[Wikimediaindia-l] Mumbai Meetup - 15

2012-04-01 Thread Karthik Nadar
Cross posting to reach the mass. Hi Wikipedians, Hope everything fine with you all. A Mumbai Meetup has been announced on 7 April 2012. *Venue:* Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf, Linking Roadhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linking_Road , Bandra http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandra at 3.00 PM. Further

[Wikimediaindia-l] Translate the ProofreadPage to make Wikisource usable in your language

2012-04-01 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hi, Recently there was some talk here about Wikisource in Indic languages and this email is part of that trend. Possibly the most important extension for Wikisource is ProofreadPage, which helps transcribing PDF and DjVu files. It is installed in Wikisource projects in all languages, but to be

[Wikimediaindia-l] Outreach session at NIT Agartala

2012-04-01 Thread Deepon Saha
Greetings everyone, I was in Agartala for an outreach session of Wikipedia. Here's a quick wrap around of my visit: My flight landed nearly at 5pm evening, a fine breeze was flowing and there was Nikhil, waiting for me outside. Nikhil Aveek has been co-ordinating the whole event. The NIT campus

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] HighBeam Research

2012-04-01 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Just to remind you: Applications will officially open on Monday April 2, 2012 at 10am Eastern Standard Time (EST) and remain open until Monday April 9 at 12pm EST. That's roughly around 7pm tomorrow. On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 10:29 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Thank

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

2012-04-01 Thread Yuvi Panda
Hey bala! On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 8:25 PM, Bala Jeyaraman sodabot...@gmail.comwrote: An online tool/gadget/extension for conversion of .wav/.mp3 to ,ogg files is required. This could be made part of the commons upload wizard itself (where people click an extra option while uploading a

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Outreach session at NIT Agartala

2012-04-01 Thread Deepon Saha
Forgot to mention, Lots of students were enthusiastic about building a community in Agartala. Since there prime language is bengali, I have asked them to communicate with Jayantada (our Administrator) Kalyanda.. It would be nice if we can collaborate with them...:) regards, Deepon On Sun, Apr