[Wikimediaindia-l] Help in updating the US trade deficit svg and data

2020-02-25 Thread shirish शिरीष
Hi all, Please CC me if somebody answers as I don't want the answer to be lost in the noise. I have been editing and updating the U.S. trade deficit which can be seen at [1] . The data is being copied by hand and updated to 2019 [2] from [3] 2015. The source data is at [4] . I would probably

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] does anybody have any of the kiwix CD/DVD images

2017-03-07 Thread shirish शिरीष
On 07/03/2017, shirish शिरीष <shirisha...@gmail.com> wrote: > in-line :- > > On 07/03/2017, Manoj Khurana <he...@manojkhurana.com> wrote: >> Hi Friends, > > Hi Manoj, > > Excuse but would be a big longish. > >> Offline Wikipedia is a requir

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] does anybody have any of the kiwix CD/DVD images

2017-03-07 Thread shirish शिरीष
in-line :- On 07/03/2017, Manoj Khurana wrote: > Hi Friends, Hi Manoj, Excuse but would be a big longish. > Offline Wikipedia is a requirement of many for sure. More so in developing > countries, where internet can be quite unreliable. I had suggested talking > to

[Wikimediaindia-l] does anybody have any of the kiwix CD/DVD images

2017-03-07 Thread shirish शिरीष
Hi all, About 10 days back, I along with few people from FOSS community India and Mozilla Community were doing outreach program at GMRT, NCRA http://gmrt.ncra.tifr.res.in/~sciday/sciday/scienceday.htm This is the 4th year that we were able to do it successfully. During the outreach program,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki Conference India 2016 (Chandigarh hackathon)

2017-01-22 Thread shirish शिरीष
ome talk of Google using the Apache License or something. If you know what I'm talking about, please share. > Subhashish > > On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 3:15 AM, shirish शिरीष <shirisha...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> @Subhashish, >> >> Thank you for the link. I

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki Conference India 2016 (Chandigarh hackathon)

2017-01-21 Thread shirish शिरीष
thub.com/tshrinivasan/OCR4wikisource > 2. https://github.com/tshrinivasan/OCR4wikisource/blob/master/LICENSE > > Subhashish > On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 6:06 AM, shirish शिरीष <shirisha...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> On 23/11/2016, Shrinivasan T <tshriniva...@gmail.com> wrote: &

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki Conference India 2016 (Chandigarh hackathon)

2017-01-19 Thread shirish शिरीष
On 23/11/2016, Shrinivasan T wrote: >> >> Please check following link. >> >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016/Chandigarh_Hackathon >> > > > Thanks santhosh and the contributors. > > -- > Regards, > T.Shrinivasan > > > My Life with GNU/Linux :

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] : Pune Mirror : Will Google Maps lead people astray, the Wikipedia way?

2011-04-24 Thread shirish शिरीष
At bottom :- On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 19:11, Srikanth Ramakrishnan rsrikant...@gmail.com wrote: Heya, Is Wikipedia to blame for being open? Is Google to blame for Android being open? Think about it that way. --Regards, Btw Android is not really open. Please see

[Wikimediaindia-l] Moving a project to mediawiki - WSFOE

2011-02-18 Thread shirish शिरीष
Hi all, There was talk of moving the WSFOE (Wikipedia for Schools Offline Edition) to move from wikia.com to mediawiki. While I was succssful to do the [[Special:Export]] at Wikia was blocked at [[Special:Import]] as only Importers or/and admins can only do that. Can somebody do this ? The

[Wikimediaindia-l] Quick and dirty Gnunify Day 2

2011-02-17 Thread shirish शिरीष
Hi all, This is the second day's stuff at GNUnify. http://wp.me/pfuZu-mJ Its slightly more exhaustive than the previous one so please sit aside some time while going through it. --           Regards,           Shirish Agarwal  शिरीष अग्रवाल   My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0

[Wikimediaindia-l] A quick and dirty blog post about gnunify day 1

2011-02-15 Thread shirish शिरीष
Hi all, Just published a quick and dirty one about the happenings on GNUnify Day 1. http://wp.me/pfuZu-ms . I just hope I did justice to being there. I do hope to get some photos by this week-end and pretify the post somewhat. Been feeling lazy for last couple of days hence took the drastic

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Workshop for Women in Wikipedia (WWW) idea

2011-02-14 Thread shirish शिरीष
In-line :- On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 12:50, Bishakha Datta bishakhada...@gmail.com wrote: snipped Hey Shirish, Dear Bishaka, Been talking to lots of women about this - one barrier I'm finding from informal chats with many women in India who are otherwise comfy with the net is technical. At

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] unified log-in not happening in hindi wikipedia for some reason

2011-02-14 Thread shirish शिरीष
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 21:49, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote: Hoi, Hoi (guess it means hi :) ), When you are new to a Wikimedia project, you have to log in for a first time and accept cookies for that site. When you do, the user you just created will be included into your

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] PDF rendering of Indian language wiki pages

2011-02-14 Thread shirish शिरीष
at bottom :- On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 22:36, Santhosh Thottingal santhosh.thottin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, We are working on a Complex script PDF rendering library named PyPDFLib(https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/pypdflib/). One of its test case (or use case) is to render a wiki page in

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] unified log-in not happening in hindi wikipedia for some reason

2011-02-14 Thread shirish शिरीष
At bottom :- On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 03:53, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote: Hoi, Did you change the password so that it is the same ? yup, did all that, will try again tomorrow. signing off and going to dreamland Thanks,    GerardM snipped --           Regards,    

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] unified log-in not happening in hindi wikipedia for some reason

2011-02-13 Thread shirish शिरीष
In-line :- On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 02:38, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: Unified Login or SUL (Single User Login) is a mechanism which allows users to use a single global login on most of the Wikimedia Foundation's projects. It allows to maintain a consistent identity across all linked

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-in-mum] Liam Wyatt's visit to Mumbai and GLAM meetup - a summary

2011-02-13 Thread shirish शिरीष
In-line :- On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 09:13, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com wrote: hi, Thanks Arun for posting it here. I was really tired when I posted this yesterday to the Mumbai mailing list. It does seem more or less accurate. A few additions from what I missed out yesterday

[Wikimediaindia-l] Moderation and strategies was Fwd: Your message to Wikimedia-in-mum awaits moderator approval

2011-02-13 Thread shirish शिरीष
At bottom :- -- Forwarded message -- From: wikimedia-in-mum-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 10:14 Subject: Your message to Wikimedia-in-mum awaits moderator approval To: shirisha...@gmail.com Your mail to 'Wikimedia-in-mum' with the subject    Re:

[Wikimediaindia-l] unified log-in not happening in hindi wikipedia for some reason

2011-02-12 Thread shirish शिरीष
Hi all, I know that sometime back unified login happened. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Unified_login This is what I was doing :- a. Was in EN:WP and logged in - looked at the entries. b. Went to hindi wikipedia and tried to edit an article. I was not logged in. c. Thought

[Wikimediaindia-l] wikimedia india mailing list, what is it about ?

2011-02-12 Thread shirish शिरीष
Hi all, Due to the recent nature of things and events a very basic question occured to me ? What is the purpose of this mailing list? A very broad definition or understanding which was there of the list is to co-ordinate indian activities in and around wikipedia and wikimedia. I went to the

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Moderation policy on WikimediaIndia-l

2011-02-12 Thread shirish शिरीष
spelling mistake :- There were 2-3 people who were in the same boat. So one was on the road 20 days in a month, some people like traveling and others do not. --           Regards,           Shirish Agarwal  शिरीष अग्रवाल   My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Workshop for Women in Wikipedia (WWW) idea

2011-02-11 Thread shirish शिरीष
At bottom :- On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 16:35, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com wrote: hi, Tinu Cherian and Moksh Juneja were discussing this on twitter. Tinu suggested that there be held a Workshop for Women in Wikipedia as a response to the news article/study on the point about

[Wikimediaindia-l] need to caption and tag the photos of gnunify.in

2011-02-11 Thread shirish शिरीष
Hi hari, Need to caption and tag the photos otherwise they don't make much of a sense. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/wiki/Category:GNUnify_2011 I went to the above link to see perhaps I can do the captioning and make it more relevant, say

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Ads on Wikipedia?

2011-02-07 Thread shirish शिरीष
At bottom :- On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 01:15, cr.a...@gmail.com cr.a...@gmail.com wrote: I came across this article on TechCrunch: http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/05/wikipedia-affiliate-links/ not sure it's discussed already. But what are the members thoughts on this? Personally, I think it's BS.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-blr] Bangalore Photowalk, Bangalore loves Wikipedia #2 [Fwd]

2011-02-07 Thread shirish शिरीष
At bottom :- On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Hari Prasad Nadig hpna...@gmail.com wrote: Here's a photo from Saturday's event: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hpnadig/5418774809/ There were 28 participants in all. The largest number we've had till now! Wikipedia badges were distributed. We

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-del] Hindi wiki workshop at New Delhi - 2011 February 12

2011-02-07 Thread shirish शिरीष
At bottom :- On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 17:40, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: I agree. It is just a placeholder to redirect interested folks to the event and tracking purposes. Please note the summary http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Delhi/Delhi4#Summary Btw now a

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Google Translation on Indian language Wikipedias Paid editing

2011-02-05 Thread shirish शिरीष
At bottom :- On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 18:04, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: Just an example of Google translated article on Internet Protocol in Kannada Wikipedia.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Meet-up in association with Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) - Kolkata

2011-02-04 Thread shirish शिरीष
In-line :- On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 13:17, jayanta nath jayanta...@gmail.com wrote: Dear friends, An Wikipedia Meet-up/Workshop arranged by Wikimedia India (West Bengal) and in association with Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (Kolkata Campus) has been held on Saturday,12th February 2011 3

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Google Translation on Indian language Wikipedias Paid editing

2011-02-04 Thread shirish शिरीष
At bottom :- On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 14:55, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: HI Ravi / Bala,           It is great work that Tamil Wiki is doing by not allowing the dump of paid translators to article space directly, thereby maintaining the overall quality of the Wikipedia. But

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] What is page depth was Re: Malayalam wikipedia crossed the 10 Lakh/1 million edits milestone

2011-01-28 Thread shirish शिरीष
At bottom :- On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 06:52, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.com wrote: Depth is again another metric with shows the overall collabration in a wikipedia. Mathematically it is represented as: Read more about Wikipedia Depth here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Depth Depth

[Wikimediaindia-l] What is page depth was Re: Malayalam wikipedia crossed the 10 Lakh/1 million edits milestone

2011-01-27 Thread shirish शिरीष
Hi all, Just read through the whole series of posts. As an editor I have a question/query? Is there some defined page depth? If there is who defines it ? Also an a non-metric or otherwise why is page depth important? Is page depth or page length of an article same or different? What aspects

[Wikimediaindia-l] WX-Celebrations - part 2

2011-01-23 Thread shirish शिरीष
Hi all, Just made the part 2 post of the Wikipedia Celebrations in Pune. http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2011/01/24/wx-celebrations-ii/ Don't really know if I did justice to it or not . --           Regards,           Shirish Agarwal  शिरीष अग्रवाल   My quotes in this email licensed

[Wikimediaindia-l] WX-Celebrations - part 2

2011-01-23 Thread shirish शिरीष
Hi all,      Just made the part 2 post of the Wikipedia Celebrations in Pune. http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2011/01/24/wx-celebrations-ii/ Don't really know if I did justice to it or not . This one talks more about mediawiki than wikipedia. --           Regards,           Shirish Agarwal 

[Wikimediaindia-l] Another blog post on the Wikipedia Celebrations in Pune - perhaps a slightly deviant look/feel

2011-01-22 Thread shirish शिरीष
Hi all, Another blog post chronicling the day's happenings. http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2011/01/22/wx10-celebrations-1/ I have split it in two parts as doing it in one part wouldn't have done justice to the content. Feedback, Comments all welcome. --           Regards,          

[Wikimediaindia-l] Added info. about Wikimedia Pune Celebrations

2011-01-16 Thread shirish शिरीष
Hi all, Added info. about coverage of the Pune event (so far ) at http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pune#Mainstream_Media and blog posts covering it as well. http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pune#Blog_posts Apart from

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [press] : IBNLive : In pics: Indians behind Wikipedia

2011-01-14 Thread shirish शिरीष
In-line :- On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 00:34, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Lets not forget its IBN, the people who thought Wikipedia and Wikileaks are same. Probably we need to organise a serious media - tutoring session going forward. I would say the article is

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WP X at Indore

2011-01-14 Thread shirish शिरीष
At bottom :- On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 03:28, Arun Ramarathnam arunra...@gmail.com wrote: Congratulations Srinivas!!! We saw pictures from the event on Commons. Looks like there were a lot of participants in the auditorium. regards Arun snipped Look forwards to the detailed report as well.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiPuneri - people coming together in Pune

2011-01-14 Thread shirish शिरीष
On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 06:46, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Wikipedians in Pune have come together to contribute to Wikipedia and Commons. They have formed a Facebook cum Flickr group: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_181231605233363

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WikiX-l] India specific Designs / Artwork for Wikipedia 10

2011-01-13 Thread shirish शिरीष
In-line :- On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 14:52, Swapnil Narendra swapnilnaren...@yahoo.com wrote: That's nice. if this could be any helpful, I can send you the .xcf files and maybe that will make your work a little easier and faster. Guys, come on. Send us the .xcf files, send us .svg, please

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India specific Designs / Artwork for Wikipedia 10

2011-01-11 Thread shirish शिरीष
In-line :- On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 09:48, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I am sharing the artwork for Wikipedia 10[1] which can be used in case you are printing banners etc.I would add more to this album. Thanks a lot Swapnil / Tony for getting these ready , great if we

[Wikimediaindia-l] Userboxes of Cities

2011-01-11 Thread shirish शिरीष
Hi all, I was browsing though and found only one userbox made by somebody who is in Vishakapatnam. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Userboxes/Cities {Template:User Visakhapatnam}} I am no great designer but do see the code to hack something together here :-

[Wikimediaindia-l] Posts/Reports from Pune Wikipedia meetups

2011-01-10 Thread shirish शिरीष
Hi all, Giving below the links of wikipedia blog posts put up by me. http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2011/01/10/wikipedia-mr-meetup/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2011/01/11/wikimedia-commons-meetup/ I haven't put up many photographs yet on the second blog post, would do the

[Wikimediaindia-l] Is there a way to get userboxes on the profile in wikimedia

2011-01-10 Thread shirish शिरीष
Hi all, I have a userpage on wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Shirishag75 which I want to copy/mirror on wikimedia. I tried getting the userboxes up and happening (just copy pasting the code just like that) but that doesn't work. Any pointers anybody ? --          

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] announcing Wikipedia party meetup in Pune on the 15th

2011-01-05 Thread shirish शिरीष
Slight update :- There is now a google public calendar with the events registered :- HTML :-http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=026a44s6usgc6058pqeooaiv9g%40group.calendar.google.comctz=Asia/Calcutta ICAL :-

[Wikimediaindia-l] announcing Wikipedia party meetup in Pune on the 15th

2011-01-03 Thread shirish शिरीष
Hi all, The Pune English and Marathi Wikipedia group has got a venue http://www.symbiosiscomputers.com/v5/home/contactus.php and we are meeting up at around 18:00 hrs. in the evening. Please see http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pune for details. Shortly, the schedule of activities to be held

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Some photos from Pune visit of Wikimedia dignitaries

2010-12-26 Thread shirish शिरीष
In-line :- On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 10:51, Arun Ramarathnam arunra...@gmail.com wrote: Sudhanwa, Great pictures from the event. Good to see a good turnout. Could you please post these pictures or at least a sub set of these on commons and post the link back? How are these preparations for the

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Note on Wikimedia stall at FOSS.in

2010-12-23 Thread shirish शिरीष
At bottom :- On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 11:17, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, Please see a brief writeup on Wikimedia Stall at Foss.in with links to photos on commons. http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Promotion/foss.in Cheers Arjun Wow, nice. I have to confess, always

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Project and volunteer directories

2010-12-23 Thread shirish शिरीष
In-line :- On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 12:48, BalaSundaraRaman sundarbe...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi all, Hi, If you want to volunteer for Wikimedia India activities, please add yourself to http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Wikimedia_India_contributors so that other contributors can find you. Of course,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-blr] Bangalore Wiki-meetup 23

2010-12-21 Thread shirish शिरीष
In-line :- On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 23:05, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com wrote: Enable the Slideshow gadget in commons preferences. Hi all, Thank you Srikanth. The slideshow gadget was also news to me as well. I was not aware and hence made an account at wikimedia commons as

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia usage and contribution from Indian users

2010-12-18 Thread shirish शिरीष
In-line :- On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 10:17, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.org wrote: snipped for brevity Some places to start would be: http://stats.wikimedia.org/ and http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/Sitemap.htm The India Community Newsletter is also a great resource:

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia usage and contribution from Indian users

2010-12-18 Thread shirish शिरीष
In-line :- On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 20:11, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com wrote: snipped for brevity hi Shirish, hi Pradeep, The above page is opening for me without it prompting for a password. This is the direct link to the pdf file: 

[Wikimediaindia-l] Looking for Devanagri help - windows this time .

2010-12-16 Thread shirish शिरीष
HI all, Because things are still a bit fresh in my mind, I tried to see how Indian languages performed both on windows box as well as on GNU/Linux. This mail would talk only about windows xp while another mail would give the issues in GNU/Linux. While I can't give screenshots atm, this is on a

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Looking for Devanagri help - windows this time .

2010-12-16 Thread shirish शिरीष
In-line :- On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 10:06, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.com wrote: Have you checked this issue with the active users of Hindi wikipedia or other wikis that use Devanagri script? And are you able to reproduce this issue in another system? Nope. Google chrome is displaying

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimeetup 4 Pune

2010-12-16 Thread shirish शिरीष
2010/12/16 shirish शिरीष shirisha...@gmail.com: snipped for brevity Hi all,  Put up a blog post at http://wp.me/pfuZu-iE . Its a bit longish in nature but that's the only way I know. I was planning to sit on the week-end and make it more pretty and make it into sections and stuff for easy

[Wikimediaindia-l] hi ! list

2010-12-14 Thread shirish शिरीष
Hi all, Wow! It was a hell of a day seeing and meeting people at Redhat's office for wikipedia stuff. Quite a bit to share but need couple of things. Fortunately or unfortunately didn't have a camera so need photos to spice the post up, a hashtag if there is already one or something please