Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] http://gu.wikisource.org/

2012-03-28 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Congratulations :) I hope the Wikisource will do well for you. Thanks, Gerard On 28 March 2012 02:17, Dhaval S. Vyas dsv...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, For the Gujarati language it is one of those golden days today. We have got our own Wikisource created at http://gu.wikisource.org/.

[Wikimediaindia-l] Blog post on Netha Hussain/ Introduction to Storytelling

2012-03-28 Thread Noopur Raval
Dear all, To celebrate Women's History Month, I thought it would be really nice to celebrate an Indian woman editor's story. A short story on User: Netha Hussain was posted on the WMF bloghttps://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/03/27/wiki-women-joining-indic-languages/ . (Netha is an editor on Malayalam

[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipatrika: Next Issue

2012-03-28 Thread Noopur Raval
Dear all, I'm writing with regard to Wikipatrika. For the folks who don't know, this is the community newsletter which has come out twice (in September 2010http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Wikimedia_India_Community_Newsletter_2010_September.pdf June 2011

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipatrika: Next Issue

2012-03-28 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 14:44, Noopur Raval nra...@wikimedia.org wrote: Dear all, I'm writing with regard to Wikipatrika. Great to hear about the revival, shall pitch in some bytes for tamil now and then. Got some requests for you. Here

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipatrika: Next Issue

2012-03-28 Thread Noopur Raval
Dear Srikanth, Surely, Will add the links at the end of the mail. The link to Nepali Wikipedia's page is herehttp://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE:Wikimedia_India_Newsletter/2011_Juneagain. Regarding Marathi and

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipatrika: Next Issue

2012-03-28 Thread Hisham
The line that is inadvertently visible was part of an email from me. There are some sensitivities regarding posting content in English on the Marathi Urdu mailing lists and village pumps. My apologies for this. hisham On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 4:25 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipatrika: Next Issue

2012-03-28 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 16:53, Hisham his...@wikimedia.org wrote: The line that is inadvertently visible was part of an email from me. There are some sensitivities regarding posting content in English on the Marathi Urdu mailing lists and village pumps. May be posting in respective wiki's

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipatrika: Next Issue

2012-03-28 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Dear Hisham, As far as understand, there is no such thing on Marathi mailing list. All the usual mailing list guidelines apply there. If you face any problems, have you raised it to any list administrators? Please be careful when writing such statements. Regards -Sudhanwa On Wed, Mar 28,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipatrika: Next Issue

2012-03-28 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Happy to help with English and maybe the Commons as well. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] My post to User:Prad2609

2012-03-28 Thread ansuman
FYI ... One more user[1] has retired on English Wikipedia[2]. Whats going on !! [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Abhijay [2] http://toolserver.org/~quentinv57/sulinfo/Abhijay On 28 March 2012 02:25, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.comwrote: Srikeit, he might've had an

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] My post to User:Prad2609

2012-03-28 Thread Swaroop Rao
No its not so serious as you make it out to be. I don't mean to discriminate on basis of age, but User:Abhijay claims to be a 16 year old user from South East Asia; and I don't know, we can probably expect WP:DIVA to be more prevalent among teenagers? (again, not discriminating; I'm one myself!).

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] My post to User:Prad2609

2012-03-28 Thread Yash Thakkar
What is and editor-interrection ban? On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 10:37 PM, Swaroop Rao raul.swar...@gmail.comwrote: No its not so serious as you make it out to be. I don't mean to discriminate on basis of age, but User:Abhijay claims to be a 16 year old user from South East Asia; and I don't

[Wikimediaindia-l] Discussion points during March meet up in Pune

2012-03-28 Thread Mandar Kulkarni
Dear All, Sorry for sending email for the discussion points so late It was a new place called Ranade institute where we had our monthly meet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Pune/Pune19 The mail agenda for meet up was - *Set up a long-term plan for a year's worth of

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] My post to User:Prad2609

2012-03-28 Thread Swaroop Rao
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IBAN . I appreciate you trying to learn, but do try and keep the mailing list threads on topic. I'll be happy to assist you on my talkpage, so you can post there! Thanks, Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch) On Wed, Mar

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] My post to User:Prad2609

2012-03-28 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
The issue is a bit serious. A contributor, no matter who or where they come from, somehow or the other impacts another editors contributions. There have been numerous instances of non Indians helping out with Indian pages. We need to give more thought to editor retention. -- Regards, Srikanth

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Discussion points during March meet up in Pune

2012-03-28 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Good report Mandar, but I do have a question. What is Wikisrot ? -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Discussion points during March meet up in Pune

2012-03-28 Thread Mandar Kulkarni
Sorry Srikanth. I should have clarified in the first place itself. *Wikisrot* is a Marathi version of the word, *Wikisource* [http://mr.wikisource.org]. So normally we call the same Marathi Wikisrot. But I agree, on India/global level, we should speak Marathi Wikisource only. We have already

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Chennai Unofficial Wikimedia Hackathon Report

2012-03-28 Thread Shrinivasan T
1. Can Shrinivasan (or anyone else) provide us with english subtitles or english audio of the video that you uploaded on Youtube? Here it is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zd4KNbNX4_Y 2. Can Shrinivasan update the Readme file on voice-recorder-for-tawictionary / repo?

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Digitization of books in Wikisource using DjVu

2012-03-28 Thread Mandar Kulkarni
Thanks Shiju, As discussed, Marathi Wikisource has started using this from last month and have created more than 5 books. Still we would like to have more knowledge sharing from other languages on the same On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 10:30 PM, Shiju Alex sh...@wikimedia.org wrote: Dear

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Program-Fortnightly IRC: Thursday March 29th @ 9pm IST (Outreach Communication) (#wikimedia-office)

2012-03-28 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Hisham, you say you're conducted 22+ sessions. How would you rate the relative success of each of them? Four people editing on the day isn't good enough. Long term editors should be used to measure success. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. ___

[Wikimediaindia-l] India Program: Pilot Designs

2012-03-28 Thread Hisham
Hi Folks One of the aspects that India Program constantly works on is that the the work that your team does for and with our community is based on clear objectives, robust design and relevant progress parameters. India Program has / is / will be undertaking a series of pilots. Pilots by

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Program: Pilot Designs

2012-03-28 Thread Pradeep Mohandas
Hi Hisham, Could you also provide full links as reference like how Srikanth L suggested to Noopur yesterday? I cannot click through inline links when checking mails on my Nokia phone. The Story Telling and Wikipatrika initiatives that you list here as pilots were efforts undertaken by the