Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] On creating an Indian Wikisource
Hi All: A quick update on this - it appears to be a little complex for the Chapter for multiple reasons: 1. Importance : How important is this to Indian Wikimedians? Is it a real and serious problem faced? Or is it something that is nice to have but not essential? Could we do better work if we had one? 2. WMF-WMIN : Essentially, we will have to check with the WMF if this is something they are okay with us funding/building (seeing as how the grant money, for now, comes from them and that we use their trademark in our registered name). 3. Partners : Assuming we do find someone to partner, how do we support them and mitigate liability on both side. Thank you. Best, Gautam http://blog.prathambooks.org/p/social-media.html ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] social media to use
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 is in the larger interest of free knowledge community. Agree with you that tecnical solutions exist, but then we are not the only one to use proprietary social media. So its not bad using it. Everyone uses it, be it Jimmy or events like Wikimania. The primary intent is to reach out and in a simple way. Well as i mentioned before, If you want help out spreading the word by using free media, you are more than welcome. Lets not also get paranoid about Free stuff, which case the conference needs to have a hotel which only uses Free stuff (right from bubble top water,everything is proprietary) and so on. Lets get real, while we support free culture, we need not always be living for it. -- Regards Srikanth.L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] social media to use
hi, Even other FOSS events in India like the upcoming Python conference, PyCon ( http://in.pycon.org/2011/) is using such venues as Twitter (they have a twitter account!). FOSS.in was also on Twitter (again, with an account! - http://twitter.com/fossdotin). Given these two examples (there might be more), I wonder why we should not use Twitter as well. I am doubtful if there are pushing technologies when we do not have accounts, where all we're doing is watching conversations around the hashtag #wci11 and help if such help is needed. These are people already on Twitter whom we're trying to help. Also, to engage them in ways that will have them take a look at Wikipedia and maybe one day edit! Also said, I am happy that this discussion did take place. These suggestions are points for us (in the free community) to consider. Perhaps, a few of us will try services such as identi.ca, if not anything else. If there are interested developers here, the mobile version for identi.ca does need a lot of work on. warm regards, Pradeep Mohandas On 15 September 2011 12:40, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com wrote: 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 is in the larger interest of free knowledge community. Agree with you that tecnical solutions exist, but then we are not the only one to use proprietary social media. So its not bad using it. Everyone uses it, be it Jimmy or events like Wikimania. The primary intent is to reach out and in a simple way. Well as i mentioned before, If you want help out spreading the word by using free media, you are more than welcome. Lets not also get paranoid about Free stuff, which case the conference needs to have a hotel which only uses Free stuff (right from bubble top water,everything is proprietary) and so on. Lets get real, while we support free culture, we need not always be living for it. -- Regards Srikanth.L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Pradeep Mohandas How Pradeep uses email - http://goo.gl/6v1I9 ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Voting for Steward Elections is underway
Hello, Please note that voting for the second steward elections for 2011 has started in metawikihttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/elections_2011-2. Please read the candidate statements, QA and cast your vote at the earliest. Thanks. Regards, Jyothis. My Malayalam Wikipedia page http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jyothis Metawiki page http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jyothis My toolserver tools http://toolserver.org/~jyothis ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Internationalisation bug triage notes
Please find below the notes for the internationalisation triage bug triage held on Wednesday, September 14, 13:00UTC in #wikimedia-dev on Freenode IRC. 9 people participated in the triage. Two of the participants were new to MediaWiki. I'm very happy that the triage attracted new potential MediaWiki developers! The triage was to have have two sections, each taking about 30 minutes. We ended up with a first half of about 55 minutes and a second half Of about 20 minutes. Next week's triage is on WikiBooks http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/Triage == Message documentation and message related coding == https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16026 -- MediaWiki:Revision-info should accept wikimarkup * Volunteered by Amir. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16111 -- MediaWiki:Cascadeprotected and MediaWiki:Cascadedprotectedwarning should take the same parameters * Volunteered by Amir. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16175 -- Clean up the rendering of messages displayed at the top of the edit window * Volunteered by Amir. May be a difficult one, as these messages are used a lot in Wikimedia projects. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17148 -- The warning about editing a semi-protected page can display an irrelevant edit summary * Volunteered by Brian Wolff https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17865 -- Mismatched input syntax for Cite error messages * Some discussion. Cite is seen as scary! No one to take this yet. Please give this some TLC. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28557 -- Message documentation for Extension:AddMediaWizard needed * Volunteered by Blucal. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25608 -- MediaWiki:Fundraiserstats-tab-ytd should not contain (USD) * Goes to fundraising triage. A concern was voiced that i18n does not appear to get the attention it needs. The Localisation team will get in contact with the fundraising developers when they are in San Francisco in two weeks to discuss.. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29357 -- CategoryTree should have built-in localizable support for pretty Categorytree-member-num * Amir volunteered for this. Brian is prepared to help him out where needed. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29927 -- CentralAuth using wrong Language on Special:MergeAccount 123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012 * Akshayagarwal volunteered for this, and has committed changes in http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/97168 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30729 -- Not all numbers are localised in AbuseFilter * srikanthlogic has volunteered for this with Brian Wolff as mentor. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29170 -- [[MediaWiki:Enotif body]] needs GENDER support * Some discussion, but nothing final. == Harder issues and discussion == https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28428 -- Allow saving pages with LRM and RLM in titles, showing a warning and requiring a user right https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28411 -- titles of articles with LTR titles in RTL wikis may be displayed incorrectly in categories and special pages * It looks like a schema change is not needed, and that the page_props table can and should be used. Use batches where needed; integrate that in Linker, LinkBatch and probably Title as well. Ambitious according to Roan. Roan agrees that having displaytitle as a page_ field makes more sense *conceptually*. In practice, he prefers page_props because that avoids a schema change and is still cheap. Niklas indicated the discussion gave him ideas on how to work towards resolving these issues. The other announced issues were not discussed. Thanks to everyone participating. Looking forward to the results! -- Siebrand Mazeland Product Manager Localisation Wikimedia Foundation M: +31 6 50 69 1239 Skype: siebrand ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] September 2011 Translation Rally results on translatewiki
HiYa All.. Just an update on the September 2011 Translation Rally on translatewiki.net 24 users have made it among them One user from India Psubhashish (Subhashish Panigrahi aka. Subha Pa) and another from Nepal, Saroj Kumar. Any newbie out there interested in such competition, keep looking :) :) Details can be found @ http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Thread:Project_talk:Rally-2011-09/translatewiki.net_September_2011_Translation_Rally_results Sorry, If I'm spamming ;) :D cheers... Srikanth Ramakrishnan Ansuman Giri * ___ Wikipedia Odia (Oriya) mailing list wikipedia...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-or facebook.com/OdiaWiki Tweet @OdiaWiki * ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
