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,
On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation’s Partnerships & Global Reach team,
we invite all Indian language Wikimedia communities to our office hours to
discuss our India partnerships plan for 2017-18
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_Reach/India_Partnerships_plan>.
Meeting Details
Date: Saturday, 30th September 2017
Time: 15:00 UTC/20:30 IST
Duration: 90 minutes
Language: English
Location: Google Hangout
<https://hangouts.google.com/hangouts/_/wikimedia.org/rayyakkannu?authuser=0>
Please join 15 minutes before the scheduled time to sort out possible
technical issues.
Agenda
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Presenting India Partnerships plan 2017-18
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Introducing a content creation partnership for Indian languages
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Q&A
Please feel free to add your questions, comments, and expectations in this
etherpad <https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/P%26GR_India_Office_hours>
document. You can also reach out to rayyakkannu(a)wikimedia.org for any
clarification. Please share this invitation in community social media
channels to spread the word.
Thanks,
Ravi
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Regional Manager, Strategic Partnerships, Asia & Eastern Europe
Wikimedia Foundation
Mobile: +91-9986993336
Skype: ravidreams(a)gmail.com
Supported. I would request you to consider having this event only in cities
which did not host Asaf/which did not have any events from Wikimedia India
in the last 2 years. That way, we will specifically target locations that
need growth.
Regards,
Soni
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> From: Krishna Chaitanya Velaga <kcvelaga(a)gmail.com>
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> Greetings everyone,
>
> I've planned for series of edit-a-thons i n India, in the coming year i.e.
> 2018. I've planned for 8 Edit-a-thons (5 Wikipedia, 2 Wikidata and 1
> Wikisource) across India under the title "Edit-a-thon series 2018 (India)".
> The primary aim to conduct these events to activate the Wikimedia
> communities all over India, especially in regions we hardly have any
> communities, like the Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, North-eastern states etc. and
> also give a kick-start to the less imparted projects such as Wikidata and
> Wikisource for the Indian Wikimedia community. Asaf from WMF has already
> given a boost to Wikidata by conducting a national-wide tour. I would to
> extend this to communities which were unable to receive Asaf's visit.
>
> In this context, I've applied for grant under *Project Grant *under Round 2
> 2017 schedule. The application is located at https://goo.gl/NQh3JE. Please
> review and endorse my proposal kindly.
>
> Regards,
> Krishna Chaitanya Velaga.
>
Greetings everyone,
I've planned for series of edit-a-thons i n India, in the coming year i.e.
2018. I've planned for 8 Edit-a-thons (5 Wikipedia, 2 Wikidata and 1
Wikisource) across India under the title "Edit-a-thon series 2018 (India)".
The primary aim to conduct these events to activate the Wikimedia
communities all over India, especially in regions we hardly have any
communities, like the Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, North-eastern states etc. and
also give a kick-start to the less imparted projects such as Wikidata and
Wikisource for the Indian Wikimedia community. Asaf from WMF has already
given a boost to Wikidata by conducting a national-wide tour. I would to
extend this to communities which were unable to receive Asaf's visit.
In this context, I've applied for grant under *Project Grant *under Round 2
2017 schedule. The application is located at https://goo.gl/NQh3JE. Please
review and endorse my proposal kindly.
Regards,
Krishna Chaitanya Velaga.
Fellow Community Members,
I take this opportunity to initive you all for your suggestions, feedbacks and
inputs for Wikimedia India's featured Wikimedian of the month programme.
Featured Wikimedian of the month is an India Chapter innovation to
celebrate editing for an editor every month who has excelled in his respective
project and which brings signs of encouragement for other community
members. The excercise is similar to featured article or featured picture.
Wikimedia India is revamping the entire process to incorporate fresh ideas and
make this program more exciting while it remains community driven. We would
request you all to reflect yours thoughts on this, your guidance is key to
any direction.
The page is at: https://goo.gl/3T4wnS.
Regards,
[image: photo]
*Krishna Chaitanya Velaga*
Member | Executive Committee
<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Executive_Committee_Members>
Wikimedia Chapter (India) <http://wiki.wikimedia.in/>
+91 94948 65420 | kcvelaga.blogspot.in
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From: Shrinivasan T <tshrinivasan(a)gmail.com>
Date: 2017-09-20 2:35 GMT+05:30
Subject: Installing Tamil Text-to-Speech system from IITM Donlab
To: ilugc(a)freelists.org
IITM donlab is working on TTS system for various Indic Languages.
SSN Engineering college provided them the TTS system for Tamil.
Few months ago, filed a RTI to get the source and install it in local systems
https://goinggnu.wordpress.com/2017/03/10/filed-a-rti-to-get-info-on-tamil-…
They replied promptly and they told that all their TTS systems are
already open source. :-)
IITM released it as OpenSource here -
https://www.iitm.ac.in/donlab/tts/voices.php
After following up with IITM team in few mail threads,
On August 12, 2017, Myself, Mohan and Padmakumar visited IITM Donlab.
Prof Hema and Anju Thomas welcomed us.
We spent an entire day, trying to build the entire TTS system.
As the documentation was suitable for the preconfigured systems there,
we can not proceed further.
In the evening, we discussed and found that we dont need to build the
entire system.
They have already providing voice model files for festival.
We have just to download them and compile them to make them work with festival.
we can download the voice models from
https://www.iitm.ac.in/donlab/tts/voices.php
This seems easier for us.
Then, we were trying to compile the voice models. Again, with lesser
documentation,
we can not proceed much.
On Sep 15, Invited mohan to my home to work on this.
We spent a day with no much result.
Today, I mailed Anju of IITM and asked for help.
Viola.
We have compiled it already and we need to know where the tts script is.
It really works well.
Here is the demo - https://soundcloud.com/shrinivasan/tamil-tts-demo
Full Details of the installation script -
https://goinggnu.wordpress.com/2017/09/20/how-to-compile-tamil-tts-engine-f…
Automated all the installation and make a single script to do all the
magics - https://github.com/tshrinivasan/tamil-tts-install
There are still few improvements needed.
Currently it reads upto empty line.
Have to make to read entire page or chapter.
Will work on this.
Tons of thanks for IITM team, SSN team, Prof Hema, Anju, Mohan,
Padmakumar for all their great support on this.
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Regards,
T.Shrinivasan
My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com
Free E-Magazine on Free Open Source Software in Tamil : http://kaniyam.com
Get Free Tamil Ebooks for Android, iOS, Kindle, Computer :
http://FreeTamilEbooks.com
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Regards,
T.Shrinivasan
My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com
Free E-Magazine on Free Open Source Software in Tamil : http://kaniyam.com
Get Free Tamil Ebooks for Android, iOS, Kindle, Computer :
http://FreeTamilEbooks.com
