Hello everyone,
I am taking a straw poll to know if any women in Mumbai, who already edit
Wikipedia are interested in attending an advanced level editing workshop.
If you are, please get in touch with me offlist. You could have
participated in a previous, basic editing workshop or learnt the ropes by
yourself.
In case you know anyone who fits the bill, but isn't likely to be
subscribed to this mailing list, please share this email with her.
Regards,
Rohini
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Chairperson (Special Interest Group), Gender gap,
Wikimedia Chapter (India)
Forwarding to India list to cover Indic languages. See below.
--Kul
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From: James Heilman <jmh649(a)gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 4:12 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Looking for Wikipedians to add already translated
articles
To: wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, Kul Wadhwa <ktwadhwa(a)gmail.com>
We at WikiProject Medicine are working on a collaborative effort with
Translators Without Borders (TWB), a group which includes 2,000 or so
volunteer translators. We are working to translate key medical articles
into as many other languages as possible. Currently we have translated
content into 50 or so languages amounting to 2.3 million words of text.
The process involves first bringing articles to either GA or FA status in
English. They are then delivered, with MediaWiki markup in place, to the
TWB website where the text is sent out to the translators. Once translated
we at Wikipedia are notified via orange links on this page here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:MED/Progress
This issue currently is that we are missing Wikipedians in some languages
to add / combine the translated content into the respective Wikipedia. Some
of the article created through this process have reached feature article
status including translations into Hungarian of anaphylaxis and
hypertension. We currently have translated content in the following
languages waiting to be integrated:
Hindi
Chinese
Persian
Tagalog
Indonesian
Macedonian
Greek
Bulgarian
Danish
Polish
Swedish
Arabic
Ukrainian
Dutch
Czech
Serbian
Slovenian
Spanish
Telugu
Tamil
Punjabi
Turkish
Kurdish
Thai
Swahili
Yoruba
Kinyarwanda
An overview of the efforts can be found here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:TTF
If you are interested in getting involved in adding translated articles
instructions are here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Translation_tas…
If you have further question or comments I would welcome the feedback.
James Heilman
MD, CCFP(EM), Wikipedian
WikiProject Medicine
The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine
www.opentextbookofmedicine.com
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Thanks to Mark Holmquist for maintaining http://etherpad.wmflabs.org for
the past long while. It is going down in 2 weeks, so please retrieve
your text.
I recommend that you:
* go into your browser history
* search it for etherpad.wmflabs.org
* go to each of those pads and copy-and-paste the content someplace,
preferably on a public wiki, even if it's just in your userspace
* replace the content of the Etherpad with a link to the wiki page
you've moved the text to
And just as a reminder: Etherpad is not a production-level service, and
therefore any data within an etherpad should be considered both public
and able to disappear at any time. This is one reason I recommend that
people use Etherpads for short-term defined collaboration sessions, and
frequently do backups, and always archive documents to a wiki after a
session ends.
-Sumana
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Subject: [Wikitech-l] Etherpad Lite labs instance going down in two
weeks - backup time
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 13:02:13 -0700
From: Mark Holmquist <mtraceur(a)member.fsf.org>
Reply-To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
To: wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, engineering(a)lists.wikimedia.org,
labs-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
The day we have all equally hoped for and dreaded is come to pass: Etherpad
Lite has now replaced Etherpad "Classic" in production, and the labs
instance
is on its way out.
This is my as-wide-as-possible email warning to say that everything on the
labs instance, as really should have been expected, is going to be gone
soon.
Not immediately - we intend to give you two weeks to get your important data
off the instance and onto the new one at https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/ -
but you should _absolutely_ be moving things as soon as possible. We will
also keep a data dump around, in case anything else needs to get pulled out
of the pads, but I would suggest not relying on that if you don't have to.
And in the future: If a URL has "wmflabs.org" in it...don't put anything,
ANYTHING, important there. The purpose of labs is to let us experiment with
new technology without having to worry about reliability.
Thanks so much for your help and understanding in the course of this
migration.
tl;dr: http://etherpad.wmflabs.org is going down in 2 weeks, get yer
stuff off it.
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Mark Holmquist
Software Engineer, Multimedia
Wikimedia Foundation
mtraceur(a)member.fsf.org
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:MHolmquist
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Hello guys,
greeting. Wiki Loves Monuments contest is not more than two weeks away, and
the Indian core team needs more help. I would like to thank Pradeep,
Konarak, Arnav and Srikanth for volunteering on this and Wikimedia India
for supporting this.
The team needs more help in regards to the following:
* Designing flyers
* Helping us with the website: www.wikilovesmonuments.in
* Spreading the word through media and blogs
* Organising photowalks
* Find some sponsors and partners
Well, if you can help us with things not mentioned here, feel free to ping
me or someone from the Wiki Loves Monuments team.
Regards,
Karthik Nadar.
Secretary, Wikimedia India Chapter.
http://wiki.wikimedia.in
Those in Mumbai, please do come.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/tiss-mumbai-to-celebrate-linguistic-diversity-in…
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Tejaswini Niranjana, PhD
Lead Researcher - Higher Education Innovation and Research Applications
(HEIRA)
Senior Fellow - Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (CSCS)
Visiting Professor - Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS)
Advisor, Access to Knowledge Programme, Centre for Internet and Society
Visiting Faculty - Centre for Contemporary Studies, Indian Institute
of Science (CCS-IISc)
t: 91-80-41202302
http://heira.inwww.cscs.res.in
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:N_A_Nazeer%27s_uploads
These contributions are certainly useful but some additional metadata would
make them even more so - one of them being - location, the other being date
- (the latter seems to be extractable from the EXIF data).
Is there an explanation for the EXIF field that says the copyright owner is
"Jomish Mohan"?
best wishes
Shyamal
Hi,<br/><br/>I got this email a few days ago. You may want to participate in this. Open to Indic languages as well.<br/><br/>Warm regards,<br/>Pradeep<br/><br/>Sent from Yahoo! Mail for iPhone
Re-posting a now outdated query from meta
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:India_Access_To_Knowledge/Events/Bangal…
now that the workshop has already been conducted I think those that have
attended the workshop could comment if this cover Indic language OCR-ing -
if it did it would be worthwhile if the OCR software used can be documented
on the meta pages or elsewhere such as Wikisource. Most of the more
experienced editors here will be fairly familiar with the use of scanners
for creating PDF documents and uploading them to places like the Internet
Archive but the experience or knowledge of OCRs and their success rates is
a bit wanting for Indic languages (fonts).
best wishes
Shyamal
en:User:Shyamal