Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Meetup in Ahmedabad - 21 November 2010

2010-11-25 Thread Bishakha Datta
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Anirudh Bhati wrote: > > Kartik Mistry, who was formerly associated with Gujarati Lexicon, > informed me that he had met the representatives of Wikimedia India at > the last Mumbai meetup and expressed that his former associates would > be interested in transferri

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Inbuilt Tamil typing tool added in Tamil Wikimedia projects

2010-11-25 Thread CherianTinu Abraham
Excellent case study of collaboration between different language Wikipedia communities. Great going, folks ! Regards Tinu Cherian On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 6:37 AM, Shiju Alex wrote: > What is the nature of the effort involved say to >> > extend this to Telugu, kannada, Hindi etc. >> > > Junaid

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Inbuilt Tamil typing tool added in Tamil Wikimedia projects

2010-11-25 Thread Shiju Alex
> > What is the nature of the effort involved say to > extend this to Telugu, kannada, Hindi etc. > Junaid has already (partially)* extended* this solution to Hindi, Marathi, Sanskrit, and Bhojpuri wikipedias. You can see the respective wikipedias to see the Transliteration solution developed by

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Inbuilt Tamil typing tool added in Tamil Wikimedia projects

2010-11-25 Thread Nagarjuna G
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 8:44 PM, Ravishankar wrote: > Hi, > > We are glad to inform that inbuilt Tamil typing tool has been added in Tamil > Wikipedia and Tamil WikiNews. After some testing, we will add it in other > Wikimedia projects and release the code for use in all sites using > MediaWiki. >

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Inbuilt Tamil typing tool added in Tamil Wikimedia projects

2010-11-25 Thread Sunil
Great!. This will surely increase edits in tamilwikis On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 8:44 PM, Ravishankar wrote: > Hi, > > We are glad to inform that inbuilt Tamil typing tool has been added in > Tamil Wikipedia and Tamil WikiNews. After some testing, we will add it in > other Wikimedia projects and re

[Wikimediaindia-l] Inbuilt Tamil typing tool added in Tamil Wikimedia projects

2010-11-25 Thread Ravishankar
Hi, We are glad to inform that inbuilt Tamil typing tool has been added in Tamil Wikipedia and Tamil WikiNews. After some testing, we will add it in other Wikimedia projects and release the code for use in all sites using MediaWiki. We hope that this will help many first time editors and increase

[Wikimediaindia-l] You will love Erik Zachte for this :)

2010-11-25 Thread Erik Zachte
Anirudh: > Hopefully, the under-reported page views issue will be resolved soon! I rcvd notice server overload has been contained. It will take some time to patch data from last weeks. Underreporting is much less severe than in previous incident, maybe 5% for November 2010. For permanent solution

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Meetup in Ahmedabad - 21 November 2010

2010-11-25 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
Excellent summary, Anirudh. I'm particularly excited about the prospect of Gujarati Lexicon getting added to Wiktionary. With our experience of uploading several thousand words to Tamil Wiktionary using a custom bot as well as AWB recently, we may be able to help in the task. - Sundar "That l

[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Meetup in Ahmedabad - 21 November 2010

2010-11-25 Thread Anirudh Bhati
Hi all, The Ahmedabad Wikipedia Meetup was organized on 21 November 2010 at CEPT University. It was received with enthusiasm from the tech community of the city. Twenty-seven people attended the meet including the members of the press. The meeting began with a round of introductions. Most of t