Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Event coordinators: how to create many accounts from 1 IP address

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 11:54 AM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: > The most comprehensive way to resolve this issue would be to add a > feature that allows a trusted user, like a bureaucrat, to temporarily > lift this throttling for such events. I requested it here: > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_b

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia UK] Welcome to the world’s first Wikipedia town

Thats really cool!!! Way to go!!! Cheers, Deepon On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 12:29 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan < rsrikant...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks to Chris Keating of the UK Chapter for sharing this: > > http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2012/05/welcome-to-the-worlds-first-wikipedia-town/ > You’ve pr

[Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia UK] Welcome to the world’s first Wikipedia town

Thanks to Chris Keating of the UK Chapter for sharing this: http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2012/05/welcome-to-the-worlds-first-wikipedia-town/ You’ve probably heard the saying, “In theory, Wikipedia shouldn’t work, but in practice it does.” Three of the things that contribute to make Wikipedia work a

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Event coordinators: how to create many accounts from 1 IP address

The most comprehensive way to resolve this issue would be to add a feature that allows a trusted user, like a bureaucrat, to temporarily lift this throttling for such events. I requested it here: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36367 If anybody wants to try programming MediaWiki, th

[Wikimediaindia-l] Event coordinators: how to create many accounts from 1 IP address

When you're running an event, sometimes you want to help lots of people create accounts on Wikimedia sites. To prevent spamming/vandalism, ordinarily there's a cap on the number of accounts that can be created from one IP address in a single day. But there's a way to ask for a temporary removal o

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [[Telugu language]] article in the English Wikipedia

Thank you for pointing this out Amir. Will get to editing the grammar. On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 4:32 PM, Amir E. Aharoni < amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote: > The English Wikipedia article about Telugu, one of the most important > languages in India, is not so great. It has many grammar mistake

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Vodafone advertisement -- Internet is fun, Wikipedia

I wonder if the WMF push to get access to Wikipedia on mobiles has anything to do with this... https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Mobile_Partnerships_Q_and_A Thank you. Best, Gautam http://blog.prathambooks.org/p/social-media.html ___ Wiki

[Wikimediaindia-l] [[Telugu language]] article in the English Wikipedia

The English Wikipedia article about Telugu, one of the most important languages in India, is not so great. It has many grammar mistakes and confusing sentences such as "Etymology is Telugu language originated in Rajamahendri now Rajahmundry. First telugu poet Nannayya gave Telugu a script, which ma

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Rare Book Society of India

No I don't know about any of the legal formalities, hence asking do we need to contact them and ask whether they are willing...I mean, do they hold the copyright esp to photos of buildings also that are over 60 years old (the photos not the buildings). On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Amir E. Ahar

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Rare Book Society of India

2012/5/16 Debanjan Bandyopadhyay : > Hi all, > > I just saw this page [1] on facebook, it supposedly belongs to the Rare Book > Society of India and they have a lot of old images, older than 60 years. > Hence, do you think these can be uploaded to Wikipedia and maybe we can ask > them whether they

[Wikimediaindia-l] Rare Book Society of India

Hi all, I just saw this page[1] on facebook, it supposedly belongs to the Rare Book Society of India and they have a lot of old images, older than 60 years. Hence, do you think these can be uploaded to Wikipedia and maybe we c