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,
Based on community feedback, phase 1 (pilot) of Wiki Loves Food contest is
extended till May 7, 2015.
There are few slots and community nominations available still .
You can register at
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Food#Phase_1:_April_1…
Phase 2 will start from May 15, 2015.
Please help us spread this update and encourage food photographers and
bloggers you know to participate.
Thanks,
Ravi
Hello,
For a year or more I have been looking for an individual grant to buy a
simple image scanner.
My most recent application was at Ta Wikipedia
<https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95…>
>From that application:, I need a scanner regularly, so I would not be able
to do all works in a particular period (for example, someone says, "take a
scanner for two weeks and return after that)
Can anyone give me oive me one?
Hello one and all
Please find below the report from WMIN on the activities and learnings at
Wikimedia Conference 2015 held in Berlin.
Report on WMIN activities and learnings at Wikimedia Conference 2015
Yohann Varun Thomas and Ravishankar Ayyakkannu participated in the Wikimedia
Conference 2015 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2015>
on behalf of Wikimedia India. Jayanta Nath could not participate as he had
health issues at the last moment.
This is a joint report by Yohann and Ravi made regarding activities and
learnings at the conference.
Meeting with Wikimedians from Nepal and Bangladesh
[image: wikimedia-saarc meeting.jpg]
Wikimedians from Nepal User group and Bangladesh Chapter participated.
It was agreed to form a a regional collaboration named Wikimedia SAARC
including Nepal, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and other SAARC countries.
This will follow a similar model like Wikimedia CEE
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Central_and_Eastern_Europe>
(Central and Eastern Europe), Wikimedia Indaba
<http://wikiindaba.net/index.php?title=Main_Page> (African countries
collaboration) and Wikimedia Iberocoop
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Iberocoop:Portada> .
Running a small article writing contest in July 2015 aiming to improve the
quality of quantity of most important articles about each country was
agreed upon as the first flagship program under this collaboration.
Following were the meetings attended by WMIN during the conference
- Monthly Meeting with WMF
- Quarterly Meeting with CIS-A2K
<https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.in/document/d/14HjPabUSuD9mHPLw5t9bhO5y…>
Wiki Loves Food campaign
[image: wlf-wall-poster-1.jpg]
The international community was receptive to the theme of Wiki Loves Food.
This shows potential for expanding this as an international program in the
coming years. WMF ED Lila Tretikov mentioned Wiki Loves Food in her speech
as a possible extension of photo contest themes. There was a candy exchange
table which we used to promote wikilovesfood.org
Learnings from the conference
-
Logic models
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Evaluation/Logic_models> for
Program design and evaluation.
-
Global metrics
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Learning_%26_Evaluation/Global_metri…>
-
Wiki metrics <https://metrics.wmflabs.org/>
-
Survey design
-
Board governance
-
Communications best practices
-
Reporting & Storytelling
Implementation of Best Practises within WMIN
-
Undertaking a Survey using the Qualtrics tool
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Learning_patterns/Qualtrics_survey_t…>
-
Usage of Global Metrics and other such tools for reporting
-
Usage of Program Toolkits for Projects
-
Taking Forward the Wikimedia SAARC collaboration and concentrating on
Online Activities
-
Usage of Icons
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:PE%26D_Infographic_Icon_set>
to improve our storytelling
-
Preparation of Board Handbook for new Board Members
-
Usage of Organizational effectiveness Tool
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Organizational_effectiveness/Tool>
-
Creating Postcards of Best Pictures from WLF (Open to discussion)
-
Usage of Best practises for Communications as put here
<http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_room>
Other benefits
Wikimedia India representatives took an active part in all discussions and
social gatherings giving clear visibility and establishing the presence of
a strong chapter from India. This is important in the context that everyone
was curious to understand the presence of two organizations (i.e., CIS-A2K)
in India and how they work together.
Networking and rapport building with other chapter members, CIS-A2K and WMF
staff will help in the longer run.
Yohann Thomas
yohannvt(a)gmail.com
On Sat, 30 May 2015 09:54:31 Manoj Khurana <hello(a)manojkhurana.com> wrote:
> Hi Kartik.
> We are thankful to you for your efforts in installation of this utility on
> hiwiki. However, please note that translation part is not working over
> there. Kindly check.
Hi Manoj,
If you mean 'Machine Translation' - currently no support of Machine
Translation available for Indic languages (except Hindi <-> Urdu,
which is yet to deploy!).
However, you can use the tool to 'translate' from any languages (all
available Wikipedia) with lots of features like,
- Automated links, images, references adaption
- Automated categories adaption (If category exists in target wiki.
Please make sure to link categories in Wikidata for your language!)
- Ability to save translation and work on it later.
- Upcoming: Better link adaption support, automatic wikidata link
adaption, better reference support etc...
Many languages we deployed has no Machine Translation support, and
they have created articles already :)
We're open to any feedback, bugs, feature request and criticism.
Please let us know!
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Kartik Mistry/કાર્તિક મિસ્ત્રી | IRC: kart_
{kartikm, 0x1f1f}.wordpress.com
[Sending this on behalf of Runa here, it is stuck in moderation/somewhere]
Hello,
A few months ago the Content Translation extension[1], was made available
as a beta-feature on the Punjabi, Kannada and Gujarati Wikipedias for
logged-in users. Recently, it was also enabled on the Bhojpuri and Hindi
Wikipedias. We are now ready to have Content Translation on more Indic
language Wikipedias and in the next month we expect to make it available on
Assamese (as), Odia (or), Malayalam (ml), Bengali (bn), Nepali (ne),
Sanskrit (sa), Marathi (mr), Newar/Nepal Bhasa (new), Telugu (te), Pali
(pi), Bishnupriya Manipuri (bpy), Urdu (ur), Tamil (ta) Maithili (mai) and
Sinhalese (si) Wikipedias. This will be done in multiple stages beginning
4th June 2015. Please note, this tool will only be available for logged-in
users who will choose to enable it from their preferences.
As you may recall, Content Translation is an extension that has been
developed by the WMF Language Engineering team that allows creation of new
articles from an existing article in another language. Presently, Content
Translation is being used in more than 100 Wikipedias[2] as an opt-in
beta-feature for logged-in users. More than 4000 new articles have already
been created using this tool. Content Translation also provides machine
translation through Apertium, where available. From the above list only
Hindi and Urdu are currently supported in a limited way on Apertium.
You can read more about Content Translation, its usage and user stories at:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation/Documentation/User_guidehttp://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/04/08/the-new-content-translation-tool/http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/04/06/content-translation-improved-my-edits/
The tentative availability schedule and progress for all the languages can
be tracked on phabricator -https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T100621 . We
will be making further announcements (through Village Pumps and mailing
lists) as we approach the dates mentioned in the ticket. Please feel free
to let us know your comments, suggestions and other feedback through this
phabricator ticket (or its sub-tasks for individual languages) or on the
talk page[2] of the project.
Thanks
Runa
[1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation
[2]
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation/Languages#Available_langu…
[3] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Content_translation
--
Kartik Mistry/કાર્તિક મિસ્ત્રી | IRC: kart_
{kartikm, 0x1f1f}.wordpress.com
Hello,
A few months ago the Content Translation extension[1], was made available
as a beta-feature on the Punjabi, Kannada and Gujarati Wikipedias for
logged-in users. Recently, it was also enabled on the Bhojpuri and Hindi
Wikipedias. We are now ready to have Content Translation on more Indic
language Wikipedias and in the next month we expect to make it available on
Assamese (as), Odia (or), Malayalam (ml), Bengali (bn), Nepali (ne),
Sanskrit (sa), Marathi (mr), Newar/Nepal Bhasa (new), Telugu (te), Pali
(pi), Bishnupriya Manipuri (bpy), Urdu (ur), Tamil (ta) Maithili (mai) and
Sinhalese (si) Wikipedias. This will be done in multiple stages beginning
4th June 2015. *Please note, this tool will only be available for logged-in
users who will choose to enable it from their preferences.*
As you may recall, Content Translation is an extension that has been
developed by the WMF Language Engineering team that allows creation of new
articles from an existing article in another language. Presently, Content
Translation is being used in more than 100 Wikipedias[2] as an *opt-in
beta-feature for logged-in users*. More than 4000 new articles have already
been created using this tool. Content Translation also provides machine
translation through Apertium, where available. From the above list only
Hindi and Urdu are currently supported in a limited way on Apertium.
You can read more about Content Translation, its usage and user stories at:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation/Documentation/User_guidehttp://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/04/08/the-new-content-translation-tool/http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/04/06/content-translation-improved-my-edits/
The tentative availability schedule and progress for all the languages can
be tracked on phabricator -https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T100621 . We
will be making further announcements (through Village Pumps and mailing
lists) as we approach the dates mentioned in the ticket. Please feel free
to let us know your comments, suggestions and other feedback through this
phabricator ticket (or its sub-tasks for individual languages) or on the
talk page[2] of the project.
Thanks
Runa
[1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation
[2]
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation/Languages#Available_langu…
[3] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Content_translation
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Language Engineering - Outreach and QA Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
Hi,
TL;DR: It would be great if you could complete the localization of the UI
of the ContentTranslation extension. Select your language here:
https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special%3AMessageGroupStats&x=D&gro…
In detail:
ContentTranslation is a MediaWiki extension developed by the Language
Engineering team in Wikimedia. This extension helps Wikipedia editors
create new articles by typing their translation from other languages
comfortably. For more information about the extension see
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation
The plan is to deploy this extension in Wikipedias in all languages of
India before the end of June. To make it more comfortable to all editors,
please translate the extension's own user interface by selecting your
language at the following list:
https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special%3AMessageGroupStats&x=D&gro…
If you don't have a translatewiki account already, you need to create one
at http://translatewiki.net .
Now it also happens to be a very good time for doing this, because until
May 26 translatewiki is holding a rally, and prizes will be given to people
who make at least 500 translations. Localizing ContentTranslation's
messages counts towards the rally. For more information about the rally see
https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Project:Rally-2015-05
Please reach out to me if you have any issues.
Thank you for your help, and good luck!
--
Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
http://aharoni.wordpress.com
“We're living in pieces,
I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore