[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Cochrane Symposium, 2014 and Wikipedia
*cross-posting* Dear All, I'm happy to share with you that '22nd Cochrane Colloquium', an annual celebration of Cochrane Collaboration is going to take place in Hyderabad this year. Cochrane Collaboration is an independent, non-for profit, international organisation. It helps provide evidence-based, relevant, systematic, up-to-date reviews to people on health which is widely referred by healthcare-professionals, patients and general public.[1] Last year in the Colloquium, there were nearly 2000 scientists from around the world in Quebec where Cochrane and Wikipedia initiated a partnership to populate Wikipedia articles with evidence from Systematic Reviews. This partnership was initiated on the Wikipedia front by Dr. James and his team of Wiki Project Med Foundation https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Project_Med_Foundation. As a part of it there has been appointment of Sydney Poore as a Wikipedian-In-Residence. For more https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/05/05/cochrane-recruits-wikipedian-in-residence/. The Colloquium is going to happen from 21st - 26th September this year. A Pre-colloquium Symposium 'Wikipedia and Cochrane' is planned on 21st Sept. Cochrane Collaboration has offered free entries for upto 50 Wikipedians to this session! For registration and further details please read the event page on meta https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_and_Cochrane_Symposium,_2014. Cochrane has also allotted two slots for WP workshops in addition to a Wikipedia Booth during the colloquium. Would love to hear more from you and make the best of this opportunity. Ccd. in this mail are, James, Sydney and Manu (from Cochrane). Interested folks please contact me off-list. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochrane_Collaboration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochrane_Collaboration *-- * *Warm Regards,* *Nikita Belavate.* ___ 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] Cochrane Symposium, 2014 and Wikipedia
Dear All, I'm happy to share with you that '22nd Cochrane Colloquium', an annual celebration of Cochrane Collaboration is going to take place in Hyderabad this year. Cochrane Collaboration is an independent, non-for profit, international organisation. It helps provide evidence-based, relevant, systematic, up-to-date reviews to people on health which is widely referred by healthcare-professionals, patients and general public.[1] Last year in the Colloquium, there were nearly 2000 scientists from around the world in Quebec where Cochrane and Wikipedia initiated a partnership to populate Wikipedia articles with evidence from Systematic Reviews. This partnership was initiated on the Wikipedia front by Dr. James and his team of Wiki Project Med Foundation https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Project_Med_Foundation. As a part of it there has been appointment of Sydney Poore as a Wikipedian-In-Residence. For more https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/05/05/cochrane-recruits-wikipedian-in-residence/. The Colloquium is going to happen from 21st - 26th September this year. A Pre-colloquium Symposium 'Wikipedia and Cochrane' is planned on 21st Sept. Cochrane Collaboration has offered free entries for upto 50 Wikipedians to this session! For registration and further details please read the event page on meta https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_and_Cochrane_Symposium,_2014. Cochrane has also allotted two slots for WP workshops in addition to a Wikipedia Booth during the colloquium. Would love to hear more from you and make the best of this opportunity. Ccd. in this mail are, James, Sydney and Manu (from Cochrane). Interested folks please contact me off-list. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochrane_Collaboration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochrane_Collaboration *-- * *Warm Regards,* *Nikita Belavate.* On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 9:41 PM, Nikita Belavate niki8...@gmail.com wrote: *cross-posting* Dear All, I'm happy to share with you that '22nd Cochrane Colloquium', an annual celebration of Cochrane Collaboration is going to take place in Hyderabad this year. Cochrane Collaboration is an independent, non-for profit, international organisation. It helps provide evidence-based, relevant, systematic, up-to-date reviews to people on health which is widely referred by healthcare-professionals, patients and general public.[1] Last year in the Colloquium, there were nearly 2000 scientists from around the world in Quebec where Cochrane and Wikipedia initiated a partnership to populate Wikipedia articles with evidence from Systematic Reviews. This partnership was initiated on the Wikipedia front by Dr. James and his team of Wiki Project Med Foundation https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Project_Med_Foundation. As a part of it there has been appointment of Sydney Poore as a Wikipedian-In-Residence. For more https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/05/05/cochrane-recruits-wikipedian-in-residence/. The Colloquium is going to happen from 21st - 26th September this year. A Pre-colloquium Symposium 'Wikipedia and Cochrane' is planned on 21st Sept. Cochrane Collaboration has offered free entries for upto 50 Wikipedians to this session! For registration and further details please read the event page on meta https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_and_Cochrane_Symposium,_2014. Cochrane has also allotted two slots for WP workshops in addition to a Wikipedia Booth during the colloquium. Would love to hear more from you and make the best of this opportunity. Ccd. in this mail are, James, Sydney and Manu (from Cochrane). Interested folks please contact me off-list. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochrane_Collaboration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochrane_Collaboration *-- * *Warm Regards,* *Nikita Belavate.* -- Warm Regards, Nikita Belavate. +91 99-20-30-9661 ___ 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
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
the news reporter or perhaps even a misquote (which happens often in the
media too).
For the record the Women's workshop that I referred to was
co-organised by many supportive men keen to bridge the gender gap in
wikipedia - Om, Soumyan, Pavanaja and yours truly. Of course the event
was
led by a very capable and enthusiastic lady wikipedian Pavithra!
We surely need the experienced editors to be a whole lot more
sensitive and to be careful not to
*Bite*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_do_not_bite_the_newcomers
new editors (irrespective of gender). There also appears to be a template
{{this is a new
userhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:This_is_a_new_user
}} that new users can sport on their user pages.
Have a good weekend everyone!
regards
Arun
On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Tejaswini Niranjana
t...@cscs.res.in wrote:
Nice to see Nikita's name in the article.
http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/girls-try-to-break-into-an-old-boys-club/article4492068.ece?homepage=true
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Promoting GLAM in Goa... at the Central Library, Panjim
Dear Fredrick, Thanks for this wonderful update. Enthusiastic and glad to help in making this happen ! Btw, unable to hear audio-recording or the site itself seems to be down. Best, Nikita On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Frederick FN Noronha * फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا fredericknoron...@gmail.com wrote: Here's an audio recording of the entire event: http://archive.org/details/GlamInGoa -- FN +91-832-2409490 or +91-9822122436 f...@goa-india.org Goa,1556's updated list of books available on and from Goa: http://www.scribd.com/doc/76671049/Goa1556-Catalogue-Books-from-Goa On 19 December 2012 08:04, Arun Ramarathnam arunra...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Frederick, Kudos to everyone behind organizing this event. Thanks for sharing the pictures. How did the libraries receive the event. Any further collaborations planned with the Central Library post this evening to take forward? regards Arun On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا fredericknoro...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fn-goa/8283347792/in/photostream -- FN +91-832-2409490 or +91-9822122436 f...@goa-india.org Books from Goa,1556 http://scr.bi/Goa1556Books Audio recordings (mostly from Goa): http://bit.ly/GoaRecordings ___ 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 ___ 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-Women Conference India
@ Adethya: Hii ! Thanks for your query and that you cared to ask. The Women-only-conference will be on 12-13th Jan 2013, however we can or I think we should have an after-party till 15th (i.e Wikipedia-Birthday) wherein for the those two days(i.e 14th and 15th), male-Wikipedians and friends are most Gladly Welcome :) We now have to chart out programmes and *do let know* if you have* Ideas*that can be executed on any of those two days. @ Sudhanwa Jogalekar Thanks Alot for your Support ! That is one reason of having thought of doing it in Pune, after discussing places like Mumbai etc.. There are women editors and women campus ambassadors who can be of Great help for the 'on-ground support'. Regarding venue, since there are so many universities around, we shall be optimistic about getting place for free. Your help will be needed :). We will have to form a core-team and entrust work so that things get going from now. Am also planning to attend the meetup on 18th,Sat in Pune and hope to meet more women contributors or members from Pune. Keenly looking forward to have interesting and constructive discussion about the Conference face-to-face with all members !! On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 11:10 PM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar sudhanwa@gmail.com wrote: Dear Nikita, Nice to know about the initiative and the event in Pune. Wikipedians in/around Pune will be very happy to conduct the event. We do have women editors in SNDT, Ranade institute, Jnanaprabodhini school and some other places who will be really interested in the event. Please let us know about your ideas of the event. We can surely help in organising things especially venue and other arrangements (that too most likely free of cost) Best regards -Sudhanwa On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 2:20 AM, nikita belavate niki8...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All, Am very Glad and Honoured to tell you about the First of its kind, Wiki-Women Conference to be held in India. We have been talking about the huge gender imbalance among Wikipedia contributors (not unlike science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields). However the gender skew seems particularly prominent here. With the Aim of attracting and sustaining larger Women population, a Conference for Women would be a Great place without any influence that would undermine the confidence(just a possibility) in any way from Male contributors. With this agenda in mind The National Wiki-Women Conference would be a two day Event (a weekend) in Pune. It has been a place of lot of historic reforms particularly in the field of Education with the initiation of Women-Education movement and establishment of the first Women's school in India. And this seems to be a Good place for the first Women's Conference considering some other practicalities as well. As per, User:Netha Hussain has created a Meta-page for the conference Here . Dates for the conference have been proposed as 12th-13th Jan 2013 tentatively on the eve of Wikipedia Birthday on 15th Jan. Followed by an after-party till 15th which will be open for males. This will bring in Wikipedians from different areas under one roof and make it a memorable celebration ! The page will be developed as the programme shapes further here-on. Would be Great to carry the discussion further with your inputs about the first Wiki-Women Conference in India. Look forward with sincere hope to make this happen and increase Indian women contributors and that Wikipedia benefits from a wider and more divers community of contributors. -- Warm Regards, Nikita Belavate. +91 99-20-30-9661 ___ 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 -- Warm Regards, Nikita Belavate. +91 99-20-30-9661 ___ 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] [Wikimedia-I] Report of 17th Wikipedia Community Meetup in Mumbai.
Thanks Srikanth ! But it was a collective work. They are social media and Digital marketing company. This is their website: http://flarepath.in/ They were people not that use to editing Wikipedia. Some of them had an account though, but had not edited before. On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Good work Nikita. Congratulations on having a successful meetup. I have a question. You mentioned that Flarepath people attended. What kind of organisation is it and what kind of people were there? -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. ___ 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 -- Warm Regards, Nikita Belavate. +91 99-20-30-9661 ___ 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] [Wikimedia-I] Report of 17th Wikipedia Community Meetup in Mumbai.
Dear All, We had the '17th Wikipedia Mumbai Community Meetup' on 14th July,Sat. at Flarepath office in Bandra, who were generous in providing us their place on the weekend. It started with informal introductions since there were new members attending Wiki-meetup for the very first time. There were 17 attendees in all, including members from Flarepath team, an Odia-Wiki contributor-Manoranjan Bahera (who also attended the meetup for the first time in Mumbai !),Vikram Crishna ji, Karthik, Vikram Vincent ( from Banglore community), myself and some more new folks. We had planned for an editing session this time followed by a brief about Wiki Loves Monuments.The session was decided to progress depending on the understanding and knowledge of attendees about Wikipedia, and was focussed more on a basic level. Also the meetup was just the day after Eng. Wikipedia crossed the milestone of 4-million articles ! Alot of people present did not know about it, and so we made it an initiation point, further into, - How Wikipedia managed to gather so many articles? - Who create these articles(it was not a one day task)? - Anyone can do it and How? They did not have an account or had one but hardly used or edited. So, the basic question of why you should have an account as well as how wikipedia respects anonymity was discussed. It was interactive and people were very enthusiastic about getting first hand insights and begin editing. Also, there was discussion regarding how a 'company' page should be like in wikipedia which would not be speedily deleted ! Vikram Crishna ji was present and we got to hear from him as well ! We also created an account for a new-comer and did few edits from her account. Then we discussed briefly about Wikimedia commons. We categorised some of the Mumbai Photowalk images using cat-a-lot. A brief about WLM was also made; they are willing to volunteer/help and wanted to know more. It was post 5pm by this time. Snacks and Coffee were sponsored by Flarepath, a Big Thanks to them ! I want to Thank Ashwin (user:AshLin) here :) for taking an editing sesson in WCI-2011, which was the first session I had attended, very organised wherein he had given each of the attendees a printout/handout explaining the basics of editing etc. We took some more printouts of that and distributed at the end as the summary of the past 2- 21/2 hours. Thank you Noopur for suggesting Flarepath as well as connecting us ! Thanks to Abhishek Suryawanshi, who was going to come to Mumbai, only for the meetup, however owing to something urgent, he could not; However he and Srikanth Ramakrishnan did support offline. Thanks Alot ! Few pictures of the meetup are herehttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Mumbai_Meetup_July2012 ! We hope to keep in touch with the newbies and make them regular editors and have regular gatherings ! -- Warm Regards, Nikita Belavate. +91 99-20-30-9661 ___ 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] Fwd: Announcing 17th Wikipedia Mumbai Community Meetup.
Hii All, As discussed earlier, we have planned a meetup on the coming Saturday i.e on 14th in Bandra,Mumbai at the Flarepath's office. We are planning to have an Editing session too this time. The following is the Wiki page for the meetup.The details of venue, address, time etc. are mentioned there: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Mumbai/Mumbai17http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Mumbai/Mumbai17#Facebook and the Facebook event page link: https://www.facebook.com/events/383347728392090/ Would be great to have suggestions with regards to any tips about your experience of conducting editing sessions in the past, so that we can be more careful. Warm Regards, Nikita Belavate. ___ 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] Mumbai meetup
Hello ! Noopur, we have had past meetups in Bandra with good turnout, so that will be great! Only thing we felt was that some cafes are bit noisy, so this time we were thinking of a quieter place. We prefer a Saturday over Sunday in Mum owing to Mega blocks. Could that be possible? May be myself or Karthik can also go there and check out before meetup then. Also, there are more people coming up voluntarily and trying for the venue. The Mumbai community is responding both on the Mum-mailing list and direct mails to us.We will surely check out all the options. Will keep everyone updated. Thanks to all. Regards, Nikita Belavate. On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Vikram Vincent vincentvik...@gmail.comwrote: Hello! Really happy to see the initiative and good work being done by our young volunteers. Keep it up. With warm wishes, -- Vikram Vincent 09969249984 (Mumbai) 09448810822 (Bangalore) ___ 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] TOI:Urdu Wikipedia to be up and running in June
Came across this article in Monday's DNA : http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report_hindi-urdu-language-barrier-set-to-break_1697810 http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report_hindi-urdu-language-barrier-set-to-break_1697810Another effort for propagation of Urdu work among Hindi and Urdu literature fans and vice-versa. Can they be tapped for propagating their efforts through Wiki ? Regards, Nikita. On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 9:14 PM, Hisham his...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Jun 1, 2012, at 9:11 PM, Ravishankar wrote: //The Urdu Wiki, its current tentative nomenclature, will work along the lines of Wikipedia allowing readers to edit and add comments.// This makes it clear that this is an independent encyclopaedia initiative. Wikipedia, Wiki have long become common names to indicate anything like encyclopaedia. I suspect as much. ...but let's see how the meeting goes and if we can work out some form of mutually beneficial partnership. hisham ___ 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] India WikiWomen's Edit-a-Thon
That's great ! Would be fun working !! :) Cheers, Nikita. On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 11:50 PM, Netha Hussain nethahuss...@gmail.comwrote: The Edit-a-thon will be held on tomorrow, 25th March from 1200 IST to 1400 IST. The article to be worked on during the event is [[Sarojini Naidu]]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarojini_Naidu. There will be an IRC meet for half an hour starting at 11 30 am IST for the participants of the Edit-a-thon. To join the IRC, all you have to do is go to: http://webchat.freenode.net/ and enter a nickname and enter #wikimedia-office as the channel name. Hoping to see you all at the Edit-a-thon! Cheers Netha. On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 9:39 PM, Netha Hussain nethahuss...@gmail.comwrote: A gentle remainder : The WikiWomen Edit-a-thon is scheduled to be held from 1200 to 1400 IST on 25th of March 2012 (Sunday). There will be a google hangout (or an IRC meet, depending on the convenience of the participants) from 1100 to 1200 IST. Please vote for the article of your choice herehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/India_WikiWomen%27s_Edit-a-Thon. If you are interested in joining the Edit-a-thon, but have not registered your names yet, please register herehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/India_WikiWomen%27s_Edit-a-Thon . Thanks! On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com wrote: hi, I was looking at the nominations page and can see no nominations relating to women who played a role in India's history. The edit-a-thon has been organised in honour of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiWomen%27s_History_Month and aims to contribute articles on women in history, While it is great that some of the names have come up from contemporary names and the group can select a name, it would greatly help to work on articles from women in history. warm regards, User:Prad2609 On 14 March 2012 19:56, Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.com wrote: Okay, will hang out with the 'wikichix' and tell you :P On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 7:55 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com wrote: Noopur, thanks for understanding and your kind note. I would request you to discuss with other women editors during the Wiki-Edit-a-thon and come up with a recommendation. I think it is best that you decide for yourselves. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 7:50 PM, Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.comwrote: Hey Ashwin! I don't think anyone who is active on this list will misunderstand your mail. :) We've had discussions before on how a lot of positions cause confusion and I also want someone who can dedicate enough time and attention to work on this project. So, no hard feelings on my part. I also saw your Wikipatrika Meta suggestion (going OT here). Since I will be taking that up, my hands are really full anyway. Anyway, I'd want to be the backup in case you need any short term help. I am grateful for your considerate explanation though :) In the meanwhile, we have a list of women Wikipedians. Naveen can suggest a name or two that can be approached? Regards Noopur On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 7:42 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com wrote: I would like to publicly say that I have erred in naming Noopur here. I did not mean to cast any aspersion on her and her good work and track record. I thought that since she is a publicly known figure with responsibilities and good work done in so many spheres - GLAM, Delhi community and now in India Programs, that it would be an example of an already dedicated person whereas I preferred someone new who was not already committed. I now see that I was wrong to name a specific person. The text can be misconstrued as a negative by those who dont know Noopur or her qualities. Also Noopur never aspired to the post. I'm sure if she had chooses to do it, she would do it wonderfully well. My deepest apologies to you, Noopur for causing you distress and embarrassment. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 8:09 AM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com wrote: On a related note, we are looking for a women volunteer coordinator for Women and Gender Issues Task Force on WikiProject India. The only QRs are : * Lady editor. * Enthusiastic and willing to take up the role. * Not involved with other Wikipedia responsibilities. (For example, User:Noopur28 would not be recommended due to her large involvements already with GLAM IP). Please reply on list if you meet the QR and would like to take up this challenging appointment. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 8:07 AM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com wrote: As a miniscule gesture of support to you fabulous ladies, I looked for a
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Lesson from the past: Photowalks and other events
Hello all, I agree there is categorization and inserting meta data work pending for some of the photos clicked in Mumbai Photowalk 2. The temporary maintenance [[Category:WTM ll]] was however changed to [[Category:Wikipedia Takes Mumbai 2]], to avoid disambiguation. Few Good clicks have been inserted on appropriate articles. Categorization will be done and the usage stats would surely rise :) However am confused as to what should be done with repetitive images? Also, it would be really helpful if we have a preset guide-book for the maintenance related work since even I was unaware of lot of things while taking up the charge (which I eventually learnt and still learning !) and hence the delay. Warmly, Nikita Belavate. On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 12:26 AM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.comwrote: Bala, that is great news indeed. 8K utilisations! Magnificient. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 12:06 AM, Bala Jeyaraman sodabot...@gmail.comwrote: Ashwin, Thanks for the suggestions. But the contest deliberately kept the entry barriers low - the contest was for the uploads alone. So we are not considering any additional behaviour (categorising, clear descriptions, usage suggestions) for the prizes. Too add to Srikanth L's points on the tamil wiki media contest, these are some of the preliminary lessons learnt (the official report will carry the complete list): 1) The commons admins/maintenance activity oriented users are even more overworked than en wiki. If we are bringing files there through our activities, we carry the responsibility to not to overburden them. We realised this and have formed a team from ta wiki, which is doing the categorising and adding descriptions. (This team just coalesced on its own, without any conscious effort on the organisers part and is doing well aided by commons regulars).[1] Two of us have applied for and got file mover rights and two more have obtained AWB rights for doing cleanup. Categorisation is about 90 percent complete now. We plan to finish the clean up (copyvio tagging / rotating/ cropping / description / categorising/ watermark removal) for all the files that were uploaded as part of the after contest efforts. The priority for us is 1)eliminating copyvio 2)clear filenames/descriptions 3)rotations 4)categorisaton And do the categorisation using people who are familiar with it in your own wikis (to avoid redundancy and errors like Beria points out). Dont do categorisation drives by people who aren't familiar with how and why categorising should be done. 2) Let contestants know where the images go and what they are used for. This will earn our wikis more active users. We managed to do this for part of the contestants - couldnt reach them all. But to my knowledge, ta wiki has gained atleast half a dozen new users who are using their files and some are even writing new articles for using their entries. Once they became involved, they are involving themselves in further activities in commons too. 3) Of the 15k odd files uploaded as part of the contest 8k are being used in various wiki projects and counting multiple usage, across all wikis there are a total of 11k file usage instances. 4) Taking cue from WLM Europe, we are planning a followup message on all uploaders talk pages (and email if their email facility is enabled) thanking them and telling them of furthur activities they can take part of. ==Links== 1) http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChangesLinkedlimit=250target=Category%3ATamilWiki_Media_Contest On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 10:59 PM, Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.com wrote: Just to add to what Konarak and Ashwin said, I am guilty as charged. We kept the Category:Ahmedabad_1 to avoid flooding the popular category. It was decided to serve as the ''maintenance category'' but none of us really got around to transferring images to the Ahmedabad category or cleaning up. There are several reasons for this: 1) People started using images from Ahmedabad_1 soon after the event to make Ahmedabad articles. So, the attention was diverted there. 2) Personally, I was unclear as to whether all these images had to be migrated because of course some are repetitive and redundant. But, I/We are no one to judge whose image stays or goes. 3) Since then and since the Tamil Wikimedia contest I have been contemplating on things: How can we minimize and optimize image uploads? Can we set parameters in the contest format so that everyone can contribute but its more diverse in terms of results? Maybe we should generate a more exhaustive list of items? Also, are there guidelines for maintenance that we can make (5-7 points) so that the organizers can follow that up too (just in case they aren't aware or don't know how to)? Do let me know what you guys think! Regards Noopur On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 8:27
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-mum] Report on Wikipedia Takes Mumbai II
Hii All, Sorry for not been able to write in detail about the event yesterday. On 28th Morning, the participants arrived exactly at 8am. Few, who could not arrive on time made it a point to inform one of us, about it. We spoke to them about their preference of places to click which went on Good. There after, around 8.45am people dispersed on respective routes. I along with three others covered the extreme north of churchgate( Jogeshwari, Borivali and Dahisar ). While Karthik covered the Chatrapati Shivaji Vastu Sangrahalay interiors besides other places and headed to HBCSE for keeping the lab ready for participants with the tool installed. Not many could make it to HBCSE though, owing to the distance. In all there were 10 of us who reached there by 2.30pm. The major technical challenge started here while uploading the images. The system would not allow upload from many people simultaneously and only one person's images were uploaded at a time ! On informing this to Dr. Nagarjuna, he mentioned about asking help from the IRC center but unfortunately, none of the wikipedians were online at that time. We tried calling few , but for some reason they cwere not available then. After this, we waited for sometime for the one person's upload to get over and till then the others filled the data for the images. Two people successfully uploaded images using 'Commonist' tool for mass upload. The participants were comfortable with the process absolutely but the problem was when they pressed 'UPLOAD'. It said, There is an 'unknown error'. In order to overcome this, we tried to upload using the basic 5 steps of upload in commons, but it showed the message, 'The files are empty' !!! no idea How and Why this happened..! After trying this, Nagarjuna Sir sat with us for trying Python. And the rest as he mentioned earlier in this thread: while running the script, it cribbed about 'missing module poster'. I have installed it using pip. then another missing dependency was python-pyexiv2. apt-get install python-pyexiv2 took care of this. after that the script ran successfully. Took lot of time in getting the script working though. However we could not run Python on other PCs since by the time it was post 8pm. We could only upload images of 4 people successfully. However this is something to discuss as why the tools did not work as they should have been. Partcipants left the campus by 7.30pm after copying the images on desktop. Big Thanks to Nargarjun Sir for being there with us for the entire time till 9pm in HBCSE and his efforts in upload procedure !! Besides, there are many people who helped in particular stages of the event. Starting Noopur , Pranav, Moksh, Netra, Vickram uncle, Dr.Nagarjuna, Kundan Sir, Aditya and Krutika for attending the event. Also would like to make mention of Ajit Sahu who created the logo for the event with just little briefing. Thanks to ALL ! Warm Regards, Nikita Belavate. On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 1:21 PM, wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com wrote: We seem to be called in to the cop station a bit too often - visit #2 for Wikipedia (1st was for WCI 11), this time it got better, taken in a Police Van to MRA Marg. The worst part, they dont drop you back, you need to make your own way :( The guards at Bombay House were pretty clear, we have orders not to allow photography on Homy Mody Street in front of the building for security reasons. Its odd that such orders are given in the first place, as public roads are not under their purview and we were certainly not trespassing their property. Aditya offered to delete the pics if they could show that its illegal, obviously they could not. Just because they are scared of terror threats, whoever gave the order seems to think they have the right to deny the public of their rights and curtail freedom. Talk about misuse of power. -- From: apsengu...@gmail.com Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:52:17 +0530 To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org CC: wikimedia-in-...@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-in-mum] [Wikimediaindia-l] Report on Wikipedia Takes Mumbai II Harriet, On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 05:32, Outofindia outofin...@gmail.com wrote: Sounds like a fun time was had by all. A question: Is there anyway of finding out in advance what buildings are considered to have have Security fears? Yes- if there is a yellow board that declares the building as a Prohibited Area, you are not allowed to photograph such buildings. We saw quite a few of these buildings- such as the RBI building. These boards are required to be registered with the police/government, so it isn't like anyone can put them up. Everything else is fair game- as long as you are not trespassing on their property (which we weren't) or harassing them (we were super nice and polite with the Bombay House folks as well as the police- so this wasn't a problem either). Warm regards Harriet Still in NYC. Harriet
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-mum] Report on Wikipedia Takes Mumbai II
Hii, Thanks for your response. We tried at Wikimedia-in Channel ( wikimedia India). Thank you for the information you mentioned. It will be very helpful to have volunteer system administrations. How can i help? Warm Regards, Nikita Belavate. On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 9:07 PM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 01/30/2012 07:00 AM, wikimediaindia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.orgwrote: nikita belavate niki8...@gmail.com wrote: The major technical challenge started here while uploading the images. The system would not allow upload from many people simultaneously and only one person's images were uploaded at a time ! On informing this to Dr. Nagarjuna, he mentioned about asking help from the IRC center but unfortunately, none of the wikipedians were online at that time. We tried calling few , but for some reason they cwere not available then. My sympathies and condolences on this problem! Quick question -- which IRC channels did you go into? If I know more about that, I can help encourage better 24/7 coverage. In the long run, it'll be helpful for Wikimedia to have volunteer system administrators around the world, to increase the chances that someone is online and available and can help you. And maybe you can become a sysadmin yourself! Wikimedia Labs https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMF_Projects/Wikimedia_Labs is an effort to help grow the Wikimedia system administration community. Check it out. It's in closed beta right now and it is still under construction, but if you ask on the Talk/Discuss page for an invite, you can get one. -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation ___ 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] Wiki Takes Mumbai II !!!
Hello All, The *Photowalk* is just one day away. All Wikipedians from Mumbai, please do join tomorrow. Assembling at 8am at Oval maidan, Forte (the ground in front of Mumbai Uni). Also, HBCSE has agreed upon making their lab available to us for upload of images to Commons. Thanks to Vickram uncle and Dr.Nagarjuna :) Hope to see you all ! Wiki Page link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_Mumbai_II#Participants Warm Regards, Nikita Belavate. ___ 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 Takes Mumbai 2012
Okk. Will do that. Could you forward his email id or contact number please. On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Vickram Crishna vvcris...@radiophony.comwrote: As discussed with Nikita and Dr Nagarjuna, the HBCSE has kindly offered the use of the Gnowledge Labs at Deonar on Saturday 28 Jan afternoon (2pm onwards; the request was for a couple of hours) for the conclusion of the planned Photowalk, in order to complete uploading/tagging/captioning etc of the pictures acquired to Wikimedia. Organisers may please coordinate with Dr Nagarjuna directly (nagarjun; gnowledge, org) to confirm how many persons etc will be attending. The lab has computers (GNU/Linux only) and connectivity. He may not personally be there on Saturday itself, so please make sure the details are confirmed in advance. HBCSE is a security campus (part of TIFR) and visitors will need to take passes at the gate and have them signed in acknowledgment by an HBCSE staffer before leaving. You also need to make clear what digital equipment will be carried into the campus (phones, cameras, laptops) and declare it coming and going to the security staff at the gate. On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Anshuman Fotedar anshuman.fote...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone As was discussed in the Mumbai Meetup #14 on the 15th of this month, we are organising WIkipedia Takes Mumbai 2012 on the 28th, which is the coming Saturday. Wiki page for the event: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WTMUM2 Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/wikitakesmumbai Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/301044829930784/ List of places we want to cover: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1B_5CneXRV5n1BV4lOtbEGVy-PeTduATRYn-blNbU7n4/edit?pli=1 We have 3 routes in mind: 1) Western: http://g.co/maps/8udzv 2) South A: http://g.co/maps/m4hx2 3) South B: http://g.co/maps/z9atv We would love to get suggestions on the places/routes and any advice that might help going forward. Also we'd be glad if more volunteers come forward for the same. We can definitely use more hands :) Currently myself, Nikita Belavate and Karthik Nadar are working on this, with the aid of mentoring from Pranav Curumsey, Moksh Juneja and Noopur Raval. Thanks and Regards Anshuman Fotedar ___ 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 -- Vickram Fool On The Hill http://communicall.wordpress.com ___ 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] Wikimedia India: Wikipedia Takes Ahmedabad, January 2012
Thats Amaazziingg Indeedd ! Congraats to All of you :) !! Warm Regards, Nikita. On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 6:06 PM, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings! This is a short update on the January edition of Wikipedia Takes Ahmedabad. From where I stand, the event has been a resounding success! Over seventy-five people turned up, both old and young, this morning, which is no mean feat since it was very cold as well as a working day. Special thanks to Noopur Raval, our benevolent dictator and project mastermind, Srikeit Tadepalli, who spent time with me following the project participants prepping them and helping them figure out Wikimedia projects. Our heartfelt gratitude to Aviral Mediratta, Khayal Dave, Yash Vadiwala, Konarak Ratnakar, Smit Shah, Karthik Mistry and Chirag Solanki; our team leads and coordinators for helping everyone take beautiful pictures. Please keep an eye on our maintenance [[Category:Ahmedabad 1]], specially created for the event. 238 pictures have been uploaded so far... and we expect a lot more being uploaded by tomorrow. I will be posting a project report soon. Thank you! Sincerely, Anirudh Bhati Wikimedia India ___ 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
