[Wikimediaindia-l] Sharing insights and experiences from Indian language wiki communities - Malayalam

2011-12-07 Thread Shiju Alex
Dear All, As part of my discussions with Indic language Wikipedians I spoke with few Malayalam wikimedians also. Malayalam wikimedians spoke about their editing experiences, their vision about ml wiki projects, and other related topics. I have summarized the discussions in meta wiki.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] FW: [Foundation-l] WP being edited by lobbying firm

2011-12-07 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
High time people realised that Marketing and Wikimedia don't go together. On 06/12/2011, wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com wrote: I believe Srikanth R mentioned this a few days ago on the India list. From: bodnot...@gmail.com Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 10:14:26 + To:

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Re: [Foundation-l] Indian Minister Kapil Sibal wants to censor social media

2011-12-07 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
This is basically restriction of freedom of expression and it will hurt Wikipedia much more than it hurts Twitter or Facebook. On 07/12/2011, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 12:06, Achal Prabhala aprabh...@gmail.com wrote: fyi Original Message

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Re: [Foundation-l] Indian Minister Kapil Sibal wants to censor social media

2011-12-07 Thread Surya Prakash
How will it hurt WP most than FB or TWIT? *$U®¥∩* http://goo.gl/RoMyo.com http://FirefoxSurya.blogspot.com http://about.me/suryaceg On 7 December 2011 16:04, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.comwrote: This is basically restriction of freedom of expression and it will hurt

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Re: Indian Minister Kapil Sibal wants to censor social media

2011-12-07 Thread CherianTinu Abraham
On a related note, this has appeared on *The Economic Times* : Five reasons why India can't censor the Internet http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/internet/five-reasons-why-india-cant-censor-the-internet/articleshow/11018330.cms *Yes, Internet content has the permanence and public-impact

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Re: Indian Minister Kapil Sibal wants to censor social media

2011-12-07 Thread CherianTinu Abraham
+ 1 *Times of India : Twitter, Facebook users target Sibal* http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/social-media/Twitter-Facebook-users-target-Sibal/articleshow/11018300.cms *Sibal's Wikipedia profile was edited 21 times by web users and activists on Tuesday . His profile was locked later in

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Re: Indian Minister Kapil Sibal wants to censor social media

2011-12-07 Thread Vickram Crishna
Oh, the mention of 'idiot' on that page is vandalism (no, I haven't done it - yet)? I thought we had a very interesting discussion about current affairs at WikiConf where there seemed to be a consensus that presenting every side of the picture is important. Is reporting the fact that major

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Re: Indian Minister Kapil Sibal wants to censor social media

2011-12-07 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 17:20, Vickram Crishna vvcris...@radiophony.comwrote: Oh, the mention of 'idiot' on that page is vandalism (no, I haven't done it - yet)? I thought we had a very interesting discussion about current affairs at WikiConf where there seemed to be a consensus that presenting

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Re: Indian Minister Kapil Sibal wants to censor social media

2011-12-07 Thread CherianTinu Abraham
Adding Kapil Sibal is an idiot on the Wikipedia article is vandalism http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kapil_Sibalaction=historysubmitdiff=464355055oldid=464353638 Addling verifiable facts is acceptable ( including controversies and criticism

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-WB] Kolkata Photo Walk (Esplanade Dalhousie)

2011-12-07 Thread Jayanta Nath
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Re: [Foundation-l] Indian Minister Kapil Sibal wants to censor social media

2011-12-07 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Adding Kapil Sibal is an idiot is definitely vandalism, but saying 1000s of Twitter users and internet activists described him as an idiot with a citation to back it up is not. ;-) On 07/12/2011, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: Adding Kapil Sibal is an idiot on the Wikipedia

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-WB] Kolkata Photo Walk (Esplanade Dalhousie)

2011-12-07 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
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[Wikimediaindia-l] WikiAcademy @ Jaya Engineering College

2011-12-07 Thread Subhashish Panigrahi
Hi all, We are conducting Wiki Academy at Jaya Engineering Collegehttp://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wiki_Academy/Jaya_Engineering_College on Dec 2, 2011, Saturday. We request you to join the academy if you are located in and around Chennai. General information on Wiki Academy is available @