Forwarding Quim's email, since he's not subscribed.
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From: Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 10:51 PM
Subject: Re: Announcing MediaWiki-India Mailing List
To: yuvipanda(a)gmail.com, "Discussion list on Indian language projects of
Wikimedia." <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
(((Please someone help getting this email to wikimediaindia-l and
mediawiki-india. Thanks!)))
Thank you Yuvi and others for your determination pushing this first
MediaWiki regional list and other ongoing local initiatives in India. As
technical contributor coordinator at the Wikimedia Foundation I have no
doubt that tools like this will help increasing and diversifying the
MediaWiki community and therefore the technical capacity of the Wikimedia
movement!
As you say this is our first experiment. Give us your feedback and Expect
some fine tuning on the go. The definition of MediaWiki regional lists is
documented at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/**Groups#Local_vs_regional<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Groups#Local_vs_regional>and
I'm still editing that section almost on a daily basis based on our
early experiences with mediawiki-india.
The nature of this regional lists is related to the MediaWiki Groups, a
flavor of Wikimedia User Groups that the MediaWiki community is developing
with the approval of the Wikimedia Affiliations Committee. At a MediaWiki
community level we have agreed that those groups need to be really local,
covering an area that a regular contributor could cover easily with public
transport or a car to get involved in the activities organized.
Under this perspective, a MediaWiki Group Gujarat would be more appropriate
than a MediaWiki Group India, and a MediaWiki Group Ahmedabad would me more
appropriate than a MediaWiki Group Gujarat. You get the point. :) We have
no plans to change this principle: MediaWiki supporters in India always
have the Wikimedia India chapter for more complex activities at a regional
or national level in India.
But this left a void to reach out potential technical contributors in
places where no MediaWiki local group exists. Imagine an engineer in
Bangalore, interested in contributing her skills in MediaWiki and Wikimedia
technical projects but not really interested in following the day to day of
Wikimedia India. mediawiki-india can fill now this gap, and could help that
engineer in Bangalore to find other peers in the area and start working on
a MediaWiki Group Bangalore.
This is how we expect the MediaWiki community grow locally in India and
elsewhere.
Yuvi, just a couple of comments related to your announcement:
On 12/29/2012 06:39 AM, Yuvi Panda wrote:
> Hello everyone!
> As part of growing a sustainable technical community around MediaWiki in
> India, a new mailing list has been created. You can subscribe to it at
>
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-**india<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-india>
>
> Looking forward to having more Mediawiki hackers from India!
>
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> From: *Yuvi Panda* <yuvipanda(a)gmail.com <mailto:yuvipanda@gmail.com>>
> Date: Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 2:17 PM
> Subject: Welcome to the MediaWiki India List!
> To: mediawiki-india(a)lists.**wikimedia.org<mediawiki-india(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> <mailto:mediawiki-india@lists.**wikimedia.org<mediawiki-india(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> >
>
>
> Hello everyone!
>
> Welcome to the mediawiki-india list! This list is simply a place for
> like-minded folks from India working on MediaWiki/Wikimedia related code
> to talk about whatever they're doing. A good level of event planning
> would happen too, I think.
>
> Post random ideas you run into. Interesting tricks you've discovered.
> How completely horrible some gadget in some wiki is. Or how you've
> hacked mediawiki to be a storage engine for your public transport
> crowdsourcing project. Or how you are just getting started and want
> help. Ask for help in setting up a mediawiki instance for your company.
> For porting a gadget from english wikipedia to your own language's
> wikipedia. For anything, really.
>
Well, not anything. We need to be respectful with the existing mailing
lists and avoid unnecessary fragmentation. Let's direct topics and people
to the right lists, where the experts in each area are found. For instance,
generic MediaWiki questions in English still make more sense in mediawiki-l.
The topics should cover what lists like wikitech-l, mediawiki-l and other
MediaWiki lists are missing e.g. regional coordination or support in
languages other than English without an own mailing list.
I'm sure you will find the balance.
This is the first country-level technical mediawiki list, ever. We've no
> idea how this is going to be used, so please do go wild :)
>
> Happy hacking, everyone!
>
... and for exactly those reasons this announcement should be posted at
wikitech-l and mediawiki-l as well. Feel free fine tuning it with my
feedback. It might save you one reactionary reply or two. :)
Thank you and best wishes for MediaWiki community in India!
--
Quim Gil
Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/**User:Qgil<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil>
--
Yuvi Panda T
http://yuvi.in/blog
Hello everyone!
As part of growing a sustainable technical community around MediaWiki in
India, a new mailing list has been created. You can subscribe to it at
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-india
Looking forward to having more Mediawiki hackers from India!
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Yuvi Panda <yuvipanda(a)gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 2:17 PM
Subject: Welcome to the MediaWiki India List!
To: mediawiki-india(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Hello everyone!
Welcome to the mediawiki-india list! This list is simply a place for
like-minded folks from India working on MediaWiki/Wikimedia related code to
talk about whatever they're doing. A good level of event planning would
happen too, I think.
Post random ideas you run into. Interesting tricks you've discovered. How
completely horrible some gadget in some wiki is. Or how you've hacked
mediawiki to be a storage engine for your public transport crowdsourcing
project. Or how you are just getting started and want help. Ask for help in
setting up a mediawiki instance for your company. For porting a gadget from
english wikipedia to your own language's wikipedia. For anything, really.
This is the first country-level technical mediawiki list, ever. We've no
idea how this is going to be used, so please do go wild :)
Happy hacking, everyone!
--
Yuvi Panda T
http://yuvi.in/blog
Wah! This is awesome.
Congratulations Bishakha. :)
On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 10:34 PM, Shahid Farooqui
<shahidfarooqui(a)gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi Bishkha,
>
> Many Congratulations !!!
>
> Thanks & Regards
>
> Shahid
>
> On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 10:23 PM, Karthik Nadar <karthikndr(a)wikimedia.in>wrote:
>
>> Congratulations Bishakha :)
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 10:21 PM, Pradeep Mohandas <prad2609(a)yahoo.com>wrote:
>>
>>> FYI.
>>>
>>> ------------------------------
>>> * From: * Geoff Brigham <gbrigham(a)wikimedia.org>;
>>> * To: * <wikimediaannounce-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>; <
>>> wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>;
>>> * Subject: * [Wikimedia-l] Reappointment of Bishakha Datta as WMF
>>> Trustee
>>> * Sent: * Fri, Dec 28, 2012 3:39:27 PM
>>>
>>> I am happy to report that Bishakha Datta has been reappointed as a
>>> Trustee
>>> on the WMF Board for another two-year term.
>>>
>>> The Board resolution may be found here:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Bishakha_Datta_Reappointment…
>>>
>>>
>>> The Board minutes may be found here:
>>>
>>> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Minutes/2012-12-27
>>>
>>> Congratulations to Bishakha!
>>> --
>>> Geoff Brigham
>>> General Counsel
>>> Wikimedia Foundation
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Wishing you a prosperous New Year,
>> Karthik Nadar,
>> Secretary, Wikimedia India Chapter.
>>
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hi,
Found this interesting WikiProject while reading up about editing Wikipedia using tools such as Tor. Interestingly, the WikiProject started off in 2007 and was inactive for a long time until June 2012.
WikiProject on Closed Proxies: WP:WPCP - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_on_closed_proxies
warm regards,
Pradeep
Pradeep Mohandas
How Pradeep uses email? - http://goo.gl/6v1I9
Thanks for pointing out. Club Group is open now, and page will be developed
soon. :)
*Lets work together to make sure Wikipedia is accessible to all and
disability or technology is no more barrier. *
Best Regards,
Abhishek Suryawanshi,
User:AbhiSuryawanshi <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:AbhiSuryawanshi>
On Behalf of Wikipedia Club Pune
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Club_Pune/About_Us>
______
*sankarshan* foss.mailinglists at gmail.com
<wikimediaindia-l%40lists.wikimedia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BWikimediaindia-l%5D%20Wikipedia%20Summit%20India%202013%20for%20Spoken%0A%20Indian%20Language%20Wikipedia%21&In-Reply-To=%3CCAKQ%2B-3yE%3DR-fEcuHFEKbc_3kOJNy%3DLx%2B3xQ%2BZhD4L_mrQsWx%2Bg%40mail.gmail.com%3E>
*Sat Dec 22 17:41:22 UTC 2012
*
>* Facebook Page for Summit : https://www.facebook.com/WikipediaSummitIndia*>**>* Facebook Group for Summit :*>* https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikipediaSummitIndia/*>**>* Page as well Group is open to all from beginning.*
The page for the Club at Pune. Your FAQ entry on what the club is
about provides two links - one is a closed group and the other has
sparse population.
--
sankarshan mukhopadhyay
<https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan>
Dear Sankarshan,
Facebook Page for Summit : https://www.facebook.com/WikipediaSummitIndia
Facebook Group for Summit :
https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikipediaSummitIndia/
Page as well Group is *open to all *from beginning.
We are expanding pages to make sure, it gives detailed information About
Summit.
Keep Suggesting, Keep Inspiring! :-)
*Lets work together to make sure Wikipedia is accessible to all and
disability or technology is no more barrier. *
Best Regards,
Abhishek Suryawanshi,
User:AbhiSuryawanshi <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:AbhiSuryawanshi>
On Behalf of Wikipedia Club Pune
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Club_Pune/About_Us>
________
*sankarshan* foss.mailinglists at gmail.com
<wikimediaindia-l%40lists.wikimedia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BWikimediaindia-l%5D%20Wikipedia%20Summit%20India%202013%20for%20Spoken%0A%20Indian%20Language%20Wikipedia%21&In-Reply-To=%3CCAKQ%2B-3yE%3DR-fEcuHFEKbc_3kOJNy%3DLx%2B3xQ%2BZhD4L_mrQsWx%2Bg%40mail.gmail.com%3E>
*Sat Dec 22 17:05:20 UTC 2012*
>**>* Hi Pradeep,*>**>* We have updated FAQ page,*>**>* P.S : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Summit_India/FAQs*>**>* Do let us know if you have any suggestions :-)*
The Facebook page for the club is a closed group and, the wikipedia
page has sparse information. You may want to elucidate a bit more in
the FAQ itself.
--
sankarshan mukhopadhyay
<https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan>
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Pradeep Mohandas <prad2609(a)yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 9:26 PM
Subject: Re: Re:[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Summit India 2013 for Spoken
Indian Language Wikipedia!
To: Abhishek Suryawanshi <i.abhishek.suryawanshi(a)gmail.com>
Forward it to list please? Since question was asked on list?
Pradeep
------------------------------
* From: * Abhishek Suryawanshi <i.abhishek.suryawanshi(a)gmail.com>;
* To: * <prad2609(a)yahoo.com>;
* Subject: * Re:[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Summit India 2013 for Spoken
Indian Language Wikipedia!
* Sent: * Sat, Dec 22, 2012 3:52:26 PM
Hi Pradeep,
We have updated FAQ page,
P.S : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Summit_India/FAQs
Do let us know if you have any suggestions :-)
Keep Inspiring!
-Abhishek Suryawanshi,
User:AbhiSuryawanshi
On Behalf of Wikipedia Club Pune
___
Hi Abhishek,
Thank you for responding. Since this is a new concept for us, I hope
you will bear with us a little.
1. If the idea of the Summit is that it is to be held in Pune only,
why not just call it Wikipedia Summit Pune? This gives other cities in
India also a chance to consider such an event themselves.
2. Since this summit is to be held in Pune year-on-year, I would
suggest writing to the Pune list and also inviting the Pune SIG in the
Committee.
3. There has not been a WikiConference in 2012. I remember the Chapter
had put out a call for bids but got none. I am happy that they did not
feel compelled to push for a WikiConference. These things work much
better when the community members want it. Till then, I suppose state
level conferences like the one organised by the Malayalam Wikipedia
community and this Summit by Pune would breed a group of people with
skills acquired for organising a nation wide WikiConference.
Warm regards,
Pradeep Mohandas
Hello Wikimedia Community,
I would just like to share the pen names and email addresses that our
two finalists for the position of Programme Director with CIS's A2K
Programme will be using to post their online assignment[1] on the
community mailing list:
1. Pen Name: Nee Davis
Mail ID: davisnee(a)gmail.com
2. Pen Name: f-75
Mail ID: editgirl2012(a)gmail.com
These assignments should be posted no later than 22:00 IST on Thursday
(the 20th) night. The community will then be given two calendar weeks to
reply to these posts on the mailing lists and pose questions to the
candidates. This two week period will span from the 21st of December,
2012, to the
4th of January, 2013.
Please keep an eye out for these posts!
Thank you,
Jadine
[1] Both finalists will prepare a 1200 words (approx. two pages) essay
on what they will do/achieve as Programme Director of the A2K programme
over a year's time, using the A2K programme work plan
(https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Programme_Plan)
as a reference. 300 words must be written about the first 60 days (2
months) of their work.
Hi all,
Tamil Wikipedia crossed 50,000 article milestone on December 18th, 2012.
The first 1000 articles took 1 year and 11 months.
The last 25,000 articles were created in just 2 years and 2 months !
You can find the growth captured in the graph at
http://ta.wikipedia.org/s/3ys
During the last few months, we focused on clean up, improving article
quality and creating most important articles listed at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vital_articles
Ravi