[Wikimediaindia-l] News from WikidataCon

2019-10-25 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi, I am happy to inform you all that Wikidata WikiProject India has won the Wikidata Award for Community Building this year. The award was declared during WikidataCon 2019 in Berlin. Thanks to the power users and regular contributors from all over India participating in the project in different

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Review starts from today for WLM 2019

2019-10-16 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
maximum 10 photographs for international competition. Regards, Bodhisattwa On behalf of WLM India 2019 organizing team. On Wed, 2 Oct 2019, 03:13 Bodhisattwa Mandal, wrote: > Hi all, > > As the Wiki Loves Monuments 2019 photo competition ended today, it's time > to review the ima

[Wikimediaindia-l] Review starts from today for WLM 2019

2019-10-01 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi all, As the Wiki Loves Monuments 2019 photo competition ended today, it's time to review the images. WLM India 2019 organizers have already started screening the photographs primarily and will do so for next few days. After that, selected photographs will be sent to the jury team for final

[Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikidata] WikiProject India Newsletter is on! #1

2019-09-30 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi all, >From today, starts the journey of a quarterly newsletter featuring news, updates and plans related to Wikidata activities in India. You can check the first newsletter here . To get timely notification in

[Wikimediaindia-l] Kolkata photowalk this Sunday

2019-09-18 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi, The Kolkata community is organizing the 9th session of Wiki Takes Kolkata to photo-document the monuments of Sovabazar and Pathuriaghat area of Kolkata on 22 September, 2019. This year, the community is organizing the walk to upload the photographs for Wiki Loves Monuments. Details can be

[Wikimediaindia-l] A knowledge sharing page for Wikidata community members for India

2019-07-20 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi, As part of my job to support Wikidata community members in India, I have created a coordination page for capacity building where volunteers can request to enhance Wikidata related skills and someone from the community can respond to the request. From my side, I will actively respond to the

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikidata Advisor position: Update

2019-07-20 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi, I would like to thank you all for your kind words. Coming from the volunteer community myself, I understand how important, it is to grow Wikidata community and projects in India and how challenging it can be. Like many others deeply involved in WikiProject India and related wikiprojects, I

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic Wikisource Stats Version 2.0

2019-05-03 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Thank you Jay again for your awesome work. Regards, Bodhisattwa On Fri, 3 May 2019, 14:45 Satdeep Gill, wrote: > This is awesome Jay. You rock! > > Thank you so much for working on this. > > Best > Satdeep > > > On Fri, 3 May, 2019, 11:34 AM Jay prakash, <0freerunn...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>

[Wikimediaindia-l] Community conversation with Roles and Responsibilities working group

2019-04-30 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi all, As you might all know that, the Wikimedia movement strategy working groups have started working on the final stage of the process i.e. building recommendations, which are supposed to be delivered by

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Original calligraphic and illuminated version of the Constitution of India is now in Wikisource

2019-04-21 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
at 7:42 PM, Abhinav srivastava >>> wrote: >>> >>> This is a wonderful news. >>> >>> User:Hrishikes is a huge asset to Indian Wikisource community. >>> >>> Abhinav >>> >>> On Sun, 21 Apr 2019 at 19:38, Bodhisattwa Mandal

[Wikimediaindia-l] Original calligraphic and illuminated version of the Constitution of India is now in Wikisource

2019-04-21 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi This is for your information, that the original calligraphic and illuminated version of the Constitution of India is now in English Wikisource, thanks to the tireless effort of the

[Wikimediaindia-l] Announcement on Content release

2019-04-21 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi, It is my utmost pleasure to announce that, Mr. Prabir Ghosh , a renowned rationalist activist and writer from West Bengal, has kindly agreed to release copyright of 11 of his Bengali books under CC-By-SA 4.0 license. The books are as follows - ১)

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia Chapter (India) Activities 2018-19

2019-04-14 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Any reason why the original message of Nivas is not seen in the mailing list? On Sun, 14 Apr 2019, 08:59 Yohann Thomas, wrote: > Dear Nivas, > > Thank You for asking such questions. > > Wikimedia India has a section called "Other News" which documents news > from the larger Indian community for

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Updates about Wikimedia Foundation Community brand and marketing coordinator visit to India

2019-04-12 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
o give a small update. We will > arrange for an online session along with offline meet-up in Bengaluru. Date > and Time - 21 April 2019, 11:00AM to 2:00 PM. > > On Sat, 13 Apr 2019, 08:41 Bodhisattwa Mandal, < > bodhisattwa.rg...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Gop

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Updates about Wikimedia Foundation Community brand and marketing coordinator visit to India

2019-04-12 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi Gopal, Thanks for the information. Is it possible for other user groups and communities to provide him feedback somehow? If it is not possible to change the schedule in the last moment and bring him to some other places like Kolkata, is it possible to have an online session with user group

[Wikimediaindia-l] 1 million Bengali labels in Wikidata!!

2019-04-04 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi, I am extremely happy to inform that we have crossed 1 million Bengali labels in Wikidata, thanks to the tireless contributions of Mair256, Titodutta and other users. The progress can be seen in this page - https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_West_Bengal/Events/Million_labels

[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India members

2019-04-03 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi, I am interested to know, who are the current members of Wikimedia India and since when are they members? If there is a list, please share. Regards Bodhisattwa ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe

[Wikimediaindia-l] International Mother Language Day 2019 data-thon

2019-02-20 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi all, The International Mother Language Day 2019 data-thon has started today. Everyone is welcome to join. Regards, Bodhisattwa ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Bylaws of West Bengal Wikimedians User Group

2019-02-19 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
AshLin. I applaud good work >> done by individual editors of Bengali community and in some cases by >> the community as a whole. But I am just being frank here in telling it >> like it is. >> >> On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 2:06 PM Bodhisattwa Mandal >> wrote: >>

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Bylaws of West Bengal Wikimedians User Group

2019-02-13 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi Samir, Although your mail had baseless allegations against the user group without any references, but anyway, thanks for your reply. Please note that, this is not an official reply from the user group, as the representative committee, which is to be formed in very near future, may consider to

[Wikimediaindia-l] Bylaws of West Bengal Wikimedians User Group

2019-02-03 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi, This to inform that, West Bengal Wikimedians User Group has adopted a bylaw , which was passed by complete majority through an online meetup of general members on 2nd February, 2019 and will be further governed by it in future.

[Wikimediaindia-l] User Group rapid grant report accepted

2018-12-22 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi, FYI, the rapid grant report of West Bengal Wikimedians User Group for the annual activity of 2017-18 has been accepted. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/WBG/Annual_Plan_2017-18/Report Regards, Bodhisattwa ___ Wikimediaindia-l

[Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki Loves Monuments 2018 in India winners

2018-10-28 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi all, Please find below the list of top 10 images from Wiki Loves Monuments 2018 in India , as selected by the respected juries .

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Bengali Wijkisource awareness campaign videos

2018-09-30 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
ube.com/watch?v=IU3O9AC5Z3g> * দুনিয়া যখন দোরগোড়ায় <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ebC4-bxhp8> (World at your doorstep) Thanks Abhinav for pointing that out. Many apologies, Bodhisattwa On Mon, 1 Oct 2018 at 09:07, Bodhisattwa Mandal wrote: > > Hi all, > > We are h

[Wikimediaindia-l] Bengali Wijkisource awareness campaign videos

2018-09-30 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Suavo Mukherjee, Ritam Sarkar, Raja Chakravorty, Shrabanti Bhattacharya and Avinash * Bengali Wikisource team - Bodhisattwa Mandal, Hrishikes Sen, Mahir Morshed, Jayanta Nath * WMF liaison - Satdeep Gill It was a completely new experience for us, and we have learnt a lot from the entire project.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Regarding Uploading 700 photos of a single temple to commons

2018-09-09 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi Jayantilal, Thanks for your mail and for your concern. First of all, I am not over-confident. I know about my own limitations very well. But, also I have complete trust in the organizing team, in which I am also part of. The team is working very hard to get every job done within schedule.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Regarding Uploading 700 photos of a single temple to commons

2018-09-05 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
ng. >> Going through the same set of images ~700 times will consume time and >> resource. >> >> My suggestion will be to upload & tag good clicks, which you think are >> good for WLM and rest to Commons. >> >> Regards, >> Kiran >> >> O

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Regarding Uploading 700 photos of a single temple to commons

2018-09-05 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi Shrini, This is awesome. It is completely okay to upload them to Commons for WLM. You can add the coordinate of the temple by adding this template - {{Object location|12.84230695|79.68967944}}. The coordinate has been retrieved from ISRO website

[Wikimediaindia-l] WLM updates

2018-08-30 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi, WLM will start tomorrow. \0/ Few things: - Here is a page where you can create or modify the WLM central notice banner for your language wiki, which will be displayed throughout September. - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2018/CentralNotice

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Thank You :-)

2018-08-26 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Tanveer, You will be badly missed for what you have done to support our community whenever we needed it. I really wish that, your absence will be temporary and after completing your next job requirements in your elegant way, you will return back soon. Best of luck for your next endeavour.

[Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki Loves Monuments is just 7 days away

2018-08-24 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi, WLM 2018 is just 7 days away and the organization team from India is working in full force to get everything ready before the mega-event starts on September 1. Our newest update - 1) We have checked all the English Wikipedia lists on Monuments of National Importance and State Protected

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiCamp Nepal 2018

2018-08-22 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Best wishes for the event. On Wed, 22 Aug 2018, 22:30 Subhashish Panigrahi, wrote: > Great news Tulsi. Congratulations for this! > > So glad to see that you're including two marginalized languages in this > activity. > > Curious if you're planning to invite some of the Santali Wikipedians as >

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki Loves Monuments 2018 in India (10 days to go!)

2018-08-22 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
ki Loves Monuments 2018 in > India/tab > > is not reflecting in the main page. For Tamil, Bengali, German same > situation. > > Am I not understanding something here? > > Regards, > J. Balaji > > On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 2:23 PM Bodhisattwa Mandal < > bodhisattwa.r

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Jayantanath as Wikisource Project Advisor

2018-08-22 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Best wishes to Jayanta da for the new role. May Wikisource grow stronger in India. Bodhisattwa On Wed, 22 Aug 2018, 16:48 balaji, wrote: > Good initiative by CIS and Jayanta. Need of the hour. > > Best wishes. > > On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 4:37 PM Subhashish Panigrahi < > psubhash...@gmail.com>

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki Loves Monuments 2018 in India (10 days to go!)

2018-08-22 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Balaji, Thanks for your interest - The main page comes from these two pages- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2018_in_India/About https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2018_in_India/Howto The pages are already marked for translation.

[Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki Loves Monuments 2018 is just 15 days away

2018-08-16 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi all, This year, Wiki Loves Monument is being organized in India jointly by West Bengal Wikimedians and Punjabi Wikimedians user groups. Link of the event - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2018_in_India The competition will be open for photographers from 1

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimania tour of Rahul Desmukh

2018-08-10 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi Yohann, As I and Satdeep requested, it would be great if you share the invitation letter with all of us, so that we can know who invited WMIN president to attend the meeting. Thanks, Bodhisattwa On Wed, 8 Aug 2018, 14:58 Bodhisattwa Mandal, wrote: > Hi Yohann, > > Thanks for the

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimania tour of Rahul Desmukh

2018-08-08 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
ho give their time & > effort towards the community. > > To Sum the entire email, the chapter has made a valuable learning, of > engaging the community in a more effective way in the future. > > Regards, > Yohann Thomas > Secretary > Wikimedia India > > P.S. -

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimania tour of Rahul Desmukh

2018-08-05 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
another, >>>>> but please, let us stick to the substance of *this* thread on this thread, >>>>> and let us be fair and honest and avoid manipulative arguments and >>>>> insinuations. >>>>> >>>>> Warmly, >>>>

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimania tour of Rahul Desmukh

2018-08-05 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
d a > speaker are two different subjects. I am not sure if judgements such as > 'grey areas' should be made but Yes it calls for a discussion on how things > should work upon. > > The consensus process is also something that calls for a discussion. From > informing the team members to tak

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimania tour of Rahul Desmukh

2018-08-05 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
t; value-judgments with un-friendly tone. > > > > > > On Sun, Aug 5, 2018 at 12:27 PM Bodhisattwa Mandal < > bodhisattwa.rg...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Yohann, >> >> Thanks for your reply, much appreciated. >> >> >> I have read your

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimania tour of Rahul Desmukh

2018-08-05 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
-A2K to fund its > trip & they accepted his proposal. // > > > Regards, > Yohann Thomas > Secretary > Wikimedia India > > > On Fri 3 Aug, 2018, 18:33 Bodhisattwa Mandal, > wrote: > >> Hi Yohann, >> >> Thanks for your mail. >> >> I

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimania tour of Rahul Desmukh

2018-08-03 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
is going through a difficult time. Regards, Yohann Thomas Secretary Wikimedia India On Fri 27 Jul, 2018, 12:32 Bodhisattwa Mandal, wrote: > Hi, > > WMIN chapter president Rahul Deshmukh attended Wikimania 2018 in Cape Town > without being selected for any type of scholarship. My que

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimania tour of Rahul Desmukh

2018-08-03 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
nav srivastava >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hello Bodhisattwa, >>>> >>>> The first line of the mail which at 12:02 by Indian Standard Time, you >>>> stated, "I understand you are felling bad with my toneI am sorry" . >>

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimania tour of Rahul Desmukh

2018-08-02 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi Abhinav, 1. Now that Bodhisattwa has acknowledged on his inappropriate tone > and it can be believed he would be a caution for future onwards and since > the issue is in public domain, I would urge Wikimedia India to respond on > this. > Sorry missed this part, Where have I

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimania tour of Rahul Desmukh

2018-08-02 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
, but as those are not revealed publicly by anyone, I am also not interested to discuss any of that. Lets wait and see if they were bluff or had any truth in it.. Thanks, On 2 August 2018 at 14:31, Bodhisattwa Mandal wrote: > sorry, few corrections, > > Hi Abhinav, > > 1) I already s

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimania tour of Rahul Desmukh

2018-08-02 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
by anyone, I am also not interested to discuss any of that. Lets wait and see if they were bluff or had any truth in it.. Thanks, On 2 August 2018 at 14:30, Bodhisattwa Mandal wrote: > Hi Abhinav, > > 1) Got your personal mail and the link. I never knew that and amazed to > see tha

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimania tour of Rahul Desmukh

2018-08-02 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
he wider Wikimedia community in our >>> processes and decisions. >>> >>> I do want to hear why was it deemed necessary for the WMIN President to >>> be present at that informal meetup during Wikimania. >>> >>> I do know that for some other Chapters whose

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimania tour of Rahul Desmukh

2018-08-02 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi Abhinav, Thanks for your mail. On Thu, 2 Aug 2018, 11:13 Abhinav srivastava, wrote: > Hello Satdeep, Bodhisattwa and All, > > > > I believe the response to the first statement put by Satdeep, on having > expected more discussions, stands firm, Indian community has advanced from > the

[Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki Loves Monuments 2018 in India

2018-07-29 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi, West Bengal Wikimedians User Group has decided to organize the Wiki Loves Monument (WLM) 2018 in India and Punjabi Wikimedians User Group has joined hands. The month-long competition will be held on September, 2018. The ground work is going on. Link -

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimediaindia-l Digest, Vol 1455, Issue 1

2018-07-05 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi Ravi, This is really unfortunate. Best wishes for your future endeavor. I sincerely hope that you are going to stay back in the Wikimedia community as a volunteer and be the support to the Indian community, you had been before. Bodhisattwa On 4 July 2018 at 11:19, Dr. Manavpreet Kaur wrote:

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-WB] Wiki Loves Butterfly in North-East India (WLB-NEI)

2018-03-24 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi Ananya, West Bengal Wikimedians User Group will be glad to support for any online and offline help you need for your project as before. Best wishes, Bodhisattwa On Sat, 24 Mar 2018, 17:09 Ananya Mondal, wrote: > Dear Wikimedians, > > > > As per my previous

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikisource-l] Content donation

2018-03-21 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
relatated works? > > Cheers > > Le 20/03/2018 à 19:23, Bodhisattwa Mandal a écrit : > > > Hi all, > > On behalf of West Bengal Wikimedians User Group, I am happy to announce > that Dr. Tapodhir Bhattacharjee, Ex-Vice chancellor of Assam University, > has kindly rel

[Wikimediaindia-l] Content donation

2018-03-20 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi all, On behalf of West Bengal Wikimedians User Group, I am happy to announce that Dr. Tapodhir Bhattacharjee, Ex-Vice chancellor of Assam University, has kindly released copyright of 5 of his books under CC-BY-SA 4.0 license. The books are uploaded to Commons and are now in the hands of

[Wikimediaindia-l] Zero output for OCR using Google Drive API

2018-03-15 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi, For last few weeks, Google OCR using Drive API has stopped working for few Indic scripts like Bengali and Devanagari affecting Bengali, Sanskrit and Assamese Wikisource. It's still working for other Indic scripts, I guess. If anyone have any contact with Google, we need to know if this

[Wikimediaindia-l] Bengali Wikisource 10th Anniversary Contest

2016-12-23 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi, FYI, a 7-month long (January 1, 2017 - July 31, 2017). marathon proofreading contest has been organized on the occasion of 10th Anniversary of Bengali Wikisource. Event page - https://bn.wikisource.org/s/cal0 -- Bodhisattwa ___ Wikimediaindia-l

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimediaindia-l Digest, Vol 1193, Issue 1

2016-11-09 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
> Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2016 23:17:56 +0530 > From: Srikant Kedia > To: Wikimedia Chapter Membership , Wikimedia > India Community list > Cc: Ellie Young > Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l]

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikipedia-BN] Media of the day, 14 Oct 2016

2016-10-15 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi, > On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 11:25 PM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar < >>> sudhanwa@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hi, With due respect to the videographer and his intentions, but then what is that video about? What is so great about the video to become video of the day? It shows

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-WB] [Wikipedia-BN] Kolkata Wikipedia Meetup 19

2016-09-12 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Biswarupda, The right place to ask the question about the commons app is- commons-app-andr...@googlegroups.com Also, any enhancement request can be submitted at the following link- https://github.com/commons-app/apps-android-commons/issues I hope this helps, Regards, Bodhisattwa Dear Anshu,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Re: Featured Wikimedian

2016-09-04 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Congratulations Ananya from Bengali Wikipedia community. Great to see another community member as a featured Wikimedian in WMIN website after Arnab Dutta (User:Jonoikobangali) few months back. Thanks also to Rudra for nominating her name. May the WLB project enrich Wikimedia both qualitatively

[Wikimediaindia-l] WCI 2016 Program Survey

2016-06-20 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi, Greetings from Wiki Conference India 2016 Team. Everyone is requested to participate in this short survey to help us learn more about WikiConference India 2016

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Association with IIT Kharagpur

2016-06-09 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Forwarded for anyone interested, -- Forwarded message -- From: "Toshant Kamble" Date: Jun 10, 2016 8:00 AM Subject: Association with IIT Kharagpur To: Cc: Dear Sir, Greetings from Team Kshitij! Kshitij is the annual

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Announcing an upcoming India phone survey

2016-06-07 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi, Regarding the upcoming Wikipedia zero campaign in India, I hope, the issue of net neutrality will be taken care of seriously. I hope, WMF understands the gravity of the situation considering the recent government ban of Facebook zero aka Internet.org aka aka Free Basics. As far as I know,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-WB] CIS-A2K workplan for 2016-17

2016-04-02 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi, CIS-A2K is allocating huge amount of budget on only five Indian languages. I dont know how other language communities, including my own Bengali, will provide feedback on that. We do not fall in the so-called Focused Language Area (FLA) of CIS-A2K and our feedback dont matter at all. CIS has

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Re: Setting Up of the Advisory Council at Wikimedia India

2016-04-01 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi, > On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 11:17 PM, Satdeep Gill > wrote: > >> Hi Sudhanwa, >> >> Please check this for information regarding Infrastructure Support. >> >> http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Equipment_Lending_and_Community_Support >> > > OK. Looks good. > Looks like, You got

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [WMIN-Members] Re: Setting Up of the Advisory Council at Wikimedia India

2016-03-29 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
at 14:44, Satdeep Gill <satdeepg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I would like to nominate* Bodhisattwa Mandal *for the Advisory Committee. > He has 73784 global edits on Wikimedia projects. I believe he will be in a > good position to guide Wikimedia India to work alo

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimediaindia-l Digest, Vol 1079, Issue 1

2016-03-28 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi all, I have gone through the nomination page and questions asked to the candidates. My choice would be* Nataliia Tymkiv* and *Kunal Mehta. * Both these candidates are well aware of the declining relationship among community, staff and WMF and want to solve them in a transparent wiki way.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Signing off as WMIN Program Director

2016-02-23 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
t; Hi, > > > On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 5:53 PM, Bodhisattwa Mandal < > bodhisattwa.rg...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Only today I realised that Ravi is leaving WMIN as staff permanently. I >> had a feeling that after the crisis is over, he will res

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Signing off as WMIN Program Director

2016-02-18 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi all, Only today I realised that Ravi is leaving WMIN as staff permanently. I had a feeling that after the crisis is over, he will resume his post, but looks like I was wrong. Ravi did a wonderful job for Wikimedia movement in India. User:Ravidreams had a dream to bring together all Indian

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] 2000+ books nationalized by The Government of Tamil Nadu released in Public domain

2016-02-01 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi, Great initiative from Tamil Wikimedia community. Kudos to the team. They have set an example for the Indic language Wikimedia community. I really hope that in near future, the national government and all other state governments will follow the steps taken by Tamil Nadu Government. Regards,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikipedia-BN] Wikipedia Takes Kolkata V

2016-02-01 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
| Bengali Wikipedia > <http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:Hasive> > ​EC | Wikimedia Bangladesh > <http://www.wikimedia.org.bd> > fb.com/Hasive <http://fb.com/NCHasive> | @nhasive > <http://www.twitter.com/nhasive> | Skype: nhasive | www.nhasive.com > > __

[Wikimediaindia-l] Vote for Google OCR-Wikisource integration in 2015 community wishlist

2015-12-03 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Wikisource#Tool_to_use_Google_OCRs_in_Indic_language_Wikisource FYI, this proposal was also accepted as a highest priority need at the 2015 Wikisource Conference in Vienna. (https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/wscon2015needs) Regards -- Bodhisattwa Mandal

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikipedia-BN] [Wikimedia-in-WB] stall in BEHALA BOOK fair

2015-12-03 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi, Great initiative but I am really sorry to say that I will not be available for the book fair. Wish you all good luck. Regards, Bodhisattwa On 29 Nov 2015 10:49, "Kalyan Sarkar" wrote: > Dear All, > > I've prepared a schedule >

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimediaindia-l Digest, Vol 987, Issue 1

2015-09-06 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Here we are talking about the grant approval of Wikipedia treks Kalindi khal and there in English Wikipedia, User:Shyamal is proposing deletion of previous two Wikipedia treks mountains event pages along with all the documentation. I have to copy paste all the previous events into meta. Such a

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