Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-blr] Malayalam Wikipedia CD- mentioned in NewYork State University Blog

2010-09-13 Thread Kul Takanao Wadhwa
I think it's especially great that two other Indian languages are reusing the software b/c we don't want people to unnecessarily duplicate their efforts. How did they find out about the Malayalam CD? Is there any dialogue coordination among/between the dev groups? Kul On 9/12/10 11:31 PM,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-blr] Malayalam Wikipedia CD- mentioned in NewYork State University Blog

2010-09-13 Thread Bishakha Datta
A superb effort - curious about the media controversy in Kerala and how that undermined this? Bishakha On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 12:01 PM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: The efforts behind the Malayalam offline Wikipedia CD is really appreciable. It required a hardwork of 20+

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-blr] Malayalam Wikipedia CD- mentioned in NewYork State University Blog

2010-09-13 Thread CherianTinu Abraham
Some of the indian local languages have good communication channels , interactions mutual helping between them. I would let Shiju explain more on this and other language Wikipedias re-using the software. Regards Tinu Cherian On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Kul Takanao Wadhwa

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-blr] Malayalam Wikipedia CD- mentioned in NewYork State University Blog

2010-09-13 Thread CherianTinu Abraham
Silly controversies , I would say. Some of the newspapers reported criticisms on the inclusion of Lavalin Scandel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNC_Lavalin_scandal ( some said , it was an attempt of the current governement to justify their stand on the case) and Mata Hari

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-blr] Malayalam Wikipedia CD- mentioned in NewYork State University Blog

2010-09-12 Thread Arun Ram
Thanks for sharing Tinu. This good work by the Malayalam wikipedians requires all the visibility it deserves. There surely would be other wikipedias that would be keen to replicate this. regards Arun On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 10:08 PM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-blr] Malayalam Wikipedia CD- mentioned in NewYork State University Blog

2010-09-12 Thread Kul Takanao Wadhwa
Sorry, I meant Shiju not Shinju. ;) On 9/12/10 8:57 PM, Kul Takanao Wadhwa wrote: This is a great post by Martin, who's been an advocate for offline Wikipedia for many years. I also like the link to Shinju's post. I'll work on getting more offline related posts to the Foundation blog as well