[Wikimediaindia-l] Help needed for Wiki Academy in Kolkata
Hi, We are having a Wiki Academy for the first time in Kolkata at Netaji Subhash Engineering College . We would appreciate to have any kind of help to make this Wiki Academy a successful event, as of now We are looking for person who is willing to speak on the technical aspects of Wikipedia ( More specifically "How a developer can contribute to the Meta-Wiki Source Code). Since it is an engineering college,and we are hosting it as a college event only so Technical part is necessary according to the students concerned. Please help us. Regards, Sucheta Ghoshal ___ 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] Wiki Academy in Kolkata
Thank you all for your support. This is the first time Im organizing a Wiki Academy & I'd like all the help from you all. Jayanta has been very supportive and has agreed to conduct this workshop with me. 54 students from my college have already registered for this. Here is the link to the details of the session: http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wiki_Academy/Netaji_Subhash_Engineering_College You can join this FB group to know more details: http://www.facebook.com/groups/WikiAcademyNsec/ Here is the list of participants registered for the event: https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ajh--SrDkYijdGk2Y3ZPNzBrVW5lU0owRHRXMm5nX3c&pli=1#gid=0 I would request everyone to help me organize this event in the most effective manner. Thanks and Regards, Sucheta ___ 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
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Hello Everyone, This is Sucheta. I am an OPW intern at MediaWiki, based in Kolkata. The newly formed Mozilla Community of Kolkata is organizing a 2 day ( Jan 5 - Jan 6 ) event dedicated to Free and Open Source Software and various Mozilla initiatives, where participants will get chance to interact with professional developers and renowned FOSS activists as well as some Mozilla Representatives from the Mozilla India Community. And they want to have a MediaWiki part as well and had approached me for the same. I had approached few people from MediaWiki and checked if they could come over. But Santhosh, Yuvi Panda, and Harsh Kothari seem to be occupied at that specific period of time, although they are ready to help remotely. So, I am planning to do one small workshop on MediaWiki there, with 10-15 students maybe. It would be great to have your support, and suggestions are welcome too. Here is the event’s official website: http://moztiatbesu.co.nr/ I have been planning this workshop with Yuvi Panda and Harsh Kothari and here’s basically what we had in mind for the workshop: - Userscripts and Gadgets: 'Lesson Plan': 1. Environment (JS, Dev Toolbar, Common.js, importScript, mw.loader.load) 2. Data (API, API Sandbox, actions) 3. Accessing Data from the Environment (AJAX concepts, mw.API, mw.loader.using) - Introduction to IRC: People should get the idea of the amazing community out there! So, I thought IRC environment should get them that feel, and would also help them for future work. I am thinking of introducing them to the channel #mediawiki on freenode. So, if you know people in Kolkata who would be interested in getting a technical introduction to Mediawiki, please ask them to attend! Do forward it to the relevant lists too! Thanks for the support! Cheers, Sucheta ___ 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] First Ever MediaWiki Workshop in Kolkata!
[Sorry, the subject part was missing on the last e-mail.] Hello Everyone, This is Sucheta. I am an OPW intern at MediaWiki, based in Kolkata. The newly formed Mozilla Community of Kolkata is organizing a 2 day ( Jan 5 - Jan 6 ) event dedicated to Free and Open Source Software and various Mozilla initiatives, where participants will get chance to interact with professional developers and renowned FOSS activists as well as some Mozilla Representatives from the Mozilla India Community. And they want to have a MediaWiki part as well and had approached me for the same. I had approached few people from MediaWiki and checked if they could come over. But Santhosh, Yuvi Panda, and Harsh Kothari seem to be occupied at that specific period of time, although they are ready to help remotely. So, I am planning to do one small workshop on MediaWiki there, with 10-15 students maybe. It would be great to have your support, and suggestions are welcome too. Here is the event’s official website: http://moztiatbesu.co.nr/ I have been planning this workshop with Yuvi Panda and Harsh Kothari and here’s basically what we had in mind for the workshop: - Userscripts and Gadgets: 'Lesson Plan': 1. Environment (JS, Dev Toolbar, Common.js, importScript, mw.loader.load) 2. Data (API, API Sandbox, actions) 3. Accessing Data from the Environment (AJAX concepts, mw.API, mw.loader.using) - Introduction to IRC: People should get the idea of the amazing community out there! So, I thought IRC environment should get them that feel, and would also help them for future work. I am thinking of introducing them to the channel #mediawiki on freenode. So, if you know people in Kolkata who would be interested in getting a technical introduction to Mediawiki, please ask them to attend! Do forward it to the relevant lists too! Thanks for the support! Cheers, Sucheta ___ 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] Is there some Wikimedia Project to host contents based on original research?
Hi all, A few of my friends and I have been planning to document the history of counterculture in Bengali art and literature. These friends are also working in that domain professionally, and have access to a huge repository of texts, images, and other relevant details that they are willing to make available digitally in the form of free contents. We wish to have the contents as wikis, and, pictures and video snippets that might be involved - as properly licensed free materials. Now, the concern is if there is some Wikimedia Project that would host contents that are based on such an enormous amount of original research. Wikipedia is certainly not the appropriate place. And, as there exist no earlier works on this particular domain on the internet, references would be negligible. I was thinking about Wikibooks, instead. I am not entirely sure if that fits either, but I assume it fits better than Wikipedia, at least. The last option is to host it ourselves with the MediaWiki setup, and I am considering it very much. But, the idea essentially is to make people edit and enrich it with as much input as possible. It would be really helpful, in that case, if it could be placed in one of the Wikimedia projects. Suggestions, of every kind, would be deeply appreciated. Best, Sucheta -- Sucheta Ghoshal Software Engineer, Editing Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. ___ 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
