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On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 12:50, Bishakha Datta bishakhada...@gmail.com wrote:
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Hey Shirish,
Dear Bishaka,
Been talking to lots of women about this - one barrier I'm finding from
informal chats with many women in India who are otherwise comfy with the net
is technical. At
Sundar,
Having a house of representative system will help managing things better.
You are looking a great number of projects and people - if everything goes
well - in the general body, and it would be absolutely chaotic when it comes
to discussions. 99% you will not see most people for doing
Hi Jyothis,
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 4:39 AM, Jyothis Edathoot j...@jyothis.net wrote:
Hari,
Couldnt help asking, but could you please point out whom are you referring
as trolls here and who attacked you (or any member of EC) personally? As far
as I see this, community members raised
Hi,
A simpler technical solution will be to show the map that is correct
in the India context for all the IP addresses originating from India
and for all other IPs, the current one ( I think that is the one
recognised by UN)
This should give a right solution to all the users.
Additionally, on
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 7:09 PM, Gerard Meijssen
gerard.meijs...@gmail.comwrote:
To top it off, Hindi has a form for inanimate objects.
Some Indian languages have genders for nouns, others don't. Hindi is one of
those that has two genders: feminine and masculine nouns [1], including for
The Hindustan Times : BEHIND THE SCENES AT WIKIPEDIA.IN ( 13 Feb 2010)
( Please note the below article is copyrighted by HT media and sent on this
public list for representation purposes only. Request to not download or
reproduce the content)
*BEHIND THE SCENES AT WIKIPEDIA.IN *
MANY AVATARS
Using Google Chrome and Windows 7. Unified login on Hindi works for me.
Swaroop G Rao
2011/2/14 shirish शिरीष shirisha...@gmail.com
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On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 02:38, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote:
Unified Login or SUL (Single User Login) is a mechanism which allows
users
to
A preliminary update about the Carte Blanche event:
1. Feb 5:
I delivered the inaugural address as chief guest. I spoke about what all
constitute free software and content, why anyone should care (more in the
context of underserved needs of groups of people without market strengths and
Hoi,
When you are new to a Wikimedia project, you have to log in for a first time
and accept cookies for that site. When you do, the user you just created
will be included into your SUL profile. When it did not, you can add a new
profile manually into your SUL profile. When your new profile is
Hi,
We are working on a Complex script PDF rendering library named
PyPDFLib(https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/pypdflib/). One of its
test case (or use case) is to render a wiki page in complex script(any
Indian Language) to PDF. Currently PDF export feature is not
available(not working) for
I think that such a measure would only complicate matters, and would present
the wrong information to the Indian user.
Swaroop G Rao
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 19:02, Sudhanwa Jogalekar sudhanwa@gmail.comwrote:
Hi,
A simpler technical solution will be to show the map that is correct
in
Hi Santhosh,
Cool!. Just have some feedback on the generated PDF (Same article ilangai on
tamil wikipedia). I see line spacing is not uniform and some characters from
adjacent lines overlap, but a slightly more important issue is spacing
within the words for certain characters[Am not sure if its
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 21:49, Gerard Meijssen
gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi,
Hoi (guess it means hi :) ),
When you are new to a Wikimedia project, you have to log in for a first time
and accept cookies for that site. When you do, the user you just created
will be included into your
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On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 22:36, Santhosh Thottingal
santhosh.thottin...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
We are working on a Complex script PDF rendering library named
PyPDFLib(https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/pypdflib/). One of its
test case (or use case) is to render a wiki page in
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On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 03:53, Gerard Meijssen
gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi,
Did you change the password so that it is the same ?
yup, did all that, will try again tomorrow. signing off and going to
dreamland
Thanks,
GerardM
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Regards,
Does it have anything to do with accessing secure Wikipedia ? Can you try
with normal link?
- Tinu Cherian
2011/2/15 shirish शिरीष shirisha...@gmail.com
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On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 22:36, Santhosh Thottingal
santhosh.thottin...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
We are working on a Complex
Since the tool is under the early stages of development, I know it is not
good to expect a perfect PDF.
Some general comments are:
- For Malayalam, eventhough the text rendering is almost perfect, I could
find there are some unwnated space inserted with in few words. I assume it
is due
On Tue, February 15, 2011 3:44 am, shirish शिरीष wrote:
Anyways, perhaps it doesn't know to play nicely with the https
(secured) or just does not want to play with hindi or those particular
pages.
Shirish,
secure access to wikipedia is not need here(and not supported as of now).
It is just
Hi !
I do not find any problem while rendering a wiki page of complex scripts
like Hindi in to pdf.
Rendering of Indian languages texts is not proper if true fonts are used for
typing. Wiki pages do not use true type fonts.
--
Best Regards.
Kundan Amitabh
Managing Director,
Ang India
Santhosh,
Good initiative. I tried with Telugu main page with your URL substituted
with telugu reference to main page. It works though layout/rendering needs
improvement.
I presently use Firefox print command on Ubuntu and select print to file
(pdf), and I get a fine pdf file, except for the
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 10:36 PM, Santhosh Thottingal
santhosh.thottin...@gmail.com wrote:
Just wanted to give an early preview of this software library through
an online interface : http://silpa.smc.org.in/Render
You can try with a Wikipedia page in your language and verify the generated
Santosh,
Excellent effort. Kudos to you and the SMC team.
I feel that we should setup a wiki page or similar close to the project page
for users to put up feedback.
Note: Checked with Kannada. The preview verision works fine for most part,
which is good. There are some trivial bugs.
On Mon,
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Ashwin Baindur
ashwin.bain...@gmail.comwrote:
Hello everyone,
I think the time has come to assume good faith and let the office
bearers get their act together. We have had enough emails expressing
the community's concerns at lack of transparency, lack of
Hi Santhosh,
Good work with the library. I tried a few pages like பட்டாம்பூச்சி,
மாந்தவுருவகம் etc., and I got an error. However, it worked for the Tamil Wiki
example you cited, இலங்கை and the Malayalam wiki example Mango.
Some quirks:
1. insertion of intra-word spacing (like Srikanth and
Thanks Shrinivasan.
I've added one project proposal to
http://wiki.ilugc.in/index.php?title=Projects_List#Project_List
I needed to generate audio pronunciation guides for English phrases used in
Tamil Wiktionary (and other wiktionaries) from pronunciation files for the
individual words. I
Hi all,
Developers with Wikimedia Foundation, Tomaz Finc and Arthur Richards will be
in the Bengaluru this week.
There's a Wiki meetup planned on *February 17th, at 5.30 p.m*. at *Center
for Internet and Society, Domlur* (near TERI).
Everyone who's interested can attend. This could be a good
Hi,
I have mentioned to
Bishaka, Vivek and Pradeep in person and on the Mumbai list. After our first
Mumbai Photowalk, I ran a quick
check on Flickr for Mumbai related content and found a lot of relevant
and professional photographs. I contacted relevant uploaders requesting
them to
Some photos from the organisers:
http://csmit.org/gallery/index.php?level=albumid=22
(They're released under cc-by-nd, so can't be uploaded to commons. Shrinivasan,
is it possible to get only the wiki-related photos released under cc-by-sa
suitable for Wikimedia Commons?)
- Sundar
That
hi,
We've created a start-up project page under GLAM for co-ordinating
activities among Wikipedians interested in working with GLAM institutions in
Mumbai. I've built up a pretty simple GLAM Mumbai project page -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Mumbai.
We'll keep this page updated.
Continuing this thread with a reportback of Monday 14 Feb's GLAM meetings
with Liam in Mumbai.
1)Our first meeting was with the Heras
Institutehttp://www.xaviers.edu/heras.htmat St Xavier's College.
Founded in 1926 as the Indian Historical Research Institute by Fr. Henry
Heras S. J., the Heras
Report on Meeting between Wikimedia and Artists in Mumbai on 14 February 2011
Bishaka had arranged the meeting through Ashok of Padma. It was held
at Volte, an Art Gallery located at Colaba owned by Tushar Jivrajka.
Liam and myself attended the same with Bishaka. The agenda was to
promote
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