Hi,
hope all fine :)
This is to inform you about Wiki Loves Monuments (WLM) 2012, a global
public photo contest around monuments, organized by Wikimedia chapters and
groups. WLM was first organised in Netherlands in 2010, while
18 European countries participated in 2011. In total, more than
*165,000* pictures
of European monuments were uploaded in 2011.
Happy to inform you that, this year, Indian community is confirmed to
participate in the international
contest<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012>.
Photo contests and events have been organised in India till 2011, however
in different cities at different period of time. In an attempt to organise
the contest nationally, we will need some dedicated volunteers who can
assist us in following ways:
- Helping to prepare the list of monuments
- Coordinating in your own city
- Online support, especially from Wikimedia Commons users while pre,
during and post the contest for categorization, OTRS team, and many more
stuff's
Anyone interested are welcome to sign-up at the volunteers section! [1] Do
use Commons event talk page for discussion.
1.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012_in_India
2. Official website <http://www.wikilovesmonuments.in/>
3. Wiki Loves Monuments India mailing
list<https://lists.wmnederland.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/wlm-in>
(wlm-in(a)lists.wmnederland.nl<https://lists.wmnederland.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/wlm-in>
)
4. One minute fact sheet about Wiki Loves
Monuments<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_Fact_Sheet.pdf>
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Thanks and regards,
(User:Karthikndr <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Karthikndr>)
*Karthik Nadar.*
Hi All,
New editors across Indic Wikipedias often face problems while editing for
which need they help. However, most don't know where they can ask questions
or get clarifications as they are usually unfamiliar with village pumps or
mailing lists or even talk pages on basic editing. Many existing editors
want to help new editors and could appreciate a central place where they
can meet and help new editors. India Program has started a pilot to
support the Odia community's help desk,
Chatasabha<http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%89%E0%AC%87%E0%AC%95%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%AA%…>.
(Incidentally, "Chata" means student and "Sabha" means community, in Odia.)
This pilot will build on the community's existing efforts - and seeks to
provide a structured way of designing and running a Help Desk. It takes
learning from English Wikipedia's Tea
House<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:Teahouse>as well as other
experiences on Help Desk and similar services.
The Help Desk that is being piloted is user friendly, has guidelines to
provide simple answers to new editors and tries to manage the work load of
existing community members by providing ready answers to frequently asked
questions. The user friendliness of the Help Desk is in the form of being
able to ask questions without getting stuck on Wiki markups as well as
illustrated answers to some questions.
I have put a page on meta which has the pilot
design<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Pilot_Designs/Community_buildi…>.
Eventually, we would like to help other Indic languages build similar Help
Desks. Please do provide your feedback on the talk
page<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:India_Program/Pilot_Designs/Community_b…>
.
Best
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*Subha*
*Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the
sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!*
Hi All,
All the videos have now been uploaded at
http://www.youtube.com/user/WikiConference/videos
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*Subha*
*Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the
sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!*
Hi,
We usually measure a Wikipedia's growth in terms of page views, article
counts, active contributors etc., I felt that while all these parameters
can be good indicators, they somehow miss to reflect the exact value and
growth of a Wikipedia.
For example,
* One Wikipedia may have 50 active editors (doing more than 5 edits per
month) and 10 very active editors (doing more than 100 edits per month)
But there are Wikipedias which have very very active editors who do more
than 1000 edits a month. One such Wikipedian can be equal to 200 active
editors !
Also, it calculates mere edits in article namespace. But, we have people
working in sandboxes and uploading full articles in one go. There are also
all kind of quality improving work done in Wikipedia namespace and other
projects.
* One Wikipedia might have 1000 good quality articles while another may
have 10,000 average quality articles.
* According to
http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN_India/TablesPageViewsMonthlyCombined.htm ,
Malayalam Wikipedia has only 2.9 M pave views per month and stands 4th in
Indic Wikipedias. But if you normalise for the target population of each
Wikipedia, Malayalam Wikipedia might have the highest reach.
I felt that measuring the actual human hours spent in building a Wikipedia
could be one useful indicator of growth. So, I asked the Tamil Wikipedia
community how many hours they spent for Tamil Wikipedia in one ideal week
in May 2012. The question was asked in June 2012 so everyone only gave an
approximate estimate. This included the
We had 69 active editors and 20 very active editors for the month.
http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaTA.htm
14 people answered the question and they spent a total of 294 hours a week.
You can find the hours each of them spent in the table at
http://tawp.in/r/37sn
What is very striking is that many have spent around or more than 30 hours
a week which can be thought of as a full time job by itself.
So, normalising the data, we can safely say that we spent at least 400+
hours a week. If Tamil Wikipedia is an enterprise, then this equals to at
least 10 full time workers. If you can come up with the market price for
such high qualified talent that includes Professors, Teachers, Engineers
and students working on such a project, the value of work done in kind
crosses few lakh Indian Rupees every month. If you consider the value of
work done since the beginning, what is the value of our project in physical
terms? !! These were some of my thoughts when I went through this data !
Long live Wikipedia :)
Ravi
P.S. This study could have been more scientific, inclusive and planned to
have better accuracy. But the idea is to visualize our Wikipedia's growth
in terms of human hours spent even if this going to be a very approximate
study.
Dear all,
IRC on social media pilot starting in 5 minutes. Please join us at
webchat.freenode.net/?channels and enter your nickname and join the channel
#wikimedia-office.
See you all there!
Best
Noopur
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Noopur Raval