Hello friends,
This is a link I recommend you to bookmark.
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Geographical_distribution_of_Indian_Wikipedians
This list is useful for outreach & also whenever someone needs Wiki-Help in
a particular city. It would be great if Wikipedians could update this
list.:)
We have the following completely unrepresented states/UTs:
* Andaman & Nicobar Islands
* Arunachal Pradesh
* Assam
* Chandigarh
* Chhattisgarh
* Dadra, Nagar & Haveli
* Daman & Diu
* Goa
* Himachal Pradesh
* Jammu & Kashmir
* Jharkhand (AngPradesh is in Mumbai)
* Lakshadweep
* Manipur
* Meghalaya
* Mizoram
* Puducherry
* Punjab (oye, ye ki hoya!)
* Nagaland
* Uttar Pradesh
* Uttarakhand
Okay, all you admins, please update your status (Mikey my boy, that means
you too)!
Abroad, we dont have Indic Wikipedians listed for:
* Africa
* Australia
* Asia (other than India)
* Middle East
* North America
* South America
Unless you would like to stay off list, of course that's acceptable too.
May I also request Tinu / list admins to please forward it all the Indic
language & city Wikimedia lists. We need this resource to be as
comprehensible as possible.
Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur
------------------------------------------------------
Congratulations to all the awardees!
On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Ravi Vyzasatya <vyzasatya(a)gmail.com>wrote:
> Dear fellow Wikimedians,
>
> Thank you all for your encouragement of Telugu Wikipedia community's
> initiative to recognize the contributors by a special award called
> Komarraju Lakshmana Rao Wikimedia Puraskaram[1], named after first modern
> encyclopedist in Telugu, perhaps the first among Indian languages
> (c.1912-13).
>
> We got 28 nominated proposals for the awards[2] out of which 18 were
> complete, based on the acceptance criteria outlined in the initial
> announcement. Selection council analyzed all proposals based on
> quantitative metrics like wiki statistics and qualitative assessment of
> each nominee's contribution and it's impact on Wiki 's growth and
> development. We would like to thank all the people who participated in the
> nomination and proposal development process and also those who helped to
> improve the process by their feedback during its roll out. As this is the
> debut year for the awards, Selection council decided to award 10 recipients
> recognizing their contributions during the last decade of Telugu Wikipedia.
> In the order of final assessment score, the awardees are *Chaduvari, M
> Pradeep, Chava Kiran, Veeven, Palagiri, Ravichandra, Ahmed Nisar, Veera.sj,
> JVRK PRASAD and Bhaskaranaidu.* They will be presented with cash prize
> and certificate during the Telugu Wiki Ten Celebrations . You can see their
> pictures, citation remarks in Telugu and English [3]. The background
> material[4] and scoring sheet[5] are also available, if you are interested.
>
> To recognize members who contributed significantly to Telugu wikimedia
> projects but could not/ did not give their consent for the award nomination
> and/or did not get selected for the award, Selection council decided to
> award Jury appreciation certificates. These will be given to 30 members
> selected by the council[6]. An electronic certificate will be presented in
> their user talk pages shortly
>
> It's been an arduous effort and the selection council members have put in
> nearly 1000 hours of effort as a group in the past couple of months since
> award conception. Can't thank enough the selection council members Arjuna
> Rao Chavala, A. Rajasekhar, T. Sujatha and A. Radhakrishna. Special thanks
> to Arjuna Rao Chavala, Selection council secretary for taking the major
> responsibility for this initiative. We also thank Tewiki 10 Celebrations
> committee[7] for ensuring necessary funds to support this award.
>
> As with any first time endeavor, I am sure there is room for improvements
> in this process. We appreciate your feedback and suggestions for future
> attempts.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Ravi Vyzasatya
>
> 1. Award details and rules (in Telugu) https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:KLRWP
> 2. Proposals https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Komarraju_LakshmanaRao_Wikimedia_Aw…
> 3. Award winner details https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:KLRWP/2013/Winners
> 4. Applicants work statistics and factors aiding growth https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KLRWP-2013_Applicants_work_Statistics_an…
> 5.Scoring sheet https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:KLRWP/2013/Scoring
> 6. Jury Appreciation certificate winners https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:KLRWP/2013/Jury_Appreciation_Winners
> 7. Tewiki 10 Celebrations Committee https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:TEWIKI10/Committee
>
>
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Donate to the Wikimedia India Chapter today<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Donations>
Dear all,
We thank you all for your support and collaboration. Please find below the details of our work in the month of November 2013.
CIS-A2K Narrative Report
This narrative report captures the work done by the A2K program during the period of September 2012 to June 2013. It examines projects and activities and its impact and outcomes over a period of the initial Ten months of the Grant. This report will also inform CIS-A2K program’s strategy for the next one year to achieve the goals set out by its donor, Wikimedia Foundation, and goals listed in our Work Plans (which were developed in consultation with the Wikimedia community in India). Importantly, this Narrative Report is critical for the Wikimedia community in India, Global Wikimedia community and the Wikimedia Foundation to get a comprehensive overview of A2K’s work and to critically assess the A2K program’s eligibility for further support. The report compiled by by T. Vishnu Vardhan, Nitika Tandon and Subhashish Panigrahi can be accessed at http://bit.ly/1dFyjpO.
► Announcements
CIS Signs MoU with Christ University, Bangalore (November 20, 2013): The Access to Knowledge team signed a MoU as part of which CIS-A2K and Christ University will impart Wikipedia education in Indian classrooms: http://bit.ly/1ehr8kz.
We are happy to share with you that Rahmanuddin Shaik has been selected for the role of "Community Communications Consultant" at CIS-A2K! Rahmanuddin is an active contributor on Wikimedia Commons, Telugu Wikipedia and Telugu Wikisource: http://bit.ly/1bwrEu3.
►Articles
ಅಂತರ್ಜಾಲದಲ್ಲಿ ನೆಟ್ಟ ಸಸಿಗೆ ಈಗ ಹತ್ತು ವರ್ಷ (by Dr. U.B. Pavanaja, Kannada Prabha, November 1, 2013): http://bit.ly/17LOw4O. The article highlights 10 years of Kannada Wikipedia, the current status of the Kannada Wikipedia vis-a-vis number of articles, number of editors, active editors, and page views per month.
Train The Trainer Programme for Wikipedians (by Subhashish Panigrahi, DNA, November 14, 2013):http://bit.ly/ILwLMr. The article was edited by Rohini Lakshane of DNA.
►Blog Entries
Train the Trainer Program (by Subhashish Panigrahi, November 18, 2013): http://bit.ly/18hjw0n.
Konkani Vishwakosh Under CC-BY-SA (by Nitika Tandon, November 26, 2013): http://bit.ly/1gnVV2z.
► Events Organised
Wikipedia Orientation Programme for MA Students (Christ University, Bangalore, November 12, 2013): http://bit.ly/ItxAtu. Syed Muzammiluddin was the trainer. Twenty students participated.
Wikipedia Orientation Programme for the Second Language Students (Christ University, Bangalore, November 12, 13, 16 and 19, 2013): http://bit.ly/1bxsOYF. T. Vishnu Vardhan, Syed Muzammiluddin and Dr. U.B.Pavanaja were the trainers. About 1200 second language students participated in the programme.
Documentation and Wikipedia Contribution — A One Day Workshop (Kalinga Institute of Social Studies, Bhubaneswar, November 14, 2013). The workshop was conducted by Subhashish Panigrahi: http://bit.ly/1fSvl1v.
Documentation and Wikipedia Workshop (Kalinga School of Management, Bhubaneswar, November 16, 2013): http://bit.ly/Imf0DV. Subhashish Panigrahi conducted the workshop.
Konknni Wikipedia Workshop (organised by Dalgado Konknni Akademi and CIS-A2K, Goa Central State Library, November 16 and 17, 2013): http://bit.ly/1fSwiH5.
Tenth Anniversary of Wikipedia (H N Multimedia Hall, National College, Basavanagudi, Bangalore, November 17, 2013): http://bit.ly/1eJ6da9. Dr. U R Ananthamurthy, Prof. G. Venkatasubbiah and Ravi Hegde were the guests of honour. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja conducted the workshop.
First Phase of Odia Wikipedia Workshop (Indian Institute of Mass Communication, Bhubaneswar, November 18, 2013): http://bit.ly/18doDer. Subhashish Panigrahi conducted the workshop.
Konkani Wikipedia Workshop (Nirmala Institute of Education, Goa, November 19, 2013): http://bit.ly/1fSAUwT. Nitika Tandon conducted the event.
Konkani Vishwakosh: Doubt Solving Session I (Goa Central State Library, November 26, 2013): http://bit.ly/1gnVV2z. Nitika Tandon conducted the session.
Konkani Vishwakosh: Doubt Solving Session II (Goa Central State Library, November 28, 2013): http://bit.ly/1gnVV2z. Nitika Tandon conducted the session.
Editing Sprint for Vishwakosh (Goa Central, State Library, November 30, 2013): http://bit.ly/1gnVV2z. Nitika Tandon conducted the event.
► Event Co-organised
The Relaunch of Creative Commons India (co-organised by Wikimedia India, Acharya Narendra Dev College and CIS, India Islamic Cultural Centre, November 12, 2013): http://bit.ly/HPxrAO. Dr. Shashi Tharoor, Minister of State for Human Resource Development was the chief guest at the event.
► Event Participated In
Wikimedia Diversity Conference (organized by German Wikipedia Community, GLS Campus, Berlin): http://bit.ly/Ixr9W8. T. Vishnu Vardhan was a speaker at this event and made a presentation on the challenges and opportunities for the Wikimedia movement in India.
► Media Coverage
CIS gave its inputs for the following media coverage:
Kannada Wikipedia and its Tenth Anniversary (RadioCity, November 2, 2013): http://bit.ly/1dHEwBI.
Indian Govt to Build Machine Translation System for 22 Indic Languages (by Brindaalakshmi, Medianama, November 14, 2013): http://bit.ly/J4qg7V. CIS MoU with Goa University is mentioned.
10th anniversary of Kannada wikipedia (by ND Shiva Kumar, The Times of India, November 15, 2013): http://bit.ly/IxqDr7.
Tenth Anniversary of Kannada Wikipedia (Udayavani, November 15, 2013): http://bit.ly/1aFwqF1.
ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಕ್ಕೆ ಈಗ ದಶಮಾನೋತ್ಸವ. ಅದರ ಪ್ರಯುಕ್ತ ಒಂದು ಆಚರಣೆ (Avadhi Website, November 16, 2013): http://bit.ly/ImiBSy.
ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಗೆ 10, ಬೆಳವಣಿಗೆ ಸಾಲದು: ಪ್ರೊ .ಜಿವಿ (OneindiaKannada, November 17, 2013): http://bit.ly/19blS17.
Tenth Anniversary of Kannada Wikipedia (Vijayavani, November 17, 2013): http://bit.ly/1b7exSa.
ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಕ್ಕೆ ದಶಮಾನೋತ್ಸವ ಸಂಭ್ರಮ (Prajavani, November 18, 2013): http://bit.ly/1hWtt9v.
ಕನ್ನಡದ ಆನ್ಲೈನ್ ವಿಶ್ವಕೋಶ ದುರ್ಬಲ (Vijaya Karnataka, November 19, 2013): http://bit.ly/1hWtsCy.
Panaji: DKA organizes two day Konkani Wikipedia workshop (Daijiworld, November 18, 2013): http://bit.ly/1inoi03.
Wikimedia Foundation has funded A2K to anchor the growth of Wikimedia movement in India. The A2K team consists of six members, four based in Bangalore: T. Vishnu Vardhan, Dr. U.B. Pavanaja, Subhashish Panigrahi and Muzammiluddin Syed, one member Nitika Tandon in Delhi and one Advisor Dr. Tejaswini Niranjana. Archives of our newsletters can be accessed here (http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters). Wikipedians from various communities can request for outreach programs, technical bugs, logistics-merchandize and media, public relations and communications at http://bit.ly/TOcXId.
About CIS
The Centre for Internet and Society is a non-profit research organization that works on policy issues relating to freedom of expression, privacy, accessibility for persons with disabilities, access to knowledge and IPR reform, and openness (including open government, FOSS, open standards, etc.), and engages in academic research on digital natives and digital humanities.
Follow us elsewhere
Twitter: https://twitter.com/CISA2K
CIS group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/cis.india
Visit us at: https://cis-india.org
Support Us
Please help us defend consumer / citizen rights on the Internet! Write a cheque in favour of ‘The Centre for Internet and Society’ and mail it to us at No. 194, 2nd ‘C’ Cross, Domlur, 2nd Stage, Bengaluru – 5600 71.
Request for Collaboration:
We invite researchers, practitioners, and theoreticians, both organisationally and as individuals, to collaboratively engage with Internet and society and improve our understanding of this new field. To discuss the research collaborations, write to Sunil Abraham, Executive Director, at sunil(a)cis-india.org or Nishant Shah, Director – Research, at nishant(a)cis-india.org. To discuss collaborations on Indic language wikipedia, write to T. Vishnu Vardhan, Programme Director, A2K, at vishnu(a)cis-india.org
CIS is grateful to its donors, Wikimedia Foundation, Ford Foundation, Privacy International, UK, Hans Foundation and the Kusuma Trust which was founded by Anurag Dikshit and Soma Pujari, philanthropists of Indian origin, for its core funding and support for most of its projects.
Thanks
Nitika Tandon
Dear Nitika,
"
Train The Trainer Programme for Wikipedians (by Subhashish Panigrahi, DNA,
November 14, 2013):http://bit.ly/ILwLMr. The article was edited by Rohini
Lakshane of DNA."
I would like to clarify that I am not employed with DNA. I maintain a blog,
WikipeDNA, pertaining to Wikipedia in the blogs section of DNAindia.com in
my capacity as a Wikipedia volunteer.
Regards,
Rohini
--
http://about.me/rohini
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 12:04 PM, Nitika Tandon <nitika(a)cis-india.org>wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> We thank you all for your support and collaboration. Please find below the
> details of our work in the month of November 2013.
>
> CIS-A2K Narrative Report
> This narrative report captures the work done by the A2K program during the
> period of September 2012 to June 2013. It examines projects and activities
> and its impact and outcomes over a period of the initial Ten months of the
> Grant. This report will also inform CIS-A2K program’s strategy for the next
> one year to achieve the goals set out by its donor, Wikimedia Foundation,
> and goals<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Programme_Plan> listed
> in our Work Plans<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Work_plan_April_2…> (which
> were developed in consultation with the Wikimedia community in India).
> Importantly, this Narrative Report is critical for the Wikimedia community
> in India, Global Wikimedia community and the Wikimedia Foundation to get a
> comprehensive overview of A2K’s work and to critically assess the A2K
> program’s eligibility for further support. The report compiled by by T.
> Vishnu Vardhan, Nitika Tandon and Subhashish Panigrahi can be accessed at
> http://bit.ly/1dFyjpO.
>
> ► Announcements
>
> - CIS Signs MoU with Christ University, Bangalore (November 20, 2013):
> The Access to Knowledge team signed a MoU as part of which CIS-A2K and
> Christ University will impart Wikipedia education in Indian classrooms:
> http://bit.ly/1ehr8kz <http://bit.ly/1ehr8kz>.
> - We are happy to share with you that Rahmanuddin Shaik has been
> selected for the role of "Community Communications Consultant" at CIS-A2K!
> Rahmanuddin is an active contributor on Wikimedia Commons, Telugu Wikipedia
> and Telugu Wikisource: http://bit.ly/1bwrEu3.
>
>
> ►Articles
>
> - ಅಂತರ್ಜಾಲದಲ್ಲಿ ನೆಟ್ಟ ಸಸಿಗೆ ಈಗ ಹತ್ತು ವರ್ಷ (by Dr. U.B. Pavanaja,
> Kannada Prabha, November 1, 2013): http://bit.ly/17LOw4O<http://bit.ly/17LOw4O>.
> The article highlights 10 years of Kannada Wikipedia, the current status of
> the Kannada Wikipedia vis-a-vis number of articles, number of editors,
> active editors, and page views per month.
> -
> Train The Trainer Programme for Wikipedians (by Subhashish Panigrahi,
> DNA, November 14, 2013):http://bit.ly/ILwLMr. The article was edited
> by Rohini Lakshane of DNA.
>
>
> ►Blog Entries
>
> - Train the Trainer Program (by Subhashish Panigrahi, November 18,
> 2013): http://bit.ly/18hjw0n <http://bit.ly/18hjw0n>.
> - Konkani Vishwakosh Under CC-BY-SA (by Nitika Tandon, November 26,
> 2013): http://bit.ly/1gnVV2z.
>
>
> ► Events Organised
>
> - Wikipedia Orientation Programme for MA Students (Christ University,
> Bangalore, November 12, 2013): http://bit.ly/ItxAtu<http://bit.ly/ItxAtu>.
> Syed Muzammiluddin was the trainer. Twenty students participated.
>
>
> - Wikipedia Orientation Programme for the Second Language Students
> (Christ University, Bangalore, November 12, 13, 16 and 19, 2013):
> http://bit.ly/1bxsOYF <http://bit.ly/1bxsOYF>. T. Vishnu Vardhan, Syed
> Muzammiluddin and Dr. U.B.Pavanaja were the trainers. About 1200 second
> language students participated in the programme.
> - Documentation and Wikipedia Contribution — A One Day Workshop
> (Kalinga Institute of Social Studies, Bhubaneswar, November 14, 2013). The
> workshop was conducted by Subhashish Panigrahi: http://bit.ly/1fSvl1v<http://bit.ly/1fSvl1v>
> .
> - Documentation and Wikipedia Workshop (Kalinga School of Management,
> Bhubaneswar, November 16, 2013): http://bit.ly/Imf0DV<http://bit.ly/Imf0DV>.
> Subhashish Panigrahi conducted the workshop.
> - Konknni Wikipedia Workshop (organised by Dalgado Konknni Akademi and
> CIS-A2K, Goa Central State Library, November 16 and 17, 2013):
> http://bit.ly/1fSwiH5 <http://bit.ly/1fSwiH5>.
> - Tenth Anniversary of Wikipedia (H N Multimedia Hall, National
> College, Basavanagudi, Bangalore, November 17, 2013):
> http://bit.ly/1eJ6da9 <http://bit.ly/1eJ6da9>. Dr. U R Ananthamurthy,
> Prof. G. Venkatasubbiah and Ravi Hegde were the guests of honour. Dr. U.B.
> Pavanaja conducted the workshop.
> - First Phase of Odia Wikipedia Workshop (Indian Institute of Mass
> Communication, Bhubaneswar, November 18, 2013): http://bit.ly/18doDer<http://bit.ly/18doDer>.
> Subhashish Panigrahi conducted the workshop.
> - Konkani Wikipedia Workshop (Nirmala Institute of Education, Goa,
> November 19, 2013): http://bit.ly/1fSAUwT <http://bit.ly/1fSAUwT>.
> Nitika Tandon conducted the event.
> - Konkani Vishwakosh: Doubt Solving Session I (Goa Central State
> Library, November 26, 2013): http://bit.ly/1gnVV2z. Nitika Tandon
> conducted the session.
> - Konkani Vishwakosh: Doubt Solving Session II (Goa Central State
> Library, November 28, 2013): http://bit.ly/1gnVV2z. Nitika Tandon
> conducted the session.
> - Editing Sprint for Vishwakosh (Goa Central, State Library, November
> 30, 2013): http://bit.ly/1gnVV2z. Nitika Tandon conducted the event.
>
>
> ► Event Co-organised
>
> - The Relaunch of Creative Commons India (co-organised by Wikimedia
> India, Acharya Narendra Dev College and CIS, India Islamic Cultural Centre,
> November 12, 2013): http://bit.ly/HPxrAO <http://bit.ly/HPxrAO>. Dr.
> Shashi Tharoor, Minister of State for Human Resource Development was the
> chief guest at the event.
>
>
> ► Event Participated In
>
> - Wikimedia Diversity Conference (organized by German Wikipedia
> Community, GLS Campus, Berlin): http://bit.ly/Ixr9W8<http://bit.ly/Ixr9W8>.
> T. Vishnu Vardhan was a speaker at this event and made a presentation on
> the challenges and opportunities for the Wikimedia movement in India.
>
>
> ► Media Coverage
> CIS gave its inputs for the following media coverage:
>
> - Kannada Wikipedia and its Tenth Anniversary (RadioCity, November 2,
> 2013): http://bit.ly/1dHEwBI <http://bit.ly/1dHEwBI>.
> - Indian Govt to Build Machine Translation System for 22 Indic
> Languages (by Brindaalakshmi, Medianama, November 14, 2013):
> http://bit.ly/J4qg7V. CIS MoU with Goa University is mentioned.
> - 10th anniversary of Kannada wikipedia (by ND Shiva Kumar, The Times
> of India, November 15, 2013): http://bit.ly/IxqDr7<http://bit.ly/IxqDr7>
> .
> - Tenth Anniversary of Kannada Wikipedia (Udayavani, November 15,
> 2013): http://bit.ly/1aFwqF1 <http://bit.ly/1aFwqF1>.
> - ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಕ್ಕೆ ಈಗ ದಶಮಾನೋತ್ಸವ. ಅದರ ಪ್ರಯುಕ್ತ ಒಂದು ಆಚರಣೆ (Avadhi
> Website, November 16, 2013): http://bit.ly/ImiBSy<http://bit.ly/ImiBSy>
> .
> - ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಗೆ 10, ಬೆಳವಣಿಗೆ ಸಾಲದು: ಪ್ರೊ .ಜಿವಿ (OneindiaKannada,
> November 17, 2013): http://bit.ly/19blS17 <http://bit.ly/19blS17>.
> - Tenth Anniversary of Kannada Wikipedia (Vijayavani, November 17,
> 2013): http://bit.ly/1b7exSa <http://bit.ly/1b7exSa>.
> - ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಕ್ಕೆ ದಶಮಾನೋತ್ಸವ ಸಂಭ್ರಮ (Prajavani, November 18, 2013):
> http://bit.ly/1hWtt9v <http://bit.ly/1hWtt9v>.
> - ಕನ್ನಡದ ಆನ್ಲೈನ್ ವಿಶ್ವಕೋಶ ದುರ್ಬಲ (Vijaya Karnataka, November 19,
> 2013): http://bit.ly/1hWtsCy <http://bit.ly/1hWtsCy>.
> - Panaji: DKA organizes two day Konkani Wikipedia workshop
> (Daijiworld, November 18, 2013): http://bit.ly/1inoi03<http://bit.ly/1inoi03>
> .
>
>
> Wikimedia Foundation has funded A2K to anchor the growth of Wikimedia
> movement in India. The A2K team consists of six members, four based in
> Bangalore: T. Vishnu Vardhan, Dr. U.B. Pavanaja, Subhashish Panigrahi and
> Muzammiluddin Syed, one member Nitika Tandon in Delhi and one Advisor Dr.
> Tejaswini Niranjana. Archives of our newsletters can be accessed here (
> http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters). Wikipedians from various
> communities can request for outreach programs, technical bugs,
> logistics-merchandize and media, public relations and communications at
> http://bit.ly/TOcXId <http://bit.ly/TOcXId>.
>
> About CIS
> The Centre for Internet and Society is a non-profit research organization
> that works on policy issues relating to freedom of expression, privacy,
> accessibility for persons with disabilities, access to knowledge and IPR
> reform, and openness (including open government, FOSS, open standards,
> etc.), and engages in academic research on digital natives and digital
> humanities.
>
> Follow us elsewhere
>
> - Twitter: https://twitter.com/CISA2K <https://twitter.com/CISA2K>
> - CIS group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/cis.india<https://www.facebook.com/groups/cis.india>
> - Visit us at: https://cis-india.org <https://cis-india.org/>
>
>
> *Support Us*
> Please help us defend consumer / citizen rights on the Internet! Write a
> cheque in favour of ‘The Centre for Internet and Society’ and mail it to us
> at No. 194, 2nd ‘C’ Cross, Domlur, 2nd Stage, Bengaluru – 5600 71.
>
> *Request for Collaboration:*
> We invite researchers, practitioners, and theoreticians, both
> organisationally and as individuals, to collaboratively engage with
> Internet and society and improve our understanding of this new field. To
> discuss the research collaborations, write to Sunil Abraham, Executive
> Director, at sunil(a)cis-india.org or Nishant Shah, Director – Research, at
> nishant(a)cis-india.org. To discuss collaborations on Indic language
> wikipedia, write to T. Vishnu Vardhan, Programme Director, A2K, at
> vishnu(a)cis-india.org
>
> CIS is grateful to its donors, Wikimedia Foundation, Ford Foundation,
> Privacy International, UK, Hans Foundation and the Kusuma Trust which was
> founded by Anurag Dikshit and Soma Pujari, philanthropists of Indian
> origin, for its core funding and support for most of its projects.
>
>
> Thanks
> Nitika Tandon
>
> _______________________________________________
> Wikimedia-in-mum mailing list
> Wikimedia-in-mum(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-mum
>
>
Hi All,
The proposal due date has been extended to 16 Dec 2013, in order to give
more time for proposals and also to strengthen the nominations. You can
check the current status of nominations and initiate new proposals at this
page<https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Komarraju_LakshmanaRao_Wikimedia_Aw…>
.
Thanks
Arjuna
2013/12/3 Ravi Vyzasatya <vyzasatya(a)gmail.com>
> Dear fellow Wikimedians,
>
> I will start by introducing myself to the community. I am Ravi Vyzasatya
> based in Maryland. I have contributed to Telugu Wikipedia since 2005 and to
> a lesser extent in Telugu Wiktionary and Wikisource. I did serve as admin
> in all these projects. Although my primary interest is in writing well
> researched articles in the area of South Indian history, I do help the
> community by running bot scripts and taking care of miscellaneous
> administrative tasks.
>
> Telugu wikipedia will be 10 years old in another week from now. On this
> auspicious occasion Telugu Wikimedia Community is organizing celebrations
> under the leadership of an organizing committee headed by Vishwanath B.K,
> Pranayraj as Secretary, Kasyap as Treasurer along with Rahimanuddin, WMIN
> SIG lead Telugu, Vishnuvardhan, CIS-A2K Program Director as members. We
> have also constituted an awards committee with myself as President, Arjuna
> Rao Chavala, WMIN Co-founder and its first President as Secretary and A.
> Rajasekhar, T. Sujatha, NWR 2011 award winners from Telugu Wikis and A.
> Radhakrishna, Former WMIN SIG lead for Bangalore as members. The award is
> named after Komarraju Lakshmana Rao[1], pioneer Telugu encyclopedian who
> undertook the first modern encyclopedic effort in Telugu, perhaps the first
> among Indian languages (c.1912-13). It is also quite fitting tribute to
> Lakshmana Rao to honor his memory in the centennial anniversary of such
> pioneering effort. The award carries a citation and cash prize of Rs
> 10,000/. Organizing committee and awards committee members are ineligible
> for the awards to avoid any perceived or real conflict of interest.
>
> We are inviting nominations [2] for awards on Telugu Wikimedia projects.
> Nominations are due by 9th Dec 2013 24:00 midnight (UTC). Members can self
> -nominate or be nominated by others, in consideration for these awards.
> Nomination process has been developed by Arjuna building upon the NWR 2011
> nomination process[3] pioneered by another WMIN Cofounder and the then EC
> Member Arunram . We express our sincere appreciation for the same. We think
> that this initiative with nominal cash prize by Telugu community may be the
> first of its kind and will complement the existing recognition mechanisms
> and help encourage budding Wikimedians in their initial years of
> contribution. We invite all Indian Wikimedians to participate in the award
> nomination process as you may be familiar with our Telugu Wikimedians
> through their efforts in English, Kannada, Tamil language Wikimedia
> projects. For the benefit of wider Wikimedia community, we have provided
> for relevant remarks on the nomination pages in English and also invite
> nominations or support for the existing nominations in English, if you
> choose to do so.
>
> We solicit your wishes on this happy occasion and will be sharing the
> updates about the celebrations, awards and other related Telugu wiki
> activities as things roll out.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Ravi Vyzasatya
>
> References 1.English wiki page on Komarraju Lakshmana Rao, the first
> Encylopaedist among Indian languages from India
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komarraju_Venkata_Lakshmana_Rao
>
> 2. Award details page in Telugu
> https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA…
>
> 3. Nominations page in Telugu
> https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA…
>
Hi Friends,
On behalf of Telugu Wikipedia and other Telugu Wikimedia projects, I greet
you on the ocassion of tenth anniversary of Telugu Wikipedia today. Many
thanks to each one of you for your contributions and support to Wiki
eco-system. I am sure that some of your contributions are utilised in
Telugu Wikipedia. We encourage you to leave any messages to the Telugu
Community on this email thread or on Telugu Wikipedia Feedback
page<https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:FB>in Telugu or English.
Sincerely
Arjuna Rao Chavala
Telugu Wikipedia Bureaucrat
Hi all,
This is part of the replies of Vishnu four months ago.
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Me:
And also tell the community, who are all involved in the interview process
and selection process, and why?
Vishnu:
BEFORE EVEN PUBLISHING THE JOB ADVERTISEMENT WE HAD DECIDED TO PUBLISH A
BLOG POST/WRITE-UP ON THE SELECTION PROCESS AND SHARE IT WITH THE WIKIMEDIA
INDIA COMMUNITY AS PART OF OUR TRANSPARENCY MEASURE. ONCE THIS IS UP, WILL
SHARE THE LINK.
Me:
Please make available the job descriptions/roles for all the employees at
meta and share the same in the mailing list.
Vishnu:
YES WE ARE REWORKING THE PROFILES AS THE EARLIER ROLES ARE NO MORE
RELEVANT. WE WILL TAKE THIS UP ON PRIORITY AND PUT IT UP ON META. THE LINKS
TO A2K TEAM MEMBER PROFILES, SHARED EVERY MONTH IN A2K NEWSLETTERS, WILL IN
FUTURE BE LINKED TO THE META PAGES.
--------------------------------------------------------------
If I've missed any updates on this from A2K, let me know.
What happened to the decision? When do you plan to share this, next year?
If so you should have told the community. Don't you think so?
Besides user pages (User pages don't have detailed information about the
job description) there is no proper work details of anybody on meta
officially
. I don't think there is any even off-wiki
. (Profiles at CIS site are not detailed enough to know their works)
We don't know who is responsible for which work!! Who is doing what?
Few more questions..
Why still *2* new recruits are missing even after several months, at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Team<http://bl-1.com/click/load/ADAAMlM2Um8Hb1w7CTw-b0231>
,
Why there is no *monthly reports* updated on meta,
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Reports<http://bl-1.com/click/load/VGRaaABlVmtQOFA3AjA-b0231>
Why there is no *community Mid-year reports* updated,
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Reports<http://bl-1.com/click/load/VmZZawdiAj9ROVUyBDc-b0231>
If there is any report available anywhere, when do you plan to update the
meta pages?
Why there is no response to this, Evaluation results after months? *How
long are your two weeks?*
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:India_Access_To_Knowledge/Work_plan_Ap…<http://bl-1.com/click/load/UGAKOFw5WmcCagZhV2c-b0231>
What about "*Quarterly Community Survey*" mentioned here,
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Work_plan_April_2…<http://bl-1.com/click/load/XW0PPQdiBzoFbVA3VGU-b0231>?
Is there any plan to do this ever?
And on this
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Forum/Archives/2013-08#Terms_.2F_…<http://bl-1.com/click/load/BDRcblQxATwFbQFmUmw-b0231>,
which Shyamal brought it up; I'd like to see something concrete from the
Foundation.
I don't know about off-wiki, but there hasn't been proper communication on
anything on-wiki. If there is a change in plans or updates on any event, we
don't get to see that! Why?
* Who is accountable for all these discrepancies??*
I request the foundation or whoever is responsible for this to make sure
everything goes as it planned or discussed, and let the community know what
is happening regularly on-wiki.
Thanks.
Regards,
Ansuman
Great initiative guys! All the best for it
Sent from the touchscreen equivalent of a Nokia 1100, pardon the sender.
--
Srikanth Ramakrishnan,
Treasurer.
On Dec 3, 2013 2:21 PM, "Ravi Vyzasatya" <vyzasatya(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear fellow Wikimedians,
>
> I will start by introducing myself to the community. I am Ravi Vyzasatya
> based in Maryland. I have contributed to Telugu Wikipedia since 2005 and to
> a lesser extent in Telugu Wiktionary and Wikisource. I did serve as admin
> in all these projects. Although my primary interest is in writing well
> researched articles in the area of South Indian history, I do help the
> community by running bot scripts and taking care of miscellaneous
> administrative tasks.
>
> Telugu wikipedia will be 10 years old in another week from now. On this
> auspicious occasion Telugu Wikimedia Community is organizing celebrations
> under the leadership of an organizing committee headed by Vishwanath B.K,
> Pranayraj as Secretary, Kasyap as Treasurer along with Rahimanuddin, WMIN
> SIG lead Telugu, Vishnuvardhan, CIS-A2K Program Director as members. We
> have also constituted an awards committee with myself as President, Arjuna
> Rao Chavala, WMIN Co-founder and its first President as Secretary and A.
> Rajasekhar, T. Sujatha, NWR 2011 award winners from Telugu Wikis and A.
> Radhakrishna, Former WMIN SIG lead for Bangalore as members. The award is
> named after Komarraju Lakshmana Rao[1], pioneer Telugu encyclopedian who
> undertook the first modern encyclopedic effort in Telugu, perhaps the first
> among Indian languages (c.1912-13). It is also quite fitting tribute to
> Lakshmana Rao to honor his memory in the centennial anniversary of such
> pioneering effort. The award carries a citation and cash prize of Rs
> 10,000/. Organizing committee and awards committee members are ineligible
> for the awards to avoid any perceived or real conflict of interest.
>
> We are inviting nominations [2] for awards on Telugu Wikimedia projects.
> Nominations are due by 9th Dec 2013 24:00 midnight (UTC). Members can self
> -nominate or be nominated by others, in consideration for these awards.
> Nomination process has been developed by Arjuna building upon the NWR 2011
> nomination process[3] pioneered by another WMIN Cofounder and the then EC
> Member Arunram . We express our sincere appreciation for the same. We think
> that this initiative with nominal cash prize by Telugu community may be the
> first of its kind and will complement the existing recognition mechanisms
> and help encourage budding Wikimedians in their initial years of
> contribution. We invite all Indian Wikimedians to participate in the award
> nomination process as you may be familiar with our Telugu Wikimedians
> through their efforts in English, Kannada, Tamil language Wikimedia
> projects. For the benefit of wider Wikimedia community, we have provided
> for relevant remarks on the nomination pages in English and also invite
> nominations or support for the existing nominations in English, if you
> choose to do so.
>
> We solicit your wishes on this happy occasion and will be sharing the
> updates about the celebrations, awards and other related Telugu wiki
> activities as things roll out.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Ravi Vyzasatya
>
> References
>
> 1.English wiki page on Komarraju Lakshmana Rao, the first Encylopaedist
> among Indian languages from India
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komarraju_Venkata_Lakshmana_Rao
>
> 2. Award details page in Telugu
> https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA…
>
> 3. Nominations page in Telugu
> https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA…<https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA…>
>
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