Hi folks,
I know it is very very late for this now.. Can we have some wikipedia
participation for the upcoming FOSS.in conference at Bangalore ?
For those who came in late, Atul Chitnis of FOSS.in had inivited us for
speaker notes or even info stalls for wikipedia , during the last Bangalore
meetup ( Oct 11) .
Unfortunately most of us went busy and today ( 28th Oct , 2009) happens to
be last date for the speaker registeration.
More details can be seen below>
http://foss.in/http://foss.in/register/speaker-registration-2009
Since Atul is very sympathetic to the cause of Wikipedia, we may be still
possible to buy some more time if v can get some concrete ideas by today. ;)
Comments?
Thanks
Tinu Cherian
Hi everybody,
Wikimedia Strategywiki is trying to find out how they can improve reach and usability in Indian context.Previously on mr-wiki yahoo group I had taken online poll and found one of the glaring defficiancy in reaching out to the people. While other Marathi Language Websites get better word of mouth publicity and so they do have more editorial pool. Where as when it comes wikipedians my online survey shows that at least marathi wikipedians are reluctant to talk to their friends and family members about wikipedia.
And it is not about others it is a myself too,WHile I am a strong supporter of Wikipedia specialy local languge ones still, usually I do avoid to discuss about marathi languge wikipedia among my friends and family.
First of all let us discuss frankly and understand what is the reason of this reluctance? Wikipedia is too serious or boring a subject to discuss , wikipedia concept level is a too difficult to explain to others ?Objections and negative perceptions of the people are too deficult to handle? Wikipedia is not usefull to you in your own day to day life ? Wikipedia is not beneficial to your freind ? Wikipedia is not beneficial to your family? Wikipedia is not beneficial for my , my friend and family education , career/office work and rmy revenue ?
To which questions your answers goes yes ? If yes then is possible to elaborate or suggest a better solution that can make wiki movement more relevant to Indian context
Thanks and Regards
Mahitgar
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Hi all,
Thanks to all who had attended the last meetup in October. We definitely
missed those who were unable to attend.
The next edition of Bangalore Meetup in November is in planning state.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:MBL7
User:Ganeshk from US, is planning down to come to Bangalore if it is
possible to be scheduled on the fourth Sunday ( Nov 22nd 2009)
Please express your availibility for the date.
The good news is that we are getting lots of presentations and discussions
for the meetups.. Even my preso on AWB had to postponed to next meetup due
to lack of time. This is very good that we are able to generate more
interest and participation for the meetups.
Finally I shud sincerely again for the hospitality of CIS for helping us
host the events.
Thanks
Tinu Cherian
( User:Tinucherian)
Thanks to all who attented the Meetup and made it a success. Special Thanks
to Kiran (jackerhack) and Hari (HPN) for the presentations.
One photo of the event
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikiMeetupBlore11Oct09_5.JPG
I have uploaded the rest of the photos to this category >
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Bangalore_Meetup_2009
A big thanks to CIS ( Centre for Internet & Society) for helping us host us
the event.
If any one of you are blogging about the event, please do fwd me asap. Some
media people have asked me for more information on the event.
Thanks
Tinu Cherian
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 7:26 AM, CherianTinu Abraham
<tinucherian(a)gmail.com>wrote:
> Just to remind again , it is happening this weekend.
>
> Hoping to meet all of you there..
>
> Thanks
> Tinu Cherian
>
>
> On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 9:38 AM, CherianTinu Abraham <tinucherian(a)gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> Hi friends,
>> This is to remind the next Wikipedia meetup happens next sunday Oct 11th
>> 2009.. just one more week ahead.
>>
>> Some newspaper publications have also expressed interest in covering the
>> event.
>>
>> Requesting everyone's help and participation to make this a success..
>>
>> Please sign up if havent already :
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore6
>>
>> Thanks
>> Tinu Cherian
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 6:29 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <
>> rsrikanth05(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks a lot Tinu. I just can't understand what to do.
>>>
>>> 2009/9/29 CherianTinu Abraham <tinucherian(a)gmail.com>:
>>> > A linkedin Notice to the event can be found at
>>> >
>>> >
>>> http://events.linkedin.com/6th-Wikipedia-WikiMedia-Wikimeetup/pub/135107
>>> >
>>> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore6
>>> >
>>> > I am planning to take a demo on AWB ( AutoWikiBrowser ) , an advanced
>>> > wikipedia editing tool, on the same day..
>>> >
>>> > Thanks
>>> > Tinu Cherian
>>> >
>>> > On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Arun Ram <arunram25(a)gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> Dear all:
>>> >>
>>> >> Please pardon an error in my email The meeting is on Sunday the 11th
>>> >> October. The mail content in wrongly mentioned as 9th Oct.
>>> >>
>>> >> The meeting is on the 11th of October (Sun) as per the wiki.
>>> >>
>>> >> My apologies for the oversight!
>>> >> Thanks to Anirudh for pointing it out.
>>> >>
>>> >> regards
>>> >>
>>> >> Arun
>>> >>
>>> >> Bangalore, India
>>> >> www.arunram.net | www.twitter.com/arunram
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Arun Ram <arunram25(a)gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Dear Wikipedians,
>>> >>>
>>> >>> This is to announce the next Wikipedian meetup to be held in Oct 9.
>>> >>> Further details can be found at the Wiki page:
>>> >>>
>>> >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore6
>>> >>>
>>> >>> The meetups are intended to be structured as follows — Introductions,
>>> a
>>> >>> few focused talks by wikipedians to share experience / expertise
>>> followed by
>>> >>> demos and open discussions on topics of common interest.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> We have some interesting talks lined up this meetup, Please do make
>>> it.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Please spread the word around and hope to see many of you there at
>>> the
>>> >>> meetup. We are having some good momentum going with the monthly face
>>> to face
>>> >>> meetups.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Regards
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Arun
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Bangalore, India
>>> >>> www.arunram.net | www.twitter.com/arunram
>>> >>
>>> >>
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>
Hi Siebrand,
Thanks for reaching out.
I am keen to help in anyway I can in my spare time towards this (connecting
people), though my time is a bit constrained with few other commitments.
Happy to try and connect you with people, who may have skills to help in
some of these languages.
I agree it is important to spread the word and focus on getting more and
more localization done for languages spoken in India.
There are a few others who would be keen to assist. I can connect you to
them as well.
Regards
Arun
Bangalore, India
www.arunram.net | www.twitter.com/arunram
On Wedf t, Oct 7, 2009 at 8:53 PM, Siebrand Mazeland
<s.mazeland(a)xs4all.nl>wrote:
> Dear Wikimedians from India.
>
> For those who do not know me, I am a staff member of
> http://translatewiki.net, a project where most of the translation of
> MediaWiki is done. MediaWiki is the software used by all wikis of the
> Wikimedia Foundation. There is more to translatewiki, but I hope you may
> discover that later.
>
> I have made an analysis of the localization of MediaWiki and its extensions
> with regards to use by the Wikimedia Foundation. I have done this with a
> scope of the 50 languages with the most speakers in the world[1]. As India
> is an enormous country, with a long history, it is no surprise that many
> languages are spoken by a lot of people.
>
> For India the following languages make the top 50 of most spoken languages
> in the world: Hindi (3), Bengali (10), Gujarati (34), Kannada (33),
> Malayalam (39), Marathi (17), Nepali (43), Oriya (42), Punjabi (15), Sindhi
> (37), Tamil (28), Telugu (20), and Urdu (29). Some of these languages have
> a
> fair level of localization (Telugu and Hindi are doing OK, but not
> excellent), but many others have very poor localization (Oriya and Urdu
> are
> doing particularly bad)[1].
>
> As I do not speak or read any languages that are not in a Latin, Greek or
> Cyrillic script, and live in the Netherlands, it is hard for me to crowd
> source translators for these languages. I am in dire need of structural
> help
> in that area. Having Wikimedia India formed is something I recognize as an
> enormous opportunity for getting the localization level of languages spoken
> in India to a higher level. It will enable more users to experience and
> enjoy the freedoms that we as Wikimedians try to create and provide.
>
> Please help me help in getting India's languages gain more ground and
> availability in the Wikimedia universe. Ideally I would like some kind of
> an
> ambassador from your community to spread the word and focus on getting more
> and more localization done for languages spoken in India. If you are
> interested in contributing as a translator, please visit translatewiki.net
> .
> If you are interested in investing time on a higher level, please contact
> me
> on-wiki, on this list, or by private e-mail so we can work something out.
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Siebrand Mazeland
> translatewiki.net staff
>
> [1]
>
> http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Project:MediaWiki_localisation_in_the_50_most_
> spoken_languages
> [2] http://www.mediawiki.org
>
>
>
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Dear Wikimedians from India.
For those who do not know me, I am a staff member of
http://translatewiki.net, a project where most of the translation of
MediaWiki is done. MediaWiki is the software used by all wikis of the
Wikimedia Foundation. There is more to translatewiki, but I hope you may
discover that later.
I have made an analysis of the localization of MediaWiki and its extensions
with regards to use by the Wikimedia Foundation. I have done this with a
scope of the 50 languages with the most speakers in the world[1]. As India
is an enormous country, with a long history, it is no surprise that many
languages are spoken by a lot of people.
For India the following languages make the top 50 of most spoken languages
in the world: Hindi (3), Bengali (10), Gujarati (34), Kannada (33),
Malayalam (39), Marathi (17), Nepali (43), Oriya (42), Punjabi (15), Sindhi
(37), Tamil (28), Telugu (20), and Urdu (29). Some of these languages have a
fair level of localization (Telugu and Hindi are doing OK, but not
excellent), but many others have very poor localization (Oriya and Urdu are
doing particularly bad)[1].
As I do not speak or read any languages that are not in a Latin, Greek or
Cyrillic script, and live in the Netherlands, it is hard for me to crowd
source translators for these languages. I am in dire need of structural help
in that area. Having Wikimedia India formed is something I recognize as an
enormous opportunity for getting the localization level of languages spoken
in India to a higher level. It will enable more users to experience and
enjoy the freedoms that we as Wikimedians try to create and provide.
Please help me help in getting India's languages gain more ground and
availability in the Wikimedia universe. Ideally I would like some kind of an
ambassador from your community to spread the word and focus on getting more
and more localization done for languages spoken in India. If you are
interested in contributing as a translator, please visit translatewiki.net.
If you are interested in investing time on a higher level, please contact me
on-wiki, on this list, or by private e-mail so we can work something out.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
Siebrand Mazeland
translatewiki.net staff
[1]
http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Project:MediaWiki_localisation_in_the_50_most_
spoken_languages
[2] http://www.mediawiki.org
Hi
I am glad to report that I have conducted first Telugu wiki academy
conducted on 6 Oct 2009 at Chirala engineering college, chirala, a
small coastal town in Prakasam district Andhra Pradesh, with kind
cooperation from the college authorities.
About 120 third and final year engineering students participated in
the three hour session in which about 1.5 hours were spent on hands on
practice with telugu typing and changes to the articles in telugu
wikipedia. Lab facility with about 60 computers and 2 MB internet
pipe was very helpful in making this event a success. There were
minor technical glitches like wikipedia limiting access to only 6
accounts from the IP proxy. which need to be addressed for doing
events like this in future.
As Andhra pradesh has over 600 such engineering colleges, doing one
such event in each college can give a boost to promoting Telugu
wikipedia.
More on this on my blog http://teluginux.blogspot.com in a week's time.
Regards
Arjun
http://teluginux.blogspot.com (in Telugu)
http://tech4society.blogspot.com (in english)
--
Sent from my mobile device
If the tentative plan fructifies, *there will be an online encyclopedia in
Kannada*, similar to Wikipedia in English, an online encyclopedia, expected
to launch on November 1 by the CM BS Yeddyurappa.
>From the below link.
http://www.expressbuzz.com/edition/story.aspx?Title=KDA%E2%80%99S+big+plans…
Any idea about the license that is going to be used in this online
encyclopedia? Is Government is planning for a Wiki? Is Government is aware
about the existence of a Kannada Wikipedia?
Kannada Wikipedians, any idea about this news?
Shiju Alex
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From: Vinod <vinod(a)novatium.com>
Subject: FW: my querry has remained unanswered for long
To: mahitgar(a)yahoo.co.in
Date: Sunday, 4 October, 2009, 3:53 PM
Dear Mahitgar,
Thanks for you interest in Nova netPC. Our product supports unicode fonts for regional languages. We
have tested it with Hindi and Devanagiri keyboard. We will have it in our
products in the coming two weeks. The display does support Indian fonts.
Please do get back to me in case
you have queries.
Regards
Vinod
From: Mahitgar from
Marathi Wikipedia [mailto:mahitgar@yahoo.co.in]
Sent: 02 October 2009 13:33
To: info(a)novatium.com
Cc: singapore(a)novatium.com; novasales(a)novatium.com
Subject: my querry has remained unanswered for long
--- On Sun, 19/7/09, Mahitgar from Marathi Wikipedia <mahitgar(a)yahoo.co.in>
wrote:
From: Mahitgar from Marathi Wikipedia <mahitgar@yahoo..co.in>
Subject: query about computing in Indian languages on Novanet PC
To: info(a)novatium.com
Date: Sunday, 19 July, 2009, 1:12 PM
Dear Sirs/Madam
query about computing in Indian languages on Novanet PC
Can some one find out about novanetPC and its compatibility to use Unicode
based fonts for Indian languages including that of Tamil Devnagari etc keep
us posted if anybody knows any limitations on this front .
Thanks and Regards
Mahitgar
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