[Wikimediaindia-l] "Mailing list for Odia wiki projects is created"-Interested Odia contributors pls participate!

Hi, I am Subhashish Panigrahi from Odia (Oriya) WIkipedia, a new mail list has been created, anyone who want to take part can join the mail list at https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-or You can take part in the contribution of content for Odia Wikipedia please go to http://or.

[Wikimediaindia-l] Recent Tamil Wiki outreach efforts

Hi, Just a quick update on recent Tamil Wiki outreach efforts: In the last 60 days, Tamil Wikipedians conducted 7 workshops / meetups. 1. December 28, 2010 - Mattakkalappu, SriLanka. First organized Wiki meetup in SriLanka where Tamil is an official language and has millions of Tamils. 2. Janua

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Recent Tamil Wiki outreach efforts

Excellent initiative from Tamil wiki community. It is a welcome sign to see that Indic wiki communities have taken the wiki advocacy programs very seriously. Bengali wikimedians are also doing many programs in WB and Bangladesh. We can't expect that every new workshop will bring immediate editors

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Recent Tamil Wiki outreach efforts

Thanks Shiju. A correction in my mail: //When we give the demo, they also learn that it is not so easy to edit as they thought.// should read //When we give the demo, they also learn that it is not so* difficult *to edit as they thought. ravi ___ Wik

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] "Mailing list for Odia wiki projects is created"-Interested Odia contributors pls participate!

Thinking... Why not have 'od.wikipedia.org' instead of 'or.wikipedia.org'? On 28-Feb-2011, at 2:01 PM, Subhashish Panigrahi wrote: > Hi, > > I am Subhashish Panigrahi from Odia (Oriya) WIkipedia, a new mail list has > been created, anyone who want to take part can join the mail list at > https

[Wikimediaindia-l] Reading Wikipedia on your mobile phone

Hoi, I blogged about using the mobile phone for the Indian languages. What I learned is that some languages need to invest some time in order to get the mobile interface to work for them. Please check out to what extend your language is supported. ( xx.m.wikipedia.org where xx is your language code

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] "Mailing list for Odia wiki projects is created"-Interested Odia contributors pls participate!

2011/2/28 शंतनू : > Thinking... Why not have 'od.wikipedia.org' instead of 'or.wikipedia.org'? > We use the ISO 639-1 codes for representing the different languages in our projects. The ISO code for the Oriya language is "or". For more information, see: * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriya_langu

[Wikimediaindia-l] India Programs: Update

Dear Folks, I'm writing to update you on the community meets held last week. (I had visited Mumbai, Pune and Bangalore along with Barry.) First of all, thank you to everyone who came over. Appreciate your time and also the educative, informative, engaging and wide-ranging discussions we ha

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] New members of Language committee

Congratulations and Best wishes to Santhosh Thottingal ! Regards Tinu Cherian -- Forwarded message -- From: Milos Rancic Date: Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 10:49 PM Subject: [Foundation-l] New members of Language committee To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List I am glad to announce th

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Recent Tamil Wiki outreach efforts

Good job Ravi and Tamil Wiki community. Glad to see lots of good activities and outreach around Tamil Wiki. Would love to see such enthusiasm from other language Wiki communities too. Regards Tinu Cherian On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Ravishankar wrote: > Hi, > > Just a quick update on recen

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] New members of Language committee

Congrats, Santhosh. What are the functions of a language committee member? - 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: Cherian