Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikikn-l (kannada wikipedia)] Global Vandalism through IP 212.121.219.1 on Indian territory info
Vandalism? Not necessarily. Point of View push? Probably yes... Neutral Maps is a tricky issue. :) The speed at which these changes are done through interwiki links, a bot was likely been used ! Interestingly it avoided English Wikipedia. -TC On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Bala Jeyaraman sodabot...@gmail.comwrote: Same case was observed and discussed (in VP) in ta wiki too. All the IPs changes are being reverted now. We cant decide whether this is the case of someone of replacing their preferred files from commons or deliberately stirring up controversy On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Mrutyunjaya Kar mkr...@gmail.com wrote: Same case at Odia wikipedia http://or.wikipedia.org/ On 2/2/12, Harish mghar...@gmail.com wrote: This has been observed and reverted in Kannada wikipedia. -- Forwarded message -- From: Tejas jain teju2frie...@gmail.com Date: 2012/2/2 Subject: [Wikikn-l (kannada wikipedia)] Global Vandalism through IP 212.121.219.1 on Indian territory info To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, wikik...@lists.wikimedia.org Some one has done global vandalism through IP 212.121.219.1 http://toolserver.org/%7Eluxo/contributions/contributions.php?user=212.121.219.1 on Indian territory info. User's edit list: http://toolserver.org/~luxo/contributions/contributions.php?user=212.121.219.1 Arunachal pradesh http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arunachal_Pradesh and Jammu_and_Kashmir http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jammu_and_Kashmir are hatched as disputed. Was there any discussion before these changes? All the edits on Kannada wiki http://kn.wikipedia.org/ have been reverted because of following reasons, 1. No discussion prior to the changes 2. No references were made 3. Changes done anonymously 4. No change log message 5. No such changes are done on English wiki If it is sure case of vandalism, changes have to be reverted globally. Thanks, Tejas jain http://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%B8%E0%B2%A6%E0%B2%B8%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%AF:Teju2friends ___ Wikikn-l mailing list wikik...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikikn-l -- Harish 9740069624 ___ 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] [WMIN-Members] Wiki Academy at PSR Rengaswamy Engg College - a report
Good to know, Sohan. Thank you for volunteering for this academy. Was there any interest to know about Tamil Wiki projects too? - Sundar That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted. - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture From: Sohan Maheshwar sohan.mahesh...@tarams.com To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org; wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com; wikimedia-in-...@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Thursday, February 2, 2012 2:16 PM Subject: [WMIN-Members] Wiki Academy at PSR Rengaswamy Engg College - a report Hello! The first Wiki Academy in PSR Rengaswamy College of engineering for Women, Sivakasi was conducted on Jan 20th. An impressive total of 68 students, primarily consisting of 2nd and 3rd year engg students attended this workshop. The Principal of the college, Dr K Ramaswamy gave a short talk and welcomed the participants and the speaker. The session started off with a small introduction on what Wikipedia is and the core values and philosophies behind Wikipedia, how it is edited by millions of people across the world and how all the content on the site is completely free. The 5 pillars of Wikipedia i.e the fundamental principles by which Wiki operates on were also explained. The students were initially a little hesitant to interact but soon were asking pertinent and valid questions about the topic. Once the basics were covered, a short presentation on approaching Wikipedia as a reader was held. Editing of wikipedia was explained next followed by a hands-on session where the students were taught the basics of editing Wikipedia. The students were very responsive to this session. Small prizes like Wiki stickers were given out for mini-contests that were held during this session. A vast majority of the students seemed to quickly understand the intuitive UI especially considering that they were all familiar with formatting in MS Word. The students made minor edits to articles as the session drew to a close. A google group has been setup for future correspondance. The students along with the help of the faculty coordinators who were present said they will work on improving the Sivakasi wiki page. The feedback forms (i will collate the data from here and post it shortly) were collected and few photos from the event were taken. I'll post the pics on the wiki page for the academy soon as i don't have the camera with me currently. Brochures were handed out to all the participants. Judging by the feedback received and the response from the students, i'd say the event was a success. It is important to carry forward this initiative and bring out an interest in participating in contributing to Wikipedia and i will make sure that this happens. I'd like to thank Ms Nitika Tandon, Mr Naveen PF and Mr Arjuna Rao Chavala for their help. This was my first Wiki Academy and i really profited from their help. Conducting the academy solo was quite a challenging but rewarding experience. Also as a footnote i'd like to point that the session was delayed because the Wiki editor kept crashing IE 6. Sadly, the computers in the lab had no other browsers apart from IE 6. This wasn't a roadblock i expected and i think should be added to the list of preparations in this page. We managed to get an admin password for the computers and hastily installed Firefox so that the session could complete without any further hitches...and it did! Looking forward to conducting more such academies in the future. Thank you! -Sohan Maheshwar -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Wikimedia Chapter, India Member's Group. To post to this group, send email to wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wmin-members+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wmin-members?hl=en?hl=en ___ 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] Outreach event(s) at the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli.
Oi, This is a quick update on the Tiruchirappalli front. 1. MoU. The final MoU has been drafted [I think] and Naveen, Arjuna and Tinu of the Chapter have agreed to sign it. 2. Participants. Suraj Kumar, of Trichy has agreed help out. I have forwarded his email address to Tinu, Naveen and Nitika. [Thank you Shrini for your help]. 3. Accommodation. I had sent across a requirement for accommodation for three people. I'm in, Tinu has indicated that he or someone from the Chapter will join, and there is Suraj. Since, Suraj is a local [I don't know how far he lives from the Institute], we may try for one more participant? 4. Wikipedia badge/pin for the VOLUNTEERS. I was given a suggestion by a UK Wikipedian [I'm on friendly terms with some of them] to help identify the Volunteers. I'm willing to pay for a bunch of them if needed. Please reply with your ideas, suggestions and other thoughts. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan, Sathyamangalam-Gobichettipalayam Star Gazers, Coimbatore. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coimbatore_Bypass Coimbatore Bypass. Because my city has one. A mega one that too. ___ 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] [WMIN-Members] Wiki Academy at PSR Rengaswamy Engg College - a report
Thanks Sohan. - Sundar That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted. - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture From: Sohan Maheshwar sohan.mahesh...@tarams.com To: wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com Cc: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Thursday, February 2, 2012 4:00 PM Subject: Re: [WMIN-Members] Wiki Academy at PSR Rengaswamy Engg College - a report Hi Sundar Most of the students preferred conversing in Tamil. i only mentioned the Tamil wiki and the url but couldn't talk about it in depth because of time restraints. But i'm sure they will be interested in participating in the Tamil wiki. Cheers! On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 3:35 PM, BalaSundaraRaman sundarbe...@yahoo.com wrote: Good to know, Sohan. Thank you for volunteering for this academy. Was there any interest to know about Tamil Wiki projects too? - Sundar That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted. - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture From: Sohan Maheshwar sohan.mahesh...@tarams.com To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org; wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com; wikimedia-in-...@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Thursday, February 2, 2012 2:16 PM Subject: [WMIN-Members] Wiki Academy at PSR Rengaswamy Engg College - a report Hello! The first Wiki Academy in PSR Rengaswamy College of engineering for Women, Sivakasi was conducted on Jan 20th. An impressive total of 68 students, primarily consisting of 2nd and 3rd year engg students attended this workshop. The Principal of the college, Dr K Ramaswamy gave a short talk and welcomed the participants and the speaker. The session started off with a small introduction on what Wikipedia is and the core values and philosophies behind Wikipedia, how it is edited by millions of people across the world and how all the content on the site is completely free. The 5 pillars of Wikipedia i.e the fundamental principles by which Wiki operates on were also explained. The students were initially a little hesitant to interact but soon were asking pertinent and valid questions about the topic. Once the basics were covered, a short presentation on approaching Wikipedia as a reader was held. Editing of wikipedia was explained next followed by a hands-on session where the students were taught the basics of editing Wikipedia. The students were very responsive to this session. Small prizes like Wiki stickers were given out for mini-contests that were held during this session. A vast majority of the students seemed to quickly understand the intuitive UI especially considering that they were all familiar with formatting in MS Word. The students made minor edits to articles as the session drew to a close. A google group has been setup for future correspondance. The students along with the help of the faculty coordinators who were present said they will work on improving the Sivakasi wiki page. The feedback forms (i will collate the data from here and post it shortly) were collected and few photos from the event were taken. I'll post the pics on the wiki page for the academy soon as i don't have the camera with me currently. Brochures were handed out to all the participants. Judging by the feedback received and the response from the students, i'd say the event was a success. It is important to carry forward this initiative and bring out an interest in participating in contributing to Wikipedia and i will make sure that this happens. I'd like to thank Ms Nitika Tandon, Mr Naveen PF and Mr Arjuna Rao Chavala for their help. This was my first Wiki Academy and i really profited from their help. Conducting the academy solo was quite a challenging but rewarding experience. Also as a footnote i'd like to point that the session was delayed because the Wiki editor kept crashing IE 6. Sadly, the computers in the lab had no other browsers apart from IE 6. This wasn't a roadblock i expected and i think should be added to the list of preparations in this page. We managed to get an admin password for the computers and hastily installed Firefox so that the session could complete without any further hitches...and it did! Looking forward to conducting more such academies in the future. Thank you! -Sohan Maheshwar -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Wikimedia Chapter, India Member's Group. To post to this group, send email to wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wmin-members+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wmin-members?hl=en?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Wikimedia Chapter, India Member's Group. To post to
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Wiki Academy at PSR Rengaswamy Engg College - a report
Great going Sohan! Good job! On 2 February 2012 16:16, BalaSundaraRaman sundarbe...@yahoo.com wrote: Thanks Sohan. - Sundar That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted. - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture -- *From:* Sohan Maheshwar sohan.mahesh...@tarams.com *To:* wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com *Cc:* wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org *Sent:* Thursday, February 2, 2012 4:00 PM *Subject:* Re: [WMIN-Members] Wiki Academy at PSR Rengaswamy Engg College - a report Hi Sundar Most of the students preferred conversing in Tamil. i only mentioned the Tamil wiki and the url but couldn't talk about it in depth because of time restraints. But i'm sure they will be interested in participating in the Tamil wiki. Cheers! On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 3:35 PM, BalaSundaraRaman sundarbe...@yahoo.comwrote: Good to know, Sohan. Thank you for volunteering for this academy. Was there any interest to know about Tamil Wiki projects too? - Sundar That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted. - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture -- *From:* Sohan Maheshwar sohan.mahesh...@tarams.com *To:* wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org; wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com; wikimedia-in-...@lists.wikimedia.org *Sent:* Thursday, February 2, 2012 2:16 PM *Subject:* [WMIN-Members] Wiki Academy at PSR Rengaswamy Engg College - a report Hello! The first Wiki Academy in PSR Rengaswamy College of engineering for Women, Sivakasi was conducted on Jan 20th. An impressive total of 68 students, primarily consisting of 2nd and 3rd year engg students attended this workshop. The Principal of the college, Dr K Ramaswamy gave a short talk and welcomed the participants and the speaker. The session started off with a small introduction on what Wikipedia is and the core values and philosophies behind Wikipedia, how it is edited by millions of people across the world and how all the content on the site is completely free. The 5 pillars of Wikipedia i.e the fundamental principles by which Wiki operates on were also explained. The students were initially a little hesitant to interact but soon were asking pertinent and valid questions about the topic. Once the basics were covered, a short presentation on approaching Wikipedia as a reader was held. Editing of wikipedia was explained next followed by a hands-on session where the students were taught the basics of editing Wikipedia. The students were very responsive to this session. Small prizes like Wiki stickers were given out for mini-contests that were held during this session. A vast majority of the students seemed to quickly understand the intuitive UI especially considering that they were all familiar with formatting in MS Word. The students made minor edits to articles as the session drew to a close. A google group has been setup for future correspondance. The students along with the help of the faculty coordinators who were present said they will work on improving the Sivakasi wiki page. The feedback forms (i will collate the data from here and post it shortly) were collected and few photos from the event were taken. I'll post the pics on the wiki page for the academy soon as i don't have the camera with me currently. Brochures were handed out to all the participants. Judging by the feedback received and the response from the students, i'd say the event was a success. It is important to carry forward this initiative and bring out an interest in participating in contributing to Wikipedia and i will make sure that this happens. I'd like to thank Ms Nitika Tandon, Mr Naveen PF and Mr Arjuna Rao Chavala for their help. This was my first Wiki Academy and i really profited from their help. Conducting the academy solo was quite a challenging but rewarding experience. Also as a footnote i'd like to point that the session was delayed because the Wiki editor kept crashing IE 6. Sadly, the computers in the lab had no other browsers apart from IE 6. This wasn't a roadblock i expected and i think should be added to the list of preparations in this pagehttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Nitika.t/Outreach. We managed to get an admin password for the computers and hastily installed Firefox so that the session could complete without any further hitches...and it did! Looking forward to conducting more such academies in the future. Thank you! -Sohan Maheshwar -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Wikimedia Chapter, India Member's Group. To post to this group, send email to wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wmin-members+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikikn-l (kannada wikipedia)] Global Vandalism through IP 212.121.219.1 on Indian territory info
I seriously suggest you guys translate Huggle and keep it ready for your Wikipedia. If one has come up like this, many more may turn up in the near future. Traceroutes to the UK. The IP hasn't vandalised English because it is blocked on English till 2013. Cheerio, On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 12:14 AM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.comwrote: Vandalism? Not necessarily. Point of View push? Probably yes... Neutral Maps is a tricky issue. :) The speed at which these changes are done through interwiki links, a bot was likely been used ! Interestingly it avoided English Wikipedia. -TC On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Bala Jeyaraman sodabot...@gmail.comwrote: Same case was observed and discussed (in VP) in ta wiki too. All the IPs changes are being reverted now. We cant decide whether this is the case of someone of replacing their preferred files from commons or deliberately stirring up controversy On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Mrutyunjaya Kar mkr...@gmail.comwrote: Same case at Odia wikipedia http://or.wikipedia.org/ On 2/2/12, Harish mghar...@gmail.com wrote: This has been observed and reverted in Kannada wikipedia. -- Forwarded message -- From: Tejas jain teju2frie...@gmail.com Date: 2012/2/2 Subject: [Wikikn-l (kannada wikipedia)] Global Vandalism through IP 212.121.219.1 on Indian territory info To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, wikik...@lists.wikimedia.org Some one has done global vandalism through IP 212.121.219.1 http://toolserver.org/%7Eluxo/contributions/contributions.php?user=212.121.219.1 on Indian territory info. User's edit list: http://toolserver.org/~luxo/contributions/contributions.php?user=212.121.219.1 Arunachal pradesh http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arunachal_Pradesh and Jammu_and_Kashmir http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jammu_and_Kashmir are hatched as disputed. Was there any discussion before these changes? All the edits on Kannada wiki http://kn.wikipedia.org/ have been reverted because of following reasons, 1. No discussion prior to the changes 2. No references were made 3. Changes done anonymously 4. No change log message 5. No such changes are done on English wiki If it is sure case of vandalism, changes have to be reverted globally. Thanks, Tejas jain http://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%B8%E0%B2%A6%E0%B2%B8%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%AF:Teju2friends ___ Wikikn-l mailing list wikik...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikikn-l -- Harish 9740069624 ___ 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 -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on February 12th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore Aliens invaded Tamil Nadu, left their Spacship and now it is a Toll Plaza. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IVRCL-Vijayamangalam-Toll-Plaza.JPG ___ 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: [Wikikn-l (kannada wikipedia)] Global Vandalism through IP 212.121.219.1 on Indian territory info
Yes, I wouldn't term it as vandalism, but more of a large scale POV pushing. Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch) On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 13:44, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.comwrote: Vandalism? Not necessarily. Point of View push? Probably yes... Neutral Maps is a tricky issue. :) The speed at which these changes are done through interwiki links, a bot was likely been used ! Interestingly it avoided English Wikipedia. -TC On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Bala Jeyaraman sodabot...@gmail.comwrote: Same case was observed and discussed (in VP) in ta wiki too. All the IPs changes are being reverted now. We cant decide whether this is the case of someone of replacing their preferred files from commons or deliberately stirring up controversy On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Mrutyunjaya Kar mkr...@gmail.comwrote: Same case at Odia wikipedia http://or.wikipedia.org/ On 2/2/12, Harish mghar...@gmail.com wrote: This has been observed and reverted in Kannada wikipedia. -- Forwarded message -- From: Tejas jain teju2frie...@gmail.com Date: 2012/2/2 Subject: [Wikikn-l (kannada wikipedia)] Global Vandalism through IP 212.121.219.1 on Indian territory info To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, wikik...@lists.wikimedia.org Some one has done global vandalism through IP 212.121.219.1 http://toolserver.org/%7Eluxo/contributions/contributions.php?user=212.121.219.1 on Indian territory info. User's edit list: http://toolserver.org/~luxo/contributions/contributions.php?user=212.121.219.1 Arunachal pradesh http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arunachal_Pradesh and Jammu_and_Kashmir http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jammu_and_Kashmir are hatched as disputed. Was there any discussion before these changes? All the edits on Kannada wiki http://kn.wikipedia.org/ have been reverted because of following reasons, 1. No discussion prior to the changes 2. No references were made 3. Changes done anonymously 4. No change log message 5. No such changes are done on English wiki If it is sure case of vandalism, changes have to be reverted globally. Thanks, Tejas jain http://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%B8%E0%B2%A6%E0%B2%B8%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%AF:Teju2friends ___ Wikikn-l mailing list wikik...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikikn-l -- Harish 9740069624 ___ 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 ___ 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] Did you know
Hoi, The Marathi Wikisource now exists as a Wiki. It is the kind of thing that makes us happy in the language committee. We were happy to move things along a bit by considering to expedite our approval. The full localisation was not done but promises were made and are kept to make sure that the Marathi localisation of MediaWiki will be in and remain in good shape. We also pushed WMF ops to do a good job for the Marathi Wikisource and I am really happy that Sam Reed helped us out. All in all we are pleased and we hope that all issues that need to be resolved for future projects will be resolved quickly and, that we consequently will have many more projects starts like the one of the Marathi Wikisource. I hope it will prosper and help us realise our aim of bringing all information to the people of the world. Thanks, Gerard ___ 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] [Press]: CS Monitor : Wikipedia’s cultural mission in India
*CS Monitor : Wikipedia’s cultural mission in India* http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2012/0202/Wikipedia-s-cultural-mission-in-India /After moving to big cities, some preserve their culture through Wikipedia entries written in regional languages. When *Subhashish Panigrahi* moved to Bangalore, far from his hometown in Odisha in eastern India, it was Wikipedia that helped him keep in touch with his roots. He started writing articles on the arts, literature, food, and even tourist attractions in his home region on Odia Wikipedia, “odia” being the local language. Ditto for *Bala Sundara Raman*, from a southern Indian town, and his contribution to Tamil Wikipedia. Mr. Panigrahi and Mr. Raman are a small part of a community of Indian “Wikipedians” who are using the website to document their culture. As they live in cities and work at jobs that require them to speak English, Wikipedia keeps them connected to their first language. Wikipedians, all volunteers, also work to spread technical and scientific knowledge beyond the English-savvy minority of Internet users in India. Panigrahi recently joined the Wikimedia Foundation in New Delhi, the first Wikipedia office outside the United States, set up with the aim of increasing the quality and quantity of regional language content. “This is much better than blogging,” says Panigrahi. “Everything is teamwork, and I have been able to encourage other young Odias to pitch in with their efforts.”/ Regards Tinu Cherian pr...@wikimedia.in http://wiki.wikimedia.in/In_the_news Important Note : Non-commercial reproduction for informative purposes only. The publisher ( CSMonitor ) of the above news article owns the copyrights of the article / content.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
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Did you know
Hi, Thanks Gerard and the team in background to make this happen quickly. We are already ready with some scanned books and even more are coming up in Unicode !! Best regards -Sudhanwa On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 9:32 PM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.comwrote: Hoi, The Marathi Wikisource now exists as a Wiki. It is the kind of thing that makes us happy in the language committee. We were happy to move things along a bit by considering to expedite our approval. The full localisation was not done but promises were made and are kept to make sure that the Marathi localisation of MediaWiki will be in and remain in good shape. We also pushed WMF ops to do a good job for the Marathi Wikisource and I am really happy that Sam Reed helped us out. All in all we are pleased and we hope that all issues that need to be resolved for future projects will be resolved quickly and, that we consequently will have many more projects starts like the one of the Marathi Wikisource. I hope it will prosper and help us realise our aim of bringing all information to the people of the world. Thanks, Gerard ___ 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 -- ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~! web: www.sudhanwa.com blog: www.sudhanwa.in Twitter: sudhanwa Check on FB, Linkedin for more. ___ 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] Wikimeetup Delhi-6
Dear all, Announcing the Delhi Wiki meetup # 6 on February 12 at 3:00 p.m. at Hauz Khas. Here is the link to the Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Delhi/Delhi6 and the link to the FB page: http://www.facebook.com/events/101208423341495 We hope to see all of you who are around Delhi! The agenda for this meeting is to do an introductory session on editing for potential newbies and discuss collaboration on Delhi articles. We are also keen to see folks editing on the Hindi Wikipedia and would be glad if someone turned up to start discussions on that :) Please let me know your suggestions and ideas! We also have discussions on offline events simultaneously. thank you, Warmly Noopur -- Noopur Raval Student Arts and Aesthetics Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Ph: 9650567690 ___ 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] New Wikimedia India Portals
Hi all, We are pleased to formally announce the launch of the following new Wikimedia India Portals: http://wikimedia.in/ - The new landing page will be the gateway to the various Project pages and Wikis. http://wiki.wikimedia.in The public wiki is now revamped with an all-new look and lots of information. Feel free to add more information to the wikis. http://members.wikimedia.in Wiki for India Chapter Members http://blog.wikimedia.in/ Wikimedia India Blog - to post a blog, contact Arjuna Rao Chavala or Tinu Cherian We are pleased to introduce the following new Wikimedia Project gateways for the various Indic languages: http://wikisource.in http://wikiquote.in http://wikibooks.in http://wikinews.in http://wikibooks.org.in http://wikisource.org.in http://wiktionary.org.in The planned landing page for http://wikipedia.in is available herehttp://wikimedia.in/wikipedia.html . Efforts are currently underway to obtain control of a few more important domains and announcements will be made as and when we get them. We sincerely believe this initiative will help drive more traffic to Indic language Wikimedia Projects. We would like to express our sincere gratitude to the Wikimedia CH / Switzerland Chapter and Manuel Schneider (Wikimedia CH / Switzerland) for hosting our websites and portals at no cost. A number of people need to be thanked, who helped in the this initiative. Rajesh K Oayanchal who designed the portals and Jyothis E who gave his webspace for the testing purposes. Anirudh, Noopur Raval, ,Surya, Radhakrishna, Omshivaprakash, Debanjan, Saroj, Swaroop, Abhishek Suryawanshi and others have helped in translations . Tanvir Rahman , Tinu Cherian and Arun Ram helped in revamping the public wiki. We hope that you will find these portals useful and informative. Please do get back to us with your feedback and suggestions. Regards, Naveen Francis Wikimedia India 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] [WMIN-Members] New Wikimedia India Portals
This is an awesome development. Real infrastructure building. All these make for ease of use of Indian wikis especially for a polyglot people like we are. It is obvious that a whole lot of people came together and developed this. it has happened very smoothly too. None of the fireworks we have seen in some of our larger collaborations. Awarding barnstars seems too trivial an award here. On behalf of all of us, I would like to offer our heartfelt thanks : - Wikimedia CH / Switzerland Chapter and Manuel Schneider - Rajesh K Odayanchal - Jyothis E - Anirudh, Noopur Raval, Surya, Radhakrishna, Omshivaprakash, Debanjan, Saroj, Swaroop, Abhishek Suryawanshi and any others who have helped in translations . - Tanvir Rahman , Tinu Cherian and Arun Ram. - Arjuna Rao C, and everyone at Wikimedia India Chapter. - Anyone else inadvertantly left out but who contributed - Last but not least, our hardworking secretary, Naveen. May I request Naveen to forward this post to those not on this list so that they realise that the community really appreciates the hard work put in. This imho should be one of the positive trends celebrated in next WikiConference like we mentioned Narayam in the last one. Finally, those like Arun, who may desire a spot of liquid cheer ;), in addition to the thanks,are free to seek me out and drop in any evening. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 8:18 AM, Naveen Francis navee...@wikimedia.inwrote: Hi all, We are pleased to formally announce the launch of the following new Wikimedia India Portals: http://wikimedia.in/ - The new landing page will be the gateway to the various Project pages and Wikis. http://wiki.wikimedia.in The public wiki is now revamped with an all-new look and lots of information. Feel free to add more information to the wikis. http://members.wikimedia.in Wiki for India Chapter Members http://blog.wikimedia.in/ Wikimedia India Blog - to post a blog, contact Arjuna Rao Chavala or Tinu Cherian We are pleased to introduce the following new Wikimedia Project gateways for the various Indic languages: http://wikisource.in http://wikiquote.in http://wikibooks.in http://wikinews.in http://wikibooks.org.in http://wikisource.org.in http://wiktionary.org.in The planned landing page for http://wikipedia.in is available herehttp://wikimedia.in/wikipedia.html . Efforts are currently underway to obtain control of a few more important domains and announcements will be made as and when we get them. We sincerely believe this initiative will help drive more traffic to Indic language Wikimedia Projects. We would like to express our sincere gratitude to the Wikimedia CH / Switzerland Chapter and Manuel Schneider (Wikimedia CH / Switzerland) for hosting our websites and portals at no cost. A number of people need to be thanked, who helped in the this initiative. Rajesh K Oayanchal who designed the portals and Jyothis E who gave his webspace for the testing purposes. Anirudh, Noopur Raval, ,Surya, Radhakrishna, Omshivaprakash, Debanjan, Saroj, Swaroop, Abhishek Suryawanshi and others have helped in translations . Tanvir Rahman , Tinu Cherian and Arun Ram helped in revamping the public wiki. We hope that you will find these portals useful and informative. Please do get back to us with your feedback and suggestions. Regards, Naveen Francis Wikimedia India Chapter -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Wikimedia Chapter, India Member's Group. To post to this group, send email to wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wmin-members+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wmin-members?hl=en?hl=en ___ 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] [WMIN-Members] New Wikimedia India Portals
This is excellent indeed! Congratulations to everyone for the great cooperation, and thanks to Manuel Schneider for once again extending his personal generosity to help with hosting. Cheers, Asaf On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 7:13 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.comwrote: This is an awesome development. Real infrastructure building. All these make for ease of use of Indian wikis especially for a polyglot people like we are. It is obvious that a whole lot of people came together and developed this. it has happened very smoothly too. None of the fireworks we have seen in some of our larger collaborations. Awarding barnstars seems too trivial an award here. On behalf of all of us, I would like to offer our heartfelt thanks : - Wikimedia CH / Switzerland Chapter and Manuel Schneider - Rajesh K Odayanchal - Jyothis E - Anirudh, Noopur Raval, Surya, Radhakrishna, Omshivaprakash, Debanjan, Saroj, Swaroop, Abhishek Suryawanshi and any others who have helped in translations . - Tanvir Rahman , Tinu Cherian and Arun Ram. - Arjuna Rao C, and everyone at Wikimedia India Chapter. - Anyone else inadvertantly left out but who contributed - Last but not least, our hardworking secretary, Naveen. May I request Naveen to forward this post to those not on this list so that they realise that the community really appreciates the hard work put in. This imho should be one of the positive trends celebrated in next WikiConference like we mentioned Narayam in the last one. Finally, those like Arun, who may desire a spot of liquid cheer ;), in addition to the thanks,are free to seek me out and drop in any evening. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 8:18 AM, Naveen Francis navee...@wikimedia.inwrote: Hi all, We are pleased to formally announce the launch of the following new Wikimedia India Portals: http://wikimedia.in/ - The new landing page will be the gateway to the various Project pages and Wikis. http://wiki.wikimedia.in The public wiki is now revamped with an all-new look and lots of information. Feel free to add more information to the wikis. http://members.wikimedia.in Wiki for India Chapter Members http://blog.wikimedia.in/ Wikimedia India Blog - to post a blog, contact Arjuna Rao Chavala or Tinu Cherian We are pleased to introduce the following new Wikimedia Project gateways for the various Indic languages: http://wikisource.in http://wikiquote.in http://wikibooks.in http://wikinews.in http://wikibooks.org.in http://wikisource.org.in http://wiktionary.org.in The planned landing page for http://wikipedia.in is available herehttp://wikimedia.in/wikipedia.html . Efforts are currently underway to obtain control of a few more important domains and announcements will be made as and when we get them. We sincerely believe this initiative will help drive more traffic to Indic language Wikimedia Projects. We would like to express our sincere gratitude to the Wikimedia CH / Switzerland Chapter and Manuel Schneider (Wikimedia CH / Switzerland) for hosting our websites and portals at no cost. A number of people need to be thanked, who helped in the this initiative. Rajesh K Oayanchal who designed the portals and Jyothis E who gave his webspace for the testing purposes. Anirudh, Noopur Raval, ,Surya, Radhakrishna, Omshivaprakash, Debanjan, Saroj, Swaroop, Abhishek Suryawanshi and others have helped in translations . Tanvir Rahman , Tinu Cherian and Arun Ram helped in revamping the public wiki. We hope that you will find these portals useful and informative. Please do get back to us with your feedback and suggestions. Regards, Naveen Francis Wikimedia India Chapter -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Wikimedia Chapter, India Member's Group. To post to this group, send email to wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wmin-members+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wmin-members?hl=en?hl=en ___ 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 -- Asaf Bartov 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
[Wikimediaindia-l] Reordering interwiki list
Hi, currently interwiki list is in english alphabetical order. A customizable (both wiki level and user level) interwiki list Will be an added advantage for closly related wiki like ours. There is a very old bug: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2867 i hope adding your inputs, and may be a local consensus page link will pump developer priority there. -- Sent from my mobile device 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] Wikimeetup Delhi-6
I am in ;-) Subha On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 1:38 AM, Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, Announcing the Delhi Wiki meetup # 6 on February 12 at 3:00 p.m. at Hauz Khas. Here is the link to the Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Delhi/Delhi6 and the link to the FB page: http://www.facebook.com/events/101208423341495 We hope to see all of you who are around Delhi! The agenda for this meeting is to do an introductory session on editing for potential newbies and discuss collaboration on Delhi articles. We are also keen to see folks editing on the Hindi Wikipedia and would be glad if someone turned up to start discussions on that :) Please let me know your suggestions and ideas! We also have discussions on offline events simultaneously. thank you, Warmly Noopur -- Noopur Raval Student Arts and Aesthetics Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Ph: 9650567690 ___ 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] [WMIN-Members] New Wikimedia India Portals
This is awesome, congratulations and kudos to all who have put their hard work to put this up! Subha On 3 February 2012 09:16, Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.org wrote: This is excellent indeed! Congratulations to everyone for the great cooperation, and thanks to Manuel Schneider for once again extending his personal generosity to help with hosting. Cheers, Asaf On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 7:13 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.comwrote: This is an awesome development. Real infrastructure building. All these make for ease of use of Indian wikis especially for a polyglot people like we are. It is obvious that a whole lot of people came together and developed this. it has happened very smoothly too. None of the fireworks we have seen in some of our larger collaborations. Awarding barnstars seems too trivial an award here. On behalf of all of us, I would like to offer our heartfelt thanks : - Wikimedia CH / Switzerland Chapter and Manuel Schneider - Rajesh K Odayanchal - Jyothis E - Anirudh, Noopur Raval, Surya, Radhakrishna, Omshivaprakash, Debanjan, Saroj, Swaroop, Abhishek Suryawanshi and any others who have helped in translations . - Tanvir Rahman , Tinu Cherian and Arun Ram. - Arjuna Rao C, and everyone at Wikimedia India Chapter. - Anyone else inadvertantly left out but who contributed - Last but not least, our hardworking secretary, Naveen. May I request Naveen to forward this post to those not on this list so that they realise that the community really appreciates the hard work put in. This imho should be one of the positive trends celebrated in next WikiConference like we mentioned Narayam in the last one. Finally, those like Arun, who may desire a spot of liquid cheer ;), in addition to the thanks,are free to seek me out and drop in any evening. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 8:18 AM, Naveen Francis navee...@wikimedia.inwrote: Hi all, We are pleased to formally announce the launch of the following new Wikimedia India Portals: http://wikimedia.in/ - The new landing page will be the gateway to the various Project pages and Wikis. http://wiki.wikimedia.in The public wiki is now revamped with an all-new look and lots of information. Feel free to add more information to the wikis. http://members.wikimedia.in Wiki for India Chapter Members http://blog.wikimedia.in/ Wikimedia India Blog - to post a blog, contact Arjuna Rao Chavala or Tinu Cherian We are pleased to introduce the following new Wikimedia Project gateways for the various Indic languages: http://wikisource.in http://wikiquote.in http://wikibooks.in http://wikinews.in http://wikibooks.org.in http://wikisource.org.in http://wiktionary.org.in The planned landing page for http://wikipedia.in is available herehttp://wikimedia.in/wikipedia.html . Efforts are currently underway to obtain control of a few more important domains and announcements will be made as and when we get them. We sincerely believe this initiative will help drive more traffic to Indic language Wikimedia Projects. We would like to express our sincere gratitude to the Wikimedia CH / Switzerland Chapter and Manuel Schneider (Wikimedia CH / Switzerland) for hosting our websites and portals at no cost. A number of people need to be thanked, who helped in the this initiative. Rajesh K Oayanchal who designed the portals and Jyothis E who gave his webspace for the testing purposes. Anirudh, Noopur Raval, ,Surya, Radhakrishna, Omshivaprakash, Debanjan, Saroj, Swaroop, Abhishek Suryawanshi and others have helped in translations . Tanvir Rahman , Tinu Cherian and Arun Ram helped in revamping the public wiki. We hope that you will find these portals useful and informative. Please do get back to us with your feedback and suggestions. Regards, Naveen Francis Wikimedia India Chapter -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Wikimedia Chapter, India Member's Group. To post to this group, send email to wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wmin-members+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wmin-members?hl=en?hl=en ___ 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 -- Asaf Bartov 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 ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] New Wikimedia India Portals
Good to see a richer portal, Naveen. Kudos to everyone who helped with the effort. - Sundar That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted. - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture From: Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com To: wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com Cc: Wikimedia India Community list wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Friday, February 3, 2012 8:43 AM Subject: Re: [WMIN-Members] New Wikimedia India Portals This is an awesome development. Real infrastructure building. All these make for ease of use of Indian wikis especially for a polyglot people like we are. It is obvious that a whole lot of people came together and developed this. it has happened very smoothly too. None of the fireworks we have seen in some of our larger collaborations. Awarding barnstars seems too trivial an award here. On behalf of all of us, I would like to offer our heartfelt thanks : * Wikimedia CH / Switzerland Chapter and Manuel Schneider * Rajesh K Odayanchal * Jyothis E * Anirudh, Noopur Raval, Surya, Radhakrishna, Omshivaprakash, Debanjan, Saroj, Swaroop, Abhishek Suryawanshi and any others who have helped in translations . * Tanvir Rahman , Tinu Cherian and Arun Ram. * Arjuna Rao C, and everyone at Wikimedia India Chapter. * Anyone else inadvertantly left out but who contributed * Last but not least, our hardworking secretary, Naveen. May I request Naveen to forward this post to those not on this list so that they realise that the community really appreciates the hard work put in. This imho should be one of the positive trends celebrated in next WikiConference like we mentioned Narayam in the last one. Finally, those like Arun, who may desire a spot of liquid cheer ;), in addition to the thanks,are free to seek me out and drop in any evening. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 8:18 AM, Naveen Francis navee...@wikimedia.in wrote: Hi all, We are pleased to formally announce the launch of the following new Wikimedia India Portals: http://wikimedia.in/- The new landing page will be the gateway to the various Project pages and Wikis. http://wiki.wikimedia.inThe public wiki is now revamped with an all-new look and lots of information. Feel free to add more information to the wikis. http://members.wikimedia.inWiki for India Chapter Members http://blog.wikimedia.in/Wikimedia India Blog - to post a blog, contact Arjuna Rao Chavala or Tinu Cherian We are pleased to introduce the following new Wikimedia Project gateways for the various Indic languages: http://wikisource.in http://wikiquote.in http://wikibooks.in http://wikinews.in http://wikibooks.org.in http://wikisource.org.in http://wiktionary.org.in The planned landing page for http://wikipedia.in is available here. Efforts are currently underway to obtain control of a few more important domains and announcements will be made as and when we get them. We sincerely believe this initiative will help drive more traffic to Indic language Wikimedia Projects. We would like to express our sincere gratitude to the Wikimedia CH / Switzerland Chapter and Manuel Schneider (Wikimedia CH / Switzerland) for hosting our websites and portals at no cost. A number of people need to be thanked, who helped in the this initiative. Rajesh K Oayanchal who designed the portals and Jyothis E who gave his webspace for the testing purposes. Anirudh, Noopur Raval, ,Surya, Radhakrishna, Omshivaprakash, Debanjan, Saroj, Swaroop, Abhishek Suryawanshi and others have helped in translations . Tanvir Rahman , Tinu Cherian and Arun Ram helped in revamping the public wiki. We hope that you will find these portals useful and informative. Please do get back to us with your feedback and suggestions. Regards, Naveen Francis Wikimedia India Chapter -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Wikimedia Chapter, India Member's Group. To post to this group, send email to wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wmin-members+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wmin-members?hl=en?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Wikimedia Chapter, India Member's Group. To post to this group, send email to wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wmin-members+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wmin-members?hl=en?hl=en ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] New Wikimedia India Portals
Hi all, On behalf of the Wikimedia India chapter, I would like to sincerely thank everyone who helped this initiative. The job is not complete and the portals still need lots of tweaking and improvements. If the efforts of Naveen are left unmentioned, it would be very unfair. The Wikimedia Project Gateways is essentially the brain child and one of the dream projects of our Secretary, Naveen Francis. I am sure he wouldn't allow me to tell it here if asked, but I have to confess that Naveen had even invested lots of his personal money in obtaining the domains too. His efforts in getting this work done is really applaudable. Thank you, Naveen everyone. We sincerely hope that you will find these portals useful and informative. Regards Tinu Cherian Wikimedia India Chapter http://wiki.wikimedia.in On 2/3/2012 8:18 AM, Naveen Francis wrote: Hi all, We are pleased to formally announce the launch of the following new Wikimedia India Portals: http://wikimedia.in/- The new landing page will be the gateway to the various Project pages and Wikis. http://wiki.wikimedia.in http://wiki.wikimedia.in/The public wiki is now revamped with an all-new look and lots of information. Feel free to add more information to the wikis. http://members.wikimedia.in http://members.wikimedia.in/Wiki for India Chapter Members http://blog.wikimedia.in/Wikimedia India Blog - to post a blog, contact Arjuna Rao Chavala or Tinu Cherian We are pleased to introduce the following new Wikimedia Project gateways for the various Indic languages: http://wikisource.inhttp://wikisource.in/ http://wikiquote.inhttp://wikiquote.in/ http://wikibooks.inhttp://wikibooks.in/ http://wikinews.inhttp://wikinews.in/ http://wikibooks.org.inhttp://wikibooks.org.in/ http://wikisource.org.inhttp://wikisource.org.in/ http://wiktionary.org.inhttp://wiktionary.org.in/ The planned landing page for http://wikipedia.in is available here http://wikimedia.in/wikipedia.html. Efforts are currently underway to obtain control of a few more important domains and announcements will be made as and when we get them. We sincerely believe this initiative will help drive more traffic to Indic language Wikimedia Projects. We would like to express our sincere gratitude to the Wikimedia CH / Switzerland Chapter and Manuel Schneider (Wikimedia CH / Switzerland) for hosting our websites and portals at no cost. A number of people need to be thanked, who helped in the this initiative. Rajesh K Oayanchal who designed the portals and Jyothis E who gave his webspace for the testing purposes. Anirudh, Noopur Raval, ,Surya, Radhakrishna, Omshivaprakash, Debanjan, Saroj, Swaroop, Abhishek Suryawanshi and others have helped in translations . Tanvir Rahman , Tinu Cherian and Arun Ram helped in revamping the public wiki. We hope that you will find these portals useful and informative. Please do get back to us with your feedback and suggestions. Regards, Naveen Francis Wikimedia India 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
