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Weekly call?
by Hari Prasad Nadig 11 Sep '10

11 Sep '10

People, Arun, Is the weekly meet-up on? Didn't seem to catch any email on this today. -- Hari Prasad Nadig http://hpnadig.net | http://twitter.com/hpnadig http://flickr.com/hpnadig

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Fw: Economictimes.com: Govt to rent out computers in rural areas at Rs 15 a day
by Mahitgar from Marathi Wikipedia 11 Sep '10

11 Sep '10

Govt to rent out computers in rural areas at Rs 15 a day After the slow pick-up of the $220 One Laptop Per Child Project, and an uncertainty over the $35 laptop called Sakshat, the government is now experimenting with another model-to dole out computers on rent to spread IT literacy in the country. Log on to : http://www.economictimes.indiatimes.com

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Fwd: Delhi Meetup Details
by CherianTinu Abraham 10 Sep '10

10 Sep '10

Fwding to India list also. Salman Haroon is organising a Wikimeetup in Delhi on Sep 22. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Delhi/Delhi1 If you are in Delhi, please get in touch with Salman asap... All the best wishes for the first ever Delhi Wikimeetup. Regards Tinu Cherian ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: theo10011 <de10011(a)gmail.com> Date: Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 11:01 AM Subject: [Wikimedia-in-del] Delhi Meetup Details To: "ravikant(a)sarai.net" <Ravikant(a)sarai.net>, mayur kumar < mayurdce(a)gmail.com>, rohitrawatom <rohitrawatom(a)hotmail.com>, wikimedia-in-del(a)lists.wikimedia.org Hi there I just wanted to inform everyone that we have decided on Connaught Place as the venue for the meetup on September 22 at around 5-6 PM with Barry Newstead from the foundation. Barry will be in town for a short time and wants an informal get-together with local Wikimedians to get our opinions. I suggested Connaught Place for its easy connectivity through Metro (I am hoping that the CWG work would be completed by then). It would probably be in a coffee shop in the vicinity but the final decision has not been taken. I will inform everyone once a decision is made as to which one. I am looking for any feedback before-hand, if anyone has a problem with the time or the venue, we can change it to a certain degree to accommodate everyone. Any other questions and concerns in the mean time can be directed towards me. Please confirm as early as possible if you will be attending. Thank you Salmaan _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-in-del mailing list Wikimedia-in-del(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-del

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Fwd: [Wmfcc-l] [press] Google 'Health Speaks' for online medical info in Hindi
by Barry Newstead 08 Sep '10

08 Sep '10

FYI -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Wmfcc-l] [press] Google 'Health Speaks' for online medical info in Hindi Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 15:01:51 -0700 From: Jacquelynne Ocana <jacquiocana(a)gmail.com> Reply-To: Communications Committee <wmfcc-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> To: Communications Committee <wmfcc-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Google 'Health Speaks' for online medical info in Hindi Press Trust of India http://www.hindustantimes.com/Google-Health-Speaks-for-online-medical-info-… Internet search giant Google is encouraging volunteers to translate health-related articles in Hindi under its initiative to boost the amount of online medical information in local languages. Google.org has introduced pilots for its initiative 'Health Speaks' that aims to increase the online health information in Hindi, Arabic and Swahili. The search giant said it has chosen hundreds of health articles, written in English, from Wikipedia for their translation. Volunteers who are bilingual in English and anyone of the vernaculars are being encouraged to translate the literature with assistance from the Google Translator Toolkit. Translators are also supposed to review the articles and make it locally relevant before publishing it on the corresponding local language Wikipedia site. Pilot programmes are supported with a donation incentive, awarding local charities with funds based on the number of words volunteers translate, Google said in a statement. For the first 60 days, Google will donate 3 US cents (about 45 paise) to the Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, for each English word translated in Hindi. The maximum donation would $ 50,000. The Children's Cancer Hospital Egypt 57357 and the African Medical and Research Foundation would get the same amount for the pilots in Arabic and Swahili, respectively. "Language should not be the barrier that denies millions of people worldwide the opportunity to improve their health with valuable health information," Jennifer Haroon, Manager of Health Initiatives at Google.org, said. In most parts of the world, quality information that would help people to improve their health is not available online in local languages. In 2004, Lancet - a medical journal - described the lack of access to health information as a "major barrier to knowledge-based healthcare in developing countries." The authors then noted "among currently available technologies, only the Internet has the potential to deliver universal access to up-to-date healthcare information." Currently, professional translation of high quality health content is expensive and there are difficulties in finding translators for some non-western languages. -- "If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate." --Roland -- Barry Newstead Chief Global Development Officer Wikimedia Foundation Tel: +1-415-839-6885 x. 634 Skype: barry.wikimedia Twitter: @bazanews

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do try Google Trends to compare
by Mahitgar from Marathi Wikipedia 08 Sep '10

08 Sep '10

Dear Wikipedians do try Google Trends to see which wikipedia Indians are searching for vis a vis english wikipedia , Seems Hindi and Tamil Wikipedia are doing better on this count. Regards Mahitgar --- On Wed, 8/9/10, wikimediaindia-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org <wikimediaindia-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org> wrote: From: wikimediaindia-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org <wikimediaindia-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: Wikimediaindia-l Digest, Vol 27, Issue 7 To: wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Date: Wednesday, 8 September, 2010, 9:44 AM Send Wikimediaindia-l mailing list submissions to wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to wikimediaindia-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org You can reach the person managing the list at wikimediaindia-l-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Wikimediaindia-l digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Malayalam Wikipedia crosses 14,000 articles (CherianTinu Abraham) 2. Re: Malayalam Wikipedia crosses 14,000 articles (Hari Prasad Nadig) 3. Fwd: [WikiEN-l] Open IRC meeting with Wikimedia Trustees: Saturday, 1600 UTC (Anirudh Bhati) 4. New Stats- Global perspective about Wikipedia Page edits (theo10011) 5. Re: New Stats- Global perspective about Wikipedia Page edits (Gautam John) 6. Re: New Stats- Global perspective about Wikipedia Page edits (arjuna rao chavala) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 20:43:29 +0530 From: CherianTinu Abraham <tinucherian(a)gmail.com> Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Malayalam Wikipedia crosses 14,000 articles To: wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: <AANLkTimj=Np5QsP4aWaPmj4fW7x4AB_r-9xd-iQ7p8BK(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hi folks, This is to inform that Malayalam Wikipedia (ml.wikipedia.org) crossed 14,000 articles. http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics It took only less than 2.5 months from 13K to 14K. This is particularly important because Malayalam Wikipedia has strict guidelines on the quality of the new articles being created. Good job ! Regards Tinu Cherian

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Fwd: Sep 12- Bangalore Monthly wikipedia meetup - Announcing special talk
by CherianTinu Abraham 06 Sep '10

06 Sep '10

FYI ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Arun Ram <arunram25(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 8:28 AM Subject: [Wikimedia-in-blr] Bangalore Monthly wikipedia meetup - Announcing special talk To: wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, "Mailing list for Wikimedians / Wikipedians in Bangalore, India" <wikimedia-in-blr(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Dear Wikipedians, This is to remind all about the next Bangalore Wikipedian meetup (Meetup # 18) on *Sunday 12th September. * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore18 We have some interesting content for this meetup. We have been experimenting with various forms of participation in the meetups including *remote presentations* at Bangalore meetups. . We had Liam Wyatt speak earlier from Sydney regarding the GLAM project. Happy to announce another speaker, this time from Israel - Wikimedian Asaf Bartov. He will be speaking on Wikimedia in Israel, Projects, growth, challenges and best practices. We have a few other interesting sessions lined up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore18#Agenda - A discussion on Wikimedia Chapters<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters> and other forms of affiliation (Achal Prabhala) - India newsletter And *many more*. Please do mark your calendars and make it to the monthly meetup. This meeting is open to all interested in Wikimedia (all projects and languages) , please do make it if you are thereabouts in Bangalore. If are considering attending the meeting, please sign up here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore18#Attendi… Regards Arun Bangalore, India _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-in-blr mailing list Wikimedia-in-blr(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-blr

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"Too much bad news on Wikipedia’s main page?"
by CherianTinu Abraham 06 Sep '10

06 Sep '10

Interesting blog article *"Too much bad news on Wikipedia’s main page?*" by one of the top Indian contributors & Eng Wikipedia Admin Utkarshraj Atmaram (User:Utcursch <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Utcursch> ) http://ut7.in/blog/2010/09/04/too-much-bad-news-on-wikipedias-main-page/ This blog is featured on the latest Wikipedia Signpost. Also featured is our DYKIndia twitter feed by Srikanth ( User:logicwiki) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2010-09-06/News_a… Regards Tinu Cherian

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Bangalore Monthly wikipedia meetup - Announcing special talk
by Arun Ram 06 Sep '10

06 Sep '10

Dear Wikipedians, This is to remind all about the next Bangalore Wikipedian meetup (Meetup # 18) on *Sunday 12th September. * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore18 We have some interesting content for this meetup. We have been experimenting with various forms of participation in the meetups including *remote presentations* at Bangalore meetups. . We had Liam Wyatt speak earlier from Sydney regarding the GLAM project. Happy to announce another speaker, this time from Israel - Wikimedian Asaf Bartov. He will be speaking on Wikimedia in Israel, Projects, growth, challenges and best practices. We have a few other interesting sessions lined up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore18#Agenda - A discussion on Wikimedia Chapters<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters> and other forms of affiliation (Achal Prabhala) - India newsletter And *many more*. Please do mark your calendars and make it to the monthly meetup. This meeting is open to all interested in Wikimedia (all projects and languages) , please do make it if you are thereabouts in Bangalore. If are considering attending the meeting, please sign up here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore18#Attendi… Regards Arun Bangalore, India

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Announcing the Wikimedia Mailing List for Delhi and NCR
by theo10011 04 Sep '10

04 Sep '10

Hi everyone I wanted to announce the creation of a Wikimedia mailing list for Delhi, anyone in the Delhi and NCR region is welcomed to join the list. It will be used to organize local meetups in future and keep Delhi Wikimedians updated about any developments in the Wikimedia movement. We will also be using the list to recruit new members through outside activities in coming months. I would like to acknowledge the support of Ms. Bishakha Dutta and Mr. Gautam John for all their help and guidance in our efforts so far. Thanks you. Regards Salmaan Haroon

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GoI to move to FOSS technology
by Varun Garde 04 Sep '10

04 Sep '10

Hi Folks, In the last wikimedia meetup, I heard stories of how govt. libraries' digitization efforts were failing because of a lack of technology direction and infrastructure (Someone said, one of the library was simply scanning up all its books into TIFF). Good news is that problems such as these may become a thing of past when the government adopts FOSS technology as the way to go for all its needs. This could also stir the FOSS movement in India. Longer story here: http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?266988 Excerpt: The policy has been cleared by the Department of Information Technology and the National Informatics Centre and is likely to be made official soon. This effectively means the technology used in all government departments and offices would have to shift to an open standard. With rough estimates putting the e-governance market at around $10 billion, the new system—at the interface and data-archival levels—will shake up big companies hitherto operating in these segments through their proprietary (read paid-for) standards. Thanks, Varun.

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