However, I'm not clear about how this should be shaped. Is this going to be an official Wikimedia newsletter? (seeing that it is titled "Wikimedia India Newsletter"). Given that Wikimedia official newsletters are brought in a slightly different manner (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_newsletter), can you share the ideas and objective behind the planned newsletter so that it brings more clarity to the contributors?


Sure. The aim is to share the community news of the various Indian Language Wiki communities. As you can see from the PDF that I shared with you, several languages already provided the community News. So requesting Kannada wiki community also to be part of this.

It is the community newsletter. So I think it is better to name it as WikiMedia India Community News Letter. I will change like that.

Once the chapter is formed, chapter can think about taking this forward from the next version of the News letter.



Also observed that the draft of the newsletter I've received is crashing though on evince viewer (on debian lenny). It could be useful if you could share details about the software used to create the PDF. Probably Inkscape pros from the community could help? :)


Typesetting is done using Open Office writer. It is still going on. I have enabled Commenting using Adobe Reader feature in the PDF that I sent to you. That might be the reason why it is crashed. I will send you a normal PDF soon.


Shiju Alex

On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Hari Prasad Nadig <hpnadig@gmail.com> wrote:
Shiju had mailed me requesting to contribute a little piece covering the activities surrounding Kannada on Wikipedia and related projects. I have stuff to refer here written by volunteers from Malayalam and Tamil Wikipedia.

However, I'm not clear about how this should be shaped. Is this going to be an official Wikimedia newsletter? (seeing that it is titled "Wikimedia India Newsletter"). Given that Wikimedia official newsletters are brought in a slightly different manner (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_newsletter), can you share the ideas and objective behind the planned newsletter so that it brings more clarity to the contributors?

Also observed that the draft of the newsletter I've received is crashing though on evince viewer (on debian lenny). It could be useful if you could share details about the software used to create the PDF. Probably Inkscape pros from the community could help? :)

Also, is the newsletter being released in CC-by-SA?
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