[Wikimediaindia-l] Updating the logo of Indian Language Wikipedias

Thu Jul 7 17:43:49 UTC 2011

Logo of Hindi wikipedia (http://hi.wikipedia.org)  is also updated.

Shiju Alex

On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Shiju Alex <shijualexonline at gmail.com>wrote:

> Dear Indic language wikipedians,
>
> The logos of some of the Indic language wikipedias are updated recently.
> Following are those wikipedias:
>
>    - Marathi - http://mr.wikipedia.org/
>    - Kannada - http://sa.wikipedia.org/
>    - Sanskrit - http://kn.wikipedia.org/
>    - Odia (Oriya) - http://or.wikipedia.org/
>
> Among this, the Odia wikipedia logo is updated yesterday and is done by a
> new wikipedian. Thanks to Subhashish who started editing in Odia wikipedia
> recently. He had done a wonderful job.
>
> The logos for the following language wikipedias still need to be updated.
>
>    - Assamese - http://as.wikipedia.org
>    - Bhojpuri - http://bh.wikipedia.org
>    - Bishnupriya Manipuri - http://bpy.wikipedia.org/
>    - Divehi - http://dv.wikipedia.org
>    - Gujarati - http://gu.wikipedia.org
>    - Hindi - http://hi.wikipedia.org
>    - Kashmiri - http://ks.wikipedia.org/
>    - Nepali - http://ne.wikipedia.org
>    - Pali - http://pi.wikipedia.org
>    - Punjabi - http://pa.wikipedia.org
>    - Sindhi - http://sd.wikipedia.org
>    - Tamil - http://ta.wikipedia.org
>
> Hope the logos will be updated soon by the respective language community.
>
> Kindly create a new logo, upload it to commons, and log a bug in bugzilla.
> In case you require any assistance please contact me.
>
> Shiju Alex
>
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Shiju Alex <shijualexonline at gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 10:32 AM
> Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Updating the logo of Indian Language Wikipedias
> To: "Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia." <
> wikimediaindia-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
>
>
> Dear Indic language wikipedians,
>
> As many of you know the default skin of wikipedias (including that of all
> Indic language wikipedias) is moved to the new Vector skin some time back.
> Please see the below mail that I sent to this list regrading this on *2010
> July 1*.
>
> As some of you know, along with this update, the logo of wikipedia is also
> updated. The current logo is available here<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia/2.0>.
>
>
> But even though almost 6 months had passed after this major update, only
> Bengali <http://bn.wikipedia.org>, Malayalam <http://ml.wikipedia.org>,
> Urdu <http://ur.wikipedia.org>, and Telugu <http://te.wikipedia.org> wiki
> communities had took initiatives to update the logo. The logo update is
> still pending for the following Indian language wikis.
>
>    - Assamese - http://as.wikipedia.org
>    - Bhojpuri - http://bh.wikipedia.org
>    - Bishnupriya Manipuri - http://bpy.wikipedia.org/
>    - Divehi - http://dv.wikipedia.org
>    - Gujarati - http://gu.wikipedia.org
>    - Hindi - http://hi.wikipedia.org
>    - Kannada - http://kn.wikipedia.org/
>    - Kashmiri - http://ks.wikipedia.org/
>    - Marathi - http://mr.wikipedia.org
>    - Nepali - http://ne.wikipedia.org
>    - Oriya - http://or.wikipedia.org
>    - Pali - http://pi.wikipedia.org
>    - Punjabi - http://pa.wikipedia.org
>    - Sanskrit - http://sa.wikipedia.org
>    - Sindhi - http://sd.wikipedia.org
>    - Tamil - http://ta.wikipedia.org
>
> Carry Bass (User:Bastique<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Bastique>)
> has took initiative to create the new logo for some of the Indian language
> wikis. But for languages like Kannada, Oriya, and so on even that is
> pending. Even if the new logo is created a bug needs to be filed by the
> respective wiki community to change the logo. So for most of the Indian
> wikis both these tasks are pending now.
>
> I request the respective language  communities to take initiatives to
> create the new logo and file a bug for this update. The guidelines for
> creating the new logo is listed at
> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikimedia_official_marks/Word_mark_creation
>
> Please write to me if any of the language communities require any type of
> support regarding this.
>
>
>
> Regards
> Shiju Alex
>
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> Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 06:43:08 +0200
> From: shijualexonline at gmail.com
> To: wikimediaindia-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Updating the default skin of Indian Language
> Wikipedias
>
> Hi All,
>
> As some of you already know, *Usability Team<http://usability.wikimedia.org>
> * is driving the task of updating the default skin of all WikiMedia
> Foundation wikis to a skin called *Vector*<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vector>.
> English Wikipedia and some other big wikis have already moved to *Vector
> skin* some time back. Apart from the UI, the logo of Wikipedia is also
> updated <http://blog.wikimedia.org/2010/wikipedia-in-3d/>.
>
> Yesterday (2010 June 30) at 10:30 PM IST, some other wikis (that have
> carried out the formalities required for the UI change) are also moved to
> the new UI. Among this, 3 Indian Language Wikipedias are also there.
> Following are those Indian Language wikipedias:
>
>    - Malayalam - http://ml.wikipedia.org
>    - Bengali - http://bn.wikipedia.org
>    - Telugu - http://te.wikipedia.org
>
> Please note the new default skin and the new logo that are appearing on
> these wikis. (You may need to clear the cache to see the changes. )
>
>
> Now to move your language wiki to Vector, you have to perform the following
> two major operations:
>
>    1. Update the logo of your wiki
>    2. Localize the Vector skin system messages
>
> Logo update
>
> For some languages, logo is already updated. See the list here:
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia/2.0
>
> If your wiki's logo is missing from this list, then you need to create the
> new logo based on the instructions listed on this page.
> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikimedia_official_marks/About_the_official_Marks
>
>
> Localizing the Vector skin System messages
>
> For the current update, you need to localize the Vector skin system
> messages. To localize the system messages, use Translate wiki -
> http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Main_Page
>
> The current Localization statistics of Vector skin system messages is
> available here. http://translatewiki.net/wiki/User:GerardM/usability-stats
>
> You can see that many Indian languages (for example, Tamil) are missing
> from this list. The reason is, none of the Vector skin system messages are
> localized for those languages. Even for the big Languages like Hindi and
> Marathi the percentage of localized messages is very low.
>
> So I request the respective Indian Language Wikipedia communities to take
> required initiative to switch over to the new Skin. Usability team is
> planning  for next set of switch over  by the end of July. So you have
> almost one month to finish these tasks.
>
> Once you finish the above tasks you need to:
>
>    - Let the community know about this upcoming update (Use the village
>    pump, Site Notice, Mailing list, and so on)
>    - Appoint some volunteers to answer the questions related to this
>    - Appoint an ambassador to collect the feedback/issues/bugs and report
>    it to the Usability Team.
>
> Please let me know in case you require any support regarding this.
>
> Regards
> Shiju Alex
>
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