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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Philosophical view on Google translated articles

2010-04-20 Thread Ramesh N G

I have tried the google translator to translate some en article into
Malayalam. around 5, 6.

The difficulty which I felt was the word to word translation. We have
a difference in style. Though we translate content of lot en wiki
articles to ML, we dont do it as a word by word. we need to change the
sentence, or sometimes the entire explanation in the way we write the
ml articles.
I left that option of google translator for ml wiki now.

regards
Rameshng


On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:51 PM, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.com wrote:
 Ravi,

 Here is my view on your questions.

 However, a majority of the Tamil Wiki community is showing stiff
 resistance for this operation.

 I too support them :). Word-to-word translation is not good from the reader
 point of view. It may kill the project also.


 1. Is Paid editing against Wikipedia principles or spirit?

 Yes, according to me.

 2.  Besides the article count etc., Wiki is first of all a vibrant and
 healthy community of like minded individuals interacting on a friendly note.
 This is very important in a small community especially. But this operation
 creates a divide like regular Wikipedians Vs Google Translators. User - 
 User interaction has changed to User -  Google -  Translation team
 coordinator  interaction. From friendly reminders we have reached a
 complaining stage.

 Is this good for the community in the long run?

 No it is not good for the community or for wiki.

 3. Who benefits more from this operation? Google or Wiki? Even if it is
 assumed that it will serve the language ultimately, who has the control in
 this operation? Of course, the Wiki communities have the control but they
 haven't exercised yet.

 This can hardly be considered partnership or collaboration. Google has not
 been transparent on this so far.

 Of course. Google will benefit more.  Wiki will get many artificial
 word-to-word translated articles from which the readers will run away.
 Google will enhance their English to Tamil translator tool through this
 exercise.

 4. Wikipedia is a volunteer project and Wikipedians contribute out of free
 will. Is this free will ensured for the Google Translators? (choice of
 articles, translation style, work load, tool for translation etc.,)

 No. since they are translating articles for money. And wikipedians will not
 have time to go through each and every word that they translate. I think
 Tamil wikipedians need to concentrate more on tamil wikipedia article
 contest now. So who will review the Google translated  articles.

 5. Use of Google translation kit is not wrong per se. But the Kit is
 partly responsible for many of the issues. Is it right to continue using
 this without cleaning up existing articles?

 I am against any type of word to word translation of English Wiki articles
 to any other language. We have tried this Malayalam Wikipedia 3 years
 before. We discontinued that since we found that exercise is creating
 artificial articles which is not good from the reader point of view.

 6. Not all en wiki articles are the best. Some have factual errors and
 some have bias. Especially, articles on culture, politics etc., Is it good
 to translate them as it is? A paid translator can hardly be expected or
 allowed to correct them.

 Your concern is true.

 7. Style of English and Style of Indian languages are quite different.
 Since the translation is done through the kit, we can see literal
 translations resulting in a dry or artificial style in the local language.
 This can harm the nature of the local language in long run. Translation is
 OK but not everywhere and as it is.

 True. I already mentioned this above.

 8. IS THE WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION AWARE OF THIS OPERATION ? WHAT IS ITS VIEW?
 Its view need not be binding on the local community. Nevertheless it will be
 interesting to know.

 It is the local wiki community to decide about this.

 9. WHY HASN'T GOOGLE ANNOUNCED ABOUT THIS PROJECT OPENLY YET? Google has
 emphasized many times that it doesn't create information but only organizes
 it. Whenever it showed hints of creating information, it was highly noted
 with concern. This operation is a clear move towards information creation.

 Since they are not sure whether this project will happen.

 On the outset, this looks like a good gesture from Google to Indian
 language Wikis. But it should also be noted in the context Google and
 Wikmedia are both powerful entities in the Internet and one's effect on
 another should be watched.

 Google's only aim is to enhance their English- Indian language translator
 tools. All other discussions are the ways to achieve that aim.


 Shiju



 On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 9:19 PM, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi all,

 An update on the Google translated articles issue in Tamil Wiki.

 We exchanged few emails with the Google team and had a conference call
 once and the progress so far has been:

 * Google gets our approval on article topics before translating.
 * Some of the

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki meetup 19 at Bangalore - 2010 September 24

2010-09-22 Thread Ramesh N G

Yeah.. thats a hot talk now..
its contradictory that our date also falls to Sep, 24

http://www.zeenews.com/news653748.html



On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote:

 On the occasion of Babri-masjid case judgment,

 how advisable is it to travel Bangalore for the meetup?


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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] mobile editing reading of Wikipedia

2010-10-26 Thread Ramesh N G

Data charges definitely is coming down and will be coming down more with the
3G war in India.

The support for other languages and unicode should be improved in the
mobiles.

I have tried ml wikipedia in the Nokia E series with MiniOpera browser. It
was really a bad experience for me. The fonts are not properly displaying.
Hope to see more improvements especially on the unicode support and fonts in
the mobile browsers.

regards
Ramesh ng




On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 6:25 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan 
rsrikant...@gmail.com wrote:

 I agree with Srikanth on this issue.
 I have been using Wikipedia on my phone for over a year and a half, and
 have even edited several articles from my phone.

 On 26 October 2010 11:30, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com wrote:

 On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:34, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.orgwrote:

 Arjuna makes a good point on language support. As for the data costs,
 don't some providers (I know MTS does) provide access to Wikipedia for
 free?


 Have you used MTS free Wikipedia? I overheard they are falsely advertising
 but actually it costs something. (like only en.wiki is free and data charges
 apply for images  on the article from commons). I am not very sure on this,
 anyone who uses MTS can confirm. But i have to disagree with Arjuna and feel
 data charges have come down significantly over a period of time now though
 may still not be affordable to a common man on the street when compared to
 the dead low voice tariff. More and more alternate ways of
 consuming Wikipedia on mobile needs to be developed. I particularly find
 the Wikipedia layer on Google maps for mobile useful while exploring unknown
 territories.


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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] mobile editing reading of Wikipedia

2010-10-26 Thread Ramesh N G

Could you try http://ml.m.wikipedia.org/ from your phone?

I have tried this also. It has the similar issue of the fonts. The chillus
of malayalam is another issue while displaying.
I could read it, but as far as the usability, it is of no use.

regards



On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 9:49 PM, BalaSundaraRaman sundarbe...@yahoo.comwrote:

   Ramesh,

 Could you try http://ml.m.wikipedia.org/ from your phone? (Of course,
 it'll still need the fonts.)
 To my knowledge, Malayalam Wikipedia is the only Indian Wikipedia to have a
 mobile interface (I could be wrong).
 For Tamil Wikipedia, only the final steps are pending.

 - 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:* Ramesh N G rames...@gmail.com
 *To:* wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
 *Sent:* Tue, October 26, 2010 6:30:59 PM
 *Subject:* Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] mobile editing  reading of Wikipedia

 Data charges definitely is coming down and will be coming down more with
 the 3G war in India.

 The support for other languages and unicode should be improved in the
 mobiles.

 I have tried ml wikipedia in the Nokia E series with MiniOpera browser. It
 was really a bad experience for me. The fonts are not properly displaying.
 Hope to see more improvements especially on the unicode support and fonts in
 the mobile browsers.

 regards
 Ramesh ng




 On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 6:25 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan 
 rsrikant...@gmail.com wrote:

 I agree with Srikanth on this issue.
 I have been using Wikipedia on my phone for over a year and a half, and
 have even edited several articles from my phone.

   On 26 October 2010 11:30, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote:

   On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:34, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.orgwrote:

 Arjuna makes a good point on language support. As for the data costs,
 don't some providers (I know MTS does) provide access to Wikipedia for
 free?


 Have you used MTS free Wikipedia? I overheard they are falsely
 advertising but actually it costs something. (like only en.wiki is free and
 data charges apply for images  on the article from commons). I am not very
 sure on this, anyone who uses MTS can confirm. But i have to disagree with
 Arjuna and feel data charges have come down significantly over a period of
 time now though may still not be affordable to a common man on the street
 when compared to the dead low voice tariff. More and more alternate ways of
 consuming Wikipedia on mobile needs to be developed. I particularly find
 the Wikipedia layer on Google maps for mobile useful while exploring unknown
 territories.


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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Survey regarding Indic wikis

2011-02-02 Thread Ramesh N G

Mayur, This is really great work!
This should be an Inspiration to improve on the weak areas of each
wikipedia.

regards
Ramesh NG

On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 3:58 PM, mayur mayur...@gmail.com wrote:

Hi all,
I am mayur a hindi wikipedian.I have prepared a survey to
determine overall quality of a wikipedia project.Here is the link
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IFphBpq14eMUjoBcy0wk-WWQNTQ5vxpq_o285DyrqvU/edit?hl=en
for
survey report. Here is the Summary for that

*Why did we do that survey?*

As we know there are lots of Indic wiki projects having different number of
active users and article. However we simply differentiate them on behalf of
number of articles or depth but that cannot give us an actual overall growth
of that project because many projects are simply bot generated as we know
about Nepal bhasha and Bishnupriya Manipuri Wikipedia. Simply a project
growth can be measured from its article quality and number of articles both.
A project having large no of articles having good quality of article has
grown faster.

*How did we measure quality of a wiki project?*

Quality of a wiki project is simply depends upon how many articles are
developed from their stubs root. Generally each article is started from a
stub. Now quality of the article mainly depends upon how much time it has
been edited and how many words are in it or how many long the article is? So
we choose different factor which directly affects the quality of article.
These are-

1) *Nr. of good articles (Articles having size2 KB)*

Simply a project having more articles of size 2 KB has grown much in
comparison to another. But this alone cannot decide quality of a project
that’s why we included some another factors. We simply took the percentage
of articles having size greater than 2 KB. We gave a marking scale of 150 to
this.

2) *Nr. of Average articles (Articles having size0.5 KB)*

Simply to filter the stubs we choose this criteria, we gave marking scale
of 100 to this just less than above because article having size greater than
2 KB reflects much growth in comparison to 0.5 KB article.

3) *Average number of words in an article*

That was too tricky to calculate but we simply divided total number of
words in a project by total nr. of articles in it for a rough estimate. To
keep this in the marking scale of 100 we simply multiplied the output value
by 0.1 In our formula.

4) *Avg. size of article (KB)*

That was also tricky to calculate but we simply divided total size of a
project by total nr. of articles in it for a rough estimate. To keep this in
the marking scale of 100 we simply multiplied the output value by 10 In our
formula.

5) *Main space edit per total nr. Of articles*

That was also an important factor to know how frequently an article is
being edited for being updated. Output value was already on a scale of 100
so we did not multiply of divided that value.

6) *Total Edits/article*

This is also an Important factor because it reflects how much extra edits
(that includes categorization, image uploads and some other similar factors)
are being performed in a wiki project. As Output value was already on a
scale of 100 so we did not multiply of divided that value.

7) *Bot edits*

That was the most important factor because all the factor that we discussed
can be gained at high value by running bots like in Nepal bhasha and
Bishnupriya Manipuri Wikipedia. So we simply multiplied the overall score by
percentage non bot edits. However bots edits in some extant are also a
necessary part. So we just set the 50% bot edits as a cut off mark. For A
wiki having more than 50% of bot edits we simply multiplied total score by
(100-(bot edits if larger than 50%-50))

*Formula for Quality factor = (R*0.1+Q*10+E+F*1.5+P+O)*(100-N)/100*

*R- Average number of words in an article*

*Q- Avg. size of article (KB)*

*E- Article greater than 2kb*

*F-* *Article greater than 0.5kb*

*P-* *Total Edits/article*

*O-* *Mainspace edit per total nr. Of articles*

*N-* *Share of Bot edits (%)*

* *

*Overall Score = Number of articles * Quality factor*

* *

*Thank you and Regards*

*Mayur*

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Uploading to Commons

2011-05-04 Thread Ramesh N G

This is really a useful tool. Except adding the category while uploading.
There should be a auto complete with possible completions for category.

User:Rameshng



On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 1:38 AM, Gerard Meijssen
gerard.meijs...@gmail.comwrote:

 Hoi,
 One really nice development is the continued improvements of the
 UploadWizard. This software is available and functional at Wikimedia Commons
 and makes it much easier to upload pictures to Commons.

 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UploadWizard

 One of the recent developments is that they are registering to what extend
 the wizard is used in different languages. However for these statistics to
 be useful, this extension needs to be localised in your language. As always
 the localisation can be done at translatewiki.net ...
 Thanks,
 GerardM

 https://translatewiki.net/wiki/User:Multichill/stats stats about the
 localisation

 https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translategroup=ext-uploadwizardstart
  localising directly

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikiml-l] [Foundation-l] Announcement: Selected Books from Malayalam Wikisource on CD released

2011-06-12 Thread Ramesh N G

Was there any Wikisource CD offline released in any other language before?

If anyone has information, please share.

regards
User:Rameshng




On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 10:34 PM, Luiz Augusto lugu...@gmail.com wrote:

 Congratulations!

 Specially because it is a non-Wikipedia CD project released after of a
 Wikipedia CD project [1].

 Maybe the entire Wikimedia community learn from your experience what they
 can do if someone remembers that Wikimedia is more than Wikipedia.

 --[[:m:User:555|Lugusto]]

 [1] - http://www.mlwiki.in/ : Malayalam Wikisource on CD *2011* release
 and Malayalam Wikipedia on CD *2010* release


 On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 4:12 PM, emijrp emi...@gmail.com wrote:

 Creating an offline version of a wiki project is a hard work. Keep up the
 good work! Congratulations! : )

 P.D.: downloading...

 2011/6/11 Jyothis E jyothi...@gmail.com

  Dear fellow Wikimedians,
 
  With great pleasure, Malayalam Wikimedia Community announced its 2011 CD
  project Selected Books from Malayalam Wikisource on CD - 1.0 at the
 4th
  annual Wiki Meetup in Kannur, Kerala. This is by far the biggest digital
  collection of free books in Malayalam language available on CD for
 offline
  use. This is an important milestone, as majority of the households in
  Kerala
  does not have internet or does not have an always on connection and this
  will enable them to access these books as an offline content.
 
  Contents:
 
  Selected Poems by
   * Kumaranasan
   * Cherusseri
   * Changampuzha Krishna Pillai
   * Kalakkaththu Kunchan Nambiar
   * Irayimman Thampi
   * Ramapurathu Warrier
 
  Malayalam Grammer
   * Kerala Panineeyam by AR Rajaraja Varma
 
  Legends/Folklore
   * Aithihyamala
 
  Novels
   * Indulekha
 
  Religious
   * Bhagavad Gita
   * Adhyatma Ramayanam Kilippaatu
   * Harinama Keerthanam
   * Geetha Govindam
   * Sathya Veda Pusthakam (Malayalam Bible)
   * Quran
   * Works of Sree Narayana Guru
   * Devotional songs for Christian, Hindu and Islamic religions
 
   Native Art Form
   * Parichamuttukali pattukal
 
   Philosophy (Political)
   * Communist Manifesto
   * Principles of Communism (Friedrich Engels)
 
  The CD also contains the commons collections of images on food, plants,
  birds, maps and  celebrations from Kerala. The CD is made available for
  download in iso format as well as browsing at our community website -
  http://www.mlwiki.in. For those who are interested in the technical
  challenges and aspects of the background work may read Santhosh's blog
  post
 
 http://thottingal.in/blog/2011/06/11/malayalam-wikisource-offline-version/
  about
  it.
 
  We thank every one who participated in the effort. Comments and
 questions
  are welcome.
 
  Thanks and Regards,
  Malayalam Wikimedia Community.
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-mum] [Wikimedia-IN-PUN] Wiki India Conference

2011-06-16 Thread Ramesh N G

Why dont we make a DVD in the INdia related article from the
[[:en:Wikipedia:WikiProject India]]

regards

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Naveen Francis navee...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi Shiju,

 My personal opinion is even if we fail to release a CD/DVD; i think should
 try make one.
 It will help to improve the quality of wikipedias.

 I think ultimate aim 'Wikipedia India Conference' is to improve the quality
 of contents in wikimedia projects.

 Other 'Wikipedia India Conference' will just a meetup.
 I am ready to help if anyone is starting this project .

 Thanks,
 Naveen Francis



 On 16 June 2011 09:38, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.com wrote:

 How viable is to release a DVD in 60 days in all languages ?


 Not a good idea unless few language communities (at least 6-7) are ready
 for the selection, proof reading, verifying image licenses, and so on.
 Selection and creation of offline content is not at all a small task. Much
 effort is required for it. Also from each language community the support of
 at least 10 active contributors are required. As of now not many Indic
 language communities are ready for it. Also the exclusion of selected
 articles from inactive wikis is not a good idea when we are trying for
 public outreach.

 Another possible and easiest option would be  releasing a Commons CD/DVD
 that contains copyleft images related to India. Malayalam wikimedians
 already done a test release of Commons images along with the Wikisource CD.
 The release of such a CD/DVD can be done with less effort.

 Shiju



 On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Naveen Francis navee...@gmail.comwrote:

 Hi all,

 Is there any plan for a DVD of featured articles in all indic languages
 and articles by WP:IND (english wiki) ?
 Releasing DVD will help to increase quality of content in the wiki.

 Shiju/Santhosh,

 How viable is to release a DVD in 60 days in all languages ?




 On 12 June 2011 17:35, Outofindia outofin...@gmail.com wrote:

 Thanks. Sure!

 Let's have a small core Fund Raising  team that discusses the options
 for fund raisingand we post updates to all others once we agree on
 something.

 Would like  to know:
 1. Is there a budget already?
 2. Will this be fully or partially funded by anyone.
 3. Are we raising funds for the Conference expenses or will we be
 raising funds for the Foundation. I have no views/preferences...just
 like to know so that when we approach possible sponsors we communicate
 correctly.

 The Starting Point should be:
 For The Conf Organising Committee to outline the schedule/programme
 and expected scale.
 I assume it is a 3 day Event

 Once we have that as a base document all other teams can get to work
 around that pale blue print.

 The Fund Raising Team will analyse all the fund raising opportunities
 around the programme and work from there.

 Harriet








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  Thanks for the very positive note from you. Looking forward to meeting
 you
  sometime. Thanks for the sage advice regarding funding. Looks like you
 have
  mentally become an organiser. We invite you to join the Fund-raising
  committee as it appears to be of keen interest to you.
 
  Warm regards,
 
  Ashwin Baindur
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  On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Outofindia outofin...@gmail.com
 wrote:
 
  Count me in to support the Conference in Mumbai and hold the yet to
 be
  developed bidding processes for next year...there's no time to
  lose...Espcecially since we have dates from Jimmy Wales.
 
  Also FUND RAISING for the event should not be restricted to a
  particular group/city but all incoming funds should be directed to
 one
  person who heads the finance committee who has a Conference
  Accountthat is transparent.
 
  Fund raising, promoting the event and passing the word around should
  be everyone's effort.
 
  Warm regards
 
  Harriet from Mangalore!
 
 
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Updating the logo of Indian Language Wikipedias

2011-07-07 Thread Ramesh N G

Good go ..hindi wikipedians. The Main Page looks nice.


On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 11:13 PM, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.comwrote:

 Logo of Hindi wikipedia (http://hi.wikipedia.org)  is also updated.


 Shiju Alex



 On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.comwrote:

 Dear Indic language wikipedians,

 The logos of some of the Indic language wikipedias are updated recently.
 Following are those wikipedias:

- Marathi - http://mr.wikipedia.org/
- Kannada - http://sa.wikipedia.org/
- Sanskrit - http://kn.wikipedia.org/
- Odia (Oriya) - http://or.wikipedia.org/

 Among this, the Odia wikipedia logo is updated yesterday and is done by a
 new wikipedian. Thanks to Subhashish who started editing in Odia wikipedia
 recently. He had done a wonderful job.

 The logos for the following language wikipedias still need to be updated.

- Assamese - http://as.wikipedia.org
- Bhojpuri - http://bh.wikipedia.org
- Bishnupriya Manipuri - http://bpy.wikipedia.org/
- Divehi - http://dv.wikipedia.org
- Gujarati - http://gu.wikipedia.org
- Hindi - http://hi.wikipedia.org
- Kashmiri - http://ks.wikipedia.org/
- Nepali - http://ne.wikipedia.org
- Pali - http://pi.wikipedia.org
- Punjabi - http://pa.wikipedia.org
- Sindhi - http://sd.wikipedia.org
- Tamil - http://ta.wikipedia.org

 Hope the logos will be updated soon by the respective language community.

 Kindly create a new logo, upload it to commons, and log a bug in bugzilla.
 In case you require any assistance please contact me.

 Shiju Alex




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 Dear Indic language wikipedians,

 As many of you know the default skin of wikipedias (including that of all
 Indic language wikipedias) is moved to the new Vector skin some time back.
 Please see the below mail that I sent to this list regrading this on *2010
 July 1*.

 As some of you know, along with this update, the logo of wikipedia is also
 updated. The current logo is available 
 herehttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia/2.0.


 But even though almost 6 months had passed after this major update, only
 Bengali http://bn.wikipedia.org, Malayalam http://ml.wikipedia.org,
 Urdu http://ur.wikipedia.org, and Telugu http://te.wikipedia.org wiki
 communities had took initiatives to update the logo. The logo update is
 still pending for the following Indian language wikis.

- Assamese - http://as.wikipedia.org
- Bhojpuri - http://bh.wikipedia.org
- Bishnupriya Manipuri - http://bpy.wikipedia.org/
- Divehi - http://dv.wikipedia.org
- Gujarati - http://gu.wikipedia.org
- Hindi - http://hi.wikipedia.org
- Kannada - http://kn.wikipedia.org/
- Kashmiri - http://ks.wikipedia.org/
- Marathi - http://mr.wikipedia.org
- Nepali - http://ne.wikipedia.org
- Oriya - http://or.wikipedia.org
- Pali - http://pi.wikipedia.org
- Punjabi - http://pa.wikipedia.org
- Sanskrit - http://sa.wikipedia.org
- Sindhi - http://sd.wikipedia.org
- Tamil - http://ta.wikipedia.org

 Carry Bass (User:Bastiquehttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Bastique)
 has took initiative to create the new logo for some of the Indian language
 wikis. But for languages like Kannada, Oriya, and so on even that is
 pending. Even if the new logo is created a bug needs to be filed by the
 respective wiki community to change the logo. So for most of the Indian
 wikis both these tasks are pending now.

 I request the respective language  communities to take initiatives to
 create the new logo and file a bug for this update. The guidelines for
 creating the new logo is listed at
 http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikimedia_official_marks/Word_mark_creation

 Please write to me if any of the language communities require any type of
 support regarding this.



 Regards
 Shiju Alex















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 Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 06:43:08 +0200
 From: shijualexonl...@gmail.com
 To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
 Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Updating the default skin of Indian Language
 Wikipedias

 Hi All,

 As some of you already know, *Usability Teamhttp://usability.wikimedia.org
 * is driving the task of updating the default skin of all WikiMedia
 Foundation wikis to a skin called 
 *Vector*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vector.
 English Wikipedia and some other big wikis have already moved to *Vector
 skin* some time back. Apart from the UI, the logo of Wikipedia is also
 updated http://blog.wikimedia.org/2010/wikipedia-in-3d/.

 Yesterday (2010 June 30) at 10:30 PM IST, some other wikis (that have
 carried out the formalities required for the UI change) are also moved to
 the new UI. Among

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiConference India 2011 - Scholarships

2011-07-23 Thread Ramesh N G

hi
What is the expected number of Scholarships?

regards
User:Rameshng

On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Vickram Crishna
vvcris...@radiophony.comwrote:

Yes - but please let us not use this list for such private queries. We have
a number of submissions, and the form seems to be working fine. If anyone
has a general problem with making it work, that is a valid query for this
list.

We need to step up the availability of the form in different languages, for
which I urge listmembers here to please spread the word to the language
lists. As a corollary to this, we need to be sure that the googledoc form
will allow us to merge all the submissions in different languages, and if
this feature is not possible, we need to evolve a process for harmonisation
of the different spreadsheets/forms. People with expertise on using the
forms feature on Google spreadsheets please do volunteer.

On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Swaroop Rao raul.swar...@gmail.comwrote:

Hi Vickram,

I filled out the scholarship form early this morning (an hour after you
posted it). Can I know if the form was submitted successfully? Thanks!

Swaroop Rao
(MikeLynch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch)

On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 00:36, Vickram Crishna
vvcris...@radiophony.comwrote:

https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?hl=en_USformkey=dGNxSzAxUndoOHRGamdDSTFMVGNrd3c6MA#gid=0

Applications are invited for
travel/boarding scholarships for WikiConference India 2011. There are a very
limited number of such scholarships, and it is also possible to apply for
partial assistance, in case you can handle part of the costs on your own -
doing so will ensure that more Wikipedians will be able to get
assistance. Provisions have been made for participants from special interest
groups. Applications will be welcomed until Aug 15, and the decision process
will be completed by the first week of September 2011. Please study the form
carefully before submission.

We look forward to plenty of active participation at the conference, with
the help of all Wikipedians.

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiConference India 2011 - Scholarships

2011-07-23 Thread Ramesh N G

Thanks..

On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 4:50 PM, wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com wrote:

  Ramesh,

 We do expect a significant amount of applications though the actual number
 of scholarships in limited. I cannot give a number at present as it the
 final number depends on mathematical calculations.

 The idea is to provide full or partial support to those Wikipedians who
 really want to attend but cannot afford it monetary wise. For those who can
 bear their own cost - of travel or accommodation or have someone they can
 stay with in Mumbai, we encourage them not to apply for scholarships or
 apply for part scholarships as necessary so that those who need it most can
 benefit from it.

 In true Wikipedian spirit, we assume utmost good faith and request everyone
 applying for the scholarships to practice the same.

 Kind Regards,

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 Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 16:39:39 +0530
 To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
 Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiConference India 2011 - Scholarships


 hi
 What is the expected number of Scholarships?

 regards
 User:Rameshng


 On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Vickram Crishna vvcris...@radiophony.com
  wrote:

 Yes - but please let us not use this list for such private queries. We have
 a number of submissions, and the form seems to be working fine. If anyone
 has a general problem with making it work, that is a valid query for this
 list.

 We need to step up the availability of the form in different languages, for
 which I urge listmembers here to please spread the word to the language
 lists. As a corollary to this, we need to be sure that the googledoc form
 will allow us to merge all the submissions in different languages, and if
 this feature is not possible, we need to evolve a process for harmonisation
 of the different spreadsheets/forms. People with expertise on using the
 forms feature on Google spreadsheets please do volunteer.


 On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Swaroop Rao raul.swar...@gmail.comwrote:

 Hi Vickram,


 I filled out the scholarship form early this morning (an hour after you
 posted it). Can I know if the form was submitted successfully? Thanks!

 Swaroop Rao
 (MikeLynch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch)






 On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 00:36, Vickram Crishna 
 vvcris...@radiophony.comwrote:


 https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?hl=en_USformkey=dGNxSzAxUndoOHRGamdDSTFMVGNrd3c6MA#gid=0

 Applications are invited for
 travel/boarding scholarships for WikiConference India 2011. There are a very
 limited number of such scholarships, and it is also possible to apply for
 partial assistance, in case you can handle part of the costs on your own -
 doing so will ensure that more Wikipedians will be able to get
 assistance. Provisions have been made for participants from special interest
 groups. Applications will be welcomed until Aug 15, and the decision process
 will be completed by the first week of September 2011. Please study the form
 carefully before submission.

 We look forward to plenty of active participation at the conference, with
 the help of all Wikipedians.

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 Fool On The Hill http://communicall.wordpress.com

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WCI 2011 - Wikioutreach- India Loves Wikipedia

2011-08-17 Thread Ramesh N G

hi Naveen
Have we set a timeline for the event?
Or is it that 100 days of WCI outreach event?

User:Rameshng


On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 7:21 AM, Naveen Francis navee...@gmail.com wrote:

 India Loves Wikipedia 100 days of photos collecting online event.
  *794 *photos are in Commons in 7 days  *Hip hip hurray...**
 *http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:India_loves_Wikipedia-_2011For
 the photographs you upload please add the following template *{{India
 loves Wikipedia event}}*


 Naveen Francis

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 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2011/Wiki_Outreach



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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WikiHI-l] Hindi Wiki crossed 1 lakh Article milestone

2011-08-30 Thread Ramesh N G

This is great news.. Happy to see the growth and first wikipedia to cross 1
lakh mark in Indic languages



On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 10:50 PM, mayur mayur...@gmail.com wrote:

 Dear all,
   With about 50,000 registered user, 250 active users , 14
 million edits and a depth of
 34
 http://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B6%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B7:Statistics
 Hindi
 Wikipedia crossed 1
 lakhs articles
 http://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B6%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B7:Statistics
 milestone
 today.

 Regards
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] or.wiktionary.org

2011-09-27 Thread Ramesh N G

Good to see that.
Odia Community is on the growth and I think they can do much better here.

All my wishes to the community and language for the growth.

User:Rameshng


On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 6:26 AM, Gerard Meijssen
gerard.meijs...@gmail.comwrote:

 Hoi,
 I am really pleased to inform you that the Oriya Wiktionary is the first
 project ever to be officially re-enabled for editing. The Oriya community is
 working really hard to make their projects a success. They are noticing that
 the usability is improving as a consequence of the obligatory localisation
 that they have to do. Once they are done, the language committee will assess
 if a Wikiquote can be created as well.

 The exception that was made to open up the Oriya Wiktionary was given
 because there is a Wikimeet in the near future and we do want to give their
 community more of a reason to be happy with their hard work.
 Thanks,
  GerardM

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[Wikimediaindia-l] Upload the presentations

2011-11-22 Thread Ramesh N G

hi All
those who presented during WCI 2011, please upload their presentations to
the below category in commons,
Category:WikiConference India 2011 Presentations

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:WikiConference_India_2011_Presentations
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Tamil Wiki Media Contest

2011-11-23 Thread Ramesh N G

The recent addition on the upload progress is really awesome.
Not deviating the thread,
I am happy to participate in this contest.
Do we have some categories, template in commons to identify the medias
which are getting added to the contest?

User:Rameshng



On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote:

 Hi Eric,

 On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 22:44, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:

 This is wonderful, good luck. Please let us know about your experience
 with Upload Wizard.

 I noticed that Upload Wizard isn't fully localized into Tamil yet. Any
 Tamil speaker can help localize it on translatewiki.net. These are the
 missing translations:


 Thank you!. As Bala had mentioned, Upload Wizard is really useful. Though
 the entire extension is not translated completely the interface for end
 user is translated [1]. There was a issue of extension lacking feature to
 add Upload Wizard campaign editors flag to normal users and a fix was
 made available[2] , but commons community needs to create a community
 process around it though. We managed to set it up through Commons admin
 (Thanks Tanvir!). Having Narayam on commons might help a bit and I have
 discussed with Siebrand already at hackathon, probably we might discuss
 more on the bug[3] and get a solution if its possible.


 [1]
 http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UploadWizardcampaign=twmcuselang=ta
 [2] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31903
 [3] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/32619

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Sharing insights and experiences from Indian language wiki communities - Odia (Oriya)

2011-11-29 Thread Ramesh N G

Odia wikipedia is one of the shining example of how really active
wikipedians can make the the growth of wikipedia.
The outreach programs which they have conducted has shown the results in
the last 15 months.

User:Rameshng

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Shiju Alex sh...@wikimedia.org wrote:

Dear All,

Today I am sharing you the summary of discussions I had with Odia wiki (
http://or.wikipedia.org/) community. It is available here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages/Odia/Discussions/2011

Odia is a shining example of how a wiki project can be revived and build a
community around it, if few wonderful users with a vision for building free
knowledge in their mother language arrive in their mother language wiki.

Odia wikipedia was started in 2002. In fact it is one of the first Indic
language wikipedia. Nothing much had happened in Odia wiki till 2010
December. But the progress made by Odia wiki project (
http://or.wikipedia.org/) during the past one year is note worthy and it
is an example that can be replicated in some of the inactive Indic language
wikipedias. Odia was having just 600 articles (which were created over the
past 8 years) and no active users at the start of this year. Now 10 months
later, it has close to 1600 articles and 10 active users. The online and
offline outreach initiatives took by Odia wiki community for building the
community is showing positive result.

I was actively involved in the community building for Odia wikipedia. I
still remember the day (2011 January 15) when I introducted Odia wikipedia
and Odia tying tool (developed by Junaid) to an Odia speaker (Ashuthosh
Kar) during Wiki X celebration at Bangalore. Through him very soon we got a
wonderful wikipedian (Subhashish) who is leading the efforts for Odia wiki
now. Initially Subhasish and I used to meet at my home and work on the
basic things for Odia wiki. I remember us working on the Odia wikipedia
logo, FAQ booklet, Translate wiki, and so on. Soon Odia got more members to
the team through the few Odia wiki workshops happened at Bangalore. Along
with workshops, Odia wikipedians translated the FAQ booklet to Odia and
took efforts to integrate the Odia typing solution to Odia wikipedia. Later
with the support of Dhanada Mishra (the chairman of Human Development
Foundation (http://www.hdf.org.in/)) and a young student Odia wikipedian
Srikanth Kedia a wiki workshop is conducted at Bhubaneshwar. Odia
wikipedians from Bangalore are doing an excellent job and now many of them
are participating in Wikimedia India chapter activities also.

Odia wiki community is effectively making use of various social networking
sites to reach out to Odia speakers.

Odia wiki project picked up not because Odia has got huge speaker base,
high literacy among Odia speakers, access to computers, or any thing else;
it become active only because it has receieved the right volunteers who
have passion and vision of developing a wikipedia in their mother language.
We need similar volunteers for each Indic language wikipedia.

Requesting you to place your comments on the talk
pagehttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages/Odia/Discussions/2011
.

Regards
Shiju

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] A new mailing list for Wikipedians working on India related content on English Wikipedia related projects.

2011-12-03 Thread Ramesh N G

Thanks..
At least now those discussions (talk) related to articles even will not
come to india mailing list, which is supposed to be in the talk page of the
article.

User:Rameshng




On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.comwrote:

 Dear friends,

 A new list has been born.

 https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-en

 Now, English Wikipedians editing on India-related subjects can debate,
 discourse and discuss to their heart's content without anyone disturbing
 the Wikimedia-I list. We hope this will give rise to much more discourse on
 subjects relevant to cntent to English Wikipedia. This is also the place
 where discussions on Wikimedia Commons, and other English Wikimedia
 Projects such as WikiQuote, Wiktionary, WikiSource etc can be discussed.

 Besides this, discussions on Offline Wikipedia, GLAM or other English
 language events are also welcome.

 A lot of action will come away from Wikimedia-l into this list besides
 the hot new topics we shall be discussing. So if you are an editor who
 edits on English Wikipedia on matters India, besides others, or if you want
 to feel the pulse on whats happening on the main wikipedia as relates to
 our country be sure to click the link above  subscribe.

 Lets make new and great things happen!

 Warm regards,

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter : December 2011 Report

2012-01-16 Thread Ramesh N G

Wonderful report.
Thanks for sharing Naveen


On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Naveen Francis navee...@wikimedia.inwrote:

 Dear all,

 Greetings from Wikimedia India !!!

 We are delighted to present the last monthly Wikimedia India report of the
 year 2011, almost a year after the chapter received the formal recognition
 from the Government of Karnataka on 3 January 2011. The journey so far
 wasn't easy, but we appreciate your continued patronage , support and
 participation.
  *Organisational Updates*

 *Formation of Task Forces:*

 As announced earlier, with the objective of increasing the engagement and
 participation of the members of the chapter actively in various
 initiatives, the India chapter has come up with focused Task Forces for
 coordinating and driving various chapter activities [1]. There are two
 types of Task Forces - Project Task Forces and Operations Task Forces. The
 Project Task Forces are focused on growing the Wikimedia projects. The
 Operations Task Forces are critical functions to enable the Project Task
 Forces and the Chapter in growing the movement. The operations group
 consists of Administration, Fund raising,  Communications. The Projects
 task force consists of City and Langugage SIGs and Special Projects. The
 new task forces will be led by the following people:

- Anirudh Bhati, Head, Fundraising.
- Arun Ramarathnam, Chair, Special Projects.
- Srinivas Gunta, Head, Administration.
- Sudhanwa Jogalekar, Chair, City and Language Special Interest
Groups.
- Tinu Cherian, Head, Communications, PR  Media Relations.

 *Membership:*
 The Chapter membership stands at 190 members as of 31 December 2011.

 *Donations:*
 Total donations received in Dec 2011 - INR 700
 Average donations in Dec 2011 - INR 350

 *FCRA:*
 Our application for FCRA prior permission under the Foreign Contribution
 (Regulation) Act with the Government of India is still pending. An official
 from the Home Ministry has visited Arjuna Rao Chavala, President.

 *Internet Relay Chat(IRCs):*
 From time to time, Wikimedia India conduct planned online IRC chat
 sessions. The Dec 17, 2011 was anchored by Arun with the focus on Chapter
 City  Language Special Interest Groups. [2]

 *Board Meetings:*
 The Chapter Executive Committee had two Tele-conference meetings in the
 month of December (dated 07 Dec and 14 Dec, 2011). The Wikimedia India
 chapter and Wikimedia Foundation had one joint co-ordination call on 21 Dec
 2011, which was attended by Arjuna Rao Chavala, Arun Ramaratnam, Naveen
 Francis, Sudhanwa Jogalekar, Tinu Cherian, Anirudh Bhati, Asaf Bartov and
 Hisham Mundol. The summary of the joint coordination call was shared
 earlier [3].
 Community City and Language Special Interest Groups

 City and Language Special Interest Groups are a mechanism to engage the
 diverse interests of members across India. The objective is to grow the
 wiki projects in their areas of interest by reviewing the status, planning
 and executing events of interest through growing the community involvement.
 The leadership of these groups is part of the extended leadership of the
 Chapter.

 The Wikimedia Chapter is proud to announce the appointment of the next
 batch of City and Language Special Interest Group Chairs [4] as given
 below:


 *City*

- Delhi SIG - Noopur Raval (noopur [at] wikimedia [dot] in)
- Bangalore SIG - RadhaKrishna (Arkrishna [at] wikimedia [dot] in)
- Mumbai SIG - Kundan Amitabh (kundan.amitabh [at] wikimedia [dot] in)
- Pune SIG - Mandar Kulkarni(mandar.kulkarni [at] wikimedia [dot] in)
- Kolkata SIG - Kalyan Sarkar (kalyan [at] wikimedia [dot] in)

 *Languages*

- English SIG - Ashwin Baindur (ashlin [at] wikimedia [dot] in)
- Kannada SIG - Omshivaprakash H L (omshivaprakash [at] wikimedia
[dot] in)
- Marathi SIG - Mahitgar (mahitgar [at] wikimedia [dot] in)
- Telugu SIG - Rahimanuddin Shaik (rahimanuddin [at] wikimedia [dot]
in)

 The current sign-ups of Members for the SIGs are as follows:

 *City Special Interest Groups*
   City  Members  Bangalore  10  Delhi  2  Mumbai  3  Pune  6  Kolkata  2

 *Language Special Interest Groups*
   Language  Volunteers  Bengali  1  English  15  Hindi  1  Kannada  3  Marathi
  4  Malayalam  8  Nepali  1  Odia  3  Sanskrit  2  Telugu  3  Events

 A round-up of Wikimedia events and initatives around the nation is as
 follows.

- *Wiki Academy @Jaya Engineering college * ( 10 Dec 2011) : The first
Wiki Academy in Jaya Engineering college, Chennai,[5] was organized by the
Wikimedia chapter and co-hosted by Jaya FOSS Club. Odia Wiki Chair 
Chapter member, Subhashish Panigrahi explained basics of Wikipedia, how it
is edited by millions of volunteers, how Wikipedia is exclusively
encyclopedic and kind of articles and notability of articles in Wikipedia,
how Wikipedians communicate and form community, and organization of
Wikimedia foundations and active projects. Then he took

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] New Wikimedia India Portals

2012-02-03 Thread Ramesh N G

Awesome!!
This is really a good work. It looks like the wikimedia India chapter is
changing into the top gear now.

Applause for all those who worked behind this.

Lets work together for much more rich contents.

User:Rameshng



On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 8:18 AM, Naveen Francis navee...@wikimedia.inwrote:

 Hi all,

 We are pleased to formally announce the launch of the following new
 Wikimedia India Portals:

 http://wikimedia.in/ - The new landing page will be the gateway to the
 various Project pages and Wikis.

 http://wiki.wikimedia.in The public wiki is now revamped with an all-new
 look and lots of information. Feel free to add more information to the
 wikis.

 http://members.wikimedia.in Wiki for India Chapter Members

 http://blog.wikimedia.in/ Wikimedia India Blog - to post a blog, contact
 Arjuna Rao Chavala or Tinu Cherian

 We are pleased to introduce the following new Wikimedia Project gateways
 for the various Indic languages:
  http://wikisource.in http://wikiquote.in http://wikibooks.in
 http://wikinews.in http://wikibooks.org.in http://wikisource.org.in
 http://wiktionary.org.in


 The planned landing page for http://wikipedia.in is available 
 herehttp://wikimedia.in/wikipedia.html
 .

 Efforts are currently underway to obtain control of a few more important
 domains and announcements will be made as and when we get them. We
 sincerely believe this initiative will help drive more traffic to Indic
 language Wikimedia Projects.

 We would like to express our sincere gratitude to the Wikimedia CH /
 Switzerland Chapter and Manuel Schneider (Wikimedia CH / Switzerland)  for
 hosting our websites and portals at no cost.

 A number of people need to be thanked, who helped in the this initiative.

 Rajesh K Oayanchal  who designed the portals and Jyothis E who gave his
 webspace for the testing purposes. Anirudh, Noopur Raval, ,Surya,
 Radhakrishna, Omshivaprakash, Debanjan, Saroj,  Swaroop, Abhishek
 Suryawanshi and others have helped in translations .

 Tanvir Rahman , Tinu Cherian and Arun Ram helped in revamping the public
 wiki.

 We hope that you will find these portals useful and informative.

 Please do get back to us with your feedback and suggestions.

 Regards,
 Naveen Francis
 Wikimedia India Chapter

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimeetup Delhi-6

2012-02-03 Thread Ramesh N G

ideally Delhi-6 should be somewhere in chandni chowk. :)
CHeers guys.. and best wishes.


On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 1:38 AM, Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.com wrote:

 Dear all,
 Announcing the Delhi Wiki meetup # 6 on February 12 at 3:00 p.m. at Hauz
 Khas.
 Here is the link to the Wiki:
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Delhi/Delhi6
 and the link to the FB page:
 http://www.facebook.com/events/101208423341495

 We hope to see all of you who are around Delhi!
 The agenda for this meeting is to do an introductory session on editing
 for potential newbies and discuss collaboration on Delhi articles. We are
 also keen to see folks editing on the Hindi Wikipedia and would be glad if
 someone turned up to start discussions on that :)
 Please let me know your suggestions and ideas! We also have discussions on
 offline events simultaneously.

 thank you,
 Warmly
 Noopur


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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Formation of Communications, PR Media Relations Team

2012-02-13 Thread Ramesh N G

Good job Tinu.

good to see the energetic members of wiki are in the list.




On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Tinu Cherian (Wikimedia India) 
tinucher...@wikimedia.in wrote:

  Hi all,
  We are pleased to announce the first batch of our team for
 Communications, PR  Media Relations of the Wikimedia India Chapter.

- Tinu Cherian, Head, Communications
- Arun Ramaratnam, Official Spokesperson
- Anirudh Bhati
- Srikeit Tadepalli
- Noopur Raval
- Srikanth Lakshmanan
- Naveen Francis
- Pranav Curumsey
- Ram Shankar Yadav
- Mitra Sharma
- Anivar Aravind


 We are still discussing with lots of potential people who are interested
 and have the necessary skills. We will be adding them as we progress.

 *Scope of Work*

 Duties and Responsibilities of the team include, but are not limited to
 the following:

 *General :*

- Development of a comprehensive multi-language Communications
Plan for Wikimedia Movement in India to support the Chapter's strategic
objectives. This plan must include social media, digital outreach, Public
Relations (PR) and supporting community and chapter outreach.
- Implementation of the Communications Plan - including
measuring of results focused on growth in participation and readership
within India and continuous improvement as required.
- Identification, selection and onboarding of specialised
agencies as required.
- Build a close partnership with the Community and Wikimedia
Foundation India Programs to support communications and media outreach.
- Participating in Global Wikimedia Communications committee
and subscribed to its mailing list: wmfc...@mail.wikimedia.org


   *  Communications :*

- Supporting and overseeing communication with Wikimedia
community which includes Chapter members, general public and media.
- Helping the Chapter Secretary in the monthly report that is
send to the members and the community.
- Providing ad hoc support to the Chapter  Community on all
aspects of communications as may be deemed necessary.


 *Public/ Media Relations :*

- Coordinating communications with the press, including press
releases, interviews, and inquiries.
- Handling press enquiries and answering them.
- Build a close partnership and working relation with a
network of journalists and news editors all over India and abroad.
- Maintaining a list of people willing to be contacted 
interviewed by the media.
- Identify potential media worthy stories and getting them
published into the mass media.
- Contacting editors and publishers of Wikipedia press
coverage to request that corrections be published as needed.
- Public Relations (PR) to build and manage relationships with
media and drive messaging that promotes participation.
- Researching press lists, monitoring and analyzing media
coverage, both negative and positive.
- will be responsible for executing and carrying out PR
campaigns on behalf of the chapter.
- Improve Wikimedia media coverage especially on Indian local
languages.
- Supporting the media coverage of Chapter , Wikimedia
Foundation and Community led events and initiatives in India like
Wikiconference, wikimeeetups, wikiacademies, workshops etc


  *   Digital Properties/Social Media :*

- Digital outreach comprises how to drive awareness and
education and movitation to participate in various projects from within the
existing readership base.
- Social media includes managing and driving social media
vehicles to drive participation (i.e., building awareness and driving
traffic to Indic language editions, raising awareness of how content is
created on various projects and motivating and enabling participation.)
- Maintain the official IRC channel on freenode: #wikimedia-in
and regularly conduct planned IRC sessions.
- Maintain the social media properties including the ones on
facebook  twitter and Youtube channels, and all Public facing Digital
resources like the wiki, blog and website.
- Keeping the Wikimedia India Press kit and In the News
sections on the public wiki up to date.
- Interacting with the Chapter OTRS team.
- Help and co-ordinate the Community Newsletter, WikiPatrika


 * Team Structure*


- The team is led by Head of Communications, PR  Media Relations,
Wikimedia Chapter. The position is a voluntary and not a staff/paid
position.
- There is an official Spokesperson of the Wikimedia India
Chapter. The position is a voluntary and not a staff/paid position.
- The above positions will be handled either

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic Languages on Wikipedia Android application

2012-02-23 Thread Ramesh N G

I set my android to to language ml.

Only some of the icon in the apps turned Malayalam.

But my News and Weather App turned completely ml.
The photo editor and Video Maker app turned completely in Malayalam
Language.
Wikipedia app turned ml and default page set to ml page.


I dont think i can attach the snapshot here. will try to upload in commons.

But the ml Chillu Problem still exists.


User:Rameshng



On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Yuvi Panda yuvipa...@gmail.com wrote:

 Blog post by GerardM on how to tweak your android device to support
 Indic languages:

 http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2012/02/trick-android-to-use-your-language.html

 Would be awesome if people here could test it on their device +
 language combination :)

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic Languages on Wikipedia Android application

2012-02-27 Thread Ramesh N G

I have some snapshot uplaoded to commons.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:News_app_in_ml_in_android_using_locale-2.png

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ml_new_chillu_problem_while_using_locale-2.png

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_andoid_app_menu_in_ml_using_locale-2.png

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Photo_editor_andoid_app_in_ml_using_locale-2_.png


User:Rameshng



On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 7:52 PM, Amir E. Aharoni 
amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:

 Oh, cool. If i understand correctly, this means that your phone has a
 font, but with broken chillus, which is still better than nothing, but
 to actually make it work and show some Malayalam interface you have to
 use that app.

 I'll be very glad to hear more reports like this!


 2012/2/23 Ramesh N G rames...@gmail.com:
  I set my android to to language ml.
 
  Only some of the icon in the apps turned Malayalam.
 
  But my News and Weather App turned completely ml.
  The photo editor and Video Maker app turned completely in Malayalam
  Language.
  Wikipedia app turned ml and default page set to ml page.
 
 
  I dont think i can attach the snapshot here. will try to upload in
 commons.
 
  But the ml Chillu Problem still exists.
 
 
  User:Rameshng
 
 
 
 
  On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Yuvi Panda yuvipa...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  Blog post by GerardM on how to tweak your android device to support
  Indic languages:
 
 
 http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2012/02/trick-android-to-use-your-language.html
 
  Would be awesome if people here could test it on their device +
  language combination :)
 
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  http://yuvi.in/blog
 
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Are you on this list but not comfortable editing Wikipedia and not sure who to ask? Want to learn?? SITTING AT HOME???

2012-03-01 Thread Ramesh N G

I think thats a good initiative. ... I would love to see something like
this happen

On Mar 1, 2012 8:59 PM, Nitika ntan...@wikimedia.org wrote:

 Hey Everyone,

 There are over 500 people on this mailing list - but I know quite a few
 folks who might not be too comfortable editing Wikipedia.

 I'm organising something where we can try and solve that - all while you
 are sitting in your cozy home corners and sipping on a hot cup of chai.
 Simply put, it's a virtual outreach session.

 Here's how it will work. It will run for 3 hours on a Sunday afternoon.
  It will be conducted as a Google+ Hangout.  (If you are not familiar, this
 is a feature that allows for free video conferencing.)  It will be a
 combination of a presentation, hands-on editing session and an open house
 to get queries solved.

 Agenda of the event
 1. Introduction to Wikipedia
 2. Overview of Core Wikipedia Policies, etc. (Neutral Point of View,
 Referencing, Notability, Writing Style, Avoiding CopyVio, Courtesy,
 Controlling Vandalism, etc.)
 3. Basic Editing (creating user accounts  user pages, understanding talk
 pages, adding content  references, inserting links, using Wiki markups,
 etc.)
 4. Community Citizenship (Understanding how we communicate with each other
 on Wikipedia and the protocols for this.)
 5. QA  Next Steps (Discuss what your first edits after the session might
 be: what kind of article?  what kind of edit?)

 Medium of the event: Google+ Hangout.
 It is free and there's nothing to install.  Do make sure you check your
 mic and speakers beforehand (and the screen also asks you to check your
 hair!)  It allows everyone to see each other's video - making it a more
 human experience.  Also, we'll be able to view each other's screens which
 will make it simpler to conduct this session.  We can have a max of 10
 people doing a hangout at any point in time.  In case we have more than 10
 interested participants, we will organize multiple sessions.

 Proposed date and time: 11th March, 3pm to 6pm.

 Participants/Volunteers/Facilitators: Do drop me an email at
 nit...@wikimedia.org.  Also, if you are an experienced editor and
 interested in conducting the event, drop me an email. I'll then send you
 details of how this event wil be conducted.

 Do share this with anyone you know who might not be on this list but might
 be interested (friends, family, whoever!)

 Thanks
 Nitika

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Experimenting with Virtual Outreach

2012-03-01 Thread Ramesh N G

Great idea..

Wat abt making it for all indic language?
On Mar 1, 2012 8:58 PM, Nitika ntan...@wikimedia.org wrote:

 Hi Folks,

 I was thinking of experimenting conducting online outreach.  I want to try
 out if we can do an effective outreach event using a google+ (video)
 hangout.  Virtual outreach has a number of advantages:

 * No investment of time/effort/cost in travel
 * Personal attention to each participant (because of individual
 video/screenshare facilities.)
 * No complications of no laptops available at the venue or a limit on
 creating user names from a single IP address during the event
 * Lower dependency on institutions/college fests to organize an event for
 us.
 * Not limited by physical presence. Sitting in Kanyakumari,  one can
 conduct outreach for interested folks in Kashmir!

 This is just a trial to test if online outreach is effective, doable and
 manageable. This could be one of the ways forward!  (Potentially, we could
 have more community members doing more events with a more diverse audience.)

 I'm really excited.  Fingers crossed!

 Thanks
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[Wikimediaindia-l] WikiSangamolsavam - Annual WikiConference of Malayalam Wikicommunity

2012-04-09 Thread Ramesh N G

In continuation to the earlier announcement, here are the latest updates on
*
WikiSangamolsavam - The Annual WikiConference of Malayalam Wikicommunity. *

The conference is happening on April 28th and 29th at
Kollamhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kollam,
Kerala http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerala. We expect around 200 people
to attend this conference.

1. The Programs has been Finalized. Click
*here*ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%80%E0%B4%A1%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AF:%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%B8%E0%B4%82%E0%B4%97%E0%B4%AE%E0%B5%8B%E0%B4%A4%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B8%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%82_-_2012/%E0%B4%AA%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AA%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%9F%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%BE/ento
view the page in En.
2. The registration is now
openhttp://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%80%E0%B4%A1%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AF:%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%B8%E0%B4%82%E0%B4%97%E0%B4%AE%E0%B5%8B%E0%B4%A4%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B8%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%82_-_2012/Registration/en.
Click *here
*https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHhrRkFXNEF6SmU4LUhudkdJV2NNLWc6MQto
register. (currently only available in ml). If any non-ml users want to
register, Please send a mail to wikisamgamothsavam2...@gmail.com.

Registration is in full swing and already close to 100 people registered.

Some of the highlights of Malayalam conference:
1. We expect around 200 people to attend this conference which includes
around 50 students selected from different schools of Kollam district.
2. There are 26 Submissions / Presentation by Wikipedians / public in two
days.
3. A panel discussion regarding Copyright of Government documents. - Day-2
4. Parallel Wiki School Students Conference - on Day-2
5. An Analaysis of all Malayalam wiki projects and discussion about taking
the Malayalam wiki projects forward.
6. Public Speeches by prominent IT movement leaders of Kerala.
7. Wiki workshops to introduce malayalam wiki projects to new bies

If any non-ml users want to register, Please send a mail to
wikisamgamothsavam2...@gmail.com. Registeration fee is 300 Rs and there are
no scholarships available for this conference. We are planning to run a
special 2 hour session for non-Malayalam wikipedians attenduing the
malayalam confernce. We welcome all of you to God's own country.

*FAQ
*http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%80%E0%B4%A1%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AF:WS2012/FAQis
available in ml.

If you still have any question, please write to
wikisamgamothsavam2...@gmail.com

User:Rameshng

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 7:45 AM, Adv. T.K Sujith tksuj...@gmail.com wrote:

Hi Friends,
The annual meet-up of Malayalam Wikimedia Community - *Wikisangamolsavam
2012 *
will be held on 28th and 29th of April 2012 at District Panchayath Hall,
Kollam,http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=ensugexp=llsings_nf=1tok=bsHEj9zf5DvmQARCvEN28wpq=kollam+district+panchayathcp=31gs_id=ezxhr=tq=kollam+district+panchayath+hallclient=ubuntuhs=3Tfchannel=fsbiw=1280bih=601bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.,cf.osbum=1ie=UTF-8ei=vD5hT4C8ONHHrQf7mqiRBgsa=Xoi=mode_linkct=modecd=3sqi=2ved=0CA4Q_AUoAgKerala.

We expect 200 participants for the event from inside and outside Kerala.
This is an open event and in this meetup, along with the whole malayalam
wiki community,
any person those who interested in Malayalam Wikimeida Activities
such as Students, Teachers, Computer Professionals, Educational and Social
workers etc. can attend.
Plz see the event page of Wikisangamolsavam2012
http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%80%E0%B4%A1%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AF:%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%B8%E0%B4%82%E0%B4%97%E0%B4%AE%E0%B5%8B%E0%B4%A4%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B8%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%82_-_2012for
more details

In these two days Meetup we will discuss annual reports of Malayalam
Wikimedia Projects.
There also 3 parallel sessions for presentations and discussions on
general topics connected with wikipedia.
We expecting papers on different subjects mainly come under the tracks of
Community, Knowledge, Technology and Outreach.
Selected participants can present papers and talks.
You can submit your paper through
thishttp://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%80%E0%B4%A1%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AF:%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%B8%E0%B4%82%E0%B4%97%E0%B4%AE%E0%B5%8B%E0%B4%A4%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B8%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%82_-_2012/%E0%B4%85%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%87%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B7%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%BElink.

General Speeches of eminent personalities in subjects like Internet
Freedom is also included.
A second edition of Malayalam Loves WIkimedia

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Ads Injected into Wikipedia?

2012-05-07 Thread Ramesh N G

What if the malware specifically look for wikipedia browsing? From the user
point of view it can easily fool us thinking that it is not appearing on
any other sites but wikipedia.
On May 7, 2012 1:21 PM, Debanjan Bandyopadhyay debast...@gmail.com
wrote:

 Hmmm...that maybe true but what else can we do, I mean, Inkfruit has to be
 involved somewhere in this right? Think about it, if you were an ad
 injecting virus, why would you randomly inject ads that too of inkfruit?
 For people who face these ads, are the ads appearing only on wikipedia or
 other websites also? If I am not wrong, if this is the work of a malware,
 it would display the ad on each and every website you visit and not just
 specifically Wikipedia. If its only Wikipedia and the ad is only Inkfruit,
 I'd really say, if nothing can be done via code, legal needs to be
 involved. If its a non-specific malware, just clean your systems, I guess
 and inform others.

 Rather, I'd say, instead of not going public with this, if it gets too
 frequent, go public. Display a banner on top of Wiki stating that if you
 see ads on Wikipedia that is not at all related to Wiki, rather you should
 check your system for malware. The point is people should not assume, that
 Wikipedia has started ads.

 On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.comwrote:

 On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Debanjan Bandyopadhyay 
 debast...@gmail.com wrote:

 Ok then can we not make the default version the https one like say
 google does.


 This will not be a permanent solution, I'm afraid.

 anirudh

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] An adieu to the Wikimedia India Movement

2012-07-24 Thread Ramesh N G

This is an unfortunate decision. But with the given facts that I am with
you Tinu. As you said, it is a community movement and I dont think it is so
easy to destroy a community movement.

You cannot say Adieu to be my friend. I got one of the valuable friend in
my life because of Wikipedia.

I am sorry, if I have hurted you (I know I have) in our journey, but
forgive me as a friend. You are truly a wikipedian, and will remain as
wikipedian.
For those who are real wikipedian, who loves the language and comes back
and edit, cannot leave the wikipedia, so for u?
Take a break friend and lets keep editing wikipedia.

Cheers!
Rameshng





On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 4:27 PM, CherianTinu Abraham
tinucher...@gmail.comwrote:


 An Adieu to the @WikimediaIndia Movement

 http://dreamingcherries.com/2012/07/adieu-to-the-wikimedia-india-movement/

 Thanks all

 Regards
 Tinu Cherian

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Tamil Wikipedia crossess 50, 000 article mark

2012-12-21 Thread Ramesh N G

Wow... That's wonderful...

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On Dec 21, 2012 1:38 PM, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi all,

 Tamil Wikipedia crossed 50,000 article milestone on December 18th, 2012.

 The first 1000 articles took 1 year and 11 months.

 The last 25,000 articles were created in just 2 years and 2 months !

 You can find the growth captured in the graph at

 http://ta.wikipedia.org/s/3ys

 During the last few months, we focused on clean up, improving article
 quality and creating most important articles listed at

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vital_articles

 Ravi

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] സാഹായ്യം ന്യം പോലെ യ

2013-01-19 Thread Ramesh N G

Hi

Apologize for posting to a wrong group. By mistake instead of ml list, I
have send it to India list.

User:Rameshng


2013/1/19 Ramesh N G rames...@gmail.com

 ന്യം എന്നത് പോലെ യ ക്ക് എഴുതാൻ കീമാജിക്കിൽ എന്ത് കോമ്പിനേഷൻ ആണ് ചെയ്യുക.
 ഉള്ളൂരിന്റെ ഭക്തിദീപിക യിൽ അവതാരിക പേജിൽ അങ്ങിനെ വരുന്നുണ്ട്.  താഴത്തെ
 ചിത്രം കാണുക.

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Status of Indian language wikipedias in 2012 and priorities, Telugu WP report

2013-01-27 Thread Ramesh N G

There is a much better report is here
http://shijualex.wordpress.com/2013/01/27/analysis-of-the-indic-language-statistical-report-2012/[1]and
here
http://shijualex.wordpress.com/2013/01/19/indic-language-wikipedias-statistical-report-2012-2/[2]by
Shiju.

1.
http://shijualex.wordpress.com/2013/01/27/analysis-of-the-indic-language-statistical-report-2012/
2.
http://shijualex.wordpress.com/2013/01/19/indic-language-wikipedias-statistical-report-2012-2/

On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 5:23 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.comwrote:

2013/1/23 Vickram Crishna vvcris...@radiophony.com

On Jan 23, 2013 11:58 AM, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.com
wrote:

Rather than just the views, we need to look at the value felt by the
viewers (may be by an annual survey) as a measure of the impact of
Wikipedia's mission.

--cut--

That is a very challenging thought, Arjuna. Online surveys are
potentially quite weak, as evidenced by the Facebook voting process (for
policy changes, not the Facebook 'like' feature, whose purpose itself is
full of questions).

A possibility may be a continuous rating system, with radio buttons on
each page, visible to logged in users (?), or actionable only by logged in
users, rather than an optionable survey on some other page. I see
difficulties with this as well, mind you, but throw it out as a suggestion.

On the plus side, adding such user-involving features may be a way to
bring in more 'mature' community involvement in knowledge creation and
dissemination. I am often struck by the manner in which some relatively
half-baked 'improvement' gets to be quite popular while worthwhile
technology lies unused. 'The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But
in ourselves, that we are underlings', said the poet, but I hope we are
part of the solution, not content to remain the problem.

Article feedback
toolhttp://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/12/20/article-feedback-new-research-and-next-steps/currently
in beta could be the impact metric that may be suitable for this
purpose.

Somewhere in the future, I see some kind of 'sharing' as a possibility,
whereby individuals who have common interests can actively and dynamically
connect through wikipedia pages. That might throw up an interesting metric
as well.

I understand that part of the plans for Wikipedia is to make it more
social.

Cheers
Arjuna

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Photography event on Indian food

2013-03-27 Thread Ramesh N G

I think we can do this event like other photography events.
It will be a great idea to get the food related photos and medias, from
across country.




On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Sanket Oswal sankos...@gmail.com wrote:

 Great Idea Yohann. I have photographed some delicacies from Gujarat and
 Rajasthan. I would love to contribute the same.

 On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Yohann Thomas yohan...@gmail.com wrote:

 I was thinking of proposing an online photography event on Indian food.

 Please suggest some ideas.

 Respectfully,

 Yohann Thomas
 Wikipedia Club Pune
  yohan...@gmail.com

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Kannada Wikipedia completes 10 years!

2013-06-13 Thread Ramesh N G

Wonderful and wish you all the best to all who contributes to Kannada
wikipedia

regards
User:Rameshng



On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 11:38 PM, omshivaprak...@gmail.com 
omshivaprak...@gmail.com wrote:

 ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಕ್ಕೆ ೧೦ನೇ ವರ್ಷದ ವಾರ್ಷಿಕೋತ್ಸವದ ಶುಭಾಶಯಗಳು.

 Kannada Wikipedia completes 10 years today. Thanks and congratulations to
 all who have supported and contributed to Kannada Wikipedia all these
 years.  We have a long way to go and more responsibility to give access to
 knowledge to each Kannadiga across the globe!

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 With Best Regards,
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] : Times of India : Wikipedia boom in Marathi, Malayalam and other desi languages

2013-08-01 Thread Ramesh N G

Hi Tinu
Thanks for sharing. Pretty impressive news coverage.
Any idea where do we get the CIS report on this study.

Regards
User :rameshng

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On 1 Aug 2013 10:59, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote:

*Times of India : Wikipedia boom in Marathi, Malayalam and other desi
languages*

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-news/internet/Wikipedia-boom-in-Marathi-Malayalam-and-other-desi-languages/articleshow/21518534.cms

*A vibrant vernacular Wikipedia seems to be taking root in India. In the
last eight months, the number of Wikipedia entries has grown substantially
in 20 Indian languages, says a study by the Bangalore-based Centre for
Internet and Society (CIS).

Wiki, the world's largest online encyclopaedia where anyone can write and
edit articles, didn't have much content in vernacular till a few years ago.
According to the study, Wikis in Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi have
added thousands of new articles on various subjects from September 2012 to
April 2013. A few of these pages were viewed more during this period.
Marathi, which had 30 lakh page views per month previously, had another 10
lakh visitors, while Bengali Wikipedia had 14 lakh page views.

While Malayalam Wiki took the top position with an enviable team of 100
plus editors, the number Hindi, Marathi and Sanskrit editors came down.
Marathi has 40,000 articles. But most editors in Mumbai prefer to work on
English. Pune has more Marathi editors,' says T Vishnu Vardhan, programme
director, Access to Knowledge project at CIS.

In the last two years, the demand for knowledge in Indian languages has
grown as we have moved to the motto of 'roti, kapda and internet', says
Vardhan.

One of the reasons for growth is that many browsers now support Indian
language scripts. But this was not the case in early 2000. Though many
wanted to read and type in their own language, there was no browser
support, says Shiju Alex, blogger and Malayalam Wiki editor. Moreover,
many didn't know how to type in their mother tongues.

But once Indian languages were encoded in Unicode, the fonts became
accessible. There was no need to write Malayalam in English and people
started blogging in their mother tongues, says Alex. According to Vardhan,
communities with better literacy rates seem to have taken the lead online.

Telugu Wiki is stronger as internet penetration in Andhra Pradesh is
higher than in places where Bhojpuri or Assamese is spoken.

As with most online language initiatives, the Wiki movement was also
fuelled by the diaspora. Tinu Cherian Abraham, a former board member of
the Wikimedia India chapter, talks about how an NRI's love for Malayalam
kick-started the project.

But now there are many Wiki foot soldiers in India, including a blind
editor of Hindi Wikipedia and an elderly contributor from Kerala whose
passion for free knowledge has helped him forget his ailments. *

Regards
Tinu Cherian
pr...@wikimedia.in
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/In_the_news

Important Note : Non-commercial reproduction for informative purposes
only. The publisher ( Times of India ) of the above news article owns the
copyrights of the article / content. All copyrights are duly acknowledged.

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Santhosh Thottingal wins the President's Maharshi Badrayan Vyas Samman for 2019

2019-08-16 Thread Ramesh N G

Wonderful... Congratulations to Santhosh..

On Thu, 15 Aug, 2019, 10:27 PM manoj k, 
wrote:

> Santhosh Thottingal
> 
> has won the Maharshi Badrayan Vyas Samman by the Hon. President of India
> .
> This is in recognition of his substantial contribution in the field of
> Malayalam language. The award, instituted in 2016, is given to the
> substantial contributions to languages such as Sanskrit, Persian, Arabi,
> Pali and Classical Oriya, Classical Kannada, Classical Telugu, and
> Classical Malayalam. This is given to young scholars in the age group of
> 30 to 45 years
> .
> The Presidential award carries a certificate of honor, a memento and a
> one-time cash prize of Rs.1 lakh.
>
> Santhosh is one of the most active contributors of Swathanthra Malayalam
> Computing and a principal engineer in Wikipedia's language computing
> department. He has designed and released several algorithms and tools that
> serve computing needs in many Indian languages including Malayalam. He
> heads the maintenance of a dozen or so of the popular Malayalam fonts.
> Santhosh (along Kavya) designed two of these fonts, Chilanka and Manjari
> .
> He has contributed
> 
> tools that serve a broad range of language computing needs - input tools,
> layout tools, fonts, font rendering, text to speech, translation,
> localization are just a few of these areas. He has also contributed and
> presented papers at several international conferences.
>
> Dr. Rajeev R. R from the e-governance and training department of ICFOSS
> has also been selected for this award along with Santhosh.
>
> We hope this award inspires Santhosh and Rajeev to push the boundaries of
> Language computing.
>
>
> https://blog.smc.org.in/santhosh-thottingal-wins-the-presidents-maharshi-badrayan-vyas-samman-for-2019/
>
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