Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Uploads to Commons] Geocoding and Multilingual descriptions

2011-05-12 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Subhashish, Thanks for the link. I still scratch my head over adding coordinates to articles. Praveen, thank you very much. I never managed to find out about Camera Directions. I'm sure this will be of immense help to programs like Malayalam loves Wikipedia. --Regards, On 12 May 2011 14:35, Prav

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Uploads to Commons] Geocoding and Multilingual descriptions

2011-05-12 Thread Praveen Prakash
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 GeoLocator

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Uploads to Commons] Geocoding and Multilingual descriptions

2011-05-12 Thread Subhashish Panigrahi
Hey here is a nice site which can also be used for finding exact Geo Codes. http://www.giswiki.org/hjl_get_CoorE.htm ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Uploads to Commons] Geocoding and Multilingual descriptions

2011-04-27 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Naveen, Thank You VERY VERY much for that information. I seriously didn't know that. Just a pointer: * To view Google Maps/Google Earth with a lyer for all Commons Related Images: http://toolserver.org/~para/GeoCommons/GeoCommons-simple.kml * To view OpenStreetMaps with the same layers: http://to

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Uploads to Commons] Geocoding and Multilingual descriptions

2011-04-26 Thread Naveen Francis
Hi all, By geo tagging the articles we can use wikiminiatlas. Check the article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_volcanoes_in_Canada by clicking on the any globe Some of the indic wiki are not enabled with wikiminiatlas. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiMiniAtlas Following wiki has enable

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Uploads to Commons] Geocoding and Multilingual descriptions

2011-04-25 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Subhashish, You're most welcome. Do bookmark the page, it is hard to find.: ) Or use the short code. http://bit.ly/GeoLocWiki ---Regards, On 26 April 2011 00:08, Subhashish Panigrahi wrote: > Amazing Tool, I tried to upload and find the approximate location as the > exact was not known to me. Bu

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Uploads to Commons] Geocoding and Multilingual descriptions

2011-04-25 Thread Subhashish Panigrahi
Amazing Tool, I tried to upload and find the approximate location as the exact was not known to me. But this is really healpful. Thanks Srikanth again. :) ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/m

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Uploads to Commons] Geocoding and Multilingual descriptions

2011-04-17 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Heya guys, to make things easier for you all, I have created a Short URL for the GeoLocator tool: http://bit.ly/GeoLocWiki Take Care, Enjoy. : ) -- Regards, Rsrikanth05 EDIT: Can't post to my Meta page due to the spam filter. Keeping it here. If anybody wants, do share. Regards, On 12 April 2011 1

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Uploads to Commons] Geocoding and Multilingual descriptions

2011-04-13 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Just a note, if you want to use this note, and it gets lost I have posted it to my meta userpage. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Rsrikanth05 --Regards, On 12 April 2011 19:39, Srikanth Ramakrishnan wrote: > Tinu, > I told you I wasn't young. : ) > > Unlike others, I'm active only on Englis

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Uploads to Commons] Geocoding and Multilingual descriptions

2011-04-12 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Tinu, I told you I wasn't young. : ) Unlike others, I'm active only on English, sporadically on Hindi, and even less on the Commons. Also, unlike Abhi Jacob, I'm not an admin either, nor do I have 20,000+ edit. I have less than half of that, and am just a Rollbacker. Anyway, I request all to plea

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Uploads to Commons] Geocoding and Multilingual descriptions

2011-04-12 Thread CherianTinu Abraham
Achal, I would like to steal your youngest Wikipedian tag from Srikanth (rsrikanth05) to this kid (Bvajresh) whom we met in Trichy :) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trichy_Wikimeetup1_2060.jpg He has been editing for more than 2 years , he claims...He edits mostly anonymously thou

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Uploads to Commons] Geocoding and Multilingual descriptions

2011-04-11 Thread Hisham Mundol
Hi Srikanth Many thanks for this. It's very useful. Appreciate your initiative! Also, just read Achal's comments on his interactions with you. Inspiring stuff! Hisham Mundol India Programs - Wikimedia Foundation http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs skype:

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Uploads to Commons] Geocoding and Multilingual descriptions

2011-04-11 Thread Achal Prabhala
I must say that one lives and learns in the most unpredictable ways. This Sunday, at the Bangalore meetup, I learned that Srikanth (who I met for the first time) is finishing his last two years of school. Srikanth told me off-list that he is not the youngest Wikipedian in India. For the record,

[Wikimediaindia-l] [Uploads to Commons] Geocoding and Multilingual descriptions

2011-04-11 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Heya all, Yesterday, at the 32nd Bangalore Meetup, Shubhashish, Ralph, Aniruddh and I had a talk, and I decided to send this mail across. Not all people know about geocoding images, or adding multilingual descriptions. I thought I would give a brief introduction to these two concepts. Please NOTE :