[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Mumbai Meetup - 16

Cross posting to reach the mass. Hi Wikipedians, The 16th Wikipedia Mumbai Meetup is scheduled on 5 May 2012 (Saturday). *Venue:* Barista, Shivaji Park , Dadar at 5.00 PM. Further details are availab

[Wikimediaindia-l] Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhiji is added to Gujarati Wikisource

Dear All, On behalf the Gujarati community, I wanted to share a nice update. On 22nd April, Gujarati Wikisource reached a major milestone with the completion of " સત્યના પ્રયોગો અથવા આત્મકથા

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhiji is added to Gujarati Wikisource

Dear Shiju, Thanks a million for sharing this with the wider community. An update: The next collaborative work is already started and in just a week's time, it is almost 25% completed as well. Kind Regards, Dhaval On 2 May 2012 16:11, "Shiju Alex" wrote: > Dear All, > > On behalf the Gujarati

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhiji is added to Gujarati Wikisource

Hi Dhaval, No doubt a great achievement and my very sincere congratulations. I just wanted a clarification. This is very important! Have you checked each word for correctness against the original text? Or is it OCR'd text? Sincerely Ashwin On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 9:04 PM, Dhaval S. Vyas wrote:

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhiji is added to Gujarati Wikisource

Thanks Ashwin, Not only this book, but the other one that is completed and the one underway, are all proof read against original. These are all manually typed and not OCR'd. Thanks to the lack of available OCR Tool/software for indic scripts. If you or anybody else here is aware of good and relia

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhiji is added to Gujarati Wikisource

Hi Dhaval, That is really very good to hear. We must maintain the highest standards in all things WikiSource. Unlike Wikipedia, errors cannot be allowed to co-exist. Well done to all Gujarati Wiki-Source-ians. Keep yup your great work. I request that this book may be please be got "officially" re

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhiji is added to Gujarati Wikisource

Thanks once again Ashwin, I have been considering to release the books officially, but unfortunately, PDF conversion is not working with Gujarati. The bug is filed a while ago, and I have been told that it may get quite a long time to fix the issue. Without having capability of exporting the page

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedians work for personal satisfaction, not politics or personal gain

Hi - I was simply stating my observation that the Malayalam community seems to be a great group doing great work like many in our community. I like the fact that they don't seem to be locked up in some of the politics/disputes that happen elsewhere in the Wikimedia community around the world.

[Wikimediaindia-l] IRC office hours preferences

Hi all, WMF Exec. Director Sue Gardner has started a poll about the preferred times for IRC office hours. This is for any team or person holding the office hours, and if Indian Wikimedians could contribute to this it will help inform when staff hold these meetings. The link is: http://doodle.com/

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Selection of winning bid for Wikimania 2013: Hong Kong

Winning bid for Wikimania 2013: Hong Kong -- naveenpf -- Forwarded message -- From: James Forrester Date: Wed, May 2, 2012 at 4:52 PM Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Selection of winning bid for Wikimania 2013: Hong Kong To: "Wikimania general list (open subscription)" < wikimani...@lists

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhiji is added to Gujarati Wikisource

Hi Dhaval, What is the bug number? Has the PDF been uploaded to Commons? On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 4:02 AM, Dhaval S. Vyas wrote: > Thanks once again Ashwin, > > I have been considering to release the books officially, but unfortunately, > PDF conversion is not working with Gujarati. The bug is fi

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhiji is added to Gujarati Wikisource

Hi All, Delighted to hear this update. Congratulations to all who were involved with this effort. On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 11:32 PM, Dhaval S. Vyas wrote: > Thanks once again Ashwin, > > I have been considering to release the books officially, but > unfortunately, PDF conversion is not working wi

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhiji is added to Gujarati Wikisource

> > What is the bug number? > Has the PDF been uploaded to Commons? John, this is related to the PDF export option in Wiki. The current solution won't support Indic scripts. There are several bugs related to this. One is this. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28206 An alternate