Hi all,
Just published a quick and dirty one about the happenings on GNUnify
Day 1. http://wp.me/pfuZu-ms . I just hope I did justice to being
there.
I do hope to get some photos by this week-end and pretify the post
somewhat. Been feeling lazy for last couple of days hence took the
drastic step.
One of the reasons I didn't want to write about what I felt about
Vineel's talk, hope he finds in his heart to forgive me. He's a good
guy/kid but if I wanted to know just the brief wouldn't have come here
:(
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hi,
Apologies for repeatedly posting similar information to the list. We've
decided to have one single page for all the GLAM projects in India on a
single page.
Link - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/India
For now, we'll have one page. So, I hope Wikipedians from Ahmedabad, Pune,
Mumbai, Kolkata and Bangalore who have all had or going to have meetings
with Liam may put the information into this one single page. I have created
the page on Wikipedia so that we could point to one single page if necessary
and also get help from GLAM members outside India if needed.
There is a sign-up list and I hope that you will sign up there to
participate in the GLAM project in India. I'll be updating all the
institutes that Liam has already visited and their responses on the page. I
have also added a column for the people who visited the institution so that
we know who has been in touch with what institution.
In the remarks section, feel free to leave any specific request that the
institution made or any specific take-aways from the institution. I'll try
and post all the meetings that has already been done in India and update the
pages.
warm regards,
Pradeep
Pradeep Mohandas <pradeep.mohandas(a)gmail.com> wrote...
> hi,
>
> We've created a start-up project page under GLAM for co-ordinating
> activities among Wikipedians interested in working with GLAM institutions in
> Mumbai. I've built up a pretty simple GLAM Mumbai project page -
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Mumbai.
>
> We'll keep this page updated. Request all Wikipedians interested to sign up
> and spread the word.
>
Hi Pradeep,
I recommend that you make the page GLAM/India instead of GLAM/Mumbai
initially at least till three-four projects (wherever they may be take
place) succeed . Placing it in Mumbai as of now shuts off the others
psychologically. I know, it does that to me. When starting from
scratch, we can get synergy by discussing all these projects no matter
where in India under one page, one list etc till volume of activities
makes it more convenient to branch out city-wise.
Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur
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Update on Liam's Mumbai visit by Pradeep.
Regards
Arun
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Pradeep Mohandas <pradeep.mohandas(a)gmail.com>
> Date: 13 February 2011 11:19:14 PM GMT+05:30
> To: Mumbai List Wikimedia <wikimedia-in-mum(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Ashwin Baindur <ashwin.baindur(a)gmail.com>, anirudh(a)wikimedia.in
> Subject: [Wikimedia-in-mum] Liam Wyatt's visit to Mumbai and GLAM meetup - a summary
>
> hi,
>
> For the past few days, Liam Wyatt has been going around cultural institutions in Mumbai. He will be going to a few on Monday morning as well. This is a small report for the benefit of the group and for those interested and who could not make it for the meetup today at the Pinstorm offices in Santacruz. Our thanks to Netra there who offered and allowed us use of space on such short notice.
>
> We had a nice turn up today of around 20-25 people.
>
> We started off with directly with Liam's talk on his work with the British Museum. His work/documentation of his work here can be found at http://enwp.org/WP:GLAM/BM. He then talked about his idea behind doing a project with the British Museum after a controversy the year before with the British National Archives. He said that the relationship was mutually beneficial to both and did not compromise on the principles of either Wikipedia or the British Museum. He talked about the series of conferences called GLAMWIKI that have already happened in London and Paris and are planned in Washington DC and Barcelona.
>
> He then went on to talk about five of the events that he conducted during his 5 month stint as the Wikipedian-in-Residence at the British Museum. These included the Backstage Pass, One on One Collaborations/Photos Requested, Feature Article Prize, the Hoxne Challenge and the School Translations.
>
> Backstage Pass involves a free tour of Museum objects in display and out of display by curators of the Museum for Wikipedians working on an article. The One-on-One Collaborations was an exchange of requests between Curators and Wikipedians who needed each others help - curators to improve articles on Wikipedia and Wikipedians for expert advice on articles in Wikipedia. Photos Requested requested for photos in different parts of the museum. Feature Article Prize was an interesting if controversial experiment. The British Museum offered 100 pounds for the 5 articles in Featured Article in Wikipedia related to an item in the British Museum. This became similar to the pay-for-edit idea. However, the rationale was that since the prize money was not for an article on the British Museum and was for an object/topic related article, it was okay. The Hoxne Challenge was an effort to see how Wikipedians could improve an article on one subject given access to subject experts etc.The subject given was that of the Hoxne Hoard discovered in England in 1992. I think it goes without saying that the article reached Featured Article rating pretty quickly. The last was the School Translations project where a group of French school children that Liam knew translated the articles on certain items in the British Museum from English into French as part of their English class homework. The students later visited London (like they regularly apparently did) and visited the Museum to see the objects they had written about as part of class.
>
> These were some of the implementations possible in the 5 week period whilst Liam was with British Museum.
>
> Bishaka and Liam reported on their visits to The Museum (Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalay) and Jnanapravaha. I accompanied Liam and Bishaka to The Museum. I am pleasantly surprised by the way they have transformed it! We've reported on positive responses from these cultural institutions. Liam and Bishaka will be visiting one more institution tomorrow.
>
> We then had a brief introduction to pad.ma. The part that relates to Wikimedia Commons was a demo on how a plugin for Firefox developed by the same team helped in uploading files in the .ogg format to Wikimedia Commons.
>
> We had a small reference to the Workshop for Women on Wikipedia (an idea suggested by Tinu Cherian) and we suggested the idea to two students who had come from SNDT Women's University to the meetup today. We've requested them to check on the possibility of using their labs to conduct the Workshop in Mumbai on or around March 8, 2011 (to re-iterate: the centenary celebrations of Women's Day).
>
> warm regards,
> Pradeep Mohandas
>
>
>
>
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hi,
We've created a start-up project page under GLAM for co-ordinating
activities among Wikipedians interested in working with GLAM institutions in
Mumbai. I've built up a pretty simple GLAM Mumbai project page -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Mumbai.
We'll keep this page updated. Request all Wikipedians interested to sign up
and spread the word.
warm regards,
Pradeep Mohandas
User:Prad2609
Hi,
As part of the FOSS event called Carte Blanche (http://cb.csmit.org/) to be held
at the Madras Institute of Technology, a Wikipedia workshop is being conducted
on February 6 between 9:30 am and 4:30 pm. Following is the proposal, the exact
timings will be finalised soon.
* English Wikipedia - general introduction for participation (Sundar)
* தமிழ் விக்கிப்பீடியா பயிலரங்கு (Tamil Wikipedia Workshop by users Manian,
Sengai Podhuvan, Paridhimathi, Surya Prakash, and Mahir)
* Hacking with Wikipedia (Srikanth's previous presentation will be used +
Sundar's introduction to pywikipediabot and a few bot examples + Mahir's talk
about templates and other things)
The organisers have kindly agreed to give us a stall as well. If any of you can
participate or, better still, conduct sessions, you're most welcome.
On a sidenote, I've been asked to inaugurate the event on Feb 5 at 9:00 am. All
are welcome.
- Sundar
"That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for
the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted."
- George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture
Hi all,
Developers with Wikimedia Foundation, Tomaz Finc and Arthur Richards will be
in the Bengaluru this week.
There's a Wiki meetup planned on *February 17th, at 5.30 p.m*. at *Center
for Internet and Society, Domlur* (near TERI).
Everyone who's interested can attend. This could be a good chance for those
of you interested in development of mediawiki to get answers for your
questions on getting started, get information on mobile gateway of
Wikipedia, off-line version of Wikipedia and more.
More details and registration on:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore28
Feel free to mail back to me off-the-list for more information.
Cheers,
--
Hari Prasad Nadig
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Thanks Shrinivasan.
I've added one project proposal to
http://wiki.ilugc.in/index.php?title=Projects_List#Project_List
I needed to generate audio pronunciation guides for English phrases used in
Tamil Wiktionary (and other wiktionaries) from pronunciation files for the
individual words. I started out with the ambitious project and wrote some
scripts to download and identify candidate files. I tried the Linux cat command
and it seemed to work. So, I got help from Yuvi Panda and Kishore Kumar (via
Srikanth) who allowed me to run the scripts from a Linode belonging to KCG
iCell. However, when I did a test upload, it turned out that the embedded media
player on Wikimedia Commons stops at the end of the first word. Here, I need the
help of someone with MATLAB-like media processing experience willing to take
over the project at
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Bots/Requests/SundarBot
- Sundar
"That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for
the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted."
- George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture
----- Original Message ----
> From: Shrinivasan T <tshrinivasan(a)gmail.com>
> To: BalaSundaraRaman <sundarbecse(a)yahoo.com>
> Cc: Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia.
><wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>; Wikita <wikita-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>;
>wikimedia-in-chn(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> Sent: Mon, February 14, 2011 9:57:46 PM
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-in-chn] [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia workshop in Carte
>Blanche, Chennai
>
> Thanks a lot for the session.
>
> I missed some sessions there.
>
> I invite you to the Indian Linux Users Group Chennai's monthly meets
> that held on every month second saturday at IITM 3 pm to 5 pm.
>
> see http://ilugc.in for more info.
>
> We like to hear from you on any of the upcoming ILUGC meets.
>
> Please add the project ideas in
> http://wiki.ilugc.in/index.php?title=Projects_List
>
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
> --
> Regards,
> T.Shrinivasan
>
>
> My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com
> Free/Open Source Jobs : http://fossjobs.in
>
Hello everyone,
I think the time has come to assume good faith and let the office
bearers get their act together. We have had enough emails expressing
the community's concerns at lack of transparency, lack of
communication, etc, etc. The new office bearers are in an un-envious
position. I'm sure that they must now be feeling that all the work of
putting up a chapter is a thankless job. It was an important task and
let us recognise that tackling any state bureaucracy is not an
occupation of pleasure. So let us thank them for doing this task and
ask them to henceforth function in a manner which meets the concerns
of the community.
It would have of course been great if the community had been brought
in before establishing the foundation, but that is all water under the
bridge now. It is time for us to let them be and go about doing
whatever they planned. This spate of attacks/accusation/discourse I'm
sure has halted them in their tracks. Such a limbo is the worst
situation possible. In expressing our legitimate concern, we have
virtually accused them of every possible wrong without concrete
evidence and now they stand here already condemned in public eyes. If
they have to serve us - make no mistake - chapter activities are meant
to serve the community, not govern them - then we have absolutely
demotivated them from doing so.
To the EC committee, I would like to say, you have my unqualified
support for the period of a year and I request you to get your act
together and deliver what you have promised. At this point of time, my
support is unqualified but henceforth after this grace period, it will
be based on your performance and output. I'm giving you the rope,
gentlemen of the EC, now either construct a rope bridge and span the
gap between you and the community or hang yourselves with that rope
(figuratively speaking).
To the community, I further request that the tone on the list be
lowered to gentlemanly discourse. I am not saying that we stop
expressing our concerns but let us do it in a constructive way. Also,
we must not make mountains out of mole-hills and we must be even more
tolerant than before. If the EC have to achieve ambitious targets,
they have to act. When people act, they make mistakes. Only those who
dont act, make no mistakes. In my eyes inaction is the greater sin
than acting and making mistakes. The EC will make a few mistakes but
they may be discussed in a non-accusatory way and lessons should be
learnt from them instead of seeking to crucify the EC members at every
instant.
Also, I will request that all feelings/issues that the community feels
strongly about be discussed openly on the list rather than offline and
that no efforts be made to influence the EC offline or in an
undemocratic fashion.
For those who feel, that they would like to be part of the setup in
the Wikimedia India chapter - that is a great and good ambition and
the way to go about it is by working in constructive manner so that
the community's aims are progressed.
This email is not meant to point fingers towards any one person, but
definitely I feel the community needs to heed my message and if you
don't agree, to discuss it politely.
Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur
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Hi !
I do not find any problem while rendering a wiki page of complex scripts
like Hindi in to pdf.
Rendering of Indian languages texts is not proper if true fonts are used for
typing. Wiki pages do not use true type fonts.
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www.angindia.org
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