--- रवि, 6/7/08 को, Mahitgar from Marathi Wikipedia <mahitgar(a)yahoo.co.in> ने लिखा:
> द्वारा: Mahitgar from Marathi Wikipedia <mahitgar(a)yahoo.co.in>
> विषय: Proposals for Wikimedia India/projects
> To: wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> दिनांक: रविवार, 6 जुलाई, 2008, 9:27 PM
> Unfortunately following project proposals suggested for
> proposed wikimedia india chapter are still not taken up for
> discussion,I am copy pasting them from meta Wikimedia
> India/projects page, Can we begin a discussion what needto
> be real priorities and how many of uscan support the given
> cause actively.
> ==Proposals==
> * Promoting study and usage of
> [[:en:Wikipedia:WikiProject_India/Fair_use]] knowledge and
> information about Indian copy right regime,arranging
> unconference of supportive legal fraternity.
> * promoting usage of free transiliteration schemes for
> Indian Languages among Indian Internet users by arranging
> unconference with Network Engineers in India and arranging
> call center's telephonic and field support in this
> respect.
> * Indegenisation of IPA transliteration making technically
> advance and Indian languages friendly,with audio recording
> support to all wiktionaries for availability of free audio
> content.
> * PDF and transformation of content and promoting among
> other medias like print ,radio,TV etc for republishing at
> resonable cost for the benefit of masses
> *Promoting Generation of common free India centric
> photographic resources
> * promoting usage programming analysis and development of
> free wiki software, also training and promoting advance
> tools like BOTs among Indian wikipedians.
> * Arranging India centric [[:en:cartography]] support
> wherever necessary
> *Supporting and promoting local language wikipedias which
> still have not picked up adequate membership specialy like
> Odissa language wikipedia and Assamese Language Wikipedia
>
>
> * Using Wikipedia in Indian schools: School projects
> * Promoting Wikipedia assignments in universities and
> colleges: The Indian languages will benefit greatly if
> college and university students start contributing.
> * Work on articles on local history and other local topics
> that are not covered by mainstream encyclopedias (e.g.
> [[en:Jhumri Tilaiya|Jhumri Tilaiya]])
> * Get images related to Indian articles
> * Get Government of India agencies and departments to
> license their images/content under a free license (like
> NASA does)
> * Work on stable version (CDs) of Indian languages, or
> articles related to India
> * [[Promoting the South Asian languages projects]]
> * General promotion of free culture in India
>
> ==See Also==
> *[[Project India centric Localisation of IPA]]
>
>
>
>
> [[Category:Wikimedia India]]
>
>
>
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Hoi,
A question, I was on the Sanskrit Wikipedia and I noticed that much of the
user interface was still in English. It is possible to change the fall back
language for Sanskrit to Hindi.
Does this make sense to you?
Thanks,
GerardM
Hoi,
I am extremely pleased to inform you how well the languages from the Indian
subcontinent are doing. Today Kaustubh was made an "honourable member" of
Betawiki for his contributions to the localisation of Marathi and Hindi. To
quote Siebrand:<http://translatewiki.net/wiki/User_talk:Kaustubh#Honourable_user>"
You have almost single handedly ensured that two languages are now
fully
localised in MediaWiki. You have not only done this alone, I think you have
also done it in record time. You have shown dedication that is worth these
words of praise, in my opinion. Thank you!"
Thanks to all the hard work done all MediaWiki websites benefit.
Thanks,
GerardM
Hi all,
Pl. see this - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2008-03-24/Single….
Of late, I've been more off Wikipedia than on it; so, I do not know how the community reacts to SUL. I personally feel that SUL is indeed a good system in non-controversial cases where there is no conflict of 2 users having the same username on different Wikimedia projects. It establishes one's identity clearly and completely even for projects on which we may not have been working and thus the uniqueness of our usernames is protected. I also believe that it is important that people who have gone for SUL signal that their username is unique on all Wikimedia projects - I created the template http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:User_unified_login to signal that. Pl. feel free to use it/ improve it or include it in various Indian language based Wikimedia projects.
Thanks,
Gurubrahma.
http://freewillanddestiny.blogspot.com/
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Hi everyone.
I noticed this being discussed a while ago.
I just went through the interwikis on some of the Indian cricket bios, and
in some wikis, particularly Marathi, there are a lot of short cricket bios.
Most of these have no main body text and only an infobox and some stub
notice. Worse still, a lot of articles just have an empty infobox and the
stats aren't even filled in
That might cause a person to think that mr.wiki is some dumping ground.
I couldn't read the articles obviously, but a lot of them seemed to be cut
and pasted incorrectly, because in some of them, there is only one sentence
and the only link is to the Tendulkar articles.
The article Religious harmony in India listed for deletion second time.I wonder why people should have POV against Religious harmony in India but that POV is quite apparant that is the reason it is listed Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Religious harmony in India here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Religious_harm…
see article at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_harmony_in_India
I request those who want to keep this article do vote at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Religious harmony in India so I can keep working further on this article.
If every 10 minutes if some one or other wants to delete the article how do I spend more time to improve the article ? Openion from people working on India related projects is needed urgently.
Thanks and looking forward to support
Mahitgar (talk) 12:00, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
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Hi People,
I am working on a news story about the people behind the India-specific
Wikipedia pages and how a bunch of really eclectic personalities spend tons
of time to ensure pages are clean and useful. However one of them mentioned
that it is slowly becoming more and more difficult for new writers to join
in as contributions have become extremely complicated. Some of the simplest
things lead to disputes and trivialities cause locks on certain articles.
I was wondering if you guys had an opinion on this? Is Wikipedia
increasingly becoming more and more difficult for first-timers? I am talking
about those who intend to specialize in certain topics and be active and
regular. I work for the mint-Wall Street Journal in Mumbai. I was asked to
mail this group by Angela Beesely.
Thanks and regards,
Sidin Sunny Vadukut.
www.livemint.com
Leaving aside the wikiquette and formailities, the mediawiki software itself makes it tough for newcomers. Even one Post-Doc friend of mine could not figure out the simplest wiki syntax! People are more comfortable with WYSWYG editors. I had been watching wikipedia for last 3 years. MediaWiki has hardly shown any improvement in usability and interface. It's time more developers put in more effort in improving ease of using media wiki. Other free software around the same time frame have improved dramatically.
Thanks
Ravi
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