Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Copyright law of India
The other lawyer to ask would be the head of Software Freedom Law Center in India - Mishi Choudhary who is also an expert on India's Copyright Law. You can find her at - https://www.softwarefreedom.org/about/team/ Ping me off list if you want me to do introductions. Best, Alolita On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 9:16 AM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.comwrote: Hoi, I checked if Lawrence Liang was know somewhere in Wikipedia land. On many Wikipedias, those that have the Extended Wikidata search, you will be able to find him with his name written in Hindi or Chinese. Thanks, GerardM http://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/?q=3828152 On 24 March 2014 13:31, Frederick FN Noronha * फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا fredericknoron...@gmail.com wrote: I've sent a query asking Lawrence Liang too. FN On 24 March 2014 17:35, Srikanth Ramakrishnan srik.r...@wikimedia.inwrote: Hi Yann, I'm forwarding this mail to a noted lawyer who works on copyrights. Apart from this, I'm hoping some of the lawyers on this list respond to this. On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 3:05 PM, Yann Forget yan...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, There is a discussion on Commons about the copyright law of India, precisely whether pictures taken prior 1957 should apply the new law or the old law. I believe it is the later, but Carl Lindberg, says there is a uncertainty. Could WM India ask a lawyer for a confirmation. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:PD-India#Before_1958 Regards, Yann ___ 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 -- Srikanth Ramakrishnan Treasurer, Wikimedia Chapter [India] Donate to the Wikimedia India Chapter todayhttp://wiki.wikimedia.in/Donations ___ 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 -- FN Phone +91-832-2409490 Mobile +91-9822122436 Blog: http://goabooks.wordpress.com === Buy Goa,1556 books on Amazon.com http://bit.ly/Goa1556-on-Amazon or order direct from goa1...@gmail.com with a discount. ___ 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] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Looking for Wikipedians to add already translated articles
Hi Srikanth - I was thinking about specialized medical glossaries which can totally be translated using translatewiki.net. Best, Alolita On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 9:27 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan srik.r...@wikimedia.in wrote: Hi Alolita, I think the objective here is to translate the article itself, which I think doesn't require TranslateWiki. From my experience, I figured Translatewiki is primarily to translate code/interfaces/messages, and not articles. Correct me if I'm wrong. On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Alolita Sharma alolita.sha...@gmail.comwrote: Ideally it would be awesome to use translatewiki.net to host localization for each language for TWB. -Alolita On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 9:15 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan srik.r...@wikimedia.in wrote: Noticed that a vast majority of Indian languages are listed. How about we kickstart a translation rally of sorts for not only WP:Medicine, but other articles as well? On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 5:51 AM, Kul Wadhwa kwad...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Forwarding to India list to cover Indic languages. See below. --Kul -- Forwarded message -- From: James Heilman jmh...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 4:12 PM Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Looking for Wikipedians to add already translated articles To: wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org, Kul Wadhwa ktwad...@gmail.com We at WikiProject Medicine are working on a collaborative effort with Translators Without Borders (TWB), a group which includes 2,000 or so volunteer translators. We are working to translate key medical articles into as many other languages as possible. Currently we have translated content into 50 or so languages amounting to 2.3 million words of text. The process involves first bringing articles to either GA or FA status in English. They are then delivered, with MediaWiki markup in place, to the TWB website where the text is sent out to the translators. Once translated we at Wikipedia are notified via orange links on this page here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:MED/Progress This issue currently is that we are missing Wikipedians in some languages to add / combine the translated content into the respective Wikipedia. Some of the article created through this process have reached feature article status including translations into Hungarian of anaphylaxis and hypertension. We currently have translated content in the following languages waiting to be integrated: Hindi Chinese Persian Tagalog Indonesian Macedonian Greek Bulgarian Danish Polish Swedish Arabic Ukrainian Dutch Czech Serbian Slovenian Spanish Telugu Tamil Punjabi Turkish Kurdish Thai Swahili Yoruba Kinyarwanda An overview of the efforts can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:TTF If you are interested in getting involved in adding translated articles instructions are here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Translation_task_force/Adding_content If you have further question or comments I would welcome the feedback. James Heilman MD, CCFP(EM), Wikipedian WikiProject Medicine The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Kul Wadhwa Head of Mobile 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 -- Srikanth Ramakrishnan Treasurer, Wikimedia Chapter [India] Donate to the Wikimedia India Chapter todayhttp://wiki.wikimedia.in/Donations ___ 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 -- Srikanth Ramakrishnan Treasurer, Wikimedia Chapter [India] Donate to the Wikimedia India Chapter todayhttp://wiki.wikimedia.in/Donations ___ 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
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Looking for Wikipedians to add already translated articles
Ideally it would be awesome to use translatewiki.net to host localization for each language for TWB. -Alolita On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 9:15 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan srik.r...@wikimedia.in wrote: Noticed that a vast majority of Indian languages are listed. How about we kickstart a translation rally of sorts for not only WP:Medicine, but other articles as well? On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 5:51 AM, Kul Wadhwa kwad...@wikimedia.org wrote: Forwarding to India list to cover Indic languages. See below. --Kul -- Forwarded message -- From: James Heilman jmh...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 4:12 PM Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Looking for Wikipedians to add already translated articles To: wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org, Kul Wadhwa ktwad...@gmail.com We at WikiProject Medicine are working on a collaborative effort with Translators Without Borders (TWB), a group which includes 2,000 or so volunteer translators. We are working to translate key medical articles into as many other languages as possible. Currently we have translated content into 50 or so languages amounting to 2.3 million words of text. The process involves first bringing articles to either GA or FA status in English. They are then delivered, with MediaWiki markup in place, to the TWB website where the text is sent out to the translators. Once translated we at Wikipedia are notified via orange links on this page here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:MED/Progress This issue currently is that we are missing Wikipedians in some languages to add / combine the translated content into the respective Wikipedia. Some of the article created through this process have reached feature article status including translations into Hungarian of anaphylaxis and hypertension. We currently have translated content in the following languages waiting to be integrated: Hindi Chinese Persian Tagalog Indonesian Macedonian Greek Bulgarian Danish Polish Swedish Arabic Ukrainian Dutch Czech Serbian Slovenian Spanish Telugu Tamil Punjabi Turkish Kurdish Thai Swahili Yoruba Kinyarwanda An overview of the efforts can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:TTF If you are interested in getting involved in adding translated articles instructions are here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Translation_task_force/Adding_content If you have further question or comments I would welcome the feedback. James Heilman MD, CCFP(EM), Wikipedian WikiProject Medicine The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Kul Wadhwa Head of Mobile 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 -- Srikanth Ramakrishnan Treasurer, Wikimedia Chapter [India] Donate to the Wikimedia India Chapter todayhttp://wiki.wikimedia.in/Donations ___ 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] Proposal for India's First MediaWiki Group Ahmedabad
My two cents based on two decades of experience in open source and growing adoption and contributions in India: Mediawiki is an open source project which has community members contributing to it globally. Having a technical Mediawiki user group with developers gathering together for face-to-face technical discussions or coding is a well established norm on all open source projects. Having a local user group mailing list is also fine. The most important component to maintain a successful technical user group is to have active members who find the group useful for learning best practices in open source software development, contributing code, localizing software interfaces and be active contributors to the larger global code base. It is irrelevant whether WMF or some staff member or some local chapter member blesses this. Open source does not work on the basis of needing someone's consent. It works when you have a local problem, bug or feature you would like to develop and improve the software (Mediawiki in this case) you use or want to improve. And you have more than 2 active developers locally :-) The idea is to code not just think and talk about it. Harsh - if you have more than 3 developers who are serious, local and want to learn more about Mediawiki, form your own user group informally. It doesn't have to be a formal group (locally registered society) unless you start collecting money. Keep the barriers to coding and real work as low as possible. I will be happy to help if you need it. Hope this helps. Best, Alolita On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.com wrote: I don't see the bunch of coders representing their case over on this list. I see Harsh as an active volunteer, who else is active? On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.com wrote: Let me (take the effort) to skip through the many lines of diplomacy. What I understand: Bunch of coders want to form their own group so that the coders can focus on.. coding and not going through endless email threads like this one. I support! PS: I'm no longer with WMF. But if there's one thing I learnt, creating things is faster and more fun than trying to get consensus. And we desperately need more people who can develop, minus the bullshit, or we are never getting out of this well. -- Arun Ganesh (planemad) ___ 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] Tamil Wikipedia crossess 50, 000 article mark
Wonderful news! Congrats to the Tamil community! Best, Alolita On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 7:21 AM, subhashish subhash...@cis-india.org wrote: Hearty congratulations for the half century, miles to go! On Fri, 21 Dec 2012 23:10:31 +0530, Ravishankar wrote: Hi everyone, Thanks for all your wishes. I shared the good news hoping that this could be a small inspiration for other communities. Especially on the growth rate. Rav -- Subha ___ 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] Narayam and NewUserMessage
Naveen - this is great news! Thanks Junaid! With best regards, Alolita -- Alolita Sharma i18n Engineering Wikimedia Foundation On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 12:41 AM, Naveen Francis navee...@wikimedia.inwrote: Hi all, Extension:Narayam and Extension: NewUserMessage are installed on Wikimedia India wiki http://wiki.wikimedia.in. Thanks to Junaid for helping to validate the installations . To have Narayam functionality, loggedin users have to go to preferences in User profile Under Internationalisation you to change language to the preferred one. -- naveenpf ___ 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] An Offline Wikipedia for the Aakaash Tablet?
Santhosh, I had spoken with one of the tablet manufacturers with Jessie. The current Akash OS is indeed Android based so Indic language support is poor/unavailable. Debian based tablets are being discussed but the manufacturer indicated that it was at least a year+ down the line. With best regards, Alolita On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 10:50 PM, Santhosh Thottingal santhosh.thottin...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Hisham his...@wikimedia.org wrote: b) Need to establish a reasonable set of acceptable quality articles in Indic languages (since Akash's remit is pan-India.) AFAIK, Akash is based on android and Indic language rendering support is not available so far. Anybody tried indic languages in Akash? -Santhosh ___ 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] Feedback please: Logo concepts for India Hackathon
Erik - thanks for posting these logo concepts. The rendering of Mumbai in devanagari is incorrect so that needs to be fixed. My vote on designs: 4 or 3. It would also be great to get other suggestions from the local Mumbai / India community. With best regards, Alolita On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 9:40 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: As GerardM noted the other day, we're planning a hackathon adjacent to the WikiConference in Mumbai. We'd love feedback on some logo ideas that one of our designers put together, particularly with an eye to picking a design that resonates with the largest number of people without triggering any particular sensibilities. As noted, ignore the script -- these are just concepts, and we're looking for feedback on the visuals at this stage: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/India_Hackathon_2011/Logo_concepts Any comments are welcome -- there's a comments section below each logo concept. (If you'd like to add your own suggestion, please do so!) Thanks! Erik -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ 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
