WikimediaIndia-l April 2012

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please check this: improved version of Punjabi transliteration
by Amir E. Aharoni 30 Apr '12

30 Apr '12

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 http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬

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[Press] Malayalm Wikipedia could be emulated
by Anirudh Bhati 29 Apr '12

29 Apr '12

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.

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QRpedia @ Swaminarayan Temple Mumbai
by wheredevelsdare＠hotmail.com 29 Apr '12

29 Apr '12

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,

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Wiki Meet-Up 45 Bangalore: Sunday 29th April @ 4pm
by CherianTinu Abraham 27 Apr '12

27 Apr '12

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* >> > >

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Photography and Article Competition in Assamese Wikipedia
by Prabhakar Sarma Neog 26 Apr '12

26 Apr '12

I want to give you a good news from Assamese wikipedia. Some of our editors are arranging a photograph and article competition amongst college students. They are still preparing. See the link below: http://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A7%B1%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AA%…

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Kalyan Varma on why Free Art is Profitable
by Gautam John 25 Apr '12

25 Apr '12

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

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Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedians in Other Languages Needed
by Noopur 24 Apr '12

24 Apr '12

This might be useful for those interested in and working on medical translate projects. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- 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 -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Noopur Raval Student Arts and Aesthetics Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Ph: 9650567690

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India Edit a thon
by Srikanth Ramakrishnan 24 Apr '12

24 Apr '12

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.

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[OT] [Non Indian] English Wikipedian leaves after getting letters
by Srikanth Ramakrishnan 23 Apr '12

23 Apr '12

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? -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan, Sathyamangalam-Gobichettipalayam Star Gazers, Coimbatore.

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Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia Education Program Metrics and Activities Meeting - Monday, April 23
by Naveen Francis 21 Apr '12

21 Apr '12

Hi all To all who are in interested in Wikipedia Education Program. -- naveenpf ---------- Forwarded message ---------- 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 _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

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