Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] mobile editing reading of Wikipedia
Thanks Ramesh, Anoop, Shiju, and Praveen for the information. - Sundar That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted. - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture From: Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.com To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Tue, October 26, 2010 10:03:21 PM Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] mobile editing reading of Wikipedia Rendering of Malayalam script is very bad. Same might be the case with most of the other Indian scripts. (Devanagari might have reasonable support) So this site is of not much use to Malayalam as of now, even though we are regularly updating it. We cannot expect much as of now since the majority of the software solutions focuses only on Latin script. Hope situation will improve as the contribution from the developers working in Indic language computing increases. Shiju Alex On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 9:49 PM, BalaSundaraRaman sundarbe...@yahoo.com wrote: Ramesh, Could you try http://ml.m.wikipedia.org/ from your phone? (Of course, it'll still need the fonts.) To my knowledge, Malayalam Wikipedia is the only Indian Wikipedia to have a mobile interface (I could be wrong). For Tamil Wikipedia, only the final steps are pending. - Sundar That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted. - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture From: Ramesh N G rames...@gmail.com To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Tue, October 26, 2010 6:30:59 PM Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] mobile editing reading of Wikipedia Data charges definitely is coming down and will be coming down more with the 3G war in India. The support for other languages and unicode should be improved in the mobiles. I have tried ml wikipedia in the Nokia E series with MiniOpera browser. It was really a bad experience for me. The fonts are not properly displaying. Hope to see more improvements especially on the unicode support and fonts in the mobile browsers. regards Ramesh ng On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 6:25 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan rsrikant...@gmail.com wrote: I agree with Srikanth on this issue. I have been using Wikipedia on my phone for over a year and a half, and have even edited several articles from my phone. On 26 October 2010 11:30, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:34, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.org wrote: Arjuna makes a good point on language support. As for the data costs, don't some providers (I know MTS does) provide access to Wikipedia for free? Have you used MTS free Wikipedia? I overheard they are falsely advertising but actually it costs something. (like only en.wiki is free and data charges apply for images on the article from commons). I am not very sure on this, anyone who uses MTS can confirm. But i have to disagree with Arjuna and feel data charges have come down significantly over a period of time now though may still not be affordable to a common man on the street when compared to the dead low voice tariff. More and more alternate ways of consuming Wikipedia on mobile needs to be developed. I particularly find the Wikipedia layer on Google maps for mobile useful while exploring unknown territories. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Regards, ME. Wear a Lungi, Support the Movement My infrastructure invasion... plus other images too.. on Wikimedia Commons. http://bit.ly/d50SIq ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Proposal: Wiki Marathon
Hi, 20+ users have already signed up for the Wiki Marathon during the November 14, 2010 week end. Expecting more users when we pep up the campaign. Some of us will participate in this from the Chennai Wiki meetup in planning. How about the progress in other Wikis, cities ? Ravi On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote: We have started a project page in Tamil Wikipedia for the proposed Wikithon (guess we have consensus on this name ) and people are already signing up. If all interested Indic language Wiki communities can discuss this in their village pumps, then we can coordinate the info in Wikimedia.in ravi ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Proposal: Wiki Marathon
Hi, I have created a page where we could co-ordinate activities for en.wiki and also link pages in other wikis.Please feel free to expand. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/India/Marathon1 Regards Srikanth.L On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 13:39, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, 20+ users have already signed up for the Wiki Marathon during the November 14, 2010 week end. Expecting more users when we pep up the campaign. Some of us will participate in this from the Chennai Wiki meetup in planning. How about the progress in other Wikis, cities ? Ravi On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote: We have started a project page in Tamil Wikipedia for the proposed Wikithon (guess we have consensus on this name ) and people are already signing up. If all interested Indic language Wiki communities can discuss this in their village pumps, then we can coordinate the info in Wikimedia.in ravi ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Mumbai Meet up in the attendance of Jimmy Wales, Co-founder of Wikipedia
Hi, I see a banner on en.wiki about this meetup.Nice! Is this done through some geo-ip stuff? If so I would like banners for all wiki activities like meetups / academies etc. Regards Srikanth.L Google Profile http://j.mp/SrikanthL On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 11:38, Kundan Amitabh kundanamit...@gmail.comwrote: Hi ! A Meet up has been organised on 31st Oct., 2010 at Mumbai. Alongwith others Jimmy Wales, Co-founder of Wikipedia will be attending the meet up. For details please visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Mumbai/Mumbai3 All are invited to attend. *Please ignore the link of preceding email.* -- Best Regards. Kundan Amitabh Ang India Technologies, www.angindia.org CH-2/52, Kendriya Vihar, Sector-11, Kharghar, Navi Mumbai, Mumbai-410210, INDIA == 9320255450 / 9869478444 == Let's Keep Our World Green for Our Children's Future! Please don't print this email unless it's really necessary ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Mumbai Meet up in the attendance of Jimmy Wales, Co-founder of Wikipedia
Good suggestion Srikanth. We should implement that. regards Arun On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 7:35 AM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote: Hi, I see a banner on en.wiki about this meetup.Nice! Is this done through some geo-ip stuff? If so I would like banners for all wiki activities like meetups / academies etc. Regards Srikanth.L Google Profile http://j.mp/SrikanthL On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 11:38, Kundan Amitabh kundanamit...@gmail.comwrote: Hi ! A Meet up has been organised on 31st Oct., 2010 at Mumbai. Alongwith others Jimmy Wales, Co-founder of Wikipedia will be attending the meet up. For details please visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Mumbai/Mumbai3 All are invited to attend. *Please ignore the link of preceding email.* -- Best Regards. Kundan Amitabh Ang India Technologies, www.angindia.org CH-2/52, Kendriya Vihar, Sector-11, Kharghar, Navi Mumbai, Mumbai-410210, INDIA == 9320255450 / 9869478444 == Let's Keep Our World Green for Our Children's Future! Please don't print this email unless it's really necessary ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Mumbai Meet up in the attendance of Jimmy Wales, Co-founder of Wikipedia
Theo/Salmaan suggested this and helped make the banner happen - visible only to those from India. Thanks very much. Bishakha On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Arun Ram arunra...@gmail.com wrote: Good suggestion Srikanth. We should implement that. regards Arun On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 7:35 AM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote: Hi, I see a banner on en.wiki about this meetup.Nice! Is this done through some geo-ip stuff? If so I would like banners for all wiki activities like meetups / academies etc. Regards Srikanth.L Google Profile http://j.mp/SrikanthL On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 11:38, Kundan Amitabh kundanamit...@gmail.comwrote: Hi ! A Meet up has been organised on 31st Oct., 2010 at Mumbai. Alongwith others Jimmy Wales, Co-founder of Wikipedia will be attending the meet up. For details please visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Mumbai/Mumbai3 All are invited to attend. *Please ignore the link of preceding email.* -- Best Regards. Kundan Amitabh Ang India Technologies, www.angindia.org CH-2/52, Kendriya Vihar, Sector-11, Kharghar, Navi Mumbai, Mumbai-410210, INDIA == 9320255450 / 9869478444 == Let's Keep Our World Green for Our Children's Future! Please don't print this email unless it's really necessary ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Mediareport : CIOL : Wikimedia to open India operation, soon
Wikimedia to open India operation, soon http://www.ciol.com/News/News/News-Reports/Wikimedia-to-open-India-operation-soon/142832/0/ If you come across any Wikimedia /Wikimedia India related news, please add it to http://www.wikimedia.in/wiki/In_the_news Regards Tinu Cherian ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
