[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] GSoC and OPW results

2013-05-27 Thread Santhosh Thottingal
Congrats to all winners! Happy to see many students from India. Santhosh -- Forwarded message -- From: *Quim Gil* Date: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 Subject: [Wikitech-l] GSoC and OPW results To: Wikimedia developers The results are out! We have selected 20 Google Summer of Code and

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

2013-03-10 Thread Santhosh Thottingal
On Monday, March 11, 2013, Tejaswini Niranjana wrote: > Dear Frederick, > It's nice to see your signature in several Indian languages! > > Wanted to know which script Konkani wikipedia is planning to use, > Devanagari or Kannada or both? It would be good if you could throw some > light on comparat

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

2013-01-27 Thread Santhosh Thottingal
Thanks for the announcement. Jadine, can you also write a short note on the personal profile of Mr. Vishnu Vardhan? Thanks Santhosh ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing pref

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Welcome our six OPW interns!

2012-12-11 Thread Santhosh Thottingal
-- Forwarded message -- From: Quim Gil Date: 2012/12/12 Subject: [Wikitech-l] Welcome our six OPW interns! To: Wikimedia developers I’m glad to announce that Kim Schoonover, Mariya Miteva, Priyanka Nag, Sucheta Ghoshal, Teresa Cho and Valerie Juarez will join the MediaWiki commu

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Live streaming of Erik Moeller's talk

2012-11-12 Thread Santhosh Thottingal
The video is available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-6o0opiXmE Thanks Santhosh ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mail

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

2012-08-01 Thread Santhosh Thottingal
Congrats Srikanth! -- Forwarded message -- From: Alolita Sharma Date: 2012/8/1 Subject: [Wikitech-l] Welcoming Srikanth Lakshmanan to the i18n engineering team To: Wikimedia developers Hi All, Please join me in welcoming Srikanth Lakshmanan as outreach coordinator/QA engineer

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] New Lohit fonts - Please test

2012-03-21 Thread Santhosh Thottingal
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Rajesh Pandey wrote: >> The screenshot of the problem with page rendering can be viewed at >> http://imagebin.org/204475 Is it possible to mark the rendering errors with circles or underlines? I can then discuss with the Font developer and find out the issue. Than

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Reminder: IRC office hours with the localization team tomorrow

2012-02-21 Thread Santhosh Thottingal
Hi, A gentle reminder. The office hours is at 23:30 IST (18:00 UTC) Thanks Santhosh -- Forwarded message -- From: Steven Walling Date: Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 10:46 AM Subject: IRC office hours with the localization team, on International Mother Language Day To: Wikimedia Foundation

[Wikimediaindia-l] Christmas 2011 translatewiki.net Translation Rally

2011-12-24 Thread Santhosh Thottingal
Translatewiki.net is is conducting a Translation Rally between 23 December 2011 12:00 UTC and 3 January 2012 24:00 UTC.. Among all users contributing 500 or more new translations to Wikipedia Mobile, Kiwix, MediaWiki core and MediaWiki extension used by Wikimedia, translatwiki.net will divide 1,00

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Please Welcome Yuvaraj Pandian & Max Semink

2011-12-19 Thread Santhosh Thottingal
Congrats Yuvaraj Pandian! -santhosh -- Forwarded message -- From: Tomasz Finc Date: Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 1:58 PM Subject: [Wikitech-l] Please Welcome Yuvaraj Pandian & Max Semink To: wmf...@lists.wikimedia.org, Wikimedia developers Greetings all, The Mobile and Special Proje

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Webfonts on Mobile

2011-12-18 Thread Santhosh Thottingal
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33176 has more details ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wik

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Narayam updates

2011-12-15 Thread Santhosh Thottingal
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 8:38 PM, Shiju Alex wrote: > But these type of changes (like the change in shortcut key) which affect the > typing habit of users needs to be communicated to commuity (here Indic > wikimedians), at least in this list. No change in typing habit, it was just broken and not w

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Please add Sanskrit 2003 web font to Sanskrit Wikipedia

2011-12-15 Thread Santhosh Thottingal
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 4:40 PM, ePandit | ई-पण्डित wrote: > NoDerivs - Do the font need to be modified for using as web font? Yes, Derivative fonts in alternate formats need to be created from the original font. Thanks Santhosh ___ Wikimediaindia-l m

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Narayam updates

2011-12-15 Thread Santhosh Thottingal
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan wrote: > Shortcut key on Mac :- Refer bug[1] for details, in summary the shortcut key > is now dynamic based on browser / OS combination so that the shortcut works. > Control+G is new shortcut on Mac largely. This was done during Hackathon. > //

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

2011-12-14 Thread Santhosh Thottingal
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Srikanth Lakshmanan wrote: >> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-i18n/2011-December/000361.html >> >> "In order to force them, "if you don't test this it may break horribly >> for you when deployed" seems way more convincing than "no new goodies >> for

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Karthik Nadar is in the banners!

2011-12-03 Thread Santhosh Thottingal
On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Swaroop Rao wrote: > BTW, I forgot to update; Patricia (from the fundraising team I suppose) just > told me that they're working on Debit card and other means of payment for > INR this year. Debit card payments are possible now, see http://wikimediafoundation.org/

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] An Offline Wikipedia for the Aakaash Tablet?

2011-11-30 Thread Santhosh Thottingal
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Hisham wrote: > b) Need to establish a reasonable set of acceptable quality articles in > Indic languages (since Akash's remit is pan-India.) AFAIK, Akash is based on android and Indic language rendering support is not available so far. Anybody tried indic languag

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Getting ready for production; help us with WebFonts

2011-11-08 Thread Santhosh Thottingal
On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan wrote: > Hi, > Even though Tamil translation for Webfont was done, on retrospect, I had a > feeling if WebFonts is one extension that should not be translated at all. > (at least the interface messages, if not system messages) since the purpose >

[Wikimediaindia-l] [Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Help wanted: Wikimedia engineering/product hiring]

2011-06-28 Thread Santhosh Thottingal
Original Message Subject: [Wikitech-l] Help wanted: Wikimedia engineering/product hiring From:"Erik Moeller" Date:Wed, June 29, 2011 7:24 am To: "Wikimedia developers" mediawik...@lists.wikimedia.org -

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

2011-04-25 Thread Santhosh Thottingal
http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2011/04/mediawiki-selects-8-students-gsoc-2011/ * Akshay Agarwal‘s “Account Creation, Login Screens and AJAX-ification of everything” (mentor: Brandon Harris) * Kevin Brown’s “Working Archival for Web References/Citations,” “to facilitate the archival of external lin

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] URL Shortener in Tamil Wikipedia + URLs for Indic Wikipedia

2011-03-31 Thread Santhosh Thottingal
Hi, URL shortners will not improve the search hits. The above solution allows one to share the non latin wiki url using English alphabets and Arabic numerals. Personally I would prefer a URL I can remember and it should help me to identify to where it is pointing without clicking on it. http://ml.w

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikisa-l] Sanskrit wikisource is created

2011-03-24 Thread Santhosh Thottingal
p-national/tp-kerala/article1570050.ece Thanks Santhosh Thottingal ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia rises on mobile usage in India

2011-03-08 Thread Santhosh Thottingal
On Tue, March 8, 2011 2:33 pm, CherianTinu Abraham wrote: > Wikipedia Rises on mobile usage in India >> See > > http://www.medianama.com/2011/03/223-opera-jan-2011-wikipedia-rises-mobile2day-emerges-getjar-zedge-decline/ > > > ".. Wikipedia has been the highest gainer, up three positions from last

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia rises on mobile usage in India

2011-03-08 Thread Santhosh Thottingal
On Tue, March 8, 2011 2:33 pm, CherianTinu Abraham wrote: > Wikipedia Rises on mobile usage in India >> See > > http://www.medianama.com/2011/03/223-opera-jan-2011-wikipedia-rises-mobile2day-emerges-getjar-zedge-decline/ > > > ".. Wikipedia has been the highest gainer, up three positions from last

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

2011-03-01 Thread Santhosh Thottingal
On Tue, March 1, 2011 1:13 pm, BalaSundaraRaman wrote: > Congrats, Santhosh. Thanks! > What are the functions of a language committee member? You may refer http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Language_committee -Santhosh ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list

[Wikimediaindia-l] Indian language wikipedias – 2010 statistical report

2011-02-27 Thread Santhosh Thottingal
Hi, Shiju Alex have prepared a very detailed and informative report based on the statistics of Indian wikipedia projects between 2010 Jan 1 and 2010 Dec 31. You can read it here http://shijualex.wordpress.com/2011/02/27/indian-language-wikipedias-2010-statistical-report/ The numbers give many val

[Wikimediaindia-l] [OT] Tamil collation

2011-02-26 Thread Santhosh Thottingal
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] (OT) On the importance of Unicode

2011-02-23 Thread Santhosh Thottingal
On Thu, February 24, 2011 9:15 am, Nikhil Sheth wrote: > Great discussion, but I wonder why I didn't see any real, easy, doable, > inexpensive, quickfix solution put forth that every Indian on the internet > can begin using immediately to get around the Unicode Vs custom Fonts > issue. Nikhil, all

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

2011-02-22 Thread Santhosh Thottingal
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Gautam John wrote: > Data usage: Use of Unicode will significantly reduce bandwidth/storage This is technically wrong if we are comparing with ASCII encoded data. If you read the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode article, you can understand that the indic lett

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

2011-02-22 Thread Santhosh Thottingal
improve as well. You got it. But history shows that such funding did not play much role in development of the fonts listed here: http://indlinux.org/wiki/index.php/IndicFontsList In fact, the funds were spent(read wasted) for the development of Proprietary fonts by government agencies like CDAC. Fonts

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

2011-02-15 Thread Santhosh Thottingal
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 9:43 AM, sankarshan wrote: > On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 10:36 PM, Santhosh Thottingal > wrote: > >> Just wanted to give an early preview of this software library through >> an online interface : http://silpa.smc.org.in/Render >> You can try wi

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

2011-02-15 Thread Santhosh Thottingal
-dev You can also post your comments to pypdflib-...@nongnu.org Thanks Santhosh Thottingal ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l

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

2011-02-14 Thread Santhosh Thottingal
On Tue, February 15, 2011 3:44 am, shirish शिरीष wrote: > Anyways, perhaps it doesn't know to play nicely with the https > (secured) or just does not want to play with hindi or those particular > pages. Shirish, secure access to wikipedia is not need here(and not supported as of now). It is just a

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

2011-02-14 Thread Santhosh Thottingal
version. The library uses Pango for text rendering and Cairo for graphics and PDF features. ps: Don't get surprised if you get a 500 Error page for the random page you are trying. Just try another wiki page ;) Thanks Santhosh Thottingal http://thotting

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

2011-02-08 Thread Santhosh Thottingal
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 8:38 PM, 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. > Chinese wikipedia allows a logged in user to select a variant of scripts zh-* using their preferences pag

[Wikimediaindia-l] GSOC 2011

2011-01-27 Thread Santhosh Thottingal
/Summer_of_Code_2011/Project_ideas Thanks Santhosh Thottingal ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Unicode compatibility

2011-01-08 Thread Santhosh Thottingal
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > I know that there are people who will be interested and able to comment.. > Thanks, Malayalam Wikipedia is _not_ 100% compatible with any Unicode version. It uses a partial implementation of Unicode 5.1(or 6.0). Thanks

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic languages & unicode issues.

2010-12-29 Thread santhosh . thottingal
> Update: A Tamil Wikipedian, Mahir, went to the core of the issue that I > cited in > my previous email and identified that the issue in that instance was due > to the > superfluous use of the zero width non-joiner HTML entity. We're going to > file a > bug asking Mediwiki to chomp those entities

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic languages & unicode issues.

2010-12-26 Thread Santhosh Thottingal
) http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/വിക്കിപീഡിയ:പഞ്ചായത്ത്_(സാങ്കേതികം)/യൂണികോഡ്_5.1.0/ചർച്ച_(പഴയവ) Thanks Santhosh Thottingal http://thottingal.in ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l