Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Event Support Request

2011-05-27 Thread Moksh Juneja
Hi I can help with the following •Press and Media coordination Deciding on a path for media promotion of event, giving interviews, inviting media and taking care of them during the event •Promotion and Advertisement There will be a promotion budget which will have to be judiciously used for

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] A Malayalam short film Wikipedia

2011-05-27 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 12:12 PM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: A short Malayalam film based on Wikipedia was internet released recently. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIWKKMp5HSU The film is also named Wikipedia and is dedicated to Wikipedians. The short film is

[Wikimediaindia-l] Google shutting down translate and transliterate APIS

2011-05-27 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Google shutting down translate and transliterate APIS. Many Indic websites applications will now be affected Read more here: http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2011/05/spring-cleaning-for-some-of-our-apis.html Looks like this is the right time for WMF tech team to create their own APIs --Sudhanwa

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Google shutting down translate and transliterate APIS

2011-05-27 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Just noticed, Google is replacing the Translation API with Google Web Elements, available at http://www.google.com/webelements/#!/translate Do have a look and see, if you can make anything of it. I can't find anything from Google to replace the Transliteration API, I won't be surprised if they ask

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] A Malayalam short film Wikipedia

2011-05-27 Thread CherianTinu Abraham
Hey, Does anyone knows the director or reach him? Is he a Wikipedian ? He might like to change is the opening subtitles. It says the short is dedicated to Wikipedians and they would literally be nonexistent without Wikipedia. But most likely he meant the other way around. Another one is that he

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Google shutting down translate and transliterate APIS

2011-05-27 Thread Anivar Aravind
There is major problem in depending upon Non-FOSS solutions. It seems google used api's for collecting crowd sourced input for improving their database now shutting it down. Input methods such as Tranlitration does not need online services . It can be easily done without google or microsoft. And