Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] [X-POST] Universal Language Selector(ULS) Deployment - Phase 1

2013-06-06 Thread Siebrand Mazeland (WMF)
On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 10:58 PM, Peter Coombe thewub.w...@googlemail.comwrote: What is the rationale for moving ULS from the personal toolbar to the interlanguage links on some sites? I find this change odd: * makes location and appearance of ULS inconsistent between sites * personal toolbar

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Language Engineering office hour on 2013-06-12 at 17:00 UTC/10:00 PDT

2013-06-06 Thread Siebrand Mazeland (WMF)
FYI -- Forwarded message -- From: Siebrand Mazeland (WMF) smazel...@wikimedia.org Date: Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 5:05 PM Subject: Language Engineering office hour on 2013-06-12 at 17:00 UTC/10:00 PDT To: MediaWiki Tech list wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org, Wikimedia Mailing List

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] why to donate

2013-02-11 Thread Siebrand Mazeland (WMF)
That is enough, I guess. Please take a breath, and rethink why you are on this mailing list of the Wikimedia India Community. If you don't want to be part of the community, please unsubscribe. If your intention is to offend others, please unsubscribe, because you are not being helpful. If your

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] How to set up a SIG?

2013-01-07 Thread Siebrand Mazeland (WMF)
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 6:45 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan srik.r...@wikimedia.in wrote: Becoming a member is pretty easy. It costs INR 100 to join and requires a single form to be filled and sent across. Actually, it isn't. As Bence is not an Indian citizen over 18 or an Indian institution, he

[Wikimediaindia-l] Report on WebFonts deployment available

2011-12-14 Thread Siebrand Mazeland (WMF)
Dear all, A report on the recent WebFonts deployment to 39 Indic language wikis at Wikimedia is available. Please read it at http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-i18n/2011-December/000359.html. It's rather lengthy; there was a lot to be said. I'm trying to take away the technical

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Pune hackathon scheduled 10-12 February 2012

2011-12-14 Thread Siebrand Mazeland (WMF)
Hi Srikanth, On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 6:37 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Forgive me for this silly question, but will there be any session on adapting WebFonts on the mobile site? Why would that be a silly question? We have only just announced the event, as soon

[Wikimediaindia-l] Input methods extension Narayam enabled on Wikimedia Commons and more on input methods and web fonts

2011-11-24 Thread Siebrand Mazeland (WMF)
Dear all, As requested at the Wikimedia Hackathon in Mumbai last weekend by Srikanth, and also in bug 32619[1], *Narayam* was just *enabled* on *Wikimedia Commons *. I hope you find it useful. During the hackathon we had a lot of help in adding more key mappings to Narayam[2], and we are right

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Upload the presentations

2011-11-23 Thread Siebrand Mazeland (WMF)
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 6:15 PM, Ramesh N G rames...@gmail.com wrote: those who presented during WCI 2011, please upload their presentations to the below category in commons Done! https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WCI_2011_Language_Support_in_Wikipedia.pdf

[Wikimediaindia-l] Translation sprint in Pune on 26 Novermber?

2011-10-24 Thread Siebrand Mazeland (WMF)
Dear Indian Wikimedians, and those from near Pune in particular, In November the complete localisation team of the Wikimedia Foundation (I, Niklas, Amir, Gerard, Santhosh and Alolita) will be in India for the Wiki Conference India, the Mumbai hackathon and a team meeting. Our schedule allows for

[Wikimediaindia-l] Translation sprint in Pune on 26 Novermber?

2011-10-24 Thread Siebrand Mazeland (WMF)
(I tried sending this 8 or so hours ago, but it looks like it didn't get through - apologies if it somehow ends up twice) Dear Indian Wikimedians, and those from near Pune in particular, In November the complete localisation team of the Wikimedia Foundation (I, Niklas, Amir, Gerard, Santhosh and

[Wikimediaindia-l] Internationalisation bug triage notes

2011-09-15 Thread Siebrand Mazeland (WMF)
Please find below the notes for the internationalisation triage bug triage held on Wednesday, September 14, 13:00UTC in #wikimedia-dev on Freenode IRC. 9 people participated in the triage. Two of the participants were new to MediaWiki. I'm very happy that the triage attracted new potential

[Wikimediaindia-l] Narayam input methods updated

2011-09-12 Thread Siebrand Mazeland (WMF)
Dear all, The Wikimedia Localisation team and volunteer Junaidp have taken an important hurdle towards better support for Indic languages. After a rocky start with the Narayam[1] extension on the Tamil language Wikipedia, today a new version of Narayam was deployed on several wikis in Indic