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[OT] BOLT Mobile browser
by Anoop 30 Nov '10

30 Nov '10

BOLT is a java based mobile browser which supports Indian languages Hindi, Bengali, Gurumukhi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Gujarati, Malayalam and Oriya. http://www.intomobile.com/2010/11/29/bolt-browser-indic-language-support/ -- With Regards, Anoop

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Wikimedia tech fact-finding visit to India
by Erik Moeller 30 Nov '10

30 Nov '10

Hi all, this is just to update you all on an upcoming visit to India by Danese Cooper, Alolita Sharma, and myself. Danese is our Chief Technical Officer, and Alolita program-manages the features development team. I'm the Deputy Director and also responsible for our product strategy. The purpose of our visit is fact-finding and outreach to India's engineering and open source community. The key questions we're hoping to explore include: localization issues concerning Indic languages, other MediaWiki improvements that would make our sites more useful in India, improvements to our mobile gateway, potential partners in developing and deploying offline versions of Wikimedia content. We will, of course, also seek to meet with Wikimedians in the different cities we're visiting, including the chapter. We have a very packed schedule of community meetups, presentations, and one-on-ones, but don't hesitate to let us know about people we should meet. Our itinerary is currently as follows: Arrival in Delhi 12/6 Mumbai 12/9 Pune 12/12 Bangalore 12/14 Hope to see some of you in December :-) All best, Erik -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-mum] Wikipedia 10th year celebrations
by Pradeep Mohandas 29 Nov '10

29 Nov '10

hi, Wikipedia now has a brand new page for its 10th anniversary celebrations: http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page and also has a new mailing list for the same - https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikix-l You'll have to create a login to access the wiki. I have posted a note on the Wikiproject Mumbai today pointing to both Wikimedia X anniversary celebration as well as the Wikimedia Mumbai mailing list. warm regards, Pradeep User:Prad2609

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Malayalam WIkipedia /Wikimedia Academy - Madurai , Tamil Nadu- 21 Sep 2010
by CherianTinu Abraham 29 Nov '10

29 Nov '10

This is to inform that a Malayalam WIkipedia /Wikimedia Academy is planned @ Madurai , Tamil Nadu on 21 Sep 2010. Venue : Kamaraj University centre, Madurai http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:Madurai_wikipedia_Academy_1 Regards Tinu Cherian

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Wikipedia Wikimeetup @ Kolkata
by CherianTinu Abraham 29 Nov '10

29 Nov '10

Hi Wikipedians, We are planning for Wikipedia Wikimeetup @ Kolkata in near future. If you are from the city or can help in Wikimeetup or interested to attend the same, please drop me a personal mail. If you would like to see a Wikimeetup @ also in your town /city and can possibly help us seting it up , feel free to contact me. Regards Tinu Cherian

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Press : Times of India: " If Wikipedia is to be believed .."
by CherianTinu Abraham 29 Nov '10

29 Nov '10

Times of India : " If Wikipedia is to be believed .." http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/sunday-toi/book-mark/Cyber-galaxies… Interesting thought... So how many of you think that Media houses believe Wikipedia ? We have seen lots of news articles "copied" from Wikipedia without attribution :) Regards Tinu Cherian

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Press: Mid-Day : "Come, give Wikipedia a hand"
by CherianTinu Abraham 29 Nov '10

29 Nov '10

Mid-Day : "Come, give Wikipedia a hand" http://www.mid-day.com/specials/2010/nov/281110-wikipedia-monthly-meeting.h… Nice photo, Kundan Amitabh :) Small correction: Wikipedia is available in 20 Indic languages and another 20 are in incubation . Thanks to Shiju Alex , who recently enlightened me with this fact .. Regards Tinu Cherian

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Bangalore 22nd Wikimeetup on Dec 18 , with Erik / Danese / Alolita
by CherianTinu Abraham 29 Nov '10

29 Nov '10

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.

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Hindi Wikisource Project
by Anirudh Bhati 27 Nov '10

27 Nov '10

Dear Hindi Wikimedians, A proposal was made in May 2008 to incubate and start-up the Hindi Wikisource Project. Before the transition, the Oldwikisource Hindi project had over 1500 pages. This content needs to be exported to a new Wikisource platform which has not yet been approved because Hindi interface requires further translation of messages. There are over 250 messages that need to be translated before the project may be approved. This should be treated on a priority basis. If you are interested in supporting the localization efforts, please visit the proposal page on Meta[1] and comment. If you require translator rights assigned on translatewiki.net please contact either John Vandenberg[2] or me offlist. Thanks. [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikisource_Hindi [2] jayvdb at gmail dot com anirudh 00 91 9328712208

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Some issues about Wikipedia
by Ashwin Baindur 26 Nov '10

26 Nov '10

Hi Anay, I saw your email to Jimbo on the Wikimedia-India email group, forwarded by Bishakha for info of all. I recall meeting your reps in the lecture, one of whom was a lady. I had mentioned some issues to them. These are the same issues that are not addressed/appear not to be understood in your email. Firstly, Wikipedia, whether English or Marathi, is an encyclopaedia. For uploading complete texts, the correct Wikimedia project is Marathi WikiSource not Marathi Wikipedia. Secondly, if the desire is to introduce this material into Marathi Wikipedia, the large amount of material you offer to make available has to be sifted and converted and integrated, fact by fact with Neutral Point of View, and proper citation. The material can be converted into new articles or added to existing articles, but will have to conform to the writing style of an encyclopaedia, as per the format indicated in the Manual of Style for Marathi Wikipedia. En masse copying is not possible, even for copyright-free or public domain material. At the very least, editing to fit into the existing article and citation is a must, even if you want to copy-paste small chunks of text. All content creation work in Wikipedia/Wikimedia projects is done by volunteers without renumeration. Thus, the uploading, article-creation, editing, etc will have to be done by your people or by volunteers whom you can get to agree to help you. This is not at all a trivial task. Thirdly, the government has to explicitly state that the material provided has been released into public domain, or under a free license, else the material cannot be uploaded to Wikisource, Wikimedia projects use the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution…>. No restrictions in use, such as "No commercial use"or "No derivatives" etc, are permitted in Creative Commons licenses used in the Wikipedia world. The only restrictions permitted are that the reused Wikipedia material (article/book/material etc) must be offered under the same or similar free license as Wikipedia downstream to other users and that the use must be attributed. Lastly, I strongly recommend your team who will be handling the project become Wikipedia editors as there are a large number of domain knowledge issues, which will affect your progress and success. I hope this email is helpful in helping you understand the larger picture. I wish you all the very best in this and other noble ventures that the Observer Research Foundation Mumbai is involved in. Happy Editing, Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur or User:AshLIn on English Wikipedia. ------------------------------------------------------

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