[Wikimediaindia-l] Meeting with Gender Rights Group
Hiya, This is to inform you that Bishakha and I had a meeting with the team at the Akshara Centre (http://www.aksharacentre.org/), a Mumbai based NGO that works on womans rights and runs a library in Mumbai yesterday. The meeting was organised by Bishakha, who knows some of the people running the organisation, as there was some interest from their end to see if they could collaborate with us in any way. I was asked to join in as a Wikipedian to conduct a small workshop for the team at Akshara so that they could understand the principles and basics of editing. The scope is unimaginably big. As we realised, rights issues in India are not covered much, even on English Wikipedia. We have proposed starting of a Collaboration of the Month initiative with them, wherein we will choose a topic (i.e. one article) where both Wikipedians involved and the NGO are comfortable with - using Akshara's library resources as references. They sounded excited about running such a COTM on a pilot basis and have suggested we organise a WikiAcademy for which they will invite interested persons to come and attend, thus making it easier for them to start off. From our end, we are looking for atleast a couple of Wikipedians who can help support such a project online on a regular basis - the Wikipedian need not be Mumbai (or even India) based, as this is an online collaboration. Do contact Bishakha/me if your interested in helping out/ forward this to other lists where you feel we might get a response on the above. Inputs on the above are most welcome. Kind Regards, ___ 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] Cleaning up Mediawiki namespace / reviewing translations on Indic Wiki Projects.
Hi all, Please read the blogpost[1] by GerardM on the need to cleanup mediawiki namespace on Indic wikis. Doing this will mean Wiki projects will get updated translations from LocalizationUpdates when they are translated in translatewiki and not be overshadowed by old (incorrect/outdated) local translations. When you see there are customized messages, a cleanup effort might be required to see if there is an absolute need to keep customized messages. This activity is being taken up by Tamil Wikpedians.[2] If you need help to do it on your wiki, come and give a shout at #mediawiki-i18n, people would be glad to help you :) [1] http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.in/2012/02/cleaning-up-mediawiki-namespace.html [2] http://tawp.in/r/31cf -- 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] Konkani Wikipedia.
Probable offtopic: i read once that konkani use atleast 3 scripts (devanagiri, kannada, malayalam). If webfonts can switch appropriate font according to a user, while keeping one encoding as base (devanagiri?) , may help new generation people, who are now part of other states, and living under dominance of other languages can approach the wiki more confidently. On 24/02/2012, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Damodar, Like Shiju has earlier replied to you , There is already a Wikipedia project (in the incubator stage ) for Goanese Konkani. It is available here http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom You can start contributing to it, Inspire others too and gradually make it a standalone language Wikipedia. If you are interested, I can probably connect you to Gurudath Baliga, Asst Director of Konkani Vishwa Kendra, who is passionate about the same. Regards Tinu Cherian P.S. For other Wikipedia Projects in Incubation, You can find them here http://wiki.wikimedia.in/List_of_Indian_language_wiki_projects#Projects_under_incubation On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 8:58 PM, damodar vinayak bale dvb...@rediffmail.com wrote: Thanks for this informative Mail. INDIA i.e. BHARAT has more than 1600 local languages. GOA is a State with all its communities speaking in one language KONKANI without even having a Primary School in its own Mother-tongue,as it was ruled by foreign rulers for more than four centuries. Can 'WIKIMEDIA' organization be of any help? With best regards, Damodar V. Bale, Margao-GOA. On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:18:45 +0530 wrote Cross posting across India related lists. Kindly ignore if you have read this on another mailing list. Original Message Subject: [WMIN-Members] Wikimedia India Chapter :Jan 2012 Report -- 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] Konkani Wikipedia.
It's not so much a matter of WebFonts, as of script conversion. MediaWiki already supports this for for several languages, most notably Chinese and Serbian. We at the WMF L10n team can probably add support for Konkani, too, but we'll need a specification of requirements from an expert on that language. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore 2012/2/24 praveenp me.prav...@gmail.com: Probable offtopic: i read once that konkani use atleast 3 scripts (devanagiri, kannada, malayalam). If webfonts can switch appropriate font according to a user, while keeping one encoding as base (devanagiri?) , may help new generation people, who are now part of other states, and living under dominance of other languages can approach the wiki more confidently. On 24/02/2012, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Damodar, Like Shiju has earlier replied to you , There is already a Wikipedia project (in the incubator stage ) for Goanese Konkani. It is available here http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom You can start contributing to it, Inspire others too and gradually make it a standalone language Wikipedia. If you are interested, I can probably connect you to Gurudath Baliga, Asst Director of Konkani Vishwa Kendra, who is passionate about the same. Regards Tinu Cherian P.S. For other Wikipedia Projects in Incubation, You can find them here http://wiki.wikimedia.in/List_of_Indian_language_wiki_projects#Projects_under_incubation On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 8:58 PM, damodar vinayak bale dvb...@rediffmail.com wrote: Thanks for this informative Mail. INDIA i.e. BHARAT has more than 1600 local languages. GOA is a State with all its communities speaking in one language KONKANI without even having a Primary School in its own Mother-tongue,as it was ruled by foreign rulers for more than four centuries. Can 'WIKIMEDIA' organization be of any help? With best regards, Damodar V. Bale, Margao-GOA. On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:18:45 +0530 wrote Cross posting across India related lists. Kindly ignore if you have read this on another mailing list. Original Message Subject: [WMIN-Members] Wikimedia India Chapter :Jan 2012 Report -- 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 ___ 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] Konkani Wikipedia.
One does not even know how to begin helping out. For one, there are so many dialects, hardly any Konkani speaks the same dialect as the next Konkani guy he meets. The Gomantak variety is sufficiently different from the other versions to justify forks. And we have only just begun! Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 11:16 PM, praveenp me.prav...@gmail.com wrote: Probable offtopic: i read once that konkani use atleast 3 scripts (devanagiri, kannada, malayalam). If webfonts can switch appropriate font according to a user, while keeping one encoding as base (devanagiri?) , may help new generation people, who are now part of other states, and living under dominance of other languages can approach the wiki more confidently. On 24/02/2012, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Damodar, Like Shiju has earlier replied to you , There is already a Wikipedia project (in the incubator stage ) for Goanese Konkani. It is available here http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom You can start contributing to it, Inspire others too and gradually make it a standalone language Wikipedia. If you are interested, I can probably connect you to Gurudath Baliga, Asst Director of Konkani Vishwa Kendra, who is passionate about the same. Regards Tinu Cherian P.S. For other Wikipedia Projects in Incubation, You can find them here http://wiki.wikimedia.in/List_of_Indian_language_wiki_projects#Projects_under_incubation On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 8:58 PM, damodar vinayak bale dvb...@rediffmail.com wrote: Thanks for this informative Mail. INDIA i.e. BHARAT has more than 1600 local languages. GOA is a State with all its communities speaking in one language KONKANI without even having a Primary School in its own Mother-tongue,as it was ruled by foreign rulers for more than four centuries. Can 'WIKIMEDIA' organization be of any help? With best regards, Damodar V. Bale, Margao-GOA. On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:18:45 +0530 wrote Cross posting across India related lists. Kindly ignore if you have read this on another mailing list. Original Message Subject: [WMIN-Members] Wikimedia India Chapter :Jan 2012 Report -- With love Praveen http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Praveenp:talk http://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 ___ 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
