Hello All,
We are extremely glad that Sakal Group of Newspapers covered the Womens Day
Event in Pune, which was published on the front page of Pune, Aurangabad &
Nashik division.
Here is the link for the same
http://www.esakal.com/esakal/20130322/5164019763625872790.htm
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Regards & Thanks,
Niraj N. Suryawanshi
Pune Institute of Computer Technology | Wikipedia Club Pune
+91 814 992 0120 | niraj.suryawanshi(a)gmail.com
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FYI because I didn't see this reach the India list. Apologies if it has already.
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> From: Sue Gardner <sgardner(a)wikimedia.org>
> Date: March 28, 2013, 3:34:49 AM GMT+05:30
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> Hello Wikimedia community members,
>
> This is not an easy e-mail to write, and it’s been a very hard
> decision to make. But I’m writing to tell you that I’m planning to
> leave my position as the Executive Director of the Wikimedia
> Foundation.
>
> My departure isn’t imminent -- the Board and I anticipate it’ll take
> at least six months to recruit my successor, and I’ll be fully engaged
> as Executive Director all through the recruitment process and until we
> have a new person in place. We’re expecting that’ll take about six
> months or so, and so this note is not goodbye -- not yet.
>
> Making the decision to leave hasn’t been easy, but it comes down to two things.
>
> First, the movement and the Wikimedia Foundation are in a strong place
> now. When I joined, the Foundation was tiny and not yet able to
> reliably support the projects. Today it's healthy, thriving, and a
> competent partner to the global network of Wikimedia volunteers. If
> that wasn’t the case, I wouldn’t feel okay to leave. In that sense, my
> leaving is a vote of confidence in our Board and executive team and
> staff --- I know they will ably steer the Foundation through the years
> ahead, and I’m confident the Board will appoint a strong successor to
> me.
>
> And I feel that although we’re in good shape, with a promising future,
> the same isn’t true for the internet itself. (This is thing number
> two.) Increasingly, I’m finding myself uncomfortable about how the
> internet’s developing, who’s influencing its development, and who is
> not. Last year we at Wikimedia raised an alarm about SOPA/PIPA, and
> now CISPA is back. Wikipedia has experienced censorship at the hands
> of industry groups and governments, and we’re --increasingly, I
> think-- seeing important decisions made by unaccountable
> non-transparent corporate players, a shift from the open web to mobile
> walled gardens, and a shift from the production-based internet to one
> that’s consumption-based. There are many organizations and individuals
> advocating for the public interest online -- what’s good for ordinary
> people -- but other interests are more numerous and powerful than they
> are. I want that to change. And that’s what I want to do next.
>
> I’ve always aimed to make the biggest contribution I can to the
> general public good. Today, this is pulling me towards a new and
> different role, one very much aligned with Wikimedia values and
> informed by my experiences here, and with the purpose of amplifying
> the voices of people advocating for the free and open internet. I
> don’t know exactly what this will look like -- I might write a book,
> or start a non-profit, or work in partnership with something that
> already exists. Either way, I feel strongly that this is what I need
> to do.
>
> I feel an increasing sense of urgency around this. That said, I also
> feel a strong sense of responsibility (and love!) for the Wikimedia
> movement, and so I’ve agreed with the Board that I’ll stay on as
> Executive Director until we have my successor in place. That’ll take
> some time -- likely, at least six months.
>
> Until then, nothing changes. The Wikimedia Foundation has lots of work
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>
> I have many people to thank, but I’m not going to do it now --
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> Sue
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From: Withheld
Date: Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 4:26 AM
Subject: [Chapters] Blog post from Benjamin Mako Hill about editor being
sued
To: Chapters <chapters(a)wikimedia.ch>
I found this on facebook, being repeated several time. I suggest
people with chapters and interested in editor retention or improving
article quality read it. Thoroughly cited.
http://mako.cc/copyrighteous/the-institute-for-cultural-diplomacy-and-wikip…
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Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Treasurer,
Wikimedia Chapter [India]
Donate to the Wikimedia India Chapter today<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Donations>
Dear all,
Here is the link to the blog post by Sajjad Anwar and
Sumandro Chattopadhyay on the visualization of the growth of Indic
Wikipedias:
http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/indic-wikipedia-visualisation-project-vi…
The data obtained is for the period from January 2001 to December
2012 and has been visualized into motion charts and calendar charts. The
parameters used have also been listed chart wise.
I am not sure if
Sajjad and Sumandro are on the mailing lists but I would be happy to
connect you with them or take the community responses to them if any.
Best,
Noopur
Hi All,
Here is my blog<http://phjot.techfiz.info/2013/03/a-day-in-wiki-women-workshop/>post
on Wiki Women Workshop that we conducted on 9th March.
As we all know, Wikipedia is the world’s biggest encyclopedia and
recognized as the 5th most website accessed by people across the globe.
Being one of the biggest community driven project, Wikipedia has pooled in
millions of articles which have been added/edited/monitored/ by people like
you and me.
By nature, gender has not only been the distinguishing factor for human
being but also acts as a barrier to perform limited set of activities from
the ages. At various stages of evolution, men and women have been
continuously striving to overcome their boundaries which were set by
themselves or by the society. It’s the same story when it comes to
statistics of Wikipedians and the ratio of men and women participation is
9:1. To bridge this gap Wikipdedia has been organizing many activities to
bring in more women participants around Wikipedia and other Wiki projects.
On the occasion of International Women’s Day 2013, many of the volunteer
Wikipedians conducted workshops with dedicated focus to women across the
India.
On this occasion, I got an opportunity to organize the workshop in
Bangalore as well for women with ideas floated by Nikita (EC member of
India Chapter) and Radhakrishna (SIG chair Bangalore). With guidance and
support by Sowmyan (EC member of India Chapter),
Arun<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/User:Arunram> (founder
member of India Wikipedia) and
Omshivapraksh<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/User:Omshivaprakash> (Kannada
SIG chair of Bangalore), we could conduct Wikipedia Women’s
Workshop<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wikipedia_Women%27s_Workshop_Bangalore_2013>
successfully
for the first time in Bangalore on 9th of March at Servelots Infotech Pvt.
Ltd <http://servelots.com/>. As mentioned in the event page, the workshop
was started with giving an overview of Wikipedia and introduction of
participants along with their interests. Continuing further participants
were able to found their answers for their initial set of questions like
what is Wikipedia all about? Why do we participate? Who all will edit? in
about an hour session by Omshivaprakash.
After a small tea break and a press byte organized by
Pavanaja<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/User:Pavanaja>,
the sessions were continued by introducing the next step to Wikipedia.
i.e., How do we edit? To make our hands on session more interactive, we
made one of our participant, Dr. A Sumitra to create an account live and
explained various steps to edit Wikipedia like start a new page, edit a
page, formatting, preview, adding references, history, etc. In between we
played the recorded videos of Bishakha
Datta<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuIgDP4KDck>
and Netha Hussain<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WWC-Netha-Hussain.ogv>
who
shared their experience with Wikipedia and their message on Women’s Day.
With excited participants, we extended the session and took some more time
to explain what else we can do beyond editing by giving a brief overview on
other wiki projects like Commons, WikiBooks, Wikisource, Wikinews,
Wikiquote, Wikitionary, MediaWiki, etc.
**
New items on the cards:
1. During the event, Dr. A Sumitra based out of Bangalore did add the
page on Nalini Nayak <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nalini_Nayak> who is
famous as India’s Fisher Women.
2. We have compiled a list of
topics<http://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%B5%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%95%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%AA%…>
for
Kannada Wikipedia for which women can participate in adding/enhancing the
content on Wikipedia.
3. Our participant, Lakshimi Chaitanya has come forward to introduce
many female achievers by adding content in Kannada Wikipedia.
4. Sumana from Sanskrit Wikipedia and other Wikipedians have been
working on making audio files for Sanskrit Shlokas since few days and they
are very happy to welcome volunteers who would like to join them in adding
their content to Commons.
Couple of other women who could not make it to the event also got in touch
to be part of the celebrations by contributing to Kannada Wikipedia:
5. Recent Wikipedian, Shyamala Janardhan has been trying to add
contents of HariKathamrutha Saara to WikiSource.
6. Savitha S.R. from Bangalore celebrating this occasion by adding
contents of Vyasa Bharata -Kumara Vyasa to Wikipedia.
I have created a new Facebook group called WikiWomen
Bangalore<https://www.facebook.com/groups/145050568996982/> to
gather all women participants of Wikipedia and other Wiki projects. The
space can be used to discuss and interact about topics around Wikipedia and
to bring in more women participants to share their knowledge. I request all
of you to join the group and share your thoughts.
Also refer to event page International Women’s Day,
India<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WHMIN13> which
lists all the events happening in India in March 2013 on the occasion of
Women’s day and participate in the area of your interest.
As a personal note, it gave immense pleasure and was a great learning
experience for me interacting with new excited Wikipedians. Thanks to
everyone who were part of the event and make it a big success.
Press Release:
- Kannadaprabha Daily report on Event,ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯದತ್ತ ಮಹಿಳೆಯರು
ಆಕರ್ಷಿತರಾಗಲಿ<http://archives.kannadaprabha.com/pdf/1032013/3.pdf> 10th
March, 2013
- ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಮಾಹಿತಿ: ಸ್ತ್ರೀಯರ ಪಾತ್ರ
ಇರಲಿ<http://www.prajavani.net/article/%E0%B2%B5%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%95%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2…>
Prajavani,
11th March, 2013
Photo credits goes to: Pavanaja <http://wiki.wikimedia.in/User:Pavanaja>
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Thanks,
Pavithra
Hi,
I wanted to share this real life story of a man who edited Tamil wikipedia
from prison !
Meet Muthukrishnan ( http://ta.wikipedia.org/s/fcl ) from Malaysia. He is a
retired school teacher and writer. He uses most of his spare time for
writing detailed articles about Malaysia and Tamils in Malaysia. He is so
involved in Wikipedia that once he personally visited the grave of a
personality to write an article on him !
Few weeks back, he was arrested by the Malaysian police on a case that
challenged his freedom of expression for an article he wrote in a magazine
(just to make it clear that he didn't create a real "crime" to land in
prison). He was out of the prison in couple of days.
What touched me a lot was that he provided an update in his wiki user page
that he is in prison and that he will be back soon! He used the laptop of
his grand daughter who visited him in the prison and made this edit under
the supervision of the prison guards !
He sees his contributions to Wikipedia as his lifetime work beyond the
search for survival and wealth. He calls his 12 year old grand daughter as
his inspiration to keep writing in Wikipedia.
Can people be so dedicated to a movement ? !
Do you have such stories in your project that inspire you? It is time to
share, inspire and infuse new blood in the movement !
Ravi
Hi all,
Wikimedia India is conducting a Wikipedia workshop at Fiesta 2013, the
annual student fest of Chennai Mathematical Institute on March 30,
2013.[1] We are also supporting two Wikimedia themed contests at the same
fest : 1) Wikilinks - a wikipedia clicking game 2) PixElite - a photography
contest [2]
==Links==
[1] http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Events/CMI_Fiesta_2013
[2] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:PixElite
regards
Bala Jeyaraman
Member, Executive Council
Wikimedia India
Hello All,
I don't see this shared yet. I can't rationalize the part of the title "dot
com" though!
Anyway here is the link to the article on timescrest.com. Please read,
share and spread the message. Thank you.
http://www.timescrest.com/society/world-wide-wiki-womens-web-dot-com-9981
Netha Hussain, Rohini Lakshane and Bishakha Datta three gems of Wikiverse
are quoted in the article.
Many thanks to Kim Arora.
Great Going!, many congratulations on this successful month so far. :-)
Regards,
Ansuman <http://twitter.com/an5um>
*ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ <http://or.wikipedia.org/>*