Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] On creating an Indian Wikisource

2011-09-15 Thread Gautam John
Hi All: A quick update on this - it appears to be a little complex for the Chapter for multiple reasons: 1. Importance : How important is this to Indian Wikimedians? Is it a real and serious problem faced? Or is it something that is nice to have but not essential? Could we do better work if we

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] social media to use

2011-09-15 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 16:48, Nagarjuna G nagar...@gnowgi.org wrote: There are technical ways to push messages to the popular proprietary social media like facebook and twitter. Therefore you do not loose anyone, but at the same time we can also push a message about free social media, which

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] social media to use

2011-09-15 Thread Pradeep Mohandas
hi, Even other FOSS events in India like the upcoming Python conference, PyCon ( http://in.pycon.org/2011/) is using such venues as Twitter (they have a twitter account!). FOSS.in was also on Twitter (again, with an account! - http://twitter.com/fossdotin). Given these two examples (there might

[Wikimediaindia-l] Voting for Steward Elections is underway

2011-09-15 Thread Jyothis E
Hello, Please note that voting for the second steward elections for 2011 has started in metawikihttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/elections_2011-2. Please read the candidate statements, QA and cast your vote at the earliest. Thanks. Regards, Jyothis. My Malayalam Wikipedia page

[Wikimediaindia-l] Internationalisation bug triage notes

2011-09-15 Thread Siebrand Mazeland (WMF)
Please find below the notes for the internationalisation triage bug triage held on Wednesday, September 14, 13:00UTC in #wikimedia-dev on Freenode IRC. 9 people participated in the triage. Two of the participants were new to MediaWiki. I'm very happy that the triage attracted new potential

[Wikimediaindia-l] September 2011 Translation Rally results on translatewiki

2011-09-15 Thread ansuman
HiYa All.. Just an update on the September 2011 Translation Rally on translatewiki.net 24 users have made it among them One user from India Psubhashish (Subhashish Panigrahi aka. Subha Pa) and another from Nepal, Saroj Kumar. Any newbie out there interested in such competition, keep looking :) :)