Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] 1 user. 20 hours. 300 articles

2011-05-02 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, FYI http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2011/05/unsung-wikipedia-heroes.html Thanks, GerardM On 28 April 2011 18:21, Ravishankar wrote: > Hi, > > Tamil Wikipedia added another 1,000+ articles in the last 3 weeks. > > Behind this is a remarkable story of 1 user who created 300 article

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] 1 user. 20 hours. 300 articles

2011-05-02 Thread Steven Walling
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 12:57 AM, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > FYI > http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2011/05/unsung-wikipedia-heroes.html > Thanks, >GerardM > Great post Gerard. :) -- Steven Walling Fellow at Wikimedia Foundation wikimediafoundation.org ___

[Wikimediaindia-l] About photo upload in Commons

2011-05-02 Thread Subhashish Panigrahi
Hi All, Here I am again with few queries about uploading pictures in Commons. Problems: 1. There are many postage stamps available on eminent personalities which are to be there in Wikipedia, but as post 1951 postage stamps are not in PD there is no possible way to keep them in Commons, Any solut

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] About photo upload in Commons

2011-05-02 Thread Shiju Alex
> > 5. If some pictures are available by a State Government portal like > here > is that possible to add them commons? > Not possible as of now since the license of the site is not defined. The story is sa

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] About photo upload in Commons

2011-05-02 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
2. There are many pictures available for eminent leaders, and many of them are photographed before 1951, but the source is not available and so is the date of issue. So, I was wondering if I can draw them by hand, scan and using tool make little correction so that they won't violate the copyright.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] The Marathi language Wikipedia has reached 33, 333 articles

2011-05-02 Thread Mahitgar from Marathi Wikipedia
Tweet @OdiaWiki * -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/attachments/20110502/562464bf/attachment-0001.htm -- Message: 3 Date: Mon, 2 May 2011 09:57:23 +0200 From: Gerard Mei

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Internal-l] Fwd: 2011 Board Elections: candidate submissions are open

2011-05-02 Thread Bishakha Datta
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Malayalam loves Wikimedia event – report card

2011-05-02 Thread CherianTinu Abraham
Shiju Alex blogs the report card of "Malayalam loves Wikimedia" event : http://shijualex.wordpress.com/2011/05/02/malayalam-loves-wikimedia-event-2011-april-report/ Regards Tinu Cherian ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedi