That's fantastic, Subhashish! :)
A.
On May 5, 2017 3:21 AM, "Subhashish Panigrahi" <psubhash...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> What made me happy this week is the release of our latest converter (check
> it out: https://or.wikipedia.org/s/14kh) that converts the Odia-language
> text into International Phonetic Alphabet and Roman. We have been
> struggling for some time now to add pronunciations for words and could not
> find anything that could do that job. So another fellow Wikimedian Prateek
> Pattanaik I scraped the code from an existing converter and created this.
> Now we are going to integrate this into our pronunciation project
> Kathabhidhana (https://github.com/OdiaWikimedia/Kathabhidhana) where we
> create pronunciations of words. The next batch of audio recordings will
> come on Commons with IPA and Romanization. Yay for more metadata! :)
>
> Subhashish
>
> On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 12:53 PM, Isaac Olatunde <reachout2is...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Greetings,
> >
> > What made me happy this week was the establishment of Wikimedia Hub in
> two
> > academic institutions in Nigeria, University of Ibadan and Nigeria
> > Institute of Journalism. I want to thank members of my community
> (Wikimedia
> > User Group Nigeria) who made this happened.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Isaac
> >
> >
> > https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/05/02/digest-women-in-red/
> >
> > On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 11:28 AM, James Heilman <jmh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Marielle there are a lot of great medical images in that textbook, Fae
> is
> > > there an ability to upload the images to commons by bot?
> > >
> > > James
> > >
> > > On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 1:06 AM, Marielle Volz <marielle.v...@gmail.com
> >
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > What made me happy this week was the discovery of some good
> scientific
> > > > imagery that was openly licensed!
> > > >
> > > > The USDA has created a bunch of identification sites for species of
> > > > agricultural interest and released the images into the public domain.
> > > > I was looking for images of a particular mite and discovered the Bee
> > > > Mite site has released most of their images and all of their text to
> > > > the PD [1]. (I have uploaded to commons although done a bit of a hack
> > > > job on it). There are other sites which would also be a candidate for
> > > > batch upload, which are listed here: http://idtools.org/identify.php
> > > > (anyone interested in molluscs?)
> > > >
> > > > I have also discovered this Clinical Skills textbook licensed under
> CC
> > > > by 4 attribution.[2] I am in the process of adding some high quality
> > > > medical diagrams to articles on wiki. This same website hosts a bunch
> > > > of other open text books which may be a similarly good source of
> > > > content: https://opentextbc.ca/
> > > >
> > > > [1] http://idtools.org/id/mites/beemites/
> > > > [2] https://opentextbc.ca/clinicalskills/
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 7:08 AM, Kalliope Tsouroupidou
> > > > <ktsouroupi...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> > > > > +1 on this.
> > > > > News of the newly recognised User Group put a smile on my face :)
> > > > >
> > > > > K.
> > > > >
> > > > > On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 4:25 AM, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >> I'm happy to see the development of the Commons Photographers User
> > > Group
> > > > >> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_Photographers_User_Group
> >.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Personal background story (feel free to skip reading this):
> > > > >>
> > > > >> The first DSLR I touched was easy to use with the automatic
> settings
> > > for
> > > > >> indoor photography in good lighting. Based on this limited
> > > experience, I
> > > > >> concluded that photography with a DSLR was easy. Some time later I
> > > > bought
> > > > >> my own first DSLR, and quickly got lost. The menus were not
> > intuitive
> > > > to me
> > > > >> as a DSLR newbie, there were new terms like "aperture" and
> "f-stop",
> > > the
> > > > >> manual was written for someone who already had good technical
> > > knowledge
> > > > of
> > > > >> how cameras work, and my lens wouldn't focus like I wanted.
> > Wikipedia
> > > > has
> > > > >> some helpful articles about photography concepts, but what would
> > have
> > > > >> helped me a lot is spending time with an experienced photographer.
> > > > After a
> > > > >> few years of trial and error, and asking questions of more
> > > knowledgeable
> > > > >> people, I'm happy with my skill level as a photography hobbyist
> in a
> > > > >> variety of situations. I hope that the new user Commons
> > Photographers
> > > > group
> > > > >> will facilitate knowledge exchange, improve camaraderie, and
> > consider
> > > > ways
> > > > >> to improve access to equipment -- especially for photographers in
> > > > >> situations where resources are scarce and potential for valuable
> > > > >> open-source contributions are very high.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> What's making you happy this week?
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Pine
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