Dear Mr Yadava
Unfortunately, I am in Pune today and tomorrow. I'll SMS you my contact details - and I look forward to catching up with you. I'll call you tomorrow in any case.
I look forward to taking this initiative forward. It's incredibly exciting.
Warmest Regards,
hisham
On Sep 8, 2011, at 9:44 PM, M K Yadava IFS wrote:
> Dear Jessie,
> Thanks a lot. I am currently in Delhi for a day. Pl pass my mobile number
> (099541-90280 & 09435012458) to Mr. Mundol. Though I am very badly
> preoccupied, I am available at Assam Bhawan, S.P. Marg, New Delhi (at the
> crossing of SP Marg & Kautilya Marg) from 8.00 Am to 11.30 AM. He is
> welcome during this period. Just request him to send an SMS. I will be in
> Room No. 106.
>
> Regards,
> Yours,
> MK Yadava
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>> Well, thank you for the resonse: certainly better late than never! And in
>> this case, though the deadline is upon us, it is fortunately not *too*
>> late!
>>
>> The work you are doing is very incredible, and we would be happy to be a
>> part of it. I think our content would be an invaluable addition to your
>> suite of materials provided, and we'd love to make that a reality.
>>
>> Currently, the solution we can offer you is two-fold:
>>
>> - Kiwix <http://www.kiwix.org/>: a reader of the Wiki content that can
>> be
>> installed on your Ubuntu system
>> - English Wikipedia Offline
>> Edition<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WPRV>:
>> this is a set of ~45K articles which are filtered for both quality and
>> "importance."
>>
>> If this is of interest to you, we can provide you with a package bundling
>> these and indexing them etc. This would only give you a couple weeks to
>> test, of course, but we trust you will find it incredibly useful.
>>
>> I will pass these instructions along to you in a separate email so that
>> you
>> can begin prototyping. Meanwhile, Hisham Mundol - the head of our India
>> Programs, who is based in Delhi, would be happy to meet with you in person
>> to talk through any questions regarding the project. Please do let us know
>> what you would prefer!
>>
>> Thanks and thrilled about the potential here!
>> Jessie
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 10:25 AM, M K Yadava IFS <in(a)amtron.in> wrote:
>>
>>> Corrigendum:
>>> Please insert "NO" appropriately after "been" in the following sentence
>>> "There has been carry home stuff for students who are
>>> aspiring to become economists, historians, psycholo..."
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>>>> Dear Jessie,
>>>> I am sorry for responding almost more than a week late as i had been
>>>> mostly traveling and attending a series of meetings. I wish I could
>>>> responded little earlier.
>>>>
>>>> We distribute free computers (all based on GNU/Linux, currently on
>>>> Ubuntu), and from last two years, laptops, to meritorious students of
>>> the
>>>> State of Assam (India) who secure >=60% marks in the 10th standard
>>>> examination. Every year about 15-20,000 systems are distributed. So
>>> far,
>>>> we have distributed 92,000+ system, and this year about 19000+
>>> students
>>>> are about to get benefited.
>>>>
>>>> The current year's scheme is scheduled for launch on the 23rd of
>>>> September, 2011. Along with Ubuntu we bundle a host of application
>>>> software and content for the benefit of the students. Mostly, so far
>>> we
>>>> have ben very successful in providing rich application level content
>>> for
>>>> science students. There has been carry home stuff for students who are
>>>> aspiring to become economists, historians, psychologists,
>>> anthropologists,
>>>> English literature etc.. Further, broadband penetration being poor in
>>> the
>>>> remote areas of the state (a survey tells that 58% of the recipient
>>>> students belong to remote areas and come from poor families), we have
>>> been
>>>> thinking how we could provide wiki kind of content to the students
>>> offline
>>>> on the laptops to be distributed.
>>>>
>>>> We shot an email several months back, and it has generated lot of
>>>> enthusiasm. However, my programme is to start from the 23rd of
>>> September,
>>>> 2011. I am not sure whether, this year also we shall be able to
>>> provide
>>>> some offline content. As a language, ENGLISH is okay. We can think of
>>>> translation at a later date.
>>>>
>>>> Pl tell us how to proceed further on the issue. We have now very
>>> little
>>>> time to organize...
>>>>
>>>> Yours,
>>>> MK Yadava IFS,
>>>> MD, AMTRON
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>>>>> Hi MK Yadava -
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for passing along this email!
>>>>>
>>>>> I am the project manager for the Offline Wikipedia work. I'm very
>>>>> interested
>>>>> in supporting your efforts in content circulation, and I am eager to
>>>>> learn
>>>>> more about your project referenced below. Who are you distributing
>>> your
>>>>> computers to? What sort of software are you looking for? Where
>>> exactly
>>>>> are
>>>>> you hoping to distribute?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks so much; I'd love to help out with this as much as possible!
>>>>> Jessie
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 2:26 AM, M K Yadava IFS <in(a)amtron.in> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Dear All,
>>>>>> Sounds great! If we have sizeable content for school children from
>>>>>> standard V-XII in humanities, science and mathematics in English
>>> alone,
>>>>>> it
>>>>>> will be a great service for bridging the digital divide. We shall be
>>>>>> glad
>>>>>> to put such a content in our PC distribution program and make it
>>>>>> operational by middle of September, 2011.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>> Yours,
>>>>>> MK Yadava
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>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks Manuel!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I think this will be a good group. I just put together a brief
>>>>>>> presentation
>>>>>>> with kind of the general overview of Offline and how all the
>>> pieces
>>>>>> fit
>>>>>>> together, but I can go through it quickly and allow the different
>>>>>> pieces
>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>> fill in the blanks throughout?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm attaching it in case others want to take a look. I put it
>>>>>> together
>>>>>>> quickly so if there are errors please forgive me (and correct me!)
>>> :)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Jessie
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 1:45 AM, Manuel Schneider <
>>>>>>> manuel.schneider(a)wikimedia.ch> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi offline folks,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> we will have our Wikimedia Offline session today at 15:15 in room
>>>>>> Tavor
>>>>>>>> (in Beit Hecht, 1st floor)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>> http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Wikimedia_Offline
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The session was planned as an interactive workshop for all people
>>>>>>>> interested in the offline issues. This means that YOU are invited
>>> to
>>>>>>>> present your project, your ideas and ask your questions.
>>>>>>>> Interesting topics are selection of content, publishing, storage,
>>>>>> reader
>>>>>>>> applications... and what you think is.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> There will be at least three people talking today:
>>>>>>>> * Jessie Wild from Wikimedia Foundation
>>>>>>>> * Shiju Alex from Malayallam Wikipedia
>>>>>>>> * me from openZIM
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> See you there! If you have questions or want to coordinate in
>>>>>> advance
>>>>>> -
>>>>>>>> please contact me.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> /Manuel
>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>> Regards
>>>>>>>> Manuel Schneider
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens
>>>>>>>> Wikimedia CH - Association for the advancement of free knowledge
>>>>>>>> www.wikimedia.ch
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>>>>>>>
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Hi All,
***Please excuse previous incomplete mail sent by mistake.***
I'm very new to Wikimedia, but delighted since joining this list last week.
Godspeed to everyone in the Pune Pilots 1k Program. I read the "Robinson Crusoe Economy" article. It is so clean, complete and elegant. It will be a privilige to be given an opportunity to work with you, now and upon roll-out.
So I've submitted my Online Ambassador Application, and am keeping my fingers crossed.
But here start my questions.
1. In the application I've given my locality, city (kolkata), state & country. Was the full postal address required. If so, should I re-submit?
2. Could there be training sessions for Online/Campus Ambassadors at Mumbai just before or after the Conference dates? [I'd not like to tie-up conference time with classrom time]
3. Also, could there be similar sessions for Wikipedia editors to improve their Wikiabilities generally.
4. Could/would there be a facility to hire laptops for the duration of the Conference - if not generally, then on the basis of request/choice made via the registration form?
Thanks and Regards,
VivekM
[Iqp,ra]
Hi Members and Wikimedia Community in Bangalore,
I am glad to announce that we are planning for the first Wiki
academy<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/File:WikiAcademyCoHostingOpportunityBrochure.pdf>
co-hosted by Department of Public Libraries, Karnataka for their senior
Library professionals The draft agenda is as follows
Date: 29 Aug 2011, Monday
Time: 11AM to 2 PM
Venue: Indira Priyadarshini Childrens Library, Near State Central Library,
Cubbon Park, Bangalore
Agenda
11:00-11:30 Wikipedia History and Overview
11:30-12:00 Wikipedia policies
12:00-12:15 Setting up computer for Indian languages
12:15-12:30 Break
12:30-14:00 Wikimedia Lab: Browsing Wikipedia,Editing Wikipedia
We invite volunteers especially Kannada wikipedians to join the Chapter EC
members in co-facilitate this event.
Cheers
Arjun
Hi all,
I was waiting for one of the active Malayalam Wikipedia editors
to announce it here .. with no such signs, let me do the privilege on their
behalf. :)
I am delighted to announce that Malayalam Wikipedia ( ml.wikipedia.org)
crossed 20,000 articles 2 days back.
Interestingly an article stub on "Reality" by Abhishek
Jacob<http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%89%E0%B4%AA%E0%B4%AF%E0%B5%8B%E0%B4%95%…>
is
the 20,000 th article to be created. The 15,000th article was born almost a
year back in Nov 2010.
Malayalam Wikipedia currently has 261 "active users", 17 admins and 4
b'crats.
http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics
There was a coordinated effort fby the Malayalam Wikipedians to organically
reach the 20,000 article milestone before Onam and the target was achieved 4
days ahead of "Thiruvonam"
Apart from the discussion pages, the ML Wikipedians used social media
networking sites like Facebook groups (
https://www.facebook.com/groups/mlwiki/ ) and twitter extensively to
coordinate and encourage this campaign.
This will be also an interesting case study of Wikipedia discussions
happening off-wiki and the use of networking sites to promote Wikipedia.
Congratulations and best wishes to all the ML Wikipedians behind
this achievement.
Regards
Tinu Cherian
Hi All,
I'm very new to Wikimedia, but delighted since joining this list last week.
Godspeed to everyone at the Pune Pilots 1k Program. It will be a privilige to have an opportunity to work with you, now and upon roll-out.
So I've submitted my Online Ambassador Application, and am keeping my fingers crossed.
But there start my questions.
1.
Greetings,
As many of you are aware, the Wikipedia India Education Program works with
teachers and students to encourage Wikipedia in the classroom. The basic
idea is that teachers ask their students to edit Wikipedia articles instead
of submitting traditional reports, assignments, etc. Students and teachers
are trained and supported and motivated by Wikipedia Campus Ambassadors -
who are volunteers. We currently have 1,000 students in the pilot we are
running in Pune; the response has been amazing!
There are huge challenges also. Most of the students have already been
taught the basics of Wikipedia by their Campus Ambassadors. However, they
need more help. The workload on Campus Ambassadors is already massive (as
there are hardly 20 Campus Ambassadors for 1,000 students). It is going to
keep increasing as more and more of the students start editing as we are now
in the 2nd half of their semesters - and therefore closer to the last dates
for their articles. We are already increasing Campus Ambassadors numbers by
15 in the next few days - but that still won't be enough.
We're separately building a team of passionate and helpful folks - with good
mentoring and teaching skills - to be Wikipedia Online Ambassadors. Online
Ambassadors will help these students by providing online support and
hand-holding so that the students can make high-quality contributions.
Online Ambassadors can be based anywhere in India (or indeed the world)
since their interaction with students will be over the internet.
I am reaching out to you to see whether you would be interested in helping
students and teachers and becoming a Wikipedia Online Ambassador.
We have two different Online Ambassador roles: Level 1 and Level 2.
. Level 1 is open to everyone - including people who have never edited
Wikipedia before - and will support students on really basic Wikipedia
questions. (They will be given specific training on this.)
. Level 2 is open to experienced Wikipedians and will support students on
more advanced Wikipedia questions.
Both Level 1 and Level 2 roles will be provided orientation sessions.
Currently, all the students are working on English wikipedia.
Passion for helping others and the ability to help newbies are the most
essential qualities for both levels. For more information about these roles
and what is expected of them, please see this page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:India_Education_Program/Online_Ambass
adors/Description. The time commitment is 3-5 hours per week on average
throughout the semester (or academic term.)
I warmly invite and highly encourage you to apply to become a Wikipedia
Online Ambassador! To apply, please go to:
https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEdtdG5
ObU9mMm5oZno3MExDc3lEZHc6MA - by Monday, September 12th (earlier is better),
and we will be in touch very soon about next steps. If you have any
questions, please do reach out to me either on this mailing list or offlist.
Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the
sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!
Thank you so very much! I look forward to your application.
Sincerely,
Nitika Tandon