Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Commons being blocked in most places.

2011-12-25 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 00:32, Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.com wrote: I was simply wondering if there were members of Indian chapter involved or anything specific to India implemented in the same direction. I dont think anything with ImageFilter is geolocation specific. So nothing can be done

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Commons being blocked in most places.

2011-12-25 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 07:26, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.org wrote: On 26 December 2011 00:43, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com wrote: and I don't think chapters should have a say on things like these, especially when they put a big disclaimer We are not responsible

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Article Feedback Tool v5 : Indian Perspective

2011-12-22 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
Hi Oliver On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 21:56, Oliver Keyes oke...@wikimedia.org wrote: The first is that the tool is directly saying what do you think about the content and not what do you think about the subject of the content, which might cut *some* junk. Second This is partly true, also an

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

2011-12-22 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 16:23, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Majority of India that uses Android uses v2.x That Majority is elite enough to upgrade sooner IMHO. -- Regards Srikanth.L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list

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

2011-12-22 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 04:15, Yuvi Panda yuvipa...@gmail.com wrote: +1. A lot of my classmates use Android, and they're definitely not 'elite' Most of them would have changed the phone once in 2 years(From 1100 to camera phone to S60s or similar to android), hence they are 'elite' and will

[Wikimediaindia-l] Article Feedback Tool v5 : Indian Perspective

2011-12-21 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
All, Some of you might have followed the recent improvement with Artcle Feedback Tool v5 (AFTv5) , for those who didnt please read[1]. Even before reading the entire page, something struck me. The design is strangely synonymous with Indian comment boards. I strongly feel, having this on India

[Wikimediaindia-l] Indic has arrived! -- on devices !!

2011-12-19 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
Hi all, It was a almost a unimaginable surprise when I heard a Samsung camera has a Tamil interface! See pic[1]. It is important milestone when Indic is starting to reach beyond computers, mobiles. While this also reinforces the Indic growth theory(not just wikimedia in non-profit space, even for

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ONE simple step to double or triple visits to Indic Wikipedias

2011-12-19 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 17:24, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Today, I went to download WordPress and it told me it is also available in Tamil. Very neatly done as it somehow detected that I am from Tamilnadu. Geolocation within India is impossible. My guess is it used your

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ONE simple step to double or triple visits to Indic Wikipedias

2011-12-19 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 18:12, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote: Srikanth, {{Disambiguation needed}},Not just here, in many threads going forward, especially atleast 2 Srikanth's are active on the list :D So, let us not loose steam on discussing the technical hurdles up front. I

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Webfonts deployment on Indic Wikiprojects

2011-12-19 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 07:33, Subhashish Panigrahi psubhash...@gmail.comwrote: Hi All, While testing both Lohit and Utkal has hinting problems in or wp, is that possible to keep them optional? As of now automatically the default font changes to Lohit when you open or wp, instead of that is

[Wikimediaindia-l] Narayam updates

2011-12-15 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
Hi all, Attention : Indic communities using Narayam extension. Other Indic communities which don't have Narayam please do read below, I have a note for you too As of now Malayalam,Tamil,Odiya,Sanskrit,Assamese,Sinhala communities use Narayam. Narayam is also deployed on Commons. Most of the

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Narayam updates

2011-12-15 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 14:14, Santhosh Thottingal santhosh.thottin...@gmail.com wrote: We post the i18n deployment notes in Mediaiwiki-i18n list , one or two days before deployment. https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-i18n This should help, Thanks. -- Regards

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Please add Sanskrit 2003 web font to Sanskrit Wikipedia

2011-12-14 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 20:16, ePandit | ई-पण्डित sharma.shr...@gmail.comwrote: I just saw that web fonts facility have been added to Indic wikis. On Hindi and Sanskrit wikipedia, there are Lohit Devanagari and Samyak Devanagari fonts. I request to add Sanskrit

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Webfonts deployment on Indic Wikiprojects

2011-12-14 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 12:52, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: Although, the largest of the Indic language Wikipedias gets about 1/900th the traffic of English Wikipedia in traffic. [1] I think it's appropriate to be a bit more experimental at that scale. It remains to be seen whether

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] IEP canceled for the next term

2011-12-13 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
Hi, There is also a special extension being developed for Education Program[1] and hope this will introduce a systemic workflow by default for students joining through *EP, hence there could be great control and will help wikipedian volunteers / CA / OA etc. I think the next IEP will also have

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Help us test the VisualEditor prototype

2011-12-13 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
Some of you might interested to have a early sneak peak of widely expected feature on the rolls. Also share some love back by testing and reporting bugs on bugzilla. -- Forwarded message -- From: Neil Kandalgaonkar ne...@wikimedia.org Date: Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 02:57 Subject:

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikita-l] Salem Wiki Workshop Report

2011-12-12 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 17:55, Surya Prakash suryasalem2...@gmail.comwrote: A Wiki workshop in Salem was conducted on December 11, 2011 by the Tamil Wiki community Kudos to all behind this. I would call this mini conference, Sodabottle travelled from land of Cheras, Essar from land of Pandyas

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Dr. Sengai Podhuvan 's Appeal to Fund raising banners

2011-12-12 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 22:50, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Let up try to find more people like him. 1. en:User:Nvvchar (~75) :- Some of us first met him at Tinu's residence on 3rd Bangalore meetup. He retired from Wikipedia just a couple of days before conference

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Sharing insights and experiences from Indian language wiki communities - Kannada

2011-12-11 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 04:18, Jessie Wild jw...@wikimedia.org wrote: I just got off the phone with a wonderful woman who works for EDC India who was asking me how she could participate in Kannada Wikipedia editing. Obviously I can just direct her to the homepage of kn-wiki, but is there

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Chapter-Foundation: Co-Ordination Calls / Meeting - Updates Minutes

2011-12-10 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 23:39, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Hisham, I don't understand why the Executive Committee offer to be informed 48 HOURS in advance of the community. Isn't Wikipedia a community based system? If the chapter or trust is everything then what is

[Wikimediaindia-l] [Fundraising] Sengai Poduvan Aniruddha's -- Personal appeal

2011-12-09 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
Hello all, One more Indian appeal is about to go on the banners soon I guess. Please read Dr.Sengai Podhuvan's appeal here[1]. Aniruddha Kumar's appeal is also on the way and might be available soon. If you had met the old gentlemen in the conference, didnt had a chat with him, here his story.

[Wikimediaindia-l] India Programs Consultants on WMF Staff page

2011-12-09 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
Hello, I dont see India Programs Staff being mentioned in this page[1]. Is there a specific reason to it? IIRC number of employees / contractors from this page is important since goes to fundraising appeal numbers. While it is said that 95 staff, am not sure if some there are more are missed out

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Programs Consultants on WMF Staff page

2011-12-09 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 07:17, Anivar Aravind anivar.arav...@gmail.comwrote: AFAIK, They are Contractors, and not staff as such , due to the absense of legal structure for WMF in India [[Staff]] redirects to [[Staff and contractors]]. So they should be there I guess. -- Regards Srikanth.L

[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Meetup at Salem - Dec 11

2011-12-08 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
Hi All, A Wikipedia meet is being organized in Salem this Sunday. Agenda would primarily be discussion about Tamil Wikipedia and Wiktionary and a photo walk post meetup to click pics for Media contest[1]. Meetup page[2]. If you are interested( dont follow Tamil) and need more details to attend,

[Wikimediaindia-l] SocialShare Gadget on Tamil Wikipedia

2011-12-08 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
Hi all, Just as we started the Tamil Wiki Media Contest[1], we have realized the power of social media[2] and virality. In an attempt to increase page views even by single digits and having more visibility for content pages, I was looking around and found the share gadget on Hebrew wikipedia and

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] SocialShare Gadget on Tamil Wikipedia

2011-12-08 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 02:13, Steven Walling swall...@wikimedia.org wrote: Very cool. :) Thank you! Is there going to be any way to measure how often this happens, and for what pages? Other communities have spent many hours discussing this (including English Wikipedia) with little success.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] SocialShare Gadget on Tamil Wikipedia

2011-12-08 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 04:05, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.comwrote: I saw this used on Wiki Conference India page http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2011earlier If there is some easier analysis of the number of view of the conference, pre and post the

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] SocialShare Gadget on Tamil Wikipedia

2011-12-08 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 04:01, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.comwrote: Nice idea. Other indic wikipedias could leverage the same. There is one thing that is required for other wikipedias to use the same. ShortURL[1] is required for sharing on twitter. The development is done(Thanks

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Re: Indian Minister Kapil Sibal wants to censor social media

2011-12-07 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 17:20, Vickram Crishna vvcris...@radiophony.comwrote: Oh, the mention of 'idiot' on that page is vandalism (no, I haven't done it - yet)? I thought we had a very interesting discussion about current affairs at WikiConf where there seemed to be a consensus that presenting

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [OT] Government will now prefer ‘hinglish’ words over Hindi translation

2011-12-06 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 18:21, Yuvi Panda yuvipa...@gmail.com wrote: +1. I believe me, @planemad and GerardM talked about something very similar over Lunch around WCI. Language is a critical component in Wikipedia. Wikipedia is also hosts volunteer generated content. Now a government can say

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Re: [Foundation-l] Indian Minister Kapil Sibal wants to censor social media

2011-12-06 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 12:06, Achal Prabhala aprabh...@gmail.com wrote: fyi Original Message Subject:Re: [Foundation-l] Indian Minister Kapil Sibal Wants to Censor social Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:02:10 +0530 From: Achal Prabhala aprabh...@gmail.com To:

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] On the spot Chapter membership.

2011-12-05 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 18:20, wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com wrote: If this was done in Mumbai, why not allow it in Kolkata? I think there needs to be a uniform policy behind this - either its open to all at all our events across the country or its not. My point was not specific to Kolkata.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] On the spot Chapter membership.

2011-12-05 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 18:30, Jayanta Nath jayanta...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, There are some free and open source minded/Linux group members around Kolkata,They have some knowledge about Wikipedia's philosophy. Some of our community member wants joint on spot payment method,as like we have at

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] On the spot Chapter membership.

2011-12-05 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 19:01, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.comwrote: I am very much in favour of ( sincerely wishes so) the active community members being part of the chapter and its leadership and taking the chapter is next level. The chapter will have lose its relevance unless the

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] A new mailing list for Wikipedians working on India related content on English Wikipedia related projects.

2011-12-03 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 16:02, Arun Ramarathnam arunra...@gmail.com wrote: Ashwin, Request that matters related to glam and offline be discussed on india list as they are not language specific. GLAM / Offline are broad terms. Any discussion specific to content creation on English must go into

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia XI 2012

2011-12-03 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 10:53, wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com wrote: Changing the topic since I felt Arnavs idea might be applicable on a national level. Wikipedia completes 11 years in January 2012 (January 15th if my memory serves me right). Last year there were 97 meetups nationwide to

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia XI 2012

2011-12-03 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 11:17, wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com wrote: I thought this is similar to a photowalk, where people instead of meeting in a room go around and take pics. I stand corrected. Even for a photowalk, customizing the uploadwizard will be good. Generally people upload elsewhere,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Karthik Nadar is in the banners!

2011-12-02 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 23:13, Sue Gardner sgard...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hey folks, I just saw that Indian editor Karthik Nadar is in the banners today, with a beautiful appeal. Go, India!

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Karthik Nadar is in the banners!

2011-12-02 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 11:04, Swaroop Rao raul.swar...@gmail.com wrote: BTW, I forgot to update; Patricia (from the fundraising team I suppose) just told me that they're working on Debit card and other means of payment for INR this year. One more thing, it seems, even the fundraising team

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] An Offline Wikipedia for the Aakaash Tablet?

2011-12-01 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
Hi all, Just a word of caution here. Lift and ship approach will be a disaster. So any article that goes into Kiwix, must be reviewed / tagged for legal compliance (Maps, others!), be of decent quality and avoid controversial topics(Caste topics Hell no). We must also check for copyvio images

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia's participation in Google Summer of Code

2011-12-01 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 00:04, Jessie Wild jw...@wikimedia.org wrote: Thanks for sharing this link, Yuvi! As someone completely unfamiliar with the topic, I am wondering if you all consider the issues discussed in that paper still an accurate depiction of the state in education in 2011. Fewer

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Supporting the languages of India

2011-11-30 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 19:03, Bishakha Datta bishakhada...@gmail.comwrote: So I feel like there may be three or more categories of persons for each language: -Speakers who read and write in that lang -Speakers who don't read and write in that lang (non or low users) -Speakers who don't

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Supporting the languages of India

2011-11-30 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 19:47, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: You need to work with someone who knows the language to the purest of its form, knows it in and out, and also knows technology. I doubt you'd've come across MANY of those at either WCI or the Hackathon.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Supporting the languages of India

2011-11-30 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 20:23, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.comwrote: That is a good thought implied by you, Sodabottle. Perhaps, WMF would like to discuss their proposed initiatives with affected communities before they announce them. Just as a ground check rather than depending only

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Mullaperiyar Dam article on English Wikipedia - Collaboration sought

2011-11-30 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 17:47, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Alternatively, if someone can go to the dam with a camera capable of recording audio and video, talk with an official of the EB/ID of whoever [TN or KL] pointing out to the details and try and make an Oral

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Supporting the languages of India

2011-11-30 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 21:22, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.comwrote: Please help me understand. The Grantha script is not the same as the Tamil script and it is not used to write Tamil right ? But even so; how can characters in a SCRIPT that are not used in a language damage that

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia's participation in Google Summer of Code

2011-11-30 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
Thanks Sumana for the details. Help much in understanding GSoC from student participation angle. Thanks again. Regards, Srikanth L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia's participation in Google Summer of Code

2011-11-29 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 01:53, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.orgwrote: I managed MediaWiki's participation in Google Summer of Code this year, and could talk with anyone interested in participating, anyone researching it, and anyone who is curious. :-) We try to document our

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] IEP Pilot - Preliminary Analysis

2011-11-28 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 17:33, Nitika ntan...@wikimedia.org wrote: Actually not. And that's the main reason why we had to pull down the Leaderboard (tool that shows bytes of data that has been added by a student on Wikipedia) as well. The Leaderboard accounted for all the edits that a student

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-chn] Input methods extension Narayam enabled on Wikimedia Commons and more on input methods and web fonts

2011-11-24 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 20:53, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: So, if I'm understanding the issue correctly, the open source font in Tamil is inferior to the proprietary font that many users have installed, correct? Exactly. I recall brief discussion about this at the hackathon,

[Wikimediaindia-l] Tamil Wiki Media Contest

2011-11-23 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
Hello All, Tamil Wiki Community is currently organizing a 3 month long media contest[1][2] with the aim of increasing media files related to Tamil / Tamilians / Tamil culture to be used in Tamil Wiki Projects and encouraging non-text contributions from users who could contribute easily through

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Tamil Wiki Media Contest

2011-11-23 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
Hi Eric, On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 22:44, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: This is wonderful, good luck. Please let us know about your experience with Upload Wizard. I noticed that Upload Wizard isn't fully localized into Tamil yet. Any Tamil speaker can help localize it on

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] FW: Blatant misinformation and vandalism of India articles on Wikipedia

2011-11-22 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 22:07, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@hotmail.com wrote: hi, I got this email from a user. I have pointed him/her to the mailing list and am sharing it here. I seriously dont think this mailing list is a venue for content debates. if a user has content debates,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] FW: Blatant misinformation and vandalism of India articles on Wikipedia

2011-11-22 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 22:25, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.comwrote: Correction for WikiConference wars read WikiConference sessions. As you can see from my edit history, I was heavily involved in editting Indo-Pak wars a little while ago and the word slipped out. Let me confirm there

[Wikimediaindia-l] Jimmy Wales Keynote -- Community Building the Wiki Way in India

2011-11-22 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
Hi All, I have uploaded Jimmy wales presentation at [0]. His talk is available on Youtube courtesy Star Mahja below. [0] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jimmy_Wales_Wikiconference_India_2011.pdf [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-22NmcTXJI [2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0RDuV9Vy28

[Wikimediaindia-l] Did you know?

2011-11-21 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
* Did you know a lot of useful things were done at the Mediawiki India Hackathon see notes[1] . Thanks to all who made it happen and successful. I am writing about one of the tiniest piece(literally some 10 lines of code) of work done on Day 1 of the hackathon. After the initial interest on

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Death and Post-mortem of Indian Education Program pilot

2011-11-15 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 13:08, Ram Shankar Yadav ramshankarya...@gmail.comwrote: *This is exactly the kind of cluelessness i am referring to. The [[WP:COMPETENCE]] exists exactly for this purpose - we dont want kids, who will mess up by drawing mangoes and bananas here. We want atleast semi

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Death and Post-mortem of Indian Education Program pilot

2011-11-15 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 23:11, Debanjan Bandyopadhyay debast...@gmail.comwrote: The Indian community however, still expects that students will come to them for help and they shall help. I never got an answer for the question Does your college profs come to your home and help you in doing the

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikimedia India Program Trust

2011-11-14 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 15:55, Aditya Sengupta apsengu...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 11:10, Subhashish Panigrahi psubhash...@gmail.com wrote: This is indeed a great success, First India chapter registration, then first office outside US in Delhi, 1st India WikiConference and

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Death and Post-mortem of Indian Education Program pilot

2011-11-14 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 09:13, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.comwrote: *On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com wrote:* *I would also request people not to fork any more new threads on this with same thoughts, * CAMPUS AMBASSADOR SETBACK - The Local

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Death and Post-mortem of Indian Education Program pilot

2011-11-14 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 20:15, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Nitika ntan...@wikimedia.org wrote: I would also like to share with you all some of the good articles that students have written. Nitika, please use right terms from next time, Good articles

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Death and Post-mortem of Indian Education Program pilot

2011-11-14 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 23:27, Bala Jeyaraman sodabot...@gmail.com wrote: *we never got the support which was required from an OA. Honestly speaking there was no interaction between OAs and CAs and without that coordination chances of success are quite low. * *My only point here is to all

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Death and Post-mortem of Indian Education Program pilot

2011-11-13 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 16:17, Arnav Sonara sonara.ar...@gmail.com wrote: The PPI (or PPP, LOL) is indeed over. It concluded with the completion of the Stanton grant requirements, and has now evolved into the GEP, the Global Education Program. The IEP as I understand it is not over: contrary

[Wikimediaindia-l] Death and Post-mortem of Indian Education Program pilot -- #DelayedMail

2011-11-12 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
Hi all, If you are not aware of it yet, India Education Program Pilot died around a week back[1] and a post mortem was done on Signpost[2]. I wonder if we Indians like to only rejoice success's and keep silence when we fail. One could have acknowledged the death on this list. It didnt happen.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Death and Post-mortem of Indian Education Program pilot -- #DelayedMail

2011-11-12 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 18:56, Hisham hmun...@wikimedia.org wrote: That's not accurate. The dates are as follows: It was concluded in all but 1 class of Symbiosis School of Economics a few weeks ago (because the assignements were concluded.) It continues in 1 class at this college and at 1

[Wikimediaindia-l] [WCI] Registrations Closed

2011-11-12 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
Hi all, We have closed the registrations for the conference. Thank you for your interest and looking forward to seeing you at conference. If you have missed registering, see you at next conference. :) -- Regards Srikanth.L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Mails getting queued

2011-11-12 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 15:15, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote: For some reasons, lot of mails are getting queued for Message has a suspicious header and needs manual approval since yesterday(which is why you might have noted emails coming in bulk). Please note there will be delay

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Getting ready for production; help us with WebFonts

2011-11-08 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
Hi, Even though Tamil translation for Webfont was done, on retrospect, I had a feeling if WebFonts is one extension that should not be translated at all. (at least the interface messages, if not system messages) since the purpose of the extension was to display legible text for a user who doesnt

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [OT] Request to the list administrators

2011-10-26 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 17:21, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 17:10, sankarshan foss.mailingli...@gmail.comwrote: and, perhaps this also goes out to the listadmins of the -pune and -westbengal lists. Will you consider a request to ensure that these lists

[Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki Data : New Wikimedia Project for Structured Data

2011-10-25 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
Hi all, Wikimedia would be a starting new project WikiData. Details here[1] . I am particularly excited about how the interwiki data and API is made available and hope it would be immense use to all Indic languages, many possibilities of mashups, data extractions might be easier with the

[Wikimediaindia-l] Tamil Wikipedia -- Google Translation experiences at Arabic Wiki Convention.

2011-10-25 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
Hi all, Last week Arabic Wikipedians organized Arabic Wikipedia Convening (WMF Blog Report [1]) hosted by Qatar Computing Research Institute at Doha. Since the Qatar Institute was looking at options on machine / manual translation to increase articles on Arabic Wikipedia, they had invited a Tamil

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Translation sprint in Pune on 26 Novermber?

2011-10-24 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 12:38, Siebrand Mazeland (WMF) smazel...@wikimedia.org wrote: (I tried sending this 8 or so hours ago, but it looks like it didn't get through - apologies if it somehow ends up twice) India list has been bitten by some Mailman bug[1] and struggling severely. All

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Transliteration tool for Sanskrit wiki

2011-10-18 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 20:27, Harish mghar...@gmail.com wrote: Sanskrit Wikipedia is not having transliteration tool as in most other Indian languages. Since the script is Devanagari, the same code used in Hindi wiki can be reused. Can anybody please enable it? Infact Sanskrit was one of

[Wikimediaindia-l] IRC Office Hours -- India Education Program

2011-10-11 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
Hi, There is an IRC office hour scheduled at #wikimedia-office on Wed, Oct 12 8:30 PM IST about issues in India Education program. Please join if you are interested in the program. http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=wikimedia-office -- Regards Srikanth.L

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Presenting The India Chronicles

2011-10-09 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 23:23, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.org wrote: On 9 October 2011 21:57, Bishakha Datta bishakhada...@gmail.com wrote: I think Tory did a great job and had her finger on the pulse I mostly agree with you, Bishakha. Agree, It was a quite an elaborate one. So I

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiAcademy Mumbai 1 notes

2011-10-04 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 15:21, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.comwrote: I too faced difficulties some times. Anonmous editing usually worked, unless the IP itself is blocked. Sometimes while English wiki had access problems, Kannada wiki was accessible for edits. Do you know whom to

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Using Wikimedia Mailing lists

2011-10-02 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 15:45, Shiju Alex sh...@wikimedia.org wrote: Changed the Subject line. Arjuna and I were discussing the below issue that Beria pointed out. But as Arjuna said, some of the important features like searchability of archives, stats, and so on are missing in the mail

[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimania Talk Videos : Global South - Oral Citations

2011-10-01 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
Hi all, The Wikimania videos are up online here[1]. I could find Achal's talk on Oral citation here[2] (First 15 minutes). There might be more videos, but titles dont help to find them easier. Please post others if you find them. (Konkani script and India Outreach programs were atleast 2 other

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Chapter Foundation : Sep 2011 : Meeting Update

2011-10-01 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 16:47, Hisham his...@wikimedia.org wrote: Dear All: Tele conference of Wikimedia India (Wikimedia chapter) and Wikimedia Foundation took place on 28 Sep 2011. Here is an update Thanks for the update Hisham. General: - Arjun explained that FCRA application will

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia in TN text books

2011-09-30 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:29, Vickram Crishna vvcris...@radiophony.comwrote: In this particular case, doubtless Arun Ganesh is specifically aggrieved, since it was his picture the Government has acquired al la Singur (but without the comforting legislative sanction such actions normally

[Wikimediaindia-l] Spamming India list with Conference Discussion -- Moderation notice

2011-09-28 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
Hi, Apologies to India list members on failing to act on spammers for sometime. I have put members who violated the warnings [1][2] . People who have been put on moderation are in bcc of this mail and list is available here for anyone to search and find[3]. These members will be removed from

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WikiConference-India 2011] WCI 2011 : Scholarship

2011-09-28 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 00:10, Naveen Francis navee...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Wikimedians who have received scholarship please accept(reject) your scholarship by senting a mail to wikiconferencein...@gmail.com asap. So that we can work on the second round scholarship list. This needs to

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia in TN text books

2011-09-27 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 20:27, Bala Jeyaraman sodabot...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, English wikipedia articles are listed in the Further reading sections of lessons in science text books of the recently implemented Samacheer Kalvi (uniform education) syllabus in Tamil Nadu. A few examples are

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Report on ILUGC wikipedia stall

2011-09-22 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 11:51, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.comwrote: hi, Do you have any pics of the stall? It would be nice to see it. Might give others idea on how to do such a thing themselves?

[Wikimediaindia-l] WikiConference India 2011 -- Call for Participation Results

2011-09-22 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
Hi all, Call for Participation results for WikiConference India are out. Of the 550+ total submissions and 190+ relevant submissions, we are happy to announce the results. Selected Submissions :- http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2011/Selected_Submissions Review of Submissions

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2011-09-21 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 13:51, Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.com wrote: Can mailman not be configured to automatically reject such mails? There has to be someone somewhere on the wikimedia tech team who can fix this. Yes, this problem exists across lists, the solution given was list owners

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2011-09-21 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 15:09, Sudhanwa Jogalekar sudhanwa@gmail.comwrote: Hi, Filters can be added in mailman so that mails with some keywords like invite can be blocked. This is done in many Free/Open source mailing lists. This list uses Invite widely for meetups etc. I have added

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WikiConference-India 2011] [Wikimedia-in-mum] Withdrawal of Pune community - Re : Pune community

2011-09-20 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 11:25, Mandar Kulkarni mvkulkarn...@yahoo.co.ukwrote: Dear Pradeep, Thank you very much for your email and appreciating that Pune Community has done some work for the wiki-conference in last 2-3 months. We have not stopped people to participate individually in the

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WikiConference-India 2011] [Wikimedia-in-mum] Withdrawal of Pune community - Re : Pune community

2011-09-19 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 22:30, Shekhar Krishnan shek...@mit.edu wrote: Why can't we work together? Please explain and discuss. Best, Shekhar, Can we take this discussion out of India list, Some have already protested against the use of India list for Conference related discussions unless its

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fuel hike - Facebook hoax

2011-09-17 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 01:02, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.com wrote: Why did Wikipedia have to figure in this? :-) http://ibnlive.in.com/blogs/tathagatabhattacharya/2947/62714/facebook-petrol-price-hoax-think-before-you-like.html Outreach issue. It shows that even educated urban mass

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] social media to use

2011-09-15 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 16:48, Nagarjuna G nagar...@gnowgi.org wrote: There are technical ways to push messages to the popular proprietary social media like facebook and twitter. Therefore you do not loose anyone, but at the same time we can also push a message about free social media, which

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Copyright Violations by (some) Students: Wikipedia India Education Program

2011-09-12 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 15:48, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.org wrote: I said that the current actions were overblown. No second thoughts on the issue and actions being taken. But I guess Gautam has a point here. This set of copyvios were detected very early(majorly ~50 students' edits

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Narayam is live

2011-09-12 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 23:46, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.comwrote: Hoi, I am really happy that Narayam, the extension that provides you with input methods for your languages is live for some of them on some of the projects. Have a look and let us know how you like it. Thanks

[Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] Telegraph : It’s a Wiki Wiki world!

2011-09-11 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110911/jsp/7days/story_14492284.jsp -- Regards Srikanth.L http://wiki.wikimedia.in/In_the_news#Sep_2011 ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] You can't copy-paste this homework

2011-09-10 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
Good article on the INDIAEDU programs. :) On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 14:05, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.org wrote: You can't copy-paste this homework Well, but some reality check, quite a few have been found copying[1], the drive is on to educate more about copyrights and inform them copying

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] social media to use

2011-09-10 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 08:18, Nagarjuna G nagar...@gnowgi.org wrote: I personally think we should encourage and use the free software alternatives like identi.ca, diaspora so that the event takes an opportunity to promote these media which protects user's freedom. By linking your account to

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] You can't copy-paste this homework

2011-09-10 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 16:23, Bala Jeyaraman sodabot...@gmail.com wrote: A question - how hard is it to write a bot that runs contributions through Google and flags it based on the degree of match and whether a footnote exists or not? One such bot existed called corensearchbot which used

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Arthapedia - Indian Gov Site on the lines of Wikipedia

2011-09-03 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 22:20, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.org wrote: Not really a Wikipedia model, what? Crying shame about the license. Only valid concern is about license, but then if its about bridging the gap between policymakers and general public, I feel it will be yet another

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiConference India 2011 - Call for Participation

2011-08-30 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 13:56, Surinder Rinku becomeaw...@gmail.com wrote: Speaking/presentation is not a pre-requisite for attending the conference? Is it not? I would just want to be there. Is there a procedure/form I need to fill to get an ID or an entry pass of sort? Can you please

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiConference India 2011 - Call for Participation

2011-08-30 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 14:04, Surinder Rinku becomeaw...@gmail.com wrote: How much will be the registration charges? Please stay tuned for announcements. We are in the process of finalizing details. -- Regards Srikanth.L ___ Wikimediaindia-l

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