[Wikimediaindia-l] Sharing insights and experiences from Bengali wiki community

2011-12-13 Thread Shiju Alex
Dear All, As part of my discussions with Indic language Wikipedians I spoke with few members of Bengali wiki community.They have shared their editing experiences, their vision about Bengali wiki projects, and other related topics. I have summarized the discussion in meta wiki. It is available

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Towards improving infrastructure or resource people on Wikipedia

2011-12-13 Thread Noopur
Why are we discussing it on different threads and not doing it then! :) Let's have a press team and let's have a newsletter for the internal communication purpose! 2011/12/13 ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ) viswapra...@gmail.com I would like to stress again that what we need first is to interconnect

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] IEP canceled for the next term

2011-12-13 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
Hi, There is also a special extension being developed for Education Program[1] and hope this will introduce a systemic workflow by default for students joining through *EP, hence there could be great control and will help wikipedian volunteers / CA / OA etc. I think the next IEP will also have

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Towards improving infrastructure or resource people on Wikipedia

2011-12-13 Thread Pradeep Mohandas
hi Noopur, We already have Wikipatrika. Would any student be interested on working on it to help Tinu? Pradeep Handheld On 13/12/2011, Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.com wrote: Why are we discussing it on different threads and not doing it then! :) Let's have a press team and let's have a

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Towards improving infrastructure or resource people on Wikipedia

2011-12-13 Thread Noopur
*raises hand* ME! :) And, I spoke to Srikeit a couple of days ago. He has fine pagemaking and presentation skills. We could collaborate and do our bits. On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com wrote: hi Noopur, We already have Wikipatrika. Would any

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Towards improving infrastructure or resource people on Wikipedia

2011-12-13 Thread Ashwin Baindur
Great jpsh, Noopur. Just for that you get a COOKIE! I second Noopur taking over responsibilities for WikiPatrika and help relieve Tinu from a huge responsibility. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Noopur

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Insights from GLAMcamp Amsterdam

2011-12-13 Thread Noopur
What I meant is that someone should take up outreach coordination within the community. That way documentation, compiling, connecting people with other people is centralized and easier to manage. On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 4:04 PM, wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com wrote: There needs to be some kinda

[Wikimediaindia-l] Report on WikiKovai meet 1.

2011-12-13 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Heya all, This should've come in elaier but didn't as my lab was shut. To Pradeep, who's been asking for two days, And Noopur, the only other Wikipedian who asked about this meet. Our meetup was held at the KG Inst. of Tech [KITE] who offered us an A/C presentation hall for this event. KITE, is a

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Report on WikiKovai meet 1.

2011-12-13 Thread Subhashish Panigrahi
Amazing non-formal report Srikanth! Hope the meetup in Kovai bring up more active editors. {{Applause}} for making this a success! Best Subha On 13 December 2011 16:15, Srikanth Ramakrishnan rsrikant...@gmail.comwrote: Heya all, This should've come in elaier but didn't as my lab was shut.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Towards improving infrastructure or resource people on Wikipedia

2011-12-13 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Prad, this isn't what we spoke about last night. What we spoke about was setting up a network of helpers, volunteers, supporters, etc. so that we can have more outreach programs thru a mutually beneficial system. Or I understood you wrongly. On 12/13/11, Pradeep Mohandas

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Report on WikiKovai meet 1.

2011-12-13 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
And I never imagined that I would be watching Bala create an article on the Tamil Wikipedia called 8am Arivu saying 8am Arivu is an upcoming sequel to 7am Arivu starring Superstar Srikanth in front of a dozen people. ;-) Yuvi, is it in KITE? If yes, then do drop in a line to those guys that you

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Report on WikiKovai meet 1.

2011-12-13 Thread Gautam John
Congratulations, Srikanth! And good luck Yuvi! I'm glad I could help in some small way. Thank you. Best, Gautam http://blog.prathambooks.org/p/social-media.html ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Insights from GLAMcamp Amsterdam

2011-12-13 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Noopur, while you're at it, don't forget to include QRPedia as well. On 12/13/11, Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.com wrote: What I meant is that someone should take up outreach coordination within the community. That way documentation, compiling, connecting people with other people is centralized

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Report on WikiKovai meet 1.

2011-12-13 Thread ansuman
Very nice report. I hope to see more active wikipedians. And hope the community grows. You rock, Keep it up. Regards ansu * ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ansumang On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan rsrikant...@gmail.com wrote: Heya all, This

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Report on WikiKovai meet 1.

2011-12-13 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Thanks for the positive response guys. I'll try and arrange a meetup in the second week of January. Since the only two Wikipedians are out of town and it also will be Wikipedia Day, presence of a member of chapter or foundation would be welcome. On 12/13/11, ansuman ansum...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Webfonts deployment on Indic Wikiprojects

2011-12-13 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Rightly said Srikanth. I feel we not be hasty in rolling out new features and the whole community should be considered for testing. Especially since we are talking about Wikipedia. This reminds me of a case last week, where someone on the English Wikipedia replaced the Rupee symbol image with the

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Webfonts deployment on Indic Wikiprojects

2011-12-13 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Also forgot to tell you. My college uses ONLY systems with Windows XP and Internet Explorer 6. Most students are from a Tamil background, and they read Tamil websites, Wikipedia very often. On 12/13/11, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Pardon for a long mail, just

[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India chapter IRC meetup

2011-12-13 Thread Naveen Francis
Hi friends, We will have our IRC meetup on Dec 17, 2011, from 9:00 pm to 10:00 pm http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Internet_Relay_Chats/Dec_17,2011 We from Wikimedia India Chapter invites you all to take part in the IRC meetup. On behalf of Wikimedia Chapter (India) Thanks, Naveen Francis

[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedians Help! Is this an image of Abanindranath Tagore?

2011-12-13 Thread Ashwin Baindur
The LIFE repository of public domain images has this image on its Google site http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=7cbc71f276cdecd4 The caption is completely botched up by the Life data input guy (presumably) - it cant be Rabindranath Tagore who sported a beard most of his life. I

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedians Help! Is this an image of Abanindranath Tagore?

2011-12-13 Thread Kalyan Sarkar
Yes. It is Abanindranath Tagore. Please visit http://www.clicktobuyboi.in/catalog/product/view/id/9452/, which shows a book on him titled 'Agranthita Abanindranath' (Unpublished Abanindranath). The image in the front cover of the book shows the side view of a slightly younger Abanindranath. But

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedians Help! Is this an image of Abanindranath Tagore?

2011-12-13 Thread Ashwin Baindur
Thank you Kalyan, that was awesome! Less than an hour to solve the puzzle, Hooray for crowd-sourcing. You deserve a barnstar! Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 11:28 PM, Kalyan Sarkar kalyan.sar...@gmail.comwrote: Yes.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Wikimedia India chapter IRC meetup

2011-12-13 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi, I don't think I will be able to attend any meeting this week. We will be busy in the event. Regards -Sudhanwa On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 9:53 PM, Naveen Francis navee...@gmail.com wrote: Hi friends, We will have our IRC meetup on Dec 17, 2011, from 9:00 pm to 10:00 pm

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedians Help! Is this an image of Abanindranath Tagore?

2011-12-13 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
What's the next step? Dashing off a letter? On 12/13/11, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you Kalyan, that was awesome! Less than an hour to solve the puzzle, Hooray for crowd-sourcing. You deserve a barnstar! Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Webfonts deployment on Indic Wikiprojects

2011-12-13 Thread Bala Jeyaraman
Have found a few more bugs in testing (other than the ones mentioned in the original mail) 1) Nepali - https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33039 2) Sanskrit, Hindi and Nepali - https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33038 3) Odiya -

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedians Help! Is this an image of Abanindranath Tagore?

2011-12-13 Thread Ashwin Baindur
Nope. Uploaded to Commons. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abanindranath_Tagore.jpg Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 12:04 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: What's the next step?

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Help us test the VisualEditor prototype

2011-12-13 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
Some of you might interested to have a early sneak peak of widely expected feature on the rolls. Also share some love back by testing and reporting bugs on bugzilla. -- Forwarded message -- From: Neil Kandalgaonkar ne...@wikimedia.org Date: Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 02:57 Subject:

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Webfonts deployment on Indic Wikiprojects

2011-12-13 Thread Pradeep Mohandas
hi, Curious: Is anybody testing this for mobile web? Shiju's report last week suggested an increase in traffic via mobile web, I think. I have started trying to read ml.wiki on my cell pointing my phone browser at ml.m.wikipedia.org and all I get are boxes right now. Pradeep Handheld On

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Webfonts deployment on Indic Wikiprojects

2011-12-13 Thread Pradeep Mohandas
hi, Curious: Is anybody testing this for mobile web? Shiju's report last week suggested an increase in traffic via mobile web, I think. I have started trying to read ml.wiki on my cell pointing my phone browser at ml.m.wikipedia.org and all I get are boxes right now. I'm using Opera Mini browser

[Wikimediaindia-l] OT FOSS assist WAS Re: Webfonts deployment on Indic Wikiprojects

2011-12-13 Thread Vickram Crishna
Pardon my intrusion on this thread, but within reason*, if any college or other educational institution chooses to be 'proprietary only' (never mind antediluvian - IE6? really? or is that an XP issue?) FOSSers are prepared to take it up 'officially' with them, reminding them of the nation's

[Wikimediaindia-l] Webfonts on Mobile

2011-12-13 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
[Was: Webfonts deployment on Indic Wikiprojects] 2011/12/14 Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com: Curious: Is anybody testing this for mobile web? I am doing my best to test it in any mobile phone and tablet upon which i come up, but we cannot systematically cover all the possible

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Webfonts on Mobile

2011-12-13 Thread Nasir Khan
Hi Amir, Thanks for informing us. I tried to use the BN Wikipedia from my Samsung Galaxy (android 2.3.6), but the extension did not work on the android default browser or in the Opera Mobile, in Opera Mini it uses a different method to display the complex scripts, but the Webfont icon was not

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] OT FOSS assist WAS Re: Webfonts deployment on Indic Wikiprojects

2011-12-13 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2011/12/14 Vickram Crishna vvcris...@radiophony.com: Pardon my intrusion on this thread, but within reason*, if any college or other educational institution chooses to be 'proprietary only' (never mind antediluvian - IE6? really? or is that an XP issue?) FOSSers are prepared to take it up