[Wikimediaindia-l] Support for your scripts

2009-11-02 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I have spend a little bit of time getting the characters in order for the Gujarati and the Sinhala language. I have asked one of the Usability Initiative developers if he could enter them in the advanced toolbar. He did, and he asked me to verify the result.. Please do that for me..

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Regarding Pending tasks for Wikimedia India

2009-12-02 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, There are many ways in which you can make a difference. One way is to offer the hosting of MediaWiki to your clients. As you may know, MediaWiki is localised in many languages and languages like Malayam and Telugu are actively supported. When you find that the localisation is not good

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Role of english languge in economics and economic growth Share

2009-12-02 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, When you adopt English as an important language for yourself, you study it typically as a second language. Even when you get the best education and you achieve a high level of proficiency, you will still respond better to messages in your mother tongue in times of stress. It has also been

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Academy Bangalore 1

2010-01-23 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, One other issue that may be considered is the localisation of the Sanskrit language.. Currently 27.27% of the MediaWiki messages are localised and 97.65% of the most used messages are localised. Particularly the most used messages are important because they are the ones that readers and

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] A suggestion I have from the Urdu Wikipedia

2010-02-18 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Yes, you do localisation at translatewiki ... :) Thanks, GerardM On 18 February 2010 18:09, Srikanth Ramakrishnan rsrikant...@gmail.comwrote: Umm.. Do we go to translatewiki to do this? I'd like to start off with Hindi ... On 18 February 2010 19:03, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] A suggestion I have from the Urdu Wikipedia

2010-02-18 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I am not aware that it does ... just finish these messages and we will find out ... only 24 messages, we can ask the developer for advice :) Thanks, GerardM On 18 February 2010 18:44, Praveen Prakash me.prav...@gmail.com wrote: Gerard Meijssen wrote: Hoi, Yes, you do localisation

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Coordinating Google translation kit articles

2010-02-22 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, While there may be reasons to wait for Google, there is nothing stopping you to use this time to localise for your language ... As you may have read on my blog, the localisation for mobile MediaWiki is now also complete for Bangla, for Telugu there are four messages left to do. Thanks

[Wikimediaindia-l] Progress

2010-02-28 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, After the completion of the Urdu, Malayalam and Bengali mobile interface for Wikipedia, the Telugu localisation has now also been completed as well :) On the Dutch Wikipedia we are experimenting with a special mobile main page .. When people arrive on their mobile it may look good ..

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Progress

2010-02-28 Thread Gerard Meijssen
for it. Prioritizing this bug/task will make the mobile version of wikis much popular. Shiju On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 9:55 PM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote: Hoi, That was the wrong url .. http://nl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portaal:Hoofdpagina_%28mobiel%29 Thanks, Gerard

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Progress

2010-02-28 Thread Gerard Meijssen
rsrikant...@gmail.com wrote: Tell me exactly, how I go about translating messages on TranslateWiki, I have translator rights, but just don't know how to use it. On 28 February 2010 22:13, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.comwrote: Hoi, I completely agree. When the localisation

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] There is a Malayalam mobile Wikipedia homepage

2010-03-04 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Maintaining a list of what languages have problems on spefic types of mobile hardware makes sense.. And Meta is as reasonable place as any. Thanks, GerardM On 4 March 2010 22:18, Casey Brown li...@caseybrown.org wrote: On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Steward election 2010

2010-03-08 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Congratulations :) Thanks, GerardM On 9 March 2010 08:17, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, As all of you are aware, the steward elections ( http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/elections_2010) got over on Februray. Many of you might have cast your votes

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indian language Wikipedias - Statistical report - 2010 February

2010-03-12 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I have responded on my blog... If you ask me, it is great to publish this on this list. It is imho even better to post this on a blog. An analysis can always follow. Thanks, GerardM http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2010/03/languages-of-indian-subcontinent.html On 12 March 2010

[Wikimediaindia-l] Input methods for mobile phones

2010-03-18 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I blogged about an issue that Bellayet introduced me to. He has to enter in latin script data to trigger the search box on the http://be.m.wikipedia.org.. As I can imagine that this is also an issue for other languages of the Indian subcontinent, I would like you to consider providing us with

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Input methods for mobile phones

2010-03-18 Thread Gerard Meijssen
#Malayalam_transliteration_Script Shiju On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote: Hoi, I blogged about an issue that Bellayet introduced me to. He has to enter in latin script data to trigger the search box on the http://be.m.wikipedia.org .. As I can imagine

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Input methods for mobile phones

2010-03-18 Thread Gerard Meijssen
://ml.m.wikipedia.org/). Currently there is no way to input malayalam text there and navigate to a particular article. Shiju On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 9:06 PM, Praveen Prakash me.prav...@gmail.comwrote: Gerard Meijssen wrote: Hoi, There is a difference between a transliteration script

[Wikimediaindia-l] The imminent Usability improvements

2010-03-24 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, After a long time of development, the software that brings much improved usability is scheduled to go live around the end of April, the beginning of May. This will mark a big change in the MediaWiki software. I expect that as a consequence the composition of the most used messages will

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Integration with OpenStreetMap

2010-03-28 Thread Gerard Meijssen
does localisation have with OSM? Unless OSM has to be localised? On 28 March 2010 18:46, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote: Hoi, I have been so bold to write about getting information out about the villages, towns and cities of India. There are several problems that I see

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Integration with OpenStreetMap

2010-03-30 Thread Gerard Meijssen
done by GaneshK and Tinucherian. :D Translation is being done by others.. On 28 March 2010 19:32, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote: Hoi, Localisation is a project where there is a lot to win for the usability of the Indian Wikipedias.. in my opinion, this is something that in my

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indian DYK (trivia) from Wikipedia on twitter.

2010-08-07 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Submit the text using Twitterfeed. It will automatically include a bit.ly url at the end. I use it when I post my blog to include a tweet. Thanks, GerardM PS Nice idea :) On 7 August 2010 11:07, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I am planning to start a twitter

[Wikimediaindia-l] A request for an Angika Wikipedia

2010-08-23 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I blogged about the process of getting a new Wikipedia for the Angika language.. Thanks, GerardM http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2010/08/angika-language-from-india-supported-at.html ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list

[Wikimediaindia-l] Happy Janmashtami

2010-09-02 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, DYK, there are only three pictures that I can find in Commons about the Janmashtami festival. The BBC has great pictures about it. I am sure that many of you took pictures either today, tomorrow or last year... maybe you have really old pictures of the festival... It would be good to have

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Newsletter?

2010-09-03 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I use Ubuntu and I have no problem reading PDF. There are many programs that can help there. Also with GMAIL I can read PDFs. Thanks, GerardM On 3 September 2010 18:33, Hari Prasad Nadig hpna...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 7:10 PM, Gautam John

[Wikimediaindia-l] How to support India

2010-09-15 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Eugene Kim has written a first blog in a series of four. In it he writes about choices that may have to be made in order to support India. http://blueoxen.com/blog/2010/09/wikimedia-what-is-it-where-is-it-headed/ I have replied to what he has to say; there is in my opinion no need to make a

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Tamil Wikipedia crosses the 25, 000 article mark

2010-10-06 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Congratulations. At translatewiki.net there is a steady stream of localisations being done for the Tamil language. The result is improved usability in both the Tamil Wikipedia and Commons. Together with the growing number of articles the Tamil projects are likely to get more visitors and

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] mobile editing reading of Wikipedia

2010-10-26 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I doubt very much that Android does not support Unicode. It may not have the fonts that you need. Thanks, GerardM On 26 October 2010 15:57, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.org wrote: On 26 October 2010 11:30, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com wrote: Have you used MTS free

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] mobile editing reading of Wikipedia

2010-10-26 Thread Gerard Meijssen
LOUDLY and PUBLICLY and together that not supporting fonts for Indic languages is not acceptable in India (and outside of India grin ). Thanks, GerardM On 26 October 2010 16:05, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.org wrote: On 26 October 2010 19:32, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Hindustan Times on yesterday's Mumbai event

2010-11-01 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I really like the opening sentence of the interview. I have taken the opportunity to use it for a blog post. My point is really that there is a massive need for great pictures about India.Touristy photos as well as historic pictures ... What I propose is to collaborate with tourist

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] mobile editing reading of Wikipedia

2010-11-01 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi Mani, I am now subscribed on a gentlemen on twitter that expressed really interesting and imho relevant observations about telephony and web sites in India. http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2010/10/about-foss-and-telephony-in-india.html The remarks are quite strong and are not limited to

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia.in being spammed

2010-11-08 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, When you look at what software is installed, it is clear that much of the functionality that makes MediaWiki stand out is not there. Two things that became immediately apparent when I created a profile is that it is not connected to SUL. The interwiki links are not configured and it is not

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Tamil Wiktionary now Top 10 globally

2010-11-15 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, The Dutch Wikipedia is currently the number 10 in traffic. With only som 20 million people speaking the language there is plenty of scope for Indian languages to do better. Wishing them to do better makes no difference. So here are a few things that will make a difference: - Make sure

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Contribute campaign

2010-11-23 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, The best proof that Hindi is not doing well comparatively is that the Fundraiser messages has been localised in Malayalam and nothing has been done for the Hindi messages. As proof of the pudding is in the eating, it is the south of India where the Wikimedia movement is most vibrant. Given

[Wikimediaindia-l] You will love Erik Zachte for this :)

2010-11-23 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I just learned that Erik has created a special version of the traffic statistics for India. http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN_India/TablesPageViewsMonthly.htm When I look at the numbers, I do not understand why Malayalam is doing so poorly. It is not that it has a limited number of viewers, it

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] You will love Erik Zachte for this :)

2010-11-24 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Including English on the page for India only makes sense when the traffic is the traffic generated for the English Wikipedia in India. When the other languages have to compete with the world wide audience, the information is not really relevant. Thanks, GerardM On 24 November 2010

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Danese Cooper at FOSS.in , Bangalore Dec 15

2010-12-13 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I would love to be there but i won't. Is there any chance of seeing the presentation somewhere once it is given ?? Thanks, GerardM On 13 December 2010 07:55, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.comwrote: Danese Cooper, CTO, Wikimedia Foundation will be delievering the key note at

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India chapter

2011-02-01 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Enabling the use of images on Commons is just a small configuration away. I am sure and know that there are competent people who can help you with that. Thanks, GerardM On 1 February 2011 07:59, BalaSundaraRaman sundarbe...@yahoo.com wrote: Thank you, Sue. Once the technical issue

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikimediaIndia-l list description

2011-02-01 Thread Gerard Meijssen
not related to a specific Indian language Wikimedia project. But if the intention is to include the widest possible group of people why not say so explicitly? Achal. *Gerard Meijssen* gerard.meijssen at gmail.com mailto:wikimediaindia-l%40lists.wikimedia.orgwikimediaindia-l

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikimediaIndia-l list description

2011-02-01 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I think that is a good name. Thanks, GerardM On 1 February 2011 19:14, Achal Prabhala aprabh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Hari, others, thanks for the clarification - what about Shiju's suggestion - Wikimedia India discussion list? Cheers, Achal

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Bangalore Photowalk, Bangalore loves Wikipedia #2

2011-02-07 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I love this event and the notion that it can be replicated in India.. Please let us know where the pictures can be found on Commons. http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2011/02/wikipedia-loves-bangalore-and-momuments.html Thanks, GerardM On 7 February 2011 11:09, Hari Prasad Nadig

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] :The Hindu : Konkani Wikipedia bogged down by multiple scripts

2011-02-08 Thread Gerard Meijssen
, BalaSundaraRaman sundarbe...@yahoo.com wrote: My guess is that it is 100% possible, Gerard. I proposed doing this for Konkani, Kashmiri, and if at all acceptable, for Punjabi. - Sundar Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android -- * From: * Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Moderation policy on WikimediaIndia-l

2011-02-13 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, As someone who is interested in how India and its projects are doing, the India mailing list is a treasure to me. I am afraid that the current type of bickering will have people move away, first from the mailing list and potentially away from our projects. The objective of both this list and

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] unified log-in not happening in hindi wikipedia for some reason

2011-02-14 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, When you are new to a Wikimedia project, you have to log in for a first time and accept cookies for that site. When you do, the user you just created will be included into your SUL profile. When it did not, you can add a new profile manually into your SUL profile. When your new profile is

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-del] Indian academicians on Wikipedia?

2011-02-17 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Ehm, Scholarpedia is not run by the Wikimedia Foundation. Thanks, GerardM On 16 February 2011 17:03, Rohini L rohini.laksh...@gmail.com wrote: Are there any on Scholarpedia which is also run by the Wikimedia foundation? -- On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 7:19 PM, Anirudh Bhati

[Wikimediaindia-l] The Narayam extension

2011-02-22 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, The Narayam extension was developed to support keyboard methods. It was first developed for the Malayalam language as a script that was running locally and then as Junaid PV became a MediaWiki developer, it and the support for other languages was included in this extension. I blogged today

[Wikimediaindia-l] The Narayam extension

2011-02-24 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I am really happy to announce that the Narayam extension is installed and running at translatewiki.net. Currently it provides input methods for the Malayalam and Bangla languages. It has been enabled so that Narayam can be tested both for its functionality and for these input methods. We

[Wikimediaindia-l] Sanskrit InScript support needs testing

2011-02-26 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, The InScript method for Sanskrit has been introduced on translatewiki.net. It needs testing and you can test it by adding to the localisations for the Sanskrit language. As you may know the Narayam extension supports three languages: Malayalam, Bangla and Sanskrit. I understand that Junaid PV

[Wikimediaindia-l] Reading Wikipedia on your mobile phone

2011-02-28 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I blogged about using the mobile phone for the Indian languages. What I learned is that some languages need to invest some time in order to get the mobile interface to work for them. Please check out to what extend your language is supported. ( xx.m.wikipedia.org where xx is your language

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Appeal for reopening of Odia (Oriya) Wictionary

2011-03-01 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, The opening and the re-opening of a project can be done when the rules for a new project have been complied with. They are the full localisation of MediaWiki and a subset of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation. I am really happy that the localisation for the Oriya language has

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Programs IRC: Today 8pm IST (#wikimedia-office)

2011-03-02 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, What time is that in GMT ? Thanks, GerardM On 3 March 2011 05:03, hisham mundol hmun...@wikimedia.org wrote: Just thought I'd drop you a quick reminder invite to the IRC today (Thursday March 3rd) at 8pm (IST) at #wikimedia-office The broad agenda is to discuss a) initial

[Wikimediaindia-l] Update from translatewiki.net

2011-03-05 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Yesterday we had quite a momentous day at translatewiki.net. After a lot of preparation our server was upgraded and we now have a much more responsive system. It is a joy again to localise; the system is so much more responsive.. What may be of as much interest to this list is that we had

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Update from translatewiki.net

2011-03-06 Thread Gerard Meijssen
. - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture -- *From:* Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com *To:* Wikimedia India wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org *Sent:* Sunday, March 6, 2011 12:30 PM *Subject:* [Wikimediaindia-l] Update from translatewiki.net

[Wikimediaindia-l] Narayam is live

2011-03-16 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I am really happy to announce to you that the Narayam extension is now live on all the Malayalam projects. Roan has implemented them today and it works beautifully. The plan is to implement Narayam on every Wikimedia project in a weeks time when there are no nasty surprises. A big thank you

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: The Hindu : India is No.6 in donating to Wikipedia

2011-03-19 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, As a result from this news item I blogged about it. My take on the news is that one aspect of the funds raised in India is also a sense of ownership is gained in this way. I love to learn if you agree with me. Thanks, GerardM

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: The Hindu : India is No.6 in donating to Wikipedia

2011-03-20 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, If the Dutch example is something to go by, being able to pay through electronic banking made a big difference in the Netherlands.. However, do you agree with me that being able to contribute to Wikipedia (financially or as an editor) is what it takes to give a sense of ownership? Thanks,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Registration open for the Hackathon in Berlin, May 13-15

2011-03-24 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, As you know, the two people from India who have done development work are Santhosh and Junaid. Santhosh is already coming to Berlin as a member of the Language committee. Junaid works like so many children of India at the moment in the UAE.. grin that makes it even less expensive for him to

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Odia and Odisha

2011-03-24 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, The or code is from the ISO-639-1, the code in the ISO-639-3 is ori. The codes are meant as a unique identifier and making them easy to remember is in some way helpful in others it is problematic. It is problematic because all the existing expressions in a language will still be known by the

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] 2nd Odia (Oriya) Wikipedia Academy/Workshop Bhubaneswar, 2011April03, 10 AM

2011-03-30 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, One of the things that is raising the game for the http://or.wikipedia.orgis that there is a steady flow of work done for the localisation of the MediaWiki user interface. Every day this work is brought into production so the Odia experience is getting better on an almost daily basis. The

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: Angry with Wikileaks, Indian Union minister for law and justice Veerappa Moily lashes against Wikipedia

2011-03-31 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, One thing we can do is reach out to the minister. I did that on my blog. When I get a high quality picture, I will blog about it on my blog and I will propose it as a featured picture. My point is that our relation with politicians is different from the Wikileaks people, the kind of exposure

[Wikimediaindia-l] Toolserver has its Internationalisation

2011-04-05 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I am really happy to announce that the first Toolserver tools can now be localised at translatewiki.net. Thanks to the hard work of Krinkle the first tools make use of the Intuition messaging framework. People who know Toolserver, will know that there are many useful tools that help

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] URLs in 7 Indian languages

2011-04-06 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, This is one of those things where a chapter can and should take the initiative. Thanks, GerardM On 5 April 2011 17:54, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Just when we were having discussions on urls, here comes

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Toolserver has its Internationalisation

2011-04-07 Thread Gerard Meijssen
that Bengali is the first sub-continental language to complete the translation 100%. :D On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 04:05, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.comwrote: Hoi, I am really happy to announce that the first Toolserver tools can now be localised at translatewiki.net. Thanks to the hard

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Toolserver has its Internationalisation

2011-04-07 Thread Gerard Meijssen
:42, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote: Hoi, While it seems nice that something is localised somewhere, it is the lack of a common infrastructure that makes the Toolserver in many respects quite awful. In many respects Toolserver tools do not survive one of the open smell tests

[Wikimediaindia-l] The Odia Wikipedia is doing splendidly

2011-04-08 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, While the Odia Wikipedia has less then 1000 articles, it is growing them and it is growing its traffic. Given the activity for writing articles, localising messages there is a great opportunity to grow its traffic by at least half the numbers for a good number of months to come (it almost

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] where to see scrubbed attachment ?

2011-04-25 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, The mailing list does not allow for attachments. You will not find it :| A reference to a picture on Commons does work :) Thanks, GerardM On 25 April 2011 21:23, Mahitgar from Marathi Wikipedia mahit...@yahoo.co.in wrote: Hi, I do receive mail from this mailing list in digest

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ‘Kanaja’ now accessible for the blind too.. How about wikipedia?

2011-04-26 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I blogged about this quite recently. There is however quite some distance between being visually impairred and being blind. Some people I know are helped with specific fonts that are BIG and/or coloured . The consequence is that he uses different fonts and has them coloured. When I get his

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] 1 user. 20 hours. 300 articles

2011-05-02 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, FYI http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2011/05/unsung-wikipedia-heroes.html Thanks, GerardM On 28 April 2011 18:21, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Tamil Wikipedia added another 1,000+ articles in the last 3 weeks. Behind this is a remarkable story of 1 user who

[Wikimediaindia-l] Uploading to Commons

2011-05-03 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, One really nice development is the continued improvements of the UploadWizard. This software is available and functional at Wikimedia Commons and makes it much easier to upload pictures to Commons. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UploadWizard One of the recent developments is that

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Uploading to Commons

2011-05-03 Thread Gerard Meijssen
use, Commonist tool for such bulk uploads. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Tools/Commonist Pretty good tool, though. Regards Tinu Cherian On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 1:38 AM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote: Hoi, One really nice development is the continued

[Wikimediaindia-l] Can I apply for this job

2011-05-08 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I read the opening for Consultant, Participation - India Programs. To my amazement I find that I can apply for this job. I think I qualify because I have ample qualification when it comes to Wikimedia, projects and what not. I am a well known Wikimedian in India because of my frequent writing

[Wikimediaindia-l] Interview with Hisham

2011-05-10 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Hisham was so cool as to answer 10 questions I put in front of him. I think it is an interesting read. I hope you do too. Thanks, GerardM http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2011/05/interview-with-hisham-mundol.html ___ Wikimediaindia-l

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Invite for 36th Bangalore WikiMeetup on 14 Feb 2011, Sunday

2011-08-10 Thread Gerard Meijssen
2012 ? thanks, GerardM On 10 August 2011 08:35, Subhashish Panigrahi psubhash...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Wikians, Wikimania fever is over! Those who have attended would have experienced the greatness of interacting to many Wikipedians over the world. How about sharing your experiences and

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Request Foundation to add INR in donation currency list.

2011-08-20 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, The software for the fundraiser is translated at translatewiki.net The statistics for the fundraiser software can be found here [1]. For a complete localised experience, these two extensions do need localisation The way I understand it is that the inclusion of a currency is part of the

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Request Foundation to add INR in donation currency list.

2011-08-20 Thread Gerard Meijssen
to donate in a foreign currency). Thanks, GerardM On 20 August 2011 14:28, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.org wrote: On 20 August 2011 17:56, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote: The way I understand it is that the inclusion of a currency is part of the cooperation

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

2011-08-27 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Why not take over Wikilivres from Yann and make it your project. Maybe you can do one better and cooperate with other chapters on this project. There are already main[pages in several languages... Australia and Canada come to mind.. I did blog about it..

[Wikimediaindia-l] Narayam is live

2011-09-12 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I am really happy that Narayam, the extension that provides you with input methods for your languages is live for some of them on some of the projects. Have a look and let us know how you like it. Thanks, GerardM 'wmgUseNarayam' = array( 'default' = false,

[Wikimediaindia-l] India Hackathon and language teams

2011-09-26 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, As you may know there will be a hackathon that will be running in parallel to the conference. I blogged about it on the WMF blog and we hope to learn from you what technical things we can do to make our projects thrive in India. http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/09/25/india-hackathon-2011/ We

[Wikimediaindia-l] or.wiktionary.org

2011-09-27 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I am really pleased to inform you that the Oriya Wiktionary is the first project ever to be officially re-enabled for editing. The Oriya community is working really hard to make their projects a success. They are noticing that the usability is improving as a consequence of the obligatory

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] or.wiktionary.org

2011-09-28 Thread Gerard Meijssen
projects and finish the rest translations and get started with the other projects. Thanks again. rgds Subha On 28 September 2011 06:26, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.comwrote: Hoi, I am really pleased to inform you that the Oriya Wiktionary is the first project ever to be officially

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic Languages: Shiju Alex

2011-09-29 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I could not be more happy. Shiju we must talk. Thanks, GerardM On 29 September 2011 20:14, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com wrote: Welcome on board, Shiju! Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 8:10

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Hi

2011-10-18 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, It does not matter where you live when you want to become an ambassador for your language. The Wikimedia Foundation has set up a team of developers who are tasked to make editing in any of the Indic languages as easy as editing in English. What we are looking for are people who know their

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki Academies in Indic Languages.

2011-11-06 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Do you want to translate it using the translate extension ... eg on Meta ? Thanks, Gerard On 3 November 2011 17:18, Naveen Francis navee...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Can anyone help me to translate the Wiki Academy Brochure to Indic languages ? Thanks, Naveen Francis

[Wikimediaindia-l] Getting ready for production; help us with WebFonts

2011-11-08 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, We are working hard to get ready to bring WebFonts in production. As we are working hard on the software, new messages are the result of it and we would be so happy when the localisation is complete particularly for the Indic languages. Please help us by checking the localisation for

[Wikimediaindia-l] traffic statistics

2011-11-10 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, When you look at the traffic statistics for India, Malayalam and Marathi are doing spectacularly well. Does anyone know why this is ? Thanks, Gerard http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN_India/TablesPageViewsMonthlyCombined.htm ___ Wikimediaindia-l

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-chn] Input methods extension Narayam enabled on Wikimedia Commons and more on input methods and web fonts

2011-11-24 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, At the Hackathon several problems were found that have to with web fonts and input methods. They were discussed with a Red Hat engineer and entered in the Red Hat Bugzilla. when Red Hat was the maintainer (Lohit font for instance). In the last two days we have been at CDAC and at Red Hat

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Mumbai hackathon followup

2011-11-24 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, This Saturday there will be a translation rally in Pune. When this is done, it is more then likely (actually it is what we plan to talk with technically minded people about MediaWiki and its internationalisation and how this relates to Indic language support. If you can please join us for

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Braille/touchscreen integration

2011-11-24 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I do not know exactly how Braille works but if a character in a standard script can be represented by Braille characters in stead, then all it seems to need is a method for us to replace the existing Unicode character with the Braille Unicode character. As we already have WebFonts

[Wikimediaindia-l] translation rally

2011-11-25 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Today is the translation rally in Pune. What we expect is that we will break the records of translatewiki.net for things like most translated messages in an hour or most translated messages in a day. What we would not mind is when people from all over India join us in the fun. The

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Supporting the languages of India

2011-11-30 Thread Gerard Meijssen
. Thanks, GerardM On 30 November 2011 14:14, Achal Prabhala aprabh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Gerard, On Wednesday 30 November 2011 06:21 PM, Bishakha Datta wrote: On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com mailto:gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Supporting the languages of India

2011-11-30 Thread Gerard Meijssen
dangerous and will result in massive wastage of time because of wrong understanding of the ground situation. On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 7:15 PM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote: Hoi, During my visit to India, Amir started to teach me to read Devanagari. He did not teach me all

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Supporting the languages of India

2011-11-30 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, As far as I am concerned, the discussion is civil enough. Let me be clear. When I find people illiterate in their mother tongue, I personally find this absolutely horrible. There is not much that I can do about this, there is nothing the WMF intends to do about this. If at all it is you in

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikipedia-l] Creation of new language - Ahirani

2011-12-08 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, It would be cool when the request for the Ahirani language is completed. What is necessary is information of the proposer and people interested in working on this language. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Ahirani In the mean time I have written a Mingle

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Programs Consultants on WMF Staff page

2011-12-10 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, There is no reason why people from the India staff should not be on the staff and contractors page. As it is only people living in the USA are staff everybody else is a contractor. Thanks, Gerard On 10 December 2011 05:27, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Dec

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Announcing - WikiProject Offline Wikipedia for Indian Schools

2011-12-11 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, When you find that there are issues with the software needed to show content on the devices in schools, please ensure awareness and involvement as soon as possible. As I understand it the Kiwix software is doing a good job. I understand it can also display the CD with books as created for the

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Call for participation in IEEE P1908.1 Virtual Keyboard Standard development for Indic languages

2011-12-12 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, The Wikimedia Localisation team has been very much active in this field and we have implemented the inscript one standard as well as other existing keyboard methods. We have met with CDAC and Red Hat about our current Narayam implementations and our and their future plans. Our notion is that

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic has arrived! -- on devices !!

2011-12-21 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I blogged about the latest version of the Android operating system ice cream sandwich. It does apparently work with WebFonts. http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2011/12/new-android.html Thanks, Gerard On 21 December 2011 13:28, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.comwrote:

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Christmas 2011 translatewiki.net Translation Rally

2011-12-24 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, One thing I was really happy with last time was that Santhosh facilitated the payment of people in India. The consequence was that no bank transfer costs reduced the bounty for our Indian localisers who qualified. :) The localisation of MediaWiki is the most effective usability improvement

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indian documents abroad on Wikisource?

2012-01-02 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, If there is one thing that makes Museums, archives sit up and take notice, it is when a project is proposed that adds value to their collection. Many ancient works including documents exist in a GLAM without there being REAL interest in them. Often because nobody knows the language and

[Wikimediaindia-l] Translating the WebFonts help text - We need you

2012-01-07 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, One of the changes since the original deployment of WebFonts is the creation of user documentation on WebFonts. You will see this help text when you click on the question mark in the WebFonts menu. This user documentation is located on MediaWiki.org and, we have enabled the Translate

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Design for Wikipdia India sites

2012-01-17 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Do the Devanagari characters indicate a similar page in an Indic language? Thanks, Gerard On 10 January 2012 19:53, Yuvi Panda yuvipa...@gmail.com wrote: Hello! Many of you would know PlaneMad (Arun Ganesh), and I had asked him to see if he can design anything for Wikipedia.in, etc.

[Wikimediaindia-l] Did you know

2012-02-02 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, The Marathi Wikisource now exists as a Wiki. It is the kind of thing that makes us happy in the language committee. We were happy to move things along a bit by considering to expedite our approval. The full localisation was not done but promises were made and are kept to make sure that the

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