<p class="MsoNormal">Hi All,</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">Here is a abridged summary of the 37<sup>th</sup> Bangalore Wiki Meetup Summary on 11<sup>th</sup>
September 2011 at CIS, Bangalore</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Talk: Technology related issues in Wiki projects and their
solutions (By Santhosh Thottingal)</b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><br></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This Skype session was presented by the foundation member
Santhosh Thottingal.<span> </span>First of all he was
formally greeted by the Wikipedians from Bangalore for the new position.
Santhosh introduced the Narayam project and its advancements, participation of
Malayalam Wikimedian Junaid.V for the development of typing tools for all the
Indian Wikimedia projects and Myanmar Wikipedia, fixing several bugs and
further improvements.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">Then answering a question raised by Naveen Francis about how
foundation is going to take initiatives for solving display problems for
Iphone/Android based handheld devices he explained how this technological gaps
would be narrowed in the coming days though foundation doesn’t have any project
soon specifically for this project. FYI the latest Iphone 4 and Android 2.0
supports Indic font rendering while Android 2.2 has rendering issues.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">As there are many users who are failing to use Indic
Wikipedias because of font and rendering related issues Santhosh shared his
experience, past issues and their solutions. He also has shared how the
typographer of the Sourashtra language font has come up to release it in PD so
that it could be used by all. The current project for web fonts especially for
Indic fonts have successfully been tested in <a href="http://www.translatewiki.net/">www.Translatewiki.net</a> which will be
soon launched for all the Indic Wikipedias. The web font project has even gone
beyond the Indic WPs and is also successful for Hebrew, few </p><p class="MsoNormal">European languages
and Myanmar which has rendering issues even in Win 7.</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">Santhosh also shared his experience related to Text-To-Speech
application development for Indian languages which would be a boon for the
visually impaired people. There would be a common high volume word and phonetic
sound database which would be used to generate downloadable mp3/ogv files so
the Wikipedia articles could be converted to audio files. Though the complexity
of Indian languages doesn’t make this an easy task there had been lot of
advancements in this project which is available for testing at <a href="http://www.silpa.in/">www.silpa.in</a> .</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Santhosh explained the thought of outreach programs such
as Wiki Maratrhon to bring more developers into the community which would be
one of his talks in the Mumbai WCI who will address issues in Indian language
Wikipedias.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">Then he moved onto question based discussion about OCR
(Optical character Reader) and machine translation or TDI, expllained the
complexity of the developing tools to for Indic languages. <span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Then there was a discussion about WikiProjectIndia by Naveen
Francis. Naveen explained the hierarchy of the project, campus collaborations
like Symbiosis, Pune for Economy subject under this major project. He also
focussed how outreach programs driven in both regional as well as in English
Wikipedia to bring more editors into the project which would be beneficial for
all the Wikipedias. Wikimedians also discussed glimpses of using different
tools in Wiki, Assessment, Analysis of web hits for regional Wiki.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">Then there was a small discussion for the regional
Wikipedias, how more editing sessions would help developing Wikipedias. Subha
explained the statistics of Odia Wikipedia followed by a discussion for
promoting regional Wikipedia using social sites like Facebook, taking the
Wikipedias to school children and the government for creating bigger Wiki projects.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">regards </p><div style="text-align:left"><b><div style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal; "><font size="4"><b><span style="font-weight:normal"><span style="border-collapse:separate;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-family:arial;text-align:left"><b>ସୁଭ<span style="background-color:rgb(102, 102, 102)"><font color="#cccccc">ପା</font></span></b></span></span></span></b><font size="2"><b><span style="font-weight:normal"><span style="border-collapse:separate;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-family:arial;text-align:left"><span style="background-color:rgb(51, 51, 51);font-style:normal"><b><font color="#cccccc">SubhaPa</font></b></span></span></span></span></b></font></font></div>
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