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…
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Treasurer,
Wikimedia Chapter [India]
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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
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.
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Kind Regards,
Pranav Curumsey
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
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?
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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
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> 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.
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> 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.
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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)
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…
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Best!
Subhashish Panigrahi
Programme Officer, Access To Knowledge
Centre for Internet and Society
@psubhashish
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,
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