Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] First Telugu wiki academy conducted on 6 Oct 2009 at Chirala engineering college, chirala

[സുനിൽ]

Well done

On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 7:57 AM, arjuna rao chavala <
arjunar...@googlemail.com> wrote:

> Hi
> I am glad to report that I have conducted first Telugu wiki academy
> conducted on 6 Oct 2009 at Chirala engineering college, chirala, a
> small coastal town in Prakasam district Andhra Pradesh, with kind
> cooperation from the college authorities.
>
> About 120 third and final year engineering students  participated in
> the three hour session in which about 1.5 hours were spent on hands on
> practice with telugu typing and changes to the articles in telugu
> wikipedia.  Lab facility with about 60 computers and 2 MB internet
> pipe was very helpful in making this event a success.  There were
> minor technical glitches like wikipedia limiting access to only 6
> accounts from the IP proxy.  which need to be addressed for doing
> events like this in future.
>
> As Andhra pradesh has over 600 such engineering colleges, doing one
> such event in each college can give a boost to promoting Telugu
> wikipedia.
>
> More on this on my blog http://teluginux.blogspot.com in a week's time.
>
> Regards
> Arjun
> http://teluginux.blogspot.com (in Telugu)
> http://tech4society.blogspot.com (in english)
>
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[Wikimediaindia-l] First Telugu wiki academy conducted on 6 Oct 2009 at Chirala engineering college, chirala

[arjuna rao chavala]

Hi
I am glad to report that I have conducted first Telugu wiki academy
conducted on 6 Oct 2009 at Chirala engineering college, chirala, a
small coastal town in Prakasam district Andhra Pradesh, with kind
cooperation from the college authorities.

About 120 third and final year engineering students  participated in
the three hour session in which about 1.5 hours were spent on hands on
practice with telugu typing and changes to the articles in telugu
wikipedia.  Lab facility with about 60 computers and 2 MB internet
pipe was very helpful in making this event a success.  There were
minor technical glitches like wikipedia limiting access to only 6
accounts from the IP proxy.  which need to be addressed for doing
events like this in future.

As Andhra pradesh has over 600 such engineering colleges, doing one
such event in each college can give a boost to promoting Telugu
wikipedia.

More on this on my blog http://teluginux.blogspot.com in a week's time.

Regards
Arjun
http://teluginux.blogspot.com (in Telugu)
http://tech4society.blogspot.com (in english)

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[Wikimediaindia-l] Online encyclopedia in Kannada

[Shiju Alex]

If the tentative plan fructifies, *there will be an online encyclopedia in
Kannada*, similar to Wikipedia in English, an online encyclopedia, expected
to launch on November 1 by the CM BS Yeddyurappa.

>From the below link.

http://www.expressbuzz.com/edition/story.aspx?Title=KDA%E2%80%99S+big+plans+for+rajyotsava&artid=O1pQmSPtupQ=&SectionID=Qz/kHVp9tEs=&MainSectionID=wIcBMLGbUJI=&SectionName=UOaHCPTTmuP3XGzZRCAUTQ==&SEO=


Any idea about the license that is going to be used in this online
encyclopedia? Is Government is planning for a Wiki? Is Government is aware
about the existence of a Kannada Wikipedia?


Kannada Wikipedians, any idea about this news?


Shiju Alex
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] FW: my querry has remained unanswered for long

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
Recently the Unicode consortium published its latest standard. Among them
where additions to the Devangari script. As I understand it, the new glyphs
are technically supported in MediaWiki.. MediaWiki does not care; it just
stores the values. I KNOW because I have been told that there are issues
with the technical support of your languages in MediaWiki. It is very much
needed to find the best possible fonts. At the same time I urge you all to
publish all the known issues for your languages at the language_issues page
on Meta.

You can also help yourself by following the example that exists for Telugu
and provide us with a sorted list of all the characters for you language.
This will then be inserted in the "advanced toolbar" of the Usability
Initiative. A list for Devangari, Tamil, Kannada ... would be most welcome
!!

As I published on all Wikipedias, we REALLY want to know if there are
cultural aspects in MediaWiki that make it less usable. There are two parts
to this question; obviously a lack of localisation will make the software
unusable. However, it is not a given that even with the best localisation
there are no issues left. Please help yourself by localising the "Usability
Initiative" software once you finished the "most wanted" messages. Please
report all the issues that are left at the usability_issues page on Meta.
Thanks,
  GerardM

2009/10/5 Mahitgar from Marathi Wikipedia 

>
>
> --- On *Sun, 4/10/09, Vinod * wrote:
>
>
> From: Vinod 
> Subject: FW: my querry has remained unanswered for long
> To: mahit...@yahoo.co.in
> Date: Sunday, 4 October, 2009, 3:53 PM
>
>  Dear Mahitgar,
>
> Thanks for you interest in Nova netPC.  Our product supports unicode fonts
> for regional languages.  We have tested it with Hindi and Devanagiri
> keyboard.  We will have it in our products in the coming two weeks.  The
> display does support Indian fonts.
>
>
>
> Please do get back to me in case you have queries.
>
>
>
> Regards
>
> Vinod
>
> *From:* Mahitgar from Marathi Wikipedia [mailto:mahit...@yahoo.co.in]
> *Sent:* 02 October 2009 13:33
> *To:* i...@novatium.com
> *Cc:* singap...@novatium.com; novasa...@novatium.com
> *Subject:* my querry has remained unanswered for long
>
>
>
>
> --- On *Sun, 19/7/09, Mahitgar from Marathi Wikipedia <
> mahit...@yahoo.co.in>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Mahitgar from Marathi Wikipedia 
> Subject: query about computing in Indian languages on Novanet PC
> To: i...@novatium.com
> Date: Sunday, 19 July, 2009, 1:12 PM
>
> Dear Sirs/Madam
> query about computing in Indian languages on Novanet PC
>
> Can some one find out about 
> novanetPCand its compatibility  to use 
> Unicode based fonts for Indian languages
> including that of Tamil Devnagari etc keep us posted if anybody knows any
> limitations on this front .
>
> Thanks and Regards
> Mahitgar 
>
>
>
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