Hello everyone,
Just to let you know that Bengali Wikipedia [1] has placed a banner on their site notice protesting SOPA and PIPA. Maybe other Indic language Wikipedias can take similar initiatives or maybe they have taken one already? If so, share with us!
In the mean time, I have an translation request for you. Maybe you have read Sue's letter [2] to the community about the blackout. I invite you all to translate that letter in your language. Since we have little time (less than 17 hours), we need be prompt. See the translation request on Meta-Wiki [3] and start your translation.
Get yourself up and let your people know in your language!
Regards, Tanvir Rahman Wikitanvir on Wikimedia
[1] bn.wikipedia.org [2] http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/English_Wikipedia_anti-SOPA_blackout [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Translation_requests/WMF/English_Wikipedia_a...
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 18:52, Tanvir Rahman wikitanvir@gmail.com wrote:
Hello everyone,
Just to let you know that Bengali Wikipedia [1] has placed a banner on their site notice protesting SOPA and PIPA. Maybe other Indic language Wikipedias can take similar initiatives or maybe they have taken one already? If so, share with us!
Great! Tamil Wikipedia is discussing a similar proposal to but sitenotice banners.
In the mean time, I have an translation request for you. Maybe you have read Sue's letter [2] to the community about the blackout. I invite you all to translate that letter in your language. Since we have little time (less than 17 hours), we need be prompt. See the translation request on Meta-Wiki [3] and start your translation.
IMHO Practically, its too late for translations.
Get yourself up and let your people know in your language!
This is more important. Please write SOPA article in your language. Tamil has a Wikipedia article on SOPA[1] and Wikinews article on the English Wikipedia blackout against SOPA[2].
[1] http://tawp.in/r/2ygn [2] http://ta.wikinews.org/wiki/%E0%AE%87%E0%AE%A3%E0%AF%88%E0%AE%AF%E0%AE%A4%E0...
Hello Srikanth,
IMHO Practically, its too late for translations.
I don't think so, it has been translated to 12 languages already (in few hours). Just start, and you will see that it's ready within half an hours at most. XD
And of course that SOPA article is also very important.
Regards, Tanvir Rahman Wikitanvir on Wikimedia
HI Tanvir, Srikanth,
Great to hear No-SOPA banners being considered to be on Bengali and Tamil wikipedias.
Having translations on SOPA articles would be great. Here is the whitelist that we plan to have available on en.wp
SOPA/PIPA/OPEN en.wp articles * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOPA (redirects) * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PIPA (disambiguation page) * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPEN (redirects) * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PROTECT_IP_Act * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Protection_and_Enforcement_of_Digital_Tr... * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_Act * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_cache_poisoning * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship
Best, Alolita
-- Alolita Sharma Features Engineering Wikimedia Foundation
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Tanvir Rahman wikitanvir@gmail.com wrote:
Hello Srikanth,
IMHO Practically, its too late for translations.
I don't think so, it has been translated to 12 languages already (in few hours). Just start, and you will see that it's ready within half an hours at most. XD
And of course that SOPA article is also very important.
Regards, Tanvir Rahman Wikitanvir on Wikimedia
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On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 02:12, Alolita Sharma alolita.sharma@gmail.comwrote:
HI Tanvir, Srikanth,
Great to hear No-SOPA banners being considered to be on Bengali and Tamil wikipedias.
Having translations on SOPA articles would be great. Here is the whitelist that we plan to have available on en.wp
Thanks for the whitelist. May I request you / WMF to consider adding pages in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Internet_censorship_by_country to whitelist as well? SOPA is a big thing in US, but similar insane things are happening elsewhere too (India too!) and even if Wikimedia Community in India prefers to be silent, protests needs to happen. We are have started one such at http://publictransit.in (http://busroutes.in will soon have this) and no better article than http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_India to explain. Time will tell if protests need to intensify in India and I hope the online community in India will rise to the situation if required.
+1 to Srikanth
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 8:11 AM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik.lak@gmail.comwrote:
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 02:12, Alolita Sharma alolita.sharma@gmail.comwrote:
HI Tanvir, Srikanth,
Great to hear No-SOPA banners being considered to be on Bengali and Tamil wikipedias.
Having translations on SOPA articles would be great. Here is the whitelist that we plan to have available on en.wp
Thanks for the whitelist. May I request you / WMF to consider adding pages in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Internet_censorship_by_country to whitelist as well? SOPA is a big thing in US, but similar insane things are happening elsewhere too (India too!) and even if Wikimedia Community in India prefers to be silent, protests needs to happen. We are have started one such at http://publictransit.in (http://busroutes.in will soon have this) and no better article than http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_India to explain. Time will tell if protests need to intensify in India and I hope the online community in India will rise to the situation if required.
-- Regards Srikanth.L
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On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 23:12, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik.lak@gmail.comwrote:
Great! Tamil Wikipedia is discussing a similar proposal to but sitenotice banners.
We are done :) Black Banners for everyone http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediawiki:Anonnotice
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 18:52, Tanvir Rahman wikitanvir@gmail.com wrote:
Maybe other Indic language Wikipedias can take similar initiatives
Malayalam is also spreading the news through banners.
http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediawiki:Sitenotice
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