Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhiji is added to Gujarati Wikisource
Oh. What about the PDF of the Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhiji? The original scans? On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Shiju Alex sh...@wikimedia.org wrote: What is the bug number? Has the PDF been uploaded to Commons? John, this is related to the PDF export option in Wiki. The current solution won't support Indic scripts. There are several bugs related to this. One is this. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28206 An alternate solution (not a good solution) is using LibreOffice by copying text and format the text outside wiki. But I hope a solution will come as we move forward. I know Santhosh was working on this earlier. Do not know its status now. Shiju On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 7:01 AM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Dhaval, What is the bug number? Has the PDF been uploaded to Commons? On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 4:02 AM, Dhaval S. Vyas dsv...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks once again Ashwin, I have been considering to release the books officially, but unfortunately, PDF conversion is not working with Gujarati. The bug is filed a while ago, and I have been told that it may get quite a long time to fix the issue. Without having capability of exporting the page as PDF or preparing a book, I won't really feel to rush for the book release. Regards, Dhaval On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 6:54 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Dhaval, That is really very good to hear. We must maintain the highest standards in all things WikiSource. Unlike Wikipedia, errors cannot be allowed to co-exist. Well done to all Gujarati Wiki-Source-ians. Keep yup your great work. I request that this book may be please be got officially released to gain publicity and attention to Gujarati WikiSource the community. Ashwin On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 9:56 PM, Dhaval S. Vyas dsv...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Ashwin, Not only this book, but the other one that is completed and the one underway, are all proof read against original. These are all manually typed and not OCR'd. Thanks to the lack of available OCR Tool/software for indic scripts. If you or anybody else here is aware of good and reliable tool for Indic, especially Gujarati, script please share. That will help us upload book in remarkably less time than it has taken. Best, Dhaval On 2 May 2012 17:01, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Dhaval, No doubt a great achievement and my very sincere congratulations. I just wanted a clarification. This is very important! Have you checked each word for correctness against the original text? Or is it OCR'd text? Sincerely Ashwin On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 9:04 PM, Dhaval S. Vyas dsv...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Shiju, Thanks a million for sharing this with the wider community. An update: The next collaborative work is already started and in just a week's time, it is almost 25% completed as well. Kind Regards, Dhaval On 2 May 2012 16:11, Shiju Alex sh...@wikimedia.org wrote: Dear All, On behalf the Gujarati community, I wanted to share a nice update. On 22nd April, Gujarati Wikisource reached a major milestone with the completion of સત્યના પ્રયોગો અથવા આત્મકથા (Saty Naa Prayogo Athavaa Aatmakathaa) It is the Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi (The story of my experiments with truth). This book has 454 pages in 169 chapters in 5 sections. The work to digitize this book was started less than 1 month before. The following Gujarati wiki librarians contributed to this project. સુશાંત સાવલા (Sushant Savla) ધવલ વ્યાસ (Dhaval Vyas) vyom25 (Vyom) સતિષ પટેલ (Satish Chandra) જેઠાભાઇ ઓડેદરા (Jethabhai Odedara) અશોક મોઢવાડીયા (Ashok Modhavadia - Captain) jaishree Roopal Mehta સંજય બાલોતિયા (Sanjay Balotia) જીતેન્દ્રસિંહ (Jinedrasinh) નિલેશ બંધીયા (Nilesha Bandhia) Findjigar દેવેન્દ્રસિંહ ગોહિલ (Devendrasinh Gohil) To me, this is actually the biggest part of this story! 13 wikilibrarians from all over the world collaborated on this! That is amazing for a relatively new community. I would like to acknowledge the contributions of Ashok Modhavadia from Junagadh for managing the project, and for Sushant Savla and Dhaval Vyas for being inspirations behind it. Incidentally, Ashok managed the scanning of all the pages, the allotment of chapters, and all other aspects of project management. For anyone interested in how to manage a Wikisource initiative, do look at the discussions on this page
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhiji is added to Gujarati Wikisource
John, We didn't upload original scans to commons. We worked on offline scans. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35668 is the bug for pdf export issued faced on Gujarati. Dhaval On 3 May 2012 08:08, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: Oh. What about the PDF of the Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhiji? The original scans? On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Shiju Alex sh...@wikimedia.org wrote: What is the bug number? Has the PDF been uploaded to Commons? John, this is related to the PDF export option in Wiki. The current solution won't support Indic scripts. There are several bugs related to this. One is this. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28206 An alternate solution (not a good solution) is using LibreOffice by copying text and format the text outside wiki. But I hope a solution will come as we move forward. I know Santhosh was working on this earlier. Do not know its status now. Shiju On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 7:01 AM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Dhaval, What is the bug number? Has the PDF been uploaded to Commons? On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 4:02 AM, Dhaval S. Vyas dsv...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks once again Ashwin, I have been considering to release the books officially, but unfortunately, PDF conversion is not working with Gujarati. The bug is filed a while ago, and I have been told that it may get quite a long time to fix the issue. Without having capability of exporting the page as PDF or preparing a book, I won't really feel to rush for the book release. Regards, Dhaval On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 6:54 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Dhaval, That is really very good to hear. We must maintain the highest standards in all things WikiSource. Unlike Wikipedia, errors cannot be allowed to co-exist. Well done to all Gujarati Wiki-Source-ians. Keep yup your great work. I request that this book may be please be got officially released to gain publicity and attention to Gujarati WikiSource the community. Ashwin On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 9:56 PM, Dhaval S. Vyas dsv...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Ashwin, Not only this book, but the other one that is completed and the one underway, are all proof read against original. These are all manually typed and not OCR'd. Thanks to the lack of available OCR Tool/software for indic scripts. If you or anybody else here is aware of good and reliable tool for Indic, especially Gujarati, script please share. That will help us upload book in remarkably less time than it has taken. Best, Dhaval On 2 May 2012 17:01, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Dhaval, No doubt a great achievement and my very sincere congratulations. I just wanted a clarification. This is very important! Have you checked each word for correctness against the original text? Or is it OCR'd text? Sincerely Ashwin On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 9:04 PM, Dhaval S. Vyas dsv...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Shiju, Thanks a million for sharing this with the wider community. An update: The next collaborative work is already started and in just a week's time, it is almost 25% completed as well. Kind Regards, Dhaval On 2 May 2012 16:11, Shiju Alex sh...@wikimedia.org wrote: Dear All, On behalf the Gujarati community, I wanted to share a nice update. On 22nd April, Gujarati Wikisource reached a major milestone with the completion of સત્યના પ્રયોગો અથવા આત્મકથા (Saty Naa Prayogo Athavaa Aatmakathaa) It is the Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi (The story of my experiments with truth). This book has 454 pages in 169 chapters in 5 sections. The work to digitize this book was started less than 1 month before. The following Gujarati wiki librarians contributed to this project. સુશાંત સાવલા (Sushant Savla) ધવલ વ્યાસ (Dhaval Vyas) vyom25 (Vyom) સતિષ પટેલ (Satish Chandra) જેઠાભાઇ ઓડેદરા (Jethabhai Odedara) અશોક મોઢવાડીયા (Ashok Modhavadia - Captain) jaishree Roopal Mehta સંજય બાલોતિયા (Sanjay Balotia) જીતેન્દ્રસિંહ (Jinedrasinh) નિલેશ બંધીયા (Nilesha Bandhia) Findjigar દેવેન્દ્રસિંહ ગોહિલ (Devendrasinh Gohil) To me, this is actually the biggest part of this story! 13 wikilibrarians from all over the world collaborated on this! That is amazing for a relatively new community. I would like to acknowledge the contributions of Ashok Modhavadia from Junagadh for managing the project, and for Sushant Savla and Dhaval Vyas for being inspirations
[Wikimediaindia-l] Photography and Article Competition of Assamese Wikipedia
Dear All, I am very glad to share a news on behalf of Assamese Wiki Community that a Photography and Article Competition is declared to encourage the contribution and improvement of photographs and good articles on Assamese Wikipedia. There will be prizes for the winners like... * First, Second and Third: Book Packs * Consolation prizes: Certificate of Merit from Assamese Wikipedia * Certificates for prize winners and winning entries will be displayed in front pages of Assamese wiki projects. The prizes will be distributed on the 4th Assamese Wiki meetup and the celebration ceremony of the 10th anniversary of the Assamese Wikipedia which is going to be held on the Auditorium of The S.K.Hazarika College, Guwahati on Sunday 1PM (10th June 2012). You are all cordially invited to the meetup. Warm Regards JyotiPrakash Nath SSL-Guwahati +919864917706___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Introduction - Arun
Congrats Arun! (Not that he needs introduction on this list) -- Forwarded message -- From: Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.com Date: Thu, May 3, 2012 at 6:46 PM Subject: [Wikitech-l] Introduction - Arun To: wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org, wmf...@lists.wikimedia.org Hi everyone, I wanted to introduce myself to the community and the WMF team, I'm Arun Ganesh (user:planemad)[1a] from Bangalore, India and have joined as contractor for the foundation's L10n team[1b] as an Interaction designer along with Pau to improve the user experience of language tools and features. I have been a longtime contributer to both commons[2] and the openstreetmap[3] project and got involved with foundation work during the Mumbai and Pune hackathons recently[4][5][6] where I proposed some of the first ideas for the Universal Language Selector widget with Brandon, with which we want to make language selection for anyone easy peasy. Apart from that, I love cartography and maps [7], which would explain my map contributions and the occasional headline for wikipedia [8], use only public transport[9] and traveling with my pocket camera[10]. Its feels great to have this opportunity to work more seriously on a project which has been an important part of my life. I'm new here, I wont claim to know much, but I hope to make a difference in whichever way possible. I also look forward to interacting more closely and learning from the rest of the designers - Brandon, Heather and Pau to do the wonderful things that designers like to do .So keep the usability bugs coming :) -Arun [1a] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Planemad [1b] http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Localization_team [2] http://tools.wikimedia.de/~daniel/WikiSense/Gallery.php?wiki=commons.wikimedia.orgimg_user_text=Planemad [3] http://yosmhm.neis-one.org/?zoom=4lat=21.96627lon=81.68268layers=B0Tu=PlaneMad [4] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Universal_Language_Selector#Arun_Ganesh.27s_Original_design [5] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mobile_language_selector.pdf [6] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:L10n-ux-Universal_Language_Selector-Wireframes1.pdf [7] http://bit.ly/timesofindia-osm [8] http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/jul/30/information-beautiful-india-cameron [9] http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/article182223.ece [10] http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1663025,00.html ___ Wikitech-l mailing list wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Regards Srikanth.L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
