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Fw: Economictimes.com : Wikipedia may soon open its India chapter
by Mahitgar from Marathi Wikipedia 22 Feb '10

22 Feb '10

--- On Fri, 19/2/10, mailerservice(a)indiatimes.com <mailerservice(a)indiatimes.com> wrote: From: mailerservice(a)indiatimes.com <mailerservice(a)indiatimes.com> Subject: Economictimes.com : Wikipedia may soon open its India chapter To: mahitgar(a)yahoo.co.in Date: Friday, 19 February, 2010, 8:44 PM This page was sent to you by: mahitgar, wikikar(a)yahoo.com -------------------------------- Wikipedia may soon open its India chapter The World’s largest online encyclopedia Wikipedia plans to launch an Indian edition of the website as part of its strategy to expand its footprint in the lucrative internet markets of India and China. Log on to : http://www.economictimes.com ---------------------------------- Message from mahitgar Agood article ---------------------------------- ** Disclaimer ** This is a public forum provided by Economictimes.com for its users to share their views with friends/public at large. Economictimes.com is not responsible for the content of this email. Anything written in this email does not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of Economictimes.com. Please note that neither the email address nor the name of the sender has been verified. The INTERNET now has a personality. YOURS! See your Yahoo! Homepage. http://in.yahoo.com/

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Proposal: Wikipedia loves India
by Utkarshraj Atmaram 19 Feb '10

19 Feb '10

Hi everybody, As you might be aware, the Britain Loves Wikipedia <http://britainloveswikipedia.org/> hunt has been making waves recently. I was wondering if we Indian Wikipedians can launch an initiative to get photographs for hundreds of India-related articles that don't have even one photograph. While there have been efforts like Wikipedia Takes Chennai in the past, they have been too locality-centric to attract hundreds of photographs. We need something bigger! We have a huge number of articles without photographs in categories such as Universities and colleges in India, Companies of India, Buildings and structures in India, Cities and towns in India, Festivals in India etc. There are thousands of Indians online -- imagine if they can contribute a photograph each about their city, village, workplace, festivals, cuisine, school, college or alma mater! I'm sure a lot of bloggers, Facebook users and Twitter users will be willing to contribute photographs to Wikipedia articles. We just need to reach out to them. I've created a page at Wikipedia:WikiProject India/India Loves Wikipedia, where we can brainstorm about this proposal. Please do share your thoughts, and add this page to your watchlist to keep track of updates: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_India/India_Loves_Wikipe… Utkarshraj Atmaram http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Utcursch

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A suggestion I have from the Urdu Wikipedia
by Gerard Meijssen 19 Feb '10

19 Feb '10

Hoi, The Urdu Wikipedia finished the "Wikimedia Mobile Interface" 24 messages. They did this before finishing the "most used" messages 469 messages. Their advantage is that the content of the Urdu Wikipedia is now available in a format that is more appropriate for mobiles ... I do not know how much effect this will have for the traffic of the Urdu Wikipedia but it is an easy net gain. Thanks, GerardM

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Advanced toolbar needs your support
by Gerard Meijssen 19 Feb '10

19 Feb '10

Hoi, Yesterday there were two blogposts about improving support for your language(s) in MediaWiki ... Parul wrote about technical bits and bobs and I wrote to ask you all to help her help you.. http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2010/02/mediawiki-seeks-to-support-your… Thanks, GerardM

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indian language Wikipedias - Statistical report - 2010 January
by Shiju Alex 15 Feb '10

15 Feb '10

<snip> Do you - or someone else - have any plans to add these at some point in time? </snip> Yes very much. I am preparing a blog post based on these numbers. Infact for the past 1.5 years we are publishing an analysis based on these numbers in Malayalam wiki mailing list each month. I know the current information is not "analysis". But I hope it will improve as we move forward based on the valuable inputs from all of you. Siebrand, Erik, I have noticed that in all the statistics tables at different locations, *Bhojpuri language* is representented as *Bihari*. But Bhojupuri is one of the *Bihari languages (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bihari_languages)*. Other Bihari languages are : Angika <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angika_language> *·* Bhojpuri <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhojpuri> *·* Fiji Hindi<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiji_Hindi> *·* Kudmali<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kudmali&action=edit&redlink=1> *·* Magahi <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magahi> *·* Maithili<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maithili_language> *·* Majhi <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majhi_language> *·* Musasa<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musasa_language> *·* Panchpargania<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Panchpargania&action=edit&redlink…> *·* Sadri <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadri_language> *·* Sadri, Oraon<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadri_language> *·* Sarnami Hindustani <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarnami> *·* Surajpuri<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Surajpuri&action=edit&redlink=1> *·* Vajjika <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vajjika_language> Please see whether this information needs to updated. Thank you Shiju On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 12:39 AM, Siebrand Mazeland <s.mazeland(a)xs4all.nl>wrote: > Hi Shiju Alex, > > *very* nice overview in numbers. > > You’re calling it an ‘analysis’. Usually I expect some prose with an > analysis – reasoning, assumptions and conclusions. > > Do you - or someone else - have any plans to add these at some point in > time? Currently each reader has to go through all the tables, make his own > observations, mix in some assumptions and distill conclusions from those. I > truly understand that commenting on numbers is probably even more work than > gathering them in the current format in the first place. > > It could however be very valuable – and a great discussion starter – if > someone would comment on the numbers say every 6 months. It would also allow > readers of the report to just read the words, and have the tables as an > annex. > > Next steps could be to add goals, strategies to archieve them, and assess > the goals and strategies later on, based on this type of report. > > Comments? > > Siebrand > > From: wikimediaindia-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto: > wikimediaindia-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Shiju Alex > Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 7:29 PM > To: wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indian language Wikipedias - Statistical report > - 2010 January > > Hello All > > Please see the PDF file available at the location > http://shijualexonline.googlepages.com/2010_01_january_en.pdf for a > detailed statistical analysis of the Indian language wikipedias for the > month of 2010 January. > > <snip> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >

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Bangalore Wikipedia meetup 11 on Sunday (tomorrow)
by Arun Ram 14 Feb '10

14 Feb '10

Dear all: The monthly meetup of the Wikipedia is here again in Bangalore. Your are invited to attend the meeting. We look forward to meeting you all again. For more details please checkout the wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore11 We look forward to some volunteer talks as well. Any volunteers who can talk on the following (or any other) are welcome: - Activity on any of the Wikipedias - Hindi, Marathi, Bishnupriya Manipuri, Bengali, etc (we are fine with remote presentations, we already did some for Tamil) - Demo on tools used for dealing with Vandals - Experience sharing on any outreach activities regards Arunram

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Indian language Wikipedias - Statistical report - 2010 January
by Shiju Alex 13 Feb '10

13 Feb '10

Hello All Please see the PDF file available at the location http://shijualexonline.googlepages.com/2010_01_january_en.pdf for a detailed statistical analysis of the Indian language wikipedias for the month of 2010 January. The data for this report is taken from the statistical analysis of all the WikiMedia wikis prepared and maintained by Erik Zachte (Website: http://infodisiac.com/). The statistics is available at http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/Sitemap.htm. Special thanks to Erik for all the support he has extended while I was compiling this report. The data is collected on the last day of every month. That is, the statistical data for the month of 2010 January is collected at 2010 January 31 23:59 PM GMT. The statistical analysis of the following Indian language wikipedias is included in this blog post. * Assamese (http://as.wikipedia.org) * Bengali (http://bn.wikipedia.org) * Bhojpuri (http://bh.wikipedia.org) * Bishnupriya Manipuri (http://bpy.wikipedia.org) * Gujarathi (http://gu.wikipedia.org) * Hindi (http://hi.wikipedia.org) * Kannada (http://kn.wikipedia.org) * Kashmiri (http://ks.wikipedia.org) * Malayalam (http://ml.wikipedia.org) * Marathi (http://mr.wikipedia.org) * Odia (Oriya) (http://or.wikipedia.org) * Pali (http://pi.wikipedia.org) * Punjabi (http://pa.wikipedia.org) * Sanskrit (http://sa.wikipedia.org) * Sindhi (http://sd.wikipedia.org) * Tamil (http://ta.wikipedia.org) * Telugu (http://te.wikipedia.org) * Urdu (http://ur.wikipedia.org) I have also included some other languages of Indian Subcontinent like Sinhala, Burmese, and so on; * Burmese (http://my.wikipedia.org) * Nepal Bhasha/Newari (http://new.wikipedia.org) * Nepali (http://ne.wikipedia.org) * Sinhala (http://si.wikipedia.org) I know that these languages are not among the official languages the India. But I am very much interested to see the wiki activity for these languages due to various reasons. Especially Sinhala and Burmese Wikipedia. I hope this initiative will improve the interaction between different Indian Language Wikipedias/wikipedians. We (Malayalam Wikipedians - http://ml.wikipedia.org) are maintaining a similar comparison study of the major Indian Language wikipedias for the past two years. This analysis has helped us to understand the status of Malayalam Wikipedia as compared to other Indian Language Wikipedias. I hope this report will help other Indian language wikipedias also. Please feel free to add your suggestions/analysis as comment to this post. I have divided this report into two different sections. 1. Statistical analysis of Wikipedias 2. Localization status of Mediawiki software Following are the different topics covered under each section. *Wikipedia Statistics* Article statistics Number of Articles Number of Edits Break up of edits (2009 February – 2010 January) Edits per article Number of new articles/day Average size of an article (bytes) Database size (in Mega Bytes) Percentage of articles with size greater than 500 bytes Percentage of articles with size greater than 2000 bytes (2 kilobytes) User Statistics Number of active wikipedians Page views per month (All figures in Lakhs/month) MediaWiki Statistics *Localization statistics* Media Wiki Localization status (percentage) See the PDF http://shijualexonline.googlepages.com/2010_01_january_en.pdffor the detailed analysis. You can make your own analysis and conclusions after going through each topic in the PDF. Along with each month's statistical report, I would like to put forward a question related to Indian langaugage Wikis The question for this month is : *Question for 2010 january:* *Which is the first Indian language Wikipedia?* Support your answer with sufficient references. Please let me know in case there are any issues. Regards Shiju Alex

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Reminder: Wikimedia India strategy
by Achal Prabhala 08 Feb '10

08 Feb '10

A quick reminder: if you are interested in contributing to Wikimedia's India strategy plan, please go to http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Task_force/Recommendations You can discuss/ critique/ augment existing recommendations or add your own. We could really use your help; thanks.

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Kerala Meetup
by Naveen Francis 06 Feb '10

06 Feb '10

en.wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Kerala ml wikipedia page http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meetup-2010_April

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[Fwd: Wikimedia India strategy: We need YOU]]
by Achal Prabhala 06 Feb '10

06 Feb '10

Srikanth - and others - these recommendations need your immediate input. While there is further discussion possible on the Strategy Task Force (http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Task_force/Recommendations) the current set of recommendations need refinement before they can become actionable strategies. Therefore, your input over the weekend - by Monday - is appreciated.

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