[Wikimediaindia-l] Input methods for mobile phones

2010-03-18 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I blogged about an issue that Bellayet introduced me to. He has to enter in latin script data to trigger the search box on the http://be.m.wikipedia.org.. As I can imagine that this is also an issue for other languages of the Indian subcontinent, I would like you to consider providing us with

[Wikimediaindia-l] Popularising this list

2010-03-18 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
Hi all, In the last meetup, some wikipedians felt that this list and several coordination avenues for Indian Wikipedias get perceived as only for English Wikipedia. To clear this misconception, we decided on the following course of action: 1. Popularising this list in all wikimedia projects

[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Academy - Malayalam - Bangalore 21st March 2009

2010-03-18 Thread CherianTinu Abraham
Hi Wikipedians, Wikipedia Academies are public outreach events aimed at engaging academics, other subject-matter experts and anyone else who are not familiar with Wikpedia/ wiki culture or online communities. In presentations and workshops, experienced Wikipedia authors teach the participants how

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Academy - Malayalam - Bangalore 21st March 2010

2010-03-18 Thread CherianTinu Abraham
Typo in the subject line ! Read the date as *21st March 2010 * -TC On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 6:20 PM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Wikipedians, Wikipedia Academies are public outreach events aimed at engaging academics, other subject-matter experts and anyone else who

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Input methods for mobile phones

2010-03-18 Thread Shiju Alex
Hi Gerard, We (Malayalam Wikipedians) have asked about this some time back. Please see a discussion regarding that here http://usability.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolbar#Malayalam_transliteration_Script Shiju On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.comwrote: Hoi, I

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Input methods for mobile phones

2010-03-18 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, There is a difference between a transliteration script and an alternate input method. In an alternate inputmethod you select characters from the screen. In my understanding something like an transliteration script is what Bellayet is using.. Thanks, GerardM PS I cc to Hampton as he is

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Input methods for mobile phones

2010-03-18 Thread Praveen Prakash
Gerard Meijssen wrote: Hoi, There is a difference between a transliteration script and an alternate input method. In an alternate inputmethod you select characters from the screen. In my understanding something like an transliteration script is what Bellayet is using.. Thanks,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Input methods for mobile phones

2010-03-18 Thread Shiju Alex
In fact we are looking for some solution to input Malayalam text in the search box that is available in Malayalam Mobile wiki ( http://ml.m.wikipedia.org/). Currently there is no way to input malayalam text there and navigate to a particular article. Shiju On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 9:06 PM,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Input methods for mobile phones

2010-03-18 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I did get a list of characters from Praveen and, I have communicated with the likes of Brion about it. Sadly there is only so much that I can do. If there is one thing I want to prevent is that people consider me a ¨toxic personality, a risk you run when you are trying to hard. The list I

[Wikimediaindia-l] Please provide input for the strategic planning process!

2010-03-18 Thread Ganesh Krishnamurthy
Philippe/WMF posted this message on the Indian language Wikipedias. I am cross posting it here to get wider audience: This message is posted by Philippe (http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Philippe_(WMF)), on behalf of Tyler, from the Bridgespan Group: My name is User:TylerT