"Tamil Wikipedia has gained an important tool - automated front page maintenance. The code for this was written using Lua by Surya Prakash under the guidance of Yuvipanda. If other wiki projects want to make use of this, it is available at http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:Main_page. Please get in touch with Surya if you need any help."
It looks like people could use this template on a main page to display a featured article, a user, changes from the current month, and so on. (I ran the Tamil documentation through Google Translate and didn't understand everything; an English translation would be welcome, as would a TODO list for future options to add.)
Surya Prakash is at suryaceg{{@}}gmail.com. Thanks to Surya, Yuvi, and the organizers of the Chennai event!
Thanks, Sumana
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Hi all,
The event went very well. About 70-80 people from various open source / open content communities attended the sessions over two days. Apart from the usual benefits, Tamil Wikipedia has gained an important tool - automated front page maintenance. The code for this was written using Lua by Surya Prakash under the guidance of Yuvipanda. If other wiki projects want to make use of this, it is available at http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:Main_page. Please get in touch with Surya if you need any help.
A special shout out to Dwarak and team of Mozilla India, for making this excellent event happen. We hope to have more such open weekend events in Chennai regularly.
Reports, slides, pictures and thoughts are available at the following links
1) http://ta.wikipedia.org/s/2u3b 2) https://www.facebook.com/events/152064334973643/155602711286472 3) https://picasaweb.google.com/102002010785949271518/OpenWeeekendsDay1 4) http://www.flickr.com/photos/dtsdwarak/sets/72157633728520541/ 5) https://www.dropbox.com/sh/sk8abb4irbcy2xx/GbCMxHE5p
regards Bala Jeyaraman
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 8:30 AM, Bala Jeyaraman sodabottle@gmail.comwrote:
Hi all,
Chennai Wikimeetup 6 is happening on 26 May 2013. Besides the usual intro session on Wikipedia, there will be intro sessions on Wikidata, Translatewiki, Bots in Wikimedia projects and a photography tutorial.[1][2] The meetup is a part of the two day "Open Weekends" event organised by Mozilla India and supported by Indian Linux Users Group and Wikmedia India.[3] The Wikimedia part will be concentrated on Sunday (26 May).
*Venue*: Railsfactory, Sedin Technologies Private Limited, # 38/39, 3rd Floor, White's Road, Royapettah, Chennai (Near Sathyam cinemas) *Time*: 26 May, 10 AM - 1 PM *Facebook page*: https://www.facebook.com/events/152064334973643/?ref=25
If you are planning to attend please do consider filling up the sign up sheet - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1uDJLNWY2ZFKvrTc20QdzzeVogj5mAc8KB4aUKrz3qqs... easing up the security process at the venue)
regards Bala Jeyaraman Executive Council Member Wikimedia India
==Refs== [1] http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Events/Open_Weekends [2] http://ta.wikipedia.org/s/2u3b [3] https://reps.mozilla.org/e/open-weekends/
2013/5/29 Sumana Harihareswara sumanah@wikimedia.org: [...]
It looks like people could use this template on a main page to display a featured article, a user, changes from the current month, and so on. (I ran the Tamil documentation through Google Translate and didn't understand everything; an English translation would be welcome, as would a TODO list for future options to add.)
[...]
Wow.
I'm waiting for an English translation too before informing the Italian community, but at a first glance this looks awesome. This is yet another giant leap for us, thanks to Lua.
Kudos to Surya, Yuvi, and all the others who were involved into this! :)
Please find the translation of the page ( http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:Main_page) below. Hope it would be helpful.
**beginning of translation**
This luva program was created on May 26, 2013 at Chennai Event on weekend events of the Wikimedia, by Tamil wiki user Surya prakash and Wikimedia user Yuvraj Pandian.
The purpose of this tool is to automate the updation of the Main Page. For example, the template of a Main Page articles, Did-you-know, featured picture, portal intoduction, user introduction and list introduction, and its contributors are incessantly changing.
In a few cases, the contributor at the right time are unable to make the update. This program was written to do exactly that in this difficult situation. The main page of English Wikipedia is being updated through this method. But since we lack enough contributors other wikipedias such as this one(Tamil Wikipedia) is not being updated everyday.(The "Today" section is part of the daily converted by wiki notation).
The main page of tamil wikipedia is being update in the following days weekly
Articles are update on sundays Did-you-know are update on wednesdays Featured picture are update on wednesdays Portal section are update on once per month Lists section are also being update only once per month.
Hence, instead of the contributors updating manually for the frequency of updation, they could do the updation whey they have the time and this program would update it when it is required based on the frequence set. If the updation isn't availabe or not preset by the contributor for the next occurence, the program would look for the previous ones and update them. Therefore, there need not be a fear of "Red
Line" in the Main Page.
Known Issues As told by Bala,
1. Currently, we have put main page sub-templates as "under-construction". Therefore, when the date arrives they will be ready and will be saved as drafts. For example, If there is a section that was saved draft which is still incomplete and the contributor forgets about it. When the day comes for updation, the program will update the Main page with the incomplete section. We need to avoid this. 2. The template topics are in the name of the month(June vs June. March vs March, etc.). This could be changed to the number corresponding to the month (1-12)
Solution
1. Soution to the first problem is a bit difficult. It is possible only by the contricutors and other occasional contributors/helpers. Until the section is complete an "Under construction" template could be added to that. Upon further discussion with Yuvaraj, we might end-up in a better solution. And the manual will be soon processed as soon as possible. 2. Solution to the second issue is quite simpler. The name of the template that is used in MediaWiki shall be used across all.
**end of translation**
This section was written by Surya Prakash in Tamil. Translated by Me(en:User:Stausifr)
Thanks, Tausif On May 29, 2013 7:52 PM, "Luca Martinelli" martinelliluca@gmail.com wrote:
2013/5/29 Sumana Harihareswara sumanah@wikimedia.org: [...]
It looks like people could use this template on a main page to display a featured article, a user, changes from the current month, and so on. (I ran the Tamil documentation through Google Translate and didn't understand everything; an English translation would be welcome, as would a TODO list for future options to add.)
[...]
Wow.
I'm waiting for an English translation too before informing the Italian community, but at a first glance this looks awesome. This is yet another giant leap for us, thanks to Lua.
Kudos to Surya, Yuvi, and all the others who were involved into this! :)
-- Luca "Sannita" Martinelli http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utente:Sannita
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