Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Aakash UbiSlate 7

A reviewof Aakash. Best Bishakha On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Vickram Crishna wrote: > On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Gautam John wrote: > >> On 6 October 2011 12:04, Nagarjuna G wrote: >> >> > This by itself

[Wikimediaindia-l] Transliteration tool for Sanskrit wiki

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 Wikimediai

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Hi

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 lan

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [OT] The Deadly Microsoft Embrace

On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 6:49 AM, Anivar Aravind wrote: > Tehelka Report on TN freebie laptops and it politics > Relevant in the context of wikipedia offline plans in TN laptops > Are there plans for such a bundling of offline Wikipedia? I think it would be *awesome*, but has anyone been talking t

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

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 wrote: > *DNA : Want to d

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

Hearty Congratulations and Best wishes, Naveen. Regards Tinu Cherian -- Forwarded message -- From: Arjuna Rao Chavala 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: Wikimedia India EC

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

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 20:27, Harish 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 the early communit

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

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 o

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

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 Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wiki

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Aakash UbiSlate 7

"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 th

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

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 wrote: > Hearty Congratulations and Best wishes, Naveen. > > Regards > Tinu Cherian > > -- Forwarded message

[Wikimediaindia-l] Mails getting queued

For some reasons, lot of mails are getting queued for "Message has a suspicious header" and needs manual approval since yesterday(which is why you might have noted emails coming in bulk). Please note there will be delay in delivery of mails on list. Let me check if there is a bug already / file one

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

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 To: Wikimedia India Community list Sent: Tuesday, 18 October 2011 2:02 PM Subject: Re: [Wikimediaind

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

On 18 October 2011 14:35, Arjuna Rao Chavala 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 http://blog.prathambooks.org/p/s

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Aakash UbiSlate 7

On 18 October 2011 15:09, Vickram Crishna wrote: > 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 through the school day, is not value, it's a > waste. Small c

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

Congratulations and Best wishes to Naveen. On 10/18/11, Vickram Crishna 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 > wrote: > >> Hearty Congratulatio

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

Congratulations Naveen. With Regards, Mandar V. Kulkarni > >From: Vickram Crishna >To: Wikimedia India Community list >Sent: Tuesday, 18 October 2011, 15:10 >Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Naveen Francis is elected as Secretary > > >Wonderful. Nice

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

Congrats Naveen, :) Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Vickram Crishna 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] Aakash UbiSlate 7

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Vickram Crishna 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 has every possibili

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

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 ) On Tue, Oct 18, 20

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

Congrats Naveen On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Vickram Crishna 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 < > tinucher...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>

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

Thank you Vickram n all .. Happy to volunteer as Secretary of the Wikimedia India Chapter On 18 October 2011 02:40, Vickram Crishna 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

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

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 sc

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Aakash UbiSlate 7

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 wrote: > "Aakash is probably great value for money. But the question is, is it the > best our s

[Wikimediaindia-l] Coimbatore Meetup, confirmation

Dear all, After some talking, online, and offline with people, from Coimbatore, Erode, Salem, Chennai et al, I wish to send this message out: The date for the FIRST Coimbatore meetup has been chosen as December 10, 2011, the second saturday of the month. This date has been chosen keeping in mind ex

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Aakash UbiSlate 7

>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 wrote: > Is it possible to