Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Status of membership applcation to Wikimedia India Chapter

Hi Yohann, Wikimedia India is not an informal organisation. We are a registered society in Karnataka, India. We need to comply with all the formal processes and regulatory bindings that entails. We need to make sure all our documents including membership forms are properly processed and compliant

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Status of membership applcation to Wikimedia India Chapter

Niraj, 1)You sent a form with "renewal" option ticked and membership ID field empty. We were unable to process it and replied saying the membership form is incomplete, and please resubmit a complete form with member ID. From your current mail to the India list (your reply to yohann), I understood

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] report on consultation re: Indian Languages in Higher Education

2013/3/16 Tejaswini Niranjana > Hope this will be of interest. Just published in the Economic and > Political Weekly. > > Thanks Tejaswini for the paper. All the best for the inititaive. One key step that was missed out in the past digitization initiatives was making the meta data about the boo

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] report on consultation re: Indian Languages in Higher Education

This is a difficult question! But let me share a few preliminary thoughts. I have helped to host a couple of digital literacy workshops (including Wikipedia editing) and will be planning more in at least five languages. Some learnings from work already done: --Student interest/motivation relates

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Status of membership applcation to Wikimedia India Chapter

On the status of niraj's application, i dont agree with bala Just because he ticked one wrong box does not mean that his application should be rejected. This is equivalent to red tapism & might discourage other ethusiatic people to join the chapter. I am not saying the decision is wrong but could

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Status of membership applcation to Wikimedia India Chapter

Hello Bala Sir, A very good sunday morning, 1) Can I get a reference regarding "From your current mail I understand you have made a mistake while filling the form", which mail exactly to be precise? Or is it the case that the exec council inspects all the incoming applications and that is why

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] report on consultation re: Indian Languages in Higher Education

Thanks for the affirmative mail, Amir. Although most Indians speak at least three to four languages, and some are quite bilingual in English and an Indian language, the bilingualism doesn't translate into bi-literacy (if I may coin a term). Because tertiary education is mandated to be in English,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Status of membership applcation to Wikimedia India Chapter

Niraj, 1) Your application had the option "renewal" checked and the member id space left blank. That is the reason you received such a mail. And that mail also clearly stated that you could send in another application. From your current mail I understand you have made a mistake while filling the f

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Status of membership applcation to Wikimedia India Chapter

On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 6:23 PM, Niraj Suryawanshi < niraj.suryawan...@gmail.com> wrote: > We would be glad if anyone can help us over this and not by someone who is > callow enough to say "The India mailing list isn't exactly a place to ask > such questions as it'd be a privacy violation". > Nir

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WMF Grant and FDC

that is gud news, looking forward to many such sucesses! Respectfully, Yohann Thomas Wikipedia Club Pune yohan...@gmail.com On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 11:00 PM, Niraj Suryawanshi < niraj.suryawan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Superb News! > Glad that all the efforts of the executive committee and the m

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Gendergap] please spread the word about Wikimedia's paid open source internships for women

Dear all, The Wikimedia Foundation will be participating as a mentoring organization in the upcoming round of Outreach Program for Women. Two out of the six women

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki-recruitment ad - Volunteer coordinator for "Women & gender issues" Task Force of WikiProject India

Hello Sir, hope men are also considered for coordinating or volunteering. If yes consider me in. Regards & Thanks, Niraj Suryawanshi Pune Institute of Computer Technology | Wikipedia Club Pune 8149920120 | niraj.surya

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WMF Grant and FDC

Superb News! Glad that all the efforts of the executive committee and the manager have brought us to this delightful moment. Cheers. Regards & Thanks, Niraj Suryawanshi Pune Institute of Computer Technology | Wikipedia Club Pune

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Status of membership applcation to Wikimedia India Chapter

Hi Yohann, Same is the situation with me! I wanted to know the status of my application too!! Actually I got a mail saying that my old membership no. is missing so we are unable to process the form. Given the situation that I'm a new member and did applied for the fresh membership which was duly m

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WMF Grant and FDC

Delighted to hear, and look forward to the next round of activities! Cheers, Bishakha On Mar 16, 2013 8:18 PM, "Dhaval S. Vyas" wrote: > That's great news, Congratulations WMIN! > > On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Pranav Curumsey wrote: > >> Hiya, >> >> This is to inform you that the WMF has ap

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WMF Grant and FDC

Sankarshan, As of now our primary impact measurement is the number of events supported. As the chapter grows older, we will develop other measurements. An example is the outreach event effectiveness measurement system we are working on. A few more details are available on the talk page of the gra

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WMF Grant and FDC

On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 7:38 PM, Pranav Curumsey wrote: > This is to inform you that the WMF has approved our program grant request > for the first quarter of 2013: > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:WMIN/ProgramGrantQuarter1/2013 > > WMF has also accepted the Bootstrap Grant report, which m

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] WMF Grant and FDC

Cheers, Pranav! This is great news and is the result of the hard-work of the EC team and our Executive Manager. Looking forward to WMIN's upcoming programs. Kind Regards, Anirudh On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Pranav Curumsey wrote: > Hiya, > > This is to inform you that the WMF has approved

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WMF Grant and FDC

That's great news, Congratulations WMIN! On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Pranav Curumsey wrote: > Hiya, > > This is to inform you that the WMF has approved our program grant request > for the first quarter of 2013: > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:WMIN/ProgramGrantQuarter1/2013 > > WMF ha

[Wikimediaindia-l] WMF Grant and FDC

Hiya, This is to inform you that the WMF has approved our program grant request for the first quarter of 2013: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:WMIN/ProgramGrantQuarter1/2013 WMF has also accepted the Bootstrap Grant report, which means Wikimedia India is now eligible for FDC funding (Next r

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] report on consultation re: Indian Languages in Higher Education

On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Tejaswini Niranjana wrote: > Hope this will be of interest. Just published in the Economic and > Political Weekly. > > And, also at < http://www.epw.in/commentary/indian-languages-indian-higher-education.html> You mention "Creation of Indian language materials by s

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] report on consultation re: Indian Languages in Higher Education

Thank you very much for this article. Information about the usage of the languages of India in different social contexts, and especially in education, is very useful for my work. The impression that I had about the state of local languages in India is that English is used a lot even though not eve