[Wikimediaindia-l] India Campus Program-Pune Pilot: Inputs for College/University Selection:

2011-04-14 Thread Hisham Mundol
Hi Frank, Annie & Jessie have started a page to get inputs to select which specific colleges/universities to approach for the Pune pilot:- http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Selection_of_schools_for_the_Pune_pilot Could you help out and provide your inputs / comments? Please feel free to edit

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiConference (Gautam John)

2011-04-14 Thread wheredevelsdare
Thank you all for the positive responses. Will get back with something more concrete shortly. Regards, User:AroundTheGlobe > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 21:46:34 +0530 > From: Gautam John > Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiConference > To: Wikimedia India Community list > >

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia.in is down ?

2011-04-14 Thread Subhashish Panigrahi
Sad to know that, any info when it will be rectified? Subha ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: The Hindu : "Now, copyright-free maps of States, districts, panchayats"

2011-04-14 Thread CherianTinu Abraham
Good idea. ! Would you mind creating a page on this on wikimedia.in , so that all can point that page to reporters. - Tinu Cherian On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 8:52 AM, Anivar Aravind wrote: > On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 7:43 AM, CherianTinu Abraham > wrote: > > The Hindu : "Now, copyright-free maps of

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: The Hindu : "Now, copyright-free maps of States, districts, panchayats"

2011-04-14 Thread Anivar Aravind
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 7:43 AM, CherianTinu Abraham wrote: > The Hindu : "Now, copyright-free maps of States, districts, panchayats" > http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/article1697940.ece In the last few news reports , the "copyright free" phrase is repeating. This is worrying. I

[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia.in is down ?

2011-04-14 Thread CherianTinu Abraham
*Wikimedia.in is down ? It says: * Wikimedia India Chapter has a problem *Sorry! This site is experiencing technical difficulties.* Try waiting a few minutes and reloading. (Can't contact the database server: Too many connections (localhost)) Regards Tinu Cherian

[Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: The Hindu : "Now, copyright-free maps of States, districts, panchayats"

2011-04-14 Thread CherianTinu Abraham
*The Hindu : "Now, copyright-free maps of States, districts, panchayats"* http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/article1697940.ece *As “Malayalam Loves Wikipedia” campaign gets good response..* * * *Even as the “Malayalam Loves Wikipedia” campaign, launched to expand the knowledge repos

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Choosing topics for Wikipedia for Schools (Offline Ed) - Indian version : #1 Cities

2011-04-14 Thread Jessie Wild
On 4/7/2011 8:30 AM, Nikhil Sheth wrote: > And I feel that there should be a full-fledged project (worldwide, not > just pertaining to indian articles) going on for Wikipedia for > Schools, with a well-structured list of ALL articles that are going > in. Not being able to find anything. Can anyo

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiConference

2011-04-14 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, You boys at the office have all the fun :) I would like to be there as well :) Thanks, Gerard On 14 April 2011 19:00, Barry Newstead wrote: > another +1. > > I would love to see a national conference happen later this year...and > would be happy to provide support (and attend, of cour

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic Language Wiki Results in Google (With a Chrome Extension)

2011-04-14 Thread Shiju Alex
Yuvi, It would be great if you develop a firefox extension also for this. Unfortunately google Chrome's performance is bad with Indic scripts. There are couple of issues with wiki editing also. Due to this many of us prefer firefox over chrome. Shiju On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 12:10 AM, Yuvi Panda

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic Language Wiki Results in Google (With a Chrome Extension)

2011-04-14 Thread Yuvi Panda
I've fixed the UI in the Options, and made a newer release ( https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/gpoogepkjnjfmpijnpaocncdjbedaeeo/ ). Feedback? In particular, I've listed 20 Indic languages as buttons on the options page, and I don't have enough knowledge to check if they are all correct!

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiConference

2011-04-14 Thread Barry Newstead
another +1. I would love to see a national conference happen later this year...and would be happy to provide support (and attend, of course!). Best, Barry On 04/14/2011 09:16 AM, Gautam John wrote: > +1 and hope it happens. > > A couple of questions: > > 1. If something like this did happen in

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiConference

2011-04-14 Thread Gautam John
+1 and hope it happens. A couple of questions: 1. If something like this did happen in India, what kind of format would you think works? 2. What kind of event would work? 3. What kind of outcomes would we expect? Would be great to hear from you! Thank you. Best, Gautam http://social.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic Language Wiki Results in Google (With a Chrome Extension)

2011-04-14 Thread Yuvi Panda
Hi Srikanth (too many Srikanths!). Right now, you can use only one language at a time. Would links to multiple language wikis be useful? On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan < rsrikant...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yuvi, > Is this for one laguage at a time only, or any language, any t

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiConference

2011-04-14 Thread Nikhil Sheth
Great idea! I suggest that in parallel with planning for a real-life all-India meetups, we also start doing Skype audio (or other platform a/v) conferences. They can be planned similar to the city meetups, with participants putting in their skype id's and the meeting's organizer placing the group

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] : The Hindu : "Wikimedia Commons set to reach a milestone"

2011-04-14 Thread Subhashish Panigrahi
Great story, thanks Tinu for sharing it. Congrats again to Srikanth and Sreejith. Subha Pa ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [mr-wiki] WikiPuneri Meetup - 09 April 2011

2011-04-14 Thread Bishakha Datta
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 1:05 AM, Ashwin Baindur wrote: > > > > * Efforts for Commons (sadly not taking off) > * Forthcoming GLAM initiative. > > Great report, Ashwin. Would love to know a bit more about these two items when you can. Cheers Bishakha ___