Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Uploads to Commons] Geocoding and Multilingual descriptions
Heya guys, to make things easier for you all, I have created a Short URL for the GeoLocator tool: http://bit.ly/GeoLocWiki Take Care, Enjoy. : ) -- Regards, Rsrikanth05 EDIT: Can't post to my Meta page due to the spam filter. Keeping it here. If anybody wants, do share. Regards, On 12 April 2011 19:39, Srikanth Ramakrishnan rsrikant...@gmail.com wrote: Tinu, I told you I wasn't young. : ) Unlike others, I'm active only on English, sporadically on Hindi, and even less on the Commons. Also, unlike Abhi Jacob, I'm not an admin either, nor do I have 20,000+ edit. I have less than half of that, and am just a Rollbacker. Anyway, I request all to please bring back the topic. : ) Cheers, Regards, Srikanth R, On 12 April 2011 17:52, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: Achal, I would like to steal your youngest Wikipedian tag from Srikanth (rsrikanth05) to this kid (Bvajresh) whom we met in Trichy :) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trichy_Wikimeetup1_2060.jpg He has been editing for more than 2 years , he claims...He edits mostly anonymously though.. An admin from Malayalam Wikipedia, Abhishek_Jacob is also a school student. Nothing to undermine your huge efforts, Srikanth .. You have been always one of the most energetic young Wikipedians, we all know :) Keep up the good work. Regards Tinu Cherian On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 11:58 PM, Achal Prabhala aprabh...@gmail.comwrote: I must say that one lives and learns in the most unpredictable ways. This Sunday, at the Bangalore meetup, I learned that Srikanth (who I met for the first time) is finishing his last two years of school. Srikanth told me off-list that he is not the youngest Wikipedian in India. For the record, however, he is the youngest Wikipedian that I know in India. And it felt pretty amazing Glad that you do what you do Srikanth. The world is a better place with you editing it! -- Regards, ME. Wear a Lungi, Support the Movement My infrastructure invasion... plus other images too.. on Wikimedia Commons. http://bit.ly/d50SIq -- Regards, ME. Wear a Lungi, Support the Movement My infrastructure invasion... plus other images too.. on Wikimedia Commons. http://bit.ly/d50SIq ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] : The Telegraph , Calcutta : Regional Wiki
Thanks Tinu for sharing. -- With Warm Regards, *Jayanta Nath* Calcutta,West Bengal Facebook :http://www.facebook.com/jayantanth Wikipedia :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jayantanth আসুন পাইরেসি মুক্ত ভারত গড়ি,সবাই মুক্ত সফ্টওয়ার ব্যবহার করি [image: O:-)],অন্যকে ব্যবহারে উৎসাহিত করি। __ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list wikimedia-in...@lists.wikimedia.org Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org wikipedia...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-wb ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] [Report] 3rd Odia Wikipedia Workshop, Cuttack, on 17 April, 2011
Hi, here is the report of the 3rd Odia Wikipedia Workshop, Cuttack, 2011, April 03. The 3rd Odia Wikipedia Academy has been organized on 17April 2011 at Image Institute of Technology Management, Cuttack. This was the second outreach academy of Odia Wikipedia in Odisha and the first one organized in the Silver City, Cuttack in order to create an awareness about odia wikipedia and to motivate common mass from different educational and social background to use the same. Odia Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia with a substantial motive of making knowledge freely available to the masses in Odia Language, was started way back in 2002. It was among the first four Indian regional language wikipedia, other three being Asamese, Malayalam, Punjabi. But due to the dearth of proper awareness and activism there was a snail pace movement for almost 8 years. Shiju Alex of Malyalam Wikipedia introduced Odia Wiki projects to many fellow Odias which later motivated them to recapitulate the Odia Wiki movement through the first Odia Wikipedia Academy, conducted in Bengaluru on 6 March, 2011 Sambidhan Mohanty, Founder, Inmohven along with Ashutosh Kar, a Bangalore based software engineer and an alumni of the prestigious National Institute of Design formally inaugurated the event. A Video Tutorial which illustrates and demonstrates the usage the complete know-how of odia wikipedia was launched on this occasion. A FAQ Booklet was distributed among the first time participants of the Wikipedia Workshop. Cuttack based wikipedian Srikant Kedia took active part in facilitating the event. The whole Academy/Workshop was conducted in 2 main sections, in the first session Mr. Kar Mr. Mohanty introduced Odia Wikpedia to the audience, giving them a brief overview about the history, development and current status of Wikipedia Movement. The second session, conducted by Srikant Kedia, focused on how to type in Odia using the transliteration/Inscript tool, which has been incorporated recently in odia wikipedia; solving typing issues, searching existing articles, creating articles and editing for improvement of old article. He also demonstrated the technique of adding content to the articles by using the commonly used syntaxes, the methodology for adding pictures and other media files to odia wikipedia. This session was followed by an interactive session in which the audience interacted with the demonstrators and among themselves. Several discussions based on several major issues were carried out as well. The participants included students from the various management engineering colleges, entrepreneurs, journalists, writers College students. At the end of the session contributors came forward with several suggestions which included motivating more number of students and freelancers to contribute to Odia Wikipedia.There was a discussion on how to build a stronger community and the ways to be implemented for improving the articles both in terms of a standard quality and quantity. The participants also put forth their suggestions on the ways to tackle vandalism and monitor the wiki user's activities. Many such activism events have been planned to be conducted in the coming future with the involvement of people from all fields of life, who are passionate about the development of Odia language on the web. Odia Wikipedia can be accessed at or.wikipedia.org and the Facebook page for Odia Wikipedia is facebook.com/OdiaWiki As of now there are 714 articles in Odia Wikipedia, many of them are yet to be refined enhanced with more information and references through larger participation. -- Thanks Regards, Srikant Kedia (User:Odisha1) Odia (Oriya) Wikipedia Community Odia Wikipedia Support Mail ID - odiaw...@gmail.com Facebook- facebook.com/OdiaWiki Tweet @OdiaWiki ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
