Hi all,
Wiki meetup Bangalore / WPMBL8 went on well last sunday with good number of
people attending it and also had some very good sessions. We also had good
media coverage this time.[1][2]. If some of us were impressed by what
google guys have shown us on translate[3], here is more news about
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Shahid Akhtar
mohd.shahid_akh...@rediffmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 8:37 PM, Praveen Prakash me.prav...@gmail.com
wrote:
K. Then who is Kiruba Shankar? What was the election process criteria?
How many people involved in that? Why all these
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Gerard Meijssen
gerard.meijs...@gmail.comwrote:
Hoi,
I would love to know more. How do GaneshK and Tinucherian create their
articles, do they use maps, do they have maps with all the Indian places on
them.. do they have maps with all of them on it.. do they
Hi,
I have created a shared document from where hooks will be read by the
script. Currently it has 574 hooks, i would relook the scrapper script and
would keep adding more to the hook preparation area. The spreadsheet is open
to edit and please feel free to help.
GDocs Link :- http://j.mp/a4ayc3
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 12:12 PM, BalaSundaraRaman sundarbe...@yahoo.comwrote:
Ravi,
Good idea. It identifies Bangalore and Karnataka correctly. Can you click
on the link and verify whether it shows Kovai correctly?
Sundar from mobile
While all works well with fixed line broadband
Have it elsewhere ? Probably an openspace without a projector ? Domlur park
/ Lalbagh / CIS lawn? or like the UK meetups go to coffee shops where WiFi
is there. Unless there are any presentations i dont think we require a hall
setup which CIS provides. Lets not move the date as it will be too
weekend.Python folks feel free to review since
its my first python code.
Thanks for your support and expecting few RTs from you ;)
Regards,
Srikanth L
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote:
Hi,
I have created a shared document from where hooks will be read
On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 11:16 AM, guru brahma wiki...@yahoo.co.in wrote:
Dear Srikanth,
good to see this initiative. I used to be among the most active Indian
contributors to DYK in 2005-06.
Hi Srinivas,
This is possible only because of efforts of DYK contributors like you. I
know how
Chat log can be found here
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_2010-08-31
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_2010-08-31
There were points touching about WMF India office / chapter etc which i
think Barry would also be talking to us on the meetups.
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 07:35, arjuna rao chavala arjunar...@googlemail.com
wrote:
I am happy to share a tiny web application to help people get started with
using Indian languages on Computers in public places, using wiki sites.
Check it out
http://gyanpad.appspot.com/
Cheers
Arjun
Hi all,
Came across this link
Ministry of Tourism, Govt of India cites Wikipedia as the source for CWG
cost.
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/97131/govt-draws-blank-cwg-cost.html .
We probably need more focus on articles related to govt projects with a
closer eye. Probably a work group would
Achal,
Thanks a lot for the detailed clarification. I was wondering how I could
clearly differentiate these things and explain to people outside our
list/community. I felt the media coverage (some / most) recently after
Barry's meet up also did not convey the differences between the Chapter and
Thanks Achal. We now have a basic press-kit(?) with us. Hope this will
help a bit in getting more clear reports from the media and give a basic
understanding of who-are-these-bunch-of-people to anyone in general public.
When did we have http://wikimedia.in with us? (Or was I sleeping :( :O ) .
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 13:18, Achal Prabhala aprabh...@gmail.com wrote:
Great. I've cleaned it up further - now anyone who wants to add to this
or help, please go to
http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Presskit
Nice, can this also be translated to Indian languages. Atleast by the Indic
wiki
Hi all,
Just read Microsoft India research team open sources WikiBhasha -
http://goo.gl/sKlA . From the README file, I understand WikiBhasha is a
media wiki extension aimed at enabling user communities in creating
multilingual content in Wikipedia. Can someone who know more explain about
this
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:34, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.org wrote:
Arjuna makes a good point on language support. As for the data costs,
don't some providers (I know MTS does) provide access to Wikipedia for
free?
Have you used MTS free Wikipedia? I overheard they are falsely
Hi,
I have created a page where we could co-ordinate activities for en.wiki and
also link pages in other wikis.Please feel free to expand.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/India/Marathon1
Regards
Srikanth.L
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 13:39, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I see a banner on en.wiki about this meetup.Nice! Is this done through some
geo-ip stuff? If so I would like banners for all wiki activities like
meetups / academies etc.
Regards
Srikanth.L
Google Profile http://j.mp/SrikanthL
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 11:38, Kundan Amitabh
suggestion Srikanth. We should implement that.
regards
Arun
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 7:35 AM, Srikanth Lakshmanan
srik@gmail.comwrote:
Hi,
I see a banner on en.wiki about this meetup.Nice! Is this done through
some geo-ip stuff? If so I would like banners for all wiki activities like
Some videos of Jimmy's talk here
http://ishare.rediff.com/tags/Wikipedia
http://ishare.rediff.com/tags/Wikipedia
Regards
Srikanth.L
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On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 11:00, Bishakha Datta bishakhada...@gmail.comwrote:
Diwali wishes to all.
I heard that NDTV-Hindu channel is also scrolling details of the meetup on
the channel. I guess media picks up news and is interested in wikipedia
these days i guess.(I dont know any of us reaching out to them)
Regards
Srikanth.L
Google Profile http://j.mp/SrikanthL
On
Hi,
Admins of wikimedia.in , please disable IP edits / put a better spam filter.
Main page itself was spammed several times in last few days.
Regards
Srikanth.L
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Provided a small meetup summary at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Chennai/Chennai2#Summary_2
Regards
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Google Profile http://j.mp/SrikanthL
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 15:05, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.comwrote:
I have uploaded the remaining photos to
Hi all,
While we are all working on reaching out to more and more people to join
wiki community in India, I see an area we need to focus before it becomes a
problem.Few days back there was a thread posting a link to article[1] in
which a user claimed Foreigners deleting Wikipedias India content.
Hi all,
More and more presentations are being made at meetups which have become
frequent in various parts of the country and talks at other places. It would
be great to reuse them / prepare from them. I have created a page[1] with
links to presentations made. Please add more to the page if you
Hi all,
We are planning for Wikipedia X Celebrations at Bangalore[1]. As part of the
event, we want to showcase / recognize best of Indian wikipedia/wikimedia
content, best efforts by communities, people behind the scenes and
outstanding individual contributions. I have created a page[2] and
Hi,
I had posted this tweet [1] and got a positive response by DM.
Dear Srikath, forwarded yr proposal to concerned Division (i.e. Philately).
You can follow-up with them directly, if send yr postal address.
[1] http://twitter.com/logic/status/14179393165336576
Lets keep our fingers crossed :)
Enable the Slideshow gadget in commons preferences.
Regards
Srikanth.L
http://srik.me
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 22:55, Anoop anoop@gmail.com wrote:
Is there any way to see the commons image as a slide show? It is very
tedious to view all images one by one :(
Anoop
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010
Hi all,
I suppose Wikipedia stall at FOSS.IN was a great start in reaching out to
FOSS / Student community in India.We must attempt to be present in a
stall at all such similar events which give space for us. I have got a
confirmation from Carte Blanche[1] for a stall and working with Wikipedians
Hi,
We are planning to have banner printed for the Wikipedia X Bangalore event.
We need people with design interests to help with the banner. Also if any of
you have prior experience in banner creation, please ping me off list. The
banners created can be reused by all the cities with minimal
Lets make sure there are enough pictures and even some videos of the event
available in commons :)
Regards
Srikanth.L
http://srik.me
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From: Jay Walsh jwa...@wikimedia.org
Date: Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 13:16
Subject: [WikiX-l] Take pictures and record WP10
http://thatstamil.oneindia.in/news/2011/01/10/celebrating-10th-anniversary-wikipedia-in-chennai.html
Thanks Ravi for making this article come :)
http://thatstamil.oneindia.in/news/2011/01/10/celebrating-10th-anniversary-wikipedia-in-chennai.html
Regards
Srikanth.L
http://srik.me
, for the understanding
of the rest of the people.
Volunteers?
Regards
Tinu Cherian
2011/1/10 Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com
http://thatstamil.oneindia.in/news/2011/01/10/celebrating-10th-anniversary-wikipedia-in-chennai.html
Thanks Ravi for making this article come :)
http
Hi all,
I am sharing the artwork for Wikipedia 10[1] which can be used in case you
are printing banners etc.I would add more to this album. Thanks a lot
Swapnil / Tony for getting these ready , great if we get some more :) Others
interested please feel free to reuse and remix.
PS : I have shared
Lets not forget its IBN, the people who thought Wikipedia and Wikileaks are
same. Probably we need to organise a serious media - tutoring session going
forward.
Regards
Srikanth.L
http://srik.me
On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 00:30, Hari Prasad Nadig hpna...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at
Congrats Achal,
While you focus on Indic languages about sources, I would also request you
to consider including lack of English sources available online on various
subjects concerning these geographies too due to slower internet adoption by
publishing companies and even lack of literature itself
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 09:53, Arun Ramarathnam arunra...@gmail.com wrote:
Great pictures Hari and Tinu.
We need to get the pictures from Royson uploaded as well.
Any videos anyone?
Did anyone record parts of the keynote, panel and Jimmy's talk?
Entire day is recorded(but for parallel
Hi Ashwin,
I should have clarified in the comments at Picasa. The credit must goto from
Tony / Swapnil. I just put it on my album to share the images i got on
email.
Regards
Srikanth.L
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 16:30, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.comwrote:
Hi Srikanth,
Just thought
Hearty congratulations to the newly elected office bearers.
Tinu,
The MoA Article[1] VII (7) (12) would answer some of your questions
related to election of office bearers and to me it seems perfectly within
the frame of things. I think the general members get to vote only after the
current term
I think the only option for me next is to unsubscribe due to recent decrease
in Signal to Noise ratio.Please be CIVIL. No, am not asking you to assume
good faith(you are free to raise questions, But just asking you to be
CIVIL).I expect some support from senior members in taking a pledging to be
Hi Santhosh,
Cool!. Just have some feedback on the generated PDF (Same article ilangai on
tamil wikipedia). I see line spacing is not uniform and some characters from
adjacent lines overlap, but a slightly more important issue is spacing
within the words for certain characters[Am not sure if its
Some of the Initial meetups in Bangalore had just same number of people. Its
not the number that matter, as long as you meet the purpose (click and
upload to commons in this case) its successfull :), Persistent efforts will
get more people / pictures :)
Regards
Srikanth.L
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 17:14, Achal Prabhala aprabh...@gmail.com wrote:
As moderators of WikimediaIndia-l, could you describe the policy you
normally adopt towards moderation?
This is not a primer, but one thing I changed today was increasing message
size from 40 KB to 240 KB. Ideally
While legal counsel might be important, I think the blowing the facebook
comments out of proportion IMHO is WP:UNDUE.
Regards
Srikanth.L
http://srik.me
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 09:31, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.org wrote:
Hi Tinu:
Thanks for posting this - yes, legal counsel and a risk
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 00:50, Nikhil Sheth nikhil...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi All,
I had a great time reading the blogpost. Very amusing. But had to clarify
some things before we all pick up our pitch-forks and torches, so..
Hi all,
Tamil Wikipedia is updated with the new logo now. Special thanks to the
community behind the same. There are lot of language Wikipedia's needing the
same update.Please refer this mail[1]. Thanks
[1]
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-January/001916.html
2011/3/13 Subhashish Panigrahi psubhash...@gmail.com
Dear All,
The first Odia Wikipedia Workshop was conducted in CIS, Bangalore on *2011
March 06*. Here is a brief report about it.
Great!
Idea of using articles from Odia Encyclopedia (‘Gyanamandala’ by Binoda
Kanungo), using Maps,
OffTopic
Just thought will share this Summary table[1], detailed TRAI report[2] which
might be of interest to many of us.
[1]
http://www.medianama.com/2011/03/223-statewise-broadband-subscribers-in-india-31st-november-2010/
Oops, forget about the second link. Its outdated. But still good as it has
data across operators. First link's data is BSNL only.
Regards
Srikanth.L
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 08:04, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote:
OffTopic
Just thought will share this Summary table[1], detailed
Thanks a lot Anirudh / others behind it for a detailed report. IMHO Posting
a page on wikimedia.in and mailing the link is better and talk pages can
serve better for discussions instead of lists alone. Probably can be done
from next time.
Regards
Srikanth.L
Interesting Viz. Hack using Wikipedia
http://www.ragtag.info/2011/feb/2/history-world-100-seconds/
http://www.ragtag.info/2011/feb/2/history-world-100-seconds/
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On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 14:10, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.org wrote:
On 30 March 2011 11:49, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com wrote:
Getting sick of this popular urban legand. Why dont we run a site
notice
banner for atleast India alone for 2 months. Please Note :-
Wikipedia
Hi all,
Happy to announce that Short URLs are now available in every page of Tamil
Wikipedia. Sharing Indic URLs with unicode characters are never fun since
one will get an ugly looking URL like
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 22:42, jayanta nath jayanta...@gmail.com wrote:
Great work! How do we add same feature in other Indic wikipedia like
Bengali/Odia ?
To host it yourself like tawp.in follow the steps
1. Get a domain name.
2. Install node.js[1] and shortify[2] in your server.
3. Do
Starting a new thread for SEO
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 23:31, Santhosh Thottingal
santhosh.thottin...@gmail.com wrote:
Srikanth mentioned a valid issue related to search engine optimization
with Indian wikis. I dont get any result for this query:
Malayalam + Mango to take me to Mango
On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 07:14, Yuvi Panda yuvipa...@gmail.com wrote:
After talking with Srikanth for a bit more, I was able to quickly
hackup this mediawiki extension[1] that does exactly the same thing
tawp.in does now, but in the same domain. So you'll have URLs like
Good idea Srikanth, Well someone is working / want to work on similar lines.
Check out the GSoC proposal here:- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Zhenya
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:ZhenyaHope the project gets accepted
and delivered :)
Regards
Srikanth.L
On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 19:41,
Hi all,
Just when we were having discussions on urls, here comes
http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_urls-in-7-regional-languages-soon_1528401
Experts say companies will try to race to book their names under all seven
languages to prevent the misuse of their names and trademarks.
Can the
Thanks much Yuvi. Great work. Looking forward for more hacks. I would post
about this in Wikitech list and ask for suggestions / using the extension
across Indic / non latin wikimedia projects. Probably we can rename as
TidyURL since its not really short and short is not we care about,tidy is
would be highly
appreciated :) )
I think this is one step forward in fixing the search issue -
discovering content in Indic Language wikis is now easier.
Thanks to Srikanth Lakshmanan for alpha testing.
Feedback welcome :)
P.S. I'm also working on a Firefox version of this addon
Congrats guys!
Looking forward to your work especially these which interest me.
1) Ajaxification of Everything
2) Extension for offline access (Much discussed here offlate)
3) SocialProfile extension.
Feel free to drop by here for feedback at anytime.
Regards
Srikanth.L
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011
During the chennai meetup, one gentlemen had told us people from
blind-user-group do access Tamil Wikipedia through a screen reading software
they have and it was pleasant news to us.
Regards
Srikanth.L
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:05, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@googlemail.com
wrote:
office with programs!
-Akshay Agarwal
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 11:17 PM, Yuvi Panda yuvipa...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks everyone :)
Special Thanks to Srikanth Lakshmanan and Arun Ganesh for pulling me
into Wikipedia related stuff :)
Thanks for coming in, community needs lot many enthusiast
Hi all,
Wikimeetup 4 @ Hyderabad is scheduled to be held on May 15, 5 pm - 7 pm at
Lamakaan,Banjara Hills.Plans to increase Wiki activities[read monthly
meetups], outreach programs,increasing contributor base in the city will be
discussed. As usual there will be an introductory session for all
2011 21:28, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
I am writing this mail to ask Chapter folks / Wikimedians experienced in
Global Fundraising as to get some information on our preparedness to
support
INR currency in the Global Fundraising initiative which would be up later
And
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2011/Chapter_Fundraising_Agreement
also
needs to be looked at in detail.
Regards
Srikanth.L
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 22:21, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.org wrote:
Hey Srikanth:
Timely reminder - but as always, bureaucracy is a stumbling
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 01:58, Vickram Crishna vvcris...@radiophony.comwrote:
Can somebody please set the mailing list to block such messages?
Done, will update moderation for more spam as they come. Thanks
Regards
Srikanth.L
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On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 14:38, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.comwrote:
Hi all,
We have recently noticed that many of the subscribers to various Wikimedia
are using Boxbe services.
This creates lots of problem for the mailing lists since unwanted
notifications are sent to the list
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 21:25, Subhashish Panigrahi
psubhash...@gmail.comwrote:
Hi All,
We are amid of an ongoing description of changing the current description
of Odia Wikipedia.
The present description is as below-
ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ (Odia Wikipedia)
ଗୋଟିଏ ଖୋଲା ଭାଷାକୋଷ (Eka khola bhasakosa
Hi all,
English Wikipedia is expected to get this gadget enabled for all users to
encourage Users pat on each other to motivate editors. Translating the
initiative to Indic Wikipedia's will encourage new users motivated when
people give these awards. Tamil Wikipedia already has the older version
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 14:10, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.comwrote:
My only intention was to ask the community on how to handle such mails or
request.
-TC
Point such people to appropriate places like discussion pages , notice board
(oops, it cant handle more NOW,but yes ideally).
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 10:25, praveenp me.prav...@gmail.com wrote:
I don't know why, but I feel that he is requesting almost every (just
exaggerating :)) extension available for mediawiki to Hindi Wikipedia and
using Wikipedia as his test wiki.
Almost every extension, lol.[1] for those
On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 17:10, sankarshan foss.mailingli...@gmail.comwrote:
and, perhaps this also goes out to the listadmins of the -pune and
-westbengal lists. Will you consider a request to ensure that these
lists are available via gmane.org as well ? It allows one to use a
conventional
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 12:08, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.org wrote:
More info here:
http://takshashila.org.in/
And here:
http://takshashila.org.in/events/india-impressions-photography-competition/india-impressions-photography-competition-rules/
What makes it interesting for us is
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 14:00, Dr. Krishna N. Sharma (PT)
dr.krisha...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I am happy to inform you that the *O.B.
Publication*http://www.onlinebooks.shop.ms/is inviting yousnip
Please let me know why you shouldnt be banned for posting advertisements
repeatedly.
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 11:57, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.org wrote:
On 26 August 2011 11:50, Naveen Francis navee...@gmail.com wrote:
If it is English, WikiProject Education in India will give a try, we are
40 in numbers now ..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:INEI
Oh! Thanks
Forwarding since it may be relavent.
All,
I had recently mailed my contact about arranging a Wiki academy, I have just
modified few words to templatize it. Please feel free to modify / use for
your needs.
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wiki_Academy_Proposal_Template
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--
Hi,
I just hit across a treasure of ~200 black and white pictures[1] (in CC) of
India in 1978/79. Looks like someone had pictures of a traveller and
uploaded into flickr set. Downside being not all pictures have description,
so we dont know where they fit in. But am sure collectively we can guess
On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 13:31, Sreejith K. sreejithk2...@gmail.com wrote:
Photos taken in 1978 is not in public domain yet. So these pictures cannot
be uploaded to commons unless we get explicit permission from the
photographer.
I just hit across a treasure of ~200 black and white
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 13:56, Surinder Rinku becomeaw...@gmail.com wrote:
Speaking/presentation is not a pre-requisite for attending the
conference? Is it not? I would just want to be there. Is there a
procedure/form I need to fill to get an ID or an entry pass of sort?
Can you please
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 14:04, Surinder Rinku becomeaw...@gmail.com wrote:
How much will be the registration charges?
Please stay tuned for announcements. We are in the process of finalizing
details.
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On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 15:08, Adethya Sudarsanan adethyas...@gmail.comwrote:
Hi,
can we edit our submission ? I made a submission and now I want to add some
more points to it ?
Is it possible?
Thanks in advance,
Adethya
Sure, Anything before 23:59:59 tonight IST
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On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 22:20, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.org wrote:
Not really a Wikipedia model, what?
Crying shame about the license.
Only valid concern is about license, but then if its about bridging the gap
between policymakers and general public, I feel it will be yet another
Good article on the INDIAEDU programs. :)
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 14:05, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.org wrote:
You can't copy-paste this homework
Well, but some reality check, quite a few have been found copying[1], the
drive is on to educate more about copyrights and inform them copying
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 08:18, Nagarjuna G nagar...@gnowgi.org wrote:
I personally think we should encourage and use the free software
alternatives like identi.ca, diaspora so that the event takes an
opportunity to promote these media which protects user's freedom.
By linking your account to
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 16:23, Bala Jeyaraman sodabot...@gmail.com wrote:
A question - how hard is it to write a bot that runs contributions
through Google and flags it based on the degree of match and whether a
footnote exists or not?
One such bot existed called corensearchbot which used
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110911/jsp/7days/story_14492284.jsp
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http://wiki.wikimedia.in/In_the_news#Sep_2011
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On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 15:48, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.org wrote:
I said that the current actions were overblown.
No second thoughts on the issue and actions being taken. But I guess Gautam
has a point here. This set of copyvios were detected very early(majorly ~50
students' edits
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 23:46, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.comwrote:
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
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 16:48, Nagarjuna G nagar...@gnowgi.org wrote:
There are technical ways to push messages to the popular proprietary social
media like facebook and twitter. Therefore you do not loose anyone, but at
the same time we can also push a message about free social media, which
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 01:02, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.com wrote:
Why did Wikipedia have to figure in this? :-)
http://ibnlive.in.com/blogs/tathagatabhattacharya/2947/62714/facebook-petrol-price-hoax-think-before-you-like.html
Outreach issue. It shows that even educated urban mass
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 22:30, Shekhar Krishnan shek...@mit.edu wrote:
Why can't we work together? Please explain and discuss.
Best,
Shekhar,
Can we take this discussion out of India list, Some have already protested
against the use of India list for Conference related discussions unless its
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 11:25, Mandar Kulkarni mvkulkarn...@yahoo.co.ukwrote:
Dear Pradeep,
Thank you very much for your email and appreciating that Pune Community has
done some work for the wiki-conference in last 2-3 months. We have not
stopped people to participate individually in the
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 13:51, Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.com wrote:
Can mailman not be configured to automatically reject such mails? There has
to be someone somewhere on the wikimedia tech team who can fix this.
Yes, this problem exists across lists, the solution given was list owners
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 15:09, Sudhanwa Jogalekar sudhanwa@gmail.comwrote:
Hi,
Filters can be added in mailman so that mails with some keywords like
invite can be blocked.
This is done in many Free/Open source mailing lists.
This list uses Invite widely for meetups etc. I have added
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 11:51, Pradeep Mohandas
pradeep.mohan...@gmail.comwrote:
hi,
Do you have any pics of the stall? It would be nice to see it. Might give
others idea on how to do such a thing themselves?
Hi all,
Call for Participation results for WikiConference India are out. Of the 550+
total submissions and 190+ relevant submissions, we are happy to announce
the results.
Selected Submissions :-
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2011/Selected_Submissions
Review of Submissions
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 20:27, Bala Jeyaraman sodabot...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
English wikipedia articles are listed in the Further reading sections of
lessons in science text books of the recently implemented Samacheer Kalvi
(uniform education) syllabus in Tamil Nadu. A few examples are
Hi,
Apologies to India list members on failing to act on spammers for sometime.
I have put members who violated the warnings [1][2] . People who have been
put on moderation are in bcc of this mail and list is available here for
anyone to search and find[3]. These members will be removed from
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 00:10, Naveen Francis navee...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
Wikimedians who have received scholarship please accept(reject) your
scholarship by senting a mail to wikiconferencein...@gmail.com asap.
So that we can work on the second round scholarship list.
This needs to
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