Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Administrative maps of India and states.

2011-06-19 Thread Shiju Alex
For SVG translation, use this tool: http://toolserver.org/~jarry/svgtranslate/ My suggestion would be, let the respective language community do the translation. Transliteration may not work work all the time. On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Naveen Francis navee...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I

[Wikimediaindia-l] Request for a new list

2011-06-19 Thread Ashwin Baindur
Hi, I'm user:AshLin, co-chair of the Working Group for a forthcoming Wiki-conference in India in November 2011. I'm writing formally to you to request for a list for that event; a request which you may have already received informally from Shiju Alex. The event will definitely be taking place on

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Massive increase in copyright term for photographs

2011-06-19 Thread Gautam John
Yes - we could. Pranesh - is there a form letter you have or can we create one so that we can send it individually? Thank you. Best, Gautam http://social.prathambooks.org/ On 18 June 2011 23:38, Srikanth Ramakrishnan rsrikant...@gmail.com wrote: Pranesh, Gautham, By any chance,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Request for a new list

2011-06-19 Thread Theo10011
I believe you need to file a bug for this Ashwin. If you want, I can file it for you and get someone to close the request. Are you sure about the title? I would suggest something like WikiIndia-events or Wikimediaindia-events list. So that it doesn't become useless after the event and can be

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Request for a new list

2011-06-19 Thread Ashwin Baindur
Hi Salmaan, Thanks for the offer! Shiju is just waiting for a reply from Casey Browne before we file the bug. Since we have formally asked, it would be appropriate to wait for a while for the response. As regards the name, there are now a large amount of activities, lists etc communities,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Request for a new list

2011-06-19 Thread Theo10011
Thanks Ashwin. I understand, let me know if you need my help. Salmaan User:Theo10011 On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 6:23 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Salmaan, Thanks for the offer! Shiju is just waiting for a reply from Casey Browne before we file the bug. Since we have

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Request for a new list

2011-06-19 Thread Theo10011
I agree with Ashwin, I doubt it would make sense to form a list for only this year/event. it's the same way for other activities, those lists have to be used again. Salmaan On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 10:07 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.comwrote: No, since we shall know which Conference

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Request for a new list

2011-06-19 Thread Abhilash S Unni
So are we going to use the same list name for every year? That would lead to a bit of confusion isn't, when the same list name is used year after year. Different list for each year would also make it easy in archiving isn't? Abhi On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 9:51 PM, Ashwin Baindur

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Request for a new list

2011-06-19 Thread Ashwin Baindur
On the contrary, it is meant to be used tear after year :)! Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 9:48 PM, Abhilash S Unni abhilashu...@gmail.comwrote: Ashwin, How about when the conference get arranged next year. You

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Foundation-l] Announcement: Selected Books from Malayalam Wikisource on CD released

2011-06-19 Thread Shiju Alex
Dear All, We completed one week of Malayalam Wikisource offline releasehttp://shijualex.wordpress.com/2011/06/14/creating-malayalam-wikisource-cd/. Here is some statistics that we have: (Thanks to Jyothis for compiling this) Hits to the ISO image : *46,922* (this is just number of hits. This

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Request for a new list

2011-06-19 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
The subject headers added in every mail by mailman can be changed as per need to reflect the relevant year/conference name. Creating a new list everytime will be a pain. -Sudhanwa On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 9:57 PM, Abhilash S Unni abhilashu...@gmail.com wrote: So are we going to use the same

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Foundation-l] Announcement: Selected Books from Malayalam Wikisource on CD released

2011-06-19 Thread Ashwin Baindur
This is so fantastic - my eyes are popping out. Congrats, congrats to all those involved. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 11:25 PM, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.comwrote: Dear All, We completed one week of

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Request for a new list

2011-06-19 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, I'm user:AshLin, co-chair of the Working Group for a forthcoming Wiki-conference in India in November 2011. I'm writing formally to you to request for a list for that event; a request which you may have

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [cultural-partners] Hurtigruta - another strange video project from Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation

2011-06-19 Thread Pradeep Mohandas
hi, I spoke to the GM, Western Railway for whom User:AroundtheGlobe provided me the number and spoke to him. He said he'd need a proper proposal before he could comment on the possibility of giving us permission. He also said that the request was strange and that he'd have to consult the legal

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Creative Commons talk - Shishir Jha - June 18, 2011

2011-06-19 Thread Gautam John
Just to add that it was a most excellent session over three hours and it was really nice to see a varied and very engaged audience as well. Thank you. Best, Gautam http://social.prathambooks.org/ On 19 June 2011 08:15, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com wrote: hi, Just a

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Massive increase in copyright term for photographs

2011-06-19 Thread Gautam John
On 19 June 2011 21:57, Pranesh Prakash pran...@cis-india.org wrote: If one of you could help me draft the letter (I'm looking at you, Gautam), that would be appreciated. For sure. Will work on this offline and post it here for further action. Thank you. Best, Gautam

[Wikimediaindia-l] WikiConference India - Minutes 18-6-2011

2011-06-19 Thread wheredevelsdare
*Minutes of the Planning Meet which took place on 18-6-2011 (Saturday) in Mumbai* **Cross posted on India/Mumbai/Pune lists - please forward to other City or Language lists that you may be a part of** 1. Name of conference - there were 3 suggestions. There was an idea that these could be put

[Wikimediaindia-l] WikiConference India, 2011 - Proposed Venue (Any responses to be made within 72 hours of this email being sent)

2011-06-19 Thread wheredevelsdare
**Cross posted on India/Mumbai/Pune lists - kindly forward to other Language/City lists you may be a part of** Dear All, Bishakha, Moksh, Pradeep and myself visited the Unviersity of Mumbai (Fort Campus) last week to consider it as a venue for the upcoming WikiConference in November 2011.