A link has been provided to the CD content online in http://www.mlwiki.in if
anyone is interested.
Regards,
Jyothis.
http://www.Jyothis.nethttp://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jyothis
I am the first customer of http://www.netdotnet.com
woods are lovely dark and deep,
but i have promises to keep and
miles to go before i sleep and
lines to go before I press sleep
completion date = (start date + ((estimated effort x 3.1415926) / resources)
+ ((total coffee breaks x 0.25) / 24)) + Effort in meetings
Hello WikiMedians,
With great pleasure let me inform you about the *Malayalam Wikimedia users
meetup*. Today *(2010 April 17) Malayalam Wikimedians* are coming together
for the 3rd wikimeetup at RajaGiri College of Social Sciences, Kalamassery,
Ernakulam <http://www.rajagiri.edu/>. The first malayalam wikimeetup was
happened in 2007 Decemver 31, and the second meetup was in 2008 October 31.
We are extremely happy to inform you about some of the major things
happening as a part of this meetup.
1. *We are releasing a Malayalam Wikipedia CD* that contain 500 articles
selected from the 12,000 articles that were available in Malayalam Wikipedia
during 2010 March.
Please note that we are not releasing an offline version of malayalam wiki
articles. It is a customized version of articles very much similar to the
English Wikipedia on CD
(http://wikipediaondvd.com/). We have provided many other additional
facilities/addons that are applicable to Malayalam language on this CD. I
will provide you the link to download this CD after we release the CD at 3
PM Indian standard time.
With the release of this CD, we have become the first Indian language
WikiMdedia foundation Wiki releasing such a CD. Also, I assume that no other
non-latin languages tried this due to the number of technical hurdles that
need to over come while working with non-latin languages.
*We have developed a dedicated application (in GNU/Linux) for creating this
CD. *I will share you the details of this software as soon as it is
available for community development. I will write a separate mail regarding
the efforts that went behind the creation of this CD.
2.* We are setting up a new website for coordinating the various activities
of Malayalam Wikimedians.* I will share the link soon. The CD version of
Malayalam Wikipedia will be avilable for download from this site later
today.
3. *We are releasing a printed book (in Malayalam language) that contain 25
frequently asked questions about Wiki, Wikipedia, and Malayalam Wikipedia. *I
think if this docuemnt is translated to English, many other Indian languages
can reuse it. Requeting the help of wikimedians to translate it to English
and available it to all. I will provide you the link to download this book
later today.
The production cost of CD and the book is sponsored by
IT@school<http://www.itschool.gov.in/>and the meetup is sponsored by
number of NGO's including
SPACE <http://www.space-kerala.org/>.
*We are trying for the live streaming of this event.* The link will be
provided as soon as it is available.
I will share more details about the meetup later today.
Regards
Shiju Alex
Hey guys, since we use Twitter a lot to invite users to our meetups in
Bangalore and let the world know what happens on a Real time basis using
Twitter as well.
I just wanted to know if you guys could provide your handles out here.
All of you will be in the list - http://twitter.com/rsrikanth05/wikipedia
Here are a few which I have got. Left is the Wikipedia Username, right is
Twitter.
Arunram - Arunram
PlaneMad - arungraphy
Indianmagicians - philiptiju
Tinucherian - Tinucherian
Rsrikanth05 - rsrikanth05
Sundar - oligoglot
Ravi - tamilravi
Shijualex - shijualexonline
Vaibhavskulkarni - vaibhavsk
Syler.mi4 - Syler_Mi4
Jithesh_E_J - jithesh_e_j
Anoopan - Anoopan
Logicwiki - Logic
GaneshK - Ganeshk
Rameshng - Rameshng
GKJohn - gkjohn
Achitnis - achitnis
That is all for now, please add your names, if I have missed you out
anywhere.
--
Regards,
Srikanth.
Wear a Lungi, Support the Movement, Uyirin Uyirae
Sent from my Motorola SLVR L9.
FYI
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Renuka Phadnis <phadnisrenu(a)yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 10:06 AM
Subject: Some information for Bangalore Mirror
To: arunram25(a)gmail.com, hpnadig(a)gmail.com, Bishakhadatta(a)gmail.com
Cc: Renuka Phadnis <phadnisrenu(a)yahoo.com>
Dear All
I am Renuka Phadnis from the Bangalore Mirror in Bangalore.
I got your email IDs from Bangapedian Tinu Cherian.
I wish to write about your roles in Wikipedia. So please would you mind
replying to some queries:
i
For Arunram and Nadig:
1. What work do you do in Bangalore?
2. How did you get interested in Wikipedia, how long have you been writing
for it, and what do you write on?
3. What takes you to Berlin? What will your agenda there? How are you
supposed to use your learnings from the Berlin meet?
For Bishakha:
1. What do you, what do you write on in Wikipedia and how long have you been
writing for Wikipedia?
2. What does it take to be a trustee member? How did you get selected for
the role? How long will you be in this role?
3. What will you be doing in this new role?
4. How do you see the Bangalore Wikipedia group?
Please do send photos of yourselves.
Thank you
Best wishes
Renuka Phadnis
Principal Correspondent
Bangalore Mirror
Sorry about that - don't know how or why it happens. What I said was
that with the participation of a critical mass of Wikipedians, each
language Wikipedia could possibly reflect the culture of those
language-speakers, i.e. what they want to see on Wikipedia - I certainly
did not mean to imply that Japanese Wikipedia has no citations or that
they are not required in India (just that we might have to try harder
for this in cultures with a strong oral tradition)...and that a good
measure of an Indian language Wikipedia's success might be to compare
it's readership with that of an online news or entertainment portal in
that language.
Here's to more clarity in the future?!
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From: Keegan Peterzell <keegan.wiki(a)gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 1:52 AM
Subject: [Foundation-l] Living Person Task Force: Phase Two
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hello, Wikimedians.
This weekend I plan on finalizing the timeline for phase two of the Living
Person Task Force: a community findings recommendation.
What we are interested in is people from all size wikis participating in
discussing common interests and problems on interpersonal and intrapersonal
interaction relating to Wikimedia projects. This includes statistics
gathering, examination of how projects handle OTRS complaints/issues, image
use, quotation use, and sourcing. It is very important that we get
participation in these areas, if anything just to received feedback on the
wiki. I have subpages set up for these discussion on the Strategy site, <
http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Task_force/Living_People>.
In six to eight weeks we'd like to develop recommendations from the Task
Force that are more in-depth than the proposed recommendations to be passed
by the Board this month, to assist in developing projects identify and set
up structures for the issues that come with societies.
If you have experience dealing with living people on any of our wikis, or if
you have ideas on how policies can be established/improved, please
participate in the discussions so that we can adequately asses the projects
as a whole.
Thanks for your time, see you on the wiki!
--
~Keegan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Keegan
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Dear Fellow India Wikimedians,
I take great pleasure in informing you all that with the submission of a draft of MoA to the Chapters Committee for their final ratification and approval, the objective of establishing Wikimedia India is closer to fruition. This latest draft of MoA has taken all (y)our discussions so far into consideration and has been given its final shape after due deliberations with legal experts. A copy of the latest draft can be accessed at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_India/MoA-ChapComVer. I also take this opportunity for thanking one and all in making this a reality.
Cheers,
Srinivas.
Unified login across all Wikimedia projects: Gurubrahma
The INTERNET now has a personality. YOURS! See your Yahoo! Homepage. http://in.yahoo.com/
If you are interested in applying for a scholarship to attend Wikimania
in 2010, please see:
http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships
The deadline for applications is *April 11*.
The call for proposals (talks and sessions) is not yet out, but should
be soon.