[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Takes Mumbai 2012

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/wikitake

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Foundation-l] REMINDER: Wikimania 2013 - invitation to bid

+1 with Logic and I don't think India needs to host an international event, a more structured community building exercise from foundation, chapter, existing Wikipedians is going on and it will take some time for a proper community. Putting a bid and conducting an event physically are things of 2 di

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Foundation-l] REMINDER: Wikimania 2013 - invitation to bid

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 12:18, Noopur wrote: > the organizing bit is outsourced to experienced event managers Not in totality. What can be outsourced are things like food / hotels / logistics etc. Its *WIKIPEDIANS* who have to do a whole lot of things from scholarships to programs to PR to fin

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Foundation-l] REMINDER: Wikimania 2013 - invitation to bid

Just a small suggestion/food for thought: Mostly in events like Wikimania or others that bring together content experts, the organizing bit is outsourced to experienced event managers who work in collaboration and understand the needs of the community. I think we should consider getting someone lik

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Foundation-l] REMINDER: Wikimania 2013 - invitation to bid

+1 Ashwin. As far as I know none of the Wiki communities of India (either language or city) are in a stage to host an international conference. For time being let us concentrate on building communities and let us gain confidence by doing some good regional and language specific conferences. Shiju

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-del] [Foundation-l] REMINDER: Wikimania 2013 - invitation to bid

Dear All, It almost took me quite sometime to go through the mailers above. I honestly go by what Ashwin says. I pretty much understand that India, needs more local events to establish itself inside the country and then we can aim to bring in Wikimania's. If I may make a suggestion, I would like

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-del] [Foundation-l] REMINDER: Wikimania 2013 - invitation to bid

+1 tp Pradeep's sentiments to first making WikiConferences quality events. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 11:54 AM, Ashwin Baindur wrote: > Thank you all for your responses. > > Thanks Pradeep for telling us that the

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-del] [Foundation-l] REMINDER: Wikimania 2013 - invitation to bid

Thank you all for your responses. Thanks Pradeep for telling us that the bid was a placeholder bid. I was not aware of that. Placing the placeholder was indeed a good action, though of course, it would have been better if wider publicity of placeholder being placed were given. I'm personally happ

[Wikimediaindia-l] FW: [Wikimedia-in-mum] Wikimania 2013 bid

Forwarding a thread from the Mumbai list, relevant to a similar discussion on this list. In a nutshell, this matter was discussed at the recent Mumbai Meetup and the local community feels that it should concentrate more on smaller local events in the short-term to build on grassroots rather th

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-del] [Foundation-l] REMINDER: Wikimania 2013 - invitation to bid

hi, I missed this line in my last email: I concurr with what Ashwin has said. I think we must aim towards making WikiConference India as good as and perhaps better than Wikimania before we seriously put in a bid for Wikimania. Pradeep Handheld On 24/01/2012, Jayanta Nath wrote: > +1 with Tinu

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-del] [Foundation-l] REMINDER: Wikimania 2013 - invitation to bid

+1 with Tinu -- With Warm Regards, *Jayanta Nath* Calcutta,West Bengal __ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list wikimedia-in...@lists.wikimedia.org wikipedia...@lists.wikimedia.org _

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Foundation-l] REMINDER: Wikimania 2013 - invitation to bid

I strongly concur with the most of the thoughts of Ashwin below. The need of the hour is the build the strong Indian Wikipedias and Wiki-communities within India. IMHO, We are too early to host a Wikimania in India. While we had a successful Wikiconference Mumbai, I think we all agree that we were

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Foundation-l] REMINDER: Wikimania 2013 - invitation to bid

hi, If I understand it correctly, the Mumbai bid has been left as a placeholder bid from India. If such a placeholder bid is not needed, we'd like to initiate discussions on the Mumbai list on the status of our bid and make the appropriate announcement on the Mumbai community's decision on the sam

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Foundation-l] REMINDER: Wikimania 2013 - invitation to bid

As one intimately involved in the planning and execution of the last WikiConference India, we need to have a cold rational thought on this process for bidding for Wikimania, not hubris. Without prejudice to User:Vibhijain, a bid from Delhi cannot be made unilaterally by an under-age editor who is

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Foundation-l] REMINDER: Wikimania 2013 - invitation to bid

Since we have not one, but two bids from India, I think that is important to be announced here (I would rather prefer if all of you could work together in a single bid, but if is not possible, at least list both under the right section in the page) _ *Béria Lima* (351) 92

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2012 registration is OPEN!

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[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-DC] Wikimania 2012 registration is OPEN!

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Technical tutorials for Wikimedia meetups

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 20:52, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > want to let you know that we ran a few tutorials that now have reference > notes/documentation available: > > * Customizing your experience with JavaScript (using user scripts & > Gadgets) > * Using our web API > * Building & working on

[Wikimediaindia-l] Technical tutorials for Wikimedia meetups

We just finished the San Francisco hackathon, which was quite a success: about 90 participants, more than a dozen project demonstrations, and a lot of engagement with San Francisco technologists and designers. I want to let you know that we ran a few tutorials that now have reference notes/documen

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Design for Wikipdia India sites

Irrespective of this happening, Can some remove the Marquee from the current website (wikimedia.in) soonish? 0. Marquee is deprecated,non standard element [1] 1. Its well beyond Jan 15. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquee_element Regards, Srikanth L _

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Building the Assamese Wiki Community - Outreach programs during next week

Awesome Shiju, Great initiatives, If there any kind of help needed, please ping me. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

[Wikimediaindia-l] Building the Assamese Wiki Community - Outreach programs during next week

Dear All, I am writing - on behalf of the Assamese wiki community ( http://as.wikipedia.org) - to share some very promising news from the beautiful land of the Brahmaputra. Assamese wiki community is tiny and has about 20 active editors now, out of which 5 are very active editors. Assamese wikipe