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Best, Gautam (handheld) On Sep 13, 2011 10:42 PM, "Subhashish Panigrahi" <psubhash...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Gautam and Arun for your kind support, updated the summary and also > the older ones :) > > On 13 September 2011 00:00, Arun Ramarathnam <arunra...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Thanks for the excellent summary. >> >> Regards >> Arun >> >> >> >> On 12-Sep-2011, at 10:22 PM, Subhashish Panigrahi <psubhash...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> >> >> Here is a abridged summary of the 37th Bangalore Wiki Meetup Summary on 11 >> th September 2011 at CIS, Bangalore >> >> >> *Talk: Technology related issues in Wiki projects and their solutions (By >> Santhosh Thottingal)* >> >> * >> * >> >> This Skype session was presented by the foundation member Santhosh >> Thottingal. First of all he was formally greeted by the Wikipedians from >> Bangalore for the new position. Santhosh introduced the Narayam project and >> its advancements, participation of Malayalam Wikimedian Junaid.V for the >> development of typing tools for all the Indian Wikimedia projects and >> Myanmar Wikipedia, fixing several bugs and further improvements. >> >> >> Then answering a question raised by Naveen Francis about how foundation is >> going to take initiatives for solving display problems for Iphone/Android >> based handheld devices he explained how this technological gaps would be >> narrowed in the coming days though foundation doesn’t have any project soon >> specifically for this project. FYI the latest Iphone 4 and Android 2.0 >> supports Indic font rendering while Android 2.2 has rendering issues. >> >> >> As there are many users who are failing to use Indic Wikipedias because of >> font and rendering related issues Santhosh shared his experience, past >> issues and their solutions. He also has shared how the typographer of the >> Sourashtra language font has come up to release it in PD so that it could be >> used by all. The current project for web fonts especially for Indic fonts >> have successfully been tested in <http://www.translatewiki.net/> >> www.Translatewiki.net which will be soon launched for all the Indic >> Wikipedias. The web font project has even gone beyond the Indic WPs and is >> also successful for Hebrew, few >> >> European languages and Myanmar which has rendering issues even in Win 7. >> >> >> Santhosh also shared his experience related to Text-To-Speech application >> development for Indian languages which would be a boon for the visually >> impaired people. There would be a common high volume word and phonetic sound >> database which would be used to generate downloadable mp3/ogv files so the >> Wikipedia articles could be converted to audio files. Though the complexity >> of Indian languages doesn’t make this an easy task there had been lot of >> advancements in this project which is available for testing at >> <http://www.silpa.in/>www.silpa.in . >> >> >> Santhosh explained the thought of outreach programs such as Wiki Maratrhon >> to bring more developers into the community which would be one of his talks >> in the Mumbai WCI who will address issues in Indian language Wikipedias. >> >> >> Then he moved onto question based discussion about OCR (Optical character >> Reader) and machine translation or TDI, expllained the complexity of the >> developing tools to for Indic languages. >> >> Then there was a discussion about WikiProjectIndia by Naveen Francis. >> Naveen explained the hierarchy of the project, campus collaborations like >> Symbiosis, Pune for Economy subject under this major project. He also >> focussed how outreach programs driven in both regional as well as in English >> Wikipedia to bring more editors into the project which would be beneficial >> for all the Wikipedias. Wikimedians also discussed glimpses of using >> different tools in Wiki, Assessment, Analysis of web hits for regional Wiki. >> >> >> Then there was a small discussion for the regional Wikipedias, how more >> editing sessions would help developing Wikipedias. Subha explained the >> statistics of Odia Wikipedia followed by a discussion for promoting regional >> Wikipedia using social sites like Facebook, taking the Wikipedias to school >> children and the government for creating bigger Wiki projects. >> >> >> regards >> * >> ସୁଭପାSubhaPa >> ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikipedia Odia (Oriya) mailing list >> <wikipedia...@lists.wikimedia.org>wikipedia...@lists.wikimedia.org >> <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-or> >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-or >> <http://facebook.com/OdiaWiki>facebook.com/OdiaWiki >> Tweet @OdiaWiki >> .............................. >> Mailing list for Wikimedians / Wikipedians in & from Bangalore, India >> <wikimedia-in-...@lists.wikimedia.org> wikimedia-in-...@lists.wikimedia.org >> * >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-in-blr mailing list >> >> wikimedia-in-...@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-blr >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-in-blr mailing list >> wikimedia-in-...@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-blr >> >> > > > -- > * > ସୁଭପାSubhashishPanigrahi > ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ > _______________________________________________ > Wikipedia Odia (Oriya) mailing list > wikipedia...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-or > facebook.com/OdiaWiki > Tweet @OdiaWiki > *
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