Hi,
I presented a paper titled "Community efforts in localisation of Wikipedias"
in the conference Action week for global information sharing
<http://agis10.org>, aimed at promoting knowledge access in all languages.
- Final presentation<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Community_Efforts_in_Information_Loc…>,
- Tweets of the conference <http://twitter.com/#%21/search?q=%23agis10>
Presentation has analysis of open source environment and preliminary
analysis of Indian page views and issues.
Do share your responses if any.
Cheers
Arjun
Hi,
Some updates on the Google translation project in Tamil Wikipedia.
( Refer http://bit.ly/adRtak for some background info )
The project started around August 2009 and went on continuously till August
2010 and added 1000+ articles.
During May 2010 - August 2010, we reduced adding new articles and asked the
translators to rework on their existing articles.
We did a quality review of these articles and found that only around 50% of
them has an acceptable minimum quality regarding translation ( We just rated
the style of the language and accuracy in translation. We did not do a full
review on the merit of the article).
Following this, the Tamil Wiki community arrived at the following consensus
with Google:
* The translators should be rated and only the select few should be allowed
to continue ( done now )
* Only the list of topics given by the community should be translated.
Earlier Google gave a list based on most searched queries from which we
chose. ( To begin with we have now given a list of 25 featured articles from
English Wikipedia )
* New articles will be added in user namespace and will only be moved to
article namespace when it reaches acceptable quality.
* Earlier articles should be reworked again simultaneously to improve their
quality.
Google and Tamil Wikipedia collaborated intensively in order to arrive at a
process that can be followed in other Wikipedias too. We feel that we have
reached a stage where we have good pointers like above that other Wiki
communities can follow.
Since the project may be unmanageable if it grows too much, we will urge all
Indic language communities having Google translated articles to start
talking to Google without further delay.
* The Wiki communities should start a dialogue / process / agreement to
rework existing articles.
* *New articles should only be added in a rate which is suitable for the
size and activity of the community. Once all the issues are solved, then the
scale of the operation may be increased gradually.*
We still some have issues in this project and there is no final consensus
yet regarding the future of the project. But, we hope that this update
helps.
Ravi
Hi !
A Meet up has been organised on 13th December, 2010 at Pune. This is
third wikimeetup in Pune.
Erik Möller,Deputy Director,Wikimedia Foundation, Danese Cooper ,
Chief Technical Officer, Wikimedia Foundation, Alolita Sharma ,
Engineering Programs Manager, Wikimedia Foundation will be attending
the meetup. Also, Bishakha Datta , Board of Trustees, Wikimedia
Foundation might join in.(not yet confirmed)
Please find the venue details for the Pune Wikimeetup.
Venue:
SICSR, Atur Centre, Model Colony.
Room No 707. 7th floor
Time: 6:30 pm
Location map available here: http://www.plug.org.in/images/map-to-aturcenter.jpg
You are all invited for the meetup. Do join in.
Please do spread the news .. to your friends, groups, mailing lists, forums...
Best regards,
-Sudhanwa
Dear All*,
*Many Indian Language Wikimedians have asked me to provide the English
translation of the *Malayalam FAQ hand book *that we distribute to our new
users (during our Malayalam Wiki workshops). With the support from many
Malayalam wikimedians finally we were able to complete a rough translation
of the FAQs to English.
Here are the translated FAQs: *http://wikimedia.in/wiki/FAQ
*Please note that it is not a perfect word to word translation of the
Malayalam FAQs. But you can use it as a base to create the same type of FAQ
handbook for your language wiki. All the most important FAQs are included in
this translation. We done this in a hurry so that Bengali wikipedians can
use that for their next week's wiki work shop. If anyone is willing to
enhance the English version please feel free to do so.
While translating, please remember to replace the references of Malayalam
wiki to your language wiki projects and localize the FAQs to suit the
requirements of the speakers of your language. There might more FAQs that
are relevant to the speakers of your language. But limit the number of FAQs
to 25 or so since the target audience of this handbook is new users and
general public. Please do not include questions about complicated policies
of wikipedia by citing various acronyms and links. Keep the questions and
answers as simple as possible.
I thank the following Malayalam wikimedians who helped in this translation
effort:
- Praveen P
- Sunil V.S
- Sreejith K
- Challiyan
- Francis Simy Nazareth
- Jyothis
- Rajesh K
Hope this effort will be of some help to the other Indian language wiki
communities.
For your reference, here are the revisions of the Malayalam version:
- *First edition*<http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/10/MalayalamWiki_FAQ_2010_A…>-
Released on 2010 April 17
- *Second edition*<http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/61/Malayalam_Wiki_Projects_…>-
Released on 2010 November 30
Thanks
Shiju Alex
User angpradesh's presentation from the 4th Mumbai meet-up of 28 Nov.
Cheers
Bishakha
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From: Kundan Amitabh <kundanamitabh(a)gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 12:38 AM
Subject: Presentation Slides : How to type Indic Languages by means of
Inscript Keyboard
Hi !
The presentation slides have been uploaded on slideshare.
http://www.slideshare.net/kundanamitabh/how-to-type-indic-languages-by-mean…
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Best Regards.
Kundan Amitabh
Managing Director,
Ang India Technologies,
www.angindia.org
"Let's Keep Our World Green for Our Children's Future!
Please don't print this email unless it's really necessary"
Hi all,
As some of you would have known, In addition to the meeting with
folks from Wikimedia Foundation on 18th December, the regular Bangalore
Wikipedia monthly meetup will be held on usual 2nd Sunday, 12th December. We
would focus on planning for 10th anniversary celebration event on the 22nd
Meetup...We are thinking of a plan for one day "public" event for the
anniverary and would like to shape it well with thoughts / planning /
execution in this meetup.. Please do refer to detailed agenda and sign up at
the meetup pages.
*12th Dec Sunday WPMBL22*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore22 - CIS
office, Domulur, Bangalore
*18th Dec Saturday WPMBL23*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore23 -- TERI
(just few yards before CIS), Domulur , Bangalore ...This meetup will be
attended by Erik Möller ( Deputy Director , Wikimedia Foundation) , Danese
Cooper ( Chief Technical Officer, Wikimedia Foundation) and Alolita Sharma
(Engineering Programs Manager, Wikimedia Foundation).
Regards
Tinu Cherian
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 3:48 PM, CherianTinu Abraham
<tinucherian(a)gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am extremely pleased to announce the 22nd Wikipedia /Wikimedia
> Wikimeetup , Bangalore on *Dec 18, Satuday* with *Erik Möller *( Deputy
> Director , Wikimedia Foundation) , * Danese Cooper* ( Chief Technical
> Officer, Wikimedia Foundation) and* Alolita Sharma* (Engineering Programs
> Manager, Wikimedia Foundation).
> More details can be found here
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:MBL22
> Please do signup on the meetup page & participate ...
>
> Regards
> Tinu Cherian
>
> N.B. Please note the change of date/day of the usual Wikimeetup for
> Decemeber month.
>
>
Please see this website http://www.indiawikipedia.com/
Do you think the website violates Wikipedia / WMF copyrights ? The site has
nothing to do with Wikipedia or its cause too.
Just bringing into the attention of all.
Now that Mike is away, who is the next in charge for legal affairs ?
Regards
Tinu Cherian
