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Indian DYK (trivia) from Wikipedia on twitter.
by Srikanth Lakshmanan 21 Aug '10

21 Aug '10

Hi all, I am planning to start a twitter account posting one DYK fact related to India everyday and a link to the article using a script.There are currently 1200+ DYK articles related to India and i have wrote a script to parse the talk pages and got around 800+ DYK hooks (my script's regex can be improved and am working on that to get all 1200+ hooks). I need your help to further format the hooks to 120 chars, so that it fits into twitter limit and maintain the tweet queue(just like DYK queue), so that my script can post on twitter without manual intervention. I think this could give a boost to visibility and page views of DYK articles having good content which otherwise recieve fairly low page views which happens only through search since quite a few of them are poorly linked.If this is successfull we could probably even use it over free sms service.(now that GPRS is getting cheap and penetration is increasing) People following get to know trivia and also might give some sort of satisfaction to the DYK creators. If you could spare some time in helping with maintaining the tweet queue, please mail me offlist, we could work on that. Thoughts / Suggestions on the idea is welcome. Suggestions for the twitter account name is also welcome. :) Regards, Srikanth L

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Please help test geolocation
by Erik Moeller 16 Aug '10

16 Aug '10

Hello all, we're experimenting with geolocation tools. For the purpose of supporting the coordination of meetups and events, we want to add functionality that will make it easy to run banners in a particular region (e.g. a city and surrounding area). To do so, we need to license a database that will allow us to look up a person's presumed location based on their IP address. Before we do so, we want to gather some reports from around the world about the quality of the information provided. To help out, please visit: http://www.maxmind.com/app/mylocation And then report your results at: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MaxMindCityTesting Thanks for any and all help, Erik -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

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Bangalore wikipedia meetup #17 today
by Arun Ram 15 Aug '10

15 Aug '10

Dear all, This is a gentle reminder to all about the Bangalore wikipedia meetup. All wikimedians are welcome. For more details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore17 The venue is the regular CIS offices at Domlur. Please do attend. See you folks there. 3 PM IST. regards Arun

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Wikimeetup Aug 2010 WPMBL16
by CherianTinu Abraham 12 Aug '10

12 Aug '10

Folks, CIS has informed me that they have anathor event ( their board meetings) on the same day of our meetup ( Aug 15) . So what do we do ? Postpone for next weekend? Thoughts & urgent replies requested. Regards Tinu Cherian N.B. I may be out of station, next weekend.

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Please help test geolocation
by Prashanth NS 11 Aug '10

11 Aug '10

Hi, It gets the city wrong in the case of Antwerp, Belgium. Updated results on the site. Wonder if this is an isolated problem only with me, cos I was accessing through my Uni. But, if it happens even outside then it is off by about 50+ km! Have updated the meta page with the results. Regards, Prashanth > > Hello all, > > > > we're experimenting with geolocation tools. For the purpose of > > supporting the coordination of meetups and events, we want to add > > functionality that will make it easy to run banners in a particular > > region (e.g. a city and surrounding area). > > > > To do so, we need to license a database that will allow us to look up > > a person's presumed location based on their IP address. Before we do > > so, we want to gather some reports from around the world about the > > quality of the information provided. > > > > To help out, please visit: > > http://www.maxmind.com/app/mylocation > > > > And then report your results at: > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MaxMindCityTesting > > > > Thanks for any and all help, > > > > Erik > > -- > > Erik M?ller > > Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation > > > > Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > > Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > > >

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Please help test geolocation
by BalaSundaraRaman 11 Aug '10

11 Aug '10

Ravi, Good idea. It identifies Bangalore and Karnataka correctly. Can you click on the link and verify whether it shows Kovai correctly? Sundar from mobile On Wed Aug 11th, 2010 11:15 AM IST Ravishankar wrote: >Eric, > >Good tool. > >Can this be used to display banners country wide or state wide? > >Many Indian Wikipedian users don't even know about the existance of regional >language Wikipedias. So, if we can display a banner at the top giving links >to regional Wikipedias, it will greatly boost the awareness about them. >Sites like WordPress.com do this already. > >Ravi > >On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> we're experimenting with geolocation tools. For the purpose of >> supporting the coordination of meetups and events, we want to add >> functionality that will make it easy to run banners in a particular >> region (e.g. a city and surrounding area). >> >> To do so, we need to license a database that will allow us to look up >> a person's presumed location based on their IP address. Before we do >> so, we want to gather some reports from around the world about the >> quality of the information provided. >> >> To help out, please visit: >> http://www.maxmind.com/app/mylocation >> >> And then report your results at: >> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MaxMindCityTesting >> >> Thanks for any and all help, >> >> Erik >> -- >> Erik Möller >> Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation >> >> Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >> Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >>

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The Wikipedia resource - in South Indian languages! - Mybangalore.com article
by CherianTinu Abraham 07 Aug '10

07 Aug '10

The Wikipedia resource - in South Indian languages! - Mybangalore.com article http://www.mybangalore.com/article/0810/the-wikipedia-resource-in-south-ind… Thanks Tinu Cherian

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Fwd: Okawix lets you download the whole content of Wikipedia
by CherianTinu Abraham 02 Aug '10

02 Aug '10

FYI Regards Tinu Cherian ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Prinson <prinsonj(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 5:35 PM Subject: [Wikiml-l] Okawix lets you download the whole content of Wikipedia To: Malayalam Wikimedia Project Mailing list <wikiml-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> http://www.okawix.com/ Okawix lets you download the whole content of Wikipedia, with or without images, so that you can browse it offline: Okawix is available in 253 languages and includes sister projects of the Wikimedia Foundation (Wikisource, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikibooks). Okawix is a free software available under GPL<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>licence; ~prinson _______________________________________________ Wikiml-l is the mailing list for Malayalam Wikimedia Projects email: Wikiml-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Website: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiml-l

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] The rupee
by Michael Everson 27 Jul '10

27 Jul '10

In all fairness, what Ashwin Kumar has done *is* a workaround since until the UTC meets next month there is no possibility of putting the INDIAN RUPEE SIGN in any place in a font apart from the Private Use Area or (as he has done) in ASCII. It would be a bad thing for this to get put into real data, but in order to allow printing, it *is* a workaround. Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/

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The rupee
by Gerard Meijssen 27 Jul '10

27 Jul '10

Hoi, I asked Michael Everson if he had more information about the new symbol for the rupee. He did and I blogged about it based on his information. Obviously this is a special case but essentially when there is a need for new characters there is a procedure for getting them included in Unicode. Once they are in Unicode, fonts have to support the new characters. Thanks, GerardM http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2010/07/indian-rupee.html

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