Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] spam on the blog

Dear Amir, Thank you for bringing up those spurious spams to our notice. They have been removed immediately. Thanks and regards, -Viswaprabha On Thu, 28 Mar 2019 at 00:28, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: > > Hi, > > There's a Wikimedia India Blog - http://blog.wikimedia.in . It's also a part > of the

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Thank You :-)

Dear Tanveer, Thank you for all the good and fruitful efforts you have spared for the Wikimedia mission all these years. You have been very demonstrable and effective in many realms of participation within the complex structures of the mission in the Indian/Indic context. March ahead through a

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Satdeep Gill joining WMF New Reader's program

Congratulations, Satdeep! On 13 November 2017 at 23:11, Mourya Biswas wrote: > Congratulations Satdeep! Wish you the best! > > ১৩ নভেম্বর, ২০১৭ ২২:০৪ এ, "Sanket Oswal" লিখেছেন: > > Congrats Satdeep! >> >> Regards, >> Sanket >> >> On Mon, Nov 13,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] SAARC meetup at Wikimedia Diversity Conference, Stockholm

Thank you Netha! May I request all stakeholders from every communities, particularly Indic / SAARC and affiliate organizations to join this thread and initiate a valuable discussion. Regards, Viswaprabha On 11 November 2017 at 22:26, Netha Hussain wrote: > Dear all,

[Wikimediaindia-l] New portal on Wikidata: Wikidata:WikiProject India

Dear Wikimedians, As the month long country-wide Wikidata Training Tour by Asaf Bartov [*1] is in progress through several communities and cities within India, the term 'Wikidata' has started rolling out as a new technology buzzword among Indian communities and media. Choosing the occasion as

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikidata] YAGO open source

-- Forwarded message -- From: Thomas Pellissier Tanon Date: 4 September 2017 at 15:25 Subject: [Wikidata] YAGO open source To: "Discussion list for the Wikidata project." < wikid...@lists.wikimedia.org>, wiki-researc...@lists.wikimedia.org Cc: "Fabian

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [WMIN-Members] Verification and approval of candidates.

Dear Sudhanwa, Greetings! >From the WMINElectionAndAppointmentRules.pdf B. Voter’s List: > 1. The electorate shall consist of the members of the Society i.e. > i. Individual Members > ii. Institutional Members > 2. Provided:- > *a. Members who are on the rolls of the Chapter three months

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [WMIN-Members] Rescheduling of Wikimedia India elections to 30th April 2017

nything. > > On 12 Apr 2017 03:42, "ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ)" <viswapra...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> The issue is not exactly technology, but the legal compliance according >> to the current framework as stipulated by the company law etc. >> We have

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [WMIN-Members] Rescheduling of Wikimedia India elections to 30th April 2017

The issue is not exactly technology, but the legal compliance according to the current framework as stipulated by the company law etc. We have pondered upon and tried this much important possible alternative even before. But it was not possible. The law requires paper ballot evidence for future

[Wikimediaindia-l] The PEG Draft for WCI2016 is now open! Please verify and endorse!

Dear Wikimedians on the list, 1. The PEG application has been completed. Its status has been updated from 'draft' to 'open'. That means now the application is due for vetting and consideration by the Grant approval committee.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] A Joint statement on collaboration between WMIN and CIS-A2K

Way to go! Congratulations, both CIS-A2K and WMIN for continuing to keep the momentum we are slowly building up. :) On 6 March 2015 at 00:23, Yohann Thomas yohan...@gmail.com wrote: Bengaluru March 4, 2015 A Joint statement on collaboration between WMIN and CIS-A2K Representatives

[Wikimediaindia-l] Veteran Malayalam Wikipedian BabuG signed off...

Dear Wikimedians all over the world, One of our stalwarts at ml Wikimedia community, Wikiuser:BabuG https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Babug ( https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Babug) expired yesterday night. Despite having paralyzed due to a severe stroke and severely affected by several

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Engineering Community

+1 Manoj Khurana. I have expressed and stressed upon this very serious issue during the ICC-2014. To say it rather harshly, 'Wikipedia (read:it's interface as perceived by average Indian) is obsolete'. :( -Viswam On 12 February 2015 at 06:59, Manoj Khurana he...@manojkhurana.com wrote: Hello

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Scanner machine

Dear all, I have had a great breakthrough in large scale book scanning with a good camera-phone just a few days back. Will elaborate on this within a few days as soon as settle down back home. Thanks. :) On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 5:43 PM, Nkansah Rexford nkansahrexf...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Tito,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WMIN Executive committee elections 2014 announcement

Dear Praveenp, With all due respects to you as one of the most contributing and persistent Wikipedian (I must say probably the staunchest of the backbones of Malayalam Wikipedia), I must now respond here as a member of the WMIN Executive Committee, a colleague at ml.wikipedia as well as a good

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] default time zones for projects in languages of India

+1 Srikanth Ramakrishnan The ISO 8601 format https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 for date too corresponds to the same above (-MM-DD) format. Real advantages of this format are (1) Non-ambiguity, (2) Correct sort order even when data is processed as pure text and (3) international

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indian Elections Project

Gerard, I just got bumped with a tremendously large bundle of urgent and important tasks. Hence the prolonged silence. Just as we discussed about the Calenders and transportation data, we could use some efficient methods on this database too. Unfortunately, it will take some time for me to join

[Wikimediaindia-l] Who is moderating India Mailing list ?

With sufficient evidences, as apparent as they seem to be, I must introduce this issue to you all. The India mailing list is controlled by a few people, of whom no one ever was thinking evil. However, it is time to review and see who really controls this mail list! I request all recipients to

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia Presentation @ CDOT

Thank you for your kind report, Radhakrishna. Signed on 15th September. Viswa On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 5:08 PM, RadhaKrishna Arvapally radhakrishna.arvapa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, On 23rd Monday, we got Invite from CDOT for giving a wikimedia presentation on 27th Friday @ CDOT,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WMIN EC in minority

Dear all, Kindly see this page on the public wiki http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Announcements/2014-2015#Wikimedia_India_Chapter_restructures_its_director_board of Wikimedia India Chapter announcing the newly reconstituted Director Board. As a matter of self-discipline, Wikimedia India Chapter will

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WMIN EC in minority

Dear All, On behalf of the EC, I would wait for at least three senior members (respectable to me) of this list to opine here if this mail qualifies for a reply here in this exact forum or not. Until then, kindly avoid believing in the contorted interpretations expressed in the same. Thank you.

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: WMIN shutdown ?

Prabhakaran Treasurer Wikimedia Chapter Please look into these matters. On 11-Sep-2014 2:16 am, ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ) viswapra...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, The newly restructured EC has held a telecon tonight (September 10th). We have decided to meet in person at Bangalore on 20,21 22

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: WMIN shutdown ?

, I have read the bylaws. If a member does not renew before the grace period, in this case 30th of June, it becomes a new application. 10th July is not exactly within the grace period is it? On 12-Sep-2014 11:42 pm, ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ) viswapra...@gmail.com wrote: I am resending ( rather

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WMIN shutdown ?

Dear all, The newly restructured EC has held a telecon tonight (September 10th). We have decided to meet in person at Bangalore on 20,21 22 September 2014 with a large number of tasks in hand. Due to several reasons, principally among them, a delay in the completion of Financial Audit Reports,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Many user groups instead of One Chapter?

Dear all, Having intensively spent more than two years within the chapter and many more years within one of the better performing communities, I would like to input a few points: 1. *Despite its being a single large political entity, India is a diverse heterogeneous amalgam of umpteen cultures,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Featured Wikimedian of the Month - 2014

Amidst the clutters and pangs of a serious final year professional degree course, you are still doing it great, Netha! Salutes to your relentless dutufulness! -Viswam On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 7:52 PM, Netha Hussain nethahuss...@gmail.comwrote: Hi all, The Featured Wikimedian for January

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Calendars in use in India

A great topic, I am particularly interested in! I have worked some solid 3-4 months to compute almost all calendars of Indian traditions. Part of my ambition is to create a page in every Indian Wiki for each year of the CE era, along with the corresponding calendars in each Indian almanacs. This

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Tamil Wikipedia crosses 1000 total contributors milestone

Oh Tamil, Welcome to the coveted 1000+ users' club! :) Be inspired and inspire others too! Together we, all communities of India, have a long way to go. And we shall all walk hand in hand. -Viswam On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 10:58 PM, Yohann Thomas yohan...@gmail.com wrote: Kudos to Tamil

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-en] Fwd: A2K, its lies and irresponsibilities

+1 Arnav Sonara Request we all close this thread for now. Thanks. Smile everyone! On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 12:55 AM, Arnav Sonara sonara.ar...@gmail.comwrote: It shouldn't be like this. And let me tell you just one last thing, your attitude towards your work is not right. Well, let's just

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Short-term assignment at CIS-A2K

It would be much effective if the same message is also broadcast to all community village pumps as well as any social networking groups where communities are gathering. -Viswam On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 12:32 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.comwrote: Vishnu, 2013/10/25 Vishnu T

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] FW: Re: Few concerns

as a point of conflict of interest. I am not allowed to be on the Executive or head committees within a non profit which has a relationship with the Bank. Warm regards, Pradeep Mohandas Sent from Yahoo! Mail for iPhone -- * From: * ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Few concerns

Did I read and understand that absolutely correctly! If so, this is a huge accusal! Please come to your senses before doing such horrendous accusations! I would never (or am or will be planning) to send any mail messages to ANY public (or private) lists other than from my own proven

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] FDC grant

Dear Vickram, Indeed, you seems to have registered as a new user in the Wikimedia Wiki. However, in order to edit, one need to do just one more additional step: Just confirm the email ID. Immediately after registering, you would have received a confirmation request mail in your registered

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] N A Nazeer's photographs

It is very important to read this too along with the news: The officials wanted to grab the photographs, but without any attributions to the photographers themselves. As usual, these photos will later appear in costly or otherwise Govt. publications, promptly and sacredly credited to the

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Samkshepa Vedartham, first book printed in Malayalam goes online

On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 10:38 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.comwrote: How about the links to Ml Wikisource for those who are curious please? For this work and related, bigger times are coming around soon. So, please expect more links (to both the wikisource and media) very shortly!

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Samkshepa Vedartham, first book printed in Malayalam goes online

On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 12:41 AM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: Awesome! Did you have any challenges with digitizing the books? For example, are there any ancient Malayalam letters or symbols that were used in these books, but weren't available ib Unicode? Did you

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic print material digitization workshop query

I am still traveling away in Bangalore etc. seeking out sources and opportunities for old texts and other media for Wikimedia commons from various locations of India. I think different people look at the issue through different layers and perspectives. This might call for a detailed write-up on

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Getting a new language Wikipedia going...

Konkani belongs to somewhat a unique class of Wikimedia languages where many scripts may be used for the same content. Not exclusive, this list includes at least English, Devanagari, Kannada and Malayalam. The ideal goal in the case of a Konkani Wikimedia project is to have an input system in any

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Getting a new language Wikipedia going...

On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Vishnu t visdav...@gmail.com wrote: How long a haul this could be? Asking out of curiosity. Of course, this depends upon the amount of synergy we put in. In terms of computing technology, this should not be a problem at all. But someone will have to conceive

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] additions - Indian Languages question

It is by 1877 that the Europeans started studying and classifying the scripts of oriental languages especially, South Asian and East Asian. Probably Holle did the first attempt of cataloging the Sanskrit and its apparently descending languages within the Indian subcontinent and beyond. Please

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Number of Admin users in Indic Wikipedias

Just for your info if it will help devise effective strategies: *Continuance of Administrative privileges* In Malayalam, we have a periodical assessment of active Admins. Some of them are very very active (almost round the clock!). Some are frequenting on monthly or seasonally waving cycles of

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Tamil Wikipedia crossess 50, 000 article mark

Congratulations, ta.wikipedia.org! Let us all together work even harder to make the exponential rate of growth even higher. Together, we have a long way to go. Our potential is so great that even 50,000 is only 1% of the work ahead of us. -Viswam On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 10:39 PM, Anoop

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Malayalam Wikipedia turns 10 today

Congratulations, Malayalam Wikipedia, for making it loud among the media and aspiring new users! A great milestone indeed! On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Anoop Narayanan anoop@gmail.comwrote: All, Malayalam Wikipedia turns 10 today. Please see the online versions of the article

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Leaving the Wikimedia Foundation

When a humble tiny group of Wikipedia users pondered upon an annual get-together added with some spice of outreach possibilities, we did not hope or expect that some one from Wikimedia Global Foundation will turn up there even with a terribly hectic schedule on a world itinerary at his hand. Our

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Welcoming Srikanth Lakshmanan to the i18n engineering team

Quite logical, i18n-Et. And congratulations, logic. :) Tamil and other Indic Wikis, have a great go with Srikant ! -Viswam ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Farewell

Ashwin +1 On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 6:42 PM, Deepon Saha hideeponh...@gmail.com wrote: Ashwin +1 Deepon On Jul 31, 2012 6:24 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com wrote: Abdul, You have not given of your time to Wikipedia and you have no moral right to criticise Hisham for anything

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

Some of the videos are not cut in length per person. So those who find their videos missing may go through the likely ones that falls to the right time slot and check by playing them all along (or just jumping through short intervals). If someone can additionally add links (of corresponding

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Images in wikipedia

Coming to think of that, Wouldn't it be nice to have an automatic script or macro to be incorporated in a JS, or within the mail writer module or list mailer to automatically convert to the registered sender's user ID? :) Any takers? ~~~ oops [http://goo.gl/TbT92] On Tue, Feb 28,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Letters of authority or press cards (was: Backup for Wikipedians)

Praveenp +1 On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 16:10, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Excellent Suggestion Praveen, +1. On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 11:23 PM, praveenp me.prav...@gmail.com wrote: If this get implemented with enough background check with rigid criteria like credible

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Swarooprao (MikeLynch) is our newest admin on English Wikipedia

Ashwin, You seem to be the most omnipresent guy everywhere in Wikipedia as far as WikiProject India is concerned. I keep wondering how a single person can devote so much time to the cause of a project as vast as WP:India. Being at the helm of a very good one-fifth of all potential Wikipedia

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Wikipedia 11 celebrations

If there is money for such celebrations, let us impart it for some very simple things: What about just printing the Wikipedia logo stickers abundantly and distributing it among relevant circles? Just getting the common man to acquaint with the logo itself will be a very effective outreach! I

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Webfonts deployment on Indic Wikiprojects

Praveen Prakash +1 On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 09:46, Praveen Prakash me.prav...@gmail.com wrote: There is lot to say. But i don't want to derail this thread. Pls start a new thread. On 16/12/2011, Anivar Aravind anivar.arav...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Praveen Prakash

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Towards improving infrastructure or resource people on Wikipedia

I would like to stress again that what we need first is to interconnect ourselves. We, at various Indic Wikipedias, are still working very much on our own home islands! Images, references, PR personnel, media - Among various Indic Wikipedias, we have a lot that can be shared together. Beyond

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Sharing insights and experiences from Indian language wiki communities - Kannada

That is not always true. Even the apparently (for us) easy pages on English Wikipedia are too technical for a would-be enthusiatic neo wiki editor as he/she just steps into editing attempts even after a long experience of reading wikipedia. I can wow on to this as I have met many such people who

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikipedia-l] Creation of new language - Ahirani

Very encouraging! Whole support for you, Ahirani! Welcome to the world of Indic Wikipedias, you little dear! :) -Viswam On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 14:19, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.comwrote: Hoi, It would be cool when the request for the Ahirani language is completed. What is

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki Drugs

User: Netha Hussain +1 On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 23:42, Netha Hussain nethahuss...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I am a 3rd year student of medicine from Kerala.Though I work on ml.wikipedia, I have recently started editing pharmacology-related articles on en.wikipedia. I have noticed the same