I have been trying to do this on Kannada Wiki! This thread might speed up the process. @Vishwa that would be must for Indic wiki's for sure.
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 4:41 PM, ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ) < viswapra...@gmail.com> wrote: > A great topic, I am particularly interested in! > > I have worked some solid 3-4 months to compute almost all calendars of > Indian traditions. Part of my ambition is to create a page in every Indian > Wiki for each year of the CE era, along with the corresponding calendars > in each Indian almanacs. This will involve a lot of references, computation > and 'wiki'fication of which, the first two parts are almost completed. > > Let me keep a track of this thread. May we even form up a small project > group on this? > > > > > > On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 3:49 PM, Dhaval S. Vyas <dsv...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> As you doubt Gerard, though the month names are same or similar in >> different languages/cultures/calendars, months not always start and end at >> the same time. Mainly in soouthern calendars, including the Gujarati and >> Maharashtrian ones, months end on the New Moon day, while in Northern >> calendars, months end on the Full moon day. This difference really make >> months different, and thus many festivals though celebrated on the same day >> throughout India, are actually marked in different months on religious >> calendars. >> >> E.g. Janmashtami is Shravan Vad (or Krishna paksh) ashtami in Gujarati >> calendar, but in northern calendars, it is Bhadrapad krishnapaksh Ashtami. >> >> Also, Kartik or Kartak is the first month of year, while in other >> calendars, maharashtra and northern, Chaitra is the first month of year. >> >> Regards, >> Dhaval >> On 15 Jan 2014 08:57, "Gerard Meijssen" <gerard.meijs...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Hoi, >>> I blogged about calendars. The problem I face is that I am adding >>> statements to the calendars in use in India.. I have worked on the Nepali >>> and the Bengali calendar and, I find that in the English Wikipedia some >>> months are merged into one article. >>> >>> What I want to know is if these months exactly are at the same time or >>> not. Many calendars have special days. It would make sense to have an item >>> for them as well. I assume that many of the Indian Wikipedias have articles >>> for such events. It will help when they are known to be part of a specific >>> calendar.. >>> >>> Are there people who can help me with this ? >>> Thanks, >>> GerardM >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > -- -- With Best Regards, Omshivaprakash.H.L | ಓಂ ಶಿವಪ್ರಕಾಶ್ ಎಚ್. ಎಲ್ | ॐ शिवप्रकाश् एच्. एल् http://platonic.techfiz.info http://blog.shivu.in Phone: 91- 9902026518 linuxaayana.net | kindarajogi.com | sanchaya.net
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