[Wikimediaindia-l] Indic has arrived! -- on devices !!

Hi all, It was a almost a unimaginable surprise when I heard a Samsung camera has a Tamil interface! See pic[1]. It is important milestone when Indic is starting to reach beyond computers, mobiles. While this also reinforces the Indic growth theory(not just wikimedia in non-profit space, even for

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Please Welcome Yuvaraj Pandian & Max Semink

Welcome YuviPanda! :) -- Forwarded message -- From: Tomasz Finc Date: Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 13:58 Subject: [Wikitech-l] Please Welcome Yuvaraj Pandian & Max Semink To: wmf...@lists.wikimedia.org, Wikimedia developers < wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org> Greetings all, The Mobile an

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Please Welcome Yuvaraj Pandian & Max Semink

Congrats Yuvaraj Pandian! -santhosh -- Forwarded message -- From: Tomasz Finc Date: Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 1:58 PM Subject: [Wikitech-l] Please Welcome Yuvaraj Pandian & Max Semink To: wmf...@lists.wikimedia.org, Wikimedia developers Greetings all, The Mobile and Special Proje

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Please Welcome Yuvaraj Pandian & Max Semink

Wow congratulations Yuvi and Max, many more things to come from you guys :) Subha On 19 December 2011 14:02, Santhosh Thottingal < santhosh.thottin...@gmail.com> wrote: > Congrats Yuvaraj Pandian! > > -santhosh > > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Tomasz Finc > Date: Mon, Dec 1

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Please Welcome Yuvaraj Pandian & Max Semink

Congrats and Bestwishes to Yuvipanda :) -Tinu Cherian On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Santhosh Thottingal < santhosh.thottin...@gmail.com> wrote: > Congrats Yuvaraj Pandian! > > -santhosh > > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Tomasz Finc > Date: Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 1:58 PM > S

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Please Welcome Yuvaraj Pandian & Max Semink

Congrats Yuvi. Keep up the good work. On 12/19/11, CherianTinu Abraham wrote: > Congrats and Bestwishes to Yuvipanda :) > > -Tinu Cherian > > On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Santhosh Thottingal < > santhosh.thottin...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Congrats Yuvaraj Pandian! >> >> -santhosh >> >> >>

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic has arrived! -- on devices !!

Srikanth, This is brilliant. Great news. Now if only my phone could support Indic languages. I'd've said Supera Irukke. But still, an important milestone. I only hope however, that translations are appropriate. I hope it's not a simply transliterated interface or extremely technical at the same tim

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 -- global?

Mitra, The simplest way to get started on the Wikipedia is to click on the Edit button. For photographs, head to http://commons.Wikimedia.org and click on Upload file on the left. Make sure you're logged in first though. Happy Editing, :-) On 12/18/11, Mitra sharma wrote: > Hi Noopur, > > Thanks

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] What's in it for me?

Wow Nitika, thank you for talking out time to write such a detailed reply to this thread. I agree completely, we learn, we enjoy. It is indeed magical. There are perfect examples as part of this mailing list itself. The only problem, however is getting across this thought to newcomers. : ) On 12/

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic has arrived! -- on devices !!

Hi, As I understand, many vendors do support Indic languages (at least one of them like Hindi/Tamil). What we require is to find out the right device that supports Indic and suits our needs. My 2.5 year old dual SIM phone from FLY has Hindi support. Can show all the menus in Hindi, can send/recei

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] What's in it for me?

Hi Nitika, On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Nitika wrote: > Hi Srikanth & everyone else, > --cut-- > i think there are a number of really compelling answers to the "What's in > it for me?" question - and I do want to share my take on it. > Thanks for sharing your thoughts in a nice and compre

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] mediawiki-uploader

Hi, On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Shrinivasan T wrote: > hi arjuna, > > thanks for the wishes. > > I am also very new to wikipedia. > please give some more details on categories. > Please see Wiki Conference India as a sample category http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:WikiConference_

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] What's in it for me?

Nitika, the plus points you gave are really well thought out & well-expressed. Wikipedians can use these in outreach. Great work, keep it up! Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala wrote: > Hi Niti

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] What's in it for me?

On 19-Dec-2011, at 4:05 PM, Ashwin Baindur wrote: > Nitika, the plus points you gave are really well thought out & > well-expressed. Wikipedians can use these in outreach. Great work, keep it up! Stay tuned to this channel. I'm working on something that i'd love to have your (and everyone els

[Wikimediaindia-l] ONE simple step to double or triple visits to Indic Wikipedias

Hi, Today, I went to download WordPress and it told me it is also available in Tamil. Very neatly done as it somehow detected that I am from Tamilnadu. See the screenshot at: http://ravidreams.com/ta-wordpress.png A similar announcement in English Wiki projects is sure to double or triple traffi

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic has arrived! -- on devices !!

True that. While Hindi and Tamil have always been at an advantage due to them being the first two Indic languages to be embraced by the tech industry, AFAIK, the sms typed on these phones don't conform to Unicode standards. Atleast not on Nokia models. On 12/19/11, Sudhanwa Jogalekar wrote: > Hi,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ONE simple step to double or triple visits to Indic Wikipedias

I think localization is done only for Tamil as of now, for me also it's showing Tamil :) But expecting it'd be available in other Indic languages as well. Best Subha On 19 December 2011 17:24, Ravishankar wrote: > Hi, > > Today, I went to download WordPress and it told me it is also available i

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] mediawiki-uploader

Agreed. This tool is definitely an asset. I hope somebody has forwarded this to the Commons mailing list as well as the Tech and Foundation lists to show the dedication that Shrini has shown here. On 12/19/11, Arjuna Rao Chavala wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Shrinivasan T > wr

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] What's in it for me?

Nitika, while you're at it, also try and look into what may get us more women editors. I have a bunch of reasons and ideas which may someday, come out. On 12/19/11, Nitika wrote: > > On 19-Dec-2011, at 4:05 PM, Ashwin Baindur wrote: > >> Nitika, the plus points you gave are really well thought ou

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ONE simple step to double or triple visits to Indic Wikipedias

On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 17:24, Ravishankar wrote: > Hi, > > Today, I went to download WordPress and it told me it is also available in > Tamil. Very neatly done as it somehow detected that I am from Tamilnadu. > Geolocation within India is impossible. My guess is it used your browser's accepted

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ONE simple step to double or triple visits to Indic Wikipedias

A good idea no doubt, but I think the detecting which state the user comes from part is a small road block. While Google Mail has been showing which state the IP is from in the logins section, I think the browser or system language should also be taken into consideration, though it may seem obvious

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ONE simple step to double or triple visits to Indic Wikipedias

On a slightly related note http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Universal_Language_Selector -TC On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Ravishankar wrote: > Hi, > > Today, I went to download WordPress and it told me it is also available in > Tamil. Very neatly done as it somehow detected that I am from Tamil

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ONE simple step to double or triple visits to Indic Wikipedias

Subha, If you check WordPress.com it shows all available Indic languages. If you check WordPress.org, I think it is showing only Tamil (may be because as you said it is the only translation available and that too for Srilankan Tamil : ) But the point is: Even if you show all available Indic lang

[Wikimediaindia-l] Supporting Outreach

Hi Folks, There were no laptops for the participants or the internet connection was weak - so I could only give a lecture on wikipedia but could not give hands-on training I conducted sessions but I really don't know if anything productive came out of it since I'm not confident that anyone of th

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ONE simple step to double or triple visits to Indic Wikipedias

A small extension of my previous post. Logic, geolocation within India is very much possible. Atleast I know Google can do it. The only hitch is that it doesn't work well with Wireless connections. For instance, I frequently use a Reliance Wireless modem, which is registered in K'taka but even in B

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] What's in it for me?

On 19-Dec-2011, at 5:35 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan wrote: > Nitika, while you're at it, also try and look into what may get us > more women editors. I have a bunch of reasons and ideas which may > someday, come out. Sure Srikanth! I'd love to get more women editors onboard. And I'd love to hear

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ONE simple step to double or triple visits to Indic Wikipedias

Hi All, Every time this idea is discussed, the technical issue of state / city level resolution and filtering of language issue comes and the discussions stalls. *State / city level resolution is not necessary and need not be an excuse for not implementing this feature.* If we find this feature

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ONE simple step to double or triple visits to Indic Wikipedias

A single line like "Wikipedia is also available in Bengali, Hind, Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil at the top and to the left of "Login/create account link" will be fine. The line can be as what you see in http://www.google.co.in/ . If we feel showing too many languages is clutter, show random and lim

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ONE simple step to double or triple visits to Indic Wikipedias

Ravi, I agree. The rotation system, if implemented works best. However do note, this is best suited for the desktop version only, not Mobiles. I'd like to point out that - People who use Opera Mini on their mobiles, get routed thru a European server while all BlackBerry users get routed thru a serv

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ONE simple step to double or triple visits to Indic Wikipedias

I think Sundar has suggested something like this before in this list. :) *$U®¥∩* http://goo.gl/RoMyo.com http://about.me/suryaceg On 19 December 2011 18:04, Srikanth Ramakrishnan wrote: > Ravi, I agree. The rotation system, if implemented works best. However

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Supporting Outreach

Nitika, thanks for starting a new thread. I'd like to make a single point first about this matter. Do think about it. No matter how excellet facilities are provided, how yuai enthusiasm is shown, physical outreach programs actually have very little or zero impact on getting new people on board. Thi

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Supporting Outreach

Quite a descriptive note Nitika, and I would also request everyone to put their suggestions for improvements.modifications at http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Outreach_Program_Handbook&action=edit&redlink=1 So, it would be more comprehensive an

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ONE simple step to double or triple visits to Indic Wikipedias

Srikanth, Even if only x% (or say people who wear white shirt on Monday evenings) are going to see this notice, it is still useful and not going to hurt the project in anyway. Unless the community stands united and requests this feature, it will not happen any sooner. So, let us not loose steam

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ONE simple step to double or triple visits to Indic Wikipedias

On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 18:12, Ravishankar wrote: > Srikanth, > {{Disambiguation needed}},Not just here, in many threads going forward, especially atleast 2 Srikanth's are active on the list :D > So, let us not loose steam on discussing the technical hurdles up front. > I guess Universal Lang

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ONE simple step to double or triple visits to Indic Wikipedias

On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Ravishankar wrote: > Hi, > > Today, I went to download WordPress and it told me it is also available in > Tamil. Very neatly done as it somehow detected that I am from Tamilnadu. > > See the screenshot at: http://ravidreams.com/ta-wordpress.png > > A similar annou

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ONE simple step to double or triple visits to Indic Wikipedias

Also, we already have that in the left side of every page, the sidebar on every article lists the version of that article available in different languages. Regards Theo On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 6:45 PM, Theo10011 wrote: > On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Ravishankar wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Today,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 -- global?

thanks! :) On 19 December 2011 15:21, Srikanth Ramakrishnan wrote: > Mitra, > The simplest way to get started on the Wikipedia is to click on the > Edit button. For photographs, head to http://commons.Wikimedia.org and > click on Upload file on the left. Make sure you're logged in first > though.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ONE simple step to double or triple visits to Indic Wikipedias

Theo, last time I checked, Indic languages are no longer listed in the side of the English Main Page. A limited number of languages is there with a link to More Languages. On 12/19/11, Theo10011 wrote: > Also, we already have that in the left side of every page, the sidebar on > every article lis

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ONE simple step to double or triple visits to Indic Wikipedias

On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 7:24 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan < parakara.gh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Theo, last time I checked, Indic languages are no longer listed in the > side of the English Main Page. A limited number of languages is there > with a link to More Languages. They are, it's just that Ind

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] What's in it for me?

No, no offline. Please switch to Wikipedia-in-en if you must but not offline. Its too important a debate to waste offline. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Nitika wrote: > > On 19-Dec-2011, at 5:35 PM, Srikant

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ONE simple step to double or triple visits to Indic Wikipedias

> > Conclusion, it did not make a dent. Most people dismissed the banners, and > never clicked, those that did, never followed to edit. It made little to no > difference in the visitor or editor stats for the period. > Theo, Clearly, links in sidebars are not getting enough eyeballs. It is also h

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Event on online free speech on Wednesday

This might be of interest to those of you in Bangalore. Thank you. Best, Gautam http://blog.prathambooks.org/p/social-media.html -- Forwarded message -- From: Anja Kovacs Date: Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 5:19 PM Subject: Event on online free speech on Wednesday To: Gautam Jo

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ONE simple step to double or triple visits to Indic Wikipedias

On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 8:01 PM, Ravishankar wrote: > Theo, > > Clearly, links in sidebars are not getting enough eyeballs. It is also > hard to look for one's own language when there are too many interwiki > links. Unless you are intentionally looking for it, it is hard to notice. > The placeme

[Wikimediaindia-l] Pre-announcement for Wikiwomen camp/conference in Argentina

Dear all, Just keeping you posted if you haven't seen the IRC log yet. A couple of women Wikipedians from Australia and Argentina chapters have been planning a Wikiwomen camp and conference in Argentina sometime in May, 2012. I know it's far away and probably the official announcement will happen s

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] What's in it for me?

Wow, Nice awesome responses. Thanks to all for detailed thoughts. And Srikanth, I know this is not enough for you ;) just keep up the good work and have faith. Don't get confused. Regards ansuman * ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ * http://twitter.com/smileyansu On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 7:41 PM, Ashwin Baindur

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 -- global?

Throwing a few ideas since our participation tendency seems positive: 1) Can we start doing a few things in the background: compile lists of monuments? ASI already has the list for monuments of national importance, State wise: http://asi.nic.in/asi_monu_alphalist.asp 2) Let's sign up/raise hands

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fund raising banners

2 more additions from India to the Fundraising banners. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2011#A_week_of_new_appeals_December_18.2C_2011 Akshaya Iyengar http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/L11_1215_AI/en/US Aniruddha Kumar http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/L11_1216_AK/en/US Meanwhi

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 -- global?

hi, Since this is happening for the first time at the national level and the international level, perhaps it would be nice to not do it at the state level at all. Let all the photos come into a common pool and allow for voting that would lead to these becoming India's entries for Wiki Loves Monume

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] mediawiki-uploader

Hi Shrinivasan, Is there a Windows version? I didn't realise from your post that it was a linux program. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Shrinivasan T wrote: > Friends. > > Tamil Wikipedia announced a Media C

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Event on online free speech on Wednesday

Gautam, I was wondering if you could get in touch with the CIS and try and organise such events in other tech based cities in India like Mysore, Hyderabad, Chennai and of course Coimbatore? -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Supporting Outreach

Thanks Nikita for your brief report. All your points are valid. And all activities are going on If I am right. I am suggesting something new, don't know whether possible or not. It would be great if we can produce a common standard * Presentation/Brochure/Leaflet* (name it whatever suits)* *which

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Event on online free speech on Wednesday

Srikanth's idea would be nice, And Gautam, do we need to register prior to the event? On 19 December 2011 21:49, Srikanth Ramakrishnan wrote: > Gautam, I was wondering if you could get in touch with the CIS and try > and organise such events in other tech based cities in India like > Mysore, Hyde

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ONE simple step to double or triple visits to Indic Wikipedias

On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 5:41 PM, CherianTinu Abraham wrote: > On a slightly related note > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Universal_Language_Selector Arun Ganesh was doing this at the Hackathon, and if implemented *properly* I think this should help with the discovery issue a lot. > > -TC > > On

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Pre-announcement for Wikiwomen camp/conference in Argentina

Congrats. It seems like a great initiative, Noopur. :) I saw Beria was working on the pages for this on Meta. Good luck! Regards Theo On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 8:27 PM, Noopur wrote: > Dear all, > Just keeping you posted if you haven't seen the IRC log yet. A couple of > women Wikipedians from

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Pre-announcement for Wikiwomen camp/conference in Argentina

More info can be found here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiWomenCamp(feel free to ask the organizers any question - the mails are in the page) _ *Béria Lima* (351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao som

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Supporting Outreach

Thanks Nitika for your brief report. All your points are valid. And all activities are going on If I am right. I am suggesting something new, don't know whether possible or not. It would be great if we can produce a common standard * Presentation/Brochure/Leaflet* (name it whatever suits)* *which

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Please Welcome Yuvaraj Pandian & Max Semink

Congrats Yuvi and Max :) On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan < parakara.gh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Congrats Yuvi. Keep up the good work. > > On 12/19/11, CherianTinu Abraham wrote: > > Congrats and Bestwishes to Yuvipanda :) > > > > -Tinu Cherian > > > > On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Webfonts deployment on Indic Wikiprojects

Hi All, While testing both Lohit and Utkal has hinting problems in or wp, is that possible to keep them optional? As of now automatically the default font changes to Lohit when you open or wp, instead of that is that possible to make it optional which someone can choose the dropdown? Subha 2011/

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Webfonts deployment on Indic Wikiprojects

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 07:33, Subhashish Panigrahi wrote: > Hi All, > > While testing both Lohit and Utkal has hinting problems in or wp, is that > possible to keep them optional? As of now automatically the default font > changes to Lohit when you open or wp, instead of that is that possible to

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] mediawiki-uploader

is there any image viewer in windows where we can add comments and notes to images? the meta data we add is called IPTC tags. if so we can use this application in windows too. please find it and share here. thanks. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wi

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] mediawiki-uploader

#WIN. -TC On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 8:48 PM, Philippe Beaudette wrote: > This is really fantastic, and makes me very very happy. This represents > the best of what makes the Wikimedia projects great - someone identifies a > need and then rolls up their sleeves and fills that need. Well done, > S

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Pre-announcement for Wikiwomen camp/conference in Argentina

Congratulations to all organizers - this sounds most exciting and I'm planning to attend. Hope there will be some more representation from India, even though Argentina is far away. Cheers Bishakha On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 10:26 PM, Béria Lima wrote: > More info can be found here: > http://meta

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Supporting Outreach

On 19-Dec-2011, at 6:10 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan wrote: > Do think about it. No matter how > excellet facilities are provided, how yuai enthusiasm is shown, > physical outreach programs actually have very little or zero impact on > getting new people on board. This is an observation that I have

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Supporting Outreach

On 19-Dec-2011, at 9:50 PM, ansuman wrote: > It would be great if we can produce a common standard > Presentation/Brochure/Leaflet (name it whatever suits) which includes all the > important point, "Why One should contribute to Wikipedia" from the > repository. That's one of the things I'd

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ONE simple step to double or triple visits to Indic Wikipedias

On Dec 19, 2011, at 8:16 PM, Theo10011 wrote: > On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 8:01 PM, Ravishankar wrote: This is a really useful discussion and there's a powerful idea. I agree with Ravi that there is an opportunity to build awareness and traffic to Indic language sites. While we are already see

[Wikimediaindia-l] Mailing list is created for Assamese wiki projects

Dear All, A mailing list is created to facilitate the discussions about Assamese wiki projects. The URL is https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-as Kindly subscribe if you are interested in Assamese wiki projects. Shiju Alex ___ Wikim