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Hi everyone,
Each year that we run the fundraiser, readers write in really lovely notes.
Please take two minutes to listen to our readers.
Enjoy!
The story I like to tell is that whilst I had heard of Wikipedia but only
looked at it a few times thereafter, when the 2004 Tsunami occurred the day
after Christmas, mainstream news organisations (TV, newspapers) were all
away from their offices. That day I turned to Wikipedia to try to
understand the scale of the event. It was Wiki editors 'on the ground' that
created the sort of information and coverage usually considered the
province of rolling news organisations only. This I now dub my 'Wiki
Epiphany'.
Wikipedia is an amazing service. Almost always, I am able to find
information on subjects I am interested in. Thanks and Kudos to all staff
and volunteers!!
My world has been opened up time and time again by Wikipedia. From studying
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information for over ten years. Sometimes, I just sit in awe of the fact
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Its made life easier for me and expanded my knowledge by allowing me to
more easily find trusted and verified information on the internet. It
organizes all the noise out there on the web and gives a great concise to
the point fact summary of what I want to know. Thank you and thank you to
the millions of volunteer editors. Wikipedia is a necessity in my life and
not just a luxury.
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I'd like to thank the entire staff of wikipedia and its editors for my high
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It's impossible to put in words. I cannot imagine Planet Earth without it
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You guys are ^^%$#&* unbelievably awesome, keep it up!
web sites like Wikipedia are invaluable and I felt it my duty to try help
even if only a tad.
so much of the Internet has turned into self serving and unreliable junque;
so I am very, very grateful for the Wiki resource.
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This is one of the best things on the internet. It goes back to the
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I am 60 years old and I am still so cruious and interested in so many
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I use wikipedia all the time and credit it more toward my education than
college did!
It's nice to see humanity get together without any external forces for a
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it is like a gift from the gods of knowledge
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the world. Thank you.
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smarter that person is. So, if that is true, I think it's likely that
because of this site, in about 50 years, humans will have huge heads. Their
heads will look like the aliens' heads did in "attack from mars." If y'all
ever get into commercials for whatever reason, you could use that and
probably make it really funny :)
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something or the other.
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keeping Wikipedia the wonderful website it is.
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I've seen him not go on here at least once. The man craves knowledge, and
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leading to a million different things. As I hear quite often, I am my
father's daughter. I was in third period US History today reading the page
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You have my full support. :)
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stupid as "white chocolate". The reason I was on wikipedia this evening.
Thank you.
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tool to learn something, it makes me happy to know there are smarties out
there, collaborating in this vital, fluid, living system, spreading
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at your fingertips!
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was one of those kids who read the encyclopedia for fun, so Wikipedia took
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Wikipedia is what the internet can be.
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that would make preeminent scholars of 3000-odd years fall to their knees
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Hi all,
This is part of the replies of Vishnu four months ago.
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Me:
And also tell the community, who are all involved in the interview process
and selection process, and why?
Vishnu:
BEFORE EVEN PUBLISHING THE JOB ADVERTISEMENT WE HAD DECIDED TO PUBLISH A
BLOG POST/WRITE-UP ON THE SELECTION PROCESS AND SHARE IT WITH THE WIKIMEDIA
INDIA COMMUNITY AS PART OF OUR TRANSPARENCY MEASURE. ONCE THIS IS UP, WILL
SHARE THE LINK.
Me:
Please make available the job descriptions/roles for all the employees at
meta and share the same in the mailing list.
Vishnu:
YES WE ARE REWORKING THE PROFILES AS THE EARLIER ROLES ARE NO MORE
RELEVANT. WE WILL TAKE THIS UP ON PRIORITY AND PUT IT UP ON META. THE LINKS
TO A2K TEAM MEMBER PROFILES, SHARED EVERY MONTH IN A2K NEWSLETTERS, WILL IN
FUTURE BE LINKED TO THE META PAGES.
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If I've missed any updates on this from A2K, let me know.
What happened to the decision? When do you plan to share this, next year?
If so you should have told the community. Don't you think so?
Besides user pages (User pages don't have detailed information about the
job description) there is no proper work details of anybody on meta
officially
. I don't think there is any even off-wiki
. (Profiles at CIS site are not detailed enough to know their works)
We don't know who is responsible for which work!! Who is doing what?
Few more questions..
Why still *2* new recruits are missing even after several months, at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Team<http://bl-1.com/click/load/ADAAMlM2Um8Hb1w7CTw-b0231>
,
Why there is no *monthly reports* updated on meta,
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Reports<http://bl-1.com/click/load/VGRaaABlVmtQOFA3AjA-b0231>
Why there is no *community Mid-year reports* updated,
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Reports<http://bl-1.com/click/load/VmZZawdiAj9ROVUyBDc-b0231>
If there is any report available anywhere, when do you plan to update the
meta pages?
Why there is no response to this, Evaluation results after months? *How
long are your two weeks?*
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:India_Access_To_Knowledge/Work_plan_Ap…<http://bl-1.com/click/load/UGAKOFw5WmcCagZhV2c-b0231>
What about "*Quarterly Community Survey*" mentioned here,
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Work_plan_April_2…<http://bl-1.com/click/load/XW0PPQdiBzoFbVA3VGU-b0231>?
Is there any plan to do this ever?
And on this
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Forum/Archives/2013-08#Terms_.2F_…<http://bl-1.com/click/load/BDRcblQxATwFbQFmUmw-b0231>,
which Shyamal brought it up; I'd like to see something concrete from the
Foundation.
I don't know about off-wiki, but there hasn't been proper communication on
anything on-wiki. If there is a change in plans or updates on any event, we
don't get to see that! Why?
* Who is accountable for all these discrepancies??*
I request the foundation or whoever is responsible for this to make sure
everything goes as it planned or discussed, and let the community know what
is happening regularly on-wiki.
Thanks.
Regards,
Ansuman
Bangalore is called the Garden city. Lal Bagh and Cubbon Park played a
significant role in this city getting this name. The annual flower show on Jan
26th is approaching. A huge crowd is expected.
I was curious to see what is in the Lal Bagh article in Wikipedia. I felt
it was lean on 'Botanical' content. As a botanical garden there should be
talk of the species of trees available, the rare ones that are not easy to
find elsewhere etc.
Yesterday I met the the Dy Director of the Horticulture department to
identify any help they can provide. (Karnataka is perhaps unique in having
a horticulture department as part of its governance structure). He has
shown enthusiasm. Next week I will be meeting the Director (who is
currently on tour) to seek his approval. Once this is done, we can have a
Sunday meet of Bangalore wikimedians at the Garden, get a overview of the
Lal Bagh and a guided tour by Botanical experts, who can provide the domain
knowledge related to the unique species we have here etc. That should
enable people to write about these dimensions in the existing articles.
We may also explore possibilities of introducing a QR code for the unique
specimen and articles related to them. In all probability some articles
will exist. But if these species are rare, the articles can mention the
availability of the specimen at Lal bagh in the article pages of Lal Bagh
as well as the species. Hope fully this can be in the next week end. ie 15th
Dec. That may give us ample time to embellish the article before Jan 26 flower
show.
I am also considering inviting PG students in Horticulture from the
University of agriculturaal sciences, Gandhi Krishi Vignan Kendra Campus,
Bangalore.
Those interested in participating please write to me.
Non Bangaloreans can perhaps look at Botanical Gardens with unique species
of trees, plants etc nearer their town. I understand the Botanical Garden
at Kolkata is also famous.
Regards,
Sowmyan
Wikimedia Chapter, Bangalore
There is a Brain Museum at Bangalore. Radhakrishna visted this place some
time ago and shared the potential with Omshivaprakash and me. We had been
intending to go there, but some thing or other delayed it. This week I
ended up visiting them.
This is part of the neuropathology department of Nimhans. Dr Shankar is the
brain behind this. He is passionate about the topic and is embarked on
creating a great degree of awareness among the public.
Just as we have many organ donation program for the eyes, liver, kidney and
so on, there is also a organ donation program for brain, though it is not
transplanted. Though many volunteer to donate other organs brain is some
thing most people do not allow to be touched. Perhaps the identity of a
person is deeply associated with the brain. Mankind prefers to burn or bury
the organ than donate it. Perhaps the view is brain transplants are not
done, and hence this donation is not necessary. The real story is research
on brain related problems and their cures is constrained by the
availability of a fresh brain. As time elapses after death, the remnants of
the brain undergo certain structural changes and impede better study.
We all know of many brain related problems, Alzheimers, paralysis after
stroke, head injury due to two wheeler riders not wearing a helmet, spinal
chord injury due to a person not wearing a seat belt. There are many who
are not sensitive to the preventive measures. Even eating street food is a
potential cause for brain problems. If one sees the appropriate specimen
and then hear a pitch to wear a helmet / seatbelt, they can never refuse.
The messages are so powerful.
The brain museum contains about 300 specimen. Rat brain, duck brain,
chimpanzee brain, brains of human foetus of various ages, etc
Dr Shankar is a very passionate man. He wants to educate the world. He
loves to explain things to kids, and medical students. But he is vary of
publishing photographs and meta data for reasons he articulates with
conviction. Plagiarism and thesis writing on the basis of such data is some
thing he is keen to prevent. There is still a lot to be written about.
One catch may be this sort of articles may require wikipedians who are also
medicos. Do we have people with medical background, available for a
hackathon on this subject. How do we go about this? Kindly give us your
suggestions.
Breakthrough, a global human rights organisation that runs campaigns such
as Bell Bajao, and Wikimedia Chapter (India) are conducting a Wikipedia
edit-a-thon in Delhi on December 7 and 8 for editing articles pertaining to
violence against women. Facebook page of the event:
http://www.facebook.com/events/181325168737101
*Basic idea behind this session*: A crucial problem with several Wikipedia
articles on sexual violence, especially in the Indian context, is that
often there are no articles or that articles have been deleted). It would
be a knowledge advocacy session to increase gender sensitive editing in
Wikipedia.
The session will involve editing of articles pertaining to various aspects
of violence against women in India. A list of about 10 Wikipedia articles
has been drawn up for editing. The session will be live-blogged. Remote
participation will be enabled through IRC channels.
The edit-a-thon is a part of the "16 days of activism against gender based
violence" starting 25th November (International Day for the Elimination of
Violence against Women) to 10 December (International Human Rights Day).
This is a global campaign that aims at raising awareness about gender-based
violence as a human rights issue. This hackathon will be mainly focussed
towards data visualisation and several organisations are providing us with
statistical datasets and other kinds of data including audio and video.
--
Chairperson (Special Interest Group), Gender gap,
Wikimedia Chapter (India)
Hi Shyamal,
You are welcome to invite others. Just wait till Tuesday. I plan to meet
the Director on Tuesday and will confirm to you.
The wealth of information you posted is very interesting. I guess we need
to form category specific interest groups for greater shared interest.
For long i have wondered how to revive Bangalore meets. Meets for talking
and sharing do not seem to enthuse many. Meets to do some joint action is
more appealing.
I have invited some people from UAS, GKVK too. Let us see how things work
out. If the invited team from UAS carries back nice memories more
enthusiasts from UAS can join us in future ventures too.
Regards,
Sowmyan
>
> Message: 5
> Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 12:26:14 +0530
> From: "Shyamal L." <lshyamal(a)gmail.com>
> To: Wikimedia India Community list
> <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Opportunity to embellish Lal Bagh
> Botanical Garden related WP article before the flower show on Jan
> 26.
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> Sowmyan, this is great news indeed! I know a number of people who are
> interested. It would be great if some of their archives can be accessed.
> Most of the trees that are out there are somewhat more readily accessible
> as indeed are the ornamentals.
>
> There are some really historic material including some amazing artwork
> (some of which I believe is by some unfortunately little-known botanical
> artists like K. Cheluvayya Raju who died more than 70 years ago).
> There is probably some interesting material related to G H Krumbiegel, Hugh
> Cleghorn and the Agri Horticultural Society.
> There are also some interesting publications made by the Horticulture
> Department that are largely inaccessible - over the years I have had
> enquiries from the Royal Botanical Gardens Edinburgh for looking up a book
> called "Glass House – The Jewel of Lalbagh" published in 1991 that has
> hardly been seen by people who are interested in it. I have likewise had
> requests for archive data relating to John Cameron (Krumbiegel's
> predecessor).
>
> There is also a great deal of as yet un-written history on plant
> introductions such as
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chayote ("Seemay Badnekayi" = foreign
> brinjal
> - one of the introductions to our diet thanks to the work at Lalbagh) as
> well as the numerous avenue trees (like the pink poui currently in bloom
> and chosen by Krumbiegel as part of his Ritu Samhara idea for Bangalore)
>
> For a glimpse of the excellent artwork of an unfortunately little-known
> botanical artist - K. Cheluvayya Raju - see
>
> http://www.benakaartconservation.com/Restoration/Portfolio_-_Art_Conservati…
> and we have several other botanical artists who as yet have no articles on
> even on the en.wiki (for example the somewhat famous pair of Govindoo and
> Rungiah).
>
> I have been postponing my own plans to research the archives there and
> would be very happy to join you in your meetings if possible. There are
> some active tree groups in India who will be interested too.
>
> best wishes
> Shyamal
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Shyamal
>
>
>
Asaf,
On the GLAM event at the National Museum, we have have outlined what we
wish to do here.
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/National_Museum_GLAM_Collaboration_2013-14
We have a volunteer team which has agreed to conduct the event. I have sent
an MoU to the institution and await their acceptance. We do not expect a
problem. Adequate in principle understanding is present.
There is an institute associated with the museum with 160 students studying
museology, a subject related to museums. The Museum also has a 50 member
volunteer community consisting of teachers, retired officials and such
knowledgeable people who conduct guided tours. We have some students of
local colleges and the community of Wikimedians from Delhi.
We hope to address about 20 tp 30 interested people from this lot and
engage them in a GLAM pilot for about 100 artefacts the museum may open up
for the pilot. This choice is left to the Museum at this stage.
Andrew Gray from UK has agreed to address the volunteers for an hour or
two, during his holidays in New Delhi. We will get a over view of these
artefacts from the curators at the Museum. They will also help the editors
with references, and make available their library resources and meta data.
Some references may be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. We will teach editing
to the students / volunteers who sign up. Over 4 days we will take them
through sandbox to first article with substantial content. Small teams of 2
to 3 people may jointly create an article. A second article may also be
initiated. With 4 to 5 experienced wikimedians signing up as guides and 4
days of event, we will have adequate hand holding to reach the desired
level. Emphasis will be on obtaining and uploading reference material so
that even outside the workshop the editing can continue. A follow up event
will be held a month later.
At the end, we should have some photo gallery, articles about many
significant artefacts, a group of editors who have worked together, and an
enabling environment where Museum will help them in their ongoing editing
activity. The results will continue beyond the workshop. Best of all we
will have the museology students who have done this exercise joining
various Museums in India. They can become key enablers for similar
initiatives across a number of museums.
Our current critical point is the schedule. We are pushing for the holiday
season, and starting this in our current grant period. It straddles two
financial periods precariously. We have to get a consensus on the dates
with the Museum. This is expected in the next couple of days.
regards,
Sowmyan
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> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 15:26:29 -0800
> From: Asaf Bartov <abartov(a)wikimedia.org>
> To: Wikimedia India Community list
> <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] GLAM project at National Museum New
> Delhi
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> Dear Sowmyan,
>
> Glad to hear this is coming along! Could you share a little more about the
> planned partnership? What activities would take place, on-site and
> on-wiki?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Asaf
>
>
>
Dear fellow Wikimedians,
I will start by introducing myself to the community. I am Ravi Vyzasatya
based in Maryland. I have contributed to Telugu Wikipedia since 2005 and to
a lesser extent in Telugu Wiktionary and Wikisource. I did serve as admin
in all these projects. Although my primary interest is in writing well
researched articles in the area of South Indian history, I do help the
community by running bot scripts and taking care of miscellaneous
administrative tasks.
Telugu wikipedia will be 10 years old in another week from now. On this
auspicious occasion Telugu Wikimedia Community is organizing celebrations
under the leadership of an organizing committee headed by Vishwanath B.K,
Pranayraj as Secretary, Kasyap as Treasurer along with Rahimanuddin, WMIN
SIG lead Telugu, Vishnuvardhan, CIS-A2K Program Director as members. We
have also constituted an awards committee with myself as President, Arjuna
Rao Chavala, WMIN Co-founder and its first President as Secretary and A.
Rajasekhar, T. Sujatha, NWR 2011 award winners from Telugu Wikis and A.
Radhakrishna, Former WMIN SIG lead for Bangalore as members. The award is
named after Komarraju Lakshmana Rao[1], pioneer Telugu encyclopedian who
undertook the first modern encyclopedic effort in Telugu, perhaps the first
among Indian languages (c.1912-13). It is also quite fitting tribute to
Lakshmana Rao to honor his memory in the centennial anniversary of such
pioneering effort. The award carries a citation and cash prize of Rs
10,000/. Organizing committee and awards committee members are ineligible
for the awards to avoid any perceived or real conflict of interest.
We are inviting nominations [2] for awards on Telugu Wikimedia projects.
Nominations are due by 9th Dec 2013 24:00 midnight (UTC). Members can self
-nominate or be nominated by others, in consideration for these awards.
Nomination process has been developed by Arjuna building upon the NWR 2011
nomination process[3] pioneered by another WMIN Cofounder and the then EC
Member Arunram . We express our sincere appreciation for the same. We think
that this initiative with nominal cash prize by Telugu community may be the
first of its kind and will complement the existing recognition mechanisms
and help encourage budding Wikimedians in their initial years of
contribution. We invite all Indian Wikimedians to participate in the award
nomination process as you may be familiar with our Telugu Wikimedians
through their efforts in English, Kannada, Tamil language Wikimedia
projects. For the benefit of wider Wikimedia community, we have provided
for relevant remarks on the nomination pages in English and also invite
nominations or support for the existing nominations in English, if you
choose to do so.
We solicit your wishes on this happy occasion and will be sharing the
updates about the celebrations, awards and other related Telugu wiki
activities as things roll out.
Sincerely,
Ravi Vyzasatya
References
1.English wiki page on Komarraju Lakshmana Rao, the first Encylopaedist
among Indian languages from India
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komarraju_Venkata_Lakshmana_Rao
2. Award details page in Telugu
https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA…
3. Nominations page in Telugu
https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA…<https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA…>
Hoi,
There are two ways of enabling this Wikidata search functionality; Wiki
wide and personally. It is done by adding this one line to common.js..
importScriptURI("//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Wdsearch.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript");
You add it either to mediawiki:common.js or to USER/common.js.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 3 December 2013 08:28, rupert THURNER <rupert.thurner(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi gerard, that sounds really exciting! Is it necessary to change a setting
> to see this behaviour? If not i d appreciate if you could give an example
> where one could see this best.
>
> Rupert
> Am 02.12.2013 18:50 schrieb "Gerard Meijssen" <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com>:
>
> > Hoi,
> >
> > The Italian Wikipedia is the first project where people who use search
> > will find results added from Wikidata. As you may know, Wikidata knows
> has
> > more items with a label in a language than a Wikipedia has articles. With
> > the Wikidata based functionality people will gain several functionalities
> > that are new to them
> >
> > - a link to Commons categories for a subject
> > - a link to Wikipedia articles in other languages
> > - a link to the Wikidata item
> > - visualisation care of the "Reasonator"
> >
> > When there are multiple items found in the search request, disambiguation
> > will be provided based on the statements available on the items.
> Obviously
> > as more labels are available in a language for statements, the experience
> > will improve.
> >
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Dear Wikimedians,
I wanted to know if any of you were aware of any active Wikimedians in the
state of Nagaland (North East of India).
Do you anyone of you have any contacts?
Have any outreach programs been held there so far?
Please mail me off list if you have any contacts with Wikimedians or FOSS
folks in Nagaland.
I would also appreciate contacts into Assamese wikimedians. I do know a few
outreach programs were held there.
Would much appreciate your assistance with this request.
Happy editing....
regards
Arun