Send Wikimedia-in-mum mailing list submissions to wikimedia-in-mum(a)lists.wikimedia.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-mum or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to wikimedia-in-mum-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org You can reach the person managing the list at wikimedia-in-mum-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Wikimedia-in-mum digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Wikipedia-X anniversary pre-event meetup (Utkarshraj Atmaram) 2. Re: Wikipedia-X anniversary pre-event meetup (rudolphfurtado(a)indiatimes.com) 3. Re: Wikipedia-X anniversary pre-event meetup (Vivek Varghese Cherian) 4. Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Banner designers required (Vivek Varghese Cherian) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2011 00:48:49 +0530 From: Utkarshraj Atmaram &lt;utcursch(a)gmail.com&gt; Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-in-mum] Wikipedia-X anniversary pre-event meetup To: Pradeep Mohandas &lt;pradeep.mohandas(a)gmail.com&gt; Cc: wikimedia-in-mum(a)lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: &lt;AANLkTim9Q23_Zqc3No=b3sbXYcBU-cPA3s6OM6PRHwQM(a)mail.gmail.com&gt; Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" I might not be able to attend tomorrow's meet due to my academic schedule, but here's a suggestion. While finalizing the agenda, please ensure that during one of the talks, people are informed about how they can contribute photographs to Wikipedia. A lot of Mumbai-related articles don't have any photographs. Even the Wikipedia article on the venue (VJTI) doesn't have any pics other than the logo! I've added around 150 articles to this category today alone: < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_requested_photographs_in_Mu… and there are many more wall-of-text articles. The Bangalore Wikipedians are already planning a session on photography: < http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangalore#Photography> They are also organizing a photo walk tomorrow to promote addition of Bangalore-related photographs. I don't think we have time to organize a photo-walk before the 15th, but we can at least attract some attention to the need for photographs. Several newbie contributors I've interacted with during the past meetups don't understand the concepts like CC licenses or the difference between Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons. Things can be made easier for them with a 5-minute quick introduction to the topic. Also, nearly 60 people have registered for the event with one week to go for the event. I guess this number will rise by a good margin in the coming days? Do we enough volunteers? Maybe we can create a page similar to < http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangalore#Volunteers>gt;. -- Utkarshraj Atmaram http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Utcursch On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Pradeep Mohandas < pradeep.mohandas(a)gmail.com the and