and the mechanism should be followed. Again, pointing fingers or rephrasing the issue itself is not the solution - we will have to move beyond the question to get the answer. - abhijith From: Srikanth Ramakrishnan srik.r...@wikimedia.in To: Wikimedia India Community list wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Tuesday, 12 February 2013 11:31 PM Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] why to donate Membership under processing is differnt from memvership alreadt processed. INDI-31 is non existant and will remain so. As for CIS funding, you still havwn't said where you have got the information from. The Chapter has alwaya made things public and will xontinue to do so. If the CIS funds us, it will be madw public. n Tuesday, February 12, 2013, Abhishek Suryawanshi i.abhishek.suryawan...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Srikanth, I appreciate you keep a check of the Chapter Membership List. But at the same time I guess you will also respect the Chapter President's word. I have had a talk with Sudhanwa (President,Wikimedia India Chapter) and just two days back he informed me that my Chapter-membership is being proceed. I would like you to have or increase your communications with other EC members (or at-least with President) before claiming me or anybody else with allegations such as a 'Cheat' :) P.S : How does it affects my query about CIS funding chapter's travel for Board meeting or not ? Regards, Abhishek Suryawanshi, On Behalf of Wikipedia Club Pune On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 10:50 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan srik.r...@wikimedia.in wrote: Just to inform you that Abhishek Suryawanshi, who claims to be a Chapter Member with membership number INDI-31 is NOT a member. The entry currently doesn't exist in our membership list. Mr. Suryawanshi was a member of the Chapter during the earlier Financial Year and did NOT renew his membership. I hope the community is now aware of what kind of people it is dealing with. On 2/12/13, Abhishek Suryawanshi i.abhishek.suryawan...@gmail.com wrote: *@Karthik - * *If you have a question, you can ask it in the form of a question * Why Chapter is denying/ignoring fact flight tickets for members are covered by third party? *instead **of making unsubstantiated claims on a public mailing list,* Do you mean to say 'CIS is supporting' part is unsubstantiated? Then please state who is covering travel expenses? *which is frankly unproductive since it requires us to spend time to send out clarifications. * Could you please elaborate 'unproductive' term and 'sending out clarification' part? What clarification is given? On contrary You are putting up efforts to blur whole situation. *@Sudhanwa - * * 2)Major Chapter Expenses such as Flight Tickets for AGM are covered by CIS. Absolutely wrong information you have go*t. AGM word is wrong and Board Meeting is correct, right? Please correct if wrong. * I am waiting for someone to answer simple query - How much money is required for next year activities? and Which activities are planned? Grant requests are always on public wiki and the numbers are always open to all for discussions. You will find these details in the upcoming requests. Asaf has already indicated the same on the list. If you have any activities planned, please let us know. We will plan the resources accordingly (budgets, people etc) Same request also goes to all the people in the community. Please let us know what you want to do. We are here to support you in whatever best way we can. Do not hesitate to ask for suppo*rt. It seems you are missing out whole point, I am talking about fixed expenses and 'possible' activities. Like Board meeting travel expenses. Which can be covered and are (already) getting covered by third parties like CIS. So it makes more sense to spend volunteer efforts on outreach kind of activities than running for money? specially when third parties are interested in supporting financially? When CIS is wrong, there is hard criticism, and when they support financially - I guess there could be minimum acknowledgement?. I think CIS may help chapter to cover other expenses also if needed. So Chapter can focus on productive outreach and activities? *@Dhaval - * * 1)Chapter is having 1.5 Lack+ Rupees in existing account. * *And what do you think could be done by that HUGE AMOUNT of 1.5+ Indian Rupees?* *I think chapter has its office in Bangalore and based on
