[Foundation-l] Fwd: Copyright problems of images from India

2011-05-10 Thread Shiju Alex
for GLAM type events. But I also do not know the solution for this issue. Requesting constructive discussion. Shiju Alex -- Forwarded message -- From: Sreejith K. sreejithk2...@gmail.com Date: Thu, May 5, 2011 at 12:03 PM Subject: Copyright problems of images from India To: Shiju

[Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikimediaindia-l] PDF rendering of Indian language wiki pages

2011-02-14 Thread Shiju Alex
Dear All, The following mail is about a PDF rendering solution for non-Latin scripts which is under development. One of the main reason for developing this tool is that the current *Download to PDF* option (available in the sidebar of wiki) is useless for Indic language scripts (current Download

Re: [Foundation-l] Is Google translation is good for Wikipedias?

2010-07-28 Thread Shiju Alex
://www.ragibhasan.com On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 2:12 AM, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.com wrote: Hello All, Recently there are lot of discussions (in this list also) regarding the translation project by Google for some of the big language wikipedias. The foundation also seems like

Re: [Foundation-l] Push translation

2010-07-27 Thread Shiju Alex
between the wiki community and the Google translators (speakers of the same language) :( Shiju On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Mark Williamson node...@gmail.com wrote: Shiju Alex, Stevertigo is just one en.wikipedian. As far as using exact copies goes, I don't know about the policy

Re: [Foundation-l] Push translation

2010-07-27 Thread Shiju Alex
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Mark Williamson node...@gmail.com wrote: 4) Include a list of most needed articles for people to create, rather than random articles that will be of little use to local readers. Some articles, such as those on local topics, have the added benefit of

Re: [Foundation-l] Push translation

2010-07-26 Thread Shiju Alex
really? It's a) not particularly well-written, mostly and b) referenced overwhelmingly to English-language sources, most of which are, you guessed it.. Western in nature. Very much true. Now English Wikipedians want some one to translate and use the exact copy of en:wp in all other

[Foundation-l] Is Google translation is good for Wikipedias?

2010-07-25 Thread Shiju Alex
follow. Regards Shiju Alex http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Shijualex ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Gmail - List messages flagged as spam

2010-06-17 Thread Shiju Alex
Yes. This is true. Many messages are marked as spam during the past few days. I got this message also from the SPAM folder. On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 10:51 PM, Daniel ~ Leinad danny.lei...@gmail.comwrote: 2010/6/17 Ryan Lomonaco wiki.ral...@gmail.com: A housekeeping note: Gmail has been

[Foundation-l] Creating articles in small wikipedias based on user requirement

2010-06-11 Thread Shiju Alex
Recently I had a discussion with one of my fellow Malayalam wikipedian ( http://ml.wikipedia.org) about the creation of new articles in small wikipedias like ours. He is one the few users who is keen on creating new articles *based on the requirement of our readers*. (Of course we have many people

Re: [Foundation-l] Creating articles in small wikipedias based on user requirement

2010-06-11 Thread Shiju Alex
. This would be a SUPER useful tool for all Wikis. -m. On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 3:54 AM, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.com wrote: Recently I had a discussion with one of my fellow Malayalam wikipedian ( http://ml.wikipedia.org) about the creation of new articles in small wikipedias like ours. He

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: change of registered TMs in Persian wikipedia

2010-06-09 Thread Shiju Alex
The best option according to us (Malayalam Wikipedians - http://ml.wikipedia.org) is to use the second option for the article titles . That is, transliterate the keyword to your language. There is no copyright issue attached with that, I suppose. We do that throughout our daily life. For example,