[Wikimediaindia-l] Update on India Programs Team: Communications
Dear All As you might be aware, there is one more team member I have been trying to get on board for the India Programs Team (http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-September/004251.html) - Consultant, Communications. I have unfortunately not been able to find the right candidate (yet!) for this. The role involves community communications (newsletters, mailing list updates, village pump updates, etc.), press/media/PR (building media relationships, supporting community initiatives through media coverage, etc.), social media (using social networks like facebook and twitter to compliment community efforts) and digital outreach (supporting community building through online outreach of existing readers through online tutorials, videos, etc.) I have interviewed dozens of candidates - most of who are really bright - but I'm not confident that we have anyone yet who is adequately familiar with our movement, community projects. Having said that, I'm still looking; If you know of anyone, please do connect them with me. In addition, I am asking some of the interested candidates who had applied to get more involved with the community and build understanding and familiarity; we can relook at their candidature down the line. Do let me know if you need any clarifications. Best hisham ___ 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] Welcoming Subhashish Panigrahi
All the very best wishes Subha, Do drop in sometime to Pune. -Sudhanwa On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Subhashish Panigrahi psubhash...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Ansuman, Ashwin and RK for the wishes, there is lot more to do with the support of you all and I am very much glad that I would be working with all the communities. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Subha *Thanks Nitika for this warm welcome!* * * *I am looking forward to join all of you there in Delhi and drive forward the initiatives. And yes, would like to try my hand to treat you all (hope you don't complain about salt) :-)* * * *Wish you a merry Christmas and happy new year in advance and thanks a lot for this gift of inviting me as a teammate! Good day*! Subha On 23 December 2011 10:39, Nitika ntan...@wikimedia.org wrote: Congratulations Subhashish, :) We all are extremely excited to have you in the India Programs Team. I've heard so many nice and sweet things about you - I'm sure working with you would be a pleasure! And of course we are waiting for a delicious treat (I hear you're a wonderful cook :) ...Welcoming you to 'sadi Dilli' Nitika On 22-Dec-2011, at 11:32 PM, ansuman wrote: Congrats Subha Paa. :) Special Welcome on behalf of Odia Community. Thanks to WMF Team. The community (bangalore) will miss you for sure. Thanks for your support. Thanks for being my Roommate. Working with Wikipedia has been a wonderful experience. We started in the same place, hope we never stop :) Welcome to Dilli and All the Best :) Regards Ansuman * ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:ansumang On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 10:27 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com wrote: Congrats Subhashish, all the best in your new post. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 10:17 PM, RadhaKrishna Arvapally radhakrishna.arvapa...@gmail.com wrote: Congratulations Subha! -RadhaKrishna On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Hisham his...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi Folks, As you might be aware, the Consultant, Team Support position is to be filled as part of the India Programs team. ( http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-September/004251.html.) I am really pleased and excited to announce that Subhashish Panigrahi has agreed to join as Consultant, Community Program Support. Some of you might know Subhashish (or Subha as he's also called.) He is all of 23 and a wonderful Wikimedian from Odisha. He has a BE in Biotechnology from Sapthagiri College of Engineering, Bangalore. He has worked for about 1 1/2 years in business development and is currently based in Bangalore. He's been an active Wikimedian since a friend of his attended a Wikipedia 10th event in Bangalore in January and told Subha about Wikipedia. Subha then spent considerable time - quite a bit of it in Shiju Alex's living room apparently :-) - learning about Wikipedia. Since then, he's been on fire! He's helped the Bangalore community organise the monthly meet-ups, been a central figure in building community momentum for Odia Wikipedia and has conducted outreach programs for Odia projects back home in Odisha as well as in Bangalore. He's also been helping out other projects and communities; a couple of weekends ago he was in Chennai conducting a WikiAcademy there. He is a fantastically inspiring example of a complete outsider being welcomed into the family, having his hand held in his growth as a newbie, charging forward taking responsibility ownership and then spreading his skills knowledge to others. He is also one of the sweetest human beings I have ever met. He is a perfect example of the Wikimedia Dream. His interests (outside of Wikimedia) are cooking, graphic design and handwriting analysis. (I bet most of you who know Subha don't know that last bit about him. So the next time you see him, show him your writing and get him to reveal your deep dark secrets!) He has also been involved with campaigns for social work during the floods and cholera outbreak in Odisha and been involved with a Odisha community organisation, eOdissa.com http://eodissa.com/. Originally, the Consultant, Team Support position ( http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs#Team_Structure) was to manage the back-end aspects of India Programs (basic accounting, basic personnel management, office administration, travel support, expense statement management, logistics support for the community, etc.) I have been looking at the actual work load involved and I do not think this is a full time role. The functions listed are essential and need to be done - but there is an opportunity to improve the richness of the position and it's value to the community. I'm therefore proposing that the Consultant, Team Support be redesignated to Consultant, Community Program
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Welcoming Subhashish Panigrahi
Subha, I hope as part of your new role, you can now join us in Coimbatore once. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore ___ 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] Update on India Programs Team: Communications
Hisham, may I suggest that you make it mandatory that people you employ have adequate exposure and experience with the Wiki ecosystem like Shiju and Subha have? -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore ___ 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] Android ICS support for Tamil and Indic languages
That would make everybody with a phone elite. Whether they have a Nokia 1100 or Basic Music Java phone, irrespective of when they bought it. Some people, stick to phones for years. Three, four, five too. Difficutlt, but true. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore ___ 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] Android ICS support for Tamil and Indic languages
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote: Only few years before even PCs supported all of these and it will take more years to get this in all gadgets. So, the only expectation now is to at least display the characters well. Input is the next priority which can be solved by 3rd party apps for time being once the display issue is solved. Linux distributions have had the underlying codebase infrastructure to support Indian languages for close to 8 years now. Admittedly, the frameworks have changed/improved and, the resultant APIs have evolved. But the definition and scope of support put forth in my original mail has existed for that period of time. So it is certainly not a few years. Displaying the characters well is a very broad based statement and, I'll provide an example from the 4.0.3 build - I see Bengali rendered with some degree of accuracy when using the Gmail app, the same cannot be said when using the Twitter app for Android. Which brings out the notion that the ability to build up and use the existing underlying frameworks is not very well baked in. The other bit that will be useful to create a set of publicly available standard test pages for Indic text. Paragraphs which have sufficient complexity being handled via nearly all conjunct combinations and so forth would actually help testing the mobile app to the fullest. Input and, primarily input methods are desired to be some form of standardization or, at least a reference implementation. In the early days of Linux (and, very recently during the stage with the 'Rupee' symbol), a lot of 3rd party application developers and ISVs came up with their own implementation of input methods and layout. The resultant effect was a large corpus of document which needed some form of 'translation' into Unicode-compliant form. Punting on ISVs to fix the input issue is a bad bet fraught with dangers. I am not suggesting that the ISVs will go out and deliberately muddy up waters. But the nature of the business and, the precedent leaves no doubt of such a situation repeating itself. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog ___ 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] Welcoming Subhashish Panigrahi
Thanks a lot Sudhanwa, will love to join you all in Pune, I will connect you all through IRC an plan for an event. Srikanth, I am looking forward for joining you guys, when you organize a meetup next time in Koimbatore, please let me know, will join you over skype and sometime will meet you guys in Kovai :) Subha On 23 December 2011 16:24, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.comwrote: Subha, I hope as part of your new role, you can now join us in Coimbatore once. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore ___ 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 -- * ସୁ ଭ * *S u b h a * *ଓଡ଼ିଆଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ* *O d i a W i k i M a i l i n g l i s t*https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-or http://facebook.com/subhashishp http://twitter.com/subhashishphttp://or.wikipedia.org ___ 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] Android ICS support for Tamil and Indic languages
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 5:07 PM, sankarshan foss.mailingli...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote: Only few years before even PCs supported all of these and it will take more years to get this in all gadgets. So, the only expectation now is to at least display the characters well. Input is the next priority which can be solved by 3rd party apps for time being once the display issue is solved. Linux distributions have had the underlying codebase infrastructure to support Indian languages for close to 8 years now. Admittedly, the frameworks have changed/improved and, the resultant APIs have evolved. But the definition and scope of support put forth in my original mail has existed for that period of time. So it is certainly not a few years. Displaying the characters well is a very broad based statement and, I'll provide an example from the 4.0.3 build - I see Bengali rendered with some degree of accuracy when using the Gmail app, the same cannot be said when using the Twitter app for Android. Which brings out the notion that the ability to build up and use the existing underlying frameworks is not very well baked in. The other bit that will be useful to create a set of publicly available standard test pages for Indic text. Paragraphs which have sufficient complexity being handled via nearly all conjunct combinations and so forth would actually help testing the mobile app to the fullest. Input and, primarily input methods are desired to be some form of standardization or, at least a reference implementation. In the early days of Linux (and, very recently during the stage with the 'Rupee' symbol), a lot of 3rd party application developers and ISVs came up with their own implementation of input methods and layout. The resultant effect was a large corpus of document which needed some form of 'translation' into Unicode-compliant form. Punting on ISVs to fix the input issue is a bad bet fraught with dangers. I am not suggesting that the ISVs will go out and deliberately muddy up waters. But the nature of the business and, the precedent leaves no doubt of such a situation repeating itself. Well said sankarsan. Did anyone tested wikipedias in these languages in Android ICS? The controversial Lohit-Tamil font (I understand , Quality issues with Lohit was the reason for disabling Webfonts extention in Tamil) seems to be the default in Android . Anyway rendering in Andoid will be better that that of windows , because it uses harfbuzz. Anivar ___ 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] Welcoming Subhashish Panigrahi
Congrats Subha !! Happy to see average age of WMF India programme got reduced with your entry !!! Also thanks to Hisham for renaming the post to suit the skillset of Subha Anivar ___ 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] NDTV stealing photographs off the internet.
Heya, fellow photographer and Commons Illustrator Vinoth shared this link on Facebook about Barkha Dutt and NDTV stealing images off the internet. The image in the article was copyrighted. Imaging the situation on Commons. Here's the link: http://www.bangaloreaviation.com/2011/12/wall-of-shame-barkha-dutts-ndtv-steals.html -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan, Sathyamangalam-Gobichettipalayam Star Gazers Gang, Ukkadam, Coimbatore. My Commons uploads, now exceeding 75. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles/Rsrikanth05 ___ 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] NDTV stealing photographs off the internet.
On 23 December 2011 20:11, Srikanth Ramakrishnan rsrikant...@gmail.com wrote: link on Facebook about Barkha Dutt and NDTV stealing images off the Nothing was stolen. At best, a case of copyright infringement could made out. That said, the fair dealing provisions relating to current affairs might kick in too. Can we please not refer to copyright violations as stealing? It isn't stealing - the original still exists. 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] NDTV stealing photographs off the internet.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/arunganesh/4345797042/ If I remember correctly, Times of India later apologized for not giving attribution to while using one of Arun's CC licensed works on their newspaper. -TC On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 11:24 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Indian Law is indeed scary. I know most pictures on the internet get flicked, Arun, being a victim of Times of India earlier, but this is a bit unfair? But then again, most of real life is. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore ___ 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] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Missing wikis now redirect to Incubator
From Foundation's mailing list. :) Missing Wikis now redirect to the Incubator project pages. :) *$U®¥∩* http://goo.gl/RoMyo.com http://FirefoxSurya.blogspot.com http://about.me/suryaceg -- Forwarded message -- From: Robin Pepermans robinp.1...@gmail.com Date: 23 December 2011 03:56 Subject: [Foundation-l] Missing wikis now redirect to Incubator To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundatio...@lists.wikimedia.org Hello all, As of yesterday, when you go to a missing wiki (the redlinks on Special:SiteMatrix) you will no longer see a static this wiki does not exist error, but it will redirect to the Wikimedia Incubator, where there is either a development wiki or an info page inviting you to start one. Exceptions are Wikiversity and Wikisource, because they are hosted on different wikis. For existing development wikis, going to for example http://or.wikiquote.org directs you to the main page http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wq/or/ପ୍ରଧାନ_ପୃଷ୍ଠା. You can also link directly to a page: http://or.wikiquote.org/wiki/ରଜ_ଦୋଳି_ଗୀତ to http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wq/or/ରଜ_ଦୋଳି_ଗୀତ. This also enables interwiki links to these Incubator pages. (Interwiki bot maintains: you are welcome to make use of that!) For missing wikis, going to for example http://arz.wikinews.org directs you to an info page http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wn/arz which is an improved version of the this wiki does not exist page: it is adapted to the respective language, and the messages are localisable through https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Special:Translate/ext-wikimediaincubatorinfopage . (Translators: you are welcome to translate that!) It only works for languages listed on SiteMatrix, so in general it doesn't work for Wikipedias on Incubator. Regards, Robin (aka SPQRobin) ___ foundation-l mailing list foundatio...@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-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] NDTV stealing photographs off the internet.
Fair use applies when no other options available. In case of CC, options are wide open. If somebody decides to override a CC licensed file with a fair use, it is a clear Copy Vio. On 23/12/2011, Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.com wrote: I dug up the Indian fair use law and found this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_India/Fair_use#reproduction_in_a_newspaper In this case, the aircraft had crashed and it was no longer possible to get such a photograph, but can a newspaper otherwise just pick up any photo off the internet and use it under fair use clause just to avoid paying licensing fees of the photograph? -arun On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 9:50 PM, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.orgwrote: On 23 December 2011 21:43, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Gautam, thank you for correcting me, but I believe Digitally Stealing is also defined as Using Data Without Permission. Atleast that's the definition Microsoft uses for their Windows Genuine campaign. Forgive me if I'm wrong. Since when did Microsoft become the arbiter of all that is sacred in copyright law? :) 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 -- j.mp/ArunGanesh -- With love Praveen http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Praveenp:talkhttp://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Praveenp ___ 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] NDTV stealing photographs off the internet.
On 24 December 2011 10:38, Praveen Prakash me.prav...@gmail.com wrote: Fair use applies when no other options available. In case of CC, options are wide open. If somebody decides to override a CC licensed file with a fair use, it is a clear Copy Vio. Ummm, no. Not to the best of my knowledge. 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] Open Wiki GLAM of Serbia: Conference - Call for participation
Adethya, I assume that Vikimedija is the Serbian Wikimedia chapter. Hence sending a mail to g...@wikimedia.org shouldn't work. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore ___ 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] Open Wiki GLAM of Serbia: Conference - Call for participation
There is some problem with the id g...@vikimedija.org Meanwhile you can write to Mile Kish directly at m.mi...@gmail.com or mil...@vikimedija.org ( Note that it is vikimedija.org ) Regards Tinu Cherian On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 7:53 AM, Adethya Sudarsanan adethyas...@gmail.comwrote: Anirudh, the link present is not valid i guess... mails sent to You can send your applications at g...@vikimedija.org fails. I tried sending it to g...@wikimedia.org and there was no failure notice. Am i doing the right thing? Pls advice. I want to participate in GLAM, Serbia. Thanks in advance, Ade. On 22 December 2011 18:02, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.com wrote: For those interested in GLAM. Yours sincerely, Anirudh Bhati +855 975 529 803 Skype: anirudhsbh -- Forwarded message -- From: Mile Kiš m.mi...@gmail.com Date: Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 4:01 AM Subject: [Internal-l] Open Wiki GLAM of Serbia: Conference - Call for participation To: Local Chapters, board and officers coordination (closed subscription) interna...@lists.wikimedia.org Dear friends, I wish to share my happiness with you regarding the GLAM conference in Belgrade. I would like to use this opportunity to invite you to participate as speakers and share your experiences with our glammers. In the following month send us your applications. If you need funds for expenditures, we'll try to make your travel possible in cooperation with WMF. The conference is divided into the following thematic parts: * Ways of protecting intellectual property on the Internet and Creative Commons licenses * Importance of having cultural heritage on the Internet and ways of their presentation * Wikimedia projects as a platform for dissemination of free content and information * Wikimedia projects as a means of communication, information and education * Success stories and models implemented with GLAM institutions + technology of QR codes and their application in GLAM institutions We would also like to invite all other interested people to come and participate in our conference and have a nice time with us after it. If you want WMRS to help you with your travel and accommodation arrangements, please inform us as soon as possible, so that we could make cheap bookings. You can send your applications at g...@vikimedija.org With regards, Mile Kish, Secretary-General Wikimedia Serbia ___ Internal-l mailing list interna...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/internal-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 ___ 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] [Wikimedia-in-WB] Kolkata Photo Walk (Esplanade Dalhousie)
Thanks for bringing this up Ashwin (and for the detailed feedback). If the images are not named properly, people will not be able to recognise them, which makes the whole exercise useless. Can I suggest, now that the images have been uploaded such, the uploaders update the image summary with details of each image, so that people outside Kolkata can identify images and use them where required. Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2011 00:41:10 +0530 From: ashwin.bain...@gmail.com To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org CC: wikimedia-in...@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-WB] Kolkata Photo Walk (Esplanade Dalhousie) Hi, First of all many thanks to our Calcutta brethren for conducting this photo walk and many thanks for uploading the images to Commons. Such events will greatly help our country's herittage buildings, architecture, landmarks etc be preserved. After trying a quick dirty look up with the results of your wonderful event, some points come to mind. 1. NAMING OF IMAGES - . The images with building names included in name are very useful easily locatable eg : http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aayakar_Bhawan_-_Kolkata_2011-12-18_0067.JPG Images named in the following manner are not at all useful to find the building concerned eg : File:Wikimedia_Photowalk_-_Kolkata_2011-12-18_(32).JPG especially since about 150 of these are so named. 2. CATEGORISATION - Images need to be categorised otherwise the images cannot be located/used by those who dont know where to look for them. 3. ARTICLE USAGE - Tried to see what has stubs/images on English Wikipedia - 1. Shahid Minar - No link. [[Shaheed Minar]] of Bangladesh not India 2. Metropolitan Building - [[Metropolitan Building (Minneapolis0]] not Kolkata 3. Tipu Sultan Mosque - [[Tipu Sultan Mosque]], image already available 4. Victoria House - no article 5. Statesman House - no article but an image may be added (when located) to [[The_Statesman]] 6. Aaykar Bhawan - no stub 7. Great Eastern Hotel - can be added to [[Places_of_interest_in_Kolkata#Historic_hotels]] 8. Central Telegraph Office - page for CTO Colombo London but not for Mumbai Kolkata 9. National Assurance Building - no building 10. Junior Staff Quarters of the Governor11. Raj Bhawan - can be added to [[Raj_Bhavan_(West_Bengal)]] 12. St. John's Church - Meerut Secunderabad pictured for India only 13. General Post Office - can be added to [[General_Post_Office,_Kolkata]] 14. Kolkata Collectorate - no article 15. Writers' Building - [[Writers'_Building]] 16. St. Andrews Chapel - no article 4. STUB IMPROVEMENT - Many buildings have no stubs. These need to be made. Others need references, geo-code, images, etc. Hope this feedback is useful in some way. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Kalyan Sarkar kalyan.sar...@gmail.com wrote: We met at the foot of Shahid Minar at 7AM in the morning. It was a bit foggy and chilly. We are enjoying an early winter chill and record low temperatures in Kolkata this year. After enjoying a steaming cup of tea at the CSTC Canteen and began our walk. ROUTEWe crossed the J.L.Nehru Road and Lenin Sarani crossing and took Bentinck Street. Then we took left along the Waterloo Street, reaching the Great Eastern Hotel, we took right along the Hemanta Basu Sarani to B.B.D.Bagh Square. Then we proceeded along B.B.D.Bagh Sarani and took left turn to Red Cross Place to reach the entrance of Raj Bhawan. From there we proceeded along the Government Place to St John's Church and took right along Council House Street and Netaji Subhash Road and ended at the Writers Buildings. MONUMENTSWe covered the following monuments.1. Shahid Minar2. Metropolitan Building3. Tipu Sultan Mosque4. Victoria House5. Statesman House 6. Aaykar Bhawan7. Great Eastern Hotel8. Central Telegraph Office9. National Assurance Building10. Junior Staff Quarters of the Governor11. Raj Bhawan 12. St. John's Church13. General Post Office14. Kolkata Collectorate15. Writers' Building16. St. Andrews Chapel STATUES1. Lenin 2. Asutosh Mookerjee3. Prafulla Chaki4. Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy5. Binay Badal Dinesh ___ 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] NDTV stealing photographs off the internet.
Image response - http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.eatliver.com/img/2008/3428.jpgimgrefurl=http://www.eatliver.com/i.php%3Fn%3D3428h=500w=700sz=55tbnid=qyIEuUp6IFLEsM:tbnh=96tbnw=135prev=/search%3Fq%3Dpiracy%2Bvs%2Bstealing%26tbm%3Disch%26tbo%3Duzoom=1q=piracy+vs+stealingdocid=25-EFIeDhe5c5Msa=Xei=yHj1TrOXOYT_8gOeocjVAQved=0CCkQ9QEwAQdur=691 Cheers! On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.orgwrote: On 24 December 2011 10:41, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.org wrote: Fair use applies when no other options available. In case of CC, options are wide open. If somebody decides to override a CC licensed file with a fair use, it is a clear Copy Vio. Ummm, no. Not to the best of my knowledge. http://wiki.creativecommons.org/FAQ#Do_Creative_Commons_licenses_affect_fair_use.2C_fair_dealing_or_other_exceptions_to_copyright.3F 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 -- - Arjun ___ 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] Android ICS support for Tamil and Indic languages
Yes, this keyboard app works in all of these (the phone should display Hindi properly). 2011/12/23 Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com ePandit, Does this work on Android Eclaire, Froyo, and Gingerbread? These three are used extensively in India. On 12/22/11, ePandit | ई-पण्डित sharma.shr...@gmail.com wrote: This is an exciting news. We were waiting for Indic languages support for many years. This will make possible the reach of Indic support ready phones and tablets to every Indian. Text input is certainly not a problem, there are many apps which do this perfectly. One of them is MultiLing Keyboard Search *MultiLing Keyboard* in android market, install and select your language in settings. 2011/12/23 Yuvi Panda yuvipa...@gmail.com +1. A lot of my classmates use Android, and they're definitely not 'elite' On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Srikanth, Android is not like Windows, where you get the latest version and install. You can upgrade only if your device manufacturer offers one. My dads Dell runs on 2.1 which cannot be upgraded. My sister uses an Optimus which runs on 2.2 and can be upgraded to 2.3. Also, Android is no longer ELITE. Android devices are available for as low as 6k. The Dell, I mentioned earlier now retails for less than 6K. On 12/22/11, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 16:23, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Majority of India that uses Android uses v2.x That Majority is elite enough to upgrade sooner IMHO. -- Regards Srikanth.L -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore ___ 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 -- Yuvi Panda T http://yuvi.in/blog ___ 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 -- *Shrish Benjwal Sharma* *(श्रीश बेंजवाल शर्मा http://hindi.shrish.in)* ~~~ *If u can't beat them, join them.* ePandit http://epandit.shrish.in/:* *http://epandit.shrish.in/ -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore ___ 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 -- *Shrish Benjwal Sharma* *(श्रीश बेंजवाल शर्मा http://hindi.shrish.in)* ~~~ *If u can't beat them, join them.* ePandit http://epandit.shrish.in/:* *http://epandit.shrish.in/ ___ 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] Android ICS support for Tamil and Indic languages
Android ICS does not natively support rendering of Tamil, Devanagiri and Bengali scripts. It just supports the fonts. Rendering depends on individual apps. This is a clever move from Google to increase the native browser usage. They've implemented font rendering in the stock browser; firefox still shows the compound characters wrongly. Facebook app renders correctly too. Vijay ___ 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
