Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-WB] Proposal: Wikipedia participation at 'Kolkata Book Fair 2012'

2011-11-24 Thread Jayanta Nath
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Noteworthy Wikimedian recognition and Jury mention

2011-11-24 Thread Ravishankar
Arun, While all the noteworthy Wikimedians announced and jury mentions are good, I am very disappointed that some of the very outstanding nominations are left out for unknown reasons. There is no need to limit the number of selections if documentation, learning is the motive. I resisted

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Noteworthy Wikimedian recognition and Jury mention

2011-11-24 Thread Arun Ramarathnam
Thanks for you feedback Srikanth. It was quite a task for the Jury. With multiple Wikimedia projects, nominations from 12 languages, multiple contribution types and gender we had quite a few things to cover and represent in the eventual list. You point is a good one. On large wikipedias/projects

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-IN-Exec] Noteworthy Wikimedian recognition and Jury mention

2011-11-24 Thread Arun Ramarathnam
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote: Arun, While all the noteworthy Wikimedians announced and jury mentions are good, Thank you for that. I am very disappointed that some of the very outstanding nominations are left out for unknown reasons. Many

[Wikimediaindia-l] Input methods extension Narayam enabled on Wikimedia Commons and more on input methods and web fonts

2011-11-24 Thread Siebrand Mazeland (WMF)
Dear all, As requested at the Wikimedia Hackathon in Mumbai last weekend by Srikanth, and also in bug 32619[1], *Narayam* was just *enabled* on *Wikimedia Commons *. I hope you find it useful. During the hackathon we had a lot of help in adding more key mappings to Narayam[2], and we are right

[Wikimediaindia-l] Proposal of wikipedia academy at Hyderabad

2011-11-24 Thread రహ్మానుద్దీన్ షేక్
Hi There are few announcements from Hyderabad. 1. We are planning for a Wikipedia Academy, open to all on Dec 23, 2011 Details can be had from here : http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wiki_Academy/OUCIP,_Hyderabad This will emphasize on contribution to English Wikipedia and also encourage other

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Noteworthy Wikimedian recognition and Jury mention

2011-11-24 Thread Ashwin Baindur
Vide discussions amongst jury members, userbox has been placed on the award-winner's user page (Bhadani)on English Wikipedia and all nominees from WikiProject India on English Wikipedia have been given a Barnstar of National Merit. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Noteworthy Wikimedian recognition and Jury mention

2011-11-24 Thread Bala Jeyaraman
can we get a common (approved by chapter) barnstar/medal.userbox that could be place in the award winner's user page. I was talking to one today and he said he would like something solid to show that he indeed get a recognition from the chapter. On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Ashwin Baindur

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-chn] Input methods extension Narayam enabled on Wikimedia Commons and more on input methods and web fonts

2011-11-24 Thread Bala Jeyaraman
Agree with Srikanth on WebFonts. We at the Tamil Wiki projects have already tried the webfonts out and found the Lohit Tamil - the font available via webFonts extension has serious readability/rendering issues in most operating systems (most except Redhat Linux). It is a big step backwards in

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-chn] Input methods extension Narayam enabled on Wikimedia Commons and more on input methods and web fonts

2011-11-24 Thread Erik Moeller
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Bala Jeyaraman sodabot...@gmail.com wrote: Agree with Srikanth on WebFonts. We at the Tamil Wiki projects have already tried the webfonts out and found the Lohit Tamil - the font available via webFonts extension has serious readability/rendering issues in most

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Mumbai hackathon followup

2011-11-24 Thread Pradeep Mohandas
hi Sumana, Thanks for that update and also thanks to the Engineering team at WMF for the Hackathon. Any possibilities on developers meeting each other and newbies attending these? Also, any possibilities to catch up for those who missed the session in Mumbai? warm regards, Pradeep Mohandas

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Proposal: Wikipedia participation at 'Kolkata Book Fair 2012'

2011-11-24 Thread Pradeep Mohandas
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-chn] Input methods extension Narayam enabled on Wikimedia Commons and more on input methods and web fonts

2011-11-24 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 20:53, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: So, if I'm understanding the issue correctly, the open source font in Tamil is inferior to the proprietary font that many users have installed, correct? Exactly. I recall brief discussion about this at the hackathon,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-chn] Input methods extension Narayam enabled on Wikimedia Commons and more on input methods and web fonts

2011-11-24 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, At the Hackathon several problems were found that have to with web fonts and input methods. They were discussed with a Red Hat engineer and entered in the Red Hat Bugzilla. when Red Hat was the maintainer (Lohit font for instance). In the last two days we have been at CDAC and at Red Hat

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Mumbai hackathon followup

2011-11-24 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, This Saturday there will be a translation rally in Pune. When this is done, it is more then likely (actually it is what we plan to talk with technically minded people about MediaWiki and its internationalisation and how this relates to Indic language support. If you can please join us for

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Braille/touchscreen integration

2011-11-24 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I do not know exactly how Braille works but if a character in a standard script can be represented by Braille characters in stead, then all it seems to need is a method for us to replace the existing Unicode character with the Braille Unicode character. As we already have WebFonts

[Wikimediaindia-l] Need your suggestions...

2011-11-24 Thread Ravishankar
Hi Shrinivasan, Hope your married life is going great. I need your suggestions for couple of things: * I created a meetp group for WordPress lovers in Chennai at http://www.meetup.com/WordPress-Chennai/ Can this be announced in your blog at http://www.ilugc.in/ I saw a Drupal meetup being

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Braille/touchscreen integration

2011-11-24 Thread Vickram Crishna
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 12:11 AM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote: Hoi, I do not know exactly how Braille works but if a character in a standard script can be represented by Braille characters in stead, then all it seems to need is a method for us to replace the existing

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Need your suggestions...

2011-11-24 Thread Ravishankar
Hi all, Please ignore this mail. It was sent by mistake to this mailing list. I am really sorry for the inconvenience. Ravi On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 5:48 AM, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Shrinivasan, Hope your married life is going great. I need your suggestions for couple

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] On the issue of the maps...

2011-11-24 Thread Aditya Sengupta
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 11:11, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.com wrote: And there is an en wikipedia article also on this topic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BJP_youth_wing_protest_against_Wikipedia%27s_map_of_India Over 100 protesters were present on the opening day of the first Wiki

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] On the issue of the maps...

2011-11-24 Thread Achal Prabhala
The number (and the total inconsistency with how many people actually protested) comes from here: http://www.indianexpress.com/news/protest-against-wrong-map-mars-countrys-first-wiki-conference/877826/0 in which it simultaneously describes hundreds of protesters *and* that all 21 who protested

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] On the issue of the maps...

2011-11-24 Thread Aditya Sengupta
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 13:09, Achal Prabhala aprabh...@gmail.com wrote: The number (and the total inconsistency with how many people actually protested) comes from here: http://www.indianexpress.com/news/protest-against-wrong-map-mars-countrys-first-wiki-conference/877826/0 in which it