[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] Pune hackathon scheduled 10-12 February 2012

2011-12-15 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Aah, well. Will the Hackathon be India specific. On 12/14/11, Siebrand Mazeland (WMF) smazel...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi Srikanth, On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 6:37 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Forgive me for this silly question, but will there be any session on

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Report on WikiKovai meet 1.

2011-12-15 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Thanks a lot Arjuna. I think February will be good as exams won't be there then. Meanwhile, I do hope that the Academy in Jan will help up increase the active community members in Coimbatore for further meetups to happen. On 12/14/11, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.com wrote: Srikanth R,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Narayam updates

2011-12-15 Thread Santhosh Thottingal
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com wrote: Shortcut key on Mac :- Refer bug[1] for details, in summary the shortcut key is now dynamic based on browser / OS combination so that the shortcut works. Control+G is new shortcut on Mac largely. This was done during 

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Insights from GLAMcamp Amsterdam

2011-12-15 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Arnav, brilliant, though I think you should first introduce photographers to the Commons and explain the benefits. Let me know your thoughts, if need be privately, as I'm planning to go forward with a special meet aimed at the photography community myself, in Coimbatore. On 12/14/11, Arnav Sonara

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

2011-12-15 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
If you want to test something new, either make it opt in, or don't do it live. Not on Tamil, not on Hindi, not on any Wikipedia for that matter. On 12/14/11, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote: I dont think its

[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter November report 2011.

2011-12-15 Thread Naveen Francis
Dear Wikimedia community, The highlights of the month of November for the Wikimedia Chapter (India) are provided below: Administrative matters Membership The Chapter membership stands at 185 as of 30 November 2011. This is nearly double the number of members we had two months ago. The Chapter

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Insights from GLAMcamp Amsterdam

2011-12-15 Thread Arnav Sonara
Yeah, I mean since most of the photographers there would not be knowing what commons is, I ll first give them presentation about commons and explain them public domain licensing in detail. -- Thanks Arnav (ricku). (User:Rangilo_Gujarati) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rangilo_Gujarati

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Insights from GLAMcamp Amsterdam

2011-12-15 Thread Noopur
Dear Arnav, This is awesome! I was speaking to Hisham about compiling a repository of presentations and Simple English guides, keeping them in PDF versions so that people can use them whenever. I have some presentations on GLAM and commons, if you want I can send them over and you don't have to go

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] Insights from GLAMcamp Amsterdam

2011-12-15 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Great Noopur. Good luck with your venture. -- On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 2:14 AM, Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Arnav, This is awesome! I was speaking to Hisham about compiling a repository of presentations and Simple English guides, keeping them in PDF versions so that people

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Report on WikiKovai meet 1.

2011-12-15 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Heya, I logged into Facebook after a week to find out that Prasanna has psoted a detailed report on the meetup facebook event page. The link to the page is on the meetup page on Meta. Perhaps, Bala, Subha or Ansuman could copy it here It would explain things from a newcomers point of view. --

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

2011-12-15 Thread ePandit | ई-पण्डित
NonCommericial - I think use in Wikipedia is non-commerical. NoDerivs - Do the font need to be modified for using as web font? It is clearly stated that it can be used as a web font. 2011/12/15 Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il Either of NonCommercial and NoDerivs clauses in the

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

2011-12-15 Thread Santhosh Thottingal
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 4:40 PM, ePandit | ई-पण्डित sharma.shr...@gmail.com wrote: NoDerivs - Do the font need to be modified for using as web font? Yes, Derivative fonts in alternate formats need to be created from the original font. Thanks Santhosh

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

2011-12-15 Thread Swaroop Rao
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 16:40, ePandit | ई-पण्डित sharma.shr...@gmail.comwrote: NonCommericial - I think use in Wikipedia is non-commerical. Wikipedia use is non-commercial, but since it is open for reuse, the reuse need not be necessarily non-commercial. NoDerivs - Do the font need to be

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

2011-12-15 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2011/12/15 ePandit | ई-पण्डित sharma.shr...@gmail.com: NonCommericial - I think use in Wikipedia is non-commerical. No, Wikipedia is not non-commercial in this regard. It's a very frequent misunderstanding, though - the first article i created in the English Wikipedia was speedily deleted

[Wikimediaindia-l] mediawiki-uploader

2011-12-15 Thread Shrinivasan T
Friends. Tamil Wikipedia announced a Media Contest to increase the commons media files like photos, audio and video in the wikipedia world. see the announcement here. http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contest/en To upload the photos there are two ways available so far. 1. The web based upload wizard

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] mediawiki-uploader

2011-12-15 Thread Surya Prakash
I've translated interface messages which are NECESSARY for the contest. But, these messages are not useful for now. :) But, I'll do this ASAP. :) Thanks Geard for notice it. :) Actually Shrinivasan didn't mentioned the contest upload wizard. It is here. (

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Report on WikiKovai meet 1.

2011-12-15 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Thanks for posting this here Bala. :-) Maybe we should print a few flyers with the Contest details, maybe even a QR Code about the contest and hand it over to whoever we see in public with a camera. ;-P On 12/15/11, Bala Jeyaraman sodabot...@gmail.com wrote: Per Srikanth's request: here is the

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Narayam updates

2011-12-15 Thread Shiju Alex
I am not sure whether it is really required to post these changes every week here, because not every one is interested in reading the code changes. I hope the code review page helps to find out all the changes for an extension/component That is true. Community is definitely NOT interested

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-chn] mediawiki-uploader

2011-12-15 Thread Pradeep Mohandas
hi Shrinivasan, Sumana has forwarded this email to the cultural/GLAM list as well where there was need felt on batch uploads and people there might also benefit from what you've coded. Thank you. warm regards, Pradeep User:Prad2609 On 15 December 2011 20:25, Srikanth Ramakrishnan

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Insights from GLAMcamp Amsterdam

2011-12-15 Thread Ashwin Baindur
Hi Noopur, A good place to add them is http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bookshelf_Project Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Arnav, This is awesome! I was speaking

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Insights from GLAMcamp Amsterdam

2011-12-15 Thread Noopur
For Arnav and others: I made a little something on Commons and photography (have avoided any wiki speak): http://prezi.com/qjfh338fxhum/the-wikiguide-for-photographers/ It's on prezi so you can edit and then put it in a ppt to share offline as well! On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 9:17 PM, Ashwin

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-chn] mediawiki-uploader

2011-12-15 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Prad, thanks for sharing that with us. Let's hope this piece of code results in tons of freely licenced content pouring into the Commons. On 12/15/11, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com wrote: hi Shrinivasan, Sumana has forwarded this email to the cultural/GLAM list as well where

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Insights from GLAMcamp Amsterdam

2011-12-15 Thread Lodewijk
Hi, Nice work! I am not very at home in Prezi, so some suggestions by email: * Maybe it is better to call Wikimedia a movement to avoid confusion when they encounter Wikimedia India * In the file formats you seem to miss .OGG (sound/video) * It is probably better to never say Commons like we do,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Insights from GLAMcamp Amsterdam

2011-12-15 Thread Noopur
Hey, This presentation is not for audio/video. This came up since someone needed a presentation for Photographers. Why I have used Commons interchangeably is because I assume Arnav is going to speak to them about Licensing (Creative Commons) as well as Wikimedia Commons. That is why I kept two

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Insights from GLAMcamp Amsterdam

2011-12-15 Thread Ashwin Baindur
Thanks Srikanth the link you gave is the correct one. Though anybody reading my link will find the same in the very first line of text. :) Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 12:31 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan

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

2011-12-15 Thread Praveen Prakash
I haven't seen any communication in any open platform with Malayalam Community members about this matter. A few weeks before I had a brief discussion with Santhosh about webfonts. But it was nothing about webfonts' rendering bugs. Infact, popular (and beautiful) Malayalam fonts are open licensed,

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

2011-12-15 Thread Anivar Aravind
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Praveen Prakash me.prav...@gmail.com wrote: I haven't seen any communication in any open platform with Malayalam Community members about this matter. A few weeks before I had a brief discussion with Santhosh about webfonts. But it was nothing about webfonts'

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

2011-12-15 Thread Praveen Prakash
There is lot to say. But i don't want to derail this thread. Pls start a new thread. On 16/12/2011, Anivar Aravind anivar.arav...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Praveen Prakash me.prav...@gmail.com wrote: I haven't seen any communication in any open platform with Malayalam

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: The Hindu : Contest to add files to Tamil Wikipedia gathers steam

2011-12-15 Thread Ravishankar
Hi Tinu, Bala and team Very well written press release. Especially, I would like to appreciate Tinu's stellar role in media relations for Wikimedia projects in India :) Ravi On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 11:03 AM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: The article is on national editions

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-chn] mediawiki-uploader

2011-12-15 Thread Ravishankar
Excellent effort, Shrinivasan. Please let us know how and where we can find more people like you ;) Ravi On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Shrinivasan T tshriniva...@gmail.comwrote: Friends. Tamil Wikipedia announced a Media Contest to increase the commons media files like photos, audio and

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: The Hindu : Contest to add files to Tamil Wikipedia gathers steam

2011-12-15 Thread Shrinivasan T
what does the important note mean? does the hindu say not to reproduce? shall I forward this mail to other mailing lists ? or should not? ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change

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

2011-12-15 Thread വിശ്വപ്രഭ
Praveen Prakash +1 On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 09:46, Praveen Prakash me.prav...@gmail.com wrote: There is lot to say. But i don't want to derail this thread. Pls start a new thread. On 16/12/2011, Anivar Aravind anivar.arav...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Praveen Prakash

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: The Hindu : Contest to add files to Tamil Wikipedia gathers steam

2011-12-15 Thread CherianTinu Abraham
Hi Shrinivasan, Please note that the copyrights of the content of articles on publications ( newspapers, magazines) resides with the publisher. For example, look at the bottom of this article http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/article2719118.ece *Republication or redissemination

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: The Hindu : Contest to add files to Tamil Wikipedia gathers steam

2011-12-15 Thread Shrinivasan T
that nice tinu. thanks for the nice explanation. now it is clear for me. keep up your services. thanks. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit