Hi all,
Wikimedia Polska (Poland) has announced its own scholarships
programme for Wikimedians willing to attend Wikimania 2012 in Washington,
D.C
Apart from up to 10 scholarships for Wikimedians from Poland, they are also
going to grant up to 6 scholarships for Wikimedians from other countries (
which includes India).
More details can be found here :
http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2012/en
We spoke to the Committee, and they expressed that all willing Indian
Wikimedians are free to apply and they will treat them with all due
consideration.
Please also note that the recipients will be required to cover all the
expenses on their own and then present the documentation of those expenses
to the them in order to qualify for the refund.
While the number of WMF scholarships for Wikimania are limited,We strongly
encourage Wikimedians from India to also apply and utilize this opportunity
too.
Best wishes !
Regards
Tinu Cherian
Wikimedia India
http://wiki.wikimedia.in
P.S. Feel free to forward this to various other India-related Wikimedia
mailing lists.
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 5:01 AM, Tomasz Ganicz
<polimerek(a)gmail.com><polimerek(a)gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Wikimedia Polska (Poland) has just launched its own scholarships
> programme for Wikimedians willing to attend Wikimania 2012 in
> Washington, D.C. This year, apart from up to 10 scholarships for
> Wikimedians from Poland, we are also going to grant up to 6
> scholarships for Wikimedians from other countries. Only countries
> which have lower national income per capita than Poland (according to
> World Bank 2010 stats) are eligible. We are particularly willing to
> reach out to the Wikimedians from the former USSR countries (except
> Estonia, which doesn't meet the income criteria) and from the Balkans
> (except Greece and Slovenia, for the same reason). The scholarship
> covers travel and accommodation expenses, as well as conference fee.
>
> More details are available here: http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/**
> Wikimania_2012/en <http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2012/en>
>
> The closing date for applications is March 9.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
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> http://www.ganicz.pl/poli/
> http://www.cbmm.lodz.pl/work.**php?id=29&title=tomasz-ganicz<http://www.cbmm.lodz.pl/work.php?id=29&title=tomasz-ganicz>
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hi,
Some members on this list may be interested in this! Hope we can do
something similar for all of the magazines that India had in the end of the
19th century onwards.
Below message holds more weight since today is International Women's Day.
warm regards,
Pradeep
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From: John Vandenberg <jayvdb(a)gmail.com>
Date: 8 March 2012 02:33
Subject: [Wikisource-l] Fwd: A Digital Dawn - online today to celebrate IWD
To: WMAu members <members(a)wikimedia.org.au>
Cc: "discussion list for Wikisource, the free library" <
wikisource-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia-au <
wikimediaau-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Increasing female participation in
Wikimedia projects <gendergap(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
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From: Donna Benjamin <donna(a)digitisethedawn.org>
Date: Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 7:01 AM
Subject: A Digital Dawn - online today to celebrate IWD
To: digitisethedawn <digitisethedawn(a)gmail.com>
International Women's Day 2012
The Dawn is now available online.
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/title/252
Thank you all so much for playing your part in making this happen.
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How Pradeep uses email - http://goo.gl/6v1I9
Any way to reach out to them ? Are they on sa-wiki list ?
*Times of India : "Sanskrit makes a comeback, thanks to Wikipedia community"
*
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/gurgaon/Sanskrit-makes-a-comeback-t…
*Acclaimed author and linguist Umberto Eco once compared languages to
biological creatures. A language, he said, follows an organic lifespan - it
is born, it grows old, and it passes away. If the analogy holds, then
Sanskrit, one of the most ancient of tongues which originated in India,
seems to be living the last of its grizzled and decrepit years.
There has been talk of declaring it a dead language, and some believe that
it is only a matter of time before this language too goes the way of
ancient Greek and Latin. But this is likely only if the labour and constant
endeavours of the Sanskrit community - a body comprising scholars and
students of the language present in Gurgaon and other parts of the country
- fail to bear fruit.
Dr Shreyansh Dwivedi is part of the department of Sanskrit in SCERT,
Gurgaon. According to him, contrary to popular notions, Sanskrit is most
alive today than it has ever been. "The trouble is that most people do not
realize how much is happening in this field," he said.
Attempts have been made to help the language evolve to modern standards.
Haryana Sanskrit Academy is about to a launch a Sanskrit grammar software
for the students of the language. A full-fledged Sanskrit Wikipedia is
online, where scholars like Dwivedi and his colleagues are regular
contributors. And in Gurgaon, preparations for a new seminar and workshop
for the young are under way.
"There is no other language, which is being supported so thoroughly and
comprehensively, not just in Gurgaon, but in other parts of the country
too," said Dwivedi. He added that even those who are teaching Sanskrit in
schools and colleges have little idea about how vibrant this sphere is with
activity.
According to officials of the Haryana Sanskrit Academy, young students are
more than willing to go for language degrees in Sanskrit. "Earlier this
month the Delhi Sanskrit Academy held a one-day workshop, where hundreds of
young people turned up. It's only a matter of making the language
accessible, and Sanskrit will find many takers within no time," said an
official of the academy. *
Regards
Tinu Cherian
press(a)wikimedia.in
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/In_the_news
Important Note : Non-commercial reproduction for informative purposes only.
The publisher ( Times of India ) of the above news article owns the
copyrights of the article / content. All copyrights are duly acknowledged.
Hoi,
Today the Sanskrit Wikisource will get WebFonts support. The Sanskrit
Wikipedia already has it for some time and it works well for them.
What will be different is that in the Wikisource, it will be possible to
have original texts in the script as it was of at the time of first
publication. According to the English language Wikipedia article and
according to the Omniglot website Sanskrit is written in many scripts.
When you google for the Brahmi script, you will find several fonts that are
freely available. What is needed for us to use it in the Wikimedia
Foundation is that these fonts are freely licensed and, that they pass the
technical requirements of the Localisation team. Obviously when a font is
available in WebFonts, it is available in any wiki that has WebFonts
enabled.
Thanks,
Gerard
http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2012/03/sanskrit-sources-and-scripts.ht…http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2012/03/sanskrit-wikisource-will-get-we…
PS from my blogposts you will appreciate that there is an evolution in the
awareness of what WebFonts can do for you :)
Hello,
I find that the number of mails I receive from mailings about India
and Wikimedia is a bit excessive. It would be be easy to reduce it
significantly by not cross-posting every announcements, and by not
sending congratulations to the list, but to the person concerned.
Thanks,
Yann
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
*Medianama : "Wikimedia India Rolls Out Realtime Search; Supports Indic
Editions"
*
http://www.medianama.com/2012/03/223-wikimedia-india-rolls-out-realtime-sea…
*It looks like Wikimedia India has implemented a project by engineering
student Shrey Gokani to roll out an instant search engine of its own at
live.wikimedia.in. The site is under a creative commons license, with the
code dual licensed under GPL and Creative Commons. The Wikimedia Instant
site does appear to have additional functionality over Gokani’s version,
with the ability to choose an Indic Input keyboard, since the service
supports Indic language editions of Wikimedia services.
The search engine works quite similar to Wikilive, another student project
about which, we had written in November 2011. And similar to what we had
wished, Wikimedia Live also covers Wikipedia, Wikitionary, Wikibooks,
Wikiquotes, Wikiversity, Wikinews and Wikisource, and their Indic editions,
in realtime. The site also offers other relevant Wikipedia search results
on the top, followed by a preview of the most relevant Wikipedia article to
the search query.
Indic Language Support: The site allows users to type in queries in 21
Indic languages including Kannada, Hindi, Telugu, Marathi, Sanskrit, Bangla
and others. How it works is that the search engine allows the user to
choose the language of his preference, following which he has to choose an
input script which is apt for his language. For instance, if one chooses
Kannada as his preferred language, he has to choose between the Kannada
transliteration option or choose the Kannada Inscript option, however if
you choose Hindi as your preferred language, you will have to select the
sole Hindi Inscript option.
Irrelevant Results? We weren’t too happy with results generated through
Indic language transliteration input, since it delivered wrong results in
most cases when we gave it a spin (we tried it on OS X Lion on Google
Chrome). We hope that Wikimedia works on delivering better transliteration
support or improving the results for Indic languages. However, we got
accurate results with the Hindi Inscript input option.
Similar Portals: Deepanshu Mehndiratta, a second year engineering student
at BITS-Pilani KK Birla Goa Campus, had created an instant Wikipedia search
called ‘Wikilive‘ which allowed users to type in a search query and get
relevant Wikipedia article and topics instantly. WikiInstant and The
Instant Wiki are other portals which allow users to search Wikipedia in
realtime. *
Regards
Tinu Cherian
press(a)wikimedia.in
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/In_the_news
Important Note : Non-commercial reproduction for informative purposes only.
The publisher ( Medianama) of the above news article owns the copyrights of
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FYI, Since there is a lot of Interest in Education Program here.
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From: Rob Schnautz <rschnautz(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 01:30
Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Invitation to help beta-test the MediaWiki 1.19
extension for the Wikipedia Education Program
To: mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
The MediaWiki developers have been working hard to integrate certain
elements of the Wikipedia Education Program into MediaWiki. If anyone is
interested in helping beta-test the new extension, click (or copy and
paste) the link below to get started:
http://education.wmflabs.org/index.php/MW_1.18:Community_portal/Welcome,_be…
!
Please note that this site does not will not represent official Wikipedia
Education Program data. Feel free to alter the data on the wiki however you
wish; the more testing you do, the better!
Thanks,
Rob Schnautz
Online Communications Contractor
Global Development
Wikimedia Foundation
11450 Northridge Dr
Evansville IN 47720
c. 812.746.8347
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Hello All,
Tamil Wiki Community is currently organizing a 3 month long media
contest[1][2] with the aim of increasing media files related to Tamil /
Tamilians / Tamil culture to be used in Tamil Wiki Projects and
encouraging non-text contributions from users who could contribute easily
through pictures, sounds, videos. Total prize money of 850 USD is up for
grabs. As such within a week of starting the contest, we have got over 350
images from participants in India and Srilanka. Apart from images which can
be used on Wikipedia pages, pronunciation files are also being uploaded to
be used in Wiktionary. Arrangements are on to get it widely publicized on
print / radio / television media across places with Tamil population.
Facebook[3] is also helping a lot in getting traction. Spread out the word,
also do participate!
[1] http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contest/en
[2] http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contest
[3] http://www.facebook.com/tawmc
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Regards
Srikanth.L