aring in a comprehensible manner.
Thanks,
GerardM
[1]
http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2014/01/wikidata-it-is-all-in-perspective.html
On 21 September 2014 18:33, Hari Prasad Nadig wrote:
>
> On 21 September 2014 21:55, Gerard Meijssen
> wrote:
>
>> Hoi,
>> At Wikimania
Hoi,
At Wikimania in London I discussed how nice it would be to include all the
Indian calendars and by implication all the festivals past present and
future. From it I understand that there is no universal knowledge of such
calendars and festivals.
One of the things that I gleaned from the conve
Hoi,
A post script; I just noticed that Post Bahadur Bogati died. He was a
Nepalese politician. As a result I am currently adding Members of the
Nepalese Constituent Assembly.
Thanks,
GerardM
https://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/?&q=18056060
On 16 September 2014 08:13, Gerard Meij
Hoi,
As you know all articles about the same subject are connected on Wikidata.
Regularly I add information about members of the Lok Sabha and the Vidhan
Sabha on Wikidata. The most prevalent reason for me is for someone to die.
When I notice that he or she was a member of one of those parliaments
Hoi,
Ok.. so explain to me why the chapter is not able to provide funding for
viable projects. Do remember that the qualifiers for funding are
essentially the same; they have to pass the requirements of the WMF. When
the chapter has its own independent funding, it can allocate as it sees fit.
I se
.
>
> 3. It fulfills *some structural need*, for example: it is needed to make
> statements made in other items more useful.
>
> Please don't mislead the community who might have their contributions
> deleted due to lack of notabilty.
>
>
>
> On 20 May 2014 12:06
Hoi,
In a previous thread there was discussion if Wikidata items without
associated articles are permitted and makes sense. In the office-hour I
asked Lydia to comment.
[18:49] what is your opinion on items without links ... but
items that are well linked to other items or complete a list ?
[18:
kipedia-search-for-in-telugu.html
>>
>> Please do any discussions on talk page only.
>>
>>
>> On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Gerard Meijssen <
>> gerard.meijs...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hoi,
>>> There is no need to have articles firs
Hoi,
There is no need to have articles first..
We have added quite a number of members of the National Assemblee of South
Africa that do not have any mention in any wikipedia but a red link. With
items in Wikidata and associated labels all these people can be found in
any Wiki that has WD-search e
e a certain threshold (50 articles or so)?
> 9. mai 2014 19:24 skrev "Gerard Meijssen"
> følgende:
>
>> Hoi,
>> I am at the hackathon in Zurich, Waldir who is from the Cape Verde, asked
>> if he can have Wikidata enabled for his mother tongue, Cape Verdian, kea..
Hoi,
Ravi, I am not a professional. I am a volunteer.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 2 May 2014 09:47, Ravishankar wrote:
> Hoi Gerard,
>
> The disucssion in the mail thread is about cost / benefit comparison of
> two similar outreach events
>
> 1.
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Kno
ter of Gujarati state
> in Wikidata.//
>
> Modi is actually incumbent Chief Minister(not Prime minister ) of Gujarat
> (Not Gujarati - Which is a language ) .
>
> -Sibi
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 5:30 PM, Gerard Meijssen <
> gerard.meijs...@gmail.co
pic.
>
>
> Regards,
> Karthik Nadar.
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Gerard Meijssen <
> gerard.meijs...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Ravi,
>> When I observe the activities of the Dutch chapter I find that they take
>> up things that volunteers
Hoi,
I am a Wikimedian and have been for a very long time. Check my record and
you will find that I have always been involved in both language support and
projects like Wiktionary, OmegaWiki, Wikidata, Reasonator.
Today new functionality has gone life on Wikidata that was expected for
over half a
Ravi,
When I observe the activities of the Dutch chapter I find that they take up
things that volunteers are not able to. They are things that are often
complex and take a large network. What the Dutch chapter does for GLAM is
much more than reaching out to individual GLAM institutions. It takes a
Hoi,
What is unclear in the response of Asaf that there is no relation between
the money received by CIS and the Indian chapter? There is no rupee less
available to India when either CIS or the Indian chapter gets less money.
When you spoil it for CIS, you spoil it for India.
When the Indian chapt
Hoi,
Seriously, do you want to make a difference.. Is there room to make an
effort? Do we dare to? We are very set in our ways. The WMF has an
ingrained way of doing more of the same thing but better. There are
opportunities that are not realised because "the moment is not there yet".
We could do
dered WMF chapter if I am not mistaking.
>
> Also, the need for WMIN to raise its own funds has arisen because of WMF's
> FDC's decision to not fund it and fund another private organisation.
>
> I hope this helps you to understand what's being discussed.
>
> Regar
Hoi,
Independence is just that. When you can get money when you focus on certain
goals, you will when you do. When you want to go a different route, you may
but that is your route and funding for it is your responsibility as well.
Given what a chapter is, I would expect that it has ample scope to
Hoi,
What is really amazing is that there are currently some 88,859 labels in
Wikidata in the Urdu language :)
Thanks,
GerardM
On 24 April 2014 19:19, Asaf Bartov wrote:
> Can you tell us a little more about this increase? Urdu Wikipedia had
> ~27.5k articles in February. Much bot-generat
Hoi,
The point I made and the point that I make again. You did not ask, you do
not know and you consider your opinion to be of paramount importance. In
stead of asking you go from a fixed point of view that are limited and
denounce a plan because everything has to be done elsewhere first to be
rele
Hoi,
I am so in disagreement with you .. If something new has to start and
Wikidata is new, then it needs more than just a video or a conference call.
I know, I live and breath it, I still discover new opportunities every day.
I gave a presentation to professionals who work in data. It took me an h
undation.org/wiki/Resolution:FDC_recognition_for_the_Centre_for_the_Internet_and_Society
>
> Best regards,
> Bence
>
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 4:11 PM, Gerard Meijssen
> wrote:
> > Hoi,
> > As far as I am concerned when the chapter and CIS work together, they
> will
> > achieve more and bicker less. The more promin
Hoi,
As far as I am concerned when the chapter and CIS work together, they will
achieve more and bicker less. The more prominent the bickering the stronger
will be the urge to cut on funding and to be extra careful when giving
additional funding.
I am a long time Wikimedian, I have over 300.000 pe
Hoi,
What do you hope to achieve with this legalistic approach ? What is your
bias ?
Thanks,
GerardM
On 23 April 2014 15:11, Ravishankar wrote:
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee
>
> states that
>
> "The *Affiliations Committee* (formerly known as *Chapters Committee
Hoi,
I checked if Lawrence Liang was know somewhere in Wikipedia land. On many
Wikipedias, those that have the "Extended Wikidata search", you will be
able to find him with his name written in Hindi or Chinese.
Thanks,
GerardM
http://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/?&q=3828152
On 24 March 201
Hoi,
I noticed that an article was written for Vimla Varma. As it was in
English, it was not that hard to find relevant facts about her and add them
to Wikidata. You can see the result here [1].
As I am a sucker for awards, I have added a Wikidata item for the Vidhan
Kirti award [2]. The point bei
Hoi,
So you want to inspire librarians. Let us think big. What is it that
librarians aim to achieve
- they are responsible for the collection they maintain
- they want to make their collection optimally accessible to its public
- they want to help their public to find information
The We
Hoi,
In my latest blog post [1] I revisit Lilavati's daughters. As you may know
this book is about female Indian scientists. They were the subject of last
year's edit-a-thon.
My request to you is for a moment of your time. Many of these fine ladies
do not have an article yet. That is regrettable.
Hoi,
I have written a blog post about the Indian events for International
Women's Day [1]. You may know me well enough that I like you to consider to
use Wikidata. Given that you will be writing in many languages and it is
not obvious that the English language article will be created first, it
help
Hoi,
I have mentioned the "Reasonator" frequently on this mailing list and, I am
really happy to inform you that the latest version has some major
improvements.
When you look at the Reasonator page for Mahatma Gandhi in Malayalam [1],
you will see that the words in English are "red lined". This in
)
>
> I understand that its something with calendar . But nothing more I am able
> to grasp .
>
> -Sibi
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 2:27 PM, Gerard Meijssen <
> gerard.meijs...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hoi,
>> I blogged about calendars. The prob
>
>> On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 8:50 PM, Omshivaprakash | Wikimedia <
>> omshivaprak...@wikimedia.in> wrote:
>>
>>> Its really fun! Reasonator strings translated to Kannada :)
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 8:22 PM, Gerard Meijssen <
Hoi,
There are a few more exciting bits to report:
- the userinterface of the Reasonator is now available in Malayalam and
Telugu [1]
- there is information about the Malayalam calendar
- I have started to add information about the 60 year cycle in the
Telugu calendar [2]
Obviousl
Hoi,
I have the numbers of the labels in the languages of India for you. When
you add labels in *YOUR* language, it is possible to add a few hundred
labels in an hour. The trick is to right click on the missing labels and
open a new window and add a missing label.
hi 104,025 new 72,106 ta 68,3
[1]
http://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/?lang=nl&q=Q15627529<http://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/?lang=nl&q=Q4848673>
[2]
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15627529<http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4848673>
On 15 January 2014 12:50, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
> Hoi,
>
> I have
ti
>>> calendar, but in northern calendars, it is Bhadrapad krishnapaksh Ashtami.
>>>
>>> Also, Kartik or Kartak is the first month of year, while in other
>>> calendars, maharashtra and northern, Chaitra is the first month of year.
>>>
>>> Regards,
ny and all calendars.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 15 January 2014 09:59, Harsh Kothari wrote:
> For Gujarati I can help.
>
> Thanks
> Harsh
> On Jan 15, 2014 2:27 PM, "Gerard Meijssen"
> wrote:
>
>> Hoi,
>> I blogged about calendars. The problem I face
Hoi,
I blogged about calendars. The problem I face is that I am adding
statements to the calendars in use in India.. I have worked on the Nepali
and the Bengali calendar and, I find that in the English Wikipedia some
months are merged into one article.
What I want to know is if these months exactl
Hoi,
I added you to my chat as a contact..
Can we schedule some time to check if some of my assumptions about working
effectively on Wikidata make sense to you ??
Thanks,
Gerard
On 31 December 2013 16:18, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
> Hoi Srikanth,
>
> When you say that you have add
contribute in any
language and make a difference.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 6 January 2014 11:57, sankarshan wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 3:49 PM, Gerard Meijssen
> wrote:
>
> > My point is very much that we can do things NOW. There is no need to
> point
> > to things
language in a digital way. Using lexical data to add to
Wikidata is one way, one step.. it starts with the realisation that we can
make a difference now.
We can do this, we can do this now.
Thanks,
Gerard
On 6 January 2014 02:14, sankarshan wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 11:45 PM, Ger
most languages content
is king if we want to bring more languages to the Internet. And, yes we can
when we put our lexical content to it.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 5 January 2014 16:06, sankarshan wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 8:18 PM, Gerard Meijssen
> wrote:
> > I know there a
> Warmly
>
> Vickram
> On 5 Jan 2014 19:01, "Gerard Meijssen" wrote:
>
>> Hoi,
>> Getting content to the Internet is very much a chicken and egg problem.
>> There is nothing and consequently nothing is added.
>>
>> If we want to get more content in
Hoi,
Getting content to the Internet is very much a chicken and egg problem.
There is nothing and consequently nothing is added.
If we want to get more content in a language in a format that can help,
Wikidata is a good bet. One of the strategies is to have volunteers work on
content that has a bi
ppy to work on this.
> I've added labels to over 2000 data items.
> I can add labels for Hindi and Tamil.
>
> There are several users in from India who are active on Wikidata, in
> Hindi, and Gujarati.
> You may also want to get in touch with them.
>
>
> On Tu
Hoi,
I am looking for people who are willing to spend 2 hours adding labels to
wikidata in the languages of India and, in their own language. For several
languages it will be possible to add 1% more labels in that time.
Typically every Wikipedia article has a link to Wikidata. What I want to
lear
Hoi,
I blogged [1] about the question how we can make Wikidata useful. In it I
refer to Muhammad Shah [2] who was a mogul and relevant to the history of
India.
What is necessary for it to work in a language anyway is that the labels
exist in "your" language. The information for Muhammad Shah is sh
Hoi,
As you might expect [1], Rahmanuddin is also known at translatewiki.net.
Some may think it a WMF project but it is not. It is however a great way of
making MediaWiki more accessable and usable. Well recommended to any and
all people looking for something relevant to do.
Thanks,
GerardM
[
Hoi,
The Italian Wikipedia is the first project where people who use search will
find results added from Wikidata. As you may know, Wikidata knows has more
items with a label in a language than a Wikipedia has articles. With the
Wikidata based functionality people will gain several functionalities
d see this best.
>
> Rupert
> Am 02.12.2013 18:50 schrieb "Gerard Meijssen" :
>
> > Hoi,
> >
> > The Italian Wikipedia is the first project where people who use search
> > will find results added from Wikidata. As you may know, Wikidata knows
> has
&
Hoi,
I have added all the subjects of the book Lilavati's daughters to its
Wikidata item [1]. This makes it the perfect place to coordinate
information about all of them.
The things that you can do:
- add labels for them in your language
- make statements about them like their date of birth
Hoi,
On the Newari Wikipedia, an input method is used that uses a local script.
As we support input methods in the Narayam extension, we have copied the
functionality into Narayam. This functionality is now available for review
in translatewiki.net.
Please have a look and tell us if you have any o
Hoi,
I have done some blogging about the Chennai hackathon. Really good news is
that one of the tools, the "Random Good WP India article tool" is now
available on line at srik.me/WPIndia .
Thanks,
Gerard
http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com
PS there is more to tell :)
On 27 March 2012 10:1
Hoi,
We have supported input methods and web fonts for the Bhojpuri language for
quite some time at translatewiki.net. In essence it needs the same support
as Hindi. We are happy with the results and intent to make them available
on the bh.wikipedia.org. Have a look at translatewiki and let us know
Hoi,
Congratulations :) I hope the Wikisource will do well for you.
Thanks,
Gerard
On 28 March 2012 02:17, Dhaval S. Vyas wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> For the Gujarati language it is one of those golden days today. We have
> got our own Wikisource created at http://gu.wikisource.org/. it has been
Hoi,
Awesome !
Thanks,
Gerard
On 27 March 2012 10:17, Yuvi Panda wrote:
> The Chennai Unofficial Wikimedia Hackathon Report
>
> Apologies for the delayed email. Work ate me.
>
> TL;DR: 13 completed hacks, including 2 core mediawiki patches, 3
> tawiki userscript updates and 2 new deployed
or you to add
> it? I'll appreciate if this could be done.
> On 11 Mar 2012 12:57, "Gerard Meijssen" wrote:
>
>> Hoi,
>> I noticed on the request for the approved Gujarati Wikisource that
>> Narayam is requested. What I do not understand is why WebFonts is
Hoi,
I noticed on the request for the approved Gujarati Wikisource that Narayam
is requested. What I do not understand is why WebFonts is missing.
Particularly for a Wikisource there are many advantages of having WebFonts.
I blogged about this in the last month quite regularly.
- a different fo
Hoi,
The good news is that there is approval for the Gujarati Wikisource. We are
quite happy to post a bug asking for the creation of this new Wiki but for
one small detail. There is information lacking that is necessary for the
creation of this new wiki.
I am happy to share this news and I hope i
Hoi,
Reading back I realised that I did not answer your question really. What
you are asking for is the possibility to transliterate a text into a
specific script.This is something that needs development. At the Silpa
website there is functionality that does some initial transliteration. It
however
Hoi,
At translatewiki.net we installed the latest release of the Lohit fonts
today. Among several improvements there are two things that stand out.
There are now two new fonts specific for Devanagari and they support
Marathi and Nepali. As you know certain characters are written differently
when us
Hoi,
To be honest, I know that you can identify a language and a font to go with
it. What I have to ask is how to identify Sanskrit with the Malayalam
script because technically it is the only correct thing to do.
Thanks,
Gerard
On 5 March 2012 17:33, praveenp wrote:
> Hi, Is it possible to
Hoi,
Today the Sanskrit Wikisource will get WebFonts support. The Sanskrit
Wikipedia already has it for some time and it works well for them.
What will be different is that in the Wikisource, it will be possible to
have original texts in the script as it was of at the time of first
publication. Ac
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 2:31 PM, Gerard Meijssen > wrote:
>
>> Hoi,
>> We are at the final phase for the request of a Wikisource for the
>> Gujurati language. This is when we asked Ting Chen, the chair of the WMF
>> board for appr
Hoi,
We are at the final phase for the request of a Wikisource for the Gujurati
language. This is when we asked Ting Chen, the chair of the WMF board for
approval and where we need technical information that enables the WMF ops
people to create the wiki.
Robin has made changes to the template we u
Hoi,
I blogged twice today about mobile. Once because of Kannada but more
relevantly because I learned that other projects are now also supported
under Wikipedia mobile. The consequence is that you may want to check out
the mobile main page for other projects in your language.
Thanks,
Gerard
Hoi,
Now that the localisation for the Gujarati language of the compulsory
messages has been completed, we are moving towards the next steps in this
process. It is really exciting to notice how Wikisource is getting traction
in India. A lot of important work is done and it shows.
I have blogged ab
Hoi,
The Marathi Wikisource now exists as a Wiki. It is the kind of thing that
makes us happy in the language committee. We were happy to move things
along a bit by considering to expedite our approval. The full localisation
was not done but promises were made and are kept to make sure that the
Mar
Hoi,
Do the Devanagari characters indicate a similar page in an Indic language?
Thanks,
Gerard
On 10 January 2012 19:53, Yuvi Panda wrote:
> Hello! Many of you would know PlaneMad (Arun Ganesh), and I had asked
> him to see if he can design anything for Wikipedia.in, etc. He's sent
> me a mo
Hoi,
For what languages is this ?
Thanks,
Gerard
On 9 January 2012 15:01, Nitika wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> We are happy to announce that WikiProject Offline Wikipedia for Indian
> Schools has kicked off with a great start. For OWIS-FULL we want to compile
> a set of 7000-9000 articles that will
Hoi,
One of the changes since the original deployment of WebFonts is the
creation of user documentation on WebFonts. You will see this help text
when you click on the question mark in the WebFonts menu. This user
documentation is located on MediaWiki.org and, we have enabled the
Translate extension
Hoi,
If there is one thing that makes Museums, archives sit up and take notice,
it is when a project is proposed that adds value to their collection. Many
ancient works including documents exist in a GLAM without there being REAL
interest in them. Often because nobody knows the language and sometim
Hoi,
One thing I was really happy with last time was that Santhosh facilitated
the payment of people in India. The consequence was that no bank transfer
costs reduced the bounty for our Indian localisers who qualified. :)
The localisation of MediaWiki is the most effective usability improvement
po
Hoi,
I blogged about the latest version of the Android operating system "ice
cream sandwich". It does apparently work with WebFonts.
http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2011/12/new-android.html
Thanks,
Gerard
On 21 December 2011 13:28, Srikanth Ramakrishnan
wrote:
> Naha, as far As I have
Hoi,
Help yourself and the contestants by localising the last 150 messages of
the UploadWizard.
Thanks,
GerardM
http://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translate&group=ext-uploadwizard&language=ta
On 15 December 2011 14:10, Shrinivasan T wrote:
> Friends.
>
> Tamil Wikipedia announ
Hoi,
The Wikimedia Localisation team has been very much active in this field and
we have implemented the inscript one standard as well as other existing
keyboard methods. We have met with CDAC and Red Hat about our current
Narayam implementations and our and their future plans. Our notion is that
Hoi,
When you find that there are issues with the software needed to show
content on the devices in schools, please ensure awareness and involvement
as soon as possible. As I understand it the Kiwix software is doing a good
job. I understand it can also display the CD with books as created for the
Hoi,
There is no reason why people from the India staff should not be on the
"staff and contractors" page. As it is only people living in the USA are
staff everybody else is a contractor.
Thanks,
Gerard
On 10 December 2011 05:27, Srikanth Lakshmanan wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 07:1
Hoi,
It would be cool when the request for the Ahirani language is completed.
What is necessary is information of the "proposer" and people interested in
working on this language.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Ahirani
In the mean time I have written a "Mingle
Hoi,
As far as I am concerned, the discussion is civil enough. Let me be clear.
When I find people illiterate in their mother tongue, I personally find
this absolutely horrible. There is not much that I can do about this, there
is nothing the WMF intends to do about this. If at all it is you in the
single visit and meeting 100 people.
> This is extremely dangerous and will result in massive wastage of time
> because of wrong understanding of the ground situation.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 7:15 PM, Gerard Meijssen <
> gerard.meijs...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 30 November 2011 14:14, Achal Prabhala wrote:
> Hi Gerard,
>
> On Wednesday 30 November 2011 06:21 PM, Bishakha Datta wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Gerard Meijssen
> > mailto:gerard.meijs...@gmail.com>> wrot
Hoi,
I have been privileged to have been at the Wikiconference India, the Mumbai
hackathon and the Pune translation sprint. For me personally it was great
to see the activity in the many communities. I have learned a lot and I am
sure there is much more for me to learn.
The one thing I have come t
Hoi,
Today is the translation rally in Pune. What we expect is that we will
break the records of translatewiki.net for things like most translated
messages in an hour or most translated messages in a day.
What we would not mind is when people from all over India join us in
the fun. The localisatio
Hoi,
I do not know exactly how Braille works but if a character in a
standard script can be represented by Braille characters in stead,
then all it seems to need is a method for us to replace the existing
Unicode character with the Braille Unicode character. As we already
have WebFonts functionalit
Hoi,
This Saturday there will be a translation rally in Pune. When this is
done, it is more then likely (actually it is what we plan to talk with
technically minded people about MediaWiki and its internationalisation
and how this relates to Indic language support.
If you can please join us for the
Hoi,
At the Hackathon several problems were found that have to with web
fonts and input methods. They were discussed with a Red Hat engineer
and entered in the Red Hat Bugzilla. when Red Hat was the maintainer
(Lohit font for instance).
In the last two days we have been at CDAC and at Red Hat Indi
Hoi,
When you look at the traffic statistics for India, Malayalam and Marathi
are doing spectacularly well. Does anyone know why this is ?
Thanks,
Gerard
http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN_India/TablesPageViewsMonthlyCombined.htm
___
Wikimediaindia-l ma
Hoi,
We are working hard to get ready to bring WebFonts in production. As we are
working hard on the software, new messages are the result of it and we
would be so happy when the localisation is complete particularly for the
Indic languages.
Please help us by checking the localisation for WebFonts
2011 06:37, Naveen Francis wrote:
> First we need to install
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Narayam
>
> If it helps ... definitely we needs to install translate extension.
>
> On 6 November 2011 21:20, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
>>
>> Hoi,
>> Do you want
Hoi,
Do you want to translate it using the translate extension ... eg on Meta ?
Thanks,
Gerard
On 3 November 2011 17:18, Naveen Francis wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Can anyone help me to translate the Wiki Academy Brochure to Indic languages
> ?
>
> Thanks,
> Naveen Francis
>
>
Hoi,
It does not matter where you live when you want to become an ambassador for
your language. The Wikimedia Foundation has set up a team of developers who
are tasked to make editing in any of the Indic languages as easy as editing
in English.
What we are looking for are people who know their lan
Hoi,
I could not be more happy. Shiju we must talk.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 29 September 2011 20:14, Ashwin Baindur wrote:
> Welcome on board, Shiju!
>
> Warm regards,
>
> Ashwin Baindur
> --
>
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 8:10 AM, Gautam Joh
d support and I promise the Odia
>>> Community will keep up the effort to improve the two projects and finish the
>>> rest translations and get started with the other projects.
>>>
>>> Thanks again.
>>> rgds
>>> Subha
>>>
>>&g
Hoi,
I am really pleased to inform you that the Oriya Wiktionary is the first
project ever to be officially re-enabled for editing. The Oriya community is
working really hard to make their projects a success. They are noticing that
the usability is improving as a consequence of the obligatory local
Hoi,
As you may know there will be a hackathon that will be running in parallel
to the conference. I blogged about it on the WMF blog and we hope to learn
from you what technical things we can do to make our projects thrive in
India. http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/09/25/india-hackathon-2011/
We ha
Hoi,
I am really happy that Narayam, the extension that provides you with input
methods for your languages is live for some of them on some of the projects.
Have a look and let us know how you like it.
Thanks,
GerardM
'wmgUseNarayam' =>
array(
'default' =>
false,
'testwik
Hoi,
Why not take over Wikilivres from Yann and make it your project. Maybe you
can do one better and cooperate with other chapters on this project. There
are already main[pages in several languages... Australia and Canada come to
mind..
I did blog about it..
http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/20
donate in a foreign currency).
Thanks,
GerardM
On 20 August 2011 14:28, Gautam John wrote:
> On 20 August 2011 17:56, Gerard Meijssen
> wrote:
>
> > The way I understand it is that the inclusion of a currency is part of
> the
> > cooperation with a chapter to prep
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