The FAQ that was promised in the previous email. Again FYI.
warm regards,
Pradeep
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From: Barry Newstead <bnewstead(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: 15 February 2011 22:56
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] FAQ: Consultant for National Programs, India
To: India list <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc: hisham <hisham.mundol(a)gmail.com>
Here is the link to the FAQ. Feel free to add questions if you have them
and I'll attempt to answer ;)
http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/FAQ_Consultancy_for_National_Programs,_I…
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FYI.
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From: Barry Newstead <bnewstead(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: 15 February 2011 22:40
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Announcing Hisham Mundol as WMF consultant for
National Programs, India
To: India list <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc: hisham <hisham.mundol(a)gmail.com>
Dear colleagues, (please feel free to cross-post this to local lists within
India)
I am pleased to announce the appointment of Hisham Mundol as a consultant to
the Wikimedia Foundation to support us in our program initiatives in India.
As you know, the Wikimedia Foundation declared India to be a strategic
priority during the strategic planning process [1]. I announced our plans
for the formation of an office in August 2010 and the Wikimedia Foundation
Board of Trustees approved the creation of the Wikimedia India chapter in
June 2010. India is a priority for the Wikimedia movement as it has a strong
and growing community of Wikimedians building the Indic and English language
projects. It is a country where the Wikimedia movement can achieve our
mission and learn important lessons for achieving impact elsewhere. The
engagement of Hisham will enable the Wikimedia Foundation to pilot new
initiatives aimed at accelerating the growth of the community in India. I am
very happy we’ve now reached this point.
As I have mentioned in the past, we have a lot of momentum in India but we
have a long way to go to achieve our full potential as a movement. Indians
represent 4% of the world’s Internet users today (and this share is
growing), yet they only represent 1.5% of page edits on Wikipedia. We should
be able to rapidly increase this share - across all projects - and expand
readership in a corresponding fashion.
Hisham’s title will be Consultant, India National Programs. He will report
to me. His role will be to design and implement specific pilot programs
that encourage many more Indians to become contributors to our projects in
Indic languages as well as English. The National Programs initiative will
focus on the following areas in the first year:
-
Design and implement an India-wide program to increase Wikimedia’s
footprint on university and college campuses with students and faculty with
the aim of encouraging contributions to Wikimedia projects
-
Support the launch and implementation of community-initiated programs
that seek to increase the editor base for Wikimedia projects
-
Engage with the community and chapter to build a strong relationship
among these stakeholder groups and create communications forums that allow
for effective partnerships
As a newcomer to the Wikimedia movement, Hisham’s first task will be to
deepen his understanding of us: our history, goals, values, culture and
mission. To that end, he will be spending the coming weeks (not months!) in
learning mode: Hisham and I will be meeting with community members in
Mumbai, Pune and Bangalore on Feb 23-25 and then Hisham will join community
meetings across the country as they occur. Hisham will also spend time in
San Francisco with the staff of the Wikimedia Foundation, as well as with
other like-minded individuals and organizations and he will attend the
chapter conference in Berlin.
Hisham will be creating a workspace on strategy wiki where he will share
what he is learning and develop the core elements of the action plan going
forward. We encourage active community engagement on this wiki. We aim to
move to action quickly and welcome input and guidance from across the
community.
Hisham was most recently a consultant with the Public Health Foundation of
India (in a partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation). He
designed and implemented large-scale national programs on HIV/AIDS
prevention. He worked to understand the dynamics of hard-to-reach
communities by conducting in-depth, on-the-ground analysis (ask him to tell
you about his experience talking to drivers while sitting under their
trucks). The programs he designed and implemented sought to convince people
in large numbers - 400 million young people across the nation - to change
very personal behaviours. While we are not tackling issues of such an
intimate nature, we do aim to convince large numbers of people across the
country to contribute their personal time to Wikimedia projects. During
this assignment, Hisham worked closely with public, private and community
groups (local and international) to work through the details of the programs
and build partnerships for implementing them at scale. He did so in a manner
that used persuasion rather than power to build support to move things
forward. We think his experience navigating these varied groups position
him well to work in the Wikimedia community. His earlier career was in
marketing and business development with a number of well-known businesses:
Infosys, Accenture, Cadbury and Unilever. This experience positions him well
to engage with a movement and organization that is global in nature, in
particular to work with a team that is based halfway around the world.
We have scheduled an IRC chat with Hisham and myself for Thursday, February
17 at 22:00 India Standard Time (16:30 UTC).
I want to thank everyone who helped in the selection process that identified
Hisham. It was a five month process in which we made an open call for
consultants (using my visit in September to drum up interest via
conversations with the community and the media) in India and around the
world. We had 197 applicants from a wide range of professional backgrounds.
Egon Zehnder’s India office, part of a leading global executive search
firm, helped screen candidates and manage the process. Egon Zehnder
conducted indepth interviews with 25 candidates based on the inputs from
Bishakha and I who helped shortlist. I interviewed 12 candidates via Skype
in the first round and then I had the help of Bishakha Datta and Achal
Prabhala to interview the top seven in person in Bangalore. Our top two
candidates met with Sue and Erik in Delhi and then Hisham met with the
entire WMF leadership team and a broad group of staff members in San
Francisco.
We are very happy with the selection of Hisham. We recognize that we did not
manage to hire someone from inside the Wikimedia community or the open
source community. We did look for people with this background and one of
our finalists was a long time open source advocate. We also engaged with a
long time Wikimedian for a role, though he ultimately decided to withdraw
for personal reasons. We are committed to seeing Hisham integrate himself
into the community quickly and to seeing him add people to his team from the
community. We hope that the community will engage actively with him to
bring him into the fold. Hisham will most definitely bring fresh
perspectives to the movement that will help us grow and change for the
better.
Please join me in welcoming Hisham to the Wikimedia movement.
Note: An FAQ will follow shortly.
Best,
Barry
[1] *http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Plan/Role_of_the_WMF*<http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Plan/Role_of_the_WMF>
[2] *
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2010-August/000850.ht…
*<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2010-August/000850.ht…>
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hi,
Apologies for repeatedly posting similar information to the list. We've
decided to have one single page for all the GLAM projects in India on a
single page.
Link - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/India
For now, we'll have one page. So, I hope Wikipedians from Ahmedabad, Pune,
Mumbai, Kolkata and Bangalore who have all had or going to have meetings
with Liam may put the information into this one single page. I have created
the page on Wikipedia so that we could point to one single page if necessary
and also get help from GLAM members outside India if needed.
There is a sign-up list and I hope that you will sign up there to
participate in the GLAM project in India. I'll be updating all the
institutes that Liam has already visited and their responses on the page. I
have also added a column for the people who visited the institution so that
we know who has been in touch with what institution.
In the remarks section, feel free to leave any specific request that the
institution made or any specific take-aways from the institution. I'll try
and post all the meetings that has already been done in India and update the
pages.
warm regards,
Pradeep
Me too,
I have some photos of mumbai, which I am happy to contribute to Wikipedia
under a preferred license.. let me know which one is of use.
http://www.cityblogger.com/photos/bombay
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Rohini L <rohini.lakshane(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hi AroundTheGlobe,
>
> Do you need photos of Mumbai for a particular page or project? I have
> pictures of the Mumbai University campus in Kalina, the organic farmers'
> market in Bandra, various temples and tourist spots in Mumbai. Most of them
> are uploaded on Flickr.
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/rohini1729/sets/72157625751133822/
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/rohini1729/sets/72157625952046846/
>
> Regards,
> Rohini
> --
>
> Technology Blog : Technosophy <http://technosophi.blogspot.com>
> Travel Blog: Wayfarers And Pathfinders<http://wayfarersandpathfinders.blogspot.com>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:34 AM, <wheredevelsdare(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Anirudh,
>>
>> I understand that is the case. However, even if its in Viveks personal
>> name (what I had orignially meant, sorry for not clarifying) it gives a
>> certain level of comfort to all as then there is lesser chance of
>> "pilferage" as all transactions will relate to Wikimedia Mumbai expenses.
>>
>> Just a suggestion for Vivek - finally I guess its his call on how to
>> handle things as he is in charge of Mumbai funds and will have to give
>> answers when required.
>>
>> Lets end this here and get down to the real work. I have mentioned to
>> Bishaka, Vivek and Pradeep, after our first Photowalk, I ran a quick check
>> on Flickr for Mumbai related content and found a lot of relevant and
>> professional photographs. I contacted relevant uploaders requesting them to
>> change licensing to CC-BY or CC-BY-SA so that to allow use on Wikipedia.
>>
>> A lot of them agreed - for example, I got pictures of an IPL match at
>> Brabourne Stadium, several photographs of Ganpati Visarjan at Girgaum
>> Chowpatty (taken from a boat by a visiting foreigner who kindly agreed to
>> change licensing) - they include wonderful picutures of the beach full of
>> people and idols, coast guard choppers patrolling etc., Ballard Bunder
>> Gatehouse, an ATP tournament that took place in Mumbai at CCI in 2006,
>> Agatti and Delhi airports (aerial view) and Mani Bhavan pictures so far.
>> During the photowalks we would have taken a lot of time to cover so much -
>> and may not have been as professional.
>>
>> Further past sports events is something we could not have got for obvious
>> reasons and I doubt we could have got as good pictures of Ganesh Visarjan
>> (even if we waited a few more months ourselves). Out of about 15 people
>> contacted about 7 people have agreed to change the licensing (only 1 refusal
>> thus far). A lot of the amateur photographers on Flickr might be willing to
>> let go of the copyright so as to get more exposure and notice through
>> Wikipedia (they may even pass the word that their photographs have been
>> requested for use by Wikipedians and are currently used on Wikipedia!). A
>> couple of them while changing the license requested me for the link to the
>> article on which their photo is used. It may be a good idea for us to
>> concentrate on getting pictures from Flickr rather than conducting more
>> photowalks (by identifying requisite photographs and requesting them via
>> comments on the said photo and email to the photographer/flickr user). I
>> shall be mentioning this on the India string as well.
>>
>> Regards,
>> User:AroundTheGlobe
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>
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Photos: http://cityblogger.com/photos
hi,
Thanks Arun for posting it here. I was really tired when I posted this
yesterday to the Mumbai mailing list. It does seem more or less accurate. A
few additions from what I missed out yesterday night.
1. With The Museum ( Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalay - CSMVS),
we spoke with the Museum Director, Chief Art Conservator and the Business
Development Executive there. After the requisite background that Liam
provided (it also helped perhaps that the British Museum Director, Neil
MacGregor visited the Museum this week) that we gave them a rough idea of
possible activities we could do together. We also explained to the
Conservator how a typical session would be conducted to help them understand
their part of the responsibilities and what will be ours.
2. At Jnanapravaha, Bishaka and Liam visited. After the usual pitch, the
feedback was that they were interested in getting students to write and
improve articles on Indian art and aesthetics on Wikipedia. They have asked
for help previous to the next semester in July on how such a thing can be
organised.
3. Ashwin Baindur asked about how to work with institutions like Maharashtra
Archives which are facing a brunt of the budget cuts (they get the money
after the song and dance shows, museums etc all get their cut) and have
trouble with up-keep of their archives. Liam replied that this would mainly
be in helping them digitise records. The trouble, Liam said, was on where to
begin and how to priorotise work. Stating the example of the National
Library, Kolkata he said that some books were not even docketed (I forget
the original word - something to do with giving the books numbers and
classifying appropriately). We agreed that Libraries and Archives also
suffered because there was no good Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
software for Indic languages. Liam suggested a French example of how an old
French cursive text made it un-OCR-able (new word - mine!) and got help from
Wikipedians to manually type in text onto WikiSource.
4. Bishaka raised the point that all of the GLAM activities could also be
simultaneously done in various languages locally. So, during a Backstage
Pass event in Mumbai, we could improve the English, Hindi and Marathi (say)
articles at once. Editors in any language are welcome to contribute.
5. There have been an influx of new people and requests from people for a
basic editing session. Perhaps it is time to interlace the meetups with
WikiAcademy.
With that, I hope I've more or less covered all Wikipedia territory from the
meetup. If I missed out on anything, feel very free to jump in and add your
notes.
warm regards,
Pradeep
hi,
We've created a start-up project page under GLAM for co-ordinating
activities among Wikipedians interested in working with GLAM institutions in
Mumbai. I've built up a pretty simple GLAM Mumbai project page -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Mumbai.
We'll keep this page updated. Request all Wikipedians interested to sign up
and spread the word.
warm regards,
Pradeep Mohandas
User:Prad2609
hi,
For the past few days, Liam Wyatt has been going around cultural
institutions in Mumbai. He will be going to a few on Monday morning as well.
This is a small report for the benefit of the group and for those interested
and who could not make it for the meetup today at the Pinstorm offices in
Santacruz. Our thanks to Netra there who offered and allowed us use of space
on such short notice.
We had a nice turn up today of around 20-25 people.
We started off with directly with Liam's talk on his work with the British
Museum. His work/documentation of his work here can be found at
http://enwp.org/WP:GLAM/BM. He then talked about his idea behind doing a
project with the British Museum after a controversy the year before with the
British National Archives. He said that the relationship was mutually
beneficial to both and did not compromise on the principles of either
Wikipedia or the British Museum. He talked about the series of conferences
called GLAMWIKI that have already happened in London and Paris and are
planned in Washington DC and Barcelona.
He then went on to talk about five of the events that he conducted during
his 5 month stint as the Wikipedian-in-Residence at the British Museum.
These included the Backstage Pass, One on One Collaborations/Photos
Requested, Feature Article Prize, the Hoxne Challenge and the School
Translations.
Backstage Pass involves a free tour of Museum objects in display and out of
display by curators of the Museum for Wikipedians working on an article. The
One-on-One Collaborations was an exchange of requests between Curators and
Wikipedians who needed each others help - curators to improve articles on
Wikipedia and Wikipedians for expert advice on articles in Wikipedia. Photos
Requested requested for photos in different parts of the museum. Feature
Article Prize was an interesting if controversial experiment. The British
Museum offered 100 pounds for the 5 articles in Featured Article in
Wikipedia related to an item in the British Museum. This became similar to
the pay-for-edit idea. However, the rationale was that since the prize money
was not for an article on the British Museum and was for an object/topic
related article, it was okay. The Hoxne Challenge was an effort to see how
Wikipedians could improve an article on one subject given access to subject
experts etc.The subject given was that of the Hoxne Hoard discovered in
England in 1992. I think it goes without saying that the article reached
Featured Article rating pretty quickly. The last was the School Translations
project where a group of French school children that Liam knew translated
the articles on certain items in the British Museum from English into French
as part of their English class homework. The students later visited London
(like they regularly apparently did) and visited the Museum to see the
objects they had written about as part of class.
These were some of the implementations possible in the 5 week period whilst
Liam was with British Museum.
Bishaka and Liam reported on their visits to The Museum (Chhatrapati Shivaji
Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalay) and Jnanapravaha. I accompanied Liam and Bishaka
to The Museum. I am pleasantly surprised by the way they have transformed
it! We've reported on positive responses from these cultural institutions.
Liam and Bishaka will be visiting one more institution tomorrow.
We then had a brief introduction to pad.ma. The part that relates to
Wikimedia Commons was a demo on how a plugin for Firefox developed by the
same team helped in uploading files in the .ogg format to Wikimedia
Commons.
We had a small reference to the Workshop for Women on Wikipedia (an idea
suggested by Tinu Cherian) and we suggested the idea to two students who had
come from SNDT Women's University to the meetup today. We've requested them
to check on the possibility of using their labs to conduct the Workshop in
Mumbai on or around March 8, 2011 (to re-iterate: the centenary celebrations
of Women's Day).
warm regards,
Pradeep Mohandas
*The Hindustan Times : Wiki to tie up with city galleries, museums*
http://www.hindustantimes.com/Wiki-to-tie-up-with-city-galleries-museums/Ar…
*A 14th-century manuscript of Dante’s Divine Comedy is the Asiatic Society
of Mumbai’s most treasured possession. And, if all goes well, you may soon
be able to read all about it and how it ended up in the city, on
wikipedia.com. The Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organisation behind
*
*
*
* *
*Wikipedia, is in the process of tying up with galleries, libraries,
archives and museums for what is unofficially called the GLAM project, a
global cultural initiative that seeks to make exclusive material available
to the world via the online encyclopaedia.*
*Liam Wyatt, now a cultural partnerships fellow with Wikimedia Foundation,
had been working independently with several museums around the world towards
this end. Last month, he was roped in by the foundation for a one-year
fellowship.*
*
*
*India was Wyatt’s first destination as part of GLAM and he officially
launched the project in Mumbai on Saturday.*
*
*
*“The amount of content in Indian cultural institutions is massive,” said
Wyatt. “That, combined with the potential for*
*
*
*Internet penetration in India and the vibrant Wikipedia community here,
make this a great destination for GLAM.”*
*
*
*The project will also urge experts and curators to upload information about
topics of their choice. “Enough information about the cultural heritage of
India is still not available on the internet. For a young girl in a village
in Maharashtra, a textbook should not be her only resource,” said Wyatt. "We
need experts who have this information to come on board and help.”*
*
*
*In March, Wyatt plans to travel to Switzerland, France and Germany to
promote GLAM.*
Regards
Tinu Cherian
http://wikimedia.in/wiki/In_the_news#February_2011
hi,
To repeat, the GLAM meetup scheduled for February 13, 2011 has been shifted
to the Pinstorm offices. If you do not know how to get here, I am sharing
this Google Maps image of the place -
http://maps.google.co.in/maps?um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=Pinstorm,+Santacruz&fb=1&gl=i…
Also, on getting there:
It's 10 minutes walking distance from the railway station.
If you're coming by rickshaw/taxi you can state your destination as Arya
Samaj, Santacruz. The auto can take you through either Linking Road or S V
Road.
1. On S V Road, take the lane (called North Avenue) directly opposite to
Dynasty Chinese Restaurant.
2. On Linking Road, stop at Tresorie.
You will find a lane opposite Tresorie where the Pinstrom office is the last
building. One of us will get there before time and stand there. You can call
me on 897-625-3586. I'll try my best with directions.
Do keep the address with you for reference:
Pinstorm, Swati Building, Ground floor, Behind Kotak Bank, Off Linking Road,
Santacruz West, Mumbai 400050.
It'd be great if someone could make an OpenStreetMap version of this. Till
then, I've posted this on the Wikipedia page.
warm regards,
Pradeep
Dear all,
There's been a change of venue, sorry about this.
The meetup will now be held at Pinstorm, Swati Building, Ground floor,
Behind Kotak Bank, Off Linking Road, Santacruz West, Mumbai 400050.
Time remains the same - 4 pm, Sunday 13 Feb.
Many thanks to Netra Parikh of Pinstorm for coming through and helping out
at such short notice.
See you'll there - more below.
Bishakha
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From: Bishakha Datta <bishakhadatta(a)gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 12:53 PM
Subject: Fwd: Reminder: Meetup 7 - Sunday 13 Feb 4 pm
To: Mumbai List Wikimedia <wikimedia-in-mum(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Dear all,
Just wanted to remind everyone about the upcoming Mumbai meetup on
Sunday,February 13, 2011 at 4:00 pm,details of which are at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Mumbai/Mumbai7
Liam Wyatt <http://www.wittylama.com/>, a longstanding wikipedian who is
visiting India for a week, will be the featured speaker at this meetup.
More about Liam in his own words:
"I am the Wikimedia Foundation’s Cultural Partnerships
Fellow<http://bit.ly/GLAMfellow>(aka GLAM fellow), based in Sydney. My
username everywhere is “Witty lama”
- an anagram. I speak French and Swedish, have three highly prized yellow
shirts <http://www.arc.unsw.edu.au/Yellow-Shirts-53.aspx>, a bachelors in
Globalisation Studies and one highly prized university
medal<http://wittylama.com/thesis>.
In former lives I have been Vice President of Wikimedia
Australia<http://wikimedia.org.au/>and the “Wikipedian
in Residence <http://www.wittylama.com/2010/03/the-british-museum-and-me/>”
at the British Museum. Also, a project officer at
Austlii<http://www.austlii.edu.au/austlii/>and multimedia coordinator
at the Dictionary
of Sydney <http://www.dictionaryofsydney.org/www/html/51-project-teams.asp>, a
historian, podcaster <http://wikipediaweekly.org/>,
fire-twirler<http://www.circusoc.com/>,
museuophile, snowboarder, förman <http://www.ostgota.nu/>, bartender and
backpacker."
Liam's visit to India is intended to support wikimedia communities to
explore the possibilities of collaborating with Galleries, Libraries,
Archives and Museums (GLAM) in strengthening articles/image collections on
wikipedia/wikimedia commons. From Mumbai, he moves on to Delhi and
Bangalore.
At the meetup, Sanjay Bhangar will also do a short presentation on the
Public Access Digital Media Archive (http://pad.ma) - which is an open
source video archive. His presentation will touch on a technical overview,
licencing, uploading video etc.
Look forward to your presence and active participation at this meetup. Liam
is really keen to meet as many fellow wikimedians as possible, so it would
be great if you could be there.
Best
Bishakha