Logo of Hindi wikipedia (http://hi.wikipedia.org) is also updated.
Shiju Alex On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Shiju Alex <shijualexonl...@gmail.com>wrote: > Dear Indic language wikipedians, > > The logos of some of the Indic language wikipedias are updated recently. > Following are those wikipedias: > > - Marathi - http://mr.wikipedia.org/ > - Kannada - http://sa.wikipedia.org/ > - Sanskrit - http://kn.wikipedia.org/ > - Odia (Oriya) - http://or.wikipedia.org/ > > Among this, the Odia wikipedia logo is updated yesterday and is done by a > new wikipedian. Thanks to Subhashish who started editing in Odia wikipedia > recently. He had done a wonderful job. > > The logos for the following language wikipedias still need to be updated. > > - Assamese - http://as.wikipedia.org > - Bhojpuri - http://bh.wikipedia.org > - Bishnupriya Manipuri - http://bpy.wikipedia.org/ > - Divehi - http://dv.wikipedia.org > - Gujarati - http://gu.wikipedia.org > - Hindi - http://hi.wikipedia.org > - Kashmiri - http://ks.wikipedia.org/ > - Nepali - http://ne.wikipedia.org > - Pali - http://pi.wikipedia.org > - Punjabi - http://pa.wikipedia.org > - Sindhi - http://sd.wikipedia.org > - Tamil - http://ta.wikipedia.org > > Hope the logos will be updated soon by the respective language community. > > Kindly create a new logo, upload it to commons, and log a bug in bugzilla. > In case you require any assistance please contact me. > > Shiju Alex > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Shiju Alex <shijualexonl...@gmail.com> > Date: Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 10:32 AM > Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Updating the logo of Indian Language Wikipedias > To: "Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia." < > wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > > > Dear Indic language wikipedians, > > As many of you know the default skin of wikipedias (including that of all > Indic language wikipedias) is moved to the new Vector skin some time back. > Please see the below mail that I sent to this list regrading this on *2010 > July 1*. > > As some of you know, along with this update, the logo of wikipedia is also > updated. The current logo is available > here<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia/2.0>. > > > But even though almost 6 months had passed after this major update, only > Bengali <http://bn.wikipedia.org>, Malayalam <http://ml.wikipedia.org>, > Urdu <http://ur.wikipedia.org>, and Telugu <http://te.wikipedia.org> wiki > communities had took initiatives to update the logo. The logo update is > still pending for the following Indian language wikis. > > - Assamese - http://as.wikipedia.org > - Bhojpuri - http://bh.wikipedia.org > - Bishnupriya Manipuri - http://bpy.wikipedia.org/ > - Divehi - http://dv.wikipedia.org > - Gujarati - http://gu.wikipedia.org > - Hindi - http://hi.wikipedia.org > - Kannada - http://kn.wikipedia.org/ > - Kashmiri - http://ks.wikipedia.org/ > - Marathi - http://mr.wikipedia.org > - Nepali - http://ne.wikipedia.org > - Oriya - http://or.wikipedia.org > - Pali - http://pi.wikipedia.org > - Punjabi - http://pa.wikipedia.org > - Sanskrit - http://sa.wikipedia.org > - Sindhi - http://sd.wikipedia.org > - Tamil - http://ta.wikipedia.org > > Carry Bass (User:Bastique<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Bastique>) > has took initiative to create the new logo for some of the Indian language > wikis. But for languages like Kannada, Oriya, and so on even that is > pending. Even if the new logo is created a bug needs to be filed by the > respective wiki community to change the logo. So for most of the Indian > wikis both these tasks are pending now. > > I request the respective language communities to take initiatives to > create the new logo and file a bug for this update. The guidelines for > creating the new logo is listed at > http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikimedia_official_marks/Word_mark_creation > > Please write to me if any of the language communities require any type of > support regarding this. > > > > Regards > Shiju Alex > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 06:43:08 +0200 > From: shijualexonl...@gmail.com > To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Updating the default skin of Indian Language > Wikipedias > > Hi All, > > As some of you already know, *Usability Team<http://usability.wikimedia.org> > * is driving the task of updating the default skin of all WikiMedia > Foundation wikis to a skin called > *Vector*<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vector>. > English Wikipedia and some other big wikis have already moved to *Vector > skin* some time back. Apart from the UI, the logo of Wikipedia is also > updated <http://blog.wikimedia.org/2010/wikipedia-in-3d/>. > > Yesterday (2010 June 30) at 10:30 PM IST, some other wikis (that have > carried out the formalities required for the UI change) are also moved to > the new UI. Among this, 3 Indian Language Wikipedias are also there. > Following are those Indian Language wikipedias: > > - Malayalam - http://ml.wikipedia.org > - Bengali - http://bn.wikipedia.org > - Telugu - http://te.wikipedia.org > > Please note the new default skin and the new logo that are appearing on > these wikis. (You may need to clear the cache to see the changes. ) > > > Now to move your language wiki to Vector, you have to perform the following > two major operations: > > 1. Update the logo of your wiki > 2. Localize the Vector skin system messages > > Logo update > > For some languages, logo is already updated. See the list here: > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia/2.0 > > If your wiki's logo is missing from this list, then you need to create the > new logo based on the instructions listed on this page. > http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikimedia_official_marks/About_the_official_Marks > > > Localizing the Vector skin System messages > > For the current update, you need to localize the Vector skin system > messages. To localize the system messages, use Translate wiki - > http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Main_Page > > The current Localization statistics of Vector skin system messages is > available here. http://translatewiki.net/wiki/User:GerardM/usability-stats > > You can see that many Indian languages (for example, Tamil) are missing > from this list. The reason is, none of the Vector skin system messages are > localized for those languages. Even for the big Languages like Hindi and > Marathi the percentage of localized messages is very low. > > So I request the respective Indian Language Wikipedia communities to take > required initiative to switch over to the new Skin. Usability team is > planning for next set of switch over by the end of July. So you have > almost one month to finish these tasks. > > Once you finish the above tasks you need to: > > - Let the community know about this upcoming update (Use the village > pump, Site Notice, Mailing list, and so on) > - Appoint some volunteers to answer the questions related to this > - Appoint an ambassador to collect the feedback/issues/bugs and report > it to the Usability Team. > > Please let me know in case you require any support regarding this. > > Regards > Shiju Alex > > _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing > list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > > > >
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