Okay, around couple of weeks back I had initiated an attempt to organize
Wikipedia 10th event at Mysore. There's been some excellent response and
quite a lot of activity in attempts to organize this event. However, just to
make sure that no one is left out from the opportunity of taking part (in
organizing, participating), I'm putting this email to you all to add any
Wikimedian, Wikipedian contacts you have in Mysore to the loop. Please mail
me back off-the-list.
There will be a formal announcement about the efforts later this week as
three venues have been zeroed in on (one of those have confirmed
availability and allow use of the venue on that day), however the final one
among these three need to be confirmed.
Looking forward to a nice gathering at the Knowledge capital of our state to
celebrate Wikipedia!
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Hari Prasad Nadig
http://hpnadig.net | http://twitter.com/hpnadighttp://flickr.com/hpnadig
Hi all,
It was quite overwhelming to see loads of people joining in for the Kannada
Wikipedia meet-up beyond the expected numbers!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hpnadig/5290761488/
It was thought that less people would turn up given the difficulty getting
to the venue and more importantly the holiday season. But it turned out to
be a great day discussing Kannada Wikipedia and having some fun as well.
Most of the audience felt that everyone should do a bit more to improve
Kannada version, and the difficulty mainly was in the 'input method' for
Kannada and fonts.
There was this active set of several Wikimedians from Kannada wiktionary
(which has of late been faring quite well). Few people using Google
translator toolkit to add articles to Kannada Wikipedia were also present
from the host, inetFrame solutions. There was an interaction between
community members and this team on the translation process. Several doubts
were resolved and few issues were sorted out. It was decided that a
feedback/guidelines page would be put up on the Wiki for everyone using
Google translator toolkit or the Microsoft Bhasha tool including those that
were discussed today.
There was discussion about bringing back the weekly collaborations that were
happening once upon a time. Community members were also keen to know more
about using the Google kit to translate lengthy articles.
It was great fun discussing about translations and sharing some experiences
on Wikipedia. Several people added in their thoughts about translations and
about improving the overall quality of articles.
It was decided that work should be started on putting up videos to help
normal (non-techie) users edit Wikipedia. *[In fact, it would be a good idea
to start this for most of the Indian language Wikipedias - drop me an email
if any of you are interested in participating]
Some of them (especially some contributors who have been on and off on the
wiki due to several roadblocks they faced while editing) were keen to know
whether a PDF with hands-on FAQ (an e-book) could be readied in Kannada that
would help them figure out how to overcome the issues they face without
having to contact sysops or active editors who already have their hands
full. *[Any volunteers for this one? Again, we could do the same for all
Indian languages. Sharing what we've learned all these days editing
Wikipedia should be fun. Please enlist by dropping an email off the list.]
The participants were keen to have regular meet-ups of the kind that would
allow more interactions off-line to clear the doubts, help each other
clearing roadblocks in contributing.
More pictures here:
http://twitpic.com/3jejblhttp://twitpic.com/3jejnphttp://twitpic.com/3jdunghttp://twitpic.com/3jdhfxhttp://twitpic.com/3jddq4
The entire album of the event is here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hpnadig/sets/72157625670383158/
Thanks to the inetFrame solutions who allowed us to use the venue for free
and for the tea.
Cheers,
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Hari Prasad Nadig
http://hpnadig.net | http://twitter.com/hpnadighttp://flickr.com/hpnadig
Good news, people. We've added Kannada in-built typing tool for Kannada
Wikipedia as well now. Thanks to Junaid's work - we've used his script to
achieve this. Thanks to Harisha M G for helping modify the mapping for
Kannada.
The transliteration is working great - I just added it and tested it quite
extensively and it is working fine. Please write to the Kannada Wikipedia
mailing list if you have any feedback or face any issues while using this.
Cheers,
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Hari Prasad Nadig
http://hpnadig.net | http://twitter.com/hpnadighttp://flickr.com/hpnadig
A Kannada Wikipedia meet-up has been organized by community members with
help from people at Inetframe solutions at Padmanabhanagar, Bangalore on
December 25th, Saturday at 10.00 AM.
The intention is to get together, discuss on various issues, roadblocks on
Kannada Wikipedia (including the limitations with input) that are slowing
down editors and how to deal with it. There will also be a discussion on
Google translation tool being used for translation of Wikipedia articles.
Venue:*
*Inetframe solutions Pvt. Ltd.
#23-26, Sri Kalyani Bhavan,
2nd cross, 2nd main,
Sarvabhauma Nagar,
Chikkalsandra
Bangalore - 560061
08026391661
Call: 9008322612 to register or mail me back.
Getting there:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Chikkalsandra+M…
Meet-up page on Kannada Wikipedia:
http://is.gd/j5y9y
Do attend! And pass it on to your friends :)
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Hari Prasad Nadig
A Kannada Wikipedia meet-up has been organized by community members with
help from people at Inetframe solutions at Padmanabhanagar, Bangalore on
December 25th, Saturdaty at 10.00 AM.
The intention is to get together, discuss on various issues, roadblocks on
Kannada Wikipedia (including the limitations with input) that are slowing
down editors and how to deal with it. There will also be a discussion on
Google translation tool being used for translation of Wikipedia articles.
Venue:*
*Inetframe solutions Pvt. Ltd.
#23-26, Sri Kalyani Bhavan,
2nd cross, 2nd main,
Sarvabhauma Nagar,
Chikkalsandra
Bangalore - 560061
08026391661
Call: Narayan Shastri 9880926893 to register or mail me back.
Getting there:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Chikkalsandra+M…
Meet-up page on Kannada Wikipedia:
http://is.gd/j5y9y
Do attend! And pass it on to your friends :)
P.S: Bangalore community: need some help putting this up on English
Wikipedia (as the next meet-up), there are plenty of Kannada speaking
editors on English wiki who might find it useful.
--
Hari Prasad Nadig
http://hpnadig.net | http://twitter.com/hpnadighttp://flickr.com/hpnadig
Hi all,
As some of you would have known, In addition to the meeting with
folks from Wikimedia Foundation on 18th December, the regular Bangalore
Wikipedia monthly meetup will be held on usual 2nd Sunday, 12th December. We
would focus on planning for 10th anniversary celebration event on the 22nd
Meetup...We are thinking of a plan for one day "public" event for the
anniverary and would like to shape it well with thoughts / planning /
execution in this meetup.. Please do refer to detailed agenda and sign up at
the meetup pages.
*12th Dec Sunday WPMBL22*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore22 - CIS
office, Domulur, Bangalore
*18th Dec Saturday WPMBL23*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore23 -- TERI
(just few yards before CIS), Domulur , Bangalore ...This meetup will be
attended by Erik Möller ( Deputy Director , Wikimedia Foundation) , Danese
Cooper ( Chief Technical Officer, Wikimedia Foundation) and Alolita Sharma
(Engineering Programs Manager, Wikimedia Foundation).
Regards
Tinu Cherian
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 3:48 PM, CherianTinu Abraham
<tinucherian(a)gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am extremely pleased to announce the 22nd Wikipedia /Wikimedia
> Wikimeetup , Bangalore on *Dec 18, Satuday* with *Erik Möller *( Deputy
> Director , Wikimedia Foundation) , * Danese Cooper* ( Chief Technical
> Officer, Wikimedia Foundation) and* Alolita Sharma* (Engineering Programs
> Manager, Wikimedia Foundation).
> More details can be found here
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:MBL22
> Please do signup on the meetup page & participate ...
>
> Regards
> Tinu Cherian
>
> N.B. Please note the change of date/day of the usual Wikimeetup for
> Decemeber month.
>
>