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 Wikipedians,
hope everything is fine with you all :)
On behalf of Wikimedia community Mumbai, I have planned for a meet-up this
coming April. Its been more than two months when we had held a meet up on
15 January 2012, and hence I took initiative to have asap. Primary agenda
to have this meet-up is to bring and connect with all the* Photowalk
II *participants,
adding to with will be discussions regarding GLAM. Do suggest if you have
any agenda, will be surely discussed.
Meet-up is been tentatively planned on *7 April 2012. *Put in your views.
Happy editing :)
Thanks and regards,
Karthik Nadar
(User:Karthikndr <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Karthikndr>).
FYI, a response I got offlist. :)
Ashwin
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From: Ashwin Baindur <ashwin.baindur(a)gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 12:21 AM
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-IN-PUN] Need Marathi presence in Wikiproject
Medical Translation
To: Rahul Deshmukh <rahuldeshmukh101(a)gmail.com>
Good to know that Marathi Wikipedians are already hard at work. :)
Please add this information to the link I have listed in the post. I
have been adding material to the English version of an important medical
article today.
Ashwin
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 11:34 PM, Rahul Deshmukh
<rahuldeshmukh101(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Ashwin,
>
> I have already started the medical project working on Marathi WP. The status
> is
>
> 1) Created Project Portal
> 2) Collected members to work on ( including 2 Doctors)
> 3) Around 10 articles are created and under development.
> 4) All related categories, templates are developed.
>
> Can visit at
>
> http://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AA%…
>
> Please tell me what can I do next.
>
> Thanks
> Rahul Deshmukh
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 10:49 PM, Mandar Kulkarni
> <mandar.kulkarni(a)wikimedia.in> wrote:
>>
>> fyi and na pls....
>>
>> Pls. pass on to right people as well who are involved in medical project
>> working on Marathi WP
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Ashwin Baindur <ashwin.baindur(a)gmail.com>
>> Date: Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 10:27 PM
>> Subject: [Wikimedia-IN-PUN] Need Marathi presence in Wikiproject Medical
>> Translation
>> To: Marathi Wikimedia <mr-wiki(a)yahoogroups.com>, "Mailing list for
>> Wikimedians in Pune, India" <wikimedia-in-pun(a)lists.wikimedia.org>,
>> wikimedia-in-mum <wikimedia-in-mum(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
>>
>>
>> Dear friends,
>>
>> We sorely need the presence of Marathi Wikipedia in this vital project.
>>
>> Ashwin
>>
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>> From: Nikita Belavate <nsbelavate(a)gmail.com>
>> Date: Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 9:10 PM
>> Subject:
>> To: "ashwin.baindur" <ashwin.baindur(a)gmail.com>
>>
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:MED/Translation_project
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Warm regards,
>>
>> Ashwin Baindur
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>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>>
>> Mandar V Kulkarni
>> Email: mandar.kulkarni(a)wikimedia.in
>> Website: http://mr.wikipedia.org
>>
>
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Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur
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Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur
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Dear friends,
We sorely need the presence of Marathi Wikipedia in this vital project.
Ashwin
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Nikita Belavate <nsbelavate(a)gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 9:10 PM
Subject:
To: "ashwin.baindur" <ashwin.baindur(a)gmail.com>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:MED/Translation_project
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Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur
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hi,
Gentle reminder that we've not had a meetup since January. Anyone
volunteering to hold the meetup in March?
Pradeep
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How Pradeep uses email - http://goo.gl/6v1I9
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
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