Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] 2000+ books nationalized by The Government of Tamil Nadu released in Public domain

2016-01-13 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
This is a key milestone, Ravi. Glad to hear it has materialised. Kudos to everyone who has worked for it.  Cheers, Sundar  Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android On Wed, 13 Jan, 2016 at 4:29 pm, Ravishankar Ayyakkannu wrote: Hi, The Government of Tamil Nadu has declared all books that have be

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Concerns regarding a user's Wikimedia activities and use of movement funds

2015-03-05 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
+1 "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted." - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture From: Rohini Lakshané To: Wikimedia Chapter India Google group Cc: Wikimedia India Community

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Wikipedia T-Shirts for active Wikimedians

2015-02-09 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
Yay! Thank you Wikimedia India. - Sundar  "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted." - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture From: Ravishankar Ayyakkannu To: Wikimedia India Commu

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Active editors for Kannada Wikipedia reaches 41

2013-10-03 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
Good to see that Pavanaja. I hope Kannada Wikipedia grows from strength to strength. Best wishes, Sundar   "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted." - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lect

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] German University of Tubingen partners with Malayalam Wikipedians to digitize the works of Herman Gundert.

2013-09-17 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
Congrats to everyone behind this effort! - Sundar   "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted." - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture From: CherianTin

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Licence violation

2013-09-02 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
Thanks for the clarification, Michelle and for the follow-up Pranav. - Sundar   "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted." - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture __

[Wikimediaindia-l] Licence violation

2013-08-30 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
Hi, I came across: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/venpa-lambert-m-surhone/1028560188?ean=9783639989779 recently. This e-book, effectively a collection of a few Wikipedia articles, sells for USD 41+. That's okay, but there's no mention of contributions by Wikipedia editors in the authorship de

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedians from Chennai

2013-02-19 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
Hi Adethya, I've copied to Tamil Wikipedians' mailing list as well as the Chennai list. It'll be good to drop a note in Tamil Wikipedia Alamarathadi (Village Pump) too. - Sundar   "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth

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

2013-02-14 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted." - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture >____ > From: BalaSundaraRaman >To: Wikimedia India Community list >Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 3:56 PM >S

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

2013-02-14 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
I don't know the actual history of the term 'Indic'. However, I know pieces of it and why it's a bad idea to use the term. 1. The languages spoken in India are from very diverse language families with very different origins. The biggest group as of now is the Indo-Aryan subfamily of Indo-Europe

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Results of the Programme Director hiring for CIS's A2K programme

2013-01-28 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
Congrats and welcome, Vishnu Vardhan! - Sundar   "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted." - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture > > From: Jadine Lann

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [WikimediaMobile] Wikimedia Commons android app nightlies available

2013-01-28 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
For a lot of us, a phone is the only accessible camera. Pretty useful. - Sundar   "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted." - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture >___

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Status of Indian language wikipedias in 2012 and priorities, Telugu WP report

2013-01-27 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
Hi Shiju,  Thanks for the analysis. We now know where we need to improve (i.e. develop older stubs). Thanks to Jyotis for pulling out the data. It'll be great if we could measure other quality indicators like number/percentage of articles with citations, average number of citations per article,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Status of Indian language wikipedias in 2012 and priorities, Telugu WP report

2013-01-24 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
Interesting new metric, Arjun. Although, like you said, it's difficult to capture "the health and vitality" of a wiki in a single metric. Apart from external factors, I'd consider the following to have an influence on the path any wiki takes: 1. The seed community - typically small wikis start

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

2013-01-12 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
Thanks Viswa. Just curious, do Malayalam Wiki bureaucrats have rights to remove adminship? Since nobody in Tamil Wiki had the rights, we had to request some Stewards. IIRC, Jyotis came to our help. Are there other rights beyond bureaucrats that anyone feels necessary? - Sundar   "That language

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Wikimedia India Chapter Anniversary

2013-01-03 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
Thank you for your contributions to the chapter, Anirudh. And welcome Bala. I'm sure you'll add tremendous value to the EC. :) - Sundar   "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted." - George Boole, quot

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Q&A with the nominees

2012-09-07 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
n's Turing Award Lecture > > From: Arjuna Rao Chavala >To: wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com >Cc: Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia. >; Gautam John ; >BalaSundaraRaman >Sent: Friday, September 7, 2012 4:43 PM >S

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] #GOIBlocks list contains Wikipedia too

2012-08-24 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
>Ineffective blocks, but it still works. >http://stats.grok.se/en/latest60/Persecution_of_Muslims_in_Burma Actually effective, in that case, Anirudh. Bad. - Sundar "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admit

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Election Notice for Wikimedia Chapter EC Elections

2012-08-10 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
committee, Sundar   "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted." - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture >____ > From: BalaSundaraRam

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

2012-08-10 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
Dear Barry, Thanks for your contributions. I do recall the many discussions we had about the India strategy. Wish you good luck for your future endeavours. Regards, Sundar   "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth genera

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Election Notice for Wikimedia Chapter EC Elections

2012-08-05 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
Hi everyone, I'd like to remind you that the nomination process for the upcoming Wikimedia Chapter EC elections are under way. We have not received any nomination yet. I request members who want to contribute to the chapter EC activities to nominate themselves soon at http://wiki.wikimedia.in/

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

2012-08-02 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
Best wishes, Srikanth! Now you get to actually fix most of the bugs you were desperately after. And many more to come from all wikis. :) - Sundar   "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted." - George Boo

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Volunteers for Wiki Academy on 6 Aug 2012, Monday at Dravidian Univ, Kuppam

2012-07-31 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
I'd like to join, Arjun. I can talk about contributing to Tamil Wikipedia (and English, if required). Regards, Sundar   "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted." - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turi

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] An adieu to the Wikimedia India Movement

2012-07-24 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
Hey Tinu, I do hope that you have a refreshing break and then come back to manageable levels of participation. Enjoy your time with your family! They deserve that as much as you do. Best wishes, Sundar   "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expressi

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Introduction - Arun

2012-05-04 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
Congrats Arun! :-) Regards, Sundar "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted." - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture > > From: Srikanth Lakshmanan >To:

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] New Wikimedia India Portals

2012-02-02 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
Good to see a richer portal, Naveen. Kudos to everyone who helped with the effort. - Sundar   "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted." - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture >__

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Wiki Academy at PSR Rengaswamy Engg College - a report

2012-02-02 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
students preferred conversing in Tamil. i only mentioned the Tamil >wiki and the url but couldn't talk about it in depth because of time >restraints. But i'm sure they will be interested in participating in the Tamil >wiki. > > >Cheers! > > >On Thu, Feb 2, 2012

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Wiki Academy at PSR Rengaswamy Engg College - a report

2012-02-02 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
Good to know, Sohan. Thank you for volunteering for this academy. Was there any interest to know about Tamil Wiki projects too? - Sundar   "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted." - George Boole, quoted

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

2011-12-14 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
ent powerhouses of the >internet is huge...but doable, if we continue to work together. > > >[1] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2011-December/056966.html > > >Best, >Barry > > >On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 9:53 AM, BalaSundaraRaman >wrote: > >H

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

2011-12-14 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
Hi, Due to my ongoing wikihiatus, I haven't followed much of discussions in this list. But, I'm interested in this issue because I was following and supporting the original request filed by User:SanthoshGuru asking for such a support in 2005.[1] While I welcome the recent energy in building and

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] New version of Nepali Wikipedia translator is released.

2011-11-02 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
Thanks Rajesh for this tool. Importing templates and localising them is a rather cumbersome process. Also liked how you discovered the Nepali Wikipedia: http://code.google.com/p/nepaliwikipediatranslator/#Author’s_Native_language :-) - Sundar   "That language is an instrument of human reason, a

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fw: Re: Wiki Data : New Wikimedia Project for Structured Data

2011-10-26 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Coimbatore Meetup, confirmation

2011-10-19 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
Hi Srikanth R, Thanks for taking the initiative. I'm copying Wikita list as well. I'm sorry if anybody is getting this email twice because of that. - Sundar   "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted." -

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Recognition of Wikimedia Bangladesh

2011-10-15 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
Congratulations to Wikimedia Bangladesh and all its volunteers! - Sundar   "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted." - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture >__

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] IP-based channelling of editors

2011-10-13 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted." - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture > >From: ansuman >To: BalaSundaraRaman ; Wikimedia India Community

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] IP-based channelling of editors

2011-10-10 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
uot;That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted." - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture > >From: Srikanth Lakshmanan >To: BalaSundar

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Presenting "The India Chronicles"

2011-10-09 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
oted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture - Original Message - > From: Gautam John > To: BalaSundaraRaman ; Wikimedia India Community list > > Cc: > Sent: Sunday, October 9, 2011 4:37 PM > Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Presenting "The India Chronicles" >

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Presenting "The India Chronicles"

2011-10-09 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
>There is something that struck me though. Now that the journey and the >story has been captured in the written form, in many ways, this *will* >form the back story to the Indian community and Wikimedia movement. >I'm wondering how comfortable everyone is with that? It's difficult for anything to

[Wikimediaindia-l] IP-based channelling of editors

2011-10-08 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
Hi all, [Apologies if a similar thing has been proposed earlier, I haven't been able to read much of the recent discussions.] I had a thought of channelling readers and editors of English Wikipedia (and similar projects) to other Indian language wikis based on their IP addresses and the topic

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India - AGM and Election Results

2011-09-26 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
>Congratulations: Naveen, Sudhanwa and Tinu!  These are exciting times for the >movement and the community - and it's great to see you joining the Chapter EC >at > this time.   My best wishes to Naveen, Sudhanwa and Tinu. >Congratulations: Nominations Committee for running a smooth process! Tha

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Report on ILUGC wikipedia stall

2011-09-23 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
Kudos to Surya, Arunmozhi, and Bala. Great work. > Tamil Wikipedia got a good editor from that stall. :) This is the real gift. >:) And, a nice article too: http://tawp.in/r/2n4m :) - Sundar   "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] On creating an Indian Wikisource

2011-08-26 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
> But do we have servers outside US now? IIRC, we had mirror servers hosted by Yahoo! in South Korea. Not sure if we still have them. - Sundar   "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted." - George Boole,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Interwiki Redirection based Sane URLs

2011-08-14 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
Srikanth,  Good work. I liked this tool as a tester when you sent to me. Apart from the ease of keying in from mobile browsers, this has the advantage of being a short url that'll indicate what the target link is about. - Sundar   "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Welcome to the India Team! : Shiju & Nitika

2011-07-31 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
Congrats Shiju and Nitika! I look forward to a good acceleration of wiki growth in India with your participation. Regards, Sundar   "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted." - George Boole, quoted in Iv

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fw: [Wikimedia-in-blr] Fw: [gbinfitt] Fwd: First International Telugu Internet Conference2011

2011-07-16 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
>Sorry if you've read it earlier. Sent to the BLR list by mistake earlier. > > >- Sundar >-- Forwarded message -- >>From: itic >>Date: Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 3:51 PM >>Subject: First International Telugu Internet Conference2011 >>To: vyaka...@listserv.syr.edu >> >>VYAKARAN: South As

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Bengali Wikipedia reached 1 million edits milestone

2011-05-21 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
Congrats to all Bangla Wikipedians. Regards, Sundar Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fw: [Internal-l] Dear chapters: Please send me your top 3 coolest projects

2011-05-19 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
I think there are a few good projects that we've implemented which can be added to Lodewijk's survey. - Sundar "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted." - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] MediaWiki selects eight students for Google Summer of Code 2011

2011-04-27 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
Great news. Congratulations to everyone who got this opportunity. - Sundar "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted." - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture ___

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Added a video Tutorial for "How to edit Odia Wikipedia"

2011-04-19 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
Subha, Please also add it to http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bookshelf_Project. - Sundar "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted." - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture _

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic Language Wiki Results in Google (With a Chrome Extension)

2011-04-13 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
Great, Yuvi. Let's all use this feature ourselves and hopefully Google will take not of it and promote the other language wiki pages in their search results themselves. - Sundar "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth g

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikita-l] Tamil Wikipedia crossed the 30, 000 articles milestone

2011-04-11 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
ression of thought, is a truth generally admitted." - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture ____ From: BalaSundaraRaman To: Wikimedia India Community list Cc: wikit...@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Mon, April 11, 2011 10:18:37 AM Subject: Re: [Wikit

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Tamil Wikipedia crossed the 30, 000 articles milestone

2011-04-10 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
I thank you Shiju, Hisham, and Naveen, as a Tamil wikian. :) - Sundar "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted." - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] The Hindu : "Malayalam Wiki all set to expand database"

2011-04-08 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
Actually, "Wikimedia Malayalattha Snehikkunnu" is valid too. :) - Sundar   "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted." - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture >_

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Buzz ...

2011-03-28 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
Impressive! - Sundar   "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted." - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture > >From: Naveen Francis >To: Wikimedia India

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Odia and Odisha

2011-03-25 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
le, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture > >From: Gerard Meijssen >To: BalaSundaraRaman ; Wikimedia India Community list > >Cc: Oriya Wikipedia >Sent: Friday, March 25, 2011 12:12 AM >Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Odia and Odisha

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Odia and Odisha

2011-03-24 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
Oh, I didn't know the origins. For me, Oriya and Orissa are more comfortable (being the way we write in Tamil). And, I agree that building the wiki is more important. Regards, Sundar Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Odia and Odisha

2011-03-24 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
If ISO code also changes correspondingly from or to od, we should perhaps move wiki projects as well? - Sundar   "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted." - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Awar

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fw: [Wikipedia-l] Free Credo Reference accounts for Wikipedians

2011-03-20 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
A great opportunity (in the forwarded email) for people who work on adding references to articles often. Please signup and enrich more of our wiki articles with supporting references. - Sundar   "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thoug

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] A tale of two workshops

2011-03-07 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
Excellent report, Bala. Let's please document such reports at http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page and/or wikimedia.in apart from emailing to the list. - Sundar "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generall

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Update from translatewiki.net

2011-03-06 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
Thanks to the translatewiki team for facilitating localisation efforts. As for Saurashtra language, most of its speakers live in and around the cities of Madurai and Kumbakonam for several generations now. They speak Saurashtra at home and Tamil outside. (In fact, a veteran Tamil playback singer

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] New members of Language committee

2011-02-28 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
Congrats, Santhosh. What are the functions of a language committee member? - Sundar "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted." - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture > >From: Cherian

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] How to add a logo for WIkipedia Odia

2011-02-23 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
Hi Subhashish, Please see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Logo#Localisation - Sundar "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted." - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture > >From: Subhas

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] New admins on the list

2011-02-22 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
le, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture - Original Message > From: Gautam John > To: Wikimedia India Community list > Cc: BalaSundaraRaman > Sent: Tue, February 22, 2011 1:04:59 PM > Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] New admins on the list > > On 22 Februa

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] New admins on the list

2011-02-21 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
rifies. :) - Sundar "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted." - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture > >From: BalaSundaraRaman >To: Wikimedia India Community li

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] A report on the Trichy wikimeetup/workshop

2011-02-21 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
oole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture > >From: BalaSundaraRaman >To: Wikimedia India Community list >Cc: Nivash S >Sent: Tue, February 22, 2011 9:59:45 AM >Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] A report on the Trichy wikimeetup/workshop > > >Awesome, Bala! Seems like

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] A report on the Trichy wikimeetup/workshop

2011-02-21 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
Awesome, Bala! Seems like a wonderful workshop. Thanks to all those who helped. - Sundar "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted." - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture > >From: Ba

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] New admins on the list

2011-02-21 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
I welcome our new overlords, Prashanth and Logic. :) - Sundar "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted." - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture > >From: Hari Prasad Nadig >To: Wikim

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] (OT) On the importance of Unicode

2011-02-16 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
Hi Gautam, I have some points to share, but got to go back to work now. Can I get back on this later? - Sundar "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted." - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Awar

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia.IN the news - Mumbai Hindustan Times, 13th Feb 2011

2011-02-16 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
>That would be the photo caption, which sends sundar all over Kerala :-) How I wish that be true! - Sundar "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted." - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lec

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia.IN the news - Mumbai Hindustan Times, 13th Feb 2011 (CherianTinu Abraham)

2011-02-16 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
Valid point, Ashwin. But, I don't know how we can avoid such attribution insufficiency totally. In the early days (of Tamil Wikipedia), despite repeated emphasis on not mentioning individual names, the writers like to mention stories around individuals. Though the community was understanding, t

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indian academicians on Wikipedia?

2011-02-16 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
Copied Pulkit Gupta who started http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_MiniBiography_of_Indian_Professors He got in touch with some Professors who are familiar with editing if not already editing Wikipedia. - Sundar "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia lesson in Maharashtra class 7 textbook

2011-02-15 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
ww.itschool.gov.in/icttextbook8.pdf (Page 39) > > >Thanks > > >On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 12:00 PM, BalaSundaraRaman >wrote: > >Delightful news. Sign that Wiki is becoming mainstream in India. >> >>- Sundar >> >> "That language is an instrument of

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia lesson in Maharashtra class 7 textbook

2011-02-15 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
Delightful news. Sign that Wiki is becoming mainstream in India. - Sundar "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted." - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture > >From: Pradeep Mohandas

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Hindi wiki workshop at New Delhi - report

2011-02-15 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
Thanks for the information, Mayur. Good to learn about participation from neighbouring states as well. Please upload any pictures taken during the event and share them with us. - Sundar "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Announcing Hisham Mundol as WMF consultant for National Programs, India

2011-02-15 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
Welcome to the Wikiverse, Hisham. Hope that your participation will help advance the movement goals in India. Wish you all the best. - Sundar "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted." - George Boole,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India map and indian laws

2011-02-15 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
Hi Arun, I agree that this is a very serious issue. We should contact the foundation's legal counsel for suitable action as the foundation typically handles content-issues, particularly ones that involve a question of legality. Chapters shouldn't be mistaken as being responsible for the content

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Time to assume good faith and carry on ++

2011-02-15 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
Thanks for the suggestions, Tinu. Like Anirudh said in his response to Jyotis' email, we'll have more clarity on these issues in the coming days. - Sundar "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted." - Ge

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-chn] Wikipedia workshop in Carte Blanche, Chennai

2011-02-14 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
Sundar "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted." - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture - Original Message > From: BalaSundaraRaman > To: Discussion

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-chn] Wikipedia workshop in Carte Blanche, Chennai

2011-02-14 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
:Bots/Requests/SundarBot - Sundar "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted." - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture - Original Message > From: Shrinivasan T

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] PDF rendering of Indian language wiki pages

2011-02-14 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
Hi Santhosh, Good work with the library. I tried a few pages like பட்டாம்பூச்சி, மாந்தவுருவகம் etc., and I got an error. However, it worked for the Tamil Wiki example you cited, இலங்கை and the Malayalam wiki example Mango. Some quirks: 1. insertion of intra-word spacing (like Srikanth and Shiju

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia workshop in Carte Blanche, Chennai

2011-02-14 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
hat language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted." - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture - Original Message > From: BalaSundaraRaman > To: Discussion list on Indian

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Moderation policy on WikimediaIndia-l

2011-02-14 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
his >I am the first customer of http://www.netdotnet.com > >woods are lovely dark and deep, >but i have promises to keep and >miles to go before i sleep and >lines to go before I press sleep > >completion date = (start date + ((estimated effort x 3.1415926) / resour

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Moderation policy on WikimediaIndia-l

2011-02-13 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
Jyotis, (This is my personal view.) I concur with the broad idea behind points 3-7 though specifics need to be worked out to suit the legal entity that the chapter is. In fact, some of these have been addressed in the MoA, I think. However, what is the additional role that you envisage for the a

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-chn] Thanks for the wikipedia session at MIT

2011-02-12 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
Thanks Shrinivasan. I've copied the Wikimedia India mailing list for wider reach. I hope the top priority requirements for Wiki projects related to India will be added to http://wiki.ilugc.in/index.php?title=Projects_List - Sundar "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fw: [Wikipedia-l] [ResourceLoader] JavaScript may break on your wiki: Fix it before that happens

2011-02-12 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
FYI. We noticed some issues (like some custom tools not working) related to this in Tamil Wikipedia. Not sure whether all issues are resolved. Please check if other wikis are affected by this. - Sundar "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] :The Hindu : Konkani Wikipedia bogged down by multiple scripts

2011-02-10 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
> > > >On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 12:17 PM, BalaSundaraRaman >wrote: > >Gerard, >> >>It'll be good if someone who can read both Kannada and Devanagari scripts can >>do >>this. I'm not proficient with Kannada script. Will give it a shot if nob

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] :The Hindu : Konkani Wikipedia bogged down by multiple scripts

2011-02-09 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
ject that much more readable and therefore effective. >Thanks, >GerardM > > > >On 8 February 2011 16:08, BalaSundaraRaman wrote: > >My guess is that it is 100% possible, Gerard. I proposed doing this for >Konkani, >Kashmiri, and if at all acceptable, for Punjabi. >>

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Bengali wiki in Dec 2010

2011-02-09 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
Indicates some heavy maintenance activity. One indicator is that there's 231% growth in the number of redirects. - Sundar "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted." - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] :The Hindu : Konkani Wikipedia bogged down by multiple scripts

2011-02-08 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
My guess is that it is 100% possible, Gerard. I proposed doing this for Konkani, Kashmiri, and if at all acceptable, for Punjabi. - Sundar Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lis

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Communication from the Executive Committee regarding first meeting

2011-02-06 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
Tinu, I'm traveling and hence can't respond until tomorrow. I'm sure other EC members would respond by that time. - Sundar Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org

[Wikimediaindia-l] Communication from the Executive Committee regarding first meeting

2011-02-06 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
committee now constitutes of: * Arjuna Rao Chavala, President * Hari Prasad HS, Secretary * Anirudh Singh Bhati, Treasurer * Arun Ramarathnam, Member * BalaSundaraRaman Lakshmanan, Member * Gautam K John, Member * Srinivas Gunta, Member We

[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia workshop in Carte Blanche, Chennai

2011-02-03 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
Hi, As part of the FOSS event called Carte Blanche (http://cb.csmit.org/) to be held at the Madras Institute of Technology, a Wikipedia workshop is being conducted on February 6 between 9:30 am and 4:30 pm. Following is the proposal, the exact timings will be finalised soon. * English Wikiped

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] SMS WIkipedia app in India

2011-02-02 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
Yes, Asaf, the cost for one SMS would be approximately 50 paise or 0.01 USD. For certain subscription plans, SMS will be free upto a ceiling of 250 or more per month. - Sundar "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth gen

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India chapter

2011-01-31 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
diaindia-l] Wikimedia India chapter > > On 30 January 2011 03:04, BalaSundaraRaman wrote: > > Following is a list of activities (compiled by ArunRam for an internal > > discussion) of the chapter prior to registration (which itself turned out > > to >be > > a h

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] troubleshooting Wikipedia for schools offline project

2011-01-31 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
(copied Tamil Wiki list) Hi Nikhil, I appreciate your efforts. > Request: I want to get an Offline edition of the Hindi, Marathi and Gujrati >Wikipedia. (Indian languages) - preferably in the .ZIM format. > I read about Malayalam / Tamil offline versions being in the works, but not > in >.ZIM

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Photos from Wikipedia meetup, Mangalore - Jan 29, 2011

2011-01-30 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
Good to know, HPN. - Sundar "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted." - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture > >From: Hari Prasad Nadig >To: Wikimedia India List ; "Kannada >Wikip

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India chapter

2011-01-30 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
Praveen, Forgot to answer one of your questions: > > Nos of edit is not criteria. The chapter created as society so there > > must be voting system. So not worry!! > Then what was the criteria? While there's no hard criteria that I can give, http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Guidelines_for_future

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India chapter

2011-01-30 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
> I rmember I asked about chapter's future plans in one of the other > threads, but still no answer. Is there any basic ideas about future > activities? Where I can find them? Praveen, http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Main_Page is the place where chapter activities are discussed. By the way, the chapt

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] GSOC 2011

2011-01-29 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
Thanks Santhosh. I've forwarded it to my alumni list. - Sundar "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted." - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture - Original Message > From: S

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Malayalam wikipedia crossed the 10 Lakh/1 million edits milestone

2011-01-29 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
Turing Award Lecture - Original Message > From: praveenp > To: Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia. > > Sent: Sun, January 30, 2011 1:40:40 AM > Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Malayalam wikipedia crossed the 10 Lakh/1 >million edits milestone > &

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