Thanks!
Thank you.
Best,
Gautam
(handheld)
On Sep 13, 2011 10:42 PM, "Subhashish Panigrahi" <psubhashish(a)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(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the excellent summary.
>
> Regards
> Arun
>
>
>
> On 12-Sep-2011, at 10:22 PM, Subhashish Panigrahi <psubhashish(a)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
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