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
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…
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Regards
Srikanth.L
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.
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Rajesh Pandey
*Bloomberg Business Week : Wikipedia India Office Will Help Boost
Fundraising, Founder Says*
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-11-02/wikipedia-india-office-will-hel…
*Wikipedia opened an office in India, its first outside the U.S., to better
reach the country’s 1.2 billion people after the online encyclopedia where
users contribute and edit entries added readers and had its most successful
fundraiser yet.*
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*Wikipedia, created in 2001 and based in San Francisco, aims to strengthen
the service in Hindi as well as more than 20 local languages in India with
the office in New Delhi, the site’s co- founder Jimmy Wales said in an
interview. The site is also considering expanding in the Middle East and
North Africa to target Arabic communities.*
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*To keep the online encyclopedia free and without advertising, Wikimedia
Foundation Inc., the non-profit organization that operates Wikipedia, has
held fundraisers since 2005. The foundation, which also operates sites in
languages such as French, Japanese, German, Hebrew, Arabic, Esperanto and
Russian, exceeded a target of raising $16 million in 50 days in January,
added to the annual budget of $20.4 million.*
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*“Our vision is for people to have an encyclopedia in their own language
not their second language,” Wales said. The company is “very optimistic”
about the next fundraiser and is “not in financial crisis,” he said, adding
that “we do need money but we have a very orderly plan for that.”*
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*Traffic continues to increase “pretty dramatically” with around 420
million people currently visiting the website every month, Wales said. That
compares with more than 340 million two years ago. “The readers are where
the bulk of the income comes from,” Wales said.*
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*Wikipedia is the fifth-most visited website, only topped by sites of
Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Facebook Inc. and Yahoo! Inc., according to
researcher ComScore Inc.*
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*The foundation’s budget pays for the technology to run the site and for
programs to make it easier to use and encourage more participation. The
number of active editors and rate of article creation both peaked in 2007,
according to researchers at Xerox Corp.’s Palo Alto Research Center.*
Regards
Tinu Cherian
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fyi: Bangaloreans (and the neighborhood) who may (should?) want to attend
this critical event tomorrow.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Sridhar Gutam <gutam2000(a)gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 11:24 AM
Subject: [fosscomm] Open Access to Academic Knowledge at Bangalore on 2nd
Nov 14:30 - 17:00 hrs
To: Indian FOSS Community Network list <network(a)lists.fosscom.in>, LIS
Forum <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>, lislforum(a)gmail.com
Dear All,
With an aim to get people in Bangalore more aware of Open Access and how to
improve the current situation in India. The Indian Institute of Science and
the Centre for Internet and Society are holding an afternoon workshop on
Wednesday the 2nd of November on the topic of 'Open Access to Academic
Knowledge'.
The event will take place in the Seminar Hall of the National Centre for
Science Information, within the Indian Institute of Science from 14:30 to
17:00.The event will involve a few short presentations and then a
discussion.
It would be great to have all kinds of people attend and share ideas on
improving Open Access in India.
For more information please contact Tom Dane (tom(a)cis-india.org), on behalf
of the Centre for Internet and Society and the Indian Institute of Science.
Thanks & Regards
Sridhar
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