Hi Subhashish: As always, thank you so much for putting this together.
Is it possible to also post these reports here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore37 please? (For this and previous ones that you have so wonderfully recorded, please?) Thank you. Best, Gautam ________ http://blog.prathambooks.org/p/social-media.html On 12 September 2011 22:22, Subhashish Panigrahi <psubhash...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > Here is a abridged summary of the 37th Bangalore Wiki Meetup Summary on 11th > September 2011 at CIS, Bangalore > > Talk: Technology related issues in Wiki projects and their solutions (By > Santhosh Thottingal) > > This Skype session was presented by the foundation member Santhosh > Thottingal. First of all he was formally greeted by the Wikipedians from > Bangalore for the new position. Santhosh introduced the Narayam project and > its advancements, participation of Malayalam Wikimedian Junaid.V for the > development of typing tools for all the Indian Wikimedia projects and > Myanmar Wikipedia, fixing several bugs and further improvements. > > Then answering a question raised by Naveen Francis about how foundation is > going to take initiatives for solving display problems for Iphone/Android > based handheld devices he explained how this technological gaps would be > narrowed in the coming days though foundation doesn’t have any project soon > specifically for this project. FYI the latest Iphone 4 and Android 2.0 > supports Indic font rendering while Android 2.2 has rendering issues. > > As there are many users who are failing to use Indic Wikipedias because of > font and rendering related issues Santhosh shared his experience, past > issues and their solutions. He also has shared how the typographer of the > Sourashtra language font has come up to release it in PD so that it could be > used by all. The current project for web fonts especially for Indic fonts > have successfully been tested in www.Translatewiki.net which will be soon > launched for all the Indic Wikipedias. The web font project has even gone > beyond the Indic WPs and is also successful for Hebrew, few > > European languages and Myanmar which has rendering issues even in Win 7. > > Santhosh also shared his experience related to Text-To-Speech application > development for Indian languages which would be a boon for the visually > impaired people. There would be a common high volume word and phonetic sound > database which would be used to generate downloadable mp3/ogv files so the > Wikipedia articles could be converted to audio files. Though the complexity > of Indian languages doesn’t make this an easy task there had been lot of > advancements in this project which is available for testing at www.silpa.in > . > > Santhosh explained the thought of outreach programs such as Wiki Maratrhon > to bring more developers into the community which would be one of his talks > in the Mumbai WCI who will address issues in Indian language Wikipedias. > > Then he moved onto question based discussion about OCR (Optical character > Reader) and machine translation or TDI, expllained the complexity of the > developing tools to for Indic languages. > > Then there was a discussion about WikiProjectIndia by Naveen Francis. Naveen > explained the hierarchy of the project, campus collaborations like > Symbiosis, Pune for Economy subject under this major project. He also > focussed how outreach programs driven in both regional as well as in English > Wikipedia to bring more editors into the project which would be beneficial > for all the Wikipedias. Wikimedians also discussed glimpses of using > different tools in Wiki, Assessment, Analysis of web hits for regional Wiki. > > Then there was a small discussion for the regional Wikipedias, how more > editing sessions would help developing Wikipedias. Subha explained the > statistics of Odia Wikipedia followed by a discussion for promoting regional > Wikipedia using social sites like Facebook, taking the Wikipedias to school > children and the government for creating bigger Wiki projects. > > regards > > ସୁଭପାSubhaPa > ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ > _______________________________________________ > Wikipedia Odia (Oriya) mailing list > wikipedia...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-or > facebook.com/OdiaWiki > Tweet @OdiaWiki > .............................. > Mailing list for Wikimedians / Wikipedians in & from Bangalore, India > wikimedia-in-...@lists.wikimedia.org > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > > _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
