Dear friends,
You may be aware that we (my family) have released a font family earlier.
Here is some background if you are not aware of it.
On the first death Anniversary of Yogini Joglekar(my aunt), our family
released AksharYogini (Normal) Font on 1st Nov. 2006. This font is
primarily for Marathi language but can also be used for Hindi (for any
language using Devanagari). It also has English support. Later on, on the
occasion of Gudhipadwa (Chaitra Shuddha 1, 1931; that is 27th March 2009) ,
we released the additional fonts to complete the "AksharYogini font
family". This font family was/is made available on the site
http://aksharyogini.sudhanwa.com for free usage/distribution/sharing.
Today, on the occasion of Eighth Death Anniversary of Yogini Joglekar, we
are now releasing an updated "AksharYogini font". This font is also
available on the same website http://aksharyogini.sudhanwa.com
This is an updated font and has support for the new (MS Windows) operating
systems where the internal mechanism for font rendering is changed. Also,
it has additional characters for the current Unicode standard and the Rupee
Sign is also included.
Most important is the licensing. The new release is under the Open Font
License. As such, all Linux distributions will be able to freely use it in
their packaging.
Please feel free to use, share, distribute the new font. You can download
it from http://aksharyogini.sudhanwa.com .
Give us feedback on my email id or the official id for the font "
aksharyogini at sudhanwa.com " You can also comment on the guestbook on the
website.
Do share this news and also the font.
Wishing you a Very Happy Diwali !!
Thanks and regards
-Sudhanwa
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hi,
We had our twenty fifth meetup of the Mumbai Wikipedia community today at Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf. The venue was the place where we had our first meetup in September 2010 and hence was a nostalgic venue.
We had an attendance of 5 community members. We know that it was short notice but wish that more people had turned up. Our expenses for the meetup (coffee and pastries) were covered for by CIS-A2K. We are thankful to them for the same.
We reminisced our journey from the first meetup, through Wikipedia 10 celebrations, the WikiConference India 2011, the Wiki Women Workshop in November 2012 and acknowledged the role some of our members played in several national efforts like GenderGap, Wiki Loves Monuments, opening up the textbooks under an open license etc. We discussed some of the challenges we are facing in the movement in India today. We had lots of fun! I hope the pics will be uploaded onto the appropriate Commons category soon. We briefly considered programmes we'd like to take up in 2014 as a community.
Whilst we celebrate our 25th meetup, we'd like to reach out to all community members in Mumbai in thanking them for being part of an awesome community that has contributed so much towards growing the Wikimedia movement in India in their own ways. We hope you continue doing the same!
warm regards,
User:Prad2609
Pradeep Mohandas
How Pradeep uses email? - http://goo.gl/6v1I9
Dear all,
We from the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS-A2K) thank you all for your support and collaboration and wish you a very Happy New Year. We bring you the details of our work for the month of December 2013:
CIS-A2K: Work Accomplished on Konkani Wikipedia
We are pleased to share with you the key accomplishments on Konkani Wikipedia from September to December 2013 in this report. It has been found that there has been an increased editing activity on Konkani Wikipedia, and an increase in the number of articles on Konkani Wikipedia. Konkani Vishwakosh was re-released under Creative Commons License, we initiated Konkani Vishwakosh Digitization project and signed a MoU with Goa University to build Konkani Wikipedia: http://bit.ly/1l6ttmp.
Article
Telugu Wikipedia completes 10 years (by Rahmanuddin Shaik, DNA, December 16, 2013): http://bit.ly/19OAvUV. The article was edited by Rohini Lakshané.
Blog Entries
First ever Train-the-Trainer Program in India (by Nitika Tandon, December 5, 2013): http://bit.ly/1euwSXt.
Priyadarshini Tadkodkar on Konkani language (by Subhashish Panigrahi, November 17, 2013): http://bit.ly/1hldNM8. We are featuring this here as we didn’t carry this in the last newsletter.
Varsha Kavlekar on Konkani Wikipedia Incubator (by Nitika Tandon, December 12, 2013): http://bit.ly/KmxyFo.
Darshan Kandolkar on Konkani Vishwakosh Digitization Process (by Nitika Tandon, December 13, 2013): http://bit.ly/1cqKyQ2.
Darshana Mandrekar speaks on Konkani Wikipedia (by Nitika Tandon, December 16, 2013): http://bit.ly/1keWyya.
Pooja Tople on Wikimedia Projects (by Nitika Tandon, December 17, 2013): http://bit.ly/1hlbubU.
(2-6 are videos of participants from the Konkani Vishwakosh Digitization project (jointly organised by CIS-A2K and Goa University) speaking on their experiences with Wikimedia projects.)
Events Organised
You Too Can Write on Wikipedia! — Training workshop (National Institute of Tourism and Hotel Management, Gachibowli, Hyderabad, December 5, 2013): http://bit.ly/1edmx1z.
Telugu Wikipedia Training Workshop (KBN College, Vijaywada, December 16, 2013): http://bit.ly/1i8ScnL.
Kannada Wikipedia Workshop at Alvas Vishva Nudisiri Virasat (Moodabidre, December 19 – 22, 2013). Dr. U.B. Pavanaja gave a presentation about Kannada Wikipedia and also conducted a workshop on Kannada Wikipedia as a parallel track. The event was covered by Prajavani (December 22), Hosadigantha (December 22), and Deccan Herald (December 22): http://bit.ly/1dGTBkw.
Events Co-organised
Wikipedia Orientation Workshop (organised by CIS-A2K and Christ University, Bangalore, December 2, 2013): http://bit.ly/1lrkwEy.
Wikipedia Training Session @ Tiruvur (organised by CIS-A2K and Telugu Wikipedia community, Srivahini College, Tiruvur, December 19, 2013). T. Vishnu Vardhan and Rahmanuddin Shaik conducted the workshop: http://bit.ly/1e3oQX7. It was covered by Andhraprabha (http://bit.ly/1bU5VsQ).
Thanks
Nitika Tandon
hi,
Really excited about this one. After we did our first meetup in September 2010, we've now reached the milestone of the twenty fifth meetup of the Wikipedia community in Mumbai. We're doing a coffee and cake celebration at the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf in Bandra where we did our first meetup.
Meetup page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Mumbai/Mumbai25
If you're attending please RSVP me or Rohini at:
me: prad2609 at yahoo.com
Rohini: rohini at wikimedia.in
Hope to see all of you there,
User:Prad2609
Pradeep Mohandas
How Pradeep uses email? - http://goo.gl/6v1I9
Hello,
Yesterday I met Smt Shruti Sadolikar, musician, in the Music Department of Mumbai University located in the rear of Churchgate station. In a discussion with PhD students, a question was raised regarding the reliability of citing internet references. Some of us gave examples about how Wikipedia was used all over the world for all kinds of reasons. Smt Sadolikar, who was present, gave an instance of wrong information in Wikipedia:
"Sadolikar was born 1951 into a family from Kolhapur which was known for its musical tradition and owning sugar mills.[3][4] " in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shruti_Sadolikar. She said that "a hundred people" had mentioned the bit about owning sugar mills. This was factually incorrect, and gave the wrong impression that she came from an affluent family.
Now [4] is a newspaper article: Tandon, Aditi, "Three days of rich musical treat", The Tribune, 6 November 2000. I looked up the source, and sure enough, it mentions the sugar mills. So it seems that whoever wrote the article merely repeated a factual error in the source (which has been properly cited as [4] ).
Smt Sadolikar's father and guru was a musician, Marathi stage artist, music director, etc. His Wikipedia entry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wamanrao_Sadolikar makes no mention of sugar mills.
Smt Sadolikar had a point to make: if Wikipedia is to put information about her in the public domain, is it not their responsibility to inform her about it and confirm that the information is factual? Some of us had said that Wikipedia was not organized along the principles of, say, a newspaper, but if a factual error was brought to its notice, it would be corrected. In that spirit I am sending this mail to your mailing list.
Like the rest of the world I am a grateful user and great fan of Wikipedia.