Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Appointment of new SIG chair
Thank you everyone for your wishes. :) On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 8:56 PM, Omshivaprakash | Wikimedia omshivaprak...@wikimedia.in wrote: Congratulations Rohini :) On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Vishnu t visdav...@gmail.com wrote: Congratulations, Rohini! Best, Vishnu On 9 March 2013 11:45, Bishakha Datta bishakhada...@gmail.com wrote: Nice! Congratulations, Rohini, and look forward to more wiki women workshops and other related stuff. Best Bishakha On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 12:39 AM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar sudhanwa@gmail.com wrote: Congrats Rohini!! All the best wishes to you!! Regards -Sudhanwa On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 7:34 PM, Rohini Lakshané rohini.laksh...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you everyone for giving me this opportunity -- those who voted for me, Krutikaa and Netha who nominated me, and the members of the EC who conducted the election process. On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan srik.r...@wikimedia.in wrote: Heya, this is inform you that Rohini Lakshane has been appointed as the chair of the Gender-gap SIG. This was the first nomination for an SIG chair where there were other candidates, in this case Pavithra H. Rohini was nominated and seconded by Krutikaa Jawanjal and Netha Hussain, and got 20 votes in her favour, the highest in any Wikimedia India voting process, beating Karthik's record of 19 votes in September 2012. Rohini can be contacted on roh...@wikimedia.in -- Srikanth Ramakrishnan Treasurer, Wikimedia Chapter [India] Donate to the Wikimedia India Chapter todayhttp://wiki.wikimedia.in/Donations -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups wmin-members group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to wmin-members+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. ___ 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 -- ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~! web: www.sudhanwa.com blog: www.sudhanwa.in Twitter: sudhanwa Check on FB, Linkedin for more. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Omshivaprakash H L | ಓಂಶಿವಪ್ರಕಾಶ್ ಎಚ್.ಎಲ್ | ॐ शिवप्रकाश् एच्. एल् Kannada SIG Wikimedia India Chapter [image: File:Wikimedia India logo.svg] http://wiki.wikimedia.in/ ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] women and technology
Dear Nikita, The article suggests that male Wikipedia editors put down newbie female editors. Your comments, placed in conjunction with examples that speak of misogyny and sexism, show Wikipedia editors in poor light. Can you clarify if the newspaper has misquoted you? Regards, Rohini -- Chairperson (Special Interest Groups), Gendergap, Wikimedia Chapter (India) On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 9:02 PM, ansuman ansum...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am sorry. I din't mean to make it a gender bias. I totally understand your point and I think you are right. I just thought, that way it could help. Still I think as per Gender Gap Campaign, if we discuss and make it a point on the guidelines that as we are trying to have more female wikipedians, be nice to new editors. I understand the review process should not be based on the gender. And I am not saying identifying female editors is the solution, but if they wish to reveal (e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Female_Wikipedians), the community should think of something, which could help. I am not deciding anything for them. I am trying to open new ways which could help. Thanks , http://twitter.com/an5umAnsuman On 10 March 2013 18:47, Tejaswini Niranjana t...@cscs.res.in wrote: Hi Ansuman, The gender gap link provides useful information about the kinds of projects people are working on. Thanks for pointing it out. Not sure about the need to identify female editors. Increasing relevant and gender-sensitive content whether in the Indian languages or in English could be a task for all of us. And yes, be nice to all newbies! Tejaswini On 10 March 2013 14:39, ansuman ansum...@gmail.com wrote: Having read this, I think you girls should start a RFC on English Wikipedia highlighting this issue, and may be many would agree to have a point added to WP:Deletion Policy ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_policy) or at least at Wikipedia:NPP#Be nice to the newbies ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:NPP#Be_nice_to_the_newbies) and even Wikipedia:Please do not bite the newcomers Also you may raise this issue at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gender_gap. It's a possibility others may have been raised this issue already, and you can join the discussion. Many new comers work at WP:NPP and there is no way to recognize female editors on Wiki unless they mentioned it on their userpages. And they don't visit userpages. A solution could be to add a new gadget like markAdmins, which works like this http://en.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q6636985curid=6466221action=history I don't know if it is possible technically. But if we could add a similar gadget and if they like to reveal their gender, then it'd be easy. Just my thought, many would find it extra burden. But you may go ahead and give it a try. Regards, Ansuman http://twitter.com/an5um* * On 10 March 2013 11:48, swetapadma d. satpathy swetapadm...@gmail.comwrote: A very good read and truly written. Regards, Swetapadma On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Arun Ramarathnam arunra...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for sharing this Tejaswini. Made interesting read. Good to see wikipedians mentioned in the article. Interesting to note the article mention the following... *When at the workshop, the girls began to create articles on Wiki, male editors were quick to pull them down. “This can be intimidating for anyone, and more so for girls.” Instead of spending the time creating a template to delete, she wishes her male friends would just “be more supportive” and encourage those who step in to what is surely a male-dominated world of code. * Makes me wonder if it is to be deemed as the case of male editors pulling the pages down. Or is it the case of experienced editors being less tolerant and not encouraging to most new editors irrespective of their gender. I believe it more often than not the second. To share another incident to illustrate the point. There was another Women's Wikipedia workshophttp://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wikipedia_Women%27s_Workshop_Bangalore_2013running in town wikipedian Omshivaprakash was working with a new lady editor to take her through the paces of a new article title Nalini Nayak http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nalini_Nayak. This was being shown on a projector for the rest of the lady participants to watch and learn. And lo and behold we had an editor for nowhere slap a Speedy Delete notice on a page that had no grounds for it. At best one could Afd-ed it and have questioned the merits of noteability. We all know the treatment of new editors... they have a rough time getting on to wikipedia and this issue is widely acknowledged. We also know we have very few women editors. But we ought to be careful to not project this as a case of male editors being non supportive of women, (which may not be the case). Perhaps the above reference in the article was the interpretation of
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-mum] WikiAcademy Mumbai 1 notes
Thanks for the photos. I had so much fun at WikiAcademy though I felt a bit out of place amongst absolute newbies. How do I sign up to a volunteer/ member of organising team? Best, Rohini On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 12:02 PM, wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com wrote: Photos taken on the day: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:WikiAcademy_Mumbai_1_img1.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wiki_Academy_Mumbai_1.jpg -- Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 00:01:48 +0530 From: pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com To: wikimedia-in-...@lists.wikimedia.org; wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiAcademy Mumbai 1 notes hi, Warning: This is a lnggg email. We held our first WikiAcademy in Mumbai on October 1, 2011 at the Center for Education and Documentation, Colaba. The session was attended by 24 attendees. Roughly, the sessions were: 1. Introduction 2. Creating accounts on Wikipedia 3. Introduction to the interface 4. Rules related to Wikipedia (5 Pillars, AGF etc.) 5. Go out and edit This was our first experience with such an Academy and hence this note is a bit detailed. Many of the folks who came had used Wikipedia but had hardly ever edited Wikipedia. There was a lot of questioning around the reliability of Wikipedia as a resource. We had the services of Vickram Crishna to answer these questions. After the round of introductions, we got them acquainted with accessing Wikipedia, familiarising them with the English Wikipedia main page. The attendees were very interested in learning how to edit Wikipedia and wanted to learn right from the creating accounts on Wikipedia stage. This we did, only to realise the limitation existed on creation of not more than 6 accounts per IP address. We got around this limitation by allowing people to register with dongles that a few people carried with them. Next time, perhaps making an upfront request to allow more account creations from a single IP address before the Academy might be a wise thing to do. Any other suggestions? Even after logging in the attendees appreciated a Get to know your Screen session. Pranav then shed some light on the rules of the Wikipedia (frankly, I have never read this until a few days before the Academy!). Kundan Amitabh also pitched in to help with a few that Pranav didn't know about. Kundan also urged them to not give up on Wikipedia if their articles or sections of articles were deleted. Keep trying! was the call! In the last go out and edit session, we allowed participants to edit what they liked. We moved among the audience helping where help was needed. We encouraged the users to use the various icons on the WYSIWIG editor rather than learn the Wikisyntax. We think that working on this for a few days will help them learn things on their own. There was a diverse audience with requests for specific follow up sessions. We think that we could have concluded more properly than we did. warm regards, Pradeep Mohandas PS: Apologies for the delay in posting this! -- 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 ___ Wikimedia-in-mum mailing list wikimedia-in-...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-mum ___ 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] third remaider to stop the mail.
This isn't the kind of mailing list or group where you can unsubscribe by sending am email to the moderator or to the group. Please visit the mailing list home page and click the unsubscribe button to remove yourself from the list. The home page is : https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l Regards, Rohini On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Deepam Trust i...@deepamtrust-tn.orgwrote: will you stop the mail with out delay ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe / mailing option 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
