Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikibasha and code signature

2011-02-07 Thread Shiju Alex
But i have no idea if Microsoft will actually listen to us. If wikibasha is used in your respective wiki's and keeps adding this signature, please urge the wikibasha developers to stop this practice. It all depends on how active the respective wiki community is. If the language wikis have

[Wikimediaindia-l] Bangalore Photowalk, Bangalore loves Wikipedia #2

2011-02-07 Thread Hari Prasad Nadig
Here's a photo from Saturday's event: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hpnadig/5418774809/ There were 28 participants in all. The largest number we've had till now! Wikipedia badges were distributed. We took photos at the historical Basavanagudi area. More photos and on updates to commons wiki

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-blr] Bangalore Photowalk, Bangalore loves Wikipedia #2 [Fwd]

2011-02-07 Thread CherianTinu Abraham
That is very nice. Can't wait to see all the photos in commons soon... Regards Tinu Cherian On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Hari Prasad Nadig hpna...@gmail.com wrote: Here's a photo from Saturday's event: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hpnadig/5418774809/ There were 28 participants in all.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Bangalore Photowalk, Bangalore loves Wikipedia #2

2011-02-07 Thread Ravishankar
Good effort, Hari. May be we need to network with photo enthusiasts in each city to do events like this. Ravi On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Hari Prasad Nadig hpna...@gmail.com wrote: Here's a photo from Saturday's event: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hpnadig/5418774809/ There were 28

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] 10,000+ articles on Kannada Wikipedia

2011-02-07 Thread Ravishankar
Congrats for the Kannada Wikimedians. Kannada Wikipedia was one of the earliest Indo Wikipedias to be active. Good to see it in action again. Hopefully, the general activity in Bangalore around Wikipedia will also help spread awareness about Kannada Wikipedia. Ravi On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 10:12

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikibasha and code signature

2011-02-07 Thread Siebrand Mazeland
Hi. Recently i have started contracting for Microsoft Research to be a community liason with regards to Wikibhasha. I understand your concerns, although I disagree that adding a comment on a page after an edit should be considered highly disruptive. Please create a change request in

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Bangalore Photowalk, Bangalore loves Wikipedia #2

2011-02-07 Thread Hari Prasad Nadig
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote: Good effort, Hari. Credit goes to the entire team and the young group of photography enthusiasts who have gathered around for Wikipedia. May be we need to network with photo enthusiasts in each city to do events like

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikibasha and code signature

2011-02-07 Thread sankarshan
On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Siebrand Mazeland s.mazel...@xs4all.nl wrote: Please create a change request in bugzilla.wikimedia.org to change the inline text comment to some identification in the edit summary. The Wikibhasha team at Microsoft research India will take all input very

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikibasha and code signature

2011-02-07 Thread Bala Jeyaraman
Siebrand, Thank you for the prompt reply . I will file a CR in bugzilla. But under what topic should i file one? (I don't find Wikibasha listed seperately in the pick a product to enter a bug page). And regarding the highly disruptive comment, imagine if everyone (bots and editors) start doing

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikibasha and code signature

2011-02-07 Thread Hari Prasad Nadig
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Bala Jeyaraman sodabot...@gmail.com wrote: Siebrand, Thank you for the prompt reply . I will file a CR in bugzilla. But under what topic should i file one? (I don't find Wikibasha listed seperately in the pick a product to enter a bug page). And regarding

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikibasha and code signature

2011-02-07 Thread Siebrand Mazeland
Wikibhasha should have an entry in the mediawiki extensions category. Siebrand Mazeland M: +31 6 50 69 1239 Skype: siebrand On 7 feb. 2011, at 11:27, Bala Jeyaraman sodabot...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you for the prompt reply . I will file a CR in bugzilla. But under what topic should i file

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikibasha and code signature

2011-02-07 Thread Bala Jeyaraman
I have created the bug report https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27220 The person it is assigned to now - wikibasha.msr- is the same person who brushed it off as a minor issue on Feb 6. :-) On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Siebrand Mazeland s.mazel...@xs4all.nlwrote: Wikibhasha

[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikibasha and code signature

2011-02-07 Thread A Kumaran
Folks - This is Kumaran, a member of the WikiBhasha team in Microsoft Research India. I just saw the notes posted in the mails, and I understand the concerns of adding comments, which may have other side effects. Your point is well taken, though we were not sure if it violated any policies of

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-del] Hindi wiki workshop at New Delhi - 2011 February 12

2011-02-07 Thread CherianTinu Abraham
I agree. It is just a placeholder to redirect interested folks to the event and tracking purposes. Please note the summary http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Delhi/Delhi4#Summary Btw now a days, there is only a thin line of difference between Wiki meetups, Wiki academies and workshops

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-del] Hindi wiki workshop at New Delhi - 2011 February 12

2011-02-07 Thread Shiju Alex
:) It is fine in that case. On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 1:10 PM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.comwrote: I agree. It is just a placeholder to redirect interested folks to the event and tracking purposes. Please note the summary

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Ads on Wikipedia?

2011-02-07 Thread shirish शिरीष
At bottom :- On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 01:15, cr.a...@gmail.com cr.a...@gmail.com wrote: I came across this article on TechCrunch: http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/05/wikipedia-affiliate-links/ not sure it's discussed already. But what are the members thoughts on this? Personally, I think it's BS.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-blr] Bangalore Photowalk, Bangalore loves Wikipedia #2 [Fwd]

2011-02-07 Thread shirish शिरीष
At bottom :- On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Hari Prasad Nadig hpna...@gmail.com wrote: Here's a photo from Saturday's event: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hpnadig/5418774809/ There were 28 participants in all. The largest number we've had till now! Wikipedia badges were distributed. We

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-del] Hindi wiki workshop at New Delhi - 2011 February 12

2011-02-07 Thread shirish शिरीष
At bottom :- On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 17:40, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: I agree. It is just a placeholder to redirect interested folks to the event and tracking purposes. Please note the summary http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Delhi/Delhi4#Summary Btw now a

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Bangalore Photowalk, Bangalore loves Wikipedia #2

2011-02-07 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I love this event and the notion that it can be replicated in India.. Please let us know where the pictures can be found on Commons. http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2011/02/wikipedia-loves-bangalore-and-momuments.html Thanks, GerardM On 7 February 2011 11:09, Hari Prasad Nadig

[Wikimediaindia-l] GNUnify Wikimedia

2011-02-07 Thread Tomasz Finc
Greetings all, I just wanted to give you guys a heads up that both Arthur Richards and I are going to be speaking at http://gnunify.in/ this week in Pune. We have a couple of presentations lined up including Title: Powering the world’s favorite wiki - Wikipedia Abstract: Mr. Finc will talk

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] :The Hindu : Konkani Wikipedia bogged down by multiple scripts

2011-02-07 Thread CherianTinu Abraham
coming back to Bala's question, which script is used for Konkani? -TC On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 10:33 PM, suma addoor sumaadd...@gmail.com wrote: I don't think Tulu language has any problems with the script. Tulu language uses only Kannada script. We recently had a Wikipedia meetup at St.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] GNUnify Wikimedia

2011-02-07 Thread CherianTinu Abraham
Hi Tomasz / Arthur, Welcome to India! I am also adding Pune and Mumbai Wikimedians to the loop ... Regards Tinu Cherian On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 7:12 AM, Tomasz Finc tf...@wikimedia.org wrote: Greetings all, I just wanted to give you guys a heads up that both Arthur

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikibasha and code signature

2011-02-07 Thread Erik Moeller
2011/2/7 A Kumaran a.kuma...@microsoft.com But let me just clarify the reasons for adding the comment snippet so we could track the articles that were changed by contributors using the tool, and to track if any of the changes made by the tool actually were reverted ultimately. As has been

[Wikimediaindia-l] MATHSYA MELA 2011 KARNATAKA

2011-02-07 Thread Ralph
http://www.hindu.com/2011/02/07/stories/2011020755850600.htm http://nfdb.ap.nic.in/pdf/Ban_MATHSYAMELA%202011%20FORMS.pdf Results 1–20 of 77 for fisheries Karnataka 10:04 AM 2/8/2011 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Guess this is an opportunity for Wikipedia with the help of the local

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] :The Hindu : Konkani Wikipedia bogged down by multiple scripts

2011-02-07 Thread Hari Prasad Nadig
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Bala Jeyaraman sodabot...@gmail.comwrote: which script is being used now? devanagari or kannada? Kannada in Karnataka and surrounding regions. Devanagari in Maharashtra, Roman in Goa. Malayalam script in Kerala. And Arabic is some regions. -- Hari Prasad

[Wikimediaindia-l] Women-Leadership-Summit-Bangalore

2011-02-07 Thread Ralph
Define Gender Gap? Look Up Wikipedia’s Contributor List http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/31/business/media/31link.html http://www.siliconindia.com/events-overview/women-leadership-summit-Bangalore-WomenLS2011.html Deepa Sacheti, Program Director - IT , Ness Technologies Dr.Rohini Srivathsa

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] MATHSYA MELA 2011 KARNATAKA

2011-02-07 Thread Hari Prasad Nadig
Ralph, We had shared a stall with Akruti Books (many thanks to publisher Guruprasad D N for his help) and did as much we can to tell people about Kannada Wikipedia and Wikipedia. However, putting up a stall at Kannada Saahithya Sammelana was a bad idea. Much of the audience there were not even