[Wikimediaindia-l] on the recent internet bans in india

Greetings - if any of you are trying to make sense of the recent banning of several popular websites by Indian ISPs, Lawrence Liang and I have an article in the current issue of Open Magazine that tries to unravel the plot: http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/nation/a-ludicrous-ban Cheers,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] TOI:Urdu Wikipedia to be up and running in June

Came across this article in Monday's DNA : http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report_hindi-urdu-language-barrier-set-to-break_1697810 Another effort for propagation of Urdu work among Hindi and Urdu literature fans

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] TOI:Urdu Wikipedia to be up and running in June

On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Ravishankar wrote: > > This makes it clear that this is an independent encyclopaedia initiative. > Wikipedia, Wiki have long become common names to indicate anything like > encyclopaedia. > Point of order: Wiki is a generic name. Wikipedia is not. It is a regi

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] on the recent internet bans in india

On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 6:54 PM, Achal Prabhala wrote: > Greetings - if any of you are trying to make sense of the recent banning > of several popular websites by Indian ISPs, Lawrence Liang and I have an > article in the current issue of Open Magazine that tries to unravel the > plot: > > http://