Dear Wikipedians outside India,
I'm writing this specifically to reach out to NRIs / PIOs / Indic language
wikipedians outside India who might be on this mailing list.
It would be a great idea if we could encourage meet-ups and maybe even
outreach sessions in the many cities where we have existing Indian
wikipedians. We currently don't have a comprehensive list and I'm sharing
this that was started a few months ago and a request to update it
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Geographical_distribution_of_Indian_Wikipedians
It will help you folks to know about other Wikipedians in your cities and
you can form Wiki-communities. We find this problem so much in India where
sometimes Wikipedians live on the same street but don't know each other. I
can imagine that it will be very similar abroad also.
Many thanks
Tinu Cherian
P.S. Due to heavy spam attacks, editing on wiki.wikimedia.in is enabled
only for email-confirmed users. Anyone is free to create a username on this
public wiki of Wikimedia India. Creating of the
username<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&type=signup>and
confirming the email address should take less than 10 sec only :)
hi,
I know that there are a few OpenStreetMappers on this list or you may know
of some. Whilst the discussion on the basic monument list is still going
on, just wanted to let you guys know and also see if there's a possibility
of similar collaboration in India.
warm regards,
User:Prad2609 on Wikipedia
pradx on OpenStreetMap
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From: Cristian Consonni <kikkocristian(a)gmail.com>
Date: 21 March 2012 22:00
Subject: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Development of OSM-WLM integration tools
To: wikilovesmonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Dear all,
as you may have heard Wikimedia Italia is working hard to build
database list since there are many different sources (some regions
have lists, some others don't, attributes are different, etc.) and
there are many problems around the copyright status and openness
(or,better, the closeness) of such data. So we are going to use data
from Open Street Map, we have already a list of 30k+ monuments.
So we are looking forward to boost the integration between WLM and
OSM, being our primary source of data. Wikimedia Italia is hiring a
developer to develop a tool (developed starting from
amenity-editor[1][2]) which enable user to easily insert monuments in
an OSM map adding the required (meta)data. We are in contact with some
Italian members of OSM Foundation to facilitate the process.
Now, the topic is really a hot one, in fact there are many people
working on it, we would like to coordinate our efforts in this
direction, as far as we know:
* User:Kolossos at de.wiki is working on Wikipedia-world[3a], this is
a separate project but I've informed him about what's going on[3b]
* User:Multichill is working on this map[4] (I have also contacted him[4b])
* WM AT and WM CH are supporting (or going to support), Alex Wagner.
I'm looking for more info about what he's doing.
So, we would like to help projects which are already runing and share
what we are going to do (we would like to avoid the duplication of
effort), so any feedback is welcome.
Cristian
[1]http://ae.osmsurround.org/ae/index
[2]https://github.com/grundid/amenity-editor
[3a]http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilfe:OpenStreetMap/en
[3b]http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer_Diskussion:Kolossos#Wikipedia-Word
[4a]http://toolserver.org/~erfgoed/map/
[4b]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Multichill#Integration_between_OSM_a…
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Hoi,
At translatewiki.net we installed the latest release of the Lohit fonts
today. Among several improvements there are two things that stand out.
There are now two new fonts specific for Devanagari and they support
Marathi and Nepali. As you know certain characters are written differently
when used for these languages.
The Lohit Devanagari font does allow for the use of a local override but
this requires a browser who deals with this properly and a source where the
meta data explicitly states that the language is either Marathi or Nepali.
By providing a font that is hard wired to show the variations for Marathi
or Nepali a solution is provided that will always work.
Our plan is to test the new Lohit fonts on translatewiki.net this week and
have them go into production on Monday on all the WMF wikis with WebFonts
support.
Please test the Lohit fonts in your script and let us know as soon as
possible when there are any issues.
Thanks,
Gerard
http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2012/03/lohit-fonts-progress-to-release…
Hey all,
I was thinking maybe we can change the current invitation template code to
this one, User:Debastein/WP:India
Invite<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Debastein/WP:India_Invite>.
Basically, this would enable any user to give a custom message and sign
easily using the *{{WM-IN|message= |sign=}}* functions.
Also this would recognize the user name in the talk page and automatically
input it.
If we use this code, then even if someone uses the normal code,
{{WM-IN}}<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:WPIN-Invite>it would
recognize the user and leave the current default message just like
the current template and you can enter your signature afterwards, like it
is now.
What say? opinions? This one seems a bit more friendly to me.
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Hi,
This is a report on Symposium on Wikipedia and also on the launch of
Marathi Wikisource.
Sorry for the delay in sending the report. We were trying to get the
videos and some other URLs from the media. Somehow, the videos are
still not available and there is no point in waiting further. So, here
it is.
On the occasion of "Marathi Bhasha Divas” which was on 27th February,
a symposium on "Wikipedia" was conducted on 25th February. The program
was conducted by jointly by Journalism Department, Ranade Institute,
Pune University, Pune Union of Working Journalists along with Pune
Community of the Wikimedia India Chapter.
Aim of symposium: Wikipedia has emerged as a major source of authentic
information and its versions in different languages (including
Marathi) are also getting popular. Journalism students and journalists
should not remain only consumers of this huge and resourceful
information, but they should also contribute to it as writers and
editors. This symposium aims to acquaint the participants with various
aspects of Marathi Wikipedia and Marathi Wikisrot.
Marathi Wikisource (mr.wikisource.org) was also launched during the
event. Marathi community volunteers were working for launching the
Wikisource website for a long time. Well-known theatre and film
personality "Amol Palekar" was the "Chief Guest" for the program.
The event was organised in the auditorium of Pune Union of Working
Journalists at Patrakar Bhavan, Navi Peth, Pune. About 150 people
attended the same. Participants were mainly students of Journalism
and mass communication departments from various colleges under Pune
University, working journalists, students of some other departments
and a lot of media people and the active Wikipedians from Pune. The
program started at about 2:15 pm and ended at about 5:30 pm.
The program started with the welcome message by Dr. Ujjwala Barve who
is the Head of the department. Initial session on “Introduction to
Wikipedia” was done by Sudhanwa Jogalekar. He gave an overview of
Wikipedia, related projects and also talked about the India Chapter
activities. At the end of his session, there were some interesting
questions about the business model and funding of Wikipedia
activities.
Next session was done by Rahul Deshmukh who gave introduction to
Marathi Wikipedia. Rahul came from Mumbai just for this program!!! He
explained the journey so far and the road map ahead. His session was
also ended with some typical “Puneri” questions like why you do not
give various Government forms on wikipedia?
Futher to this, Mandar Kulkarni gave a talk on Marathi Wikisource. He
explained the concept of Marathi Wikisource in details and the
difference between Wikisource and Wikipedia. He also explained what
content can be added and what not.
This was followed by Launch of “Marathi Wikisrot” website by Amol Palekarji.
After the launch, Amol Palekar shared his thought on Wikipedia and
Wikisource. It was nice to know the views from a celebrity and how
they see the content about themselves on Wikipedia.
He also promised to help in adding the information regarding Marathi
Theature in Marathi Wikipedia and Marathi Wikisource. Marathi
theatre has a long history of about 150 years and this could be some
great project likely to come up soon!!
The last and most. important session was taken care by Mahitgar and he
took the audience through the various editing practices of Marathi
Wikipedia.. He also showed the article of Amol Palekar and tried to
edit the same in front of him. He also informed him that after the
announcement of the this program, many Wikipedians started editing
Amol Palekar’s article in Marathi and English Wikipedia and it has
taken fairly a good shape now.
This symposium has really helped to make the wikipedians come together
and share their views. It also gave a nice trigger for the journalism
students and also the working journalists to work on Wikipedia and
Wikisource.
The event was very well covered by Marathi print and electronic media.
Video coverage by SAAM TV channel was shown on 25th itself and
IBNLokmat channel gave coverage for almost all the day on 26 and also
partially on 27th.
News was published about the event in Daily Sakal, Maharashtra times
and some other papers too.
Here are some URLs for the pictures and media coverage.
Photos available here:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Marathi_Wikisrot_Launch
Recording of IBNLokmat channel here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvRjALxKwho
Coverage in Maharatratimes here:
http://maharashtratimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/12037016.cms
Coverage in Sakal here:
http://72.78.249.107/Sakal/26Feb2012/Normal/PuneCity/page3.htm
Coverage in Navashakti newspaper here: http://navshakti.co.in/?p=42780
A followup session was conducted in Ranade Institure on 10th March and
a few more hands on sessions are being planned in the coming weeks.
Overall, this was a very successful and well received event with a lot
of interest generated in journalists and media students. Some new
editors are also in the making from this event.
Warm regards,
-Wikipedians from Pune community
(with Rahul and his IITB team in Mumbai)
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Twitter: sudhanwa Check on FB, Linkedin for more.
Forwarding the GLAM meetup report!
Thanks for your call Arun! Those guys were really excited to see cross-city
Wikipedians calling.
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From: Abhishek Tiwari <erbdex(a)gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 11:28 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia-in-del] GLAM meetup 1: Crafts museum
To: wikimedia-in-del(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Dear rockstars,
I am thrilled to inform you about our successful GLAM meetup at the
National Crafts Museum, New Delhi on 18th March, Sunday.
We met at 2 p.m. and took a walk around all the galleries and exhibits.
We had a total of 14 participants including Subhashish and Noopur who are
existing volunteers.
By 3:30 we had looked around and spotted articles of interest like Gond
painting, Mandana painting, Shekhawati painting etcetera.
It was great to see a diversity in editing interests since there were 4
editors who actually worked particularly on Hindi articles.
More information regarding our activities can be found here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Delhi/Crafts_Museum_Meet
The Director of the museum, Dr Ruchira Ghose had allowed us to take
pictures in all galleries. This comes as a move to release permissions to
photograph art objects and upload them under CC licensing. From 3:30 to
5:30 we were editing different pages, most importantly learning how to
reference so that our edits are not deleted. The deputy director, Ms Nidhi
was also around to help us navigate through the place. We hope to continue
meeting at least once a month.
Now, that we've assigned specific galleries to groups of two, we're
expecting some pretty insightful research. Moreover, it will make more
sense to first focus and specialize in a particular kind of art. In
subsequent phases, we plan to shuffle it all up to get rich perspectives
from others on the subjects too.
Also, this would give us a flexibility of approaching the museum at times
best suited to *our* schedules.
I would love if some experienced editors interacted with us and guided our
efforts too!
Thank you,
Regards
-- abhishek
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Arts and Aesthetics
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Hello, Wikipedians in India,
This just struck me: There's a very easy way to contribute to the
Wikipedia in your language and to your language in general, and a lot
of people are probably not aware of it.
Here it is: Modern web browsers like Firefox and Google Chrome allow
you to check the spelling while you type. An important thing that a
lot of people don't realize is that it works not just in English, but
in many other languages, too.
If you use Firefox on Windows, go to this page:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/language-tools/
Find the spelling dictionary for your language in the list. Most major
languages of India already appear there. Some important languages,
like Kannada and Telugu are not there yet; i'm working on getting them
there.
To make it work:
1. Click "Install Dictionary" and follow the instructions.
2. Restart Firefox.
3. Open some article in the Wikipedia in your language for editing.
4. Right-click in the editing area.
5. Make sure that "Check spelling" is checked.
6. Right-click again. Go to "Languages" and make sure that your
language is checked.
Now check: Does the spell checking work as you would expect?
Does it mark incorrect words in red?
If you right-click words in red, does it offer sensible corrections?
If all works well, you'll be able to easily fix spelling and grammar
errors in the Wikipedia in your language. It is an easy way to
contribute to the Wikipedia in your language, because usually you can
improve the spelling of articles even without knowing much about the
subject of the article.
It is also possible that the dictionary is buggy or has missing words
and marks correct words in red. If this happens, please write to me
and i'll do my best to report these words to the maintainer of the
dictionary, so that in the next version of the dictionary they will be
checked correctly. (Let me say this again: Please feel free to write
to me about technical problems in support for your language. I don't
know any Indic language well, but i'm sure that i'll be able to help
nevertheless.)
If you don't use Firefox, you should try it:
http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all.html
(There's a good chance that there's a version in your language!)
If you use Firefox on Linux or Mac, a spelling dictionary for your
language is supposed to be already installed if you installed a
language pack for your language in the operating system. If you are
not sure how to do it or if it doesn't work as you expect, please
write to me.
Spell checking is supposed to work in Google Chrome, too, but it
supports less languages and i also found some bugs in its spelling
functionality. You are still welcome to try it: go to Preferences
(wrench) -> Under the hood -> Languages and Spell-checker settings,
and then add your language.
I might be wrong, but i don't think that you can install custom
spelling dictionaries in Microsoft Internet Explorer. If i'm wrong,
please correct me; if i'm right, then well, that's another reason to
try Firefox or Chrome :)
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Konarak Ratnakar | kondi
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 07:18:18 +0000
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From: sushant_savla(a)rediffmail.com
Subject: [Wikipedia-gu] Gujarati Source completes 1000 articles
Dear All,
We are happy to inform you all that our wiki source has completed its first goal of completing 1000 articles....
There is still long way to go...
Now our second aim... Completion of First Book on Wiki Source!
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