Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] A Wikipedia Mini-hackathon in Delhi (CIS India)
Hi, Thanks for sharing this Anirudh. Could similar hackathons be tries in other cities as well? Trying to engage with tech communities wherever there is a sizeable Wikipedia community might make sense. It would give Wikipedians tools to streamline their editing work better and could help techies access and understand how end users behave and use their tools. How do we replicate this further in the community? Pradeep Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Creative Commons turns 10
Hi, Creative Commons, the license that Wikipedia and its sister projects have been using turns 10 this year. Their celebrations - http://10.creativecommons.org/ - last for 10 days from December 7 to 16. If you have a meetup in that period, perhaps we can celebrate. Pradeep Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Creative Commons turns 10
Hi Pranav, I think the two topics Creative Commons 10 this week and their impending visit to India in February, 2013 are getting mixed . I think Shuba is referring to the CC 10 celebration meetups if they happen. Could you fork a seperate thread for the February events and leave this thread for those interested in having meetups related to the Creative Commons 10th anniversary event? Thanks. Shubha, do feel free to coreect me if I understood it wrongly. Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimediaindia-l Digest, Vol 329, Issue 1
Hi Abhishek, Thank you for responding. Since this is a new concept for us, I hope you will bear with us a little. 1. If the idea of the Summit is that it is to be held in Pune only, why not just call it Wikipedia Summit Pune? This gives other cities in India also a chance to consider such an event themselves. 2. Since this summit is to be held in Pune year-on-year, I would suggest writing to the Pune list and also inviting the Pune SIG in the Committee. 3. There has not been a WikiConference in 2012. I remember the Chapter had put out a call for bids but got none. I am happy that they did not feel compelled to push for a WikiConference. These things work much better when the community members want it. Till then, I suppose state level conferences like the one organised by the Malayalam Wikipedia community and this Summit by Pune would breed a group of people with skills acquired for organising a nation wide WikiConference. Warm regards, Pradeep Mohandas Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Bharuch First meetup - A second hand report
Hi, An important assignment kept me away from the first Bharuch meetup. Another Wikipedian from Bharuch Satishbhai took over and attended the meetup at the K J Choksi public library. Since no one else turned up, Satishbhai spoke with the librarian telling him about Wikipedia qnd showing him the Gujarati Wikipedia and showing him how to edit the same. Warm regards, Pradeep Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Summit India 2013 for Spoken Indian Language Wikipedia!
Hi Abhishek, Is the Program page updated? The page refers to Education and Gender Gap whereas your email suggests that the Summit is about Spoken Wikipedia. Since there are only 9 more days for scholarships this information would help. Warm regards, Pradeep Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki Academy in Goa in Dec
Hi, Thanks, Nitika. It might also be a good idea to ask participants to get their dongles as backup. Also, please keep us informed on the GLAM discussions, as this may be of interest to some of us on this list, like me. :) Pradeep Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic languages (was Re: Spoken Wikipedia for Indic Languages)
hi, If any Indic Wikipedian finds it derogatory, let them step up and say so. We can use the term Indian Language Wikipedian then. Whatever works. warm regards, Pradeep Mohandas How Pradeep uses email? - http://goo.gl/6v1I9 From: Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il To: Wikimedia India Community list wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Wednesday, 14 November 2012 1:20 PM Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic languages (was Re: Spoken Wikipedia for Indic Languages) 2012/11/14 Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.com: The word 'Indic' itself is a derivative of the word Hindus or Indus referring to the Indus Valley Civilization, which did not stretch as far as Deccan India where the Dravidian family of languages have been prevalent. The distinction between the Indic languages and Dravidian languages is an important one, and they should not be confused to be one and the same. So are the words India and Indian. If this logic is true, then the English name of the Republic of India, and the name of this mailing list would be derogatory as well. Evidently, to most people they aren't. Nobody here is dismissing Dravidian languages. Everybody understands that they are distinct. It's just that the word Indic often refers to them, too. When the context and the meaning may be unclear, use Indo-Aryan and Dravidian. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Women Workshop Report
hi, A couple of points here: 1. While women specific workshops are great and we've had requests from various people across the country (!) to conduct similar workshops, we should also consider doing workshops for both genders as well. Each workshop is energy sapping! 2. We are a relatively small group of volunteers and my hope is that some of the people we train at these workshops will in their stead be able to conduct similar workshops 6 months or a year down the line. warm regards, Pradeep Mohandas How Pradeep uses email? - http://goo.gl/6v1I9 From: Karthik Nadar karthik...@wikimedia.in To: Wikimedia India Community list wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Wednesday, 7 November 2012 9:04 PM Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Women Workshop Report Yeah Srikanth, we have follow up events to this one. * One of the Staff from Sophia College was interested for similar women's workshop. It will happen soon. * Principal of Vidyalankar Institute of Technology, was very excited to hold a Wikipedia workshop for her students, so that will happen in December end. This will be general workshop for all. Hoping to do more and more soon :) Thanks! On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Just a question. Are there any followups planned for this? On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 12:35 AM, Karthik Nadar karthik...@wikimedia.in wrote: Missed out the name of Rohini Lakshane, another core volunteer! On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Arjuna, you have a very valid point there. I urge all women to consider a Women's SIG. On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Krutikaa for a comprehensive report. I am happy to hear about the large participation and nice outcomes. Congratulations to all organisers and thanks to all participants for making it a successful event. There was discussion some time back about formation of Women Special Interest Group (SIG) of India Chapter. I encourage the participants to discuss the same and follow up with the Chapter as required. Cheers Arjuna On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Krutikaa Jawanjal krutika...@gmail.com wrote: A Day Spent well. The Wikipedia Women Workshop which took place on November, 4th 2012 in Vidyalankar Institute of Technology (VIT), Wadala was indeed a success. The people who volunteered in organizing this workshop were Bishakha Datta, Moksh Juneja, Karthik Nadar, Pranav Curumsey, Pradeep Mohandas, Anshuman Fotedar, Aditi Juneja, Harriet Vidyasagar, Nikita Belavate, Netra Parikh, Noopur Raval, Netha Hussain. All discussions and planning done while organizing this workshop for women paid off. In all, 70+ women participants attended the workshop. The workshop started with a short introduction after which, wasting no time, the women participants moved on to learning how to edit Wikipedia which was though by the present on ground volunteers. The participants were were divided in groups and every group had to create a new article which wasn't already available on Wikipedia. In the process, women interacted with the volunteers, asked question regarding Wikipedia. Every group at least had added introduction to the new article. Having done with the basic editing, a general presentation on Wikipedia was given by some of the volunteers. This was followed by question and answers regarding the same. By this time, it was already 1.30pm, so the lunch was announced. After having lunch, the participants got back to their seats. Pretty much everybody stayed back post lunch. Moksh continued with teaching how to edit Wikipedia. This time it wasn't it in groups though. References and Notability were the main topics that were covered in this session. Anshuman and Karthik then proceeded with teaching photo uploads on Wikipedia. Quiz was conducted towards the end and Wikipedia-Tshirts were given as prizes for giving right answers. Karthik, then also showcased the winning images of Wiki Loves Momunents 2012 India. The long day came to an end with an overwhelming response and a call for organizing many such activities. The feedback received was positive. The participants enjoyed the workshop. We are thankful to everybody who made this event a great one. Thanks to all the volunteers. Special thanks to Moksh and Karthik who went out of the way to get everything arranged before hand at the venue, to Netha and Noopur for making it to the workshop and for working hand in hand with the Mumbai Community, to Srikanth Ramakrishnan who constantly stayed in touch for online help. Special thanks to whole Vidyalankar team. Vishwas Deshpande, Founder of Vidyalankar, who gave us an opportunity to to do the Mumbai's first Wiki Workshop for Women at Vidyalankar. Milind Tadvalkar (Director) and Seema Shah (Principal), Jayprakash Kurmi and Vivek and the complete
[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Meetup in Bharuch
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___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Meetup in Bharuch
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 harshkothari...@gmail.com To: Wikimedia India Community list wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Cc: Pradeep Nair prad2...@yahoo.com 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 --- Harsh Kothari Research Fellow, Physical Research Laboratory(PRL). Ahmedabad. 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 prad2...@yahoo.com 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 ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Karthik Nadar. Secretary, Wikimedia India Chapter. (Ph: +91-9773608862) ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Meetup in Bharuch
Spread the word! Yes, I won't hesitate to ask for help. Pradeep Mohandas How Pradeep uses email? - http://goo.gl/6v1I9 From: Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com To: Wikimedia India Community list wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Monday, 5 November 2012 11:23 PM Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Meetup in Bharuch Well done Pradeep, all the very best. Let's hope this can be a major addition to our vibrant community. Do let us know if we need any help. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Sign this petition to introduce Volvo buses in Coimbatore city: https://www.change.org/en-IN/petitions/the-transport-minister-tamil-nadu-introduction-of-volvo-city-buses-in-the-city-of-coimbatore ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Farewell
Hi, Right from the time meeting outside the historic cafe in Mumbai along with Barry, it has been nice knowing you Hisham. Through the difficult days of WikiConference India 2011 (for me) I thank you for the support you have given me. For your contributions to the Indian Wikimedia movement, thank you. I hope you do keep editing and stay in touch. Pradeep User:Prad2609 Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
