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Date: 23 Jul 2017 17:53
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Notes : Wikipedia Mini Hackathon Chennai
July 23, 2017
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From: Shrinivasan T <tshrinivasan(a)gmail.com>
Date: 2017-07-23 22:22 GMT+05:30
Subject: Notes : Wikipedia Mini Hackathon Chennai July 23, 2017
To: ilugc(a)freelists.org
Today, from Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai, we conducted a mini
hackathon on Wikipedia.
We asked for ideas to the Tamil wiki community.
Collected the ideas here - https://ta.wikipedia.org/s/6t7w
We got 7 people. Balaji is a second year CS student. Syed Abuthahir is
joining his first company as Python programmer tomorrow. His college senior
Ajees is working. Neechalkaran is a well known contributor for wikipedia
for his bots. Padmakumar is a C/C++ expert. Sankar is a full stack
programmer. Myself a python kid.
With this energetic team with various skillsets, today's hackathon got some
interesting contributions.
Balaji hacked the UI of Tamil wikisource to show the wiki editing tools to
left side bar. He is exploring on adding Tamil typewriting keyboard to
Jquery.ime of "Universal Language Selector" extension of mediaiwki.
Padma Kumar explored the process of installing Tamil Text to speech system
provided by IIT Madras. With very less and confusing documentation, he was
downloading huge amount of software stack and compiling them for the entire
day. Found that they had many hardcoded paths for various files in the
code. Have to find and fix them manually. He will be exploring on this,
further.
Syed Abuthahir explored the features of wikitools, a python library. He
started to build a reporting tool to list out the contributions by all the
TamilNadu School Teachers. The tool is still backing. He will complete it
soon.
Neechalkaran explained and demonstrated his bots using Google Script
Engine. He explained how mediawiki api works. He learned working with
wikitools and python.
Sankar started to explore wikipedia as he is very new to it. Myself was
helping the participants to understand the requirements and to get into
hacking easily.
Will followup with the team to get the repo links and documentation.
Thanks for Raja Manohar for providing the venue. Thanks for Sankar and
Vasanth for nice hospitality.
Thanks for all the participants. Hoping to see them all as great
contributors to wikipedia. Let us conduct such events often. Meet you all
soon.
Photos are here - https://photos.app.goo.gl/SEjPkJUvF30qGUWg2
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Dear One & all
As you are aware, Wikimedia India (WMIN) recently in April had its election
for all its 7 Executive Committee (EC) positions
<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Elections_2016/Results>
At IIT Bombay, WMIN recently had an Induction meeting with the
newly elected Executive committee members. This session was conducted from
30th June - 1st July 2017 in the IIT Bombay campus
Since the new EC has a good mix of members from Past EC & new faces too,
the Induction process was conducted in a very smooth & planned manner.
Mr Ashwin Baindur also gave a session on the working of Community dynamics
along with the expectations by the community from the new EC.
On the last day of the Induction meeting, the EC members elected office
bearers amongst themselves. Following are the new Office bearers
- Mr Rahul Deshmukh : President
- Mr Yohann Thomas : Secretary
- Mr Sanket Oswal : Treasurer
- Mr Viswa Prabha : Member
- Mr Suyash Dwivedi : Member
- Mr Santosh Shingare : Member
- Mr Krishan Chaitanya Velaga : Member
You can find the newly updated Board members page with their profiles here
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Executive_Committee_Members
I would like to thank the community for their wholehearted support they
have given to the chapter & hope to meet their expectations
Regards,
Yohann Thomas
Wikimedia India
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Date: 5 Jul 2017 10:13
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Video Version of Wikipedia is LIVE!
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*Hey fellow Wikipedians, *
*VideoWiki (Video version of Wikipedia) is LIVE (Website is best viewed on
Google Chrome)- *https://www.videowikipedia.org/
Building a *multi-media encyclopedia *was considered *impossible* to build
until now because videos once uploaded on the internet cannot be edited
again and Wikipedia relies on being constantly updated and edited. We have
just proved that it is not only possible but also FUN to create a *democratic
multi-media encyclopedia.*
.
Similar to Wikipedia, anyone, *including you, *can edit an article right
now, without even having to log in.
Play around with the website. You will see that *you can give life *to
your *favourite
Wikipedia articles *by converting them to *VideoWiki articles. *
Currently,we are an independent organization, however we are looking to
partner up *WMF *to *evolve Wikipedia *from a *text-based encyclopedia *to
a *multi-media encyclopedia. *I am personally travelling to *Wikimania 2017
(Montreal) *to discuss the impact of Videowiki on Wikipedia. If you are
interested in knowing about the possible impact on organization structure
and monetization strategy for VideoWiki and Wikipedia , you can read my
Medium article at -
https://medium.com/@pratik.shetty/videowiki-a-free-multi-
media-encyclopedia-that-anyone-can-edit-94d7f021ca38
*Would love your thoughts, opinions and feedback on VideoWiki and if any
particular features you would like to see on VideoWiki?*
*Love, now and always,Pratik Shetty*
*Creator of VideoWikiEmail - pratik.shetty(a)tlrfindia.com
<pratik.shetty(a)tlrfindia.com>*
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Dear Community
I am pleased to announce to you that Agastya Chandrakant is one of the
first featured wikimedians we have announced who is primarily into Wikinews.
Please find the excerpt below. You can also find the full article on our
page - wiki.wikimedia.in
*User:Acagastya*
*Agastya Chandrakant from Surat, Gujarat is an editor on English Wikinews
under alias of **Acagastya* <https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/User:Acagastya>*,
currently studying in The National Institute of Engineering, Mysore. *
*He is 18-years-old and has been editing Wikimedia Projects since 2014,
from his days in high school. He has more than 8,000 global edits and also
holds the review rights on Wikinews. On Wikinews, every article has to pass
the review before it is published. Agastya has written more than 200 news
articles on Wikinews. He is amongst the very few Indian editors on
Wikinews. *
*Calligraphy, reading, and photography are some of his hobbies, however,
after academic commitments whatever time he gets for himself now, he
devotes it to Wikinews. *
*Agastya believes there are lot of things happening around us in various
fields -- from crime and law to science and technology. Some events affect
a certain group of people. Some affects other groups. As a news reporter
his tries to cover news for everyone, ranging from different subjects. *
*Agastya hopes more Indian community members to contribute quality photos
from the events around the country on Wikimedia projects, and hopes they,
as an Indian, make decisions and act so that secularism, freedom, and
humanity can co-exist. *
I would like to thank Abhinav Srivastava for getting us in touch with this
amazing contributor & helping to write the article on him
I am also proud to announce that Mr Krishna Chaitnaya who got newly elected
to the board of WMIN will be taking forward the Featured Wikimedian of the
month
If you know any Wikimedian whom you think should be featured, please feel
free to nominate them here
<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Featured_Wikimedian/Nominations>.
Contact Abhinav Srivastava/Krishna Chaitanya here -
abhinav.srivastava(a)wikimedia.in / kcvelaga(a)wikimedia.in
Regards,
Yohann Thomas
Wikimedia India