Re: Wikimedia Sponsorships for Indian Language Content in Wikipedia

I am a great wiki fan and is greatly intrested in the malayalam
effort- first i couldnt see the ml.wikipedia.org page ,I installed
(actually did googling and copied typed some commands....eerrr) now i
can see malayalam but all in a mess "paradana thalu' instead of
pradhana!!, can anyone help me in installing malayalam font(how we do
install fonts in general) and how to set the keyboard ??
i am using GNU/Linux-GNOME-FireFox
regards anoop.

On 7/11/05, Vivek Varghese Cherian <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 10:53:36AM +0530, Anivar Aravind wrote:
> >>>Begin forwarded message:
> >>>
> >>>> From: Maruthu Pandian <haipandian79-/[email protected]>
> >>>> Date: 1 July 2005 11.25.27 GMT+05:30
> >>>> To: lis-forum-QX/3N9wx0SU/NI2e8YfAcJ/[email protected]
> >>>> Subject: [LIS-Forum] Sponsorship for students on Indian languages
> >>>> for Wikipedia
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>> So far the Wikipedias in Indian languages have seen
> >>>> very slow progress. These are among the lowest ratio
> >>>> "number of articles / number of speakers". There a
> >>>> number of technical and other reasons.
> >>>>
> >>>> Some people from the Wikimedia Foundation think that a
> >>>> financial help may  boost these languages. They are
> >>>> willing to sponsor students who might  contribute
> >>>> writing articles in Indian languages on different
> >>>> subjects for  Wikipedia.
> >>>>
> >>>> Here is the URL for further reading.
> >>>>
> >>>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Promoting_the_Indian_languages_projects
> >>>>
> >>>> Here are some proposed rules:
> >>>>  * The articles should be written in Indian languages
> >>>> from scratch or translated (probably from the English
> >>>> Wikipedia).
> >>>>  * The articles should be encoded in Unicode.
> >>>>  * The articles sould be released under the GFDL
> >>>> licence (free to edit and copy).
> >>>>  * The articles should be more than 500 words.
> >>>>
> >>>>  Here are a list of articles:
> >>>>
> >>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
> >>>> Wikipedia:List_of_articles_all_languages_should_have
> >>>>  This list should be completed with specific Indian
> >>>> topics (Indian states and cities, personalities,
> >>>> events, etc.).
> >>>>
> >>>> A proposition of a list of Indian subjects is welcome.
> >>>>
> >>>> For each language, at least two persons are needed to
> >>>> review the quality of the articles (teachers, writers,
> >>>> etc.).
> >>>>
> >>>> Please could you also transfer this message to people
> >>>> who might be interested by this project ?
> >>>>
> >>>> Regards,
> >>>> Maruthu Pandian.B
> >>>> Pubsub Concepts Pvt Ltd.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> 
> The malayalam wikipedia is located at http://www.ml.wikipedia.org
> 
> Those of you intrested in malayalam localisation, please register
> yourself on the above URL as the first step.
> 
> There is also a new mailing list for Indic localisation of the
> wikipedia:-
> http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
> 
> The IRC channel is #in.wikimedia on FreeNode.
> 
> I am requested to coordinate the malayalam localisation.
> Folks who are intrested and have been actively involved with
> malayalam localisation of wikipedia till date are requested to
> contact me via the wikipedia india list provided above.
> 
> --
> Vivek Varghese Cherian
> Free as in Freedom <www.gnu.org>
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