Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] We need to decide NOW what the conference is to be called.....

[Surya Prakash]

Good choice!
Thank you.


*$U®¥∩*

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2011/6/22 Ashwin Baindur 

> The name "WikiConference India" was selected by the community through
> simple majority. The discussion began on this page (url:
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:WikiConference_India_2011)  and has
> now been archived here (url :
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:WikiConference_India_2011/Conference_Name
> ).
>
> For the record, the votes were as follows -
>
> * WikiMela (& variants) - 8 support, 1 oppose
> * WikiConference India - 14 support, 2 oppose
> * WikiUtsav - 2 support
> * WikiMania India - 2 support, 5 oppose
> * WikiBharati - 1 support
>
> Those who feel that WikiMela would be more evocative, creative and
> brandworthy may consider Harriet's suggestion to :
>
> "within India use locally understood names appropriately to brand events
> like Utsav for the After Conference Party..or Mela for Wiki community
> meets."
>
> Warm regards,
>
> Ashwin Baindur
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Event Programming Suggestions

[wheredevelsdare]

Kindly make your suggestions to the Programming Team of WikiConference India, 
2011 here: 
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:WikiConference_India_2011/Schedule
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Assamese Wikipedians

[CherianTinu Abraham]

Hi there,
   Are there any active Wikipedians on Assamese Wikipedia on this
list?
Are you a  Wikipedian ( any language ) in Assam ?

If so, can you *reply privately* to me , *off this list* ?

Thanks in advance.

Regards
Tinu Cherian
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Boxbe and mailing lists.

[CherianTinu Abraham]

Hi all,
We have recently noticed that many of the subscribers to various Wikimedia
are using Boxbe services.

This creates lots of problem for the mailing lists since unwanted
notifications are sent to the list from your id.

We would appreciate if we could put mails from *@lists.wikimedia.org to some
kind of white list.

Thanks for the understanding.

Regards
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Boxbe and mailing lists.

[Gautam John]

On 22 June 2011 14:38, CherianTinu Abraham  wrote:

> We have recently noticed that many of the subscribers to various Wikimedia
> are using Boxbe services.
> This creates lots of problem for the mailing lists since unwanted
> notifications are sent to the list from your id.

Thank you, Tinu. It is indeed very frustrating. I have a filter that
removes all such emails and trashes them - the only people affected
are those that don't get our emails because we don't "approve" or
"verify" ourselves.

Best,

Gautam

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Boxbe and mailing lists.

[Srikanth Lakshmanan]

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 14:38, CherianTinu Abraham wrote:

> Hi all,
> We have recently noticed that many of the subscribers to various Wikimedia
> are using Boxbe services.
>
> This creates lots of problem for the mailing lists since unwanted
> notifications are sent to the list from your id.
>
> We would appreciate if we could put mails from *@lists.wikimedia.org to
> some kind of white list.
>

Thanks Tinu for the guideline. I have added BoxBe to list spam filter,
linkedIn invitations are still a problem as i havent figured out the way to
handle. Ideally it can come from top down from lists perspective. I have
raised a bug here[1]. But then best thing always, may better sense prevail
in first place!

[1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29526

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Massive increase in copyright term for photographs

[Gautam John]

Asaf and Dror - thank you very very much for these inputs.

Thank you.

Best,

Gautam

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On 20 June 2011 13:14, Asaf Bartov  wrote:
> In the meantime, here is some more food for thought: I have asked my former
> colleague in Wikimedia Israel, Dror K (CCed above), to share his experience
> with attempting to block similar legislation in Israel in 2007, and how he
> ended up helping to mitigate it.
> I bring his account verbatim below.  Hope this helps,
>     Asaf Bartov
>     Wikimedia Foundation
> 
>
> I am writing this in English, so you could forward it to our colleagues and
> friends in India.
>
> The problem is not simple at all, because it involves international
> commitments and pressure. The international copyright treaty, known today as
> WIPO Treaty and replacing the former Bern Treaty, demands that parties to
> the treaty will abolish the distinction between photographs and other
> creative works. See
> here: http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ip/wct/trtdocs_wo033.html#P81_10697 (Article
> 9). The former Bern Treaty allowed each country to decide whether it wants
> to have a special copyright period for photographs, and set a minimum of 25
> years. India, like most countries, decided to make this distinction and
> opted for the minimal requirement of the Bern Treaty. It has all changed
> several years ago, when the WIPO Treaty canceled this paragraph of the Bern
> Treaty.
>
> From my experience with handling this issue in Israel - the chances of
> changing the legislators' mind about this are slim, because there are
> international commitments involved. And yet, two things should be sought and
> demanded: (1) that the change will not be retrospective; (2) that it would
> not affect state-owned copyrights
>
> In Israel, after our appeal, the Ministry of Justice agreed to introduce a
> paragraph saying that the change was not retrospective (namely, the old
> statute applies for pictures taken before the enactment of the new
> legislation). The Ministry explained that the history of Zionism and
> Israel's struggle for independence (including the first decades of the state
> that saw major events and changes in the landscape and population of the
> country) requires that photographs from that time be released to the public
> domain as planned. The legislators approved that.
>
> Since India's struggle for independence happened during the same years, this
> argument can be used in the Indian case too. The Ministry also suggested a
> slight reduction in the copyright period of state-owned works. Since there
> are many state-employed photographers, doing various tasks of documentation,
> this amendment was important, though we still struggle to make state-owned
> works fully free, like in the US. The fact that the UK changed its policy
> regarding state-owned copyright is helpful, because the Indian legal system
> (like the Israeli) was inherited from the British colonial regime, hence
> every legal solution used in the UK is probably feasible in India as well.
>
> I hope this helps. Best of luck!
>
> Dror K
>
> On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 9:37 PM, Gautam John 
> wrote:
>>
>> On 19 June 2011 21:57, Pranesh Prakash  wrote:
>>
>> > If one of you could help me draft the letter (I'm looking at you,
>> > Gautam), that would be appreciated.
>>
>> For sure. Will work on this offline and post it here for further action.
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Gautam
>> 
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Unsung Wikipedia Hero : Shyamal

[CherianTinu Abraham]

For those who don't know  Shyamal , an active Wikipedian from India, read on
:

( Fwding this mail with the permission of AshLin)

-- Forwarded message --
From: Ashwin Baindur
Date: Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 5:15 PM
Subject: [WikiConference-India 2011] First speaker lined up!
To: For organising national WikiConferences in India <
wikiconference-in...@lists.wikimedia.org>


Short on the heels of our first tentative sponsor is our tentative first
speaker. On the talk page of the schedule on Meta:, I had suggested that we
could schedule a talk on ''Indian Biodiversity in Wikipedia - Issues,
challenges & the way ahead'' by Shyamal.

He has agreed to my proposal.

The Indian biodiversity scene has a number of people who work on Wikipedia
but rarely venture out in Outreach and as such remain completely unknown to
the general Wikipedia community. Shyamal is such a guy. So I will introduce
you to him.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Shyamal

An editor since 26 November 2002, Shyamal has an edit count of over 36,000
edits on English Wikipedia, is an administrator on English Wikipedia and is
quite simply India's most prolific contributor on Nature and Wild life.

Respected amongst the ornithological community in India, where he wrote a
seminal paper in 2007 on "Whither Indian Ornithology" in a peer-reviewed
journal, Indian Birds,


http://www.indianbirds.in/pdfs/Opinion%20Taking%20Indian%20ornithology%20into%20the%20Information%20Age.pdf

...he has contributed over 5200 images to Commons, many of them carefully
retrieved from nineteenth century books and cleaned up and loaded as well as
svg images painstakingly crafted

http://toolserver.org/~daniel/WikiSense/Gallery.php?wikifam=commons.wikimedia.org&wikilang=en&order=-img_timestamp&img_user_text=Shyamal&ofs=0&max=250

He has theorised about the role of Open Science in India, and commented on
influential papers on Wikipedia in Science.

http://thebutterflydiaries.wordpress.com/2009/08/09/open-science/

Shyamal has also loaded hundreds of documents into www.archive.org where
they are now available to posterity.

When he reads this, Shyamal will once again accuse me of being a hagiograph.
Well, as a fauji, I like to call a spade a spade. Just thought, you'd like
to know.

The Indian community has many unsung WikiHeroes, one of whom is Shyamal.

Warm regards,

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Google's Indic Wikipedia translation project closing down

[Bala Jeyaraman]

A follow up:

The alpha release has created another problem in ta wiki. People are
starting to use it for creating articles and they are mostly gibberish. We
have created a new speedy deletion criteria for tagging and deleting them.


On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Arjuna Rao Chavala <
arjunar...@googlemail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I tried how translate works translating my English 
> blogto Telugu. Given that the software is 
> alpha, the number of untranlated
> words  were quite few (abbreviations or  words like  focussing, inputting,
> rapidy  mostly words with spelling errors).  Grammatical construction of
> sentences is weak. For people who are not comfortable in understanding
> English, the service may give atleast an idea of  the original text context.
>
> While I appreciate the efforts of Google in  introducing Google Translate
> support for english languages,  considering that Indian government and
> organisations were not able to offer such service for Telugu and support for
> other languages also not available for free access (Link for English
> ->other 
> languages),
> I wish that they  had engaged with Wikimedia community in a better way to
> make their  contributions  to Wikimedia met the expectations from the
> community.
>
> Thanks
> Arjun
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Invitation to join Chapter as Member by 23 June 2011 to participate in EC elections during AGM

[Gautam John]

Two things - for all those of you who submitted forms till the
beginning of last week, emails have been sent with confirmation and
cards/receipts have been posted. If you have not received it - please
email - off list at members...@wikimedia.in

For everyone else who has submitted applications post that and till
today - they will go out on Friday.

Just a word today and tomorrow are the last days to submit your forms
to be able to vote and stand for EC elections at the AGM in September.
Please do sign up soon.

FYI - We have 62 members as of today.

Thank you.

Best,

Gautam

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[Wikimediaindia-l] About description of of Wikipedia

[Subhashish Panigrahi]

Hi All,

We are amid of an ongoing description of changing the current description of
Odia Wikipedia.

The present description is as below-
ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ (Odia Wikipedia)
ଗୋଟିଏ ଖୋଲା ଭାଷାକୋଷ (Eka khola bhasakosa meaning An Open Encyclopedia)

But as most suggesting the name "Gyanamandala" or "Gyana kosa", I just want
to ask one thing, is that fine if we change the description from "Bhasakosa"
to "Gyanamandala"?

But, here is a question! A friend has mentioned that "Gyanamandala" is the
name of an old encyclopedia. *(Published during 1961-1988 by Binod Kanungo).
* But "Gyanamandala" is a generic name in Odia Language which means
"Encyclopedia", So, can we use this word in the description part.

PS This is the text which appears below the name "Wikipedia" in Odia
Wikipedia logo (http://or.wikipedia.org )

Please give your suggestions.
regards
*
ସୁଭପାSubhaPa
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-blr] Unsung Wikipedia Hero : Shyamal

[Prashanth NS]

An apt choice and congrats on the choice. Indeed an early inspiration for a lot 
of my own involvement with open information and wikipedia. All the more 
motivation for me to attend the Wikiconference in spite of very pressing 
engagements. For those who have already not seen many of the bird illustrations 
by User:Shyamal, would be worth your while to check them out. 

Regards,
Prashanth

On 22-Jun-2011, at 2:07 PM, CherianTinu Abraham wrote:

> For those who don't know  Shyamal , an active Wikipedian from India, read on 
> :  
> 
> ( Fwding this mail with the permission of AshLin) 
> 
> -- Forwarded message --
> From: Ashwin Baindur
> Date: Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 5:15 PM
> Subject: [WikiConference-India 2011] First speaker lined up!
> To: For organising national WikiConferences in India 
> 
> 
> 
> Short on the heels of our first tentative sponsor is our tentative first 
> speaker. On the talk page of the schedule on Meta:, I had suggested that we 
> could schedule a talk on ''Indian Biodiversity in Wikipedia - Issues, 
> challenges & the way ahead'' by Shyamal.
> 
> He has agreed to my proposal.
> 
> The Indian biodiversity scene has a number of people who work on Wikipedia 
> but rarely venture out in Outreach and as such remain completely unknown to 
> the general Wikipedia community. Shyamal is such a guy. So I will introduce 
> you to him.
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Shyamal
> 
> An editor since 26 November 2002, Shyamal has an edit count of over 36,000 
> edits on English Wikipedia, is an administrator on English Wikipedia and is 
> quite simply India's most prolific contributor on Nature and Wild life.
> 
> Respected amongst the ornithological community in India, where he wrote a 
> seminal paper in 2007 on "Whither Indian Ornithology" in a peer-reviewed 
> journal, Indian Birds,
> 
> http://www.indianbirds.in/pdfs/Opinion%20Taking%20Indian%20ornithology%20into%20the%20Information%20Age.pdf
> 
> ...he has contributed over 5200 images to Commons, many of them carefully 
> retrieved from nineteenth century books and cleaned up and loaded as well as 
> svg images painstakingly crafted
> 
> http://toolserver.org/~daniel/WikiSense/Gallery.php?wikifam=commons.wikimedia.org&wikilang=en&order=-img_timestamp&img_user_text=Shyamal&ofs=0&max=250
> 
> He has theorised about the role of Open Science in India, and commented on 
> influential papers on Wikipedia in Science.
> 
> http://thebutterflydiaries.wordpress.com/2009/08/09/open-science/ 
> 
> Shyamal has also loaded hundreds of documents into www.archive.org where they 
> are now available to posterity.
> 
> When he reads this, Shyamal will once again accuse me of being a hagiograph. 
> Well, as a fauji, I like to call a spade a spade. Just thought, you'd like to 
> know.
> 
> The Indian community has many unsung WikiHeroes, one of whom is Shyamal.
>  
> Warm regards,
> 
> Ashwin Baindur
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] About description of of Wikipedia

[Srikanth Lakshmanan]

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 21:25, Subhashish Panigrahi
wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> We are amid of an ongoing description of changing the current description
> of Odia Wikipedia.
>
> The present description is as below-
> ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ (Odia Wikipedia)
> ଗୋଟିଏ ଖୋଲା ଭାଷାକୋଷ (Eka khola bhasakosa meaning An Open Encyclopedia)
>

Before we would go to encyclopedia, I would like to correct about "Open". It
must be free encyclopedia[Free is a word play in English, meaning both free
in beer and speach] but free as in freedom must be used instead of open.

Regards
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-blr] Unsung Wikipedia Hero : Shyamal

[mayur]

Great Work, Keep it On.

Regards
Mayur

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 9:25 PM, Prashanth NS wrote:

> An apt choice and congrats on the choice. Indeed an early inspiration for a
> lot of my own involvement with open information and wikipedia. All the more
> motivation for me to attend the Wikiconference in spite of very pressing
> engagements. For those who have already not seen many of the bird
> illustrations by User:Shyamal, would be worth your while to check them out.
>
> Regards,
> Prashanth
>
> On 22-Jun-2011, at 2:07 PM, CherianTinu Abraham wrote:
>
> For those who don't know  Shyamal , an active Wikipedian from India, read
> on :
>
> ( Fwding this mail with the permission of AshLin)
>
> -- Forwarded message --
> From: Ashwin Baindur
> Date: Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 5:15 PM
> Subject: [WikiConference-India 2011] First speaker lined up!
> To: For organising national WikiConferences in India <
> wikiconference-in...@lists.wikimedia.org>
>
>
> Short on the heels of our first tentative sponsor is our tentative first
> speaker. On the talk page of the schedule on Meta:, I had suggested that we
> could schedule a talk on ''Indian Biodiversity in Wikipedia - Issues,
> challenges & the way ahead'' by Shyamal.
>
> He has agreed to my proposal.
>
> The Indian biodiversity scene has a number of people who work on Wikipedia
> but rarely venture out in Outreach and as such remain completely unknown to
> the general Wikipedia community. Shyamal is such a guy. So I will introduce
> you to him.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Shyamal
>
> An editor since 26 November 2002, Shyamal has an edit count of over 36,000
> edits on English Wikipedia, is an administrator on English Wikipedia and is
> quite simply India's most prolific contributor on Nature and Wild life.
>
> Respected amongst the ornithological community in India, where he wrote a
> seminal paper in 2007 on "Whither Indian Ornithology" in a peer-reviewed
> journal, Indian Birds,
>
>
> http://www.indianbirds.in/pdfs/Opinion%20Taking%20Indian%20ornithology%20into%20the%20Information%20Age.pdf
>
> ...he has contributed over 5200 images to Commons, many of them carefully
> retrieved from nineteenth century books and cleaned up and loaded as well as
> svg images painstakingly crafted
>
>
> http://toolserver.org/~daniel/WikiSense/Gallery.php?wikifam=commons.wikimedia.org&wikilang=en&order=-img_timestamp&img_user_text=Shyamal&ofs=0&max=250
>
> He has theorised about the role of Open Science in India, and commented on
> influential papers on Wikipedia in Science.
>
> http://thebutterflydiaries.wordpress.com/2009/08/09/open-science/
>
> Shyamal has also loaded hundreds of documents into www.archive.org where
> they are now available to posterity.
>
> When he reads this, Shyamal will once again accuse me of being a
> hagiograph. Well, as a fauji, I like to call a spade a spade. Just thought,
> you'd like to know.
>
> The Indian community has many unsung WikiHeroes, one of whom is Shyamal.
>
> Warm regards,
>
> Ashwin Baindur
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] About description of of Wikipedia

[Subhashish Panigrahi]

Well, in that case "Khola" is more approprite than "Magana" (Used in the
context of *Buy 1 Get 1 Free!)*
*
*
*But, my question is about the copyright!
*
*
*
*"Gyanamandala" * is a generic Odia Word like "Sambada", "Samaja",
"Pavithra", etc. Can it be used or not thought there is a book in the name *
"Gyanamandala"?*


On 22 June 2011 21:33, Srikanth Lakshmanan  wrote:

>
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 21:25, Subhashish Panigrahi  > wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> We are amid of an ongoing description of changing the current description
>> of Odia Wikipedia.
>>
>> The present description is as below-
>> ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ (Odia Wikipedia)
>> ଗୋଟିଏ ଖୋଲା ଭାଷାକୋଷ (Eka khola bhasakosa meaning An Open Encyclopedia)
>>
>
> Before we would go to encyclopedia, I would like to correct about "Open".
> It must be free encyclopedia[Free is a word play in English, meaning both
> free in beer and speach] but free as in freedom must be used instead of
> open.
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] About description of of Wikipedia

[Shiju Alex]

I do not think any one can get copyright for the common words of a language.
But not sure.

Gautham, your help required. :)




On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 9:37 PM, Subhashish Panigrahi  wrote:

> Well, in that case "Khola" is more approprite than "Magana" (Used in the
> context of *Buy 1 Get 1 Free!)*
> *
> *
> *But, my question is about the copyright!
> *
> *
> *
> *"Gyanamandala" * is a generic Odia Word like "Sambada", "Samaja",
> "Pavithra", etc. Can it be used or not thought there is a book in the name
> *"Gyanamandala"?*
>
>
> On 22 June 2011 21:33, Srikanth Lakshmanan  wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 21:25, Subhashish Panigrahi <
>> psubhash...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> We are amid of an ongoing description of changing the current description
>>> of Odia Wikipedia.
>>>
>>> The present description is as below-
>>> ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ (Odia Wikipedia)
>>> ଗୋଟିଏ ଖୋଲା ଭାଷାକୋଷ (Eka khola bhasakosa meaning An Open Encyclopedia)
>>>
>>
>> Before we would go to encyclopedia, I would like to correct about "Open".
>> It must be free encyclopedia[Free is a word play in English, meaning both
>> free in beer and speach] but free as in freedom must be used instead of
>> open.
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] About description of of Wikipedia

[Gautam John]

If I understand correctly, there is a book called "Gyanamandala" and
you want to use this same name for Wikipedia in Oriya? Is this word
defined in the dictionary? That asked, I highly doubt copyright
protection exists for a word - trademark perhaps but not copyright.

Thank you.

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] About description of of Wikipedia

[Subhashish Panigrahi]

Yes Gautam, *"Gyanamandala" * is a GENERIC NAME*, *and there is a book in
the same name and the word "Gyanamandala" means "Gyana" (Knowledge)+
"Mandala" (Combination/Base), used in places like "Nakhyatra Mandala" /
"Tara Mandala" (set of stars in the sky).

So, please let me know if the use of this word to describe this phrase "*An
open Encyclopedia" *is fine?

On 22 June 2011 21:49, Gautam John  wrote:

> If I understand correctly, there is a book called "Gyanamandala" and
> you want to use this same name for Wikipedia in Oriya? Is this word
> defined in the dictionary? That asked, I highly doubt copyright
> protection exists for a word - trademark perhaps but not copyright.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Best,
>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] About description of of Wikipedia

[Gautam John]

You should be just fine, IMHO.

Thank you.

Best,

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On 22 June 2011 21:54, Subhashish Panigrahi  wrote:
> Yes Gautam, "Gyanamandala"  is a GENERIC NAME, and there is a book in the
> same name and the word "Gyanamandala" means "Gyana" (Knowledge)+ "Mandala"
> (Combination/Base), used in places like "Nakhyatra Mandala" / "Tara Mandala"
> (set of stars in the sky).
> So, please let me know if the use of this word to describe this phrase "An
> open Encyclopedia" is fine?
>
> On 22 June 2011 21:49, Gautam John  wrote:
>>
>> If I understand correctly, there is a book called "Gyanamandala" and
>> you want to use this same name for Wikipedia in Oriya? Is this word
>> defined in the dictionary? That asked, I highly doubt copyright
>> protection exists for a word - trademark perhaps but not copyright.
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Gautam
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] About description of of Wikipedia

[Subhashish Panigrahi]

And how could I redirect this to the consensus page saying that this word
"Gyanamandala" could be used to describe the phrase?

On 22 June 2011 21:56, Gautam John  wrote:

> You should be just fine, IMHO.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Best,
>
> Gautam
> 
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>
>
>
>
> On 22 June 2011 21:54, Subhashish Panigrahi  wrote:
> > Yes Gautam, "Gyanamandala"  is a GENERIC NAME, and there is a book in the
> > same name and the word "Gyanamandala" means "Gyana" (Knowledge)+
> "Mandala"
> > (Combination/Base), used in places like "Nakhyatra Mandala" / "Tara
> Mandala"
> > (set of stars in the sky).
> > So, please let me know if the use of this word to describe this phrase
> "An
> > open Encyclopedia" is fine?
> >
> > On 22 June 2011 21:49, Gautam John  wrote:
> >>
> >> If I understand correctly, there is a book called "Gyanamandala" and
> >> you want to use this same name for Wikipedia in Oriya? Is this word
> >> defined in the dictionary? That asked, I highly doubt copyright
> >> protection exists for a word - trademark perhaps but not copyright.
> >>
> >> Thank you.
> >>
> >> Best,
> >>
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> >> 
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] About description of of Wikipedia

[Gautam John]

Meaning?

Thank you.

Best,

Gautam

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On 22 June 2011 21:58, Subhashish Panigrahi  wrote:
> And how could I redirect this to the consensus page saying that this word
> "Gyanamandala" could be used to describe the phrase?
>
> On 22 June 2011 21:56, Gautam John  wrote:
>>
>> You should be just fine, IMHO.
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Gautam
>> 
>> http://social.prathambooks.org/
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 22 June 2011 21:54, Subhashish Panigrahi  wrote:
>> > Yes Gautam, "Gyanamandala"  is a GENERIC NAME, and there is a book in
>> > the
>> > same name and the word "Gyanamandala" means "Gyana" (Knowledge)+
>> > "Mandala"
>> > (Combination/Base), used in places like "Nakhyatra Mandala" / "Tara
>> > Mandala"
>> > (set of stars in the sky).
>> > So, please let me know if the use of this word to describe this phrase
>> > "An
>> > open Encyclopedia" is fine?
>> >
>> > On 22 June 2011 21:49, Gautam John  wrote:
>> >>
>> >> If I understand correctly, there is a book called "Gyanamandala" and
>> >> you want to use this same name for Wikipedia in Oriya? Is this word
>> >> defined in the dictionary? That asked, I highly doubt copyright
>> >> protection exists for a word - trademark perhaps but not copyright.
>> >>
>> >> Thank you.
>> >>
>> >> Best,
>> >>
>> >> Gautam
>> >> 
>> >> http://social.prathambooks.org/
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Technical Help Needed

[Gautam John]

Hey All:

Just to say that Arnav Chaudhary came forward to help with a CiviCRM
instance and to help customise it too.

A beta is here:
http://74.117.238.2/~wiki/index.php?q=civicrm/contribute/transact&reset=1&id=2

Would be great if you could all play with it and enter test details
(and an email address) and report back if it works as expected?

The original use cases are below.

Arnav - thank you so very much for stepping forward to help with this
- much appreciated and many many thanks.

Thank you.

Best,

Gautam

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On 15 June 2011 14:04, Gautam John  wrote:
> Hey:
>
> I was wondering is anyone here could offer some help to the Chapter to
> set up a system to process membership forms etc.
>
> Essentially, what we need is:
>
> 1. A front end for the applicant enter form details.
> 2. A way to update these details with payment information, etc. as and
> when received.
> 2. A database to store that.
> 3. A way to generate a:
> 3.1 Receipt
> 3.2 Membership Number
> 3.3 Membership Card
> 3.4 Send an email when it is posted
> 3.5 A PDF of the form so entered for the applicant to sign and send.
> 4. Add the member to a mailing list
> 5. Send reminder email as and when necessary
> 6. It would be nice to have:
> 6.1 A way for members to update and edit their details as and when it changes
> 7. Open source software will be preferred.
>
>
> Thank you.
>
> Best,
>
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> 
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Technical Help Needed

[Bence Damokos]

Hi,

It looks good.
A couple of notes:
Is it deliberate that only India can be selected as a country?
If you click continue to confirm your details, there are two unnecessary
date input boxes present.
If you click to finish the transaction the site gives the following error:
"
Database Error Code: Table 'wiki_wiki.users' doesn't exist, 1146Additional
Details:
Array ( [callback] => Array ( [0] => CRM_Core_Error [1] =>
handle ) [code]
=> -18 [message] => DB Error: no such table [mode] =>
16[debug_info] => SELECT uid FROM users where name = 'Bdamokos'
[nativecode=1146 ** Table 'wiki_wiki.users' doesn't exist] [type] =>
DB_Error [user_info] => SELECT uid FROM users where name = 'Bdamokos'
[nativecode=1146 ** Table 'wiki_wiki.users' doesn't exist] [to_string] =>
[db_error: message="DB Error: no such table" code=-18
mode=callback callback=CRM_Core_Error::handle prefix=""
info="SELECT uid FROM users where name = 'Bdamokos' [nativecode=1146 **
Table 'wiki_wiki.users' doesn't exist]"] )

" ; indicating some problem with the database set up.

Anyhow, I got an e-mail that my Drupal registration went through, so
regardless of the error, the site seems to work to some degree.

I hope the above results help in any way, I know from experience that Civi
can be a pain...

Best regards,
Bence



On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 7:16 PM, Gautam John wrote:

> Hey All:
>
> Just to say that Arnav Chaudhary came forward to help with a CiviCRM
> instance and to help customise it too.
>
> A beta is here:
>
> http://74.117.238.2/~wiki/index.php?q=civicrm/contribute/transact&reset=1&id=2
>
> Would be great if you could all play with it and enter test details
> (and an email address) and report back if it works as expected?
>
> The original use cases are below.
>
> Arnav - thank you so very much for stepping forward to help with this
> - much appreciated and many many thanks.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Best,
>
> Gautam
> 
> http://social.prathambooks.org/
>
>
>
>
> On 15 June 2011 14:04, Gautam John  wrote:
> > Hey:
> >
> > I was wondering is anyone here could offer some help to the Chapter to
> > set up a system to process membership forms etc.
> >
> > Essentially, what we need is:
> >
> > 1. A front end for the applicant enter form details.
> > 2. A way to update these details with payment information, etc. as and
> > when received.
> > 2. A database to store that.
> > 3. A way to generate a:
> > 3.1 Receipt
> > 3.2 Membership Number
> > 3.3 Membership Card
> > 3.4 Send an email when it is posted
> > 3.5 A PDF of the form so entered for the applicant to sign and send.
> > 4. Add the member to a mailing list
> > 5. Send reminder email as and when necessary
> > 6. It would be nice to have:
> > 6.1 A way for members to update and edit their details as and when it
> changes
> > 7. Open source software will be preferred.
> >
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Gautam
> > 
> > http://social.prathambooks.org/
> >
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Technical Help Needed

[Gautam John]

Thanks, Bence.

> Is it deliberate that only India can be selected as a country?

Sadly, yes - our terms of registration allow only 'Indian' members.

> If you click continue to confirm your details, there are two unnecessary date 
> input boxes present.

Noted.

> If you click to finish the transaction the site gives the following error:

Yeah - it's still a work in progress - the front end is kinda done.

> " ; indicating some problem with the database set up.

Thanks - will look at this.

> Anyhow, I got an e-mail that my Drupal registration went through, so 
> regardless of the error, the site seems to work to some degree.
> I hope the above results help in any way, I know from experience that Civi 
> can be a pain...

Thank you, Bence.

Best,

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Technical Help Needed

[Arnav Chaudhary]

Hi,

Thanks for the feedback.

The database error has been solved.

Please continue Testing.


Regards,
Arnav Chaudhary
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On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 11:33 PM, Gautam John wrote:

> Thanks, Bence.
>
> > Is it deliberate that only India can be selected as a country?
>
> Sadly, yes - our terms of registration allow only 'Indian' members.
>
> > If you click continue to confirm your details, there are two unnecessary
> date input boxes present.
>
> Noted.
>
> > If you click to finish the transaction the site gives the following
> error:
>
> Yeah - it's still a work in progress - the front end is kinda done.
>
> > " ; indicating some problem with the database set up.
>
> Thanks - will look at this.
>
> > Anyhow, I got an e-mail that my Drupal registration went through, so
> regardless of the error, the site seems to work to some degree.
> > I hope the above results help in any way, I know from experience that
> Civi can be a pain...
>
> Thank you, Bence.
>
> Best,
>
> Gautam
> 
> http://social.prathambooks.org/
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Technical Help Needed

[Gautam John]

Just a reminder - we could use some help testing, please.

Thank you.

Best,

Gautam

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On 22 June 2011 22:46, Gautam John  wrote:
> Hey All:
>
> Just to say that Arnav Chaudhary came forward to help with a CiviCRM
> instance and to help customise it too.
>
> A beta is here:
> http://74.117.238.2/~wiki/index.php?q=civicrm/contribute/transact&reset=1&id=2
>
> Would be great if you could all play with it and enter test details
> (and an email address) and report back if it works as expected?
>
> The original use cases are below.
>
> Arnav - thank you so very much for stepping forward to help with this
> - much appreciated and many many thanks.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Best,
>
> Gautam
> 
> http://social.prathambooks.org/
>
>
>
>
> On 15 June 2011 14:04, Gautam John  wrote:
>> Hey:
>>
>> I was wondering is anyone here could offer some help to the Chapter to
>> set up a system to process membership forms etc.
>>
>> Essentially, what we need is:
>>
>> 1. A front end for the applicant enter form details.
>> 2. A way to update these details with payment information, etc. as and
>> when received.
>> 2. A database to store that.
>> 3. A way to generate a:
>> 3.1 Receipt
>> 3.2 Membership Number
>> 3.3 Membership Card
>> 3.4 Send an email when it is posted
>> 3.5 A PDF of the form so entered for the applicant to sign and send.
>> 4. Add the member to a mailing list
>> 5. Send reminder email as and when necessary
>> 6. It would be nice to have:
>> 6.1 A way for members to update and edit their details as and when it changes
>> 7. Open source software will be preferred.
>>
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Gautam
>> 
>> http://social.prathambooks.org/
>>
>

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