Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [fosscomm] Kerala School text books to be Licensed under Creativecommons, Printing using FOSS Tools

2013-11-16 Thread Nagarjuna G
On Fri, 2013-11-15 at 22:52 +0530, A. Mani wrote: Read a report in TOI http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/education/news/Now-free-software-to-set-school-textbooks-in-Kerala/articleshow/25781341.cms As usual The committee on Wednesday also took a bold step to make all the educational

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Takes Mumbai 2012

2012-01-28 Thread Nagarjuna G
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Shrinivasan T tshriniva...@gmail.comwrote: open the Python file and fill the login details and url for commons. copy the script to the folder where you have the images. run the following command. python mediawiki-uploader.py mail me if you have any

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Takes Mumbai 2012

2012-01-25 Thread Nagarjuna G
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Shrinivasan T tshriniva...@gmail.comwrote: open the Python file and fill the login details and url for commons. copy the script to the folder where you have the images. run the following command. python mediawiki-uploader.py mail me if you have any

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: The Indian Express : Would Gandhi have been a Wikipedian?

2012-01-18 Thread Nagarjuna G
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 11:38 AM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: The Indian Express : Would Gandhi have been a Wikipedian? ( Article by Achal Prabhala) http://www.indianexpress.com/news/would-gandhi-have-been-a-wikipedian/900506/1

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Aakash UbiSlate 7

2011-10-06 Thread Nagarjuna G
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.org wrote: So the fabled tablet has launched. http://pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=76476 What interests me is this: Content Creation The National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] social media to use

2011-09-10 Thread Nagarjuna G
warm regards, Pradeep Mohandas On 10 September 2011 08:18, Nagarjuna G nagar...@gnowgi.org wrote: In the recent announcement about the wikimedia conference I saw this: * Social Media Facebook and Linkedin event pages, and official Twitter account *Mediawiki as a media technology does

[Wikimediaindia-l] social media to use

2011-09-09 Thread Nagarjuna G
In the recent announcement about the wikimedia conference I saw this: * Social Media Facebook and Linkedin event pages, and official Twitter account *Mediawiki as a media technology does not belong there. It is not the outcome and end that this group should be interested in, but also means of

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

2011-08-28 Thread Nagarjuna G
Wikimedia India chapter may consider writing to HBCSE, TIFR in Mumbai or TISS in Mumbai to host a facility explaining why and how they can do this.  gnowledge lab of HBCSE will be glad to maintain the archive once an understanding between the chapter and HBCSE is worked out. bandwidth, disk space

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

2011-08-28 Thread Nagarjuna G
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.com wrote: The advantage of separately hosted Wikisource is that the artefacts are self contained and can be used readily. Photographic media will be mainly useful, when they are embedded in an article. May be non WMF

[Wikimediaindia-l] why use free software for making free knowledge

2011-06-26 Thread Nagarjuna G
In this article written in 2004 Jimmy clarifies this frequently asked question. http://jimmywales.com/2004/10/21/free-knowledge-requires-free-software-and-free-file-formats/ Someone reminded me of this post in another list I am subscribed. thought it is relevant in this list as well. some of the

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Choosing topics for Wikipedia for Schools (Offline Ed) - Indian version : #1 Cities

2011-03-10 Thread Nagarjuna G
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 10:07 PM, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Nikhil, I register my strong objection for this. There are various concerns even if the content is children friendly: 1. The content should be free of typos, factual errors. If a school teacher browses through

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [fcf_discussion] Why don’t more scientists contribute to Wikipedia?: Survey to find out

2011-03-08 Thread Nagarjuna G
-- Forwarded message -- From: Fuster, Mayo mayo.fus...@eui.eu Date: Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 10:34 PM Subject: [fcf_discussion] Why don’t more scientists contribute to Wikipedia?: Survey to find out To: fcforum_discuss...@list.fcforum.net fcforum_discuss...@list.fcforum.net Why don’t

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-mum] Liam Wyatt's visit to Mumbai and GLAM meetup - a summary

2011-02-13 Thread Nagarjuna G
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 10:18 AM, sankarshan foss.mailingli...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/2/14 shirish शिरीष shirisha...@gmail.com: In Pune, around this time lot of colleges have their technical weeks where they show projects, last year and couple of years before I had seen students who had made

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Malayalam Wikipedia crossed the 15, 000 article mark

2010-11-10 Thread Nagarjuna G
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:58 PM, Naveen Francis navee...@gmail.com wrote: Malayalam Wikipedia has crossed the 15,000 article milestone today. Congrats Malayalam wiki community !!! great! -- GN ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list