Apologies for completely OT post.
I have a document in Marathi, from the Gazette of the GoM. Unfortunately, it
is a scan of a paper doc, hence it is not possible to reproduce any text
here. I can forward the document to anyone who can help translate it. The
complete document is quite lengthy, about 18 pp, but the relevant text is
4.5 pages (the rest are tables etc).
I need a translation in English, for a meeting scheduled for Monday evening,
which is being held with a view to filing a PIL against the contents of this
government resolution (which purportedly makes it compulsory for state
government employees to register with UIDAI and take a UID, in order to draw
their salaries). Assistance would be very much appreciated.
--
Vickram
Fool On The Hill <http://communicall.wordpress.com>
Hi everybody,
I'm a member of WikiProject Philately.
Uploading images of Indian stamps are forbidden as per Indian Copyright of
1957 :
Anonymous works, photographs, cinematographic works, sound recordings,
*government
works*, and works of corporate authorship or of international organizations
*enter the public domain 60 years after the date on which they were first
published, counted from the beginning of the following calendar year (ie. as
of 2011, works published prior to 1 January 1951 are considered public
domain).*
See :
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Stamps_of_India
Only stamps till 1950 have been added though we could now add the stamps
published in 1951. These are :
Commemoratives
* 2 anna Geological Survey of India
* 2 anna First Asian Games
* 12 anna First Asian Games
Definitives
* 2 and 1/2 anna Bodhgaya Temple
* 4 anna Lingaraja temple
So it is completely incorrect to add any images of Indian stamps printed
later than 1951 to Commons. Fair use rationale is not applicable under
Indian law to the best of my knowledge, anyway with that it cant be loaded
to Commons only concerned Wikipedia. And unless the article is about that
particular stamp, fair use rationale won't work.
Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur
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http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2011/04/mediawiki-selects-8-students-gsoc-201…
* Akshay Agarwal‘s “Account Creation, Login Screens and AJAX-ification of
everything” (mentor: Brandon Harris)
* Kevin Brown’s “Working Archival for Web References/Citations,” “to
facilitate the archival of external links used as references in the
English Wikipedia” (mentor: Neil Kandalgaonkar)
* Devayon Das‘s “Improving Semantic Search/Semantic Query usability issues
in SMW” (mentor: Markus Krötzsch)
* Ankit Garg‘s “Semantic Schemas extension” (mentor: Yaron Koren)
Salvatore Ingala‘s “AMICUS: Awesome Monolithic Infrastructure for
Customization of User Scripts” (mentors: Brion Vibber and Max Semenik)
* Aigerim Karabekova‘s “Extension Release Management” (mentors: Sam Reed,
Priyanka Dhanda, and Chad Horohoe)
* Yuvi Panda‘s “Making Offline Wikipedia Article Selection Easier with
Mediawiki Extensions” (mentor: Arthur Richards)
* Zhenya Vlasyenko‘s “MediaWiki Extension: SocialProfile – UserStatus
feature” (mentor: Jack Phoenix)
Out of 8, 4 students are from India!. Congrats and best wishes to Akshay
Agarwal , Yuvi Panda, Devayon Das and Ankit Garg.
Thanks
Santhosh
http://www.wikimedia.in/wiki/FAQ/en
I am not sure if I am correct but the FAQ section for Wikimedia India should
be written in a generic format so as to be neutral towards all Indian
languages. The contents of the current FAQ page seem to be a bit more
inclined towards Malayalam Wikipedia. Should we make some suitable changes?
-Akshay Agarwal
Heya,
In the last few days I've noticed several newspapers using the NEW numbering
scheme for National Highways. This has resulted in a LOT of confusion, and
arguments too.
As a precautionary measure, I carry around a link to PlaneMad's renumbered
map http://flic.kr/p/8Bv8nq
I have written to NHAI asking when they will start using these new numbers,
and when the website will be updated to include them.
I believe as soon as this is done, and/or I get a reply, we should start
with the work on the project itself.
For the time being I have created a Google Spreadsheet [private to a few of
us, will add more as and when I get their email addresses, those interested,
please get in touch with me]. On this spreadsheet, we can list highways, as
the Govt. notification [PDF] is absolutely painful to decipher. We can
decipher it from PlaneMad's map.
Please let me know your ideas.
Do we need to run a banner campaign for this?
--Regards,
Srikanth R.
--
Regards,
ME.
Wear a Lungi, Support the Movement
My infrastructure invasion... plus other images
too.. on Wikimedia Commons. http://bit.ly/d50SIq
Interestingly a slightly negative story on Wikipedia in India after a long
time.
There's some pretty impressive mistakes and assertions in this article
(copied below), in particular:
* "Many of us have also been tricked by faulty or falsified information on
Wikipedia, which is edited by users who are often tempted into leading
others astray."
* "Originally, Wikipedia allowed anyone to update its entries" ... "In 2009,
it was forced to recruit 20,000 editors to stop falsification of entries."
*Pune Mirror : " Will Google Maps lead people astray, the Wikipedia way?"*
http://www.punemirror.in/article/26/20110423201104240122415581039affe/Will-…
*With the launch of the new Map Maker application in the US, Google Maps can
be edited by anybody, putting a question mark on the reliability of its
content*
*
*
*New York: Almost all of us have been tricked by a faulty GPS into taking a
wrong turn, driving down a dead end road, in extreme cases even driving into
rivers or to the edge of cliffs. Many of us have also been tricked by faulty
or falsified information on Wikipedia, which is edited by users who are
often tempted into leading others astray. *
*
*
*Now, Google is set to combine both dangers into one with the launch of Map
Maker in the US, reports Daily Mail. Map Maker is a web-based application
that allows users to edit Google Maps using their own local knowledge of an
area. It takes advantage of crowd-sourcing to map the parts *
*of the world that even Google can’t get to. *
*
*
*Crowd outsourcing*
*
*
*“You know your neighbourhood or hometown best,” Google Map Maker tech lead
Lalitesh Katragadda and product manager Manik Gupta said in a blog post.
“With Google Map Maker, you can ensure the places you care about are richly
represented on the map. For example, you can fix the name of your local
pizza parlour, or add a description of your favourite book store.” *
*
*
*Users are also encouraged to add bike lanes, walking paths, secret
shortcuts, parking lots, and any other details they can think of using Map
Maker. *
*
*
*
*
*The suggestions are set to be reviewed before being published. “After
approval, the edits will appear in Google Maps within minutes — dramatically
speeding up the time it takes for online maps to reflect the often-changing
physical world,” the blog post read.*
*
*
*Wikipedia controversies*
*
*
*Originally, Wikipedia allowed anyone to update its entries. But a series of
malicious incidents — including changes to George W Bush’s page that saw it
having to be corrected an incredible 40,000 times, and an entry giving
former British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s middle name as ‘Whoop de doo’ —
soon forced the site to rethink its policy.In 2009, it was forced to recruit
20,000 editors to stop falsification of entries. *
*
*
*Review of changes*
*
*
*Map Maker, perhaps learning from that lesson, is set to review changes
before they are published. How exactly the changes will be reviewed,
however, remains largely undefined. When MailOnline tested the app, changes
appeared to be subject to review by other users.*
*
*
*It was not clear how many users were needed to approve or deny a change
before it was published, but Google promises that changes will appear
‘within minutes’. A request for more detail on the vetting process has not
yet been answered. *
*
*
*Already up and running*
*
*
*Map Maker is already running in 183 countries around the world. Despite
concerns, it is being hailed as a cartographical revolution, allowing some
of the world’s remotest places to be mapped in a medium available to the
masses for the very first time. *
*
*
*It also allows for a level of detail — for example, of college campuses —
that simply would not be available on conventional maps. “Map Maker users
have mapped entire cities, road networks and universities that were never
previously recorded online,” the blog post bragged.*
*
*
*“These contributions have been incorporated into Google Maps and Google
Earth, so the collective expertise of the Map Maker community benefits the
millions of people using these products globally.”*
*Those who have Google Earth can also watch mapping in real time by others
around the world using the application. *
Regards
Tinu Cherian
Hi All
I've updated the office location discussions and recommendation. Please do have a look at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Office…
You'll notice that I've kept the initial discussion document unchanged for ease of comparison. This is under the section "Initial Discussion." The subsequent sections are the new ones I've added:- "Assessment" and "Recommendation"
I'd like to thank everyone who has contributed on this mailing list, Talk Pages, offlist and offline. Really appreciate all the inputs received so far. Please have a look at the above link and do please share your comments and inputs - through whichever channel you feel most comfortable with.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Thank you.
Hisham Mundol
Wikimedia Foundation India Programs
skype: hisham.wikimedia
gtalk: hmundol(a)wikimedia.org
twitter: @mundol
FYI
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Projects/Localization_Roadmap
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Quim Gil <quim.gil(a)nokia.com>
Date: 15 April 2011 03:25
Subject: [WikimediaMobile] Setting the game for a fresh Wikipedia app
To: mobile-l <mobile-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi, it's been some weeks since the first day I discussed with Tomasz and
Alolita about what a Wikipedia mobile app could be. We are at that point
where we need to share a common vision, so let's check how much we agree
already. :)
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Projects/App_Features_%
26_Roadmap#Rationale describes an app that imho would be great to have
for the Wikimedia community and beyond. Warning: there is no feasibility
check done on those features yet. But if you like them we might be able
to get someone with the skills to investigate what is easy, what is
though but doable and all the rest.
Developing those features through iterations in a reference
HTML5/CSS/Javascript implementation will make easier to have ports for
specific platforms, hopefully requiring just a little extra work (as
opposed to rewriting for each platform).
Being an open source application developed openly may also help getting
some of these "community features" implemented in the many commercial
apps around, currently focusing only on read-only use cases. If the
features are cool and we give them the code for free...
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Quim
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