Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] MediaWiki selects eight students for Google Summer of Code 2011

2011-04-26 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
Congrats guys! Looking forward to your work especially these which interest me. 1) Ajaxification of Everything 2) Extension for offline access (Much discussed here offlate) 3) SocialProfile extension. Feel free to drop by here for feedback at anytime. Regards Srikanth.L On Tue, Apr 26, 2011

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Uploads to Commons] Geocoding and Multilingual descriptions

2011-04-26 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Subhashish, You're most welcome. Do bookmark the page, it is hard to find.: ) Or use the short code. http://bit.ly/GeoLocWiki ---Regards, On 26 April 2011 00:08, Subhashish Panigrahi psubhash...@gmail.com wrote: Amazing Tool, I tried to upload and find the approximate location as the exact was

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [WikimediaMobile] Setting the game for a fresh Wikipedia app

2011-04-26 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Is there any Localisation/Translation plans for this app? I noticed, since the original plan was a Nokia plan, Nokia phones support Indic languages, we could all contribute effectively. --Regards, Srikanth. On 26 April 2011 07:30, Naveen Francis navee...@gmail.com wrote: FYI

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] The Marathi language Wikipedia has reached 33, 333 articles on April 24.

2011-04-26 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Congratulations to all Marathi editors.. Keep up the Good Work. --Regards, Srikanth On 26 April 2011 07:38, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: The Marathi language Wikipedia has reached 33,333 articles on April 24.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] MediaWiki selects eight students for Google Summer of Code 2011

2011-04-26 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Crongratulations to all of these young guys, especially the Indian ones. A special one to Yuvi Panda too. : ) --Regards, Srikanth R. On 26 April 2011 11:44, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com wrote: Congrats guys! Looking forward to your work especially these which interest me. 1)

[Wikimediaindia-l] ‘Kanaja’ now accessible for the blind too.. How about wikipedia?

2011-04-26 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/156361/kanaja-now-accessible-blind-too.html Kannada encyclopaedic website is accessible for blind. How about our Wikipedias? Has any attempts been made in the past? Cheers Arjun ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ‘Kanaja’ now accessible for the blind too.. How about wikipedia?

2011-04-26 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
During the chennai meetup, one gentlemen had told us people from blind-user-group do access Tamil Wikipedia through a screen reading software they have and it was pleasant news to us. Regards Srikanth.L On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:05, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@googlemail.com wrote:

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ‘Kanaja’ now accessible for the blind too.. How about wikipedia?

2011-04-26 Thread రహ్మానుద్దీన్ షేక్
Can you share the tool with us? On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote: During the chennai meetup, one gentlemen had told us people from blind-user-group do access Tamil Wikipedia through a screen reading software they have and it was pleasant news to

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ‘Kanaja’ now accessible for the blind too.. How about wikipedia?

2011-04-26 Thread Shiju Alex
Yes for Malayalam wikipedia and its sister projects. We have users from blind schools of Kerala reading Malayalam wikipedia and providing us feedback also. Two softwares are used by them to access Malayalam wikipedia. One is * e-speak* and another is *Dhwani*. Recently few Malayalam wikimedians

[Wikimediaindia-l] Office Location Update

2011-04-26 Thread Hisham Mundol
Hi All I've updated the office location discussions and recommendation. Please do have a look at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Office_Location You'll notice that I've kept the initial discussion document unchanged for ease of comparison. This is under

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] MediaWiki selects eight students for Google Summer of Code 2011

2011-04-26 Thread Hisham Mundol
Congratulations to all of you, and a special one to the Indian guys! Hisham Mundol Wikimedia Foundation India Programs skype: hisham.wikimedia gtalk: hmun...@wikimedia.org twitter: @mundol On Apr 26, 2011, at 8:21 AM, Santhosh Thottingal wrote:

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] The Marathi language Wikipedia has reached 33, 333 articles on April 24.

2011-04-26 Thread Hisham Mundol
Congratulations to everyone involved! It's a nice milestone to celebrate as you move on to even bigger and better ones. Warm Regards, Hisham Mundol Wikimedia Foundation India Programs skype: hisham.wikimedia gtalk: hmun...@wikimedia.org twitter: @mundol On Apr 26, 2011, at 7:38 AM,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ‘Kanaja’ now accessible for the blind too.. How about wikipedia?

2011-04-26 Thread Anoop
Dhvani can be found here : http://dhvani.sourceforge.net/ On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan rsrikant...@gmail.com wrote: Shiju, Thank you for the software. While I couldn't find Dhwani, I believe this is the one for eSpeak: http://espeak.sourceforge.net/ Kindly, verify

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ‘Kanaja’ now accessible for the blind too.. How about wikipedia?

2011-04-26 Thread Anoop
Also, online version of Dhvani is avaialble at http://silpa.org.in/TTS Note that this module is experimental. Thanks On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Anoop anoop@gmail.com wrote: Dhvani can be found here : http://dhvani.sourceforge.net/ On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Srikanth

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ‘Kanaja’ now accessible for the blind too.. How about wikipedia?

2011-04-26 Thread Shiju Alex
The below online version is a nice way to test it for your language. Remember if Dhwani works fine for Malayalam it is not hard to extend the same for other Indic languages. In fact it is already supporting most of the Indic languages. At least the following languages are supported. - Bengali

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ‘Kanaja’ now accessible for the blind too.. How about wikipedia?

2011-04-26 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Anoop, Shiju, Thank you for the link(s) and the update. This is good news for us Indic wikipedians. --Regards, Srikanth R. On 26 April 2011 13:49, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.com wrote: The below online version is a nice way to test it for your language. Remember if Dhwani works fine for

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ‘Kanaja’ now accessible for the blind too.. How about wikipedia?

2011-04-26 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I blogged about this quite recently. There is however quite some distance between being visually impairred and being blind. Some people I know are helped with specific fonts that are BIG and/or coloured . The consequence is that he uses different fonts and has them coloured. When I get his

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] : Pune Mirror : Will Google Maps lead people astray, the Wikipedia way?

2011-04-26 Thread Nikhil Sheth
*In 2009, it was forced to recruit 20,000 editors to stop falsification of entries * Lol, as if they have that kind of money... ;) So it didn't have any editors at all prior to 2009, h, interesting!! So all those edits were put there by aliens it seems! :P Nikhil On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ‘Kanaja’ now accessible for the blind too.. How about wikipedia?

2011-04-26 Thread Subhashish Panigrahi
Thanks for the update. Here is the page for Dhvani. http://dhvani.sourceforge.net/ It is an amazing tool indeed. And Silpa http://silpa.org.in/ is a source base of many interesting stuff, thanks a lot Santhosh and team. Santhosh was introdcing me to the webfont project few days back, they work

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ‘Kanaja’ now accessible for the blind too.. How about wikipedia?

2011-04-26 Thread Arun Ganesh
He was from this group called Third Eye in Chennai http://thirdeyetvg.com . They support student volunteers to develop accessible technology. On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote: During the chennai meetup, one gentlemen had told us people from

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] : Pune Mirror : Will Google Maps lead people astray, the Wikipedia way?

2011-04-26 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Heya, Umm.. Found this on Daily Mail, I believe, it needs to be further traced. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1379022/Google-Map-Maker-launched-America.html Same article incorporated into it. --Regards, On 26 April 2011 17:20, Srikanth Ramakrishnan rsrikant...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ‘Kanaja’ now accessible for the blind too.. How about wikipedia?

2011-04-26 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Aravind, thank you for the link. It comes very handy. Good to know that the state government is involved in this. Maybe, we could try it in other states. Regards, Srikanth. On 26 April 2011 20:41, Anivar Aravind anivar.arav...@gmail.com wrote: in Kerala , I have seen many people visually

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Uploads to Commons] Geocoding and Multilingual descriptions

2011-04-26 Thread Naveen Francis
Hi all, By geo tagging the articles we can use wikiminiatlas. Check the article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_volcanoes_in_Canada by clicking on the any globe Some of the indic wiki are not enabled with wikiminiatlas. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiMiniAtlas Following wiki has

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ‘Kanaja’ now accessible for the blind too.. How about wikipedia?

2011-04-26 Thread Anivar Aravind
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 8:44 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan rsrikant...@gmail.com wrote: Aravind, thank you for the link. It comes very handy. Good to know that the state government is involved in this. Maybe, we could try it in other states. Regards, Srikanth. The project i mentioned is not

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] New NH numbers.

2011-04-26 Thread Arun Ramarathnam
Thanks for the update Srikanth. And great work by all you guys. regards Arun On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 8:11 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan rsrikant...@gmail.com wrote: Just wanted to inform you all that work is in progress in sorting this out. As Arun says, it will take time. A big Thank You to