Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Ads Injected into Wikipedia?

2012-05-14 Thread Erik Moeller
We've got an advisory up now: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/05/14/ads-on-wikipedia-your-computer-infected-malware/ Please don't hesitate to respond to tweets complaining about ads with a link to this blog post. -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation

[Wikimediaindia-l] In-browser offline Wikipedia reader

2011-12-30 Thread Erik Moeller
This is a pretty exciting project for those of you who care about offline content distribution. It's text only for now, but very cool: http://offline-wiki.googlecode.com/git/app.html In modern browsers, this gives you access to the most popular WParticles offline without any additional software.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Article Feedback Tool v5 : Indian Perspective

2011-12-21 Thread Erik Moeller
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 2:28 AM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com wrote: Some of you might have followed the recent improvement with Artcle Feedback Tool v5 (AFTv5) , for those who didnt please read[1]. Even before reading the entire page, something struck me. The design is strangely 

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Webfonts deployment on Indic Wikiprojects

2011-12-14 Thread Erik Moeller
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 10:45 PM, Bala Jeyaraman sodabot...@gmail.com wrote: So stating the truth is being unconstructive?. You could have rolled this out in phases or as a dark launch as you are contemplating now, done more testing and saved us all this bitterness and trouble. Instead you

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 Erik Moeller
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Bala Jeyaraman sodabot...@gmail.com wrote: Agree with Srikanth on WebFonts. We at the Tamil Wiki projects have already tried the webfonts out and found the Lohit Tamil - the font available via webFonts extension has serious readability/rendering issues in most

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Tamil Wiki Media Contest

2011-11-23 Thread Erik Moeller
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 6:06 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com wrote: Tamil Wiki Community is currently organizing a 3 month long media contest[1][2] with the aim of increasing media files related to Tamil / Tamilians / Tamil culture to be used in Tamil Wiki Projects and encouraging 

[Wikimediaindia-l] Updates from Mumbai hackathon

2011-11-21 Thread Erik Moeller
The Mumbai hackathon was awesome and really productive, with lots of improvements to internationalization, mobile (including SMS delivery) and offline content distribution. Thanks to everyone on this list who came out. If you did, please add links to your work product here:

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Mobile Photo Uploads: Android uploader and more

2011-11-14 Thread Erik Moeller
Thought some of you might be interested in these developments :-) We'll be doing lots of additional mobile hacking at the India Hackathon this week: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/India_Hackathon_2011 -- Forwarded message -- From: Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org Date: Mon, Nov

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Death and Post-mortem of Indian Education Program pilot

2011-11-14 Thread Erik Moeller
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 10:45 PM, Bala Jeyaraman sodabot...@gmail.com wrote: This sums up the problem of the IEP -  designed by people clueless about how en wiki works and run by campus ambassadors who view wikipedia as a giant sandbox to play with students. Speaking of playing in sandboxes,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Let's *Talk*

2011-11-14 Thread Erik Moeller
Well said, Hisham, Srikeit at al. Nobody's asking for rah-rah excitement. Being dispassionate and critical is the goal. Being hostile and dickish is unhelpful -- there's no possible useful end that could serve. So: If you're adding more heat than light to a conversation, please don't join the

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikimedia India Program Trust

2011-11-11 Thread Erik Moeller
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 9:11 PM, Hisham hmun...@wikimedia.org wrote: Announcement of Wikimedia India Program Trust Congratulations, Hisham. I know this has been a lot of work for you and the team over the last few months. I look forward to seeing the programs that the trust and the chapter

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Hackathon registration is open!

2011-10-14 Thread Erik Moeller
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 12:05 AM, Akshay Agarwal akshay.leadin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Erik,             Thanks for putting up the form. I am having a problem with the last field 'Are you attending WikiConference India 2011 on Friday 18 November? * Silly form! Should be fixed now, thanks for

[Wikimediaindia-l] Feedback please: Logo concepts for India Hackathon

2011-10-05 Thread Erik Moeller
As GerardM noted the other day, we're planning a hackathon adjacent to the WikiConference in Mumbai. We'd love feedback on some logo ideas that one of our designers put together, particularly with an eye to picking a design that resonates with the largest number of people without triggering any

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Welcome to the India Team! : Shiju Nitika

2011-07-29 Thread Erik Moeller
Fantastic news - a warm welcome to both of you. :-) A small team, with the help of our vast community of volunteers, can make a huge difference. Really excited to see what you will come up with. -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge:

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Announcing Hisham Mundol as WMF consultant for National Programs, India

2011-02-15 Thread Erik Moeller
A very warm welcome to the movement, Hisham. :-) I really enjoyed our first conversations and am looking forward to doing what I can to help you succeed. The India community is amazing and I think you will greatly enjoy the passion, energy and intellect that are there. I can't wait to see how much

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikibasha and code signature

2011-02-07 Thread Erik Moeller
2011/2/7 A Kumaran a.kuma...@microsoft.com But let me just clarify the reasons for adding the comment snippet so we could track the articles that were changed by contributors using the tool, and to track if any of the changes made by the tool actually were reverted ultimately. As has been

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiPuneri - people coming together in Pune

2011-01-14 Thread Erik Moeller
Awesome project! Good luck with the first uploads. Let us know if you need help working with the Wikimedia Commons community to make this a successful project, I'm sure the experienced Wikimedians on this list as well as the community dept. at WMF would be happy to help in case there are any

[Wikimediaindia-l] Bangalore Meetup on Saturday- leaving at 2:30

2010-12-14 Thread Erik Moeller
Hi folks, Unfortunately my flight out of Bangalore leaves at 520 on Saturday, so I am planning to leave the city around 230. The meetup on Saturday is currently scheduled for 3PM. I'd hate to miss all of it, so I hope some folks can make it early. I will plan to be there at 130 or so. This only

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Media : Mid-day: Loads of potential in India: Wikipedia

2010-12-13 Thread Erik Moeller
LOL - note that we're not giving any interviews during this trip. This is cobbled together from a conversation at a meetup yesterday, and only bears some remote resemblance to anything I actually said :-). But it's not too bad, except for the staff checking things round the clock part ;-) Erik

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [WikiX-l] 10th anniversary merchandise is ready to ship!

2010-12-13 Thread Erik Moeller
Hello India Wikimedians! Time is getting short for organizing Wikipedia 10th anniversary events. January 15, 2011 will not come again - it's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be there as Wikipedia marks this big milestone. :-). If you manage to put together an event, you may still be able to

[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia tech fact-finding visit to India

2010-11-29 Thread Erik Moeller
Hi all, this is just to update you all on an upcoming visit to India by Danese Cooper, Alolita Sharma, and myself. Danese is our Chief Technical Officer, and Alolita program-manages the features development team. I'm the Deputy Director and also responsible for our product strategy. The purpose

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Announcing the Wikimedia India Community Newsletter - Edition 1

2010-09-24 Thread Erik Moeller
Achal, congratulations - this is an amazing debut! When you're ready to officially disseminate it, can I ask you to send a note to WikimediaAnnounce-l (at) lists (dot) wikimedia (dot) org? Thanks! Erik 2010/9/24 Achal Prabhala aprabh...@gmail.com: Greetings, On behalf of Shiju Alex, here