Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Setting Up of the Advisory Council at Wikimedia India

On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 7:20 PM, Abhinav Srivastava wrote: > Please be assured, although your concerns are genuine but they do not hold > any weight. The only people who are somewhat intimately associated with the > Chapter are its founder members. Continuing on my genuine weightless concerns, h

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Setting Up of the Advisory Council at Wikimedia India

s in turn is orthogonal to the stated approach of having a diverse set of specialized inputs. [The snippet from the original post is kept intact below to highlight the specific concern raised] > On 23 March 2016 at 13:13, sankarshan wrote: >> >> On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Setting Up of the Advisory Council at Wikimedia India

d?) composition seems peculiarly skewed towards individuals with institutional memory. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan> ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the l

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Asking for endorsement for “Wikipedia Treks Kalindi Khal”

t are mostly off-the-internet. Also, if the awareness campaign is successful, what are the planned next steps which can be looked into? [+] "Encourage Innovation" This specific topic could do with a revisit. The current shape of

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] MediaWikiTTT-2015

Original Message- > From: wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org > [mailto:wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of sankarshan > Sent: 10 June 2015 11:11 > To: Wikimedia India Community list > Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] MediaWikiTTT-2015 > >

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] MediaWikiTTT-2015

his the first iteration of this initiative? -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan> ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Report on WMIN activities and learnings at Wikimedia Conference 2015

> > Reporting & Storytelling Do you plan to elaborate more on the above topics? In the current form it reads more as an un-ordered list of items without much context. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan> _

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Announcing Phase 1 of Wiki Loves Food

proper usage of a word, or, conscious choice to impart that specific meaning to this program. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan> ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the l

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Announcing Phase 1 of Wiki Loves Food

heir photos to Commons. " Are prizes being handed out as an incentive to increase contribution and participation or, as an enticement? -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan> ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Train the Trainer Program

would serve as a nice baseline for any future set of participants in a similar exercise. Additionally, it would help demonstrate a somewhat direct (if not linear) co-relation between the investment in the program and the improvements brought about. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://tw

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Train the Trainer Program

in what they are currently doing. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan> ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences vis

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiTrends - Most visited articles in Indian language Wikipedias

What would make the 2008 Summer Olympics page so widely viewed? -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan> ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change maili

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

l email, if that is the first on this thread, neither asked about Tulu and nor did it ask about the Christ University project. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan> ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [MediaWiki-India] Discussion about Wikimedia Hackathons / Devcamps in India / Asia

s welcome to join this discussion. > > Here is the link of Hangout : > https://plus.google.com/b/103470172168784626509/events/cpur8pufnpqcdecitg7bj55fuk8 Did anyone make a set of notes from the session? It helps to go through those along with watching the video. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Digital Language Death

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 that you would like when there is so much that CAN be done. > > The WMF IS working on translation functionality. That may help under some > circumstances

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Digital Language Death

On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 8:47 AM, A. Mani wrote: > On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 6:44 AM, sankarshan > wrote: >> >> And, my take is that what is required is more focused and stronger >> investment over repeated cycles into automated translation systems, >> esp

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Digital Language Death

he basic plumbing of languages that is already existing and, there needs to be some thought about what the next step of efforts would be. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan> ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediai

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Digital Language Death

n software that is decades old and, has not seen an economic reason to upgrade since then -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan> ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from t

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Kolkata Bookfair report

nks in place for "mother website" and, "its Bengali link" -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan> ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Introducing Beta Features (corrected)

st & the > topic is completely relevant. And, along side such notifications, <http://en.planet.wikimedia.org/> provides a way to keep updated about the posts from various teams and, initiatives. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay &l

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: IEEE 1908.1™ WG releases draft virtual keyboard layouts for Hindi

tent. For example, <https://twitter.com/sankarshan/status/400201328313794560> may not actually be what you'd like shared. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan> ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@l

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: IEEE 1908.1™ WG releases draft virtual keyboard layouts for Hindi

On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala wrote: > IEEE 1908.1 WG is pleased to release two draft virtual keyboard layouts for > Hindi and their Android apps for evaluation and feedback. The feedback is > required by 11 Dec 2013. > > Please check the detailed press note > (https://ment

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Konkani Vishwakosh Under CC-BY-SA

On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Vishnu T wrote: > AFAIK Harriet is more thinking of the modalities of off line delivery of > Konkani Wikipedia (once live) through XO Tablets which has Sugar learning > environment. Would the current Kiwix easily interact with Sugar?

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Konkani Vishwakosh Under CC-BY-SA

it possible. The Kiwix UI is translated into around 80 odd languages (and, more are on their way). -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan> ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter to bid to host Wikimedia Conference 2014

; at: > http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wikimedia_India_Chapter:Wikimedia_Conference_2014 You will probably require a section similar to <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:WM_IT/Wikimedia_Conference_2013#What_will_be_accomplished_if_the_project_is_successful.3F> -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay

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

flow of actual_document -> photograph/scan -> re-alignment. But that generates a digitized text. You do have to retrieve information/text from that to be able to use it. Is that something to be tackled later? -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <h

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

.org And, as a suggestion, I would request that you put up pre-participation reading material wherever possible. For example, the sessions on Introduction to Unicode or, Fonts and Rendering would require some prior knowledge of the subject matter and help the resource person calibrate the proceedings

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] A tool to visualise the edits in an article

angouts on Air to run interested folks through the current feature set and, also what your plans are? The resulting video can then be used by others to catch-up and also understand more about the tool. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://twitter.

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

rred option. With the strong emphasis on "cheaper", I wonder if there will be enough demand for a machine driven system. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan> ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists

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

e funds for!). I've rarely seen a serious attempt to take the challenges head on (barring Debayan's attempt with Tesseract). /s -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan> ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimedi

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

of the question would require further explanation. OCR would include both digitization and, information retrieval. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan> ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.o

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Konkani: The Script Controversy

ace at hand to be able to scope out a solution. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan> ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit http

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] IRC office hours with CIS-A2K Team

w the existing Wikipedian community will be participating in each of the initiatives/pilots and, be invested in ensuring success. I am assuming that this is perhaps the first draft from Abhinav. I'll wait till there is a formal draft being put forth for

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] IRC office hours with CIS-A2K Team

build on > a design based on his ideas and more. We'll share with you a draft as soon as > we have something substantial. Checking back on this, is there an update which can be shared? -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] IRC office hours with CIS-A2K Team

On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 5:27 PM, sankarshan wrote: [snipping out the awkwardly long email I had sent earlier] There is a section in the chat which is as below: > [2013-05-13 21:38:38] @Vishnu - I think Abhinav is refering > to create a Wiki community within an educational institue simi

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] IRC office hours with CIS-A2K Team

05-13 21:42:32] Good Night. [2013-05-13 21:42:38] Thank you :) [2013-05-13 21:43:23] |<-- sipun has left freenode (Quit: Page closed) [2013-05-13 21:43:53] |<-- arjunaraoc has left freenode (Quit: Page closed) [2013-05-13 21:46:18] |<-- Nitika has left freenode (Ping timeout: 245 secon

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Fwd: 10th Anniversary Marathi Wikipedia will be available in (free) DVD Format, Aimed to reach 10, 000 schools.

specially since there is an "Offline Wikipedia" project listed in the GSoC page, any learning and features from this can still be worked into the proposal. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan> ___ Wikimediaindia-l ma

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

On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Pavanaja U B wrote: > I have used that. I found these very important features missing- > > · Options to crop, resize, etc > > · Options to add category <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Commons%20Ap

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Need admin rights on a few Wikipedia(s)

ew ones in a > single file. I can pass on the JavaScript file with the strings if anyone can > help translating them. Would using TranslateWiki.net be a better option ? -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan> ___ Wikim

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WMF Grant and FDC

s per month. In line with < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Program_evaluation_basics:_why_evaluate_in_the_first_place%3F> what other metrics were considered or, are being considered ? -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan> ___ W

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] report on consultation re: Indian Languages in Higher Education

cilitate the creation of new content in Indian languages by students. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan> ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / chang

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [A2K]: Introducing Dr. U.B Pavanaja, Consultant - Indian languages

of organization staffing and, initiative plans, it would good to understand the objectives for 2013/2014. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan> ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To

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

ously attempted to address this, is it possible to point out the code-base so that an interested contributor can pick up and run with it? -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan> ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-

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

go, using > VB.NET. I did not write any web interface to that. Then I'd say all that remains is pointing an interested party to the source code of your tool and, asking them to assess writing a web-app. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://twitt

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

ummer of Code, preferably with an interested mentor. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan> ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preference

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [A2K]: Introducing Dr. U.B Pavanaja, Consultant - Indian languages

utive Director of CIS in > connection with the grant from Wikimedia Foundation. These look fantastic. I'm assuming that these tie in with the plans you had posted (under the pseudonym, during the election phase). Can I impose on your graciousness and ask a bit more about the Online Am

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [A2K]: Introducing Dr. U.B Pavanaja, Consultant - Indian languages

on which Dr Pavanaja is expected to provide guidance? -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan> ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferenc

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] decline in editors

hey appreciate it immensely, but I promise you that > they will. And, when more feedback is received about how the experience of contributing in languages_other_than_English could be improved, the better it will be for all the participants in the WMF. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://tw

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

On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Vishnu t wrote: > However, it will be interesting to track the history of how we have ended up > with the term 'Indic', Why will this be an interesting activity ? -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://twitte

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India chapter IRC meetup

ign actions and so forth. <http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2013-02-11/fedora_docs_https:fedoraproject.orgwikidocs_project_meetings.2013-02-11-14.22.html> is a random example of how it appears. > Kathik has posted it last night ;) -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://tw

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India chapter IRC meetup

n-inclusive - either you are online and participating or, you aren't. Posting the logs to a list/page provides an opportunity to participate for those who couldn't make it. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan> _

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Takes Kolkata 2

On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 8:17 PM, Vishnu t wrote: > 'The Walls of Kolkata' are so rich and diverse, but are increasingly being > painted on. Hmm... this is an interesting perspective. Would you like to elaborate ? -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://twitte

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Creative Commons visit to India

ut etc -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan> ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Samskrit Wikiquote ( Wiki SuktayaH)

l content related to this project were created and > uploaded, which were some of the requirements to approve new projects. Would it be possible for someone to explain the term "system messages" ? -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Regarding my work in OPW (under Wikimedia)

s as tweets/posts/RFCs -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan> ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wiki

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] How to set up a SIG?

ry important to be solved *right now* ? -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan> ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wik

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India needs your support: Our First Fundraiser

wikimedia.in/Donate The page at <http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Donate> has a banner with the text "Click here to Donate Now!" which links back to <http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Donate> That's a bid odd. -- sankarshan mukhopad

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

us intuitively understand that number of page views and number of edits are correlated, I derived a metric called ‘Activity’ as their product" - would it be possible for you to explain why arriving at a product of these two factors is a measure of activity ? -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://twi

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-IN-PUN] Wikimedia India Chapter Anniversary

On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 11:06 PM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar wrote: > The answer is, we are still ineligible for FDC (we hope to be > eligible for the second round of funding in 2013) I may have missed out on a previous explanation of this - what is the reason for the ineligibility ? -- sank

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Summit India 2013 for Spoken Indian Language Wikipedia!

The page for the Club at Pune. Your FAQ entry on what the club is about provides two links - one is a closed group and the other has sparse population. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan> ___ Wikimediaindia-l maili

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Summit India 2013 for Spoken Indian Language Wikipedia!

a closed group and, the wikipedia page has sparse information. You may want to elucidate a bit more in the FAQ itself. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan> ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimed

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] What will I achieve as Programme Director A2K

A trivial question - would the ability to on-board 5x5 WCLs be a success or, the preparation of a sustainable training program material be a success and so forth. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan> ___ W

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Spoken Wikipedia for Indic Languages

On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 9:03 AM, ஆமாச்சு wrote: > On Friday 16 November 2012 08:54 AM, sankarshan wrote: >> >> Indo-European languages comprising >> Sanskrit and the modern Indian languages that are its descendants. > > > barring Tamil :-) The Wikipedia seems to us

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Spoken Wikipedia for Indic Languages

ze that "Indic" is something that is used at the Unicode Consortium to denote the group of Indo-European languages comprising Sanskrit and the modern Indian languages that are its descendants. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan>

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimania]: India - Nepal community meet up

e work a lot easier for many > editors. Viswa Prabha is currently working on something and his energy is > really infectious. :-) Could you provide more details on this ? -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan> ___ Wikim

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Download as ODT in Indic Wikipedia's

ny device accessing the Indic Wikipedia (desktop [own/shared], laptop, mobile) will have the adequate means to handle, display and render ODT formats. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog> <https://twitter

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Download as ODT in Indic Wikipedia's

On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan wrote: > Most of know the "Download as PDF" feature is not usable on Indic wikis with > Collection Extension due to issues in PDF generation with complex scripts. Can you point out the issues as well please ? -- sankars

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Programs-Fortnightly IRC: Thursday March 15th @ 9pm IST (Indic Languages) & Thursday March 29th @9pm IST (Outreach & Communication) (#wikimedia-office)

doraproject.org/wiki/Extras/Schedule/MeetingGuidelines> is for a specific group within the Fedora project. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog> ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikitech-l] GSoC'12 Proposal : List of Ideas

u give <http://en.flossmanuals.net/GSoCMentoring/making-your-ideas-page/> a quick read and work towards providing further details about your ideas. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog> ___ Wikimediaindia-l maili

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic Languages on Wikipedia Android application

hat those who have the privileges to work on the project will figure out what to do. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog> ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic Languages on Wikipedia Android application

sn't really translate to পড়া হচ্ছে . -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog> ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] : The Hindu : "The struggles of keeping Kannada Wikipedia afloat"

one interested to track them. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog> ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://li

[Wikimediaindia-l] Is there a "sign-up to be a member of the India Chapter" drive being organized around GNUnify 2012 ?

In the backdrop of the hackathon, would this be a good thing to have ? If not already planned. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog> ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscrib

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Analysis of IEP: Quantitative Analysis & Tory Read's Report

sis > > Tory Read's report is available > at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:India_Education_Program/Analysis/Independent_Report_from_Tory_Read Is the planned schedule/calendar for the IEP available ? One that puts dates to specific phases of the exercise. -- san

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Android ICS support for Tamil and Indic languages

the precedent leaves no doubt of such a situation repeating itself. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog> ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / chang

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Android ICS support for Tamil and Indic languages

pellcheckers - dictionaries Not all those checkboxes can be completely ticked when it comes to Bengali for the 4.0.3 release. I still see rendering issues with regards to spaces between conjuncts and so forth. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog>

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Call for participation in IEEE P1908.1 Virtual Keyboard Standard development for Indic languages

erence implementation of standards. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog> ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit http

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Programs Consultants on WMF Staff page

pologize if this is a somewhat quirky question. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog> ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit

[Wikimediaindia-l] [OT] Government will now prefer ‘hinglish’ words over Hindi translation

I realize this is a bit off-topic for the list. The intent is to put forth the always present tussle between classical usage and colloquial one. I haven't managed to dig out the circular though. /sankarshan <http://www.firstpost.com/india/government-will-now-prefer-hinglish-words-ov

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

age out there - something > to have a presence within the distributions. The storage space on the Aakash > tablet and other low-cost devices is minimal, so a limited content package > is actually fine, in many ways. The version of Android available on the tablet could be a hindrance to displa

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

//wiki.laptop.org/go/Wikislices> -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog> ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://l

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

On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Gautam John wrote: > Worth checking out for the Chapter? And the Trust? Maybe both together? Wouldn't existing work for the WikiReader or, the OLPC project fit in terms of enabling an offline wikipedia ? -- sankarshan mukhopadhy

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] IEP Pilot - Preliminary Analysis

l itself, thank you for taking the time to write out the specifics of the query and thereafter, responding to the question. Much appreciated. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog> ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediai

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] IEP Pilot - Preliminary Analysis

ude data that > is no more existing on wikipedia and has been reverted. All this data is not > easily accessible. Very interesting. I based my opinion on the reading of <http://jace.zaiki.in/category/research> and a bit of playing around at that point of time. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] IEP Pilot - Preliminary Analysis

On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Vickram Crishna wrote: > Assuming this question is not restricted for WMF outreachers only: > > On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 5:01 PM, sankarshan > wrote: >> >> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Nitika wrote: >> >> > How many st

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] IEP Pilot - Preliminary Analysis

r talk pages? How many students > corrected their errors after these warnings? > How many students got blocked? / How many students got blocked more than > once? Again, the above should be easily instrumented. At least, the initial nature of the questions look that way. -- san

[Wikimediaindia-l] [OT] Request to the list administrators

and, perhaps this also goes out to the listadmins of the -pune and -westbengal lists. Will you consider a request to ensure that these lists are available via gmane.org as well ? It allows one to use a conventional newreader to go through the lists. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <h

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Please change it - Indian Maps on Wikipedia

n't specifically have anything against the usage of the list archive to track these but having a single alias/address to forward them to might be a helpful thing. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog> ___ Wi

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiConference - Other Cities [Was: Community-Chapter Relations]

exists something similar within WMF. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog> ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press} : The Outlook : "Help: This Is A Stub"

le to keep track of such events and such opportunities. To Tinu, Gautam and Bishakha, thank you for taking time for responding. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog> ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list W

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Delhi Chapter (User:AroundTheGlobe)

g this. Starting off or, re-activating a chapter/activity doesn't necessarily require a regional body. I'd request to put priority to the former task than consider the latter the bottleneck to it. There are means and there are ends. A regional chapter/organization, at this point, i

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Delhi Chapter

On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Bala Jeyaraman wrote: > I dont get how Delhi wikimedians got this impression. Perhaps using the phrases Wikimedians in Delhi, as opposed to "Delhi Wikimedians" would be a good start. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <http://sankarshan.ra

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press} : The Outlook : "Help: This Is A Stub"

a discussion really !) - <https://twitter.com/#!/gkjohn/status/77251118433968128> and so forth. What interests me is the scope of the word 'growth' - what does growth mean, when applied to Wikimedia ? -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog> ___

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Google shutting down translate and transliterate APIS

p; its api of google for indic is not > that great anyway , and usable for wikimedia projects . So i believe > it will not make much issues in wikimedia indic projects The usage of the Google Translate API has been, for a while, discussed under the umbrella of whether the translated content c

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

ing away from the wonderful-ness of the initiative. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog> ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l

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

nline like to read Wikimedia instead of Wiki, especially since the project is "Malayalam loves Wikimedia" ? -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog> ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lis

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Releasing Wikipedia CD – "few concerns"

risk > a very bad reputation and possibly permanent ban of them from schools. Somewhat tangential, the OLPC folks had also worked on providing a dump of Wikipedia. Is there a way to access the criteria used to curate the content suitable for children ? -- sankarshan mukhop

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

products make for a better business case than trying to hawk the products themselves. Or, that LGPL licensing their products might make it easier to have an application developer network around it. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog> ___

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

#x27;t easy for everyone to see where it is going. Doesn't necessarily mean that we cannot be excellent to each other. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog> ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wiki

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

ly with those standards make it easier for platforms across the spectrum to do Indic (and, other complex scripts) well. And, looking at all this discussion I now wish that I submitted a 'state of Indic' paper at some conference happening currently ;) -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <

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