Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Mailing lists for Indian Language Wiki projects

2010-06-26 Thread Ravishankar
Shiju, Thanks for very helpful pointers. Using mailing list to build a community is a good idea. We have a Tamil Wiktionary Google group with 192 members at http://groups.google.com/group/tamil_wiktionary This has been operational since 2006 and helps people who are not comfortable with wiki fo

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Embassy

2010-06-26 Thread Samuel Klein
You might also want to encourage people who speak each of those languages and one of the top ten wikipedia languages to list themselves on [[meta:Embassy]] as potential liaisons across the projects, for help with translating messages &c. SJ On 6/25/10, Ganesh Krishnamurthy wrote: > Hi Shiju, >

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Embassy

2010-06-26 Thread Shiju Alex
We have some major issues here. Not all Indian Language WikiMedians are subscribed to this list. In fact many *doesn't know about the existence of this list* itself. So some of us may need to visit the respective wiki and make them aware about these type of facilities. It is definitely not good to

[Wikimediaindia-l] Mailing lists for Indian Language Wiki projects

2010-06-26 Thread Shiju Alex
Dear WikiMedians, Mailing list of the wiki projects of a particular language can be used for various purposes. For example, the advocacy of the wiki projects, reaching the members who are not active in wiki, language related discussions, and so on. Usually many members of a mailing list may not be

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Approval of Wikimedia India

2010-06-26 Thread Samuel J Klein
As a Board member, I will say that we are excited to see Wikimedia India taking shape. I hope you will keep pages on the Meta-wiki updated with details about the organization, plans and projects for the coming year, &c. Warmly, Samuel. On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 2:59 AM, Arun Ram wrote: > Dear all