Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [mr-wiki] WikiPuneri Meetup - 09 April 2011
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 1:05 AM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.comwrote: * Efforts for Commons (sadly not taking off) * Forthcoming GLAM initiative. Great report, Ashwin. Would love to know a bit more about these two items when you can. Cheers Bishakha ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] : The Hindu : Wikimedia Commons set to reach a milestone
Great story, thanks Tinu for sharing it. Congrats again to Srikanth and Sreejith. Subha Pa ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiConference
Great idea! I suggest that in parallel with planning for a real-life all-India meetups, we also start doing Skype audio (or other platform a/v) conferences. They can be planned similar to the city meetups, with participants putting in their skype id's and the meeting's organizer placing the group call. We can keep a google/other shared doc open in parallel where we can all write in as the conference progresses, hence co-creating documentation during the meeting itself instead of burdening one person after. Google docs has an added benefit of automatically opening a chat window on the right pane so that can serve as a backup in case anybody drops out of skype or the skype call crashes. In our seminar in NERIST, we had people from elsewhere in the world coming on Skype and giving presentations. Here, we had to scroll through the presentation while the wikipedian dictated; I've recently found a better way to do it : Zipcast on slideshare : here the presentation is in control of the person giving it and everybody else watches on slideshare website without having to download anything. That also has group chat feature. And free of course. (There are also other solutions that give screen-sharing but they need to be downloaded; and in Skype, screen-share isn't possible for 2+ way conferences last time I checked plus it's a live stream so badder quality whereas slideshare is browser-based vector flash) Another potential I see with web conferences : We can have an edit party co-create an article on google docs (here it's all live and you can see the other person's cursor inputting stuff real-time), and then one person can copy-paste the whole thing to wikipedia once we're ready. This way we can avoid latency periods and edit conflicts in an edit party, and involve a much larger number of people in. And you'll have to attend one to see how much fun it is, with multiple cursors moving all around the place! ;) Of course, I'm zero on content suggestions - just suggesting methods with which we can work together and do something more productive than just a meeting, using the web and bridging the distances that divide us. (I'm going to be out on coming weekends else I would have pitched for a particular date for a pilot conference! And apologies for completely missing the Pune meetup, guys!) Cheers, Nikhil Sheth +91-966-583-1250 Pune, India Teach For India http://www.teachforindia.org/ Fellow, 2011-13 www.nikhilsheth.tk Find me on: Twitter http://twitter.com/nikhiljs | Facebookhttp://www.facebook.com/nikjs| LinkedIn http://in.linkedin.com/in/nikhiljs | Google http://www.google.com/profiles/nikhil.js| RangDehttp://www.rangde.org/investor/nikhilsheth| Youtube http://www.youtube.com/user/nikjs Join me on: Pune Documentary Clubhttp://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=138497769525636| Let's Do it Pune http://www.facebook.com/pages/Lets-do-it-Pune/103857326346659 | Toastmasters in Punehttp://www.facebook.com/pages/Toastmasters-in-Pune/148767611833746| Wikipedia For Schools projecthttp://education.wikia.com/wiki/Wikipedia_For_Schools_Offline_Edition On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 6:32 PM, Bishakha Datta bishakhada...@gmail.comwrote: Love the idea and hope it happens, Bishakha On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 3:10 PM, wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi, I think it might be a good time to start an annual WikiConference in India on the lines of what Wikimedia UK has ( http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_UK_2011). We are starting afresh, talks on a setup are still progressing and the future beholds. It will be a wonderful opportunity for all of us to put a face to names as well as to interact with each other and pave the way forward for Wikimedia in India. Any thoughts? Regards, User:AroundTheGlobe ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic Language Wiki Results in Google (With a Chrome Extension)
Hi Srikanth (too many Srikanths!). Right now, you can use only one language at a time. Would links to multiple language wikis be useful? On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan rsrikant...@gmail.com wrote: Yuvi, Is this for one laguage at a time only, or any language, any time? --Regards, Srikanth R. On 14 April 2011 11:18, Vickram Crishna vvcris...@radiophony.com wrote: I'm forwarding this to an acquaintance in Google, with a request to include multilingual results as a link in regular searches. On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com wrote: Great!! What more, this comes on Tamil New year !! Agree with Sundar that Google must push this from server side. Instead of spending huge money on translations etc, these efforts actually help Indic / regional language Wikipedia's Regards Srikanth.L On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 10:58, BalaSundaraRaman sundarbe...@yahoo.comwrote: Great, Yuvi. Let's all use this feature ourselves and hopefully Google will take not of it and promote the other language wiki pages in their search results themselves. - Sundar That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted. - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture --- On *Thu, 4/14/11, Yuvi Panda yuvipa...@gmail.com* wrote: From: Yuvi Panda yuvipa...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic Language Wiki Results in Google (With a Chrome Extension) To: Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia. wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Thursday, April 14, 2011, 12:31 AM Update: I've now added ability to change language. Just go to 'Options' (from the extensions page) and enter your language code (hi for hindi, etc). Needs a big UX liftup though. On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 11:21 PM, Yuvi Panda yuvipa...@gmail.comhttp://mc/compose?to=yuvipa...@gmail.com wrote: I've been working for a few hours on a Chrome extension to add links to Indic Language Wiki pages when searching in Google. It hooks into Google's search results, and if it finds an enwiki article (to which a tawiki interwiki link also exists), it'll display it side by side. Screenshot here: http://min.us/mbmIeeUOb8y00p#1 You can test the extension by installing it from here: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/gpoogepkjnjfmpijnpaocncdjbedaeeo/ It is open source, and the code is available here: https://github.com/yuvipanda/yenWikipedia/. You can file issues here https://github.com/yuvipanda/yenWikipedia/issues/. Known issues: 1. Doesn't work when Google Instant is turned on (turn it off) 2. Doesn't work for some country specific subdomains (which don't have /search url part. Current solution: use google.com :P) 3. Currently hardcoded to display links to tawiki only (Will have to build an options dialog to support other languages) 4. Needs a better logo (Help in this department would be highly appreciated :) ) I think this is one step forward in fixing the search issue - discovering content in Indic Language wikis is now easier. Thanks to Srikanth Lakshmanan for alpha testing. Feedback welcome :) P.S. I'm also working on a Firefox version of this addon. Stay tuned :) -- Yuvi Panda T http://yuvi.in/blog -- Yuvi Panda T http://yuvi.in/blog ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.orghttp://mc/compose?to=Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Vickram Fool On The Hill http://communicall.wordpress.com ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Regards, ME. Wear a Lungi, Support the Movement My infrastructure invasion... plus other images too.. on Wikimedia Commons. http://bit.ly/d50SIq ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Yuvi Panda T http://yuvi.in/blog ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiConference
+1 and hope it happens. A couple of questions: 1. If something like this did happen in India, what kind of format would you think works? 2. What kind of event would work? 3. What kind of outcomes would we expect? Would be great to hear from you! Thank you. Best, Gautam http://social.prathambooks.org/ On 13 April 2011 18:32, Bishakha Datta bishakhada...@gmail.com wrote: Love the idea and hope it happens, Bishakha On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 3:10 PM, wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi, I think it might be a good time to start an annual WikiConference in India on the lines of what Wikimedia UK has (http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_UK_2011). We are starting afresh, talks on a setup are still progressing and the future beholds. It will be a wonderful opportunity for all of us to put a face to names as well as to interact with each other and pave the way forward for Wikimedia in India. Any thoughts? Regards, User:AroundTheGlobe ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiConference
another +1. I would love to see a national conference happen later this year...and would be happy to provide support (and attend, of course!). Best, Barry On 04/14/2011 09:16 AM, Gautam John wrote: +1 and hope it happens. A couple of questions: 1. If something like this did happen in India, what kind of format would you think works? 2. What kind of event would work? 3. What kind of outcomes would we expect? Would be great to hear from you! Thank you. Best, Gautam http://social.prathambooks.org/ On 13 April 2011 18:32, Bishakha Dattabishakhada...@gmail.com wrote: Love the idea and hope it happens, Bishakha On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 3:10 PM,wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi, I think it might be a good time to start an annual WikiConference in India on the lines of what Wikimedia UK has (http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_UK_2011). We are starting afresh, talks on a setup are still progressing and the future beholds. It will be a wonderful opportunity for all of us to put a face to names as well as to interact with each other and pave the way forward for Wikimedia in India. Any thoughts? Regards, User:AroundTheGlobe ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Barry Newstead Chief Global Development Officer Wikimedia Foundation Tel: +1-415-839-6885 x. 6634 Skype: barry.wikimedia Twitter: @bazanews ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic Language Wiki Results in Google (With a Chrome Extension)
I've fixed the UI in the Options, and made a newer release ( https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/gpoogepkjnjfmpijnpaocncdjbedaeeo/ ). Feedback? In particular, I've listed 20 Indic languages as buttons on the options page, and I don't have enough knowledge to check if they are all correct! So if someone could check, I'd be grateful :) Suggestions? What should I prioritize next? I'll monitor this thread, or you can file issues (https://github.com/yuvipanda/yenWikipedia/issues). On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 7:41 PM, Yuvi Panda yuvipa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Srikanth (too many Srikanths!). Right now, you can use only one language at a time. Would links to multiple language wikis be useful? On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan rsrikant...@gmail.com wrote: Yuvi, Is this for one laguage at a time only, or any language, any time? --Regards, Srikanth R. On 14 April 2011 11:18, Vickram Crishna vvcris...@radiophony.com wrote: I'm forwarding this to an acquaintance in Google, with a request to include multilingual results as a link in regular searches. On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com wrote: Great!! What more, this comes on Tamil New year !! Agree with Sundar that Google must push this from server side. Instead of spending huge money on translations etc, these efforts actually help Indic / regional language Wikipedia's Regards Srikanth.L On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 10:58, BalaSundaraRaman sundarbe...@yahoo.comwrote: Great, Yuvi. Let's all use this feature ourselves and hopefully Google will take not of it and promote the other language wiki pages in their search results themselves. - Sundar That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted. - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture --- On *Thu, 4/14/11, Yuvi Panda yuvipa...@gmail.com* wrote: From: Yuvi Panda yuvipa...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic Language Wiki Results in Google (With a Chrome Extension) To: Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia. wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Thursday, April 14, 2011, 12:31 AM Update: I've now added ability to change language. Just go to 'Options' (from the extensions page) and enter your language code (hi for hindi, etc). Needs a big UX liftup though. On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 11:21 PM, Yuvi Panda yuvipa...@gmail.comhttp://mc/compose?to=yuvipa...@gmail.com wrote: I've been working for a few hours on a Chrome extension to add links to Indic Language Wiki pages when searching in Google. It hooks into Google's search results, and if it finds an enwiki article (to which a tawiki interwiki link also exists), it'll display it side by side. Screenshot here: http://min.us/mbmIeeUOb8y00p#1 You can test the extension by installing it from here: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/gpoogepkjnjfmpijnpaocncdjbedaeeo/ It is open source, and the code is available here: https://github.com/yuvipanda/yenWikipedia/. You can file issues here https://github.com/yuvipanda/yenWikipedia/issues/. Known issues: 1. Doesn't work when Google Instant is turned on (turn it off) 2. Doesn't work for some country specific subdomains (which don't have /search url part. Current solution: use google.com :P) 3. Currently hardcoded to display links to tawiki only (Will have to build an options dialog to support other languages) 4. Needs a better logo (Help in this department would be highly appreciated :) ) I think this is one step forward in fixing the search issue - discovering content in Indic Language wikis is now easier. Thanks to Srikanth Lakshmanan for alpha testing. Feedback welcome :) P.S. I'm also working on a Firefox version of this addon. Stay tuned :) -- Yuvi Panda T http://yuvi.in/blog -- Yuvi Panda T http://yuvi.in/blog ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.orghttp://mc/compose?to=Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Vickram Fool On The Hill http://communicall.wordpress.com ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Regards, ME. Wear a Lungi, Support the Movement My infrastructure invasion... plus other images too.. on Wikimedia Commons.
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic Language Wiki Results in Google (With a Chrome Extension)
Yuvi, It would be great if you develop a firefox extension also for this. Unfortunately google Chrome's performance is bad with Indic scripts. There are couple of issues with wiki editing also. Due to this many of us prefer firefox over chrome. Shiju On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 12:10 AM, Yuvi Panda yuvipa...@gmail.com wrote: I've fixed the UI in the Options, and made a newer release ( https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/gpoogepkjnjfmpijnpaocncdjbedaeeo/ ). Feedback? In particular, I've listed 20 Indic languages as buttons on the options page, and I don't have enough knowledge to check if they are all correct! So if someone could check, I'd be grateful :) Suggestions? What should I prioritize next? I'll monitor this thread, or you can file issues (https://github.com/yuvipanda/yenWikipedia/issues). On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 7:41 PM, Yuvi Panda yuvipa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Srikanth (too many Srikanths!). Right now, you can use only one language at a time. Would links to multiple language wikis be useful? On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan rsrikant...@gmail.com wrote: Yuvi, Is this for one laguage at a time only, or any language, any time? --Regards, Srikanth R. On 14 April 2011 11:18, Vickram Crishna vvcris...@radiophony.comwrote: I'm forwarding this to an acquaintance in Google, with a request to include multilingual results as a link in regular searches. On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com wrote: Great!! What more, this comes on Tamil New year !! Agree with Sundar that Google must push this from server side. Instead of spending huge money on translations etc, these efforts actually help Indic / regional language Wikipedia's Regards Srikanth.L On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 10:58, BalaSundaraRaman sundarbe...@yahoo.com wrote: Great, Yuvi. Let's all use this feature ourselves and hopefully Google will take not of it and promote the other language wiki pages in their search results themselves. - Sundar That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted. - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture --- On *Thu, 4/14/11, Yuvi Panda yuvipa...@gmail.com* wrote: From: Yuvi Panda yuvipa...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic Language Wiki Results in Google (With a Chrome Extension) To: Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia. wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Thursday, April 14, 2011, 12:31 AM Update: I've now added ability to change language. Just go to 'Options' (from the extensions page) and enter your language code (hi for hindi, etc). Needs a big UX liftup though. On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 11:21 PM, Yuvi Panda yuvipa...@gmail.comhttp://mc/compose?to=yuvipa...@gmail.com wrote: I've been working for a few hours on a Chrome extension to add links to Indic Language Wiki pages when searching in Google. It hooks into Google's search results, and if it finds an enwiki article (to which a tawiki interwiki link also exists), it'll display it side by side. Screenshot here: http://min.us/mbmIeeUOb8y00p#1 You can test the extension by installing it from here: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/gpoogepkjnjfmpijnpaocncdjbedaeeo/ It is open source, and the code is available here: https://github.com/yuvipanda/yenWikipedia/. You can file issues here https://github.com/yuvipanda/yenWikipedia/issues/. Known issues: 1. Doesn't work when Google Instant is turned on (turn it off) 2. Doesn't work for some country specific subdomains (which don't have /search url part. Current solution: use google.com :P) 3. Currently hardcoded to display links to tawiki only (Will have to build an options dialog to support other languages) 4. Needs a better logo (Help in this department would be highly appreciated :) ) I think this is one step forward in fixing the search issue - discovering content in Indic Language wikis is now easier. Thanks to Srikanth Lakshmanan for alpha testing. Feedback welcome :) P.S. I'm also working on a Firefox version of this addon. Stay tuned :) -- Yuvi Panda T http://yuvi.in/blog -- Yuvi Panda T http://yuvi.in/blog ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.orghttp://mc/compose?to=Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Vickram Fool On The Hill
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Choosing topics for Wikipedia for Schools (Offline Ed) - Indian version : #1 Cities
On 4/7/2011 8:30 AM, Nikhil Sheth wrote: And I feel that there should be a full-fledged project (worldwide, not just pertaining to indian articles) going on for Wikipedia for Schools, with a well-structured list of ALL articles that are going in. Not being able to find anything. Can anyone help in how to go about getting one set up? I'm working on this with Andrew Cates (User:BozMo) - the driver behind the original Wikipedia for Schools. He gave a list of all the the articles in Excel so it's a little messy and doesn't have links. I tried to clean it up a bit, but it still needs some more work and definitely isn't as useful as it should be: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Offline_Projects/Content_Development/Schools As I think you all know, they are working on a 2011 edition of WPFS to be released soon. Andrew said we can send him a list of additional articles (up to 250) with permalinks that you (India) would like to have included in the next release. He says his team could then make a separate version specifically for India. My suggestion: once you have the list of articles you want included, put them in a table on this page as well. Note: obviously, it would be ideal if the tools were available for anyone to do this, without needing to go through an intermediary, but unfortunately such tools do not exist yet. HOWEVER - just so you know, the Foundation is setting aside resources to address this concern, and hopefully tools making it easy to extend and/or modify offline collections will be in place soon! Jessie -- Jessie Wild Special Projects Manager Global Development Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: The Hindu : Now, copyright-free maps of States, districts, panchayats
*The Hindu : Now, copyright-free maps of States, districts, panchayats* http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/article1697940.ece *As “Malayalam Loves Wikipedia” campaign gets good response..* * * *Even as the “Malayalam Loves Wikipedia” campaign, launched to expand the knowledge repositories of Malayalam Wikipedia with copyright-free Malayalam-related photographs, continues to evoke overwhelming response from Wiki users and contributors, a project meant to make available online free-to-use national map and maps of States, districts and panchayats is making silent, but significant strides.* * * *The ambitious project was taken up by Bangalore-based software engineer and Wiki contributor Rajesh Odayanchal. Other contributors, Ajay Kuyiloor, Naveen and Jason Nedumbala, joined him in the venture. The team crossed a milestone when a copyleft [free of copyright] map of India — to be further fine-tuned — and maps of the districts of Kerala and some States were readied.* * * *“Our aim is to prepare maps of all Indian States up to ward-level, which is a humungous task. But we are confident that we will be able to execute district-wise, panchayat-level and ward-level maps of Kerala. Regarding other States, we may not be able to source data to do that kind of micro-level cartography, so we will most likely restrict ourselves to district-level mapmaking for the time being,” Mr. Odayanchal said.* * * *The project, carried out using vector graphics software Inkscape, carries a GNU General Public Licence that renders it copyleft. Separate maps are made in Malayalam and English. The modalities of execution have been well-laid out in order to standardise the maps and make categorisation easy.* * * *“Given the magnitude of the project, we would like to have more persons conversant with Inkscape,” Mr. Odayanchal said.* * * *To this end, a Google group has been formed, whichcan be contacted at mlwiki-m...@googlegroups.com.* * * *Separately, the Malayalam Wiki is also set to add to its database a copyleft version of Kottarathil Sankunni's Aithihyamala (Garland of Legends) under a project initiated by Santhosh Thottingal, a member of Wikimedia Foundation's language committee.* * * *The “Malayalam Loves Wikimedia' project, launched on April 2, received over 1,200 pictures as on Wednesday. It also found a mention in the international Wikimedia signpost.* Regards Tinu Cherian ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia.in is down ?
*Wikimedia.in is down ? It says: * Wikimedia India Chapter has a problem *Sorry! This site is experiencing technical difficulties.* Try waiting a few minutes and reloading. (Can't contact the database server: Too many connections (localhost)) Regards Tinu Cherian ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: The Hindu : Now, copyright-free maps of States, districts, panchayats
Good idea. ! Would you mind creating a page on this on wikimedia.in , so that all can point that page to reporters. - Tinu Cherian On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 8:52 AM, Anivar Aravind anivar.arav...@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 7:43 AM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: The Hindu : Now, copyright-free maps of States, districts, panchayats http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/article1697940.ece In the last few news reports , the copyright free phrase is repeating. This is worrying. I think we should try to correct the reporters or try to give an explanation about the copyright of wiki project content. All the content in wiki projects are not copyright free, but uses a permissive copyright or copyleft as its is popularly known. I think Wiki Activists also need this sensitizations to communicate licensing well to reporters public. Anivar ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia.in is down ?
Sad to know that, any info when it will be rectified? Subha ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiConference (Gautam John)
Thank you all for the positive responses. Will get back with something more concrete shortly. Regards, User:AroundTheGlobe Message: 2 Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 21:46:34 +0530 From: Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.org Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiConference To: Wikimedia India Community list wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: BANLkTi=01absxbygr8vkjc++pgvr-gk...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 +1 and hope it happens. A couple of questions: 1. If something like this did happen in India, what kind of format would you think works? 2. What kind of event would work? 3. What kind of outcomes would we expect? Would be great to hear from you! Thank you. Best, Gautam http://social.prathambooks.org/ On 13 April 2011 18:32, Bishakha Datta bishakhada...@gmail.com wrote: Love the idea and hope it happens, Bishakha On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 3:10 PM, wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi, I think it might be a good time to start an annual WikiConference in India on the lines of what Wikimedia UK has (http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_UK_2011).? We are starting afresh, talks on a setup are still progressing and the future beholds. It will be a wonderful opportunity for all of us to put a face to names as well as to interact with each other and pave the way forward for Wikimedia in India. Any thoughts? Regards, User:AroundTheGlobe ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Message: 3 Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 10:00:31 -0700 From: Barry Newstead bnewst...@wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiConference To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: 4da7282f.6040...@wikimedia.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed another +1. I would love to see a national conference happen later this year...and would be happy to provide support (and attend, of course!). Best, Barry On 04/14/2011 09:16 AM, Gautam John wrote: +1 and hope it happens. A couple of questions: 1. If something like this did happen in India, what kind of format would you think works? 2. What kind of event would work? 3. What kind of outcomes would we expect? Would be great to hear from you! Thank you. Best, Gautam http://social.prathambooks.org/ On 13 April 2011 18:32, Bishakha Dattabishakhada...@gmail.com wrote: Love the idea and hope it happens, Bishakha On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 3:10 PM,wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi, I think it might be a good time to start an annual WikiConference in India on the lines of what Wikimedia UK has (http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_UK_2011). We are starting afresh, talks on a setup are still progressing and the future beholds. It will be a wonderful opportunity for all of us to put a face to names as well as to interact with each other and pave the way forward for Wikimedia in India. Any thoughts? Regards, User:AroundTheGlobe ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] India Campus Program-Pune Pilot: Inputs for College/University Selection:
Hi Frank, Annie Jessie have started a page to get inputs to select which specific colleges/universities to approach for the Pune pilot:- http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Selection_of_schools_for_the_Pune_pilot Could you help out and provide your inputs / comments? Please feel free to edit the page and not restrict yourself to the Talk page. Many thanks. Hisham Mundol Wikimedia Foundation India Programs skype: hisham.wikimedia gtalk: hmun...@wikimedia.org twitter: @mundol ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
