WikimediaIndia-l March 2010

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Integration with OpenStreetMap
by Gerard Meijssen 01 Apr '10

01 Apr '10

Hoi, I have been so bold to write about getting information out about the villages, towns and cities of India. There are several problems that I see: - there are many villages, towns and cities in India - there are many Wikipedias that should be interested in all these places - the integration of OpenStreetMap and Wikipedia needs to get an initial product out In my blog I have written that in order to achieve the third objective we need a project manager. In order to achieve the first two, you need to make this one of your objectives.. It is with the localisation of the Indian languages a perfect objective for the Indian chapter.. I know that it is not my place, but hey, may I dream of something that will be worthwhile ? Thanks, GerardM http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2010/03/integration-of-openstreetmap-an…

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Global Sysops
by Jyothis E 28 Mar '10

28 Mar '10

All, As you may have seen, the global sysop<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_sysop>s are active. They will do sysop's job in those places where there are not enuf admins. Since Global sysops cover a lot of Indian wikimedia projects, I thought it is worth mentioning here in the list. Current elected GSs are those who had been doing counter vandalism and Small wiki monitoring for quite a while. ( I am not sure how many are aware of the great job of the SWMT <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/SWMT> and such CVN groups. they are the silent guards, imho). Most of them can be found in various irc channels and can be contacted in case of emergency - say some one is causing trouble and you dont have a sysop around - on their meta talk pages or IRC. Please see some details that we should know: *From Meta page:* *Global **sysops* <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Sysop> are highly trusted users with a strong track record of cross-wiki contributions that have sysop privileges on many small wikis<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_sysops/wiki_set>, for the purposes of antivandalism and routine maintainance. They are not users with sysop tools on all wikis and they have *no* extra editorial control over content or the local community. Scope By default, global sysop would be *enabled* for every project that meets one of the following criteria: - fewer than *ten* administrators exist; or - fewer than *three* administrators have made a logged action within the past two months. Projects may opt-in or opt-out at their own discretion if they obtain local consensus. Simply inform any steward of the community's decision. A wiki set<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Steward_handbook#Managing_sets_of_wikis_.28f…>, located here <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_sysops/wiki_set> is used to give rights on the included wikis only. See the current list of Global sysops here<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:GlobalUsers/Global_sysops>. Questions and comments are welcome. Regards, Jyothis. http://www.Jyothis.net http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jyothis woods are lovely dark and deep, but i have promises to keep and miles to go before i sleep and lines to go before I press sleep completion date = (start date + ((estimated effort x 3.1415926) / resources) + ((total coffee breaks x 0.25) / 24)) + Effort in meetings

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Who writes wikipedia articles? - news.discovery.com
by Jyothis E 26 Mar '10

26 Mar '10

http://news.discovery.com/human/wikipedia-community-articles.html Regards, Jyothis. http://www.Jyothis.net http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jyothis woods are lovely dark and deep, but i have promises to keep and miles to go before i sleep and lines to go before I press sleep completion date = (start date + ((estimated effort x 3.1415926) / resources) + ((total coffee breaks x 0.25) / 24)) + Effort in meetings

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Samskrit Academy 2 in Bangalore
by Srikanth Ramakrishnan 25 Mar '10

25 Mar '10

Heya guys, I'm planning [It is still tentative] a Samskrit Academy similar to what we had in January in Bangalore somewhere in and around the first week of April 2010. I've told ArunRam about it, and I'm waiting for someone who can handle things better than me [aka ANYBODY] to join me. Please reply and let me know, I'll see if I can get CIS for this. -- Regards, Your friend in time, Cherian/Srikanth/R/ Wikipedia on YOUR MIND? Join us on Twitter....

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Applications for Wikimania Scholarships accepted now
by Jyothis E 25 Mar '10

25 Mar '10

All, The call for applications for Wikimania Scholarships to attend Wikimania 2010 in Gdansk, Poland (July 9-11) is now open. The Wikimedia Foundation offers Scholarships to pay for selected individuals' round trip travel, accommodations, and registration at the conference. To apply, visit the Wikimania 2010<http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page> scholarships information page<http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships>, click the secure link available there, and fill out the form to apply. For additional information, please visit the Scholarships information and FAQ pages: - Scholarships <http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships> - Scholarships FAQ<http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships/FAQ> Yours very truly, Cary Bass <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Cary_Bass> Volunteer Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation --------------------------------------- Regards, Jyothis. http://www.Jyothis.net http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jyothis woods are lovely dark and deep, but i have promises to keep and miles to go before i sleep and lines to go before I press sleep completion date = (start date + ((estimated effort x 3.1415926) / resources) + ((total coffee breaks x 0.25) / 24)) + Effort in meetings

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The imminent Usability improvements
by Gerard Meijssen 24 Mar '10

24 Mar '10

Hoi, After a long time of development, the software that brings much improved usability is scheduled to go live around the end of April, the beginning of May. This will mark a big change in the MediaWiki software. I expect that as a consequence the composition of the "most used" messages will change. This means that for those languages that have not localised the messages associated with the usability initiative the quality of the user experience will suffer. While the benefits of the new software are obvious, it means that many people will need to adjust to the new software. For people who speak English it will be relatively easy but it is realistic that the people who do not speak English will suffer. It is for this reason that I urge everyone on behalf of the teams of both the usability initiative and translatewiki.net to help us in a drive to have at least 100 languages completely ready by the time of my birthday .. May 7. I love surprises so I would not mind if I get more then I ask for :) When you finish the usability localisation for your language please let us know.. ping, mail, tweet.. We need the stimulus of your success. Thanks, GerardM http://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translate&group=ext-ui-0-all http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2010/03/robbing-peter-to-pay-paul.html

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Call for translations: MediaWiki 1.16
by Siebrand Mazeland 23 Mar '10

23 Mar '10

The latest and the greatest MediaWiki 1.16 is expected to be released someday soon. It's been well over 9 months since 1.15.0, and I'm sure everyone is looking forward to the next quarterly release :P. There is some time left to complete the translations for this release. All willing to contribute to the MediaWiki localisation are urged to join the localisation effort at translatewiki.net. Below you will find helpful links. Let's make this the best localized version of MediaWiki ever! Your help is very much appreciated. Kind regards, Siebrand Mazeland translatewiki.net staff * 1.16 untranslated messages (pick your language from the "Language" dropdown and press "Fetch"): http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Special:Translate/core-1.16 * Test MediaWiki 1.16 beta1: http://tr.im/SVxX (tar.gz @mediawiki.org) * Translation statistics (updated daily): http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Translating:Group_statistics

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Please provide input for the strategic planning process!
by Ganesh Krishnamurthy 19 Mar '10

19 Mar '10

Philippe/WMF posted this message on the Indian language Wikipedias. I am cross posting it here to get wider audience: This message is posted by Philippe (http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Philippe_(WMF)), on behalf of Tyler, from the Bridgespan Group: My name is User:TylerT (http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:TylerT), and I am a member of the team from the Bridgespan Group that has been working with the Wikimedia Foundation throughout its strategic planning process. As you may have heard, as part of this process the Foundation has decided to experiment with making short-term investments to put staff on the ground and help grow readership and participation across the Wikimedia projects and languages in a few high-priority places. The idea of this pilot program is to determine what works, and what doesn't, and document those findings. India is one of the places that is being considered, and we would appreciate any help in understanding the following: # What has the Indian Wikimedia Community done in the past year to increase readership and participation? # What plans do the Indian Wikimedia Community have to continue to work on increasing readership and participation? # What are the greatest challenges the Indian Wikimedia Community faces in increasing readership and participation? # How could the Foundation help? # If the Foundation were to put staff on the ground in India, where would it make the most sense for them to be located? # Is there anything else the Foundation should consider when deciding whether or not to put staff on the ground in India? You can leave comments for me here, or on my talk page on the strategy wiki (http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:TylerT), or by emailing strategy(a)wikimedia.org. Thanks in advance for your help! User:TylerT PS - please translate and distribute this message to anyone who may be interested!

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Input methods for mobile phones
by Gerard Meijssen 19 Mar '10

19 Mar '10

Hoi, I blogged about an issue that Bellayet introduced me to. He has to enter in latin script data to trigger the search box on the http://be.m.wikipedia.org.. As I can imagine that this is also an issue for other languages of the Indian subcontinent, I would like you to consider providing us with the Unicode characters that are used for your language in the order you know them by. This should provide you improved support in the "advanced toolbar" and also (this is my expectation) for the mobile interface. Thanks, GerardM http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2010/03/more-mobile-wikipedia-news-cont…

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Academy - Malayalam - Bangalore 21st March 2010
by CherianTinu Abraham 18 Mar '10

18 Mar '10

Typo in the subject line ! Read the date as *21st March 2010 * -TC On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 6:20 PM, CherianTinu Abraham <tinucherian(a)gmail.com>wrote: > Hi Wikipedians, > Wikipedia Academies are public outreach events aimed at engaging academics, > other subject-matter experts and anyone else who are not familiar with > Wikpedia/ wiki culture or online communities. In presentations and > workshops, experienced Wikipedia authors teach the participants how to > contribute to Wikipedia and orient the audience to Wikipedia’s structures > and community policies. > You can know more about WP Academies @ > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Academy > > Academies have been happening in India since some time, unofficially, > thanks to the humble efforts of many wikipedians. > > Under the aegis of Bangalore Wikipedians, we recently had Sanskrit > Wikipedia Academy > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Academy/India/2010/Bangalore1 > > The next academy session is on Malayalam Wikipedia > Date: 21 March 2010, 4 PM > Venue: Centre for Internet and Society, Cunningham Rd, Bangalore. > > You can find more details at > http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangalore_Wikipedia_Academy1 > http://shijualex.blogspot.com/2010/03/blog-post_17.html > > The sessions will be lead by Shiju Alex, Anoopan and Ramesh NG from > Malayalam Wikipedia. > > You are cordially invited! Please spread the word ! > > Regards, > Tinu Cherian > > > > >

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