For your information.
anirudh
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From: Jessie Wild <jwild(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 12:49 AM
Subject: [Translators-l] Help in translating Wikimania scholarship page
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Hi everyone!
I'm not sure the proper procedure for this, but is there a way we could get
some volunteers to help translate the WIkimania scholarship page?
http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships
As English aptitude is critical for maximum benefit from the event, the
application is all in English. But we like to have the information page
available in multiple languages, so that people can be 100% clear on the
details of the program, and what they will be "judged" on.
Thanks for your help -= please redirect me elsewhere if this was an
inappropriate avenue :)
Jessie
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Thank you, Abhishek, for the post. Abhishek and Konarak are potential
long-term and high-quality contributors to Gujarati and English Wikipedia
projects. Please join me in welcoming them.
anirudh
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:27 PM, Abhishek Joshi <abhishek2185(a)gmail.com>wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Let me give you a brief update on things we did in Ahmedabad Meet Up to
> celebrate Wikipedia's 11th birthday.
>
> *Our Main Agenda:*
>
>
> 1. Celebrating Wikipedia 11th Birthday
> 2. Spreading awareness of Wikipedia in Gujarat/Ahmedabad
> 3. Introducing Wikipedia project Gujarat to the Ahmedabad
> community
>
>
>
>
> On *11th Birthday of Wikipedia* Ahmedabad Wikimedia Community organize
> the Ahmedabad Second Meetup at Gandhi Ashram (Sabarmati Ashram). The meet
> up was organized by Anirudh Bhati & Abhishek Joshi.
>
>
> Due to the Sankrant festival a very few wikipedian’s turned out in the
> meet up so we met with few community members (Parag Patel, Konark Ratnakar
> and Nakul Chugan). As we were *5 members* we had gone to nearest
> restaurant for the celebration.
>
>
> Anirudh started with giving a presentation on Wikipedia Project India and
> Wikipedia Project Gujarat.
>
>
> He further mentioned the role they would play to bridge the gap between
> people who have the freedom to edit Wikipedia and those who actually do
>
> so. He encouraged them to join one of the finest groups of people in the
> world - Wikipedians. He outlined the sequence of events, the training they
> would receive. He said that due to the need to start off the program right
> away, the program would begin with those aspirants who already had the
> skills being looked for especially the knowledge of the Wikipedia world.
>
> Our main focus is on Wikipedia Project Gujarat and on improving the
> articles and spreading awareness of Wikipedia over Gujarat region. The
> aspirants responded with interest and a lot of questions.
>
> After some discussion we have celebrated the Wikipedia’s 11th Birthday by
> cutting the beautiful chocolate flavoured cake.
>
> This meetup was quite productive and the Ahmedabad community took the
> contact details of all participants, promising to get back to them soon
> with different meet ups.
>
> Below are the links of Ahmedabad Meet up Details and Photographs of the
> same.
> *Ahmedabad Meetup-2<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Ahmedabad/Ahmedabad2>
> *
> *Ahmedabad Meetup-2 Photographs<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Ahmedabad_Meetup_Jan2012>
> *
>
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> *
>
> Regards,
>
> Abhi
> *
>
>
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Hello everyone,
I think the issue has been solved. I request everyone to peace out. Please.
Keep Editing ! Keep Inspiring !
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:42 PM, Abhishek Joshi <abhishek2185(a)gmail.com>wrote:
> Dhaval,
>
> I am Abhishek Joshi the Organizer of Ahmedabad Meetup and first of the
> thing who told you such a scrap as your are not at the meetup and you don't
> even know what the all we have done. We had healthy discussion on Wiki
> Project Gujarat and Infact Anirudh encourage us to write on Gujarati
> articles. Please before writing such a email verified your self and really
> its a shameful act to attack someone personally.
>
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Anirudh Bhati <anirudhsbh(a)gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Dhaval,
>>
>> Before writing such a scathing email criticizing an administrator (which
>> is me) who allegedly made this statement, perhaps you should have verified
>> it with me first?
>>
>> I was making a reference to Wikiproject Gujarat on the English Wikipedia,
>> which has run out of contributors. You can independently confirm it with
>> the others who were present at the meet up.
>>
>> I encouraged the rest of the participants to contribute to guwp.
>>
>> It's shameful that you are drawn to make personal attacks on a public
>> platform without checking your facts in the first place.
>>
>> And I'll really appreciate if you drop the polemics.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Anirudh
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On 17-Jan-2012, at 4:30 AM, "Dhaval S. Vyas" <dsvyas(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi All,
>> >
>> > I have come to know a surprising fact that in the Wiki meetup recently
>> held in Ahmedabad, while discussing about Gujarati Wikipedia, one of the
>> administrators conveyed that Gujarati project is almost inactive or dead
>> (in gujarati વિકિપીડિયા ગુજરાતી પ્રોજેક્ટ લગભગ બંધ છે.).
>> >
>> > This is very shameful for anybody to convey wrong message. If one is
>> not aware of the project activity, despite of presentation made by one of
>> the Gujarati Wikipedian in WikiConference India and from the site
>> statistics/traffic report shared with all Indian WIki Language wikipedia by
>> Wikimedia Foundation's India chapter (Shiju Alex recently shared this),
>> they should have accepted their lack of knowledge and conveyed that they
>> are not aware of what's happening with Gujarati Wikipedia or they are
>> ignorant of its state. It is damaging for the growing community that in
>> such vital events people convey wrong message to the masses.
>> >
>> > I hope some of the attendess of the meetup would read this and correct
>> their mistake by spreading the word of Gujarati WIkipedia and its current
>> state in successive meetups as their moral duty to pay back the debt.
>> >
>> > This email is not at all intended to hurt anyone, but just to make
>> everyone aware that there has never been a single day, including Gujarati
>> New Year day or Uttarayan, when gu.wiki would have fewer than 50 edits.
>> What else could be an indication of how active this project is? We have
>> almost 22,000 pages on gu.wiki. If anyone need full statistics, please
>> contact me and I will be more than happy to share the same.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Dhaval
>> > _______________________________________________
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>
> Abhi
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>
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FYI. For those interested. Thanks.
Yours sincerely,
Anirudh Bhati
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From: Tanvir Rahman <wikitanvir(a)gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 6:52 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia-BD] SOPA protest - Bengali Wikipedia placed a
banner, what about other Indic language wikis?
To: Wikimedia India list <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>,
Wikimedia BD List <wikimedia-bd(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikipedia BN
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Bengal, India" <wikimedia-in-wb(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hello everyone,
Just to let you know that Bengali Wikipedia [1] has placed a banner on
their site notice protesting SOPA and PIPA. Maybe other Indic language
Wikipedias can take similar initiatives or maybe they have taken one
already? If so, share with us!
In the mean time, I have an translation request for you. Maybe you
have read Sue's letter [2] to the community about the blackout. I
invite you all to translate that letter in your language. Since we
have little time (less than 17 hours), we need be prompt. See the
translation request on Meta-Wiki [3] and start your translation.
Get yourself up and let your people know in your language!
Regards,
Tanvir Rahman
Wikitanvir on Wikimedia
[1] bn.wikipedia.org
[2] http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/English_Wikipedia_anti-SOPA_blackout
[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Translation_requests/WMF/English_Wikipedia_…
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Hi,
We should write the email to wikipedia-gu into Gujarati, but due to my mobile limitation, I cant write into Gujarati.
Well, I was thinking that we should share Gujarati Wikipedia Topics to write articles. Suppose, a wikipedian who writes only for some particular topic. For e.g. I am writing article about Computer related. And I also edit it if it already exists. So we should be create community for particular topics, the community member will edit related article.
What's your idea ?
Hi All,
I have come to know a surprising fact that in the Wiki meetup recently held
in Ahmedabad, while discussing about Gujarati Wikipedia, one of the
administrators conveyed that Gujarati project is almost inactive or dead
(in gujarati વિકિપીડિયા ગુજરાતી પ્રોજેક્ટ લગભગ બંધ છે.).
This is very shameful for anybody to convey wrong message. If one is not
aware of the project activity, despite of presentation made by one of the
Gujarati Wikipedian in WikiConference India and from the site
statistics/traffic report shared with all Indian WIki Language wikipedia by
Wikimedia Foundation's India chapter (Shiju Alex recently shared this),
they should have accepted their lack of knowledge and conveyed that they
are not aware of what's happening with Gujarati Wikipedia or they are
ignorant of its state. It is damaging for the growing community that in
such vital events people convey wrong message to the masses.
I hope some of the attendess of the meetup would read this and correct
their mistake by spreading the word of Gujarati WIkipedia and its current
state in successive meetups as their moral duty to pay back the debt.
This email is not at all intended to hurt anyone, but just to make everyone
aware that there has never been a single day, including Gujarati New Year
day or Uttarayan, when gu.wiki would have fewer than 50 edits. What else
could be an indication of how active this project is? We have almost 22,000
pages on gu.wiki. If anyone need full statistics, please contact me and I
will be more than happy to share the same.
Regards,
Dhaval
Hello everyone,
As said earlier couple of weeks ago in my mail, I covered the Lakhota
Museum Jamnagar through my camera as a part of small GLAM activity, I am
happy to announce that my work is almost over.
I urge everyone to have a look at Lakhota Museum
Jamnagar<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Lakhota_Museum_Jamnagar>
Gallery.
Two of the images from it Lakhota
(building)<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lakhota_Lake_Museum.JPG>
and
Shri Ranjit Singh<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shri_Ranjit_Singhji.JPG>
got
rated as Quality Image too.
Also some of the images in exhibit section at the bottom have some problems
like reflection of light from the room, its simply because I was in a bit
hurry to cover the entire museum, and it was my debut to cover any museum.
I would love to hear from you guys about it. Please do reply.
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(User:Rangilo_Gujarati) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rangilo_Gujarati>
*Ahmedabad Mirror : "Amdavadis explore city through their lens"*
http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/index.aspx?page=article§id=3&contentid=2…
Epaper :
http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Default/Client.asp?Daily=AMIR&showST=true&lo…
4Jan2012
, Page 11
http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Default/Scripting/ArticleWin.asp?From=Archiv…
*As many as 70 people, including 20 students, participated in the ‘Wiki
Takes The City’ walk organised by Wikimedia Foundation and captured
glimpses of the city; 197 photographs of the city were uploaded on
Wikipedia website within two hours of the event*
*
*
*A group of amateur photographers, decked up in woollens and armed with
their cameras, set out to capture glimpses of the city on Tuesday morning.
They had gathered at Gandhi Ashram for the ‘Wiki Takes The City’ walk
organised by Wikimedia Foundation, which had invited Amdavadis to take
photographs of the city. The selected photographs will be uploaded on
Wikipedia. *
*
*
*The walk witnessed participation from 70 people, including 20 school
students. Then the participants dispersed in their respective groups to
three locations — Walled city, Gujarat University area and ISRO area. The
walk concluded at 1 pm after which the participants had to upload their
best photographs. *
*
*
*197 pictures, two hours *
*
*
*Noopur Raval, coordinator of Wikimedia India Chapter, said, “As many as
197 photographs were uploaded within two hours of the event. Every
participant was sent on a route that had ten monuments. Hence, we expected
around 50 photos to be clicked by each of them.”*
*
*
*Like Maulik Joshi and Abhishek Joshi, both software engineers, many
participants had taken a leave from work to participate in the event.
Maulik, who was in the group that took pictures of Gujarat University area,
said, “This is an attempt to portray best of Ahmedabad through
photographs.” *
*
*
*Agreed Maulik, “Photography is my passion. It feels great to be part of
such events wherein we get a chance to show the real Ahmedabad to the world
with our photos. We also got to capture nooks and corners of the city which
we had never noticed earlier.”*
*
*
*Platform to meet *
*Twenty-year-old Bijal Parikh, who is pursuing graphic designing in
Ahmedabad, said, “It is a great platform to meet new people who have a
passion for photography. I have clicked more than 100 photos and they are
people-centric. Since they would be uploaded on Wikipedia, I clicked photos
which people can connect to.”*
*
*
*She added, “Many youngsters participated in the walk. This shows that we
youngsters are concerned about our heritage, monuments and the city
itself.” *
*
*
*Encourage people*
*The aim was to encourage people to take photographs of as many local sites
and city specific objects of cultural heritage as possible for Wikipedia
articles, according to an information on ‘Wikipedia Takes Ahmedabad’ page.*
Regards
Tinu Cherian
press(a)wikimedia.in
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/In_the_news
Important Note : The publisher ( Ahmedabad Mirror / Times of India Group )
of the above news article owns the copyrights of the article / content.
Request to kindly not reproduce or circulate the content further. The
information is only shared only with an internal community who have been
featured on this article. All copyrights are duly acknowledged.
Hello everyone,
I don't know if you all are aware about "Wikipedia Takes Ahmedabad". It was
a first ever kind of photo walk held in Ahmedabad on 3rd Jan 2012 with the
help of Noopur, Anirudh (en wp admin) and Srikeit(en wp admin).
The buzz had already been created in press and media about it, and to a
surprise about 80+ people turned up on that morning and different routes
were decided previously with respective Team Coordinators, and thus they
were set free in the city.
And the result turned out to be marvelous. 676 images of Ahmedabad so for
on Commons right now.
Do have a look at it http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Ahmedabad_1.
This category was specially created for this event only.
Now feel free to use these images on Gujarati WP on relevant articles.
Do please leave a "Thanks" to Noopur, Anirudh and Srikeit. They deserve it.
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