If you are a Wikipedian / Wiki enthusiast in & around Trichy, do come & say
hai tomorrow at the Wikipedia stall at NIT, Trichy.
Regards
Tinu Cherian
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 5:08 PM, CherianTinu Abraham
<tinucherian(a)gmail.com>wrote:
>
> Hi,
> In association with Pragyan / Pengufest at NIT , Trichy, we
> are organizing a Wiki-meetup at Trichy / Tiruchirappalli on Feb 20th, 2011,
> Sunday 9:00 - 11:30 AM
>
> More details here
>
> http://www.pragyan.org/11/home/workshops/pengufest/ > Schedule
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Tiruchirappalli/Tiruchirappal…
>
> http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichy
>
> Agenda :
> Introduction , 10th Anniversary updates
> How to Contribute to Wikipedia -- User:Tinucherian
> Introduction - Tamil Wikipedia -- User:Sodabottle
> Hacking with Wikipedia -- User:Logicwiki
>
> Note that the organizers have kindly agreed to also open these sessions
> for public.
>
> They have also given us a stall as well and Bala & me will be manning the
> stall on 19th Feb ( Saturday) and after the sessions on 20th Feb.
>
> If any of you can participate/volunteer at the stalls/sessions , you're
> most welcome ( Please get in touch with one of us).
>
> If you are in Trichy or around, please do spread the word and participate
> in the meetup..
>
> Regards
> Tinu Cherian/ Srikanth / Bala
>
A preliminary update about the Carte Blanche event:
1. Feb 5:
I delivered the inaugural address as chief guest. I spoke about what all
constitute free software and content, why anyone should care (more in the
context of underserved needs of groups of people without market strengths and
fragmented markets like Indic users), and how all one can contribute. I pointed
at the "non-mainstream" projects which are relatively small and needing
contributors as opposed to well-known projects like GNU and Linux.
2. Feb 6:
There was a stall for Wikipedia and one for Wikibhasha. Surya Prakash mainly
volunteered at the Wikipedia stall and Mahir and others helped with the
logistics. Saravanan from Microsoft Research helped with both the stalls.
We had workshops in the afternoon with a very good infrastructure provided by
MIT. However, attendance at the workshops were not as good as for the stalls
(perhaps due to the OS workshop that ran in parallel). Tamil Wikians Surya
Prakash, Manian, Sengai Podhuvan, Mahir, and Paridhimathi and I spoke as well as
provided hands-on tutorials to the participants. Almost all participants created
accounts and made their first few edits there. One ILUG member invited us to
post projects for FOSS enthusiasts
at http://wiki.ilugc.in/index.php?title=Projects_List. Saravanan demoed a
special (yet-to-be released) version of WikiBhasha for Tamil and took our
feedback.
Some photos at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wiki_CB_Chennai
Tamil wiki page: http://j.mp/eLOVOy
Special thanks to go to Srikanth for connecting us with the organisers and
making all this possible. Thanks to Tinu who drove to deliver the wiki banners
to me.
I request the other volunteers to add further information on this thread.
- 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
----- Original Message ----
> From: BalaSundaraRaman <sundarbecse(a)yahoo.com>
> To: Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia.
><wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Cc: wikimedia-in-chn(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> Sent: Thu, February 3, 2011 3:09:15 PM
> Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia workshop in Carte Blanche, Chennai
>
> Hi,
>
> As part of the FOSS event called Carte Blanche (http://cb.csmit.org/) to be
>held
>
> at the Madras Institute of Technology, a Wikipedia workshop is being conducted
>
> on February 6 between 9:30 am and 4:30 pm. Following is the proposal, the
>exact
>
> timings will be finalised soon.
>
> * English Wikipedia - general introduction for participation (Sundar)
> * தமிழ் விக்கிப்பீடியா பயிலரங்கு (Tamil Wikipedia Workshop by users Manian,
> Sengai Podhuvan, Paridhimathi, Surya Prakash, and Mahir)
> * Hacking with Wikipedia (Srikanth's previous presentation will be used +
> Sundar's introduction to pywikipediabot and a few bot examples + Mahir's talk
>
> about templates and other things)
>
> The organisers have kindly agreed to give us a stall as well. If any of you
>can
>
> participate or, better still, conduct sessions, you're most welcome.
> On a sidenote, I've been asked to inaugurate the event on Feb 5 at 9:00 am.
>All
>
> are welcome.
>
> - 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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>
Thanks Shrinivasan.
I've added one project proposal to
http://wiki.ilugc.in/index.php?title=Projects_List#Project_List
I needed to generate audio pronunciation guides for English phrases used in
Tamil Wiktionary (and other wiktionaries) from pronunciation files for the
individual words. I started out with the ambitious project and wrote some
scripts to download and identify candidate files. I tried the Linux cat command
and it seemed to work. So, I got help from Yuvi Panda and Kishore Kumar (via
Srikanth) who allowed me to run the scripts from a Linode belonging to KCG
iCell. However, when I did a test upload, it turned out that the embedded media
player on Wikimedia Commons stops at the end of the first word. Here, I need the
help of someone with MATLAB-like media processing experience willing to take
over the project at
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Bots/Requests/SundarBot
- 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
----- Original Message ----
> From: Shrinivasan T <tshrinivasan(a)gmail.com>
> To: BalaSundaraRaman <sundarbecse(a)yahoo.com>
> Cc: Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia.
><wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>; Wikita <wikita-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>;
>wikimedia-in-chn(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> Sent: Mon, February 14, 2011 9:57:46 PM
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-in-chn] [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia workshop in Carte
>Blanche, Chennai
>
> Thanks a lot for the session.
>
> I missed some sessions there.
>
> I invite you to the Indian Linux Users Group Chennai's monthly meets
> that held on every month second saturday at IITM 3 pm to 5 pm.
>
> see http://ilugc.in for more info.
>
> We like to hear from you on any of the upcoming ILUGC meets.
>
> Please add the project ideas in
> http://wiki.ilugc.in/index.php?title=Projects_List
>
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
> --
> Regards,
> T.Shrinivasan
>
>
> My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com
> Free/Open Source Jobs : http://fossjobs.in
>
Hi,
In association with Pragyan / Pengufest at NIT , Trichy, we
are organizing a Wiki-meetup at Trichy / Tiruchirappalli on Feb 20th, 2011,
Sunday 9:00 - 11:30 AM
More details here
http://www.pragyan.org/11/home/workshops/pengufest/ > Schedule
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Tiruchirappalli/Tiruchirappal…http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichy
Agenda :
Introduction , 10th Anniversary updates
How to Contribute to Wikipedia -- User:Tinucherian
Introduction - Tamil Wikipedia -- User:Sodabottle
Hacking with Wikipedia -- User:Logicwiki
Note that the organizers have kindly agreed to also open these sessions for
public.
They have also given us a stall as well and Bala & me will be manning the
stall on 19th Feb ( Saturday) and after the sessions on 20th Feb.
If any of you can participate/volunteer at the stalls/sessions , you're most
welcome ( Please get in touch with one of us).
If you are in Trichy or around, please do spread the word and participate in
the meetup..
Regards
Tinu Cherian/ Srikanth / Bala
(copied Tamil Wiki list)
Hi Nikhil,
I appreciate your efforts.
> Request: I want to get an Offline edition of the Hindi, Marathi and Gujrati
>Wikipedia. (Indian languages) - preferably in the .ZIM format.
> I read about Malayalam / Tamil offline versions being in the works, but not in
>.ZIM
The Tamil effort has just begun. Will share a plan soon. at the end of
compilation, we can create the archives in any format we wish.
- 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
>
>From: Nikhil Sheth <nikhil.js(a)gmail.com>
>To: Jessie Wild <jwild(a)wikimedia.org>
>Cc: wikimedia-in-mum <wikimedia-in-mum(a)lists.wikimedia.org>;
>wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org; Emmanuel Engelhart
><emmanuel(a)engelhart.org>; Using Wikimedia projects and MediaWiki offline
><offline-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>; wikimedia-in-pun(a)lists.wikimedia.org
>Sent: Tue, February 1, 2011 10:11:03 AM
>Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] troubleshooting Wikipedia for schools offline
>project
>
>Hi Jessie and All,
>
>Thanks so much for the appreciation.
>
>Request: I want to get an Offline edition of the Hindi, Marathi and Gujrati
>Wikipedia. (Indian languages) - preferably in the .ZIM format.
>I read about Malayalam / Tamil offline versions being in the works, but not in
>.ZIM
>
>Why I advocate .ZIM is that it turns wikipedia into an easily search-able
>single-file E-book, hence making it so much more portable (Try moving the other
>forms having 1000s of files between drives and you'll get what I'm talking
>about). Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that Emmanuel and his team have
>actually assembled the largest ebooks that mankind has ever seen. If we give it
>a spin like that and give an alternate description of Kiwix as a new kind of
>ebook-reader for reading very very large volumes with very low memory footprint,
>then we can probably catch even more attention and we might even witness other
>publishers switching to something like it.
>
>But I digress, so back to my task..
>I have no clue how we can create the .ZIM files (don't have the expertise to see
>and understand the format specifications), and I understand that Wikipedia dumps
>creation aren't there for anybody or else the servers would be brought down.
>
>
>So can anyone help with obtaining Hindi / other Indian languages Wikipedia?
>The reason I'm asking for them is: I'm trying to take the Wikipeida For Schools
>to under-resourced schools in my country and in most, it would be much, much
>easier to get permission from authorities to install and spread it if I actually
>gave them an Indian language wikipedia and bundled the Wikipedia for Schools
>with it. In their minds, getting the indian language one on their computers may
>be a much bigger novelty.
>
>So, to hypothesize, if I handed over to a municipality in my state (Maharashtra,
>India, main language is Marathi) a DVD having just "Wikipedia For Schools", they
>may just keep it at the side and forget about it.
>But if I gave them a DVD having the "Complete Hindi and Marathi Wikipedia, plus
>Wikipedia for Schools free!" then I think that will catch more attention. This
>is just hypothetical, of course, but I want to give it a shot!
>
>The Kiwix/ZIM Wikipedia For Schools package is about 2.7 GBs only when burnt to
>DVD, so there's plenty of room for putting more stuff, even for pen drives as
>we'll be using a 4GB pen drive.
>
>------------------------------------------------
>Further troubleshooting: (now moving into further exploring)
>
>The Kiwix+Wikipedia for Schools package is a portable version of Kiwix with the
>index and library file already built and stored inside the root\data folder
>(size 141MB)
>
>When I opened wikipedia_en_wp1_0.7_30000+_05_2009_beta3.zim in the same
>software, it did not create the library and index for the same inside this
>package; rather it is stored elsewhere on my comp and I can't find it. (I'm on
>Win 7 by the way)
>
>If I want to share other versions on Wikipedia in a ready-to-run form, I will
>need to create and have the index inside the Kiwix software's folder. Or else on
>every new computer there will be a lengthy indexing process which is wasteful
>and might actually result in non-use by people who don't know how to go about
>it.
>
>So, how can one go about it? Making Kiwix such that any .ZIM file it opens and
>indexes, the index is stored INSIDE the program folder rather than anywhere
>else? Or maybe such that it does BOTH and checks one source first and the other
>later?
>
>Also, what is the command-line syntax for opening Kiwix with a particular .ZIM
>file?
>I want to have a package of multiple instant options, so that if someone
>double-clicks on a "Wikipedia for schools" shortcut or .bat or .exe then that
>opens; if someone double-clicks a "Hindi Wikipedia" then that opens, and so
>forth.
>
>
>
>Cheers,
>Nikhil Sheth
>+91-966-583-1250
>Pune, India
>Teach For India Fellow, 2011-13
>www.nikhilsheth.tk
>Find me on: Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn | Google | RangDe
>Join me on: Pune Documentary Club | Let's Do it Pune | Toastmasters in Pune |
>Wikipedia For Schools project
>
>
>
>
>
>On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 11:57 PM, Jessie Wild <jwild(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>All - thanks so much for your work here; this is fantastic progress and
>incredibly helpful for the offline work at large.
>>
>>
>>On 1/20/2011 11:48 AM, Emmanuel Engelhart wrote:
>>
>>1. A proliferation meetup where a lot of us can get together and copy
>>>>> the dump to our laptop/netbook/USB drive. 1 goes to 20... and we can
>>>>> scale up the project like crazy.
>>>>
Would be great, I'm interested in any simple Ideas/Solutions to build
>>something like a small digital kiosk where people could easily choose
>>what they want to get on their USB stick. The wireless version,
>>something like a WIFI Spot with only one Web Site could also be interesting.
>>
Having some sort of dedicated offline meet-up is something that a few of us have
been talking about for the past month or so, so I'm glad it was brought up
again. Logistically, when do we think this could happen? Although it is a
couple months away, an easy way to leverage an existing organizational plan
would be to tack onto the Chapter's meeting in Berlin at the end of March.
Europe would also be a relatively central meeting place for us.
>>
>>Thoughts? Availability? Once we carve out a block of time, we can work out a
>>schedule of most important things to tackle and discuss (I also have lots of
>>suggestions ;).
>>
>>
>>--
>>Jessie Wild
>>Special Projects Manager
>>Global Development
>>Wikimedia Foundation
>>
>>
>