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

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

[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 t

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

2010-07-28 Thread Shiju Alex
ather stay > small and hand-craft than allow an experimental tool and unskilled > paid translators creating a big mess. > > > Thanks > > Ragib (User:Ragib on en and bn) > > -- > Ragib Hasan, Ph.D > NSF Computing Innovation Fellow and > Assistant Research Scientist

Re: [Foundation-l] Push translation

2010-07-27 Thread Shiju Alex
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Mark Williamson 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 > encouraging more edit

Re: [Foundation-l] Push translation

2010-07-27 Thread Shiju Alex
ipedias. The worst result of this effort would be the rift 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 wrote: > Shiju Alex, > > Stevertigo is just one en.wikipedian. > > As far as

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 oth

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

2010-07-24 Thread Shiju Alex
ny questions that may 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] small Wikipedia projects - follow-up to Jimmy Wales' talk

2010-07-18 Thread Shiju Alex
Hi Amir, As you might know Malayalam is not a big language. It has roughly 30 million speakers. There are some efforts from Malayalam Wikipedia community to reach to public. Here are some 1. Our wikipedia CD - read the story here - http://shijualex.wordpress.com/2010/04/24/creating-malayalam-wiki

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 wrote: > 2010/6/17 Ryan Lomonaco : > > A housekeeping note: Gmail has been marking some list messages as spam > for > >

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

2010-06-11 Thread Shiju Alex
ld be a SUPER useful tool for all Wikis. > -m. > > On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 3:54 AM, Shiju Alex > 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 > > wikipedia

[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] 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,