[Wikimediaindia-l] Transliteration Js and keymap added to Kannada Wikipedia

2010-12-26 Thread Hari Prasad Nadig
Good news, people. We've added Kannada in-built typing tool for Kannada Wikipedia as well now. Thanks to Junaid's work - we've used his script to achieve this. Thanks to Harisha M G for helping modify the mapping for Kannada. The transliteration is working great - I just added it and tested it qui

[Wikimediaindia-l] WikiX celebrations in New Delhi

2010-12-26 Thread Anirudh Bhati
Greetings, Wikipedians! I am interested in supporting and helping organize a WikiX celebration in New Delhi on 14 January 2010. I would really appreciate to know if there are other volunteers available in New Delhi who can help make this a reality. Any kind of support would be appreciated. Than

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiX celebrations in New Delhi

2010-12-26 Thread Bishakha Datta
That's fantastic, Anirudh - I've been privately hoping someone would step up to the plate and support this in Delhi. Will intro you offlist just now to the (few) volunteers I know in Delhi. Cheers Bishakha On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Anirudh Bhati wrote: > Greetings, Wikipedians! > > I am

[Wikimediaindia-l] Contribute to Kannada Wikipedia to strengthen namma Kannada

2010-12-26 Thread CherianTinu Abraham
Contribute to Kannada Wikipedia to strengthen namma Kannada http://www.mahesh.com/2010/12/26/column-contribute-to-kannada-wikipedia-to-strengthen-namma-kannada Regards Tinu Cherian ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org ht

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Contribute to Kannada Wikipedia to strengthen namma Kannada

2010-12-26 Thread Hari Prasad Nadig
2010/12/26 CherianTinu Abraham > Contribute to Kannada Wikipedia to strengthen namma Kannada > > http://www.mahesh.com/2010/12/26/column-contribute-to-kannada-wikipedia-to-strengthen-namma-kannada > > Clipping of the Vijaya Next article is at URL: http://images.mahesh.com/mahesh-com-images/Home/2

[Wikimediaindia-l] Indic languages & unicode issues.

2010-12-26 Thread CherianTinu Abraham
Hi all, Happened to see Gerard's blog post on issues with Malayalam Wikipedia & Unicode upgrade to 5.1 http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2010/12/malayalam-enigma.html While traffic to websites ( yes, including Wikipedia ) is primary driven by search traffic ,apparently this had a negative effect

[Wikimediaindia-l] Kannada Wikipedia meet-up of 25th December 2010

2010-12-26 Thread Hari Prasad Nadig
Hi all, It was quite overwhelming to see loads of people joining in for the Kannada Wikipedia meet-up beyond the expected numbers! http://www.flickr.com/photos/hpnadig/5290761488/ It was thought that less people would turn up given the difficulty getting to the venue and more importantly the hol

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic languages & unicode issues.

2010-12-26 Thread Hari Prasad Nadig
On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 7:43 PM, CherianTinu Abraham wrote: > Hi all, > Happened to see Gerard's blog post on issues with Malayalam Wikipedia > & Unicode upgrade to 5.1 > http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2010/12/malayalam-enigma.html While > traffic to websites ( yes, including Wikipedia ) is p

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic languages & unicode issues.

2010-12-26 Thread Santhosh Thottingal
On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 7:43 PM, CherianTinu Abraham wrote: > Hi all, > Happened to see Gerard's blog post on issues with Malayalam Wikipedia > & Unicode upgrade to > 5.1 http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2010/12/malayalam-enigma.html The issue is very complex. There were heated debates around

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] Indic languages & unicode issues.

2010-12-26 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
> Unicode's decision to bring the second encoding in > standard was widely debated and opposed mainly by FOSS developer > community from Malayalam. Unicode announced the dual encoding scheme > without canonical equivalence definition in 2005 and reverted it when > scholars and developers oppos

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Kannada Wikipedia meet-up of 25th December 2010

2010-12-26 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
Great to see the momentum with Kannada wiki projects. Congrats for the team. - Sundar "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted." - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture > >From: Hari