Hi all,
Tamil wikipedians thought of inviting fellow editors of Tamil origin in
English wikipedia and pull them over to Tamil wikipedia. User:Ravidreams
even called it "hijacking editors" funnily. There was some initial success
with editors like User:Sodabottle joining ta.wiki and contributing heavily.
(I too joined it, but that does not matter much), It was decided to invite
experienced English wikipedians of Tamil origin to contribute to tamil wiki.
The advantage being that experienced wiki editors are aware of wiki culture
and its mechanisms and the learning curve for them would just be language
typing skill. So a "Welcome message"[1] was created and it is decided to
post on talk pages. We have started doing this.
Just when i created a template for it, it struck me why not post this to new
users as well along with the usual {{Welcome}} template. There could a user
in remote places trying to edit about his/her village and when we come
across such new users, why not post this welcome to Indic wikipedia message
along with welcome template? (I assume most of us welcome new users with a
welcome template). They might be unaware of Indic wikipedia / might be more
interested in contributing native tongue. So I am just going to try posting
the "ContributeToTamilWikipedia" message along with Welcome template
whenever i know the user is a Tamil. I have also altered my "Friendly"
configuration[2] to have the custom template, so its really easy to welcome
users, just a few clicks. If you feel this is good to do, please create
welcome message to target your language users and let me know. I would add
it to my friendly configuration and can Invite users. Even if I don't know
Bengali, I can invite a Bengali user editing say Siliguri article with a
Bengali Wikipedia welcome message and he would at least visit Bengali
Wikipedia, if not contribute there.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:ContributeToTamilWikipedia
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:ContributeToTamilWikipedia>[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Logicwiki/vector.js
Regards
Srikanth.L
Google Profile <http://j.mp/SrikanthL>
Dear All,
This information is mainly for the users who edit in Hindi wiki projects.
Many a times you require the Hindi translation of English words while you
write in Wiki. Here is an online solution for that. Just add the ID
eng.hin.dict(a)jabber.org to your instant messenger. It support most of the
messengers including GTalk, Yahoo chat, and so on.
The below mail has more details about it. Santhosh Tottingal and his team
had developed it.
PS: The English -Malayalam dictionary bot is availble at:
eng.mal.dict(a)gmail.com
Regards
Shiju Alex
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From: Santhosh Thottingal <santhosh.thottingal(a)gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 7:13 PM
Subject: [Indlinux-group] English Hindi Jabber Buddy Bot
To: Discussion list of Swathanthra Malayalam Computing <
discuss(a)lists.smc.org.in>, silpa-discuss(a)nongnu.org
Friends,
Our English Malayalam Dictionary Jabber bot was a big success and we
have many users for that.
Today we are announcing another Dictionary bot - English - Hindi Dictionary
bot.
To use this service just add eng.hin.dict(a)jabber.org to your gtalk or
IM contacts. Now this bot is your friend and can help you to find
meaning of an English word.
To get the meaning of the word, send that word as a chat message. Bot
will reply with the meaning. Try yourself, it is easy :)
The bot code is available in SMC git repository,
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/smc.git And it is programmed by
myself, Ershad, Ragsagar and Sarath Lakshman.
We are using the freedict-eng-hin dict protocol based dictionary for
this service.
Thanks
Santhosh Thottingal
-
Apologies if spamming - in case anyone would like to circulate this to
non-English speaking journalists they know.
Bishakha
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From: Veena Gokhale <veenago(a)gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 8:09 PM
Subject: FYI, Please pass on...
To: Bishakha Datta <bishakhadatta(a)gmail.com>, Ammu Joseph <ammujo(a)gmail.com>,
Hutokshi Doctor <hutokshi(a)pn3.vsnl.net.in>, Shripad Dharmadhikary <
shripad2(a)gmail.com>
Internews and The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting has started the
fellowship for journalists in honour of the late Persephone Miel. They are
now accepting applications for its first fellow from across the globe.
“The Persephone Miel Fellowship for Crisis Reporting is intended to give
non-native English speaking media professionals the opportunity to reach
audiences beyond their home countries on critical under-reported issues.”
Eligibility: The Persephone Miel fellowships are open to all journalists,
writers, photographers, radio producers or filmmakers; staff journalists as
well as freelancers who are *non-native English speaking media professionals
*seeking to report from their home country
For more information, visit:
http://pulitzercenter.org/persephone-miel-fellowship<http://www.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/97733/18016895/3909558/http://pulitzercent…>
Hi !
A Meet up has been organised on 31st Oct., 2010 at Mumbai.
Alongwith others Jimmy Wales, Co-founder of Wikipedia will be attending the
meet up.
For details please visit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Mumbai/Mumbai3
All are invited to attend.
*Please ignore the link of preceding email.*
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Best Regards.
Kundan Amitabh
Ang India Technologies,
www.angindia.org
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Kharghar, Navi Mumbai,
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and see below (attachment).
Bishakha
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From: Suvrendu Jena <Suvrendu_Jena(a)melcole.com>
Dear Moka,
Please find attached the coverage that has appeared in The Economic Times,
Mumbai edition post the interaction. While the main story has appeared on
page 9, the “ ET Exclusive Q&A with photograph” has appeared on the front
page right next to the newspaper’s masthead. It is in all editions and we
will be forwarding you clips from other editions as soon as possible.
Regards
Suvrendu Jena