Hi,
As part of the FOSS event called Carte Blanche (http://cb.csmit.org/) to be
held
at the Madras Institute of Technology, a Wikipedia workshop is being conducted
on February 6 between 9:30 am and 4:30 pm. Following is the proposal, the exact
timings will be finalised soon.
* English
Hindustan Times confuses Wikipedia with Wikileaks
http://www.hindustantimes.com/Two-Indian-cos-tried-to-sell-dual-use-products-to-Syria-Wikileaks/Article1-658213.aspx
The US had alerted India that Syria was trying to buy products from two
Indian firms that could have been used in making
Hi,
Yesterday I was asked some tricky questions by a journo. They were
something like this :
* Does the surge of number of Indian language Wikipedia articles has
anything to do with paid translations by Google ?*
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*Why should regular Wikipedians be motivated to contribute when Google pays
In Bengali Wikipedia is not like ban, but we thoroughly watch/check the
quality of translated content. If translation quality is not standard
Bengali, we not accept. Most of the times we faced junk translation from
Google translator. If any one translate English Wikipedia content to Bengali
In Tamil wikipedia, Google translated articles number 1,240 (barring one or
two which we might have forgotten to tag). This translates to roughly 4.4 %
of the total articles in Ta. wiki. Also about 100 or so of the translated
articles already had stubs/fair sized articles, before google
