Dear Mahitgar and other Indian Wikipedians,
I am doing analysis to help support the Wikimedia strategic planning
task force on Indian language Wikipedias. I am very interested in
learning more about examples of successful online communities in Indian
languages. Some people have stated that the slow growth of an Indian
language wikipedias is due to people in the India's preference for using
English while online. However, the existence of these online
communities in Marathi that Mahitgar mentions imply that this is not the
case. It would be great if someone could help me by providing some
examples of these online communities. I would love to know what type of
content to their users create, the number of users, and any information
about their growth rate. The more understanding we have of what makes
these communities successful the better we can work to help build strong
Indian language wikipedias Anyone who could point me in the right
direction would be much thanked. I would do some of the research
myself, but unfortunately, I do not speak any Indian languages.
Thanks so much for everybody's help and participation in the strategic
planning process. You can contact me directly at
sarah.sable(a)bridgespan.org
Best,
Sarah
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Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 12:09:35 +0530 (IST)
From: Mahitgar from Marathi Wikipedia <mahitgar(a)yahoo.co.in>
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] How to ?
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If I analyse? Marathi language unicode Websites other than Marathi
Wikipedia , most of them(99%)? are drupal(cms)? based and many of them
are quite popular community discussion sites.
Many of the readers coming from such sites usualy complaint saying that
they find our(mediawiki)? brackets (over all? wiki mark up confusing).
What kind of help we can offer at wikis to new comers coming from drupal
cms? any other indian languages has got similler experiences? ?
-mahitgar
--- On Sat, 26/9/09, Sudhanwa Jogalekar <sudhanwa.com(a)gmail.com> wrote:
From: Sudhanwa Jogalekar <sudhanwa.com(a)gmail.com>
Subject: [MarathiOpenSource] Announcement: Drupal Sprint India on
October 30-31 2009
To: "Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List" <plug-mail(a)plug.org.in>,
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Date: Saturday, 26 September, 2009, 12:15 AM
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Dear all,
This is a formal announcement of Drupal Sprint India event happening
on October 30-31 2009. An event for those who love Drupal, geeks and
non-geeks alike.
Announcing Drupal Sprint India, a gathering of Drupal enthusiast from
all over India, to contribute to Drupal development.
The event is organized by Pune Linux Users Group with the support of
Bhaskaracharya Pratishthan as Venue Sponsors.
Drupal is probably the best community driven CMS in open source.
Community driven softwares need community contributions for regular
enhancements and this is your chance to contribute and gain karma.
Drupal sprint India is a two day non-stop event where Drupal
developers, documentation and translation guys will get together to
enhance Drupal. We will have code sprints, documentation sprints as
well as translation sprints.
Join coding sprints to fix patches for upcoming Drupal 7 release or to
port modules from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7 or to develop new modules from
scratch.
Join Documentation sprint to document Drupal. Documentation sprint
will be headed by Addison Berry, Drupal documentation project lead.
Those interested in localization can join the party to translate
Drupal to local languages.
You need not have *any experience* with enhancing Drupal before hand,
even newbies are invited.
That is not all, we have more in store for you.
Got any Drupal success story to share or you have put Drupal to any
innovative use or any magnificent case study where you have integrated
Drupal with third party web services or web sites? This is the time to
showcase this. Parallel to sprint, we will hold talks and workshops to
showcase the capabilities of Drupal beyond CMS to build website. If
you have a story to showcase, register for the event right ahead.
Talks/Workshop registration ends October 15 2009. All talks and
registrations submitted will go through a community voting and top 10
talks plus workshops will be chosen for the event. We plan to hold
total of 8 hours of talks and 8 hours of workshops around Drupal over
two days.
Still interested in Drupal to use it in your next big venture... Just
drop in and learn from the best Drupal brains around the country on
how to put Drupal to best use.
So click http://drupalindia2 009.plug. org.in now and register for
the event.
The event is free, registration is free. All you have to make sure
that your code is also FREE.
So, what are you waiting for? Mark your calendar for the event dates!!
Best regards,
--Sudhanwa Jogalekar
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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
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Hoi,
It used to be that when you added to the localisations at translatewiki.net,
it could take months before these localisations became part of any of the
WMF projects. This is no longer the case. From now on, your localisations
will become available in a much more timely manner. Typically localisations
will become available within a day, the worst case scenario is that it will
take three days.
This has some major implications. It was found that people in languages
where the localisations of the software of the Usability Initiative did not
stick with the "beta test". This presented a problem; is this because of the
lack of localisation or is it because of cultural differences with regard to
usability. We can now ask people to help us iwith the localisation and learn
quickly where the problem is. We know that information for several scripts
is missing in the advanced toolbox. Telugu was added recently but Devangari,
Kanada, Tamil and Sinhala is still missing.
We can now really concentrate our standard localisation in one place. This
is very much wanted because it will improve our performance and it will
ensure better maintenance of our MediaWiki system messages.
It is for all these reasons that we ask you to got to translatewiki.net for
your localisations. It would be appreciated when all the messages are
compared with what has been done locally. When local messages are the same
as in translatewiki.net, they will eventually be removed by the Wikimedida
developers. When they are not the same, there will be local messages that
have missing parameters, these messages are best removed locally. Other
messages indicate things that are specific to a project these messages are
the ones that have to remain locally.
With the LocalisationUpdate being live on all our wikis, we hope and expect
that the quality of the localisations will improve. This will make it easier
for people to understand what is asked from them by our software and this
will grow our number of readers and editors. We need you to help us realise
our wish to bring information to everyone. Localisation is an important part
of making this possible.
Thanks,
GerardM
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by Mahitgar from Marathi Wikipedia
26 Sep '09
26 Sep '09
If I analyse Marathi language unicode Websites other than Marathi Wikipedia , most of them(99%) are drupal(cms) based and many of them are quite popular community discussion sites.
Many of the readers coming from such sites usualy complaint saying that they find our(mediawiki) brackets (over all wiki mark up confusing).
What kind of help we can offer at wikis to new comers coming from drupal cms? any other indian languages has got similler experiences?
-mahitgar
--- On Sat, 26/9/09, Sudhanwa Jogalekar <sudhanwa.com(a)gmail.com> wrote:
From: Sudhanwa Jogalekar <sudhanwa.com(a)gmail.com>
Subject: [MarathiOpenSource] Announcement: Drupal Sprint India on October 30-31 2009
To: "Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List" <plug-mail(a)plug.org.in>, "cslug" <cslug(a)yahoogroups.com>, "marathiopensource" <MarathiOpenSource(a)yahoogroups.com>, mr-wiki(a)yahoogroups.com, "The Linux-Delhi mailing list" <ilugd(a)lists.linux-delhi.org>, "Indian Linux group ," <indlinux-group(a)lists.sourceforge.net>, "ilug-goa" <ilug-goa(a)yahoogroups.com>
Date: Saturday, 26 September, 2009, 12:15 AM
Dear all,
This is a formal announcement of Drupal Sprint India event happening
on October 30-31 2009. An event for those who love Drupal, geeks and
non-geeks alike.
Announcing Drupal Sprint India, a gathering of Drupal enthusiast from
all over India, to contribute to Drupal development.
The event is organized by Pune Linux Users Group with the support of
Bhaskaracharya Pratishthan as Venue Sponsors.
Drupal is probably the best community driven CMS in open source.
Community driven softwares need community contributions for regular
enhancements and this is your chance to contribute and gain karma.
Drupal sprint India is a two day non-stop event where Drupal
developers, documentation and translation guys will get together to
enhance Drupal. We will have code sprints, documentation sprints as
well as translation sprints.
Join coding sprints to fix patches for upcoming Drupal 7 release or to
port modules from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7 or to develop new modules from
scratch.
Join Documentation sprint to document Drupal. Documentation sprint
will be headed by Addison Berry, Drupal documentation project lead.
Those interested in localization can join the party to translate
Drupal to local languages.
You need not have *any experience* with enhancing Drupal before hand,
even newbies are invited.
That is not all, we have more in store for you.
Got any Drupal success story to share or you have put Drupal to any
innovative use or any magnificent case study where you have integrated
Drupal with third party web services or web sites? This is the time to
showcase this. Parallel to sprint, we will hold talks and workshops to
showcase the capabilities of Drupal beyond CMS to build website. If
you have a story to showcase, register for the event right ahead.
Talks/Workshop registration ends October 15 2009. All talks and
registrations submitted will go through a community voting and top 10
talks plus workshops will be chosen for the event. We plan to hold
total of 8 hours of talks and 8 hours of workshops around Drupal over
two days.
Still interested in Drupal to use it in your next big venture... Just
drop in and learn from the best Drupal brains around the country on
how to put Drupal to best use.
So click http://drupalindia2 009.plug. org.in now and register for the event.
The event is free, registration is free. All you have to make sure
that your code is also FREE.
So, what are you waiting for? Mark your calendar for the event dates!!
Best regards,
--Sudhanwa Jogalekar
~!~!~!~!~!~! ~!~!~!~!~ !~!~!~!~! ~!~!~!~!~ !~!~!~!~! ~!~!~!~!~ !~!~!~!~! ~!~!~!~!~ !~!~!~!~! ~!~!~!~!~ !~!~!~!~! ~!~!
www.projects4students.com
Offer projects. Get your work done. Groom your future employees !!
~!~!~!~!~!~! ~!~!~!~!~ !~!~!~!~! ~!~!~!~!~ !~!~!~!~! ~!~!~!~!~ !~!~!~!~! ~!~!~!~!~ !~!~!~!~! ~!~!~!~!~ !~!~!~!~! ~!~!
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Hi everyone,
as you all may know Wikimedia is in the midst of its strategic planning
process (see http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
<http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page> for more information).
As part of this process, I have been developing a fact base on South
Asian languages and their Wikipedias. The purpose of this fact base is
to help the Wikimedia community understand the importance of South Asian
languages as they develop strategies to expand the reach of Wikimedia
worldwide, as well as to discuss the specific barriers to growth of
South Asian language projects. If any of you are also editors of the
South Asian language Wikipedias, I would really appreciate it if you
took some time to look at what I've put together and make any changes or
additions that you thought were appropriate. It would be especially
great if anyone had some thoughts or ideas to add to the section on
barriers to growth of South Asian language Wikipedias. I want to make
sure that we have the most accurate information possible to inform the
strategic plan as it is developed. This is the link
http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reach/Regional_Analysis
<http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reach/Regional_Analysis> Thanks!!!
Sarah
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