Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Do not donate to Wikipedia
I hope I am wrong, but this doesnt look like it fits within the participation assistance scheme. Instead it looks like the assistance is to cover travel to USA for an internship at NASA-related organisation. The grant request page is quite confusing. On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 8:35 PM, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.org wrote: On 8 July 2012 16:49, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote: I plan to run this campaign across all Social media networks if I continue to see any such grant. Something by way of explanation would be nice as well? As far as I can read, the WMF/Grants Team believes it fits one or more of the goals and did fund the grant. Why are you holding out such a threat? Thank you. Best, Gautam http://blog.prathambooks.org/p/social-media.html ___ 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 -- John Vandenberg ___ 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] Wikimedia sites HTTPS by default (was Ads Injected into Wikipedia?)
I'm quite sure that browser addons can inject Ads into https, if they want to. so https is not the answer to this problem. do you have evidence otherwise? On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: Anirudh Bhati wrote: On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Debanjan Bandyopadhyay debast...@gmail.com wrote: Ok then can we not make the default version the https one like say google does. This will not be a permanent solution, I'm afraid. Encrypting your browser traffic does quite durably protect you against the kind of injection attacks we're discussing (the injection of advertisements). I personally use the HTTPS Everywhere plugin (available for Chrome and Firefox) to ensure that I always browse Wikimedia and many other sites under SSL protection (that is, via HTTPS). https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere I'm not suggesting that we set out to persuade millions of people to switch to open source browsers and install this extension, but if you're already using Firefox or Chrome, I recommend HTTPS Everywhere for your own peace of mind. The most recent discussion, among Wikimedia developers, of whether to switch to HTTPS-by-default for all connections: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-April/thread.html#59551 In it, Ryan Lane from Wikimedia operations says that there are practical reasons that we have no plans for anonymous HTTPS by default, but will eventually default to HTTPS for logged-in users: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-April/059580.html -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ 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 -- John Vandenberg ___ 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] Ads Injected into Wikipedia?
Lovely. The JS loads this https://d15gt9gwxw5wu0.cloudfront.net/ssa/175/?zoneid= Which happens to mention the server... http://www.rubiconproject.com/ which looks like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubicon_Project On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 10:19 PM, Nischay Nahata nischay...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I finally got hold of the source that caused this problem. There is an extension called I Want This in chrome which does this evil work. As per my investigation, this extension is not installed by the user. Maybe we should notify Google that extensions are been installed without permissions. I have attached the JS file that causes this ad injection and also the HTML code that is been injected. Also note that this extension not only shows ads from Inkfruit or Jabong but RedBus.in also. On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 11:33 PM, Philippe Beaudette phili...@wikimedia.org wrote: I've been trying to get a copy of that source for months, so please send it my way as well. :) ___ Philippe Beaudette Director, Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 415-839-6885, x 6643 phili...@wikimedia.org -- With Regards Nischay Nahata B.tech 3rd year Department of Information Technology NITK,Surathkal ___ 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 -- John Vandenberg ___ 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] Ads Injected into Wikipedia?
On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 10:19 PM, Nischay Nahata nischay...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I finally got hold of the source that caused this problem. There is an extension called I Want This in chrome which does this evil work. As per my investigation, this extension is not installed by the user. Maybe we should notify Google that extensions are been installed without permissions. Some discussion/complaints here about it https://groups.google.com/a/googleproductforums.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/y0AjBCrXgGU -- John Vandenberg ___ 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] Ads Injected into Wikipedia?
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 -- With Regards Nischay Nahata B.tech 3rd year Department of Information Technology NITK,Surathkal ___ 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 -- With Regards Nischay Nahata B.tech 3rd year Department of Information Technology NITK,Surathkal ___ 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 -- Srikeit Tadepalli ___ 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 -- Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- ___ 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 -- John Vandenberg ___ 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] Ads Injected into Wikipedia?
Sorry Srikeit! I did assume it was Internet Explorer because I foolishly didnt believe that Google Chrome allows ad injection!? apparently it does... http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9960350/inject-advertisements-in-pages however they must be clearly marked. ads must be outside the page's normal flow and clearly state which extension they are bundled with I think it would be useful to inform Google of this, as it breaks their policy. On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Srikeit srik...@gmail.com wrote: The screenshot shows that the person is using Chrome so I don't think the IE point stands here. The ads also seem to be intermittent, my friend cannot see them anymore. Usage of https may resolve the problem, but looking for a solution with the normal Wikipedia may be necessary as several people wouldn't want to bother with using https. Regards On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 7:56 AM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: It would good to know whether using https instead of http stops the ad injection. I'm not sure that it will help. To help find the problem, we need to know what Internet Explorer add-ons have been installed on their computer. http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/3892/manage-and-troubleshoot-addons-in-internet-explorer-8/ Recommend using Firefox or Chrome instead of Internet Explorer. ;-) here is someone showing an ad injector working on Wikipedia in Internet Explorer http://ipensatori.com/?p=521 (date : March 13th, 2012) On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 2:22 AM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com wrote: I think we should now recommend increased use of the secure server link for browsing wikipedia. Hopefully that will help. Ashwin On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 9:46 PM, Srikeit srik...@gmail.com wrote: A friend of mine found similar ads inserted (screenshot attached). I've asked her to run malware tests and an extension check. She also tweeted those dreaded words 'Wikipedia now has ads!' This can become quite an issue if the press gets hold of it. Any resolutions on the horizon? Regards On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 10:24 PM, nischay nahata nischay...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Philippe, I would personally try to find out the extension and look into the HTML code it plays with but that will take a while (I am busy for few days and we have to see if the Ad shows up again). I will reply back in this thread as soon as I have something that can help. On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 10:10 PM, Philippe Beaudette phili...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi Nischay, We're looking into this one. If your friend can spot the extension and send us relevant code, it would be helpful. pb ___ Philippe Beaudette Director, Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 415-839-6885, x 6643 phili...@wikimedia.org On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 9:39 AM, nischay nahata nischay...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, One of my friend also reported seeing Ads of Jabong on Wikipedia. Some extension in the user's browser is most likely the source of injection for such Ads. Finding out which extension(s) does this will be in good interest of everyone. On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 5:51 PM, Swaroop Rao raul.swar...@gmail.com wrote: One can also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:FAQ/Readers#Why_do_I_see_commercial_ads_at_Wikipedia.3F for clarification. Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch) On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 23:09, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.com wrote: Business Insider gave a $5bn valuation to Wikipedia in 2010. So yeah, that's a big market for spammers. anirudh On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 10:59 PM, Ramesh N G rames...@gmail.com wrote: I was really amazed on the discussion on the ads on the wikipedia. Looking at the snapshot, it could really some virus or adware. Even this should not be the way the ads come to Wikipedia, though I personally never will support this. I strongly recommend the user to scan the PC for a virus, change browser and check. Also seen some discussion where multiple people has reported this issue. This means that Wikipedia being targeted by Viruses now! User:Rameshng On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 8:44 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Could be, but it wouldn't hurt to do a scan of your system and find out if anything is wrong with it. On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 8:25 PM, Debanjan Bandyopadhyay debast...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not the techie here, but I don't think its a malware on a system per se. Reason being being, two different people have experienced it, same ad also from different IP's, different locations though. On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 8:20 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Definitely Adware/Malware/Spyware/etc. Notice in the Screenshot, it says Ads Not By This Site. It should've been a clue. Do scan your system
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhiji is added to Gujarati Wikisource
Oh. What about the PDF of the Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhiji? The original scans? On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Shiju Alex sh...@wikimedia.org wrote: What is the bug number? Has the PDF been uploaded to Commons? John, this is related to the PDF export option in Wiki. The current solution won't support Indic scripts. There are several bugs related to this. One is this. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28206 An alternate solution (not a good solution) is using LibreOffice by copying text and format the text outside wiki. But I hope a solution will come as we move forward. I know Santhosh was working on this earlier. Do not know its status now. Shiju On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 7:01 AM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Dhaval, What is the bug number? Has the PDF been uploaded to Commons? On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 4:02 AM, Dhaval S. Vyas dsv...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks once again Ashwin, I have been considering to release the books officially, but unfortunately, PDF conversion is not working with Gujarati. The bug is filed a while ago, and I have been told that it may get quite a long time to fix the issue. Without having capability of exporting the page as PDF or preparing a book, I won't really feel to rush for the book release. Regards, Dhaval On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 6:54 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Dhaval, That is really very good to hear. We must maintain the highest standards in all things WikiSource. Unlike Wikipedia, errors cannot be allowed to co-exist. Well done to all Gujarati Wiki-Source-ians. Keep yup your great work. I request that this book may be please be got officially released to gain publicity and attention to Gujarati WikiSource the community. Ashwin On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 9:56 PM, Dhaval S. Vyas dsv...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Ashwin, Not only this book, but the other one that is completed and the one underway, are all proof read against original. These are all manually typed and not OCR'd. Thanks to the lack of available OCR Tool/software for indic scripts. If you or anybody else here is aware of good and reliable tool for Indic, especially Gujarati, script please share. That will help us upload book in remarkably less time than it has taken. Best, Dhaval On 2 May 2012 17:01, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Dhaval, No doubt a great achievement and my very sincere congratulations. I just wanted a clarification. This is very important! Have you checked each word for correctness against the original text? Or is it OCR'd text? Sincerely Ashwin On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 9:04 PM, Dhaval S. Vyas dsv...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Shiju, Thanks a million for sharing this with the wider community. An update: The next collaborative work is already started and in just a week's time, it is almost 25% completed as well. Kind Regards, Dhaval On 2 May 2012 16:11, Shiju Alex sh...@wikimedia.org wrote: Dear All, On behalf the Gujarati community, I wanted to share a nice update. On 22nd April, Gujarati Wikisource reached a major milestone with the completion of સત્યના પ્રયોગો અથવા આત્મકથા (Saty Naa Prayogo Athavaa Aatmakathaa) It is the Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi (The story of my experiments with truth). This book has 454 pages in 169 chapters in 5 sections. The work to digitize this book was started less than 1 month before. The following Gujarati wiki librarians contributed to this project. સુશાંત સાવલા (Sushant Savla) ધવલ વ્યાસ (Dhaval Vyas) vyom25 (Vyom) સતિષ પટેલ (Satish Chandra) જેઠાભાઇ ઓડેદરા (Jethabhai Odedara) અશોક મોઢવાડીયા (Ashok Modhavadia - Captain) jaishree Roopal Mehta સંજય બાલોતિયા (Sanjay Balotia) જીતેન્દ્રસિંહ (Jinedrasinh) નિલેશ બંધીયા (Nilesha Bandhia) Findjigar દેવેન્દ્રસિંહ ગોહિલ (Devendrasinh Gohil) To me, this is actually the biggest part of this story! 13 wikilibrarians from all over the world collaborated on this! That is amazing for a relatively new community. I would like to acknowledge the contributions of Ashok Modhavadia from Junagadh for managing the project, and for Sushant Savla and Dhaval Vyas for being inspirations behind it. Incidentally, Ashok managed the scanning of all the pages, the allotment of chapters, and all other aspects of project management. For anyone interested in how to manage a Wikisource initiative, do look at the discussions on this page [http://gu.wikisource.org/wiki/%E0%AA%9A%E0%AA%B0%E0%AB%8D%E0%AA%9A%E0%AA%BE:%E0%AA%B8%E0%AA%A4%E0%AB%8D%E0%AA%AF%E0%AA
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhiji is added to Gujarati Wikisource
/ change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- ___ 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 -- Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- ___ 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 -- John Vandenberg ___ 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] RFC over hindi wiki bureaucrat actions
On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 4:25 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you very much for bringing this up Hyothis. Bala and I [Tamil guys] had discussed this back in December. Editing the Hindi Wikipedia was slight pain, because someone seemed to have set up filters such that nothing new could be added easily. Are new pages stopped by the edit filter? Could you add to the RFC the problems you experienced? http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Userrights_on_hi.wiki -- John Vandenberg ___ 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] The Gujurati Wikisource
Gerard and Robin, It is great to see that the Proofread Page namespaces are going to recorded created at the beginning. Thank you for your efforts. The Page and Index namespaces must match the names in the Proofread Page messages, otherwise we end up with a mess. Gerard, would it be appropriate for the Proofread Page extension to also define messages for the Page_talk and Index_talk namespaces , so that they are all translated on translatewiki.net? On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote: Hoi, We are at the final phase for the request of a Wikisource for the Gujurati language. This is when we asked Ting Chen, the chair of the WMF board for approval and where we need technical information that enables the WMF ops people to create the wiki. Robin has made changes to the template we use for the request of new projects and we implemented this for the Gujurati Wikisource. We hope to get this information complete in record time so that we can inform you soon about the creation of the Gujurati Wikisource. Thanks, Gerard http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2012/03/new-templates-for-new-wikimedia.html ___ 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 -- John Vandenberg ___ 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] [Press]: The Indian Express : Would Gandhi have been a Wikipedian?
://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Indian_Home_Rule ;-) -- John Vandenberg ___ 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] On creating an Indian Wikisource
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.org wrote: Shiju and Sreejith: Currently Wikipedia projects are hosted in US and all media files uploaded to these projects should be copyright free in the source country of origin and also in US. If we need to upload media files out of copyright in India but still copyrighted in US, I am afraid, the servers need to be hosted in India. Sreejith's point is what I was wondering about. Is there value in this? Something that the Chapter might consider? I believe that either WM Canada or WM India should do this, as these countries have the most useful copyright systems for our objectives. I think that all Australian works which are public domain in Australia (but not public domain in the United States) are also public domain in India and Canada. We need to check this with lawyers. Wherever this new 'Wikisource' is located, the chapter needs to be careful to ensure it maintains the high standards of copyright compliance that Wikisource achieves. -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] On creating an Indian Wikisource
Wikisource already has a Commonwealth copyright wikisource it is called Wikilivres, and it is hosted in Canada. http://www.wikilivres.info/ On that website you will find many examples of works which are illegal to distribute on US servers. Whenever English Wikisource finds a work which is illegal in the US, but legal in Canada, it is moved to Wikilivres. Wikilivres is currently paid for by a Wikisource administrator [[user:Yann]]. -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] On creating an Indian Wikisource
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.com wrote: Specifically a WikiSource server of sorts, hosted in India, exclusively for content that is out of copyright in India only. As far as I know, the content that is that is out of copyright in India now can be uploaded to the existing wikisources. Can you cite some examples for which this is not possible? The best example is Gandhi Many of his works, and translations of them, are not public domain in the United States. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Mohandas_K._Gandhi http://www.wikilivres.info/wiki/Mohandas_K._Gandhi -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Tamil Encyclopedia merge into Wikipedia.
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.com wrote: I have a query. What is the license of Tamil Kalaikalanjiam? Did Tamil Nadu government or Tamil Virtual University had officially announced that this Encyclopedia is released in Public Domain or in some creative commons license so that we can reuse the content. If yes, we can very well reuse the content. Otherwise it will be copyright violation. So kindly verify this. Let us not assume that since it is published by Government it will be in pubic domain. In India that is not the case. If it is released under a free license, it can be transcribed on Tamil Wikisource. http://ta.wikisource.org/wiki/ The software to do transcriptions on Wikisource is not enabled on Tamil Wikisource, but it can be enabled once these messages have been translated. http://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special%3ATranslatetask=untranslatedgroup=ext-proofreadpagelanguage=talimit=100 Here is an example of the Wikisource transcription software with a completed work: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Index:Sanskrit_Grammar_by_Whitney_p1.djvu and an incomplete project: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Index:Dictionary_of_National_Biography_volume_03.djvu In 2008 December, Kerala Government has officially announced that it is changing the license of similar encyclopedic project in Malayalam (sarvavijanakosam) to Free documentation license so that Malayalam wiki community can reuse its content to develop Malayalam wikipedia. Governmant has officially announced it. Kerala Government has also set up its own wiki (to help us) for Sarvavijanakosam and they are slowly digitizing the content and posting in its own wiki (http://mal.sarva.gov.in). They have completed some 2,900 articles now. We are reusing this content to enhance many of the existing articles. But we are not copy pasting the entire content due to various reasons. The main reason is, the content need to rewritten as per the style of wikipedia. The wikisource transcription software is a mediawiki extension, so it could be added to mal.sarva.gov.in. -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
