[Wikimediaindia-l] WLM Call for Volunteers

2012-08-10 Thread Karthik Nadar
*Hi all, We’re calling for volunteers to help in the global contest to be held in India; Wiki Loves Monuments 2012, to be held from 1st of September to 30th of September. We warmly invite interested volunteers to step forward to contribute to this global contest. Something about Wiki Loves Monume

[Wikimediaindia-l] DigiKam 2.8 with mediawiki upload support

2012-08-10 Thread Shrinivasan T
DigiKam 2.8 with kipi-plugins 2.8 comes with a feature to upload images to any mediawiki directly. We can add all the required metadata within DigiKam itself. We can use it to upload the images to commons with a very simple workflow. links to read: http://www.digikam.org/ http://scribblesandsnap

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Leaving the Wikimedia Foundation

2012-08-10 Thread stephen wanjau
What! Barry, we just met and now you leaving! Anyway, they say good things are short lived and this so happens to be one of them. All the best and thank you for the role you played at the global devt faction of the WMF. //Stephen On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 2:55 PM, ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ) < viswapr

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Leaving the Wikimedia Foundation

2012-08-10 Thread വിശ്വപ്രഭ
When a humble tiny group of Wikipedia users pondered upon an annual get-together added with some spice of outreach possibilities, we did not hope or expect that some one from Wikimedia Global Foundation will turn up there even with a terribly hectic schedule on a world itinerary at his hand. Our im

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Election Notice for Wikimedia Chapter EC Elections

2012-08-10 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
Hi all, The nomination submission deadline is nearing. Please file your nominations as soon as possible. We also noticed a few missing details (especially membership id) in some of the nominations filed already. Please do fill in those missing details as well. For and behalf of the Election com

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Leaving the Wikimedia Foundation

2012-08-10 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
Dear Barry, Thanks for your contributions. I do recall the many discussions we had about the India strategy. Wish you good luck for your future endeavours. Regards, Sundar   "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth genera

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia's gender gap

2012-08-10 Thread Bishakha Datta
As discussed on the phone, I'm up for organizing something in Mumbai this Oct. More later, Bishakha On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 12:00 AM, Pradeep Mohandas wrote: > Hi, > > It would be great to know if the women wikipedians in India have gotten > together and are doing something on this issue. I had