WikimediaIndia-l January 2011

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The GLAM challenge
by Ashwin Baindur 31 Jan '11

31 Jan '11

Hi everybody, A short discussion offlist about GLAM is being put up for community's information and participation. It is being added in three posts - Part 1 - post by Ashwin Baindur about some thoughts on GLAM Projects, and Part 2 - post about Shirish Agarwal 's views Part 3 - reply by Witty Lama on these emails Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur ------------------------------------------------------

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Photos from Wikipedia meetup, Mangalore - Jan 29, 2011
by Hari Prasad Nadig 31 Jan '11

31 Jan '11

Wikipedia Meetup, Mangalore #1 at St. Aloysius, Mangalore. I had been invited to give a talk on Sampada at Catholic Press Association, Mangalore. Since I was in the town, we had called for a Wikipedia meetup on Saturday afternoon at St. Aloysius. We had some great time discussing Wikipedia, Konkani and Tulu along with Kannada figuring most in the discussions. Photos are here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hpnadig/sets/72157625942734564/ Cheers, -- Hari Prasad Nadig http://hpnadig.net | http://twitter.com/hpnadig http://flickr.com/hpnadig

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Updating the logo of Indian Language Wikipedias
by Shiju Alex 30 Jan '11

30 Jan '11

Dear Indic language wikipedians, As many of you know the default skin of wikipedias (including that of all Indic language wikipedias) is moved to the new Vector skin some time back. Please see the below mail that I sent to this list regrading this on *2010 July 1*. As some of you know, along with this update, the logo of wikipedia is also updated. The current logo is available here<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia/2.0>. But even though almost 6 months had passed after this major update, only Bengali <http://bn.wikipedia.org>, Malayalam <http://ml.wikipedia.org>, Urdu<http://ur.wikipedia.org>, and Telugu <http://te.wikipedia.org> wiki communities had took initiatives to update the logo. The logo update is still pending for the following Indian language wikis. - Assamese - http://as.wikipedia.org - Bhojpuri - http://bh.wikipedia.org - Bishnupriya Manipuri - http://bpy.wikipedia.org/ - Divehi - http://dv.wikipedia.org - Gujarati - http://gu.wikipedia.org - Hindi - http://hi.wikipedia.org - Kannada - http://kn.wikipedia.org/ - Kashmiri - http://ks.wikipedia.org/ - Marathi - http://mr.wikipedia.org - Nepali - http://ne.wikipedia.org - Oriya - http://or.wikipedia.org - Pali - http://pi.wikipedia.org - Punjabi - http://pa.wikipedia.org - Sanskrit - http://sa.wikipedia.org - Sindhi - http://sd.wikipedia.org - Tamil - http://ta.wikipedia.org Carry Bass (User:Bastique <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Bastique>) has took initiative to create the new logo for some of the Indian language wikis. But for languages like Kannada, Oriya, and so on even that is pending. Even if the new logo is created a bug needs to be filed by the respective wiki community to change the logo. So for most of the Indian wikis both these tasks are pending now. I request the respective language communities to take initiatives to create the new logo and file a bug for this update. The guidelines for creating the new logo is listed at http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikimedia_official_marks/Word_mark_crea… Please write to me if any of the language communities require any type of support regarding this. Regards Shiju Alex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 06:43:08 +0200 From: shijualexonline(a)gmail.com To: wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Updating the default skin of Indian Language Wikipedias Hi All, As some of you already know, *Usability Team<http://usability.wikimedia.org> * is driving the task of updating the default skin of all WikiMedia Foundation wikis to a skin called *Vector*<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vector>. English Wikipedia and some other big wikis have already moved to *Vector skin* some time back. Apart from the UI, the logo of Wikipedia is also updated <http://blog.wikimedia.org/2010/wikipedia-in-3d/>. Yesterday (2010 June 30) at 10:30 PM IST, some other wikis (that have carried out the formalities required for the UI change) are also moved to the new UI. Among this, 3 Indian Language Wikipedias are also there. Following are those Indian Language wikipedias: - Malayalam - http://ml.wikipedia.org - Bengali - http://bn.wikipedia.org - Telugu - http://te.wikipedia.org Please note the new default skin and the new logo that are appearing on these wikis. (You may need to clear the cache to see the changes. ) Now to move your language wiki to Vector, you have to perform the following two major operations: 1. Update the logo of your wiki 2. Localize the Vector skin system messages Logo update For some languages, logo is already updated. See the list here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia/2.0 If your wiki's logo is missing from this list, then you need to create the new logo based on the instructions listed on this page. http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikimedia_official_marks/About_the_offi… Localizing the Vector skin System messages For the current update, you need to localize the Vector skin system messages. To localize the system messages, use Translate wiki - http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Main_Page The current Localization statistics of Vector skin system messages is available here. http://translatewiki.net/wiki/User:GerardM/usability-stats You can see that many Indian languages (for example, Tamil) are missing from this list. The reason is, none of the Vector skin system messages are localized for those languages. Even for the big Languages like Hindi and Marathi the percentage of localized messages is very low. So I request the respective Indian Language Wikipedia communities to take required initiative to switch over to the new Skin. Usability team is planning for next set of switch over by the end of July. So you have almost one month to finish these tasks. Once you finish the above tasks you need to: - Let the community know about this upcoming update (Use the village pump, Site Notice, Mailing list, and so on) - Appoint some volunteers to answer the questions related to this - Appoint an ambassador to collect the feedback/issues/bugs and report it to the Usability Team. Please let me know in case you require any support regarding this. Regards Shiju Alex _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WikiX-l] 10 Wikipedia @ Bikaner ( India)
by CherianTinu Abraham 30 Jan '11

30 Jan '11

Great job by folks in Bikaner. I believe it was the Srishti Sethi & Supriya Chaudhary, students from Rajasthan who came to Bangalore and attended both FOSS.in & Bangalore Wikimeetup23<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore23>. Nice to see more woman Wikipedians coming forward. ( This should make Bishakha happy too :) ) Regards Tinu Cherian On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Apurva Tripathi <alonemayank(a)gmail.com>wrote: > Hi Everyone, > One more event in India conducted at Engineering College > Bikaner. The snaps will be uploaded soon. About 40-50 guys joined it. It > was awesome to be there. I travelled about 120 miles for attending the > event. It started with the introduction to Open Source. Then a simple > introduction to Wikipedia by Sristhi Sethi. Some facts about Wikimedia > foundation from Supriya. One another guy ( I don't know his name but that > was the best part) asked some questions about Wikimedia Foundation and > distributed some goodies. A video message from Jimmy Wales. Editing > Tutorial > about Wikipedia and Wiki commons by Apurva Tripathi. A discussion about > deletion policy of Wikipedia . Then finally a signature campaign. It was > great to be there. A new chapter of Wikipedia began at Bikaner. The one > more > thing I would like to admit that we really missed the T-shirts. Is there > any > way to ask for T-shirts so they can be distributed to organizers and > participants? > > Apurva Tripathi > > > _______________________________________________ > WikiX-l mailing list > WikiX-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikix-l >

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GSOC 2011
by Santhosh Thottingal 30 Jan '11

30 Jan '11

Google has announced GSoC2011. http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2011/01/google-summer-of-code-announc… The timeline is here: http://www.google-melange.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2011/ti… This is a very good opportunity for students to participate and showcase their skills. Read the above links for more details. As you can read from http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2011 Mediawiki plans to participate in GSOC 2011. So students or mentors having wonderful project ideas to improve mediawiki, please add here http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2011/Project_ideas Thanks Santhosh Thottingal

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Malayalam wikipedia crossed the 10 Lakh/1 million edits milestone
by Shiju Alex 30 Jan '11

30 Jan '11

Dear All, I am happy to announce that Malayalam wikipedia has crossed the *10 Lakh (1 million) edits* milestone on *2011 January 22*. Malayalam wikipedia is the *first Indian language wikipedia to cross the 10 Lakh milestone*. With almost 250 active editors<http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%A4%E0%B5%8D%…>Malayalam wiki community continues to be one of the most active Indian Wiki community. That is the the main reason behind this achievement. Malayalam wikipedia also has the *most number of edits per article *(more than 30) among all theIndian wikis. The information about the *total number of the edits* in some of the major active wikis is provided below. Language wikipedia Number of edits since the wiki is set up Malayalam 1002375 Hindi 913612 Tamil 688891 Marathi 665774 Telugu 578760 Urdu 376948 Kannada 186771 Gujarati 133134 Sanskrit 101517 Data is collected on 2011 January 24. Thanks Shiju Alex ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Anoop <anoop.ind(a)gmail.com> Date: 2011/1/25 Subject: [Wikiml-l] മലയാളം വിക്കിപീഡിയയിൽ 10 ലക്ഷം എഡിറ്റുകൾ To: Malayalam wiki project mailing list <wikiml-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> സുഹൃത്തുക്കളേ, ഒരു സന്തോഷ വാർത്ത നിങ്ങളെ എല്ലാവരെയും അറിയിക്കുകയാണ്. മലയാളം വിക്കിപീഡിയയിൽ 10 ലക്ഷം തിരുത്തലുകൾ (Edits) തികഞ്ഞിരിക്കുന്നു. ഇക്കഴിഞ്ഞ ജനുവരി 22-നായിരുന്നു 10 ലക്ഷം തിരുത്തലുകൾ തികഞ്ഞത്. ഈ കടമ്പ കടക്കുന്ന അമ്പത്തി ഒന്നാമത്തെ വിക്കിപീഡിയയാണ് മലയാളം[1]. ഈ കടമ്പ കടന്ന ഏക ഇന്ത്യൻ വിക്കിപീഡിയയും മലയാളമാണ്[1]. ലേഖനങ്ങളുടെ എണ്ണം വർദ്ധിപ്പിക്കുക എന്നത് പ്രാഥമികമായ ലക്ഷ്യമാക്കാതെ, കാമ്പുള്ള ലേഖനങ്ങൾ സൃഷ്ടിക്കുക എന്ന ലക്ഷ്യത്തോടെ പ്രവർത്തിക്കുന്നതിന്റെ ഫലമായാണ് ഏറ്റവും കൂടുതൽ ഡെപ്ത് ഉള്ള ഇന്ത്യൻ വിക്കിപീഡിയയും ഏറ്റവും കൂടുതൽ തിരുത്തലുകൾ നടത്തിയ ഇന്ത്യൻ വിക്കിപീഡിയയും മലയാളമായത്. ഈ സ്ഥാനം എന്നെന്നും നിലനിർത്തിപ്പോരാൻ നിങ്ങൾ ഓരോരുത്തരുടെയും സഹകരണം ആവശ്യമാണ്. മറ്റു പ്രധാന ഇന്ത്യൻ ഭാഷാ വിക്കിപീഡിയയിലെ തിരുത്തലുകളുടെ എണ്ണം കാണുക. *ഭാഷ (language)* * തിരുത്തലുകളുടെ എണ്ണം (Number of edits since wiki is set up) * മലയാളം (Malayalam) 1002375 ബംഗാളി (bengali) 922606 ഹിന്ദി (Hindi) 913612 തമിഴ് (Tamil) 688891 മറാത്തി (Marathi) 665774 തെലുഗ് (Telugu) 578760 ഉർദു (Urdu) 376948 കന്നഡ (Kannada) 186771 ഗുജറാത്തി (Gujarati) 133134 സംസ്കൃതം (Sanskrit) 101517 [1] ഈ നേട്ടത്തിൽ പങ്കാളിയായ എല്ലാവർക്കും നന്ദി. *അവലംബം* 1. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias അനൂപ് _______________________________________________ Wikiml-l is the mailing list for Malayalam Wikimedia Projects email: Wikiml-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Website: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiml-l

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Can we aggregate news related to wikipedia / wikimedia in India in one place
by Nikhil Sheth 29 Jan '11

29 Jan '11

Hi All, Wouldn't it be great if there was a single wiki page where all such links and news could be posted by wikipedians? Maybe we can make one and then program the group to display a link to that page at the bottom of all communications, so that anyone sharing something awesome also posts it there. This way we can show people a single-place resource for all news related to wikipedia / wikimedia in India and hence bring in a lot more visibility and publicity. It's not plausible to collect all these news sources by traversing through the myriad emails, so it would be great to have one page where everything comes together. And it's too tall a task for any one individual, but if everybody pitches in then we can build something amazing together. I don't know how to go about setting this up, so evoking this here. If it's already been created, then please share it. For an external example, I've setup something similar in a mindmap, now a wiki-map, for Teach For India and have got a very good response for it. You can see there how various useful links are now collected in one place. http://www.mindmeister.com/maps/show/76500874 Cheers, Nikhil Sheth +91-966-583-1250 Pune, India Teach For India <http://www.teachforindia.org/> Fellow, 2011-13 www.nikhilsheth.tk Find me on: Twitter <http://twitter.com/nikhiljs> | Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/nikjs>| LinkedIn <http://in.linkedin.com/in/nikhiljs> | Google <http://www.google.com/profiles/nikhil.js>| RangDe<http://www.rangde.org/investor/nikhilsheth> Join me on: Pune Documentary Club<http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=138497769525636>| Let's Do it Pune <http://www.facebook.com/pages/Lets-do-it-Pune/103857326346659> | Toastmasters in Pune<http://www.facebook.com/pages/Toastmasters-in-Pune/148767611833746>| Wikipedia For Schools project<http://education.wikia.com/wiki/Wikipedia_For_Schools_Offline_Edition>

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'The Hindu' on Mangalore Wikipedia meetup
by Hari Prasad Nadig 29 Jan '11

29 Jan '11

This one appeared on the front page of Mangalore edition today! http://www.hindu.com/2011/01/29/stories/2011012958280100.htm -- Hari Prasad Nadig http://hpnadig.net | http://twitter.com/hpnadig http://flickr.com/hpnadig

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The Hindu : "One among the clan of Wikipedians"
by CherianTinu Abraham 28 Jan '11

28 Jan '11

The Hindu : "One among the clan of Wikipedians", featuring Achal Prabhala http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-neighbourhood/article11… Regards Tinu Cherian

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What is page depth was Re: Malayalam wikipedia crossed the 10 Lakh/1 million edits milestone
by shirish शिरीष 28 Jan '11

28 Jan '11

Hi all, Just read through the whole series of posts. As an editor I have a question/query? Is there some defined page depth? If there is who defines it ? Also an a non-metric or otherwise why is page depth important? Is page depth or page length of an article same or different? What aspects are taken into consideration while thinking of page depth? I play/edit a bit of EN:WP articles, is that context does anything above a stub means there is some page depth to the article . I am sure these are all basic questions to you all but it would be nice if there was some ideas about this. If there are hyperlinks which would be relevant to this would be nice as well. -- 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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