Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ‘Kanaja’ now accessible for the blind too.. How about wikipedia?

2011-04-25 Thread Shiju Alex
Yes for Malayalam wikipedia and its sister projects. We have users from blind schools of Kerala reading Malayalam wikipedia and providing us feedback also. Two softwares are used by them to access Malayalam wikipedia. One is * e-speak* and another is *Dhwani*. Recently few Malayalam wikimedians ha

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ‘Kanaja’ now accessible for the blind too.. How about wikipedia?

2011-04-25 Thread రహ్మానుద్దీన్ షేక్
Can you share the tool with us? On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan wrote: > During the chennai meetup, one gentlemen had told us people from > blind-user-group do access Tamil Wikipedia through a screen reading software > they have and it was pleasant news to us. > > Regards >

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ‘Kanaja’ now accessible for the blind too.. How about wikipedia?

2011-04-25 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
During the chennai meetup, one gentlemen had told us people from blind-user-group do access Tamil Wikipedia through a screen reading software they have and it was pleasant news to us. Regards Srikanth.L On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:05, Arjuna Rao Chavala wrote: > > http://www.deccanherald.com/co

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] MediaWiki selects eight students for Google Summer of Code 2011

2011-04-25 Thread Subhashish Panigrahi
Congrats Folks! Great job And Yuvi, I want to connect to you Odia Wikipedia.. Subha Pa http://or.wikipedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-or Facebook | Tweet @OdiaWiki _

[Wikimediaindia-l] ‘Kanaja’ now accessible for the blind too.. How about wikipedia?

2011-04-25 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/156361/kanaja-now-accessible-blind-too.html Kannada encyclopaedic website is accessible for blind. How about our Wikipedias? Has any attempts been made in the past? Cheers Arjun ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikime

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] MediaWiki selects eight students for Google Summer of Code 2011

2011-04-25 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Crongratulations to all of these young guys, especially the Indian ones. A special one to Yuvi Panda too. : ) --Regards, Srikanth R. On 26 April 2011 11:44, Srikanth Lakshmanan wrote: > Congrats guys! > > Looking forward to your work especially these which interest me. > 1) Ajaxification of Ever

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] The Marathi language Wikipedia has reached 33, 333 articles on April 24.

2011-04-25 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Congratulations to all Marathi editors.. Keep up the Good Work. --Regards, Srikanth On 26 April 2011 07:38, CherianTinu Abraham wrote: > The Marathi language Wikipedia has reached 33,333 articles on April 24. > > http://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B6%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B7:%E0%A4%

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [WikimediaMobile] Setting the game for a fresh Wikipedia app

2011-04-25 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Is there any Localisation/Translation plans for this app? I noticed, since the original plan was a Nokia plan, Nokia phones support Indic languages, we could all contribute effectively. --Regards, Srikanth. On 26 April 2011 07:30, Naveen Francis wrote: > FYI > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mobi

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Uploads to Commons] Geocoding and Multilingual descriptions

2011-04-25 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Subhashish, You're most welcome. Do bookmark the page, it is hard to find.: ) Or use the short code. http://bit.ly/GeoLocWiki ---Regards, On 26 April 2011 00:08, Subhashish Panigrahi wrote: > Amazing Tool, I tried to upload and find the approximate location as the > exact was not known to me. Bu

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] MediaWiki selects eight students for Google Summer of Code 2011

2011-04-25 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
Congrats guys! Looking forward to your work especially these which interest me. 1) Ajaxification of Everything 2) Extension for offline access (Much discussed here offlate) 3) SocialProfile extension. Feel free to drop by here for feedback at anytime. Regards Srikanth.L On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] MediaWiki selects eight students for Google Summer of Code 2011

2011-04-25 Thread Naveen Francis
Congrats guys !!! Good to see the your project pages. On 26 April 2011 08:21, Santhosh Thottingal wrote: > > > http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2011/04/mediawiki-selects-8-students-gsoc-2011/ > > * Akshay Agarwal‘s “Account Creation, Login Screens and AJAX-ification of > everything” (mentor: Brando

[Wikimediaindia-l] MediaWiki selects eight students for Google Summer of Code 2011

2011-04-25 Thread Santhosh Thottingal
http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2011/04/mediawiki-selects-8-students-gsoc-2011/ * Akshay Agarwal‘s “Account Creation, Login Screens and AJAX-ification of everything” (mentor: Brandon Harris) * Kevin Brown’s “Working Archival for Web References/Citations,” “to facilitate the archival of external lin

[Wikimediaindia-l] The Marathi language Wikipedia has reached 33, 333 articles on April 24.

2011-04-25 Thread CherianTinu Abraham
The Marathi language Wikipedia has reached 33,333 articles on April 24. http://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B6%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B7:%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%96%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%80 Regards Tinu Cherian __

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [WikimediaMobile] Setting the game for a fresh Wikipedia app

2011-04-25 Thread Naveen Francis
FYI http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Projects/Localization_Roadmap -- Forwarded message -- From: Quim Gil Date: 15 April 2011 03:25 Subject: [WikimediaMobile] Setting the game for a fresh Wikipedia app To: mobile-l Hi, it's been some weeks since the first day I discussed w

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] where to see scrubbed attachment ?

2011-04-25 Thread Gerard Meijssen
many inputs I got in as > concise and actionable a manner as possible. I'd really appreciate any > comments you might have. > > Many thanks > > Hisham Mundol > Wikimedia Foundation India Programs > skype: hisham.wikimedia > gtalk: hmun...@wikimedia.org > twitter:

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: The Hindu : "Now, copyright-free maps of States, districts, panchayats"

2011-04-25 Thread Arun Ganesh
The malayalam wikipedia community never fails to impress, awesome initiative guys! Do see if you can get access to the actual GIS shapefiles from the government departments. It will make the effort a lot more scalable and allow superimposing other thematic data easier. Nonetheless, its a great way

[Wikimediaindia-l] where to see scrubbed attachment ?

2011-04-25 Thread Mahitgar from Marathi Wikipedia
appreciate any comments you might have. Many thanks Hisham Mundol Wikimedia Foundation India Programs skype: hisham.wikimedia gtalk: hmun...@wikimedia.org twitter: @mundol -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikim

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Uploads to Commons] Geocoding and Multilingual descriptions

2011-04-25 Thread Subhashish Panigrahi
Amazing Tool, I tried to upload and find the approximate location as the exact was not known to me. But this is really healpful. Thanks Srikanth again. :) ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/m

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] : Pune Mirror : " Will Google Maps lead people astray, the Wikipedia way?"

2011-04-25 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Shirish, I was just taking an example. Is the Bus Company to blame for a bus not having a closed door, when someone gets off with buying a ticket? Same here. As an ediotr, reviewer, Recent Changes and New Page patroller, most people have no idea how much effort we put into keeping articles vandalis

[Wikimediaindia-l] India Campus Program: Pune Pilot Visit Report: April 20-22

2011-04-25 Thread Hisham Mundol
Hi I visited Pune between April 20-22 as part of a preliminary visit for the India Campus Program - Pune Pilot. Thank you to everyone who help with their time, inputs and sharing contacts for me to meet. I'm really grateful. I've updated my visit report at Pune Pilot Visit Report: Planning: P