[Wikimediaindia-l] [OT][Press] : Skip the numbers game

2012-02-23 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
http://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/nxg/article2919794.ece Curriculum is always a few years, if not decades, out of date. Only by getting out can you get knowledge and skills that are current and useful. For example, I did the Google Summer of Code (internship) with mediawiki last year, and am

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [OT][Press] : Skip the numbers game

2012-02-23 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Excellent! 2012/2/23 Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com: http://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/nxg/article2919794.ece Curriculum is always a few years, if not decades, out of date. Only by getting out can you get knowledge and skills that are current and useful. For example, I did the

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [OT][Press] : Skip the numbers game

2012-02-23 Thread Yuvi Panda
Just to clarify that I'm not a drop out :) (http://yuvi.in/blog/college-drop/) On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: Excellent! 2012/2/23 Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com: http://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/nxg/article2919794.ece

[Wikimediaindia-l] Indic Languages on Wikipedia Android application

2012-02-23 Thread Yuvi Panda
Blog post by GerardM on how to tweak your android device to support Indic languages: http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2012/02/trick-android-to-use-your-language.html Would be awesome if people here could test it on their device + language combination :) -- Yuvi Panda T http://yuvi.in/blog

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic Languages on Wikipedia Android application

2012-02-23 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Yes - if you have an Android phone or know someone who has one, please do that! It takes just two minutes. If you can't make this app work at all, please email us and we'll try to help. If you are able to set your language in this app, but the phone shows you squares instead of real letters, go

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Improving outreach efforts in India

2012-02-23 Thread Hisham
On Feb 18, 2012, at 3:52 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan wrote: On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 17:12, Nitika ntan...@wikimedia.org wrote: The following is a post I've put up on the India Program page on meta regarding outreach (Please

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic Languages on Wikipedia Android application

2012-02-23 Thread Nasir Khan
I checked for Benagli (bn-BD and bn-IN). When i enabled those locals the Wikipedia app icon text and buttons were displayed in Bengali. But when the EN is enabled it shows the home page of the EN wiki but here it does not show the home page article content. I am saying home article content because

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Improving outreach efforts in India

2012-02-23 Thread Ashwin Baindur
The core question, one must ask if one wants to improve outreach is how much effort one wants to put in because, remember,every action takes effort preparation most importantly follow up. Obviously, all this effort will have to be shared and encouraging and motivation of outreach volunteers

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic Languages on Wikipedia Android application

2012-02-23 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2012/2/23 Nasir Khan nasir8...@gmail.com: I checked for Benagli (bn-BD and bn-IN). When i enabled those locals the Wikipedia app icon text and buttons were displayed in Bengali. Thank you very much for testing! Now you can tell your friends that there's a Wikipedia app in Bengali. But when

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic Languages on Wikipedia Android application

2012-02-23 Thread sankarshan
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: If your phone's locale is English, you can still read the content of Bengali Wikipedia in the app by tapping the Read in button in the menu (পড়া হচ্ছে). On a side note, Read in doesn't really translate to

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic Languages on Wikipedia Android application

2012-02-23 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hi, Sankarshan, 2012/2/23 sankarshan foss.mailingli...@gmail.com: On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: If your phone's locale is English, you can still read the content of Bengali Wikipedia in the app by tapping the Read in button in the menu

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic Languages on Wikipedia Android application

2012-02-23 Thread sankarshan
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: That's what the current translation says. It doesn't have to be perfectly literal, it just has to be useful in context. If you think that it's wrong in this context, can you please correct the translation at

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic Languages on Wikipedia Android application

2012-02-23 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2012/2/23 sankarshan foss.mailingli...@gmail.com: On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: That's what the current translation says. It doesn't have to be perfectly literal, it just has to be useful in context. If you think that it's wrong in this

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic Languages on Wikipedia Android application

2012-02-23 Thread Ramesh N G
I set my android to to language ml. Only some of the icon in the apps turned Malayalam. But my News and Weather App turned completely ml. The photo editor and Video Maker app turned completely in Malayalam Language. Wikipedia app turned ml and default page set to ml page. I dont think i can

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [OT][Press] : Skip the numbers game

2012-02-23 Thread ansuman
cracking... information :-) Thanks for sharing Srikanth L and nifty job Yuvi Panda, happy for you :-) On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Yuvi Panda yuvipa...@gmail.com wrote: Just to clarify that I'm not a drop out :) ( http://yuvi.in/blog/college-drop/) On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Amir

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic Languages on Wikipedia Android application

2012-02-23 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Oh, cool. If i understand correctly, this means that your phone has a font, but with broken chillus, which is still better than nothing, but to actually make it work and show some Malayalam interface you have to use that app. I'll be very glad to hear more reports like this! 2012/2/23 Ramesh N

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-en] Creating video of Indian Editors We Edit Wikipedia

2012-02-23 Thread Noopur
Just for some motivation and amusement, watch this: *Where the hell is Matt? * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlfKdbWwruY Cheers Noopur On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Subhashish Panigrahi su...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Thanks a lot Swaroop, We are expecting more inputs from you guys, and please

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-en] Creating video of Indian Editors We Edit Wikipedia

2012-02-23 Thread Subhashish Panigrahi
Lol, what's up with you Noopur, finally you let that Matt bumped into India mailing list? :p On 23 February 2012 20:48, Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.com wrote: Just for some motivation and amusement, watch this: *Where the hell is Matt? * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlfKdbWwruY Cheers

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Announcing live search for the Wikimedia projects

2012-02-23 Thread praveenp
Like the work, probably except that tiny all rights reserved part. ;-) i hope developers will add some features to go directly to required site+lang+im without using select options (using query strings or something like ?project=wplang=mlim=tr). Just thinking loud because i have seen in similar

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Announcing live search for the Wikimedia projects

2012-02-23 Thread CherianTinu Abraham
That is the idea... ! Once it is stable, and the primary developer agrees, we will release this on an appropriate open source license. Thanks for all the feedback suggestions... Will definitely pass them to the development team -TC On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 9:44 PM, praveenp

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Announcing live search for the Wikimedia projects

2012-02-23 Thread Abhiram C
Can we get the transliterations there? For sanskrit only inscript is present and its difficult to search for anythings there... On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 10:10 PM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: That is the idea... ! Once it is stable, and the primary developer agrees, we will

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic Languages on Wikipedia Android application

2012-02-23 Thread Nasir Khan
All the strings are translated (and fixed) to Bengali. Can anyone tell me when these will be updated to the app? On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 8:22 PM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: Oh, cool. If i understand correctly, this means that your phone has a font, but with broken

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic Languages on Wikipedia Android application

2012-02-23 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2012/2/23 Nasir Khan nasir8...@gmail.com: All the strings are translated (and fixed) to Bengali. Can anyone tell me when these will be updated to the app? Thank you very much. Version 1.1 of the app is going to be released soon and the new translations will be there. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni ·

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-mum] Report on Mumbai Workshop 2

2012-02-23 Thread wheredevelsdare
Slightly late in the day, but I thought it would be good to share this with everyone. A few days after we had the Workshop @ Text100, they blogged about it here: http://text100.com/hypertext/2012/01/wikipedia-for-pr/ From: wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org;