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2012-04-03 Thread Swapnil Narendra
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Outreach at Itanagar

2012-04-03 Thread Ashwin Baindur
I was lucky enough to get to go to Arunachal Pradesh. One of my friends, could not go to the Northeast Regional Institute of Science and Technology (NERIST) so he recommended me instead. The NERIST wanted a speaker on Wikipedia and he recommended me for which I am deeply grateful. They sent me an

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Outreach session at NIT Agartala

2012-04-03 Thread Kalyan Sarkar
Congratulations! Great job done, Deepon! We now need to follow up on Deepon's successful outreach work. On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Jayanta Nath jayanta...@gmail.com wrote: Oh, Dear Deepan, You have done great job for us. I should contact with all attendee who are interested to Bengali

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-en] Outreach at Itanagar

2012-04-03 Thread Anirudh Bhati
A very strong argument can be made for quitting presentations altogether and relying only on the internet. A number of students created their accounts. I like this part! I don't think we can do away with presentations completely, but the presentations should never overshadow the live training

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Outreach at Itanagar

2012-04-03 Thread Arun Ganesh
I had the good fortune of accompanying Ashwin, where I conducted workshops on the OpenStreetMap project [1]. It was a unique learning as well as a fun experience to do this along with him. These kind of outreach efforts, especially to less connected areas like the northeast are extremely

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Chennai Unofficial Wikimedia Hackathon Report

2012-04-03 Thread Yuvi Panda
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Yuvi, Is it possible for the upload wizard to automatically 'detect' the filetype based on the extension and offer to convert it into the required filetype? This would be great for audio and video. It

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Chennai Unofficial Wikimedia Hackathon Report

2012-04-03 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Yuvi, much thanks to you, to Srikanthlogic, and to the others who made this event possible. It sounds like a great success. Sorry for the late reply. It was a one day, 8 hour event focusing on getting people together to hack on stuff related to all Wikimedia projects - not just Mediawiki