Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] on the recent internet bans in india

[Srikanth Lakshmanan]

On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 6:54 PM, Achal Prabhala  wrote:

> Greetings - if any of you are trying to make sense of the recent banning
> of several popular websites by Indian ISPs, Lawrence Liang and I have an
> article in the current issue of Open Magazine that tries to unravel the
> plot:
>
> http://www.openthemagazine.**com/article/nation/a-**ludicrous-ban
>

I am writing this since this list is read by many folks outside India who
might think "Internet ban" at varying levels and put to some facts for
people to make some more sense on the banning. Its mostly on 2-3 ISPs in
India, so calling "Internet ban" is slightly exaggerating IMHO. (I owe that
much to my ISP who did not block any of the said websites but get painted
with same brush in the "Indian ISP bashing" game). People are pointing
wrong reasons (copyright bans) while the actual issue is about
incompetence, anti-net-neutrality and self censorship principles followed
by select ISP's.(I need not name them, its well known :)) Anyone who went
through the anonymous list[1] will understand its got very little to do
with copyright to block "Satish Seth" search results. The easy option is to
unsubscribe from the ISP's instead of blaming it on copyright (shooting the
wrong thief, at least this case).

In future, would appreciate if you tag mail such as these with [OT] since
they are not directly related to list but might be of interest.

[1] http://www.medianama.com/2012/05/223-anonymous-india-protest-reliance/

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Srikanth.L
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] TOI:Urdu Wikipedia to be up and running in June

[Philippe Beaudette]

On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Ravishankar  wrote:

>
> This makes it clear that this is an independent encyclopaedia initiative.
> Wikipedia, Wiki have long become common names to indicate anything like
> encyclopaedia.
>


Point of order:

Wiki is a generic name.  Wikipedia is not.  It is a registered trademark.
 Using it as a common/genericized term would be incorrect,and is something
that we fight regularly, legally.  :)

pb
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] TOI:Urdu Wikipedia to be up and running in June

[nikita belavate]

Came across this article in Monday's DNA :
http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report_hindi-urdu-language-barrier-set-to-break_1697810

Another
effort for propagation of Urdu work among Hindi and Urdu literature fans
and vice-versa. Can they be tapped for propagating their efforts through
Wiki ?

Regards,
Nikita.

On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 9:14 PM, Hisham  wrote:

>
>
> On Jun 1, 2012, at 9:11 PM, Ravishankar wrote:
>
> //The Urdu Wiki, its current tentative nomenclature, will work along the
> lines of Wikipedia allowing readers to edit and add comments.//
>
> This makes it clear that this is an independent encyclopaedia initiative.
> Wikipedia, Wiki have long become common names to indicate anything like
> encyclopaedia.
>
>
> I suspect as much.  ...but let's see how the meeting goes and if we can
> work out some form of mutually beneficial partnership.
>
> hisham
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[Wikimediaindia-l] on the recent internet bans in india

[Achal Prabhala]

Greetings - if any of you are trying to make sense of the recent banning 
of several popular websites by Indian ISPs, Lawrence Liang and I have an 
article in the current issue of Open Magazine that tries to unravel the 
plot:


http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/nation/a-ludicrous-ban

Cheers,
Achal

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