[Wikimediaindia-l] Update on India Programs Team: Communications

2011-12-23 Thread Hisham
Dear All As you might be aware, there is one more team member I have been trying to get on board for the India Programs Team (http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-September/004251.html) - Consultant, Communications. I have unfortunately not been able to find the right

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Welcoming Subhashish Panigrahi

2011-12-23 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
All the very best wishes Subha, Do drop in sometime to Pune. -Sudhanwa On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Subhashish Panigrahi psubhash...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Ansuman, Ashwin and RK for the wishes, there is lot more to do with the support of you all and I am very much glad that I would

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Welcoming Subhashish Panigrahi

2011-12-23 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Subha, I hope as part of your new role, you can now join us in Coimbatore once. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Update on India Programs Team: Communications

2011-12-23 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Hisham, may I suggest that you make it mandatory that people you employ have adequate exposure and experience with the Wiki ecosystem like Shiju and Subha have? -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Android ICS support for Tamil and Indic languages

2011-12-23 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
That would make everybody with a phone elite. Whether they have a Nokia 1100 or Basic Music Java phone, irrespective of when they bought it. Some people, stick to phones for years. Three, four, five too. Difficutlt, but true. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Android ICS support for Tamil and Indic languages

2011-12-23 Thread sankarshan
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote: Only few years before even PCs supported all of these and it will take more years to get this in all gadgets. So, the only expectation now is to at least display the characters well. Input is the next priority which can

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Welcoming Subhashish Panigrahi

2011-12-23 Thread Subhashish Panigrahi
Thanks a lot Sudhanwa, will love to join you all in Pune, I will connect you all through IRC an plan for an event. Srikanth, I am looking forward for joining you guys, when you organize a meetup next time in Koimbatore, please let me know, will join you over skype and sometime will meet you guys

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Android ICS support for Tamil and Indic languages

2011-12-23 Thread Anivar Aravind
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 5:07 PM, sankarshan foss.mailingli...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote: Only few years before even PCs supported all of these and it will take more years to get this in all gadgets. So, the only expectation now is

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Welcoming Subhashish Panigrahi

2011-12-23 Thread Anivar Aravind
Congrats Subha !! Happy to see average age of WMF India programme got reduced with your entry !!! Also thanks to Hisham for renaming the post to suit the skillset of Subha Anivar ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org

[Wikimediaindia-l] NDTV stealing photographs off the internet.

2011-12-23 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Heya, fellow photographer and Commons Illustrator Vinoth shared this link on Facebook about Barkha Dutt and NDTV stealing images off the internet. The image in the article was copyrighted. Imaging the situation on Commons. Here's the link:

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] NDTV stealing photographs off the internet.

2011-12-23 Thread Gautam John
On 23 December 2011 20:11, Srikanth Ramakrishnan rsrikant...@gmail.com wrote: link on Facebook about Barkha Dutt and NDTV stealing images off the Nothing was stolen. At best, a case of copyright infringement could made out. That said, the fair dealing provisions relating to current affairs

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] NDTV stealing photographs off the internet.

2011-12-23 Thread CherianTinu Abraham
http://www.flickr.com/photos/arunganesh/4345797042/ If I remember correctly, Times of India later apologized for not giving attribution to while using one of Arun's CC licensed works on their newspaper. -TC On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 11:24 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote:

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Missing wikis now redirect to Incubator

2011-12-23 Thread Surya Prakash
From Foundation's mailing list. :) Missing Wikis now redirect to the Incubator project pages. :) *$U®¥∩* http://goo.gl/RoMyo.com http://FirefoxSurya.blogspot.com http://about.me/suryaceg -- Forwarded message -- From: Robin Pepermans robinp.1...@gmail.com Date: 23 December 2011

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] NDTV stealing photographs off the internet.

2011-12-23 Thread Praveen Prakash
Fair use applies when no other options available. In case of CC, options are wide open. If somebody decides to override a CC licensed file with a fair use, it is a clear Copy Vio. On 23/12/2011, Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.com wrote: I dug up the Indian fair use law and found this:

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] NDTV stealing photographs off the internet.

2011-12-23 Thread Gautam John
On 24 December 2011 10:38, Praveen Prakash me.prav...@gmail.com wrote: Fair use applies when no other options available.  In case of CC, options are wide open. If somebody decides to override a CC licensed file with a fair use, it is a clear Copy Vio. Ummm, no. Not to the best of my

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Open Wiki GLAM of Serbia: Conference - Call for participation

2011-12-23 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Adethya, I assume that Vikimedija is the Serbian Wikimedia chapter. Hence sending a mail to g...@wikimedia.org shouldn't work. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Open Wiki GLAM of Serbia: Conference - Call for participation

2011-12-23 Thread CherianTinu Abraham
There is some problem with the id g...@vikimedija.org Meanwhile you can write to Mile Kish directly at m.mi...@gmail.com or mil...@vikimedija.org ( Note that it is vikimedija.org ) Regards Tinu Cherian On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 7:53 AM, Adethya Sudarsanan adethyas...@gmail.comwrote:

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-WB] Kolkata Photo Walk (Esplanade Dalhousie)

2011-12-23 Thread wheredevelsdare
Thanks for bringing this up Ashwin (and for the detailed feedback). If the images are not named properly, people will not be able to recognise them, which makes the whole exercise useless. Can I suggest, now that the images have been uploaded such, the uploaders update the image summary with

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] NDTV stealing photographs off the internet.

2011-12-23 Thread Arjun Mangol Kanoth
Image response -

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Android ICS support for Tamil and Indic languages

2011-12-23 Thread ePandit | ई-पण्डित
Yes, this keyboard app works in all of these (the phone should display Hindi properly). 2011/12/23 Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com ePandit, Does this work on Android Eclaire, Froyo, and Gingerbread? These three are used extensively in India. On 12/22/11, ePandit | ई-पण्डित

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Android ICS support for Tamil and Indic languages

2011-12-23 Thread apvr
Android ICS does not natively support rendering of Tamil, Devanagiri and Bengali scripts. It just supports the fonts. Rendering depends on individual apps. This is a clever move from Google to increase the native browser usage. They've implemented font rendering in the stock browser; firefox still