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Date: Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 11:22 PM
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Dear Nikhil Babu:
My admiration and congratulation to you and everyone involved Srujanika for
this landmark achievement. I am hoping to be present at the release at
Ravenshaw University in early 2013.
With best wishes for the New Year
Lalu Mansinha
London, Canada
At 02:56 AM 16/12/2012, Srujanika wrote:
Hello all,
We had started 2012 with a few things to reactivate Odia Computing work.
Now as the year is about to end we should take a look at where we stand and
where to go. As usual, the initial enthusiasm has evaporated with time and
under pressure of other matters on hand. This is bound to happen unless
some definite programme is taken up in one's own interest and is pursued
without external promptings.
However, we have benefited much from this brief active period. We have
three Odia font converters (8bit to Unicode) and several other corpora
tools available - thanks to Hariram, Ajit and Arun. We have tested,
modified and uploaded these at https://bitbucket.org/rebati/rebati/ under
downloads. We have also finalised an Odia keyboard layout (same for both
Linux and Windows 7) an uploaded to bit bucket. Please try these out and
help us with any feedback. There are a few additions we would like to see
in the Odia fonts - punctuations and roman characters and diacritics - and
will take this up with the RedHat group. Odia sorting requires a lot more
work, but we get near-perfect output only with LibreOffice Calc (both under
Linux and Windows 7. We need much help with this and with Scribus-Indic.
Our digitization work has reached a point of saturation as far as the Odia
periodicals are concerned. The current holding of about 1,30,000 paged (~20
gb of optimised pdf files) comprises about *0 % of all Odia periodicals
published between 1870 and 1950. We are hoping to release these at the
Ravenshaw University in early 2013. We would also release these on 5 DVD's
for researchers. Hosting these on the internet is a massive job that is
beyond our present capabilities, but we are working on it.
Our future work will be on finalising the ongoing work with Odia
dictionaries, corpora, glossary and the digitization of books. We hope to
pick up a bit of our neglected work on science too.
Hope Rebati can get a better life in 2013. With warmest thoughts for the
New Year,
All of us at Srujanika
--
Dr. Nikhil Mohan Pattnaik, Co-ordinator,
"Srujanika"
101 Saraswati Kunja,
Near Jagamara Bazar, PO: Khandagiri,
Bhubaneswar 751030
Odisha, India
Tel: (0674) 2350640 / 2350664
Srujanika: A Society for Research and Innovation in Science, Education
and
Development
Dear Odia Wikipedia Community,
We are planning to develop Dengue article on all Indian Languages.
Wikipedia Club Pune is organizing dedicated workshop on 16th December 2012.
We would like to invite you participate in Workshop (online or offline as
per your convenience)
Article of Dengue will be edited through collaborative editing session, and
it will be recorded later on as part of Spoken
Wikipedia.<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Spoken_Wikipedia/Indic_L…>
*FAQ : *
*1)Why Dengue Article : *
A: Dengue fever is common in this session, so it will be helpful to many
people.
*2)What about other diseases? *
A: We will be covering major diseases one by one in upcoming Sunday
workshops.
*3)What is Spoken Wikipedia for Indian Languages? *
The *WikiProject Spoken Indian Language Wikipedia* is a project undertaken
by Wikipedia Club Pune to give a voice to the Indian community and to
create a knowledge domain of information related to India and Indian
languages through audio recordings of the articles (in various native
languages).
P.S :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Spoken_Wikipedia/Indic_L…
*4)Why (Only) health related articles? *
As of now - Our first priority is Health related articles on Indian
Language Wikipedia. After recording articles, we are planning to circulate
these articles in underprivileged community.
*5)How I can help? *
Please add your name to Workshop page to help us.
*Register* :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Club_Pune/Spoken_Wikipedia…
Kindly do let us know if you have any doubts/queries or suggestions!
Keep Supporting, Keep Inspiring!
Dhanyabado :)
Best Regards,
Abhishek Suryawanshi,
User:AbhiSuryawanshi, <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:AbhiSuryawanshi>
On Behalf of Wikipedia Club Pune
Hi all,
Ever wondered how you could type in your own language and do much more fun
with your phone; browsing Indic language wikipedia articles to commenting
on friend's facebook posts to tweeting? So, here is something exciting
coming on Open source!
Recently we had a guest, YuviPanda, a former developer with Wikimedia
Foundation and an open source geek. Yuvi spent spent some with us and I got
a chance to explain how problematic it is for a mobile user to type in
Indic languages. Though most smartphones have sound font support and
rendering typing in Indic languages was far from reality, at least to me.
While explaining the problem which many others would be facing while
posting a status on facebook or tweeting many end users would like to have
few major things in a new typing tool:
- A simple interface and easy navigation
- Options to switch typing schemes/languages (Indic
↔ English)
- Readability: Font size should be made to be read properly. Based on the
jQuery.ime (https://github.com/wikimedia/jquery.ime) for Indic languages
Yuvi created a prototype (http://goo.gl/jH3TO).
In rounds of testing and bug fixing finally it is here:
http://yuvi.in/indic-typing/index.html
Right now it works online for most smartphones having Indic and rendering
support. Someone can use it online from the same link above. The offline
version works fro iPhone and Yuvi is working on fixing bugs for Android.
The offline app will soon be available for Android. Once it works perfectly
with Android it will be made available for free in Android market. We are
still to test this for Symbian, Blackberry and Windows, 3 other market
leaders. Please test and give us feedback and report bugs on
Meta<http://goo.gl/sBiaF>
(http://goo.gl/sBiaF).
I am still in the pipeline to persuade to add a feature for searching on
Indic wikipedias from this app. Please join me clapping for Yuvi for this
amazing tool and persuading him for adding the search option for Indic
wikipedias which will enable a user to search in a respective language
wikipedia by typing a particular word in this tool!
*Quick links:*
*-> Link to the tool:* http://bitly.com/indictyping
*-> Tutorial to use it online and offline (For iPhone):* http://goo.gl/HdVJW
*-> Quick links:*
- Source code: https://github.com/yuvipanda/indic-typing-tool
- Test the app and report the bugs directly on
GitHub<https://github.com/yuvipanda/indic-typing-tool/issues> or
on Meta <http://goo.gl/sBiaF>.
- App credits: YuviPanda <http://yuvi.in/>, Subhashish
Panigrahi<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Psubhashish>
, Santhosh Thottingal<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Santhosh.thottingal>
->* Blog post about the
tool<http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/typing-in-indic-languages-from-mobiles>
*: (
http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/typing-in-indic-languages-from-mobiles)
--
Best!
Subhashish Panigrahi