[Wikimediaindia-l] Transliteration tool for Sanskrit wiki

2011-10-18 Thread Harish
Sanskrit Wikipedia is not having transliteration tool as in most other Indian languages. Since the script is Devanagari, the same code used in Hindi wiki can be reused. Can anybody please enable it? -- Harish ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Hi

2011-10-18 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, It does not matter where you live when you want to become an ambassador for your language. The Wikimedia Foundation has set up a team of developers who are tasked to make editing in any of the Indic languages as easy as editing in English. What we are looking for are people who know their

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: DNA : Want to display your photos? Donate them to Wikipedia

2011-10-18 Thread CherianTinu Abraham
If you haven't seen, the web version now included a slideshow of selected images from Wikimedia Commons http://www.dnaindia.com/scitech/slideshow_want-to-display-your-photos-donate-them-to-wikipedia_1599927#top -TC On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 11:23 AM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Naveen Francis is elected as Secretary

2011-10-18 Thread CherianTinu Abraham
Hearty Congratulations and Best wishes, Naveen. Regards Tinu Cherian -- Forwarded message -- From: Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 10:21 AM Subject: [Wikimedia-IN-Exec] Naveen Francis is elected as Secretary To: wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com Cc:

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Transliteration tool for Sanskrit wiki

2011-10-18 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 20:27, Harish mghar...@gmail.com wrote: Sanskrit Wikipedia is not having transliteration tool as in most other Indian languages. Since the script is Devanagari, the same code used in Hindi wiki can be reused. Can anybody please enable it? Infact Sanskrit was one of

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Transliteration tool for Sanskrit wiki

2011-10-18 Thread Bala Jeyaraman
hello harish, It is easy now to add the narayam typing tool for devanagari by filing a bug/request in Bugzilla - https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/ But first initiate a discussion in sanskrit wikipedia and obtain community consensus. You will need to show that the community wants the installation

[Wikimediaindia-l] Naveen Francis is elected as the Secretary

2011-10-18 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
Hi, I am glad to announce that Naveen Francis is elected as Secretary of the Wikimedia Chapter. Please join me in congratulating Naveen. Thanks Arjuna Rao Chavala President, Wikmedia Chapter. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Aakash UbiSlate 7

2011-10-18 Thread Vickram Crishna
Aakash is probably great value for money. But the question is, is it the best our students deserve. I think not. Some confusion, I think, about what constitutes value for money. A badly put together device that has every possibility of failing, and does not have sufficient battery life to get

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Transliteration tool for Sanskrit wiki

2011-10-18 Thread Vibhi Jain
There is a transliteration tool on sa wiki, if you have problems regarding it, you are most welcome to get the help on the village pump. :) From: Bala Jeyaraman sodabot...@gmail.com To: Wikimedia India Community list wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent:

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Naveen Francis is elected as the Secretary

2011-10-18 Thread Gautam John
On 18 October 2011 14:35, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.com wrote: I am glad to announce that Naveen Francis is elected as Secretary of the Wikimedia Chapter. Please join me in congratulating Naveen. Congratulations and good luck, Naveen! Thank you. Best, Gautam

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Naveen Francis is elected as Secretary

2011-10-18 Thread Jayanta Nath
Congratulations and Best wishes to Naveen. On 10/18/11, Vickram Crishna vvcris...@radiophony.com wrote: Wonderful. Nice to have the community reaching out to you when you're far from home :-), more incentive to come back asap. On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 1:48 PM, CherianTinu Abraham

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Naveen Francis is elected as Secretary

2011-10-18 Thread Mandar Kulkarni
Congratulations Naveen. With Regards, Mandar V. Kulkarni From: Vickram Crishna vvcris...@radiophony.com To: Wikimedia India Community list wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Tuesday, 18 October 2011, 15:10 Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd:

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Naveen Francis is elected as Secretary

2011-10-18 Thread Ashwin Baindur
Congrats Naveen, :) Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Vickram Crishna vvcris...@radiophony.comwrote: Wonderful. Nice to have the community reaching out to you when you're far from home :-), more incentive to

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Aakash UbiSlate 7

2011-10-18 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Vickram Crishna vvcris...@radiophony.com wrote: Aakash is probably great value for money. But the question is, is it the best our students deserve. I think not. Some confusion, I think, about what constitutes value for money. A badly put together device that

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Transliteration tool for Sanskrit wiki

2011-10-18 Thread Swaroop Rao
The sitenotice is already live on Sanskrit Wikipedia (it is written in Sanskrit, and it reads: How to type Unicode Devanagari). But it doesn't contain screenshots or anything of that sort, just basic help. Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch) On Tue, Oct 18,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Naveen Francis is elected as Secretary

2011-10-18 Thread Shiju Alex
Congrats Naveen On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Vickram Crishna vvcris...@radiophony.comwrote: Wonderful. Nice to have the community reaching out to you when you're far from home :-), more incentive to come back asap. On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 1:48 PM, CherianTinu Abraham

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Naveen Francis is elected as Secretary

2011-10-18 Thread Naveen Francis
Thank you Vickram n all .. Happy to volunteer as Secretary of the Wikimedia India Chapter On 18 October 2011 02:40, Vickram Crishna vvcris...@radiophony.com wrote: Wonderful. Nice to have the community reaching out to you when you're far from home :-), more incentive to come back asap. On

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Transliteration tool for Sanskrit wiki

2011-10-18 Thread Shiju Alex
As Srikanth mentioned, Sanskrit wiki projects (http://sa.wikipedia.org) is one of the first Indic language wiki (along with tamil and Malayalam) to implement the integrated typing tool. So the feature Harish asked is already there in Sanskrit wiki projects. Should we run site notices with these

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Aakash UbiSlate 7

2011-10-18 Thread Jessie Wild
Is it possible to get one of these to test the Kiwix offline Wikipedia on? Would be interesting to do some usability testing during the India Hackathon. On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 2:39 AM, Vickram Crishna vvcris...@radiophony.comwrote: Aakash is probably great value for money. But the question is,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Aakash UbiSlate 7

2011-10-18 Thread Vickram Crishna
From what has been noised, it will not be available until December. Since the IBN review mentions an actual piece, there clearly are some floating about, but one would probably need to get in touch with MoHRD to get access. On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 9:46 PM, Jessie Wild jw...@wikimedia.org wrote: