Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] MediaWiki selects eight students for Google Summer of Code 2011

2011-04-26 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
Congrats guys!

Looking forward to your work especially these which interest me.
1) Ajaxification of Everything
2) Extension for offline access (Much discussed here offlate)
3) SocialProfile extension.

Feel free to drop by here for feedback at anytime.

Regards
Srikanth.L


On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 08:40, Naveen Francis navee...@gmail.com wrote:

 Congrats guys !!!
 Good to see the your project pages.



 On 26 April 2011 08:21, Santhosh Thottingal santhosh.thottin...@gmail.com
  wrote:



 http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2011/04/mediawiki-selects-8-students-gsoc-2011/

 * Akshay Agarwal‘s “Account Creation, Login Screens and AJAX-ification of
 everything” (mentor: Brandon Harris)
 * Kevin Brown’s “Working Archival for Web References/Citations,” “to
 facilitate the archival of external links used as references in the
 English Wikipedia” (mentor: Neil Kandalgaonkar)
 * Devayon Das‘s “Improving Semantic Search/Semantic Query usability issues
 in SMW” (mentor: Markus Krötzsch)
 * Ankit Garg‘s “Semantic Schemas extension” (mentor: Yaron Koren)
Salvatore Ingala‘s “AMICUS: Awesome Monolithic Infrastructure for
 Customization of User Scripts” (mentors: Brion Vibber and Max Semenik)
 * Aigerim Karabekova‘s “Extension Release Management” (mentors: Sam Reed,
 Priyanka Dhanda, and Chad Horohoe)
 * Yuvi Panda‘s “Making Offline Wikipedia Article Selection Easier with
 Mediawiki Extensions” (mentor: Arthur Richards)
 * Zhenya Vlasyenko‘s “MediaWiki Extension: SocialProfile – UserStatus
 feature” (mentor: Jack Phoenix)

 Out of 8, 4 students are from India!. Congrats and best wishes to  Akshay
 Agarwal ,  Yuvi Panda, Devayon Das and Ankit Garg.

 Thanks
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Uploads to Commons] Geocoding and Multilingual descriptions

2011-04-26 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Subhashish,
You're most welcome.
Do bookmark the page, it is hard to find.: )
Or use the short code. http://bit.ly/GeoLocWiki
---Regards,

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 Amazing Tool, I tried to upload and find the approximate location as the
 exact was not known to me. But this is really healpful. Thanks Srikanth
 again. :)
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [WikimediaMobile] Setting the game for a fresh Wikipedia app

2011-04-26 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Is there any Localisation/Translation plans for this app?
I noticed, since the original plan was a Nokia plan, Nokia phones support
Indic languages, we could all contribute effectively.
--Regards,
Srikanth.

On 26 April 2011 07:30, Naveen Francis navee...@gmail.com wrote:

 FYI
 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Projects/Localization_Roadmap

 -- Forwarded message --
 From: Quim Gil quim@nokia.com
 Date: 15 April 2011 03:25
 Subject: [WikimediaMobile] Setting the game for a fresh Wikipedia app
 To: mobile-l mobil...@lists.wikimedia.org


 Hi, it's been some weeks since the first day I discussed with Tomasz and
 Alolita about what a Wikipedia mobile app could be. We are at that point
 where we need to share a common vision, so let's check how much we agree
 already.  :)

 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Projects/App_Features_%
 26_Roadmap#Rationale describes an app that imho would be great to have
 for the Wikimedia community and beyond. Warning: there is no feasibility
 check done on those features yet. But if you like them we might be able
 to get someone with the skills to investigate what is easy, what is
 though but doable and all the rest.

 Developing those features through iterations in a reference
 HTML5/CSS/Javascript implementation will make easier to have ports for
 specific platforms, hopefully requiring just a little extra work (as
 opposed to rewriting for each platform).

 Being an open source application developed openly may also help getting
 some of these community features implemented in the many commercial
 apps around, currently focusing only on read-only use cases. If the
 features are cool and we give them the code for free...

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] The Marathi language Wikipedia has reached 33, 333 articles on April 24.

2011-04-26 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Congratulations to all Marathi editors..
Keep up the Good Work.
--Regards,
Srikanth

On 26 April 2011 07:38, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote:

  The Marathi language Wikipedia has reached 33,333 articles on April 24.

 http://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B6%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B7:%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%96%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%80


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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] MediaWiki selects eight students for Google Summer of Code 2011

2011-04-26 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Crongratulations to all of these young guys, especially the Indian ones.
A special one to Yuvi Panda too. : )
--Regards,
Srikanth R.

On 26 April 2011 11:44, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com wrote:

 Congrats guys!

 Looking forward to your work especially these which interest me.
 1) Ajaxification of Everything
 2) Extension for offline access (Much discussed here offlate)
 3) SocialProfile extension.

 Feel free to drop by here for feedback at anytime.

 Regards
 Srikanth.L



 On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 08:40, Naveen Francis navee...@gmail.com wrote:

 Congrats guys !!!
 Good to see the your project pages.



 On 26 April 2011 08:21, Santhosh Thottingal 
 santhosh.thottin...@gmail.com wrote:



 http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2011/04/mediawiki-selects-8-students-gsoc-2011/

 * Akshay Agarwal‘s “Account Creation, Login Screens and AJAX-ification of
 everything” (mentor: Brandon Harris)
 * Kevin Brown’s “Working Archival for Web References/Citations,” “to
 facilitate the archival of external links used as references in the
 English Wikipedia” (mentor: Neil Kandalgaonkar)
 * Devayon Das‘s “Improving Semantic Search/Semantic Query usability
 issues
 in SMW” (mentor: Markus Krötzsch)
 * Ankit Garg‘s “Semantic Schemas extension” (mentor: Yaron Koren)
Salvatore Ingala‘s “AMICUS: Awesome Monolithic Infrastructure for
 Customization of User Scripts” (mentors: Brion Vibber and Max Semenik)
 * Aigerim Karabekova‘s “Extension Release Management” (mentors: Sam Reed,
 Priyanka Dhanda, and Chad Horohoe)
 * Yuvi Panda‘s “Making Offline Wikipedia Article Selection Easier with
 Mediawiki Extensions” (mentor: Arthur Richards)
 * Zhenya Vlasyenko‘s “MediaWiki Extension: SocialProfile – UserStatus
 feature” (mentor: Jack Phoenix)

 Out of 8, 4 students are from India!. Congrats and best wishes to  Akshay
 Agarwal ,  Yuvi Panda, Devayon Das and Ankit Garg.

 Thanks
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[Wikimediaindia-l] ‘Kanaja’ now accessible for the blind too.. How about wikipedia?

2011-04-26 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/156361/kanaja-now-accessible-blind-too.html
Kannada encyclopaedic website is accessible for blind.
How about our Wikipedias?
Has any attempts been made in the past?

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ‘Kanaja’ now accessible for the blind too.. How about wikipedia?

2011-04-26 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
During the chennai meetup, one gentlemen had told us people from
blind-user-group do access Tamil Wikipedia through a screen reading software
they have and it was pleasant news to us.

Regards
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On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:05, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@googlemail.com
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 http://www.deccanherald.com/content/156361/kanaja-now-accessible-blind-too.html
 Kannada encyclopaedic website is accessible for blind.
 How about our Wikipedias?
 Has any attempts been made in the past?

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ‘Kanaja’ now accessible for the blind too.. How about wikipedia?

2011-04-26 Thread రహ్మానుద్దీన్ షేక్
Can you share the tool with us?

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote:

 During the chennai meetup, one gentlemen had told us people from
 blind-user-group do access Tamil Wikipedia through a screen reading software
 they have and it was pleasant news to us.

 Regards
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 On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:05, Arjuna Rao Chavala 
 arjunar...@googlemail.com wrote:


 http://www.deccanherald.com/content/156361/kanaja-now-accessible-blind-too.html
 Kannada encyclopaedic website is accessible for blind.
 How about our Wikipedias?
 Has any attempts been made in the past?

 Cheers
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ‘Kanaja’ now accessible for the blind too.. How about wikipedia?

2011-04-26 Thread Shiju Alex
Yes for Malayalam wikipedia and its sister projects. We have users from
blind schools of Kerala reading Malayalam wikipedia and providing us
feedback also.

Two softwares are used by them to access Malayalam wikipedia. One is *
e-speak* and another is *Dhwani*. Recently few Malayalam wikimedians have
helped the e-speak team to make few enhancement in e-speak software.

If some of you don't know, Malayalam wikimedian Saanthosh has developed
text to speech software for Indic languages (Dhawni) long back in 2008.
Santhosh can provide details about it.

Shiju Alex

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 8:35 AM, Arjuna Rao Chavala 
arjunar...@googlemail.com wrote:


 http://www.deccanherald.com/content/156361/kanaja-now-accessible-blind-too.html
 Kannada encyclopaedic website is accessible for blind.
 How about our Wikipedias?
 Has any attempts been made in the past?

 Cheers
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Office Location Update

2011-04-26 Thread Hisham Mundol
Hi All

I've updated the office location discussions and recommendation.  Please do 
have a look at 
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Office_Location

You'll notice that I've kept the initial discussion document unchanged for ease 
of comparison.  This is under the section Initial Discussion. The subsequent 
sections are the new ones I've added:-  Assessment and Recommendation

I'd like to thank everyone who has contributed on this mailing list, Talk 
Pages, offlist and offline.  Really appreciate all the inputs received so far.  
Please have a look at the above link and do please share your comments and 
inputs - through whichever channel you feel most comfortable with.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Thank you.

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] MediaWiki selects eight students for Google Summer of Code 2011

2011-04-26 Thread Hisham Mundol
Congratulations to all of you, and a special one to the Indian guys!

Hisham Mundol
Wikimedia Foundation India Programs
skype: hisham.wikimedia
gtalk: hmun...@wikimedia.org
twitter: @mundol

On Apr 26, 2011, at 8:21 AM, Santhosh Thottingal wrote:

 
 http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2011/04/mediawiki-selects-8-students-gsoc-2011/
 
 * Akshay Agarwal‘s “Account Creation, Login Screens and AJAX-ification of
 everything” (mentor: Brandon Harris)
 * Kevin Brown’s “Working Archival for Web References/Citations,” “to
 facilitate the archival of external links used as references in the
 English Wikipedia” (mentor: Neil Kandalgaonkar)
 * Devayon Das‘s “Improving Semantic Search/Semantic Query usability issues
 in SMW” (mentor: Markus Krötzsch)
 * Ankit Garg‘s “Semantic Schemas extension” (mentor: Yaron Koren)
Salvatore Ingala‘s “AMICUS: Awesome Monolithic Infrastructure for
 Customization of User Scripts” (mentors: Brion Vibber and Max Semenik)
 * Aigerim Karabekova‘s “Extension Release Management” (mentors: Sam Reed,
 Priyanka Dhanda, and Chad Horohoe)
 * Yuvi Panda‘s “Making Offline Wikipedia Article Selection Easier with
 Mediawiki Extensions” (mentor: Arthur Richards)
 * Zhenya Vlasyenko‘s “MediaWiki Extension: SocialProfile – UserStatus
 feature” (mentor: Jack Phoenix)
 
 Out of 8, 4 students are from India!. Congrats and best wishes to  Akshay
 Agarwal ,  Yuvi Panda, Devayon Das and Ankit Garg.
 
 Thanks
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] The Marathi language Wikipedia has reached 33, 333 articles on April 24.

2011-04-26 Thread Hisham Mundol
Congratulations to everyone involved!  It's a nice milestone to celebrate as 
you move on to even bigger and better ones.

Warm Regards,

Hisham Mundol
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On Apr 26, 2011, at 7:38 AM, CherianTinu Abraham wrote:

  The Marathi language Wikipedia has reached 33,333 articles on April 24.
 http://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B6%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B7:%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%96%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%80
  
 
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ‘Kanaja’ now accessible for the blind too.. How about wikipedia?

2011-04-26 Thread Anoop
Dhvani can be found here : http://dhvani.sourceforge.net/

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan 
rsrikant...@gmail.com wrote:

 Shiju,
 Thank you for the software.
 While I couldn't find Dhwani, I believe this is the one for eSpeak:
 http://espeak.sourceforge.net/
 Kindly, verify and if possible please provide the links for Dhwani.
 Thank you,
 Regardsm
 Srikanth R.

 On 26 April 2011 12:19, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.com wrote:

 Yes for Malayalam wikipedia and its sister projects. We have users from
 blind schools of Kerala reading Malayalam wikipedia and providing us
 feedback also.

 Two softwares are used by them to access Malayalam wikipedia. One is *
 e-speak* and another is *Dhwani*. Recently few Malayalam wikimedians have
 helped the e-speak team to make few enhancement in e-speak software.

 If some of you don't know, Malayalam wikimedian Saanthosh has developed
 text to speech software for Indic languages (Dhawni) long back in 2008.
 Santhosh can provide details about it.

 Shiju Alex

 On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 8:35 AM, Arjuna Rao Chavala 
 arjunar...@googlemail.com wrote:


 http://www.deccanherald.com/content/156361/kanaja-now-accessible-blind-too.html
 Kannada encyclopaedic website is accessible for blind.
 How about our Wikipedias?
 Has any attempts been made in the past?

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ‘Kanaja’ now accessible for the blind too.. How about wikipedia?

2011-04-26 Thread Anoop
Also, online version of Dhvani is avaialble at http://silpa.org.in/TTS

Note that this module is experimental.


Thanks

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Anoop anoop@gmail.com wrote:

 Dhvani can be found here : http://dhvani.sourceforge.net/


 On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan 
 rsrikant...@gmail.com wrote:

 Shiju,
 Thank you for the software.
 While I couldn't find Dhwani, I believe this is the one for eSpeak:
 http://espeak.sourceforge.net/
 Kindly, verify and if possible please provide the links for Dhwani.
 Thank you,
 Regardsm
 Srikanth R.

 On 26 April 2011 12:19, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.com wrote:

 Yes for Malayalam wikipedia and its sister projects. We have users from
 blind schools of Kerala reading Malayalam wikipedia and providing us
 feedback also.

 Two softwares are used by them to access Malayalam wikipedia. One is *
 e-speak* and another is *Dhwani*. Recently few Malayalam wikimedians
 have helped the e-speak team to make few enhancement in e-speak software.

 If some of you don't know, Malayalam wikimedian Saanthosh has developed
 text to speech software for Indic languages (Dhawni) long back in 2008.
 Santhosh can provide details about it.

 Shiju Alex

 On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 8:35 AM, Arjuna Rao Chavala 
 arjunar...@googlemail.com wrote:


 http://www.deccanherald.com/content/156361/kanaja-now-accessible-blind-too.html
 Kannada encyclopaedic website is accessible for blind.
 How about our Wikipedias?
 Has any attempts been made in the past?

 Cheers
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ‘Kanaja’ now accessible for the blind too.. How about wikipedia?

2011-04-26 Thread Shiju Alex
The below online version is a nice way to test it for your language.

Remember if Dhwani works fine for Malayalam it is not hard to extend the
same for other Indic languages. In fact it is already supporting most of the
Indic languages. At least the following languages are supported.

   - Bengali
   - Gujarati
   - Hindi
   - Kannada
   - Malayalam
   - Marathi
   - Oriya
   - Punjabi
   - Tamil
   - Telugu

More important thing is, the respective language community need to take some
interest to provide this type of extra features to the speakers of that
language.




On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Anoop anoop@gmail.com wrote:

 Also, online version of Dhvani is avaialble at http://silpa.org.in/TTS

 Note that this module is experimental.


 Thanks


 On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Anoop anoop@gmail.com wrote:

 Dhvani can be found here : http://dhvani.sourceforge.net/


 On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan 
 rsrikant...@gmail.com wrote:

 Shiju,
 Thank you for the software.
 While I couldn't find Dhwani, I believe this is the one for eSpeak:
 http://espeak.sourceforge.net/
 Kindly, verify and if possible please provide the links for Dhwani.
 Thank you,
 Regardsm
 Srikanth R.

 On 26 April 2011 12:19, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.com wrote:

 Yes for Malayalam wikipedia and its sister projects. We have users from
 blind schools of Kerala reading Malayalam wikipedia and providing us
 feedback also.

 Two softwares are used by them to access Malayalam wikipedia. One is *
 e-speak* and another is *Dhwani*. Recently few Malayalam wikimedians
 have helped the e-speak team to make few enhancement in e-speak software.

 If some of you don't know, Malayalam wikimedian Saanthosh has developed
 text to speech software for Indic languages (Dhawni) long back in 2008.
 Santhosh can provide details about it.

 Shiju Alex

 On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 8:35 AM, Arjuna Rao Chavala 
 arjunar...@googlemail.com wrote:


 http://www.deccanherald.com/content/156361/kanaja-now-accessible-blind-too.html
 Kannada encyclopaedic website is accessible for blind.
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ‘Kanaja’ now accessible for the blind too.. How about wikipedia?

2011-04-26 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Anoop, Shiju,
Thank you for the link(s) and the update.
This is good news for us Indic wikipedians.
--Regards,
Srikanth R.

On 26 April 2011 13:49, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.com wrote:

 The below online version is a nice way to test it for your language.

 Remember if Dhwani works fine for Malayalam it is not hard to extend the
 same for other Indic languages. In fact it is already supporting most of the
 Indic languages. At least the following languages are supported.

- Bengali
- Gujarati
- Hindi
- Kannada
- Malayalam
- Marathi
- Oriya
- Punjabi
- Tamil
- Telugu

 More important thing is, the respective language community need to take
 some interest to provide this type of extra features to the speakers of that
 language.




 On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Anoop anoop@gmail.com wrote:

 Also, online version of Dhvani is avaialble at http://silpa.org.in/TTS

 Note that this module is experimental.


 Thanks


 On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Anoop anoop@gmail.com wrote:

 Dhvani can be found here : http://dhvani.sourceforge.net/


 On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan 
 rsrikant...@gmail.com wrote:

 Shiju,
 Thank you for the software.
 While I couldn't find Dhwani, I believe this is the one for eSpeak:
 http://espeak.sourceforge.net/
 Kindly, verify and if possible please provide the links for Dhwani.
 Thank you,
 Regardsm
 Srikanth R.

 On 26 April 2011 12:19, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.com wrote:

 Yes for Malayalam wikipedia and its sister projects. We have users from
 blind schools of Kerala reading Malayalam wikipedia and providing us
 feedback also.

 Two softwares are used by them to access Malayalam wikipedia. One is *
 e-speak* and another is *Dhwani*. Recently few Malayalam wikimedians
 have helped the e-speak team to make few enhancement in e-speak software.

 If some of you don't know, Malayalam wikimedian Saanthosh has
 developed  text to speech software for Indic languages (Dhawni) long back 
 in
 2008. Santhosh can provide details about it.

 Shiju Alex

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ‘Kanaja’ now accessible for the blind too.. How about wikipedia?

2011-04-26 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi,
I blogged about this quite recently. There is however quite some distance
between being visually impairred and being blind. Some people I know are
helped with specific fonts that are BIG and/or coloured . The consequence is
that he uses different fonts and has them coloured. When I get his emails, I
always adjust them to something that is nice on my eyes.

As we are developing the WebFonts extension, it would be awesome when it is
tested what font works best for the visually impaired.


NB it is possible to include Dhvani as an extension in MediaWiki. This may
happen when you test it and ask for it on Bugzilla
Thanks,
  GerardM

http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2011/04/roar-for-wikipedia-in-india.html



On 26 April 2011 10:25, Srikanth Ramakrishnan rsrikant...@gmail.com wrote:

 Anoop, Shiju,
 Thank you for the link(s) and the update.
 This is good news for us Indic wikipedians.
 --Regards,
 Srikanth R.

 On 26 April 2011 13:49, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.com wrote:

 The below online version is a nice way to test it for your language.

 Remember if Dhwani works fine for Malayalam it is not hard to extend the
 same for other Indic languages. In fact it is already supporting most of the
 Indic languages. At least the following languages are supported.

- Bengali
- Gujarati
- Hindi
- Kannada
- Malayalam
- Marathi
- Oriya
- Punjabi
- Tamil
- Telugu

 More important thing is, the respective language community need to take
 some interest to provide this type of extra features to the speakers of that
 language.




 On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Anoop anoop@gmail.com wrote:

 Also, online version of Dhvani is avaialble at http://silpa.org.in/TTS

 Note that this module is experimental.


 Thanks


 On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Anoop anoop@gmail.com wrote:

 Dhvani can be found here : http://dhvani.sourceforge.net/


 On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan 
 rsrikant...@gmail.com wrote:

 Shiju,
 Thank you for the software.
 While I couldn't find Dhwani, I believe this is the one for eSpeak:
 http://espeak.sourceforge.net/
 Kindly, verify and if possible please provide the links for Dhwani.
 Thank you,
 Regardsm
 Srikanth R.

 On 26 April 2011 12:19, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.com wrote:

 Yes for Malayalam wikipedia and its sister projects. We have users
 from blind schools of Kerala reading Malayalam wikipedia and providing us
 feedback also.

 Two softwares are used by them to access Malayalam wikipedia. One is
 *e-speak* and another is *Dhwani*. Recently few Malayalam wikimedians
 have helped the e-speak team to make few enhancement in e-speak software.

 If some of you don't know, Malayalam wikimedian Saanthosh has
 developed  text to speech software for Indic languages (Dhawni) long 
 back in
 2008. Santhosh can provide details about it.

 Shiju Alex

 On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 8:35 AM, Arjuna Rao Chavala 
 arjunar...@googlemail.com wrote:


 http://www.deccanherald.com/content/156361/kanaja-now-accessible-blind-too.html
 Kannada encyclopaedic website is accessible for blind.
 How about our Wikipedias?
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] : Pune Mirror : Will Google Maps lead people astray, the Wikipedia way?

2011-04-26 Thread Nikhil Sheth
*In 2009, it was forced to recruit 20,000 editors to stop falsification of
entries
*
Lol, as if they have that kind of money... ;)

So it didn't have any editors at all prior to 2009, h, interesting!! So
all those edits were put there by aliens it seems! :P

Nikhil

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 I was just taking an example. Is the Bus Company to blame for a bus not
 having a closed door, when someone gets off with buying a ticket?
 Same here. As an ediotr, reviewer, Recent Changes and New Page patroller,
 most people have no idea how much effort we put into keeping articles
 vandalism free and clean..
 Keeping Vandals at bay is NOT an easy taks. Maybe the author of that
 article should try using Huggle one day.
 --
 Regards,

 2011/4/24 shirish शिरीष shirisha...@gmail.com

 At bottom :-

 On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 19:11, Srikanth Ramakrishnan
 rsrikant...@gmail.com wrote:
  Heya,
  Is Wikipedia to blame for being open?
  Is Google to blame for Android being open?
  Think about it that way.
  --Regards,
 

 Btw Android is not really open. Please see
 http://lwn.net/Articles/435342/ . Its a 'business decision' . They did
 get quite a bit slammed on it on slashdot and others when Honeycomb
 code drop was taken aback for 'when its ready' .

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ‘Kanaja’ now accessible for the blind too.. How about wikipedia?

2011-04-26 Thread Subhashish Panigrahi
Thanks for the update.

Here is the page for Dhvani. http://dhvani.sourceforge.net/
It is an amazing tool indeed.

And Silpa http://silpa.org.in/ is a source base of many interesting stuff,
thanks a lot Santhosh and team. Santhosh was introdcing me to the webfont
project few days back, they work indeed great, few small glitches to be
fixed, and then it's ready to be published. And languages like Odia which
have rendering problem in XP  Mac will be really usable by more people.

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ‘Kanaja’ now accessible for the blind too.. How about wikipedia?

2011-04-26 Thread Arun Ganesh
He was from this group called Third Eye in Chennai  http://thirdeyetvg.com .
They support student volunteers to develop accessible technology.

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote:

 During the chennai meetup, one gentlemen had told us people from
 blind-user-group do access Tamil Wikipedia through a screen reading software
 they have and it was pleasant news to us.

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] : Pune Mirror : Will Google Maps lead people astray, the Wikipedia way?

2011-04-26 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Heya,
Umm.. Found this on Daily Mail, I believe, it needs to be further traced.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1379022/Google-Map-Maker-launched-America.html
Same article incorporated into it.
--Regards,

On 26 April 2011 17:20, Srikanth Ramakrishnan rsrikant...@gmail.com wrote:

 So, how come I created articles in 2007 and 2008?
 -- Srikanth


 On 26 April 2011 16:25, Nikhil Sheth nikhil...@gmail.com wrote:

 *In 2009, it was forced to recruit 20,000 editors to stop falsification
 of entries
 *
 Lol, as if they have that kind of money... ;)

 So it didn't have any editors at all prior to 2009, h, interesting!!
 So all those edits were put there by aliens it seems! :P

 Nikhil


 On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 6:09 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan 
 rsrikant...@gmail.com wrote:

 Shirish,
 I was just taking an example. Is the Bus Company to blame for a bus not
 having a closed door, when someone gets off with buying a ticket?
 Same here. As an ediotr, reviewer, Recent Changes and New Page patroller,
 most people have no idea how much effort we put into keeping articles
 vandalism free and clean..
 Keeping Vandals at bay is NOT an easy taks. Maybe the author of that
 article should try using Huggle one day.
 --
 Regards,

 2011/4/24 shirish शिरीष shirisha...@gmail.com

 At bottom :-

 On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 19:11, Srikanth Ramakrishnan
 rsrikant...@gmail.com wrote:
  Heya,
  Is Wikipedia to blame for being open?
  Is Google to blame for Android being open?
  Think about it that way.
  --Regards,
 

 Btw Android is not really open. Please see
 http://lwn.net/Articles/435342/ . Its a 'business decision' . They did
 get quite a bit slammed on it on slashdot and others when Honeycomb
 code drop was taken aback for 'when its ready' .

 Just my 2 paise.
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ‘Kanaja’ now accessible for the blind too.. How about wikipedia?

2011-04-26 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Aravind, thank you for the link.
It comes very handy.
Good to know that the state government is involved in this. Maybe, we could
try it in other states.
Regards,
Srikanth.

On 26 April 2011 20:41, Anivar Aravind anivar.arav...@gmail.com wrote:

 in Kerala , I have seen many people visually challenged people
 accessing wikipedia (english hindi wikipedia's) throughout the state
 using orca+festival  with the training provided by INSIGHT .a joint
 project of state IT mission  a non profit group SPACE this is the
 project website http://insight.kerala.gov.in/about/


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 wrote:
  He was from this group called Third Eye in Chennai
 http://thirdeyetvg.com .
  They support student volunteers to develop accessible technology.
 
  On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan 
 srik@gmail.com
  wrote:
 
  During the chennai meetup, one gentlemen had told us people from
  blind-user-group do access Tamil Wikipedia through a screen reading
 software
  they have and it was pleasant news to us.
  Regards
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Uploads to Commons] Geocoding and Multilingual descriptions

2011-04-26 Thread Naveen Francis
Hi all,

By geo tagging the articles we can use wikiminiatlas. Check the article
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_volcanoes_in_Canada by clicking on the
any globe

Some of the indic wiki are not enabled with wikiminiatlas.

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiMiniAtlas

Following wiki has enabled wikiminiatlas :-  Marathi,Malayalam,Tamil,Odhisa

Following wiki has not enabled :- Hindi,Bengali


How to enable WikiMiniAtlas on a wiki ?
snip copied from http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiMiniAtlas 
I am from *xx*.wikipedia.org and would like to enable the WikiMiniAtlas on
our project!Great, this is easy and should work out of the box, just add
code to include
MediaWiki:Wikiminiatlas.jshttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Wikiminiatlas.jsin
your local
*MediaWiki:Common.js* file. Please do not copy the whole javascript code to
your project as you will not get automatic updates, and the interaction
protocol between the client javascript and the server may change any time.If
you'd like clickable links in your project language on the map your project
should have an active geocoding effort going on and must be supported by
Wikipedia-Worldhttp://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProjekt_Georeferenzierung/Wikipedia-World/en
. /snip

Thanks,
Naveen Francis



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 Subhashish,
 You're most welcome.
 Do bookmark the page, it is hard to find.: )
 Or use the short code. http://bit.ly/GeoLocWiki
 ---Regards,

 On 26 April 2011 00:08, Subhashish Panigrahi psubhash...@gmail.comwrote:

  Amazing Tool, I tried to upload and find the approximate location as the
 exact was not known to me. But this is really healpful. Thanks Srikanth
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ‘Kanaja’ now accessible for the blind too.. How about wikipedia?

2011-04-26 Thread Anivar Aravind
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 8:44 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan
rsrikant...@gmail.com wrote:
 Aravind, thank you for the link.
 It comes very handy.
 Good to know that the state government is involved in this. Maybe, we could
 try it in other states.
 Regards,
 Srikanth.


The project i mentioned is not limited to wikipedia. It is more on
e-accessibility level.
And the attention received for Kanija encyclopedia , just by using a
Text to Speech system(TTS) implies theneed of lobbying on
E-accessibility policies to make Free Knowledge available for Indian
Population

India has a phenomenally large percentage of disabled persons.
Aproximately 6% of the population has a disability. An additional 34%
of the population is illiterate and an additional 77 million are
elderly (as per 2001 Census). The largest democracy in the world
cannot afford to exclude this significant a chunk of its population
from participating in the life of the country, which is increasingly
intertwined with the Internet.

Such exclusion is contrary to the Indian Constitution which guarantees
to its Citizens a Right to receive information. The Freedom of Speech
and Expression enshrined in Art. 19(1) (a) is inclusive of the right
to receive information. This right extends to receiving speech that is
of a commercial nature as well.

India is signatory to the United Nation Convention on the Rights of
Persons with Disabilities, 2006 (UNCRPD) and the Biwako Millennium
Framework Towards an Inclusive, Barrier-free and Rights-based Society
for Persons with Disabilities in Asia and the Pacific, 2002

In my perception a policy on  E-accessibility on webComputers must
cover Free Knowledge available to all in accessible formats, including
offline access (in the lines of WMF's vision) , Localised Interfaces 
Free Technologies supporting Local language( Text to speech, speech to
text etc , and indic on web Projects) , Open standards ( WCAG 2.0
Guidelines http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/) and Trainings in FOSS based
accessibility tools for Disabled  for ensuring e-accessibility

A process for building a national e-accessibility Policy is in place.
Groups like Centre for Internet  Society is pushing WCAG 2.0 adoption
to that
If WMF  can involve in this work by highlighting the link between
E-accessibility , and Free Knowledge Resources , it will be an
interesting step.

Anivar

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] New NH numbers.

2011-04-26 Thread Arun Ramarathnam
Thanks for the update Srikanth. And great work by all you guys.

regards
Arun



On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 8:11 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan 
rsrikant...@gmail.com wrote:

 Just wanted to inform you all that work is in progress in sorting this out.
 As Arun says, it will take time.
 A big Thank You to Naveen for letting me know that the National Highways
 Authority of India is on Facebook, which will make communicating with them
 much easier.
 Regards,
 Srikanth R.


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 Heya,
 In the last few days I've noticed several newspapers using the NEW
 numbering scheme for National Highways. This has resulted in a LOT of
 confusion, and arguments too.
 As a precautionary measure, I carry around a link to PlaneMad's renumbered
 map http://flic.kr/p/8Bv8nq
 I have written to NHAI asking when they will start using these new
 numbers, and when the website will be updated to include them.
 I believe as soon as this is done, and/or I get a reply, we should start
 with the work on the project itself.
 For the time being I have created a Google Spreadsheet [private to a few
 of us, will add more as and when I get their email addresses, those
 interested, please get in touch with me]. On this spreadsheet, we can list
 highways, as the Govt. notification [PDF] is absolutely painful to decipher.
 We can decipher it from PlaneMad's map.
 Please let me know your ideas.
 Do we need to run a banner campaign for this?
 --Regards,
 Srikanth R.

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 ME.
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 too.. on Wikimedia Commons. http://bit.ly/d50SIq

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