Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Calendars in use in India

2014-01-18 Thread sibi kanagaraj
Hi Gerard , I think I can help with Tamil . But , I am not sure what needs to be done :) I understand that its something with calendar . But nothing more I am able to grasp . -Sibi On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 2:27 PM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.comwrote: Hoi, I blogged about

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Calendars in use in India

2014-01-18 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, 'There is a Tamil calendar like there is also a Malayalam, Nepali and Bengali calendar. What I have done is I have added the months. It would help when you check it out [1]. You can appreciate that I do not speak any of the languages from India :) My advise is to first add your #babel info

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Calendars in use in India

2014-01-18 Thread రహ్మానుద్దీన్ షేక్
Hi Gerard, As far as I know some sects of Kannadigas also follow the 60 year cycle of Telugu calendar. On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 10:17 PM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote: Hoi, 'There is a Tamil calendar like there is also a Malayalam, Nepali and Bengali calendar. What I have

[Wikimediaindia-l] Calendars in use in India

2014-01-15 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I blogged about calendars. The problem I face is that I am adding statements to the calendars in use in India.. I have worked on the Nepali and the Bengali calendar and, I find that in the English Wikipedia some months are merged into one article. What I want to know is if these months

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Calendars in use in India

2014-01-15 Thread Harsh Kothari
For Gujarati I can help. Thanks Harsh On Jan 15, 2014 2:27 PM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote: Hoi, I blogged about calendars. The problem I face is that I am adding statements to the calendars in use in India.. I have worked on the Nepali and the Bengali calendar and, I

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Calendars in use in India

2014-01-15 Thread Pranav Curumsey
The official Nepali Calendar (Bikram or Vikram Samvat) is used in several parts of India as well, although it is not the official Government of India Calendar (Saka). Apart from these two, I believe there are 2-3 other major calendars used in different parts of the country. On Wed, Jan 15, 2014

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Calendars in use in India

2014-01-15 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi Harsh, One obvious thing is to make sure that all the items used in Wikidata have labels in the Gujarati language. This allows you to find them and to see them wherever they are used. I have started adding statements like this months follows / is followed by that month.. Given that some

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Calendars in use in India

2014-01-15 Thread Dhaval S. Vyas
As you doubt Gerard, though the month names are same or similar in different languages/cultures/calendars, months not always start and end at the same time. Mainly in soouthern calendars, including the Gujarati and Maharashtrian ones, months end on the New Moon day, while in Northern calendars,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Calendars in use in India

2014-01-15 Thread Vickram Crishna
Hi Gerard Calendars around the world follow a combination of solar and lunar cycles: periodic mismatches between the two have given rise to different ways of keeping track of the days. India also has more than one system in regular use, although as Pranav mentions, only one vernacular calendar

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Calendars in use in India

2014-01-15 Thread വിശ്വപ്രഭ
A great topic, I am particularly interested in! I have worked some solid 3-4 months to compute almost all calendars of Indian traditions. Part of my ambition is to create a page in every Indian Wiki for each year of the CE era, along with the corresponding calendars in each Indian almanacs. This

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Calendars in use in India

2014-01-15 Thread Dhaval S. Vyas
Count me in Vishwa, as Calendars have always been my topic of interest! On 15 Jan 2014 11:11, ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ) viswapra...@gmail.com wrote: A great topic, I am particularly interested in! I have worked some solid 3-4 months to compute almost all calendars of Indian traditions. Part of

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Calendars in use in India

2014-01-15 Thread omshivaprak...@gmail.com
I have been trying to do this on Kannada Wiki! This thread might speed up the process. @Vishwa that would be must for Indic wiki's for sure. On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 4:41 PM, ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ) viswapra...@gmail.com wrote: A great topic, I am particularly interested in! I have worked

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Calendars in use in India

2014-01-15 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I have fixed the entries for the months of the Nepalese calendar. This [1] is what the Reasonator looks like in the Dutch language (it falls back to English). Please change the ne in the URL to the language code for *YOUR* language. This [2] is what it looks like in Wikidata. In Wikidata

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Calendars in use in India

2014-01-15 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I have now fixed the entries for the months of the Bengalese calendar as well. This [1] is what the Reasonator looks like in the Dutch language (it falls back to English). Please change the ne in the URL to the language code for *YOUR* language. This [2] is what it looks like in Wikidata.