Yeah true. Tamil is at Fifth position.
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 11:07 PM, Bala Jeyaraman sodabot...@gmail.comwrote:
Thanks Shiju,
I think we are the fifth to cross 30k. Bishnupriya manipuri hasn't reached
it yet (it is at at 25k)
regareds
Bala
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 11:03 PM, Shiju Alex
Happy to note that more communities started thinking about this issue. I
remember raising this issue way back in 2009 or early 2010. But there were
not much takers then.
Happy to announce that Short URLs are now available in every page of Tamil
Wikipedia.
Need to do some UI testing. For
Skype: anirudhsbh
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 7:23 AM, Naveen Francis navee...@gmail.comwrote:
Hi all,
It is election season in Kerala.
I have one good news to share with you all.
Shiju Alex has convinced LDF election web team to change there site
license to creative commons license.
http
Indian Parliament approves new name for Oriya language and Orissa state.
Now onwards the Oriya language will be called as *Odia* and the Orissa state
will hereafter be called *Odisha*.
More detailed news here:
Old Wikisource http://wikisource.org is already
migrated to this new wikisource http://sa.wikisource.org. A cleanup is
required in the wiki. I request Sanskrit wiki community to take of your wiki
project.
Thanks
Shiju Alex
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*Jimmy Wales mentioned how stub articles on the populated places in United
States drove the growth of English Wikipedia. **People hailing from these
places would google their hometowns and arrive at Wikipedia.*
*
*This might be true for English or European language wikipedias. But a very
Dear All,
Below is the mail from *Martin Walker* (who is part of the Editorial_Team
for Wikipedia
offlinehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team)
regarding the new release of English wikipedia offline version (English
Wikipedia Version 0.8
Deal All,
Many of you who are active in Indic language wikipedias know the importance
of the meta list
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_articles_every_Wikipedia_should_have
Few Indic wiki communities had used this list extensively to create the most
important articles in the respective
Kindly spread this news among your Odia friends who are in Bangalore.
Rregards
Shiju Alex
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adopted certain process to release Tamil wikipedia CD/DVD.
Shiju Alex
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 8:40 AM, CherianTinu Abraham
tinucher...@gmail.comwrote:
Dear Nikhil ( et all),
Request to NOT take it personally. Whatever you are
doing is a great initiative and really
:)
Yes, This is very much true in the case of Malayalam wiki community also. We
should have stated these type of programs at least 2 or 3 years before. Hope
we will have a much better year in 2011.
Shiju Alex
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi
This discussion is not at all about input methods. I do not know why a
sudden comparison between transliteration vs. InScript came here.
Looking at all the solutions you provided, let me ask one thing. Have you
really actively contributed/contributing to any Indian language wikipedia. A
survey
Bala,
Thank you very much for the excellent report. Hope many of the participants
will already be editing wikipedias.
Shiju
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 10:10 PM, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote:
Awesome report, Bala.
I am waiting for the day when kids of first generation Wikipedians
Since the tool is under the early stages of development, I know it is not
good to expect a perfect PDF.
Some general comments are:
- For Malayalam, eventhough the text rendering is almost perfect, I could
find there are some unwnated space inserted with in few words. I assume it
is due
*Aniruth said: *
At this point of time, *we don't feel the need for having more list
administrators*, however list subscribers who are interested in keeping a
check on the spam filter as moderators can write an email to either list
admins.
This type of reply is not expected from a
on which that mail was sent). I assume even if some one's mail
is moderated it will be archived as the mail of the original date.
Shiju Alex
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Achal Prabhala aprabh...@gmail.comwrote:
Dear Hari and Anirudh,
Further to my message below, could you help me
But i have no idea if Microsoft will actually listen to us.
If wikibasha is used in your respective wiki's and keeps adding this
signature, please urge the wikibasha developers to stop this practice.
It all depends on how active the respective wiki community is. If the
language wikis have
#Summary
Btw now a days, there is only a thin line of difference between Wiki
meetups, Wiki academies and workshops etc.
Regards
Tinu Cherian
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 5:35 PM, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.comwrote:
This is not Wiki meetup, but a Hindi wiki workshop/academy
Dear All,
We request the support from few online volunteers (who can read and write in
Hindi) to prepare few help materials for Hindi wiki projects.
Please send an email to mayur...@gmail.com or shijualexonl...@gmail.com if
you are willing to help.
Shiju Alex
On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 11:44 PM
Mayur might have forgot to set the privacy setting of the document to *
Public*.
Hope he will change the privacy settings soon.
Shiju
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Gerard Meijssen
gerard.meijs...@gmail.comwrote:
Hoi,
I wanted to have a look but I learned that I need permission. You can
Enabling the use of images on Commons is just a small configuration away. I
am sure and know that there are competent people who can help you with that.
Enabling Commons images for a MediaWiki installation is very simple. I
thought many in the list know about this. Malayalam wikimedians have
of the language communities require any type of
support regarding this.
Regards
Shiju Alex
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Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 06:43:08 +0200
From: shijualexonl...@gmail.com
To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Updating the default
that is published at
http://stats.wikimedia.org/. I know many others are also finding value to
it, that is why it is published every month.
Shiju Alex
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 6:33 PM, BalaSundaraRaman sundarbe...@yahoo.comwrote:
Praveen,
You've shown how much insight we can glean by provoking Malayalam
We have users in Tamil Wikipedia who bulk upload 100s of complete articles
they wrote offline with just one edit per article.
That happens in all the wikipedias which has an active community. That might
also be possible with the the Google translation project.
In general, quality of a wiki
Malayalam
1002375 Hindi 913612 Tamil 688891 Marathi 665774 Telugu 578760 Urdu
376948 Kannada 186771 Gujarati 133134 Sanskrit 101517
Data is collected on 2011 January 24.
Thanks
Shiju Alex
-- Forwarded message --
From: Anoop anoop@gmail.com
Date: 2011/1/25
Subject: [Wikiml
Sorry, missed Bengali wikipedia from the below list.
Bengali wikipedia has *9,22,606* edits. It is placed in the second position
after Malayalam.
Shiju
2011/1/25 Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.com
Dear All,
I am happy to announce that Malayalam wikipedia has crossed the *10 Lakh
(1
a mail to me (shijualexonl...@gmail.com) and Srikanth (
srik@gmail.com) so that we can take this forward.
Thanks
Shiju Alex
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@Kolkata . I
would like to express my sincere thanks to Jayanata Nath, Indranil Das
Gupta
Shiju Alex for all the efforts in putting things together for a
successful
meetup, at one of the ancient cities of India. Special thanks to
Bishakha
Datta Achal Prabhala for all the encouragement
/MalayalamWiki_FAQ_2010_April_17.pdf-
Released on 2010 April 17
- *Second
edition*http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/61/Malayalam_Wiki_Projects_FAQ_version_2.0.pdf-
Released on 2010 November 30
Thanks
Shiju Alex
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Congrats to Tamil community for trying to bring out a process for Google's
Translation project.
I really wonder how other language communities are handling this. Apart from
Tamil, Google Translation project is going on at least in Hindi, Kannada,
and Telugu. It is banned in Bengali wiki.
I could
up of the recent Chennai Wikimedia meetup
when
Malayalam Wikimedia user Shiju Alex urged us to have this tool. Then
Malayalam Wikimedia user Junaid. P. V. joined the team to transfer the
code
from Malayalam Wiki and modified it for Tamil needs. All work done in a
week
and three cheers
Also, Shiju has been putting out India stats for some time now, and (Shiju)
perhaps you can share/integrate what you do, in terms of depth, article
quality and editorship with this information - perhaps you can have a
conversation with Erik about this.
This report is a subset of the report
I have added all the Indian language wikipedias that are in incubator also
to this list.
But this list is still not complete. Only the information about the
wikipedia project is added. Sister projects (wikitionary, wikibooks, and so
on) of many languages are in incubator. We need to gather that
Kannada.
See the Tulu incubator link:
http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/tcy/%E0%B2%AE%E0%B3%81%E0%B2%96%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%AF_%E0%B2%AA%E0%B3%81%E0%B2%9F
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 11:01 PM, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.comwrote:
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 9:40 PM, Anoop anoop@gmail.com
Learn why the Indonesian Wikipedia has a much easier ride.. Fix the
language technology issues.
Yes you are correct.
Indonesian language use Latin script. That is why it has a much easier ride.
As you have rightly pointed out there are many technology issues that needs
to be fixed for most
of the
messengers including GTalk, Yahoo chat, and so on.
The below mail has more details about it. Santhosh Tottingal and his team
had developed it.
PS: The English -Malayalam dictionary bot is availble at:
eng.mal.d...@gmail.com
Regards
Shiju Alex
-- Forwarded message
dictionary on my lap. :P
On 28 October 2010 12:44, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.com wrote:
Dear All,
This information is mainly for the users who edit in Hindi wiki projects.
Many a times you require the Hindi translation of English words while you
write in Wiki. Here is an online solution
of the software solutions
focuses only on Latin script. Hope situation will improve as the
contribution from the developers working in Indic language computing
increases.
Shiju Alex
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 9:49 PM, BalaSundaraRaman sundarbe...@yahoo.comwrote:
Ramesh,
Could you try http
Congrats to Tamil wiki community for their hard work.
And Tamil Wikipedia happens to be the 4th Indian language Wikipedia to cross
the 25,000 article milestone.
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 7:41 AM, BalaSundaraRaman sundarbe...@yahoo.comwrote:
I'm pleased to inform you all that Tamil Wikipedia
Dear Wikimedians,
If you are interested to get involved in the *Sanskrit Wikisource* project
kindly send an email to Mahitgar (mahit...@yahoo.co.in) or to me (
shijualexonl...@gmail.com). We are trying to coordinate the activities
related to that.
Shiju Alex
An interesting article about wiki editors. :)
http://getahead.rediff.com/slide-show/2010/sep/23/slide-show-1-gadgets-and-gaming-creatures-that-created-wikipedia.htm
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Suppose we go to village fair, we will have people who will be
comfortable with inscript.
This is very much true. There are many computer users who are conformable
only with inscript typing while typing in their mother tongue. And most of
them doesn't like to use transliteration.
And
%E0%A5%A8
Here are the details:
- *Date:* : Saturday, *18-September-2010* 5:30 PM
ISThttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IST
- *Venue:*: Conference room, ground floor, Women's Studies centre, Dr
Ambedkar Bhavan, University of Pune
Requesting all wikimedians from Pune to attend this meet
Shiju
Congrats to Arjuna and other members of the Telugu wiki community, for this
very great initiative.
Let the other Indian Language Wiki communities also follow this.
---Shiju Alex
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 10:19 AM, arjuna rao chavala
arjunar...@googlemail.com wrote:
Hi,
I am glad to report
it
to the Usability Team.
Please let me know in case you require any support regarding this.
Regards
Shiju Alex
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On Jun 25, 2010, at 12:30 PM, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.com
wrote:
One of the important feature that separates Indian WikiMedia community from
the WikiMedia communities of other countries is its diversity of languages.
There are at least 20 Indian languages in which WikiMedia
One of the important feature that separates Indian WikiMedia community from
the WikiMedia communities of other countries is its diversity of languages.
There are at least 20 Indian languages in which WikiMedia projects are
available
Following are those languages.
- Assamese
Hi Cary,
Informed this to Sinhala and Gujarathi Wiki community. They will be
contacting you shortly.
Shiju
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 5:10 AM, Cary Bass c...@wikimedia.org wrote:
I had a rough time trying to find a Sinhala font that
1) Worked on my laptop system in Linux.
2) Worked in
Hello Wikimedians,
After we (Malayalam Wikimedia Community http://www.mlwiki.in/) released
the Malayalam Wikipedia CD, Version
1.0http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2010/04/best-of-malayalam-wikipedia.html,
many wikimedians have asked me about the efforts and processes that went
behind the
by
number of NGO's including
SPACE http://www.space-kerala.org/.
*We are trying for the live streaming of this event.* The link will be
provided as soon as it is available.
I will share more details about the meetup later today.
Regards
Shiju Alex
Hi Gerard,
We (Malayalam Wikipedians) have asked about this some time back. Please see
a discussion regarding that here
http://usability.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolbar#Malayalam_transliteration_Script
Shiju
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Gerard Meijssen
gerard.meijs...@gmail.comwrote:
Hoi,
I
In fact we are looking for some solution to input Malayalam text in the
search box that is available in Malayalam Mobile wiki (
http://ml.m.wikipedia.org/).
Currently there is no way to input malayalam text there and navigate to a
particular article.
Shiju
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 9:06 PM,
I think you need to have a look at Hindi and Nepal basha (newari) wikipedias
also.
Some time back (2 years before) I pointed out this issue in this mailing
list itself. (
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2008-January/92.html
)
All the top 5 language wikipedias that I
.
Regards
Shiju Alex
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I request all the current committee members to *at least create a user
page*in MetaWiki (
http://meta.wikimedia.org). If you could mention your home wiki and your
contributions to WikiMedia foundation wiki projects (both inside and *outside
wiki*) there, that will enlighten many of us.
Shiju
On
They already have their user pages on meta wiki, *don't they? *
Yes, I could see red links.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_India/MoA
Shiju
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Hari Prasad Nadig hpna...@gmail.comwrote:
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Shiju Alex shijualexonl
It will be good if all the other committee members introduce
themselves to *Indic
language* wiki community.
Shiju
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 12:15 PM, BalaSundaraRaman sundarbe...@yahoo.comwrote:
Dear Praveen,
Since I'm one of the people involved, let me introduce myself:
I'm an editor at
started noticing contributions from non-latin language
wikis.
I wish him all the success.
Shiju Alex
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I suggest to reschedule this wiki meetup to* March 21*. The reason is, a
long weekend is coming during the March second week since
Ugadihttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugadiis falling on March 16
(Tuesday).
Many Wikians might
will be more impressive and get you
more results :)
PS I know there are more languages spoken and written in India .. there
are only 25 messages to localise !
Thanks,
GerardM
On 28 February 2010 17:34, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.com wrote:
Gerard,
It will be good if this facility
blnguyen2...@gmail.com wrote:
And this conman who should be avoided, his name is ..
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.com
wrote:
Thanks Ravi for bringing up this topic. I sent a similar mail regarding
this some time back.
Now a days many so
Wikipedia?
Kannada Wikipedians, any idea about this news?
Shiju Alex
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