FYI.
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From: Jay Walsh <jwalsh(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 7:30 AM
Subject: [Wikimedia Announcements] English Wikipedia to go dark January 18
in opposition to SOPA/PIPA
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Please also see the related blog post,
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/01/16/wikipedias-community-calls-for-anti-so…
The release is posted here:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/English_Wikipedia_to_go_…
*English Wikipedia to go dark January 18 in opposition to SOPA/PIPA
*
San Francisco -- January 16, 2012 -- On January 18, 2012, in an
unprecedented decision, the Wikipedia community has chosen to blackout the
English version of Wikipedia for 24 hours, in protest against proposed
legislation in the United States — the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the
U.S. House of Representatives, and PROTECTIP (PIPA) in the U.S. Senate. If
passed, this legislation will harm the free and open Internet and bring
about new tools for censorship of international websites inside the United
States.
Wikipedia administrators confirmed this decision Monday afternoon (PST) in
a public statement (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative/Action#Summary_and_c…
):
Over the course of the past 72 hours, over 1800 Wikipedians have joined
together to discuss proposed actions that the community might wish to take
against SOPA and PIPA. This is by far the largest level of participation in
a community discussion ever seen on Wikipedia, which illustrates the level
of concern that Wikipedians feel about this proposed legislation. The
overwhelming majority of participants support community action to encourage
greater public action in response to these two bills. Of the proposals
considered by Wikipedians, those that would result in a "blackout" of the
English Wikipedia, in concert with similar blackouts on other websites
opposed to SOPA and PIPA, received the strongest support.
“Today Wikipedians from around the world have spoken about their opposition
to this destructive legislation," said Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia.
"This is an extraordinary action for our community to take - and while we
regret having to prevent the world from having access to Wikipedia for even
a second, we simply cannot ignore the fact that SOPA and PIPA endanger free
speech both in the United States and abroad, and set a frightening
precedent of Internet censorship for the world."
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United States, find your elected representative in Washington (
https://www.eff.org/sopacall). If you live outside the United States,
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internet to remain open and free.
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Someone asked, how do I use the templates for cite book, cite web etc? What
does its columns mean?
Let us look at a template cite book in this post.
Typically, I store a shortened blank template for {{cite book}} which is:
<ref name="">{{cite book |title= |last= |first= |authorlink= |coauthors=
|year= |publisher= |location= |isbn= |page= |pages= |url= |accessdate=9
January 2012}}</ref>
Its really simple, just fill in the blanks. For example -
title (title of the book) = The Last Days of the Mahatma
last (last name of author) = Desai
first (first name of author) = Hirenbhai
authorlink (if the author has a Wikipedia article on him, this is the name
of that article, leave blank if none) =
coauthors (names of additional authors, only if any) = Kulkarni, Srikanth &
Karlekar, H. B.
year (year of publication) = 2001
publisher (name of publisher) = Nawajiwan Press
location (which city is publisher located in) = Ahmedabad
isbn (International Standard Book Number, earlier in 9 digits, now in
thirteen digits, IMPORTANT, specify only one isbn in the template, doesn't
matter whether 9-digit or 13-digit) = 0-941990-93-9
page (give the page number; only use if the page referred was just one
page) = 324
pages (give the page numbers; only use if the page(s) referred to were more
than one page ) = 324-327
(IMPORTANT - Use "page" or "pages" but not both.)
url (uniform resource locator, i.e. your web address in layman's terms) -
http://books.google.com/books?id=ESgDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA60
accessdate=The day you accessed it on the web
Ah yes,
ref name=some phrase you think off to link your common list-defined
references.
Hope this helps,
Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur
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Very instructive post.
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Date: Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 9:47 AM
Subject: [mr-wiki] Experience of taking Wiki academy at lesser known site
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Hi all,
12.05 pm 13th Jan 2012 ,Principal's Cabin at Abasaheb Prashala Day School
near 15August Square Rastapeth Pune ; A visibly anoyed mother with her
middle school son visits principal to discuss her sons school absentism
the mother informs sons father is expired five years ago , She is working
as home maid at some middle class families and making a living; Principal
does her job very well ; seems such situations are quite regular and routin
to the principal madam.
12.15-12.30 School prayer And at 12.30 bell Wikipedia Academy -Sans any
projector or laptop only help available is the black board , a chalk and a
duster- begins in Standard 8A aprox 35-40 students (An equal mix of girls
and boys)
Students are asked to show their hands to find out what do they know about
internet only one hand comes up and rest of the faces are blank and now
the Wikipedian knows the challenge at hand. Mind the fact that the day
before School teacher informs that Wikipedia is part of School syllabus in
english language for 8th standard since 1999 usually he teaches the first
page of the lesson the rest of the pages can not be given justice without
internet support (for aprox 20,00,000 every year ) students across
Maharashtra .The class goes ahead the wikipedians requests to make stack of
all their books on a table and request for a Home Work note book with a
promis that it will not be opened, one girl gets convinced and provides the
same .
Childern smartly give different different answers when asked what is their
in their bunch of school books , Most of them say "study" one Student
answers as Mahiti ie.information and a shy girl answers as Knowldge.The
students know that knowledge available in bunch of school is limited and
there on concept of encyclopedia is explained the word they never heared
before, they answer smartly the wikipedian explains By now children are
getting in interactive mode discussion goes about curiosity information and
knowldge . Without any teaching aid demo laptop how do one explains what is
internet ? Luckily children knew about computers So with crude examples a
book was a web portal and pages ther in were web pages and then rest of
internet story without internet at hand .(May be few schools in rural areas
still wont have computers too and wont know how a teacher explains what is
Computer)
Now the student who provided Home Work note book is asked What will be her
reaction if not herself but other students from the class write her home
work note book turn by turn ,The entire class of students smiles freely
and a smile comes even on the face of the class teacher , who was very
patiantly sitting in last row of the class for wikipedia academy.
Wikipedia home page is drawn on black-board and The black board itself is
edit window . When asked any doubts faces blank, about a thing they never
saw what doubts they will ask ? But when asked what is Wikipedia ? a girl
student Laxmi stands up and answers what she understood to her best about
wikipedia in learned in Wiki academy Students are requested to clap for her
correct answer and a chorus of clapps begins !!
Later Principal agrees to importance of introduction to internet and
informs about their schools steps to upgradation of computer lab
infrastructure , After a cup of tea with the class teacher,the Wikipedia
leaves school premises for next meeting.
Before one day that is on 12th Jan we receive info that a pilot project in
some of Maharashtra schools will be extended from coming academic year to
all schools mandatorily along with practical unicode Marathi typing and
internet , with a chance to explore further collaboration for marathi
language wikisource and school board .
Rgds
-Mahitgar from Marathi Wikipedia
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Hi Abhinav,
WikiProject India on English Wikipedia offers a range of organised
activities which include:
* Article of the Month - improve the quality of "Premchand". (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premchand)
* Good Article of the Month - Make "Mahatma Gandhi" a Good Article. (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohandas_Karamchand_Gandhi)
* Get involved in the "Offline WikiProject for Indian Schools" project of
Wikipedia India. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:OWIS)
* Assessment, cleanup, help department etc in the WikiProject Noticeboard (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Noticeboard_for_India-related_topics)
If you would like to get involved in interest based article improvement,
select a topic and work on the articles in that topic. People proud of Pune
may like to work on topic "monuments of Pune" and create articles, improve
existing photographs, find referenced facts and click photographs of the
monuments.
Editors interested in Marathi culture may take up facets of Maharashtrian
culture and improve those.
On Jan 8, 11:39 pm, abhinav <abhinav...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> What are the Key-Projects Under the Club??
Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur
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Is there an invitation template we can use to invite editors to partake in COTM? Could leave a message on talk pages, but a template would look much better.
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From: Arnav Chaudhary <arnavchaudhary(a)gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 10:53 PM
Subject: Re: GA master class - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi #2
To: Ashwin Baindur <ashwin.baindur(a)gmail.com>
Hi, already started checking the article regarding improvements(making list
of supposed improvements which can be done) and was supposed to start
checking references after 3 hours.
So didnt reply.
Please provide a tasks and i will start in 3 hours from now.
Will share my list too in a day or two once i am back on my regular Pc.
Regards,
Arnav Chaudhary
+91-9049039013
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 10:45 PM, Ashwin Baindur
<ashwin.baindur(a)gmail.com>wrote:
> Please post to the group but not to me. Yes, we shall go through every
> reference. Each & every source must be checked. You will be surprised at
> what amount of s#%t is hidden amongst seemingly innocuous references.
>
> Okay, each of you take a bunch of citations. I'll allot arbitrarily -
> * Rangilo - Refs in section - Principles, practices and beliefs
> * Debanjan - Refs in section - Struggle for Indian Independence.
> * Nick.me & Arnav C - no response from you guys on email list to date so
> can't task you. Sorry!
>
>
> Warm regards,
>
> Ashwin Baindur
> ------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 10:29 PM, Debanjan Bandyopadhyay <
> debastein(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Question: Do we necessarily go through all the references and see if the
>> text they are cited to is accurate or not? Or do we do that for what we
>> feel are non-reliable sources.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 1:16 AM, Ashwin Baindur <ashwin.baindur(a)gmail.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Correction, For "fart of GAs" read "raft of GAs".
>>>
>>>
>>> Warm regards,
>>>
>>> Ashwin Baindur
>>> ------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 12:03 AM, Ashwin Baindur <
>>> ashwin.baindur(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> In #1 we saw how to reconnoitre and plan for a campaign to take an
>>>> article and make it GA. A few years ago this process was easy but now
>>>> unconsciously standards have risen and a fart of GAs are being
>>>> derecognised, one of the important reasons for which is content and
>>>> referencing issues. Gandhi, despite having been a former GA, will require
>>>> serious amount of work to be restored to that status.
>>>>
>>>> Our article "Gandhi" requires a major rewrite and is not the most
>>>> suitable action to plunge editors new to the review process in.
>>>>
>>>> Rather than that, let us take up the issue of Referencing, which is
>>>> part cleanup and partly related to content and which can be tackled without
>>>> too much of our work being undone in the rewrite.
>>>>
>>>> Referencing involves a number of things.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 1. Each fact needing reference should either have a reference or a
>>>> {{cn}} tag placed.
>>>> 2. Each reference needs to be checked against [[WP:RS]] (reliable
>>>> sources) and if necessary deleted or replaced with better. If no ref can be
>>>> found a {{cn}} tag be placed. Ultimately taged facts where references could
>>>> not be found need to be deleted.
>>>> 3. The content on the article pertaining to the reference needs to
>>>> be checked -
>>>> 1. Material written in the article is actually in the cited
>>>> reference.
>>>> 2. The material written in the article is an NPOV representation
>>>> of the cited material in the reference.
>>>> 4. Each reference needs to be converted to a complete cite
>>>> templated reference with adequate details available in the reference.
>>>>
>>>> Some preliminary reading is recommended and definitely required for
>>>> newbies or those who have not read the page before:
>>>>
>>>> - [[WP:REFBEGIN]]
>>>> - [[WP:CITE]]
>>>> - [[WP:RS]]
>>>>
>>>> After this, we need to learn about cite templates. These are fill in
>>>> the blank forms for use. I keep them in a text file and copy them for use
>>>> and fill in. Preformatted as references, they are:
>>>>
>>>> <ref name="">{{cite book |title= |last= |first= |authorlink=
>>>> |coauthors= |year= |publisher= |location= |isbn= |page= |pages= |url=
>>>> |accessdate=9 January 2012}}</ref>
>>>>
>>>> <ref name="">{{cite web |url= |title= |author= |date= |work=
>>>> |publisher= |accessdate=9 January 2012}}</ref>
>>>>
>>>> <ref name="">{{cite journal |last1= |first1= |last2= |first2= |year=
>>>> |title= |journal= |publisher= |volume= |issue= |pages= |url= |doi=
>>>> |accessdate=9 January 2012}}</ref>
>>>>
>>>> <ref name="">{{cite news |title= |author= |url= |newspaper= |date=
>>>> |accessdate=9 January 2012}}</ref>
>>>>
>>>> Ideally look in Google Books for a citation especially one with
>>>> preview/full view. Once found, the url of the Google Book url can be loaded
>>>> into RefTag (url:http://reftag.appspot.com/) & lo & behold it will
>>>> create a preformatted citation for you. Its that simple.
>>>>
>>>> For example, if we wanted to act a fact on Gandhi's assassination, to
>>>> show culpability of Nehru and his fellow politicians in creating the
>>>> circumstances leading to it, the follwing would be a very good link:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://books.google.co.in/books?id=30e_maQ2vYQC&pg=PA58&dq=gandhi%27s+assas…
>>>>
>>>> If I load this url into the Google Books URL box for RefTag, I get the
>>>> following url:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://reftag.appspot.com/?book_url=http%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.co.in%2Fbooks…
>>>>
>>>> which gives me the following Wikicode for a citation:
>>>>
>>>> <ref name="Markovits2006">{{cite book|author=Claude
>>>> Markovits|title=Un-Gandhian Gandhi|url=
>>>> http://books.google.com/books?id=30e_maQ2vYQC&pg=PA58|accessdate=10January 2012|date=1 January 2006|publisher=Permanent
>>>> Black|isbn=978-81-7824-155-5|pages=58–}}</ref>
>>>>
>>>> which, when used in an article, will result in the following citation:
>>>>
>>>> *^<http://reftag.appspot.com/?book_url=http%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.co.in%2Fbooks…>
>>>> * Claude Markovits (1 January 2006). *Un-Gandhian Gandhi*<http://books.google.com/books?id=30e_maQ2vYQC&pg=PA58>.
>>>> Permanent Black. pp. 58–. ISBN<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number>
>>>> 978-81-7824-155-5<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-81-7824-155-5>.
>>>> Retrieved 10 January 2012.
>>>>
>>>> COMBINED TASK for us all - To check each citation carefully and expand
>>>> it/delete it/correct it as required.
>>>>
>>>> Warm regards,
>>>>
>>>> Ashwin Baindur
>>>> ------------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Debanjan*
>>
>> - Lets make this world a better and more informative place*
>>
>>
>