Forwarded FYI
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From: Netha Hussain <nethahussain(a)gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 8:36 PM
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] India WikiWomen's Edit-a-Thon
To: wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org,
wikimedia-in-en(a)lists.wikimedia.org, gendergap(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Hey All,
I am writing to invite each one of you to India WikiWomen's
Edit-a-Thon that has been scheduled for 25th March 2012, Sunday from
12:00pm to 2:00pm. It's probably not possible for all of us to meet
physically to celebrate Women's Month but we all meet virtually -
online!
During the two hour time slot we all will be editing an article which
will be pre-selected by way of nomination and votes. Depending on the
number of members joining in we can also organise an IRC meet to meet
each other before and during the event.
Everyone is welcome to come edit Wikipedia with us at this event.
Women, new editors, all those who relate to women's history or women's
issues, those who want to learn how to edit or can teach others how,
and anyone with an interest in women's history are particularly
encouraged to attend.
Please sign Up here and suggest and vote for articles here. Nomination
for articles will be closed by 22nd of March and the voting will be
closed by 24th March. Hurry! :)
Thanks Nitika, for bringing up this idea!
I welcome all of you to participate by editing subjects about women's
history and more. Everyone is welcome!
Thanks
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Netha Hussain
User : Netha Hussain on Wikiprojects
Student of Medicine and Surgery
Govt. Medical College, Kozhikode
Blogs : nethahussain.blogspot.comswethaambari.wordpress.com
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On another thread, Srikanth Lakshmanan wrote...
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*On a another note, I wonder why no one posted this to the list, but there
has been Marathi Photothon and some 1300+ media files were uploaded[4],
which is great, but just that they chose not to use commons and use the
local wiki instead (bad idea, some Norwegian wikipedian cant use those :( )
There were some wonderful shots of NH4 as well as some copyvios which I
found in a quick glance. Ideally only fair use images must be uploaded to
local wiki's and CC-BY-SA files are best uploaded to commons since projects
across wikimedia universe can use it. *
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This requires action to remove copy-vios, & move the free images to
Wikimedia Commons. Otherwise, the whole effort of Photothon was wasted.
Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur
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Dear All,
>
>
>The next monthly meetup of Pune wikipedians, WikiPuneri, is planned for Saturday 10 Mar 2010, from 1800 to 1900 hrs at Ranade Institute, Ferguson Road, Near Rupali, Pune
>
>The intended purpose of the meetup is:
>
>Set up a long-term plan for a year's worth of Wikipuneri activities, with detailed planning for Wikipedia activities .
>
>The agenda is as follows:
>1. Discuss and plan for outreach activities in Pune
>2. Communication and
reporting of various activities of events
>3. Reporting of past events
like Marathi Wikisrot launch, Wiki academies
>4. Discuss on increase
member strength in Pune
>5. Discuss immd. project in Pune and the support
required
>
>Please sign up here :
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Pune/Pune19
>
>This is a very interesting and important meet so be sure to be present to push your ideas about what you would like to do!
>
>
>With Regards,
>
>Mandar V. Kulkarni
>http://mr.wikipedia.org
>http://mr.wikisource.org
>
>
cross-posting to reach pan-community; apologies if you have already read this from another list.
Dear All,
I am pleased to announce that Noopur Raval ([User:Noopur28] has been selected as Consultant to the Wikimedia Foundation, and will support Communications for India Program.
This position will perform 4 key functions. Firstly, it will support communications with our community. This involves a regular set of updates (such as newsletters) as well as specific communication projects such as story-telling of local community initiatives (to document experiences, celebrate successes and cross-pollinate ideas.) This is not for day-to-day program communications - which is a core part of each of our responsibilities in the India Program team. Second will be to support media & PR for local community initiatives. The single biggest challenge here will to be get more Indic language media coverage to support community building efforts. This will be done directly with community members and also in co-ordination with the India Chapter's Communications Media & PR team. The third aspect is to build and expand existing community social networks (such as WikimediaIndia on facebook) and to help with the use of social networks to support community building. Lastly, there is untapped potential of using digital outreach - to augment existing physical outreach efforts. We need to (very, very carefully) explore if we can reach out to our large and growing reader base and inform, encourage and enable them to become editors using online channels and resources.
Noopur is a community member and has supported outreach activities (in Ahmedabad & Delhi), is a member of Delhi SIG of the Chapter, has participated in community collaborations like Collaboration of the Month and has been actively trying to start GLAM in India.
Noopur is from Gandhinagar and is graduating from JNU with a Master's in Arts & Aesthetics. She has a triple honors Bachelor's in Media Studies, Literature and Psychology from Christ College, Bangalore. She has interned with Radio Mirchi, Times of India and the Centre for Internet & Society (amongst others) - as well as done some teaching assignments. She is an active blogger (including for the India Art Summit, 2011.) She has published a novella and co-authored an anthology of poems, plays & short stories and has co-presented a paper on "Wikiwars" with [User:Srikeit.] She is also an amateur photographer and has contributed to Commons as well as other platforms.
The Communications position has taken a long time to fill. The initial call for selection was in September. I reported back to the community in December that I had failed to find the right candidate and hence the delay. There were a number of deserving candidates and this selection has taken time because of the need to find the most suitable profile for a complex role. This role requires the right mix of an academic foundation in communications, domain expertise as well as adequate familiarity with our community. It also requires adaptability and strong learning skills - because so much of what we are trying to do is pioneering. I am confident that she brings the right level of experience and competencies - and I'm very excited by the opportunity of making a step jump in the impact of communications for our community.
Do join me in welcoming Noopur. She will start on March 12 and will be based in New Delhi.
Best
hisham