A detailed workflow of Malayalam wikipedia CD is documented here (in
English). http://shijualex.in/creating-malayalam-wikipedia-cd/
\\A) Whether we can include all the non free content on CD?\\
For non-free images we need to meet few criteria. See this for details
Assuming a lower threshold as well, that it's just available for free
and no necessarily the other elements, are there resources that come
to mind?
Texts books (of few subjects) are available for download from the education
department website of the following states (There might be some
I would also like to ask Shiju if Wikipedia community has the right to
adopt the say its own numeral standard without considering the fact that
whole world does not use it.
This is my personal opinion as an Indic language wikimedian. According to
me, Wikimedia community should be following
.
Wishing Gujarati wiki community all the best.
Warmest Regards,
Shiju Alex
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a million for sharing this with the wider community.
An update:
The next collaborative work is already started and in just a week's
time, it
is almost 25% completed as well.
Kind Regards,
Dhaval
On 2 May 2012 16:11, Shiju Alex sh...@wikimedia.org wrote
discussion turned out to be blog post. Here it is:
http://aharoni.wordpress.com/2012/03/27/the-advantages-of-wikisource/ In
this blog post Amir discusses about the Advantages of Digital Texts in
Wikisource. Kindly share your comments.
Thanks
Shiju Alex
are
similar for Indic wiki communities.
Shiju Alex
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Congrats to all Telugu Wikipedians.
Telugu wikipedia is the 3rd Indic Language wikipedia to cross the 50,000
article milestone.
As Naveen mentioned it would be nice if you could create a banner and use
that for outreach. Please let me know if you require support on this.
Shiju
On Wed, Mar
this note earlier.
Shiju Alex
(Malayalam Wiki projects volunteer)
On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 4:48 AM, CherianTinu Abraham
tinucher...@gmail.comwrote:
Thanks Srikanth for the clarification.
chapter hat
The India Chapter is here to serve the community. It makes
no distinction between chapter
IEP volunteers
This is another branding going on to side line wikipedia editors. Remember
once a person start editing in Wikipedia they are wikipedians. But here we
are branding and sidelining them to prove our POV.
I have seen members (both in this list and in other lists) using the words
I am still not clear as a small wikipedian, I should contribute to
Foundation, Chapter, Community.
I would say since you are already contributing to Marathi wikipedia and its
sister projects you continue contributing there. If interested you can
contribute to other WMF wikis also (for example
I am replying to this mail as a *Malayalam wikimedia community member*.
Fact: Subhashish, *former volunteer*, and now paid consultant with India
Programs.
What do you mean by this? I Shiju Alex is a Indic language wikipedian now
close to 6 years. According to Mr. Anirudh (an EC member
Alex
(An Indic language wikipedian)
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.comwrote:
I am replying to this mail as a *Malayalam wikimedia community member*.
Fact: Subhashish, *former
wrote:
Hi Shiju
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.comwrote:
Shiju, you and Subhashish have been volunteers but now you are paid
contractors hired by the Foundation. Any work you do within the purview of
your contractual relationship with the Foundation
*We hope that Wikimedia works on delivering better transliteration
support or improving the results for Indic languages. *
Typing scheme for Transliteration is an issue (for readers) since there is
no standard transliteration scheme for any language. For editors it is not
an issue since they
which have load of stories to share.
If you are interested and need some help, please feel free to ask me and I
will help out.
Happy Reporting!
Shiju Alex
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The fact that 300 volunteers participated in this contest in really an
exciting news. Hope the contest helped to attract many Tamil speakers to
Tamil Wiki projects.
Shiju
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote:
Hello All,
The contest is now closed. A
I think there are 3 issues that this newsarticle raises.
The first is the is the desperate urgency for community building.
Community building is a combination of:
- increased community communication (in increasing order of importance:
events, mailing lists, talk pages, meet-ups and
track.
Thanks once again.
With Regards,
Mandar V. Kulkarni
http://mr.wikipedia.org
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*To:* nepaliw...@googlegroups.com; wikis...@lists.wikimedia.org;
Wikimedia India Community list wikimediaindia-l
/2011_Annual_Update
I welcome your comments on this annual update. Please discuss it on the
talk page. You can also reach me at sh...@wikimedia.org
Thanks
Shiju Alex
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Do join in me in congratulating the Assamese community for their efforts
and wishing them all the best for their community building efforts.
This is the start of a very exciting journey!
Kind Regards,
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+1 Ashwin.
As far as I know none of the Wiki communities of India (either language or
city) are in a stage to host an international conference. For time being
let us concentrate on building communities and let us gain confidence by
doing some good regional and language specific conferences.
Dear All,
Assamese wikipedia has crossed the 1000 article milestone yesterday (2012
January 7). Congrats to all Assamese wikipedians who contributed to
this. Started
in 2002 June 2 http://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/?diff=1, Assamese wikipedia
is the first Indic Language wikipedia. Assamese wikipedia
#Signed_up
.
Shiju Alex
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that *Assamese* is the first Indic language
wikipedia, and 4 Indic language wikipedias will celebrate *10th
anniversary* this
year (2012). :) So it is time to get prepared for the celebration.
Happy Birthday Celebrations!
Regards,
Shiju Alex
India Programs of Wikimedia Foundation
plan some programs to
retain existing users and attract more new users to Indic wikis. We need to
have some programs to bring back our old editors also.
Shiju
On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 7:15 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.comwrote:
Hi Shiju,
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 5:37 PM, Shiju Alex sh
Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks for these great suggestions Ravi.
*1. Active participation of Wikipedians having English Wikipedia experience.
*
Yes this is very important. Infact I already mentioned this in my second
point (attracting newbies) This is what I wrote:
We must
Srikanth,
Good work. And thanks for sharing.
Since in this we are calculating edits per day, new users per day, new
articles per day, and so on, I feel it will be good if those details are
displayed instead of the current total edits/users/articles. In fact for
daily analysis that data is more
Congrats Subhashish.
Shiju
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 8:22 PM, Subhashish Panigrahi psubhash...@gmail.com
wrote:
Thanks a lot for all of you for your good wish, I'd love to take up this
new responsibility and take active part in expanding this great vision
across the country.
Love
Subha
I suggest to keep it as Rs.100, Rs.500, Rs.1000...
Since those figures are shown as sample amount, meaningful figures like
100/250/500/100 will serve the purpose.
Thanks
Shiju
2011/12/21 రహ్మానుద్దీన్ షేక్ nani1o...@gmail.com
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 8:23 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Currently, the landing page for www.wikipedia.org (wikipedia.comredirects to
wikipedia.org) lists the ten largest Wikipedia projects. Apart from the
English Wikipedia, the rest of the projects are practically useless for
most of us in this country. Replacing the foreign language projects
Dear All,
A mailing list is created to facilitate the discussions about Assamese wiki
projects.
The URL is https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-as
Kindly subscribe if you are interested in Assamese wiki projects.
Shiju Alex
I am not sure whether it is really required to post these changes
every week here, because not every one is interested in reading the
code changes. I hope the code review page helps to find out all the
changes for an extension/component
That is true. Community is definitely NOT interested
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
Dear All,
I am sharing the statistical report of Indian language wiki projects for
the month of 2011 October. It is available here.
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/12/12/indian-language-wikipedia-statistics-october-2011/
Some interesting facts that I discovered this month are:
- Nearly
Hindi, sadly is scaring them away.
Srikanth, do you have any specific example/experience that made you to say
so?
Shiju
On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan
parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote:
Agree with Logic. Each community differs in every way. Needs, usage,
exposure
Dear All,
A mailing list is created to facilitate the discussions about Gujarati wiki
projects. The URL is
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-gu
Kindly subscribe if you are interested in Gujarati wiki projects.
Shiju Alex
Dear All,
As part of my discussions with Indic language Wikipedians I spoke with
Dhaval Vyas from Gujarati wikipedia. Dhaval has shared his editing
experiences, his vision about Gujarati wiki projects, and other related
topics. I have summarized the discussion in meta wiki. It is available
here:
Dear All,
As part of my discussions with Indic language Wikipedians I spoke with few
Marathi wikimedians (Abhay, Mahitgar, and Mandar) also. All of them are
highly experinced wikimedians. They their editing experiences, their vision
about ml wiki projects, and other related topics. I have
Dear All,
As part of my discussions with Indic language Wikipedians I spoke with few
Malayalam wikimedians also. Malayalam wikimedians spoke about their editing
experiences, their vision about ml wiki projects, and other related topics.
I have summarized the discussions in meta wiki.
In fact this is very much on-topic. A discussion regarding this topic is
going on in Hindi
Dear All,
As part of my discussion with Indic language Wikipedians I spoke with few
Kannada wikipedians. I have summarized the discussion in meta wiki. It is
here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages/Kannada/Discussions/2011
Kannada with more
Ahrinai is one of the languages of Khandeshi languages
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khandeshi_languagesgroup.
I assume Ahirani language is eligible for a test wiki in Wikimedia
incubatorhttp://incubator.wikimedia.org.
It has valid ISO code also. May be Gerard or some one else from LC can
provide
Dear All,
Today I am sharing the experience of the Nepali Wiki community.
As part of my discussion with Indic language Wikipedians I spoke with
Nepali wikipedians also (Rajesh pandey, Bhawani Gautham, and Saroj Dhakal).
You know all of them since they are active in India list also. Please read
Ravi shankar said:
If your ambition is to teach the mother tongues for the convent educated
minority English speaking Indians through a Wiki project and then make them
contribute in Indic language Wikipedias, it may never happen. I am not even
sure if it fits inside Wikipedia's mission.
Sharing a news also (related to Mother language illiteracy).
http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file=2008011357590300.htmdate=2008/01/13/prd=th;
Shiju
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 6:56 PM, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.comwrote:
Ravi shankar said:
If your ambition is to teach
I think what Srikanth meant is, creating a separate mailing list for
English wikipedians from India to discuss their topics of interest. I too
think that is a good idea.
Shiju
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 9:42 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.comwrote:
Is that what you mean, Srikanth?
Dear All,
As part of the India Programs of
WMFhttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages
I
am having discussions with wikipedians across various Indic languages. I
already shared the summary of the discussions I had with the
article by new year!
Cheers
Subha
On 29 November 2011 11:54, Shiju Alex sh...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Dear All,
Today I am sharing you the summary of discussions I had with Odia wiki (
http://or.wikipedia.org/) community. It is available here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki
%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%8D#Changes_needed_in_wikisource
On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 4:59 AM, Shiju Alex sh...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Dear All,
As mentioned in the last two mails, as part of the Indic Languages
initiatives of India Programs, I have been having detailed discussions
of such dedicated users
Assamese wiki is going to make good progress.
Inviting your active participation in these discussions (either on talk
page or in this mailing list).
Warm Regards,
Shiju Alex
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Dear All,
All the presentations from the *State of Wikimedia Communities of India*
session are merged (including the below presentation by the English wiki
community of India) and the combined PDF is uploaded to Commons. It is
available here :
And there is an en wikipedia article also on this topic:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BJP_youth_wing_protest_against_Wikipedia%27s_map_of_India
Shiju
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.orgwrote:
... there has been *much* coverage in the Indian media and many
Another strategy that we can adopt while doing this program in India is,
about the selection of articles for editing. We can ask students to
contribute to articles that they are interested in, rather than of all of
them editing the articles on the same topic.
The reason I am telling this is, In
, that will give some official status and
authenticity.
Please consider the same alongwith keeping the article on your own blog.
Regards
-Sudhanwa
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Shiju Alex sh...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Dear Wikimedians,
I have compiled the statistical report of Indian language
6. Jayanta Nath
7. Naveen Francis
8. Pradeep Mohandas
9. Shiju Alex
Jury's role and responsibility
The role of the jury will be to select Wikimedians for the recognition
from the nominations made.
Key dates
- Announcement of call for nominations to community: 9th Nov 2011
Here is the link to the Wiki academy brochure.
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/File:WikiAcademy.svg
The text of this document need to be translated to various languages.
Naveen,
Create a page in chapter wiki and place there only the text (in English)
that needs to be translated . Then request
Here is a blogpost from Hari Prasad Nadig about the after effect of Google's
Translation project in Kannada wikipedia.
http://hpnadig.net/blog/2011/10/22/how-google-irreparably-wounded-kannada-wikipedia/755
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Congrats Naveen
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Vickram Crishna
vvcris...@radiophony.comwrote:
Wonderful. Nice to have the community reaching out to you when you're far
from home :-), more incentive to come back asap.
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 1:48 PM, CherianTinu Abraham
As Srikanth mentioned, Sanskrit wiki projects (http://sa.wikipedia.org) is
one of the first Indic language wiki (along with tamil and Malayalam) to
implement the integrated typing tool. So the feature Harish asked is already
there in Sanskrit wiki projects.
Should we run site notices with these
todo o conhecimento humano. É isso o que
estamos a fazer http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Nossos_projetos.*
On 2 October 2011 04:18, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 7:31 PM, Shiju Alex sh...@wikimedia.org wrote:
I will suggest forwarding
; apologies if you have got it from other
mailing lists.
Dear All
As I had mentioned in a previous posting (and as was so touchingly
welcomed by so many of of you), Shiju Alex is joining us to lead our Indic
Languages initiatives. In this mail (
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail
Good work Odia Wiki community. Hope Odia Wikisource will also up very soon
Shiju
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Subhashish Panigrahi psubhash...@gmail.com
wrote:
Thanks a lot Gerard, Santhosh and team, my heartfelt thanks to all the
language committee members for your kind support and I
This is great. Hope more wiki workshops will follow.
Shiju
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.orgwrote:
On 13 September 2011 15:28, Achal Prabhala aprabh...@gmail.com wrote:
This is amazing - congratulations to you and Gautam.
I had almost nothing to do,
Can you temme how to edit... I dont find any links to edit my submissions.
We will be able to help you only if you provide details of the submission.
For example, *title of the submission*.
Shiju
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Adethya Sudarsanan
adethyas...@gmail.comwrote:
Thanks for
Good news and congrats.
So Hindi became the first Indic language wikipedia crossing the 1 lakh
article mile stone
Shiju
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 10:53 PM, Surya Prakash suryasalem2...@gmail.comwrote:
Congratulations for the contributors readers Hindi community. :)
*$U®¥∩*
Good work Subhasish and other Odia wiki community members..
*Wikipedia for Odia Literature:* An event which is created to uplift the
presence of Odia language and literature in Wikipedia, chronological
documentations and media files collection.
Next step would be requesting for Odia
you are not
submitted it already) if you wish to speak/present a topic in WikiConference
India 2011.
Thanks
Shiju Alex
(For Program Committee, WikiConference India 2011)
*NOTE:* Program submissions not related to Wikipedia or Wikimedia movement
will be rejected. Also we will not accept program
Can't we use the existing Wikisources (available in different languages
including English) for the same?
Or, Gautham, are you proposing something else?
Shiju
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.orgwrote:
So here's a question - given that there is much content
Sreejith's point is what I was wondering about. Is there value in
this? Something that the Chapter might consider?
So what you propose is not a new project, but to have servers in India for
the projects with India related content? Infact most of the projects,
including commons and meta, have
this is not possible?
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.orgwrote:
On 26 August 2011 12:52, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.com wrote:
So what you propose is not a new project, but to have servers in India
for
the projects with India related content? Infact most
wrote:
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.com
wrote:
Specifically a WikiSource server
of sorts, hosted in India, exclusively for content that is out of
copyright in India only.
As far as I know, the content that is that is out of copyright in India
now
can
2011 14:21, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.com wrote:
In this case, much content that reside in many Indic language
wikisources,
few images in Wikimedia Commons, and may be some works in English
wikisource
are also against US copyright law. So how can we overcome this issue?
I think
Dear All,
We have only 4 more days for the Program submission. Last date is August 30.
Please submit your program proposals before the due date at *
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2011/Call_for_Participation
*
Shiju Alex
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Shiju Alex
to our surprise we understood this template is
very much useful for the visually challenged people (whom we never thought
about before).
Video of Satyasheelan's session is available here:*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gr1T3HeBTvU*
Thanks
Shiju Alex
, Aug 6, 2011 at 12:23 PM, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.com
wrote:
Dear All,
Please submit your proposals here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2011/Call_for_Participation
Kindly ensure that your proposal is on a topic related to Wikimedia. We
have
India
2011 here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:WikiConference_India_2011/Programs You
can use that also as reference while submitting the proposal.
*Important: *Please forward this mail to all the relevant mailing lists, in
case I missed any list.
Regards
Shiju Alex
For WikiConference India
,
Shiju Alex
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 10:54 AM, BalaSundaraRaman sundarbe...@yahoo.comwrote:
Congrats Shiju and Nitika! I look forward to a good acceleration of wiki
growth in India with your participation.
Regards,
Sundar
That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium
since its still just another English Wikipedia POV dispute and thats
Even though the topic of this mail is not limited to enwiki, the above
statement is true.
But unlike other Indian language wikiproject wikipedians, English
wikipedians from India still doesn't have a common forum (apart from
Sarvavijnanakosam is NOT a new project. Sarvavijnanakosam
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarvavijnanakosamis the encyclopedia project
of *Kerala State Institute of Institute of Encyclopaedic
Publications*http://www.sarva.gov.inand it is published from late
1970's. The license of this encyclopedia is
Logo of Hindi wikipedia (http://hi.wikipedia.org) is also updated.
Shiju Alex
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.comwrote:
Dear Indic language wikipedians,
The logos of some of the Indic language wikipedias are updated recently.
Following are those
Gyanamandala is an IPR of Binod Kanungo Gyanamandala foundation.
Is this is possible? Can some one take patent/trademark for some words of a
language?
Here is my take on this name issue :
The name of our encyclopedia is *Wikipedia*. It is wikipedia in all
languages. In odia it is
I do not think any one can get copyright for the common words of a language.
But not sure.
Gautham, your help required. :)
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 9:37 PM, Subhashish Panigrahi psubhash...@gmail.com
wrote:
Well, in that case Khola is more approprite than Magana (Used in the
context of
In fact it affected the community growth also. Allowing this type paid
editing is one of the bad things happened in Indic wikis recently.
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 11:52 PM, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.orgwrote:
On 21 June 2011 23:46, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com wrote:
So
For SVG translation, use this tool:
http://toolserver.org/~jarry/svgtranslate/
My suggestion would be, let the respective language community do the
translation. Transliteration may not work work all the time.
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Naveen Francis navee...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi
I
was around 5000.
We found that the interest in Malayalam Wikisource offline is more than that
of Malayalam Wikipedia offline.
Shiju Alex
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala
arjunar...@googlemail.com wrote:
Hi,
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 10:31 PM, Jyothis E jyothi...@gmail.com wrote
A station is public property and hence nobody should be able to stop you
from photographing it.
That is our assumption. Just like that we assume that all Indian/State
Government websites are in public domain since ours is a democractic nation.
But in reality that is not true. Government is
/wiki/File:Garden-City-Skyway-Bridge-KRPuram.jpg
Also, does the government differentiate between Photography and
Videography?
--Regards,
Srikanth.
On 17 June 2011 21:12, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.com wrote:
A station is public property and hence nobody should be able to stop you
from
How viable is to release a DVD in 60 days in all languages ?
Not a good idea unless few language communities (at least 6-7) are ready for
the selection, proof reading, verifying image licenses, and so on. Selection
and creation of offline content is not at all a small task. Much effort is
In fact all of us know the effort and pain took by Mumbai/Pune community to
make arrangements for the Wikimedia India conference. They have reached out
to almost all community members and asked for the support. As per the below
mail they have reached chapter also. The response from chapter is also
Created a page in wikimedia India wiki.
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/wiki/Wikimedia_India_Conference_2011
Requesting all to consolidate the important points regarding this on that
page.
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 7:22 AM, wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com wrote:
Ashwin - Thanks for the update, we very
According to me these type of issues arise due to the lack of awareness
about copyright related topics among press reporters. I assume the reporter
made this story based on my blog post published at,
http://shijualex.wordpress.com/2011/05/02/malayalam-loves-wikimedia-event-2011-april-report/
In
5. If some pictures are available by a State Government portal like
herehttp://www.orissa.gov.in/e-magazine/Orissareview/febmar2005/englishpdf/tportraitoascbp.pdf
is that possible to add them commons?
Not possible as of now since the license of the site is not defined. The
story is same
I will answer the first question (regarding stamps)
Here
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Madhu_babu_%28Madhusudan_Das%29.jpgis
a Postage stamp of Madhusudan
Dashttp://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%AE%E0%AC%A7%E0%AD%81%E0%AC%B8%E0%AD%82%E0%AC%A6%E0%AC%A8_%E0%AC%A6%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%B8which
have
helped the e-speak team to make few enhancement in e-speak software.
If some of you don't know, Malayalam wikimedian Saanthosh has developed
text to speech software for Indic languages (Dhawni) long back in 2008.
Santhosh can provide details about it.
Shiju Alex
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 8:35
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Thank you,
Regardsm
Srikanth R.
On 26 April 2011 12:19, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.com wrote:
Yes for Malayalam wikipedia and its sister projects. We have users from
blind schools of Kerala reading Malayalam wikipedia and providing us
feedback also.
Two softwares are used by them
Yeah this is true. There are many such reports recently.
Among many wikipedians also there is a common misconception that all the
content and images in wikipedia are copyright-free. :)
May be we need to start using the word *Copyleft *to address all the free
licenses. Usgae of words like
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.comwrote:
Yeah this is true. There are many such reports recently.
Among many wikipedians also there is a common misconception that all the
content and images in wikipedia are copyright-free. :)
May be we need to start
Yuvi,
It would be great if you develop a firefox extension also for this.
Unfortunately google Chrome's performance is bad with Indic scripts. There
are couple of issues with wiki editing also. Due to this many of us prefer
firefox over chrome.
Shiju
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 12:10 AM, Yuvi Panda
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