Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Programs Additional IRC: Thursday March 22nd @ 9pm IST(Open House) (#wikimedia-office)

[Srikanth Ramakrishnan]

Just a question. Is it possible to ever schedule a session in the
afternoon/evening?

On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 7:14 AM, Hisham  wrote:

> Dear All
>
> Reminder that there's an IRC for the community with India Program on 22nd
> March at 9:00 pm IST in #wikimedia-office.  This session is an open house
> with no specific topics to be discussed. (This was scheduled because we ran
> out of time in the previous IRC.  To avoid spamming lists, I won't be
> sending this to any other lists apart from this one.  Please do share this
> mail with whoever you know might be interested.
>
> (To join the IRC, all you have to do is go to:
> http://webchat.freenode.net/  and enter a nickname ( it does not require
> prior registration) and enter #wikimedia-office as the channel name.)
>
> I'll send a reminder 15 minutes before the session.
>
> *hisham*
>
> On Mar 17, 2012, at 7:35 PM, Hisham wrote:
>
> Here's the 
> link
>  that
> gives the log of this meeting - for those who couldn't attend.
>
> As planned, the major topic of discussion was the Indic Languages
> initiatives.  We talked about the overall approach that Shiju has been
> following with several dozen community members.  We walked through the
>  Medical project - currently underway in 
> Assamese
> , 
> Telugu
> , Oriya 
> (Odia)
>  & 
> Malayalam.
>  (This seeks to create vital articles in Indic wikis with the help of
> community members with medical/healthcare background, or users who are
> interested in healthcare articles.)  During the IRC, Jayanta informed us
> that the Bengali community have also started 
> it
> - which is great.   We also discussed the Translated Articles Enhancement
> Project
>  which
> has been started by the Kannada community.
>
> Thank you to every one but a special thank you to the new folks who came
> on today.  It's always nice to see new faces!
>
> We ran out of time on this IRC.   As discussed, I would like to suggest
> Thursday March 22nd @9pm IST for another IRC.  (This is in addition to the
> IRC planned for March 29th.)  The March 22nd IRCwill be an open house - and
> will not therefore have a predetermined agenda.
>
> As always, do visit the India Program 
> page for
> more information on everything we do.
>
> Best
>
> *hisham*
>
> On Mar 15, 2012, at 8:45 PM, Hisham wrote:
>
> Reminder that we are starting in 15 minutes.
>
> Do join in!  Details below.
>
> *hisham*
>
> On Mar 15, 2012, at 8:38 AM, Hisham wrote:
>
> Gentle reminder. Do join in.
>
> *hisham*
>
> On Mar 11, 2012, at 6:41 AM, Hisham wrote:
>
> Hi Folks
>
> One of the essential things that India Program needs to constantly work
> out is keeping the community informed of the work that we are doing - so
> that this work is clearer but also to help cross-pollinate ideas amongst a
> wider set of community members who might not have been engaged on specific
> village pump / talk page discussion or involved in particular activities
> (e.g. outreach events) or wikiprojects.
>
> We used to have a monthly IRC with the community and India Program.   (For
> those who are not familiar with IRC, it is an Internet messaging system
> similar to a regular chat room.  It's very simple to use and you can join
> in by clicking on the following link:*
>

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Programs Additional IRC: Thursday March 22nd @ 9pm IST(Open House) (#wikimedia-office)

[Hisham]

Dear All

Reminder that there's an IRC for the community with India Program on 22nd March 
at 9:00 pm IST in #wikimedia-office.  This session is an open house with no 
specific topics to be discussed. (This was scheduled because we ran out of time 
in the previous IRC.  To avoid spamming lists, I won't be sending this to any 
other lists apart from this one.  Please do share this mail with whoever you 
know might be interested.

(To join the IRC, all you have to do is go to: http://webchat.freenode.net/  
and enter a nickname ( it does not require prior registration) and enter 
#wikimedia-office as the channel name.)

I'll send a reminder 15 minutes before the session.

hisham

On Mar 17, 2012, at 7:35 PM, Hisham wrote:

> Here's the link that gives the log of this meeting - for those who couldn't 
> attend.
> 
> As planned, the major topic of discussion was the Indic Languages 
> initiatives.  We talked about the overall approach that Shiju has been 
> following with several dozen community members.  We walked through the  
> Medical project - currently underway in Assamese, Telugu, Oriya (Odia) & 
> Malayalam.  (This seeks to create vital articles in Indic wikis with the help 
> of community members with medical/healthcare background, or users who are 
> interested in healthcare articles.)  During the IRC, Jayanta informed us that 
> the Bengali community have also started it  - which is great.   We also 
> discussed the Translated Articles Enhancement Project which has been started 
> by the Kannada community.
> 
> Thank you to every one but a special thank you to the new folks who came on 
> today.  It's always nice to see new faces!
> 
> We ran out of time on this IRC.   As discussed, I would like to suggest 
> Thursday March 22nd @9pm IST for another IRC.  (This is in addition to the 
> IRC planned for March 29th.)  The March 22nd IRCwill be an open house - and 
> will not therefore have a predetermined agenda.
> 
> As always, do visit the India Program page for more information on everything 
> we do. 
> 
> Best
> 
> hisham
> 
> On Mar 15, 2012, at 8:45 PM, Hisham wrote:
> 
>> Reminder that we are starting in 15 minutes.
>> 
>> Do join in!  Details below.
>> 
>> hisham
>> 
>> On Mar 15, 2012, at 8:38 AM, Hisham wrote:
>> 
>>> Gentle reminder. Do join in.
>>> 
>>> hisham
>>> 
>>> On Mar 11, 2012, at 6:41 AM, Hisham wrote:
>>> 
 Hi Folks
 
 One of the essential things that India Program needs to constantly work 
 out is keeping the community informed of the work that we are doing - so 
 that this work is clearer but also to help cross-pollinate ideas amongst a 
 wider set of community members who might not have been engaged on specific 
 village pump / talk page discussion or involved in particular activities 
 (e.g. outreach events) or wikiprojects.
 
 We used to have a monthly IRC with the community and India Program.   (For 
 those who are not familiar with IRC, it is an Internet messaging system 
 similar to a regular chat room.  It's very simple to use and you can join 
 in by clicking on the following link: 
 http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#wikimedia-office.)  I have been 
 remiss in conducting these for the past few months - and I'd like to make 
 amends by restarting, with a couple of modifications.
 
 a) I'd like to propose fortnightly instead of monthly.  (I was wary of 
 doing it any more frequently than monthly earlier because I didn't know if 
 there would be enough on the plate to discuss.  I have changed my mind now 
 - because there is too much to discuss to cover in a single monthly 
 session.)  I'd like to propose that we do it in the 1st and 3rd Thursdays 
 of every month at 9pm IST (which is GMT + 0530) - THOUGH NOT THIS MONTH - 
 BECAUSE I HAVE MISSED THE TIMELINE.  Just for March, we will do it on 
 March 15th and March 29th (both at 9pm IST which is GMT + 0530)
 b) I'd like to propose that we do it focussed on specific work streams 
 instead of general.  The reason I say this is that - as with many 
 community meet-ups, folks will give time to attend a meet-up or 
 participate in an IRC only if there is a topic of relevance to them.  To 
 that extent, we could do one IRC on Indic languages and one on Outreach & 
 Communications.  I'd start both the IRCs with a re-cap of India Programs 
 activities for the fortnight (or so) prior to the IRC and forward from the 
 IRC - and then we could talk about either Indic langauges or Outreach & 
 Communications.
 
 The March 15th one will be focussed on Indic Languages and the one on 
 March 29th will be on Outreach & Communications.  
>>> 
>> 
> 

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[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Development of OSM-WLM integration tools

[Pradeep Mohandas]

hi,

I know that there are a few OpenStreetMappers on this list or you may know
of some. Whilst the discussion on the basic monument list is still going
on, just wanted to let you guys know and also see if there's a possibility
of similar collaboration in India.

warm regards,
User:Prad2609 on Wikipedia
pradx on OpenStreetMap

-- Forwarded message --
From: Cristian Consonni 
Date: 21 March 2012 22:00
Subject: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Development of OSM-WLM integration tools
To: wikilovesmonume...@lists.wikimedia.org


Dear all,

as you may have heard Wikimedia Italia is working hard to build
database list since there are many different sources (some regions
have lists, some others don't, attributes are different, etc.) and
there are many problems around the copyright status and openness
(or,better, the closeness) of such data. So we are going to use data
from Open Street Map, we have already a list of 30k+ monuments.

So we are looking forward to boost the integration between WLM and
OSM, being our primary source of data. Wikimedia Italia is hiring a
developer to develop a tool (developed starting from
amenity-editor[1][2]) which enable user to easily insert monuments in
an OSM map adding the required (meta)data. We are in contact with some
Italian members of OSM Foundation to facilitate the process.

Now, the topic is really a hot one, in fact there are many people
working on it, we would like to coordinate our efforts in this
direction, as far as we know:
* User:Kolossos at de.wiki is working on Wikipedia-world[3a], this is
a separate project but I've informed him about what's going on[3b]
* User:Multichill is working on this map[4] (I have also contacted him[4b])
* WM AT and WM CH are supporting (or going to support), Alex Wagner.
I'm looking for more info about what he's doing.

So, we would like to help projects which are already runing and share
what we are going to do (we would like to avoid the duplication of
effort), so any feedback is welcome.

Cristian

[1]http://ae.osmsurround.org/ae/index
[2]https://github.com/grundid/amenity-editor
[3a]http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilfe:OpenStreetMap/en
[3b]http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer_Diskussion:Kolossos#Wikipedia-Word
[4a]http://toolserver.org/~erfgoed/map/
[4b]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Multichill#Integration_between_OSM_and_Wiki_Loves_Monuments

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] New Lohit fonts - Please test

[Santhosh Thottingal]

On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Rajesh Pandey  wrote:
>> The screenshot of the problem with page rendering can be viewed at
>> http://imagebin.org/204475

Is it possible to mark the rendering errors with circles or
underlines? I can then discuss with the Font developer and find out
the issue. Thanks in advance.

> and the problem with loading the woff files
>> as viewed in the "Net" panel of the firebug extension can be viewed at
>> http://imagebin.org/204476

Don't worry much about the Firebug showing multiple request entries
and abort status.  It is a bug with Firebug(see
http://code.google.com/p/fbug/issues/detail?id=4649) , not much
serious since it is a developer tool.



Thanks
Santhosh

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] New Lohit fonts - Please test

[Rajesh Pandey]

Hi,
As I can see the fonts are not rendered properly. I have faced this issue
earlier but the email from Abhishek Singh describes the problem a bit more
in detail.


On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Abhishek Singh wrote:

> Hi All,
> I'm using Firefox 11 on a x86_64 linux machine, and there are
> problems while rendering devnagari characters. On the same browser,
> other webpages with devnagari characters render well (e.g.
> http://nagariknews.com).
>
> When I looked at the css styling, I found that the default text is set
> to "Lohit Nepali" font. When I changed it to "Lohit Devnagari", it
> worked (also because the Lohit Devnagari font is installed on my
> system). The same page works fine on Google Chrome. On further
> debugging, I found that the woff version of the Lohit Nepali font is
> somehow aborted while loading the page ([Ctrl]+[F5] refresh this time).
> Same is the case with the IranianSans woff file. The locations are
>
> http://bits.wikimedia.org/w/extensions-1.19/WebFonts/fonts/Deva/Lohit-Nepali.woff?version=2.5.1&20111213
> and
>
> http://bits.wikimedia.org/w/extensions-1.19/WebFonts/fonts/Arab/IranianSans.woff?version=1.0&20111213
> (Keeps on loading, but could not load after a while and there is a
> timeout). Surprisingly though, when you try these URLs in your browser
> you would be able to download both the files.
>
> The screenshot of the problem with page rendering can be viewed at
> http://imagebin.org/204475 and the problem with loading the woff files
> as viewed in the "Net" panel of the firebug extension can be viewed at
> http://imagebin.org/204476
>
> Seems some sort of weird problem with my browser. Has anyone else
> encountered this problem?
>
> --
> Abhishek Singh
> FOSS Nepal Community
> http://wiki.fossnepal.org
>
>
>

On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Gerard Meijssen
wrote:

> Hoi,
> At translatewiki.net we installed the latest release of the Lohit fonts
> today. Among several improvements there are two things that stand out.
> There are now two new fonts specific for Devanagari and they support
> Marathi and Nepali. As you know certain characters are written differently
> when used for these languages.
>
> The Lohit Devanagari font does allow for the use of a local override but
> this requires a browser who deals with this properly and a source where the
> meta data explicitly states that the language is either Marathi or Nepali.
> By providing a font that is hard wired to show the variations for Marathi
> or Nepali a solution is provided that will always work.
>
> Our plan is to test the new Lohit fonts on translatewiki.net this week
> and have them go into production on Monday on all the WMF wikis with
> WebFonts support.
>
> Please test the Lohit fonts in your script and let us know as soon as
> possible when there are any issues.
> Thanks,
> Gerard
>
>
> http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2012/03/lohit-fonts-progress-to-release-251.html
>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimediaindia-I] {{WM-IN}} Invitation template

[Debanjan Bandyopadhyay]

I put it on the noticeboard also and after you told me, sent on the english
list only.

On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 5:21 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <
parakara.gh...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Specifically, do NOT use the mailing list, this or the English list as
> a replacement for on wiki discussions. Discuss it on noticeboards, as
> not all users subscribe to the list.
> Cheers.
>
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> Srikanth Ramakrishnan.
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