Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] SMS WIkipedia app in India

2011-02-05 Thread Bishakha Datta
Aditya Sengupta and I asked a group of engineering students at VJTI to test this today during a talk we were doing. Good feedback from all of them - they found it useful to get the first para of the relevant wikipedia article. Some said it would be a good way to get quick info in situations where

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] SMS WIkipedia app in India

2011-02-02 Thread Asaf Bartov
Does ordering this content via SMS cost any money? Asaf On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 2:39 AM, Barry Newstead bnewst...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Hi all, We just had a demo of an interesting SMS application called txtwebhttp://www.txtweb.com/. It is a beta platform that allows content developers

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] SMS WIkipedia app in India

2011-02-02 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
generally admitted. - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture From: Asaf Bartov asaf.bar...@gmail.com To: Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia. wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Wed, February 2, 2011 5:00:00 PM Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] SMS

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] SMS WIkipedia app in India

2011-02-02 Thread Ravishankar
I tried the following: @wikipedia Tamil it gives: Tamil may refer to: (which is the first line and has a paragraph break after that. so it gives text until there is a paragraph break) @wikipedia ta:AU (which is a redirect page in Tamil Wikipedia for Astronomical Unit with a active Tamil