Good go ..hindi wikipedians. The Main Page looks nice.
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 11:13 PM, Shiju Alex <shijualexonl...@gmail.com>wrote: > 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 >> >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > >
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