[Wikimediaindia-l] Nobel Prize edit athon
This can be done in India too. -- Forwarded message -- From: Jon Harald Søby jhs...@gmail.com Date: 09-Oct-2014 2:38 am Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Nobel Peace Prize announcement and editathon To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org Cc: Hi, all! The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize will be announced this Friday, and in cooperation with Wikimedia Norge, the Nobel Peace Center https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Peace_Center has invited Wikipedians from the Norwegian Wikipedia community to an editathon to improve the article about the winner(s?) as soon as possible. We'll be sitting practically in the next room from where the announcement is made, updating relevant articles as fast as we can. For this to be a global event, I'd like to invite anyone who's interested to join us in the IRC channel #wikipedia-nobel irc://freenode/#wikipedia-nobel, where we'll be talking and coordinating. We'll also try to livetweet the event using the hashtag #wikinobel https://twitter.com/hashtag/wikinobel, probably mainly from the account @WikimediaNorge https://twitter.com/WikimediaNorge. The press conference will be start around 10:30 Norwegian time, which is *08:30 UTC*, like I said on *Friday, 10th of October*. Please join us, and help spread this invitation to your community. -- mvh Jon Harald Søby http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jon_Harald_S%C3%B8by ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ 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] default time zones for projects in languages of India
Hi, Some Wikimedia projects in languages of India have Indian time defined as the default time zone. Some don't. For precise info see: http://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=InitialiseSettings.php Search that file for wgLocaltimezone. You'll see that some projects have Asia/Kolkata as the timezone, for example guwiki (Gujarati Wikipedia), but some don't appear at all, which means that their default timezone is UTC. So for example if one goes to recent changes on the Assamese Wikisource, then the times will show by default in IST, but on Assamese Wikipedia it will be UTC. I guess that at least some of the projects will want to switch to the timezone of India. It's easy to do - a line for each project needs to be added for each site, but this should come in as requests from each site's community. If you have a few minutes, please check whether your favorite Wikimedia uses the appropriate default time zone. If it doesn't, please bring this up for community discussion, and if the community agrees, please request to change it in Bugzilla (or just submit a patch directly to Gerrit). If you need any technical explanation (for example, if you have no idea how to work with Bugzilla and Gerrit), I am available for questions. Thank you! -- 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] Indian women in science edit-a-thon
Dear Shyamal, Awesome! Congrats to the organizers for creating a useful coordination page! I have signed up for the online edit-a-thon and I am looking forward to create a few articles during the next few days. I will also be around to help with categorization of the results. I can also volunteer to bring them to Wikidata. -Netha On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Shyamal L. lshya...@gmail.com wrote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/Ada_Lovelace_Edit-a-thon_2014 The central coordination page is now up. The contact person is Dr Harini Barath - har...@indiabioscience.org. The in-person meetups are on the 11th at the Centre for Ecological Sciences (Biological Sciences building), Indian Institute of Science; 13th at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, GKVK campus; 14th at the Urban Solace (restaurant) at Ulsoor. I am providing some editing support on the 11th and hopefully some of you can be there on the other two days, if not do pitch in remotely and help the editors or improving the target articles (hopefully without causing edit conflicts and grief to many potentially long-term editors). best wishes Shyamal On Wednesday, October 1, 2014, Netha Hussain nethahuss...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Shyamal, Great initiative! The category [1] for Indian women scientists was created two years back, during the Ada Lovelace Day edit-a-thon in October 2012. We have more than 40 Indian women scientists included in this category now, thanks to the many women-centered edit-a-thons that attract editors' attention to this topic. I hope to see more articles added to this category after the edit-a-thon this year! I was also wondering if there was a project/event page on Wikipedia for this edit-a-thon. I find it slightly off-putting to have to fill up a private google form [2] to be able to participate in a public edit-a-thon. It is also not clear to me if the event is invite-only. I am holding back from joining the event until the event allows me to participate by signing up on a Wikimedia page. User: Fluentflux happens to be a new user who joined Wikipedia today. I guess they would need some on-wiki help in organizing the event, in which case I am happy to pitch in after October 9. [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Indian_women_scientists [2] https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1l5NM7WziXQ8pqtx4WoD_hkCDXVbxfmVQWeLSfkWcOPA/viewform On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 5:59 PM, Parul sri.pa...@gmail.com wrote: I agree with Vishnu. I also participated in that edit-a-thon and it went fine. Additionally, I also feel that with festivals around the corner this is a little short notice and fewer days to be able to participate. On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 5:22 PM, Vishnu visdav...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Shyamal, Last year we did Lilavati's Daughters Edit-a-thon on notable Indian Women Scientists [1]. I am sure the users registered there would be interested to take part in this too. You could probably alert the event organizers about this if you know them. Lilavati's Daughters Edit-a-thon received a better response from Indic Wikimedians and I am sure they would also be interested to take part in this. Best, Vishnu [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Lilavati%27s_Daughters_Edit-a-thon On Wednesday 01 October 2014 04:28 PM, Shyamal L. wrote: Please note this upcoming event - http://www.indiabioscience.org/content/women-science-wiki-edit-thon You can also contact the organizers via en:User:Fluentflux or t...@indiabioscience.org best wishes Shyamal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Shyamal ___ 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! Parul # 80951 15924 My Professional Profile My 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 -- Netha Hussain Student of Medicine and Surgery Govt. Medical College, Kozhikode Blogs : nethahussain.blogspot.com swethaambari.wordpress.com ___ 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 -- Netha Hussain Student of Medicine and Surgery Govt. Medical College,
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] default time zones for projects in languages of India
Hi, Apart from this, the date formats also needs to be standardised. In India, we use dd/mm/yy as default. Whereas most editors outside India (but editing Indian languages wiki) use mm/dd/yy format. This cause huge confusions. eg. 09/10/14 is 09 Oct 14 or 10 Sep 14. A simpler and better way could be to standardise the display on the pages to dd-mmm- date formats and hh:mm:ss am/pm local timezone. This could be same for any IP based editing but at the same time, logged in users should have their own preferences in their settings. Not sure how much this is already implemented. If not done earlier, could be taken up for implementation. Regards -Sudhanwa On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 3:55 PM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: Hi, Some Wikimedia projects in languages of India have Indian time defined as the default time zone. Some don't. For precise info see: http://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=InitialiseSettings.php Search that file for wgLocaltimezone. You'll see that some projects have Asia/Kolkata as the timezone, for example guwiki (Gujarati Wikipedia), but some don't appear at all, which means that their default timezone is UTC. So for example if one goes to recent changes on the Assamese Wikisource, then the times will show by default in IST, but on Assamese Wikipedia it will be UTC. I guess that at least some of the projects will want to switch to the timezone of India. It's easy to do - a line for each project needs to be added for each site, but this should come in as requests from each site's community. If you have a few minutes, please check whether your favorite Wikimedia uses the appropriate default time zone. If it doesn't, please bring this up for community discussion, and if the community agrees, please request to change it in Bugzilla (or just submit a patch directly to Gerrit). If you need any technical explanation (for example, if you have no idea how to work with Bugzilla and Gerrit), I am available for questions. Thank you! -- 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 -- ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~! 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] default time zones for projects in languages of India
Sudhanwa, while I don't know about Indian language projects, I do know that on the English Wikipedia, we have (or atleast used to) a standard date format of -MM-DD. This is a reversed order which I assume would be relatively easy to follow since even machines understand it. Cheerio. On 09-Oct-2014 11:24 pm, Sudhanwa Jogalekar sudhanwa@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Apart from this, the date formats also needs to be standardised. In India, we use dd/mm/yy as default. Whereas most editors outside India (but editing Indian languages wiki) use mm/dd/yy format. This cause huge confusions. eg. 09/10/14 is 09 Oct 14 or 10 Sep 14. A simpler and better way could be to standardise the display on the pages to dd-mmm- date formats and hh:mm:ss am/pm local timezone. This could be same for any IP based editing but at the same time, logged in users should have their own preferences in their settings. Not sure how much this is already implemented. If not done earlier, could be taken up for implementation. Regards -Sudhanwa On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 3:55 PM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: Hi, Some Wikimedia projects in languages of India have Indian time defined as the default time zone. Some don't. For precise info see: http://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=InitialiseSettings.php Search that file for wgLocaltimezone. You'll see that some projects have Asia/Kolkata as the timezone, for example guwiki (Gujarati Wikipedia), but some don't appear at all, which means that their default timezone is UTC. So for example if one goes to recent changes on the Assamese Wikisource, then the times will show by default in IST, but on Assamese Wikipedia it will be UTC. I guess that at least some of the projects will want to switch to the timezone of India. It's easy to do - a line for each project needs to be added for each site, but this should come in as requests from each site's community. If you have a few minutes, please check whether your favorite Wikimedia uses the appropriate default time zone. If it doesn't, please bring this up for community discussion, and if the community agrees, please request to change it in Bugzilla (or just submit a patch directly to Gerrit). If you need any technical explanation (for example, if you have no idea how to work with Bugzilla and Gerrit), I am available for questions. Thank you! -- 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 -- ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~! 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 ___ 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] default time zones for projects in languages of India
Oh, thanks for bringing that up. The Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) has information about date formats for different languages and countries. MediaWiki already uses the CLDR for some information, and can possibly use it for date formats as well. I'll pass this on to the engineers. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore 2014-10-09 20:54 GMT+03:00 Sudhanwa Jogalekar sudhanwa@gmail.com: Hi, Apart from this, the date formats also needs to be standardised. In India, we use dd/mm/yy as default. Whereas most editors outside India (but editing Indian languages wiki) use mm/dd/yy format. This cause huge confusions. eg. 09/10/14 is 09 Oct 14 or 10 Sep 14. A simpler and better way could be to standardise the display on the pages to dd-mmm- date formats and hh:mm:ss am/pm local timezone. This could be same for any IP based editing but at the same time, logged in users should have their own preferences in their settings. Not sure how much this is already implemented. If not done earlier, could be taken up for implementation. Regards -Sudhanwa On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 3:55 PM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: Hi, Some Wikimedia projects in languages of India have Indian time defined as the default time zone. Some don't. For precise info see: http://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=InitialiseSettings.php Search that file for wgLocaltimezone. You'll see that some projects have Asia/Kolkata as the timezone, for example guwiki (Gujarati Wikipedia), but some don't appear at all, which means that their default timezone is UTC. So for example if one goes to recent changes on the Assamese Wikisource, then the times will show by default in IST, but on Assamese Wikipedia it will be UTC. I guess that at least some of the projects will want to switch to the timezone of India. It's easy to do - a line for each project needs to be added for each site, but this should come in as requests from each site's community. If you have a few minutes, please check whether your favorite Wikimedia uses the appropriate default time zone. If it doesn't, please bring this up for community discussion, and if the community agrees, please request to change it in Bugzilla (or just submit a patch directly to Gerrit). If you need any technical explanation (for example, if you have no idea how to work with Bugzilla and Gerrit), I am available for questions. Thank you! -- 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 -- ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~! 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 ___ 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] default time zones for projects in languages of India
+1 Srikanth Ramakrishnan The ISO 8601 format https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 for date too corresponds to the same above (-MM-DD) format. Real advantages of this format are (1) Non-ambiguity, (2) Correct sort order even when data is processed as pure text and (3) international consistency Certainly, this is one of the subset of CLDR too. I suggest all Wikimedia projects should have this format as default, but again, customizable per user preferences. -Viswam On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 11:30 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan rsrikant...@gmail.com wrote: Sudhanwa, while I don't know about Indian language projects, I do know that on the English Wikipedia, we have (or atleast used to) a standard date format of -MM-DD. This is a reversed order which I assume would be relatively easy to follow since even machines understand it. Cheerio. On 09-Oct-2014 11:24 pm, Sudhanwa Jogalekar sudhanwa@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Apart from this, the date formats also needs to be standardised. In India, we use dd/mm/yy as default. Whereas most editors outside India (but editing Indian languages wiki) use mm/dd/yy format. This cause huge confusions. eg. 09/10/14 is 09 Oct 14 or 10 Sep 14. A simpler and better way could be to standardise the display on the pages to dd-mmm- date formats and hh:mm:ss am/pm local timezone. This could be same for any IP based editing but at the same time, logged in users should have their own preferences in their settings. Not sure how much this is already implemented. If not done earlier, could be taken up for implementation. Regards -Sudhanwa On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 3:55 PM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: Hi, Some Wikimedia projects in languages of India have Indian time defined as the default time zone. Some don't. For precise info see: http://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=InitialiseSettings.php Search that file for wgLocaltimezone. You'll see that some projects have Asia/Kolkata as the timezone, for example guwiki (Gujarati Wikipedia), but some don't appear at all, which means that their default timezone is UTC. So for example if one goes to recent changes on the Assamese Wikisource, then the times will show by default in IST, but on Assamese Wikipedia it will be UTC. I guess that at least some of the projects will want to switch to the timezone of India. It's easy to do - a line for each project needs to be added for each site, but this should come in as requests from each site's community. If you have a few minutes, please check whether your favorite Wikimedia uses the appropriate default time zone. If it doesn't, please bring this up for community discussion, and if the community agrees, please request to change it in Bugzilla (or just submit a patch directly to Gerrit). If you need any technical explanation (for example, if you have no idea how to work with Bugzilla and Gerrit), I am available for questions. Thank you! -- 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 -- ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~! 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 ___ 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
