squares you would see a week
ago.
WebFonts are deployed on translatewiki.net and on test.wikipedia.org,
so again - please test them there as much as possible. You can also
try testing in other languages of India.
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Either of NonCommercial and NoDerivs clauses in the license make
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2011/12/15 ePandit | ई-पण्डित sharma.shr...@gmail.com:
NonCommericial - I think use in Wikipedia is non-commerical.
No, Wikipedia is not non-commercial in this regard. It's a very
frequent misunderstanding, though - the first article i created in the
English Wikipedia was speedily deleted
2011/12/17 Barry Newstead bnewst...@wikimedia.org:
I have limited experience, but in my travels in India, I think the greatest
challenge is in basic awareness of how Wikipedia works.
That's true for the whole world. A particular problem for India is
that many people to whom i spoke, all of whom
Adding information based on published reliable sources is probably the
best kind of contribution to Wikipedia.
Since this is so common, there are not special guidelines for writing
based on a book. The most important point is the legal consideration:
If the book is copyrighted in a way that
) is
very short, so you could expand it.
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2012/1/12 Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il:
Adding information based on published reliable sources is probably the
best kind of contribution to Wikipedia.
Since this is so common, there are not special guidelines for writing
based
2012/1/18 Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com:
hi,
The English Wikipedia black out has started -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
It's a great opportunity to read and improve Wikipedias in the
languages of India :)
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Thank you very much for this email.
Most of these thoughts are useful not only for India, but for other
countries, too.
2012/2/13 Nitika ntan...@wikimedia.org:
Dear All,
The following is a post I've put up on the India Program page on meta
regarding outreach (Please
1. There should be more articles like this in non-English newspapers.
I found a few in the http://wiki.wikimedia.in/In_the_news page, but
there should be much more.
2. Here's one thing that can make the Kannada Wikipedia popular: It
should have more content that would be useful for children
Excellent!
2012/2/23 Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com:
http://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/nxg/article2919794.ece
Curriculum is always a few years, if not decades, out of date. Only by
getting out can you get knowledge and skills that are current and useful.
For example, I did the
Yes - if you have an Android phone or know someone who has one, please
do that! It takes just two minutes.
If you can't make this app work at all, please email us and we'll try to help.
If you are able to set your language in this app, but the phone shows
you squares instead of real letters, go
2012/2/23 Nasir Khan nasir8...@gmail.com:
I checked for Benagli (bn-BD and bn-IN). When i enabled those locals the
Wikipedia app icon text and buttons were displayed in Bengali.
Thank you very much for testing! Now you can tell your friends that
there's a Wikipedia app in Bengali.
But when
Hi, Sankarshan,
2012/2/23 sankarshan foss.mailingli...@gmail.com:
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Amir E. Aharoni
amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
If your phone's locale is English, you can still read the content of
Bengali Wikipedia in the app by tapping the Read in button in the
menu
2012/2/23 sankarshan foss.mailingli...@gmail.com:
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Amir E. Aharoni
amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
That's what the current translation says. It doesn't have to be
perfectly literal, it just has to be useful in context. If you think
that it's wrong
Oh, cool. If i understand correctly, this means that your phone has a
font, but with broken chillus, which is still better than nothing, but
to actually make it work and show some Malayalam interface you have to
use that app.
I'll be very glad to hear more reports like this!
2012/2/23 Ramesh N
2012/2/23 Nasir Khan nasir8...@gmail.com:
All the strings are translated (and fixed) to Bengali. Can anyone tell me
when these will be updated to the app?
Thank you very much.
Version 1.1 of the app is going to be released soon and the new
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It's not so much a matter of WebFonts, as of script conversion.
MediaWiki already supports this for for several languages, most
notably Chinese and Serbian.
We at the WMF L10n team can probably add support for Konkani, too, but
we'll need a specification of requirements from an expert on that
Mobile sites are important since,
1. Lot of people will be using this.
2. The Wikipedia app uses this(?) [Correct me if am wrong]
You are not wrong. It does use it.
Creating a mobile main page for Wikipedia takes about a minute. All
you need is administrator rights and a tiny bit of HTML
2012/2/27 nischay nahata nischay...@gmail.com:
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 9:15 PM, praveenp me.prav...@gmail.com wrote:
By user level customization it is possible. I think providing such a
feature by default, in wiki level, in projects like wikipedia is a bad
idea because each file page contains
Subhashish, please try writing just this:
div id=mp-tfa
2012/2/29 Subhashish Panigrahi psubhash...@gmail.com
Thanks a lot Jayanta, at least a not-so-tech-savvy person like me will be
able to understand.
I have made the changes as u asked at
2012/3/9 Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com:
Gerard, that is really very very good news. Hopefully we will see valuable
heritage texts in Gujarati come into open access. I feel that each Indic
language community must ask for Wikisource if not already held in that
language.
Yes, a
2012/3/10 Yuvi Panda yuvipa...@gmail.com:
Something similar happened to me and PlaneMad (Arun Ganesh) in Mumbai.
I was wearing Pune T shirt and him Mumbai T Shirt, and the person
serving us food from the canteen was having fun reading the word
'Wikipedia' in the languages he could read
I won't say it was very fruitful, or that I showed them any live demo or
ppt. Rather I focused on a few crucial question which were on their minds:
If you DIDN'T show them a ppt, the chance that it WAS fruitful is a
lot HIGHER :)
If you spoke about so much things to these people, then most
The Teylers Museum in Netherlands holds a writing competition: You
write articles related to the museum in your language, and if there
are many of them and they are good, you get prizes. Details:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Teylers/Multilingual_Challenge
Actually, it started in
This is very important and it is definitely in our plan.
Narayam as it is is more suited for desktop and laptop environments.
It is more likely that we shall push the development and distribution
of proper on-screen keyboard for mobile devices.
2012/3/16 Subhashish Panigrahi
Hello,
The majority of Wikipedias in languages of India now have a main page
for mobile devices. Great job!
Several languages remain without a mobile main page and they only have
a search box:
* Gujarati - https://gu.m.wikipedia.org/
* Punjabi - https://pa.m.wikipedia.org/
* Bhojpuri -
2012/3/18 Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.com:
Telugu spell checker (Self plug:contributed by me )is at
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/telugu-spell-checker/
Arjuna, this is very good! I wonder why doesn't it appear in the full
list of spelling dictionaries. I filed a bug:
2012/3/18 Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com:
Excellent Amir.
Just a thought:
For those who do not know, there is an addon called Lupin's Anti-Vandal Tool
[LAV] on the English Wikipedia.
This tool is a typical RC patrol tool which shows edits on the fly.
Part of this tool checks
2012/3/18 Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com:
I agree, English and other Latin/Roman based languages are easier to
implement as compared to Indic ones [as pointed out by Arjuna].
However, it would be great if we did have it in our languages.
Nothing is Impossible after all.
It's
2012/3/19 Subhashish Panigrahi psubhash...@gmail.com:
Can I contribute in any way for Odia (Language code or)?
Yes. Thanks for volunteering. I emailed the dictionary maintainer and
i'll get you in touch.
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“We're
2012/3/24 Anoop anoop@gmail.com:
Hi All,
I am happy to inform you that Malayalam Wiktionary has completed 1 lakh
entries today.
Please join me to congratulate Malayalam Wikitionary team for achieving this
milestone.
Congratulations!
I'm getting to appreciate Wiktionary more and more
Thanks to Shiju for this email. Using Wikisource for digitizing books
is a very fun experience. I do it quite a lot. It is fun even without
OCR, although OCR makes things easier, of course.
It is useful to a lot of people, too. It's a shame that Wikisource is
so frequently overlooked :)
A
Hi Wikimedians in India,
Recently i've been making improvements to the enhanced editing
toolbar, and especially to its Special Characters functionality.
The enhanced editing toolbar should be enabled for most of you, but in
case it isn't, go to My Preferences - Editing and check Enable
enhanced
2012/3/31 Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com:
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 14:46, Amir E. Aharoni
amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
Hi Wikimedians in India,
Recently i've been making improvements to the enhanced editing
toolbar, and especially to its Special Characters functionality
Hi,
Recently there was some talk here about Wikisource in Indic languages
and this email is part of that trend.
Possibly the most important extension for Wikisource is ProofreadPage,
which helps transcribing PDF and DjVu files. It is installed in
Wikisource projects in all languages, but to be
The story of Dhaval, Sushant and the rest of the contributors is very
inspiring. It deserves attention and praise. Very, very, well done!
2012/4/4 Noopur Raval nra...@wikimedia.org:
Dear all,
As you might have read earlier, the Gujarati Wikisource was launched
recently on March 27th and is
Hello,
If you know Punjabi (Gurmukhi), your help is needed in testing the new
input method we developed.
At http://www.translatewiki.net we have deployed three input methods
for Punjabi - InScript, Phonetic and Transliteration.
I am especially curious about the Transliteration method. Can
Hello,
We just enabled a new beta version of the Punjabi Gurnukhi
transliteration keyboard layout in translatewiki.net:
http://translatewiki.net/wiki/User:Amire80/narayam-pa
What's new?
* Full documentation! So you won't have to wonder how to type every letter.
* Some bugs were fixed, thanks to
Hi
I used keyboard and able to type.
Aman, thank you very much for testing! See comments below.
I found that
'।' is missing (which is U+0964)
also ॥ (U+0965) will be useful.
I forgot to document it, but it is actually already possible to type
these characters. Use '.' for '।' and '..' for
2012/4/30 APreetalam apreet.a...@gmail.com:
few added characters, which are Never used in Punjabi (Gurmukhi)
-ਁ
-ਃ
I know that they are probably rare, but they appear in the Unicode
block for Gurmukhi. Do they interfere with typing in any way? Should I
remove them?
it is up to you. those
The English Wikipedia article about Telugu, one of the most important
languages in India, is not so great. It has many grammar mistakes and
confusing sentences such as Etymology is Telugu language originated
in Rajamahendri now Rajahmundry. First telugu poet Nannayya gave
Telugu a script, which
The most comprehensive way to resolve this issue would be to add a
feature that allows a trusted user, like a bureaucrat, to temporarily
lift this throttling for such events. I requested it here:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36367
If anybody wants to try programming MediaWiki,
2012/6/1 Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.com:
This article in today's Times of India left me puzzled. This is not related
to the Urdu wikipedia is it?
Hmm, it's a curious article, but I'm as puzzled as you are.
Are they uploading an existing encyclopedia to Wikipedia?
Are they creating a new
2012/6/1 Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com:
Amir, I didn't understand what you mean by Pakistan being ahead?
Has Pakistan also taken up any govt-backed initiative for Urdu development?
Well, the article says that India has been so far left behind by
Pakistan and other countries and
Hello,
A few months ago the Localization team of the Wikimedia Foundation
enabled the Narayam extension in some projects in Indic languages and
also in the Incubator.
We know that in projects in some languages it is actively used. Some
projects, for example Telugu, Kannada, Marathi and Bengali,
2012/11/13 Srikanth Ramakrishnan srik.r...@wikimedia.in:
P.S: I've been told that the words 'Indic' and 'Vernacular' are derogatory.
Citation needed. I hope not to derail this thread, but AFAIK there's
nothing derogatory in these words. I don't even know why do you
mention vernacular, which
2012/11/13 Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com:
Amir,
I was merely told by someone. I was told that both words were derogatory [at
the same time, hence I mentioned both].
If you wish to discuss this further, we can take it offlist.
If he didn't explain it, then you can presume that
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I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
2012/11/14 Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.com:
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 1:02 AM, Amir E. Aharoni
amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
If he didn't
I don't know which dictionary this is. Merriam-Webster says that it can be
both:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/indic
Indic is very common in discussion of computing in the languages of India
and its neighboring countries, all of which face similar challenges.
There's nothing
2012/11/14 Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.com:
The word 'Indic' itself is a derivative of the word Hindus or Indus
referring to the Indus Valley Civilization, which did not stretch as far as
Deccan India where the Dravidian family of languages have been prevalent.
The distinction between the
2012/11/14 Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.com:
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics by PH Matthews distinguishes
Indic scripts from the Dravidian scripts, clearly specifying that Indic
refers to the languages belonging to the Indo-Aryan Family (see page 175 of
This is one particular -
Thank you very much for this article!
It is coming at the right right time. It's starting up, and it needs
localization. I wrote why its localization is especially important here:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/11/10/translate-wikidata-user-interface/
That post also has relevant links.
It's
Hi Nikhil, and everyone else,
I thought about writing a detailed reply about how that article is
exaggerated (*Nobody* wants to edit anymore? Really, nobody?), and
how the problems that you describe are just one side of the story
(because the bureaucracy may be annoying, but it's a necessary
Thank you very much for this article. Information about the usage of
the languages of India in different social contexts, and especially in
education, is very useful for my work.
The impression that I had about the state of local languages in India
is that English is used a lot even though not
2013/3/19 sankarshan foss.mailingli...@gmail.com:
On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 5:04 PM, priyanka nag priy...@gmail.com wrote:
I will also need someone to translate a few strings in Hindi and Marathi for
the Citation template as I am not strong enough in these languages as to
trust my own
2013/3/19 Harsh Kothari harshkothari...@gmail.com:
Hi All
If someone localize the Gadget from English Wikipedia and works fine on one
Indic wikipedia should port in every Indic Wikipedia. So that every Indic
wiki can use that particular feature. That helps a lot to Editors on Indic
Wiki.
Fellow,
Physical Research Laboratory(PRL).
Ahmedabad.
On 19-Mar-2013, at 6:16 PM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
2013/3/19 Harsh Kothari harshkothari...@gmail.com:
Hi All
If someone localize the Gadget from English Wikipedia and works fine on one
Indic wikipedia should port in every Indic
2013/3/20 Jayanta Nath jayanta...@gmail.com:
I am working with her.
Jayanta, thank you very much for your help.
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The best thing to do is to just paste the IRC logs as pages under
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2013/5/14 Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com:
Sorry
Awesome!
Did you have any challenges with digitizing the books? For example, are
there any ancient Malayalam letters or symbols that were used in these
books, but weren't available ib Unicode? Did you have any practical
problems with the Wikisource software?
בתאריך 29 באוג 2013 14:51, מאת
A similar course is underway in the Tel-Aviv University, and it was covered
in major newspapers:
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/.premium-1.552844
An important part of the course is actually teaching the students about the
little details of working with the Wikipedia community and
Congratulations! Always a pleasure to do edits like this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Wikipedia_languagesdiff=prevoldid=605585845
(In case it's not clear, it goes to English Wikipedia's Main Page :) )
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than 50,000 articles, and is
not in that list: https://hi.wikipedia.org/
(111,316 articles today).
Regards,
Yann
2014-04-24 15:43 GMT+05:30 Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il:
Congratulations! Always a pleasure to do edits like this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title
Hi,
Some Wikimedia projects in languages of India have Indian time defined as
the default time zone. Some don't. For precise info see:
http://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=InitialiseSettings.php
Search that file for wgLocaltimezone. You'll see that some projects have
Asia/Kolkata as
, Oct 9, 2014 at 3:55 PM, Amir E. Aharoni
amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
Hi,
Some Wikimedia projects in languages of India have Indian time defined as
the default time zone. Some don't. For precise info see:
http://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=InitialiseSettings.php
Any chance of getting that video translated to English?
בתאריך 29 באוק 2014 13:23, Subhashish Panigrahi subhash...@cis-india.org
כתב:
Dear all,
It is an honour and pleasure to announce that CIS-A2K is getting 11 Odia
books of notable Odia litterateur Ramakrushna Nanda under CC-by-SA 4.0. 11
could explore English sub-titles. Would that help?
Vishnu
On Wednesday 29 October 2014 04:57 PM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
Any chance of getting that video translated to English?
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There's a Wikimedia India Blog - http://blog.wikimedia.in . It's also a
part of the Wikimedia Blog Planet ( http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Planet ).
I may be mistaken, but it looks like lately it has several spam posts, such
as
-Viswaprabha
>
> On Thu, 28 Mar 2019 at 00:28, Amir E. Aharoni
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > There's a Wikimedia India Blog - http://blog.wikimedia.in . It's also a
> part of the Wikimedia Blog Planet ( http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Planet
> ).
> >
&
What exactly is "bulk article creation"?
בתאריך יום ב׳, 10 בפבר׳ 2020, 12:38, מאת Suswetha Kolluru <
suswetha...@gmail.com>:
> Dear Wikimedians,
>
> It has been exactly one month since Project Tiger 2.0 article writing
> contest has ended. The writing contest began on 10 October 2019 and ran
>
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