Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Odia Wikipedia reached 1000 Articles

2011-05-30 Thread Surya Prakash
Congratulations Odia Wikipedia... *$**U**∩* http://goo.gl/RoMyo.com http://FirefoxSurya.blogspot.com On 30 May 2011 17:25, Subhashish Panigrahi psubhash...@gmail.com wrote: Agyan Juhara, Odia Wikipedia http://or.wikipedia.org has reached 1000

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Programs IRC : Thursday June 2nd 2011 @ 9pm IST (GMT + 5:30) : #wikimedia-office

2011-06-01 Thread Surya Prakash
Hi Hisham Mundol Can you make it in-advance? instead of 9 PM, can yo make it 8 PM ? If you can easily finish it, think about it. Otherwise ignore this message. *$**U**∩* http://goo.gl/RoMyo.com http://FirefoxSurya.blogspot.com On 1 June 2011 11:04, Hisham Mundol hmun...@wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Vote for picture of the year

2011-06-01 Thread Surya Prakash
you please use a smaller font? Thanks Theo10011 On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Surya Prakash suryasalem2...@gmail.comwrote: Voters Please remember, YOU CAN VOTE FOR ONLY ONE IMAGE. Please keep it in mind. *$**U**∩* http://goo.gl/RoMyo.com http://FirefoxSurya.blogspot.com

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Vote for picture of the year

2011-06-01 Thread Surya Prakash
, Surya Prakash suryasalem2...@gmail.comwrote: Sorry Theo10011, I have some problems in my eyes. That's why had my fonts bigger. Now reduced the sizes. Sorry for the inconvenience. I think now you feel comfort. *$U®¥∩* http://goo.gl/RoMyo.com http://FirefoxSurya.blogspot.com On 1 June

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Report] Kannada Wikipedia Workshop in Dharwad

2011-06-03 Thread Surya Prakash
Hi Hariprasad Nadig, first of all, congrats. May I know, what was your main theme on that work shop? Was it a Wiki-introduction workshop or editing Marathon? Q: What did people like? editing workshop or Wiki-intro workshop. What was the background of the people who participated? Please share

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Proposal of a new Wiki Projects in Odia Wikipedia

2011-06-06 Thread Surya Prakash
@Subhashish Panigrahi Hi, Subhashish congrats for your initiatives in Odia Wiki projects. FYI: You can digitize your Odia literature works in Wikisource. You apply for Wikisource approval for your language. That will be a web-portal for your language's literary works. See our Tamil Wikisource:

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Delhi Chapter (User:AroundTheGlobe)

2011-06-06 Thread Surya Prakash
2011 19:34, Surya Prakash suryasalem2...@gmail.com wrote: I agree with Abhi. Let's proud to be having a chapter in our India. :) Proud to be a part of Wikimedia projects. :) *$U®¥∩* http://goo.gl/RoMyo.com http://FirefoxSurya.blogspot.com On 6 June 2011 19:30, Abhilash S Unni abhilashu

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: The Hindu : World heritage site tag sought for Wikipedia

2011-06-06 Thread Surya Prakash
Yeah! I have read it just now in the paper. Very happy. Shared it with friends... :) Please show your support here https://wke.wikimedia.de/wke/Special:Petition?setlang=en Let's make the 12,600 to 1,00,000 :) Please do support. *$U®¥∩* http://goo.gl/RoMyo.com

[Wikimediaindia-l] IRC office hour now

2011-06-09 Thread Surya Prakash
Hi friends, Sue Gardner will be available in (#wikimedia-office) this channel at 11.30 AM (IST). Please do come. :) This time is specially arranged for Asian countries. :) *$U®¥∩* http://goo.gl/RoMyo.com http://FirefoxSurya.blogspot.com ___

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fundraising works have started.

2011-06-15 Thread Surya Prakash
Hi friends, I noticed a mail with the idea of including our INDIAN RUPEE (INR) in Wikimedia's upcoming fundraiser event. I glad to tell that this year's fund raising initiatives have started today. Pats (Patricia) will be the major part of this year's fundraising programme. I glad to tell that

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] We need to decide NOW what the conference is to be called.....

2011-06-22 Thread Surya Prakash
Good choice! Thank you. *$U®¥∩* http://goo.gl/RoMyo.com http://FirefoxSurya.blogspot.com 2011/6/22 Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com The name WikiConference India was selected by the community through simple majority. The discussion began on this page (url:

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] About description of of Wikipedia

2011-06-23 Thread Surya Prakash
@Ashwin, I know little Hindi only. That was translated by Google translator. ;) *$U®¥∩* http://goo.gl/RoMyo.com http://FirefoxSurya.blogspot.com 2011/6/23 Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com In Hindi, it should be mukt (free as in freedom) not muft (free as in free beer). Warm

[Wikimediaindia-l] Request Foundation to add INR in donation currency list.

2011-08-20 Thread Surya Prakash
Now, the Fund Raising for the year 2011 is being translated the banners are being created in full fast (in Meta-Wiki). As, India has larger amount of WP (+ Any Wikimedia projects), it will be nice if the Donation landing page has Indian Rupee as a transaction currency.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Minutes of the Wikipedia Mumbai Meetup 12

2011-08-21 Thread Surya Prakash
Hi, Pradeep Hisham. Please upload photos of the event somewhere. :) *$U®¥∩* http://goo.gl/RoMyo.com http://FirefoxSurya.blogspot.com http://about.me/suryaceg 2011/8/21 Hari Prasad Nadig hpna...@gmail.com On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 11:16 PM, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Visually challenged people and Indic language wikipedias - Video

2011-08-22 Thread Surya Prakash
The only word I said after reading this was WOW! I appreciate Mr. Satyasheelan's efforts. In Tamil Nadu also, few (very few) schools are using Tamil Wikipedia. (for usual children) Thank you Alex for sharing this story. :) *$U®¥∩* http://goo.gl/RoMyo.com http://FirefoxSurya.blogspot.com

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] On creating an Indian Wikisource

2011-08-26 Thread Surya Prakash
Good conversation. Very helpful to me to practice copy-right laws. Go on guys. :) *$U®¥∩* http://goo.gl/RoMyo.com http://FirefoxSurya.blogspot.com http://about.me/suryaceg 2011/8/26 Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.com On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Shiju Alex

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Death and Post-mortem of Indian Education Program pilot -- #DelayedMail

2011-11-12 Thread Surya Prakash
From Bala's words... //Online Ambassadors/mentors are not handholders and error correctors. I signed up to be an online ambassador. But stopped reading the IEP mails that were sent to me after i realised, that the IEP program essentially wanted to me to do the students' work. // Sure. We can

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Re: [Foundation-l] Indian Minister Kapil Sibal wants to censor social media

2011-12-07 Thread Surya Prakash
How will it hurt WP most than FB or TWIT? *$U®¥∩* http://goo.gl/RoMyo.com http://FirefoxSurya.blogspot.com http://about.me/suryaceg On 7 December 2011 16:04, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.comwrote: This is basically restriction of freedom of expression and it will hurt

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Internal-l] Community Fellowships open call

2011-12-08 Thread Surya Prakash
Thank you Beria for your short note. :) *$U®¥∩* http://goo.gl/RoMyo.com http://FirefoxSurya.blogspot.com http://about.me/suryaceg On 8 December 2011 18:42, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote: Well, is on the page: *A fellowship is a temporary position at the Wikimedia Foundation in order

[Wikimediaindia-l] Salem Wiki Workshop Report

2011-12-12 Thread Surya Prakash
A Wiki workshop in Salem was conducted on December 11, 2011 by the Tamil Wiki community. Paavadi Girls higher secondary school had graciously given their computer lab for this workshop. This was made possible by the efforts of an excellent newcomer to Tamil wiki projects - ParvathiSri, who is a

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Webfonts deployment on Indic Wikiprojects

2011-12-14 Thread Surya Prakash
The order which was mentioned by Srikanth L, is very useful for the smaller Wiki projects. Because, many End users using WP, Wiktionary very most. (I understand the power of Wiktionary today. My math professor said, *Use Tamil Wiktionary to get equivalent Tamil word for an English word!*)* *I

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] mediawiki-uploader

2011-12-15 Thread Surya Prakash
I've translated interface messages which are NECESSARY for the contest. But, these messages are not useful for now. :) But, I'll do this ASAP. :) Thanks Geard for notice it. :) Actually Shrinivasan didn't mentioned the contest upload wizard. It is here. (

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ONE simple step to double or triple visits to Indic Wikipedias

2011-12-19 Thread Surya Prakash
I think Sundar has suggested something like this before in this list. :) *$U®¥∩* http://goo.gl/RoMyo.com http://FirefoxSurya.blogspot.com http://about.me/suryaceg On 19 December 2011 18:04, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.comwrote: Ravi, I agree. The rotation system, if

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Translation request - An Indic wikipedian's appeal

2011-12-21 Thread Surya Prakash
Tamil done. :) *$U®¥∩* http://goo.gl/RoMyo.com http://FirefoxSurya.blogspot.com http://about.me/suryaceg On 21 December 2011 19:12, Jayanta Nath jayanta...@gmail.com wrote: Bengali too!! ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-WB] Kolkata Photo Walk (Esplanade Dalhousie)

2011-12-22 Thread Surya Prakash
of photo walks in the Salem-Erode-Coimbatore belt soon. Support would be appreciated. On 12/21/11, Surya Prakash suryasalem2...@gmail.com wrote: Great effort. Congrats to all guys. :) Many hunts like this have to be done in cities across India. :) *$U®¥∩* http://goo.gl/RoMyo.com http

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Missing wikis now redirect to Incubator

2011-12-23 Thread Surya Prakash
From Foundation's mailing list. :) Missing Wikis now redirect to the Incubator project pages. :) *$U®¥∩* http://goo.gl/RoMyo.com http://FirefoxSurya.blogspot.com http://about.me/suryaceg -- Forwarded message -- From: Robin Pepermans robinp.1...@gmail.com Date: 23 December 2011

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] StatisticsBot for closer look on Indic numbers

2011-12-26 Thread Surya Prakash
PS : This entire thing was a by-product of Bala's Doha visit when he interacted with Osama in the Arabic wiki convention and got to know of this. Apparently Bala learnt this from Osama and he learnt about wmf grant process from Bala :) Mutual learning? :) Good tool/feature. :) Once again

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Article Feedback Tool Office Hours - 6 January, 19:00 UTC, #wikimedia-office

2012-01-02 Thread Surya Prakash
-- Forwarded message -- From: Oliver Keyes oke...@wikimedia.org Date: 2 January 2012 10:26 Subject: [Foundation-l] Article Feedback Tool Office Hours - 6 January, 19:00 UTC, #wikimedia-office To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundatio...@lists.wikimedia.org Hey guys Just a

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia Traffic Analysis Reports

2012-01-03 Thread Surya Prakash
Tamil is well doing on all of these reports. :) Very happy to be a Tamil Wikimedian. :) *$U®¥∩* http://goo.gl/RoMyo.com http://FirefoxSurya.blogspot.com http://about.me/suryaceg On 3 January 2012 15:37, Mandar Kulkarni mvkulkarn...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: This is abosolutly amazing data and

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Spending 400+ hours a week to build Tamil Wikipedia

2012-06-25 Thread Surya Prakash
Great! Proud to be in the Wikipedia enterprises. :) *$U®¥∩* http://goo.gl/RoMyo.com http://FirefoxSurya.blogspot.com http://about.me/suryaceg On 25 June 2012 16:34, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, We usually measure a Wikipedia's growth in terms of page views, article counts,