Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Google Translation on Indian language Wikipedias & Paid editing

2011-02-04 Thread Ravishankar
Hi Bala, Thanks for the stats. On Google: While we have no new Google articles for the last 5 months, around 600 articles get created every month in Tamil Wikipedia. So concerning Tamil Wikipedia's case, Google has not contributed much article number wise. But all their articles are very length

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimediaindia-l Digest, Vol 32, Issue 18

2011-02-04 Thread wheredevelsdare
- > > Message: 3 > Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 07:32:10 +0530 > From: CherianTinu Abraham > Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Hindustan Times confuses Wikipedia with > Wikileaks > To: "Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia." > > Message-ID: &

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Google Translation on Indian language Wikipedias & Paid editing

2011-02-04 Thread CherianTinu Abraham
HI Ravi / Bala, It is great work that Tamil Wiki is doing by not allowing the dump of paid translators to article space directly, thereby maintaining the overall quality of the Wikipedia. But there are many other Indian language Wikipedias where the translators move the article directly t

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Copyrights & Google

2011-02-04 Thread CherianTinu Abraham
Just to clarify a little , CC by SA is also a copyright license. The only difference is that these licenses allow creators to communicate which rights they reserve, and which rights they "waive" for the benefit of recipients or other creators. There is a common miunderstanding that Wikipedia arti

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Copyrights & Google

2011-02-04 Thread Bala Jeyaraman
A few more stats on Google and Ta. Wiki: no of google articles during sep 2009-Aug 2010 = 1240 Total no of articles created during sep 2009- 15 Aug 2010 = ~5000 % of google articles = ~25% Google article creation was stopped at this point. Total no of articles created during 15 Aug 2010 - 4 Feb

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Meet-up in association with Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) - Kolkata

2011-02-04 Thread shirish शिरीष
In-line :- On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 13:17, jayanta nath wrote: > > Dear friends, > An Wikipedia Meet-up/Workshop arranged by Wikimedia India (West Bengal) and > in association with Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (Kolkata Campus) has > been held on Saturday,12th February 2011 3 PM at Saltlake,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Google Translation on Indian language Wikipedias & Paid editing

2011-02-04 Thread shirish शिरीष
At bottom :- On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 14:55, CherianTinu Abraham wrote: > HI Ravi / Bala, >           It is great work that Tamil Wiki is doing by not allowing the dump > of paid translators to article space directly, thereby maintaining the > overall quality of the Wikipedia. But there are many ot

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement: Hiring of Asaf Bartov and Moushira Elamrawy contract extension

2011-02-04 Thread Bishakha Datta
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia Announcements] New General Counsel!: Geoffrey Brigham

2011-02-04 Thread Bishakha Datta
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Meet-up in association with Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) - Kolkata

2011-02-04 Thread jayanta nath
Thank you Shirish, It was mistake 2011/2/5 shirish शिरीष > In-line :- > > On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 13:17, jayanta nath wrote: > > > > Dear friends, > > An Wikipedia Meet-up/Workshop arranged by Wikimedia India (West Bengal) > and in association with Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (Kolkata Camp

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Google Translation on Indian language Wikipedias & Paid editing

2011-02-04 Thread Ravishankar
> fluent in Hindi. So can somebody post a link or two of translated > hindi article/s so one can see how to note /notice if an article is > translated . While the translated article is posted, there will be a edit summary that mentions the articles is translated using Google Translation Kit. Thi