Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [WikimediaMobile] Let's applaud the India Hackathon

The translation sprint in Pune on 26th also went very well. Some photos and report coming up soon. Regards, -Sudhanwa On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Kul Wadhwa wrote: > Hi Arjuna, > > We were really happy with the turnout and super excited that there was > so much interest from the dev comm

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [WikimediaMobile] Let's applaud the India Hackathon

Hi Arjuna, We were really happy with the turnout and super excited that there was so much interest from the dev community in India. We definitely want to find ways to support and grow the community and do it again in the near future, working hand-in-hand with the local Wikipedians on this. Yes, i

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] IEP Pilot - Preliminary Analysis

Hi Ashwin! Please don't use the word "fiasco", yes we had seen some setbacks but it's not a complete failure. It's really demotivating for the people who were a part of IEP (me included). Thanks, Ram On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 11:11 PM, Ashwin Baindur wrote: > Often, it helps to have an outsider p

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [[Brian Horrocks]] not an Indian FA

Aswin, true, I don't have it on my talk page, but most India editors do stumble across the page every few weeks. We all used to, back in 2009. -- On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 1:07 AM, Ashwin Baindur wrote: > Agreed in principle with Pradeep, but let some talk of content take place > here. I'm sure

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia's participation in Google Summer of Code

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 01:53, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > I managed MediaWiki's participation in Google Summer of Code this year, > and could talk with anyone interested in participating, anyone > researching it, and anyone who is curious. :-) We try to document our > participation on mediawi

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Creation of mailing list for co-ordination of Indian Wikipedians on English Wikipedia.

+1 to Tinu, If more traffic starts hitting the list regarding en wiki articles (like yesterday), a separate list is an absolute must. On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Srikeit wrote: > +1 to what Tinu said. > > Regards > > On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Anirudh Bhati wrote: > >> >> On Wed, N

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Creation of mailing list for co-ordination of Indian Wikipedians on English Wikipedia.

+1 to what Tinu said. Regards On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Anirudh Bhati wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 12:31 PM, wrote: > >> I agree with Pradeep - there are already too many lists, the last thing >> we need is to follow another for WP:India. Why cant we just continue on >> wikimedia

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Creation of mailing list for co-ordination of Indian Wikipedians on English Wikipedia.

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 12:31 PM, wrote: > I agree with Pradeep - there are already too many lists, the last thing > we need is to follow another for WP:India. Why cant we just continue on > wikimediaindia-I? > +1 We should wait for significantly more traffic on discussions around India-relate

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Creation of mailing list for co-ordination of Indian Wikipedians on English Wikipedia.

I'd like to share my perspectives based on conversations with a wide range of wikipedians. To that extent, this is not a scientific summary - but more of anecdotal evidence. Some Indic language wikimedians say they don't follow/like wikimediaindia-l because too much is taken up by English lang

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Creation of mailing list for co-ordination of Indian Wikipedians on English Wikipedia.

IMHO, emails/discussions like http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-November/005243.html http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-November/005286.html http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-November/005082.html can be better discussed/col

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Creation of mailing list for co-ordination of Indian Wikipedians on English Wikipedia.

Please create a separate list "wikiproject-india-en" for English Wikipedia related discussions. Thanks On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 11:01 AM, wrote: > I agree with Pradeep - there are already too many lists, the last thing > we need is to follow another for WP:India. Why cant we just continue on >

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Creation of mailing list for co-ordination of Indian Wikipedians on English Wikipedia.

I agree with Pradeep - there are already too many lists, the last thing we need is to follow another for WP:India. Why cant we just continue on wikimediaindia-I? From: tinucher...@gmail.com Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 10:18:30 +0530 To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimediaind

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Creation of mailing list for co-ordination of Indian Wikipedians on English Wikipedia.

My first preference goes for something on the lines of "wikimedia-in-eng" , basically a list for the Indian Wikipedian community contributing to en.wiki and other English Wikimedia projects. "wikiproject-india-en" was in case there is much "opposition" to "oh , we already have a English Wikipedi

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Quick Mumbai hackathon followup

For completeness, a copy of the message I just sent to the Wikimedia developers' email list, https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l . Original Message Subject: Quick Mumbai hackathon followup Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 22:28:41 -0500 From: Sumana Harihareswara Organ

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [WikimediaMobile] Let's applaud the India Hackathon

Hi, Thanks Kul for the update. I am glad to see the achievments. Congratulations to all the participants. I too wanted to join but could not because it was done in parallel with separate registration process. Hope we can improve next time so that you have real Wikipedians user perspective as we

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Creation of mailing list for co-ordination of Indian Wikipedians on English Wikipedia.

Hmmm, my stand has been that the union set of english Wikipedians in India with WikiProject India article space also forms another genuine indic language community - especially since English is the secondary official language of our nation. In that case. the community must have a list of its own.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Sharing insights and experiences from Indian language wiki communities - Odia (Oriya)

Thanks a lot Shiju, Ramesh and Ashwin, applauds for Gyana for his recent hard work in a span of even less than a month. We would like to take help from the existing communities to set up the Gramapanchayat in Odia Wikipedia, please help us with the set up and documentation. Kind regards Subha On

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Creation of mailing list for co-ordination of Indian Wikipedians on English Wikipedia.

IMO "wikiproject-india-en" speaks for itself and would be good. regards Subha On 30 November 2011 05:50, CherianTinu Abraham wrote: > While wikimediaindia-l is the main mailing list of Wikimedia Community in > India, a larger discussion of English Wikipedia/ns in India or WikiProject > India on

[Wikimediaindia-l] Creation of mailing list for co-ordination of Indian Wikipedians on English Wikipedia.

While wikimediaindia-l is the main mailing list of Wikimedia Community in India, a larger discussion of English Wikipedia/ns in India or WikiProject India on en.wiki is out of scope on wikimediaindia-l and its subscribers. While most of the Indian language Wikipedia have their separate mailing list

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [WikimediaMobile] Let's applaud the India Hackathon

Crosspost to the Wikimedia India Mailing list. --Kul - We recently completed a Hackathon in India where the themes were: * localization * mobile * offline In summary, over one weekend more than 50 volunteers from many parts of India added their hard work and insights to the technical founda

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Mumbai hackathon followup

On 11/24/2011 11:18 AM, wikimediaindia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org wrote: > Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 21:30:52 +0530 > From: Pradeep Mohandas > Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Mumbai hackathon followup > To: Wikimedia India List > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > >

[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia's participation in Google Summer of Code

On 11/28/2011 08:43 AM, wikimediaindia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org wrote: > Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 19:12:41 +0530 > From: Srikanth Lakshmanan > Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] IEP Pilot - Preliminary Analysis > To: Wikimedia India Community list > > Message-ID: > > Content-Type: te

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [[Brian Horrocks]] not an Indian FA

Agreed in principle with Pradeep, but let some talk of content take place here. I'm sure the majority of wikimedia-l readers do not have WT:IN on their watchlist. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 12:56 AM, Srikanth Ramak

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [[Brian Horrocks]] not an Indian FA

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 12:18 AM, Pradeep Mohandas < pradeep.mohan...@hotmail.com> wrote: > I think the list should be used more as a helpful pointer and as much > discussion as possible should be done on Wikipedia itself. I think there > are more lists than Wikipedians can handle and more time i

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [[Brian Horrocks]] not an Indian FA

I think the list should be used more as a helpful pointer and as much discussion as possible should be done on Wikipedia itself. I think there are more lists than Wikipedians can handle and more time is spent on the lists than on editing Wikipedia, which is what we're primarily here for. warm

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [[Brian Horrocks]] not an Indian FA

I agree more with Swaroop, but since the English wikipedia is picking itself up and dusting itself again, we may want one. --Re, On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 9:58 PM, Swaroop Rao wrote: > Good idea, but then, shouldn't we be using > WT:INfor these? :)

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] IEP Pilot - Preliminary Analysis

Often, it helps to have an outsider perspective. We in the Pune community met Torey to day and are of the opinion that the Foundation wants someone from their side to provide an impartial outsider's view and also to explore ways ahead in addition to finding out whats going on and what had happened.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] IEP Pilot - Preliminary Analysis

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Barry Newstead wrote: > Hi all, > > Thanks for the engagement on the questions that should be tacked in this > evaluation. See inline for a brief response to Theo's question about Tory > Read. > > Best, > Barry > > On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Theo10011 wrote

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [[Brian Horrocks]] not an Indian FA

Good idea, but then, shouldn't we be using WT:INfor these? :) Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch ) On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 21:47, Shiju Alex wrote: > I think what Srikanth meant is, creating a separate mailin

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [[Brian Horrocks]] not an Indian FA

I think what Srikanth meant is, creating a separate mailing list for English wikipedians from India to discuss their topics of interest. I too think that is a good idea. Shiju On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 9:42 PM, Ashwin Baindur wrote: > Is that what you mean, Srikanth? > > http://en.wikipedia.org/w

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [[Brian Horrocks]] not an Indian FA

Is that what you mean, Srikanth? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_India/Recognized_content I was also not aware till Pranav dhowed me the link today. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 9:40 PM, Srikanth

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Sharing insights and experiences from Indian language wiki communities - Odia (Oriya)

+1 to Ramesh's comment. Heartiest congratulations to Odia community on the enormous effort, intensity and passion they have shown, Well done & please keep up the great work. :) Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 8:58 PM, R

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [[Brian Horrocks]] not an Indian FA

Ashwin, I think the Indian English community needs a list of it's own. Re, On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 6:12 PM, Ashwin Baindur wrote: > I found TinuCherianBot had mistakenly made Brian Horrocks, a British Army > general unconnected with India except for his birth, as part of WikiProject > India, a fa

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Sharing insights and experiences from Indian language wiki communities - Odia (Oriya)

Odia wikipedia is one of the shining example of how really active wikipedians can make the the growth of wikipedia. The outreach programs which they have conducted has shown the results in the last 15 months. User:Rameshng On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Shiju Alex wrote: > Dear All, > > To

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Mullaperiyar Dam article on English Wikipedia - Collaboration sought

hi, Happy to note that the article is already getting significant attention. Requisite notices have been put up under all sections. Link - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mullaperiyar_Dam warm regards, Pradeep User:Prad2609

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Required - articles for Collaboration of the Month Dec 2011

hi, I've put this up on the Noticeboard as well - No prefered stand. I think we're worrying too much about niceties here. Let's set the rules as the number of collaborators increase and there are needs for such limits and rules. Why not work on all the articles nominated? This is the first t

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Mullaperiyar Dam article on English Wikipedia - Collaboration sought

hi, I hope the Tamil and Malayalam wikipedia communities also take this forward within themselves. The only other language that this article is in is French. If there are people who know the language and contribute to that Wikipedia, they might also be interested? Thanks Srikanth (Rsrikanth05

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] IEP Pilot - Preliminary Analysis

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Barry Newstead wrote: > On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Theo10011 wrote: > >> I really didn't read the entire thread to have a lot of comments, I just >> have one point I noticed that I wanted to ask - Why is Tory Read conducting >> the "evaluative study"? >> >>

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-in-del] Hindi Wikipedians Meetup in New Delhi

I hope this went well? I didn't see any information on wiki or mailing lists about it. Mayur might have sent it to the wrong mailing list, I don't see his mail in Wikimediaindia archives. Theo -- Forwarded message -- From: mayur Date: Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 4:43 PM Subject: [Wiki

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] IEP Pilot - Preliminary Analysis

Hey Rohit, I will do the early two hours. That is six to eight. In the evening, I will do the six to eight pm block. :) Regards Harsha -- Sent via Nokia Email --Original message-- From: Gautam John To: "Wikimedia India Community list" Date: Monday, November 28, 2011 5:23:58

[Wikimediaindia-l] [[Brian Horrocks]] not an Indian FA

I found TinuCherianBot had mistakenly made Brian Horrocks, a British Army general unconnected with India except for his birth, as part of WikiProject India, a false positive. Sorry guys, he has nothing to do with us. We are now down another FA. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur ---

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Required - articles for Collaboration of the Month Dec 2011

Thanks for the suggestion, Srikanth . Did that. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk%3ANoticeboard_for_India-related_topics&action=historysubmit&diff=463088930&oldid=463082772 Please give your views here,everyone rather than on email - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_t

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] IEP Pilot - Preliminary Analysis

Thank you, Bala. I concur with your thoughts. The questions that you have raised must be addressed, if the IEP program wishes to retain any objectivity in the learning process. anirudh On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 7:43 PM, Bala Jeyaraman wrote: > Ram, > > The points i raised need to be asked and th

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Required - articles for Collaboration of the Month Dec 2011

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 15:59, Ashwin Baindur wrote: > Do we have consensus for reducing to two. Any objections or alternatives > proposed? I think WT:INB might be better place, just because it is more representative than this list for asking any feedback IMO. -- Regards Srikanth.L ___

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Required - articles for Collaboration of the Month Dec 2011

Do we have consensus for reducing to two. Any objections or alternatives proposed? Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 3:17 PM, wrote: > I interacted with several people at WCI who have never been part of a GA > or FA pr

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Quality Issues with English Wikipedia

True, Pranav. Vast though the information on web & limited/full preview Google Books may be, it is a fraction of the information locked up in a single library like Pune University. Some topics are too well referenced while others are scarce. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur --

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Quality Issues with English Wikipedia

Ahem . On Tuesday 29 November 2011 03:20 PM, wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com wrote: > There seems to be a little bit of misunderstanding. I was talking of > English Wikipedia and livability of English references. > > I have helped a couple of ar

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Quality Issues with English Wikipedia

There seems to be a little bit of misunderstanding. I was talking of English Wikipedia and livability of English references. I have helped a couple of articles attain GA status. We conducted a PR for FA status and realised some of the refs need to be changed. At GA level they were accepted due

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Quality Issues with English Wikipedia

I agree partially with you, Pranav. Yes, finding reliable sources in Indic languages can be quite a challenge. My own personal view is this - But while a source may be in a language but its utility as a reference is basically language neutral. That means a source in any language can be used provid

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Required - articles for Collaboration of the Month Dec 2011

I interacted with several people at WCI who have never been part of a GA or FA process. There is a certain thrill in being part of such a process. From waiting for a reviewer to agree to the PR/GA/FA review given the backlog can be months long at times to the actual peer reviews, collaboratin

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Quality Issues with English Wikipedia

Bigno, Ashwin - you hit the nail on the head. One other point I dont see mention is availability of reliable sources. For Indian articles, that is something that can be difficult to find at times. Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:01:57 +0530 From: ashwin.bain...@gmail.com To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Required - articles for Collaboration of the Month Dec 2011

Naveen, I think COTM is not the place where red links can be developed into stubs, start of even B class articles. The final outcome that we can hope for is that certain articles are : * Raised to FA/GA quality if not status (or at least) * Get improved by numerous edits (or at least) * Get impro

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Quality Issues with English Wikipedia

Srikanth, I find it a bit difficult to believe that the reason you said is the only reason why English editting stopped. It must be a combination of many things- * Retirement and reduction of editting by long term editors * For some reason, the same pleasure no longer felt in editting. * Hostile a

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Required - articles for Collaboration of the Month Dec 2011

Hey, I'm really optimistic, that we can go forward with this. Seeing the number of English editors is on a rise and enthusiasm of several people, especially Pradeep Mohandas, I'm really sure that this will and shall work. ---Regards, On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Hisham wrote: > > > On Nov 29

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Quality Issues with English Wikipedia

Hisham, Do note, we had ALL that till two years ago. Since the offline meetups have begun, a lot of English editors have now reduced editint to concentrate on outreach activities and all. --Re, On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Hisham wrote: > > On Nov 28, 2011, at 9:26 AM, Ashwin Baindur wrote:

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Required - articles for Collaboration of the Month Dec 2011

On Nov 29, 2011, at 2:23 PM, Naveen Francis wrote: > It may not work :( > Tried earlier > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Collaborations_of_the_month > > -- > naveenpf > if at first you don't suceed... :-) btw, today I read an article yesterday about Ratan Tata and how he institutionalized

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Required - articles for Collaboration of the Month Dec 2011

It may not work :( Tried earlier http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Collaborations_of_the_month -- naveenpf On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Ashwin Baindur wrote: > Now, I want to raise another point. Do we really have the wherewithal for > a 5 article collaboration? I think that is too optimistic,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Required - articles for Collaboration of the Month Dec 2011

On Nov 29, 2011, at 1:49 PM, Ashwin Baindur wrote: > Now, I want to raise another point. Do we really have the wherewithal for a 5 > article collaboration? I think that is too optimistic, perhaps we should have > a two article collaboration to begin with each month? My personal view is that an

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Quality Issues with English Wikipedia

On Nov 28, 2011, at 9:26 AM, Ashwin Baindur wrote: > This is a letter to all Indian editors of the English Wikipedia requesting > discussion, cooperation and help. > > Recently I was asked to give a three to four minute presentation on the state > of WikiProject India on English Wikipedia for

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] IEP Pilot - Preliminary Analysis

Hi Ashwin This is very very very much a draft document. I have now mentioned that on the page. This was just my initial draft thoughts. (For instance, I've hardly covered a quarter of the learnings that I myself have put together- which again are very preliminary.) The various elements of t

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Required - articles for Collaboration of the Month Dec 2011

Now, I want to raise another point. Do we really have the wherewithal for a 5 article collaboration? I think that is too optimistic, perhaps we should have a two article collaboration to begin with each month? Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- O

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] IEP Pilot - Preliminary Analysis

Nitika, I saw your draft edits about IEP campus ambassador syllabus on meta at the link below http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Education_Program/Program_Design#In-class but I felt that your syllabus seemed to repeat in essence whatever had happened earlier. Per

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Required - articles for Collaboration of the Month Dec 2011

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan < parakara.gh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Naveen, I believe INCOTM is happening after two and a half years. > Remember Transport in India ??? > Very much; We need to do similar collaborative efforts to make more GAs in http://en.wikipedia.org/wik