[Wikimediaindia-l] Report on First Wiki Academy organised by Wikimedia Chapter

[Subhashish Panigrahi]

This is a great news! Congratulations all of you to make this a success.

On 14 September 2011 09:59, Arjuna Rao Chavala <arjunaraoc at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 11:39 PM, omshivaprakash at gmail.com <
> omshivaprakash at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Happy to be a part of First Wiki Academy. Thanks to Arjun for pulling me
>> in and look forward for more such activities.
>>
>>  It was really interesting to see librarians looking at wikipedia. Many
>> asked questions on relevance of data, accuracy, authenticity of data and
>> more.
>>
>> Observation:-
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>> All government employees here in Karnataka use Nudi in their offices and
>> it was little difficult for them to get used to phonetic transliteration
>> keyboard attached to Kannada wiki.
>>
>> Is there any provision to add multiple key layouts (itrans/KGP/inscript)
>> to wikipedia for each language? If yes, how. Any pointers or hacks would be
>> very much appreciated.
>>
>> I must appreciate Shiva prakash for making time for this, despite a woking
> day and delivering  Kannada Wikipedia demo.
>
> Regarding Key layouts, if you are meaning support at the OS level, it is
> easy in Linux as all  these are supported ibus with m17n. For the Windows
> platform that is more common, Inscript has been setup on the machines in the
> lab. As practising with transliteration is easier to start, we focussed on
> that.  We should cover other keyboard methods in future events
>
> Cheers
> Arjun
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