Dear friends,
This is to inform you all about the creation of the first MediaWiki group in India. For
the past several days, I’ve been speaking to Quim Gil, Sumana and Yuvi Panda. I was
informed about the setting up of local groups in different countries for technical
contributors. With encouragement from all of them and with help from Noopur I submitted a
proposal for the formation of MediaWiki Group Ahmedabad. This proposal has been endorsed
by 7 people so far.
For those who might be interested in setting up similar groups, I think a Wikitech mailing
list for India is being set up and personally, I would be happy to help you write a
proposal for your community. I think it’s a great idea because with the help of this
technical group we intend to make good technical infrastructure and editing environment
for Gujarati Wikipedia easier to contribute to.
I have already ported HotCat and Popups(on the way) on Gujarati Wikipedia. Please have a
look at the areas we want to collaborate on:
Areas of collaboration:
Localize Gadgets for Gujarati Wikipedia and Wikisource
Create New Gadgets and extensions
Bug solving for Gujarati Wikipedia and WikiSource and also other MediaWiki related Bug
solving for all Indian languages
Translate into Gujarati Language, i.e
http://translatewiki.net/
Wikidata
You can read the proposal here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Groups/Proposals/Ahmedabad
Your endorsements, improvements and feedback are welcome at the wiki
page. Thank you!
Harsh Kothari
PS: see also
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Groups/Proposals
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Harsh Kothari
Research Fellow,
Physical Research Laboratory(PRL).
Ahmedabad.