Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-in-del] GLAM meetup 1: Crafts museum

2012-03-18 Thread Vickram Crishna
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-in-del] GLAM meetup 1: Crafts museum

2012-03-18 Thread shaswati Kumari
Hi nupur i am mailing u ,to help me how to stop mails on my id by wikimedia.please help. On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 11:49 PM, Noopur wrote: > Forwarding the GLAM meetup report! > > Thanks for your call Arun! Those guys were really excited to see > cross-city Wikipedians calling. > > -

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] FW: [Wikipedia-gu] Gujarati Source completes 1000 articles

2012-03-18 Thread Dhaval S. Vyas
Hi, yes ff course, we all know that. But when we speak about a few, we speak about the major contributors. On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan < parakara.gh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey, anybody who contributes, even if one edit, is a contributor. > > -- > Regards, > Srikanth Rama

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-in-del] GLAM meetup 1: Crafts museum

2012-03-18 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Hey, I don't mind at all. After all, this is what Wikipedia is about- Community and Collaboration. Though I'd love to adopt an article instead. The only drawback is my lack of internet access, and that it takes time to understand me. But, I'm all for it. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. __

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-in-del] GLAM meetup 1: Crafts museum

2012-03-18 Thread Noopur
Yes, I've told them the same. There are a few issues: 1) The library is open only on weekdays and 2) The staff members also work on weekdays only But, we were not disheartened because this is a start. Now we know what to build upon. Maybe Srikanth you could 'adopt' one of the editors and work coll

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-in-del] GLAM meetup 1: Crafts museum

2012-03-18 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Congratulations you guys! We'll now get to work with the Commons backend along with the Wikipedia front end. Please provide as detailed information as possible, so that we can work on translations as well. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. ___ Wikimed

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-in-del] GLAM meetup 1: Crafts museum

2012-03-18 Thread Noopur
Forwarding the GLAM meetup report! Thanks for your call Arun! Those guys were really excited to see cross-city Wikipedians calling. -- Forwarded message -- From: Abhishek Tiwari Date: Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 11:28 PM Subject: [Wikimedia-in-del] GLAM meetup 1: Crafts museum To: wikim

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Popular pages bot - adding project

2012-03-18 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
The best thing to do is get in touch with the BOT operator, or alternatively, reach out to the BOT Approvals Group. Tinu is a part of the BAG, he could help. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wi

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] HighBeam Research

2012-03-18 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Thank you sir. However, your hat is probably too big for me to fit into. :-) I'm not too keen on this as I feel it may not help out much in the Indian Scenario. While I do edit non Indian stuff, research is still limited to India. I do hope, however some Indian gets it. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramak

[Wikimediaindia-l] Popular pages bot - adding project

2012-03-18 Thread Arun Ramarathnam
Hi, I would like to trigger Popular pages bot list for the Wiki Project Karnataka.[1] The tools server page [2] that allows one to register a project for this is no longer accepting requests. Any suggestions here to get this enabled? Would much appreciate inputs. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wik

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] HighBeam Research

2012-03-18 Thread Ashwin Baindur
Awesome! Doing all that from a cybercafe! My hats off to you. Ashwin On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 9:18 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan wrote: > Difficult. I don't have an internet connection. Whatever editing I do > comes from the biweekly visit to a Cyber Cafe. [college labs are > closed now]. However, I

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] FW: [Wikipedia-gu] Gujarati Source completes 1000 articles

2012-03-18 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Hey, anybody who contributes, even if one edit, is a contributor. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.w

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] HighBeam Research

2012-03-18 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Difficult. I don't have an internet connection. Whatever editing I do comes from the biweekly visit to a Cyber Cafe. [college labs are closed now]. However, I believe Dipankan or Dipankar [Don't recall properly] is already on the task of informing Indians. I saw it by chance on VibhiJain's talk pag

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] FW: [Wikipedia-gu] Gujarati Source completes 1000 articles

2012-03-18 Thread Dhaval S. Vyas
One small correction, User:Jayshreeis amond the top 3 contributors, with even more contributions than User:Vyom25. I believe in true credits, people who puts in efforts, must be credited hence these efforts. On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Dhaval S. Vyas

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia-gu post from wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com requires approval

2012-03-18 Thread Dhaval S. Vyas
Hi, First of all please accept my apologies for the delay in replying to this. I started the online meetup from the begining of this new year. Our very first such event was planned for the new year day. I had total 5 confirmations, considering a small community of Gujarati Wikipedians this was re

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] HighBeam Research

2012-03-18 Thread Ashwin Baindur
Oy, you informed every body about this great resource. Why dont YOU assist in promoting and overseeing the application process on behalf of the WikiProject. I'll be travelling for a week from Friday onwards So I cant help. Ashwin On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 5:21 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan wrote: > No

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] FW: [Wikipedia-gu] Gujarati Source completes 1000 articles

2012-03-18 Thread Ashwin Baindur
Great news! A small note of caution. Its time to do a copyright check on all that's been loaded up. Preferably, a paragraph in the talk of each document can state the provenance (how its copyright free and the source). Later it is more difficult as numbers pile up! Ashwin On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] FW: [Wikipedia-gu] Gujarati Source completes 1000 articles

2012-03-18 Thread Dhaval S. Vyas
Hi Arun/All, Thanks for all of your appreciation. The request for gu.wikisource.org is in its final stage. There is a bug filed already for the creation of it and we expect its creation anytime soon. With no discredit to anyone, but the people behind bringing the count to 1000 are User:Sushant sa

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] An easy way to improve the spelling and grammar in the Wikipedia in your language

2012-03-18 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2012/3/18 Srikanth Ramakrishnan : > I agree, English and other Latin/Roman based languages are easier to > implement as compared to Indic ones [as pointed out by Arjuna]. > However, it would be great if we did have it in our languages. > Nothing is Impossible after all. It's not so much a matter o

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] An easy way to improve the spelling and grammar in the Wikipedia in your language

2012-03-18 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
I agree, English and other Latin/Roman based languages are easier to implement as compared to Indic ones [as pointed out by Arjuna]. However, it would be great if we did have it in our languages. Nothing is Impossible after all. On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Amir E. Aharoni < amir.ahar...@mail

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] An easy way to improve the spelling and grammar in the Wikipedia in your language

2012-03-18 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2012/3/18 Srikanth Ramakrishnan : > Excellent Amir. > Just a thought: > > For those who do not know, there is an addon called Lupin's Anti-Vandal Tool > [LAV] on the English Wikipedia. > This tool is a typical RC patrol tool which shows edits on the fly. > Part of this tool checks spellings on the

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] FW: [Wikipedia-gu] Gujarati Source completes 1000 articles

2012-03-18 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Excellent work !!! Congratulations to the entire gang! Keep going guys, I hope to see this number double soon, and to be able to see it as a separate WikiSource soon! -- On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Arun Ramarathnam wrote: > Thanks Konarak for the response..It is great effort that has gone in

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] An easy way to improve the spelling and grammar in the Wikipedia in your language

2012-03-18 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Excellent Amir. Just a thought: For those who do not know, there is an addon called Lupin's Anti-Vandal Tool [LAV] on the English Wikipedia. This tool is a typical RC patrol tool which shows edits on the fly. Part of this tool checks spellings on the fly and the user has the option of fixing them.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] FW: [Wikipedia-gu] Gujarati Source completes 1000 articles

2012-03-18 Thread Arun Ramarathnam
Thanks Konarak for the response..It is great effort that has gone in from the contributors. Located Gujarati wikisource at http://wikisource.org/wiki/%E0%AA%AE%E0%AB%81%E0%AA%96%E0%AA%AA%E0%AB%83%E0%AA%B7%E0%AB%8D%E0%AA%A0:%E0%AA%97%E0%AB%81%E0%AA%9C%E0%AA%B0%E0%AA%BE%E0%AA%A4%E0%AB%80 Is the gu

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] FW: [Wikipedia-gu] Gujarati Source completes 1000 articles

2012-03-18 Thread Konarak Ratnakar
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 13:57:57 +0530 From: arunra...@gmail.com To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] FW: [Wikipedia-gu] Gujarati Source completes 1000 articles Congratulations to all Gujarati wikisource contributors!This is great to hear. Indeed this is great.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] FW: [Wikipedia-gu] Gujarati Source completes 1000 articles

2012-03-18 Thread Arun Ramarathnam
Congratulations to all Gujarati wikisource contributors! This is great to hear. It would be great if you could share some insight into the type of content covered by the 1000 articles. And the active contributors and their key contributions. best regards Arun On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Kon

[Wikimediaindia-l] FW: [Wikipedia-gu] Gujarati Source completes 1000 articles

2012-03-18 Thread Konarak Ratnakar
FYI Konarak Ratnakar | kondi Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 07:18:18 + To: gu.wikipe...@gmail.com; wikipedia...@lists.wikimedia.org From: sushant_sa...@rediffmail.com Subject: [Wikipedia-gu] Gujarati Source completes 1000 articles Dear All, We are happy to inform you all that our wiki source has c