WikimediaIndia-l August 2013

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Translations! Join us at the Wikimedia Asia Cultural Exchange
by Srikanth Ramakrishnan 20 Aug '13

20 Aug '13

Hi all, a couple of like minded Asian chapters came up with an idea at Wikimania to coordinate translation efforts of various articles relating to Asia. The premise of this was to ensure that articles about one country or it's culture, which is available in one language, can be made available in other Asian languages. Now, since we in India have a lot of languages and different cultures, each with it's unique set of articles, I see this as a massive opportunity to have articles translated. Have a look; and add your name/home wiki, if participating: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Asia_Project/Cultural_Content_Exch… -- Srikanth Ramakrishnan Treasurer, Wikimedia Chapter [India] Donate to the Wikimedia India Chapter today<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Donations>

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic print material digitization workshop query
by L. Shyamal 19 Aug '13

19 Aug '13

Thank you Subhashish for the response at: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:India_Access_To_Knowledge/Events/Bangal… Dear Shyamal, this workshop was for demonstrating the participants about create a home made set up to scan the books, edit the scanned images and make an eBook. OCR is not still stable for Indic languages and would need another workshop for presentation. Here the "creating text based documents" is basically the manual editing on WikiSource. Please feel free to edit and correct if any mistakes found. --Subhashish Panigrahi<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Psubhashish>( talk <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Psubhashish>) 10:34, 19 August 2013 (UTC) That sounds too basic. Almost any office assistant these days is expected to know how to use a scanner and create at least a PDF. It would be good if you can post your proposed workshops. There are really excellent (and local if I may add) resources who can be proposed by the community. Shyamal <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Shyamal> (talk<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Shyamal>) 15:00, 19 August 2013 (UTC)---- To abstract a bit from this - may I suggest that any planned workshops actually work out the topic coverage on-wiki so that the structure is useful and the expectations are clear. Asking potential attendees for areas of interest or expectations may also help. Since there appears to be a plan to do this on an India-wide scale I think it would be good to include several other topics. Some of the things that I have had to consider in the course of scanning thousands of pages of documents for the Internet Archive are included below. Hope others can add to it. * Image formats - djvu, PDF comparisons, PDF/A - grey shade, black&white, use of JPEG2000, TIFF * Online archival options * Digital libraries - also good to bring in people (librarians, archivists) involved with Indian digital library projects - including the ICAR http://www.icarlibrary.nic.in/ DLI - (even if their website is terrible http://dli.ernet.in/ ) - other local digital library/archive ventures http://statelibrary.kerala.gov.in/rarebooks/ , http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/jspui/ ) * Book-scanners * Home scanning tricks and solutions eg. how to scan large sources (such as a newspaper that is bigger than the scanner bed) * OCRs - use of layers, Indic language problems, approaches (is it possible to crowdsource manual transcription, can the technology be extended to allow people who do not know the language to help in manual transcription) best wishes Shyamal

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Fwd: Wikipedia.in
by Pranav Curumsey 18 Aug '13

18 Aug '13

As announced on the chapter members mailing list a few days ago, the domain Wikipedia.in has been procured by WMF for us after many attempts over the years. For now it redirects to http://wikimedia.in/wikipedia.html The EC would like to express its deep gratitude to Naveen, Anirudh, Kul, Barry, Geoff, Yana, Moksh and all the rest of the folk who helped us with this matter in the last few years. -- Kind Regards, Pranav Curumsey

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Indian language Wikipedias as on June 30, 2013
by Pavanaja U B 17 Aug '13

17 Aug '13

Language Active Editors Articles Page views Code Hindi 43 98,034 7,883,389 hi Bengali 60 26,263 5,521,795 bn Marathi 21 39,752 3,074,835 mr Gujarati 10 22,711 1,135,872 gu Telugu 37 53,023 1,826,665 te Tamil 90 54,412 5,227,150 ta Kannada 38 14,667 1,080,624 kn Malayalam 95 31,708 3,165,913 ml Odiya 8 4,194 300,195 or Punjabi 10 6,859 520,463 pa Assamese 14 2,146 367,532 as Sanskrit 14 10,329 386,448 sa Thanks and regards, Pavanaja U.B. Pavanaja, MSc, PhD Programme Officer <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pavanaja> - Indian languages, Access to Knowledge program The Centre for Internet & Society

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Wiki Loves Monuments 2013
by Pradeep Mohandas 17 Aug '13

17 Aug '13

hi, Have posted a possible timeline for WLM 2013. Let's discuss the same on wiki? Link - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2013_in… warm regards, Pradeep Pradeep Mohandas How Pradeep uses email? - http://goo.gl/6v1I9

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Clarification of doubt - status of acts, rules, orders, circulars, judgements etc.
by Jaisen Nedumpala 17 Aug '13

17 Aug '13

Hi, I am Jaisen Nedumpala. I have a doubt to clear. Whichever domains precisely includes the various acts enacted in India and in states, the rules, orders, circulars etc produced by the central government and state governments, and the judgements from various courts of India? Are they copyrighted by the respective governments, and concerned courts? Or, are they coming under public domain? Can anybody give me a direction? -- ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ - നെടുമ്പാല ജയ്സെന്‍ - ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ (`'·.¸(`'·.¸^¸.·'´)¸.·'´) «´¨`·* . Jaisen . *..´¨`» (¸.·'´(`'·.¸ ¸.·'´)`'·.¸) ¸.·´^.`'·.¸ ¸.·'´ ( `·.¸`·.¸ `·.¸ )`·.¸ ¸.·(´ `·.¸ ¸.·(.·´)`·.¸ ( `v´ ) `v´

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Board(EC) Elections-2013 - Results
by Tinu Cherian (Wikimedia India) 16 Aug '13

16 Aug '13

Congratulations to Jayanta Nath and Moksh Juneja for getting elected to the Executive Committee of the Wikimedia India Chapter. We would like to thank all the candidates and members for the participation. We would sincerely appeal to the losing candidates to not to lose heart by the outcome of the election and we hope that you will continue to help & strength the chapter and the Wikimedia movement in India. Your contributions are as valuable to the chapter as to those who got elected. We welcome all the members and community members to take more active roles in building the movement in India. We would like to express our sincere gratitude to the EC members and T. Sowmyan, ED, Wikimedia India Chapter, for their immense help in conducting this election. We also applaud the contributions and leadership of the outgoing EC members, Sudhanwa Jogalekar, Bala Jeyaraman and Anirudh Bhati. We wish the new EC team , all the best wishes for growing the movement and the chapter in future. Regards Tinu Cherian On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 9:30 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala <arjunaraoc(a)gmail.com>wrote: > Hi, > > We completed the election process for Wikimedia India Chapter Executive > Committee (EC) Elections for year 2013 in today's Annual General Body > Meeting. We are happy to announce the results of the Election. > > Total eligible Voters: 66 (Excluding 3 members of the Election Committee, > who cant' vote as per the Election rules) > Votes polled: 27 (26 by post and 1 in person), (40.9%) > Valid votes: 26 > Invalid vote:1 > > Candidate- Votes polled > Jayanta Nath - 17 > Moksh Juneja - 17 > Nikhil Kawale - 3 > Santosh Shingare - 6 > Yohann Thomas - 7 > > > Hence, Jayanta Nath and Moksh Juneja are declared as elected to EC for > the two vacant positions for term 2013-2015. > > We congratulate Jayanta and Moksh. We thank EC, all the candidates and > members for active participation in the Election process. > > We thank the outgoing Executive Committee led by Sudhanwa for all their > contributions. We wish the new EC all the best for growing the movement > and the chapter in future. > > Sincerely, > > Arjuna Rao Chavala, Tinu Cherian, Radhakrishna A > Election Committee for EC Elections-2013 > Wikimedia India Chapter > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "wmin-members" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to wmin-members+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- Regards Tinu Cherian Wikimedia India Chapter press(a)wikimedia.in http://wiki.wikimedia.in

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New Programme Officer CIS-A2K (Announcement)
by Vishnu t 16 Aug '13

16 Aug '13

Dear All, I am happy to inform you about the selection of the new Programme Officer, who has joined the CIS-A2K Team on August 15, 2013. Please join me in welcoming Muzammiluddin Syed. Muzammiluddin Syed holds about 14 years of teaching experience. He is a recipient of Air India BOLT Award for Excellence in Teaching 2004 (Hyderabad District Runner-up). He received a Gold Medal for securing the first position in the Diploma in HIV & Family Education from the Indira Gandhi National Open University in 2011. Muzammil has contributed papers to various national and international conferences. As a netizen, he has contributed to a number of websites which include Content Writer ( www.contentwriter.in), Journal of Turkish Weekly (www.turkishweekly.net), Boloji Free Expressions Website (www.boloji.com), Cite HR (www.citehr.com), Hindi Nest Website (www.hindinest.com) and the oldest Urdu Website ( www.urdustan.com). However, his main online passion is the Wikimedia Foundation projects. He has been an active contributor on Wikimedia Commons, Hindi, English and Urdu Wikipedia. He goes by the User name <Hindustanilanguage> . Many of you may have met Muzammil in Wiki Conference India 2011 where he was a speaker. Apologies for cross-posting. Best regards, Vishnu New Programme Officer CIS-A2K (Announcement)

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Digitization workshop for Indic WikiSource enthusiasts
by Subhashish Panigrahi 16 Aug '13

16 Aug '13

Dear Wikimedians, Wikimedia India in collaboration with the Centre for Internet and Society is organizing a workshop on "Digitization of books for Indic language WikiSource" on 18th August 2013, Sunday at the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore at 2:30 pm. Malayalam Wikimedian Viswanathan Prabhakaran is going to conduct this workshop. Anyone interested in learning about the process of digitizing old manuscripts, books and creating text based documents could join this workshop. Please log in and register in the event page to take part in this event.[1] 1. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Events/Bangalore/D… -- Best! Subhashish Panigrahi Programme Officer, Access To Knowledge Centre for Internet and Society @psubhashish

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Fwd: [Wikipedia-BN] 10 years of Bangla Wikipedia
by CherianTinu Abraham 16 Aug '13

16 Aug '13

Bangla Wikipedia is celebrating its 10th anniversary on January 27, 2014. Might want to plan some celebrations in India too. Regards Tinu Cherian ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Belayet Hossain <bellayet(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 9:50 AM Subject: [Wikipedia-BN] 10 years of Bangla Wikipedia To: Discussion list for Bangladeshi Wikimedians < wikimedia-bd(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, "Bengali Wikipedia<br/>( wikipedia-bn(a)lists.wikimedia.org)" <wikipedia-bn(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Dear Wikipedians! Bangla Wikipedia is the largest encyclopedia in Bangla Wikipedia, also the largest encyclopedia in Bangladesh. I am happy to let you know that the next year on January 27, 2014 Bangla Wikipedia will be 10[1] years old. All of you will agree with me that "10 years of Bangla Wikipedia" deserves a grand celebration. We have only 5 month to plan, design, arrangements and celebrate. I think this is the right time to start community discussion and set the plan how we will work on that and make celebrate this grand anniversary. I've create a project page[2] on Bangla Wikipedia for the discussion and coordination of the events centrally. Tou can discuss in the mailing lists, But make sure that your idea goes to Wikipedia page as well. I would like to invite you to join the discussion. Please write down your ideas, plans and suggestions to celebrate this unique occasion for Bangla Wikipedia. [1]http://bn.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&action=info [2]http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/wp:10_years_of_Bangla_Wikipedia Cheers, -- Belayet Hossain http://www.facebook.com/bellayet http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:bellayet http://twitter.com/bellayet http://bellayet.wordpress.com (Bangla) Knowledge is universal ...so share it. _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-BN mailing list Wikipedia-BN(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-bn

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