WikimediaIndia-l September 2011

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimediaindia-I] Pune Community
by Srikanth Ramakrishnan 16 Sep '11

16 Sep '11

Heya guys, you sent your message at the opportune moment. When we have got to such a level, that we are hosting an international level event, we should put our differences aside, and each individual community should stick to each other and provide support. This kind of fragmentation, that too, at this time, is silly, childish, stupid, and among other things, downright selfish. Please reconsider your thoughts and actions and let us make this even a grand success so that next year Wikipedians all over would love to come to India. -- Regards, Srikanth R, dying to start a Coimbatore community. -- Sent from my mobile device Regards, ME. Wear a Lungi, Support the Movement My infrastructure invasion... plus other images too.. on Wikimedia Commons. http://bit.ly/d50SIq

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Pune community
by Mandar Kulkarni 16 Sep '11

16 Sep '11

Dear All, This to formally communicate to all that Pune wikipedians are withdrawing from the co-hosting of the Conference due to the differences came in Mumbai and Pune communities and many other unresolved issues. For your information pls. With Regards, Mandar V. Kulkarni

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Internationalisation bug triage notes
by Siebrand Mazeland (WMF) 15 Sep '11

15 Sep '11

Please find below the notes for the internationalisation triage bug triage held on Wednesday, September 14, 13:00UTC in #wikimedia-dev on Freenode IRC. 9 people participated in the triage. Two of the participants were new to MediaWiki. I'm very happy that the triage attracted new potential MediaWiki developers! The triage was to have have two sections, each taking about 30 minutes. We ended up with a "first half" of about 55 minutes and a second half Of about 20 minutes. Next week's triage is on WikiBooks http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/Triage == Message documentation and message related coding == https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16026 -- MediaWiki:Revision-info should accept wikimarkup * Volunteered by Amir. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16111 -- MediaWiki:Cascadeprotected and MediaWiki:Cascadedprotectedwarning should take the same parameters * Volunteered by Amir. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16175 -- Clean up the rendering of messages displayed at the top of the edit window * Volunteered by Amir. May be a difficult one, as these messages are used a lot in Wikimedia projects. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17148 -- The warning about editing a semi-protected page can display an irrelevant edit summary * Volunteered by Brian Wolff https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17865 -- Mismatched input syntax for Cite error messages * Some discussion. Cite is seen as scary! No one to take this yet. Please give this some TLC. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28557 -- Message documentation for Extension:AddMediaWizard needed * Volunteered by Blucal. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25608 -- MediaWiki:Fundraiserstats-tab-ytd should not contain (USD) * Goes to fundraising triage. A concern was voiced that i18n does not appear to get the attention it needs. The Localisation team will get in contact with the fundraising developers when they are in San Francisco in two weeks to discuss.. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29357 -- CategoryTree should have built-in localizable support for pretty Categorytree-member-num * Amir volunteered for this. Brian is prepared to help him out where needed. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29927 -- CentralAuth using wrong Language on Special:MergeAccount 123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012 * Akshayagarwal volunteered for this, and has committed changes in <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/97168> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30729 -- Not all numbers are localised in AbuseFilter * srikanthlogic has volunteered for this with Brian Wolff as mentor. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29170 -- [[MediaWiki:Enotif body]] needs GENDER support * Some discussion, but nothing final. == Harder issues and discussion == https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28428 -- Allow saving pages with LRM and RLM in titles, showing a warning and requiring a user right https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28411 -- titles of articles with LTR titles in RTL wikis may be displayed incorrectly in categories and special pages * It looks like a schema change is not needed, and that the page_props table can and should be used. Use batches where needed; integrate that in Linker, LinkBatch and probably Title as well. Ambitious according to Roan. Roan agrees that having displaytitle as a page_ field makes more sense *conceptually*. In practice, he prefers page_props because that avoids a schema change and is still cheap. Niklas indicated the discussion gave him ideas on how to work towards resolving these issues. The other announced issues were not discussed. Thanks to everyone participating. Looking forward to the results! -- Siebrand Mazeland Product Manager Localisation Wikimedia Foundation M: +31 6 50 69 1239 Skype: siebrand

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Voting for Steward Elections is underway
by Jyothis E 15 Sep '11

15 Sep '11

Hello, Please note that voting for the second steward elections for 2011 has started in metawiki<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/elections_2011-2>. Please read the candidate statements, Q&A and cast your vote at the earliest. Thanks. Regards, Jyothis. My Malayalam Wikipedia page <http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jyothis> Metawiki page <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jyothis> My toolserver tools <http://toolserver.org/~jyothis>

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social media to use
by Nagarjuna G 15 Sep '11

15 Sep '11

In the recent announcement about the wikimedia conference I saw this: * Social Media Facebook and Linkedin event pages, and official Twitter account *Mediawiki as a media technology does not belong there. It is not the outcome and end that this group should be interested in, but also means of getting there. I personally think we should encourage and use the free software alternatives like identi.ca, diaspora so that the event takes an opportunity to promote these media which protects user's freedom. By linking your account to other facebook or twitter followers to identi.caaccount you will help tell the world that microblogging can be done with free software as well and your event supports/sponsors identi.ca. I do hope the mediawiki conference supports free social media and uses this occasion to spread this message among the wikimedians. -- GN

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On creating an Indian Wikisource
by Gautam John 15 Sep '11

15 Sep '11

So here's a question - given that there is much content that is out of copyright in India but not necessarily in other parts of the world, is there any sense in looking to create an Indian Wikisource for content that is out of copyright here? Thank you. Best, Gautam ________ http://blog.prathambooks.org/p/social-media.html

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Wiki Wildlife Bristol - interesting event idea
by Pradeep Mohandas 14 Sep '11

14 Sep '11

hi, Saw this on twitter, from Mike Peel, the Wiki Wildlife Bristol - http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Wildlife_Bristol. Given the situation of wild life awareness in India, I think it might be a great idea to do something like this in India. People like Ashwin (User:AshLin) and his friend, User:Shyamal may be interested in taking a lead? warm regards, Pradeep -- Pradeep Mohandas How Pradeep uses email - http://goo.gl/6v1I9

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Report on First Wiki Academy organised by Wikimedia Chapter
by Arjuna Rao Chavala 14 Sep '11

14 Sep '11

Friends, I am happy to share the report on the first Wiki Academy organised by Wikimedia Chapter. http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wiki_Academy/Department_of_Public_Libraries,_Banga… Please spread the word around and help in identifying other institutions for co-hosting future events Chapter will be happy to send the brochures and provide any other assistance. Cheers Arjun

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Narayam is live
by Gerard Meijssen 14 Sep '11

14 Sep '11

Hoi, I am really happy that Narayam, the extension that provides you with input methods for your languages is live for some of them on some of the projects. Have a look and let us know how you like it. Thanks, GerardM 'wmgUseNarayam' => array( 'default' => false, 'testwiki' => true, 'mlwikiquote' => true, 'mlwikibooks' => true, 'mlwiktionary' => true, 'mlwikisource' => true, 'mlwiki' => true, 'tawikibooks' => true, 'tawikisource' => true, 'tawiktionary' => true, 'sawiki' => true, 'sawikibooks' => true, 'sawikisource' => true, 'sawiktionary' => true,

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Err ... Stuff that exists, citations, and problems that seem a few but are slowly cropping up in number ...
by Srikanth Ramakrishnan 14 Sep '11

14 Sep '11

Dear All, I have had this problem for over two years and I belive that this problem is unseen in most cases and will remain so untill addressed. There are many cases where incorrect facts are shown with references. This is purely due to lack of sources. I noticed this back in 2009 when I found that according to all available sources, the only concrete trunk road in India is the Mumbai Pune Expressway. This I know is not true. The East Coast Arm of the Golden Quadrilateral has a few concrete sections, confirmed with photographs on the websites of the National Highways Authority of India and the Nagarjuna Construction Company. Apart from this, I personally have seen that the Hubli Belgaum Toll Road Private Limited, Pune Satara Toll Road are also made of concrete. Now since I couldn't use these pictures as sources, mainly due to copyright issues and that I wasn't into photographs at that time, I ignored it. Recently I thought I could try and use the Oral Citations on this little issue and see, but after a chat with Achal yesterday I dropped the idea as it would need to be authoritative or in short I'd need a government official to talk. This as I've experienced earlier, isn't an easy task. Therefore, I place a request here for people to suggest something, as this problem is rising unchecked ... -- Sent from my mobile device Regards, ME. Wear a Lungi, Support the Movement My infrastructure invasion... plus other images too.. on Wikimedia Commons. http://bit.ly/d50SIq

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