[Wikimediaindia-l] unsubscribing - sabbatical

2013-09-19 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
at wikimedia dot org. Thanks! -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation P.S. More about me and Hacker School: http://www.harihareswara.net/sumana/2013/08/28/1 ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] A tool to visualise the edits in an article

2013-08-26 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
/~RENDER/toolkit/ChangeDetector/ ) -- still external to MediaWiki, but benefiting from a team approach. What do you think you will try to do? Thanks! -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing

[Wikimediaindia-l] Featured picture of Chandiroor Divakaran

2013-08-26 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
someone check, and add an interwiki link to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandiroor_Divakaran ? Anyway - thanks to all involved in this, including User:Mydreamsparrow. :) -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Etherpad Lite labs instance going down in two weeks - backup time

2013-08-23 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Thanks to Mark Holmquist for maintaining http://etherpad.wmflabs.org for the past long while. It is going down in 2 weeks, so please retrieve your text. I recommend that you: * go into your browser history * search it for etherpad.wmflabs.org * go to each of those pads and copy-and-paste the

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic print material digitization workshop query

2013-08-19 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
an old historical map that you'd like to vectorize to get it onto OpenStreetMap, try out the new Map polygon and feature extractor tool: https://github.com/NYPL/map-vectorizer -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation

[Wikimediaindia-l] Indian Olympian Irfan Kolothum Thodi - Commons featured image

2013-07-18 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3154343#sitelinks-wikipedia there are currently articles about Irfan Kolothum Thodi on English, Malayalam, Polish, and French Wikipedias. (The athlete is from Kerala.) Feel free to add or improve one in your language as well! Thanks. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community

[Wikimediaindia-l] IdeaLab for grants - take a look

2013-07-18 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
your ideas in the IdeaLab! Also: there's at least one idea currently in the IdeaLab that's about an Indian language Wikimedia project, so you could comment there. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] welcome, new technical contributors

2013-05-12 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
at the wiki's village pump, watering hole, scriptorium, or other community discussion forum. It's always nice to have a bit of direct experience and observation. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimania proposals about India

2013-05-10 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
/DevCamp Best wishes, Sumana -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https

[Wikimediaindia-l] welcome, new technical contributors

2013-05-10 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
of them have exams.) :) Thanks for joining the Wikimedia community! -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimania-l] Call for participation ends soon relevant input request

2013-04-25 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Reminder - 30th April is the last day to get a Wikimania 2013 proposal in. And please do mark your interest in specific proposals by others -- it helps the committee make the schedule. Thanks, Sumana Original Message Subject: [Wikimania-l] Call for participation ends soon

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Los Angeles County Museum of Art offers 20, 000 public domain images

2013-03-18 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
%3A52 Hope this is helpful! Original Message Subject: Los Angeles County Museum of Art offers 20,000 public domain images Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 10:25:29 -0400 From: Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org Organization: Wikimedia Foundation To: Wikimedia GLAM collaboration

[Wikimediaindia-l] IRC chat on Wednesday 20 March for QA about Lua scripting on wikis

2013-03-17 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/Ambassadors by subscribing to the mailing list https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors. Thanks, Sumana -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation P.S. Thanks to Guillaume Paumier for writing the wikimediaannounce

[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia and indiawikipedia.com wikipedia.in

2013-03-04 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
details below. Cheers, Sumana Harihareswara Original Message Subject: indiawikipedia.com Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2013 15:23:44 -0800 From: Daniel Zahn dz...@wikimedia.org To: Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org Hello Wikimedia India, fyi, ops/legal at WMF acquired the domain

[Wikimediaindia-l] Why and how to evaluate our effectiveness

2013-03-03 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
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[Wikimediaindia-l] above-and-beyond hospitality to newbies at an Indian open source event

2013-03-03 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
each participant's right to drop out while ensuring they know that we want them to stay. I think Bhattacharya got it right by asking honest questions and adapting the newbies' experience. Maybe other event organizers reading this have had similar experiences? -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering

[Wikimediaindia-l] Deadlines for some upcoming opportunities (GSoC, Wikimania other conferences)

2013-02-15 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
. ...this is not a full application to attend AdaCamp San Francisco, just a way to gauge interest. We will contact you with application details when applications open. Please feel free to forward! -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 02:29:18

[Wikimediaindia-l] Individual Engagement Grant: deadline for current round, 15 Feb

2013-02-14 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG#ieg-criteria. Hope this is of interest! -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from

[Wikimediaindia-l] Indian Cinema Task Force profiled in Signpost

2012-09-18 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
of the Month so feel free to spread the word! best, Sumana -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing

[Wikimediaindia-l] FOSS.in - call for proposals open till 8 July

2012-06-21 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
about Education solutions for the 21st century as well as web development, mobile, privacy, and other topics. http://foss.in/cfp -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l

[Wikimediaindia-l] Event coordinators: how to create many accounts from 1 IP address

2012-05-16 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
of that restriction. The Foundation's Maggie Dennis has written a quick HOWTO: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/How_to_request_lift_of_an_IP_cap and so please feel free to link to it in your outreach HOWTOs, event planning checklists, and so on. Thanks, Maggie! -- Sumana Harihareswara

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] GSoC announcement of students for 2012

2012-05-08 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
on translating SVG files) Thanks for your support! -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation On 04/23/2012 10:52 PM, Ashwin Baindur wrote: This is great news. It has been my experience that GSOC helps add to the skill-sets and experience of Wikipedians in India who

[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia sites HTTPS by default (was Ads Injected into Wikipedia?)

2012-05-08 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
, but will eventually default to HTTPS for logged-in users: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-April/059580.html -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l

[Wikimediaindia-l] Question about outreach sessions

2012-04-09 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
specific phrasing do you use? I want to know how to say if you're not interested, you can leave if you want in a friendly, hospitable way, so your examples might help. Thanks! -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Chennai Unofficial Wikimedia Hackathon Report

2012-04-03 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
- stickers were the only 'cost'. A lot of places around the country would love to have their space used for a hackathon of sorts. Should we do more of these kind of 'Unofficial' hackathons? Yes, but only if we can prepare for them as well as you did. Thanks again. -- Sumana Harihareswara

[Wikimediaindia-l] Chennai hackathon on 17 March

2012-03-16 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
#MediaWiki #wikihackchennai -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https

[Wikimediaindia-l] Are you on this list but not comfortable editing Wikipedia and not sure who to ask? Want to learn?? SITTING AT HOME???

2012-03-02 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
! And if you think these tips should go somewhere on the outreach wiki(s), please feel free to add it or point me to where I should. :-) -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list

[Wikimediaindia-l] Localisation and internationalisation bugs affecting Indic language communities

2012-02-22 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
] Localisation and internationalisation bugs affecting Indic language communities Message-ID: ca+30aunziw70guq189dlp0wf2ttgijxl5vndzebp3+r3pbq...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 10:54, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.orgwrote: On 02/20/2012

[Wikimediaindia-l] Localisation and internationalisation bugs affecting Indic language communities

2012-02-21 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
/r/3hl [2] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/32578 -- Regards Srikanth.L Yes, adding the i18n keyword to an issue in Bugzilla will help bring it to the attention of the localisation team. Thanks for mentioning this problem, Srikanth. -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator

[Wikimediaindia-l] Technical tutorial/training references and resources for events

2012-02-12 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
app * How to write a simple MediaWiki extension * How to hack MediaWiki itself (very long!) If you have questions or requests, please feel free to leave them on my talk page: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User_talk:Sumanah or reply, preferably on-list. Thanks. -- Sumana Harihareswara

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] , [Wikimedia-in-mum] Report on Wikipedia Takes Mumbai II

2012-01-31 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
you can do yet. People without system administration skills can help in this particular situation by learning them, or by spreading the word about Wikimedia technical opportunities in general. Thanks! -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation On 01/31

[Wikimediaindia-l] Technical tutorials for Wikimedia meetups

2012-01-23 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
, and other events. The links are all centralized here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Hackathon_January_2012 The storytelling staff also helped us out by recording video and audio of the tutorials so people can watch them later! They will upload those recordings soon. -- Sumana

[Wikimediaindia-l] Help needed for Wiki Academy in Kolkata

2012-01-17 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
/GSoCStudentGuide/ . I hope these are useful to you. Please feel free to translate, print, modify, link, and so on. Thank you! Good luck and best wishes! Hope you can realize great outcomes from this event. :-) -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] A report on SSN College Academy

2012-01-17 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
to the students and what kinds of snags and problems they ran into when considering, or trying to start, contributing to MediaWiki and other Wikimedia technologies. -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Pune hackathon scheduled 10-12 February 2012

2012-01-11 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 12/21/2011 02:27 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: On 12/14/2011 12:24 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: You are invited to the Pune Wikimedia hackathon. Date: 10-12 February 2012 Venue: Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies Research (SICSR) at Symbiosis International University, Pune

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Pune hackathon scheduled 10-12 February 2012

2012-01-06 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
. Right now, Yuvi and Srikanth Logic are the Indian mentors I know of. Are there others? -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Pune hackathon scheduled 10-12 February 2012

2011-12-21 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 12/14/2011 12:24 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: You are invited to the Pune Wikimedia hackathon. Date: 10-12 February 2012 Venue: Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies Research (SICSR) at Symbiosis International University, Pune Extremely rough event page, soon to get more details

[Wikimediaindia-l] Supporting Outreach

2011-12-20 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
/wiki/Bookshelf ). That might be a useful place to get cross-pollination from other people who are already working on Wikimedia outreach. -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list

[Wikimediaindia-l] Pune hackathon scheduled 10-12 February 2012

2011-12-14 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
! -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Help with an WP outreach event in Gujarat

2011-12-09 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 12/09/2011 11:59 AM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: On 12/09/2011 03:10 AM, wikimediaindia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org wrote: Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2011 15:02:00 +0530 From: Arnav Sonara sonara.ar...@gmail.com Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Help with an WP outreach event in Gujarat To: Wikimedia

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

2011-11-30 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: ca+30auneu4ikx61222z+vvnndgxz1zwdqgdhv5ypwvhm5vl...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 01:53, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.orgwrote: I managed MediaWiki's participation

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Mumbai hackathon followup

2011-11-29 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
to happen in your area, I can try to help. And of course you can set up an event on your own as well! Thanks. -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Quick Mumbai hackathon followup

2011-11-29 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
For completeness, a copy of the message I just sent to the Wikimedia developers' email list, https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l . Original Message Subject: Quick Mumbai hackathon followup Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 22:28:41 -0500 From: Sumana Harihareswara suma

[Wikimediaindia-l] Mumbai hackathon followup

2011-11-23 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
the Wikimedia Foundation: https://wikimediafoundation.org Thanks again for being part of this developers' meeting. Please keep in touch! -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list