Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter: Current state of affairs
Congratulations Jayanta Da. Belayet On Sep 1, 2014 11:16 PM, Jayanta Nath jaya...@wikimedia.in wrote: Dear Wikimedia India Chapter members and other interested stakeholders in the list, Dear members, The Executive committee of Wikimedia India has held an emergency teleconference on their official DSNL channel on 31 Aug 2014. As salient items on the agenda, the following topics were discussed and decided upon: 1. Earlier, Radhakrishna Arvapally, a senior chapter member and former Chair of Bangalore SIG, was co-opted by an emergency resolution. The resolution was passed unanimously. The resolution had also proposed another senior member. However, due to heavy personal engagements, the second nominee requested the EC to exempt from such considerations. Radhakrishna was invited to the telecon and was officially welcomed to be part of the EC. 2. Jayanta Nath, a senior Wikipedian from Kolkata and EC member, was unanimously elected as the new President of the Wikimedia India Chapter. Also, Radhakrishna Arvapally and Viswanathan Prabhakaran were elected as the new Secretary and Treasurer of the chapter respectively. 3. Any decision about hiring is kept on hold for now. The current EC agreed together that the opinion of the new EC (emerging through the upcoming general elections) should also be taken on-board for a major decision like this, since they are the ones to deal with the newly hired candidate(s)for a longer term. 4. Another extra ordinary EC Telecon was scheduled to be conducted tentatively on 02 September 2014, 9.00 PM to take up other urgent matters pending for decisions. This is for the general information for all chapter members and other interested stakeholders. Thank You, Jayanta Nath President 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 ___ 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] [Wikimedia-in-WB] Kolkata Bookfair wikipedia stall PTI report
জয়ন্তদাকে অভিনন্দন!! Banglapedia has less than 200 editors of which more than 150 are from Bangladesh, while only ten are from West Bengal. তবে এ লেখাটাতেও বাংলাপিডিয়া এবং বাংলা উইকিপিডিয়া গুলিয়ে ফেলা হয়েছে যা দুঃখজনক। আশা করি এ বিষয়টি পরবর্তী নিউজগুলোতে খেয়াল রাখবেন। ধন্যবাদান্তে, বেলায়েত On 30 January 2014 11:43, Nurunnaby Chowdhury n...@nhasive.com wrote: Hi All, Happy to know this nice initiative. Specially i am proud Honor of this because my 2nd written book *Bangla Wikipedia Ke Abong Keno (বাংলা উইকিপিডিয়া কী এবং কেন)* available at Kalkata Book Fair Wikipedia stall. Specially thanks to Jayanta da for give me this opportunity. I write this book last year this book published last year Ekushey Book Fair [1]. In this book basically i show the how to work in Bengali Wikipedia, involvement process of Wikimedia activities, how to contribute commons etc. This is the first book of Bengali Wikipedia published in Bangladesh. For more about this book you may Rokomari.com [2]. Thanks you all. Hope to get feedback from reader. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekushey_Book_Fair [2] http://www.rokomari.com/book/62905 On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 8:54 AM, Subhashish Panigrahi subhash...@cis-india.org wrote: Congratulations Jayantada and all of the organising committee! You all have done a fabulous job. Hope this spreads a word about Bangla Wikimedia projects. And now the nation demands a blog on Wikimedia global blog from you :-) Best! Subha On 30-Jan-2014, at 1:21 am, Jayanta Nath jayanta...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, Please find the below link of PTI report about our Kolkata Bookfair wikipedia stall. http://tech.firstpost.com/news-analysis/kolkata-book-fair-wikipedia-puts-stall-find-bengali-editors-217297.html Regards, Jayanta Nath -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-in-wb/attachments/20140130/a5e8da30/attachment.html ___ Wikimedia-in-WB mailing list wikimedia-in...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-wb ___ Wikimedia-in-WB mailing list wikimedia-in...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-wb -- *Nurunnaby Chowdhury Hasive* Administrator | Bangla Wikipedia http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:nhasive Social Media Interaction Expert Assignment Reporter | The Daily Prothom-Alo http://www.prothom-alo.com Bangladesh Ambassador | Open Knowledge Foundation Network http://www.okfn.org Treasurer | Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN) http://www.bdosn.org fb.com/nhasive | @nhasive http://www.twitter.com/nhasive | Skype: nhasive | www.nhasive.com -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-in-wb/attachments/20140130/cda567c8/attachment.html ___ Wikimedia-in-WB mailing list wikimedia-in...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-wb -- Belayet Hossain https://www.facebook.com/bellayet http://www.facebook.com/bellayet https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:bellayethttp://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:bellayet https://reps.mozilla.org /u/bellayet https://reps.mozilla.org/u/bellayet/ http://twitter.com/bellayet http://mozillianbd.wordpress.com http://bellayet.wordpress.com (Bangla) Knowledge is universal ...so share it. ___ 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] 8th Birthday of Bengali Wikipedia
Dear All, Today 27 January http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/?diff=6 is 8th Birthday of Bengali Wikipedia http://bn.wikipedia.org. I wish a very Happy Birthday to Bengali Wikipedia. Belayet (User:bellayet http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:bellayet) -- Belayet Hossain http://www.facebook.com/bellayet http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:bellayet http://twitter.com/bellayet http://bellayet.wordpress.com (Bangla) Knowledge is universal ...so share it. ___ 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] Recognition of Wikimedia Bangladesh
Congratulations to all involve with this process. Belayet On 14 October 2011 12:19, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: Congratulations and best wishes to the newly approved Wikimedia Bangladesh. Very glad to see the formation of the second national chapter from the Indian Subcontinent. Hoping to see more from this part of the world. Warms regards from India chapter and hoping to collaborate and work together for the growth of Wikimedia movement in the Indian Subcontinent. Thanks Tinu Cherian P.S. Do include wikimedia...@lists.wikimedia.org mail id too for your appreciation mails, as not all BD wikipedians are on India list. On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 12:25 AM, Bishakha Datta bishakhada...@gmail.com wrote: Cross-posting since it may be of interest to this list. Cheers Bishakha -- Forwarded message -- From: phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com Date: Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 8:16 PM Subject: [Internal-l] Recognition of Wikimedia Bangladesh To: Local Chapters, board and officers coordination (closed subscription) interna...@lists.wikimedia.org Dear friends, Congratulations to Wikimedia Bangladesh, our newest chapter! http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Recognition_of_Wikimedia_Bangladesh -- Phoebe Board Secretary, 2011-12 ___ 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 -- Belayet Hossain http://www.facebook.com/bellayet http://twitter.com/bellayet http://bellayet.wordpress.com (Bangla) Knowledge is universal ...so share it. Hillel If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am only for myself, what am I? If not now, when? ___ 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 crossed the 30, 000 articles milestone
Congratulations to all Tamil Wikipedians from Bangla Wikipedia. Belayet On 8 April 2011 23:33, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.com wrote: Today Tamil Wikipedia http://ta.wikipedia.org has crossed the 30,000 articlehttp://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%9A%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%B1%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%81:Statisticsmilestone. With this it has become the 6th Indic language wikipedia that crosses this milestone (after Newari, Hindi, Telugu, Marathi, and Bishnupriya Manipuri) Congrats for Tamil wiki community on this achievement. Shiju ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Belayet Hossain http://www.facebook.com/bellayet http://twitter.com/bellayet http://bellayet.wordpress.com (Bangla) Knowledge is universal ...so share it. Hillel If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am only for myself, what am I? If not now, when? ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Santhosh Thottingal gets commit access to Mediawiki
Congratulations to Santhosh. Belayet On 31 March 2011 14:11, Srikanth Ramakrishnan rsrikant...@gmail.com wrote: Congratulations to Santhosh. -- Belayet Hossain http://www.facebook.com/bellayet http://twitter.com/bellayet http://bellayet.wordpress.com (Bangla) Knowledge is universal ...so share it. Hillel If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am only for myself, what am I? If not now, when? ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] A Wikimedia Foundation Fellow from India
Congratulations, Achal. Belayet from Bangaladesh On 17 January 2011 11:45, BalaSundaraRaman sundarbe...@yahoo.com wrote: Congrats, Achal. Your area of research is very interesting and has a huge potential fallout. - 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:* Bishakha Datta bishakhada...@gmail.com *To:* India List Wikimedia wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org *Cc:* Achal Prabhala aprabh...@gmail.com *Sent:* Mon, January 17, 2011 10:32:07 AM *Subject:* [Wikimediaindia-l] A Wikimedia Foundation Fellow from India Dear all, As part of the continuing spate of good news, I'd like to congratulate Achal Prabhala for becoming the latest Wikimedia Foundation Fellow. For those of you who don't know him, Achal is a writer and researcher in Bangalore who has participated as a volunteer in the Wikimedia movement in India and globally for years, and as a member of the Foundation’s advisory board. Achal will be conducting field research in India and rural South Africa with Wikipedians and non-Wikipedians across three languages to explore ways to compensate for the gap in published/printed sources in many local languages. More details at http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2011/01/12/new-wikimedia-fellow/ Cheers Bishakha ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Belayet Hossain http://www.facebook.com/bellayet http://twitter.com/bellayet http://bellayet.wordpress.com (Bangla) Knowledge is universal ...so share it. Hillel If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am only for myself, what am I? If not now, when? ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Dhaka celebrating 10 years of Wikipedia
On 14th Dhaka celebrate 10 years of Wikipedia through Kite flying for Wikipedia. Here is some photos of the event at Facebook, http://bit.ly/fIvWVq Happy Birthday Wikipedia! Belayet Wikimedia Bangladesh -- Belayet Hossain http://www.facebook.com/bellayet http://twitter.com/bellayet http://bellayet.wordpress.com (Bangla) Knowledge is universal ...so share it. Hillel If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am only for myself, what am I? If not now, when? ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] 'Computer Jagat' published cover story on 10 years of Wikipedia
Leading Bengali monthly tech magazine 'Computer Jagat' published cover story on 10 years of Wikipedia at their January issue. Here is the scanned cover page of the magazine, http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/fnrpkppusEZ_q6N16BnR6Q?feat=directlink Belayet Wikimedia Bangladesh -- Belayet Hossain http://www.facebook.com/bellayet http://twitter.com/bellayet http://bellayet.wordpress.com (Bangla) Knowledge is universal ...so share it. Hillel If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am only for myself, what am I? If not now, when? ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Online Bengali section of Deutsche Welle article on Wikipedia Birthday
Online Bengali section of Deutsche Welle published an article on 10 years of Wikipedia, http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,14764317,00.html Belayet Wikimedia Bangladesh -- Belayet Hossain http://www.facebook.com/bellayet http://twitter.com/bellayet http://bellayet.wordpress.com (Bangla) Knowledge is universal ...so share it. Hillel If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am only for myself, what am I? If not now, when? ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Dhaka celebrating 10 years of Wikipedia
Dear friends, An Wikipedia workshop arranged by Wikimedia Bangladesh has been held on 7th January 2011 at Dhaka, Bangladesh. The workshop was arranged as a part of 10 years of Wikipedia celebration. Most of the participants at the workshop are from different blog communities in Bangladesh who are already capable to write in Bengali at web, now they achieve the confidence to contribute at Wikipedia. At the workshop Wikimedia Bangladesh distribute an Wikipedia FAQ booklet in Bengali to the participants. The photos of the workshop has been published at facebook, http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=258264id=124780066238 Wikimedia Bangladesh also celebrating the anniversary of Wikipedia on 14 and 15 January by participating Kite flying festival (We have Kite with Wikipedia logo) and a Birthday Party. Happy Birthday to Wikipedia! Belayet Wikimedia Bangladesh http://www.facebook.com/WikimediaBD -- Belayet Hossain http://www.facebook.com/bellayet http://twitter.com/bellayet http://bellayet.wordpress.com (Bangla) Knowledge is universal ...so share it. Hillel If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am only for myself, what am I? If not now, when? ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Updates on Google translation project in Tamil Wikipedia
Ravi, That's a nice process to deal with Google translation project. In Bengali Wikipedia, if the translation is not in acceptable quality community also shift content to the user namespace of that translator and ask them to improve it. But there are very few examples that translator rewrite or retouch the article to improve it. Translators are not coming back to take care of their article. So a lot of untouched bad translated articles are in the user namespace at Bengali Wikipedia. And from my experiences in Bengali Wikipedia the translators are not consistent with their translations. If you rated someone for the first time for his first translation, it is not be sure the second translation will be same quality or better than the first one. So community have to re-rated him every time he post an article. Since the translators are not regular at Wikipedia and they are not responsive. There is no other contact point available for the community to communicate with them. We can create a translation coordination page at local Wikipedia, but there is no way to inform the existing or new translators to follow the page. I am very much interested to know, how Tamil community communicating with the translators at Google? Belayet On 3 December 2010 07:12, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.com wrote: Congrats to Tamil community for trying to bring out a process for Google's Translation project. I really wonder how other language communities are handling this. Apart from Tamil, Google Translation project is going on at least in Hindi, Kannada, and Telugu. It is banned in Bengali wiki. I could see many articles are loaded to wikis each day. And for many of them the only contributor is the Google employee who translated it. Shiju On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 7:55 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, Thanks a lot for the update. I think the updated process is similar with Open source community philosophy when Commercial companies (like IBM, Sun etc) contribute source code. Tamil Wiki has that kind of rigor in quality checking and is able to do a good job. Other Wikipedias may not be in a position to engage in a similar way, due to policies and/or level of active wikipedians. One more comment below. On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 7:19 PM, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Some updates on the Google translation project in Tamil Wikipedia. --snip We did a quality review of these articles and found that only around 50% of them has an acceptable minimum quality regarding translation ( We just rated the style of the language and accuracy in translation. We did not do a full review on the merit of the article). --snip-- Can you elaborate more on the style? How did you measure the accuracy of translation? It may be desirable to adopt the English articles for the target wikipedia, than verbatim translation. How much effort was spent to arrive at the above conclusions? # of articles, # of reviewers, time frame etc would help. Thanks Arjun ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Belayet Hossain http://www.facebook.com/bellayet http://twitter.com/bellayet http://bellayet.wordpress.com (Bangla) Knowledge is universal ...so share it. Hillel If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am only for myself, what am I? If not now, when? ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-BD] Updates on Google translation project in Tamil Wikipedia
Sundar, That will be a nice idea. Please go ahead. They can discuss it in that mailing lists or at local Wikipedia page. Belayet On 3 December 2010 10:56, BalaSundaraRaman sundarbe...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi Ragib, Belayet, Good to see you here. :) Shall I forward your email to the Google Translation team? If they wish so, they can take it from there. What do you think? Cheers, 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 - Original Message From: Ragib Hasan ragibha...@gmail.com To: Discussion list for Bangladeshi Wikimedians wikimedia...@lists.wikimedia.org Cc: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Fri, December 3, 2010 10:01:15 AM Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-BD] Updates on Google translation project in Tamil Wikipedia I agree with what Belayet mentioned about the Google translated articles on Bengali Wikipedia. So far, we have not been contacted by Google directly. Rather, we have dealt with the paid contractors who were hired by Google. As Belayet has said, the paid translators do not follow up with the translations (except for a single case). Which in turn, causes a lot of problems for us to fix the articles. Technically, we have not banned Google translated articles or contributors who use GTT. Rather what we have discouraged is the dump-and-run translators who just dump their malformed translation and never responds to our messages or makes a second edit to the article to fix it. In most of the cases we dealt with recently, we haven't even deleted the articles ... rather we moved them to user space, giving the user a chance to fix the article to readable Bengali. So, basically, here are the issues: 1. We'd love to work with Google if they collaborate with us and take responsibility of producing readable content. 2. Which means, translations can't be dump-and-run jobs. Since the translator toolkit is still horrible in English-to-Bengali translation, the Google team or their translators need to do fix the pages to make them readable and grammatically correct. 3. We can use the current system ... i.e., translators are free to do all of the sandboxing/translation experiments in their user space. We are very picky about the content that goes into the article space and don't want half-done, incorrect language articles to go there. So, after a translation article has been approved by the community, it can be moved to the main space. But to do any of the above, the Google team needs to contact us. We don't know who is or who isn't working for Google. Almost all the vendors/contractors we have dealt so far used thorwaway accounts that are used only once, and never again. Bottom line: we are happy to work with Google, but only if Google does not bypass the existing Bengali wikipedian community. Thanks, Ragib User:Ragib on bn and en -- Ragib Hasan, Ph.D NSF Computing Innovation Fellow and Assistant Research Scientist Dept of Computer Science Johns Hopkins University 3400 N Charles Street Baltimore, MD 21218 Website: http://www.ragibhasan.com On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 9:19 PM, Belayet Hossain bella...@gmail.com wrote: Ravi, That's a nice process to deal with Google translation project. In Bengali Wikipedia, if the translation is not in acceptable quality community also shift content to the user namespace of that translator and ask them to improve it. But there are very few examples that translator rewrite or retouch the article to improve it. Translators are not coming back to take care of their article. So a lot of untouched bad translated articles are in the user namespace at Bengali Wikipedia. And from my experiences in Bengali Wikipedia the translators are not consistent with their translations. If you rated someone for the first time for his first translation, it is not be sure the second translation will be same quality or better than the first one. So community have to re-rated him every time he post an article. Since the translators are not regular at Wikipedia and they are not responsive. There is no other contact point available for the community to communicate with them. We can create a translation coordination page at local Wikipedia, but there is no way to inform the existing or new translators to follow the page. I am very much interested to know, how Tamil community communicating with the translators at Google? Belayet On 3 December 2010 07:12, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.com wrote: Congrats to Tamil community for trying to bring out a process for Google's Translation project. I really wonder how
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Malayalam Wikipedia crossed the 15, 000 article mark
Congrats! Belayet On 10 November 2010 23:28, Naveen Francis navee...@gmail.com wrote: Malayalam Wikipedia has crossed the 15,000 article milestone today. Congrats Malayalam wiki community !!! -- Naveen Francis ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Belayet Hossain http://www.facebook.com/bellayet http://twitter.com/bellayet http://bellayet.wordpress.com (Bangla) Knowledge is universal ...so share it. Hillel If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am only for myself, what am I? If not now, when? ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Bengali characters included in MediaWiki advance toolbar
Hi, I am exited to inform you that the advanced toolbar for MediaWiki will support the characters of the Bengali language[0]. I've sent a list of characters of Bengali in a natural order to GerardM[1] and he forward the list to usability team. Today Roan[2] inform us that he has added the characters set at [3] and staged them at [4] You can also include character set of your beloved language with some little effort. Just find or collect a list of the characters in an order the most people are use to. Email it to usability team. They'll include it to the software. And I'll be so happy if that kind of toolbar is possible for Mobile MediaWiki also. I hope all the Indian languages will take the benefits from the result of Wikipedia Usability Initiative[5]. I'd like to invite you all to give this little effort to include characters of your languages at the advance toolbar for MediaWiki. Blogs on this issue: * http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2010/03/improved-usability-for-bengali-use-of.html(English) *http://wp.me/pcRF1-3i (Bangla) Thanks GerardM and the usability team to include Bangla characters at the toolbar. Belayet [0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengali_language [1]http://www.blogger.com/profile/14287269079265427282 [2]http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Catrope [3]http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/64405 [4] http://prototype.wikimedia.org/s-1/index.php?title=Category:Fooaction=edit [5]http://usability.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page -- Belayet Hossain http://www.facebook.com/bellayet Knowledge is universal ...so share it. Hillel If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am only for myself, what am I? If not now, when? ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
