WikimediaIndia-l March 2012

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Please add your name to the Geographical List of Indian Wikipedians
by Ashwin Baindur 31 Jul '18

31 Jul '18

Hello friends, This is a link I recommend you to bookmark. http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Geographical_distribution_of_Indian_Wikipedians This list is useful for outreach & also whenever someone needs Wiki-Help in a particular city. It would be great if Wikipedians could update this list.:) We have the following completely unrepresented states/UTs: * Andaman & Nicobar Islands * Arunachal Pradesh * Assam * Chandigarh * Chhattisgarh * Dadra, Nagar & Haveli * Daman & Diu * Goa * Himachal Pradesh * Jammu & Kashmir * Jharkhand (AngPradesh is in Mumbai) * Lakshadweep * Manipur * Meghalaya * Mizoram * Puducherry * Punjab (oye, ye ki hoya!) * Nagaland * Uttar Pradesh * Uttarakhand Okay, all you admins, please update your status (Mikey my boy, that means you too)! Abroad, we dont have Indic Wikipedians listed for: * Africa * Australia * Asia (other than India) * Middle East * North America * South America Unless you would like to stay off list, of course that's acceptable too. May I also request Tinu / list admins to please forward it all the Indic language & city Wikimedia lists. We need this resource to be as comprehensible as possible. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur ------------------------------------------------------

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Mobile sites of Indic Wikipedias
by Srikanth Lakshmanan 28 Feb '13

28 Feb '13

Hi all, Needless to repeat the <India-Indic-Mobile-Growth> story. But I was surprised even with that, many Indic wikipedias do not have a mobile site(or some have gone dead since they failed to update for MobileFrontend[1] changes), even the ones that had weren't very much usable. Lets not cite, mobile phones do not have fonts, no one uses Indic on mobile, we all know lot of people do use Opera-mini with complex script rendering support. * Please visit <yourlanguage>.m.wikpedia.org and see if there is a page. If it has nothing but 'search, license, and action control' links, here[2] are the steps that an admin need to do to get a mobile site running with content. If you have problem in doing those, come and ask at #wikimedia-tech (or #mediawiki {?}). * When I visited Tamil wikipedia mobile site, I was restricted to content that was put on mainpage, the links in it. Since my Symbian phone doesnt have Indic input system, I cant search anything. The solution to this is to have a list of articles in alphabetical order *and* display it in mobile front page, like Assamese wikipedians have done[3]. Many Indic wikis have this template, but few show it on main page. This might be incredibly useful on mobile versions. More thoughts on improving Mobile sites welcome :) Mobile sites are important since, 1. Lot of people will be using this. 2. The Wikipedia app uses this(?) [Correct me if am wrong] [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MobileFrontend [2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Projects/Mobile_Gateway#Mobile_homepa… [3] http://as.m.wikipedia.org/ -- Regards Srikanth.L

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Fwd: [Wikikn-l (kannada wikipedia)] Global Vandalism through IP 212.121.219.1 on Indian territory info
by Harish 30 Dec '12

30 Dec '12

This has been observed and reverted in Kannada wikipedia. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Tejas jain <teju2friends(a)gmail.com> Date: 2012/2/2 Subject: [Wikikn-l (kannada wikipedia)] Global Vandalism through IP 212.121.219.1 on Indian territory info To: wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, wikikn-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Some one has done global vandalism through IP 212.121.219.1< http://toolserver.org/%7Eluxo/contributions/contributions.php?user=212.121.… >on Indian territory info. User's edit list: http://toolserver.org/~luxo/contributions/contributions.php?user=212.121.21… Arunachal pradesh <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arunachal_Pradesh> and Jammu_and_Kashmir <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jammu_and_Kashmir> are hatched as disputed. Was there any discussion before these changes? All the edits on Kannada wiki <http://kn.wikipedia.org/> have been reverted because of following reasons, 1. No discussion prior to the changes 2. No references were made 3. Changes done anonymously 4. No change log message 5. No such changes are done on English wiki If it is sure case of vandalism, changes have to be reverted globally. Thanks, Tejas jain < http://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%B8%E0%B2%A6%E0%B2%B8%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%AF:… > _______________________________________________ Wikikn-l mailing list Wikikn-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikikn-l -- Harish 9740069624

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Android ICS support for Tamil and Indic languages
by Ravishankar 09 Jul '12

09 Jul '12

Hi, I did some testing on how the recently released Android ICS supports Indic languages. *Tamil, Bengali, Marathi and Hindi are the only Indian languages supported for now*. Oh ya, it can also show English well without a problem ;) You can view the findings in details at http://microblog.ravidreams.net/2011/12/android-ics-support-for-tamil-indic… Screen shots with description can be found at https://picasaweb.google.com/115896376016313561916/AndroidICSSupportForIndi… I could not view the web fonts in Kannada, Telugu Wikipedias as Gerard has indicated at http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2011/12/new-android.html Please let me know if I have to configure anything. One major To Do for all Indic Wiki projects: The mobile version homepage of most of the Indic Wikipedias is not showing anything except the search box. Please configure this well. You can see ta.m.wikipedia.org for example. Ravi

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Experimenting with Virtual Outreach
by Nitika 09 Jul '12

09 Jul '12

Hi Folks, I was thinking of experimenting conducting online outreach. I want to try out if we can do an effective outreach event using a google+ (video) hangout. Virtual outreach has a number of advantages: * No investment of time/effort/cost in travel * Personal attention to each participant (because of individual video/screenshare facilities.) * No complications of no laptops available at the venue or a limit on creating user names from a single IP address during the event * Lower dependency on institutions/college fests to organize an event for us. * Not limited by physical presence. Sitting in Kanyakumari, one can conduct outreach for interested folks in Kashmir! This is just a trial to test if online outreach is effective, doable and manageable. This could be one of the ways forward! (Potentially, we could have more community members doing more events with a more diverse audience.) I'm really excited. Fingers crossed! Thanks Nitika

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Ads Injected into Wikipedia?
by Aditya Sengupta 18 May '12

18 May '12

A friend got in touch with me about this. He is currently seeing advertisements on Wikipedia pages (on all pages except the home page). Here is a link to a screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/dhKyR.jpg These advertisements were not visible to him when I asked him to check through the secure WM server. These advertisements are also not visible to him on any other web page. To the bottom right of each ad, there is some text that says, "ads not by this site". I've taken a quick look through the page source he forwarded, nothing looks untoward. His right-click menu does not appear when he right-clicks on the ad. He is based out of Mumbai and ISP is "Tata Teleservices Maharashtra Ltd". His IP address is 114.143.88.193 (or was, while he accessed this page; I've since had him change his IP address since I'm sharing this one). I'm not sure if this issue is restricted to Mumbai; since the IP address shows up in Pune when I try to geolocate it (though I understand this is fairly common). The link he is directed to when he clicks the ad is this: http://www.inkfruit.com/combo-landing?utm_source=CMP1002Combo&utm_medium=CP…. I'm adding this here and copying the founder of Inkfruit since the campaign data in the URL parameters may help identify the problem (also, I'm not sure if Inkfruit is aware of this campaign). I've copied my friend here in case there are further questions he could help answer. Could this be a case of DPI by his ISP, or simply malware on his machine? If it were the former, what would be the legal status of the issue?

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Tamil Wiki Media Contest -- Results
by Srikanth Lakshmanan 05 Apr '12

05 Apr '12

Hi all, We are happy to announce the results of Tamil Wiki Media Contest[1]. The competition was brutal.(Hence the mild delay in announcing results) Thousands of high quality files were uploaded for the contest. In order to award prizes to maximum no of entries/contestants as possible, we have increased the number of prizes. The files that made it to the final round but didn't win ultimately were very very close to those that actually won (in marks basis). Of those the top 100 can be viewed here[2] A detailed report and blog post will be ready by next week. Thanks for your support. [1] http://tawp.in/r/33y1 [2] http://tawp.in/r/33zx -- Coordinators, TWMC ( http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Tamil_Wikimedians/TamilWiki_Media_Con… )

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Chennai Unofficial Wikimedia Hackathon Report
by Yuvi Panda 03 Apr '12

03 Apr '12

The Chennai Unofficial Wikimedia Hackathon Report Apologies for the delayed email. Work ate me. TL;DR: 13 completed hacks, including 2 core mediawiki patches, 3 tawiki userscript updates and 2 new deployed tools. It was super awesome and super productive! The 'Unofficial' Chennai Wikimedia Hackathon(http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Chennai_Hackathon_March_2012) happened on Saturday, March 17 2012 at the Thoughtworks office in Chennai. It was a one day, 8 hour event focusing on getting people together to hack on stuff related to all Wikimedia projects - not just Mediawiki patches. The event started with us sailing past security reasonably easily, and getting setup with internet without a glitch. People trickled in and soon enough we had 21 people in there. Since this was a pure hackathon, there were no explicit tutorials or presentations. As people came in, we asked them what technologies/fields they are familiar with, and picked out an idea for them to work on from the Ideas List (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Chennai_Hackathon_March_2012/Ideas). This took care of the biggest problem with hackathons with new people - half the day spent on figuring out what to work on, and when found, it is completely outside the domain of expertise of the people hacking on the idea. Talking together with them fast to pick an idea within 5 minutes that they can complete in the day fixed this problem and made sure people can concentrate on coding for the rest of the day. People started hacking, and just before lunch we made people come up and tell us what they were working on. We then broke for lunch and usual socialization happened over McDonalds burgers and Saravana Bhavan dosas. Hacking started soon after, and people were concentrating on getting their hacks done before the demo time. And we did have quite a few demos! Demos ===== Here's a short description of each of the demos, written purely in the order in which they were presented: 1. Wikiquotes via SMS By: @MadhuVishy and @YesKarthik What it does: Send a person name to a particular number, and you'll keep getting back quotes from that person. Works in similar semi-automated fashion as the DYKBot. Built on AppEngine + Python. Status: Deployed live! Send SMS '@wikiquote Gandhi' to 9243342000 to test it out! Has limited data right now, however. --- 2. API to Rotate Images (Mediawiki Core Patch) By: Vivek What it does: Adds an API method that can arbitrarily rotate images. Think of this as first step towards being able to rotate any image in commons with a single button instantly, without having to wait for a bot. Patch was attached to https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/33186. Status: It was reviewed on that day itself (Thanks Reedy!). Vivek is now figuring out how to modify his patch so that it would be accepted into Mediawiki core. Vivek is also applying to work with Mediawiki for GSoC, so we will hopefully get a long term contributor :) --- 3. Find list of unique Tamil words in tawiki By: Shrinivasan T What it does: It took the entire tamil wikipedia dump and extracted all unique words out of it. About 1.3 million unique tamil words were extracted. Has multiple applications, including a tamil spell checker. Status: Code and the dataset live on github: https://github.com/tshrinivasan/tamil-wikipedia-word-list --- 4. Program to help record pronunciations for words in tawikt What it does: Simple python program that gives you a word, asks you to pronounce it and then uploads it to commons for being used in Wiktionary. Makes the process much more streamlined and faster. Status: Code available at: https://github.com/tshrinivasan/voice-recorder-for-tawictionary. Preliminary testing with his friends shows that easy to record 500 words in half an hour. Is currently blocked on figuring out a way to properly upload to commons --- 5. Translation of Gadgets/UserScripts to tawiki By: SuryaPrakash [[:ta:பயனர்:Surya_Prakash.S.A.]] What he did: Surya spent the day translating two gadgets into Tamil, so they can be used on tawiki. First is the 'Prove It' Reference addition tool (http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediawiki:Gadget-ProveIt.js). The second one was the 'Speed Reader' extension that formats content into multiple columns for faster scanning (http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediawiki:Gadget-TwoColumn.js). Last I checked, these are available for anyone with only tamil knowledge to use, so yay! (He also tried to localize Twinkle for Tamil, couldn't because of issues with the laptop he was using. --- 6. Structured database search over Wikipedia By: Ashwanth What it does: Built a tool that combined DBPedia and Wikipedia to allow you to search in a semantic way. We almost descended into madness with people searching for movies with Kamal and movies with Rajni (both provided accurate results, btw). Amazing search tool that made it super easy to query information in a natural way. Status: The code is available at https://github.com/ashwanthkumar/structured-wiki-search. Definitely would be awesome to see this deployed somewhere, so would be great if the community could come up with specific ideas on how to make this a specific cool tool. --- 7. Photo upload to commons by Email By: Ganesh What it does: Started with building a tool that will let you email a particular address with pictures + metadata in the body of the page, and it will be uploaded to commons. This was for the benefit of people with older outdated phones *cough*Logic*cough* who would like to use their phone's camera to contribute to commons, but can not due to technical limitations. Status: He wasn't able to get that to work during the hackathon - too many technical issues cropped up. However, he's *very* definitely interested in setting it up, and has made progress towards it. I hope someone from the community (perhaps people doing WLM?) should be able to get in touch with him to see if this tool could be developed further with a specific goal in mind. --- 8. Lightweight offline Wiki reader By: Feroze What it does: There is a project called qvido (http://projects.qi-hardware.com/index.php/p/qvido/) which was a 'lightweight' offline Wiki reader (compared to Kiwix, which is heavier). It has been abandoned for a while, however. Feroze took the time to revive the project, figure out how to build it (and wrote build instructions!) and also fixed a bug so that it can be used to demo showing offline Wiki navigation. He was able to demo it showing the Odiya Wikipedia dump offline, with working link navigation. Status: There exists a git repo (https://github.com/feroze/qvido) with the code + the build instructions. I hope that people interested in offline projects check this out and see if it can be made useful, and take this forward. --- 9. Patches to AssessmentBar By: gsathya What it does: AssessmentBar is a small widget/tool I'm building to make WP India assessments easier (at the request of User:AshLin. Stay tuned for an announcement in the next few days). Sathya spent time making the backend for it more scalable, so the same server can support multiple projects and concurrent users in a better way. Before that he was contemplating setting up a hidden Tor node for Wikipedia (he's a Tor core contributor) and then playing with data visualizations with WP data. Status: There is a pull request (https://github.com/yuvipanda/MadamHut/pull/2) that I need to merge :) --- 10. Parsing Movie data into a database By: Arunmozhi (Tecoholic) and Lavanya What it does: It scrapes the infoboxes of all movies from whatever category you give it and stores this into a database. This is harder than it sounds because parsing wikitext is similar to beating yourself up repeatedly in the head with a large trout. They managed to figure out a nice way to extract information from all Indian movie pages, and put it in a database for programmatic easy access later. Status: I've asked them to put the code up publicly somewhere, and since I believe Tecoholic is in this mailing list, he'll reply with the link :) These kinds of data scraping can be used to build very nice tools that show off how much information Wikipedia has, and perhaps also help people contribute back by editing information for their favorite movies. I hope the community comes up with a nice idea to utilize this, and takes this project forward to its ultimate destiny: A super sexy IMDB type site for Indian Movies with data sourced from Wikipedia (I can dream :D) --- 11. Random Good WP India article tool By: Shakti and Sharath What it does: It is a simple tool that shows you one B, A, GA or FA article every time you go there. The idea is to provide a usable service for people who want to accumulate lots of knowledge by randomly reading stuff, but only want good stuff (so stubs, etc are filtered out (unlike Special:Random)). I'll also note that neither of them had worked with any web service before the hackathon, nor with JSON, nor with the mediawiki API, yet were able to build and deploy this tool within the day. /me gives a virtual imaginary barnstar to either of them Status: It is currently deployed at http://srik.me/WPIndia. Everytime you hit that link, you'll get an article about India that the community has deemed 'good'. The source code is available (https://github.com/saki92/category-based-search). They are eager to do more hacks such as these, and I'm hoping that the community will find enough technical cool things for these enthusiastic volunteers to work on --- 12. Fix bugs on tawiki ShortURL gadget By: Bharath What it does: The short url service used in tawiki (tawp.in) is shown in the wiki via a gadget. It is not the most user friendly gadget - you need to right click and select copy. Bharath looked for a solution by which you could click it and it would copy to the clipboard, but did not find any that would work without flash. Hence he abandoned that and started figuring out easier ways of making that happen. He also fixed several bugs in the implementation of the gadget, and I expect it to get deployed soonish. Thanks to SrikanthLogic for helping him through the process. Status: Code is available at http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%AF%E0%AE%A9%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%8D:…. He's still fixing things on the script. If the community needs people to come fix up their user scripts/gadgets, Bharath would be a willing (and awesome!) candidate! --- 13. Add 'My Uploads' to top bar along with My Contributions, etc (Mediawiki Core Patch) By: SrikanthLogic What it does: Not satisfied with being the organizer of the hackathon, Srikanth wanted to flex his programming muscles and spent time fixing a bug in core mediawiki (https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30915). He spent a while digging around the proper way to do this, and managed to make a proper patch! Status: It has been committed in gerrit (currently unable to find a link). Should be merged in soon. Yay! Honorable Mentions =================== 1. WikiPronouncer By: Russel Nickson What it was supposed to do: Exactly like Shrini's tool to record word pronunciations and upload to commons, but written for Android so people could add prononciations on the go. Status: Code is available at https://github.com/russelnickson/pronouncer. He ran into technical issues with Android setup (it stops working completely if you look at it the wrong way), and was unable to complete this. I think this would still be a very useful tool, and hope someone from the community steps up to work with Russel and get this finished. --- 2. Wiktionary cross lingual statistics By: PranavRC What it was supposed to do: It was a statistical tool that generated statistics about how many words overlap between all indic languages in Wiktionary (as measured by interwiki links). Status: The code has been written (I've requested the author to put it up publicly, will update list when it is). It, however, requires a lot of time to be run. So validation by the community that such stats would be useful would, IMO, definitely give Pranav the impetus to finish it up and show us the pretty graphs :) So, in all, 13 demos were produced (+ 2 near misses). I think we can call this one a success, no? :) Next Steps ========== Where do we go from here? Random thoughts: 1. Geek retention - this is reasonably easy. If we keep feeding hackers interesting problems that affect a lot of people, they'll keep helping us out. Is it possible to have some sort of a 'tools required' or 'hacks required' or 'gadgets required' page/queue someplace where we can always direct hackers looking for interesting problems to? IMO Wikipedia is full of interesting technical problems, so this *should* be feasible. 2. Follow ups - this time, I am able to do this personally (small enough group). Clearly this will not scale. Do we have ideas/methods for following up with these people so that they stay with us? 3. More of these? This was pretty much a 'zero cost' event - stickers were the only 'cost'. A lot of places around the country would love to have their space used for a hackathon of sorts. Should we do more of these kind of 'Unofficial' hackathons? Thanks due (in random order) ============================ 1. Thoughtworks/BalajiDamodaran: He graciously hosted us at Thoughtworks. The biggest challenge for any hackathon is to find a nice place which understands what hackathons are, and provides what is considered the lifeblood of a hackathon - working WiFi. Balaji (@openbala) was incredibly awesome, and this entire thing would've not been possible at all without him and ThoughtWorks. 2. Dorai Thodla: He helped popularize the hackathon among the Chennai Geeks crowd, and acted as a sounding board at various important times. He also connected us with @openbala and enabled us to get the venue. Thanks! 3. Srikanth Lakshmanan: The hackathon was his idea, and he made sure it was executed in a nice way. He was the official 'organizer', and made sure that all logistics were taken care of. Once the event started, he was very helpful in helping people technically and in picking up ideas, while also hacking on his own patch. This event was, in essence, organized and run by him. He took an overnight trip from Hyderabad straight out of office just for this. Thanks for making this possible! 4. Shrini (aka the relentless forwarder): This event wouldn't have been as much a success without him either. Evangelism across multiple lists, adding a lot of ideas that could be done, helping the people there out technically at all times and writing two really good hacks - Thank you! I'm glad we get to keep you :) 5. Subhashish Panighrahi: For sending us stickers :D (And who all is involved in that logistical process too!) Most of all, this event was a success because of the quality and dedication of the people who turned up, giving up their Saturdays. Hope everyone who turned up had a nice time :) I am personally in touch with most of them, and I also have their email address, phone number *and* permission to contact them again. If anyone here thinks that they liked one of the hacks and want to take it further, please contact me (User:Yuvipanda on Mediawiki.org or yuvipanda(a)gmail.com) and I'll get you people in touch. If there is a more accepted, standard way of handling this type of private information, please let me know as well! Thanks! - Yuvi Panda T http://yuvi.in

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India Programs-Fortnightly IRC: Thursday March 15th @ 9pm IST (Indic Languages) & Thursday March 29th @9pm IST (Outreach & Communication) (#wikimedia-office)
by Hisham 02 Apr '12

02 Apr '12

Hi Folks One of the essential things that India Program needs to constantly work out is keeping the community informed of the work that we are doing - so that this work is clearer but also to help cross-pollinate ideas amongst a wider set of community members who might not have been engaged on specific village pump / talk page discussion or involved in particular activities (e.g. outreach events) or wikiprojects. We used to have a monthly IRC with the community and India Program. (For those who are not familiar with IRC, it is an Internet messaging system similar to a regular chat room. It's very simple to use and you can join in by clicking on the following link: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#wikimedia-office.) I have been remiss in conducting these for the past few months - and I'd like to make amends by restarting, with a couple of modifications. a) I'd like to propose fortnightly instead of monthly. (I was wary of doing it any more frequently than monthly earlier because I didn't know if there would be enough on the plate to discuss. I have changed my mind now - because there is too much to discuss to cover in a single monthly session.) I'd like to propose that we do it in the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of every month at 9pm IST (which is GMT + 0530) - THOUGH NOT THIS MONTH - BECAUSE I HAVE MISSED THE TIMELINE. Just for March, we will do it on March 15th and March 29th (both at 9pm IST which is GMT + 0530) b) I'd like to propose that we do it focussed on specific work streams instead of general. The reason I say this is that - as with many community meet-ups, folks will give time to attend a meet-up or participate in an IRC only if there is a topic of relevance to them. To that extent, we could do one IRC on Indic languages and one on Outreach & Communications. I'd start both the IRCs with a re-cap of India Programs activities for the fortnight (or so) prior to the IRC and forward from the IRC - and then we could talk about either Indic langauges or Outreach & Communications. The March 15th one will be focussed on Indic Languages and the one on March 29th will be on Outreach & Communications. Having said that, there is quite a bit of overlap on these topics - so feel free to join both. The more the merrier! Please do also invite anyone who is interested to know more about India Program or - even more importantly - interact with fellow Wikimedians interested in a particular activity to join in. (It's quite a lot of of fun {citation required} - and i've heard a rumour {citation required} that there was actually a romance that started on one of the IRCs...) As always, the logs will be put up on meta for the benefit of those who can't attend and for the record. I'll send a reminder on the day of the session and one 30 minutes before the session. Thanks hisham

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HighBeam Research
by Srikanth Ramakrishnan 01 Apr '12

01 Apr '12

Not sure if everyone knows this: From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:HighBeam *HighBeam Research <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HighBeam_Research>* is an online, paid search engine for newspapers, magazines, academic journals, newswires, trade magazines and encyclopedias. The site has access to over 80 million articles from 6,500 publications, most of which are not available for free elsewhere on the internet. Thousands of new articles are added daily, archives date back over 25 years including trade journal, newspaper articles, and peer-reviewed journals covering a wide range of subjects and industries; and there are tools for finding, saving, organizing, and sharing information as documents. Aside from a free 7-day trial (credit card required), access to HighBeam costs $30 per month or $200 per year for the first year and $300 for subsequent years. As of March 13, 2012 HighBeam has generouslly agreed to give free, full-access 1-year accounts for Wikipedia editors to use, at the discretion of the community. HighBeam is excited about this and does not expect there to be a shortage of these free, 1-year accounts; however, editors will have to have a 1 year-old account and 1000 edits in order to qualify for one. At the end of 1 year, editors who found the resource useful can simply re-apply. The current plan, although up for discussion, is for sign-ups for the accounts to begin on Monday April 2 at 10am EST and remain open until the following Monday; if there are more editors than accounts, to assign them randomly; if a surplus of accounts remain available, to re-open the sign-up page for regular additions. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan.

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