[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia.IN the news - Mumbai Hindustan Times, 13th Feb 2011

2011-02-16 Thread Nikhil Sheth
http://epaper.hindustantimes.com/PUBLICATIONS/HT/HM/2011/02/13/ArticleHtmls/BEHIND-THE-SCENES-AT-WIKIPEDIAIN-13022011018002.shtml?Mode=1 Cheers, Nikhil Sheth +91-966-583-1250 Pune, India Teach For India http://www.teachforindia.org/ Fellow, 2011-13 www.nikhilsheth.tk Find me on: Twitter

[Wikimediaindia-l] Indian academicians on Wikipedia?

2011-02-16 Thread CherianTinu Abraham
Hi, A reporter is doing a story on Indian academicians on Wikipedia.. . If you know about any academicians / people from the education system who edit Wikipedia, it would be great help.. Are there anyone in the India mailing list ? Please drop *a personal mail to me* with the contact

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indian academicians on Wikipedia?

2011-02-16 Thread pavithran
On 16 February 2011 16:38, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: Hi,     A reporter is doing a story on Indian academicians on Wikipedia.. . If you know about any academicians / people from the education system who edit Wikipedia, it would be great help.. Are there anyone in the 

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indian academicians on Wikipedia?

2011-02-16 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
Copied Pulkit Gupta who started http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_MiniBiography_of_Indian_Professors He got in touch with some Professors who are familiar with editing if not already editing Wikipedia. - Sundar That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia.IN the news - Mumbai Hindustan Times, 13th Feb 2011

2011-02-16 Thread Gautam John
On 16 February 2011 14:15, Nikhil Sheth nikhil...@gmail.com wrote: http://epaper.hindustantimes.com/PUBLICATIONS/HT/HM/2011/02/13/ArticleHtmls/BEHIND-THE-SCENES-AT-WIKIPEDIAIN-13022011018002.shtml?Mode=1 Nikhil, thanks much for posting this. I must say it's one of the better articles I have

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia lesson in Maharashtra class 7 textbook

2011-02-16 Thread Gautam John
On 16 February 2011 12:42, Anoop anoop@gmail.com wrote: Here is the link : http://www.itschool.gov.in/icttextbook8.pdf  (Page 39) Correct me if I am wrong but most of the screenshots in the book look like they are from a GNOME based UI? Most impressive, if correct. Thank you. Best,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia lesson in Maharashtra class 7 textbook

2011-02-16 Thread Anoop
Yes. The complete syllabus is based on GNU/Linux . IT@school team has created a GNU/Linux distro with name *it@school gnu-linux* which is available to download at http://itschool.gov.in/downloads.php Thanks On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.orgwrote: On 16

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia lesson in Maharashtra class 7 textbook

2011-02-16 Thread Gautam John
On 16 February 2011 18:35, Anoop anoop@gmail.com wrote: Yes. The complete syllabus is based on GNU/Linux . IT@school team has created a GNU/Linux distro with name it@school gnu-linux which is available to download at http://itschool.gov.in/downloads.php Thank you, Anup. Truly astounding.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-del] Indian academicians on Wikipedia?

2011-02-16 Thread Anirudh Bhati
Hi Tinu, Srinivas Gunta is an Assistant Professor for Strategic Management at Indian Institute of Management Indore. He is copied on this email. Please connect him with the reporter. Yours sincerely, Anirudh Bhati 00 91 9328712208 Skype: anirudhsbh On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 4:38 PM,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia.IN the news - Mumbai Hindustan Times, 13th Feb 2011

2011-02-16 Thread CherianTinu Abraham
I posted a text version of the article earlier. http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-February/002194.html ( I couldnt share the pdf version in public, the reporter sent me) Btw I did spent quite a time with the reporter educating about Wikimedia/ Wikipedia in India and a

[Wikimediaindia-l] Releasing FAQ foe Hindi WIkipedia

2011-02-16 Thread mayur
Dear Wikimedians, Today we have released first version of FAQ for Hindi Wikipedia http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hindi_Wiki_Projects_FAQ_Version_1.0.pdf.With a nice effort of malayalam wiki community they translated their FAQ from malayalam to english.That

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Releasing FAQ foe Hindi WIkipedia

2011-02-16 Thread sugeesh | സുഗീഷ് *
please remember | symbol at last of the sentence corrections... spelling changes fonts. some small small corrections need for this PDF version regards sugeesh On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 8:45 PM, mayur mayur...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Wikimedians,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia.IN the news - Mumbai Hindustan Times, 13th Feb 2011

2011-02-16 Thread Bala Jeyaraman
a minor goofup That would be the photo caption, which sends sundar all over Kerala :-) On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 7:51 PM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.comwrote: I posted a text version of the article earlier.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia.IN the news - Mumbai Hindustan Times, 13th Feb 2011

2011-02-16 Thread sugeesh | സുഗീഷ് *
GOOD ... On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 9:21 PM, Bala Jeyaraman sodabot...@gmail.comwrote: a minor goofup That would be the photo caption, which sends sundar all over Kerala :-) On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 7:51 PM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: I posted a text

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia.IN the news - Mumbai Hindustan Times, 13th Feb 2011

2011-02-16 Thread CherianTinu Abraham
and Karnataka too :D ( the only place in Karnataka , we 3 of us are active in Bangalore ) -TC On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 9:21 PM, Bala Jeyaraman sodabot...@gmail.comwrote: a minor goofup That would be the photo caption, which sends sundar all over Kerala :-) On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 7:51 PM,

[Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] : Kerala IT News :Malayalam Wikipedia Study Camp on February 19

2011-02-16 Thread CherianTinu Abraham
Kerala IT News :Malayalam Wikipedia Study Camp on February 19 http://www.keralaitnews.com/other-it-news/foss/2071-malayalam-wikipedia-study-camp-on-february-19 *As Wikipedia celebrates its 10th anniversary, the Malayalam Wiki Society is organising a Study Camp on various initiatives by Malayalam

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Internal-l] IRC office hours this Thursday with Barry and Hisham

2011-02-16 Thread Bishakha Datta
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Flickr alternative to Photowalks

2011-02-16 Thread Hari Prasad Nadig
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 8:59 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:38, wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com wrote: 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

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia.IN the news - Mumbai Hindustan Times, 13th Feb 2011 (CherianTinu Abraham)

2011-02-16 Thread Ashwin Baindur
The Pune chapter gave details of all its multi-facetted incentives for W10 including Wikimedia Commons,Marathi Wikipedia. article improvement program etc to Radhika Raj, the reporter of Hindusthan Times but she chose to highlight Wikipedia for Schools aspect only and it appears that the Pune guys

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia.IN the news - Mumbai Hindustan Times, 13th Feb 2011 (CherianTinu Abraham)

2011-02-16 Thread CherianTinu Abraham
I was told that the article went through lots of editor's cut :) -TC On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 8:56 AM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.comwrote: The Pune chapter gave details of all its multi-facetted incentives for W10 including Wikimedia Commons,Marathi Wikipedia. article improvement

[Wikimediaindia-l] (OT) On the importance of Unicode

2011-02-16 Thread Gautam John
Hey Everyone: This one isn't directly connected with Wikimedia projects but is, IMHO, one element of any Wikimedia project in India - Unicode. I'm trying to bring together some ideas as to why Unicode is important, what the upsides and downsides are. My initial thoughts: 1. While there are many

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] (OT) On the importance of Unicode

2011-02-16 Thread Gautam John
On 17 February 2011 11:29, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.org wrote: I'm trying to bring together some ideas as to why Unicode is important, what the upsides and downsides are. My initial thoughts: A few other points that I read here: http://anandabazar-unicode.appspot.com/ Data usage: Use

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia.IN the news - Mumbai Hindustan Times, 13th Feb 2011

2011-02-16 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
That would be the photo caption, which sends sundar all over Kerala :-) How I wish that be true! - 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

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] (OT) On the importance of Unicode

2011-02-16 Thread Gautam John
On 17 February 2011 12:35, BalaSundaraRaman sundarbe...@yahoo.com wrote: I have some points to share, but got to go back to work now. Can I get back on this later? Sure, Sundar! No hurry. Thank you. Best, Gautam http://social.prathambooks.org/