Dear friends,
A discussion on various aspects of the A2K "Work plan April 2013 -
June 2014/Pilot Project – Performing Arts in India" is underway on
Meta:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:India_Access_To_Knowledge/Work_plan_Ap…
The specific threads are :-
* Timeline and focus (initiated by Arjuna Rao Chawala)
* Rationale of choosing "Performing Arts" as the topic for the Pilot
Project (initiated by Shyamal)
* Nature and form of deliverables of the Pilot Project, ( (initiated by AshLIn)
Other aspects under discussion at present in the these threads include :-
* Integration of Community in the Pilot Project,
* How should the planning process proceed,
May I request that comments, points of view, suggestions and
importanltly offers of participation, be made on the talk page wiki &
NOT in response to this email. We want the discussion on these issues
concentrated there for convenience of all.
Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur
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FYI
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From: CherianTinu Abraham <tinucherian(a)gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 11:07 AM
Subject: Re: [WMIN-Members] Re: IRC with WMIN Executive Committee Election
Candidates
To: wmin-members(a)googlegroups.com
Hi,
On behalf of the Election Committee, we thank everyone who had attended the
"IRC with the candidates" yesterday.
For the full log, please see
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Internet_Relay_Chats/July_30,2013
Please reach out to Election Committee for any clarifications and we
strongly encourage to actively participate in the Elections
Cheers
For Election Committee
Tinu Cherian
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 9:09 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala <arjunaraoc(a)gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> The IRC has just started. Tinu is moderating. Please join soon
>
> Cheers
> Arjuna
>
>
> 2013/7/27 Arjuna Rao Chavala <arjunaraoc(a)gmail.com>
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> An IRC with Executive Committee Election Candidates is scheduled for *30th
>> July 2013, Tuesday from 09:00PM to 10:00PM IST* on #wikimedia-in<http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#wikimedia-in>channel.
>> All the candidates have confirmed their availability. Election Committee
>> thanks them for their prompt confirmations and support. Kindly mark the
>> session on your calendars.
>>
>> Responses to Questions have been initiated by some of the candidates. I
>> request all the candidates to update their responses by the time of IRC, so
>> that participants can have a more focused discussion on topics of interest.
>>
>> Looking forward to your participation.
>>
>> For Election Committee
>>
>> Arjuna Rao Chavala.
>>
>>
>
I believe the i18n team has been working on this for quite a while. Do note
there are several tools [built in] for typing in Devnagari with Keymanweb
and Narayam being the ones I am aware of.
On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Yogesh Khandke <yogesh_khandke(a)yahoo.com>wrote:
> I've done Wikipedia workshops at TISS Mumbai and at Ahmednagar , the
> former with PhD students and the later with undergraduates, the bottleneck
> was the great difficulty in typing using Devnagari.
>
> Can anything be done to address the issue?
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Abhijeet Safai <abhijeet.safai(a)gmail.com>
> *To:* wmin-members(a)googlegroups.com
> *Cc:* Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia. <
> wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>; press(a)wikimedia.in
> *Sent:* Friday, 2 August 2013 10:51 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [WMIN-Members] [Press] : Times of India : " Wikipedia boom
> in Marathi, Malayalam and other desi languages"
>
> Great to know!
>
> On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 10:59 AM, CherianTinu Abraham <
> tinucherian(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> *Times of India : " Wikipedia boom in Marathi, Malayalam and other desi
> languages"*
>
> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-news/internet/Wikipedia-boom-i…
>
> *A vibrant vernacular Wikipedia seems to be taking root in India. In the
> last eight months, the number of Wikipedia entries has grown substantially
> in 20 Indian languages, says a study by the Bangalore-based Centre for
> Internet and Society (CIS).
>
> Wiki, the world's largest online encyclopaedia where anyone can write and
> edit articles, didn't have much content in vernacular till a few years ago.
> According to the study, Wikis in Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi have
> added thousands of new articles on various subjects from September 2012 to
> April 2013. A few of these pages were viewed more during this period.
> Marathi, which had 30 lakh page views per month previously, had another 10
> lakh visitors, while Bengali Wikipedia had 14 lakh page views.
>
> While Malayalam Wiki took the top position with an enviable team of 100
> plus editors, the number Hindi, Marathi and Sanskrit editors came down.
> "Marathi has 40,000 articles. But most editors in Mumbai prefer to work on
> English. Pune has more Marathi editors,' says T Vishnu Vardhan, programme
> director, Access to Knowledge project at CIS.
>
> "In the last two years, the demand for knowledge in Indian languages has
> grown as we have moved to the motto of 'roti, kapda and internet'," says
> Vardhan.
>
> One of the reasons for growth is that many browsers now support Indian
> language scripts. But this was not the case in early 2000. Though many
> wanted to read and type in their own language, there was no browser
> support, says Shiju Alex, blogger and Malayalam Wiki editor. Moreover,
> many didn't know how to type in their mother tongues.
>
> But once Indian languages were encoded in Unicode, the fonts became
> accessible. "There was no need to write Malayalam in English and people
> started blogging in their mother tongues," says Alex. According to Vardhan,
> communities with better literacy rates seem to have taken the lead online.
>
> "Telugu Wiki is stronger as internet penetration in Andhra Pradesh is
> higher than in places where Bhojpuri or Assamese is spoken."
>
> As with most online language initiatives, the Wiki movement was also
> fuelled by the diaspora. Tinu Cherian Abraham, a former board member of
> the Wikimedia India chapter, talks about how an NRI's love for Malayalam
> kick-started the project.
>
> But now there are many Wiki foot soldiers in India, including a blind
> editor of Hindi Wikipedia and an elderly contributor from Kerala whose
> passion for free knowledge has helped him forget his ailments. *
>
> Regards
> Tinu Cherian
> press(a)wikimedia.in
> http://wiki.wikimedia.in/In_the_news
>
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*Times of India : " Wikipedia boom in Marathi, Malayalam and other desi
languages"*
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-news/internet/Wikipedia-boom-i…
*A vibrant vernacular Wikipedia seems to be taking root in India. In the
last eight months, the number of Wikipedia entries has grown substantially
in 20 Indian languages, says a study by the Bangalore-based Centre for
Internet and Society (CIS).
Wiki, the world's largest online encyclopaedia where anyone can write and
edit articles, didn't have much content in vernacular till a few years ago.
According to the study, Wikis in Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi have
added thousands of new articles on various subjects from September 2012 to
April 2013. A few of these pages were viewed more during this period.
Marathi, which had 30 lakh page views per month previously, had another 10
lakh visitors, while Bengali Wikipedia had 14 lakh page views.
While Malayalam Wiki took the top position with an enviable team of 100
plus editors, the number Hindi, Marathi and Sanskrit editors came down.
"Marathi has 40,000 articles. But most editors in Mumbai prefer to work on
English. Pune has more Marathi editors,' says T Vishnu Vardhan, programme
director, Access to Knowledge project at CIS.
"In the last two years, the demand for knowledge in Indian languages has
grown as we have moved to the motto of 'roti, kapda and internet'," says
Vardhan.
One of the reasons for growth is that many browsers now support Indian
language scripts. But this was not the case in early 2000. Though many
wanted to read and type in their own language, there was no browser
support, says Shiju Alex, blogger and Malayalam Wiki editor. Moreover, many
didn't know how to type in their mother tongues.
But once Indian languages were encoded in Unicode, the fonts became
accessible. "There was no need to write Malayalam in English and people
started blogging in their mother tongues," says Alex. According to Vardhan,
communities with better literacy rates seem to have taken the lead online.
"Telugu Wiki is stronger as internet penetration in Andhra Pradesh is
higher than in places where Bhojpuri or Assamese is spoken."
As with most online language initiatives, the Wiki movement was also
fuelled by the diaspora. Tinu Cherian Abraham, a former board member of the
Wikimedia India chapter, talks about how an NRI's love for Malayalam
kick-started the project.
But now there are many Wiki foot soldiers in India, including a blind
editor of Hindi Wikipedia and an elderly contributor from Kerala whose
passion for free knowledge has helped him forget his ailments. *
Regards
Tinu Cherian
press(a)wikimedia.in
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/In_the_news
Important Note : Non-commercial reproduction for informative purposes only.
The publisher ( Times of India ) of the above news article owns the
copyrights of the article / content. All copyrights are duly acknowledged.
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Date: Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 2:26 AM
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The Wikimedia Foundation and the Individual Engagement Grants Committee
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individuals or small teams to organize, build, create, research or
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Dear all,
TOI has written about growth of Wikipedia with a focus on Indian languages.
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> Date: 1 August 2013 6:42:30 AM GMT+05:30
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