WikimediaIndia-l December 2010

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Gyanpad (Knowledge kiosk) web app: Easy interface to search Wikipedia and sister sites in Indian languages
by arjuna rao chavala 26 Aug '11

26 Aug '11

I am happy to share a tiny web application to help people get started with using Indian languages on Computers in public places, using wiki sites. Check it out http://gyanpad.appspot.com/ Cheers Arjun

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History of Wikipedia in India
by Gautam John 02 Feb '11

02 Feb '11

So I was attempting to write a 2000 word piece on the history of Wikipedia in India. Any pointers you have will be most appreciated - historical stuff too. Sundar pointed me to this: http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tamil_Wikipedia:_A_Case_Study What would be helpful is some sort of chronology on the history of of Indic language Wikipedias and Indian involvement with Wikimedia projects. Thank you. Best, Gautam ________ http://social.prathambooks.org/

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Unicode compatibility
by Gerard Meijssen 08 Jan '11

08 Jan '11

Hoi, I know that there are people who will be interested and able to comment.. Thanks, GerardM

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Wikinews and RSS feed
by shirish शिरीष 30 Dec '10

30 Dec '10

Hi all, I have been an off and on consumer of Wikinews. Please see http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Main_Page . This is the same news which comes on wikipedia page as well. Now for a long time I had been wondering if there is or has been a way so that people could get RSS feeds out of that ? In fact having RSS feeds of new articles even within niches is not a bad idea. Of course, just thinking aloud. -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com 065C 6D79 A68C E7EA 52B3 8D70 950D 53FB 729A 8B17

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India tech list?
by BalaSundaraRaman 29 Dec '10

29 Dec '10

Glad to see more tech discussions in the WikimediaIndia list. Is this a good time to fork an India Tech list? I'd prefer though not to split if people who are not interested in tech issues do not mind having those discussions here. Thoughts? - Sundar "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted." - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture

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Have some editing queries, where should I go ?
by shirish शिरीष 29 Dec '10

29 Dec '10

Hi all, Have some editing queries, which is a good list to use for that ? I do understand that this Mailing list (ML) is probably gonna be used for co-ordination of various things rather than talking perhaps about wikipedia or wikimedia edits. I do have one query though that is important enough perhaps to be posted on this list. While I was on Wikipedia today, I went to my user account page and got this link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MergeAccount and I saw that it doesn't have any sort of https:// to it. I stopped there itself but shouldn't it be a good idea to have https:// or what do people think ? -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com 065C 6D79 A68C E7EA 52B3 8D70 950D 53FB 729A 8B17

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Indic languages & unicode issues.
by CherianTinu Abraham 29 Dec '10

29 Dec '10

Hi all, Happened to see Gerard's blog post on issues with Malayalam Wikipedia & Unicode upgrade to 5.1 http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2010/12/malayalam-enigma.html While traffic to websites ( yes, including Wikipedia ) is primary driven by search traffic ,apparently this had a negative effect as shown by WM stats. As he explains, the problem is there needs to be canonical equivalence between the old and new Unicode .. This is a larger issue and it is time that the foundation has a stake on the Unicode consortium ( and search engines too ? ;) ).. Thoughts ? Regards Tinu Cherian

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Tamil Wiki workshop in Eastern University, SriLanka
by Ravishankar 29 Dec '10

29 Dec '10

Hi, Tamil Wikipedians from SriLanka conducted a Tamil Wikipedia Workshop at Eastern University of Srilanka on 28th December. Around 55 people including lecturers, employees, students, visitors from nearby institutions participated. This is the first organized Wiki meetup / workshop in SriLanka and we plan to conduct more such workshops in near future. Photos from the event: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=269877&id=647387355&l=b22c36a4a6 Ravi

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Mysore event on Jan 15th
by Hari Prasad Nadig 28 Dec '10

28 Dec '10

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! -- Hari Prasad Nadig http://hpnadig.net | http://twitter.com/hpnadig http://flickr.com/hpnadig

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Some photos from Pune visit of Wikimedia dignitaries
by Sudhanwa Jogalekar 28 Dec '10

28 Dec '10

During their stay in Pune, our Wikimedia dignitaries attended an event of "working journalists" to inaugurate their website. During this, they interacted with the journalists and journalism students. Please checkout their website and also some pictures of the event. http://www.punepatrakarsangh.com/PunePatrakarSangh/viewphotos.aspx?aid=5664… -- Sudhanwa ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~! www.projects4students.com

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