[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Lilavati's daughters

2013-11-14 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I have added all the subjects of the book Lilavati's daughters to its Wikidata item [1]. This makes it the perfect place to coordinate information about all of them. The things that you can do: - add labels for them in your language - make statements about them like their date of birth

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Introducing Beta Features (corrected)

2013-11-14 Thread sibi kanagaraj
I too believe that it very much relevant . For some one who wants to know every new happening in Wikipedia , that mail was not redundant .The mailing list consists of both new comers and experienced users . under such situation , the mail was not only relevant but also informative . -Sibi On Nov 1

[Wikimediaindia-l] FW: Tenth Anniversary Celebration of Kannada Wikipedia

2013-11-14 Thread Pavanaja U B
Dear friends, Kannada Wikipedia has completed 10 years. The Kannada Wikipedia community will be celebrating the tenth anniversary of Kannada Wikpedia on Nov 17, 2013 from 9:30 am to 1:30 pm at H N Multimedia Hall, National College, Basavanagudi, Bangalore. The guests of honour will be Dr. U R A

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Introducing Beta Features (corrected)

2013-11-14 Thread sankarshan
On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 7:24 AM, Ashwin Baindur wrote: > I beg to differ. Pavanaja doesn't spam the list. Some new features are being > publicised. A well-crafted email has been placed. In many cases, Indic > Wikipedians are unaware of what's happening. This is an India list & the > topic is compl

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Lilavati's daughters

2013-11-14 Thread Vishnu T
Thanks Gerard! Will add this info on the project page too [1] and also on the project pages on Indic Wikipedias. --Vishnu [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Lilavati%27s_Daughters_Edit-a-thon [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Lilavati%27s_Daughters_Edit-a-thon#Project_pages_on_Indic_Wikipedias

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Lilavati's daughters

2013-11-14 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Gerard; many thanks for working on the WD data set. This should make things a lot easier for us working on translating and catagorising articles and entities relating to it. Cheerio; another Wikidata editor. On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 4:26 PM, Vishnu T wrote: > Thanks Gerard! Will add this info on

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [CIS-A2K Announcement] MoU with Christ University, Bangalore

2013-11-14 Thread Vishnu T
Hello TheOriginalSoni, When replying to the digest it would be useful if you could edit your Subject line so it is more specific. Have done that in this instance :) On 10 November 2013 19:16, TheOriginalSoni wrote: > Hello I'm new to mailing lists, so please don't mind if I do this > incorrectly

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] FW: Tenth Anniversary Celebration of Kannada Wikipedia

2013-11-14 Thread Rohini Lakshané
Please share the event report in English and a few photos with me. I'll put them up with attribution on WikipeDNA. http://www.dnaindia.com/blogs/wikipedna -- http://about.me/rohini 2013/11/14 Pavanaja U B > Dear friends, > > Kannada Wikipedia has completed 10 years. The Kannada Wikipedia commu

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Introducing Beta Features (corrected)

2013-11-14 Thread ansuman
Yes it's definitely relevant, but few of us missing the point. There are better and easier ways of getting such updates: 1. Blog posts (also available via Twitter/Wikimediablog): https://blog.wikimedia.org/c/technology/ https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/11/07/introducing-beta-features/ 2. Wikimedi

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Introducing Beta Features (corrected)

2013-11-14 Thread Gautam John
On 14 November 2013 21:43, ansuman wrote: > So I'm not sure, how many depends on this mailing list, folks who want > such technical updates can easily avail these above means. I found it useful. It's not like they post *all* updates here. > Finally let me mention something important: I don't kn

[Wikimediaindia-l] CC Launch

2013-11-14 Thread Sowmyan Tirumurti
The relaunch of the creative Commons India took place at New Delhi on 12thNov 2013. It was a joint effort by the three affiliates of Creative Commons India viz Wikimedia Chapter, Center for Internet and Society, and Acharya Narender Dev College. New Delhi. The Wikimedia banner announcements were

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] CC Launch

2013-11-14 Thread Vishnu T
Dear Sowmyan, Thanks for the detailed account of the event. Are there any images of the event available on Commons? If yes, would be great to have a link. Cheers, Vishnu On 15 November 2013 00:29, Sowmyan Tirumurti wrote: > The relaunch of the creative Commons India took place at New Delhi on

[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia and Language Diversity in India

2013-11-14 Thread Vishnu T
Hello, Some of you may know that I was in Berlin, Germany attending the Wikimedia Diversity Conference [1]. I presented on the language diversity in India and the kind of challenges and opportunities it presents to the Wikimedia movement at large. Other than reflecting on the work Wikimedia comm