Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Gyanpad (Knowledge kiosk) web app: Easy interface to search Wikipedia and sister sites in Indian languages

2011-08-26 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
Just to let you know that Google has quietly added several layouts before deprecating the whole Virtual keyboard API.( These will continue to work). I have updated my app and feel it can be used in wiki academies or where you want to focus on searching wikis, Do try and share your feedback. http://

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Gyanpad (Knowledge kiosk) web app: Easy interface to search Wikipedia and sister sites in Indian languages

2010-09-20 Thread arjuna rao chavala
I added a comment on google issue. http://code.google.com/p/google-ajax-apis/issues/detail?id=454&q=virtual%20keyboard&colspec=ID%20Type%20Stars%20Status%20Modified%20Summary%20APIType%20Opened Request your help to support the same, so that it gets Google attention. Regards Arjun On Fri, Sep

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Gyanpad (Knowledge kiosk) web app: Easy interface to search Wikipedia and sister sites in Indian languages

2010-09-17 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
ikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Fri, September 17, 2010 8:51:27 PM Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Gyanpad (Knowledge kiosk) web app: Easy interface to search Wikipedia and sister sites in Indian languages On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 3:07 PM, BalaSundaraRaman wrote: (copying my response fr

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Gyanpad (Knowledge kiosk) web app: Easy interface to search Wikipedia and sister sites in Indian languages

2010-09-17 Thread arjuna rao chavala
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 8:58 PM, Shiju Alex wrote: > We have to wait for Google to provide inscript keyboards for other >> languages or make inscript/alphabetic keyboards ourselves. >> > > :) Why wait for Google? > > We have lot of programmers among us. Let us form a team and start working >

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Gyanpad (Knowledge kiosk) web app: Easy interface to search Wikipedia and sister sites in Indian languages

2010-09-17 Thread Shiju Alex
> > We have to wait for Google to provide inscript keyboards for other > languages or make inscript/alphabetic keyboards ourselves. > :) Why wait for Google? We have lot of programmers among us. Let us form a team and start working on it. On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 8:51 PM, arjuna rao chaval

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Gyanpad (Knowledge kiosk) web app: Easy interface to search Wikipedia and sister sites in Indian languages

2010-09-17 Thread arjuna rao chavala
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 3:07 PM, BalaSundaraRaman wrote: > (copying my response from another list) > > > Good work, Arjuna. (Though not a fan of phonetic keyboards that rely on > English alphabet sounds due to long term negative impact,) > I agree. May be some people are comfortable with that. W

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Gyanpad (Knowledge kiosk) web app: Easy interface to search Wikipedia and sister sites in Indian languages

2010-09-17 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
uoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture From: arjuna rao chavala To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Fri, September 17, 2010 7:35:56 AM Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Gyanpad (Knowledge kiosk) web app: Easy interface to search Wikipedia and sister s

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Gyanpad (Knowledge kiosk) web app: Easy interface to search Wikipedia and sister sites in Indian languages

2010-09-16 Thread arjuna rao chavala
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan wrote: > Hi Arjuna, > > Great stuff. One more suggestion i could think of is to support "google > transliteration" in addition to phonetic input. Just to qoute an example in > the difference, phonetic gives டமில் for tamil where the same in goo

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Gyanpad (Knowledge kiosk) web app: Easy interface to search Wikipedia and sister sites in Indian languages

2010-09-16 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 07:35, arjuna rao chavala wrote: > I am happy to share a tiny web application to help people get started with > using Indian languages on Computers in public places, using wiki sites. > > Check it out > http://gyanpad.appspot.com/ > > Cheers > Arjun > Hi Arjuna, Great s

[Wikimediaindia-l] Gyanpad (Knowledge kiosk) web app: Easy interface to search Wikipedia and sister sites in Indian languages

2010-09-16 Thread arjuna rao chavala
I am happy to share a tiny web application to help people get started with using Indian languages on Computers in public places, using wiki sites. Check it out http://gyanpad.appspot.com/ Cheers Arjun ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@