[Wikimediaindia-l] Help in updating the US trade deficit svg and data

2020-02-25 Thread shirish शिरीष
Hi all, Please CC me if somebody answers as I don't want the answer to be lost in the noise. I have been editing and updating the U.S. trade deficit which can be seen at [1] . The data is being copied by hand and updated to 2019 [2] from [3] 2015. The source data is at [4] . I would probably upd

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] does anybody have any of the kiwix CD/DVD images

2017-03-07 Thread shirish शिरीष
On 07/03/2017, shirish शिरीष wrote: > in-line :- > > On 07/03/2017, Manoj Khurana wrote: >> Hi Friends, > > Hi Manoj, > > Excuse but would be a big longish. > >> Offline Wikipedia is a requirement of many for sure. More so in >> developing >> coun

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] does anybody have any of the kiwix CD/DVD images

2017-03-07 Thread shirish शिरीष
in-line :- On 07/03/2017, Manoj Khurana wrote: > Hi Friends, Hi Manoj, Excuse but would be a big longish. > Offline Wikipedia is a requirement of many for sure. More so in developing > countries, where internet can be quite unreliable. I had suggested talking > to mobile operators/manufacturer

[Wikimediaindia-l] does anybody have any of the kiwix CD/DVD images

2017-03-07 Thread shirish शिरीष
Hi all, About 10 days back, I along with few people from FOSS community India and Mozilla Community were doing outreach program at GMRT, NCRA http://gmrt.ncra.tifr.res.in/~sciday/sciday/scienceday.htm This is the 4th year that we were able to do it successfully. During the outreach program, eve

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki Conference India 2016 (Chandigarh hackathon)

2017-01-22 Thread shirish शिरीष
ecall there was some talk of Google using the Apache License or something. If you know what I'm talking about, please share. > Subhashish > > On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 3:15 AM, shirish शिरीष > wrote: > >> @Subhashish, >> >> Thank you for the link. I would take

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki Conference India 2016 (Chandigarh hackathon)

2017-01-21 Thread shirish शिरीष
asan/OCR4wikisource > 2. https://github.com/tshrinivasan/OCR4wikisource/blob/master/LICENSE > > Subhashish > On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 6:06 AM, shirish शिरीष > wrote: > >> On 23/11/2016, Shrinivasan T wrote: >> >> >> >> Please check following l

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki Conference India 2016 (Chandigarh hackathon)

2017-01-19 Thread shirish शिरीष
On 23/11/2016, Shrinivasan T wrote: >> >> Please check following link. >> >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016/Chandigarh_Hackathon >> > > > Thanks santhosh and the contributors. > > -- > Regards, > T.Shrinivasan > > > My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] : Pune Mirror : " Will Google Maps lead people astray, the Wikipedia way?"

2011-04-24 Thread shirish शिरीष
At bottom :- On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 19:11, Srikanth Ramakrishnan wrote: > Heya, > Is Wikipedia to blame for being open? > Is Google to blame for Android being open? > Think about it that way. > --Regards, > Btw Android is not really open. Please see http://lwn.net/Articles/435342/ . Its a 'busi

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] New admins on the list

2011-02-22 Thread shirish शिरीष
At bottom :- On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 15:02, BalaSundaraRaman wrote: >> i think you used the meme incorrectly. =) > Should be current with pop culture or stay away from such memes, I suppose. :P I think it was appropriate, we should have some doses of humor every now and then and didn't think he

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] wikipublisher in libreOffice

2011-02-21 Thread shirish शिरीष
At bottom :- On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 08:51, Nagarjuna G wrote: > When I installed libreOffice (http://www.libreoffice.org/) It has included by > default wikipublisher..  I can now export all openoffice ODT > documents as wikimedia markup.  Do others have any experience on this? > When I mentioned

[Wikimediaindia-l] Moving a project to mediawiki - WSFOE

2011-02-18 Thread shirish शिरीष
Hi all, There was talk of moving the WSFOE (Wikipedia for Schools Offline Edition) to move from wikia.com to mediawiki. While I was succssful to do the [[Special:Export]] at Wikia was blocked at [[Special:Import]] as only Importers or/and admins can only do that. Can somebody do this ? The

[Wikimediaindia-l] Quick and dirty Gnunify Day 2

2011-02-17 Thread shirish शिरीष
Hi all, This is the second day's stuff at GNUnify. http://wp.me/pfuZu-mJ Its slightly more exhaustive than the previous one so please sit aside some time while going through it. --           Regards,           Shirish Agarwal  शिरीष अग्रवाल   My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://

[Wikimediaindia-l] A quick and dirty blog post about gnunify day 1

2011-02-15 Thread shirish शिरीष
Hi all, Just published a quick and dirty one about the happenings on GNUnify Day 1. http://wp.me/pfuZu-ms . I just hope I did justice to being there. I do hope to get some photos by this week-end and pretify the post somewhat. Been feeling lazy for last couple of days hence took the drastic step.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] unified log-in not happening in hindi wikipedia for some reason

2011-02-14 Thread shirish शिरीष
At bottom :- On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 03:53, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > Did you change the password so that it is the same ? yup, did all that, will try again tomorrow. signing off and going to dreamland > Thanks, >   GerardM --           Regards,           Shirish Agarwal  शिरी

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] PDF rendering of Indian language wiki pages

2011-02-14 Thread shirish शिरीष
at bottom :- On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 22:36, Santhosh Thottingal wrote: > Hi, > We are working on a Complex script PDF rendering library named > PyPDFLib(https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/pypdflib/). One of its > test case (or use case) is to render a wiki page in complex script(any > Indian La

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] unified log-in not happening in hindi wikipedia for some reason

2011-02-14 Thread shirish शिरीष
At bottom :- On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 21:49, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, Hi, > When you are new to a Wikimedia project, you have to log in for a first time > and accept cookies for that site. When you do, the user you just created > will be included into your SUL profile. When it did not, you

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] unified log-in not happening in hindi wikipedia for some reason

2011-02-14 Thread shirish शिरीष
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 21:49, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, Hoi (guess it means hi :) ), > When you are new to a Wikimedia project, you have to log in for a first time > and accept cookies for that site. When you do, the user you just created > will be included into your SUL profile. When it di

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Workshop for Women in Wikipedia (WWW) idea

2011-02-14 Thread shirish शिरीष
In-line :- On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 12:50, Bishakha Datta wrote: > Hey Shirish, Dear Bishaka, > Been talking to lots of women about this - one barrier I'm finding from > informal chats with many women in India who are otherwise comfy with the net > is technical. At the first Mumbai meetup in

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Moderation and strategies was Fwd: Your message to Wikimedia-in-mum awaits moderator approval

2011-02-13 Thread shirish शिरीष
At bottom :- On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 11:15, CherianTinu Abraham wrote: > shirish, Dear Tinu, >          I believe, your mail to Wikimedia-in-mum didn't go through because > you have not subscribed to that list. I just checked > from https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-mum

[Wikimediaindia-l] Moderation and strategies was Fwd: Your message to Wikimedia-in-mum awaits moderator approval

2011-02-13 Thread shirish शिरीष
At bottom :- -- Forwarded message -- From: Date: Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 10:14 Subject: Your message to Wikimedia-in-mum awaits moderator approval To: shirisha...@gmail.com Your mail to 'Wikimedia-in-mum' with the subject    Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-in-mum] Liam Wya

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

2011-02-13 Thread shirish शिरीष
In-line :- On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 09:13, Pradeep Mohandas wrote: > hi, > Thanks Arun for posting it here. I was really tired when I posted this > yesterday to the Mumbai mailing list. It does seem more or less accurate. A > few additions from what I missed out yesterday night. > 1. With The Muse

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] unified log-in not happening in hindi wikipedia for some reason

2011-02-13 Thread shirish शिरीष
In-line :- On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 02:38, Theo10011 wrote: > Unified Login or SUL (Single User Login) is a mechanism which allows users > to use a single global login on most of the Wikimedia Foundation's projects. > It allows to maintain a consistent identity across all linked projects, and > no

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Moderation policy on WikimediaIndia-l

2011-02-12 Thread shirish शिरीष
spelling mistake :- > There were 2-3 people who were in the same boat. So one was on the > road 20 days in a month, some people like traveling and others do not. --           Regards,           Shirish Agarwal  शिरीष अग्रवाल   My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Moderation policy on WikimediaIndia-l

2011-02-12 Thread shirish शिरीष
At bottom :- On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 23:28, Sudhir Ponappa wrote: > *Translation:* Can all the ordinary members of this list please keep out of > my business? I would prefer to continue censoring this list with my best > friend HPN. After all, I am the EC of the India chapter and I have an

[Wikimediaindia-l] wikimedia india mailing list, what is it about ?

2011-02-12 Thread shirish शिरीष
Hi all, Due to the recent nature of things and events a very basic question occured to me ? What is the purpose of this mailing list? A very broad definition or understanding which was there of the list is to co-ordinate indian activities in and around wikipedia and wikimedia. I went to the mai

[Wikimediaindia-l] unified log-in not happening in hindi wikipedia for some reason

2011-02-12 Thread shirish शिरीष
Hi all, I know that sometime back unified login happened. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Unified_login This is what I was doing :- a. Was in EN:WP and logged in - looked at the entries. b. Went to hindi wikipedia and tried to edit an article. I was not logged in. c. Thought perhaps

[Wikimediaindia-l] need to caption and tag the photos of gnunify.in

2011-02-11 Thread shirish शिरीष
Hi hari, Need to caption and tag the photos otherwise they don't make much of a sense. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/wiki/Category:GNUnify_2011 I went to the above link to see perhaps I can do the captioning and make it more relevant, say https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Workshop for Women in Wikipedia (WWW) idea

2011-02-11 Thread shirish शिरीष
At bottom :- On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 16:35, Pradeep Mohandas wrote: > hi, > Tinu Cherian and Moksh Juneja were discussing this on twitter. Tinu > suggested that there be held a Workshop for Women in Wikipedia as a response > to the news article/study on the point about percentage of women who > p

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-del] Hindi wiki workshop at New Delhi - 2011 February 12

2011-02-07 Thread shirish शिरीष
At bottom :- On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 17:40, CherianTinu Abraham wrote: > I agree. It is just a placeholder to redirect interested folks to the event > and tracking purposes. Please note the summary > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Delhi/Delhi4#Summary > Btw now a days, there is only

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-blr] Bangalore Photowalk, Bangalore loves Wikipedia #2 [Fwd]

2011-02-07 Thread shirish शिरीष
At bottom :- > On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Hari Prasad Nadig wrote: >> >> Here's a photo from Saturday's event: >> >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/hpnadig/5418774809/ >> >> There were 28 participants in all. The largest number we've had till now! >> >> Wikipedia badges were distributed. >> >>

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Ads on Wikipedia?

2011-02-07 Thread shirish शिरीष
At bottom :- On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 01:15, cr.a...@gmail.com wrote: > I came across this article on > TechCrunch: http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/05/wikipedia-affiliate-links/ not > sure it's discussed already. But what are the members thoughts on this? > Personally, I think it's BS. > Anil Dear A

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Google Translation on Indian language Wikipedias & Paid editing

2011-02-05 Thread shirish शिरीष
At bottom :- On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 18:04, CherianTinu Abraham wrote: > Just an example of Google translated article on "Internet Protocol" in > Kannada Wikipedia. > http://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%85%E0%B2%82%E0%B2%A4%E0%B2%B0%E0%B2%9C%E0%B2%BE%E0%B2%B2_%E0%B2%B6%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%B7%E0%B3%8D%E

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Google Translation on Indian language Wikipedias & Paid editing

2011-02-04 Thread shirish शिरीष
At bottom :- On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 14:55, CherianTinu Abraham wrote: > HI Ravi / Bala, >           It is great work that Tamil Wiki is doing by not allowing the dump > of paid translators to article space directly, thereby maintaining the > overall quality of the Wikipedia. But there are many ot

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Meet-up in association with Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) - Kolkata

2011-02-04 Thread shirish शिरीष
In-line :- On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 13:17, jayanta nath wrote: > > Dear friends, > An Wikipedia Meet-up/Workshop arranged by Wikimedia India (West Bengal) and > in association with Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (Kolkata Campus) has > been held on Saturday,12th February 2011 3 PM at Saltlake,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] What is page depth was Re: Malayalam wikipedia crossed the 10 Lakh/1 million edits milestone

2011-01-28 Thread shirish शिरीष
At bottom :- On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 06:52, Shiju Alex wrote: > > Depth is again another metric with shows the overall collabration in a > wikipedia. Mathematically it is represented as: > > Read more about Wikipedia Depth here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Depth > > Depth will be higher for w

[Wikimediaindia-l] What is page depth was Re: Malayalam wikipedia crossed the 10 Lakh/1 million edits milestone

2011-01-27 Thread shirish शिरीष
Hi all, Just read through the whole series of posts. As an editor I have a question/query? Is there some defined page depth? If there is who defines it ? Also an a non-metric or otherwise why is page depth important? Is page depth or page length of an article same or different? What aspects a

[Wikimediaindia-l] WX-Celebrations - part 2

2011-01-23 Thread shirish शिरीष
Hi all,      Just made the part 2 post of the Wikipedia Celebrations in Pune. http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2011/01/24/wx-celebrations-ii/ Don't really know if I did justice to it or not . This one talks more about mediawiki than wikipedia. --           Regards,           Shirish Agarwal 

[Wikimediaindia-l] WX-Celebrations - part 2

2011-01-23 Thread shirish शिरीष
Hi all, Just made the part 2 post of the Wikipedia Celebrations in Pune. http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2011/01/24/wx-celebrations-ii/ Don't really know if I did justice to it or not . --           Regards,           Shirish Agarwal  शिरीष अग्रवाल   My quotes in this email licensed u

[Wikimediaindia-l] Another blog post on the Wikipedia Celebrations in Pune - perhaps a slightly deviant look/feel

2011-01-22 Thread shirish शिरीष
Hi all, Another blog post chronicling the day's happenings. http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2011/01/22/wx10-celebrations-1/ I have split it in two parts as doing it in one part wouldn't have done justice to the content. Feedback, Comments all welcome. --           Regards,           Shirish

[Wikimediaindia-l] Added info. about Wikimedia Pune Celebrations

2011-01-16 Thread shirish शिरीष
Hi all, Added info. about coverage of the Pune event (so far ) at http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pune#Mainstream_Media and blog posts covering it as well. http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pune#Blog_posts Apart from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Pune/W10_Pune#Post-meetup_summary.2FB

[Wikimediaindia-l] Just came back from Celebrations

2011-01-15 Thread shirish शिरीष
Hi all, Just came sometime back from the WP10 Celebrations. Last 2-3 days were hectic a bit to say the least. I would be putting a detailed report both on my blog as well as link it here or put some snippets here. Although what would entice me or make this exercise really worthwhile is if a

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

2011-01-14 Thread shirish शिरीष
On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 06:46, Ashwin Baindur wrote: > Hi, > Wikipedians in Pune have come together to contribute to Wikipedia and > Commons. They have formed a Facebook cum Flickr group: > http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_181231605233363 > http://www.flickr.com/groups/1605961@N23/ > The

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WP X at Indore

2011-01-14 Thread shirish शिरीष
At bottom :- On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 03:28, Arun Ramarathnam wrote: > Congratulations Srinivas!!! > We saw pictures from the event on Commons. Looks like there were a lot of > participants in the auditorium. > regards > Arun Look forwards to the detailed report as well. --           Regards,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [press] : IBNLive : In pics: Indians behind Wikipedia

2011-01-14 Thread shirish शिरीष
In-line :- On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 00:34, Srikanth Lakshmanan wrote: Hi all, > Lets not forget its IBN, the people who thought Wikipedia and Wikileaks are > same. Probably we need to organise a serious media - tutoring session going > forward. I would say the article is half-half. Frankly spea

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WikiX-l] India specific Designs / Artwork for Wikipedia 10

2011-01-13 Thread shirish शिरीष
In-line :- On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 14:52, Swapnil Narendra wrote: > That's nice. if this could be any helpful, I can send you the .xcf files and > maybe that will make your work a little easier and faster. Guys, come on. Send us the .xcf files, send us .svg, please put up something. I'm sur

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WikiX-l] India specific Designs / Artwork for Wikipedia 10

2011-01-12 Thread shirish शिरीष
In-line :- On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 16:42, Swapnil Narendra wrote: > Hi all, Hi Swapnil, > I use Ubuntu and thus I work on GIMP. So I dont know how to create .SVG > files. How about if I send you after converting them into .PSD files and > then you can convert them into .SVG. Or you can tell me

[Wikimediaindia-l] Userboxes of Cities

2011-01-11 Thread shirish शिरीष
Hi all, I was browsing though and found only one userbox made by somebody who is in Vishakapatnam. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Userboxes/Cities {Template:User Visakhapatnam}} I am no great designer but do see the code to hack something together here :- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India specific Designs / Artwork for Wikipedia 10

2011-01-11 Thread shirish शिरीष
In-line :- On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 09:48, Srikanth Lakshmanan wrote: > Hi all, > I am sharing the artwork for Wikipedia 10[1] which can be used in case you > are printing banners etc.I would add more to this album. Thanks a lot > Swapnil / Tony for getting these ready , great if we get some more

[Wikimediaindia-l] Is there a way to get userboxes on the profile in wikimedia

2011-01-10 Thread shirish शिरीष
Hi all, I have a userpage on wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Shirishag75 which I want to copy/mirror on wikimedia. I tried getting the userboxes up and happening (just copy pasting the code just like that) but that doesn't work. Any pointers anybody ? --           Regar

[Wikimediaindia-l] Posts/Reports from Pune Wikipedia meetups

2011-01-10 Thread shirish शिरीष
Hi all, Giving below the links of wikipedia blog posts put up by me. http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2011/01/10/wikipedia-mr-meetup/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2011/01/11/wikimedia-commons-meetup/ I haven't put up many photographs yet on the second blog post, would do the sa

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] announcing Wikipedia party meetup in Pune on the 15th

2011-01-05 Thread shirish शिरीष
Slight update :- There is now a google public calendar with the events registered :- HTML :-http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=026a44s6usgc6058pqeooaiv9g%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=Asia/Calcutta ICAL :- http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/026a44s6usgc6058pqeooaiv9g%40group.calendar

[Wikimediaindia-l] announcing Wikipedia party meetup in Pune on the 15th

2011-01-03 Thread shirish शिरीष
Hi all, The Pune English and Marathi Wikipedia group has got a venue http://www.symbiosiscomputers.com/v5/home/contactus.php and we are meeting up at around 18:00 hrs. in the evening. Please see http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pune for details. Shortly, the schedule of activities to be held o

[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikinews and RSS feed

2010-12-30 Thread shirish शिरीष
Hi all, I have been an off and on consumer of Wikinews. Please see http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Main_Page . This is the same news which comes on wikipedia page as well. Now for a long time I had been wondering if there is or has been a way so that people could get RSS feeds out of that ? In fact

[Wikimediaindia-l] Have some editing queries, where should I go ?

2010-12-28 Thread shirish शिरीष
Hi all, Have some editing queries, which is a good list to use for that ? I do understand that this Mailing list (ML) is probably gonna be used for co-ordination of various things rather than talking perhaps about wikipedia or wikimedia edits. I do have one query though that is important enough p

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Some photos from Pune visit of Wikimedia dignitaries

2010-12-26 Thread shirish शिरीष
In-line :- On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 10:51, Arun Ramarathnam wrote: > Sudhanwa, > Great pictures from the event. Good to see a good turnout. > Could you please post these pictures or at least a sub set of these on > commons and post the link back? > How are these preparations for the Jan 15th event

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Project and volunteer directories

2010-12-23 Thread shirish शिरीष
In-line :- On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 12:48, BalaSundaraRaman wrote: > Hi all, Hi, > If you want to volunteer for Wikimedia India activities, please add yourself > to > http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Wikimedia_India_contributors so that other > contributors > can find you. > > Of course, as with everyt

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Note on Wikimedia stall at FOSS.in

2010-12-23 Thread shirish शिरीष
At bottom :- On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 11:17, Arjuna Rao Chavala wrote: > Hi, > Please see a brief writeup on Wikimedia Stall at Foss.in with links to > photos on commons. > http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Promotion/foss.in > > Cheers > Arjun Wow, nice. I have to confess, always wanting to be at FOSS.in

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-blr] Bangalore Wiki-meetup 23

2010-12-21 Thread shirish शिरीष
In-line :- On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 23:05, Srikanth Lakshmanan wrote: > Enable the Slideshow gadget in commons preferences. Hi all, Thank you Srikanth. The slideshow gadget was also news to me as well. I was not aware and hence made an account at wikimedia commons as well. Few thoughts :

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia usage and contribution from Indian users

2010-12-18 Thread shirish शिरीष
In-line :- On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 20:11, Pradeep Mohandas wrote: > hi Shirish, hi Pradeep, > The above page is opening for me without it prompting for a password. This > is the direct link to the pdf > file: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/42/Wikimedia_India_Community_Newsle

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia usage and contribution from Indian users

2010-12-18 Thread shirish शिरीष
In-line :- On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 10:17, Gautam John wrote: > Some places to start would be: > > http://stats.wikimedia.org/ and http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/Sitemap.htm > > The India Community Newsletter is also a great resource: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_India_Community

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Tenth Anniversary Celebrations in Pune.

2010-12-17 Thread shirish शिरीष
In-line :- On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 16:46, Ashwin Baindur wrote: > To all Puneri Wikipedians (both tatya and non-tatya), Hi, What's tatya ? I think it means elder in Marathi or something to that effect. > Gosh, just saw the grand scale of events planned in Bangalore. Pune's > missing on the lis

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Looking for Devanagri help - windows this time .

2010-12-16 Thread shirish शिरीष
In-line :- On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 11:36, BalaSundaraRaman wrote: > Excuse me if you've tried this already, but check whether the encoding is not > Western or something. UTF-8 or, in the case of many sites, user-defined > encoding > works just fine. Please check > http://www.google.com/support/c

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimeetup 4 Pune

2010-12-16 Thread shirish शिरीष
2010/12/16 shirish शिरीष : > Hi all, >  Put up a blog post at http://wp.me/pfuZu-iE . Its a bit longish in > nature but that's the only way I know. > > I was planning to sit on the week-end and make it more pretty and make > it into sections and stuff for easy navigabil

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Looking for Devanagri help - windows this time .

2010-12-16 Thread shirish शिरीष
In-line :- On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 10:06, Shiju Alex wrote: > Have you checked this issue with the active users of Hindi wikipedia or > other wikis that use Devanagri script? And are you able to reproduce this > issue in another system? Nope. > Google chrome is displaying Devanagri without any

[Wikimediaindia-l] Looking for Devanagri help - windows this time .

2010-12-16 Thread shirish शिरीष
HI all, Because things are still a bit fresh in my mind, I tried to see how Indian languages performed both on windows box as well as on GNU/Linux. This mail would talk only about windows xp while another mail would give the issues in GNU/Linux. While I can't give screenshots atm, this is on a

[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimeetup 4 Pune

2010-12-16 Thread shirish शिरीष
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 00:53, Mahitgar from Marathi Wikipedia wrote: > Dear All, > > First of all thanks to Pune Open Source enthusiasts and Tech Marathi team > and Mr.Sudhanwa for their initiative and supporting WikiMeetup -3.Thanks to > Erik Möller, Danese Cooper, Alolita Sharma, > > Mr.Sankars

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [WikiX-l] Truth in numbers

2010-12-15 Thread shirish शिरीष
In-line :- On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 09:06, Pradeep Mohandas wrote: > hi, Dear Pradeep, > For those interested in screening The Truth in Numbers. > warm regards, A little info. for the newbies on the list or a link so we know what the movie/documentary is about would have been good. > Pradeep

[Wikimediaindia-l] hi ! list

2010-12-14 Thread shirish शिरीष
Hi all, Wow! It was a hell of a day seeing and meeting people at Redhat's office for wikipedia stuff. Quite a bit to share but need couple of things. Fortunately or unfortunately didn't have a camera so need photos to spice the post up, a hashtag if there is already one or something please le