I think there are a few good projects that we've implemented which can be added
to Lodewijk's survey.
- Sundar
"That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for
the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted."
- George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture
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From: Lodewijk <lodewijk(a)effeietsanders.org>
To: "Local Chapters, board and officers coordination (closed subscription)"
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Sent: Thu, May 19, 2011 6:24:03 PM
Subject: [Internal-l] Dear chapters: Please send me your top 3 coolest projects
(apologies, forgot the link in the original)
Dear chapter representatives,
a little while ago, I embarked onto a crazy idea: try to make one overview
presentation for Wikimania of all the coolest, brightest and most exciting
chapter projects throughout the world. Trying to show the potential of what
chapters can do - not focussing on single projects, or even best practices, but
mainly on cool ideas and giving an overview of the chapter activities.
And to do that, I need your help! If you want me to include your chapter into
this overview, I would like to ask you to send me:
1) the names/topics of your top-3 (or less) projects which you were one way or
another (starting, finishing off) involved in since June 2010 (also possible to
send upcoming projects!)
2) a contact person which I can approach for more information
3) if available, a link to a project page
I don't ask you to write extensive descriptions, I just want to know what to
look for - if I have questions, I will come back to you. Please use the
following form to send me this
information: https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dDFIeFp5OHgtRXBmR0lhSXJlM2…
Since I don't have influence on the duration of the slot I will get (I expect I
can easily fill 1,5 hour with this topic), I cannot guarantee that your topic
gets in, and I might merge activities of several chapters into one activity as
example.
Thanks a lot for your input, and please let me know if you have any questions.
If the for doesn't work for you, just email me directly.
Hoping for many very nice projects in the spreadsheet soon,
Lodewijk
ps: of course you are all welcome to join the session at Wikimania and see the
outcomes!
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Hi All,
Just a quick information for all of you Odia Wikipedia is organizing its 4th
Workshop in Bangalore on 22 May 2011 at CIS, Domlur. Hope to see the
interested Odia Wikipedians there.
http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore2
*Main Agenda:*
*Session1:**Introduction to Wikipedia and odia wiki projects*
- - Introduction about Wikipedia and Odia Wikipedia
- - Current status of Odia Wikipedia
*Session2:**Introduction to Editing in Wikipedia*
- - How to edit any page in *Odia Wikipedia*
- - How to add *Bold*, *Italicised*, === Headings === and "sign" and
other commonly used syntaxes
- - How to add references and external links
- - Editing conflicts and how to solve them
- - What to write and what *NOT* to add in Odia Wikipedia
*
ସୁଭପାSubhashishPanigrahi
ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ
_______________________________________________
Wikipedia Odia (Oriya) mailing list
wikipedia-or(a)lists.wikimedia.org
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-orfacebook.com/OdiaWiki
Tweet @OdiaWiki
*
Hiya,
Just to remind everyone that Mumbai Meet-up X will take place DAY AFTER TOMORROW, 21 May 2011 (Saturday) at 3.45PM - venue is Pinstorm office, Santacruz (W) - nearest railway station is Santacruz on the Western Line. The two major items on the agenda are the proposed WikiConference India in November 2011 and a presentation on Campus Ambassadors by Hisham Mundol, Consultant - India Programs.
You can now follow the Mumbai Wiki Community on Facebook - "Like" this page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Wikipedia-in-Mumbai/112915472127887
To refresh yourself on the details of the meet-up and add your name to the attendees list (there is a section for those who will be attending remotely via Skype as well): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Mumbai/Mumbai10
Looking forward seeing everyone from the Mumbai Community present on Saturday.
Kind Regards,
User:AroundTheGlobe
Malayala Manorama, a malayalam newspaper & the largest regional language
newspaper by circulation in India, has a half page wide article on Wikipedia
today.
Unfortunately I couldn't get find a weblink or get a scanned scopy of this
newspaper.
You can see the epaper here >>
http://epaper.manoramaonline.com/edaily/flashclient/client_panel.aspx
( Free login creation required).
Date : 19/05/2011
Kochi Edition
Page 17 -Education.
The article has 2 sets , one on Santhosh Thootingal in WIkimedia Language
commmitte and other on Wikipedia.
For those non-Malayalam speaking crowd , this is what the article talks
about.
* How Malayalam Wikipedia is very active.
* 2500 Uploads to Wikimedia Commons in 23 days.
* History of Wiki software.
* Free Editing culture of Wikipedia
* Wikimedia Foundation.
* Availability of Wikipedia in 279 languages
* Birth of WIkipedia in 15 Jan 2001
* 2002 June - Punjabi , Assamese & Odiya Wikipedias
* 2002 Dec 21 - Birth of Malayalam Wikipedia.
* Anyone who wants to share knowledge and loves Malayalam can be part of the
Malayalam Wikipedia.
* No control over Wikipedia by nations and governments
* Artciles created and edited by multiple people. People add truths and
facts to WIkipedia [ ;) ]
* Nobody "owns" Wikipedia articles.
* Usage of Unicode on Wikipedia.
* Creation of maps on Wikipedia on ward ( lowest geographical division in
india) level
* Shiju Alex's contributions.
* Also introduces Wikisource, Wikibooks , Wikiquote and Wikitionary in
Malayalam.
* The article compares Santhosh Thootingal in Mal computing with the legend
of Malayalam language
* Brief description of Wikimedia Language committee.
Regards
Tinu Cherian
Dear All,
We will welcome if some one prepares a central notice banner, Since at mr wiki central notice has a random display of various messages so we can include Wikiconference India 2011 banner in the same.
Regards
Mahitgar
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1. Minutes of Pune 13 meetup held on 14 May 2011 (Ashwin Baindur)
2. Re: Wiki on http://wikimedia.in/ is now available at
http://wiki.wikimedia.in (Arjuna Rao Chavala)
3. Re: Wiki on http://wikimedia.in/ is now available at
http://wiki.wikimedia.in (Arjuna Rao Chavala)
4. Fwd: India Education Program: Update to Pune Community
(Hisham Mundol)
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Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 15:37:13 +0530
From: Ashwin Baindur <ashwin.baindur(a)gmail.com>
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Minutes of Pune 13 meetup held on 14 May
2011
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On Saturday representatives of Mumbai Wikipedia Community, Amitabh Kundan
and Pranav (User:Wheredevelsdare), came over to Pune for discussing the
forthcoming Wikiconference India 2011 and met up with representatives of
Pune community, Sudhanwa Jogalekar, Radha Mishra, Suhel Bohra, Srikeit,
Harshad Gune and Ashwin Baindur. The Wikimedia India chapter was represented
by Arjuna Rao Chawala (chapter President), the Wikimedia India National
Office by Hisham Mundol.
The Pune Wikipedia Community acknowledged the great honour done by Mumbai
community in asking the Pune community to co-host the event and promised all
cooperation. Subsequently in the evening meetup the members of the Pune
Wikipedia Community were informed about this prosal and the Pune community
unanimously agreed to particpate and support the venture.
Pranav gave a presentation on the progress so far - the suggested dates for
finalisation i.e. 5 to 7 Nov 2011, the proposed venues for the meetup, the
accomodation, a marquee event featuring Jimbo Wales and a social
get-together. Also discussed at the meeting were the proposed makeup of
organising committee, the modalities, likely budget, and other issues. The
Mumbai meetup where they will discuss these issues is being held next
weekend. After that we assume the planning will begin in right earnest.
Kudos to Mumbai community for all the footwork and hard work put in to date.
In the evening we had the Monthly meetup. Bishakha Datta, Trustee, Wikimedia
Foundation graced the meeting with her presence. Attendance was excellent
with 50 plus people turning up. Most of these are the eager young aspirants
of the Campus Ambassador program. The meeting began with Arjuna Rao Chawala
giving a presentation on the India chapter. He mentioned the short history
of raising the chapter, its aims and goals and that the chapter has now
started soliciting membership. It was my privilege to be the first person to
apply for Wikimedia Foundation membership from the community andd I do hope
I get serial number 1 in the membership list ;-).
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/wiki/File:WikimediaChapterFirstMembershipApplicati…
In all, 24 applications were handed over from Pune community right there and
then and others will follow soon.
Hisham then addressed the aspirants. He mentioned the role they would play
to bridge the gap between people who have the freedom to edit Wikipedia and
those who actually do so. He encouraged them to join one of the finest group
of people in the world - Wikipedians. He outlined the sequence of events,
the training they would receive. He said that due to the need to start off
the program right away, the program would begin with those aspirants who
already had the skills being looked for especially the knowledge of the
Wikipedia world. Howeever, there was an overwhelming need of campus
ambassadors; if we say one per class of 50, Pune would require hundreds and
thousands of them. So everyone who applied but was not selected in the first
round was considered an ambassador in waiting and with the help of
interaction and training provided by the Pune community they would be
prepared for the next rounds of selection. The aspirants responded with
interest and a lot of questions.
It was interesting to note that amongst the young folk were some adults who
wanted to give back something to society. Coming from varied walks of life,
they were yet another face of altruistic Indian society. We also had a
couple of professors of the Pune Colleges attending out of their own
interest. They were keen to bring these programs into their institutions.
LLastly, the community was formally informed about the proposal to co-host
the Wikimedia India Conference 2011 which was unaimously approved.
This meetup was quite productive and the Pune community took the contact
details of all participants, promising to get back to them soon.
Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur
------------------------------------------------------
Hi,
On 15th May, we had the 4th Wikimedia meetup at Hyderabad as planned.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:MHB4
Around 20 people attended. We had participants from Telugu Wikipedia, Tamil
Wikipedia, English Wikipedia and Esperanto Wikipedia and few new comers.
We had an open agenda with people sharing their motivation for contributing
to Wikipedia and best practices in their Wikipedias. One of the participants
promised to get us in touch with people from Digital South Asia Library
Project. We hope to follow up on this and see the possibilities for getting
their content in Wiktionary.
This was followed by an introduction on editing and campus ambassadors
program.
We plan to have regular meetups henceforth with fixed agenda.
Special thanks:
Hisham who flew down from Pune for this meetup.
http://www.lamakaan.com/ for offering the space and LCD projector facility.
Times of India reporter who attended the meeting.
Regards,
Ravi
Hi
I'm sharing an update that I just sent to the Pune community.
Warm Regards,
Hisham Mundol
Wikimedia India Programs
skype : hisham.wikimedia
gtalk : hmundol(a)wikimedia.org
twitter : @mundol
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Hisham Mundol <hmundol(a)wikimedia.org>
> Date: May 18, 2011 3:51:00 PM GMT+05:30
> To: India Mailing list for Wikimedians in Pune <wikimedia-in-pun(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Cc: PJ Tabit <pjtabit(a)gmail.com>, Srikeit <srikeit(a)gmail.com>, Jessie Wild <jwild(a)wikimedia.org>, "Annie L. Lin" <alin(a)wikimedia.org>, Frank Schulenburg <fschulenburg(a)wikimedia.org>
> Subject: India Education Program: Update to Pune Community
>
> Dear Pune Community
>
> This is a long mail but there is much to cover. I'm writing with an update on the India Education Program - and to ask for support from you as we roll it out.
>
> a) Campus Ambassadors
>
> We have finished going through the ~70 applications we have received from Pune for Campus Ambassadors. I have interviewed more than half of them. I am pleased to report that we have asked 22 to join us at this stage in becoming Campus Ambassadors.
>
> There are other opportunities for the other applicants, as well as the ~20 others who enquired but didn't apply. We will be in touch with them shortly regarding starting Student Clubs or WikiClubs or other means of participation. In any case, we invited all of them the (very successful) Pune community meet-up last Saturday. My guess is that at least 40 people attended from the Campus Ambassador applicants/enquirers.
>
> This is the first batch of Campus Ambassadors and we will have subsequent batches. Indeed, I have asked some people from the ones who applied to learn more about Wikimedia projects, learn about Wikipedia editing, try their hands at editing and (on your behalf) invited them to join the community - and then consider reapplying if they are not currently ready.
>
> I'd like to thank Pune Community for making an incredible effort to invite and welcome all applicants/enquirers into your fold. Ashwin in particular has been amazing! I know many others have also helped out, so thank you to everyone!
>
> b) Additional Support
>
> We have received 2 offers of help from PJ Tabit and Srikeit Tadepalli. PJ [[User:Pjthepiano]] is from Georgetown University in the US, is an existing Campus Ambassador for the Public Policy Initiative and is part of the Campus Ambassador Council in the US. In between academic years, PJ has offered to come down to Pune for 2 3/4 months starting June 2011 to support the India Education Program. Srikeit [[User:Srikeit]] is a long-time Wikipedia and is probably known to many of you. He is pursuing an academic course in Pune and has offered to work part-time for 1 year starting June 2011. We are extremely pleased to have both of them support us and you in what is an exciting and challenging program. Please feel free to reach out to them!
>
> In addition, Jessie Wild supports Student Clubs at WMF and she's eager to help establish them in India. Please feel free to reach out to Jessie!
>
> c) Campus Ambassador Training
>
> We plan to hold a 2 day Campus Ambassador training session on June 4-5. In this, we hope to cover the basics of Wikimedia projects, "How to Edit Wikipedia", how to teach students to edit Wikipedia, how to work with professors to implement Wikipedia-editing assignments, tips around conducting outreach on campus, public speaking & classroom management skills as well as other subjects.
>
> d) Meetings & Visits
>
> I am planning to come down to Pune next week between May 17th to 20th to do some more groundwork for the India Education Program.
>
> Frank Schulenberg (who heads up the Global Education Program for WMF) and Annie Lin (who heads up the Global Ambassador Program for WMF) will be visiting Pune from May 31st to June 7th. They are coming to help out with the Campus Ambassador training as well as to hold meetings with education authorities, professors & teachers as well as students to support the Pune Pilot of the India Education Program. It would be really nice if I could host a community get together while they are here. I'll be in touch on this. Please feel free to reach out to them!
>
> Professor Bob Cummings is also visiting Pune between June 13th - 17th. He is Director of the Center for Writing and Rhetoric and the University of Mississippi, has participated as a Professor in the Public Policy Initiative and is also on the the Advisory Board for WMF's Public Policy Initiative. He'll be here to hold meetings with education authorities, professors & teachers as well as students to support the Pune Pilot of the India Education Program. It will be useful to establish the credibility of the program with authorities and teaching staff by having a Professor who has actually conducted the program in his class talk to them about it. While he is here, I am going to try and organise 1 or 2 mini workshops for authorities and teaching staff that will help a larger group interact with Bob.
>
> (I'll be in Pune during the visits of Frank, Annie and Bob.)
>
> e) Community Requests
>
> It would be really really good if interested community members can volunteer to help out on Campus Ambassador trainings planned for June 4-5. For example, this could be how to conduct the "How to edit Wikipedia" sessions, any other sessions or other help during the workshops. Please do get in touch with and let me know. We need all the help we can get!
>
> Even if you can't actively support the training, please do attend the sessions to get to know the Campus Ambassadors; I am sure they would love the opportunity! I'll work out a convenient time slot for those who can't attend the full 2 days. I'll be in touch shortly on this.
>
> Another aspect where we need help is in mentoring Campus Ambassadors and students. This would be on part-time basis but for a relatively longer period (both to be determined by your time availability.) Again, please do get in touch with me and let me know of your interest. We need all the help we can get!!
>
> A third area where we need help is on getting contacts and introductions to as many education authorities (e.g., principals, deans, heads of departments, etc.) as well as professors & teachers in Pune who might be interested. Would you be kind enough to get in touch with me offline with these contacts and we can work out the best way of reaching them?
>
> Please also let me know if there is any other way you would like to get involved. If you want to get involved and don't know how, give me a shout and I'm sure we can work something out. We need all the help we can get!!!
>
> f) Other Next Steps
>
> We are in the process of sending out formal notes to various colleges, institutes and universities in Pune regarding this program. This will outline the program and request time to have 1-on-1 meetings with them over the course of the next 3 weeks.
>
> It is expected that we will start the actual work at colleges, institutes and universities asap after the Campus Ambassador training. However, it is likely that there will be some time and effort to onboard teachers and students - and so actual editing might only start a few weeks after this.
>
> Warm Regards,
>
> Hisham Mundol
> Wikimedia Foundation India Programs
> skype: hisham.wikimedia
>
> gtalk: hmundol(a)wikimedia.org
> twitter: @mundol
>
Hi,
As we are restructuring the web resources, we have to make a change to the
current URLs of wikimedia.in.
The wiiki which was available on http://wikimedia.in/ is now available at
http://wiki.wikimedia.in
We will be using http://wikimedia.in as Official website of Wikimedia
Chapter. More details will follow.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Cheers
Arjuna Rao Chavala
President, Wikimedia Chapter, India
On Saturday representatives of Mumbai Wikipedia Community, Amitabh Kundan
and Pranav (User:Wheredevelsdare), came over to Pune for discussing the
forthcoming Wikiconference India 2011 and met up with representatives of
Pune community, Sudhanwa Jogalekar, Radha Mishra, Suhel Bohra, Srikeit,
Harshad Gune and Ashwin Baindur. The Wikimedia India chapter was represented
by Arjuna Rao Chawala (chapter President), the Wikimedia India National
Office by Hisham Mundol.
The Pune Wikipedia Community acknowledged the great honour done by Mumbai
community in asking the Pune community to co-host the event and promised all
cooperation. Subsequently in the evening meetup the members of the Pune
Wikipedia Community were informed about this prosal and the Pune community
unanimously agreed to particpate and support the venture.
Pranav gave a presentation on the progress so far - the suggested dates for
finalisation i.e. 5 to 7 Nov 2011, the proposed venues for the meetup, the
accomodation, a marquee event featuring Jimbo Wales and a social
get-together. Also discussed at the meeting were the proposed makeup of
organising committee, the modalities, likely budget, and other issues. The
Mumbai meetup where they will discuss these issues is being held next
weekend. After that we assume the planning will begin in right earnest.
Kudos to Mumbai community for all the footwork and hard work put in to date.
In the evening we had the Monthly meetup. Bishakha Datta, Trustee, Wikimedia
Foundation graced the meeting with her presence. Attendance was excellent
with 50 plus people turning up. Most of these are the eager young aspirants
of the Campus Ambassador program. The meeting began with Arjuna Rao Chawala
giving a presentation on the India chapter. He mentioned the short history
of raising the chapter, its aims and goals and that the chapter has now
started soliciting membership. It was my privilege to be the first person to
apply for Wikimedia Foundation membership from the community andd I do hope
I get serial number 1 in the membership list ;-).
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/wiki/File:WikimediaChapterFirstMembershipApplicati…
In all, 24 applications were handed over from Pune community right there and
then and others will follow soon.
Hisham then addressed the aspirants. He mentioned the role they would play
to bridge the gap between people who have the freedom to edit Wikipedia and
those who actually do so. He encouraged them to join one of the finest group
of people in the world - Wikipedians. He outlined the sequence of events,
the training they would receive. He said that due to the need to start off
the program right away, the program would begin with those aspirants who
already had the skills being looked for especially the knowledge of the
Wikipedia world. Howeever, there was an overwhelming need of campus
ambassadors; if we say one per class of 50, Pune would require hundreds and
thousands of them. So everyone who applied but was not selected in the first
round was considered an ambassador in waiting and with the help of
interaction and training provided by the Pune community they would be
prepared for the next rounds of selection. The aspirants responded with
interest and a lot of questions.
It was interesting to note that amongst the young folk were some adults who
wanted to give back something to society. Coming from varied walks of life,
they were yet another face of altruistic Indian society. We also had a
couple of professors of the Pune Colleges attending out of their own
interest. They were keen to bring these programs into their institutions.
LLastly, the community was formally informed about the proposal to co-host
the Wikimedia India Conference 2011 which was unaimously approved.
This meetup was quite productive and the Pune community took the contact
details of all participants, promising to get back to them soon.
Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur
------------------------------------------------------
Hello friends,
On Saturday representatives of Mumbai Wikipedia Community, Amitabh Kundan
and Pranav (User:Wheredevelsdare), came over to Pune on 14 My 2011 for
discussing the forthcoming Wikiconference India 2011 and met up with
representatives of Pune community, Sudhanwa Jogalekar, Radha Mishra, Suhel
Bohra, Srikeit, Harshad Gune and Ashwin Baindur. The Wikimedia India chapter
was represented by Arjuna Rao Chawala (chapter President), the Wikimedia
India National Office by Hisham Mundol. Bishakha Datta, Trustee, Wikimedia
Foundation graced the meeting with her presence.
The Pune Wikipedia Community acknowledged the great honour done by Mumbai
community in asking the Pune community to co-host the event and promised all
cooperation. Subsequently in the evening meetup the members of the Pune
Wikipedia Community were informed about this prosal and the Pune community
unanimously agreed to particpate and support the venture.
Pranav gave a presentation on the progress so far - the suggested dates for
finalisation i.e. 4 to 6 Nov 2011, the proposed venues for the meetup, the
accomodation, a marquee event featuring Jimbo Wales and a social
get-together. Also discussed at the meeting were the proposed makeup of
organising committee, the modalities, likely budget, and other issues. The
Mumbai meetup where they will discuss these issues is being held next
weekend. After that we assume the planning will begin in right earnest.
Kudos to Mumbai community for all the footwork and hard work put in to
date.
Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur
------------------------------------------------------
