Hello,
We just enabled a new beta version of the Punjabi Gurnukhi
transliteration keyboard layout in translatewiki.net:
http://translatewiki.net/wiki/User:Amire80/narayam-pa
What's new?
* Full documentation! So you won't have to wonder how to type every letter.
* Some bugs were fixed, thanks to reports from testers.
* All Unicode Gurnukhi characters are supposed to be supported.
Please, if you know Punjabi, go to
http://translatewiki.net/wiki/User:Amire80/narayam-pa and test whether
you can type comfortably.
If you know Punjabi, but you find that the keyboard is not convenient,
that some letters are missing or that the documentation is incomplete,
unclear or wrong, please let me know.
We want to enable this keyboard on the Punjabi Wikipedia as soon as
possible, because we believe that it is much better than the keyboard
that is currently enabled there.
Thank you!
--
Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
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“We're living in pieces,
I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
Malayalam Wikipedia could be emulated
Source:
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/malayalam-wikipedia-could-be-emulated/253196-60-…
KOLLAM: From the seven-year-olds Achu Kulangara, Aswin and Sai Ram to the
70-year-old A J Johnson, all delegates were busy attending sessions.
The Malayalam wikipedia community’s meet, ‘Wikisangamotsavam’, saw the
gettogether of wikipedia enthusiasts cutting across age, educational and
professional barriers.
The man most excited about the meet was perhaps Barry Newstead, Chief
Global Development Officer of the Wikimedia Foundation, who flew down to
attend the two-day programme which began at the District Panchayat Hall
here on Saturday.
Speaking to ‘Express’ on the sidelines of the meet, Barry Newstead was all
praise for the Malayalam Wikipedia Community for sticking on to quality and
education oriented content.
“The good thing about Malayalam community members is that they don’t focus
on politics or personal gains and instead are volunteers who engage
productively. They build these projects with the prime motive to share
knowledge with the next generation,” he said.
Newstead said that the State Government support for wikipedia community’s
activities and the active involvement of students and teachers would take
the Malayalam wiki a long way. “The Malayalam Wikipedia is the most
innovative and constructive among Indic languages and expectedly will grow
as a model that can be emulated by other languages,” he said.
Responding to questions on the errors made by editors and propaganda
material in wikipedia, Newstead said that the increase in the number of
contributors would make entries accurate and unbiased. “For example, if we
have an article on Israel-Palestine issue, we would have two versions. Then
a third group comes. We should not underestimate the third group. They will
be the ones who can give us an accurate picture of the issue,” he said.
According to Barry Newstead, the target of the Malayalam community should
be to increase the editor base to around 500 in the next two to three years
from the present figure of 100.
Hisam Mundol, consultant of Wikimedia India Programme, too feels that an
exponential growth is the need of the hour for Malayalam Wiki. “Think of
just 100 editors contributing contents for the whole Global Malayali
population. We need more editors who can actively contribute in Malayalam,”
he said.
About 23,429 articles (as on April 23) featured in the Malayalam Wikipedia
and can be accessed at http://ml.wikipedia.org.
Hiya,
The newest establishment to adopt QRpedia: Swaminarayan
Temple, Mumbai (Bhuleshwar - on a trial basis). I got the idea of
approaching temples when Andy announced the collab with the Church in
Birmingham. Thanks to Sarah/Lori/Roger for all their help with this. The
QR Codes installed are of the Temple's own article, Swaminarayan,
Lakshminarayan, Ganesha and Hanuman.
We tried to innovate by including deity QR codes along with the actual
temple ones (where there is an article). The reasoning being that there
are millions of temples across India, a small percentage of which have
Wikipedia articles or any coverage whatsoever in the media. In addition,
Hinduism is not a monotheistic religion, I believe there are a few
million deities worshiped, out of which most of those that are popular
have some excellent Wikipedia articles. So, in effect, by using the
deity articles we can aim to include millions of temples with QRpedia which we
couldn't if we used just the Temple articles.
I'm hoping that installation in this particular temple which coincidentally
completes 144 years this week will help us convince other institutions to adopt QRpedia - infact I believe this is the first place in India to have
QRpedia installed. I'm also hoping that the extra footfalls during
anniversary celebrations this week will give us valuable feedback.
Kind Regards,
A gender reminder for the Wiki Meet-Up 45 Bangalore on this weekend.
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiMeetups/Bangalore/Bangalore45
*Time: * Sunday 29th April @ 4pm
*Venue : *
The Centre for Internet and Society
No. 194, 2nd 'C' Cross,
4th Main
Domlur 2nd Stage
Opposite to Domlur Club
Bangalore 560 071
Karnataka
Regards
Tinu Cherian
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 9:50 PM, RadhaKrishna Arvapally <
arkrishna(a)wikimedia.in> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
>
> Bangalore Meetup 45 is planned on Sunday 29th April in the view of Barry &
> Hisham arrival. Please register on the meetup page.
>
> http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiMeetups/Bangalore/Bangalore45
>
>
>
> Best Regards,
> RadhaKrishna
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Hisham <hisham(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi Folks
>>
>> Barry and I were going to be in Bangalore on Sunday 29th. (For those who
>> don't know, Barry is the Chief Global Development Officer of the Wikimedia
>> Foundation and is normally based out San Francisco. He is visiting India
>> on a short visit.)
>>
>> I thought it would be nice if we could have an informal community meetup
>> with folks from as many communities (Indic as well as English.) It would
>> be a good opportunity to talk about individual projects and communities -
>> and to share stories of individual editors.
>>
>> I know of active community members from English, Kannada, Malayalam,
>> Tamil, Telugu, Sanskrit and Odia in Bangalore. Can I request you folks to
>> pass on the invite to others who might be interested.
>>
>> I am planning this for Sunday 29th between 4 -6 pm at CIS - but happy to
>> look at a different location. (I know there were discussions on this
>> mailing list about alternative venues to CIS.)
>>
>> Please do reply back so we can agree the venue. Feel free to reply
>> offlist.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> *hisham*
>>
>
>
Is an interesting talk especially in the context of Wikipedia and
Kalyan's work on Commons.
http://youtu.be/mLf58wZEhQ4
He talks about freedoms, Creative Commons, Wikipedia and Commons.
He's on the list too. Even if he's a lurker. :)
Thank you.
Best,
Gautam
________
http://blog.prathambooks.org/p/social-media.html
This might be useful for those interested in and working on medical
translate projects.
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From: James Heilman <jmh649(a)gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 8:10 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedians in Other Languages Needed
To: wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Hello All
The project we have been working on to develop medical content and
translate it into other languages is going well. We have an initial set of
13 top importance GAs ready for translation by "Translators Without
Borders". Article should begin arriving in a couple of weeks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Translation_tas…
We are looking at starting with an initial group of 9 languages and need
Wikipedians to help incorporate article into that wiki language in 7 of
them including: Croatian, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Persian, Romanian
and Turkish. If there are people with these language / wiki abilities who
wish to help volunteers would be much appreciated. Please sign up here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Translation_tas…
Also if you know of anyone who is not on this list who might be interested
send them my way. Many thanks
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MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
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Student
Arts and Aesthetics
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
Ph: 9650567690
Criticism may be directed to me, praise be directed to Netha Hussain.
Hi all,
after some talking with User:Netha Hussain, who organised the last
edit-a-thon, I thought we could have a monthly edit a thon of sorts.
The point in doing this is:
New users can have a first hand experience of editing.
We can improve articles with more teamwork.
Existing users can teach a lot of things.
More fun, and interaction.
We had proposed a date ie: 22-04-2012 from 12-1400 hrs IST.
The page for it is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/India_Edit-a-thon
Please suggest some ideas.
--
Regards,
Srikanth Ramakrishnan,
Sathyamangalam-Gobichettipalayam Star Gazers, Coimbatore.
Just came across this:
Perhaps, this needs to be taken a bit seriously?
User: Soviet King announced retirement today
>From https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Anna_Frodesiak&oldid=4…
This IP Address 81.178.38.169 has openly threatened my family through
a scathing letter and even wrote to my school for writing an honest
message on his talk page, believing it was harassing him. Yasht, I
will agree at this stage it did get out of hand, because he was using
language not appropriate and he made something big out of threatening
to complain to JasperDeng. I just spoke for him, and then this threats
against my school and family? Forget it, I can't work under an
environment here. To people, I have been retiring weekly because I
don't feel the need to work, but then I keep coming back, Wikipedia
was hard to give up. Now I don't want to come back because of what one
IP address has done.
>From the talk page history:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Soviet_King&diff=48883…
This is the text of the email (redacted in places) sent to your school
principal. No threats were made against you, your family or your
colleague Jasper Deng. The user told you quite plainly that he wasn't
interested in dealing with this within Wikipedia or with you. He
emailed your principal because you are young and plainly vulnerably,
and incidentally to protect the reputation of your school, which he
knows to be a fine one.
* Text of email:
Attention of the school Principal please
Hello. My name is William Boyd, [further information redacted].
I have been harrassed on Wikipedia by one of your students, [full
name redacted], who has the monniker "Soviet King" below [content not
repeated]. I am the the IP 81.178.38.169 and he is harrassing me on my
static IP user page i.e. essentially not within Wikipedia but on the
broader internet. I don't know how he found me or in fact know (nor
care) what his issues are. IP users don't have Wikipedia account and
are therefore not bound by its conditions and terms of acceptance.
This is well understood.
Of course being harrassed on Wikipedia is no big deal but on this
scale and quite so naively is unusual.
Can I suggest it might be wise to have a quite word with young
[first name of student redacted] to warn him about getting involved in
these kinds of situations.
Been more than 20 years since I was last in Bangkok, coming in
from a trek in Nepal. I spent two months on Koh Phi Phi learning
Russian!
Please do not give [first name redacted] my email address,
although you can repeat my name because it is on my user page. Thank
you.
Kind regards,
William Boyd
If there are issues you wish to discuss privately you can contact
William by email through his associate IrinaOfKamaz. 216.166.10.161
(talk) 16:29, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
Don't you think this is a rather serious issue?
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Regards,
Srikanth Ramakrishnan,
Sathyamangalam-Gobichettipalayam Star Gazers, Coimbatore.
Hi all
To all who are in interested in Wikipedia Education Program.
--
naveenpf
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From: En Pine <deyntestiss(a)hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 5:02 AM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia Education Program Metrics and Activities
Meeting - Monday, April 23
To: wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Hi everyone,
I thought that participants on this list might like to know that the April
“Wikipedia Education Program Metrics and Activities Meeting” will be
Monday, April 23, at 20:00 UTC / 13:00 (1 pm) PST.
The meeting should be under one hour long and will happen over Webex.
Information is at
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Education_Program_Metrics_and…
notes from past meetings and information on how to get into the
Webex meeting.
I’ll be chairing the April meeting. Several WMF staff will be present.
Agenda:
* Welcome
* Country updates: U.S., Canada, Egypt, Brazil, and possibly others
* U.S./Canada student survey results from fall 2010
* Working Group information
* Q&A
For those who haven’t heard about the new Working Group, you can find more
info about it at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Education_Working_Group. A good
place for questions about the Working Group appears to be
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Education_Working_Group.
Hopefully we’ll also learn useful information at this meeting and have
sufficient time for questions during the Q&A.
Regards,
Pine
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