WikimediaIndia-l January 2008

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Maithili
by Gerard Meijssen 27 Jan '08

27 Jan '08

Hoi, For your information, a request has been made for the Maithili language. Given that the language Maithili fulfills the requirements of the language committee, it has the "eligible" status. This means that when the conditions have been met, the Maithili request will be approved. I have asked for Maithili to be enabled on BetaWik<http://translatewiki.net>i, this means that everything is in place for this phase. I have asked for English to be the fall back language as Hindi is currently not an option as this language is not really supported in MediaWiki at this time (18.35% - 7.57% - 0.00%). There has been a lot of activity at BetaWiki, when you look at the group statistics <http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Translating:Group_statistics>, you will find that a lot of progress has been made for the Indian languages.. I do want to remind you that all the work done in BetaWiki will be available in all the WMF projects (particularly Commons is of relevance here). The localisations will also become available in the releases of the MediaWiki software. There is a growing number of projects outside the WMF particularly in languages other then English. With more websites using MediaWiki, it becomes easier to find people who can contribute to our projects as well. Thanks, GerardM

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27Jan 2008 Jimmy Wales at IIT Bombay Techfest
by Mahitgar from Marathi Wikipedia 25 Jan '08

25 Jan '08

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Lower user and edit count of some Indian wikis
by Mahitgar from Marathi Wikipedia 23 Jan '08

23 Jan '08

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A heads up
by Gerard Meijssen 16 Jan '08

16 Jan '08

Hoi, In advance to a more general announcement, I am going to announce a new project aimed to improve the localisation of MediaWiki. The details of this project are published at http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Translating:Language_project . We are happy that Hivos allowed us to make this project a reality.. There is a limited amount of money available, and the money available is biased towards making MediaWiki as usable as possible in languages where it is not really usable at the moment. We have up to 200 EURO available (including our payment costs) for the localisation of one language. We will offer you the choice to pay the money directly to you or when you work as a group (for instance the Wikimedia Chapter India) you can ask us to pay it in one go to your organisation. As a last option we have a program whereby you can donate your money to our program "Donations, putting your money where your mouth is". This program will pay for things like localisations in other languages, paying for programmers to finish code that is not production ready yet, adding features to Open Source programs like OmegaT or OmegaWiki. If you have other suggestions for this scheme you can ask us to consider this In a thread on the Wikimedia India list, there was talk about the need of Java programs to be used in MediaWiki. Finding money for a developer to assess if these programs are safe to run in MediaWiki is something that I would consider for a project in the "Donations, ... " project. NB the money is to make MediaWiki useful. MediaWiki is however continuously developed and localisation for your language is constantly needed. The best we can achieve with money is to get localisation done for now. As MediaWiki is what makes your Wikipedia or other project possible we urge you to help us maintain MediaWiki as the best Wiki engine available. Thanks, GerardM Stichting Open Progress http://betawiki.org http://www.hivos.nl/english http://openprogress.org http://openprogress.org/Donations%2C_putting_your_money_where_your_mouth_is

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Bengali localisation
by Gerard Meijssen 11 Jan '08

11 Jan '08

Hoi, I want to congratualte the people of the Bengali projects for being the first language of the Indian subcontinent to have a 100% localisation for the MediaWiki system messages. They are powering ahead with the messages for the MediaWiki extensions. In this way MediaWiki is truly usable for anyone, inside or outside the Wikimedia Foundation. In this way, it shows clearly what Open Source is about; it is usable for everyone. :) Thanks, GerardM

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Marathi
by Gerard Meijssen 03 Jan '08

03 Jan '08

Hoi, FYI http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2008/01/mediawiki-localisation-of-marat… Thanks, GerardM

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