[Wikimediaindia-l] Global Development Midyear Report 2011-12

2012-01-28 Thread Mandar Kulkarni
Here is the link if you have not seen - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Global_Development_Midyear_report_2011-12#Global_Development_core_activity_review     With Regards, Mandar V. Kulkarni http://mr.wikipedia.org___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing

[Wikimediaindia-l] BSNL DNS Blocking Wikipedia?

2012-01-28 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
Hi, Yannf posted this on IRC (#wikimedia-in) when I was away, == in my new DSL connection with BSNL, *.wikipedia.org is blocked any idea? I get a page of advertising about web hosting http://commons.wikimedia.org works == My guess is BSNL DNS is playing some game here (IIRC they have

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Takes Mumbai 2012

2012-01-28 Thread Nagarjuna G
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Shrinivasan T tshriniva...@gmail.comwrote: open the Python file and fill the login details and url for commons. copy the script to the folder where you have the images. run the following command. python mediawiki-uploader.py mail me if you have any

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Takes Mumbai 2012

2012-01-28 Thread Shrinivasan T
happy to know that it is useful. the install and readme files explain solving these issues. edit the file to change the default category too. please share if you need any enhancements. thanks. On Jan 28, 2012 8:41 PM, Nagarjuna G nagar...@gnowledge.org wrote: On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 10:37

[Wikimediaindia-l] Article on Marathi Wikipedia in the second edition of Marathi e-Sahitya_Sammelan

2012-01-28 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi, Article on Marathi wikipedia is published in the second edition of Marathi e-Sahitya_Sammelan. Marathi e-Sahitya_Sammelan.was inaugurated by the famous Marathi poet Grace ( http://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B8) on 28 Jan 2012. Please read it here:

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Takes Mumbai 2012

2012-01-28 Thread wheredevelsdare
Thanks for this GN/Srinivasan. Point to note - none of the files uploaded using this script have a description. Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 23:57:14 +0530 From: tshriniva...@gmail.com To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Takes Mumbai 2012 happy to know

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Takes Mumbai 2012

2012-01-28 Thread Vickram Crishna
Failure to make the system work efficiently is also a learning exercise. Given that we are hoping to make such events happen more frequently and at many historically important places across the country, we must work to see that wikimedians are enabled to upload images meaningfully, ie with proper

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] BSNL DNS Blocking Wikipedia?

2012-01-28 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Do keep in mind that BSNL is a government-backed entity. It's parent ministry is the one which proposed screening of content. On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.com wrote: I think this is likely a temporary issue, and I suspect that the security of the BSNL servers

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] BSNL DNS Blocking Wikipedia?

2012-01-28 Thread Yann Forget
Hello, It seems that the DNS server of BSNL was hacked. It looks strange that only Wikipedia was affected. The issue is fixed now. Regards, Yann 2012/1/28 Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.com: I think this is likely a temporary issue, and I suspect that the security of the BSNL servers may

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Takes Mumbai 2012

2012-01-28 Thread Noopur
IMHO, the point of the photo walk is not just to get pictures but, also to ask people to log on to Commons and check it out by themselves so that they continue uploading pictures etc. This thread seems so complex that a participant must have felt crippled and left thinking that Wikipedia (and

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Takes Mumbai 2012

2012-01-28 Thread Vickram Crishna
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 12:16 PM, Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.com wrote: IMHO, the point of the photo walk is not just to get pictures but, also to ask people to log on to Commons and check it out by themselves so that they continue uploading pictures etc. This thread seems so complex that a

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Takes Mumbai 2012

2012-01-28 Thread Noopur
Actually, 'on the spot' was deliberately chosen following earlier walks, where it was noticed that not everyone who participated actually uploaded the content later, or partially uploaded with no captions or details. This makes extra work for other people later. Maybe this is an assumption? We