Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Choosing topics for Wikipedia for Schools (Offline Ed) - Indian version : #1 Cities

2011-04-14 Thread Jessie Wild
On 4/7/2011 8:30 AM, Nikhil Sheth wrote: > And I feel that there should be a full-fledged project (worldwide, not > just pertaining to indian articles) going on for Wikipedia for > Schools, with a well-structured list of ALL articles that are going > in. Not being able to find anything. Can anyo

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Choosing topics for Wikipedia for Schools (Offline Ed) - Indian version : #1 Cities

2011-04-07 Thread Nikhil Sheth
Hi again, Thanks to Anirudh for giving me the help-needed template. One wikipedian has reached out and helped: Hi Nikhilsheth - I've created this tool for you at [1]. Leave a message on my talk pageif

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Choosing topics for Wikipedia for Schools (Offline Ed) - Indian version : #1 Cities

2011-04-01 Thread Nikhil Sheth
Greetings All, Does anybody know how to extract the permalink of the latest revision of a wikipedia article - FAST and in bulk? Request for a tool to any developers out there: Please create a tool such that if I input a list of titles (all of which are wikipedia articles) - separated by comma or

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Choosing topics for Wikipedia for Schools (Offline Ed) - Indian version : #1 Cities

2011-03-10 Thread Nagarjuna G
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 10:07 PM, Ravishankar wrote: > > Hi Nikhil, > I register my strong objection for this. There are various concerns even if > the content is children friendly: > 1. The content should be free of typos, factual errors. If a school teacher > browses through random content and f

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Choosing topics for Wikipedia for Schools (Offline Ed) - Indian version : #1 Cities

2011-03-10 Thread Ravishankar
> > Note: By 'we' I am referring to the persons actively and voluntarily taking > part in this project, not the naysayers. As of now only Ashlin seems to have > done any effort at all - hence all the others who have raised some concern > or the other while loosely but visibly alleging that wikipedi

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Choosing topics for Wikipedia for Schools (Offline Ed) - Indian version : #1 Cities

2011-03-10 Thread Nikhil Sheth
Hi AshLin, Great work so far. Hat's off to one who's Wiki-ing the Talk! I want to share some amazing piece of news.. forgive me if I'm not clear here... my head is wanting to explode! 1. OpenZIM (.ZIM) is now one of the output formats, available on Wikipedia Book Creator (the tool that lets us c

[Wikimediaindia-l] Choosing topics for Wikipedia for Schools (Offline Ed) - Indian version : #1 Cities

2011-03-09 Thread Ashwin Baindur
Hello friends, Article selection for Wikipedia for Schools (Offline Ed) - Indian version has begun. I have started selecting articles. I chose Geography as a relatively uncontroversial topic to begin with. The first items added were the states & union territories - uncontroversial, just added them