[Wikimediaindia-l] Reg: Training the trainers (Was: Re: Wikimediaindia-l Digest, Vol 538, Issue 1)
A good question. I hope the trainers will have experience working on at least one FA class articles or a GA class at a minimum, preferably on the English Wikipedia in addition to expertise on their home language Wikipedia. best wishes Shyamal Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 18:37:29 +0530 From: Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com Who's training, what's the syllabus? On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 6:31 PM, Nitika Tandon nit...@cis-india.org wrote: ... CIS-A2K is organising a 4 day Train the Trainer (TTT) program in Bangalore during 1st week of October 2013. The idea of the program is to build capacity and enable community members to conduct outreach sessions independently or with minimal support to introduce Wikipedia to prospective editors in their respective Indian languages. ... ___ 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] N A Nazeer's photographs
I was told some years ago that a forest minister had passed a rule that no photography was to be allowed in any forest areas in Kerala. Any forest in that including Reserve Forests, in which one is *even* allowed to graze cattle, collect firewood and minor forest produce. I was just trying to look up this and found a newspaper article on the topic. That ban was apparently introduced because of a certain wildlife photographer refused to provide photographs to the Kerala Forest Deparment for their use. http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-kerala/wild-photography-ban-condemned/article4233888.ece Reading that news again with fresh insight suggests that the wildlife photographer in question was in fact N.A. Nazeer! Perhaps he or someone ought to inform the Kerala Forest Department of Wikimedia Commons.. 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] Indic print material digitization workshop query
Re-posting a now outdated query from meta http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:India_Access_To_Knowledge/Events/Bangalore/Digitization_workshop_18August2013 now that the workshop has already been conducted I think those that have attended the workshop could comment if this cover Indic language OCR-ing - if it did it would be worthwhile if the OCR software used can be documented on the meta pages or elsewhere such as Wikisource. Most of the more experienced editors here will be fairly familiar with the use of scanners for creating PDF documents and uploading them to places like the Internet Archive but the experience or knowledge of OCRs and their success rates is a bit wanting for Indic languages (fonts). best wishes Shyamal en: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
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic print material digitization workshop query
Thank you Subhashish for the response at: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:India_Access_To_Knowledge/Events/Bangalore/Digitization_workshop_18August2013 Dear Shyamal, this workshop was for demonstrating the participants about create a home made set up to scan the books, edit the scanned images and make an eBook. OCR is not still stable for Indic languages and would need another workshop for presentation. Here the creating text based documents is basically the manual editing on WikiSource. Please feel free to edit and correct if any mistakes found. --Subhashish Panigrahihttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Psubhashish( talk http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Psubhashish) 10:34, 19 August 2013 (UTC) That sounds too basic. Almost any office assistant these days is expected to know how to use a scanner and create at least a PDF. It would be good if you can post your proposed workshops. There are really excellent (and local if I may add) resources who can be proposed by the community. Shyamal http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Shyamal (talkhttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Shyamal) 15:00, 19 August 2013 (UTC) To abstract a bit from this - may I suggest that any planned workshops actually work out the topic coverage on-wiki so that the structure is useful and the expectations are clear. Asking potential attendees for areas of interest or expectations may also help. Since there appears to be a plan to do this on an India-wide scale I think it would be good to include several other topics. Some of the things that I have had to consider in the course of scanning thousands of pages of documents for the Internet Archive are included below. Hope others can add to it. * Image formats - djvu, PDF comparisons, PDF/A - grey shade, blackwhite, use of JPEG2000, TIFF * Online archival options * Digital libraries - also good to bring in people (librarians, archivists) involved with Indian digital library projects - including the ICAR http://www.icarlibrary.nic.in/ DLI - (even if their website is terrible http://dli.ernet.in/ ) - other local digital library/archive ventures http://statelibrary.kerala.gov.in/rarebooks/ , http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/jspui/ ) * Book-scanners * Home scanning tricks and solutions eg. how to scan large sources (such as a newspaper that is bigger than the scanner bed) * OCRs - use of layers, Indic language problems, approaches (is it possible to crowdsource manual transcription, can the technology be extended to allow people who do not know the language to help in manual transcription) best wishes 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] Research on academic institutions
Just to take off on Ashwin's suggestion. IISc which as an organization was the first in the country to have an Intranet and Internet long before most others had heard of email has perhaps done reasonably well with Wikipedia contribution even if it has been in a small and quiet way with editors here and there. For a while I tried to keep an eye on the key science orgs in Bangalore and their contributions (unfortunately I could only work on the anonymous IP edits) and it was quite clear that there was no inability to contribute on the technical front. I suspect however that few really contributed in a substantial way - although I know of exceptions, like User:ABhadra (a student of Prof R. Gadagkar who produced a fairly substantial review of Ropalidia marginata, their research subject). These institutional IPs however change but I think it is quite interesting to see how the edits relate or not relate to their academic interests. Surprisingly even within these academic islands, there is a lot of parochial and self-identity related contributions - things to do with caste for instance. Perhaps someone could consider a project with the WMF to analyze (properly anonymized) data on edits from within Indian academia to make a more meaningful survey of our potential expert editors. For a taste of how these edits can look like you can see an old set of IPs and their contributions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Shyamal/sandbox#Indian_Academia.21 best wishes Shyamal -- Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 12:25:42 +0530 From: Ashwin Baindur Hi Tejaswini, perhaps its time for a pilot with a more receptive organisation in Bangalore? Which organisation is your professor in? IISc? Ashwin ___ 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] Commons gallery tools (Re: Wikimediaindia-l Digest, Vol 459, Issue 1)
Hi Shrinivasan, Wonder if you have seen the link showing the Javascript based gallery tool https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:MyGallerywithJS=MediaWiki:JSONListUploads.jsgUser=username The metadata can only be looked up with an extra click though. best wishes Shyamal https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:MyGallerywithJS=MediaWiki:JSONListUploads.jsgUser=Shyamal Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 05:15:53 + From: Shrinivasan T tshriniva...@gmail.com I like to showcase my photo contributions to commons to my friends. The current page http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles/username is so old and not very intuitive to see the photos. Is it any possible to show the photos as a gallery like in flickr/picasa? ___ 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
