Internet Relay Chats/Jan 05,2012



Date and Time Jan 7, 2012, 9:00 pm to 10:00 pm

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Agenda
 * 1) Chapter SIG Co-ordination

Attendees
 * 1) User:Sudhanwa
 * 2) User:Naveenpf
 * 3) User:arunram
 * 4) User:teju2friends
 * 5) User:arjunaraoc
 * 6) User:AshLin
 * 7) User:Jayantanath
 * 8) User:HarishMG
 * 9) User:kalyan
 * 10) User:Omshivaprakash
 * 11) User:Arkrishna
 * 12) User:MikeLynch
 * 13) User:hpnadig
 * 14) User:yuvipanda
 * 15) User:pradx
 * 16) User:Logicwiki
 * 17) User:Hmundol


 *  IRC session log.


 * arjunaraoc: you are next, if anirudhhas finished.
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 * hello teju2friends_, naveenpf
 *  Hi..
 * just came back from office ...
 * Hi all, I am serving as president of Wikimedia India. My primary wp is telugu. thx
 * ok I am next
 * arunram: go ahead please
 * folks I am an wikipedian and EC member basedin blore.
 * i support the GLAM taskforce and have ideas on how that taskfroce can
 * collborate with city an lang sigs
 * assocuated with banglore, english, sanskrit sigs
 * thanks
 * AshLin: you can also start off
 *  Hi friends, I'm Ashwin, user:AshLin from English Wikipedia
 *  I'm volunteer for the En:WP SIG
 *  Foor those who are wondering, yes, En is an Indian language for our purposes
 *  and we consider the subset of WikiProject India articles and editors of these, Indians or
 * otherwise as members pof this community
 *  bcos my eye test mu spelling bad, plz forgive
 * 
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 * Harish_: JAYANTA, MikeLynch-srao please start
 *  okay, in en:WP our worldview is that having max resources in the articles in form of
 * content, images, refs etc, we need to be a source of already chosen material to help
 * others should they want it
 *  we are looking to collaborate across both city & language SIGs
 *  OK
 *  I have been invovled in organizing and participating in events Kolkata meetups and
 * events. (Jayanta Nath, Bengali Wikipedia admin, Wikimedia India member),
 *  My primary Wikipedia is Bnwiki
 *  we are in the process of rejuvenating WikiProject India
 *  we have already started the mailing list
 *  I'm a staying in Bengaluru.. I mainly contribute to Kannada wikipedia
 *  Me Kalyan,Biswarup organizing the latest photowalk in Kolkata - Wikipedia takes
 * Kolkata, and next Sunday 8 Jan We have again organized the same at different part of
 * the Kolkata city.
 * <AshLin> we have started the monthly collaboration
 * <JAYANTA> I am Bengali SIG
 * <AshLin> we have started an offline wikipedia for schools project
 * <AshLin> we are now starting this month a GA improvement of the month also
 * <JAYANTA> We are working for Kolkata Book fair 2012 stall for wikipedia:-)
 * <AshLin> pending tasks 1. preperation of material for outreach, am planning to help Nitika for this
 * <AshLin> pending tasks 2. To setup a cleanup task force
 * <AshLin> pending task 3. help city SIGs in their En:WP related activities
 * <AshLin> thats all from me at the moment
 * i am a contributor to english wikipedia
 * at present, as jayanta da said, we are working on the following
 * 1. Arrange a stall at Kolkata Book Fair 2012 for promotional purpose
 * 2. Oragnize Wikipedia Takes Kolkata (we had one already on 18 Dec, we'll have next on
 * 8 Jan)
 * 3. Organize monthly meetups and workshops (we have 11th anniversary event on 15 Jan)
 * others, please start your intros.
 * Hi all, I'm Omshivaprakash from Bengalooru. I have been on en:wp and kn:wp as
 * User:Omshivaprakash. Have been spreading the word about wikipedia than editing.
 * Volunteering for Kannada SIG and have started working as a editor as well on Kn:WP
 * on some of my interesting subjects (FOSS, Photography, Science & Technology).
 * Have been working around localization, translation, FOSS activities around Kannada. I
 * was around Wikimedia India Chapter back in 2009, 2010 and was absconding for a
 * while. thanks to arjunaraoc for bringing me back in loop for action.
 * Working around building a a strong community around Kannada Wiki. Recently worked
 * with arjunaraoc at Central Library of Karnataka in Cubbon Park for the first Kannada
 * Wiki Academy.
 * Apart from that we have planned to revive WikiProject:West Bengal and
 * WikiProject:Kolkata
 * <RadhaKrishna> Hi, i am RadhaKrishna, user:Arkrishna. volunteering for Bangalore SIG.
 * Have plans to create different interesting projects around Kannada wikipedia to attract
 * the old, existing and new wikipedians to continue contributing to Kannada Wikipedia in
 * a great way. Shiju alex has been helping me tirelessly to kick start the activities around
 * KN:WP
 * I am ECmember and co-ordinate the SIG activities. I am from Pune and actively
 * involved with primarily outreach activities. Associated with Pune, Marathi and English
 * SIGs here. all those SIGchairs happen to be from Pune.
 * thx techfiz I am confident that Kannada will start a new phase of growth with SIG
 * involvement
 * <MikeLynch-srao> I'm Swaroop from Bangalore, also known as MikeLynch. I'm from the Sanskrit SIG, and
 * I'm active in Sanskrit and English projects, as well as the US Ambassador program and
 * OTRS.
 * Would love to start GLAM here in Bengaluru. Please involve me in such efforts. Shall
 * help in connecting people and try my best to be available for the event in person
 * <AshLin> Mandar Kulkarni Pune SIG coordinator unable to make it here tongiht
 * mahitgar and mandar are likely to be abscent. they might drop in later on.
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 * <JAYANTA> Sorry ashwin for overlapping with me
 * Rahimanuddin, Telugu SIG Chair is unable to join today. He is planning few events in
 * Vijayawada, Hyderabad in the next couple of weeks.
 * <AshLin> no issue, better this way
 * sudhanwa: Planning KN:WP SIG on 12th Evening ...
 * Noopur is doing something in Delhi
 * <JAYANTA> Noopur, Kundan,Mandar,Subha is not joined
 * planning to call the first Kannada Wikipedian to join us that day
 * techfiz: cool. he started the kannada wipi?
 * We found that he made the 4th edit on Kn:WP
 * earlier 3 wiki edits were from some ip's
 * he he ...
 * wish we had some one on those three lucky numbers
 * <AshLin> Pune not yet finalised but two events taking place - Pune Wikipedians club launch &
 * Marathi Wikiacademy for the 250 visitors of CDMA expo who asked for more
 * interaction
 * AshLin, mandar, mahitgar, myself and abhishek will be having a meeting tomorrow to
 * discuss about the same.
 * <AshLin> I'm making a corss-language request
 * MikeLynch-srao: may be you can also join the event and do something for sanskrit wp.
 * techfiz, Is it ok
 * <AshLin> please develop article Makar Sankrant or your regional festival (Thai Pongal, Bihu etc)
 * beforethe 15th
 * folks....
 * sudhanwa: MikeLynch-srao: that would be great
 * <MikeLynch-srao> I would really love to, but I regret to say that I have exams till the 18th
 * arunram: yes please
 * i have some suggestions for you consideration please...
 * MikeLynch-srao: may be yo can get some more sanskrit people there to join the event.
 * -->| yuvipanda (~yuvipanda@mediawiki/Yuvipandan) has joined #wikimedia-in
 * <MikeLynch-srao> yes, I can try for that...
 * AshLin: Telugu wp has an article on Pongal, which was featured in 2009. We are also
 * trying to have relevant articles as the weekly feature on Telugu
 * <AshLin> arjunaraoc : thanks, great to know
 * Put a draft set of thoughts for city SIGS: http://members.wikimedia.
 * in/SIG_framework#Suggested_Priorities_for_City_SIGs
 * Is it possible to feature a special article for this event on KN:WP too?
 * <AshLin> do we have an assamese SIG as yet? or Manipuri?
 * kindly consider this for your sigs....
 * projects are a great way to get action going
 * but I do think that building a volunteer base and setting some exciting goals bring out the
 * best in volunteers
 * for a city sig to work well, there may be many activites they could consider
 * geting volunteers to join "volunteer groups" would give new volunteers some area of
 * interest to choose and run with it
 * you all may havemore ideas and can add to this....
 * kalyan, JAYANTA: are you doing your activities together or those are seperate activities?
 * folks any comments on http://members.wikimedia.in/SIG_framework#
 * Suggested_Priorities_for_City_SIGs
 * JAYANTA: i assume there will be many wikipedians in many other places other than
 * kolkata. need to get them together.
 * <AshLin> Makar Sankrant has no bengali article, can Bn:WP oblige?
 * is the channel 'naturally' active or did I accidentally stumble on a meetup?
 * you stumbled inot a SIG chair meetup
 * <AshLin> welcome regardless of ongoing meetup
 * <MikeLynch-srao> its a meeting..!
 * ah, apologies
 * you are welcome, this is an open discussion
 * <JAYANTA> Oh! Sudhanwa: we are working together Kolkata/Bengali
 * feel free give yuvi
 * *comments
 * <AshLin> JAYANTA: can Bn:WP oblige with Makar Sankrant article by 15th?
 * framework looks good arun
 * ofcourse, I will. If I have something intelligent to say
 * any comments from SIG leaders please...
 * <AshLin> Yes, please create a cross-cultural resource request exchange
 * <RadhaKrishna> Arun : Looks good for me . RK Bangalore SIG
 * <AshLin> cross-SIG
 * rk and kalyan please give the feedback as both are volunteering as city sigs..
 * arunram: second those pointers.. we are moving in those directions.. for kn:wp
 * creating projects of people's interest is the key to make projects successful
 * we need to bring similar things in Langauge sig too .. en. mr has already put up
 * the plan
 * arunram: In Pune, we are closely working together for pune/marathi/english activities
 * and participating in various events together. we also have a monthly meetup.
 * great to hear techfiz
 * <JAYANTA> Ashwin :Makar Sankrant already have http://defn.me/r/bn/22q
 * <AshLin> not inter-wikid yet. I see, can you sort that out?
 * <AshLin> JAYANTA: thanks for pointing out did the needful
 * thanks sudhanwa techfiz
 * Pune/Marathi wikiacademy cming up on 8th. http://techmarathi.com/mahamelava/?
 * page_id=109
 * how are we doing on vlunteers for each of the Sigs
 * -->| pradx (73f279ce@gateway/web/freenode/ip.115.242.121.206) has joined
 * wikimedia-in
 * City Members
 * Bangalore 10
 * Delhi 2
 * Mumbai 3
 * Pune 6
 * Kolkata 2
 * Language Special Interest Groups
 * Language Volunteers
 * Bengali 1
 * English 15
 * Hindi 1
 * Kannada 3
 * Marathi 4
 * Malayalam 8
 * Nepali 1
 * Odia 3
 * Sanskrit 2
 * Telugu 3
 * are vounteers an issue
 * why does pune have onky 6 and mumbai 3
 * english and bangalore has 10 or 10+ volunteers
 * <AshLin> probably people not aware of signing up here
 * can the sig chairs please help local volunteers signup on the sig page
 * hi arunram
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 * hi pradx
 * arunram: sure will be spreading the word
 * <JAYANTA> http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wiki_Academy/Netaji_Subhash_Engineering_College
 * initiated by Sucheta
 * jayanta can you please volunteers to sign up on bengali sig page
 * it would be a great help if sig chairs can make the sig page the focal point for interction
 * with volunteers
 * arunram: only members have access to members wiki. SIG chairs should reach out to
 * members and potential community volunteers who have not become members.
 * rk and om has already doing that.
 * arunram: there may not be people in the volunteer list. but we can ask users on village
 * pumps to join.
 * i think we should request all active community members to consider becoming chapter
 * members
 * <AshLin> On English Wikipedia, India Noticeboard is de facto the happening place, though we are
 * rying to bring life to mailing list too
 * <JAYANTA> Arunmam: Here u can find more people http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Geographical_
 * distribution_of_Indian_Wikipedians, I shall tell them in next meetup
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 * hoi logic
 * arjunaraoc: current SIGchairs can add names of volunteers. If they are member, nothing
 * like it. but there is no harm in getting non-member volunteers.
 * srikanthlogic: hi
 * sudhanwa: members should add their nams themselves if they're interested
 * <JAYANTA> Many wikipedian from kolkata want to be a member of chapter, but they want to pay
 * cash in hand as like WCI2011
 * sudhanwa: they should not be forced or names added just because they come from a
 * particular city
 * <JAYANTA> plz think about kolkata
 * some meeting is on ?
 * srikanthlogic: SIG
 * naveenpf: sudhanwa Hello
 * sure sudhanwa but volunteers may not know if their information is on members wiki
 * srikanthlogic opened chat window just like that
 * <RadhaKrishna> I had to leave...Bye
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 * pradx: yes. nobody is forcing volunteers to add their names. but if they are not members,
 * their names can be added with their consent on the language/city pages.
 * pradx: respective SIGchair will dothat.
 * sudhanwa: I am sure the members can add their names themselves...
 * pradx: yes. absolutely. I am talking about volunteers who are not members.
 * my pov .. that is little illogical ... sudhanwa
 * sudhanwa: such volunteers do not have access to the wiki
 * let the members volunteer for sigs
 * sudhanwa: so does not make sense for their names to be there
 * then we have to increase members. convert volunteers to members.
 * sudhanwa: yes, do request people to become members.
 * sig co-ordination page is page is for discussion bring new plans for that particular sig
 * and then the activities become only for members. which is not true.
 * <AshLin> not necessarily for community interaction
 * yes
 * folks,patience please
 * we are bootstrapping many things at the same time
 * sigs, memberships etc
 * we have 190 members
 * but only a few signed up for sigs
 * membership is very inexpensively priced to mske it easy for all to join
 * only 100 rs!
 * arunram: but the process is complex.
 * please suggest how to simplify it sir
 * many people are joining without much issue now
 * it takes only 5 mins
 * arunram: Jayanta had asked a question in this regard about cash membership above.
 * arunram: for reference: JAYANTA: Many wikipedian from kolkata want to be a member
 * of chapter, but they want to pay cash in hand as like WCI2011
 * do people hve issues doing a neft transfer?
 * will request naveepf t comment on jayantas request
 * we want to avoid cash handling, that was the ideas
 * sudhanwa.....
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 * over to you sir
 * hello hisham
 * arunram: there are hardly any people joined other than wci
 * hi arun
 * good evening
 * a SIG irc is on now.... aan open orc
 * initial 25-30 people were from Pune. we got cash and paid comon cheque for them.
 * irc
 * in the CMDA expo, some people wanted to give cash donations. We could not answer
 * them properly.
 * dontions are always welcome
 * anyways. lets get back to SIG activities. will talk about other topics later on.
 * 61 people in today's WikiAcademy in CUSAT
 * http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Donations
 * naveenpf: good
 * unrelated.. 15 people at my workplace for an "intro" session
 * hisham: hi.
 * happened today..
 * srikantlogic: cool
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 * hi sudhanwa
 * yes
 * srikanthlogic: nice. may be you can ask the company for donations to chapter. CSR will
 * be in full swing for many companies in this quarter.
 * sudhanwa: how long is the IRC formally open?
 * sudhanwa: well my org doesnt support donations to communities AFAIK (hard fact :|)
 * they plant trees etc..
 * if any SIGs need some assistance for the event, there is some possibility.
 * <AshLin> naveenpf: what's CUSAT?
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUSAT
 * I think there's too much stress on signing up on the wiki page, perhaps a degree of
 * freedom must be given on how each SIG is doing his work...?
 * especially since we're only starting out
 * frankly, I don't visit the chapter wiki at all - I work from 7 to 7 and whatever little time I
 * have is spent contributing to Wikipedia (if I have time)
 * <AshLin> naveenpf: thx, btw bahut khoosat abreviation hai (pj)
 * pradx: we faced problems while signing up during Central Library Wiki Academy in
 * Bangalore.. I think we need to take precautions before going ahead with mass signups
 * from a single ip at such events
 * techfiz oops! looks like I pointed out wrong info
 * techfiz: you are talking way way off
 * <AshLin> I thought that Phillipe Beaudette (was it him) asked for an email before the event to
 * empower just this?
 * srikanthlogic: got it thanks /me correcting myself
 * mass member signups dont really help
 * unless there is interest
 * right
 * no point in having 400 members if only 40 will be engaged
 * people, I'm heading out from IRC now.. nice to catch up with all SIG's will catch up with
 * any more updates on list. cyo, Shubaratri
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 * arunram: something i remember pointing in different words on India list
 * should we close this meeting formally? anyone wants to say something further specific
 * to SIGs?
 * when is the next SIG catch up?
 * sudhanwa: You brought up the topic of assistance. Suggest SIG chairs to get in touch
 * with you regarding the same.
 * arjunaraoc: i think a monthly irc meetup will be fine. by that time, people will have
 * something to report/discuss.
 * <AshLin> right, and please feel free to contact me for any help needed from en:WP side
 * people seem to like irc
 * why not every fortnight
 * we should share experiences and help each other
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 * *ideally*
 * <AshLin> more real than email/post except perhaps for voice chat or skype
 * yup
 * Thx guys. Good night
 * yes .. logic it will take a while to make that ... what it was three years back
 * wikimedia-in
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 * AshLin: voice chat requires more attention. here it is not.
 * will upload the photos of WikiAcademy to fb
 * Anyways, there is no response related to SIG activities. Let me formally close this IRC
 * meeting. Thanks all for joining. We can still continue informally in the chat session.
 * <AshLin> thanks all, great to meet you
 * meeting. Thanks all for joining. We can still continue informally in the chat session.
 * <AshLin> thanks all, great to meet you


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