Dhaval, that is just awesome news. When you do finish these books, I
suggest each of these be publicly released by a prominent personality. This
will give publicity to this most important of ventures, help you recruit
more editors and encourage other organisations to release more texts to
Gujarati WikiSource.
Warm regards,
Ashwin
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> Hi All,
>
> For the Gujarati language it is one of those golden days today. We have got
> our own Wikisource created at http://gu.wikisource.org/. it has been a
> long
> journey and took just over 3 years for the subdomain creation. We had
> created request on 5th March 2009 and it has been created Today on 27th
> March. This 3 years has brought many of us, Gujarati wikip(m)edians close
> and lastly, many of my fellows from Gujarati Wikipedia became active there.
>
> We had set our first benchmark of creating 1000 entries, which was achieved
> early last week. As soon as we achieved that goal, we started creating
> first complete book, and selected Mahatma Gandhi's Rachanatmak Karyakram
> (???????? ?????????). User Sushant Savla came up with an idea of
> collaborative project and 6 users participated with zeal. Sushant very
> coordinated the entire project and we completed the small book in just 5
> days. Attracted by the success of this project, now we have started Mahatma
> Gandhi's autobiography - ?????? ??????? ???? ???????, and this project is
> being coordinated by another user Ashok Modhvadia. It must be noted that
> both, Sushant and Ashok are very old Gujarati Wikipedians, we all started
> around the same time (myself in late 2007 and they both in 2008). This
> time, we have 2 additional users contributing in this project and 1 more
> from the previous task is about to join very soon, making the total count
> of 8 users.
>
> I take this opportunity to thank all of my Gujarati Community for
> cooperating us, right from the supporting our request through to
> localisation of messages and to the contributions till date. I pray that
> they all and myself remain active always on wikipedia and its sister
> projects and serve to our mother language and we continue bringing more and
> more literature from the public domain into gu.wikisource.org tirelessly.
>
> Dhaval
> User:Dsvyas
>
Hi Folks
One of the aspects that India Program constantly works on is that the the work that your team does for and with our community is based on clear objectives, robust design and relevant progress parameters.
India Program has / is / will be undertaking a series of pilots. Pilots by nature indicate that we try innovative things out sometimes, and we may or may not always suceed. We must be bold and try them out - but we must also carefully build these pilots out and measure progress. On the main India Program meta page, I've created a tab that links to a new sub-page called Pilot Designs - where I have published 3 of these pilot designs. More will follow as they are ready, or as we undertake new work, so do add the page to your watchlists.
Basic Community Building is the work that Shiju is doing with small Indic communities - in this case, Assamese. It will show what steps can be taken to build such communities - from communication to collaboration to outreach. This work is especially relevant to small Indic communities - but there are pointers even for larger communities (including English.)
Story-telling for Community Building is the work that Noopur just announced (and as illustrated by the profile on Netha) - where we want to celebrate the diversity and magic in our community.
Supporting Community Communications Initiatives (Wikipatrika) for Community Building is the initiative just announced by Noopur to support our community's newsletter, Wikipatrika. The attempt is to see how Wikipatrika can become more participative, richer in content and more regular in publication.
Do go through these. Do also add your comments on the respective talk pages.
The constant endeavor of all the work that we do is to help community members who want to take up the various initiatives that we are piloting (with them or with other community members.) Do go through these pilot designs and if you are interested in getting involved, or if you need clarification, or if you want support - please feel free to ask for it on the talk pages or offlist to any of us.
Best
hisham
Hi Folks
Reminder about the IRC later today (9pm IST on March 29th.) Join in using this link: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#wikimedia-office.
As I had indicated earlier, what we will do going forward is to publish an opening statement - which is below. We'd like to have a rich discussion around these topics for 45 minutes and then throw it open for 15 minutes for any other topics that anyone wants to discuss.
There have been more than 22 outreach sesssions (English + some Indic languages) across India over the past 2 1/2 months. We have been working on constantly every component of outreach.
* Pre-session work - building supporting material (documents, presentations, handouts etc), evaluating different ways of conducting an effective outreach, using different ways to reach out to organisations with the proposal to conduct a session etc.
* Session work - adopting different techniques of doing outreach, how do we get participants more involved during the session, how to filter out the folks so that we do the editing session only with the genuinely interested participants, how to balance between practical and theoretical aspects of training, how much information to give out in one session etc.
* Post-session work - how do we provide editing support to the participants, how do we collect their contact information, how do we keep in touch with them on regular basis, how do we invite them to join other Wiki projects, how do we track their edit count - soon after the session, after 1 and 3 months of conducting the session etc.
We'd like to discuss these. In the IRC, the following will be covered:
* Indic Outreach: How can we do more outreach session in Indic langauges in particular? / Can regional communities work to translate supporting material? / How do we provide more support to different language communities to conduct these sessions?
* More Outreach: If we are doing 7 outreach session in one month right now is there a way of us doing 10 every month? / Can we find more community members who will be willing to conduct these session? / For community members who are interested to conduct outreach sessions but think they lack confidence - is there a way we can help them?
* Better Outreach: Can we find some volunteers who will be willing to "adopt" these newbies and give them support? .
I'd strongly encourage all those folks who have been actively involved in conducting these sessions over the past 2 months to join this IRC. It will be great if you could share your first hand experience with the wider community on what worked, what didn't, what we could have done better etc. I especially do want to ask Indic Wikimedians to join because we desperately need more outreach sessions in Indic languages.
We will also briefly address the early stages of the communications work - which are the storytelling and Wikipatrika support that was announced yesterday. Given it's early days on communications, I'd prefer this IRC stay largely focussed on outreach since there is so much to work through there.
See you all there!
Apologies for sending this note this morning and not last night as I had promised.
hisham
p.s. There is a (tiny) possibility that I might be slightly late but you'll all be in Nitika's safe hands. I shall try and my level best to be on time.
Hi All,
For the Gujarati language it is one of those golden days today. We have got
our own Wikisource created at http://gu.wikisource.org/. it has been a long
journey and took just over 3 years for the subdomain creation. We had
created request on 5th March 2009 and it has been created Today on 27th
March. This 3 years has brought many of us, Gujarati wikip(m)edians close
and lastly, many of my fellows from Gujarati Wikipedia became active there.
We had set our first benchmark of creating 1000 entries, which was achieved
early last week. As soon as we achieved that goal, we started creating
first complete book, and selected Mahatma Gandhi's Rachanatmak Karyakram
(રચનાત્મક કાર્યક્રમ). User Sushant Savla came up with an idea of
collaborative project and 6 users participated with zeal. Sushant very
coordinated the entire project and we completed the small book in just 5
days. Attracted by the success of this project, now we have started Mahatma
Gandhi's autobiography - સત્યના પ્રયોગો અથવા આત્મકથા, and this project is
being coordinated by another user Ashok Modhvadia. It must be noted that
both, Sushant and Ashok are very old Gujarati Wikipedians, we all started
around the same time (myself in late 2007 and they both in 2008). This
time, we have 2 additional users contributing in this project and 1 more
from the previous task is about to join very soon, making the total count
of 8 users.
I take this opportunity to thank all of my Gujarati Community for
cooperating us, right from the supporting our request through to
localisation of messages and to the contributions till date. I pray that
they all and myself remain active always on wikipedia and its sister
projects and serve to our mother language and we continue bringing more and
more literature from the public domain into gu.wikisource.org tirelessly.
Dhaval
User:Dsvyas
cross-posting to reach pan-community; apologies if you received it from other mailing lists already
Hi Folks,
One of the essential things that India Program needs to constantly work out is keeping the community informed of the work that we are doing - so that this work is clearer but also to help cross-pollinate ideas amongst a wider set of community members who might not have been engaged on specific village pump / talk page discussion or involved in particular activities (e.g. outreach events) or wikiprojects.
We used to have a monthly IRC with the community and India Program. (For those who are not familiar with IRC, it is an Internet messaging system similar to a regular chat room. It's very simple to use and you can join in by clicking on the following link: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#wikimedia-office.) I have been remiss in conducting these for the past few months - and I'd like to make amends by restarting, with a couple of modifications.
a) I'd like to propose fortnightly instead of monthly. (I was wary of doing it any more frequently than monthly earlier because I didn't know if there would be enough on the plate to discuss. I have changed my mind now - because there is too much to discuss to cover in a single monthly session.) I'd like to propose that we do it in the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of every month at 9pm IST (which is GMT + 0530) - THOUGH NOT THIS MONTH - BECAUSE I HAVE MISSED THE TIMELINE. Just for March, we will do it on March 15th and March 29th (both at 9pm IST which is GMT + 0530)
b) I'd like to propose that we do it focussed on specific work streams instead of general. The reason I say this is that - as with many community meet-ups, folks will give time to attend a meet-up or participate in an IRC only if there is a topic of relevance to them. To that extent, we could do one IRC on Indic languages and one on Outreach & Communications. I'd start both the IRCs with a re-cap of India Programs activities for the fortnight (or so) prior to the IRC and forward from the IRC - and then we could talk about either Indic langauges or Outreach & Communications.
The March 15th one will be focussed on Indic Languages and the one on March 29th will be on Outreach & Communications.
Having said that, there is quite a bit of overlap on these topics - so feel free to join both. The more the merrier! Please do also invite anyone who is interested to know more about India Program or - even more importantly - interact with fellow Wikimedians interested in a particular activity to join in. (It's quite a lot of of fun {citation required} - and i've heard a rumour {citation required} that there was actually a romance that started on one of the IRCs...)
As always, the logs will be put up on meta for the benefit of those who can't attend and for the record.
I'll send a reminder on the day of the session and one 30 minutes before the session.
Thanks
hisham
The next Wikipedia meetup in Ahmedabad is being scheduled for Sunday, 18
March 2012. Please join in and contribute! If you are active/interested in Wikimedia Projects or FOSS or Openculture, you are welcome!If you're willing to come, add your name on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Ahmedabad/Ahmedabad4.Venue
Seva Cafe,
Shopper’s Plaza, 4th Floor,
Opposite Municipal Market,
C.G. Road, Ahmedabad.Time : 1600 to 1800 ISTKonarak Ratnakar | kondi
Any women wikipedians from Ahmedabad or Gujarati? Please try to edit during
this to celebrate the special month. If you know any female
wikipedian/enthusiasts who are not on the mailing list, please pass the
message on to them.
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From: Netha Hussain <nethahussain(a)gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 3:06 PM
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] India WikiWomen's Edit-a-Thon
To: wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org,
wikimedia-in-en(a)lists.wikimedia.org, gendergap(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Hey All,
I am writing to invite each one of you to India WikiWomen's
Edit-a-Thon<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/India_WikiWomen%27s_Edit-a-Th…>that
has been scheduled for 25th March 2012, Sunday from 12:00pm to 2:00pm.
It's probably not possible for all of us to meet physically to celebrate
Women's Month but we all meet virtually - online!
During the two hour time slot we all will be editing an article which will
be pre-selected by way of nomination and votes. Depending on the number of
members joining in we can also organise an IRC meet to meet each other
before and during the event.
Everyone is welcome to come edit Wikipedia with us at this event. Women,
new editors, all those who relate to women's history or women's issues,
those who want to learn how to edit or can teach others how, and anyone
with an interest in women's history are particularly encouraged to attend.
Please sign Up here<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/India_WikiWomen%27s_Edit-a-Th…>and
suggest and vote for articles
here<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/India_WikiWomen%27s_Edit-a-Th…>.
Nomination for articles will be closed by 22nd of March and the voting will
be closed by 24th March. Hurry! :)
Thanks Nitika <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Nitika.t>, for bringing up
this idea!
I welcome all of you to participate by editing subjects about women's
history and more. Everyone is welcome!
Thanks
--
Netha Hussain
User : Netha Hussain <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Netha_Hussain> on
Wikiprojects
Student of Medicine and Surgery
Govt. Medical College, Kozhikode
Blogs : *nethahussain.blogspot.com
swethaambari.wordpress.com*
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 3:38 AM
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Gujarati Wikisource is approved
To: Wikimedia India <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hoi,
The good news is that there is approval for the Gujarati Wikisource. We are
quite happy to post a bug asking for the creation of this new Wiki but for
one small detail. There is information lacking that is necessary for the
creation of this new wiki.
I am happy to share this news and I hope it will not take long before I can
inform you about the creation of the Gujarati Wikisource.
Thanks,
Gerard
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Dear All,
I am pleased to announce that Noopur Raval ([User:Noopur28] has been selected as Consultant to the Wikimedia Foundation, and will support Communications for India Program.
This position will perform 4 key functions. Firstly, it will support communications with our community. This involves a regular set of updates (such as newsletters) as well as specific communication projects such as story-telling of local community initiatives (to document experiences, celebrate successes and cross-pollinate ideas.) This is not for day-to-day program communications - which is a core part of each of our responsibilities in the India Program team. Second will be to support media & PR for local community initiatives. The single biggest challenge here will to be get more Indic language media coverage to support community building efforts. This will be done directly with community members and also in co-ordination with the India Chapter's Communications Media & PR team. The third aspect is to build and expand existing community social networks (such as WikimediaIndia on facebook) and to help with the use of social networks to support community building. Lastly, there is untapped potential of using digital outreach - to augment existing physical outreach efforts. We need to (very, very carefully) explore if we can reach out to our large and growing reader base and inform, encourage and enable them to become editors using online channels and resources.
Noopur is a community member and has supported outreach activities (in Ahmedabad & Delhi), is a member of Delhi SIG of the Chapter, has participated in community collaborations like Collaboration of the Month and has been actively trying to start GLAM in India.
Noopur is from Gandhinagar and is graduating from JNU with a Master's in Arts & Aesthetics. She has a triple honors Bachelor's in Media Studies, Literature and Psychology from Christ College, Bangalore. She has interned with Radio Mirchi, Times of India and the Centre for Internet & Society (amongst others) - as well as done some teaching assignments. She is an active blogger (including for the India Art Summit, 2011.) She has published a novella and co-authored an anthology of poems, plays & short stories and has co-presented a paper on "Wikiwars" with [User:Srikeit.] She is also an amateur photographer and has contributed to Commons as well as other platforms.
The Communications position has taken a long time to fill. The initial call for selection was in September. I reported back to the community in December that I had failed to find the right candidate and hence the delay. There were a number of deserving candidates and this selection has taken time because of the need to find the most suitable profile for a complex role. This role requires the right mix of an academic foundation in communications, domain expertise as well as adequate familiarity with our community. It also requires adaptability and strong learning skills - because so much of what we are trying to do is pioneering. I am confident that she brings the right level of experience and competencies - and I'm very excited by the opportunity of making a step jump in the impact of communications for our community.
Do join me in welcoming Noopur. She will start on March 12 and will be based in New Delhi.
Best
hisham