Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] (no subject)

2014-01-06 Thread Abhishek Suryawanshi
Congrats :-) Keep Editing, Keep Inspiring! - ​Best, Abhishek Suryawanshi ​ On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 5:15 PM, shubha zero shubhaz...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, It gives us great pleasure to inform you that the 10th Anniversary of Sa. Wikipedia was Celebrated on 31st. December 2013, at

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Digital Language Death

2014-01-06 Thread A. Mani
On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 6:44 AM, sankarshan foss.mailingli...@gmail.com wrote: And, my take is that what is required is more focused and stronger investment over repeated cycles into automated translation systems, especially perhaps Statistical-MT. Automated translation systems can never be

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Digital Language Death

2014-01-06 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, My point is very much that we can do things NOW. There is no need to point to things that you would like when there is so much that CAN be done. The WMF IS working on translation functionality. That may help under some circumstances but it is unlikely to help the languages that do not have

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Digital Language Death

2014-01-06 Thread sankarshan
On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 8:47 AM, A. Mani a.mani@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 6:44 AM, sankarshan foss.mailingli...@gmail.com wrote: And, my take is that what is required is more focused and stronger investment over repeated cycles into automated translation systems, especially

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Digital Language Death

2014-01-06 Thread sankarshan
On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 3:49 PM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote: My point is very much that we can do things NOW. There is no need to point to things that you would like when there is so much that CAN be done. The WMF IS working on translation functionality. That may help

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Digital Language Death

2014-01-06 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Sankarshan ... my point is we can do things now. We can do things now for most languages of India. If you have issues with the Universal Language Selector (ULS) and its fonts and input method supports state your issues. These issues will be for specific languages because not all languages

[Wikimediaindia-l] GLAM activity at the National Museum, New Delhi

2014-01-06 Thread Sowmyan Tirumurti
Friends, We signed off 2013 and welcomed 2014 in style with a classic GLAM program at the National Museum in New Delhi. This is the best program I had seen till date. Join me in applauding Arun Ram, LShyamal, Konarak Ratnakar, and Swapnil for their contribution in making this event a success.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] GLAM activity at the National Museum, New Delhi

2014-01-06 Thread Dhaval S. Vyas
Excellent Sowmyan, great team work. Thanks to Konarak, shyamal, Swapnil and Arun for being part of it. Can you please also share links or article names that are created part of this event and for which QRCodes are generated? I suppose it will be good idea to translate/create those articles in

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] GLAM activity at the National Museum, New Delhi

2014-01-06 Thread Gaurav Pruthi
Hi Sowmyan, Can you please share the link where schedule for upcoming programmes (Specifically New Delhi) is shared. I'ws following meetups page I guess such event wasn't posted there. Thanks, -Gaurav On Jan 6, 2014 6:00 PM, Sowmyan Tirumurti tsowm...@wikimedia.in wrote: Friends, We signed off

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] GLAM activity at the National Museum, New Delhi

2014-01-06 Thread Subhashish Panigrahi
Congratulating Sowmyan, Arun, Shyamal, Konarak, Swapnil and all others who have put their valuable time and efforts in making this a success! It would be great if you could share a blog and pictures of the event. -- Subha On 06/01/14 7:56 PM, Gaurav Pruthi wrote: Hi Sowmyan, Can you please

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikisource-l] Malayalam Wikisource Digitization Contest 2014

2014-01-06 Thread manoj k
Thanks @Jayanta, @Moksh Juneja, @Andrea Zanni The Contest is now Progressing and Crossing 6th day. Now 93+ Participants and 997 Page digitized. We are now preparing more scanned books as ready for type. Am Very Happy to see more new active users in ml.wikisource. it's unexpected and exciting

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] The Egg

2014-01-06 Thread Jayanta Nath
Dear All, Please have a look Today's main page in English Wikipedia at Featured pictures, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page, The egg [1] which uploaded by our Our active contributor, Biswarup Gamguly. 1)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chicken_Egg_without_Eggshell_5859.jpg Jayanta

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-WB] The Egg

2014-01-06 Thread Bishakha Datta
Most interesting image - never seen this before. Congratulations, Biswarup. Bishakha On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Biswarup Ganguly gangulybiswa...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Vishnu, Well, the white eggshell has been removed by dipping a normal chicken egg into vinegar for 48 hrs, then very

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-WB] The Egg

2014-01-06 Thread Kalyan Sarkar
Congratulations, Biswarup da! On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Bishakha Datta bishakhada...@gmail.comwrote: Most interesting image - never seen this before. Congratulations, Biswarup. Bishakha On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Biswarup Ganguly gangulybiswa...@gmail.com wrote: Dear

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-WB] The Egg

2014-01-06 Thread Vickram Crishna
Beautiful image! Excellent. Vickram On 7 Jan 2014 12:10, Kalyan Sarkar kalyan.sar...@gmail.com wrote: Congratulations, Biswarup da! On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Bishakha Datta bishakhada...@gmail.comwrote: Most interesting image - never seen this before. Congratulations, Biswarup.