http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.sanskrit hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.sanskrit/66 <pre>Dear Sanskrit Community I'm writing to inform you that I plan to leave my current role supporting Wikimedia in India. I am going to be exploring opportunities and evaluating options that are closer to my career aspirations and my personal circumstances. I will be working through to ensure that there is a smooth transition - and this is likely to take 2-3 months. I am writing now because I felt it appropriate and opportune to inform you as early as possible. I want to start off by thanking the Wikimedia community and movement for giving me this extraordinary opportunity. Working on something like India Program has been something that has been professionally enriching and personally fulfilling. Over the past 1 1/2 years, I have been supported by so many of you - and I want to thank you for everything you have done! The passion and intellectual firepower of our community has been my constant source of drive and guidance. There are so many examples of powerful stories from all over the country: the incr</pre> Hisham 2012-07-30T10:40:37 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.sanskrit/63 <pre>Dear All I wanted to share with you an update on the work that Shiju[1] is doing on Indic languages[2] as part of India Program.[3] A guiding principle for the thinking and efforts of our team is that community building should be the most essential aspect of all the work that we do. In the context of small Indic communities, Shiju has been working to try and identify the various elements that need to come together to foster community building. This update is about the Community Building pilot[4] that was run for the Assamese community. For context, community building means different things to different people and in fact there was a very interesting post[5] that Shiju put out that articulated his thinking on this and, hence, our priorities. The results of these efforts have been outstanding number of editors on Assamese Wikipedia has increased to 31 in April 2012 (from 18 in December 2011 and just 10 in November 2011.) number of Wikiprojects increased to 6 (from a situation where there were no reason</pre> Hisham 2012-05-30T04:19:43 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.sanskrit/55 <pre>Any way to reach out to them ? Are they on sa-wiki list ? *Times of India : "Sanskrit makes a comeback, thanks to Wikipedia community" * http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/gurgaon/Sanskrit-makes-a-comeback-thanks-to-Wikipedia-community/articleshow/12012312.cms *Acclaimed author and linguist Umberto Eco once compared languages to biological creatures. A language, he said, follows an organic lifespan - it is born, it grows old, and it passes away. If the analogy holds, then Sanskrit, one of the most ancient of tongues which originated in India, seems to be living the last of its grizzled and decrepit years. There has been talk of declaring it a dead language, and some believe that it is only a matter of time before this language too goes the way of ancient Greek and Latin. But this is likely only if the labour and constant endeavours of the Sanskrit community - a body comprising scholars and students of the language present in Gurgaon and other parts of the country - fail to bear fruit. Dr Shreyansh D</pre> Tinu Cherian 2012-03-07T21:56:56 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.sanskrit/53 <pre>Dear Sanskrit community members, I am glad to inform the community about the new logo that was enabled today for sa-wikisource. Thanks to everybody who were part of the logo creation. </pre> Abhiram C 2012-03-05T17:36:14 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.sanskrit/50 <pre>The bug for enabling autopatroller rights on sa-wikisource is filed and can be visited by clicking on this link. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34769 </pre> Abhiram C 2012-02-28T07:38:53 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.sanskrit/49 <pre>The bug has been filed at the bugzilla for the new sa-wikisource logo, which can be viewed by clicking on this link https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34766 </pre> Abhiram C 2012-02-28T07:11:35 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.sanskrit/47 <pre>Dear All, I am writing to share with you a very inspiring initiative regarding health and medicine articles on Wikipedia. Crores of Wikipedia readers read up about health related issues either when they or their loved ones fall ill or before or after they have consulted doctors or when they are curious about a particular disease or drug. In fact, quite a few doctors and nurses also read up these articles to improve their knowledge. Wikipedia's medical articles have 15-20 crore page views every month. The top 300 articles are viewed more than 1 lakh times every month. The challenge is that the majority of these articles are only available in English. This initiative ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Translation_task_force) has been conceptualised by WikiProject Medicine, Wikimedia Canada and very interesting organisation called Translators Without Borders. It seeks to translate a set of 80 of the most important health care articles into as many languages as possible. Given</pre> Shiju Alex 2012-02-22T11:48:58 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.sanskrit/45 <pre>Dear All, I have compiled the, statistical update of the Indic language Wikipedias for the year 2011. In this report, my aim is to provide an *analysis* as well as *my perspectives* on the health of various Indic language communities as well as the state of various Indic language wikipedias for the year 2011. (The period of analysis is editor contributions between 2011 January 1 and 2011 December 31). As always, a lot of the data for this report and analysis are based on the statistical data published at http://stats.wikimedia.org. Thanks to Erik Zachte for compiling all this information. I must also point out that this annual update contains a number of insights *that are derived not only from this data but directly from community members* who have shared a very real-world picture. Read the annual update here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Indic_Languages/Statistics/2011_Annual_Update I welcome your comments on this annual update. Please discuss it on the talk page. You can also reach me</pre> Shiju Alex 2012-02-16T07:09:42 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.sanskrit/44 <pre>Dear Samskrit community members, The sa-wikisource is marching ahead as of now, its time to provide some rights for people who are actively taking part here.. I wish to enable patroller rights in the course of time. I need the community consensus for filing the bug. Check this link for the voting. http://sa.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%A6%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%8D#Enabling_autopatroller_rights PS: Copy paste the URL to goto the exact section </pre> Abhiram C 2012-02-15T13:38:10 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.sanskrit/41 <pre>Dear fellow sa-wiki members, The logo for the Samskrit Wikisource has been provided by User: VIGNERON and is ready for the bug to be filed for updation, But it needs the community consensus and hence I request the community people for the approval. The approval can be done at http://sa.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%A6%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%8D#Closing_Comments.... </pre> Abhiram C 2012-02-15T11:36:34 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.sanskrit/39 <pre>This should be very heartening. Steady growth in Editor numbers, article numbers, and in most other places as well. Statistics are good. Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch &lt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch&gt;) _______________________________________________ Wikisa-l mailing list Wikisa-l-RusutVdil2icGmH+5r0DM0B+6BGkLq7r&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisa-l </pre> Swaroop Rao 2012-02-05T09:01:09 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.sanskrit/37 <pre>Please visit this and associated pages to see three Devanagari Unicode font sets viz. Chandas, Uttara and Siddhanta. These fonts have also variation versions incorporating extra characters and ligatures used specifically in vedic sanskrit. (Some of them are yet to get a Unicode value). http://svayambhava.blogspot.com/p/siddhanta-devanagariunicode-open-type.html These are free for use and adaptation as per the information on the relevant web pages. It is suggested that you use any of the suitable fonts from this set as the default devanagari font for your browser. These fonts may also be added to our Input methods by the 'narayam' team. Administrators may please consider along this direction. -ViswaPrabha _______________________________________________ Wikisa-l mailing list Wikisa-l-RusutVdil2icGmH+5r0DM0B+6BGkLq7r&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisa-l </pre> ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ 2012-01-21T09:05:06 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.sanskrit/31 <pre>Dear all, There is an urgent need of image editing at Sanskrit Wikipedia community.. The images to be edited are the logos of sa-wikipedia, sa-wikisource and sa-wiktionary.. The text part in the logo of sa-wikipedia should be changed from विकिपीडिय to विकिपीडिया. While the other two logos should be translated to sanskrit and then put up.. </pre> abhiram vasishta 2011-12-03T14:56:02 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.sanskrit/30 <pre>Hi Folks, A few months ago, the Foundation asked Tory Read to travel to India and listen and learn and write about the movement in India. The objective was to harvest experiences and learnings and to have an open discussion around what we could all do to further the movement. This isn't in the form of a (possibly) long &amp; boring report - but in the form of a story. (Tory's a professional researcher, writer and former journalist.) To put this together, Tory travelled for a couple of weeks across Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore and across towns in Kerala - attending community meet-ups and meeting up/speaking with a host of individual community members (in these cities and indeed beyond.) Tory's tale is called, "The India Chronicles", and is available on Wikimedia Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_India_Chronicles_(150dpi).pdf Do have a read through and do share your views on it - positives and negatives - and do feel free to comment on any aspect of it. It would be wonderful to have an engagi</pre> Hisham 2011-10-08T21:31:25 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.sanskrit/27 <pre>Cross-posting to reach pan-India Thanks Nitika From: Nitika Tandon [mailto:ntandon-AeOJrEpdGNeGglJvpFV4uA&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org] Sent: 05 September 2011 16:40 To: 'wikimediaindia-l-RusutVdil2icGmH+5r0DM0B+6BGkLq7r&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org' Subject: Update, Examples &amp; Request: Wikipedia India Education Program Hi Folks, I thought I’ll share an update with you’ll on the Wikipedia India Education Program. It's running majorly in 2 colleges in Pune (Symbiosis School of Economics and College of Engineering Pune). We already have over 1000 students enrolled from just these 2 colleges. Most of these students have gone through one or more out of a total of 35 introductory, basic editing and refresher sessions conducted by Campus Ambassadors. It’s good to see big numbers but I thought I’ll also share with you some articles that the students have been working on. It’s really inspiring to see their progress! J User: &lt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Abhilasha369&gt; Abhilasha369 started a ne</pre> Nitika Tandon 2011-09-06T16:38:40 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.sanskrit/26 <pre>Cross-posting to reach pan-India Thanks Nitika From: Nitika Tandon [mailto:ntandon-AeOJrEpdGNeGglJvpFV4uA&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org] Sent: 06 September 2011 20:59 To: 'wikimediaindia-l-RusutVdil2icGmH+5r0DM0B+6BGkLq7r&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org' Subject: Want to Help Newbie Editor Students of the India Education Program?: Inviting Online Ambassadors! Greetings, As many of you are aware, the Wikipedia India Education Program works with teachers and students to encourage Wikipedia in the classroom. The basic idea is that teachers ask their students to edit Wikipedia articles instead of submitting traditional reports, assignments, etc. Students and teachers are trained and supported and motivated by Wikipedia Campus Ambassadors - who are volunteers. We currently have 1,000 students in the pilot we are running in Pune; the response has been amazing! There are huge challenges also. Most of the students have already been taught the basics of Wikipedia by their Campus Ambassadors. However, they need more hel</pre> Nitika Tandon 2011-09-06T16:33:58 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.sanskrit/20 <pre>Dear fellow editors, It is my pleasure to let you know that the Narayam extension is now integrated into all Sanskrit Wikis. You can directly type in Sanskrit in all Sanskrit Wikis now. I thank Shiju Alex and Junaid PV for their support in this regard. Regards, Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch &lt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch&gt;) </pre> Swaroop Rao 2011-06-23T15:01:02 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.sanskrit/19 <pre>Hi Folks I am writing to all of you to correct a potential error. As you might be aware, the Wikimedia Foundation has set itself an important objective of supporting the community in India to expand participation. As part of this, India Programs has been set up - and I work for it. I have put together a plan for India (please see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs) - and I had communicated this on the India mailing list. This has generated interest as well as debate and discussion. However, I understand that some of you might not be on that mailing list. I therefore thought I'd correct this by reaching out directly to you and requesting you to have a look at the page and share your comments (on the Talk Page or on this mailing list or directly to me; my contact details are in my signature.) It outines the thinking behind India Programs, key initiatives, milestones, team structure, visit reports, IRC logs, recommendations on office location and some other details. I </pre> Hisham Mundol 2011-04-27T08:31:39 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.sanskrit/17 <pre>Dear All, Few wikimedians who understood the importance of wiki source project is giving proper care to it. From Indic Wikis, I can show you the example of Bengali wikisource. According to me, both the wiktionary and wikisource projects are very important for any language which has online presence. For a language like Sanskrit (which is a classical language),wikisource is very much relevant and important projects. Perhaps it might have more number of source texts (which are in public domain) than most of the Indian languages. A request for Sanskrit wikisource is logged on 2010 October 04&lt;http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikisource_Sanskrit&gt;. The request was approved by the language committee on 2010 November 04, and finally the wiki is created on *2011 March 18* &lt;http://sa.wikisource.org/&gt;. It is available here: http://sa.wikisource.org Most of the text from Old Wikisource &lt;http://wikisource.org&gt; is already migrated to this new wikisource &lt;http://sa.wikisource.org&gt;. A cleanup is </pre> Shiju Alex 2011-03-22T14:58:29 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.sanskrit/9 <pre>What should be the name of wikipedia in Sanskrit Language - विकिपीडियः, विकिपीडिया, विकिपीडियम् or merely विकिपीडिय. ** *സസ്നേഹം | With love * * * *നവീൻ ശങ്കർ | Naveen Sankar* </pre> Naveen Sankar 2011-02-27T11:11:58 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.sanskrit/8 <pre>Dear Hindi Wikimedians, A proposal was made in May 2008 to incubate and start-up the Hindi Wikisource Project. Before the transition, the Oldwikisource Hindi project had over 1500 pages. This content needs to be exported to a new Wikisource platform which has not yet been approved because Hindi interface requires further translation of messages. There are over 250 messages that need to be translated before the project may be approved. This should be treated on a priority basis. If you are interested in supporting the localization efforts, please visit the proposal page on Meta[1] and comment. If you require translator rights assigned on translatewiki.net please contact either John Vandenberg[2] or me offlist. Thanks. [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikisource_Hindi [2] jayvdb at gmail dot com anirudh 00 91 9328712208 </pre> Anirudh Bhati 2010-11-26T15:09:08 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.sanskrit