Dear Indic language wikipedians,<br><br>As many of you know the default skin of wikipedias (including that of all Indic language wikipedias) is moved to the new Vector skin some time back. Please see the below mail that I sent to this list regrading this on <b>2010 July 1</b>. <br>
<br>As some of you know, along with this update, the logo of wikipedia is also updated. The current logo is available <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia/2.0">here</a>. <br><br>But even though almost 6 months had passed after this major update, only <a href="http://bn.wikipedia.org">Bengali</a>, <a href="http://ml.wikipedia.org">Malayalam</a>, <a href="http://ur.wikipedia.org">Urdu</a>, and <a href="http://te.wikipedia.org">Telugu</a> wiki communities had took initiatives to update the logo. The logo update is still pending for the following Indian language wikis.<br>
<ul><li>Assamese - <a href="http://as.wikipedia.org">http://as.wikipedia.org</a></li><li>Bhojpuri - <a href="http://bh.wikipedia.org">http://bh.wikipedia.org</a></li><li>Bishnupriya Manipuri - <a href="http://bpy.wikipedia.org/">http://bpy.wikipedia.org/</a></li>
<li>Divehi - <a href="http://dv.wikipedia.org">http://dv.wikipedia.org</a></li><li>Gujarati - <a href="http://gu.wikipedia.org">http://gu.wikipedia.org</a></li><li>Hindi - <a href="http://hi.wikipedia.org">http://hi.wikipedia.org</a></li>
<li>Kannada - <a href="http://kn.wikipedia.org/">http://kn.wikipedia.org/</a></li><li>Kashmiri - <a href="http://ks.wikipedia.org/">http://ks.wikipedia.org/</a></li><li>Marathi - <a href="http://mr.wikipedia.org">http://mr.wikipedia.org</a></li>
<li>Nepali - <a href="http://ne.wikipedia.org">http://ne.wikipedia.org</a></li><li>Oriya - <a href="http://or.wikipedia.org">http://or.wikipedia.org</a></li><li>Pali - <a href="http://pi.wikipedia.org">http://pi.wikipedia.org</a></li>
<li>Punjabi - <a href="http://pa.wikipedia.org">http://pa.wikipedia.org</a></li><li>Sanskrit - <a href="http://sa.wikipedia.org">http://sa.wikipedia.org</a></li><li>Sindhi - <a href="http://sd.wikipedia.org">http://sd.wikipedia.org</a></li>
<li>Tamil - <a href="http://ta.wikipedia.org">http://ta.wikipedia.org</a></li></ul>Carry Bass (<a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Bastique">User:Bastique</a>) has took initiative to create the new logo for some of the Indian language wikis. But for languages like Kannada, Oriya, and so on even that is pending. Even if the new logo is created a bug needs to be filed by the respective wiki community to change the logo. So for most of the Indian wikis both these tasks are pending now. <br>
<br>I request the respective language communities to take initiatives to create the new logo and file a bug for this update. The guidelines for creating the new logo is listed at <a href="http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikimedia_official_marks/Word_mark_creation">http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikimedia_official_marks/Word_mark_creation</a><br>
<br>Please write to me if any of the language communities require any type of support regarding this. <br><br><br><br>Regards<br>Shiju Alex<br><br> <br><br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br><div> <br>
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<br><br><br><hr>Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 06:43:08 +0200<br>From: <a href="mailto:shijualexonline@gmail.com" target="_blank">shijualexonline@gmail.com</a><br>To: <a href="mailto:wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org" target="_blank">wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org</a><br>
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Updating the default skin of Indian Language Wikipedias<br><br>Hi All,<br><br>As some of you already know, <b><a href="http://usability.wikimedia.org" target="_blank">Usability Team</a></b> is driving the task of updating the default skin of all WikiMedia Foundation wikis to a skin called <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vector" target="_blank"><b>Vector</b></a>. English Wikipedia and some other big wikis have already moved to <b>Vector skin</b> some time back. Apart from the UI, the <a href="http://blog.wikimedia.org/2010/wikipedia-in-3d/" target="_blank">logo of Wikipedia is also updated</a>. <br>
<br>Yesterday (2010 June 30) at 10:30 PM IST, some other wikis (that have carried out the formalities required for the UI change) are also moved to the new UI. Among this, 3 Indian Language Wikipedias are also there. Following are those Indian Language wikipedias:<br>
<ul><li>Malayalam - <a href="http://ml.wikipedia.org" target="_blank">http://ml.wikipedia.org</a><br></li><li>Bengali - <a href="http://bn.wikipedia.org" target="_blank">http://bn.wikipedia.org</a><br></li><li>Telugu - <a href="http://te.wikipedia.org" target="_blank">http://te.wikipedia.org</a><br>
</li></ul>Please note the new default skin and the new logo that are appearing on these wikis. (You may need to clear the cache to see the changes. )<br><br><br>Now to move your language wiki to Vector, you have to perform the following two major operations:<br>
<ol><li>Update the logo of your wiki </li><li>Localize the Vector skin system messages</li></ol><font size="4">Logo update</font><br><br>For some languages, logo is already updated. See the list here: <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia/2.0" target="_blank">http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia/2.0</a><br>
<br>If your wiki's logo is missing from this list, then you need to create the new logo based on the instructions listed on this page. <a href="http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikimedia_official_marks/About_the_official_Marks" target="_blank">http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikimedia_official_marks/About_the_official_Marks</a> <br>
<br><br><font size="4">Localizing</font><font size="4"> the Vector skin</font><font size="4"> System messages </font><br><br>For the current update, you need to localize the Vector skin system messages. To localize the system messages, use Translate wiki -
<a href="http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Main_Page" target="_blank">http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Main_Page</a><br><br>The current Localization statistics of Vector skin system messages is available here. <a href="http://translatewiki.net/wiki/User:GerardM/usability-stats" target="_blank">http://translatewiki.net/wiki/User:GerardM/usability-stats</a> <br>
<br>You can see that many Indian languages (for example, Tamil) are missing from this list. The reason is, none of the Vector skin system messages are localized for those languages. Even for the big Languages like Hindi and Marathi the percentage of localized messages is very low. <br>
<br>So I request the respective Indian Language Wikipedia communities to take required initiative to switch over to the new Skin. Usability team is planning for next set of switch over by the end of July. So you have almost one month to finish these tasks. <br>
<br>Once you finish the above tasks you need to:<br><ul><li>Let the community know about this upcoming update (Use the village pump, Site Notice, Mailing list, and so on)</li><li>Appoint some volunteers to answer the questions related to this</li>
<li>Appoint an ambassador to collect the feedback/issues/bugs and report it to the Usability Team.</li></ul>Please let me know in case you require any support regarding this.<br><br>Regards<br>Shiju Alex<br>
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