Thanks Ansuman. There are several tasks if you or some one else wants to help out.
1. Creating a project page in the chapter wiki and recruiting volunteers who edit in
different language wikis.
2. People with expertise in putting up geo-targetted banners (for fundraisers and
Wikiconference) can create banners for our purpose.
3. Banner design is a task. For an Indian user, for the first time, we should show a drop
down to the user asking them if they'd like to specify the language wiki (Odiya, Tamil
etc.) they'd be interested in reading. This preference should be stored against their
profile. After that, when their reading an English Wiki article, if there is an interwiki
link to the language chosen, we show a banner in the chosen language saying something like
"Bangla Wikipedia has an article on Saket. Please go to IWLink to read and help
improve the article."
Of course the above flow can be refined. Since Srikanth has had an idea to implement
something along these lines, he can give a detailed specification. Also, if any mediawiki
hacking needs to be done for that, we can do that during the upcoming hackathon.
- Sundar
"That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the
expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted."
- George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture
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Great, But How can someone help ?
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 8:52 PM, BalaSundaraRaman <sundarbecse(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
Thank you for the interest, Srikanth. Hope someone's able to do something along these
lines (yes, "suitable" interwiki link surfaced in a banner will do) during the
hackathon. Topical cues can be taken up later, but we should pluck the low-hanging fruits
first. :)
- Sundar
"That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the
expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted."
- George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture
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Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 8:27 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] IP-based channelling of editors
On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 16:14, BalaSundaraRaman <sundarbecse(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
Hi all,
[Apologies if a similar thing has been proposed earlier, I haven't been able to read
much of the recent discussions.]
I had a thought of channelling readers and editors of English Wikipedia (and similar
projects) to other Indian language wikis based on their IP addresses and the topic being
read. I've put down the proposal
at
http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal:Funneling_multilingual_readers_… as
it is applicable elsewhere too than just India. Please read and discuss the proposal.
It'll be great if some of us can take the lead and do a pilot with two or three Wikis.
Personally, I'll not be able to commit much time these days, but can support if
somebody takes the lead. I suggest that we can put up a project page (specific to Indian
wikis) at
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Projects:2011-12 if there is enough support
Good idea Sundar. I have something in mind just to bring in interwiki links on sitenotice
banner dynamically, so we can run a "dynamic" campaign. Geo-based banners would
be good. Am not sure how easy would it be to include categories into the picture. But one
more thing to work at India Hackathon. Thanks!
-- Regards
Srikanth.L
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