[Wikimediaindia-l] Ads Injected into Wikipedia?
A friend got in touch with me about this. He is currently seeing advertisements on Wikipedia pages (on all pages except the home page). Here is a link to a screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/dhKyR.jpg These advertisements were not visible to him when I asked him to check through the secure WM server. These advertisements are also not visible to him on any other web page. To the bottom right of each ad, there is some text that says, ads not by this site. I've taken a quick look through the page source he forwarded, nothing looks untoward. His right-click menu does not appear when he right-clicks on the ad. He is based out of Mumbai and ISP is Tata Teleservices Maharashtra Ltd. His IP address is 114.143.88.193 (or was, while he accessed this page; I've since had him change his IP address since I'm sharing this one). I'm not sure if this issue is restricted to Mumbai; since the IP address shows up in Pune when I try to geolocate it (though I understand this is fairly common). The link he is directed to when he clicks the ad is this: http://www.inkfruit.com/combo-landing?utm_source=CMP1002Comboutm_medium=CPMutm_content=combobannerutm_campaign=Combo. I'm adding this here and copying the founder of Inkfruit since the campaign data in the URL parameters may help identify the problem (also, I'm not sure if Inkfruit is aware of this campaign). I've copied my friend here in case there are further questions he could help answer. Could this be a case of DPI by his ISP, or simply malware on his machine? If it were the former, what would be the legal status of the issue? ___ 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] The use of WebFonts for the Gujarati Wikisource
Hoi, I noticed on the request for the approved Gujarati Wikisource that Narayam is requested. What I do not understand is why WebFonts is missing. Particularly for a Wikisource there are many advantages of having WebFonts. I blogged about this in the last month quite regularly. - a different font may be used to indicate the age of a document - fonts for scripts that are extinct but are relevant to a project may be available eg Cuneiform - for the Sanskrit texts it may be possible to have fonts for the Brahmic script to represent the original source properly All in all, I really like to encourage you to consider WebFonts for the Gujarati Wikisource from its start. Thanks, Gerard ___ 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] Ads Injected into Wikipedia?
mostprobably adware in his machine. A smiliar report in portugese wikipedia is here: http://translate.google.co.in/translate?hl=ensl=ptu=http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%25C3%25A9dia:Esplanada/geral/Spam_na_Wikipedia,_problema_%2810mar2012%29ei=TqlcT9fyMs2rrAe468GlDAsa=Xoi=translatect=resultresnum=5ved=0CE4Q7gEwBAprev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522ads%2Bnot%2Bby%2Bthis%2Bsite%2522%2Binjection%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26hs%3D6zj%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26prmd%3Dimvns On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Aditya Sengupta apsengu...@gmail.comwrote: A friend got in touch with me about this. He is currently seeing advertisements on Wikipedia pages (on all pages except the home page). Here is a link to a screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/dhKyR.jpg These advertisements were not visible to him when I asked him to check through the secure WM server. These advertisements are also not visible to him on any other web page. To the bottom right of each ad, there is some text that says, ads not by this site. I've taken a quick look through the page source he forwarded, nothing looks untoward. His right-click menu does not appear when he right-clicks on the ad. He is based out of Mumbai and ISP is Tata Teleservices Maharashtra Ltd. His IP address is 114.143.88.193 (or was, while he accessed this page; I've since had him change his IP address since I'm sharing this one). I'm not sure if this issue is restricted to Mumbai; since the IP address shows up in Pune when I try to geolocate it (though I understand this is fairly common). The link he is directed to when he clicks the ad is this: http://www.inkfruit.com/combo-landing?utm_source=CMP1002Comboutm_medium=CPMutm_content=combobannerutm_campaign=Combo. I'm adding this here and copying the founder of Inkfruit since the campaign data in the URL parameters may help identify the problem (also, I'm not sure if Inkfruit is aware of this campaign). I've copied my friend here in case there are further questions he could help answer. Could this be a case of DPI by his ISP, or simply malware on his machine? If it were the former, what would be the legal status of the issue? ___ 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] Ads Injected into Wikipedia?
Interesting- a virus that injects ads directly into the DOM. On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 19:03, Bala Jeyaraman sodabot...@gmail.com wrote: mostprobably adware in his machine. A smiliar report in portugese wikipedia is here: http://translate.google.co.in/translate?hl=ensl=ptu=http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%25C3%25A9dia:Esplanada/geral/Spam_na_Wikipedia,_problema_%2810mar2012%29ei=TqlcT9fyMs2rrAe468GlDAsa=Xoi=translatect=resultresnum=5ved=0CE4Q7gEwBAprev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522ads%2Bnot%2Bby%2Bthis%2Bsite%2522%2Binjection%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26hs%3D6zj%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26prmd%3Dimvns On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Aditya Sengupta apsengu...@gmail.comwrote: A friend got in touch with me about this. He is currently seeing advertisements on Wikipedia pages (on all pages except the home page). Here is a link to a screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/dhKyR.jpg These advertisements were not visible to him when I asked him to check through the secure WM server. These advertisements are also not visible to him on any other web page. To the bottom right of each ad, there is some text that says, ads not by this site. I've taken a quick look through the page source he forwarded, nothing looks untoward. His right-click menu does not appear when he right-clicks on the ad. He is based out of Mumbai and ISP is Tata Teleservices Maharashtra Ltd. His IP address is 114.143.88.193 (or was, while he accessed this page; I've since had him change his IP address since I'm sharing this one). I'm not sure if this issue is restricted to Mumbai; since the IP address shows up in Pune when I try to geolocate it (though I understand this is fairly common). The link he is directed to when he clicks the ad is this: http://www.inkfruit.com/combo-landing?utm_source=CMP1002Comboutm_medium=CPMutm_content=combobannerutm_campaign=Combo. I'm adding this here and copying the founder of Inkfruit since the campaign data in the URL parameters may help identify the problem (also, I'm not sure if Inkfruit is aware of this campaign). I've copied my friend here in case there are further questions he could help answer. Could this be a case of DPI by his ISP, or simply malware on his machine? If it were the former, what would be the legal status of the issue? ___ 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] The use of WebFonts for the Gujarati Wikisource
To be very honest, I didn't know anything about webfonts. But yes, you're right. It will definitely help us to have it. Unfortunately, I am sailing out of the uk in couple of hours and will be back on tuesday. Now am on mobile, but won't be using my data while in amsterdam tomorrow. So not sure whether I'll be able to update the template. Will it be ok for you to add it? I'll appreciate if this could be done. On 11 Mar 2012 12:57, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote: Hoi, I noticed on the request for the approved Gujarati Wikisource that Narayam is requested. What I do not understand is why WebFonts is missing. Particularly for a Wikisource there are many advantages of having WebFonts. I blogged about this in the last month quite regularly. - a different font may be used to indicate the age of a document - fonts for scripts that are extinct but are relevant to a project may be available eg Cuneiform - for the Sanskrit texts it may be possible to have fonts for the Brahmic script to represent the original source properly All in all, I really like to encourage you to consider WebFonts for the Gujarati Wikisource from its start. Thanks, Gerard ___ 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] Ads Injected into Wikipedia?
No, now that you mention him, even a friend of mine in Pune told me that Wikipedia had started ads, to which I dared him to show me and in fact made a bet. He failed to show me when I asked him to, so I took it as a singular even, perhaps, some sort of mistake he made. However, since other people have started seeing this, I though I'd tell you that he is not alone. I'll ask him further details about his net connection and get back to you guys on this. On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Aditya Sengupta apsengu...@gmail.comwrote: Interesting- a virus that injects ads directly into the DOM. On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 19:03, Bala Jeyaraman sodabot...@gmail.comwrote: mostprobably adware in his machine. A smiliar report in portugese wikipedia is here: http://translate.google.co.in/translate?hl=ensl=ptu=http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%25C3%25A9dia:Esplanada/geral/Spam_na_Wikipedia,_problema_%2810mar2012%29ei=TqlcT9fyMs2rrAe468GlDAsa=Xoi=translatect=resultresnum=5ved=0CE4Q7gEwBAprev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522ads%2Bnot%2Bby%2Bthis%2Bsite%2522%2Binjection%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26hs%3D6zj%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26prmd%3Dimvns On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Aditya Sengupta apsengu...@gmail.comwrote: A friend got in touch with me about this. He is currently seeing advertisements on Wikipedia pages (on all pages except the home page). Here is a link to a screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/dhKyR.jpg These advertisements were not visible to him when I asked him to check through the secure WM server. These advertisements are also not visible to him on any other web page. To the bottom right of each ad, there is some text that says, ads not by this site. I've taken a quick look through the page source he forwarded, nothing looks untoward. His right-click menu does not appear when he right-clicks on the ad. He is based out of Mumbai and ISP is Tata Teleservices Maharashtra Ltd. His IP address is 114.143.88.193 (or was, while he accessed this page; I've since had him change his IP address since I'm sharing this one). I'm not sure if this issue is restricted to Mumbai; since the IP address shows up in Pune when I try to geolocate it (though I understand this is fairly common). The link he is directed to when he clicks the ad is this: http://www.inkfruit.com/combo-landing?utm_source=CMP1002Comboutm_medium=CPMutm_content=combobannerutm_campaign=Combo. I'm adding this here and copying the founder of Inkfruit since the campaign data in the URL parameters may help identify the problem (also, I'm not sure if Inkfruit is aware of this campaign). I've copied my friend here in case there are further questions he could help answer. Could this be a case of DPI by his ISP, or simply malware on his machine? If it were the former, what would be the legal status of the issue? ___ 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 -- Regards, Debanjan* - Lets make this world a better and more informative place* ___ 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] Ads Injected into Wikipedia?
I just saw that screenshot and remembered, even my friend said, it was by the same site, inkfruit. Some common issue?? On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 8:12 PM, Debanjan Bandyopadhyay debast...@gmail.com wrote: No, now that you mention him, even a friend of mine in Pune told me that Wikipedia had started ads, to which I dared him to show me and in fact made a bet. He failed to show me when I asked him to, so I took it as a singular even, perhaps, some sort of mistake he made. However, since other people have started seeing this, I though I'd tell you that he is not alone. I'll ask him further details about his net connection and get back to you guys on this. On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Aditya Sengupta apsengu...@gmail.comwrote: Interesting- a virus that injects ads directly into the DOM. On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 19:03, Bala Jeyaraman sodabot...@gmail.comwrote: mostprobably adware in his machine. A smiliar report in portugese wikipedia is here: http://translate.google.co.in/translate?hl=ensl=ptu=http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%25C3%25A9dia:Esplanada/geral/Spam_na_Wikipedia,_problema_%2810mar2012%29ei=TqlcT9fyMs2rrAe468GlDAsa=Xoi=translatect=resultresnum=5ved=0CE4Q7gEwBAprev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522ads%2Bnot%2Bby%2Bthis%2Bsite%2522%2Binjection%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26hs%3D6zj%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26prmd%3Dimvns On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Aditya Sengupta apsengu...@gmail.comwrote: A friend got in touch with me about this. He is currently seeing advertisements on Wikipedia pages (on all pages except the home page). Here is a link to a screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/dhKyR.jpg These advertisements were not visible to him when I asked him to check through the secure WM server. These advertisements are also not visible to him on any other web page. To the bottom right of each ad, there is some text that says, ads not by this site. I've taken a quick look through the page source he forwarded, nothing looks untoward. His right-click menu does not appear when he right-clicks on the ad. He is based out of Mumbai and ISP is Tata Teleservices Maharashtra Ltd. His IP address is 114.143.88.193 (or was, while he accessed this page; I've since had him change his IP address since I'm sharing this one). I'm not sure if this issue is restricted to Mumbai; since the IP address shows up in Pune when I try to geolocate it (though I understand this is fairly common). The link he is directed to when he clicks the ad is this: http://www.inkfruit.com/combo-landing?utm_source=CMP1002Comboutm_medium=CPMutm_content=combobannerutm_campaign=Combo. I'm adding this here and copying the founder of Inkfruit since the campaign data in the URL parameters may help identify the problem (also, I'm not sure if Inkfruit is aware of this campaign). I've copied my friend here in case there are further questions he could help answer. Could this be a case of DPI by his ISP, or simply malware on his machine? If it were the former, what would be the legal status of the issue? ___ 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 -- Regards, Debanjan* - Lets make this world a better and more informative place* -- Regards, Debanjan* - Lets make this world a better and more informative place* ___ 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] Ads Injected into Wikipedia?
Definitely Adware/Malware/Spyware/etc. Notice in the Screenshot, it says Ads Not By This Site. It should've been a clue. Do scan your system with a good antivirus [Free or paid doesn't matter]. If your system is infected by anything, your data might be at risk. --Cheers, On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 8:13 PM, Debanjan Bandyopadhyay debast...@gmail.com wrote: I just saw that screenshot and remembered, even my friend said, it was by the same site, inkfruit. Some common issue?? On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 8:12 PM, Debanjan Bandyopadhyay debast...@gmail.com wrote: No, now that you mention him, even a friend of mine in Pune told me that Wikipedia had started ads, to which I dared him to show me and in fact made a bet. He failed to show me when I asked him to, so I took it as a singular even, perhaps, some sort of mistake he made. However, since other people have started seeing this, I though I'd tell you that he is not alone. I'll ask him further details about his net connection and get back to you guys on this. On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Aditya Sengupta apsengu...@gmail.comwrote: Interesting- a virus that injects ads directly into the DOM. On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 19:03, Bala Jeyaraman sodabot...@gmail.comwrote: mostprobably adware in his machine. A smiliar report in portugese wikipedia is here: http://translate.google.co.in/translate?hl=ensl=ptu=http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%25C3%25A9dia:Esplanada/geral/Spam_na_Wikipedia,_problema_%2810mar2012%29ei=TqlcT9fyMs2rrAe468GlDAsa=Xoi=translatect=resultresnum=5ved=0CE4Q7gEwBAprev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522ads%2Bnot%2Bby%2Bthis%2Bsite%2522%2Binjection%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26hs%3D6zj%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26prmd%3Dimvns On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Aditya Sengupta apsengu...@gmail.comwrote: A friend got in touch with me about this. He is currently seeing advertisements on Wikipedia pages (on all pages except the home page). Here is a link to a screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/dhKyR.jpg These advertisements were not visible to him when I asked him to check through the secure WM server. These advertisements are also not visible to him on any other web page. To the bottom right of each ad, there is some text that says, ads not by this site. I've taken a quick look through the page source he forwarded, nothing looks untoward. His right-click menu does not appear when he right-clicks on the ad. He is based out of Mumbai and ISP is Tata Teleservices Maharashtra Ltd. His IP address is 114.143.88.193 (or was, while he accessed this page; I've since had him change his IP address since I'm sharing this one). I'm not sure if this issue is restricted to Mumbai; since the IP address shows up in Pune when I try to geolocate it (though I understand this is fairly common). The link he is directed to when he clicks the ad is this: http://www.inkfruit.com/combo-landing?utm_source=CMP1002Comboutm_medium=CPMutm_content=combobannerutm_campaign=Combo. I'm adding this here and copying the founder of Inkfruit since the campaign data in the URL parameters may help identify the problem (also, I'm not sure if Inkfruit is aware of this campaign). I've copied my friend here in case there are further questions he could help answer. Could this be a case of DPI by his ISP, or simply malware on his machine? If it were the former, what would be the legal status of the issue? ___ 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 -- Regards, Debanjan* - Lets make this world a better and more informative place* -- Regards, Debanjan* - Lets make this world a better and more informative place* ___ 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 February 12th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore Aliens invaded Tamil Nadu, left their Spacship and now it is a Toll Plaza. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IVRCL-Vijayamangalam-Toll-Plaza.JPG ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] The use of WebFonts for the Gujarati Wikisource
Hoi, I have added it to the Bugzilla bug that asks for the creation of the gu.wikisource.org and the template on Meta as well. Thanks, Gerard On 11 March 2012 15:38, Dhaval S. Vyas dsv...@gmail.com wrote: To be very honest, I didn't know anything about webfonts. But yes, you're right. It will definitely help us to have it. Unfortunately, I am sailing out of the uk in couple of hours and will be back on tuesday. Now am on mobile, but won't be using my data while in amsterdam tomorrow. So not sure whether I'll be able to update the template. Will it be ok for you to add it? I'll appreciate if this could be done. On 11 Mar 2012 12:57, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote: Hoi, I noticed on the request for the approved Gujarati Wikisource that Narayam is requested. What I do not understand is why WebFonts is missing. Particularly for a Wikisource there are many advantages of having WebFonts. I blogged about this in the last month quite regularly. - a different font may be used to indicate the age of a document - fonts for scripts that are extinct but are relevant to a project may be available eg Cuneiform - for the Sanskrit texts it may be possible to have fonts for the Brahmic script to represent the original source properly All in all, I really like to encourage you to consider WebFonts for the Gujarati Wikisource from its start. Thanks, Gerard ___ 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] Ads Injected into Wikipedia?
I'm not sure Inkfruit is even aware the DOM injection campaign is even happening. Possibly a rogue advertising agency; or perhaps the writer of the virus is using a regular ad-network's API. I'll wait for Kashyap to comment though, he may be able to identify which agency/network is running that specific campaign. On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 20:13, Debanjan Bandyopadhyay debast...@gmail.comwrote: I just saw that screenshot and remembered, even my friend said, it was by the same site, inkfruit. Some common issue?? On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 8:12 PM, Debanjan Bandyopadhyay debast...@gmail.com wrote: No, now that you mention him, even a friend of mine in Pune told me that Wikipedia had started ads, to which I dared him to show me and in fact made a bet. He failed to show me when I asked him to, so I took it as a singular even, perhaps, some sort of mistake he made. However, since other people have started seeing this, I though I'd tell you that he is not alone. I'll ask him further details about his net connection and get back to you guys on this. On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Aditya Sengupta apsengu...@gmail.comwrote: Interesting- a virus that injects ads directly into the DOM. On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 19:03, Bala Jeyaraman sodabot...@gmail.comwrote: mostprobably adware in his machine. A smiliar report in portugese wikipedia is here: http://translate.google.co.in/translate?hl=ensl=ptu=http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%25C3%25A9dia:Esplanada/geral/Spam_na_Wikipedia,_problema_%2810mar2012%29ei=TqlcT9fyMs2rrAe468GlDAsa=Xoi=translatect=resultresnum=5ved=0CE4Q7gEwBAprev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522ads%2Bnot%2Bby%2Bthis%2Bsite%2522%2Binjection%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26hs%3D6zj%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26prmd%3Dimvns On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Aditya Sengupta apsengu...@gmail.comwrote: A friend got in touch with me about this. He is currently seeing advertisements on Wikipedia pages (on all pages except the home page). Here is a link to a screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/dhKyR.jpg These advertisements were not visible to him when I asked him to check through the secure WM server. These advertisements are also not visible to him on any other web page. To the bottom right of each ad, there is some text that says, ads not by this site. I've taken a quick look through the page source he forwarded, nothing looks untoward. His right-click menu does not appear when he right-clicks on the ad. He is based out of Mumbai and ISP is Tata Teleservices Maharashtra Ltd. His IP address is 114.143.88.193 (or was, while he accessed this page; I've since had him change his IP address since I'm sharing this one). I'm not sure if this issue is restricted to Mumbai; since the IP address shows up in Pune when I try to geolocate it (though I understand this is fairly common). The link he is directed to when he clicks the ad is this: http://www.inkfruit.com/combo-landing?utm_source=CMP1002Comboutm_medium=CPMutm_content=combobannerutm_campaign=Combo. I'm adding this here and copying the founder of Inkfruit since the campaign data in the URL parameters may help identify the problem (also, I'm not sure if Inkfruit is aware of this campaign). I've copied my friend here in case there are further questions he could help answer. Could this be a case of DPI by his ISP, or simply malware on his machine? If it were the former, what would be the legal status of the issue? ___ 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 -- Regards, Debanjan* - Lets make this world a better and more informative place* -- Regards, Debanjan* - Lets make this world a better and more informative place* ___ 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] The use of WebFonts for the Gujarati Wikisource
You're a legend! :) On 11 Mar 2012 14:53, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote: Hoi, I have added it to the Bugzilla bug that asks for the creation of the gu.wikisource.org and the template on Meta as well. Thanks, Gerard On 11 March 2012 15:38, Dhaval S. Vyas dsv...@gmail.com wrote: To be very honest, I didn't know anything about webfonts. But yes, you're right. It will definitely help us to have it. Unfortunately, I am sailing out of the uk in couple of hours and will be back on tuesday. Now am on mobile, but won't be using my data while in amsterdam tomorrow. So not sure whether I'll be able to update the template. Will it be ok for you to add it? I'll appreciate if this could be done. On 11 Mar 2012 12:57, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote: Hoi, I noticed on the request for the approved Gujarati Wikisource that Narayam is requested. What I do not understand is why WebFonts is missing. Particularly for a Wikisource there are many advantages of having WebFonts. I blogged about this in the last month quite regularly. - a different font may be used to indicate the age of a document - fonts for scripts that are extinct but are relevant to a project may be available eg Cuneiform - for the Sanskrit texts it may be possible to have fonts for the Brahmic script to represent the original source properly All in all, I really like to encourage you to consider WebFonts for the Gujarati Wikisource from its start. Thanks, Gerard ___ 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 ___ 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] The use of WebFonts for the Gujarati Wikisource
Thanks a lot Gerard, I was just about to post a comment under the same bug :) But you took care of it. Thanks. :) On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 8:33 PM, Dhaval S. Vyas dsv...@gmail.com wrote: You're a legend! :) On 11 Mar 2012 14:53, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote: Hoi, I have added it to the Bugzilla bug that asks for the creation of the gu.wikisource.org and the template on Meta as well. Thanks, Gerard On 11 March 2012 15:38, Dhaval S. Vyas dsv...@gmail.com wrote: To be very honest, I didn't know anything about webfonts. But yes, you're right. It will definitely help us to have it. Unfortunately, I am sailing out of the uk in couple of hours and will be back on tuesday. Now am on mobile, but won't be using my data while in amsterdam tomorrow. So not sure whether I'll be able to update the template. Will it be ok for you to add it? I'll appreciate if this could be done. On 11 Mar 2012 12:57, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote: Hoi, I noticed on the request for the approved Gujarati Wikisource that Narayam is requested. What I do not understand is why WebFonts is missing. Particularly for a Wikisource there are many advantages of having WebFonts. I blogged about this in the last month quite regularly. - a different font may be used to indicate the age of a document - fonts for scripts that are extinct but are relevant to a project may be available eg Cuneiform - for the Sanskrit texts it may be possible to have fonts for the Brahmic script to represent the original source properly All in all, I really like to encourage you to consider WebFonts for the Gujarati Wikisource from its start. Thanks, Gerard ___ 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 ___ 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 -- Thanks Arnav (ricku). (User:Rangilo_Gujarati) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rangilo_Gujarati ___ 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] Ads Injected into Wikipedia?
Could be, but it wouldn't hurt to do a scan of your system and find out if anything is wrong with it. On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 8:25 PM, Debanjan Bandyopadhyay debast...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not the techie here, but I don't think its a malware on a system per se. Reason being being, two different people have experienced it, same ad also from different IP's, different locations though. On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 8:20 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Definitely Adware/Malware/Spyware/etc. Notice in the Screenshot, it says Ads Not By This Site. It should've been a clue. Do scan your system with a good antivirus [Free or paid doesn't matter]. If your system is infected by anything, your data might be at risk. --Cheers, On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 8:13 PM, Debanjan Bandyopadhyay debast...@gmail.com wrote: I just saw that screenshot and remembered, even my friend said, it was by the same site, inkfruit. Some common issue?? On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 8:12 PM, Debanjan Bandyopadhyay debast...@gmail.com wrote: No, now that you mention him, even a friend of mine in Pune told me that Wikipedia had started ads, to which I dared him to show me and in fact made a bet. He failed to show me when I asked him to, so I took it as a singular even, perhaps, some sort of mistake he made. However, since other people have started seeing this, I though I'd tell you that he is not alone. I'll ask him further details about his net connection and get back to you guys on this. On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Aditya Sengupta apsengu...@gmail.comwrote: Interesting- a virus that injects ads directly into the DOM. On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 19:03, Bala Jeyaraman sodabot...@gmail.comwrote: mostprobably adware in his machine. A smiliar report in portugese wikipedia is here: http://translate.google.co.in/translate?hl=ensl=ptu=http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%25C3%25A9dia:Esplanada/geral/Spam_na_Wikipedia,_problema_%2810mar2012%29ei=TqlcT9fyMs2rrAe468GlDAsa=Xoi=translatect=resultresnum=5ved=0CE4Q7gEwBAprev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522ads%2Bnot%2Bby%2Bthis%2Bsite%2522%2Binjection%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26hs%3D6zj%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26prmd%3Dimvns On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Aditya Sengupta apsengu...@gmail.com wrote: A friend got in touch with me about this. He is currently seeing advertisements on Wikipedia pages (on all pages except the home page). Here is a link to a screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/dhKyR.jpg These advertisements were not visible to him when I asked him to check through the secure WM server. These advertisements are also not visible to him on any other web page. To the bottom right of each ad, there is some text that says, ads not by this site. I've taken a quick look through the page source he forwarded, nothing looks untoward. His right-click menu does not appear when he right-clicks on the ad. He is based out of Mumbai and ISP is Tata Teleservices Maharashtra Ltd. His IP address is 114.143.88.193 (or was, while he accessed this page; I've since had him change his IP address since I'm sharing this one). I'm not sure if this issue is restricted to Mumbai; since the IP address shows up in Pune when I try to geolocate it (though I understand this is fairly common). The link he is directed to when he clicks the ad is this: http://www.inkfruit.com/combo-landing?utm_source=CMP1002Comboutm_medium=CPMutm_content=combobannerutm_campaign=Combo. I'm adding this here and copying the founder of Inkfruit since the campaign data in the URL parameters may help identify the problem (also, I'm not sure if Inkfruit is aware of this campaign). I've copied my friend here in case there are further questions he could help answer. Could this be a case of DPI by his ISP, or simply malware on his machine? If it were the former, what would be the legal status of the issue? ___ 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 -- Regards, Debanjan* - Lets make this world a better and more informative place* -- Regards, Debanjan* - Lets make this world a better and more informative place* ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To
[Wikimediaindia-l] write articles about Teylers Museum in your language, get prizes
The Teylers Museum in Netherlands holds a writing competition: You write articles related to the museum in your language, and if there are many of them and they are good, you get prizes. Details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Teylers/Multilingual_Challenge Actually, it started in January and i only noticed it now, but there's still time until May, and it's a good opportunity to improve the quality, the diversity and the article count of the Wikipedia in the languages of India, so try it. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore ___ 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] Implementation of QR Pedia in India
I've created a meta page for this: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Rsrikanth05/QR_Pedia Please feel free to work on it. On Wednesday, March 7, 2012, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you Naveen, I have already sent across first bit of correspondence to them. On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 1:04 AM, Naveen Francis navee...@wikimedia.in wrote: Good idea Srikanth. I had similar thoughts after Arun's qrpedia talk in Bangalore meetup and seeing the following photo ( http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ea/Wikip%C3%A9dia_dans_Rennes_-_Jean_Janvier_-_vue_proche.jpg) Om,Radhakrishna,Anoopan has offered help in Kannada,Telugu and Malayalam. We need to talk to BMRCL officials and need try similar things across India. On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan rsrikant...@gmail.com wrote: Hiya all. This is a quick summary of one of my silliest ideas. Thanks to my Wiki-friend PhantomSteve, and real life buddy @aagan86 [from Twitter] who got me interested in QR codes. I kept this a secret, telling it partly to Pradeep Mohandas, and Nitika Tandon. [SBC-YPR knew it the whole time]. I had contacted Roger Bamkin of the UK Chapter, and he connected me with Terence Eden. As you all know, the two of them created QR Pedia together. Sent on 28-12-11 to Roger Bamkin. Hi, I'm Srikanth, from India, known on Wiki and Twitter as Rsrikanth05. I've been on the English Wikipedia from June '05 and I have a little over 10,000 edits. I've been editing since I was 13. I got really interested in QR Codes a while back, and I tried using one to promote a WikiMeetup in Coimbatore. I stumbled across QR Pedia on Google, and thought I'd get in touch with you. I thought of this crazy idea to promote learning History and Geography via Wikipedia in India, using QR Codes. Seeing that a VAST majority of kids today roam around with BlackBerrys, iPhones, et al, I thought this would be a good opportunity. I'm a mega transport enthusiast, so I thought I'd write to the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited, who operate the Bangalore Metro. I chose BMRCL, because: 1 Out of the three Metro systems in the country, it is the most approachable. 2 Out of the various agencies in Bangalore and it's parent state of Karnataka, again it is the most approachable and tech savvy. My plan is to convince the BMRCL about providing QR codes to the various localities and landmarks along the route of the first track. Ideas in my brain are: 1 Each station has multiple exits, each of those can be linked to an article. Eg: At MG Road station, there is an exit towards Commercial Street, one towards Brigade Road, and one towards the Parade Ground. The Brigade Road exit can have a QR code pointing to Brigade Road, while the Comm. St, one can have one pointing to it's article. 2 Where the board says the station name, place a Code for the article of that area. 3 Presently, two stations are named after people: Mahatama Gandhi and Swami Vivekananda. More are in the pipeline, once the construction is completed. We could link the Code to the article on that person. I agree that articles should be in all possible languages and should be of high quality with good media. I am working on this, hoping the community will join me. This came in response: I don't think its silly at all. What can we do to help you? Most of our best successes have been silly ideas (who would think you could allow everyone to edit a good source of information?) We have a following of people who like writing articles and the Wikimedia UK board are keen on this idea. (We were also in the Wikimedia Foundation annual report) We can show you how we ran the Derby project http://midea.nmc.org/2011/12/one-small-museum-making-a-big-impact-an-interview-with-roger-bamkin/ One of our most repected editors in the UK is 13 now! Do you have some sources that we could write these articles from? You may be able to convince the bus company by doing one stop? Very interested in helping you, the bus passemgers etc and of course Wikipedia regards Roger Further: Srikanth Obviously Ive never tried to sell this idea to a bu -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on February 12th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore Aliens invaded Tamil Nadu, left their Spacship and now it is a Toll Plaza. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IVRCL-Vijayamangalam-Toll-Plaza.JPG -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on February 12th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore Aliens invaded Tamil Nadu, left their Spacship and now it is a Toll Plaza. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IVRCL-Vijayamangalam-Toll-Plaza.JPG ___ 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] RFC over hindi wiki bureaucrat actions
There is a draft solution proposed, and Indic community is requested to join the discussion. Regards, Jyothis. http://www.Jyothis.net [[User:Jyothis]] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jyothis Camerocks - Rock your digital world! https://www.camerocks.com/ completion date = (start date + ((estimated effort x 3.1415926) / resources) + ((total coffee breaks x 0.25) / 24)) + Effort in meetings On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 1:37 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: I've mentioned it. I've had a couple of run ins with it, but less as I ultimately created only one article when it was there. Other times, I just gave up,. On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 11:43 AM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.comwrote: On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 4:25 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you very much for bringing this up Hyothis. Bala and I [Tamil guys] had discussed this back in December. Editing the Hindi Wikipedia was slight pain, because someone seemed to have set up filters such that nothing new could be added easily. Are new pages stopped by the edit filter? Could you add to the RFC the problems you experienced? http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Userrights_on_hi.wiki -- John Vandenberg ___ 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 February 12th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore Aliens invaded Tamil Nadu, left their Spacship and now it is a Toll Plaza. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IVRCL-Vijayamangalam-Toll-Plaza.JPG ___ 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] Huggle Con 1 and 2
Heya, for those interested, Voting is on for the date and time of the next Huggle Con *Hello, I just send out the invitations for our poll for the next HuggleCon. ( http://www.doodle.com/du7ke2emtc99xv7e) For those devs, testers and helpers who haven't got it: Please send me your e-mail-adress to mmovc...@wikipedia.de. I will send you a private invitation link as soon as I read your email. -- Yours sincerely, Michael Movchin (mmovchin) Volunteer Huggle core developer, conference coordinator and Wikipedia author * For logs of the first one: *Hello, I just uploaded and published the logs of the 1st HuggleCon that was on 4th March, 2012 18:00 UTC. You can view it here: http://toolserver.org/~mmovchin/hugglecon/ -- Yours sincerely, Michael Movchin (mmovchin) Volunteer Huggle core developer, conference coordinator and Wikipedia author * -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on February 12th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore Aliens invaded Tamil Nadu, left their Spacship and now it is a Toll Plaza. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IVRCL-Vijayamangalam-Toll-Plaza.JPG ___ 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
