Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Help needed for WLM

[Harsh Kothari]

I can help for Wordpress task.

Thanks
Harsh
On 28-Aug-2012, at 11:10 PM, Karthik Nadar wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> just to update you all that Wiki Loves Monuments is starting from 1st of 
> September (this Saturday).
> 
> There are certain things where we are lagging behind, and need big help from 
> the community.
> We need some (3 or 4) professional and highly qualified photographers to fill 
> in the Jury for the contest 
> Anyone with good WordPress knowledge, need a small help from you to update 
> the website wikilovesmonuments.in
> Any contacts with media persons, do help us promote the event. 
> Thanks all in advance. Get back to me if you can help in either of any. 
> Thanks again :)
> 
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Progress in WLM India

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That's awesome stat. Hats off to all :)

Thanks
Harsh

On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Karthik Nadar wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> and thanks for all your support in WLM.
>
> Just sharing few statistics:
>
>
>- With just a day completed, while second day is going on, India ranks
>second behind Spain in number of photos uploaded.
>- Happily, India ranks number in number of Uploaders with 194
>contributors so far. 847 Images has been uploaded so far :)
>
>
> *Shouldn't we aim for number one spot among 34 other countries??? ;)*
> *
> *
>
>1. http://toolserver.org/~emijrp/wlm/stats.php#detailed
>2.
>
> http://toolserver.org/~platonides/wlm/uploads.php?country=in&limit=100&order=older
>
>
>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Progress in WLM India

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Thats awesome stat. Thanks for sharing it.

Thanks
Harsh
On 06-Sep-2012, at 8:14 AM, Naveen Francis wrote:

> More stats.
> http://toolserver.org/~superzerocool/wlm/?pais=india
> 
> 
> On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 6:50 PM, Karthik Nadar  wrote:
> Hi Yann,
> 
> thanks for pitching in :)
> 
> Do watch the WLM India category here:  
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012_in_India.
>  Randomly, I'm also having watch in the files and nominating files for 
> deletion. If the file is not a monument, be bold to remove the WLM template 
> below the license section so that it exists in Commons but will not be 
> counted under Monuments.
> 
> 
> Thanks again!
> 
> 
> On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 6:11 PM, Yann Forget  wrote:
> 2012/9/5 Karthik Nadar :
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Any Commons admin from India other than Sreejith??? We need a couple of
> > admins for easy process on Commons.
> 
> I am here. ;o)
> 
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Short report on Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 in India

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Hi..

Thanks and Congrats to every one who made this event successfully..

Regards 
Harsh
On 01-Oct-2012, at 5:50 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote:

> On 09/30/2012 03:21 PM, Karthik Nadar wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> firstly, I'm happy to inform you all that Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 in
>> India had a grand start and had a marvelous end :)
>> 
>> Here's some statistics and updates from India:
>> 
>>   - 16,796 photos uploaded from
>> India,
>>   while India ranked number 7 in number of photos uploaded
>>   - 2,230 participants, making India rank number one in number of
>>   participants
>>   - User:Anupamg ,
>>   
>> User:Thamizhpparithi_Maari
>>   , User:Sthitaprajna 
>>   , 
>> User:Darwinacitizen
>>and User:Vu2sga  are
>>   among the top 5 contributors from India. Please, so share some WikiLoves to
>>   them for participating in WLM
>>   - Prize winners will be declared on or before 29th October
>> 
>> On behalf of Wiki Loves Monuments core members (that's Naveen Francis and
>> me), would like to thank all who have helped us to make the contest a
>> successful venture in India. A detailed report will be put up after prize
>> winners are declared.
>> 
>> Thanks all again!
> 
> Congrats and thanks to everyone.
> 
> I am very glad that India participated in Wiki Loves Monuments.  In my
> personal capacity as a volunteer, I used
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_State_Protected_Monuments_in_Karnataka
> to find that a photo of an place I'd visited was needed, and got to
> share a holiday snap:
> 
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bull_statue_on_Chamundesvari_Hill_in_Mysore.jpg
> 
> It was a wonderful feeling to get to contribute something useful to
> Commons; thanks to WLM organizers and participants for setting up and
> maintaining the "here's what we need" lists and help pages!
> 
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WMIN Executive Committee for 2012-13 takes charge

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Congratulation to all :) 

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On 25-Oct-2012, at 6:55 PM, Arnav Sonara wrote:

> Great to see the combination of vivid age range 
> 
> Congratulations to all of you. Good luck ahead.
> 
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala  
> wrote:
> Dear Members and Community,
> 
> At the outset, on behalf of Wikimedia India Executive Committee for 2011-12, 
> I would like to thank you all for the support for the Chapter during the past 
> year, as we strived hard to complete the boot strapping phase of the Chapter. 
> I am glad to report that the boot strapping phase is now complete, as the 
> Chapter is financially healthy, staffed and has conducted AGM and Elections 
> for EC vacancies successfully, apart from spearheading Wiki Academy events 
> and partnerships with various stakeholders. I would like to place on record 
> my thanks to all co-founders and EC team members,volunteers from members and 
> community, Achal, Bishakha, WMF staff,WMF board members, Manuel Schneider and 
> partners and consultants for all the contributions and support towards 
> reaching this important milestone.
> 
> Recently we had inducted the newly elected EC members with an EC induction 
> program at Bangalore. As part of it, we have completed the office bearer 
> elections for the 2012-13. I would like to introduce the new team that has 
> taken charge.
> 
> 
> Sudhanwa Jogalekar
> 
> 
> Sudhanwa Jogalekar is an IT professional with expertise in Information 
> security, system administration, IT infrastructure management etc with over 
> 27 years experience in the industry.  He is an Electrical Engineer from 
> College Of Engineering, Pune with 2 additional management degrees and a 
> professional certification of ISO 27001 Lead Auditor. He has done many 
> projects for corporates, SMEs and Academic Institutions for IT 
> infrastructure, Information Security, E-learning etc.
> 
> He is a well known FOSS evangelist in India and has been promoting FOSS for 
> the last 13 years. He has been co-ordinating PLUG (Pune GNU/Linux Users 
> Group) for many years and conducting workshops, seminars, trainings in/around 
> Pune and other places across India. He has contributed to Indic computing 
> activities (Marathi/Devanagari). He has released a Marathi font family for 
> free.
> 
> He is active on various technical and non-technical groups and helped promote 
> Wikimedia projects. He has organised a complete track on Wikipedia activites 
> in GNUNIFY 2011. Apart from organising various events and activities related 
> to Wikimedia(like launch of Marathi Wikisource, participating in CMDA expo 
> etc.), he also co-ordinates regular meetups of Wikipedians in Pune 
> (WikiPuneri).
> 
> Being a photographer he is involved with various photographers groups and is 
> active in Photographic society of Pune.
> 
> He is elected to the Executive Committee in September 2011 and served as 
> Chair of City/Language SIGs till Oct 2012. He is elected as President in Oct 
> 2012.
> 
> More details available on his website http://www.sudhanwa.com
> Email: sudhanwa [at] wikimedia.in
> Wikimedia username: sudhanwa
> Twitter: @sudhanwa
> Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sudhanwa.jogalekar
> Karthik Nadar
> 
> 
> Karthik Nadar is a final year B.Com student from Mumbai, specializing in 
> Banking, financing, accounting and insurance. He started his contributions to 
> English Wikipedia in mid 2010 and became very active from the following year. 
> In English Wikipedia, Karthik has more than 18K edits and so far has 
> contributed for 10 Good articles. Started working on Indian film related 
> articles, he later on ventured on into political, India and Mumbai related 
> articles. Karthik is autoreviewer, rollbacker and filemover on the English 
> Wikipedia. He also serves as coordinator for WikiProject Mumbai. Karthik is 
> also active on Wikimedia Commons, where he has uploaded hundreds of images 
> and has an edit count of 1,250. He has fixed some small templates and layout 
> issues on Tamil Wikipedia and contributed few articles in Hindi Wikipedia.
> 
> In 2011, he was featured on Wikimedia Fundraising banners. Subsequently he 
> became active in Wikipedia Mumbai community and contributed towards 
> organizing second Photo-thon in Mumbai and few other events. He volunteered 
> to be part of core team for organising "Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 in India" 
> and played a key role along with Naveen Francis in making it a success.
> 
> He is elected to the Executive Committee during September 2012 and current 
> serves as the Secretary.
> 
> Apart from his contributions to Wikimedia Mo

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Power situation in India: New threat for Wikimedia growth?

[Harsh Kothari]

Hey
Agree with Arnav. Gujarat has awesome facility of power.. There is no power cut 
in ahmedabad and other cities as well as rural areas. 

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On 28-Oct-2012, at 1:56 AM, Arnav Sonara wrote:

> Hey,
> 
> In Gujarat I can assure you nothing this *drastic* or *unfortunate* situation 
> is there, in some villages in Gujarat there are regular power cuts.
> 
> In Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities once in a week for about 3-5 hours power cut (fix 
> timing though).
> 
> I don't remember when was the last power cut in Ahmedabad.
> 
> On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 1:53 AM, Ravishankar  wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> Since 2009, most of Tamilnadu is facing a power crisis. It started with few 
> hours of power cut. For the last few months, it has gone up to 18 to 20 hours 
> of unscheduled power cut every single day. Only Chennai city is exempted with 
> a 2 hour power cut. Government is not sure when the crisis will be resolved. 
> It could be next year or it could take few more years. 
> 
> What this means for the growth of Wikimedia expansion in Tamilnadu?
> 
> Every single contributor in Tamilnadu that  I talk to are unable to 
> contribute to their full capacity because of the power cuts. I fear that this 
> may be a bigger concern in attracting new contributors. When there is only 
> few hours of power left, other major concerns like work and study will be 
> given priority. There won't be much time for hobbies and forget geeky 
> activities like Wikipedia editing. This is a major blow given the fact that 
> computer and internet usage was increasing in the last few years.
> 
> How is the power situation in other states?
> 
> Ravi
> 
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki Loves Monuments Winners from India

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Hi all,

Thank you very much Karthik. and also congratulation to every winner as well as 
thanks a lot to every participant and volunteer to make this event successful.

Regards
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On 04-Nov-2012, at 11:12 PM, Karthik Nadar wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> post contest, we had a jury round for the contest Wiki Loves Monuments, for 
> which the India received more that 16,500 files from various states of 
> various monuments. 2,340 participated for the contest, for which India ranked 
> number one in participants. 
> 
> Thanks to all the Jury members and Wikipedians, who have helped with us for 
> Jury; on behalf of me and Naveen Francis (core team members), and also on 
> behalf of the whole of India Community. Reviewing thousands of file has been 
> a tough job. 
> 
> The Jury members included:
> Arun Ganesh
> Gauri Gill
> Kiran Ravikumar
> Ryan Lobo
> Sreejith K
> Special thanks to Arnav Sonara, for filtering thousands of images for Jury 
> round 1.
> 
> Winners were declared as per rating, with quality, creativity and importance 
> to Wikipedia. 
> 
> 
> 
> The winners are as follows:
> 
> First :http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rear_side_of_Tajmahal.jpg
> Second :http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Inside_the_caves.jpg
> Third : http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_9_Stupas.jpg
> Fourth : http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Etmatuddaula_N-UP-A12.jpg 
> Fifth : http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gateway_of_India_at_night.jpg 
> 
> Sixth - Tenth
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bedse_Caves.jpg 
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bhutanatha_group_of_temple_on_the_east_margin_of_the_tank.JPG
>  
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sis_Mahal.jpg 
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tomb_of_Safdarjung,_New_Delhi.jpg 
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mehrangarh_Fort-1.jpg
> 
> 
> Very special thanks to:
> Achal Prabhala
> Konarak Ratnakar
> Kothari Harsh
> Sreejith K
> Yuvi Panda
> 
> Detailed report will be soon made penned. P.S: I'm sorry if I have missed 
> anyone.
> 
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Meetup in Bharuch

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Hi Pradeep

Best of Luck for this event. Great step by you.

I am from Ahmedabad. If you need any help from me you can tell  me. 

Hope for good :)

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On 05-Nov-2012, at 11:06 PM, Karthik Nadar wrote:

> All the best Pradeep :)
> 
> I see a new community building up.
> 
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 10:30 PM, Pradeep Nair  wrote:
> hi,
> 
> I have been living in Bharuch for the past one year. Since there have been no 
> meetups in this region (the Surat-Vadodara belt) and having to travel to 
> Mumbai to get to the closest meetup, I decided to WP:BEBOLD and do one meetup 
> in Bharuch.
> 
> I've created the meetup page here - 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Bharuch/Bharuch1
> 
> Please feel free to share this far and wide with folks around the Bharuch 
> area. We're also planning to do a small editing workshop here once we 
> complete the meetup. This is at a local public library that I am a member of. 
> Once I get clearances required for both the meetup and the workshop, I will 
> post a link on the meetup page. 
> 
> warm regards,
> Pradeep
> User:Prad2609
>  
> Pradeep Mohandas
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Meetup in Bharuch

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Hey Pradeep

I will definitely come if my examination will not at that time. Mostly I will 
come to Baroda in MS university on this saturday. If you have time and comfort 
then we can meet at that place. 

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On 05-Nov-2012, at 11:27 PM, Pradeep Nair wrote:

> hi Harsh,
> 
> Thank you. Do come down for the meetup, if you can.
>  
> Pradeep Mohandas
> How Pradeep uses email? - http://goo.gl/6v1I9
> From: Harsh Kothari 
> To: Wikimedia India Community list  
> Cc: Pradeep Nair  
> Sent: Monday, 5 November 2012 11:16 PM
> Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Meetup in Bharuch
> 
> Hi Pradeep
> 
> Best of Luck for this event. Great step by you.
> 
> I am from Ahmedabad. If you need any help from me you can tell  me. 
> 
> Hope for good :)
> 
> Best
> Harsh
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> Physical Research Laboratory(PRL).
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> 
> 
> On 05-Nov-2012, at 11:06 PM, Karthik Nadar wrote:
> 
>> All the best Pradeep :)
>> 
>> I see a new community building up.
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 10:30 PM, Pradeep Nair  wrote:
>> hi,
>> 
>> I have been living in Bharuch for the past one year. Since there have been 
>> no meetups in this region (the Surat-Vadodara belt) and having to travel to 
>> Mumbai to get to the closest meetup, I decided to WP:BEBOLD and do one 
>> meetup in Bharuch.
>> 
>> I've created the meetup page here - 
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Bharuch/Bharuch1
>> 
>> Please feel free to share this far and wide with folks around the Bharuch 
>> area. We're also planning to do a small editing workshop here once we 
>> complete the meetup. This is at a local public library that I am a member 
>> of. Once I get clearances required for both the meetup and the workshop, I 
>> will post a link on the meetup page. 
>> 
>> warm regards,
>> Pradeep
>> User:Prad2609
>>  
>> Pradeep Mohandas
>> How Pradeep uses email? - http://goo.gl/6v1I9
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Live streaming of Erik Moeller's talk

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Hi Noopur

Thanks for this.

Harsh
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On 12-Nov-2012, at 2:42 PM, Noopur Raval wrote:

> Dear all, 
> The talk by Erik Moeller on the state of tech in Wikipedia at CIS office in 
> Bangalore will be live streamed here:
> http://www.ustream.tv/channel/hasgeek
> 
> Thank you, 
> Noopur
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] "Fast inverse square root" Wikipedia article blocked by DOT/ Vodafone India.

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For BSNL Broadband it is also working 

Best

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On 16-Nov-2012, at 12:07 PM, Gaurav Pruthi wrote:

> Use Airtel Broadbandits opening with that :).
> 
> -Gaurav
> 
> On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 11:52 AM, CherianTinu Abraham  
> wrote:
> Strangely "Fast inverse square root" Wikipedia article is blocked by DOT/ 
> Vodafone India.  
> 
> https://twitter.com/mixdev/status/269306415229829120/photo/1
> 
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki meetup Ahmedabad - 6

[Harsh Kothari]

Hi All

We have planned wiki meet up Ahmedabad - 6 on 1st December, 2012 at LKP Campus, 
IIM Ahmedabad.[1] Everyone who has interest is invited.

Date and Time
Date: : December 1, 2012
Time : 1700 to 1900 IST
Venue: : LKP Campus, IIM Ahmedabad
Agenda
Introduction
Project Ahmedabad in Gujarati Wikipedia
Statistics of Gujarati Wikipedia
How to increase contributors in Wikipedia(Both)
Problems suffered in wikipedia and their Solutions
Editing in English and Gujarati Wikipedia


Twitter
Use #WPMABD6 in your tweets.
Facebook Event
https://www.facebook.com/events/528498527161006/

For more info and sign up 

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Ahmedabad/Ahmedabad6

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Impact of wikipedia video (subtitle translation)

[Harsh Kothari]

Hi

Can we also do for Gujarati Language?

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On 29-Nov-2012, at 11:35 PM, Joseph Seddon wrote:

> Hey guys,
> 
> I was wondering if I could ask for some help. Victor Grigas, a storyteller 
> with the fundraising team at the wikimedia foundation has produced a 
> fantastic video featuring wikipedia editors and about them, where and why 
> they edit and the impact they feel their work has. 
> 
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Impact_Of_Wikipedia.webm
> 
> We would really like to get the subtitle translated into as many languages as 
> possible with one of our focuses be languages that belong to the Indian 
> subcontinent and we were wondering if people would be able to help us out.
> 
> If you would like to help you can translate the messages from the following 
> page by selecting your language:
> 
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&taction=translate&language=en&group=page-Fundraising+2012%2FTranslation%2FImpact+Of+Wikipedia+Video+%28subtitles%29
> 
> Also could you relay this relay to the regional and associated language 
> mailing lists to spread the word? The more languages we can get this in the 
> better :)
> 
> Thanks for you help guys
> -- 
> -- 
> 
> Joseph Seddon
> 
> Fundraiser Translation Coordinator
> Wikimedia Foundation
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India wins at globally in Wiki Loves Monuments

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Congrats to all :)

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On 04-Dec-2012, at 10:38 AM, Abhijeet Safai wrote:

> Congrats!
> 
> On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Karthik Nadar  
> wrote:
> Yes Beria,
> 
> would nominate them asap :) I'll ping also ping you if any help required. 
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 1:29 AM, Béria Lima  wrote:
> commons
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
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> Secretary,
> Wikimedia India Chapter.
> 
> Donate to Wikipedia, support free knowledge.
> https://donate.wikimedia.org/
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Report of Ahmedabad Wiki meet up - 6

[Harsh Kothari]

Hello all,

First of all, sorry for delayed report.

Wikipedia Meet up - 6 was held at Lois Kahn Plaza, IIM Campus on  1st Dec. 

After some brief introduction, new members were given some basic idea about 
things related to Wikipedia. Some discussions were carried out regrading 
Wikipedia. Conflicts of Interest was one of them.

Then we discussed about our new project on Ahmedabad named "વિકિપરિયોજના 
અમદાવાદ"(Wikiproject Ahmedabad) in Gujarati Wikipedia. In this we discussed 
lots of thing including how to make this project successful, what kind of 
strategies we can apply, which types of articles can be included and other 
stuff. 

Another key agendas of meetup discussed at large were how to make grow 
community in Ahmedabad, enlarge viewership of Gujarati Wikipedia? Everyone gave 
his own idea. We had some wonderful things to take on. After talking much about 
these issues,we decided that Wikipedia workshop will be the best way to 
increase potential editors. So we are planning to arrange one workshop on 16th 
December. After finalization, detail will be posted on mailing list soon. 

At the end, a small editing session was held to get newcomers' hands tested on 
Wikipedia. 

Here is the complete list of participants
Harsh Kothari
Samkit
Arjun
Hitarth
Dhaval
Akash
Amit Panchal
Harendrasingh
Ketan Raval

By and large, it was a successful meet up  concluding some useful points. 

Photos of this meet up is here
1. 
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=400338140040746&set=oa.491678384185832&type=1&theater
2. 
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=400338590040701&set=oa.491678384185832&type=1&theater

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Report of Ahmedabad Wiki meet up - 6

[Harsh Kothari]

Hi Srikanth

It is just like Project India, Project Gujarat on English Wikipedia. To enhance 
the quality of existing article and to make new article of Ahmedabad. 

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On 07-Dec-2012, at 5:28 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan wrote:

> Harsh, thanks for the report.
> Can you let us know what Project Ahmedabad is?
> 
> 
> On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Harsh Kothari  
> wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> First of all, sorry for delayed report.
> 
> Wikipedia Meet up - 6 was held at Lois Kahn Plaza, IIM Campus on  1st Dec. 
> 
> After some brief introduction, new members were given some basic idea about 
> things related to Wikipedia. Some discussions were carried out regrading 
> Wikipedia. Conflicts of Interest was one of them.
> 
> Then we discussed about our new project on Ahmedabad named "વિકિપરિયોજના 
> અમદાવાદ"(Wikiproject Ahmedabad) in Gujarati Wikipedia. In this we discussed 
> lots of thing including how to make this project successful, what kind of 
> strategies we can apply, which types of articles can be included and other 
> stuff. 
> 
> Another key agendas of meetup discussed at large were how to make grow 
> community in Ahmedabad, enlarge viewership of Gujarati Wikipedia? Everyone 
> gave his own idea. We had some wonderful things to take on. After talking 
> much about these issues,we decided that Wikipedia workshop will be the best 
> way to increase potential editors. So we are planning to arrange one workshop 
> on 16th December. After finalization, detail will be posted on mailing list 
> soon. 
> 
> At the end, a small editing session was held to get newcomers' hands tested 
> on Wikipedia. 
> 
> Here is the complete list of participants
> Harsh Kothari
> Samkit
> Arjun
> Hitarth
> Dhaval
> Akash
> Amit Panchal
> Harendrasingh
> Ketan Raval
> 
> By and large, it was a successful meet up  concluding some useful points. 
> 
> Photos of this meet up is here
> 1. 
> https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=400338140040746&set=oa.491678384185832&type=1&theater
> 2. 
> https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=400338590040701&set=oa.491678384185832&type=1&theater
> 
> Thanks,
> Harsh
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> Physical Research Laboratory(PRL).
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> 
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Ahmedabad Workshop - 2

[Harsh Kothari]

Hi All

We are going to organize 2nd Wikipedia Workshop at Ahmedabad on 16th December, 
2012[1].

Agenda
The agenda includes explaining the basics of Wikipedia, 5 Pillars, few 
policies, anatomy of an article, basic editing Wikipedia etc. On the event day, 
a Wikimedia community member will introduce you to technical side of Wikipedia 
and it's sister projects as well as the non-technical side of it. You get a 
chance to network with some local Wikipedia community members. 

Date and Venue
Venue:Lets Nurture, 312 Kalasagar Mall
Date: 16 December 2012
Time: 11:00 to 2:00 IST

For Registration click on following link
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHFjci1acXl3R2VRMnpHdXd6dVR6bGc6MQ

Facebook Event
https://www.facebook.com/events/447222005342455/

Twitter HashTag
Use #WPWABD2 in your tweets.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Workshop/Ahmedabad_Workshop_2

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikitech-l] Welcome our six OPW interns!

[Harsh Kothari]

Congratulation to Sucheta and Priyanka :) Best of Luck..

Cheers 
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On 12-Dec-2012, at 10:22 AM, రహ్మానుద్దీన్ షేక్ wrote:

> Congratulations!
> 
> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 9:59 AM, Subhashish Panigrahi 
>  wrote:
> Congrats all of you, Sucheta and Priyanka, be ready for people like me 
> overburdening your task list ;-)
> 
> Yuvi, I was about to shout out the same, how come you got up so early? ;-)
> 
> Subha
> 
> Sent from my mobile
> 
> On 12-Dec-2012, at 9:28 AM, Yuvi Panda  wrote:
> 
>> 2 people from India. Yay!
>> 
>> -- 
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>> http://yuvi.in/blog
>> 
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Proposal for India's First MediaWiki Group Ahmedabad

[Harsh Kothari]

Dear friends, 

This is to inform you all about the creation of the first MediaWiki group in 
India. For the past several days, I’ve been speaking to Quim Gil, Sumana and 
Yuvi Panda. I was informed about the setting up of local groups in different 
countries for technical contributors. With encouragement from all of them and 
with help from Noopur I submitted a proposal for the formation of MediaWiki 
Group Ahmedabad. This proposal has been endorsed by 7 people so far. 

For those who might be interested in setting up similar groups, I think a 
Wikitech mailing list for India is being set up and personally, I would be 
happy to help you write a proposal for your community. I think it’s a great 
idea because with the help of this technical group we intend to make good 
technical infrastructure and editing environment for Gujarati Wikipedia easier 
to contribute to. 

I have already ported HotCat and Popups(on the way) on Gujarati Wikipedia. 
Please have a look at the areas we want to collaborate on: 

Areas of collaboration:
Localize Gadgets for Gujarati Wikipedia and Wikisource
Create New Gadgets and extensions
Bug solving for Gujarati Wikipedia and WikiSource and also other MediaWiki 
related Bug solving for all Indian languages
Translate into Gujarati Language, i.e http://translatewiki.net/
Wikidata


You can read the proposal here: 
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Groups/Proposals/Ahmedabad

Your endorsements, improvements and feedback are welcome at the wiki
page. Thank you!

Harsh Kothari

PS: see also http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Groups/Proposals

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Malayalam Wikipedia turns 10 today

[Harsh Kothari]

Hi

Congratulations to all Malayalam Wikipedians :)

Cheers
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On 21-Dec-2012, at 11:05 PM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar wrote:

> Congratulations to the Malayalam Wikipedia community!!
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Anoop Narayanan  wrote:
>> All,
>> 
>> Malayalam Wikipedia turns 10 today.
>> 
>> Please see the online versions of the article published on some news papers
>> 
>> Mathrubhumi: http://www.mathrubhumi.com/story.php?id=326279  (in Malayalam)
>> 
>> Madhyamam : http://www.madhyamam.com/news/205323/121221 (in Malayalam)
>> 
>> Malayala Manorama English:
>> http://english.manoramaonline.com/cgi-bin/MMOnline.dll/portal/ep/contentView.do?contentId=13071555&tabId=1&programId=11565535
>> ( in English)
>> 
>> Happy Birthday Malayalam Wikipedia :)
>> 
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Small MediaWiki Hackathone (Remote)

[Harsh Kothari]

Hi srikanth
Sure you can import my common.js file into your common.js in
en.wikipedia.org. Then you can find one edit count button in left side
under toolbox. When you click on that one dialog will appear that will show
your edit count.

If you need any help then you can ping me.

Thanks
Harsh

On Thursday, January 3, 2013, Srikanth Ramakrishnan wrote:

> Pratik, Harsh.
> Good to see the little brainstorming session.
> Perhaps, we could have more of them every now and then. Even I'm
> interested.
>
> Keep up the good work.
> Oh, and could you share the code with me?
> I want to check my edit count.
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 10:49 PM, Pratik Lahoti 
> 
> > wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> We are doing a small MediaWiki hackathon at 8 pm today. Harsh Kothari
>>> will be conducting the hackathon, whereby he will be teaching the
>>> participants some basics of MediaWiki and the ways to contribute to it.
>>> Interested folks, see you at 8 pm :-)
>>>
>>> -- Forwarded message --
>>> From: Harsh Kothari >> 'cvml', 'harshkothari...@gmail.com');>>
>>> Date: Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 2:43 AM
>>> Subject: [MediaWiki-India] Small MediaWiki Hackathone (Remote)
>>> To: mediawiki-in...@lists.wikimedia.org >> 'mediawiki-in...@lists.wikimedia.org');>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi All
>>>
>>> Pratik Lahoti (User:BPositive) want to learn some basics of MediaWiki
>>> and UserScripts, Gadget. So I will going to teach him and also will show
>>> how all things are working.
>>>
>>> So If any one is interested can join on Skype or Hangout or GTalk. Time
>>> will be announce by Pratik. Most probably between 7 to 11 :)
>>>
>>> Happy Coding
>>>
>>> Best
>>> Harsh
>>>   ---
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>>> Research Fellow,
>>> Physical Research Laboratory(PRL).
>>> Ahmedabad.
>>>
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>>>
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>>> *Pratik Lahoti*
>>> User:BPositive <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:BPositive>
>>>
>>
>> Unfortunately, we could not have a G+ hangout/Skype/TeamViewer as there
>> were connectivity problems at my end. However, the hackathon started at 9
>> pm and we chose Google Docs for interaction purpose and spoke over the
>> phone as well whenever needed.
>>
>> Harsh taught me how to make UserScripts using the API Sandbox. We made a
>> userscript to calculate the edit count of the user. He also informed me
>> about the JS console, the Resource loader, MediaWIki API, grab data from
>> query etc. We finished this in about 80 minutes time.
>>
>> It was a nice experience and I made my first UserScript that can
>> calculate user’s editcount.
>>
>> If anyone wants to get started with MediaWiki or have any doubt, they can
>> contact either Harsh or me.
>>
>> Thank you Harsh for your time! :-)
>>
>>
>> --
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>> *Pratik Lahoti*
>> User:BPositive <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:BPositive>
>>
>> *Speak less, work more*
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Proposal for India's First MediaWiki Group Ahmedabad

[Harsh Kothari]

Hi All

Since there is long discussion about MediaWiki Group Ahmedabad I am writing 
this mail to give some points to you.

1st and most important point: all the motivation and why I am promoting this 
group is clearcut written in our submission.

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Groups/Proposals/Ahmedabad

Next is I don't want to get involved in this type of discussion. I just want to 
contribute and code. This is probably the best we can do, since the rest of 
Ahmedabad group members are also more interested in coding than in formal 
discussions like this one. We silently help growing the MediaWiki community 
across India. That is what matters.

Here you can read the point of view of the other members:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Groups/Proposals/Ahmedabad#As_members

Once the Wikimedia India SIGs are established and we see how they work we will 
consider. In the meantime we are happy being a MediaWiki Group Ahmedabad.

Happy Coding and contributing.

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On 05-Jan-2013, at 12:53 PM, Alolita Sharma wrote:

> My two cents based on two decades of experience in open source and
> growing adoption and contributions in India:
> 
> Mediawiki is an open source project which has community members
> contributing to it globally. Having a technical Mediawiki user group
> with developers gathering together for face-to-face technical
> discussions or coding is a well established norm on all open source
> projects. Having a local user group mailing list is also fine. The
> most important component to maintain a successful technical user group
> is to have active members who find the group useful for learning best
> practices in open source software development, contributing code,
> localizing software interfaces and be active contributors to the
> larger global code base.
> 
> It is irrelevant whether WMF or some staff member or some local
> chapter member blesses this. Open source does not work on the basis of
> needing someone's consent. It works when you have a local problem, bug
> or feature you would like to develop and improve the software
> (Mediawiki in this case) you use or want to improve. And you have more
> than 2 active developers locally :-) The idea is to code not just
> think and talk about it.
> 
> Harsh - if you have more than 3 developers who are serious, local and
> want to learn more about Mediawiki, form your own user group
> informally. It doesn't have to be a formal group (locally registered
> society) unless you start collecting money. Keep the barriers to
> coding and real work as low as possible. I will be happy to help if
> you need it.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> Best,
> Alolita
> 
> On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Anirudh Bhati  wrote:
>> I don't see the bunch of coders representing their case over on this
>> list.  I see Harsh as an active volunteer, who else is active?
>> 
>> On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Arun Ganesh  wrote:
>>> Let me (take the effort) to skip through the many lines of diplomacy. What I
>>> understand:
>>> 
>>> Bunch of coders want to form their own group so that the coders can focus
>>> on.. coding and not going through endless email threads like this one.
>>> 
>>> I support!
>>> 
>>> PS: I'm no longer with WMF. But if there's one thing I learnt, creating
>>> things is faster and more fun than trying to get consensus. And we
>>> desperately need more people who can develop, minus the bullshit, or we are
>>> never getting out of this well.
>>> 
>>> 
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>>> (planemad)
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] More Update on Ashburn data center switchover / migration – target date is week of 1/22/13

[Harsh Kothari]

FYI
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Begin forwarded message:

> From: Ct Woo 
> Subject: [Wikitech-l] More Update on Ashburn data center switchover / 
> migration – target date is week of 1/22/13
> Date: 20 January 2013 12:27:28 AM GMT+05:30
> To: Wikimedia developers , Wikimedia 
> Engineering 
> Reply-To: Wikimedia developers 
> 
> All,
> 
> We will be proceeding with the datacenter switchover plan this coming
> Tuesday (Jan 22, 2013), unless we discover some unexpected and
> insurmountable issues in our tests between now and then.
> 
> During the 8-hour migration window on the 22nd, 23rd and 24th (from 17:00
> UTC to 01:00 UTC hours  / 9am to 5pm PST),  there would be times (lasting
> about 30 minutes) where the site would be set to "read-only" mode, to
> facilitate master database switchovers from one datacenter to another.
> While the site should be available to readers, no new contents could be
> created, edited or uploaded.
> 
> We are aware of the inconvenience and we have put together plans to
> minimize such annoyances, e.g., automating much of the procedures,
> mitigating known risks,  and performing tests to identify issues prior to
> deployment. Given the scale and complexity of this migration, we do realize
> not all operational impact is predictable.  Some users could experience
> intermittent site unavailability and/or performance issues unfortunately.
> 
> You can follow the migration on chat.freenode.net <http://irc.freenode.net>
> (and not irc.freenode.org as mentioned in previous email) in the
> #wikimedia-operations channel.
> 
> Thanks,
> CT Woo
> 
> -- Forwarded message --
> From: Ct Woo 
> Date: Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 12:07 PM
> Subject: Update on Ashburn data center switchover / migration – target date
> is week of 1/22/13
> To: Wikimedia developers , Development and
> Operations Engineers 
> 
> 
> All,
> 
> The Migration team is in the last lap on completing the remaining tasks to
> ready our software stack and Ashburn infrastructure for the big switchover
> day.
> 
> Per my last 
> update,<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-October/063668.html>
> with the Fundraising activity behind us now, the team has scheduled the *week
> of 22nd January*, 2013 to perform the switchover. We are going to block a
> 8-hour migration window on the *22nd, 23rd and 24**th*.  During those
> periods, *17:00 UTC to 01:00 UTC hours (9am to 5pm PST*), there will be
> intermittent blackouts and they will be treated as 'planned' outages.  You
> can follow the migration on irc.freenode.org in the #wikimedia-operations
> channel.
> 
> The team is putting the finishing touches to the last few tasks and we will
> make the final Go/No decision on 18th Jan, 2013. An update will send out
> then. For those interested in tracking the progress, the meeting notes are
> captured on this wikitech
> page<http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Eqiad_Migration_Planning#Improving_Switchover>
> .
> 
> *Please note that we will be restricting code deployment during that week,
> allowing only emergency and critical ones only.*
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Gujarati wikimedians at Science fair, Bharuch

[Harsh Kothari]

Hi Vishnu

We have done outreach sessions at Ahmedabad, Rajkot etc. Also done one
essay writing competition for student and in that there were 300
participation. and the most important thing is that the growth rate of
Gujarati WIkipedia is 150% that is due to dedicated efforts of whole
community.

As Dhavalbhai said we, as a community, have discussed this path a few times
in our monthly web meetings so now we are growing with the sincere
dedication of all community members.

Thanks
Harsh


On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 2:27 PM, Dhaval S. Vyas  wrote:

> Thank you very much for your kind reply Vishnu,
>
> Yes, outreach programs at schools has always been on our agenda. I know
> Shushant has passion for it. We are celebrating Gujarati Wikisource's first
> anniversary very soon (official announcement will be sent out), which has
> been planned at an  educational institute.
>
> We, as a community, have discussed this path a few times in our monthly
> web meetings that I hold every first Sunday of month. We'll discuss it
> within community once again and get back to you off the list, keeping
> interested parties in loop.
>
> Thanks once again for your kind words and appreciation for Satishchamdra
> and his team.
>
> Best Regards,
> Dhaval
> On 11 Feb 2013 03:49, "Vishnu t"  wrote:
>
>> Dear Dhaval,
>>
>> Thank you for sharing this. Excellent work Satishchandra, Devendrasinh
>> Gohil and Jayam Patel. Mainly because the way in which you have dovetailed
>> the Gujarati Wiki outreach event at the primary education level. I feel
>> this is a useful and more organic model of doing Education programmes. I
>> think there is a larger shared interest among the Gujarati Wikipedian
>> friends about Wiki-Education programme, as I heard Sushant Salva also
>> extensively talking about this.
>>
>> Dhaval, would you and other Gujarati Wikipedian friends want to consider
>> developing a model of doing Wiki-Education programme. By this I mean going
>> deeper and critically reflecting, documenting on the challenges and
>> learnings, etc. If yes, we can bring in some critical inputs by experts in
>> the Elementary education sector and facilitate the process. And also in
>> making all your efforts result in larger and sustained results. Please do
>> discuss with friends and get back either on or off the list - Warmly, Vishnu
>>
>> If I may, it is important that there is more cross reporting of the work
>> being done by various Wikipedians across Indian languages. There is not
>> much news about the passionate work being done by many of our friends.
>> While we will work in bringing back Wiki Patrika, I feel it is very useful
>> to have posts on this list which can act as a source of cross-pollination
>> of ideas, collaborations and projects. Any ideas and suggestions on this
>> would be Welcome.
>>
>> Best,
>> Vishnu
>>
>>
>>
>> On 11 February 2013 04:28, Dhaval S. Vyas  wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I would like to share a news with you. Recently Narmadanagar Community
>>> Science Centre, Bharuch, Gujarat organised a science fair for the schools
>>> of Bharuch District. Three of our active Gujarati Wiki community members
>>> participated in the science fair and demonstrate to the teachers and school
>>> children how Gujarati Wikipedia and Wikisource could be utilised by them.
>>> These three users are Satishchandra, Devendrasinh Gohil and Jayam Patel.
>>> Satishchandra is one of the wikimedians recognised for his noteworthy
>>> contributions last year by WMIN.
>>>
>>> They participated in the science fair without any external help, and
>>> without any publicity. They talked to shool teachers and students about
>>> what is Wikipedia and wikisource, how can they contribute, how to type in
>>> Gujarati, how wikipedia and wikisource could be useful to them, etc. Also,
>>> they brifed them lightly about the principles of wikis and showed them few
>>> pages as well to provide hands-on experience.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Dhaval
>>>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-mum] Wikipedia Blog on DNA

[Harsh Kothari]

Hi

awesome work Rohini. Congrats :)


Thanks
Harsh


On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 10:10 PM, Subhashish Panigrahi <
subhash...@cis-india.org> wrote:

> Wonderful job Rohini,
>
> I clap once for this new initiative, twice for the blog, and many times
> for the wonderful blog you have been writing starting from gender gap to
> women participation on women's day to live tweeting during the events. It's
> just great to see Wikipedia movement coming more ob mainstream.
>
> Best!
> Subha
>
> On 14-Mar-2013, at 5:42 PM, Rohini Lakshané 
> wrote:
>
> WikipeDNA, a community blog on topics pertaining to Wikipedia and other
> projects, is now live on DNA Blogs.
> http://www.dnaindia.com/blogs/wikipedna
>
> This is the first blog post:
> http://www.dnaindia.com/blogs/post_wikipedia-celebrates-women-s-history-month-with-edit-a-thons-and-workshops_1811125
>
> I'll be putting up stuff related to events, how tos, etc. If you'd like to
> contribute to the blog, drop me a line.
>
> Regards,
> Rohini
>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Need admin rights on a few Wikipedia(s)

[Harsh Kothari]

Hi Priyanka

That is awesome idea. This will help a lot. First you localize the Gadget into 
your user space and after it works fine then you can tell admin to port that 
Gadget in indic wikipedia. Porting Gadget will hardly take 2 to 5 minutes for 
Admins. If you need any kind of help in localize that gadget(In programming 
aspects)  you can ping me. I have already localized 4 Gadgets and all are 
ported on Gujarati Wikipedia. One is also ported in Bengali Wikipedia. If you 
localize that Gadget it will work on every wikipedia.

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On 19-Mar-2013, at 5:39 PM, ansuman wrote:

> Hello, 
> 
> Is this about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:RefToolbar ?
> 
> It was a gadget on En.wikipedia but it's not anymore. I'ts a default feature 
> on enwiki now.
> 
> Regards,
> Ansuman
> ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ
> 
> 
> On 19 March 2013 17:05, sankarshan  wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 5:04 PM, priyanka nag  wrote:
> >
> > I will also need someone to translate a few strings in Hindi and Marathi 
> > for the Citation template as I am not strong enough in these languages as 
> > to trust my own translations. There are not many strings, just a few ones 
> > in a single file. I can pass on the JavaScript file with the strings if 
> > anyone can help translating them.
> 
> 
> Would using TranslateWiki.net be a better option ?
> 
> 
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Localized Gadget should port on Every Indic Wiki

[Harsh Kothari]

Hi All

If someone localize the Gadget from English Wikipedia and works fine on one 
Indic wikipedia should port in every Indic Wikipedia. So that every Indic wiki 
can use that particular feature. That helps a lot to Editors on Indic Wiki.

Porting Gadget will take 2 to 5 minutes for admins.

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Localized Gadget should port on Every Indic Wiki

[Harsh Kothari]

Hi Amir

Yeah :)

But I will Explain all the steps in one mail for admins. 

They have to copy paste the code and follow the steps. Just easy. You already 
know more then me on that :) 

But this thing will help to grow editing experience of editors.

Thanks
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On 19-Mar-2013, at 6:16 PM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:

> 2013/3/19 Harsh Kothari :
>> Hi All
>> 
>> If someone localize the Gadget from English Wikipedia and works fine on one
>> Indic wikipedia should port in every Indic Wikipedia. So that every Indic
>> wiki can use that particular feature. That helps a lot to Editors on Indic
>> Wiki.
>> 
>> Porting Gadget will take 2 to 5 minutes for admins.
> 
> Well, theoretically. Reality proves that it may take much, much more
> than 5 minutes.
> 
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Localized Gadget should port on Every Indic Wiki

[Harsh Kothari]

Hi Amir 

You are right about heavy template based gadgets. Twinkle can't adopt directly 
on any wiki. 

But see Reference Tooltips , Popups , Hotcat will work on every wikis. They are 
very useful Gadgets.

So I am referring that type of low weight useful gadgets :) 

Thanks
Harsh
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On 19-Mar-2013, at 6:27 PM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:

> Very often gadgets are not just JavaScript pages. They very often
> depend on other templates and styles that exist in a wiki, and very
> often reflect a policy or a common practice that is specific to a
> given wiki, that does not necessarily fit another. For example, the
> Twinkle gadget has useful tools for the English Wikipedia, but it is
> bound very tightly to English Wikipedia's deletion policies, warning
> templates, etc. It may, theoretically, be adapted to other projects,
> but the workflows may be very different, so it won't be enough to just
> copy the JavaScript.
> 
> That's the kind of thing that Priyanka Nag is working on in the OPW
> program, and I'm sure that she'll have a lot more to tell.
> 
> --
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> ‪“We're living in pieces,
> I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬
> 
> 
> 2013/3/19 Harsh Kothari :
>> Hi Amir
>> 
>> Yeah :)
>> 
>> But I will Explain all the steps in one mail for admins.
>> 
>> They have to copy paste the code and follow the steps. Just easy. You
>> already know more then me on that :)
>> 
>> But this thing will help to grow editing experience of editors.
>> 
>> Thanks
>> Harsh
>> ---
>> Harsh Kothari
>> Research Fellow,
>> Physical Research Laboratory(PRL).
>> Ahmedabad.
>> 
>> 
>> On 19-Mar-2013, at 6:16 PM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
>> 
>> 2013/3/19 Harsh Kothari :
>> 
>> Hi All
>> 
>> 
>> If someone localize the Gadget from English Wikipedia and works fine on one
>> 
>> Indic wikipedia should port in every Indic Wikipedia. So that every Indic
>> 
>> wiki can use that particular feature. That helps a lot to Editors on Indic
>> 
>> Wiki.
>> 
>> 
>> Porting Gadget will take 2 to 5 minutes for admins.
>> 
>> 
>> Well, theoretically. Reality proves that it may take much, much more
>> than 5 minutes.
>> 
>> --
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>> http://aharoni.wordpress.com
>> ‪“We're living in pieces,
>> I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬
>> 
>> 

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Need admin rights on a few Wikipedia(s)

[Harsh Kothari]

Hi Konarak

That is awesome information :)

Thanks for that.

Best
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On 19-Mar-2013, at 8:36 PM, Konarak Ratnakar wrote:

> Read this[1] and leave a message there or you can join the english channel on 
> IRC, folks from meta might be around there.
> 
> [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Administrators#Temporary_sysop_status
> 
> 
> Best,
> teh con man
> 
> 
> On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 8:26 PM, Dhaval S. Vyas  wrote:
> Hi Priyanka,
> 
> Feel free to approach me for any help in localising gadget. I am admin on 
> gu.wp & gu.ws and have localised/imported a few gadgets there.
> 
> Tc,
> Dhaval
> 
> On 19 Mar 2013 11:34, "priyanka nag"  wrote:
> Hi all,
> I had introduced myself sometime back in the same mailing list, but just 
> incase I am not remembered, here I introduce myself again.
> I am Priyanka Nag, a post graduation student in Symbiosis Institute of 
> Computer Studies and Research. I am a OPW intern under Wikimedia. 
> As a part of my internship, I need to implement a feature on the Bengali, 
> Hindi and Marathi Wikipedia. It is the citation option which is present on 
> the English Wikipedia but missing from most other Wikipedias (actually 
> present in none of the Indic language Wikipedia(s)). I was trying to get this 
> feature up in the Bengali, Hindi and Marathi Wikipedia (only reason I chose 
> these are because these are the only Indic languages I understand). To get 
> this done, I will either need the admin rights to these Wikipedias or need 
> help from the admins to get this feature up. I will need it going as soon as 
> possible. Can anyone please help me out with the same?
> I will also need someone to translate a few strings in Hindi and Marathi for 
> the Citation template as I am not strong enough in these languages as to 
> trust my own translations. There are not many strings, just a few ones in a 
> single file. I can pass on the JavaScript file with the strings if anyone can 
> help translating them.
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> Priyanka Nag
> SICSR | Msc.CA (2012-2014)
> Contact Number:+91-7385080729
> Website: http://about.me/priyanka_nag
> Blog: priyankaivy.blogspot.in/
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing Round 1 Individual Engagement Grantees

[Harsh Kothari]

 “train-the-trainers”
model that teaches volunteers how to use Javanese script online,
facilitating the transcription of Javanese texts to projects like
Javanese Wikisource. The newly developed Universal Language Selector
extension for MediaWiki makes the use of this script online
increasingly possible. Because Benny’s project will rely on the
availability of this extension on all Javanese Wikimedia projects, the
start of this grant depends on the WMF Internationalization team’s
completing its scheduled deployment in coming months. We would also
like to see more discussion and input from other members of the
Javanese community demonstrating the potential of this project, and
will be working with Benny to figure out how to support those
conversations while we await the deploy.

The new grantees will begin work on their projects in the coming weeks
and they’ll be sharing progress and learnings with us all along the
way. Please visit their pages on Meta-Wiki for complete project
information and updates.[1]

Thanks to everyone who participated in this round!  We look forward to
seeing even more of your ideas and input in preparation for round 2,
which begins on August 1st.[14]

Warm regards,
Siko Bouterse, on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation and the IEG committee

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG#ieg-engaging
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG#ieg-learn
[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Committee/Workroom/Review/All
[4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Committee#ieg-members
[5]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Committee/Workroom/Review#review-rubric
[6]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Build_an_effective_method_of_publicity_in_PRChina
[7] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Replay_Edits
[8] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/The_Wikipedia_Library
[9] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/The_Wikipedia_Adventure
[10]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Consolidate_wikiArS_to_involve_art_schools
[11]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Elaborate_Wikisource_strategic_vision
[12] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/MediaWiki_data_browser
[13]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/MediaWiki_and_Javanese_script
[14] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab

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[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Selection of winning bid for Wikimania 2014: London

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Fyi
-- Forwarded message --
From: "James Forrester" 
Date: 1 May 2013 22:41
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Selection of winning bid for Wikimania 2014: London
To: "Wikimania general list (open subscription)" <
wikimani...@lists.wikimedia.org>, "wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org" <
wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc:

Dear Wikimedians,

On behalf of the Wikimania 2014 selection Jury, after review and
evaluation of the two final bids, we have awarded the conference to
London. Congratulations to the London team, and to the Arusha team who
also put forward a solid effort.

We were concerned this year to see that both bidding teams put forward
proposals which were costly and complicated, in contrast to the
Wikimania tradition. The Jury briefly considered re-opening the bid
for other teams, and asked both bids to present a simpler core budget
and lower-cost options for attendees.

The London team took our comments to heart and decreased their core
budget to 20% of their initial proposal, and have committed to finding
ways to reduce the cost for community attendees.

We encourage future bidding teams to not give up their dreams, to keep
aiming for the stars, but at the same time, to not forget the spirit
of Wikimedia: a volunteer movement that makes creative use of limited
resources. We look forward to the proposed Wikimania Committee setting
out clearer guidelines on these principles.

The process to bid for hosting Wikimania requires a substantial time
investment, and we thank both candidate teams for their submissions
and hard work.

Yours,

James Forrester
Moderator, Wikimania 2014 Jury
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] welcome, new technical contributors

[Harsh Kothari]

Hi All

Hopefully you all have subscribed mediawiki-india list. Since we all are
technical contributors. We can fix the bugs of local wikis like gu wiki, hi
wiki etc. We can localize and port some gadgets on local wikis as well.
Also can develop some new feature that particular community wants. We can
also start some regular activity to boost technical community across India.
How we can grow technical community? Ideas are welcomed. Since we all are
from different states. It is very useful to grow technical activities
across India as well as to find new contributors.

Thanks
Harsh


On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 12:18 PM, anubhav agarwal wrote:

>
> Hey Ansuman,
>
> Thanks for the welcome.
> As Sumanah pointed out I am interested in helping Wikimedia India
> community. How should I start ?
>
>
>
> On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 10:09 AM, ansuman  wrote:
>
>> Welcome everyone!
>>
>> Grv99, Prageck, Rtdwivedi, Rahul21, Nilesh.c, Puneet kaur, and others.
>>
>> Glad to have you all here, feel free to share your views, and
>> contributions.
>>
>> And please keep us updated about your work you all have been doing at
>> GSoC.
>>
>> There is also a list for MediaWiki development in India,
>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-india you may
>> want to join.
>>
>> Thanks Sumana for being so bold and sharing information, updates related
>> to India.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ansuman <http://twitter.com/an5um>
>> *ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ <http://or.wikipedia.org/>*
>>
>>
>> On 10 May 2013 20:04, Sumana Harihareswara  wrote:
>>
>>> We had several applicants to Google Summer of Code this year who come
>>> from India, so I asked them to also please join this list to keep up
>>> with the Wikimedia community in India.  Hello to users Grv99, Prageck,
>>> Rtdwivedi, Rahul21, Nilesh.c, Puneet kaur, and anyone else who has
>>> joined. :-)
>>>
>>> The Indian Wikimedia community is eager to share knowledge, host
>>> technical events, and generally improve the sites and their content.
>>> These new contributors are interested in helping specifically with the
>>> tech side, so if you'd like to ask them for help with something, now is
>>> a good time!  (Except that many of them have exams.) :)
>>>
>>> Thanks for joining the Wikimedia community!
>>> --
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>>> Engineering Community Manager
>>> Wikimedia Foundation
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> --
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>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] welcome, new technical contributors

[Harsh Kothari]

I totally agree with Sumana. Try to edit something on wiki so that you can
also think that this facility must be there and watch village pump for
problems and try to solve that. Since I am contributing in Gujarati
wikipedia I have already localized and ported some of essential gadgets
that any language wiki must have like HotCat. Bot is also very useful tool.
Since I have created some bot scripts for gu wiki for automate the tasks
like placing infobox, grammar correction etc.

According to me mediawiki gadget kitchen is very easy thing to start. I
have already developed half tutorial for new coders. I will complete it
after my examination. Its very interesting stuff and it uses js, css :)
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gadget_kitchen

If you want any kind of information/help regarding to gadgets, bots,
extension I can help you :)

Happy Coding

Thanks
Harsh



On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 6:54 PM, Sumana Harihareswara  wrote:

> Harsh wrote:
>
> > Hopefully you all have subscribed mediawiki-india list. Since we all are
> > technical contributors. We can fix the bugs of local wikis like gu wiki,
> hi
> > wiki etc. We can localize and port some gadgets on local wikis as well.
> > Also can develop some new feature that particular community wants. We can
> > also start some regular activity to boost technical community across
> India.
> > How we can grow technical community? Ideas are welcomed. Since we all are
> > from different states. It is very useful to grow technical activities
> > across India as well as to find new contributors.
>
> Here are some tutorials that coders could teach:
>
> http://wiki.wikimedia.in/MediaWiki_Workshop
>
> Here are some instructions regarding documenting, localising and porting
> templates and gadgets:
>
> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/4/49/Extension_cite.pdf
>
>
> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/2/2d/Documenting_noteworthy_local_templates.pdf
>
> According to Arjuna Rao Chavala,
>
> https://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Essentials_for_Nurturing_Small_Wikis
> it's really helpful to smaller Wikipedias to help them adopt tools like
> HotCat and Twinkle and bots.  So that's something Indian technical
> contributors could work on.
>
> I have a suggestion:
>
> And whatever languages you feel comfortable with, try making some small
> improvements to a few pages for wikis in those languages -- Tamil
> Wiktionary, Kannada Wikisource, Hindi Wikiquote, Bengali Wikipedia, and
> so on.  And then look at the wiki's village pump, watering hole,
> scriptorium, or other community discussion forum.  It's always nice to
> have a bit of direct experience and observation.
> --
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> Engineering Community Manager
> Wikimedia Foundation
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [wlm-in] WLM India 2013

[Harsh Kothari]

Me also :)

Thanks
Harsh


On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 6:47 PM, Krutikaa Jawanjal wrote:

> Count me in! :)
>
> Regards,
> Krutikaa Jawanjal <http://about.me/krujal>
>
>
> 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 
>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> --
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>>>> Arnav (ricku).
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Calendars in use in India

[Harsh Kothari]

For Gujarati I can help.

Thanks
Harsh
On Jan 15, 2014 2:27 PM, "Gerard Meijssen" 
wrote:

> Hoi,
> I blogged about calendars. The problem I face is that I am adding
> statements to the calendars in use in India.. I have worked on the Nepali
> and the Bengali calendar and, I find that in the English Wikipedia some
> months are merged into one article.
>
> What I want to know is if these months exactly are at the same time or
> not. Many calendars have special days. It would make sense to have an item
> for them as well. I assume that many of the Indian Wikipedias have articles
> for such events. It will help when they are known to be part of a specific
> calendar..
>
> Are there people who can help me with this ?
> Thanks,
>   GerardM
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Discussion about Wikimedia Hackathons / Devcamps in India / Asia

[Harsh Kothari]

Hi All

As everyone know that currently Wikimedia Hackathon 2014 is going on at
Zurich. Tomorrow at 9:30 AM (Zurich) and (1:00 PM IST) we are going to
discuss about Wikimedia Hackathons / Devcamps in India / Asia. So everyone
is welcome to join this discussion.

Here is the link of Hangout :
https://plus.google.com/b/103470172168784626509/events/cpur8pufnpqcdecitg7bj55fuk8

Thanks
Harsh

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