[Wikimediaindia-l] Today's Indian Express News- Marathi Wikipedia to feature at WikiConference

2011-10-25 Thread Mandar Kulkarni
   Dear All, Pl. find attached link for more details - http://www.indianexpress.com/news/marathi-wikipedia-to-feature-at-wikiconference/865134/ Wish you all a very Happy Diwali !!! With Regards, Mandar V. Kulkarni___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing

[Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki Data : New Wikimedia Project for Structured Data

2011-10-25 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
Hi all, Wikimedia would be a starting new project WikiData. Details here[1] . I am particularly excited about how the interwiki data and API is made available and hope it would be immense use to all Indic languages, many possibilities of mashups, data extractions might be easier with the

[Wikimediaindia-l] Tamil Wikipedia -- Google Translation experiences at Arabic Wiki Convention.

2011-10-25 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
Hi all, Last week Arabic Wikipedians organized Arabic Wikipedia Convening (WMF Blog Report [1]) hosted by Qatar Computing Research Institute at Doha. Since the Qatar Institute was looking at options on machine / manual translation to increase articles on Arabic Wikipedia, they had invited a Tamil