Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Konkani Wikipedia.
Hey guys, Sitting in Serbia Open GLAM conference, we had a similar discussion with Adrienne about small language wikipedias/projects. Those guys are looking at small languages in French territories and their numbers are of course really really small. Konkani by that scale is quite big. I was just wondering if it would be any help to you, I can connect you to her and she can tell you about some fantastic things they have done in terms on offline wikipedias for smaller language communities and so on. Cheers Noopur On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.comwrote: (offtopic) The correct military adage of the [[Indian Army Corps of Engineers]] is - The difficult we do immediately, for the impossible we need a little notice. :) Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Vickram Crishna vvcris...@radiophony.com wrote: As the old military expression goes, the impossible just takes a little longer. Choose one script/dialect combination (organically, not by diktat), develop it to a starting point, and I venture to suggest that enthusiasts will come forward to support developing the variants. On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Developing each dialect is too complex. It doesn't look feasible. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on February 12th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore Aliens invaded Tamil Nadu, left their Spacship and now it is a Toll Plaza. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IVRCL-Vijayamangalam-Toll-Plaza.JPG ___ 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 -- Vickram Fool On The Hill http://communicall.wordpress.com ___ 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 -- Noopur Raval Student Arts and Aesthetics Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Ph: 9650567690 ___ 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.
Developing each dialect is too complex. It doesn't look feasible. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on February 12th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore Aliens invaded Tamil Nadu, left their Spacship and now it is a Toll Plaza. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IVRCL-Vijayamangalam-Toll-Plaza.JPG ___ 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.
As the old military expression goes, the impossible just takes a little longer. Choose one script/dialect combination (organically, not by diktat), develop it to a starting point, and I venture to suggest that enthusiasts will come forward to support developing the variants. On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Developing each dialect is too complex. It doesn't look feasible. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on February 12th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore Aliens invaded Tamil Nadu, left their Spacship and now it is a Toll Plaza. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IVRCL-Vijayamangalam-Toll-Plaza.JPG ___ 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 -- Vickram Fool On The Hill http://communicall.wordpress.com ___ 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.
(offtopic) The correct military adage of the [[Indian Army Corps of Engineers]] is - The difficult we do immediately, for the impossible we need a little notice. :) Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Vickram Crishna vvcris...@radiophony.comwrote: As the old military expression goes, the impossible just takes a little longer. Choose one script/dialect combination (organically, not by diktat), develop it to a starting point, and I venture to suggest that enthusiasts will come forward to support developing the variants. On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Developing each dialect is too complex. It doesn't look feasible. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on February 12th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore Aliens invaded Tamil Nadu, left their Spacship and now it is a Toll Plaza. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IVRCL-Vijayamangalam-Toll-Plaza.JPG ___ 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 -- Vickram Fool On The Hill http://communicall.wordpress.com ___ 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.
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
