Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India WikiWomen's Edit-a-Thon

2012-03-31 Thread Ashwin Baindur
Heartiest congratulations. Wish I could have joined but was in Itanagar on an outreach program. Ashwin On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 12:18 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan < parakara.gh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Great job! I hope in Future, we can have more users and can span > multiple languages. > > -- > Rega

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] "Special Characters" toolbar - is it useful in your language?

2012-03-31 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2012/3/31 Srikanth Lakshmanan : > On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 14:46, Amir E. Aharoni > wrote: >> >> Hi Wikimedians in India, >> >> Recently i've been making improvements to the enhanced editing >> toolbar, and especially to its "Special Characters" functionality. > > > Great! > > Tamil isn't there in

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] "Special Characters" toolbar - is it useful in your language?

2012-03-31 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 14:46, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: > Hi Wikimedians in India, > > Recently i've been making improvements to the enhanced editing > toolbar, and especially to its "Special Characters" functionality. > Great! Tamil isn't there in the extension, but I have some feedback / questi

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: Caravan article: Fact Check

2012-03-31 Thread Gautam John
On 31 March 2012 22:51, Srikanth Ramakrishnan wrote: > I really didn't like the write up at all. > It seemed a bit sarcastic. > Not something that would help our movement will it? Not something we can control, no? That's the way the media rolls. And it's not that we can do without them either.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] My post to User:Prad2609

2012-03-31 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Guys, Just to let you know: Pradeep and I spoke to each other last night. He says he wants to take a break from Wikipedia. He told me that the mail [the one about the trust and AGF] was NOT the reason he left, and that it was a much larger issue. I inquired if it could affect anyone else, in which

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: Caravan article: Fact Check

2012-03-31 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
I really didn't like the write up at all. It seemed a bit sarcastic. Not something that would help our movement will it? On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 1:03 AM, Noopur wrote: > Dear all, > Here is a story by > this reporter who attended the Delhi meet

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiConference India 2012 - Bootstrap Team

2012-03-31 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
*I didn't know the passion for continued volunteering for the Wikimedia movement was dependent on the availability of the videos of the WikiConference :P ( We should definitely add that as one of the key expectations for next Conference) * * * Well Tinu, us non attendees, would like to see WHAT HA

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Open letter to the Indian Wikimedia community

2012-03-31 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
*For example, questioning the hiring rationale of the WMF India programs is simply wrong. .* I Strongly disagree.* * Anything that the India Programs team does directly affects us. It may not have affected you in Tamil, but it has affected the English Wikipedia, and has done so strongly. An exampl

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Tamil Wiki Media Contest -- Results

2012-03-31 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Congratuations to all the winners. The content gained thru this contest is a treat to many of us. A lot of the pictures are a treat to our eyes, and a lot of the media files were brilliant. I hope the en wiki community joins me in making use of these files on the English Wikipedia and that the othe

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Chennai Unofficial Wikimedia Hackathon Report

2012-03-31 Thread Ashwin Baindur
he he he, you fooled us! Ashwin On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan wrote: > > > On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 16:22, Ashwin Baindur wrote: > >> Hey, it turned up the following articles for me: >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maharani_Kishori (B class) >> http://en.wikipedia.org/w

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Chennai Unofficial Wikimedia Hackathon Report

2012-03-31 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 16:22, Ashwin Baindur wrote: > Hey, it turned up the following articles for me: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maharani_Kishori (B class) > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildlife_of_Karnataka (B class) > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ropalidia_marginata (B class) > > Not

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Chennai Unofficial Wikimedia Hackathon Report

2012-03-31 Thread Ashwin Baindur
Hey, it turned up the following articles for me: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maharani_Kishori (B class) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildlife_of_Karnataka (B class) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ropalidia_marginata (B class) Not Good articles at all. Sincerely, Ashwin On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 a

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Chennai Unofficial Wikimedia Hackathon Report

2012-03-31 Thread Anirudh Bhati
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > I have done some blogging about the Chennai hackathon. Really good news is > that one of the tools, the "Random Good WP India article tool" is now > available on line at srik.me/WPIndia. > OMG! I love this. The first article that

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Chennai Unofficial Wikimedia Hackathon Report

2012-03-31 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I have done some blogging about the Chennai hackathon. Really good news is that one of the tools, the "Random Good WP India article tool" is now available on line at srik.me/WPIndia . Thanks, Gerard http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com PS there is more to tell :) On 27 March 2012 10:1