This is a really useful discussion and there's a powerful idea. I agree
with Ravi that there is an opportunity to build awareness and traffic to
Indic language sites. While we are already seeing considerable readership
of Indic languages, there's clearly a lot more that can be done to
Most of the visitors on Wikipedia end up there through search engines. But
there is another group which attempts to access Wikipedia directly by
typing in www.wikipedia.com or www.wikipedia.org in the address bar of
their browsers.
Currently, the landing page for www.wikipedia.org (wikipedia.com
hi,
Perhaps somebody here has already brought this up, but you can now switch
languages on Commons using a drop down menu. You can spot the drop down
just below the Village Pump link. There is also a helpful site notice, that
suggested I read Commons in British English :).
It seems to do this
Currently, the landing page for www.wikipedia.org (wikipedia.comredirects to
wikipedia.org) lists the ten largest Wikipedia projects. Apart from the
English Wikipedia, the rest of the projects are practically useless for
most of us in this country. Replacing the foreign language projects
Rather than replacing, I suggest reorganising the order. Indic ones on
top and others below. Who knows, an Indian may try and access European
or African languages too.
On 12/20/11, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.com wrote:
Currently, the landing page for www.wikipedia.org
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 17:24, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
Today, I went to download WordPress and it told me it is also available in
Tamil. Very neatly done as it somehow detected that I am from Tamilnadu.
Geolocation within India is impossible. My guess is it used your
A good idea no doubt, but I think the detecting which state the user
comes from part is a small road block. While Google Mail has been
showing which state the IP is from in the logins section, I think the
browser or system language should also be taken into consideration,
though it may seem
On a slightly related note
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Universal_Language_Selector
-TC
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
Today, I went to download WordPress and it told me it is also available in
Tamil. Very neatly done as it somehow detected
Subha,
If you check WordPress.com it shows all available Indic languages.
If you check WordPress.org, I think it is showing only Tamil (may be
because as you said it is the only translation available and that too for
Srilankan Tamil : )
But the point is: Even if you show all available Indic
A small extension of my previous post.
Logic, geolocation within India is very much possible. Atleast I know
Google can do it. The only hitch is that it doesn't work well with
Wireless connections.
For instance, I frequently use a Reliance Wireless modem, which is
registered in K'taka but even in
A single line like Wikipedia is also available in Bengali, Hind,
Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil at the top and to the left of Login/create
account link will be fine. The line can be as what you see in
http://www.google.co.in/ . If we feel showing too many languages is
clutter, show random and
Ravi, I agree. The rotation system, if implemented works best. However
do note, this is best suited for the desktop version only, not
Mobiles. I'd like to point out that - People who use Opera Mini on
their mobiles, get routed thru a European server while all BlackBerry
users get routed thru a
I think Sundar has suggested something like this before in this list. :)
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On 19 December 2011 18:04, Srikanth Ramakrishnan
parakara.gh...@gmail.comwrote:
Ravi, I agree. The rotation system, if
Srikanth,
Even if only x% (or say people who wear white shirt on Monday evenings) are
going to see this notice, it is still useful and not going to hurt the
project in anyway.
Unless the community stands united and requests this feature, it will not
happen any sooner.
So, let us not loose steam
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 18:12, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote:
Srikanth,
{{Disambiguation needed}},Not just here, in many threads going forward,
especially atleast 2 Srikanth's are active on the list :D
So, let us not loose steam on discussing the technical hurdles up front.
I
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
Today, I went to download WordPress and it told me it is also available in
Tamil. Very neatly done as it somehow detected that I am from Tamilnadu.
See the screenshot at: http://ravidreams.com/ta-wordpress.png
A
Also, we already have that in the left side of every page, the sidebar on
every article lists the version of that article available in different
languages.
Regards
Theo
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 6:45 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Ravishankar
Theo, last time I checked, Indic languages are no longer listed in the
side of the English Main Page. A limited number of languages is there
with a link to More Languages.
On 12/19/11, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote:
Also, we already have that in the left side of every page, the sidebar on
Conclusion, it did not make a dent. Most people dismissed the banners, and
never clicked, those that did, never followed to edit. It made little to no
difference in the visitor or editor stats for the period.
Theo,
Clearly, links in sidebars are not getting enough eyeballs. It is also hard
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 8:01 PM, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote:
Theo,
Clearly, links in sidebars are not getting enough eyeballs. It is also
hard to look for one's own language when there are too many interwiki
links. Unless you are intentionally looking for it, it is hard to
On Dec 19, 2011, at 8:16 PM, Theo10011 wrote:
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 8:01 PM, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote:
This is a really useful discussion and there's a powerful idea. I agree with
Ravi that there is an opportunity to build awareness and traffic to Indic
language sites.
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