WikimediaIndia-l December 2010

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Inbuilt typing solution for Bengali Wiki projects - Transliteration
by jayanta nath 19 Dec '10

19 Dec '10

Dear All, We have introduced three In-build Bengali Keyboard in Bengali Wikipedia<http://bn.wikipedia.org>for Bengali typing without installation any software in your PC/laptop at any platform like Windows,Linux, Mac. Please type your any document with this tool, give us feed back for BUG. The three tools are 1. Avro Phonetic <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Keyboard> 2. Inscript Layout ( standardized by Government of India)<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InScript_keyboard> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InScript_keyboard> 3. National Keyboard ( <http://www.bcc.net.bd/Nkb/kb.htm>standardized by <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InScript_keyboard>Government of Bangladesh)<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InScript_keyboard> *Note:* You have to bypass your browser's cache to see the changes. *Internet Explorer:* hold down the Ctrl key and click the Refresh or Reload button. * Firefox:* hold down the Shift key while clicking Reload (or press Ctrl-Shift-R). *Konqueror* and *Safari* users can just click the Reload button. For details and instructions about other browsers, see Wikipedia:Bypass your cache <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bypass_your_cache>. *Jayanta Nath* Calcutta,West Bengal Facebook :http://www.facebook.com/jayantanth Wikipedia :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jayantanth Twitter : jayantanth

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Calling interested Indore-wallas and folks from near-by
by guru brahma 19 Dec '10

19 Dec '10

Hi all, I have recently relocated to Indore. I am exploring the opportunity of organising Xth anniversary celebrations of Wikipedia here. If there are any people on this list who are from Indore or near by, please contact me off-list at the earliest. Regards, Srinivas. Wikimedia handle: Gurubrahma

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84%. Pune School Chldren refer Wikipedia, stats
by Mahitgar from Marathi Wikipedia 19 Dec '10

19 Dec '10

Please see DNA news about "The second annual ‘Web 2.0 generation survey’ conducted by TCS polled over 10,000 schoolchildren in the age group of 12 to 18 years in 11 cities across India in 2009-10. " at following link http://www.dnaindia.com/lifestyle/report_pune-teens-most-tech-savvy-survey_…

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Jimmy+ Commons images in December "Digit"
by Erik Moeller 19 Dec '10

19 Dec '10

Looking for something to read on my flight to Delhi, I saw a magazine called "Digit" with 3 DVDs for 250 Rs. On one of the DVDs was the Wikimedia logo, so I had to check it out. Turns out that the DVD contained a small number of featured pictures from Wikimedia Commons. One of the other DVDs had a video of Jimmy's recent Mumbai talk on it. Now, I don't think they obtained permission to use our logo, and I didn't check for media attribution, but it was nice to see regardless. Erik

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Fwd: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Project Proposal - wiki to monitor the government spending - GovSpendWatch Wiki
by gps 18 Dec '10

18 Dec '10

hello, Here is the project proposal post made to Foundation-I mail-list for starting a wiki to monitor the government spending. I guess here in India, we must be more that convinced that a sustained, widely accessible and comprehensive continuous tracking of Gov spending is key. If our ex-Prime Minister is to be believed, out of every 1 rupee of public money spent, only 15 paise reach the intended destination. This effort is supposed to bring clarity about the allocations and actual delivery to bring forth the requisite citizen's pressure on the govt for greater accountability. This is a massive undertaking, no single person / org can do it. As initial check suggests, there are many sources of information, we need to act as a central publicly accessable and easy to use / modify repository for existing info and then start filling the information gaps. Project Proposal has been made @ http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GovSpendWatchWiki Initial site can be set up on one of the wiki-farms, like Wikia. Requesting your feedback. I will also try to attend today's Wikipedia:Meetup in Bangalore, hopefully to meet with some of you there. - regards, Prasad ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: FT2 <ft2.wiki(a)gmail.com> Date: 16 December 2010 22:01 Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Project Proposal - wiki to monitor the government spending - GovSpendWatch Wiki To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> This would surely be interesting to a lot of people. But Wikimedia itself is not a political body, so projects like this may not be seen as appropriate for here. A lot of projects with wide interest are hosted on wiki farms though. There are many wiki farms and other bodies and many groups use wikis for the kind of proposal you have. Perhaps set up a wiki on a wiki farm<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki_farm> ? FT2 On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 3:29 AM, Ryan Lomonaco <wiki.ral315(a)gmail.com>wrote: > Forwarded to the whole list on behalf of a non-member. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: gps <gadgil.ps(a)gmail.com> > Date: Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 9:36 AM > Subject: Project Proposal - wiki to monitor the government spending - > GovSpendWatch Wiki > To: foundation-l-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > Hello, > > One of the biggest problems of democratic givernance is that Allocated > funds > for various causes, initiatives and projects disappear due to corruption, > mismanagement or just lie unutilised due to poor or non-existant public > oversight. > > Another aspect is that the public Audit watchdogs in may countries is > unable > to function independently, and their reports disappear when inconvenient. > > Many a times the issues come to limelight when irreparable damage has been > done, due to media expose or due to increasingly used Right-to-Information > provisions, however media moves on to next issue, and there is no permanant > vigil over the public expenditure. The same issue is rampant in Asia, > Africa > and even in developed countries. > > We need a Global countrywise repository for monitoring, tracking, > identifying possible issues in public expenditure. The domain is important > enough for Wikimedia, and the support / backing crucial enough for the > platform to succeed. > Pl. consider this request to start a wiki to monitor the government > spending, possibly named as GovSpendWatch-Wiki. > Project Proposal has been made @ > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GovSpendWatchWiki > > Pl. forward the proposal to foundation-l mail-list for review. > > regards, > prasad gadgil - प्रसाद गाडगीळ > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

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Wikipedia usage and contribution from Indian users
by B.G. Mahesh 18 Dec '10

18 Dec '10

Dear All, I need to write about Wikipedia in India. Need to know about access and content creation with an Indian angle. Are Indian surfers using Wiki a lot? Any statistics would help (growth over past few years) Similarly do Indians create/contribute content? What is your take on Indian languages? Feel free to include any other topic related to Wiki-India. Your input will be of great help for the chapter I am writing in a book. Please feel free to directly write to me. regards, -- Mahesh CEO Greynium Information Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Email: mahesh(a)oneindia.co.in http://www.oneindia.in/ http://www.click.in/ - Online Classifieds for India

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Bangalore Wiki-meetup 23 today @ 3 PM , TERI , Domlur , B'lore
by CherianTinu Abraham 18 Dec '10

18 Dec '10

Just a gentle reminder regarding the Bangalore Wikimeetup23 today @ 3 PM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore23 Danese Cooper, Chief Technical Officer, Wikimedia Foundation, Alolita Sharma, Engineering Programs Manager, Wikimedia Foundation will be attending this meetup. Unfortunately, Erik Moeller is unable to attend due to an early flight out of the country. However, he will be available at the venue at around 1:30 PM. Please note the change in the venue this time. It is TERI auditorium , but very close to CIS office. logicwiki & Me will be at the venue by 1-1:30 PM , so if you would like to help with setting up things, feel free to join us :) Regards Tinu Cherian

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Best of Indian Wikipedia / Wikimedia
by Srikanth Lakshmanan 17 Dec '10

17 Dec '10

Hi all, We are planning for Wikipedia X Celebrations at Bangalore[1]. As part of the event, we want to showcase / recognize best of Indian wikipedia/wikimedia content, best efforts by communities, people behind the scenes and outstanding individual contributions. I have created a page[2] and listed a few that i knew. Please feel free to add to the page to make a complete list including updates from as much communities as possible. Please post this message in various language communities. Thank you [1] http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangalore/ [2] http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangalore/BestofIndianWP Regards Srikanth.L http://srik.me

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Tenth Anniversary Celebrations in Pune.
by Ashwin Baindur 17 Dec '10

17 Dec '10

To all Puneri Wikipedians (both tatya and non-tatya), Gosh, just saw the grand scale of events planned in Bangalore. Pune's missing on the list. We need to be on the world map guys. Has anyone planned anything? Our Marathi Wikipedia crowd? I suggest one or all or even better more of the following be organised : * Newbie meet (I volunteer to give an editing tutorial session in English cum Marathi by me but on English Wikipedia. I could be partnered by someone showing the same for Marathi Wikipedia). * Marathi Wikipedia Meetup. * Wikimedia loves Pune photothon, where people go and photograph Pune's landmarks and add them to Commons. * Outreach activities to schools/colleges? * Any takers for birdwatching a la Bangalore/Shyamal? Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur ------------------------------------------------------

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Looking for Devanagri help - windows this time .
by BalaSundaraRaman 17 Dec '10

17 Dec '10

Oh I see. Thanks Ragib. - Sundar Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android

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