Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Request for a nice gallery for commons contributions

2013-05-14 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Hi Shrinivasan, there is an option to Show the pictures as a slideshow. That's all. I have forwarded this mail to the Commons list and will keep you updated if anything materialises. On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Shrinivasan T wrote: > Hi, > > I like to showcase my photo contributions to co

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] IRC office hours with CIS-A2K Team

2013-05-14 Thread sankarshan
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 5:27 PM, sankarshan wrote: [snipping out the awkwardly long email I had sent earlier] There is a section in the chat which is as below: > [2013-05-13 21:38:38] @Vishnu - I think Abhinav is refering > to create a Wiki community within an educational institue similar to >

[Wikimediaindia-l] Request for a nice gallery for commons contributions

2013-05-14 Thread Shrinivasan T
Hi, I like to showcase my photo contributions to commons to my friends. The current page http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles/ is so old and not very intuitive to see the photos. Is it any possible to show the photos as a gallery like in flickr/picasa? -- Regards, T.Shrinivasan

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] IRC office hours with CIS-A2K Team

2013-05-14 Thread Subhashish Panigrahi
Sorry for the earlier mail. Please check this link for the log: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/IRC/13th_May Best! Subha On 14-May-2013, at 5:30 PM, "Amir E. Aharoni" wrote: > The best thing to do is to just paste the IRC logs as pages under > meta.wikimedia.org. > >

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] IRC office hours with CIS-A2K Team

2013-05-14 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
The best thing to do is to just paste the IRC logs as pages under meta.wikimedia.org. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬ 2013/5/14 Ashwin Baindur : > Sorry Nitika, the format provided g

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] IRC office hours with CIS-A2K Team

2013-05-14 Thread sankarshan
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 2:29 PM, Ashwin Baindur wrote: > Sorry Nitika, the format provided gives no line breaks or paragraph breaks > and its not readable. Please provide in a plain text file format, readable > in DOS/Windows. The file seems to be a text one indeed. Not the most elegant way of do

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] IRC office hours with CIS-A2K Team

2013-05-14 Thread Yohann Thomas
yes abhinav, you can put the screenshot I was not able to view the attachment. Yohann ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mail

[Wikimediaindia-l] an example of how to work with wikilivres

2013-05-14 Thread Achal Prabhala
Hi Balasankaran, and Gautam (in continuation of your discussion from 2011!), Yann forward me the Wikisource page for Gandhi's book "Experiments with Truth" (published 1927) which is pretty much a perfect example of the problem in question (ie. a text that is PD in India and copyrighted in the

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] IRC office hours with CIS-A2K Team

2013-05-14 Thread abhinav garule
Hello Sir, I've captured screenshots of full IRC. Can I share it here? Thanks And Regards, Abhinav Garule. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lis

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] welcome, new technical contributors

2013-05-14 Thread Aarti K. Dwivedi
Hi, >> How we can grow technical community? Almost every technical college has a Linux User Group which meets once in a while. We could use their interest in Open Source to increase our contributor base. A few colleges also have groups dedicated to programming activities. We can reach out to them

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia Servers and Copyright Issues

2013-05-14 Thread Balasankar Chelamattath
@Srikant, Sorry but I think not. US laws says differently. They are considering date of publishing. When the author died is not their concern. That is a major difference b/w Indian and US laws. Even if something is in free domain according to Indian laws, they have to satisfy some criteria to be in

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia Servers and Copyright Issues

2013-05-14 Thread Balasankar Chelamattath
Thanks Anchal. But one doubt. For literary works, the binding limit (Berne/ TRIPs) is life + 50 years, > whereas in India it is life + 60, whereas in the US it is life + 70 or > 120/95 if made on work for hire. > > Doesn't US Law consider the date of publishing for copyright purposes. I think they

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] IRC office hours with CIS-A2K Team

2013-05-14 Thread Ashwin Baindur
Sorry Nitika, the format provided gives no line breaks or paragraph breaks and its not readable. Please provide in a plain text file format, readable in DOS/Windows. Ashwin On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Nitika Tandon wrote: > > > > Hi All, > > Please find attached log of the IRC chat. > > Th

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia Servers and Copyright Issues

2013-05-14 Thread Yann Forget
Hello, The autobiography and some other works were deleted from the English Wikisource and moved to Wikilivres because of URAA. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Mohandas_K._Gandhi Also several volumes from "The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi" were deleted from Commons: http://commons.wikim