Hi Gerard, As far as I know some sects of Kannadigas also follow the 60 year cycle of Telugu calendar.
On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 10:17 PM, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijs...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hoi, > 'There is a "Tamil calendar" like there is also a Malayalam, Nepali and > Bengali calendar. What I have done is I have added the months. It would help > when you check it out [1]. You can appreciate that I do not speak any of the > languages from India :) > > My advise is to first add your #babel info on your Wikidata profile. This > makes life easier :) it shows you the labels in the language that you > know.You can modify it from the one on my profile [2] > > I am currently adding the sixty years that exist in the Telugu calendar. As > I understand things, these years start on different dates compared with > other calendars. As a consequence these sixty items are specific to the > Telugu calendar. This means that for other languages these 60 items may need > to be created as well. > > Really soon now, we will be able to state how many days exist in a month > ..For the Indian calendars it is much better when you add such > information.The same is true for the English names; in the English Wikipedia > the names are often written in a spelling that may help with pronunciation > but are not written in this way by anyone I know. So please check this as > well and modify to make the names more real. Obviously when you know a name > for a year, a month in any of the other Indian languages please add these as > well. > > What you can do as well is add the Tamil name for this article [3] in > Wikidata. When you do you can find it in the Tamil extended search. > Thanks, > GerardM > > > [1] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Q1293283 > ]2] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:GerardM > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanchipuram_sari > > > > On 15 January 2014 11:05, sibi kanagaraj <civil.si...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi Gerard , >> >> I think I can help with Tamil . But , I am not sure what needs to be done >> :) >> >> I understand that its something with calendar . But nothing more I am able >> to grasp . >> >> -Sibi >> >> >> >> >> On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 2:27 PM, Gerard Meijssen >> <gerard.meijs...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hoi, >>> I blogged about calendars. The problem I face is that I am adding >>> statements to the calendars in use in India.. I have worked on the Nepali >>> and the Bengali calendar and, I find that in the English Wikipedia some >>> months are merged into one article. >>> >>> What I want to know is if these months exactly are at the same time or >>> not. Many calendars have special days. It would make sense to have an item >>> for them as well. I assume that many of the Indian Wikipedias have articles >>> for such events. It will help when they are known to be part of a specific >>> calendar.. >>> >>> Are there people who can help me with this ? >>> Thanks, >>> GerardM >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >>> Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>> To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >> Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > -- With thanks & regards Rahimanuddin Shaik నాని reachout ఒక విశ్వాన్ని ఊహించండి, ఎక్కడయితే ప్రతి మనిషి ఒక సంపూర్ణ విజ్ఞానభాండారాన్ని అందరితో పంచుకోగలడో, ఆ విశ్వాన్ని ఊహించండి. అటువంటి విశ్వాన్ని నెలకొల్పడమే మా సంకల్పం. తెలుగు వికీపీడియా : http://te.wikipedia.org A new address for ebooks : http://kinige.com తెలుగువారికి సాంకేతిక సహాయం - http://techsetu.com _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
