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

2011-12-18 Thread Vickram Crishna
An interesting blog post that touches upon the same subject: and serendipitously provides a very powerful reason for engineering colleges in particular to be more aware of and to foster the environment of open knowledge working. http://manypossibilities.net/2011/12/everyday-internet-miracles/ I

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

2011-12-18 Thread Kalyan Sarkar
You are welcome, Ashwin! Regards, Kalyan Sarkar On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 11:33 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.comwrote: 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] OT FOSS assist WAS Re: Webfonts deployment on Indic Wikiprojects

2011-12-18 Thread Yuvi Panda
Whenever Open Source activism and Indian colleges come up, I can't help but point people to http://www.shakthimaan.com/downloads.html#shakthimaan-indian-challenge-of-floss-advocacy. Is a good read, and is still relevant today. -- Yuvi Panda T http://yuvi.in/blog

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Webfonts on Mobile

2011-12-18 Thread Santhosh Thottingal
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-WB] Kolkata Photo Walk (Esplanade Dalhousie)

2011-12-18 Thread Jayanta Nath
Congratulation to all for our first step of success. Please anyone tell what we cover -- With Warm Regards, *Jayanta Nath* Calcutta,West Bengal https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-wb ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] mediawiki-uploader

2011-12-18 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
Shrinivasan, On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Shrinivasan T tshriniva...@gmail.comwrote: Friends. Tamil Wikipedia announced a Media Contest to increase the commons media files like photos, audio and video in the wikipedia world. --cut-- DigiKam has it, but due to some issues, the

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] mediawiki-uploader

2011-12-18 Thread Shrinivasan T
hi arjuna, thanks for the wishes. I am also very new to wikipedia. please give some more details on categories. shall we give any text as category or some pre defined text are there to pick up from? use gthumb to add some meta data. we can parse it and use them as categories. please share

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 -- global?

2011-12-18 Thread Pradeep Mohandas
hi, Would India be interested? How do we put forth our interest? I'll be happy to help. Pradeep -- Forwarded message -- From: Tomasz Kozłowski odder.w...@gmail.com Date: 2011/12/18 Subject: [Foundation-l] Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 -- global? To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 -- global?

2011-12-18 Thread Noopur
I already took the liberty of registering personal support :) Count me in too. We are planning a photo walk in Ahmedabad this January. I guess India's participation will have to be coordinated city/state wise? On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 9:44 PM, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 -- global?

2011-12-18 Thread Pradeep Mohandas
hi, If the cities interested and languages interested express their interest, we could go ahead at a national level through the chapter or as a community. The choice is with the community. Hence the question. warm regards, Pradeep Mohandas On 18 December 2011 21:47, Noopur

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 -- global?

2011-12-18 Thread Pradeep Mohandas
It is a wiki :) Pradeep 2011/12/18 Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.com Along with this, just throwing up an idea. Since, the timeline is not yet decided, can we simultaneously have a Wikimedia India page to document all the Wiki loves monuments in India that happen in 2012? 2011/12/18 Pradeep

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 -- global?

2011-12-18 Thread Noopur
Yes, that. A wiki (if one does not exist already) for Wiki loves monuments in India in 2012. 2011/12/18 Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com It is a wiki :) Pradeep 2011/12/18 Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.com Along with this, just throwing up an idea. Since, the timeline is not yet

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 -- global?

2011-12-18 Thread Pradeep Mohandas
By the statement, I meant that you did not need permission to make a wiki since it is a wiki. Do go ahead and create one! Pradeep Mohandas 2011/12/18 Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.com Yes, that. A wiki (if one does not exist already) for Wiki loves monuments in India in 2012. 2011/12/18

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 -- global?

2011-12-18 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Prad, Noopur, I'm with you on this one. I think what we need to do is, create a category on the Commons, customise the Upload Wizard if needed, set up a committee to check for copyright violations, create a page on Meta, translate it into every language, get your cameras, phones ready, stock up on

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 -- global?

2011-12-18 Thread Mitra sharma
Hey guys, I'm kinda new to the Wiki community, so correct me if my suggestions are out of the way. The Wiki loves monuments sounds really interesting...can we spread the word via social media for us newbies? On 18 December 2011 23:01, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.comwrote: Prad,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 -- global?

2011-12-18 Thread Noopur
Dear Mitra and others, Welcome Mitra :) Here is a link to a start page: http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wiki_Loves_Monuments. I just created it for the India community. I think to sign up you might need to be a member. You can always get more info on the mailing list while we try and fix this. Do tell

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 -- global?

2011-12-18 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Noopur, I strongly suggest that you create a page on Meta instead. People who have an account on any Wikipedia or Wikimedia project can sign in without having to register for again. Mitra, sure Social Media is exactly what Bala, Logic and I use for spreading word on anything Wiki related. --

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 -- global?

2011-12-18 Thread Noopur
Will do, can you? Just need to copy. I don't have a comp for a bit. On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 12:33 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Noopur, I strongly suggest that you create a page on Meta instead. People who have an account on any Wikipedia or Wikimedia project can

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 -- global?

2011-12-18 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Noopur, sorry, I don't have a computer at all here. Hence the WikiBreak ... Others, whoever creates the page, a something like Wiki Loves Monuments (2012), India should do. If it is incorrect, don't worry, an admin would move and redirect. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 -- global?

2011-12-18 Thread Lodewijk
May I suggest to then at least use Commons for that? That is where all the rest of the documentation is also located. I suggest to link it from here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012 and create

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 -- global?

2011-12-18 Thread Pradeep Mohandas
hi, Would suggest Commons as well. Will try and create the page in the hour. Pradeep Handheld On 19/12/2011, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org wrote: May I suggest to then at least use Commons for that? That is where all the rest of the documentation is also located. I suggest to link it

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 -- global?

2011-12-18 Thread Pradeep Mohandas
Done. Created the page and linked to it. Pradeep On 19 December 2011 02:25, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org wrote: May I suggest to then at least use Commons for that? That is where all the rest of the documentation is also located. I suggest to link it from here:

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 -- global?

2011-12-18 Thread Pradeep Mohandas
hi, Also suggest spreading it to the various language lists by people in the languages? warm regards, Pradeep Mohandas On 19 December 2011 09:15, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.comwrote: Done. Created the page and linked to it. Pradeep On 19 December 2011 02:25, Lodewijk

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 -- global?

2011-12-18 Thread Ashwin Baindur
Its a great idea to have a Wiki loves monuments. Support from SIGs was mentioned. Speaking as a member of Indic Wikipedians on English Wikipedia, you have our support. I would only say that September being partly/mostly a rainy month, our events should be summer holiday poised when it would be

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 -- global?

2011-12-18 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
We need to have the documentation translated too. On 12/18/11, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com wrote: hi, Also suggest spreading it to the various language lists by people in the languages? warm regards, Pradeep Mohandas On 19 December 2011 09:15, Pradeep Mohandas

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] What's in it for me?

2011-12-18 Thread Nitika
Hi Srikanth everyone else, This is a really good question and one that I've been thinking about and working on as we look at outreach in general. From my discussions with various editors and my observing and participating in outreach sessions, I think the biggest challenge when we do outreach

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] What's in it for me?

2011-12-18 Thread Deepon Saha
Nice...:) Deepon On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 10:25 PM, Nitika ntan...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi Srikanth everyone else, This is a really good question and one that I've been thinking about and working on as we look at outreach in general. From my discussions with various editors and my

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 -- global?

2011-12-18 Thread Mitra sharma
Hi Noopur, Thanks for warm welcome! :) :) I'm based out of Delhi and know a few people who would love to contribute for Gujurat and Mumbai. I already am a member, how do I go about it post that? Best, Mitra On 18 December 2011 23:58, Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Mitra and