cross-posting to reach pan-India; apologies if you have got it from other mailing lists.
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> From: Hisham Mundol <hmundol(a)wikimedia.org>
> Date: August 24, 2011 8:49:42 AM GMT+05:30
> To: Wikimedia India Community list <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: India Programs-Monthly IRC: Welcoming Nitika & Shiju - Thursday August 25th @ 9pm IST (#wikimedia-office)
>
> Hi Folks
>
> As I mentioned earlier, we're scheduling the Monthly IRC of India Programs tomorrow (Thursday August 25th) at 9pm IST. This will be on the #wikimedia-office channel. (For those who are not familiar with IRC, it is an Internet messaging system similar to a regular chat room. It's very simple to use and you can join in by clicking on the following link: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#wikimedia-office)
>
> The main agenda items are to give an update on India Programs - and also for Nitika and Shiju to introduce themselves, and for you to get to know them better. For those who missed the earlier mail exchanges on this, Nitika Tandon and Shiju Alex have joined the Wikimedia Foundation's team in India. (Nitika has already started and Shiju will be starting shortly.) I'm really excited about the additions to the team and I invite you to come join us tomorrow night to welcome them aboard!
>
> Hope to see many, many of you tomorrow.
>
> Best
>
> Hisham Mundol
>
> Wikimedia India Programs
> skype : hisham.wikimedia
> gtalk : hmundol(a)wikimedia.org
> twitter : @mundol
>
> Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!
>
സുഹൃത്തേ,
വിക്കിപീഡിയ പോലുള്ള മീഡിയവിക്കി സംരഭങ്ങളിൽ പ്രവർത്തിക്കുന്നവരുടെ
പ്രവർത്തനങ്ങളെ അംഗീകരിക്കുന്നതിനു വേണ്ടി നിർമ്മിച്ച ഒരു ഉപാധിയാണ് വിക്കിലൗ.
ഒരു വിക്കിപീഡിയൻ ചെയ്യുന്ന പ്രവർത്തനങ്ങളെ അംഗീകരിക്കുന്നതിനും
ബഹുമാനിക്കുന്നതിനുമുള്ള ഒരു ഉപാധി കൂടിയാണിത്. വിക്കിലൗവിനെക്കുറിച്ച് കൂടുതൽ
അറിയുവാൻ WikiLove <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:LOVE> കാണുക.
ഇപ്പോൾ ഇംഗ്ലീഷ്, ഹിന്ദി, അറബിക് വിക്കികളിൽ ഈ എക്സ്ടൻഷൻ
പ്രവത്തിക്കുന്നുണ്ട്. ഈ എക്സ്ടൻഷൻ മലയാളം വിക്കിപീഡിയയിലും
പ്രവർത്തനക്ഷമമാക്കുവാൻ ഉദ്ദേശിക്കുന്നു. നിങ്ങളുടെ അഭിപ്രായം {{അനുകൂലം}},
{{പ്രതികൂലം}} {{നിഷ്പക്ഷം}} എന്നു ചേർത്ത്
വിക്കിപഞ്ചായത്ത്:സാങ്കേതികം<http://goo.gl/uCBsE>താളിൽ രേഖപ്പെടുത്തുക.
എതിർക്കുന്നവർ അതിനുള്ള കാരണങ്ങൾ കൂടി വ്യക്തമാക്കിയാൽ
നന്നായിരിക്കും
അനൂപ്
All,
Please note that the Steward elections for the second half of 2011 is
beginning in Meta Wiki. If you wish to nominate yourself as a candidate,
please read the guidelines carefully. It is mandatory that you should be
18 or older and have a three months of admin experience to be a candidate.
Candidate should also be willing to identify themselves to the foundation as
well. Please read the Guidelines page listed below for all requirements.
Candidate submissions are open from 21 August 2011, 00:00 until 7 September
2011, 23:59 (UTC). Questions to the candidates can be submitted until 14
September 2011, 23:59 (UTC). The voting will begin on 15 September 2011,
00:00 and end 6 October 2011, 23:59 (UTC). Candidates must meet the criteria
and obtain at least 30 votes in favor with an 80% support ratio.
You are welcome to help with translations as well.
More information on the links below:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewardshttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/elections_2011-2http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/elections_2011-2/Guidelines
Kindly reach out to me or one of the election committee members should you
have any questions.
Regards,
Jyothis.
FYI
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From: Gautam John <gautam(a)prathambooks.org>
Date: Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 12:08 PM
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Impressions, an online international
photography competition
To: "Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia." <
wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
More info here:
http://takshashila.org.in/
And here:
http://takshashila.org.in/events/india-impressions-photography-competition/…
What makes it interesting for us is that it is a CC-BY-SA license.
And, I think, the first time the Government of India is participating
in something that is CC-BY-SA licensed.
We might, hopefully, find stuff for articles that don't have pictures.
Thank you.
Best,
Gautam
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ഇന്റർവിക്കിക്കു വേണ്ടീ ഒരു കേന്ദ്രീകൃതസംവിധാനം വേണം എന്ന് 2010-ലെ
വിക്കിമാനിയയിൽ ഒരു നിർദ്ദേശം വന്നിരുന്നു. വളരെ നല്ലൊരു നിർദ്ദേശമായിരുന്നു.
ഇത് മുന്നോട്ടു പോയില്ലേ?
ഈ പരിഹാരം പ്രെട്ടിയൂആറല്ലിനു പകരം ഉപയൊഗിക്കുന്നതിനെ കുറിച്ച് എന്ത് പറയുന്നു?
ml.wikipedia.org/<articlenameinenglish>ആയിരിക്കും നമുക്ക് നല്ലത്.
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From: Hari Prasad Nadig <mail(a)hpnadig.net>
Date: Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 12:25 AM
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Interwiki Redirection based Sane URLs
To: Wikimedia India Community list <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Should say this is handy. Good effort.
Typing Indic text on mobile for URL sure is a bit complicated right now for
the normal user. This is useful.
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 11:24 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan <srik.lak(a)gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> A few days back, there was discussion around ShortUrl[1]. I have made
> another small tool(code[2]) which takes English Wiki article name and
> redirects to the language Wikipedia. The redirection app is live[3].
>
> interwikiredir.appspot.com/or/Chennai will redirect to Chennai article in
> Oriya Wikipedia. We have also made this available as part of tawp.inshorturl domain, hence
> tawp.in/en/ArticleNameInEnglish will redirect to corresponding interwiki
> article in Tamil. Building this into a mediawiki extension might be useful
> since not all mobiles may support Indic input schemes and first step to read
> an article is to type the URL!.
>
> Feedback welcome.
>
> [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ShortUrl
> [2] https://gist.github.com/1140266
> [3] interwikiredir.appspot.com
>
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ബയോഡീസൽ
വിക്കിപീഡിയ, ഒരു സ്വതന്ത്ര വിജ്ഞാനകോശം.
(തിരഞ്ഞെടുത്ത പതിപ്പുകൾ തമ്മിലുള്ള വ്യത്യാസം)
03:25, 10 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2011-നു നിലവിലുണ്ടായിരുന്ന രൂപം (തിരുത്തുക)
Johnson aj (സംവാദം | സംഭാവനകൾ)
← മുൻപത്തെ വ്യത്യാസം
04:26, 10 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2011-നു നിലവിലുണ്ടായിരുന്ന രൂപം (തിരുത്തുക) (മാറ്റം
തിരസ്ക്കരിക്കുക)
Rojypala (സംവാദം | സംഭാവനകൾ)
അടുത്ത വ്യത്യാസം →
വരി 3: വരി 3:
[[File:Ethyl Stearate.png|thumb|Space-filling model of ethyl stearate, or
stearic acid ethyl ester, an ethyl ester produced from soybean or canola oil
and ethanol]]
[[File:Ethyl Stearate.png|thumb|Space-filling model of ethyl stearate, or
stearic acid ethyl ester, an ethyl ester produced from soybean or canola oil
and ethanol]]
[[ഡീസൽ]] യന്ത്രത്തിൽ അഥവാ സങ്കോചജ്വലനയന്ത്രത്തിൽ (Compression ignition
engine) ഉപയോഗിക്കുന്ന ഇന്ധനമാണ് ഡീസൽ (Diesel). ക്രൂഡ് ഓയിൽ വാറ്റുമ്പോൾ
ബാഷ്പീകരിക്കപ്പെട്ടു ലഭിക്കുന്ന ഇതിനെ പെട്രോഡീസൽ എന്ന് പറയുന്നു.
പെട്രോഡീസലിന് ബദലായി, സസ്യജന്യമോ ജന്തുജന്യമോ ആയ കൊഴുപ്പിൽ ആല്കഹോൾ പ്രതി
പ്രവർത്തിപ്പിച്ച് ഉൽപ്പാദിപ്പിക്കുന്ന പരിസ്ഥിതി സൌഹൃദ ഇന്ധനമാണ് ജീവഡീസൽ അഥവാ
'''ബയോഡീസൽ '''.
[[ഡീസൽ]] യന്ത്രത്തിൽ അഥവാ സങ്കോചജ്വലനയന്ത്രത്തിൽ (Compression ignition
engine) ഉപയോഗിക്കുന്ന ഇന്ധനമാണ് ഡീസൽ (Diesel). ക്രൂഡ് ഓയിൽ വാറ്റുമ്പോൾ
ബാഷ്പീകരിക്കപ്പെട്ടു ലഭിക്കുന്ന ഇതിനെ പെട്രോഡീസൽ എന്ന് പറയുന്നു.
പെട്രോഡീസലിന് ബദലായി, സസ്യജന്യമോ ജന്തുജന്യമോ ആയ കൊഴുപ്പിൽ ആല്കഹോൾ പ്രതി
പ്രവർത്തിപ്പിച്ച് ഉൽപ്പാദിപ്പിക്കുന്ന പരിസ്ഥിതി സൌഹൃദ ഇന്ധനമാണ് ജീവഡീസൽ അഥവാ
'''ബയോഡീസൽ '''.
==അവലംബം==
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{{Reflist}}
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==പുറത്തേക്കുള്ള കണ്ണികൾ==
+
{{Commons|Biodiesel}}
+
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first. If you don't first get support from an uninvolved contributor BEFORE
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not a linkfarm ---->
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{{dmoz|/Science/Technology/Energy/Renewable/Biomass_and_Biofuels/Biodiesel/|Biodiesel}}
* [http://www.ebb-eu.org European Biodiesel Board] website - European
Biodiesel Industry.
* [http://sustainablebiodieselalliance.com/dev/ Sustainable Biodiesel
Alliance]
* [http://www.iea.org/textbase/nppdf/free/2004/biofuels2004.pdfInternational
Energy Agency: Biofuels for Transport - An International
Perspective]
* [http://www.biodieseleducation.org National Biodiesel Education Program,
University of Idaho] -- unbiased, science-based information on biodiesel for
biodiesel producers and distributors, fleet operators, farmers and feedstock
producers, policy makers, and consumers.
* [http://www.unep.fr/scp/rpanel/pdf/Assessing_Biofuels_Full_Report.pdfTowards
Sustainable Production and Use of Resources: Assessing Biofuels] by
the [[United Nations Environment Programme]], October 2009.
* [http://www.extension.org/pages/Farm_Energy_Biodiesel_Table_of_ContentsBiodi…
Articles on eXtension] -- eXtension (pronounced "E-Extension") is
a wiki for extension professors and agents across the United States. The
Farm Energy section contains over 30 articles on biodiesel, from the basics
to more technical information.
[[en:Biodiesel ]]
പ്രീയപ്പെട്ട റോജി പാല,
ദയവായി മുകളില്‍ കൊടുത്തിട്ടുള്ള ടെക്സ്റ്റ്‌ വായിക്കുക, പ്രത്യേകിച്ച് ഞാന്‍
ടെക്സ്റ്റ്‌ നിറം ചുവപ്പാക്കിയത്. (ഞാന്‍ കോപ്പി ചെയ്യുന്നു)
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first. If you don't first get support from an uninvolved contributor BEFORE
adding the link, *it will be reverted. Already too many links, Wikipedia is
not a linkfarm ---->** *
ഞാന്‍ ഇന്ന് രാവിലെ ബയോഡീസല്‍ എഡിറ്റ്‌ ചെയ്യാന്‍ ആരംഭിച്ചു. ഇന്ന് ലോക
ബയോഡീസല്‍ ദിനമാണല്ലോ ? എഴുതിയ ആദ്യത്തെ വരികള്‍ , will continue എന്ന
കുറിപ്പോടെ സേവ് ചെയ്തിരുന്നു. കുറെ കഴിഞ്ഞു ബാക്കി എഴുതാന്‍ നോക്കുമ്പോള്‍ ,
മുകളില്‍ കാണിച്ചിട്ടുള്ള *അവലംബം* മുതലുള്ള ടെക്സ്റ്റ്‌ റോജി. ചേര്‍ത്തതായി
കാണുന്നു. നല്ല കാര്യം. പക്ഷെ link farm linkfarm ----> വരികള്‍ എന്തിനാണ്
ചേര്‍ത്തത്. വിശദീകരണം തന്നാല്‍ നന്നായിരുന്നു. എന്തായാലും ബാക്കി ഞാന്‍
എഡിറ്റ്‌ ചെയ്തു. അവലംബം / ലിങ്ക് കൊടുക്കാമോ ?
സസ്നേഹം ,
Prof . Johnson A .J
൧൦-൦൮-൨൦൧൧, Eranakulam ,
FYI
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From: CherianTinu Abraham <tinucherian(a)gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 11:13 PM
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] : New York Times : "When Knowledge Isn’t
Written, Does It Still Count?"
To: "Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia." <
wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
*NewYork Times : "When Knowledge Isn’t Written, Does It Still Count?"*
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/08/business/media/a-push-to-redefine-knowled…
*“MAKING fun of Wikipedia is so 2007,” a French journalist said recently to Sue
Gardner, the executive director of the foundation that runs the Wikipedia
project.*
*
*
*And so Ms. Gardner, in turn, told an auditorium full of Wikipedia
contributors and supporters on Thursday in Haifa, Israel, the host city for
the seventh annual Wikimania conference, where meetings and presentations
focus on the world’s most used, and perhaps least understood, online
reference work.*
*
*
*Once routinely questioned about its reliability — what do you mean, anyone
can edit it? — the site is now used every month by upwards of 400 million
people worldwide. But with influence and respect come responsibility, and
lately Wikipedia has been criticized from without and within for reflecting
a Western, male-dominated mindset similar to the perspective behind the
encyclopedias it has replaced.*
*
*
*Seeing Wikipedia as The Man, in so many words, is so 2011.*
*
*
*And that’s a problem for an encyclopedia that wants to grow. Some critics
of Wikipedia believe that the whole Western tradition of footnotes and
sourced articles needs to be rethought if Wikipedia is going to continue to
gather converts beyond its current borders. And that, in turn, invites an
entirely new debate about what constitutes knowledge in different parts of
the world and how a Western institution like Wikipedia can capitalize on it.
*
*
*
*Achal Prabhala, an adviser to Ms. Gardner’s Wikimedia Foundation who lives
and writes in Bangalore, India, has made perhaps the most trenchant
criticism in a video project, “People are Knowledge,” that he presented in
Haifa (along with its clunky subtitle, “Exploring alternative methods of
citation for Wikipedia”).*
*
*
*The film, which was made largely with a $20,000 grant from the Wikimedia
Foundation, spends time showing what has been lost to Wikipedia because of
stickling rules of citation and verification. If Wikipedia purports to
collect the “sum of all human knowledge,” in the words of one of its
founders, Jimmy Wales, that, by definition, means more than printed
knowledge, Mr. Prabhala said.*
*
*
*In the case of dabba kali, a children’s game played in the Kerala state of
India, there was a Wikipedia article in the local language, Malayalam, that
included photos, a drawing and a detailed description of the rules, but no
sources to back up what was written. Other than, of course, the 40 million
people who played it as children.*
*
*
*There is no doubt, he said, that the article would have been deleted from
English Wikipedia if it didn’t have any sources to cite. Those are the rules
of the game, and those are the rules he would like to change, or at least
bend, or, if all else fails, work around.*
*
*
*“There is this desire to grow Wikipedia in parts of the world,” he said,
adding that “if we don’t have a more generous and expansive citation policy,
the current one will prove to be a massive roadblock that you literally
can’t get past. There is a very finite amount of citable material, which
means a very finite number of articles, and there will be no more.”*
*
*
*Mr. Prabhala, 38, who grew up in India and then attended American
universities, has been an activist on issues of intellectual property,
starting with the efforts in South Africa to free up drugs that treat H.I.V.
In the film, he gives other examples of subjects — an alcohol produced in a
village, Ga-Sabotlane, in Limpopo, South Africa, and a popular
hopscotch-type children’s game, tshere-tshere — beyond print documentation
and therefore beyond Wikipedia’s true-and-tried method.*
*
*
*There are whole cultures, he said, that have little to no printed material
to cite as proof about the way life is lived.*
*
*
*“Publishing is a system of power and I mean that in a completely pleasant,
accepting sense,” he said mischievously. “But it leaves out people.”*
*
*
*But Mr. Prabhala offers a solution: he and the video’s directors, Priya Sen
and Zen Marie, spoke with people in African and Indian villages either in
person or over the phone and had them describe basic activities. These
recordings were then uploaded and linked to the article as sources, and
suddenly an article that seems like it could be a personal riff looks a bit
more academic.*
*
*
*For example, in his interview with a South African villager who explained
how to make the alcoholic drink, morula, she repeatedly says that it is best
if she demonstrates the process. When the fruit is ready, said the villager,
Philipine Moremi, according to the project’s transcript of her phone
conversation, “we pry them open. We are going to show you how it is done.
Once they are peeled, we seal them to ferment and then we drink.” The idea
of treating personal testimony as a source for Wikipedia is still
controversial, and reflects the concerns that dominated the encyclopedia
project six years ago, when arguably its very existence was threatened.*
*
*
*After a series of hoaxes, culminating in a Wikipedia article in 2005 that
maligned the newspaper editor John Seigenthaler for no discernible reason
other than because a Wikipedia contributor could, the site tried to ensure
that every statement could be traced to a source.*
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*Then there is the rule “no original research,” which was meant to say that
Wikipedia doesn’t care if you are writing about the subway station you visit
every day, find someone who has written reliably on the color of the walls
there.*
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*“The natural thing is getting more and more accurate, locking down
articles, raising the bar on sources,” said Andrew Lih, an associate
professor of journalism at the University of Southern California, who was an
early contributor to Wikipedia and has written a history of its rise. “Isn’t
it great we have so many texts online?”*
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*But what works for the most developed societies, he said, won’t necessarily
work for others. “Lots of knowledge is not Googleable,” he said, “and is not
in a digital form.”*
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*Mr. Lih said that he could see the Wikipedia project suddenly becoming
energized by the process of documenting cultural practices around the world,
or down the street.*
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*Perhaps Mr. Prabhala’s most challenging argument is that by being
text-focused, and being locked into the Encyclopedia Britannica model,
Wikipedia risks being behind the times.*
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*An 18-year-old is comfortable using “objects of trust that have been
created on the Internet,” he said, and “Wikipedia isn’t taking advantage of
that.” And, he added, “it is quite possible that for the 18-year-old of
today that Wikipedia looks like his father’s project. Or the kind of thing
his father might be interested in.”*
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*Ouch.*
Regards
Tinu Cherian
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