WikimediaIndia-l October 2011

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Mails getting queued
by Srikanth Lakshmanan 12 Nov '11

12 Nov '11

For some reasons, lot of mails are getting queued for "Message has a suspicious header" and needs manual approval since yesterday(which is why you might have noted emails coming in bulk). Please note there will be delay in delivery of mails on list. Let me check if there is a bug already / file one with ops. Thanks. -- Regards Srikanth.L

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Releasing FAQ foe Hindi WIkipedia
by mayur 04 Nov '11

04 Nov '11

Dear Wikimedians, Today we have released first version of FAQ for Hindi Wikipedia <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hindi_Wiki_Projects_FAQ_Version_1.0.…>.With a nice effort of malayalam wiki community they translated their FAQ from malayalam to english.That translation helped us a lot for preparing FAQ for Hindi Wikipedia.Special thanks to Shiju Alex and Junad pv who gave this FAQ its Final pdf form. Thank you and Regards Mayur

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Tamil Wikipedia -- Google Translation experiences at Arabic Wiki Convention.
by Srikanth Lakshmanan 03 Nov '11

03 Nov '11

Hi all, Last week Arabic Wikipedians organized Arabic Wikipedia Convening (WMF Blog Report [1]) hosted by Qatar Computing Research Institute at Doha. Since the Qatar Institute was looking at options on machine / manual translation to increase articles on Arabic Wikipedia, they had invited a Tamil Wikipedia - Google translation coordinator to learn from the experiences of other communities which did a large scale project. User:Sodabottle presented on the community experiences and learnings[2]. [1] http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/10/23/arabic-wikipedia-lconvening/ [2] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Google_translation_project_-_Tamil_W… -- Regards Srikanth.L

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New version of Nepali Wikipedia translator is released.
by Rajesh Pandey 02 Nov '11

02 Nov '11

Hello all, A new version of Nepali wikipedia translator is released, it contains features to copy templates from English and Hindi Wikipedia. It can also be used to translate into Nepali and then save. I was able to copy more than 1000 templates in one sitting. Thanks to the works from Rich Farmbrough, that inspired me to work on template copier and also to Autowikibrowser team for their work in Autowikibrowser for their library. All the best and good luck to Wikiconference india 2011 participants Cheers. -- Rajesh Pandey

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[Press] : Medianama : Size Zero: Wikipedia Looks To Telcos & Handset Co’s For Free Mobile Access
by CherianTinu Abraham 31 Oct '11

31 Oct '11

*Medianama : Size Zero: Wikipedia Looks To Telcos & Handset Co’s For Free Mobile Access* http://www.medianama.com/2011/10/223-size-zero-wikipedia-looks-to-telcos-ha… *The digital version of Size Zero: next to nothing cost of Internet access for the user, and all the major Internet sites are vying for telecom operator deals to enable it. Facebook has it, Twitter is almost there, but the latest to queue up for Size Zero is Wikipedia.* * * *The community driven site that wants to make knowledge available freely wants access to knowledge to be free as well, and that isn’t such a bad thing, particularly in India, given that we need more and more people from India to contribute and make the same information on Wikipedia available in Indic languages as well. In a note, Amit Kapoor, Senior Manager, Mobile Partnerships at Wikimedia writes that for mobile partnerships, they’re beginning with an India and East Asia focus in Q4 of this year. This is probably to also coincide with the WikiConference in Mumbai, and the India Catalyst plan.* * * *“On the desktop, many readers discovered Wikipedia through search, but on mobile, sessions and queries originate differently. With this in mind, we need the help of partners – namely mobile operators and handset manufacturers – to help ensure the distribution of knowledge. This is why we’re setting out with a global mobile partnership program.” Wikipedia Zero will be a mobile site optimized for slower connections and not just smart phones. It is also looking for partnerships for enabling SMS and USSD based access, and interestingly, Kapoor writes that they want it to be accessible even those without a data plan.* * * *What Drives Size Zero for Telcos?* * * *So, tell us this – what really drives telecom operator Size Zero partnerships? Is Wikipedia cool enough to put into a marketing campaign like Twitter and Facebook are, and is that all that is there to it? Or is it about giving a few sites for free (you know we have concerns around neutrality of access there), and hope that the users start surfing other sites for free?* * * Regards Tinu Cherian http://wiki.wikimedia.in/In_the_news *Important Note : *The publisher ( MediaNama) of the above news article owns the copyrights of the article / content. Request to not kindly reproduce or circulate the content further. The information is only shared only with an internal community who have been featured on this article. All copyrights are duly acknowledged.

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Blog post on Vijay Kudal's blog about Tory Read's article on India WP growing
by Ashwin Baindur 30 Oct '11

30 Oct '11

FYI http://vijaykudal.in/growing-wikipedia-in-india-%E2%80%93-how-a-community-i… Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur ------------------------------------------------------

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Wikimedia India chapter IRC meetup
by Naveen Francis 30 Oct '11

30 Oct '11

Hi friends, We will have our IRC meetup on Oct 29, 2011, from 9:00 pm to 10:00 pm http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Internet_Relay_Chats/Oct_29,2011 We from Wikimedia India Chapter invites you all to take part in the IRC meetup. On behalf of Wikimedia India Chapter Thanks, Naveen Francis

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WikiAcademies
by Naveen Francis 29 Oct '11

29 Oct '11

Hi All, We are planning to conduct 20-30 wikiacademies across India as a part of projects 2011-12 from Wikimedia India Chapter with help of volunteers( http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Geographical_distribution_of_Indian_Wikipedians). Chapter is inviting proposals to conduct Wikipedia Academies or Workshops (Wikiacademies) in colleges/schools/institutions if interested please create a proposal @http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wiki_Academy#New_proposals or email us @ chapter(a)wikimedia.in For more details :- http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wiki_Academy Please spread the message. -- Thanks, Naveen Francis Secretary, Wikimedia India Chapter [image: File:Wikimedia India logo.svg] <http://wiki.wikimedia.in/> reachout Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.*That’s our commitment.*

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Blocked Wikipedia Page :: Indian Internet Censorship
by Srikanth Lakshmanan 29 Oct '11

29 Oct '11

Hi all, I was going through the "CIS analysis on DIT response to RTI on blocking" [1] and found a mention of Sukhbir Singh Badal[2] article was on block list by DIT on 11.08.2010 by Principal Secretary to Govt. of Punjab.[3] There is no block currently on the page(atleast by my ISP). I just did some quick look on history on the page.I could find loads on BLP tags being hit particularly with severe edit activity around Oct 2010,with some targeted activity by a single UK based IP editor and many other anons editing mainly on corruption charges.The same IP user also tried blanking the page(possibly legally or otherwise threatened else why would someone adding charges against a person blank the page?) more than once and those edits were reverted much like any other page blanking. Interestingly there was nothing apart from templates by bots on the talk page. So this was a pure case of party crook editors fighting each other, and not even like what happens on the caste articles(much worse!). Leaving aside the censorship, since I am not bothered about it much, this episode suggests more attention is required for WP:INDIA project and lack of enough volunteers to maintain a large article base of 1.5 lakh+ pages. Yet another case exposing the "English Wikipedia Community" in India which IMHO is not doing so well when compared to few other Indic communities. About time we realize and move from the popular opinion that Indic communities are the only malnutrition-ed children and English Wikipedia is hale and healthy. There are people running around proposing Policy guidelines specific to India (like a guideline for caste, much like BLP) and whole lot of things to break the "so called" systemic bias. I dont subscribe to that view, but wondering what can we do help make English Wikipedia a healthy child in India. [1] http://www.cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/analysis-dit-response-2nd… [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhbir_Singh_Badal [3] http://www.cis-india.org/internet-governance/dit-response-2nd-rti-blocking -- Regards Srikanth.L

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Narayam is now enabled at Meta
by സുനിൽ (Sunil) 28 Oct '11

28 Oct '11

The IME tool Narayam <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Narayam> is now enabled at Meta WIki <http://meta.wikimedia.org/>. At present Narayam supports 10 Indic languages.<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Narayam#Indic>You can enable Narayam by selecting one of the supported language in your preferences. <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences>

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