<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Dear Gerard,<br><br>Ganesh originally wrote his bot to create articles on census data from a fixed template and spreadsheet data. You can find the details at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/Ganeshbot_0 (Ganesh's anyway on this list, so he can add more details.) His articles where translated to Portugese (using AWB, I think) and Bishnupriya Manipuri among others. We also translated a the template into Tamil and created a small subset of those articles in Tamil Wikipedia.<br><br>As to your question on maps, yes. Ganesh K took the census data and joined with data from fallingrain to get the latlong and put it on a map for each town.<br><br>Tinu works with AWB, I think.<br><br>- Sundar<br><br>"That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted."<br>
- George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture<br><br>--- On <b>Tue, 3/30/10, Gerard Meijssen <i><gerard.meijssen@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen@gmail.com><br>Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Integration with OpenStreetMap<br>To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org<br>Date: Tuesday, March 30, 2010, 3:52 PM<br><br><div id="yiv34967626"><div>Hoi,</div>
<div>I would love to know more. How do GaneshK and Tinucherian create their articles, do they use maps, do they have maps with all the Indian places on them.. do they have maps with all of them on it.. do they have maps with the names in many countries.. including English.. Do they have maps with articles and or pictures on them.</div>
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<div>How does this process of translation work for the other Indian languages? Is there a plan to translate to English as well ??</div>
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<div> GerardM<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 28 March 2010 16:27, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:rsrikanth05@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=rsrikanth05@gmail.com">rsrikanth05@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">Giving Indian places an article is being done by GaneshK and Tinucherian. :D Translation is being done by others.. <br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 28 March 2010 19:32, Gerard Meijssen <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:gerard.meijssen@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=gerard.meijssen@gmail.com">gerard.meijssen@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">Hoi,<br>Localisation is a project where there is a lot to win for the usability of the Indian Wikipedias.. in my opinion, this is something that in my opinion an Indian chapter could and should champion. For your information OSM also gets localised at <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://translatewiki.net/">translatewiki.net</a>.<br>
<br>Giving all the Indian places an article in the many Wikipedias is another big project, a project that will benefit from cooperation and a project that makes the Indian chapter very much an all India chapter.<br>Thanks,<br>
GerardM
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 28 March 2010 15:48, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:rsrikanth05@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=rsrikanth05@gmail.com">rsrikanth05@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">I don't get it. What does localisation have with OSM? Unless OSM has to be localised?<br><br>
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<div>On 28 March 2010 18:46, Gerard Meijssen <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:gerard.meijssen@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=gerard.meijssen@gmail.com">gerard.meijssen@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div>
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<div>Hoi,<br>I have been so bold to write about getting information out about the villages, towns and cities of India. There are several problems that I see:<br>
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<li>there are many villages, towns and cities in India</li>
<li>there are many Wikipedias that should be interested in all these places</li>
<li>the integration of OpenStreetMap and Wikipedia needs to get an initial product out</li></ul>In my blog I have written that in order to achieve the third objective we need a project manager. In order to achieve the first two, you need to make this one of your objectives.. It is with the localisation of the Indian languages a perfect objective for the Indian chapter..<br>
<br>I know that it is not my place, but hey, may I dream of something that will be worthwhile ?<br>Thanks,<br> GerardM<br><br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2010/03/integration-of-openstreetmap-and.html">http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2010/03/integration-of-openstreetmap-and.html</a><br>
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