[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimania 2012 now accepting scholarship applications

[Jyothis E]

FYI.

Regards,
Jyothis.


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Hello everyone,

Scholarship applications are now being accepted for Wikimania 2012 in
Washington, D.C.  The application window will be one month (through
February 16). To learn more about Wikimania scholarships, see
http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships

To apply for a scholarship, you can fill out the application form
here: https://secure.wikidc.org/wm/schols/

For the Wikimania 2012 team,
James Hare

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[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-DC] Wikimania 2012 registration is OPEN!

[Jyothis E]

FYI.

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Hello everyone!

After much delay, I am pleased to announce that Wikimania 2012, the
eighth annual Wikimedia conference, has opened registration! Wikimania
2012 will be held in Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United
States. We will announce the specific venue shortly.

To register, please read
 and then
proceed to the linked registration form. Until April 23, the
registration fee is $55; Wikimedia students and volunteers can
register at the discounted $35 rate. This does not cover
accommodations, which will be handled by a separate process. If you
need financial aid to attend, consider applying for a scholarship:
.

Wikimania is made possible by the excellent presentations delivered by
enthusiastic Wikimedia volunteers. If you are interested in presenting
at Wikimania, please read our Call for Participation:
.

If you have any issues during the registration process, do not
hesitate to email wikimania-registrat...@wikimedia.org. For other
inquiries, see our Contact page:
.

Thank you for your patience, and we hope to see you in Washington!

Sincerely,
James Hare
Wikimania 2012 Coordinator

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[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Wikimania scholarships deadline: Feb 16

[Jyothis E]

FYI

Regards,
Jyothis.


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From: aude 
Date: Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 10:37 PM
Subject: [Foundation-l] Wikimania scholarships deadline: Feb 16
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List 


Reminder that the deadline to apply for a Wikimania 2012 travel scholarship
is February 16 (23:59 UTC).  We encourage you to apply!

http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships

Full travel scholarships, funded by the Wikimedia Foundation and chapters
(France, UK, Israel, Austria), will cover transportation, hostel
accommodations, and conference registration. Partial scholarships are also
offered by WMF (and Wikimedia Hungary).

Wikimania 2012 will take place July 12-15 at the George Washington
University in Washington, DC.  The call for participation is also open now
(deadline: March 18), and registration is open.

Cheers,
Katie

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikihi-l] Indic language wikipedias - 2011 annual update

[Jyothis E]

Shiju,

Good read. Thank you.

Regards,
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On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 2:09 AM, Shiju Alex  wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> I have compiled the, statistical update of the Indic language Wikipedias
> for the year 2011. In this report, my aim is to provide an *analysis* as
> well as *my perspectives* on the health of various Indic language
> communities as well as the state of various Indic language wikipedias for
> the year 2011. (The period of analysis is editor contributions between 2011
> January 1 and 2011 December 31). As always, a lot of the data for this
> report and analysis are based on the statistical data published at
> http://stats.wikimedia.org. Thanks to Erik Zachte for compiling all this
> information.
>
> I must also point out that this annual update contains a number of insights
> *that are derived not only from this data but directly from community
> members* who have shared a very real-world picture.
>
> Read the annual update here:
>
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Indic_Languages/Statistics/2011_Annual_Update
>
>
> I welcome your comments on this annual update. Please discuss it on the
> talk page. You can also reach me at sh...@wikimedia.org
>
> Thanks
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[Wikimediaindia-l] RFC over hindi wiki bureaucrat actions

[Jyothis E]

All,

Please note that hindi wikipedia's bureaucrats has been removed temporarily
for concerns over improper rights management, transparency of the actions
and possible privacy violations due to the rights that was requested and
implemented over the course of time.

An RfC has been
openedand
all are welcome to comment.
*
*Regards,
Jyothis.

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] RFC over hindi wiki bureaucrat actions

[Jyothis E]

There is a draft solution proposed, and Indic community is requested to
join the discussion.

Regards,
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On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 1:37 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <
parakara.gh...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I've mentioned it.
> I've had a couple of run ins with it, but less as I ultimately created
> only one article when it was there.
> Other times, I just gave up,.
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 11:43 AM, John Vandenberg wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 4:25 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan
>>  wrote:
>> > Thank you very much for bringing this up Hyothis.
>> > Bala and I [Tamil guys] had discussed this back in December.
>> > Editing the Hindi Wikipedia was slight pain, because someone seemed to
>> have
>> > set up filters such that nothing new could be added easily.
>>
>> Are new pages stopped by the edit filter?
>>
>> Could you add to the RFC the problems you experienced?
>>
>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Userrights_on_hi.wiki
>>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] RFC over hindi wiki bureaucrat actions

[Jyothis E]

Please do. Every single help to hiwiki helps.

Regards,
Jyothis.

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On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Pradeep Mohandas <
pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I hope to start editing in Hindi from today and hope to help the
> community!
>
> Pradeep
>
>
> On 12 March 2012 05:26, Jyothis E  wrote:
>
>> There is a draft solution proposed, and Indic community is requested to
>> join the discussion.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Jyothis.
>>
>> http://www.Jyothis.net
>> [[User:Jyothis]] <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jyothis>
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>>
>> completion date = (start date + ((estimated effort x 3.1415926) /
>> resources) + ((total coffee breaks x 0.25) / 24)) + Effort in meetings
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 1:37 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <
>> parakara.gh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I've mentioned it.
>>> I've had a couple of run ins with it, but less as I ultimately created
>>> only one article when it was there.
>>> Other times, I just gave up,.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 11:43 AM, John Vandenberg wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 4:25 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan
>>>>  wrote:
>>>> > Thank you very much for bringing this up Hyothis.
>>>> > Bala and I [Tamil guys] had discussed this back in December.
>>>> > Editing the Hindi Wikipedia was slight pain, because someone seemed
>>>> to have
>>>> > set up filters such that nothing new could be added easily.
>>>>
>>>> Are new pages stopped by the edit filter?
>>>>
>>>> Could you add to the RFC the problems you experienced?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Userrights_on_hi.wiki
>>>>
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>>> Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on February 12th.
>>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore
>>> Aliens invaded Tamil Nadu, left their Spacship and now it is a Toll
>>> Plaza.
>>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IVRCL-Vijayamangalam-Toll-Plaza.JPG
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [GLAM-US] David Ferriero's Wikimania speech

[Jyothis E]

Fellows,

Please watch if you have 24 minutes to spare.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47pEcmXjt8E



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Date: Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 4:04 PM
Subject: [GLAM-US] David Ferriero's Wikimania speech
To: "Wikimedia & GLAM collaboration [Public]" ,
glam...@lists.wikimedia.org


The Wikimania people were nice enough to prioritize the editing of David
Ferriero's closing plenary speech at Wikimania so that he could embed it in
his blog post which was published today. As a result, it's actually the
only official video from Wikimania available yet! See:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47pEcmXjt8E (blog
post
)

I thought people on this list would be interested to view it, if you didn't
get a chance to see it in person, and also to share and quote from it even
if you did. It's all about putting our GLAM work in the context of ongoing
trends in the cultural sector, and it was well-received by the live
audience (though the cheering is a bit muted in the video). The full text
will go up at archives.gov soon
(here
).

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [GLAM-US] David Ferriero's Wikimania speech

[Jyothis E]

If you wish to know more about David

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ferriero


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On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 9:18 PM, Jyothis E  wrote:

> Fellows,
>
> Please watch if you have 24 minutes to spare.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47pEcmXjt8E
>
>
>
> Regards,
> Jyothis.
>
> http://www.Jyothis.net
> [[User:Jyothis]] <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jyothis>
> Camerocks - Rock your digital world! <https://www.camerocks.com/>
>
> completion date = (start date + ((estimated effort x 3.1415926) /
> resources) + ((total coffee breaks x 0.25) / 24)) + Effort in meetings
>
>
>
> -- Forwarded message --
> From: Dominic McDevitt-Parks 
> Date: Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 4:04 PM
> Subject: [GLAM-US] David Ferriero's Wikimania speech
> To: "Wikimedia & GLAM collaboration [Public]" ,
> glam...@lists.wikimedia.org
>
>
> The Wikimania people were nice enough to prioritize the editing of David
> Ferriero's closing plenary speech at Wikimania so that he could embed it in
> his blog post which was published today. As a result, it's actually the
> only official video from Wikimania available yet! See:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47pEcmXjt8E (blog 
> post<http://blogs.archives.gov/aotus/?p=4298>
> )
>
> I thought people on this list would be interested to view it, if you
> didn't get a chance to see it in person, and also to share and quote from
> it even if you did. It's all about putting our GLAM work in the context of
> ongoing trends in the cultural sector, and it was well-received by the live
> audience (though the cheering is a bit muted in the video). The full text
> will go up at archives.gov soon 
> (here<http://www.archives.gov/about/speeches/ferriero/index.html>
> ).
>
> Dominic
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Setting up the Wikimedia India Chapter

[Jyothis E]

All,

We would like to let you all know that Jimmy wales and two other wikimedia
foundation members will be in Thiruvananthapuram as a part of fsfs
conference.
The fsfs and space-kerala organizers has provided an opportunity for
malayalam wikipedians to participate, conduct a session/panel discussion and
meet Jimmy soon after. We would like to welcome if anyone is interested in
joining. We may even plan an indian wiki meet there, if there is enough
participation from other wikipedias.

Thanks,
Jyothis.

2008/11/25 BalaSundaraRaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> AFIK, there were two different efforts in parallel, one in Ahmedabad and
> the other in Bangalore, to setup the chapter.
> But, both have become silent now.
> Before even reaching out to the sponsor, could we please arrive at a
> consensus on the membership, structure, and location based on some
> reasonable criteria?
>
> Regards,
> Sundar
>
> "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium
> for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted."
> - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture
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> *From:* Deepu Joseph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> *To:* wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
> *Sent:* Tuesday, November 25, 2008 6:17:02 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Setting up the Wikimedia India Chapter
>
> About time we woke up then. What is the next step that we need to take?
>
> IIRC, Anirudh had spoken to some NGO ( was it CEE?) a while ago, and they
> were ready to sponsor the chapter. Is that right? Any idea if they might
> still be interested?
>
> Deepu
>
> 2008/11/25 Nicholas
>
>>  In hibernation as far as I know. :(
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 00:10 +0530, Deepu Joseph wrote:
>>
>> Hello everyone!
>>
>> Been quite a long time since any discussion on setting up the Wikimedia
>> India Chapter has taken place. We really need to put this on the fast track.
>> What is the current status?
>>
>> Regards
>> Deepu
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Coordinating Google translation kit articles

[Jyothis E]

Carry,

I am aware of the country vs global factor and I am just comparing the man
power available in each wiki. numbers does matter when it comes to fireworks
and floods

:-)

Regards,
Jyothis.

http://www.Jyothis.net

http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jyothis

woods are lovely dark and deep,
but i have promises to keep and
miles to go before i sleep and
lines to go before I press sleep

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On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Cary Bass  wrote:

>  Jyothis:
>
> I would like to point out that enwiki's 160,976 represents worldwide users
> and not merely those from India, in case anyone misinterprets the data :)
>
> Cary Bass
>
>
> On 2/24/2010 11:17 AM, Jyothis Edathoot wrote:
>
> That probably explains it. I was wondering how you could be so casual about
> man power to deal with such an event. If you look at our indic wikipedias,
> We wouldnt see many hands to do the heavy lifting. For some reason, many
> Indian wikipedians can work in en wiki, but wont really bother to work in
> their own language wikipedias :-)
>
>  Look at a few examples below:
>
>  *Active users*
> *
> *
> *en wiki - 160,976*
> hi wiki - 237
> ml wiki - 186
> ta wiki 185
> mr wiki 105
> bpy wiki - two digits
> gu wiki - two digit
> kn wiki -two digits
> or wiki - single digit
> sa wiki - 35
> pali - in two digits. I cant read that.
> bh wiki - single digit
>
>
>
> Regards,
> Jyothis.
>
> http://www.Jyothis.net
>
> http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jyothis
>
> woods are lovely dark and deep,
> but i have promises to keep and
> miles to go before i sleep and
> lines to go before I press sleep
>
> completion date = (start date + ((estimated effort x 3.1415926) /
> resources) + ((total coffee breaks x 0.25) / 24)) + Effort in meetings
>
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <
> rsrikant...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> My home wiki is enwiki, but I'm mostly busy on meta these days,
>> co-ordinating English-Hindi projects.
>>
>>  On 24 February 2010 17:47, Jyothis Edathoot  wrote:
>>
>>>  Srikanth,
>>>
>>>  Which wiki is your home wiki?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Jyothis.
>>>
>>> http://www.Jyothis.net 
>>>
>>> http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jyothis
>>>
>>> woods are lovely dark and deep,
>>> but i have promises to keep and
>>> miles to go before i sleep and
>>> lines to go before I press sleep
>>>
>>> completion date = (start date + ((estimated effort x 3.1415926) /
>>> resources) + ((total coffee breaks x 0.25) / 24)) + Effort in meetings
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>   On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 2:12 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <
>>> rsrikant...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
  So we need to keep a patrol dedicated to watching these guys.. But are
 they still doing it? I thought Google stopped? Besides, they're like
 lightenening.. You never know when or where they're gonna strike.. :D

  On 24 February 2010 09:02, BalaSundaraRaman wrote:

>  In Tamil wiki too we're extremely concerned about quality. That's why
> even GaneshBot was constrained. On this issue, we're keeping an open mind
> and it's still in a pilot stage.
>
> sundar from mobile
>
> Jyothis Edathoot wrote:
> > While we welcome the efforts and contributions, all wikis may not be
> equipped with enuf active users to handle such a  flood. if a flood of low
> quality articles or translations come by, such projects may take (much)
> longer to recover and regain the drop of quality. While quantity benefits
> out of such a flood, that may end up compromising the quality of the wiki.
> It may not always in th interest of the local community.  Regards, 
> Jyothis.
> Sent from my iPhone On Feb 23, 2010, at 3:03 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <
> rsrikant...@gmail.com > wrote: Shiju,
> >  Can't we just go ahead normally? If these Google guys make mistakes,
> we just correct them and go on. If they resist, then explain or warn them?
> >  Regards,
> >  On 23 February 2010 21:08, Shiju Alex < shijualexonl...@gmail.com >
> wrote:
> >  There should be proper co-ordination between each language community
> and the Google. In Malayalam Wikipedia, we already tried collaborative
> translation of some English Wiki articles 2 years back. But that was a
> failure and we dropped that. One of the main issue with word-to-word
> translation is that the entire article will have the sentences constructed
> with artificial words and phrases. The reader will run away from that type
> of articles.
> >  If there is no proper agreement between wiki community and Google
> the community may resist. For the sake of Google translation, Wikis should
> not not be flooded with articles. Some wikis might be interested in using
> this service to increase the article count. But not all communities will
> agree to that.
> > 

[Wikimediaindia-l] Please review/complete translation for mr mobile messages

[Jyothis E]

Some one please review the mr translations.

There are only 4 messages to translate in mr mobile messages at this time.
If some one can complete it, That would be great and .

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On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Jyothis Edathoot wrote:

> Mobile is definitely the future. The support for Unicode will come
> eventually and it is only a matter of time. Individual wikipedia community
> can drive the need, if we localize and be ready to push the mobile
> manufaturers to think of including localization and unicode in every device
> that is shipped! It should get to a point where device purchase decisions
> are  influenced by the language support availability.
>
> Regards,
> Jyothis.
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>
> On Mar 4, 2010, at 1:58 PM, Gerard Meijssen 
> wrote:
>
>   Hoi,
>> I am happy to inform you that today the localisation of the "Wikimedia
>> mobile" interface was complete. The languages from India are likely to be
>> taken more seriously when we make sure that they are ALL localised. Today I
>> found an article about the likelyhood that mobile interfaces are the way of
>> the future ..  some say that you make your own future  if this
>> is the case, your languages will be part of it :)
>> Thanks,
>> GerardM
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Please review/complete translation for mr mobile messages

[Jyothis E]

If anyone is around from mr wiki/ read and speak mr, please note that there
are only two more to be finished. Some one needs to review the other
translations as well please.

Thanks.

Regards,
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On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 7:45 PM, Jyothis E  wrote:

> Some one please review the mr translations.
>
> There are only 4 messages to translate in mr mobile messages at this time.
> If some one can complete it, That would be great and .
>
> Regards,
> Jyothis.
>
> http://www.Jyothis.net <http://www.jyothis.net/>
>
> http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jyothis
>
> woods are lovely dark and deep,
> but i have promises to keep and
> miles to go before i sleep and
> lines to go before I press sleep
>
> completion date = (start date + ((estimated effort x 3.1415926) /
> resources) + ((total coffee breaks x 0.25) / 24)) + Effort in meetings
>
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Jyothis Edathoot wrote:
>
>> Mobile is definitely the future. The support for Unicode will come
>> eventually and it is only a matter of time. Individual wikipedia community
>> can drive the need, if we localize and be ready to push the mobile
>> manufaturers to think of including localization and unicode in every device
>> that is shipped! It should get to a point where device purchase decisions
>> are  influenced by the language support availability.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Jyothis.
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>
>> On Mar 4, 2010, at 1:58 PM, Gerard Meijssen 
>> wrote:
>>
>>   Hoi,
>>> I am happy to inform you that today the localisation of the "Wikimedia
>>> mobile" interface was complete. The languages from India are likely to be
>>> taken more seriously when we make sure that they are ALL localised. Today I
>>> found an article about the likelyhood that mobile interfaces are the way of
>>> the future ..  some say that you make your own future  if this
>>> is the case, your languages will be part of it :)
>>> Thanks,
>>> GerardM
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Applications for Wikimania Scholarships accepted now

[Jyothis E]

 All,
The call for applications for Wikimania Scholarships to attend Wikimania
2010 in Gdansk, Poland (July 9-11) is now open. The Wikimedia Foundation
offers Scholarships to pay for selected individuals' round trip travel,
accommodations, and registration at the conference.

To apply, visit the Wikimania
2010
 scholarships information
page,
click the secure link available there, and fill out the form to apply.

For additional information, please visit the Scholarships information and
FAQ pages:

   - Scholarships 
   - Scholarships FAQ

Yours very truly,

Cary Bass 
Volunteer Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Who writes wikipedia articles? - news.discovery.com

[Jyothis E]

http://news.discovery.com/human/wikipedia-community-articles.html

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[Wikimediaindia-l] Global Sysops

[Jyothis E]

All,

As you may have seen, the global
sysops
are active. They will do sysop's job in those places where there are not
enuf admins. Since Global sysops cover a lot of Indian wikimedia projects, I
thought it is worth mentioning here in the list. Current elected GSs are
those who had been doing counter vandalism and Small wiki monitoring for
quite a while. ( I am not sure how many are aware of the great job of the
SWMT  and  such CVN groups. they are
the silent guards, imho). Most of them can be found in various irc
channels and can be contacted in case of emergency - say some one is causing
trouble and you dont have a sysop around - on their meta talk pages or IRC.


Please see some details that we should know:

*From Meta page:*

*Global **sysops*  are highly trusted
users with a strong track record of cross-wiki contributions that have sysop
privileges on many small
wikis,
for the purposes of antivandalism and routine maintainance. They are not
users with sysop tools on all wikis and they have *no* extra editorial
control over content or the local community.

Scope

By default, global sysop would be *enabled* for every project that meets one
of the following criteria:

   - fewer than *ten* administrators exist; or
   - fewer than *three* administrators have made a logged action within the
   past two months.

Projects may opt-in or opt-out at their own discretion if they obtain local
consensus. Simply inform any steward of the community's decision. A
wiki 
set,
located here  is used
to give rights on the included wikis only.
See the current list of Global sysops
here.
Questions and comments are welcome.

Regards,
Jyothis.

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[Wikimediaindia-l] CD content is available to browse

[Jyothis E]

A link has been provided to the CD content online in http://www.mlwiki.in if
anyone is interested.

Regards,
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Vandalize wikipedia day on facebook

[Jyothis E]

All,

This may be really targetting en wiki. May not be real threat either,
but worth keeping an eye on. Any language wikis that faces too much of a
trouble that is going out of hand can come in #wikimedia-stewards
IRC channel to request fro help from Global sysops or stewards.

Regards,
Jyothis.

http://www.Jyothis.net 

http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jyothis
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jyothis
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-- Forwarded message --
From: Marco Chiesa 
Date: Mon, May 3, 2010 at 7:00 AM
Subject: [Foundation-l] Vandalize wikipedia day on facebook
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List 


Hi,
 a friend of mine just pointed out this event on facebook, a
vandalize wikipedia day
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=110813902286034&ref=search&sid=674858731.794509965..1
I'm not sure if WMF is aware, or if there is the possibility to close
the page.

Cruccone

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[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia Announcements] [Announcement] Howie Fung joins Wikimedia

[Jyothis E]

FYI.

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-- Forwarded message --
From: Erik Moeller 
Date: Wed, May 5, 2010 at 3:27 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia Announcements] [Announcement] Howie Fung joins Wikimedia
To: wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org


Hello all,

I'm pleased to announce that Howie Fung, who has been supporting us as
a consultant since October 2009, is joining the Wikimedia Foundation
as Senior Product Manager. In the immediate future, Howie will
continue to support the deployment of our user experience
improvements, as well as the continuing development and deployment of
the FlaggedRevs extension for the English Wikipedia. In the longer
term, Howie will help us to build Wikimedia's product development
roadmap by commissioning and assessing research and analytics, and by
engaging in broad consultative processes.

Most recently, Howie was Senior Product Manager at Rhapsody,
where he helped grow the music site's traffic five-fold within the the
first year
on the basis of extensive customer research, including web analytics,
focus groups, user testing, and customer surveys. Prior to that, Howie
was Product Manager at eBay, prioritizing features based on business
objectives, usability studies, and economic impact. Howie has more
than 15 years of experience in product management, business analysis
and strategy, technology evaluation, and team incubation. He has an
MBA from The Anderson School at UCLA and a Bachelor of Science in
Chemical Engineering from Stanford University.

As a consultant, Howie completed several key projects, including the
survey of former contributors [1], the analysis of feedback from the
user experience beta [2], and extensive analysis of the user
interface, workflows and terminology used in the FlaggedRevs
extension. He has also supported Wikimedia's five-year business
planning process. We're very pleased that Howie is joining Wikimedia's
permanent staff: please join me in welcoming him!

All best,
Erik

[1] http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Former_Contributors_Survey_Results
[2] http://usability.wikimedia.org/wiki/Beta_Feedback_Survey

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[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Chapter selected board seats - call for candidates

[Jyothis E]

FYI.

Regards,
Jyothis.

http://www.Jyothis.net

http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jyothis
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jyothis
I am the first customer of http://www.netdotnet.com

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-- Forwarded message --
From: Thomas Dalton 
Date: Thu, May 6, 2010 at 8:01 PM
Subject: [Foundation-l] Chapter selected board seats - call for candidates
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List 


To whom it may concern,

Can you, or someone you know, help guide Wikimedia Foundation through
the next exciting steps of its strategic development and growth?

The Wikimedia Chapters are looking for two candidates to sit on the
Wikimedia Foundation's Board of Trustees for 2 years commencing in
July 2010. The new board members will be faced with the challenge of
helping decide the future direction of the only top-10 internet
property that is run by a non-profit organisation. The Wikimedia
websites are constructed by hundreds of thousands of volunteers
world-wide, supported by a small but growing number of staff and an
international network of chapters.

The successful candidates will most importantly be committed to the
Wikimedia mission and willing to work with the various stakeholders of
the Wikimedia movement, including the volunteers and the chapters that
provide essential support for the movement. They will have the time to
do this, with the appropriate communication skills (including a good
standard of English) and ability to work as a team. They will also be
able and willing to travel, and have an international attitude.

The candidates will ideally be open-minded with experience of
international affairs and governance techniques. They will have good
communication skills, as well the ability to think strategically and
to work independently as well as part of a team.

The process that will be followed for this selection can be viewed
here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapter-selected_Board_seats/Process

All nominations must be sent to the moderator (Thomas Dalton from
Wikimedia UK) and deputy moderator (José Spierts from Wikimedia
Nederlands) by 23:59 UTC 17th May. If you would like to nominate
yourself or someone else, please see the instructions here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapter-selected_Board_seats/Nominate

The chapters wish to locate truly excellent board members and believe
that can best be done if there are a large number of varied and
quality candidates to consider. Therefore, the chapters ask that
everyone that thinks they, or someone they know, would be a good board
member submit a nomination. They also ask that this call for
candidates be distributed as widely as possible on mailing lists,
village pumps, blogs, etc..

Best regards,

Thomas Dalton,
Moderator

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[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2011 announcement

[Jyothis E]

All,

FYI.

Regards,
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-- Forwarded message --
From: phoebe ayers 
Date: Tue, May 11, 2010 at 2:50 PM
Subject: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2011 announcement
To: "Wikimania general list (open subscription)" <
wikimani...@lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <
foundatio...@lists.wikimedia.org>


Dear all,

(I am really happy to send a message on a completely new topic :) )

The Wikimania jury has selected Haifa, Israel as the location for
Wikimania 2011. The Haifa team presented a compelling, detailed bid[1]
 that the Wikimania jurors were very impressed by. As usual, all of
the Wikimania bids had good points, and it was a very difficult
decision. Detailed feedback will be sent to all bids. Public
discussion of the bids and the Wikimania process is also welcome, and
we know the winning team will appreciate the community's support and
help in making a great Wikimania.

We also apologize for the lateness of this announcement. We invested a
lot of time in careful consideration of all points. I am happy to
answer questions about the process.

Congratulations to the Haifa team and many thanks to all of the
bidders for working so hard. I personally encourage all bidders to use
the energy that has been put into these bids by hosting smaller
regional events, and considering another bid for Wikimania in the
future.

Phoebe Ayers
James Forrester
Cary Bass
Jury moderators (non-voting)

On behalf of the Wikimania jury:
Mariano Cecowski
Austin Hair
Benjamin Mako Hill
Teemu Leinonen
Delphine Menard
James Owen
Joseph Seddon
Stu West

[1] Bid: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2011/Bids/Haifa
[2] jury, process & timeline: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2011

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[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia Announcements] Along with Vector, a new look for changes to the Wikipedia identity

[Jyothis E]

All,

FYI.

Regards,
Jyothis.

http://www.Jyothis.net

http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jyothis
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jyothis
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-- Forwarded message --
From: Jay Walsh 
Date: Wed, May 12, 2010 at 10:48 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia Announcements] Along with Vector, a new look for changes
to the Wikipedia identity
To: wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org


Hi folks,

Over the next day or so you'll be seeing some exciting changes to the
Wikipedia user interface as Vector rolls out across English Wikipedia.

In an earlier note on that topic, User Experience team project manager Naoko
Komura mentioned another change - one that will bring some small
improvements to the Wikipedia identity, namely the Wikipedia puzzle globe
and the construction of the Wikipedia wordmark - the word and sentence
underneath the puzzle globe.

The first major change you'll see is a slightly different looking Wikipedia
puzzle globe. Over a year ago the Foundation began to recognize the need to
have the puzzle globe logo improved slightly - mostly because we had some
errors in the type characters featured in the puzzle globe, and also because
we needed a better quality version that could print better and at a larger
scale.  We also needed to do that without dramatically changing one of the
most recognized and beloved logos on the internet.

It seemed like an opportune moment to take our 2D globe, lovingly created by
WP user:Nohat and improved/modified a cast of many other volunteers back in
2003, and take it to a truly 3D object.  If we were going to undertake this
process, we knew we would first need to populate the 'dark side of the
puzzle globe' - and of course we turned to our volunteers to do just that.

Cary Bass worked with a team of volunteers to begin that process, and to
revisit the many suggested and improvised fixes to the globe that have taken
place over the years.  Most of that discussion played out on a meta page
here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia/Logo

The results are fantastic, and now you can see many new languages and
scripts represented.  The final state for our puzzle globe is quite similar
to the original, fixes some errors, and has replaced the Klingon logo with
an Amharic character.

The actual 3D construction of the new mark was carried out by a professional
3D animator, art director, and graphic designer, Philip Metschan, who is
based in the SF Bay Area.  Through his career Philip has worked for
Industrial Light and Magic and Pixar, and currently he's also a
visualization and concept artist for the DIRECT program (not surprisingly,
it can be learned about on Wikipedia... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIRECT
).

We've created a new page on the Foundation wiki that talks about the revised
3D globe as well as the other improvements underway to the wordmark:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikimedia_official_marks/About_the_official_Marks

You'll notice that the new variation of the typeface uses Linux Libertine as
an alternative to Hoeffler, the original typeface used to create the
wordmark.  In order to facilitate the creation of so many new variations of
the Wikipedia identity it was important to find a viable alternative -
Hoeffler is a commercial typeface that not every project would have access
to, nor own.  Linux Libertine is very close to Hoeffler in its shape and
style, and for on-screen viewing is almost identical to Hoeffler.

The User Experience team also investigated another minor improvement:
replacing the italicized "The Free Encyclopedia" with regular typeface.
 This ultimately resulted in improved on-screen readability, particularly in
non-roman character sets.

Right now volunteers are working with the new localization guide to create
the hundreds of new identities needed for each language variation of
Wikipedia.  You can see the Commons gallery filling up here:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia/2.0

If you're interested in supporting this effort you can simply follow the
guide referenced on the page, or reach out to the Foundation's volunteer
coordinator, Cary Bass, directly, c...@wikimedia.org.

It will take some time to create all of the marks, and initially the ops and
User Experience team are rolling out the new identity on English Wikipedia
and then focussing on other languages as soon as possible.

Hopefully the millions of dedicated users of Wikipedia will appreciate this
minor improvement to the Wikipedia identity across all of the project
languages.  This is also a great new tool for chapter and volunteer
representatives around the world - this scalable, crisper version of the new
puzzle globe is easier to work with in a 

[Wikimediaindia-l] RfC: Proposal for an Indic Sysop group

[Jyothis E]

All,

As we all know, many of our Indic wikimedia projects have a very small
community and some of them does not even have an administrator around when
in need. I would like to draw your attention to the RfC for Indic
Sysops,
a sysop group who could shoulder the additional responsibility of looking
after other Indic language wikis along with their current responsibilities.
I believe that it is a feasible idea, similar to that of a global sysop, as
many of us are multi-lingual within the Indic language group. We do not see
many Global sysops acting on Indic wikis, probably due to the non-latin
nature of the scripts. Perhaps, Indic languages could be the largest group
of languages in the spectrum to coordinate such a pool of hands due to the
above fact. This group's administrative scope is envisioned to include all
Indic wikimedia projects and it can exclude a project if they feel that they
are large enough to handle themselves.

We would like to see a constructive discussion on the pros and cons of this
and explore the possibility of implementing such a group. I wish to see the
day where our small, sleeping wikimedia projects, who does not have anyone
to care for being cared for, and nurtured to bring more hands on to help it
grow.

Thank you all for your time and please take a moment and provide your
thoughts on the RfC Talk page.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Jyothis.

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[Wikimediaindia-l] Steward Elections 2011

[Jyothis E]

All,

Steward Elections are underway in metawiki. Please take a moment to read
thisas
well.

Thanks.

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[Wikimediaindia-l] Voting on Steward Elections 2011 has started - Please vote

[Jyothis E]

All,

Election has started. Please
vote
.

Thanks.

Regards,
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Steward Elections 2011

[Jyothis E]

Fellow Wikimedians,

Voting for the Steward Election 2011 is under way. Kindly check your
eligibility<http://toolserver.org/~pathoschild/accounteligibility/?event=14>to
vote and cast your vote for the candidates
of this year <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/elections_2011>. To
follow the statistics, please see
this<http://toolserver.org/~stewardbots/elections.php?action=purge>
.

Regards,
Jyothis.

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On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Jyothis E  wrote:

> All,
>
> Steward Elections are underway in metawiki. Please take a moment to read
> this<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-01-17/Sister_projects>as
>  well.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Regards,
> Jyothis.
>
> http://www.Jyothis.net
>
> http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jyothis
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jyothis
> I am the first customer of http://www.netdotnet.com
>
> woods are lovely dark and deep,
> but i have promises to keep and
> miles to go before i sleep and
> lines to go before I press sleep
>
> completion date = (start date + ((estimated effort x 3.1415926) /
> resources) + ((total coffee breaks x 0.25) / 24)) + Effort in meetings
>
>
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[Wikimediaindia-l] WikiXDC Event Video

[Jyothis E]

All,

As you know, we celebrated the WikiXDC on Jan 22nd, 2011 at the National
Archives and Records Administration in Washington DC, United States. We
would like to present a 3 hour event
video for
everyone to enjoy (and download to keep if you like) . Some sessions could
not be covered/covered at length due to technical difficulties. The event
video was not a part of the original plan, but we are glad that we could at
least this much.

We would like to thank everyone who helped us to make the event a success.


Thanks.

Regards,
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Steward Elections 2011 - Please vote soon if you havent

[Jyothis E]

All,

The Election is almost coming to an end. Kindly cast you vote if you havent
already.

Thanks.

Regards,
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Announcement: Selected Books from Malayalam Wikisource on CD released

[Jyothis E]

Dear fellow Wikimedians,

With great pleasure, Malayalam Wikimedia Community announced its 2011 CD
project "Selected Books from Malayalam Wikisource on CD - 1.0" at the 4th
annual Wiki Meetup in Kannur, Kerala. This is by far the biggest digital
collection of free books in Malayalam language available on CD for offline
use. This is an important milestone, as majority of the households in Kerala
does not have internet or does not have an always on connection and this
will enable them to access these books as an offline content.

Contents:

 Selected Poems by
  * Kumaranasan
  * Cherusseri
  * Changampuzha Krishna Pillai
  * Kalakkaththu Kunchan Nambiar
  * Irayimman Thampi
  * Ramapurathu Warrier

 Malayalam Grammer
  * Kerala Panineeyam by AR Rajaraja Varma

 Legends/Folklore
  * Aithihyamala

 Novels
  * Indulekha

 Religious
  * Bhagavad Gita
  * Adhyatma Ramayanam Kilippaatu
  * Harinama Keerthanam
  * Geetha Govindam
  * Sathya Veda Pusthakam (Malayalam Bible)
  * Quran
  * Works of Sree Narayana Guru
  * Devotional songs for Christian, Hindu and Islamic religions

  Native Art Form
  * Parichamuttukali pattukal

  Philosophy (Political)
  * Communist Manifesto
  * Principles of Communism (Friedrich Engels)

The CD also contains the commons collections of images on food, plants,
birds, maps and  celebrations from Kerala. The CD is made available for
download in iso format as well as browsing at our community website -
http://www.mlwiki.in. For those who are interested in the technical
challenges and aspects of the background work may read Santhosh's blog
postabout
it.

We thank every one who participated in the effort. Comments and questions
are welcome.

Thanks and Regards,
Malayalam Wikimedia Community.
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[Wikimediaindia-l] 2011 H2 - Steward Elections

[Jyothis E]

All,

Please note that the Steward elections for the second half of 2011 is
beginning in Meta Wiki. If you wish to nominate yourself as a candidate,
please read the guidelines carefully. It is mandatory that you should   be
18 or older and have a three months of admin experience to be a candidate.
Candidate should also be willing to identify themselves to the foundation as
well. Please read the Guidelines page listed below for all requirements.

Candidate submissions are open from 21 August 2011, 00:00 until 7 September
2011, 23:59 (UTC). Questions to the candidates can be submitted until 14
September 2011, 23:59 (UTC). The voting will begin on 15 September 2011,
00:00 and end 6 October 2011, 23:59 (UTC). Candidates must meet the criteria
and obtain at least 30 votes in favor with an 80% support ratio.

You are welcome to help with translations as well.

More information on the links below:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/elections_2011-2

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/elections_2011-2/Guidelines

Kindly reach out to me or one of the election committee members should you
have any questions.

Regards,
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Voting for Steward Elections is underway

[Jyothis E]

Hello,

Please note that voting for the second steward elections for 2011 has
started in metawiki.
Please read the candidate statements, Q&A and cast your vote at the
earliest.

Thanks.

Regards,
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Stewards Elections closing in 45 minutes

[Jyothis E]

All,

The election closes in less than an hour. If anyone still needs to vote,
please head over to metawiki and cast your votes.

Regards,
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Steward Election Results

[Jyothis E]

All,

Election is complete and we have 8 new stewards
elected
.

 The following candidates were
approved
as
stewards:

   - Axpde 
   - Bencmq 
   - Bennylin 
   - Quadell 
   - Quentinv57 
   - Trijnstel 
   - Vituzzu 
   - Wikitanvir 


Congratulations to the new Stewards.

Regards,
Jyothis,

For Election Committee.

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[Wikimediaindia-l] Steward Candidate Submissions are open

[Jyothis E]

All,

2015 election for Stewards is underway and candidate submission can be done
till 28th.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/Elections_2015

For those who are not familiar with Stewards and Steward functions -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards


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[Wikimediaindia-l] Steward Elections 2016 - Call for participation

[Jyothis E]

All,

It is again the time of year to elect and confirm Stewards that serves the
Wikimedia community across the world. Please participate in every aspect of
the process, including translation, voting and candidacy.

If you are not familiar and would like to know what a Steward is
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards

If you wish to keep track of the elections
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/Elections_2016

If you wish to apply for the position, please start by reading the
guidelines and checking your eligibility.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/Elections_2016/Guidelines

For those who are eligible and is active in the wider Wikimedia communities
and processes, we strongly urge to consider applying.

For 2016 Steward Election Committee,
Jyothis.

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[Wikimediaindia-l] Voting on Steward Elections/ Confirmations 2016 is open

[Jyothis E]

Please vote for and comment on the steward elections and confirmations.

Regards,
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[Wikimediaindia-l] SE17 Candidate Submissions Open

[Jyothis E]

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/Elections_2017


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