On Sep 13, 2011 10:42 PM, "Subhashish Panigrahi" <psubhashish@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 <arunram25@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the excellent summary.
>>
>> Regards
>> Arun
>>
>>
>>
>> On 12-Sep-2011, at 10:22 PM, Subhashish Panigrahi <psubhashish@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
>> *
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