[Wikimediaindia-l] Transliteration tool for Sanskrit wiki
Sanskrit Wikipedia is not having transliteration tool as in most other Indian languages. Since the script is Devanagari, the same code used in Hindi wiki can be reused. Can anybody please enable it? -- Harish ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Hi
Hoi, It does not matter where you live when you want to become an ambassador for your language. The Wikimedia Foundation has set up a team of developers who are tasked to make editing in any of the Indic languages as easy as editing in English. What we are looking for are people who know their language really well and can help us make sure that we support your language as well as possible. We have started with a FAQ that explains what it is that needs doing. So really Sutapa, there is enough to do and, we need all the help we can get. Thanks, GerardM http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Language_support_team On 17 October 2011 09:35, sutapa sarangi sutapa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I have been in the mailing list, but still clueless about how can I contribute to wikimedia, as I am located in both the places, Bokaro Steel City and Ranchi, Jharkhand. Regards Sutapa ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: DNA : Want to display your photos? Donate them to Wikipedia
If you haven't seen, the web version now included a slideshow of selected images from Wikimedia Commons http://www.dnaindia.com/scitech/slideshow_want-to-display-your-photos-donate-them-to-wikipedia_1599927#top -TC On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 11:23 AM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: *DNA : Want to display your photos? Donate them to Wikipedia* http://epaper.dnaindia.com/epaperpdf/17102011/16main%20edition-pg8-0.pdf http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report_want-to-display-your-photos-donate-them-to-wikipedia_1599817 *Kannan Shanmugam's grandfather was the first man to set up a photo studio in south Kerala at Kollam, giving the locals one of their first tastes of technology.Around 100 years later, Kannan is hoping to continue his legacy in a way that could be just as revolutionary in today's world — the act of giving something away, for free.* * * *Kannan is an active contributor to Wikimedia Commons, an online repository of free-use images, sound and other media files primarily used to supplement other Wikimedia projects, Wikipedia being the most popular.* * * *The project, which began in 2006 and to which anybody can contribute, has amassed over 11 million media files in five years. * *With the fast-growing interest in Indian topics on English Wikipedia and 20 Indian language Wikipedias already in existence, there is a dire need for images from India. In the run-up to WikiConference 2011 to be held in Mumbai in November, the India Loves Wikipedia initiative has been launched to encourage people to donate their photos for India-related articles.* * * *Kannan has been one of the biggest contributors in the initiative which has amassed 3,359 photos, but feels it is difficult convincing professional photographers to contribute their photos.* * * *Photography equipment is costly. You don't get any returns from uploading images on Commons. Only those who share this idea of free information are willing to do it, said Kannan, a former press photographer. * * * *Tinu Cherian, executive committee member of the Wikimedia India Chapter, agreed. Releasing images for free use isn't a popular concept in India. And once your image is in the public domain, you are allowing people to use, share, alter the images (provided it is attributed) for both free and commercial purposes.* *However, Wikimedians (contributors to Wikimedia projects) insist you don't have to be a professional to submit your images.* * * *Vaishak Kallore from Kannur in Kerala believes it is amateur photographers in remote villages and towns in India who can be the most useful and generous contributors. Professionals might not see it worth their while to take photos of seemingly mundane things. But there is a desperate need for such images to substantiate and inspire articles on India.* * * *From images of panoramas tostructures on the verge of extinction, almost nothing lies beyond the scope of Commons. * *And being a free repository, the images can be picked up for use by news publications, portals and blogs. However, Kannan said, Indian media companies often tend to use these images without giving credit to the photographers. There is a need for greater awareness about free licensing. If there is proper attribution, more people will be encouraged to donate their photos.* * * *Explaining how government bodies in the US, especially NASA, release images into the public domain (including Commons) for free public education and use, Cherian said: The biggest goldmine for Commons from India is actually the government. We haven't approached them officially yet, but we should be lobbying with them to come up with a similar policy. Want to donate your photos to Wikipedia? Visit www.commons.wikimedia.org* Regards Tinu Cherian http://wiki.wikimedia.in/In_the_news * * *Important Note : *The publisher ( DNA / Dainik Bhaskar ) of the above news article owns the copyrights of the article / content. Request to not kindly reproduce or circulate the content further. The information is only shared only with an internal community who is been featured on this article. All copyrights are duly acknowledged. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Naveen Francis is elected as Secretary
Hearty Congratulations and Best wishes, Naveen. Regards Tinu Cherian -- Forwarded message -- From: Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 10:21 AM Subject: [Wikimedia-IN-Exec] Naveen Francis is elected as Secretary To: wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com Cc: Wikimedia India EC wikimedia-in-e...@lists.wikimedia.org Hi, I am glad to announce that Naveen Francis is elected as Secretary of the Wikimedia Chapter. Please join me in congratulating Naveen. Thanks Arjuna Rao Chavala President, Wikmedia Chapter. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Transliteration tool for Sanskrit wiki
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 20:27, Harish mghar...@gmail.com wrote: Sanskrit Wikipedia is not having transliteration tool as in most other Indian languages. Since the script is Devanagari, the same code used in Hindi wiki can be reused. Can anybody please enable it? Infact Sanskrit was one of the early communities to adopt Narayam (before Tamil). Please see the below screenshots for Tamil, you similarly have Input Method dropdown at top of page near Username / Login link. Please hover over it, you would get a dropdown to choose the transliteration option. (Control-M) is the keyboard shortcut to turn it off / on. Gerard / Santhosh / Junaid / Shiju, Should we run site notices with these screenshots on these communities to increase awareness. Tamil wiki projects have a link to typing help on sitenotice and that page contains relevant help. I think it would be better if you ask bug filers to make sure they run sitenotices on wiki post enabling Narayam to spread awareness. http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Tamiltyping1.JPG http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Tamiltyping2.JPG -- Regards Srikanth.L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Transliteration tool for Sanskrit wiki
hello harish, It is easy now to add the narayam typing tool for devanagari by filing a bug/request in Bugzilla - https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/ But first initiate a discussion in sanskrit wikipedia and obtain community consensus. You will need to show that the community wants the installation of the tool, while filing the request. - On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 8:27 PM, Harish mghar...@gmail.com wrote: Sanskrit Wikipedia is not having transliteration tool as in most other Indian languages. Since the script is Devanagari, the same code used in Hindi wiki can be reused. Can anybody please enable it? -- Harish ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Naveen Francis is elected as the Secretary
Hi, I am glad to announce that Naveen Francis is elected as Secretary of the Wikimedia Chapter. Please join me in congratulating Naveen. Thanks Arjuna Rao Chavala President, Wikmedia Chapter. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Aakash UbiSlate 7
Aakash is probably great value for money. But the question is, is it the best our students deserve. I think not. Some confusion, I think, about what constitutes value for money. A badly put together device that has every possibility of failing, and does not have sufficient battery life to get through the school day, is not value, it's a waste. Small comfort that it's a waste of 3k instead of 37k. On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 9:08 PM, Bishakha Datta bishakhada...@gmail.comwrote: A reviewhttp://ibnlive.in.com/news/review-worlds-cheapest-tablet-akash/192812-11.htmlof Aakash. Best Bishakha On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Vickram Crishna vvcris...@radiophony.comwrote: On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.orgwrote: On 6 October 2011 12:04, Nagarjuna G nagar...@gnowledge.org wrote: This by itself may not be a problem, as long as it is copyrighted with an appropriate CC clause. Let us send a representation. Will the Chapter consider doing this? And the India Office too? Maybe we can ask CC-India as well and CIS too? I'm a a little confused: the wording says IP will reside with MoHRD if the project is funded by this Mission, whereas afaik, no MHRD funding at all, never mind this mission, has come to any part of the Wikimedia community in India. There is no question, therefore, of copyright being 'vested' with them, and we only need make this clear in the representation. It should in addition be made clear, therefore, that any content taken from any Wikimedia project, including Wikipedia, comes with the appropriate CC copyright. -- Vickram Fool On The Hill http://communicall.wordpress.com ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit 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 To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Transliteration tool for Sanskrit wiki
There is a transliteration tool on sa wiki, if you have problems regarding it, you are most welcome to get the help on the village pump. :) From: Bala Jeyaraman sodabot...@gmail.com To: Wikimedia India Community list wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Tuesday, 18 October 2011 2:02 PM Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Transliteration tool for Sanskrit wiki hello harish, It is easy now to add the narayam typing tool for devanagari by filing a bug/request in Bugzilla - https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/ But first initiate a discussion in sanskrit wikipedia and obtain community consensus. You will need to show that the community wants the installation of the tool, while filing the request. - On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 8:27 PM, Harish mghar...@gmail.com wrote: Sanskrit Wikipedia is not having transliteration tool as in most other Indian languages. Since the script is Devanagari, the same code used in Hindi wiki can be reused. Can anybody please enable it? -- Harish ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Naveen Francis is elected as the Secretary
On 18 October 2011 14:35, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.com wrote: I am glad to announce that Naveen Francis is elected as Secretary of the Wikimedia Chapter. Please join me in congratulating Naveen. Congratulations and good luck, Naveen! Thank you. Best, Gautam http://blog.prathambooks.org/p/social-media.html ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Naveen Francis is elected as Secretary
Congratulations and Best wishes to Naveen. On 10/18/11, Vickram Crishna vvcris...@radiophony.com wrote: Wonderful. Nice to have the community reaching out to you when you're far from home :-), more incentive to come back asap. On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 1:48 PM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.comwrote: Hearty Congratulations and Best wishes, Naveen. Regards Tinu Cherian -- Forwarded message -- From: Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 10:21 AM Subject: [Wikimedia-IN-Exec] Naveen Francis is elected as Secretary To: wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com Cc: Wikimedia India EC wikimedia-in-e...@lists.wikimedia.org Hi, I am glad to announce that Naveen Francis is elected as Secretary of the Wikimedia Chapter. Please join me in congratulating Naveen. Thanks Arjuna Rao Chavala President, Wikmedia Chapter. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Vickram Fool On The Hill http://communicall.wordpress.com -- With Warm Regards, *Jayanta Nath* Calcutta,West Bengal Facebook :http://www.facebook.com/jayantanth Wikipedia :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jayantanth আসুন পাইরেসি মুক্ত ভারত গড়ি,সবাই মুক্ত সফ্টওয়ার ব্যবহার করি [image: O:-)],অন্যকে ব্যবহারে উৎসাহিত করি। __ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list wikimedia-in...@lists.wikimedia.org Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org wikipedia...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-wb ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Naveen Francis is elected as Secretary
Congratulations Naveen. With Regards, Mandar V. Kulkarni From: Vickram Crishna vvcris...@radiophony.com To: Wikimedia India Community list wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Tuesday, 18 October 2011, 15:10 Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Naveen Francis is elected as Secretary Wonderful. Nice to have the community reaching out to you when you're far from home :-), more incentive to come back asap. On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 1:48 PM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: Hearty Congratulations and Best wishes, Naveen. Regards Tinu Cherian -- Forwarded message -- From: Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 10:21 AM Subject: [Wikimedia-IN-Exec] Naveen Francis is elected as Secretary To: wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com Cc: Wikimedia India EC wikimedia-in-e...@lists.wikimedia.org Hi, I am glad to announce that Naveen Francis is elected as Secretary of the Wikimedia Chapter. Please join me in congratulating Naveen. Thanks Arjuna Rao Chavala President, Wikmedia Chapter. -- Vickram Fool On The Hill ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Naveen Francis is elected as Secretary
Congrats Naveen, :) Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Vickram Crishna vvcris...@radiophony.comwrote: Wonderful. Nice to have the community reaching out to you when you're far from home :-), more incentive to come back asap. On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 1:48 PM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: Hearty Congratulations and Best wishes, Naveen. Regards Tinu Cherian -- Forwarded message -- From: Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 10:21 AM Subject: [Wikimedia-IN-Exec] Naveen Francis is elected as Secretary To: wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com Cc: Wikimedia India EC wikimedia-in-e...@lists.wikimedia.org Hi, I am glad to announce that Naveen Francis is elected as Secretary of the Wikimedia Chapter. Please join me in congratulating Naveen. Thanks Arjuna Rao Chavala President, Wikmedia Chapter. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit 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 To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Aakash UbiSlate 7
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Vickram Crishna vvcris...@radiophony.com wrote: Aakash is probably great value for money. But the question is, is it the best our students deserve. I think not. Some confusion, I think, about what constitutes value for money. A badly put together device that has every possibility of failing, and does not have sufficient battery life to get through the school day, is not value, it's a waste. Small comfort that it's a waste of 3k instead of 37k. Looks like the poor response during application switching off and/or other responses is due to the lack of processing power rather than the touch screen or the application itself. Probably, some small footprint (memory, screen) apps are installed in it that does not give user satisfaction. Overall, for just 3K , it seems worth buying considering its functionality like internet connectivity, phone calling, various apps etc.. Maybe I will go for one more as standby and still spend just 6k. ipad and other things could be great but the price range is also great. A decent netbook costs just about 15k and does almost everything that ipad does. for 3k, it looks value for money for whatever it is offering. Adding offline wikipedia will enhance that value :-) Regards -Sudhanwa ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Transliteration tool for Sanskrit wiki
The sitenotice is already live on Sanskrit Wikipedia (it is written in Sanskrit, and it reads: How to type Unicode Devanagari). But it doesn't contain screenshots or anything of that sort, just basic help. Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch) On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 14:07, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 20:27, Harish mghar...@gmail.com wrote: Sanskrit Wikipedia is not having transliteration tool as in most other Indian languages. Since the script is Devanagari, the same code used in Hindi wiki can be reused. Can anybody please enable it? Infact Sanskrit was one of the early communities to adopt Narayam (before Tamil). Please see the below screenshots for Tamil, you similarly have Input Method dropdown at top of page near Username / Login link. Please hover over it, you would get a dropdown to choose the transliteration option. (Control-M) is the keyboard shortcut to turn it off / on. Gerard / Santhosh / Junaid / Shiju, Should we run site notices with these screenshots on these communities to increase awareness. Tamil wiki projects have a link to typing help on sitenotice and that page contains relevant help. I think it would be better if you ask bug filers to make sure they run sitenotices on wiki post enabling Narayam to spread awareness. http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Tamiltyping1.JPG http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Tamiltyping2.JPG -- Regards Srikanth.L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Naveen Francis is elected as Secretary
Congrats Naveen On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Vickram Crishna vvcris...@radiophony.comwrote: Wonderful. Nice to have the community reaching out to you when you're far from home :-), more incentive to come back asap. On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 1:48 PM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: Hearty Congratulations and Best wishes, Naveen. Regards Tinu Cherian -- Forwarded message -- From: Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 10:21 AM Subject: [Wikimedia-IN-Exec] Naveen Francis is elected as Secretary To: wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com Cc: Wikimedia India EC wikimedia-in-e...@lists.wikimedia.org Hi, I am glad to announce that Naveen Francis is elected as Secretary of the Wikimedia Chapter. Please join me in congratulating Naveen. Thanks Arjuna Rao Chavala President, Wikmedia Chapter. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit 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 To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Naveen Francis is elected as Secretary
Thank you Vickram n all .. Happy to volunteer as Secretary of the Wikimedia India Chapter On 18 October 2011 02:40, Vickram Crishna vvcris...@radiophony.com wrote: Wonderful. Nice to have the community reaching out to you when you're far from home :-), more incentive to come back asap. On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 1:48 PM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: Hearty Congratulations and Best wishes, Naveen. Regards Tinu Cherian -- Forwarded message -- From: Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 10:21 AM Subject: [Wikimedia-IN-Exec] Naveen Francis is elected as Secretary To: wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com Cc: Wikimedia India EC wikimedia-in-e...@lists.wikimedia.org Hi, I am glad to announce that Naveen Francis is elected as Secretary of the Wikimedia Chapter. Please join me in congratulating Naveen. Thanks Arjuna Rao Chavala President, Wikmedia Chapter. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit 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 To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Transliteration tool for Sanskrit wiki
As Srikanth mentioned, Sanskrit wiki projects (http://sa.wikipedia.org) is one of the first Indic language wiki (along with tamil and Malayalam) to implement the integrated typing tool. So the feature Harish asked is already there in Sanskrit wiki projects. Should we run site notices with these screenshots on these communities to increase awareness. I assume it is a good idea to run site notices. But before that we need to implement the tool (Narayam) in most Indic language wikis. As of now it is implemented only in Tamil, Malayalam, and Sanskrit. And the Assamese wiki community is in talk with developers to implement Narayam in Assamese wiki. For all other Indic languages (Odia, Hindi, Marathi, Kannada, Bengali, Telugu, Gujarati, Pujnabi) the tool need to be implemented. Some of the above communities are using the old tool developed by Junaid, but that need to be replaced. And for that support from respective community is most required. For languages like Punjabi the community need to help developers to develop transliteration scheme itself. For the rest of the languages the current tool need to be upgraded to Narayam. We shall run site notices once we finish few more languages. Or we shall run site notices in those wikis where tool is already implemented, may be after the wiki conference (we have so many site notices these days :) ) Please write to me off-list at sh...@wikimedia.org, if any language communities need assitance regarding this. Shiju On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 20:27, Harish mghar...@gmail.com wrote: Sanskrit Wikipedia is not having transliteration tool as in most other Indian languages. Since the script is Devanagari, the same code used in Hindi wiki can be reused. Can anybody please enable it? Infact Sanskrit was one of the early communities to adopt Narayam (before Tamil). Please see the below screenshots for Tamil, you similarly have Input Method dropdown at top of page near Username / Login link. Please hover over it, you would get a dropdown to choose the transliteration option. (Control-M) is the keyboard shortcut to turn it off / on. Gerard / Santhosh / Junaid / Shiju, Should we run site notices with these screenshots on these communities to increase awareness. Tamil wiki projects have a link to typing help on sitenotice and that page contains relevant help. I think it would be better if you ask bug filers to make sure they run sitenotices on wiki post enabling Narayam to spread awareness. http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Tamiltyping1.JPG http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Tamiltyping2.JPG -- Regards Srikanth.L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Aakash UbiSlate 7
Is it possible to get one of these to test the Kiwix offline Wikipedia on? Would be interesting to do some usability testing during the India Hackathon. On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 2:39 AM, Vickram Crishna vvcris...@radiophony.comwrote: Aakash is probably great value for money. But the question is, is it the best our students deserve. I think not. Some confusion, I think, about what constitutes value for money. A badly put together device that has every possibility of failing, and does not have sufficient battery life to get through the school day, is not value, it's a waste. Small comfort that it's a waste of 3k instead of 37k. On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 9:08 PM, Bishakha Datta bishakhada...@gmail.comwrote: A reviewhttp://ibnlive.in.com/news/review-worlds-cheapest-tablet-akash/192812-11.htmlof Aakash. Best Bishakha On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Vickram Crishna vvcris...@radiophony.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.orgwrote: On 6 October 2011 12:04, Nagarjuna G nagar...@gnowledge.org wrote: This by itself may not be a problem, as long as it is copyrighted with an appropriate CC clause. Let us send a representation. Will the Chapter consider doing this? And the India Office too? Maybe we can ask CC-India as well and CIS too? I'm a a little confused: the wording says IP will reside with MoHRD if the project is funded by this Mission, whereas afaik, no MHRD funding at all, never mind this mission, has come to any part of the Wikimedia community in India. There is no question, therefore, of copyright being 'vested' with them, and we only need make this clear in the representation. It should in addition be made clear, therefore, that any content taken from any Wikimedia project, including Wikipedia, comes with the appropriate CC copyright. -- Vickram Fool On The Hill http://communicall.wordpress.com ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit 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 To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- *Jessie Wild Global Development, Manager Wikimedia Foundation * ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Aakash UbiSlate 7
From what has been noised, it will not be available until December. Since the IBN review mentions an actual piece, there clearly are some floating about, but one would probably need to get in touch with MoHRD to get access. On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 9:46 PM, Jessie Wild jw...@wikimedia.org wrote: Is it possible to get one of these to test the Kiwix offline Wikipedia on? Would be interesting to do some usability testing during the India Hackathon. On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 2:39 AM, Vickram Crishna vvcris...@radiophony.com wrote: Aakash is probably great value for money. But the question is, is it the best our students deserve. I think not. Some confusion, I think, about what constitutes value for money. A badly put together device that has every possibility of failing, and does not have sufficient battery life to get through the school day, is not value, it's a waste. Small comfort that it's a waste of 3k instead of 37k. On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 9:08 PM, Bishakha Datta bishakhada...@gmail.comwrote: A reviewhttp://ibnlive.in.com/news/review-worlds-cheapest-tablet-akash/192812-11.htmlof Aakash. Best Bishakha On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Vickram Crishna vvcris...@radiophony.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.orgwrote: On 6 October 2011 12:04, Nagarjuna G nagar...@gnowledge.org wrote: This by itself may not be a problem, as long as it is copyrighted with an appropriate CC clause. Let us send a representation. Will the Chapter consider doing this? And the India Office too? Maybe we can ask CC-India as well and CIS too? I'm a a little confused: the wording says IP will reside with MoHRD if the project is funded by this Mission, whereas afaik, no MHRD funding at all, never mind this mission, has come to any part of the Wikimedia community in India. There is no question, therefore, of copyright being 'vested' with them, and we only need make this clear in the representation. It should in addition be made clear, therefore, that any content taken from any Wikimedia project, including Wikipedia, comes with the appropriate CC copyright. -- Vickram Fool On The Hill http://communicall.wordpress.com ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit 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 To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- *Jessie Wild Global Development, Manager Wikimedia Foundation * ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit 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 To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
