Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] An Offline Wikipedia for the Aakaash Tablet?
Santhosh, I had spoken with one of the tablet manufacturers with Jessie. The current Akash OS is indeed Android based so Indic language support is poor/unavailable. Debian based tablets are being discussed but the manufacturer indicated that it was at least a year+ down the line. With best regards, Alolita On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 10:50 PM, Santhosh Thottingal santhosh.thottin...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Hisham his...@wikimedia.org wrote: b) Need to establish a reasonable set of acceptable quality articles in Indic languages (since Akash's remit is pan-India.) AFAIK, Akash is based on android and Indic language rendering support is not available so far. Anybody tried indic languages in Akash? -Santhosh ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] An Offline Wikipedia for the Aakaash Tablet?
On 1 December 2011 13:53, Alolita Sharma alolita.sha...@gmail.com wrote: Debian based tablets are being discussed but the manufacturer indicated that it was at least a year+ down the line. Wow , is it based on Maemo[1] by any chance ? Or is it one of the smartphone[2] software they use? 1. http://maemo.org 2. http://wiki.debian.org/Smartphone Regards, Pavithran ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] [Android] Picture of the Day Wallpaper
Heya all, I was searching the Android Market, when I stumbled upon this app: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.practicalapps.android.wallpaper.wikimedia It's called Picture of the Day Wallpaper From the market page: Beautiful daily photos from Wikimedia Commons scroll across your desktop. Live Wallpaper which displays the Picture Of The Day posted by Wikimedia Commons, an public domain media file repository (commons.wikimedia.orghttp://www.google.com/url?q=http://commons.wikimedia.orgusg=AFQjCNFNTovbfl8ZcrbSTJNc32s9TzrcXA ). Each day a different glorious image from the Wikimedia Commons image library is automatically downloaded and added to the scrolling rotation of the last six images. A convenient shortcut to the Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Day webpage is provided on the initial application and preferences screens. A preference setting is also provided to control the image scroll speed and position of the image title. To install this animated wallpaper, launch the application icon or long-click on your phone's desktop, then select Wallpapers, then select Live wallpapers. *All images are credited to NASA (NASA.gov)* That last line worries me a bit. Are all photos credited to NASA, irrespective of who uploaded it? OR Are all photos of the Day by NASA, thereby giving others no chance for a front page visit? -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Merge - request for help from Mallu wikipedians on en:WP
Please merge [[Villu Paatu]] [[Villuppattu]. Pending since November 2009. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia and marketing
Heya all, My friend who works as a Social Media analyst, sent this to me: http://socialfresh.com/why-wikipedia-needs-marketers/ An exerpt: The volume of content is growing, but the active contributors to maintain, update and police those articles is shrinking. As this trend continues, vandalism, bias, outdated information and blatant factual errors will run even more rampant. Marketers are the most motivated to maintain Wikis on subjects important to them and invest the time in providing quality, well-verified content. We can fill this gap* if we can learn to support Wikipedia’s encyclopedic goals and follow the rules*. Cheers, -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] More help required from Mallu Wikipedians #2
Dear friends, Cross-wiki content coordination. These are Malayalam CD articles we need their equivalents on English Wikipedia. 1, Please create english stub articles for these missing articles on English Wikipedia - * കാക്കാരിശ്ശിനാടകം * തോൽപ്പാവക്കൂത്ത് 2. Please get images for the following art forms - not a single one is there on Commons. * കൂത്തമ്പലംhttp://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%82%E0%B4%A4%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%A4%E0%B4%AE%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%AA%E0%B4%B2%E0%B4%82 Koothambalam http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koothambalam* പൂരക്കളിhttp://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%82%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%B3%E0%B4%BF Poorakkali http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poorakkali * കണ്യാർകളിhttp://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%A3%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%AF%E0%B4%BE%E0%B5%BC%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%B3%E0%B4%BF Kanyarkali http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanyarkali * കോതാമ്മൂരിയാട്ടംhttp://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8B%E0%B4%A4%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%AE%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%AE%E0%B5%82%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AF%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%9F%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%9F%E0%B4%82 Kothammuriyattam http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kothammuriyattam *കാക്കാരിശ്ശിനാടകം (Puppetry) Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.comwrote: Please merge [[Villu Paatu]] [[Villuppattu]. Pending since November 2009. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Supporting the languages of India
Hi All, What many of us are sharing here are personal experiences, anecdotes from one section of the community pyramid that Gerard mentioned. This can only lead to inaccurate inferences about Indic languages. So, let's do some objective analysis: Based on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_in_India , India's literacy rate is 74.04% in 2011. As I have no practical experience of education systems in other states, let me take the example of Tamilnadu which has a literacy rate of 80.3%. The 19.7% illiteracy rate is a social issue and let's ignore it for this analysis. This example can very well be related with other states and India as a whole. Tamilnadu had three educations systems mainly: * *State board ( Majority of the students are enrolled in this and most pursue education through Tamil as a medium of instruction*. *Even for English medium students, learning Tamil as a language is mandatory for 10+2 years* ). Most of the government schools and government aided schools fall under this category. You can refer www.ssa.tn.nic.in/Docu/GenEduStat.pdffor the number of schools in Tamilnadu operating under government, government aid and private sector. Except for few cities, government schools are the majority. * Matriculation, ICSE and other boards ( Medium of instruction is English but most study Tamil as a language for 10+2 years). From this year, this system is abolished and merged with state board's uniform syllabus. * CBSE - Only a minority of schools are in this system. Medium of instruction is English and a good number of people do study Tamil as a language for 10 years. So, all these people can read, write, understand and speak Tamil and are functionally literate in their mother languages. Even if you assume that some studied other languages instead of Tamil in matriculation or CBSE syllabus, it is still a minority and can't exceed 10% by any means. * If you take the case of Srilanka, where Tamil is also an official language, 99% of the native Tamils complete their study in government schools with Tamil as their medium of instruction. So, they are almost 100% literate in their mother languages. * I am sure that similar trends and statistics can be observed for other Indic languages. Ashwin, Thanks for the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Graham%27s_Hierarchy_of_Disagreement1.svglink. As you can see from the stats above, I do refute the central point here as it is totally wrong. Being offended by it is my personal expression and doesn't lack civility or make judgments about the one who posted the inferences. If we do not raise our concern for valid issues, India will continue to be seen as a country of snake charmers. Shiju, I am aware that mother language illiteracy is a raising problem in Indian cities. But, as Bala said it is a social problem and out of Wikimedia's mission. *Indic language projects are for the people and by the people who primarily gain and share knowledge in those languages* and their percentage is huge. Gaining readership / contribution from the minority English comfortable audience should not be a priority and it will not be worth the effort. The problem mentioned by many Indic language Wikipedians is a bit different. Since, many of the present day internet accessing Wikipedians do have a city / middle class / English educated background, they are at loss to write about different subjects in an encyclopedic quality. But, that doesn't mean that they are proficient in English writing either as you can witness from IEP. This is something to do with the quality and policy of higher education in our country. But, this doesn't mean by anyway that Indians are functionally illiterate in their own languages to the extend of not knowing to read and write. Gerard, Here are some scenarios: * People who know English and an Indic language well, know about Indic language projects and still contribute in only one language. Nothing much can be done to motivate them to switch the contributions. If they decide to do it by themselves, it is huge WIN. * People who know English and an Indic language well but do not know about Indic language projects. It should be our highest priority to spread awareness about Indic language projects to these people because they can bring great experience from English Wikipedia. We do have the privilege of having few contributors like them and their roles are phenomenal in shaping the community. * People who know only the Indic languages very well but do not know about Wikipedia. It should also be our highest priority to spread awareness about Wikipedia to these people. The moment they know that such a thing exists, they will jump on it because people are so hungry for knowledge in their own language. If you would like to know how we know this: We did a 3 day long Tamil Internet workshop practically for thousands of people during a language conference last year. People were so happy to know that they could read, write, search in their own languages.
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] More help required from Mallu Wikipedians #2
I deeply apologise to my Malayali friends. I am told the word Mallu is derogatory, which I did not realise before. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.comwrote: Dear friends, Cross-wiki content coordination. These are Malayalam CD articles we need their equivalents on English Wikipedia. 1, Please create english stub articles for these missing articles on English Wikipedia - * കാക്കാരിശ്ശിനാടകം * തോൽപ്പാവക്കൂത്ത് 2. Please get images for the following art forms - not a single one is there on Commons. * കൂത്തമ്പലംhttp://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%82%E0%B4%A4%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%A4%E0%B4%AE%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%AA%E0%B4%B2%E0%B4%82 Koothambalam http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koothambalam* പൂരക്കളിhttp://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%82%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%B3%E0%B4%BF Poorakkali http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poorakkali * കണ്യാർകളിhttp://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%A3%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%AF%E0%B4%BE%E0%B5%BC%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%B3%E0%B4%BF Kanyarkali http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanyarkali * കോതാമ്മൂരിയാട്ടംhttp://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8B%E0%B4%A4%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%AE%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%AE%E0%B5%82%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AF%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%9F%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%9F%E0%B4%82 Kothammuriyattam http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kothammuriyattam *കാക്കാരിശ്ശിനാടകം (Puppetry) Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.comwrote: Please merge [[Villu Paatu]] [[Villuppattu]. Pending since November 2009. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Merge - request for help from Mallu wikipedians on en:WP
Thank you Ansuman G! Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 4:51 PM, ansuman ansum...@gmail.com wrote: Done On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.comwrote: Please merge [[Villu Paatu]] [[Villuppattu]. Pending since November 2009. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Ansuman Giri * ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ * http://twitter.com/smileyansu * ___ Wikipedia Odia (Oriya) mailing list wikipedia...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-or facebook.com/OdiaWiki Tweet @OdiaWiki * ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] An Offline Wikipedia for the Aakaash Tablet?
Hi all, Just a word of caution here. Lift and ship approach will be a disaster. So any article that goes into Kiwix, must be reviewed / tagged for legal compliance (Maps, others!), be of decent quality and avoid controversial topics(Caste topics Hell no). We must also check for copyvio images etc. It requires fair amount of reviewing on the content side. When it comes to Indic, spell check, language quality also matters. Just sharing some points we considered to bring a quality offline version of Tamil. We were taken by scale of content copyediting work that such an offline project requires. I am sure WikiProject:India on enwp has no more volunteers than any Indic wikipedia(atleast comparable to Tamil) and I seriously don't think we can do justice for something like this in 60 days. Regards, Srikanth L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] An Offline Wikipedia for the Aakaash Tablet?
I agree with you. 60 days is too less. It would take atleast 6-7 months of editing and working to bring out such articles. -- On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote: Hi all, Just a word of caution here. Lift and ship approach will be a disaster. So any article that goes into Kiwix, must be reviewed / tagged for legal compliance (Maps, others!), be of decent quality and avoid controversial topics(Caste topics Hell no). We must also check for copyvio images etc. It requires fair amount of reviewing on the content side. When it comes to Indic, spell check, language quality also matters. Just sharing some points we considered to bring a quality offline version of Tamil. We were taken by scale of content copyediting work that such an offline project requires. *I am sure WikiProject:India on enwp has no more volunteers than any Indic wikipedia(atleast comparable to Tamil) and I seriously don't think we can do justice for something like this in 60 days*. Regards, Srikanth L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] An Offline Wikipedia for the Aakaash Tablet?
I concur heartily. There are no quick fixes. First of all we need topic lists. We need to decide a balanced 500 topic list for India comprising primarily India articles. This will be the base of any Offline effort. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 6:16 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: I agree with you. 60 days is too less. It would take atleast 6-7 months of editing and working to bring out such articles. -- On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote: Hi all, Just a word of caution here. Lift and ship approach will be a disaster. So any article that goes into Kiwix, must be reviewed / tagged for legal compliance (Maps, others!), be of decent quality and avoid controversial topics(Caste topics Hell no). We must also check for copyvio images etc. It requires fair amount of reviewing on the content side. When it comes to Indic, spell check, language quality also matters. Just sharing some points we considered to bring a quality offline version of Tamil. We were taken by scale of content copyediting work that such an offline project requires. *I am sure WikiProject:India on enwp has no more volunteers than any Indic wikipedia(atleast comparable to Tamil) and I seriously don't think we can do justice for something like this in 60 days*. Regards, Srikanth L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia and marketing
Also, To all those who want to know how we deal with Marketing on English: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Phantomsteve#Deletion_of_CouponCabingoog_589970956 On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Heya all, My friend who works as a Social Media analyst, sent this to me: http://socialfresh.com/why-wikipedia-needs-marketers/ An exerpt: The volume of content is growing, but the active contributors to maintain, update and police those articles is shrinking. As this trend continues, vandalism, bias, outdated information and blatant factual errors will run even more rampant. Marketers are the most motivated to maintain Wikis on subjects important to them and invest the time in providing quality, well-verified content. We can fill this gap* if we can learn to support Wikipedia’s encyclopedic goals and follow the rules*. Cheers, -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] An Offline Wikipedia for the Aakaash Tablet?
hi, Since this is going to happen for the first time, I agree with Srikanth L, that it is best to give ourselves a few months. I think this will also give sufficient time for the technologies to be tested out. I also think we should take the benefit of the lessons learnt by other NGOs in the country who've done stuff like this. Someone suggested OLPC folks. We might be interested in approaching such folks as well. User:Prad2609 Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2011 18:19:58 +0530 From: ashwin.bain...@gmail.com To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] An Offline Wikipedia for the Aakaash Tablet? I concur heartily. There are no quick fixes. First of all we need topic lists. We need to decide a balanced 500 topic list for India comprising primarily India articles. This will be the base of any Offline effort. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 6:16 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: I agree with you. 60 days is too less. It would take atleast 6-7 months of editing and working to bring out such articles.-- On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Just a word of caution here. Lift and ship approach will be a disaster. So any article that goes into Kiwix, must be reviewed / tagged for legal compliance (Maps, others!), be of decent quality and avoid controversial topics(Caste topics Hell no). We must also check for copyvio images etc. It requires fair amount of reviewing on the content side. When it comes to Indic, spell check, language quality also matters. Just sharing some points we considered to bring a quality offline version of Tamil. We were taken by scale of content copyediting work that such an offline project requires. I am sure WikiProject:India on enwp has no more volunteers than any Indic wikipedia(atleast comparable to Tamil) and I seriously don't think we can do justice for something like this in 60 days. Regards,Srikanth L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] An Offline Wikipedia for the Aakaash Tablet?
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 20:17, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@hotmail.com wrote: Someone suggested OLPC folks. We might be interested in approaching such folks as well. I imagine this is happening too. I saw an OLPC being demoed at the WikiConference (by Harriet Vidyasagar, I think?). ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] More help required from Mallu Wikipedians #2
Well, Mallu aint derogatory, its cute, I'm one myself :D, I'll try getting 'em pics :) On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Aswin, I was about to notify you on that matter. However, I think you should send across this mail to the Malayalam mailing list. -- On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.comwrote: I deeply apologise to my Malayali friends. I am told the word Mallu is derogatory, which I did not realise before. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.comwrote: Dear friends, Cross-wiki content coordination. These are Malayalam CD articles we need their equivalents on English Wikipedia. 1, Please create english stub articles for these missing articles on English Wikipedia - * കാക്കാരിശ്ശിനാടകം * തോൽപ്പാവക്കൂത്ത് 2. Please get images for the following art forms - not a single one is there on Commons. * കൂത്തമ്പലംhttp://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%82%E0%B4%A4%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%A4%E0%B4%AE%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%AA%E0%B4%B2%E0%B4%82 Koothambalam http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koothambalam* പൂരക്കളിhttp://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%82%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%B3%E0%B4%BF Poorakkali http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poorakkali * കണ്യാർകളിhttp://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%A3%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%AF%E0%B4%BE%E0%B5%BC%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%B3%E0%B4%BF Kanyarkali http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanyarkali * കോതാമ്മൂരിയാട്ടംhttp://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8B%E0%B4%A4%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%AE%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%AE%E0%B5%82%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AF%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%9F%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%9F%E0%B4%82 Kothammuriyattam http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kothammuriyattam *കാക്കാരിശ്ശിനാടകം (Puppetry) Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com wrote: Please merge [[Villu Paatu]] [[Villuppattu]. Pending since November 2009. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- - Arjun ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] More help required from Mallu Wikipedians #2
Please do help us in getting pictures. It will be very very useful in presentations on folk culture. : ) -- On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Arjun Mangol Kanoth arjun.man...@gmail.comwrote: Well, Mallu aint derogatory, its cute, I'm one myself :D, I'll try getting 'em pics :) On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Aswin, I was about to notify you on that matter. However, I think you should send across this mail to the Malayalam mailing list. -- On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.comwrote: I deeply apologise to my Malayali friends. I am told the word Mallu is derogatory, which I did not realise before. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com wrote: Dear friends, Cross-wiki content coordination. These are Malayalam CD articles we need their equivalents on English Wikipedia. 1, Please create english stub articles for these missing articles on English Wikipedia - * കാക്കാരിശ്ശിനാടകം * തോൽപ്പാവക്കൂത്ത് 2. Please get images for the following art forms - not a single one is there on Commons. * കൂത്തമ്പലംhttp://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%82%E0%B4%A4%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%A4%E0%B4%AE%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%AA%E0%B4%B2%E0%B4%82 Koothambalam http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koothambalam* പൂരക്കളിhttp://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%82%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%B3%E0%B4%BF Poorakkali http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poorakkali * കണ്യാർകളിhttp://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%A3%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%AF%E0%B4%BE%E0%B5%BC%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%B3%E0%B4%BF Kanyarkali http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanyarkali * കോതാമ്മൂരിയാട്ടംhttp://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8B%E0%B4%A4%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%AE%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%AE%E0%B5%82%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AF%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%9F%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%9F%E0%B4%82 Kothammuriyattam http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kothammuriyattam *കാക്കാരിശ്ശിനാടകം (Puppetry) Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com wrote: Please merge [[Villu Paatu]] [[Villuppattu]. Pending since November 2009. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- - Arjun ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Mullaperiyar Dam article on English Wikipedia - Collaboration sought
hi, A few of the interesting articles written about the Dam were by Major (later Colonel) John Pennycuick, considered the Chief Engineer of the Dam. He wrote about his for the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1897. The edition can be found here.[1] The edition contains chapters on the Diversion of the Periyar and The Periyar Tunnel followed by discussion and correspondences on the same. I really wish we did more stuff like this in 2011, but that is a different discussion. Interestingly, these articles - dated to 1897 (!!!) are pay-walled. Each of the article I mentioned above costs GBP 18! Help is needed on trying to get these articles so that they can inform the Wikipedia article now under Collaboration of the Month. I am hoping to write to the UK Wikimedia Chapter and the Institution of Civil Engineers, UK to see if copies of these can be obtained. Does anyone on-list see any possibility of getting a copy otherwise? warm regards, User:Prad2609 [1] - http://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/content/issue/imotp/128/1897 ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Mullaperiyar Dam article on English Wikipedia - Collaboration sought
check with resource request project . there might be someone who has access to them http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Resource_request On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 9:49 PM, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@hotmail.com wrote: hi, A few of the interesting articles written about the Dam were by Major (later Colonel) John Pennycuick, considered the Chief Engineer of the Dam. He wrote about his for the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1897. The edition can be found here.[1] The edition contains chapters on the Diversion of the Periyar and The Periyar Tunnel followed by discussion and correspondences on the same. I really wish we did more stuff like this in 2011, but that is a different discussion. Interestingly, these articles - dated to 1897 (!!!) are pay-walled. Each of the article I mentioned above costs GBP 18! Help is needed on trying to get these articles so that they can inform the Wikipedia article now under Collaboration of the Month. I am hoping to write to the UK Wikimedia Chapter and the Institution of Civil Engineers, UK to see if copies of these can be obtained. Does anyone on-list see any possibility of getting a copy otherwise? warm regards, User:Prad2609 [1] - http://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/content/issue/imotp/128/1897 ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Mullaperiyar Dam article on English Wikipedia - Collaboration sought
Ask thy Uncle Ashwin and thou shalt receive - http://www.archive.org/stream/minutesproceedi13unkngoog#page/n151/mode/2up http://www.archive.org/stream/minutesproceedi13unkngoog#page/n175/mode/2up Thou shall have no false paywall Gods, only one true God ie archive.org Enjoy all those diagrams now in public domain. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 9:53 PM, Bala Jeyaraman sodabot...@gmail.com wrote: check with resource request project . there might be someone who has access to them http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Resource_request On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 9:49 PM, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@hotmail.com wrote: hi, A few of the interesting articles written about the Dam were by Major (later Colonel) John Pennycuick, considered the Chief Engineer of the Dam. He wrote about his for the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1897. The edition can be found here.[1] The edition contains chapters on the Diversion of the Periyar and The Periyar Tunnel followed by discussion and correspondences on the same. I really wish we did more stuff like this in 2011, but that is a different discussion. Interestingly, these articles - dated to 1897 (!!!) are pay-walled. Each of the article I mentioned above costs GBP 18! Help is needed on trying to get these articles so that they can inform the Wikipedia article now under Collaboration of the Month. I am hoping to write to the UK Wikimedia Chapter and the Institution of Civil Engineers, UK to see if copies of these can be obtained. Does anyone on-list see any possibility of getting a copy otherwise? warm regards, User:Prad2609 [1] - http://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/content/issue/imotp/128/1897 ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia's participation in Google Summer of Code
Not specific to MediaWiki or GSoC, but this document[1] by Shakti Kannan explains a lot about the common issues you'll face if you're doing Open Source advocacy in Indian colleges. [1]: http://www.shakthimaan.com/downloads.html#shakthimaan-indian-challenge-of-floss-advocacy -- Yuvi Panda T http://yuvi.in/blog ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia's participation in Google Summer of Code
The paper says it so well !! +1000 to that !!! I have been doing FOSS promotion for about 11 years now (www.plug.org.in) and faced same issues all the time. Except that they now know there is something called Linux and open source, nothing much has changed in all these years. You can at least teach to the students and may be they can accept a few things, but teaching FOSS (or anything for that matter) to teachers is a nightmare. You can get about 1-2 % teachers max. from whom you can get some positive response. Well, I can go on and on and on on this topic. -Sudhanwa On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 12:04 AM, Jessie Wild jw...@wikimedia.org wrote: Thanks for sharing this link, Yuvi! As someone completely unfamiliar with the topic, I am wondering if you all consider the issues discussed in that paper still an accurate depiction of the state in education in 2011. Thanks! Jessie On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Yuvi Panda yuvipa...@gmail.com wrote: Not specific to MediaWiki or GSoC, but this document[1] by Shakti Kannan explains a lot about the common issues you'll face if you're doing Open Source advocacy in Indian colleges. [1]: http://www.shakthimaan.com/downloads.html#shakthimaan-indian-challenge-of-floss-advocacy -- Yuvi Panda T http://yuvi.in/blog ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Jessie Wild Global Development, Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~! web: www.sudhanwa.com blog: www.sudhanwa.in Twitter: sudhanwa Check on FB, Linkedin for more. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia's participation in Google Summer of Code
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 00:04, Jessie Wild jw...@wikimedia.org wrote: Thanks for sharing this link, Yuvi! As someone completely unfamiliar with the topic, I am wondering if you all consider the issues discussed in that paper still an accurate depiction of the state in education in 2011. Fewer things have changed from 2007 to now. 1. Internet penetration has increased, atleast lot many people have broadband now, but still things have to improve. 2. Facebook. (the timepass/hanging out the author mentions happens online now.) 3. GNU/Linux or open source are not completely new terms for atleast city students, most of them would have heard, many more students *use* opensource (be it ubuntu / android etc), but collaboration / contribution still needs awareness. 4. The number of rock stars like Yuvi at college level who are aware of the outside world, has increased. But proportionately they are still like Wikipedia editors : Wikipedia readers. -- Regards Srikanth.L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] An Offline Wikipedia for the Aakaash Tablet?
Hey Everyone! I am so excited about the content of this email chain! There have been huge advances in the offline work for India of late. Quick background: I know many of you know, and Hisham mentioned it earlier, but I am involved with the offline WIkipedia projects around the world for WMF, so I have an ok idea about what options are available and who uses our information (like OLPC or SOS Children's Village or Camara). For this work, I think it's _imperative_ to get a high-quality, Indic version available for mass-distribution. But while the full, all-encompassing offline version might take 6-7 months to develop, there are bite-sized pieces we can concretely work on so we can start at least pushing some information out. For example, if we focus on Geography first, we could perhaps get a really good Geography package set-up and ready to go by the next pilot, in order to at least get a package out there - something to have a presence within the distributions. The storage space on the Aakash tablet and other low-cost devices is minimal, so a limited content package is actually fine, in many ways. In the meantime, we can be working on more and more additions, which could be distributed in-mass as time unfolds. Then people could basically have a library of content available for their perusal. Thoughts on this? It helps prevent a complete gap in time for our execution: we have an AWESOME encyclopedia already available (that's why we have almost 500M people reading it every month!), and it would be really sad, I think, to sit on such a resource! One good place to start in terms of identifying content is to leverage the list of articles use for the Malayalam Offline edition - that probably would get us a good step of the way there in terms of which articles are India-relevant and worthy of inclusion. I have a lot more I can say about this, but will stop myself here for now :) Jessie On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 7:19 AM, Aditya Sengupta apsengu...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 20:17, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@hotmail.com wrote: Someone suggested OLPC folks. We might be interested in approaching such folks as well. I imagine this is happening too. I saw an OLPC being demoed at the WikiConference (by Harriet Vidyasagar, I think?). ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- *Jessie Wild Global Development, Manager Wikimedia Foundation * ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Android] Picture of the Day Wallpaper
I forwarded this to the mobile-l. On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 1:46 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Heya all, I was searching the Android Market, when I stumbled upon this app: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.practicalapps.android.wallpaper.wikimedia ** *All images are credited to NASA (NASA.gov)* That last line worries me a bit. Are all photos credited to NASA, irrespective of who uploaded it? OR Are all photos of the Day by NASA, thereby giving others no chance for a front page visit? I think they mixed up the credits on this app and their NASA app: Image credit on the Picture of the Day webpage. Image updates are subject to the availability of the Wikimedia Commons' Image of the Day RSS feed and associated images. https://market.android.com/details?id=com.practicalapps.android.wallpaper.nasa I went ahead and emailed the address on the developer's website to ask for the correction. Good catch, Srikanth! Jessie -- *Jessie Wild Global Development, Manager Wikimedia Foundation * ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] An Offline Wikipedia for the Aakaash Tablet?
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 8:17 PM, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@hotmail.com wrote: I also think we should take the benefit of the lessons learnt by other NGOs in the country who've done stuff like this. Someone suggested OLPC folks. We might be interested in approaching such folks as well. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Wikislices -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] An Offline Wikipedia for the Aakaash Tablet?
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 5:34 AM, Jessie Wild jw...@wikimedia.org wrote: For this work, I think it's _imperative_ to get a high-quality, Indic version available for mass-distribution. But while the full, all-encompassing offline version might take 6-7 months to develop, there are bite-sized pieces we can concretely work on so we can start at least pushing some information out. For example, if we focus on Geography first, we could perhaps get a really good Geography package set-up and ready to go by the next pilot, in order to at least get a package out there - something to have a presence within the distributions. The storage space on the Aakash tablet and other low-cost devices is minimal, so a limited content package is actually fine, in many ways. The version of Android available on the tablet could be a hindrance to display/render/input of Indic. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Sharing insights and experiences from Indian language wiki communities - Nepali
Dear All, Today I am sharing the experience of the Nepali Wiki community. As part of my discussion with Indic language Wikipedians I spoke with Nepali wikipedians also (Rajesh pandey, Bhawani Gautham, and Saroj Dhakal). You know all of them since they are active in India list also. Please read their experiences with the Nepali Wiki projects here. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages/Nepali/Discussions/2011 Nepali with more than 16 million speakers world wide, has more than 3 million speakers in India. Nepali is one of the 22 scheduled languages of india. The speakers of Nepali are distributed across India, even though a more concentration of speakers of Nepali language is in North Eastern India. From the English Wikipedia article about Nepali language: In India, there are a large number of Nepali-speaking people. There are an estimated 500,000 Nepali speakers in Sikkim (where Nepali is the official state language.) In Darjeeling and Jalpaiguri districts of West Bengal, there are about 1,400,000 Nepali speakers. In North-East India (states of Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Tripura, Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh), there are several million Nepali speakers. A considerable number of Nepali-speaking people are also present in many Indian cities such as Kolkata, Delhi, Bangalore, Visakhapatnam, Chennai, Mumbai and Hyderabad. At the recently concluded WikiConference a Nepali Wikipedian, Saroj Dhakal, gave us a wonderful overview of Nepali Wikiprojects. I just noticed that most of the active contributors of Nepali wikipedia are staying in India. Kindly read the experience of Nepali Wikipedians at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages/Nepali/Discussions/2011 Inviting your comments on the talk page. Shiju ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Supporting the languages of India
Srikanth, Thanks for the correction. Take away point: Huge majority of the Indians are not illiterate in their mother languages. This statistical information should not be overlooked based on personal experiences. Ravi On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Err.. Ravi, correction. In ISCE and ISC systems, people study a second language for only 8 years minimum, unless the school chooses to have it in 1st and 2nd. I personally opted to study Hindi as a second one [NOT in TN] for 10yrs in ISCE. In ISC, only English is compulsory, same for CBSE in the +1 and +2 stages. ONLY State Boards, across the country make it mandatory for a second language for all 12yrs. Regards, ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
