Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Introduction - Arun
Hi Arun, A very warm welcome to you on the I18n/L10N engineering team. We are excited about the Universal Language Selector UI/UX work that you and Pau are helping us with. Happy to see you onboard! Alolita __ Alolita Sharma Wikimedia Foundation - Reply message - From: Subhashish Panigrahi su...@wikimedia.org To: Cc: wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org, wmf...@lists.wikimedia.org, Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.com Subject: [Wmfall] Introduction - Arun Date: Thu, May 3, 2012 6:55 am Congratulations Arun! Happy that I met you a month back, now the L10n have more people from Indic communities and it makes me happier again ;-) On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 7:17 PM, Maggie Dennis mden...@wikimedia.org wrote: Welcome, Arun! Somehow I feel sure that you are in for an interesting ride. :D Maggie On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 9:16 AM, Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.comwrote: Hi everyone, I wanted to introduce myself to the community and the WMF team, I'm Arun Ganesh (user:planemad)[1a] from Bangalore, India and have joined as contractor for the foundation's L10n team[1b] as an Interaction designer along with Pau to improve the user experience of language tools and features. I have been a longtime contributer to both commons[2] and the openstreetmap[3] project and got involved with foundation work during the Mumbai and Pune hackathons recently[4][5][6] where I proposed some of the first ideas for the Universal Language Selector widget with Brandon, with which we want to make language selection for anyone easy peasy. Apart from that, I love cartography and maps [7], which would explain my map contributions and the occasional headline for wikipedia [8], use only public transport[9] and traveling with my pocket camera[10]. Its feels great to have this opportunity to work more seriously on a project which has been an important part of my life. I'm new here, I wont claim to know much, but I hope to make a difference in whichever way possible. I also look forward to interacting more closely and learning from the rest of the designers - Brandon, Heather and Pau to do the wonderful things that designers like to do .So keep the usability bugs coming :) -Arun [1a] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Planemad [1b] http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Localization_team [2] http://tools.wikimedia.de/~daniel/WikiSense/Gallery.php?wiki=commons.wikimedia.orgimg_user_text=Planemad [3] http://yosmhm.neis-one.org/?zoom=4lat=21.96627lon=81.68268layers=B0Tu=PlaneMad [4] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Universal_Language_Selector#Arun_Ganesh.27s_Original_design [5] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mobile_language_selector.pdf [6] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:L10n-ux-Universal_Language_Selector-Wireframes1.pdf [7] http://bit.ly/timesofindia-osm [8] http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/jul/30/information-beautiful-india-cameron [9] http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/article182223.ece [10] http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1663025,00.html ___ Wmfall mailing list wmf...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wmfall -- Maggie Dennis Community Liaison WikimediaFoundation.org ___ Wmfall mailing list wmf...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wmfall -- *Subha* *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!* ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] introduction (community communications for Wikidata)
Welcome Lydia! Happy to see you on doing great work for Wiki Data @WMDE. Best Alolita __ Alolita Sharma Wikimedia Foundation - Reply message - From: Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de To: foundatio...@lists.wikimedia.org, wikidat...@lists.wikimedia.org, wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikitech-l] introduction (community communications for Wikidata) Date: Fri, Mar 9, 2012 9:13 am Hi everyone! I wanted to take a moment to introduce myself. I'm Lydia and just started working for Wikimedia Germany. Some of you might know me from my work in Free Software projects. I'll be a part of the team working on Wikidata (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata) - the goal of the project is to create something similar to Wiki Commons for data). It's a huge undertaking for the German and global community. Wikidata is a project I am passionate about and I am even more passionate about doing it right. Doing it right in this case obviously means making sure everyone's input is heard and taken into consideration. My responsibility will be exactly that - working with all of you to make it a successful project. A lot of things concerning how, when and where this will be used in Wikipedia are still up for discussion and decisions need to be found in the community. I will be here to facilitate this. I assume many of you have not heard from me before so let me tell you a bit about myself. I studied computer science at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. There I worked on a program to plan robot-assisted laser surgeries on human skulls and wrote my diploma thesis on collaborative and transparent Free Software development. I'm passionate about enabling people to make awesome happen around Free Culture. I've spent most of my spare time in the last 7 years on community work in KDE (http://kde.org). This includes running its mentoring programs, co-founding its community working group, serving on the board of the non-profit behind it and generally making sure everything is running smoothly. I've also helped out other projects occasionally like Kubuntu, VLC/VideoLan and openSUSE in that position. Not long ago I released a free book called Open Advice (http://open-advice.org) that is a collaborative effort to make it easier for people to start contributing to Free Software. You probably know 4 of the authors from around Wikipedia. When it comes to MediaWiki I have done developer engagement for Semantic MediaWiki Plus for the last two years and am on the steering committee of the non-profit behind Semantic MediaWiki. Due to my day only having 24 hours (even if some people claim otherwise) I have not had a chance to get into contributing to Wikipedia. Thankfully that's going to change now. (As a very regular user: Thank you!) For the next days/weeks my focus will be: * collecting ideas/doubts/other input for Wikidata that you already have for me now (I'll work through any existing discussions I can find - if you want to make sure I see something please do send me a link.) * creating some resources to explain the project better * setting up some infrastructure to keep everyone updated on the status and able to contribute * work on collecting input in a structured manner and addressing it together If you have any questions please let me know. I'll be around on the English and German Wikipedia, IRC, XMPP, Skype or whatever else you prefer ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Lydia_Pintscher_(WMDE) ). You can subscribe to the Wikidata mailing list at https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l and join the IRC channel #wikimedia-wikidata on freenode. Cheers Lydia, who is really looking forward to working with you -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Community Communications for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Eisenacher Straße 2 10777 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
