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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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
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bangalore_DevCamp_November_2012
I'll send an update as soon as we have the registration stuff set up.
But I wanted to ask you to save the date.
Join the Wikipedia development community in Bangalore.
Wikimedia is holding a technical meetup in Bangalore, India at the
Indian Institute of Management campus. This DevCamp is a chance to
participate in development of Javascript based internationalization and
localization tools as well as mobile applications using Phonegap and
LAMP technologies, and to work alongside experts. Software engineers,
UX/UI designers, and translators are welcome!
Developers of all backgrounds especially with a focus on browser and
mobile technologies are welcome at Wikimedia DevCamps. Prior experience
with the MediaWiki software is not required. Translators with a
linguistic background who can help improve language support for
Wikimedia technology projects are also needed.
--
Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
+ 9 :)
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Shrinivasan T
Subject: Tamil wikipedia marathon - Sep 30 2012
Tamil wikipedia completes its 9 years today.
To celebrate this, Tamil wikipedia team calls for a wiki edit marathon
today.
you all are invited to add new content to Tamil wikipedia together.
adding a small page about any near place to you is also a great start to
contribute.
check the following to know more details in Tamil
Wiki Marathon - http://ta.wikipedia.org/s/27uy
Tamil Wikipedia completes 9 years.Why don't you make your first edit now? -
http://ta.wikipedia.org/s/ae
_______________________________________________
ILUGC Mailing List:
http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
--
Regards
Srikanth.L
http://j.mp/SrikanthL
Whatever has happened, do we have any other editor who is somewhat experienced and willing to take the responsibility of the coordinator of the weekly collaboration?
There is not many nominations in the page. Although "The Special User" could be a good coordinator, apparently he is taking a wiki break. And the other candidate, Kruttika, I feel does not have enough experience in en.wikipedia.
Anyone else interested?
Regards,
Dwaipayan Chakraborti
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> Hi Hari, Arun, Pratik, Srikanth, Karthik,
>
> Similar to the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:INCOTM/ project, we
> run a project in Tamil Wikipedia called Colloboration of the Week. I was
> co-ordinating it for few months. When I got busy, I intentionally let it
> unupdated for a week to see it picked up by another Wikipedian. He was
> also the guy most involved in this project from the beginning. I asked him
> if he is willing to take the responsibility and he said yes. That's it. I
> have seen many such smooth handovers for various jobs done in our Wikipedia.
>
> In this context, I was surprised why Pratik calls this a "post" and had to
> send a "resignation note" to the larger mailing list and open "nominations"
> for successors. May be it is En Wiki practice but I found this too
> complicated for a simple situation.
>
> If one cannot find a suitable coordinator from the members of the project
> listed at
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:INCOTM/Members
>
> I wonder how a newcomer to the project will be fit to coordinate it.
>
> This is a regular Wikipedia activity which is best managed within talk
> pages and project noticeboards. This isn't a photo walk or a Wiki workshop
> to hope if more people can join us through mailing lists. Even if you go by
> that logic, if every regional Wikipedia starts mailing this list for
> coordinating on wiki tasks, then it will be total mess.
>
> I respect every one's opinion that mails like these are within the scope of
> this list. If I continue to find such mails, I will simply unsubscribe :)
>
> Ravi
>
Community members are also welcome to volunteer in the proposed event
(check enclosed details)
Regards
Arjuna
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From: Arjuna Rao Chavala <arjunaraoc(a)gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 5:38 PM
Subject: Volunteer Facilitators required for Multi lingual Wiki Academy at
IIT, Madras on 6 Oct 2012
To: wmin-members <wmin-members(a)googlegroups.com>
Hi All,
After our first multi lingual Wiki Academy at Dravidian
University<http://blog.wikimedia.in/2012/08/29/wiki-academy-dravidian-university/>,
we now have an opportunity to conduct another one at
IIT,Madras<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wiki_Academy/IIT,_Madras>with the
support of IIT's NSS Wing. Students with preference for Telugu,
Tamil, Marathi and English are expected to attend. If you are an
experienced wikipedian in the requested languages and based in Chennai or
nearby areas with a overnight bus/train service to Chennai, please add your
name on the event page with links to your profile/user page etc by 2
Oct,2012.
Thanks
Arjuna
Hi,
This is to inform those interested that User:Prad2609 and I have written a report on WCI 2011 which is public on meta [1]. A warning on queries; we probably wont answer those since Prad2609 has unsubscribed from all Wikipedia mailing lists and retired and Iv got other priorities myself.
Once again, we thank all those involved with WCI 2011 and thank the Indian Community which responsible for making it a resounding success.
Signing off,
[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:WM_IN/WikiConference_India_2011/Report
