Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiConference India 2016: media coverage, blogs and reports

2016-08-10 Thread Ravishankar 
Hi,

Please add any WCI2016 news report you find at

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016/Press

Ravi



2016-08-07 22:29 GMT+05:30 Nurunnaby Hasive :

> WikiCon news published today at The Daily Prothom Alo (Leading Bengali
> daily) written by me!
>
> bit.ly/2aLkVkv
>
> Hasive | @nhasive
> WMBD
>
> On Saturday, 6 August 2016, Subhashish Panigrahi 
> wrote:
>
>> South Asia's Largest Wikimedia Conference Kicks Off in India <
>> https://globalvoices.org/2016/08/05/south-asias-largest-
>> wikimedia-conference-kicks-off-in-india/>
>>
>> Best!
>> Subhashish
>>
>> --
>> *From: *"Subhashish Panigrahi" 
>> *To: *"Wikimedia India Community list" > dia.org>
>> *Sent: *Friday, August 5, 2016 11:28:50 PM
>> *Subject: *[Wikimediaindia-l] WikiConference India 2016: media
>> coverage,blogs and reports
>>
>> Creating this thread to share the media coverage, blogs and reports, etc,
>> related to WikiConference India. Please keep sharing more here. Also, if
>> you are a blogger or author, do write about this huge gathering.
>>
>> Below are my two cents:
>>
>> Community digest: Konkani language speakers are separated by scripts but
>> unite by Wikipedia; news in brief, Wikimedia Blog (there are two short
>> updates; one about WCI and the other one about the Punjab edit-a-thon> <
>> https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/08/04/digest-konkani-unite/>
>>
>> The largest Wikipedia gathering in South Asia kicks off <
>> https://opensource.com/life/16/8/wikipedia-conference-india-2016>
>>
>> Best!
>> Subhashish Panigrahi
>> Programme Officer, Access To Knowledge
>> Centre for Internet and Society
>> @subhapa / https://cis-india.org
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] seeking help with Hindi projects in Wikisource...

2016-08-10 Thread Shrinivasan T 
Hi,

Write this script to connect Google OCR and WikiSource.

Hindi is supported well.

https://github.com/tshrinivasan/OCR4wikisource

Check the README and INSTALL for setup instructions in ubuntu or any
other linux.

Ping me or here for any assistance.

This is used by Tamil, Bengali wikisource communities heavily to OCR
more than 2000 Books.

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T.Shrinivasan


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[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Invites you to a lecture on "Human Knowledge: An Evolutionary Perspective"; 11 August 2016; 5.00 pm

2016-08-10 Thread Shyamal Lakshminarayanan 
This might be of interest to some Wikipedians in Bangalore.

best wishes
Shyamal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Shyamal
https://muscicapa.blogspot.com



-- Forwarded message --



Dear All,

*CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY STUDIES*

Invites you to a talk on:

*Human Knowledge: An Evolutionary Perspective*
{INSA Golden Jubilee Commemoration Medal (Animal Sciences) 2015 Lecture}


*Speaker:* Prof. Madhav Gadgil
*Day and Date:* Thursday 11th August 2016
*Time:* 5:00 pm
*Venue:* CCS Seminar Hall, IISc

Tea/Coffee will be served at 4.30 pm

All are cordially invited

*Abstract:* Life is an information-based, cooperative enterprise, evolving
organisms capable of continually handling {1} greater quantities {2} of
increasingly more complex information {3} ever more effectively. Social
animals have taken this to new heights, with humans surpassing them all
thanks to our language abilities, and capacity to elaborate an enormous
diversity of memes, ranging over mythologies to scientific knowledge.
Knowledge has grown through interplay of seeking after truth, monopolizing
knowledge and telling calculated lies; science has succeeded in ensuring
its truly progressive evolution by promoting diversity amongst knowledge
elements and a regime of selection that ensures objective validity and
internal consistency.



*-Centre for Contemporary
StudiesIndian Institute of Science, Bangalore - 560012.*

*(Near Health Centre).Phone: 91-80-2360 6559, *
*2293 2486Chair: Prof. Raghavendra Gadagkar*
*email: ccs.i...@gmail.com *
*URL: ces.iisc.ac.in/hpg/ragh/ccs *
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] seeking help with Hindi projects in Wikisource...

2016-08-10 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar 
Hi,

Google OCR for Devnagari (Languages like Hindi, Marathi etc) is used by
many. Accuracy is about 85-90% which is pretty good.
There is a paid OCR software available that gives better results. Can share
the name if you are interested.

I doubt if there is in-wikisource support for OCR in Indic languages.

If you can specify a bit more on your requirements, people can suggest a
possible solution.

Regards
-Sudhanwa


On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 3:08 AM, Lane Rasberry 
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Can anyone here refer me to someone who is active in making Hindi-language
> contributions to Wikisource? I wish to meet someone with experience in that
> language and project. Otherwise, can anyone suggest to me which Indic
> languages in Wikisource seem to be most active?
>
> Is anyone able to make a recommendation for any OCR software for
> converting scanned Hindi language documents to digital text? Does anyone
> know anything about in-Wikisource support for OCR in Hindi language? Does
> it exist? Is there documentation?
>
> Thanks for anything anyone can share.
>
> yours,
>
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[Wikimediaindia-l] seeking help with Hindi projects in Wikisource...

2016-08-10 Thread Lane Rasberry 
Hello,

Can anyone here refer me to someone who is active in making Hindi-language
contributions to Wikisource? I wish to meet someone with experience in that
language and project. Otherwise, can anyone suggest to me which Indic
languages in Wikisource seem to be most active?

Is anyone able to make a recommendation for any OCR software for converting
scanned Hindi language documents to digital text? Does anyone know anything
about in-Wikisource support for OCR in Hindi language? Does it exist? Is
there documentation?

Thanks for anything anyone can share.

yours,

-- 
Lane Rasberry
user:bluerasberry on Wikipedia
206.801.0814
l...@bluerasberry.com
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: WMF Executive Director Katherine Maher's Visit to External Partners in New Delhi

2016-08-10 Thread Abhinav Srivastava 
Dear All,

Katherine Maher recently made a visit to India to attend The WikiConference
India 2016. Post Conference, Katherine made a visit to New Delhi and met
few external partners. A synopsis of these meetings have been described
below.

1.) Meeting with Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi: At 11 AM, this Monday, Mr
Manish Siosdia (Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi) had an interaction with the
Wikimedians. The Delhi Government is all ready to roll out education
programs in the Delhi region, in fact, to help us resolve our gender gap
issues, Delhi Government would help us focus more on women's colleges at
the initial stage. The Delhi Government has also expressed its intent to
conduct a Wiki-activity in Indian languages on M.K. Gandhi in September
month, such that Delhi Government could further facilitate (small
souvenirs) the contributors on 2nd October as a part of the M.K. Gandhi's
birthday celebration. Delhi Government is also looking at possible
interventions where GLAM activities could be undertaken. Incorporating
WIkimedia projects under Delhi Government's free-public wifi scheme has
also been proposed.

The meeting was arranged by Wikimedia India and attended by Katherine Maher
along with Wikimedia India EC's (Yohann Thomas, Sanket Oswal, Abhinav
Srivastava).


2.) DIETY Meeting : At 1 AM, Wikimedians met Mr. Rajiv Bansal, Joint
Secretary. Government of India, Department of Electronics and Information
Technology at this office in Delhi. The talks centered around bringing
DIETY newsletter under open license, a collaboration between Government of
India and WMIN + CIS-A2K over government's vikaspedia, drawing attention to
Indian language content to be released under Creative Commons,
Collaboration with the ministry towards making the government websites
include better and accurate language content, etc.

The meeting was arranged by CIS-A2K and attended by Katherine Maher along
with CIS-A2K staff (Tanveer Hasan) and Wikimedia India EC's (Sanket Oswal,
Abhinav Srivastava).


3.) Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) Meeting : At 5.30 PM. Wikimedians met
Dr Ramesh Gaur (Head Libarary- JNU) and Dr Anup Das (Documentation
Officer). JNU will be opening up its central repository of thesis (almost
22,000 units, including PhDs, M.Phil and Master's Program) under open
access. JNU will be assisting us in providing journal articles to our
editors for use on Wikipedia. 'One Lib One Ref" workshop at JNU would also
be conducted in JNU shortly (maybe in September). JNU also has shown its
intent at digitization Dr B.R. Ambedkar's writing under the Hindi
Wikisource. Further collaborations during seminars at JNU on Wikisource
projects would also be taken up.

The meeting was arranged by Wikimedia India and attended by Katherine Maher
along with Wikimedia India EC's (Sanket Oswal, Abhinav Srivastava) and
CIS-A2K staff (Tanveer Hasan).


Wikimedia India takes this opportunity to thank CIS-A2K team for working
with us. Both institutions look forward to materialize these developments
collectively.

Thanks
-- 
Srivastava Abhinav
Executive Committee Member|Wikimedia India
Ph - +91-9711739003|Skype: abhinavsrivastava619
Wiki Username - abhinav619
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