Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Thanks and compliments to you , mother India !!!
Mahitgar, This issue was discussed in another thread. It is a serious matter, and we all need to spread awareness about it. Regards, Srikanth R. On 1 April 2011 01:23, Mahitgar from Marathi Wikipedia mahit...@yahoo.co.in wrote: Message: 2 Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 09:33:56 +0530 From: CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: Angry with Wikileaks, Indian Union minister for law and justice Veerappa Moily lashes against Wikipedia To: Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia. wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: aanlktikagz07k13eosdoa4jennbn0jyjpwweambum...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Angry with Wikileaks, Indian Union minister for law and justice Veerappa Moily lashes against Wikipedia .. *Union minister for law and justice Veerappa Moily on Tuesday criticized WikiLeaks for playing havoc in the democracies of many countries. These are all products which create instability in many countries, he said. ?Information can also be misleading. There is much controversy over the website Wikipedia, which is used as a first point of reference for many people seeking information. Wikipedia authors are anonymous and literally anyone can post a Wikipedia article on any subject, regardless of whether they are qualified or know much about the subject,? he said ..*. Full text on Financial Express newspaper. http://www.financialexpress.com/news/moily-says-wikileaks-playing-havoc-with-global-democracies/768939/0 Regards Tinu Cherian : Verrry funny Thanks and compliments to you , mother India !!!, your 21st century verry very well informed law minister is making you and us feel so proud !! Think mother India, think again, think to change this wrong Indian democracy, where people have been voting anonymously, no education qualification or background needed for voting and even no qualification and background needed for getting elected.Hope your fresh generations in the law ministry change all that for better ! :All our best wishes to the incumbent Law Minister in getting chance to choose best chief justices for India and best wishes for his career to grow into foreign minister of India, a chief justice of India,chief justice of International court President of India and last but not least to become chief of United Nations @Oh those all who gave Vaidic Sutras in ancient India -wherever you are, its good you credited all your work to God and did not do anonymous writing otherwise Independent India's law ministry would have been pretty unhappy with you !!! @Respected Rabindranath Tagoreji Wherever you are , The best thing ever did for yourself is you did not write following poem anonymously otherwise Law Ministry Independent India would not have been pleased with you *Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;* Where knowledge is free; Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls; Where words come out from the depth of truth; Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection: Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit; Where the mind is lead forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action—Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake. My Father,please please please, let my ... honorable Ministers and Ministries awake !!! ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Regards, ME. Wear a Lungi, Support the Movement My infrastructure invasion... plus other images too.. on Wikimedia Commons. http://bit.ly/d50SIq ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] URL Shortener in Tamil Wikipedia + URLs for Indic Wikipedia
Great work. Congratulations. When will this be extended to Devanagari? --Regards, Srikanth R. On 1 April 2011 11:04, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@googlemail.com wrote: Happy to see the work on URL shortener. Congratulations for everyone involved. As domain names can be used in Indian languages, I actually would like to see the email clients and printing modules from browser improve so that they print the domain name in the native language rather than use English ASCII to represent the same. Cheers Arjun On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote: So you'll have URLs like http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ShortUrl/262. While definitely longer than http://tawp.in/r/262, it can be made much shorter via a simple apache mod_rewrite so http://ta.wikipedia.org/r/262 also works. Way to go ! Thanks and congrats Yuvi. Ravi ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Regards, ME. Wear a Lungi, Support the Movement My infrastructure invasion... plus other images too.. on Wikimedia Commons. http://bit.ly/d50SIq ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Choosing topics for Wikipedia for Schools (Offline Ed) - Indian version : #1 Cities
Greetings All, Does anybody know how to extract the permalink of the latest revision of a wikipedia article - FAST and in bulk? Request for a tool to any developers out there: Please create a tool such that if I input a list of titles (all of which are wikipedia articles) - separated by comma or line whatever you wish, it returns a list of permalinks of all the articles! Example: If input is: Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam Then the output should be: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andhra_Pradesholdid=421762178, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arunachal_Pradesholdid=421047209, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Assamoldid=421372952 Or maybe just: Andhra Pradesh 421762178, Arunachal Pradesh 421047209, Assam 421372952 Or something of the sort! We need this for article selection for offline wikipedia for schools project! Thanks in advance! Nikhilshethhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Nikhilsheth( talk http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Nikhilsheth#top) Cheers, Nikhil Sheth +91-966-583-1250 Pune, India Teach For India http://www.teachforindia.org/ Fellow, 2011-13 www.nikhilsheth.tk Find me on: Twitter http://twitter.com/nikhiljs | Facebookhttp://www.facebook.com/nikjs| LinkedIn http://in.linkedin.com/in/nikhiljs | Google http://www.google.com/profiles/nikhil.js| RangDehttp://www.rangde.org/investor/nikhilsheth| Youtube http://www.youtube.com/user/nikjs Join me on: Pune Documentary Clubhttp://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=138497769525636| Let's Do it Pune http://www.facebook.com/pages/Lets-do-it-Pune/103857326346659 | Toastmasters in Punehttp://www.facebook.com/pages/Toastmasters-in-Pune/148767611833746| Wikipedia For Schools projecthttp://education.wikia.com/wiki/Wikipedia_For_Schools_Offline_Edition On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 12:15 AM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.comwrote: Hello friends, Article selection for Wikipedia for Schools (Offline Ed) - Indian version has begun. I have started selecting articles. I chose Geography as a relatively uncontroversial topic to begin with. The first items added were the states union territories - uncontroversial, just added them all. The next I have selected are Indian cities. [[User:AshLin/Work_list]] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:AshLin/Work_list Any that you feel should be removed/added? Your thoughts on this issue? Warm regards, [[User:AshLin|AshLin]] ([[User talk:AshLin|talk]]) 18:38, 9 March 2011 (UTC) ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Translation, Transliterating, and more.
Heya guys, I just wanted to bring up a few questions and other things. At a meetup Last year [January 2010, Bangalore], a few guys from Google had showcased their Translator Toolkit. I wanted to know how many people use this. This tool, while it might seems useless to some, actually is essential in many ways. While it might seem useless, going by the fact that it doesn't give good translations, or even transliteration, [it used to show Poeeying for Boeing, in Roman script for translation to Tamil], it is a community based system. The more contributed, the more it helps. Google's translation website currently supports only Hindi among Indian languages, and the more contributions are made [collectively], the better for the community. Apart from this, I wanted to bring up some more points. In October 2010, Mani Pande had asked for a survey about editing from Mobile phones. I believe http://quillpadmobile.in is handy as it helps in typing in Hindi on Mobile Phones. If anybody uses it, please do reply here. Regards, Srikanth R [Rsrikanth05 on English, Hindi Wikipedias and Commons, Rsrikanth05 on Twitter] -- Regards, ME. Wear a Lungi, Support the Movement My infrastructure invasion... plus other images too.. on Wikimedia Commons. http://bit.ly/d50SIq ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] [Feedback] or [What was I upto?]
Heya again. I thought of this idea today. I figured it might help. How about we [on a regular basis], list out our major contributions on various Wikimedia projects on a periodic basis? The advantages of this stupidity are: * Editors might find someone else who edits articles of similar nature and this will lead to more collaboration and team work. * People can get feedback on their edits and can help other users improve OR improve themselves. * This results in cross-editing, the overall quality of articles will go up. Examples are: * I edit something related to a certain National Highway. Users like Naveenpf or SBC-YPR might have some photographs or references, and might add it. * I create an article in Hindi, somebody sees it and translates it to Tamil. Advantages are aplenty, do let me know what you think of this. -- Regards, ME. Wear a Lungi, Support the Movement My infrastructure invasion... plus other images too.. on Wikimedia Commons. http://bit.ly/d50SIq ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Translators needed for Huggle.
Heya, Sorry for the slew of messages. Huggle is an application for dealing with vandalism, written in .NET. Huggle is currently available in a bunch of languages, for language specific wikis, none of which are Indian. Huggle is currently being translated into THREE Indian languages: Hindi [by ME], Marathi [by User:vaibhavskulkarni] and Kannada [NO Idea who, page exists]. Translations can be done here : http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Huggle/Localization Please do join in and contribute. One are of notice is in the warnings and notices, which I believe larger ones like Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Hindi can do. You need to copy the warning TEMPLATE and paste it there. Please join in the initiative as there is a LOT of vandalism on local wikipedia which goes unnoticed. -- Regards, ME. Wear a Lungi, Support the Movement My infrastructure invasion... plus other images too.. on Wikimedia Commons. http://bit.ly/d50SIq ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Feedback] or [What was I upto?]
Good idea Srikanth, Well someone is working / want to work on similar lines. Check out the GSoC proposal here:- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Zhenya http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:ZhenyaHope the project gets accepted and delivered :) Regards Srikanth.L On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 19:41, Srikanth Ramakrishnan rsrikant...@gmail.comwrote: Heya again. I thought of this idea today. I figured it might help.Hope How about we [on a regular basis], list out our major contributions on various Wikimedia projects on a periodic basis? The advantages of this stupidity are: * Editors might find someone else who edits articles of similar nature and this will lead to more collaboration and team work. * People can get feedback on their edits and can help other users improve OR improve themselves. * This results in cross-editing, the overall quality of articles will go up. Examples are: * I edit something related to a certain National Highway. Users like Naveenpf or SBC-YPR might have some photographs or references, and might add it. * I create an article in Hindi, somebody sees it and translates it to Tamil. Advantages are aplenty, do let me know what you think of this. -- Regards, ME. Wear a Lungi, Support the Movement My infrastructure invasion... plus other images too.. on Wikimedia Commons. http://bit.ly/d50SIq ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] 2nd Odia (Oriya) Wikipedia Academy/Workshop Bhubaneswar, 2011April03, 10 AM
Just a reminder of the upcoming Odia Worksop at Bhubaneswar. Subhashish , Shiju Alex and me are travelling to Bhubaneswar for this. Regards Tinu Cherian On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 9:24 PM, Subhashish Panigrahi psubhash...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, This is Subhashish from Odia (Oriya) Wikipedia. It is my pleasure to inform you all about the 2nd Odia (Oriya) Wikipedia Academy/Workshophttp://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_workshop/Bhubaneswar1 is going to be organized in Bhubaneswar on 2011April03 at 10 AM, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan. This is the first of its kind of workshop in the home state Odisha. The first workshop was conducted by Malayalam Wikipedian Shiju A in Bengaluruhttp://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_workshop/Bangalore_1 . *Main Agenda: Session1: -* Introduction about Wikipedia and Wikipedia Odia - Recent developments and new features added in Wikipedia - Why Wikipedia Odia? - Future deveopment and possible opportunities with Wikipedia *Session2: -* Discussion of common problems raised (And by audience) - Display and typing issues and solution - Building community - Translation issues possible measures to solve them - Incubation of new projects for students in Odia Wikipedia - Future Projects for Odia Wikipedia Anyone from any other language Wikipedias are most welcome to this event to share their thoughts and ideas for the development of Odia Wikipedia. This is an open event and free for all. Anyone who has some ideas to share can also share them here or here.http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_workshop/Bhubaneswar1 Thanks Regards ସୁଭ ପା/ Subhashish Panigrahi ___ Wikipedia Odia (Oriya) mailing list wikipedia...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-or ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
