Dear Tamil Wikipedia Community,
We are planning to develop Dengue article on all Indian Languages.
Wikipedia Club Pune is organizing dedicated workshop on 16th December 2012.
We would like to invite you participate in Workshop (online or offline as
per your convenience)
Article of Dengue will be edited through collaborative editing session, and
it will be recorded later on as part of Spoken
Wikipedia.<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Spoken_Wikipedia/Indic_L…>
*FAQ : *
*1)Why Dengue Article : *
A: Dengue fever is common in this session, so it will be helpful to many
people.
*2)What about other diseases? *
A: We will be covering major diseases one by one in upcoming Sunday
workshops.
*3)What is Spoken Wikipedia for Indian Languages? *
The *WikiProject Spoken Indian Language Wikipedia* is a project undertaken
by Wikipedia Club Pune to give a voice to the Indian community and to
create a knowledge domain of information related to India and Indian
languages through audio recordings of the articles (in various native
languages).
P.S :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Spoken_Wikipedia/Indic_L…
*4)Why (Only) health related articles? *
As of now - Our first priority is Health related articles on Indian
Language Wikipedia. After recording articles, we are planning to circulate
these articles in underprivileged community.
*5)How I can help? *
Please add your name to Workshop page to help us.
*Register* :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Club_Pune/Spoken_Wikipedia…
Kindly do let us know if you have any doubts/queries or suggestions!
Keep Supporting, Keep Inspiring!
Romba Nandri! :-)
Best Regards,
Abhishek Suryawanshi,
User:AbhiSuryawanshi, <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:AbhiSuryawanshi>
On Behalf of Wikipedia Club Pune
Hi all,
Ever wondered how you could type in your own language and do much more fun
with your phone; browsing Indic language wikipedia articles to commenting
on friend's facebook posts to tweeting? So, here is something exciting
coming on Open source!
Recently we had a guest, YuviPanda, a former developer with Wikimedia
Foundation and an open source geek. Yuvi spent spent some with us and I got
a chance to explain how problematic it is for a mobile user to type in
Indic languages. Though most smartphones have sound font support and
rendering typing in Indic languages was far from reality, at least to me.
While explaining the problem which many others would be facing while
posting a status on facebook or tweeting many end users would like to have
few major things in a new typing tool:
- A simple interface and easy navigation
- Options to switch typing schemes/languages (Indic
↔ English)
- Readability: Font size should be made to be read properly. Based on the
jQuery.ime (https://github.com/wikimedia/jquery.ime) for Indic languages
Yuvi created a prototype (http://goo.gl/jH3TO).
In rounds of testing and bug fixing finally it is here:
http://yuvi.in/indic-typing/index.html
Right now it works online for most smartphones having Indic and rendering
support. Someone can use it online from the same link above. The offline
version works fro iPhone and Yuvi is working on fixing bugs for Android.
The offline app will soon be available for Android. Once it works perfectly
with Android it will be made available for free in Android market. We are
still to test this for Symbian, Blackberry and Windows, 3 other market
leaders. Please test and give us feedback and report bugs on
Meta<http://goo.gl/sBiaF>
(http://goo.gl/sBiaF).
I am still in the pipeline to persuade to add a feature for searching on
Indic wikipedias from this app. Please join me clapping for Yuvi for this
amazing tool and persuading him for adding the search option for Indic
wikipedias which will enable a user to search in a respective language
wikipedia by typing a particular word in this tool!
*Quick links:*
*-> Link to the tool:* http://bitly.com/indictyping
*-> Tutorial to use it online and offline (For iPhone):* http://goo.gl/HdVJW
*-> Quick links:*
- Source code: https://github.com/yuvipanda/indic-typing-tool
- Test the app and report the bugs directly on
GitHub<https://github.com/yuvipanda/indic-typing-tool/issues> or
on Meta <http://goo.gl/sBiaF>.
- App credits: YuviPanda <http://yuvi.in/>, Subhashish
Panigrahi<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Psubhashish>
, Santhosh Thottingal<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Santhosh.thottingal>
->* Blog post about the
tool<http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/typing-in-indic-languages-from-mobiles>
*: (
http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/typing-in-indic-languages-from-mobiles)
--
Best!
Subhashish Panigrahi