Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-del] [Wikimedia-in-hyd] Indic Languages: Shiju Alex

2011-10-02 Thread Béria Lima

 *Sorry, I did not notice it. BTW, Telugu wikipedia  team  uses
 teluguw...@googlegroups.com.*


Why isn't a normal mailing list? Create a bug for it (here are three
examples: creation of
Wikiconference-indiahttps://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29487,
creation of 
Wikimedia-blrhttps://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24454and
creation
of wikiml-l https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15012)
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http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484

*Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre
acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. É isso o que estamos a
fazer http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Nossos_projetos.*


On 2 October 2011 04:18, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.com wrote:



 On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 7:31 PM, Shiju Alex sh...@wikimedia.org wrote:

 I will suggest forwarding to respective language wiki mailing list, in
 addition to city mailing lists to reach the target audience.


 Arjuna, This is already done. The mail is sent to various Indic language
 lists also.

 Sorry, I did not notice it. BTW, Telugu wikipedia  team  uses
 teluguw...@googlegroups.com.

 Cheers
 Arjun


 Shiju

 On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 7:18 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala 
 arjunar...@gmail.comwrote:

 Shiju,


 On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 6:59 PM, Shiju Alex sh...@wikimedia.org wrote:

 Dear Indic wikimedians,

 Thank you very much for the welcome messages and for making me feel at
 home.

 Over the past few years I have interacted with many of you for the
 various Indic Wiki related activities and we have done many successful
 projects. Thank you very much for all those wonderful projects. Now when we
 are moving to a different phase of growth of Wikimedia in India, I request
 more support from your side.

 To get started we shall together develop a plan for Indic language wikis
 and design few pilot projects to gain learnings to drive growth. I propose
 to develop this plan collaboratively and openly - in true wiki style.  This
 will include focused Indic language meetups, virtual meetings, desk 
 research
 and constantly synthesizing the findings from all of these into learnings.
 These learnings will then flow into pilots that we will implement and 
 review
 and learn from.


 For this purpose, I will be using the following page
 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages.
 It is very preliminary right now - but will keep updating it.  The page 
 will
 give you a flavor of the kind of process and methodology I plan to use - 
 and
 also give you a hint of the end output.  However, I stress that is nothing
 more than a stub right now. So please provide your suggestions.

 --cut--



 Nice to see the detailed approach.
 I will suggest forwarding to respective language wiki mailing list, in
 addition to city mailing lists to reach the target audience.

 Best wishes

 Arjun




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[Wikimediaindia-l] Using Wikimedia Mailing lists

2011-10-02 Thread Shiju Alex
Changed the Subject line.


Arjuna and I were discussing the below issue that Beria pointed out.

But as Arjuna said, some of the important features like searchability of
archives, stats, and so on  are missing in the mail man. As per my
understanding this is one of the reason given by Telugu and Marathi wiki
communities for not moving to Wikimedia list. I am just wondering whether it
is possible to include these features in mail man. At least the search
option which is very vital for groups is a must for wikimedia lists.

Shiju

On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote:

 *Sorry, I did not notice it. BTW, Telugu wikipedia  team  uses
 teluguw...@googlegroups.com.*


 Why isn't a normal mailing list? Create a bug for it (here are three
 examples: creation of 
 Wikiconference-indiahttps://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29487,
 creation of 
 Wikimedia-blrhttps://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24454and 
 creation
 of wikiml-l https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15012)
 _
 *Béria Lima*
 http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484

 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter
 livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. É isso o que
 estamos a fazer http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Nossos_projetos.*


 On 2 October 2011 04:18, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.com wrote:



 On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 7:31 PM, Shiju Alex sh...@wikimedia.org wrote:

 I will suggest forwarding to respective language wiki mailing list, in
 addition to city mailing lists to reach the target audience.


 Arjuna, This is already done. The mail is sent to various Indic language
 lists also.

 Sorry, I did not notice it. BTW, Telugu wikipedia  team  uses
 teluguw...@googlegroups.com.

 Cheers
 Arjun


 Shiju

 On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 7:18 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.com
  wrote:

 Shiju,


 On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 6:59 PM, Shiju Alex sh...@wikimedia.org wrote:

 Dear Indic wikimedians,

 Thank you very much for the welcome messages and for making me feel at
 home.

 Over the past few years I have interacted with many of you for the
 various Indic Wiki related activities and we have done many successful
 projects. Thank you very much for all those wonderful projects. Now when 
 we
 are moving to a different phase of growth of Wikimedia in India, I request
 more support from your side.

 To get started we shall together develop a plan for Indic language
 wikis and design few pilot projects to gain learnings to drive growth. I
 propose to develop this plan collaboratively and openly - in true wiki
 style.  This will include focused Indic language meetups, virtual 
 meetings,
 desk research and constantly synthesizing the findings from all of these
 into learnings.  These learnings will then flow into pilots that we will
 implement and review and learn from.


 For this purpose, I will be using the following page
 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages.
 It is very preliminary right now - but will keep updating it.  The page 
 will
 give you a flavor of the kind of process and methodology I plan to use - 
 and
 also give you a hint of the end output.  However, I stress that is nothing
 more than a stub right now. So please provide your suggestions.

 --cut--



 Nice to see the detailed approach.
 I will suggest forwarding to respective language wiki mailing list, in
 addition to city mailing lists to reach the target audience.

 Best wishes

 Arjun




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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Using Wikimedia Mailing lists

2011-10-02 Thread Béria Lima
Sending to Wikitech because if someone has an answer you will find in that
list ;)
_
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http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484

*Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre
acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. É isso o que estamos a
fazer http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Nossos_projetos.*


On 2 October 2011 11:15, Shiju Alex sh...@wikimedia.org wrote:

 Changed the Subject line.


 Arjuna and I were discussing the below issue that Beria pointed out.

 But as Arjuna said, some of the important features like searchability of
 archives, stats, and so on  are missing in the mail man. As per my
 understanding this is one of the reason given by Telugu and Marathi wiki
 communities for not moving to Wikimedia list. I am just wondering whether it
 is possible to include these features in mail man. At least the search
 option which is very vital for groups is a must for wikimedia lists.

 Shiju

 On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote:

 *Sorry, I did not notice it. BTW, Telugu wikipedia  team  uses
 teluguw...@googlegroups.com.*


 Why isn't a normal mailing list? Create a bug for it (here are three
 examples: creation of 
 Wikiconference-indiahttps://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29487,
 creation of 
 Wikimedia-blrhttps://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24454and 
 creation
 of wikiml-l https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15012)
 _
 *Béria Lima*
 http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484

 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter
 livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. É isso o que
 estamos a fazer http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Nossos_projetos.*


 On 2 October 2011 04:18, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.com wrote:



 On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 7:31 PM, Shiju Alex sh...@wikimedia.org wrote:

 I will suggest forwarding to respective language wiki mailing list, in
 addition to city mailing lists to reach the target audience.


 Arjuna, This is already done. The mail is sent to various Indic language
 lists also.

 Sorry, I did not notice it. BTW, Telugu wikipedia  team  uses
 teluguw...@googlegroups.com.

 Cheers
 Arjun


 Shiju

 On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 7:18 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala 
 arjunar...@gmail.com wrote:

 Shiju,


 On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 6:59 PM, Shiju Alex sh...@wikimedia.orgwrote:

 Dear Indic wikimedians,

 Thank you very much for the welcome messages and for making me feel at
 home.

 Over the past few years I have interacted with many of you for the
 various Indic Wiki related activities and we have done many successful
 projects. Thank you very much for all those wonderful projects. Now when 
 we
 are moving to a different phase of growth of Wikimedia in India, I 
 request
 more support from your side.

 To get started we shall together develop a plan for Indic language
 wikis and design few pilot projects to gain learnings to drive growth. I
 propose to develop this plan collaboratively and openly - in true wiki
 style.  This will include focused Indic language meetups, virtual 
 meetings,
 desk research and constantly synthesizing the findings from all of these
 into learnings.  These learnings will then flow into pilots that we will
 implement and review and learn from.


 For this purpose, I will be using the following page
 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages.
 It is very preliminary right now - but will keep updating it.  The page 
 will
 give you a flavor of the kind of process and methodology I plan to use - 
 and
 also give you a hint of the end output.  However, I stress that is 
 nothing
 more than a stub right now. So please provide your suggestions.

 --cut--



 Nice to see the detailed approach.
 I will suggest forwarding to respective language wiki mailing list, in
 addition to city mailing lists to reach the target audience.

 Best wishes

 Arjun




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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Using Wikimedia Mailing lists

2011-10-02 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 15:45, Shiju Alex sh...@wikimedia.org wrote:

 Changed the Subject line.


 Arjuna and I were discussing the below issue that Beria pointed out.

 But as Arjuna said, some of the important features like searchability of
 archives, stats, and so on  are missing in the mail man. As per my
 understanding this is one of the reason given by Telugu and Marathi wiki
 communities for not moving to Wikimedia list. I am just wondering whether it
 is possible to include these features in mail man. At least the search
 option which is very vital for groups is a must for wikimedia lists.

 Shiju


There is an existing bug on this for an year now. If this is essential, can
you give a push from inside?

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/25105

-- 
Regards
Srikanth.L
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Introducing Wikimedia India New EC members: Naveen, Sudhanwa and Tinu

2011-10-02 Thread Mandar Kulkarni
My +1 to this :)

 
With Regards,

Mandar V. Kulkarni




From: Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com
To: Wikimedia India Community list wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Sent: Saturday, 1 October 2011, 18:08
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Introducing Wikimedia India New EC members: 
Naveen, Sudhanwa and Tinu


Congratulations to all of you and welcome to your new roles in the Chapter and 
by inference the Community. Please count on my support at all times.

Warm regards,

Ashwin Baindur
--



On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.org wrote:

On 1 October 2011 14:57, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.com wrote:

 I am happy  to introduce Naveen, Sudhanwa and Tinu who are elected to
 Chapter EC  in the recent elections.

Congratulations and good luck!

Thank you.

Best,

Gautam

http://blog.prathambooks.org/p/social-media.html

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Gautam John steps down from Wikimedia India board and Secretary's position

2011-10-02 Thread Theo10011
Thanks for all the great work Gautam. You have always been the voice of
reason in most discussions I have seen, and I probably didn't even see half
of it since we never had the chance to meet in person.

I hope you still remain vocal in the India community, your voice would be
sorely missed from the chapter.

I wish you nothing but the best. May the wind always be at your back.

Regards
Salmaan
(User:Theo10011)

On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.orgwrote:

 On 2 October 2011 10:07, Bishakha Datta bishakhada...@gmail.com wrote:

  I assume and hope we will stay in touch, and that your exit from the EC
 does
  not also mean an exit from the wikimedia community.

 Of course. I'm always around and available.

 Thank you.

 Best,

 Gautam
 
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Gautam John steps down from Wikimedia India board and Secretary's position

2011-10-02 Thread Gautam John
On 2 October 2011 16:10, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote:

 I wish you nothing but the best. May the wind always be at your back.

Thank you for kind and generous words, Theo.

Best,

Gautam

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[Wikimediaindia-l] Tamizh Nadu

2011-10-02 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Please note:
1. Tamil is not nisspelt as Thamizh or Tamizh, that is intentional.
2. This mail is an important one. It could pretty much give birth to a
massive digital movement that could aid Wikipedia and other projects like
OSM, and more.
3. This mail is a mix of discussions that happened over the list, the phone,
and of a few surveys done by me in Sathyamangalam and Gobichettipalayam
taluks of Erode district and a few in Ramnagar, Coimbatore City.

Dear all,
As you all should know by now, the Tamil Nadu government has already started
distribution of laptops and other paraphernalia.
This year, the Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu [ELCOT] has already
distributed 7000+ out of the targetted 9.12 lakh.
The students covered include School students, +2 students, UG and PG [Except
M.Phil and PhD] students.
The breakup of it is 60% goes to school and higher secondary/pre university
students, 32% to Arts and Science college students, 3% to Polytechnic
students and 2% to Engineering students.
Voters in the Nilgiris have already recieved laptops for their wards. [I,
however, inspite of being a student in Tamil Nadu, will not be recieving one
as my Voter registration is in K'taka]. However, my friends will recieve
them, and I can see how we can go about in getting them onto Open Source
projects.
As discussed, the laptop will have the ELCOT logo all across it both
physically and digitally. The Motherboard and other physical ICs will have
the ELCOT logo engraved on it, while you will see the logo on booting, with
Jayalalitaa's photo as a default screensaver[rumoured], similar to ELCOT
TVs.
The laptop runs on Bharat Open Operating System, or BOSS [again, as
discussed earlier], developed by a GoI entity, the Centre for Development of
Advanced Computing [C-DAC]. For a fourth gen Linux distribution[it was
launched in 2007], it is pretty lousy, bugged and has plenty of flaws.

9,12 lakh Laptops will be completely distributed by the end of the Academic
year.
In relation to this, a couple of us wrote to the Tamil Nadu Electricity
Generation and Distribution Company [TANGEDCO] regarding voltage and supply
issues as there is no point in having a laptop, with erratic power supply
and heavy fluctuations, [We came across a case of a laptop charger getting
fried in Gobichettipalayam].

As stated earlier, new textbooks under the Samacheer Kalvi provide links to
Wikipedia articles and feature images from the Wikimedia Commons.
This should be a morale booster for us, to provide better photographs and
media on the Commons and to make sure that the articles in question are
error free, even if it is on the English Wikipedia.


After all this nonsense, I ask a few questions to several groups of people:

1 The chapter, the Foundation office, and board members. This includes
Hisham Mundol, Bishakha Dutta, Achal Prabhala, Shiju Alex, Nitika Tandon et
al.
Are you willing to launch any school student oriented plan in South India,
[not limited to TN]?
I'm not asking for anything similar to the Campus Ambassadors program, but
more of a series of Seminars, workshops, academies, meetups, tutorials etc.
We need your support for such a mass scale program, as individually we
cannot achieve anything.

2 South Indian wikipedians, especially the Bangalore, Chennai and Kerala
communities.
Are you open to helping us out?
Especially Kerala, you are the most advanced in the Indic wiki sphere, will
you please help out your neighbour TN?

I'm willing to do as much as possible from my side[I'm not too good at
arranging meetups, when I say Wikipedia, people stare at me blankly, and I
can't explain it to them in Tamil, even though it is my mother tongue].


Please do consider this Golden opportunity.
There is plenty of potential out here.
The laptops run on Linux, which means, a big boost to Open Source software.
The primary target is school students, which means, more young editors [and
oldies in their late teens like me].

I couldn't think of how to say this, but somehow I just typed it and sent
it.

Note: If you consider this as SPAM, please IGNORE it. There is no need to
send me a mailing asking me to stop SPAMMING the list like last time.


--Regards,
Srikanth Ramakrishnan,
Coimbatore.

If there is a Wolfram Alpha, there should also be a SheepRavanBeta no?
Between 1970 and 1990, India did nothing, but increase her population.
The city of Kuzhambathur was famous for Kuzhambu ... The British were unable
to pronounce and hence it became Coimbatore.
 DR Ratio is the ratio of number of dosais to number of rotis a person can
eat under common conditions. It is usually greater than 1.
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Tamizh Nadu

2011-10-02 Thread Hisham


On Oct 3, 2011, at 2:14 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan wrote:

 
 9,12 lakh Laptops will be completely distributed by the end of the Academic 
 year.

We are trying to establish a line of communication with ELCOT to discuss how we 
could have Wikipedia Offline installed on these computers.
   
 After all this nonsense, I ask a few questions to several groups of people:

This isn't nonsense! It's fantastic context!!!  Many many thanks!

 
 1 The chapter, the Foundation office, and board members. This includes 
 Hisham Mundol, Bishakha Dutta, Achal Prabhala, Shiju Alex, Nitika Tandon et 
 al.
 Are you willing to launch any school student oriented plan in South India, 
 [not limited to TN]?
 I'm not asking for anything similar to the Campus Ambassadors program, but 
 more of a series of Seminars, workshops, academies, meetups, tutorials etc. 
 We need your support for such a mass scale program, as individually we cannot 
 achieve anything. 

Yes!  Happy to discuss and see how best we can help out.  Let me know when we 
can talk.

 2 South Indian wikipedians, especially the Bangalore, Chennai and Kerala 
 communities.
 Are you open to helping us out?
 Especially Kerala, you are the most advanced in the Indic wiki sphere, will 
 you please help out your neighbour TN?
  
 I'm willing to do as much as possible from my side[I'm not too good at 
 arranging meetups, when I say Wikipedia, people stare at me blankly, and I 
 can't explain it to them in Tamil, even though it is my mother tongue].
  
  
 Please do consider this Golden opportunity.
 There is plenty of potential out here.
 The laptops run on Linux, which means, a big boost to Open Source software.
 The primary target is school students, which means, more young editors [and 
 oldies in their late teens like me].
  
 I couldn't think of how to say this, but somehow I just typed it and sent it.

Once again, Thank You for this!

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[Wikimediaindia-l] third remaider to stop the mail.

2011-10-02 Thread Deepam Trust
will you stop the mail with out delay
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Tamizh Nadu

2011-10-02 Thread Vickram Crishna
With all due respect to the notion that many hands working can accomplish
more than one, the FOSS community has been working with ELCOT to ensure this
scheme was not hijacked by the proprietary vendor lobby (which nearly
happened even in this round of distribution), and at least at one point in
the past, the inclusion of localised wikipedia was an integral part of that
plan, hence, the creation of a 'source' offline wikipedia was a
fantastically worthwhile project.

 I make this statement particularly in response to a discussion on this list
just a few days back where a Wikipedian made a point of asserting that FOSS'
goals and that of Wikipedians do not match. My point being, while separate
movements may have individual objectives, at least when the common goal of
open knowledge is at stake, a spot of coming together is needed.

That statement was really distressing to read. No war, especially not a war
of ideas, can be considered won when a battle or two is over.

Again, in the runup to the WikiConference 2011, it is being said time and
again that FOSS goals have no place in the conference. Not only is this a
poor intellectual construct, it appears to me that a deliberate movement
exists to exclude FOSSers from even assisting (if they continue to support
FOSS platforms). It really seems very peculiar to me - not that I think
Jimmy Wales is the world's greatest saint or evangelist that ever lived, but
he is the first person to ask the community to understand how using FOSS
tools is a practical and worthwhile part of the Wikipedia experience.

Just yesterday or day before, another thread discussed the current features
of Mailman, our list software tool, which just happens to be FOSS. Somebody
wanted more features - but building in features is exactly the kind of
community-facing endeavour that characterises the difference between the
intellectual approaches to building tools, between FOSS and proprietary. I
could see no indication (so far) that the users concerned were in
conversation with active Mailman devs to see these features become a
reality.

Is it just me, or is there some disconnect or discomfort here?

On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 6:56 AM, Hisham his...@wikimedia.org wrote:



 On Oct 3, 2011, at 2:14 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan wrote:


 9,12 lakh Laptops will be completely distributed by the end of the Academic
 year.


 We are trying to establish a line of communication with ELCOT to discuss
 how we could have Wikipedia Offline installed on these computers.


 After all this nonsense, I ask a few questions to several groups of people:


 This isn't nonsense! It's fantastic context!!!  Many many thanks!


 1 The chapter, the Foundation office, and board members. This includes
 Hisham Mundol, Bishakha Dutta, Achal Prabhala, Shiju Alex, Nitika Tandon et
 al.
 Are you willing to launch any school student oriented plan in South India,
 [not limited to TN]?
 I'm not asking for anything similar to the Campus Ambassadors program, but
 more of a series of Seminars, workshops, academies, meetups, tutorials etc.
 We need your support for such a mass scale program, as individually we
 cannot achieve anything.


 Yes!  Happy to discuss and see how best we can help out.  Let me know when
 we can talk.

 2 South Indian wikipedians, especially the Bangalore, Chennai and Kerala
 communities.
 Are you open to helping us out?
 Especially Kerala, you are the most advanced in the Indic wiki sphere, will
 you please help out your neighbour TN?

 I'm willing to do as much as possible from my side[I'm not too good at
 arranging meetups, when I say Wikipedia, people stare at me blankly, and I
 can't explain it to them in Tamil, even though it is my mother tongue].


 Please do consider this Golden opportunity.
 There is plenty of potential out here.
 The laptops run on Linux, which means, a big boost to Open Source software.
 The primary target is school students, which means, more young editors [and
 oldies in their late teens like me].

 I couldn't think of how to say this, but somehow I just typed it and sent
 it.


 Once again, Thank You for this!

 hisham

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] third remaider to stop the mail.

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