FOSS and wikimedia project have some similarities but they are
different projects. Wikimedians are not a subgroup of FOSS followers,
infact most of them living outside ideal FOSS world (I use free
softwares, but i don't like FOSS extremism, many others using non-free
softwares). I don't think
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 9:07 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.comwrote:
Praveen,
I'm assuming good faith in thinking that you do not mean to accuse FOSS
advocates of imposing their POV on Wikimedians in general.
Whatever! FOSS or Something else!
One cannot demoralize a wikimedian by
On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.comwrote:
On a lighter vein, this will give a nice script for a conspiracy theory -
*
One cannot demoralize a wikimedian by peeping into the license of software
which he/she uses to contribute wikimedia projects. *
Rest
Fair use applies when no other options available. In case of CC,
options are wide open. If somebody decides to override a CC licensed
file with a fair use, it is a clear Copy Vio.
On 23/12/2011, Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.com wrote:
I dug up the Indian fair use law and found this:
I haven't seen any communication in any open platform with Malayalam
Community members about this matter. A few weeks before I had a brief
discussion with Santhosh about webfonts. But it was nothing about webfonts'
rendering bugs. Infact, popular (and beautiful) Malayalam fonts are open
licensed,
There is lot to say. But i don't want to derail this thread. Pls start
a new thread.
On 16/12/2011, Anivar Aravind anivar.arav...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Praveen Prakash me.prav...@gmail.com
wrote:
I haven't seen any communication in any open platform with Malayalam
Wow! very happy to hear such a great news!
Even though there are some exceptional administrative works ;-), I wonder
why some links from Main Page itself leads to some title only stubs :(.
http://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%82%E0%A4%A1%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%BC
Hi,
FYI: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29495
I hope this is okay for ml, hi, sa, ta, kn, te, mr, ur, or, bn, pa, gu,
bho, as, ks with exception of date, with own as well as English digits.
[I thought Hindi's own digits are popular! (
Hi,
*hjl_getCoor* is gives {{coor d}}, {{coor dms}} templates which are suitable
for articles. For Images, it is better to use {{location}} or {{location
dec}} to point camera location. For that, I think GeoLocator (
http://tools.freeside.sk/geolocator/geolocator.html) is easy. By using
Bishakha Datta wrote:
I feel the following misquotes/inaccuracies are somewhat damaging:
*last para - the fictional quote on 'Malayalam articles having more
depth.' I don't recall anyone saying this, let alone me.
well, do math ;-)
probably not that much damaging ;-)
--
praveenp
Gerard Meijssen wrote:
Hoi,
There is a difference between a transliteration script and an
alternate input method.
In an alternate inputmethod you select characters from the screen. In
my understanding something like an transliteration script is what
Bellayet is using..
Thanks,
Kolhapuri wrote:
The problem is well known and discussed at Marathi Wikipedia, but we
at Marathi Wikipedia like to take all contributions that come to us.
We know that number of articles doesn't mean anything. But when there
are only handful of contributors, we don't like to lose any of
at http://hpnadig.net/blog/2010/03/08/wikimedia-india/563
Regards,
Sundar
"That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a
medium for the _expression_ of thought, is a truth generally admitted."
- George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture
Fro
arjuna rao chavala wrote:
2010/3/11 Praveen Prakash me.prav...@gmail.com
I don't consider members or
membership. I am not devaluing commitment
or hardwork. I
am thinking about lack of openness. You guys must know (may know well)
the level of Indic language involvement in meta. Why
Srikanth Ramakrishnan wrote:
But won't using Unicode fix it??
I didnt get that
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 7:56 AM, Gerard Meijssen
gerard.meijs...@gmail.com mailto:gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi,
Can I have this screen shot and, can I have confirmation
Srikanth Ramakrishnan wrote:
Won't using a Unicode font fix rendering issues?
All Indian languages uses vowel symbols, ligatures (1,2,3). Font can
just define them, But proper display is application's duty.
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arjuna rao chavala wrote:
Thanks for a good article. I am keen to know the hits for indian
language wikipedias. I find only for the wikipedia domain from alexa
or other sources. Is there a
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