[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia/Wikisource/Wikimedia stall at Chennai Mozilla Reps Maker Party

2014-09-13 Thread Pavanaja U B
Hello, There will be a Wikipedia/Wikisource/Wikimedia stall at the Maker Party Chennai (http://makerpartychennai.in/) tomorrow (Spe14, 2014). I will be there. Please take some time out to visit. Let us catch up. Thanks and regards, Pavanaja

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Outcome of CIS work in Kannada Wikipedia

2014-05-19 Thread Pavanaja U B
considered a good measure of success. Are there any real metrics being used? On May 18, 2014 7:00 PM, Pavanaja U B pavan...@vishvakannada.com wrote: Dear Ravi, 1.Tulu Wikipedia outreach programs and outcome: Please look at the work plan here and the stats mentioned - https://meta.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Outcome of CIS work in Kannada Wikipedia

2014-05-19 Thread Pavanaja U B
edited from the workshop itself and then disappeared. Also, edit counts are never considered a good measure of success. Are there any real metrics being used? On May 18, 2014 7:00 PM, Pavanaja U B pavan...@vishvakannada.com wrote: Dear Ravi, 1.Tulu Wikipedia outreach programs and outcome

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Outcome of CIS work in Kannada Wikipedia

2014-05-19 Thread Pavanaja U B
to correct my wrong understanding. Abhi From: wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Pavanaja U B Sent: Monday, May 19, 2014 12:03 PM To: 'Wikimedia India Community list' Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Outcome of CIS work

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Outcome of CIS work in Kannada Wikipedia

2014-05-19 Thread Pavanaja U B
Hi all, The very first email in this thread by Ravi had two main queries –one was about Tulu Wikipedia workshop and another one about Christ University project. I have answered both of them. Since both questions were asked in the same email, I answered both of them in same reply mail.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Outcome of CIS work in Kannada Wikipedia

2014-05-18 Thread Pavanaja U B
Dear Ravi, 1.Tulu Wikipedia outreach programs and outcome: Please look at the work plan here and the stats mentioned – https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Draft_Work_plan_July_2014_-_June_2015/Making_the_Tulu_Wikipedia_Live. Pay little attention to these numbers

[Wikimediaindia-l] Mysore University Encyclopaedia under CC-BY-SA

2014-04-16 Thread Pavanaja U B
namaste, It is with great pleasure that we announce the re-release of first 6 volumes of Kannada Encyclopaedia published by Mysore University under Creative Commons License CC-BY-SA 3.0. CIS-A2K has been following up with the Mysore University since months requesting them to re-release the

[Wikimediaindia-l] CIS-A2K Bulletin February 2014

2014-04-02 Thread Pavanaja U B
Dear all, We from the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS-A2K) thank you all for your support and collaboration and wish you a great year ahead. We bring you the details of our work for the month of February 2014: Tewiki 10th Anniversary Tewiki 10th anniversary celebration 2014, started

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Winners of WLM India 2013

2013-11-20 Thread Pavanaja U B
Congratulations to the winners. Thanks to the juries. Regards, Pavanaja From: wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Subhashish Panigrahi Sent: 21 November 2013 10:58 To: Wikimedia India Community list Subject: Re:

[Wikimediaindia-l] FW: Tenth Anniversary Celebration of Kannada Wikipedia

2013-11-14 Thread Pavanaja U B
Dear friends, Kannada Wikipedia has completed 10 years. The Kannada Wikipedia community will be celebrating the tenth anniversary of Kannada Wikpedia on Nov 17, 2013 from 9:30 am to 1:30 pm at H N Multimedia Hall, National College, Basavanagudi, Bangalore. The guests of honour will be Dr. U R

[Wikimediaindia-l] Introducing Beta Features

2013-11-11 Thread Pavanaja U B
We're pleased to announce Beta Features https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/About_Beta_Features (1), a new program that lets you test new features on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites before they are released for everyone. Think of it as a digital laboratory where community members can preview

[Wikimediaindia-l] Introducing Beta Features (corrected)

2013-11-11 Thread Pavanaja U B
[Please ignore the previous email with the same subject] WMF is introducing Beta Features https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/About_Beta_Features (1), a new program that lets you test new features on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites before they are released for everyone. Think of it as a

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Need music clips available under Creative commons license

2013-10-15 Thread Pavanaja U B
Lot of links here - http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/creative-common-music-download/ Thanks and regards, Pavanaja From: wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Ravishankar Sent: 15 October 2013 02:16 To: Wikimedia

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

2013-10-02 Thread Pavanaja U B
Active editors for Kannada Wikipedia reaches 41 and number of very active editors to 7. Both the figures are highest ever for Kannada Wikipedia. Thanks to all those who made it. http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/SummaryKN.htm http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaKN.htm Thanks and regards,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] unsubscribing - sabbatical

2013-09-19 Thread Pavanaja U B
Dear Sumana, Wish you all the best Regards, Pavanaja -Original Message- From: wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Sumana Harihareswara Sent: 19 September 2013 20:30 To: Wikimedia India Community list Subject:

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Announcement: CIS-A2K's Train The Trainer Program

2013-09-18 Thread Pavanaja U B
ScanTailor is not a OCR. It has got nothing to do with Indian Languages. Regards, Pavanaja -Original Message- From: wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of sankarshan Sent: 18 September 2013 13:09 To: Wikimedia

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Announcement: CIS-A2K's Train The Trainer Program

2013-09-18 Thread Pavanaja U B
Sent: 18 September 2013 13:41 To: Wikimedia India Community list Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Announcement: CIS-A2K's Train The Trainer Program On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Pavanaja U B pavan...@vishvakannada.com wrote: ScanTailor is not a OCR. It has got nothing to do with Indian Languages

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

2013-08-21 Thread Pavanaja U B
I second Tejaswini. Those who are working on Kannada OCR development also say the same. Regards, Pavanaja From: wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Tejaswini Niranjana Sent: 21 August 2013 11:24 To: Wikimedia

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Wikimedia India Board(EC) Elections-2013 - Results

2013-08-16 Thread Pavanaja U B
Hi, Congratulations to the new team. Regards, Pavanaja From: wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Bishakha Datta Sent: 16 August 2013 09:44 To: Wikimedia India Community list Subject: Re:

[Wikimediaindia-l] Indian language Wikipedias as on June 30, 2013

2013-08-15 Thread Pavanaja U B
Language Active Editors Articles Page views Code Hindi 43 98,034 7,883,389 hi Bengali 60 26,263 5,521,795 bn Marathi 21 39,752 3,074,835 mr Gujarati 10 22,711 1,135,872 gu Telugu 37 53,023 1,826,665 te Tamil 90 54,412 5,227,150 ta Kannada 38 14,667

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [WMIN-Members] NCERT portal goes CC-BY-SA

2013-08-13 Thread Pavanaja U B
This a great news. I am also following up with some agencies. Hope they also will follow soon Thanks and regards, Pavanaja From: wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of ansuman Sent: 13 August 2013 18:57 To:

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Featured Wikimedian profile on Wikimedia India Chapter wiki

2013-08-09 Thread Pavanaja U B
Congratulations to the Malayalam Wikipedian community. Regards, Pavanaja From: wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Yohann Thomas Sent: 09 August 2013 15:03 To: Wikimedia India Community list Subject: Re:

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Offtopic] India lost 220 languages in the last 50 years

2013-08-08 Thread Pavanaja U B
I saw that in the morning and posted in twitter/FB. I have been saying in all my talks/presentations all these years that India has 1650 languages. I have to correct myself now. Regards, Pavanaja From: wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] [Press] : Times of India : Wikipedia boom in Marathi, Malayalam and other desi languages

2013-08-02 Thread Pavanaja U B
ULS is quite good for typing in Indian languages. There may be one or two small bugs (or lack of a particular feature), but mostly I am satisfied with that for Kannada. Regards, Pavanaja From: wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Spooky entry on Wikipedia

2013-07-13 Thread Pavanaja U B
I did not find the sentences quoted by IE in this page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._K._Narayanan Regards, Pavanaja From: wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of CherianTinu Abraham Sent: 13 July 2013 22:58 To:

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Improve Indian Biography Images Project

2013-07-08 Thread Pavanaja U B
://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Tinucherian/Incredible_Indians Regards Tinu Cherian On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 5:47 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan srik.r...@wikimedia.in wrote: Good initiative Tinu, I'll do my bit! On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Pavanaja U B pavan...@vishvakannada.com wrote: Good idea Tinu

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Improve Indian Biography Images Project

2013-07-04 Thread Pavanaja U B
Good idea Tinu. I have many photos but mostly from literary worlds of Karnataka. I have already added some of them. Regards, Pavanaja From: wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of CherianTinu Abraham Sent: 04 July

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Featured Wikimedian profile on Wikimedia India Chapter wiki

2013-07-03 Thread Pavanaja U B
Congratulatiions Sujith Regards, Pavanaja From: wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Netha Hussain Sent: 04 July 2013 00:39 To: Wikimedia India Community list Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Featured Wikimedian

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Malayalam Wikipedia crosses 1000 contributors milestone.

2013-06-25 Thread Pavanaja U B
Great! Kudos to all Malayalam Wikipedians. Regards, Pavanaja From: wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Subhashish Panigrahi Sent: 25 ಜೂನ್ 2013 19:38 To: Wikimedia India Community list Subject: Re:

[Wikimediaindia-l] Photos of today's Kannada Wikipedia workshop for bloggers

2013-06-23 Thread Pavanaja U B
Hi, It was nice day today conducting Kannada Wikipedia workshop for Kannada bloggers. The workshop was conducted at Suchitra Bangalore. It was a program presented by Suchitra, organised by CIS and collaborated by Avadhi. The photos are available at

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [wlm-in] WLM India 2013

2013-06-17 Thread Pavanaja U B
Late reply – count me in too Regards, Pavanaja From: wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Arnav Sonara Sent: 17 ಜೂನ್ 2013 15:17 To: Wikimedia India Community list Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [wlm-in] WLM India

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Kannada Wikipedia completes 10 years!

2013-06-12 Thread Pavanaja U B
Congratulations. Thanks Om for reminding it. I was under the impression that it will be in July 2013. I take this opportunity to thank all those who have contributed to Kannada Wikipedia over these ten years. Let us plan to add lot of content to Kannada Wikipedia in this 10th

[Wikimediaindia-l] MS word add-on to Save As Wiki

2013-04-01 Thread Pavanaja U B
Save documents from Microsoft Office Word straight into MediaWiki. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=12298 This add-on allows you to save your Microsoft Office Word 2007 and 2010 documents straight into MediaWiki. Thanks and regards, Pavanaja

[Wikimediaindia-l] Servers in India for Wikipedia other Wiki projects

2013-03-30 Thread Pavanaja U B
Hi all, Hope you are aware of the slowing of Internet in India due to the cut in undersea cable near Egypt. I am finding websites hosted outside India opening very very slowly, or some don’t open at all. Websites hosted in India open quickly. Google has servers in India. Wikipedia opens

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [WikimediaMobile] Android Commons app v1.0 beta 4 released

2013-03-20 Thread Pavanaja U B
I have used that. I found these very important features missing- · Options to crop, resize, etc · Options to add category Regards, pavanaja From: wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Subhashish

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

2013-03-11 Thread Pavanaja U B
This is not a very big task. All Indic scripts are separated by decimal 128 in Unicode charts. For ex., take Hindi “ka”. Add 128 to its Unicode value to get Bengali “ka”. I had written a simple such transliterator long ago, using VB.NET. I did not write any web interface to that. Regards,

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

2013-03-11 Thread Pavanaja U B
:38 AM, Pavanaja U B mailto:pavan...@vishvakannada.com pavan...@vishvakannada.com wrote: This is not a very big task. All Indic scripts are separated by decimal 128 in Unicode charts. For ex., take Hindi “ka”. Add 128 to its Unicode value to get Bengali “ka”. I had written a simple