Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [Wikimediaindia-l] Translation Help for WikiConference India
On 20 July 2011 14:05, Fae fae...@gmail.com wrote: BTW, thank you for your recent help with the Tamil version of Tipu's Tiger. Our contacts at the Victoria and Albert Museum were awed at how this was done on the day of the Wikilounge and it has helped their internal discussion about making large numbers of official images and video available available to support further multi-language collaborations. * Tipu's Tiger on http://ta.wikipedia.org Cheers, Fae Hmm interestingly the professional photos also suffer from the long standing problem of making it difficult to indicate the scale of an object if you are unfamiliar with it. -- geni ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [Wikimediaindia-l] Translation Help for WikiConference India
Hi Ashwin, One area where it does help being in London is photography. The VA has been very progressive about this, you can't use flash, or at least not where there is a risk of damaging the artworks. But otherwise they are quite open to photography of their own collection (special exhibitions with visiting collections are another story). So far we've barely started on http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Indian_sculpture_in_the_Victoria_and_Albert_Museum There are many more exhibits in the museum, including quite a lot from India, and I hope we'll see many more photos loaded in the future. But if you have any specific requests please do let us know, probably the best place to post a request for photography is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_London Bye for now, hope some of us will meet some of you in Haifa! WereSpielChequers On 20 July 2011 14:54, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com wrote: Just to update you on Tipu's Tiger, now that Fae brought up the topic. User Shyamal and I have been helping User:Johnbod, Fae and others in developing Tipu's Tiger. The collaboration is successful and Tipu's Tiger has gone much beyond the C- class article that was the version Tamil Wikipedians translated to a GA nominee today with many new facts and images. The surprising thing we learnt in this collaboration that despite just being on the internet in India and never having been to England, much less the VA Museum, it was possible for us to contribute in so many ways - from finding derivative works, and public domain images to adding facts and references. The reasons for this were primarily that thanks to Shyamal's knowledge of open resources we found historical material on the net and also to some plain old grunt work churning through page after page of search results in Google Web, Google Books, Google Scholar and Google Images. All in all, collaborating with UK GLAM on this initiative was a very positive experience that we recommend to others. In one sense, this international collaboration is the defauilt mode for all editting in Wikipedia and thus nothing really new - in another sense, it was an interesting, purposeful and deliberate collaboration between Wikimedians all over the world and the VA Museum. We hope that this is just the first of many such initiatives with the Victoria and Albert Museum, a museum which holds many objects important to Indian heritage. Our thanks and good wishes to our British colleagues for this venture. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [Wikimediaindia-l] Translation Help for WikiConference India
Just read the article; it's great. And what a fantastic collaboration! Also, this specific article can be shown to GLAM institutions in India as an example of what is possible. Cheers Bishakha On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 9:20 PM, Bala Jeyaraman sodabot...@gmail.comwrote: Glad to be of help (coudnt resist as the subject was very interesting). I will start work on updating the ta wiki article using the expanded en wiki version. I smell a potential main page article for ta wiki :-) On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 8:40 PM, Fae fae...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, The Tipu's Tiger English article is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipu's_Tiger. A Bengali version would be fantastic. It is currently in 13 different languages which you can see listed in the languages side-bar. As this is the key case study for the VA we would love to have as many languages as possible and some of the current stub class language variations double checked for accuracy, for example Welsh needs some help. The English version is currently nominated for a DYK and has an outstanding GA nomination (strong hint to :en regulars). Cheers, Fae -- http://enwp.org/user_talk:fae Guide to email tags: http://j.mp/faetags On 20 July 2011 15:35, Jayanta Nath jayanta...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Please give me the link, I want to translate in Bengali ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list wikimediaindi...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list wikimediaindi...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [Wikimediaindia-l] Translation Help for WikiConference India
Just to update you on Tipu's Tiger, now that Fae brought up the topic. User Shyamal and I have been helping User:Johnbod, Fae and others in developing Tipu's Tiger. The collaboration is successful and Tipu's Tiger has gone much beyond the C- class article that was the version Tamil Wikipedians translated to a GA nominee today with many new facts and images. The surprising thing we learnt in this collaboration that despite just being on the internet in India and never having been to England, much less the VA Museum, it was possible for us to contribute in so many ways - from finding derivative works, and public domain images to adding facts and references. The reasons for this were primarily that thanks to Shyamal's knowledge of open resources we found historical material on the net and also to some plain old grunt work churning through page after page of search results in Google Web, Google Books, Google Scholar and Google Images. All in all, collaborating with UK GLAM on this initiative was a very positive experience that we recommend to others. In one sense, this international collaboration is the defauilt mode for all editting in Wikipedia and thus nothing really new - in another sense, it was an interesting, purposeful and deliberate collaboration between Wikimedians all over the world and the VA Museum. We hope that this is just the first of many such initiatives with the Victoria and Albert Museum, a museum which holds many objects important to Indian heritage. Our thanks and good wishes to our British colleagues for this venture. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Fae fae...@gmail.com wrote: BTW, thank you for your recent help with the Tamil version of Tipu's Tiger. Our contacts at the Victoria and Albert Museum were awed at how this was done on the day of the Wikilounge and it has helped their internal discussion about making large numbers of official images and video available available to support further multi-language collaborations. * Tipu's Tiger on http://ta.wikipedia.orghttp://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%A9%E0%AF%8D_%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%B2%E0%AE%BF Cheers, Fae -- http://enwp.org/user_talk:fae Guide to email tags: http://j.mp/faetags On 20 July 2011 09:25, Bala Jeyaraman sodabot...@gmail.com wrote: I can help with the tamil translation. let me know where to do the localisation/translation. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list wikimediaindi...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [Wikimediaindia-l] Translation Help for WikiConference India
Hi Please give me the link, I want to translate in Bengali ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [Wikimediaindia-l] Translation Help for WikiConference India
On 20 July 2011 14:54, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com wrote: All in all, collaborating with UK GLAM on this initiative was a very positive experience that we recommend to others If you're looking for further GLAM articles to translate, please consider this one: * The King of Rome http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_of_Rome from GLAM/Derby and: * articles about endangered species from the GLAM/ARKive project http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/ARKive, listed in the Work done section. Please let me know if and when you do any of these. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Pigsonthewing ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
