Hi,
First of all please accept my apologies for the delay in replying to this.
I started the online meetup from the begining of this new year. Our very
first such event was planned for the new year day. I had total 5
confirmations, considering a small community of Gujarati Wikipedians this
was relatively a large number. As it happened with you, we had 2 unexpected
drop outs, 1 user confirmed just before the start of conference that due to
the loss of power supply at his side, he wasn't able to join, 1 user
replied a couple of days back that he had to travel due to emergency and
hence, I ended up with just 1 user online for the session. This person had
made special efforts to join the session despite having guests waiting for
her. We discussed some of the dos and don'ts for the Wikipedia, and some
other question/answers.
With this mixed response, I was initially disapointed a bit, but when I
received other's responses for not being able to join it and willingness to
join future sessions, we decided to carry on with the online sessions once
every month, and fixed up to have it every first sunday of Month. We had 3
more sessions since, 1 in Feb & 2 in March, as some users were nnot
comfortable with either first or second Sunday in March. We had 4 attendees
in Feb meetup, with 1 busy with other tasks at the same time, so didn't
participate in discussion actively. March sessions were also having me plus
2 more users. We discussed mainly the isses related to gu.wikipedia. In
last meeting we even decided to take up a project of clearing up some
articles, and all three of us choose 1 article each to work on. When we
have our next meeting in April, we will be reporting the progress of our
tasks and based on the experience, we will be taking up more projects.
To me and to the users who joined these, they seems to be quite helpful.
Looking forward to have more users joining it and ways to spread them to
make them the outreach events at the same time.
Instead of having IRC Chats, we decided to have skype as it is more
userfriendly and can have voice conf as well. You all are invited to join
our next event in April, on the 1st April at 11 am IST. If you are joining,
join us on skype username gu.wikipedia.
Regards,
Dhaval
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> Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 05:33:24 +0000
> Subject: RE: [Wikimediaindia-l] Report on online outreach event
> Very good to know about outreach by yourself and others from Gujarati
> Wikipedia. Would appreciate if you could post a small note reporting how
> each event went, so that the rest of the community in India is abreast with
> your activities and can learn and replicate the good work your doing/avoid
> repeating any mistakes you may have made.
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 22:16:42 +0000
> From: dsvyas(a)gmail.com
> To: wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> CC: wikipedia-gu(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Report on online outreach event
>
> Hi Swaroop,
>
> This is quite common phenomenon for the new beginings. I have started
> online meetups/sessions for Gujarati Wikipedia since the begining of this
> new Year. Have held 4 sessions so far. Had similar experience in my
> firstever planned event. Users are showing interest, and I am sure, if we
> continued it as a regular event, people will be regular to attend as well.
> Those who couldn't join the meetups/events online, have shared their
> apologies and have regreted for it, which shows that they genuinely missed,
> and that is enough for me to carry it on.
>
> Simply wanted to say that you are doing a nice job, please "Keep Calm and
> Carry On". People will join and number of participants will increase slowly.
>
> All the best!
> Dhaval
>
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 3:59 PM, Deepon Saha <hideeponhere(a)gmail.com>wrote:
>
> Thanks swaroop, you really have done a brilliant job.. Lets hope next time
> we get more participants..:)
>
> Deepon
>
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 7:19 PM, Swaroop Rao <raul.swaroop(a)gmail.com>wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
>
> You've probably heard about the online "Wikiacademy" that Nitika announced
> around a week ago; we recently conducted that session on Saturday (10 March
> 2012) on Google+ Hangout.
>
> Six participants signed up - one informed day before about her absence,
> two did not show up at all, one could not log into Google hangout, one was
> able to attend the first part of the session but then lost his internet
> connection and eventually we had only one participant who attended the
> entire session. That's what happened at the online outreach event organised
> last Saturday, 10th March.
>
> It wasn't particularly an impressive session in terms of turnout - we were
> expecting all six guys to show up and take part. But even if these 2
> participants show interest and edit on regular basis I'd call this event a
> success - a success rate of 33%.
>
> I'd like to discuss few things that we should definitely keep in mind
> before we organize similar events:
>
> 1. Request only those people to register who are sure to have a stable
> internet connection. Some students were trying to log in for the session
> but their hostel/school connections was extremely unstable. Im not sure if
> there is a way for making sure that they have stable connections but it is
> really important. (I can also see where this might be difficult, because
> not many can give any guarantees on the reliability of their net
> connections)
>
> 2. Invariably we'll have few people who'll drop out at the last moment or
> are not able to join leaving room for someone else to join in. Hence for
> such events we should probable overbook a session. If one drops out,
> another one could attend the session instead. This will make sure that
> we're utilizing our resources and time to the fullest.
>
> 3. Ask the participants to do a test google hangout a day or two before
> the actual event. This will make sure that the participants are not facing
> any technical issues and can attend the session seamlessly.
>
> 4. Maybe at the time of registration we need to ask participants for their
> phone numbers. We sent reminders to the participants by way of email but
> yet 2 of them did not show up. It could be that the didn't not read the
> mails well in time. If we had their phone numbers we could have
> messaged/called to send them a gentle reminder.
>
> 5. We could also send across some useful links and videos for the
> participants to go through before the session. This way participants will
> be warmed up and more informed for the session. It will also give the
> participants enough time to jot down all their queries and get them
> clarified during the session.
>
> From my personal opinion, online outreach is something that can definitely
> work. Sitting in Bangalore I was able to train guys from Nepal & Mangalore.
> I'm hoping that they'll become active editors in English and in their
> respective native languages. Im really happy to note that at least one of
> them has already edited several articles in the medical space - which is
> his field of study.
>
> I'd also like to thank Deepon - he'd put in a lot of time and effort for
> helping us conduct this session.
>
> Many thanks of course to Nitika, who requested me to conduct the session,
> and who was omnipresent throughout the session, and took over from me
> whenever my net connection gave way (Another point: we need to somehow make
> sure that the instructors themselves have a good net connection).
>
> Hoping to conduct more sessions like these.
>
> Thanks
>
> Swaroop Rao
> (MikeLynch <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User%3aMikeLynch>)
>
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One last-minute reminder: Srikanthlogic and Yuvipanda are leading a
hackathon in Chennai tomorrow. More details:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Chennai_Hackathon_March_2012
Sample tweet/dent to help publicize:
Chennai hackathon tomorrow http://ur1.ca/82v84 - register now!
#Wikimedia #Wikipedia #MediaWiki #wikihackchennai
--
Sumana Harihareswara
Volunteer Development Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
Hi all,
There is a tool[1] which can help you create list based articles faster by
replacing existing interwiki links. Just copy the list syntax from source
wiki and get names converted in your language with existing links. Please
ensure to translate the remaining part of article which did not get auto
translated. This is not a machine translation, its just a search/replace of
wiki links. Thanks to Mahir (Tamil Wikipedia) for this tool.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_international_cricket_centuries_by_Sa…
exists
only in Malayalam, Please do the needful :D
Hope this helps.
[1] http://toolserver.org/~mahir/
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Regards
Srikanth.L
Mildly OT, but still couldnt help from sharing when mis-information
campaign goes on about Wikipedia to Indian corporate bodies like FICCI. May
be we need to communicate Wikipedia is NOT about piracy clearly in circles
that matter?
In framing “content theft” as a problem affecting the county’s
> middle-classes and alongside a clear dig at the likes of Google and
> Wikipedia, Dodd’s words could have been pulledverbatim from any pro-SOPA
> speech
http://torrentfreak.com/court-orders-sopa-style-blackout-of-100-music-sites…
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Regards
Srikanth.L
Hi all
Wikipedia Telugu's article count has crossed 50,000 mark. On this occasion,
I congratulate everyone who was directly and indirectly involved.
Now I request every tewiki user to concentrate on articles' quality
improvement.
తెవికీ సభ్యులందరి కృషి వలన తెవికీ ౫౦౦౦౦ వ్యాసాల మైలురాయిని దాట గలిగింది.
అందరికీ శుభాకాంక్షలు. ఇకపై ప్రత్యేక వ్యాసం యొక్క నాణ్యతను మెరుగుపరుద్దాం.
--
Rahimanuddin Shaik
నాని
॥రామానుజార్య దివ్యాజ్ఞాం వర్ధతామభివర్ధతాం॥
Telugu Wikipedia : http://te.wikipedia.org
A new address for ebooks : http://kinige.com
FYI.
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Date: Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 4:27 AM
Subject: [Internal-l] Wiki Loves Monuments - will your country participate?
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Hi all,
we're well on our way getting started with Wiki Loves Monuments 2012!
(feel free to forward)
For those that don't know what Wiki Loves Monuments is all about,
please read this blog post
[http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/10/02/165000-photos-submitted-during-second-…]
on the WMF blog and this page about how the concept works
[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012/Documen…];
here's also a small introduction to the main idea of the contest and
what's awaiting us this year.
== Wiki Loves Monuments in a nutshell ==
The photo competition around physical cultural heritage (buildings,
bridges, etc.) is running in September, organized in numerous
countries around the world. The contest is being organized in each
country separately, allowing to play to the local needs and wishes,
but is joined by an umbrella contest for the whole world making it all
a bit more exciting. Last year the contest was organized in 18
countries, and brought in 165.000 images by 5000 uploaders. More
importantly, 4000 of these uploaders never uploaded anything before!
== Is your country participating? Helping hands are needed! ==
For 2012 already 24 countries
[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012/Partici…]
indicated that they will definitely participate, and 16 more say they
possibly will participate. Please take a look at the list, and see
whether your country is already there. If you would like to help
organize this contest in your country, please join the team that
signed up for it (often through a chapter or a local group) or start
your own organizing group if there is none yet! Interested countries
for example include India, United States, Chile, Sweden and Italy.
== So, why would you want to organize a WLM in your country? ==
Well, of course there are the images – it is great to have good images
available of your country. But more importantly perhaps is the amount
of individuals that might participate! Hundreds, maybe thousands of
people who never contributed before can now help out with what they
are best at: making photos. They often find it fun, and might hang
around a bit longer if we receive them well. It also is a good
opportunity to get in touch with local cultural heritage institutions.
Finally, it is a good way to try and forge a local community to
organize events together. It is an existing framework you can use, and
although there are no guarantees, working in an international context
like this (the largest collaboration between chapters and other
Wikimedia organizations so far!) helps a lot to keep people motivated
and close to each other. An international group will be helping
interested groups with the basic infrastructure and other things, and
on a national level, you can focus on the organizing of your own
contest, lists and communications.
== Join the team and get started! ==
If you want to know more, feel free to leave a
message[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Wiki_Loves_Monuments…
or send us an email. But make sure to get started now if you're
interested - because some parts of the work just require quite some
time since external parties are involved. We would be delighted to
help you out in any way possible to pull off this event.
Best,
Lodewijk
(on behalf of the international coordinating team)
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hi,
I hope that the Chapter-India community IRCs also re-start after the brief
lull in discussions.
Pradeep
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Greetings Everyone,
This is a small report about the Wikipedia
Workshop<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Workshop/Delhi_Workshop_2>
at BVCOE<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bharati_Vidyapeeth%27s_College_of_Engineering,…>
on
14th March, 2012.
Rishab Arora (User: Spacetime29<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Spacetime29>)
student of BVCOE is an Open Source enthusiast and developer. Its only
because of him that we were able to organize this workshop during their
technical fest gCON 2012.
The main motive of the workshop was to explain participants about the
basics of Wikipedia, Community participation, 5 Pillars, Anatomy of the
articles followed by hands on basic editing session.
It was conducted in two sessions. About 30 participants were present for
the first half. Most of the participants were from BVCOE and rest were from
other engineering colleges in NCR. Before starting the session,
User:Hisham<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Hisham> asked
participants about their expectations from the session. They replied with
questions like: How Wikipedia works, How can they contribute, Content
verifiability etc. So, he began with introducing Wikipedia, who edits
Wikipedia, 5 Pillars, few Wikipedia policies, importance of providing
references etc. In between, some students asked interesting questions about
adding references. Then, we moved on to actual editing and taught basics of
editing. User:Nitika.t <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Nitika.t> also
told female participants about India WikiWomen's
Edit-a-Thon<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/India_WikiWomen%27s_Edit-a-Th…>
.
After that, we asked uninterested participants to feel free and leave the
sessions and invited only the interested one's to remain present for the
second half. We informed them about the session that it'll be more
interactive and detailed hands on editing session where we'll make sure
that everyone present should make at least an edit. So, we left with only
10 students (33%). With everyone's choice we selected the article on Chole
Bhature <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chole_bhature> to go with. Everyone
present made their account (few had already created before coming)
and edited the article. Some started with correcting spellings, adding
references, creating sections and went to reorganizing content. They asked
questions like what would happen if more than one person is editing the
same article simultaneously. Feeling of elation can be seen on their faces
after making first edit.
I'd really like to thank Rishab for helping us in organizing the session.
Cheers,
Piyush Aggarwal