Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] women and technology

2013-03-09 Thread swetapadma d. satpathy
A very good read and truly written. Regards, Swetapadma On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Arun Ramarathnam wrote: > Thanks for sharing this Tejaswini. Made interesting read. Good to see > wikipedians mentioned in the article. > > Interesting to note the article mention the following... > > *Whe

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] women and technology

2013-03-09 Thread Arun Ramarathnam
Thanks for sharing this Tejaswini. Made interesting read. Good to see wikipedians mentioned in the article. Interesting to note the article mention the following... *When at the workshop, the girls began to create articles on Wiki, male editors were quick to pull them down. “This can be intimidat

[Wikimediaindia-l] women and technology

2013-03-09 Thread Tejaswini Niranjana
Nice to see Nikita's name in the article. http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/girls-try-to-break-into-an-old-boys-club/article4492068.ece?homepage=true -- Tejaswini Niranjana, PhD Lead Researcher - Higher Education Innovation and Research Applications (HEIRA) Senior Fellow - Centre for

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] The man who edited Tamil Wikipedia from prison.

2013-03-09 Thread ansuman
Thanks for sharing! Regards, Ansuman *ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ * On 9 March 2013 10:43, Rahmanuddin Shaik wrote: > Truly inspiring story. Thank you for sharing Ravi. > > On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 10:19 PM, Ravishankar wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I wanted to

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-en] Women's Day events in India, March 8

2013-03-09 Thread Netha Hussain
Dear all, There is one more day left for participating in the first online edit-a-thon happening in connection with International women's day celebrations in India. Thirteen new articles have been created as a part of the edit-a-thon. Volunteers from Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada and Hindi have in

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Appointment of new SIG chair

2013-03-09 Thread Vishnu t
Congratulations, Rohini! Best, Vishnu On 9 March 2013 11:45, Bishakha Datta wrote: > Nice! Congratulations, Rohini, and look forward to more wiki women > workshops and other related stuff. > > Best > Bishakha > > > On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 12:39 AM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar < > sudhanwa@gmail.com>

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] interesting news

2013-03-09 Thread Vickram Crishna
While this is not, per se, a subject directly for this list, I feel that as many Wikimedians as possible ought to appreciate the subtle establishment of hegemony here. ICANN is an independent body, true, but it has been seen in the past to act in favour of US interests, in case of significant conf