Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Re: NCERT portal goes CC-BY-SA

Pranav, Savithri and all involved with this - congratulations. I saw the Wikimedia mention in Tharoor's speech: awesome. Now all you need to do is get them to release every government publication, research report, etc. made with taxpayer money publicly :) Cheers, -Achal On Wednesday 14 Augus

[Wikimediaindia-l] an example of how to work with wikilivres

Hi Balasankaran, and Gautam (in continuation of your discussion from 2011!), Yann forward me the Wikisource page for Gandhi's book "Experiments with Truth" (published 1927) which is pretty much a perfect example of the problem in question (ie. a text that is PD in India and copyrighted in the

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia Servers and Copyright Issues

a.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Aurat_1940.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Alladiya_Khan.jpg Regards, Yann 2013/5/13 Achal Prabhala : Hi Yann, Following on this, do you have some specific examples of Gandhi work (i

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia Servers and Copyright Issues

Hi Yann, Following on this, do you have some specific examples of Gandhi work (images, text or whatever) that is in the public domain in India but had a problem being put on to Commons or Wikisource because of copyright issues in the US? I suspect that a list of specific cases would be quite

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Fwd: Fwd: Re: Wikimedia Servers and Copyright Issues (David Cuenca)

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[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Fwd: Re: Wikimedia Servers and Copyright Issues (David Cuenca)

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Fwd: Re: Wikimedia Servers and Copyright Issues

kisource, and are dealing with such works, is there anything you can offer them even if they have to host elsewhere? David ---User:Micru On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 5:27 AM, Achal Prabhala wrote: Of relevance here: http://www.publicdomainday.** org/sites/www.publicdomainday.**eu/files/Wo

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia Servers and Copyright Issues

://wikilivres.ca/ (previously wikilivres.info). Regards, Yann 2013/5/12 Achal Prabhala : Hi Balasankar, The question you raise is a very important one. The solution, however, is not likely to be to host content in India (I don't speak for the Wikimedia Foundation, but there are sound legal reason

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Fwd: Re: Wikimedia Servers and Copyright Issues

Of relevance here: http://www.publicdomainday.org/sites/www.publicdomainday.eu/files/World_copyright-terms.jpg Original Message Subject:Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia Servers and Copyright Issues Date: Sun, 12 May 2013 14:51:27 +0530 From: Achal Prabhala To

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia Servers and Copyright Issues

Hi Balasankar, The question you raise is a very important one. The solution, however, is not likely to be to host content in India (I don't speak for the Wikimedia Foundation, but there are sound legal reasons why all Wikimedia content is hosted in the US; mostly liability risk and freedom of

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] why to donate

Dear Karthik, Thank you for this and for your regular updates on chapter activity, though I wish it had been unnecessary to issue this particular clarification - whether individual or institutional, working with the Wikimedia India chapter is not some kind of conspiracy - it's what all of us

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

Dear Barry, you will be missed very much... I hope the move to Australia brings every happiness, and I'm glad you will still be 'here' - in a manner of speaking! Cheers, Achal On Wednesday 08 August 2012 08:27 PM, Bishakha Datta wrote: On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 12:28 AM, Barry Newstead mailto:bn

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Farewell

You will be missed, Hisham, and it's really good to know that you are around for the next few months. Take care, Achal On Monday 30 July 2012 04:07 PM, Hisham wrote: Dear Bangalore Community I'm writing to inform you that I plan to leave my current role supporting Wikimedia in India. I am g

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Communication on Chapter Accomplishments and EC Vacancies

While I join Ashwin in thanking all the outgoing chapter board members, as well as Anirudh and Sudhanwa for staying, as a chapter member myself, I would like to understand why 5 out of 7 members of a board are resigning, some in excess of 1 year of their term left, and others with more than 6 m

[Wikimediaindia-l] on the recent internet bans in india

Greetings - if any of you are trying to make sense of the recent banning of several popular websites by Indian ISPs, Lawrence Liang and I have an article in the current issue of Open Magazine that tries to unravel the plot: http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/nation/a-ludicrous-ban Cheers,

[Wikimediaindia-l] on WCI, the report, and more

Pradeep maintains a personal blog and wrote up his thoughts on the WCI report earlier shared with this list: http://pradx.me/2012/05/22/wikiconference-india-2011-report-more-personal-thoughts/ This is in the context of: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:WM_IN/WikiConference_India_2011/Repo

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Program: Community Monthly Report: Feb 2012

On Wednesday 07 March 2012 03:47 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan wrote: On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 15:43, Achal Prabhala <mailto:aprabh...@gmail.com>> wrote: In keeping with this spirit :) and the difficulty of distinguishing between all these roles, I propose a simple purity test:

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Program: Community Monthly Report: Feb 2012

In keeping with this spirit :) and the difficulty of distinguishing between all these roles, I propose a simple purity test: Are you a paid employee of the foundation or a paid contractor? (-25) Have you ever been a paid employee or contractor? (-15) Did you resign/stop? (+5) Did you resign/stop

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Program: Community Monthly Report: Feb 2012

On Wednesday 07 March 2012 01:38 PM, Pradeep Mohandas wrote: I think that although the chapter and community are volunteer based, the chapter has more legal sanctity and is answerable as an organisation against as a person being held responsible. Hence, it is important that even the chapter

[Wikimediaindia-l] The 'Undue Weight' of Truth on Wikipedia (from the Chronicle) + some citation discussions

There's an interesting article out in the current issue of the Chronicle: http://chronicle.com/article/The-Undue-Weight-of-Truth-on/130704/ It's behind a paywall, but in the spirit of fair use and in keeping with the author's intent (the article is on Wikipedia, and I believe the author would

[Wikimediaindia-l] The 'Undue Weight' of Truth on Wikipedia (from the Chronicle) + some citation discussions

There's an interesting article out in the current issue of the Chronicle: http://chronicle.com/article/The-Undue-Weight-of-Truth-on/130704/ It's behind a paywall, but in the spirit of fair use and in keeping with the author's intent (the article is on Wikipedia,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Report on Wikipedia Takes Mumbai II

On Monday 30 January 2012 11:56 AM, Vickram Crishna wrote: On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Achal Prabhala <aprabh...@gmail.com> wrote: On Monday 30 January 2012 03:28 AM, The

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Report on Wikipedia Takes Mumbai II

On Monday 30 January 2012 03:28 AM, Theo10011 wrote: Looks great Anshuman! My best wishes to you and the Mumbai community!  I wish we could figure out an easier way to upload, possibly direct mobile uploads to common for event

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Re: [Foundation-l] Indian Minister Kapil Sibal wants to censor social media

t;>> *3. Peer review works: Wikipedia is the best example. Who could have >>>>> imagined that a user-created encyclopedia could be so objective, and >>>>> comprehensive? Yes, anyone can go in and edit anything (barring entries >>>>> like "Kapil Si

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Re: [Foundation-l] Indian Minister Kapil Sibal wants to censor social media

fyi Original Message Subject:Re: [Foundation-l] Indian Minister Kapil Sibal Wants to Censor social Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:02:10 +0530 From: Achal Prabhala To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List Some updates on this, for anyone interested: http

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Supporting the languages of India

Hi Gerard, On Wednesday 30 November 2011 06:21 PM, Bishakha Datta wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Gerard Meijssen > mailto:gerard.meijs...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > The one thing I have come to understand is that many native > speakers of Indic languages are effectively illit

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Quality Issues with English Wikipedia

Ahem . On Tuesday 29 November 2011 03:20 PM, wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com wrote: > There seems to be a little bit of misunderstanding. I was talking of > English Wikipedia and livability of English references. > > I have helped a couple of ar

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Thank you from the Wikimedia Foundation

e language. Quite impressive :) Cheers, Achal Original Message Subject:Thank you from the Wikimedia Foundation Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2011 05:56:37 + From: Sue Gardner Reply-To: Sue Gardner To: Achal Prabhala Dear Achal, You are amazing, thank you s

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] On the issue of the maps...

:) Though in fact we have definitive news sources indicating that only 21 people showed up. (As well as photographic and video evidence from news media who were there). And you're right, it really should be merged with the WikiConference article - I'm not sure if the suggestion has been made o

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] On the issue of the maps...

The number (and the total inconsistency with how many people actually protested) comes from here: http://www.indianexpress.com/news/protest-against-wrong-map-mars-countrys-first-wiki-conference/877826/0 in which it simultaneously describes "hundreds of protesters" *and* that "all 21 who protest

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] An appeal to Wikipedians to join the campaign for freedom in the net

Dear Prasanth, Thank you for the update - I learned a lot listening to you, as well as Anya, speak about this about WCI. Is there anything we could do other than as individuals - which is to say, is there anything that the Wikimedia institutions can do? (the chapter, the Foundation, etc.) I gu

[Wikimediaindia-l] The copyright question: What would Gandhi do?

A friend of mine in South Africa, Isabel Hofmeyr, passed on this image of the first page of the first edition of the English translation of Gandhi's "Hind Swaraj" - or "Indian Home Rule" in translation. The book was published in South Africa in 1909, and is rarely available. Isabel was able to

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Presenting "The India Chronicles"

On Monday 10 October 2011 12:03 AM, Srikanth Lakshmanan wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 23:23, Gautam John > wrote: > > On 9 October 2011 21:57, Bishakha Datta > wrote: > > > I think Tory did a great job and had her

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India - AGM and Election Results

Congratulations to the new board members, and on a personal note, I'd like to express a big thank you to Gautam for all his help and work as part of the Wikimedia India chapter over these last few years (he is stepping down from the board). You will be missed! Cheers, Achal On Saturday 24 Sept

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Report on First Wiki Academy organised by Wikimedia Chapter

This is amazing - congratulations to you and Gautam. On Tuesday 13 September 2011 03:13 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala wrote: > Friends, > > I am happy to share the report on the first Wiki Academy organised by > Wikimedia Chapter. > http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wiki_Academy/Department_of_Public_Libraries,_B

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Err ... Stuff that exists, citations, and problems that seem a few but are slowly cropping up in number ...

Hi Srikanth, I did a cursory search to list all concrete roads in India, and came up with some interesting results. There definitely seem to be reputable media reports that state the claim, i.e. there are concrete roads all over the country. Unfortunately, there seems to be no comprehensive lis

[Wikimediaindia-l] a funny story about wikipedia's strange power

An interesting thing happened today. I started receiving frantic calls this morning from an officer at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Bangalore, who shall go unnamed. She had got my number from a colleague, who I met in the course of a GLAM meeting we organised earlier in the year. This

[Wikimediaindia-l] Oral citations project update: more articles + full English subtitle track

*apologies for cross-posting* Dear friends, A quick update on the oral citations project. 1) We have now posted sample articles in all 3 project languages, Malayalam, Sepedi and Hindi: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Oral_Citations#Articles.2F_Discussions_.28in_development.29 2) A full

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-blr] Seminar on Copyright and Open licensing

This looks like it will be an *extremely* useful event. The speakers are great and the topics they will cover are spot on for the Wikimedia movement. Good move on the chapter's part for organising this. On Tuesday 26 July 2011 11:02 AM, Gautam John wrote: > WIKIMEDIA CHAPTER invites you to a se

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] : DNA : Mumbai blasts: Ajmal Kasab's birthday confusion

Just to add to this, there are a few articles in each researched language (Malayalam, Hindi, Sepedi) in development, all of which use oral citations, and each of which will be catalogued on the research page: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Projects/Oral_Citations (As of now, there are

[Wikimediaindia-l] Oral Citations update: People are Knowledge film now on Wikimedia Commons

Thanks to Michael Dale and Erik Moller, the People are Knowledge film is now available in an open video format on Wikimedia Commons. This is a considerably better version than the one available on Vimeo (the link circulated earlier). Please see it at: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peo

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia ZA] Oral Citations project: People are Knowledge

Hi David, the audio interviews are up on Wikimedia Commons under the Oral Citations Project category: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Oral_Citations_Project For all interviews in South Africa, we have parallel Sepedi/English translation in the main interview itself; for the Hindi and

[Wikimediaindia-l] Oral Citations project: People are Knowledge

Dear friends, At the beginning of 2011, a group of us began working on a project to explore alternative methods of citation on Wikipedia. We were motivated by the lack of published resources in much of the non-Anglo-European world, and the very real difficulty of citing everyday aspects of live

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Jimbo at WikiConference 2011

This makes sense. On Friday 10 June 2011 12:58 PM, Srikeit wrote: > Now that Jimbo has indicated that he may be available for the given > dates, we must move ASAP to take concrete steps to show our seriousness. > > Since the Mumbai-Pune community has the highest level of > preparedness, I think

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Community-Chapter Relations

I think it's great that there is communication, and I'd like to believe that the difficulties expressed are not insurmountable. I would also like to believe that the chapter and community are entirely capable of working out a collaborative plan together. The chapter executive committee knows wh

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Delhi Chapter (User:AroundTheGlobe)

Dear all, As someone who follows this list and occasionally joins in, I don't find this discussion productive. In the interests of getting on, may I please request you to stop for the time being. There is a lot of excellent work being done by everyone who has contributed to the thread, and whil

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-IN-PUN] Pune community member in Grants Advisory Board

Congratulations, Sudhanwa and Mayur - I hope it goes really well for you. On Saturday 04 June 2011 04:54 PM, Anirudh Bhati wrote: > > Wow, congratulations Sudhanwa! > > On 4 Jun 2011 16:51, "Ashwin Baindur" > wrote: > > Sudhanwa Jogalekar, a member of the Pune h

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia for World Heritage Online Petition

This is really great, thanks for sending on the link - I just signed it, and urge others to as well. For more context, there's a really nice NY Times article on the subject that might be of interest: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/23/technology/23wikipedia.html?_r=1&hpw=&pagewanted=all (The sto

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Copyright problems of images from India

Bala's point, about not all Indian religious iconography - of any religion - being in the public domain is spot on. However, as with a lot of religious iconography (though perhaps not with Raja Ravi Varma specifically), the intent of the creation in the first place is propagation, and as a resu

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Foundation-l] Fwd: Copyright problems of images from India

Sreejith's point is that proving the date of authorship in commonly used religious iconography is difficult; it's also difficult to work through the dates of derivatives of the 'original' work in order to establish which versions have what period - if any - of copyright validity left. For what

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Grant Advisory Committee: Call for Volunteers

Original Message Subject:[Foundation-l] Grant Advisory Committee: Call for Volunteers Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 13:15:58 +0300 From: Asaf Bartov Reply-To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List Hello, everyone. As annou

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Uploads to Commons] Geocoding and Multilingual descriptions

I must say that one lives and learns in the most unpredictable ways. This Sunday, at the Bangalore meetup, I learned that Srikanth (who I met for the first time) is finishing his last two years of school. Srikanth told me off-list that he is not the youngest Wikipedian in India. For the record,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-blr] Report-32nd Bangalore WikiMeetup

ashish Panigrahi > [[User:Psubhashish]] and attended by 7 Wikipedians. The speakers of > this meetup were Arjun Rao C, Achal Prabhala and Anirudh Bhati. > > 1st Talk: Arjun Rao C/ Experience in Berlin Wikimedia Conference, 2010 > > Arjun Rao talked about his participation in

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] : The Hindu : "Attempts on to revive Odia Wikipedia"

In the Hindu today, this article appears prominently on the back page of the main newspaper - congratulations! On Saturday 09 April 2011 08:12 AM, CherianTinu Abraham wrote: > > *The Hindu : "Attempts on to revive Odia Wikipedia"* > http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/article1629497

[Wikimediaindia-l] A History of the World in 100 Seconds (according to Wikipedia)

This visualization - 'A History of the World in 100 Seconds' - is fascinating. And instructive. (The missing byline is that it's a history of the world according to Wikipedia). Apologies for cross-posting and/or if you've seen it before - it seems to have been made about 2 months ago. From the

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia gets worried about legal liability in India

I'm not sure this is an accurate description of the situation; perhaps the title has more to do with the fact that the Wikimedia Foundation (as opposed to the chapter) is not a registered entity in India. However, as I don't work for/ speak for the foundation, I don't know for sure - and maybe

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] New admins on the list

I think we should move on and safely assume in this instance that Sundar meant absolutely no scorn :) (and +1 for more humour on this list) On Tuesday 22 February 2011 03:36 PM, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > For me the tags have quite the opposite meaning.. check out your > dictionary ... I

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] A report on the Trichy wikimeetup/workshop

Such a nice report, sounds like a fantastic eventcertainly, that is one fantastic cake! Cheers, Achal On Monday 21 February 2011 09:34 PM, Bala Jeyaraman wrote: > *The NIT-Trichy Pragyan Workshop report:* > > Just got back from an awesome two days at NIT Trichy. This is only my > second eva

[Wikimediaindia-l] GLAM meeting at NGMA, Friday 3 pm, Feb 18

On Friday at 3 pm, a group of us from Bangalore (Arun, Gautam and I) organised a GLAM presentation and meeting at the NGMA (National Gallery of Modern Art, Bangalore http://ngmaindia.gov.in/ngma_bangaluru.asp) with Liam. (Announced here: http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Projects:GLAM_2011/Bangalore_Feb

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Liam/ Wikipedia GLAM discussion @ NGMA @ 3 pm, Feb 18 (Friday)

:Liam/ Wikipedia GLAM discussion @ NGMA @ 3 pm, Feb 18 (Friday) Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 17:35:58 +0530 From: Achal Prabhala To: Mailing list for Wikimedians / Wikipedians in Bangalore, India , Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia. Dear all, A group of us here in

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-del] Indian academicians on Wikipedia?

Hi Rohini, Scholarpedia is not a Wikimedia project: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scholarpedia But looks interesting anyway :) Cheers, Achal On Wednesday 16 February 2011 09:33 PM, Rohini L wrote: > Are there any on Scholarpedia which is also run by the Wikimedia > foundation? > -- > > > On We

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia lesson in Maharashtra class 7 textbook

This is awesome :) On Wednesday 16 February 2011 10:25 AM, Pradeep Mohandas wrote: > hi, > > Was very surprised to see a lesson on Wikipedia in my brother's 7th > std text book today. > > Picture - http://twitpic.com/40b7oj > > The content is concerning Wikipedia - compares it with an > encyclo

[Wikimediaindia-l] Liam/ Wikipedia GLAM discussion @ NGMA @ 3 pm, Feb 18 (Friday)

Dear all, A group of us here in Bangalore have been arranging GLAM sessions on Feb 18/19. NGMA (the National Gallery of Modern Art, Bangalore: http://ngmaindia.gov.in/ngma_bangaluru.asp) will host a semi-public discussion with Liam, NGMA staff, and invited curators/ art gallery owners at thei

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Moderation policy on WikimediaIndia-l

Couldn't agree more. I think that there is/ has been a lot of needless noise. It's not productive to cast insinuations against the chapter or foundation (or community for that matter) as a whole. I do think, however, that communication from the chapter regarding the last set of meetings (and ch

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Moderation policy on WikimediaIndia-l

; of the original date. > > > Shiju Alex > > On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Achal Prabhala <mailto:aprabh...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Dear Hari and Anirudh, > > Further to my message below, could you help me understand why > Praveen's

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Moderation policy on WikimediaIndia-l

I'm sure there must be some simple technical reason for this, just asking to understand better how moderation/ archiving works. Best, Achal Original Message Subject:Moderation policy on WikimediaIndia-l Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 17:14:50 +0530 From: Achal Pr

[Wikimediaindia-l] Moderation policy on WikimediaIndia-l

Dear Hari and Anirudh, As moderators of WikimediaIndia-l, could you describe the policy you normally adopt towards moderation? Do you only block obvious spam or other messages, and if so on what basis? I am naturally curious since a message from Praveen that you only just released seems to hav

[Wikimediaindia-l] WikimediaIndia-l list description

Hi Hari, others, thanks for the clarification - what about Shiju's suggestion - Wikimedia India discussion list? Cheers, Achal ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedi

[Wikimediaindia-l] WikimediaIndia-l list description

I don't agree. The point is simply to make the list more inclusive to all Indians (and everyone else) interested in Wikimedia in India, and this includes those working in English. Having said that, I don't think the title has stopped anyone from posting on subjects not related to a specific Ind

[Wikimediaindia-l] WikimediaIndia-l list description

Dear admins of WikimediaIndia-l and others connected to it, I only noticed recently that the list description for WikimediaIndia-l reads "Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia." Personally, I find that a bit limiting - given that it (seems) to exclude English - which is of co

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Wikipedia Ponders Its Gender-Skewed Contributions - NYTimes.com

It's a great article. I notice that LinuxChix (http://www.linuxchix.org) has an Indian chapter and what seems to be an active community (http://www.linuxchix.org/india.html) - sounds like it would be a good idea to talk to them soon. ___ Wikimediaind

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-blr] The Hindu : "One among the clan of Wikipedians"

sein Derakhshan from the > prison in Iran.It should be possible with > > the reach of Internet into 2 billion thinking heads. > > Gokuldas > > On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 12:46 PM, CherianTinu Abraham > mailto:tinucher...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > The Hindu : "O

[Wikimediaindia-l] 10,000+ articles on Kannada Wikipedia

Congrats! And I see that Kannada is the Indian language Wiktionary with the second highest count... http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiktionary/Table *Hari Prasad Nadig* hpnadig at gmail.com

[Wikimediaindia-l] 10,000+ articles on Kannada Wikipedia

Congrats! And I see that Kannada is the Indian language Wiktionary with the second highest count... http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiktionary/Table *Hari Prasad Nadig* hpnadig at gmail.com

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimediaindia-l Digest, Vol 31, Issue 54

veenp) > > > -- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 12:46:52 +0530 > From: CherianTinu Abraham > Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] The Hindu : "One among the clan of > Wikipedians" >

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimediaindia-l Digest, Vol 31, Issue 48

Congratulations! Speaking of this...what's happened to your regular statistics update? I thought that there were some really interesting cross-comparisons in there, it allowed us to evaluate the state and health of different language Wikipedias across a range of parameters like depth/quality/qu

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] A Wikimedia Foundation Fellow from India

gt; > Dear all, > > As part of the continuing spate of good news, I'd like to > congratulate Achal Prabhala for becoming the latest Wikimedia > Foundation Fellow. > > For those of you who don't know him, Achal is a writer and > re

[Wikimediaindia-l] Your business card

Kiruba, A friend who is at the INK conference in Lavasa sent me this scan of your business card; a card that you handed out yesterday. Can you please explain to all of us why it says you are a "Director of Wikimedia India" when as you perfectly well know - and has been publicly documented -

[Wikimediaindia-l] You will love Erik Zachte for this :)

Yes Gerard, I assumed it was obvious that we're talking about India-based traffic and edits to EN - the information is reported on the main stats page, my point was simply that it would be interesting to see in the same table (though we're measuring slightly different things, since the Indian langu

[Wikimediaindia-l] You will love Erik Zachte for this :)

This is invaluable - thank you Erik, and thanks Gerard for bringing it to attention. Erik, I know that you report geographic trends on EN on the main stats page, is there any way you can easily and comprehensibly integrate India edits and readership to EN on the India page? That would be very help

[Wikimediaindia-l] Bangalore Mirror story: Parishat bats for Wiki boost to Kannada

In today's Bangalore Mirror 4/11 there is a story on how the Kannada Sahitya Parishat wants to engage with Kannada Wikipedia on it's strategy to make internet use in Kannada more vibrant. It's quite a well-written story, not online as yet. Do you know these folks Hari? If there are others inter

[Wikimediaindia-l] Aapka Apna Wikipedia

This is really well written...nice to read a journalist who is interested in the right story, and gets it right too. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l

[Wikimediaindia-l] community, chapter and foundation: who is who and who does what

This is an excellent idea - why not just place the current press kit at presskit/en and then place the Hindi translation at presskit/hi? (And likewise for any other translations?) ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org h

[Wikimediaindia-l] creative commons superhero meets wikimedia india

Creative Commons has just put out a list of people it considers 'superheroes' https://creativecommons.net/superheroes/ - and of the six people highlighted, one is our very own Gautam John, an initiator of the Wikimedia India chapter. Congrats, and let's hope some of that superhero super-dust fa

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] community, chapter and foundation: who is who and who does what

Hi Nadig, when you do that, would it be possible to consolidate/redirect pages so that we don't have too many entry points floating about? I know you've done a lot of background work in keeping these domains going on your personal funds; still, to make them work, let's flag this as a chapter ta

[Wikimediaindia-l] community, chapter and foundation: who is who and who does what

Great. I've cleaned it up further - now anyone who wants to add to this or help, please go to http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Presskit ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wik

[Wikimediaindia-l] community, chapter and foundation: who is who and who does what

Further on this, I think it would make sense for someone like Shiju to add a Wikimedia India project status: How many language Wikipedias in India exist, and what they are, what other language projects exist, what the stats say in terms of the number of Indians reading and editing Wikipedia, pr

[Wikimediaindia-l] community, chapter and foundation: who is who and who does what

Thanks Srikanth: I have substantially added to the page. Please take a look. And I hope some others might be interested in adding to/refining this information too? Once done, I'd suggest we put it out as a standard reference to anyone interested in us, especially from the media. The current pa

[Wikimediaindia-l] community, chapter and foundation: who is who and who does what

I agree that the press coverage is (and always tends to be) a bit whacked when it comes to Wikipedia, Wikimedia and India. And it doesn't help that the explanation is pretty clear but complicated. In a few months, we will have the Wikimedia Foundation India office, the Wikimedia India chapter,

[Wikimediaindia-l] community, chapter and foundation: who is who and who does what

I agree that the press coverage is (and always tends to be) skewed when it comes to Wikipedia, Wikimedia and India. And it doesn't help that the explanation is pretty clear but complicated. In a few months, we will have the Wikimedia Foundation India office, the Wikimedia India chapter, and of

[Wikimediaindia-l] community, chapter and foundation: who is who and who does what

To add to the recent discussion on this list, perhaps a few clarifications are in order. All of you are familiar with yourselves - i.e. us - the community; people who edit, organise and otherwise help Wikimedia projects move ahead in interesting and productive ways. Many of those interesting an

[Wikimediaindia-l] Announcing the Wikimedia India Community Newsletter - Edition 1

tgar from Marathi Wikipedia , Abhay Natu , Sankalp Dravid , Mayooranathan Ratnavelupillai , "C.R. Selvakumar" , Ravishankar , balasun...@gmail.com, arjuna rao chavala , Junaid P V , Rajesh K CC: Barry Newstead , Achal Prabhala , Bishakha Datta , Arun Ram Dear All, Our hard work for

[Wikimediaindia-l] Newsletter?

Hi Shiju, others - congrats on this newsletter idea...it is high time the community had something like this to go to when trying to figure out what is happening across a whole bunch of Indian language Wikipedias, incl. English. Look forward to seeing it! Warm wishes, Achal __

[Wikimediaindia-l] session at wikimania 2010

A group of us who are interested in the future of chapters and global participation in Wikimedia projects have proposed a session at Wikimania 2010 that may be of interest: http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Allow,_Invite,_Encourage:_Growing_Wikimedia_in_the_World If you're int

[Wikimediaindia-l] Network 18's in.com using content from Wikipedia without attribution?

This is a really interesting situation...esp given the complexity of how Wikipedia articles are made, not to mention some confusion regarding open content at large. Personally, I don't think that the lack of attribution owes to a misunderstanding of the open content license used by all Wikimedi

[Wikimediaindia-l] indian copyright act amendments

Dear all, Pranesh Prakash from CIS is coordinating a comprehensive response to the latest set of amendments proposed to the Indian Copyright Act in conjunction with Nirmita Narasimhan, Lawrence Liang and I. This will be a shorter and revised update to the last submission to government which wa

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimediaindia-l Digest, Vol 22, Issue 29

On translations and google in particular, my understanding is that it is up to each Wikipedia community to decide how/if to use translations as a whole, and whether google's translation tool is useful or not. I'm not aware of anything that either binds us or restricts us from using translation

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimediaindia-l Digest, Vol 22, Issue 29

On translations and google in particular, my understanding is that it is up to each Wikipedia community to decide how/if to use translations as a whole, and whether google's translation tool is useful or not. I'm not aware of anything that either binds us or restricts us from using translation

[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Bangalore Meet-up April 11, 2010

Sorry about that - don't know how or why it happens. What I said was that with the participation of a critical mass of Wikipedians, each language Wikipedia could possibly reflect the culture of those language-speakers, i.e. what they want to see on Wikipedia - I certainly did not mean to imply

[Wikimediaindia-l] Scholarship applications for Wikimania 2010 - deadline April 11

If you are interested in applying for a scholarship to attend Wikimania in 2010, please see: http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships The deadline for applications is *April 11*. The call for proposals (talks and sessions) is not yet out, but should be soon. __

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