വിക്കിപീഡിയ:Embassy

ഇംഗ്ലീഷ് വിലാസം

http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_embassy

This is the local embassy on the Malayalam Wikipedia. More embassies in other languages may be found at meta:Wikimedia Embassy.

Make sure you always communicate in English on this page. ഈ താളിലെ സം‌വാദങ്ങൾ ഇംഗ്ലീഷിൽ മാത്രമാകുവാൻ ശ്രദ്ധിക്കുക.

Wikimedia Foundation projects are multilingual, with wikis in hundreds of languages being actively worked on and plenty more ready to go. The Wikipedia Embassy is a central place for resources to help with cross-language issues — site-wide policy and software decisions that affect all of us and interlanguage linking. The Malayalam wikipedia embassy has been started for communication between Malayalam wikipedia, and other language wikipedias.

Embassy Embassy Officials Chief Jacob (talk) Officers Sadik (talk) Jyothis (talk) Shiju (talk) Anoopan (talk) Abhi (talk) Georgekutty (talk) Requests Help Administrators' Noticeboard Rename Requests Usurpation Bot status requests Help Desk Sandbox General Help Village Pump News (Start Discussion) New Policies (Start Discussion) Technical (Start Discussion) Suggestion (Start Discussion) Help (Start Discussion) Others (Start Discussion)

Welcome to the embassy of the Malayalam-language Wikipedia! This page is for discussing Wikipedia-related multilingual coordination. If you have any announcements or questions regarding international issues or the Malayalam Wikipedia, you are invited to post them here . Message the embassy You can also contact an administrator (find an active one) on their talk page. To learn how to install fonts to read Malayalam text, please see To Read in Malayalam

Sharing Best Practices

I am Natkeeran, admin from Tamil Wiki. This is just a small effort to share best practices between indi wikis.

Similar efforts:

• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tell_us_about_your_Wikipedia
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Multilingual_Wikipedia

Among the Indian Wikis Malayalam wiki is of good quality and growing considerably fast. Relatively, it has a large contributor base than other indi wikis. How did get this support? What are your priorities?

Tamil Wiki +ve

• Wiki Projects (Countires, Engineering, Chemical Elements etc)
• Subject Heading List
• Vocabulary lists and Wikionary (100000+ technical terms)
• Bot know how, but limited use
• Focus on Math, Science, Technology
• Good diaspora involvment

Tamil Wiki –ve

• Limited native user base (from Tamil Nadu, Sri Lanka, Malyasia, Sigapore)
• Very limited media exposure
• Encyclopedia writing style (mabye a -ve)
• Political and Lanauage issues are troblesome.

--Natkeeran 16:18, 21 ഓഗസ്റ്റ്‌ 2008 (UTC)

Jyothis Comments

Natkeeran, First of all, thank you very much for starting this discussion. Let this discussion be a starting point for the exchange of ideas between Wikis. It is indeed a great idea to share the ideals and practices that each wiki holds on to.

In Malayalam Wikipedia, the quality of articles has a higher priority than the number of articles. We have decided that we will not keep articles that does not have atleast basic information included. Editors take utmost care to include whatever possible, and as they learn more about the Wiki style of writing, they will urge the new users to follow the standards of writing, articles formats and Title formats which we adhere to.

Regarding the users, we do not have many users residing in Kerala. Most of the users with a few exceptions are located outside kerala. However, I would say that we have a handful of people who are very active and announces that I sleep in Wikipedia :). We have editors who comes from very diverse backgrounds and that helps us cover many different subjects. The diverse locations of people also helps us in covering location based subjects too.

The primary catalyst to the amount of users lately is media coverage and blog activism. With a good amount of people blogging in Malayalam, We have a potential user base and editor base in making. Mathrubhumi, one of the main daily in Malayalam presented a nice article on Wikipedia on their supplement's main story. We used to conduct a blog based quiz program earlier, which can be completely answered if we look in wiki. This has also helped a little to increase the popularity of wiki among malayalam blog community. Every editor acts as an ambassador whenever they get a chance. We invite good bloggers and friends to wiki on any available occasion. Without a doubt, the users and editors who support this initiative unconditionally are an asset to our wiki.

Nice to see the effort of collaboration. Rome was not built in a day. What we need to do is a collective/organized effort to attract people's atention. We need to get people wiki-aware. The pearl in hand has more value than a diamond hidden in mud, of which no one has any knowledge about its existance. We know people from many facets of life. Why not we spread the word about wikipedia to people we know? word of mouth has been a marketing strategy for a while. the same can be applied here too :-). If we have teachers in the list, they can do a lot to promote usage of wiki. they can introduce wiki to students and encourage them to look at and contribute to wiki in their capacity. schools and other educational institutions are the bet way to lay foundation on creating a good user base. It is easier to get editors, once you have a user base.

Thanks again and looking forward to hear your thoughts about this. Questions and comments are welcome

--ജ്യോതിസ് 19:24, 21 ഓഗസ്റ്റ്‌ 2008 (UTC)

Selvas Comments

Glad to see this discussion going. Jyotis, you make good points, and I think some of the marketing is surely lacking in Tamil Wiki. --Selva 19:49, 21 ഓഗസ്റ്റ്‌ 2008 (UTC)

Nats Comments

Thank you for the comments. We can definitely benefit from sharing information and ideas. At Tamil wiki we have done good ground work, Policies, Guides, Initiatives. We did not just translate, we adopted and innovated to match our needs. From early on we had a minimum standard (3 lines including the definition, category, internal links, and inter wikilinks). We focused on quality, but we understood that it was an on going process.

As noted above we try to focus on non-controversial subjects, but at the same time it was important to record important current events (ex Eelam War).

We have been advised that our writing style is a bit strict according to some popular media standards. For instance, we try to use Tamil technical words whenever possible, and some people prefer using Tamil transliteration of English technical words. We also have minor dialect differences between Eelam Tamil and TN Tamil. Tamil Wiki has been a forum to develop an understanding and a common ground.

I am surprised to hear that most of the Malayala Wiki users are from aboard. It is the same case in Tamil Wiki, and like you noted it provides diversity. We have made a point to seek out Tamils across globe. This adds first hand local knowledge, as well as pictures.

There is a sizable Tamil blog community, and that is usually our recruiting place. But, we did not reach out to the extent you have done.

Learning Tamil Rendering, Typing, and Wiki are definitely notable technical barriers. Even average computer savy people find it difficult.

We conduct Tamil Wikipedia Annual Review at the end of each year, assessing our progress and brainstorming and planning our next year activities. We have done it for 2005, 2006, 2007. This is something you may want to consider.

We also have Tamil Wiki projects (ta:விக்கிப்பீடியா:திட்டங்கள் ஒருங்கிணைப்புப் பக்கம்). These are projects with a definite goal, time allocation, and primes.

We give considerable attention to vocabulary. This is essential for Science Writing and Technical Writing. These are not highly developed in Tamil as in English, but some Tamil Wikipedia articles provide good examples.

We know we will never have articles about all videos games. Our aim is to cover important subjects such as math as extensively as possible.

Also, you may want to suggest (50 -100) articles about Kerala, Kerala culture, way of life, local technology, Malayalam and we can give priority to it.

We are currently exploring ways to create diverse articles using bots ta:விக்கிப்பீடியா:தானியங்கிக் கட்டுரையாக்கம். This requires information gathering.

In India, we can raise awrness about Wiki in general, and urge people to contribute to their local languages. Perhaps, the efforts to establish a Wikipedia Indian Chapter should be accelerated. Perhaps, even a Wikimania in India. Not impossible. --Natkeeran 20:02, 21 ഓഗസ്റ്റ്‌ 2008 (UTC)

pictures

I used to contribute via pictures uploaded to malayalam wiki and once it reached 500 I stopped it and started uploading to other wikis including Tamil. But Tamil wiki admins doesn't even seem to be aware of who is doing such activity, while in malayalam we promote such activism by selecting pictures as the freatured pictures and also by encouraging words by commenting on the pictures. This will certainly drive the contributors happy.

I used to upload pictures from flickr where the licences have been released under CC to malayalam and also to Commons. and a lot of requesting to release the licences under CC is also done from my part if the picture is found appropriate for wikipedia. Many succumb/oblige. I recently posted a request a similar request as a thread of discussion in two similar groups in flickr namely malayalikkoottam and India-Tamil nadu. While I got overwhelming support from the ealier which can be seen here the later completely denied such activity and almost banned me from the moderatorship

does this show some attitude problems with the tamizh speaking people towards the wikipedia or are they just scared of letting their picture copyable on the net

--ചള്ളിയാൻ ♫ ♫ 03:05, 22 ഓഗസ്റ്റ്‌ 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your notes and the effort. It bit of both, people are bit scared about letting go of their copyright, and probably they do not care about the public resource. In most cases sharing it common does not cost the person anything. We just have to campaign bit more about the benefit of public resources. Also, Wikipedia is now very strict about its pictures policy. We are playing a bit of catchup. I will delete the pciture you noted if necessary. --Natkeeran 23:26, 23 ഓഗസ്റ്റ്‌ 2008 (UTC)

Transliteration of long strings

In all the South Asian wikipedias with built-in transliteration, transliteration of long strings sometimes is not possible. Eg-sagarmatha (Nepalese name of Mt. Everest) is transliterated as സഗരമാതഅ on typing sa-ga-ra-maa-thaa rather than സഗരമാതാ. Is there some way to fix this?--Eukesh 21:53, 11 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2008 (UTC)

if you want to type സഗരമാതഅ, you may try saagarmaatha_a. --ജ്യോതിസ് 22:30, 11 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2008 (UTC)

or For സാഗരമാതാ try saagaramaathA--പ്രവീൺ:സം‌വാദം 07:41, 13 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestions. But my concern was regarding the enabling of "aa" thing rather than the other two. Thanks again. --Eukesh 10:40, 21 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2008 (UTC)

India Week on Russian Wikipedia edition

Dear colleagues, Russian Wikipedia edition is starting a week of India on Nov 7-17, 2008. During this period, the Theme Week project participants and other Wikipedia users will try to cover as many India-related topics as possible. Your contribution to this project would be very much appreciated. --Munroe 23:09, 6 നവംബർ 2008 (UTC)

What are you editing?

I couldn't understand one thing is what are you people editing on Malayalam Wikipedia? Because most of the articles on Malayalam wiki are not more than 3-4 lines. Are you people just editing like adding and deleting points (.) to increase edits to finally increase the overall depth only? रोहित रावत 16:24, 15 ഒക്ടോബർ 2009 (UTC)

Rohit, good question. Please go ahead and start comparing the version diffs on each page and figure it out. On a second thought, why dont you learn ml and join us to find out what we do? We could use one more hand as an editor here ;-) --ജ്യോതിസ് 16:33, 15 ഒക്ടോബർ 2009 (UTC)

Oh, I would have joined you but unfortunately I don't know Malayalam language but I'll help if I find that it is needed and I can fulfill it. Thanks a lot for the answer. रोहित रावत 02:28, 16 ഒക്ടോബർ 2009 (UTC)

Thats alright. I would be happy to see you contributing to Hi wiki, if you can spend enough time. Essentially its all a part of the same family. --ജ്യോതിസ് 03:10, 16 ഒക്ടോബർ 2009 (UTC)

Rohit.. I have wondered about the quality of hindi wiki, while trying to expand the article of Lohri in malayalam wiki by referring the hindi version. Most of the Malayalees not even heard about the Lohri festival. You can also compare this article to find our the difference. --Vssun 04:37, 16 ഒക്ടോബർ 2009 (UTC)

Wikimania Scholarships

The call for applications for Wikimania Scholarships to attend Wikimania 2010 in Gdansk, Poland (July 9-11) is now open. The Wikimedia Foundation offers Scholarships to pay for selected individuals' round trip travel, accommodations, and registration at the conference.

To apply, visit the Wikimania 2010 scholarships information page, click the secure link available there, and fill out the form to apply.

For additional information, please visit the Scholarships information and FAQ pages:

• Scholarships
• Scholarships FAQ

Yours very truly,

Cary Bass
Volunteer Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation

Mallu Wiki is now irrelevent wikipedia

Wow, you bloody mallus thought that by running bots you people can increase the no. of edits and non-articles on this bloody wiki and the result is this wiki is now depthless and read carefully on this page which clearly states that foe wikis below 100,000 articles depth above 300 can be dissmissed as irrelevent. Huh bloody mallus working for irrelevent wikipedia. —ഈ തിരുത്തൽ നടത്തിയത് Randismo (സം‌വാദം • സംഭാവനകൾ)

2010 Fundraising Is Almost Here

Hello Wikipedians, I am Theo and I am working for the Wikimedia Foundation during the 2010 Fundraiser. My job is to be the liaison between your community and the Foundation. This year's fundraiser is intended to be a collaborative and global effort; we recognize that banner messages which may perform well in the United States don't necessarily translate well, or appeal to international audiences.

I'm contacting you as I am currently looking for translators who are willing to contribute to this project by helping translate and localize messages into different languages and suggesting messages that would appeal to your readers on the Fundraising Meta Page. We've started the setup on meta for both banner submission, statistical analysis, and grouping volunteers together.
Use the talk pages on meta, talk to your local communities, talk to others, talk to us, and add your feedback to the proposed messages as well! I look forward to working with you during this year's fundraiser. If someone could translate this message I would really appreciate it so that everyone is able to understand our goals and contribute to this year's campaign.
Theo (WMF) 20:47, 20 ഒക്ടോബർ 2010 (UTC)

Contribute Campaign

Hi everyone, I wanted to inform everyone about the ongoing Contribute campaign for this year's fundraiser. As part of the campaign, we want to drive up participation on the Indian language Wikipedias, We have created a page on Meta where we can discuss and brainstorm Ideas on what we can do to improve Indian Language Wikipedias. I would like to invite anyone who is interested in contributing to join in, and share their thoughts. Thank you. [1]Theo (WMF) 17:52, 30 നവംബർ 2010 (UTC)

Call for image filter referendum

The Wikimedia Foundation, at the direction of the Board of Trustees, will be holding a vote to determine whether members of the community support the creation and usage of an opt-in personal image filter, which would allow readers to voluntarily screen particular types of images strictly for their own account.

Further details and educational materials will be available shortly. The referendum is scheduled for 12-27 August, 2011, and will be conducted on servers hosted by a neutral third party. Referendum details, officials, voting requirements, and supporting materials will be posted at Meta:Image filter referendum shortly.

Sorry for delivering you a message in English. Please help translate the pages on the referendum on Meta and join the translators mailing list.

For the coordinating committee,
Philippe (WMF)
Cbrown1023
Risker
Mardetanha
PeterSymonds
Robert Harris

Fundraiser 2011 translation

Hi! I am Jon Harald Søby, and I work for the Wikimedia Foundation during the 2011 fundraiser. I am looking for people who can help coordinating the translations into Malayalam for this year's fundraiser. The coordinator task is to help find translators and quality checkers, and make sure the translations are done in time. If you want to help out with coordinating, translating or quality checking, add your name to this list or send me an e-mail at jsoby@wikimedia.org. Jsoby 23:11, 18 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2011 (UTC)

Usurpation

Hi, where can I usurpate my nick on your project as here? Thank you for your help. 212.47.25.131 08:38, 21 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2011 (UTC)

How can i give a request here? I cant edit this page. My request is accesible on my talk page. Thank you for your advice. Palu (temp) 07:54, 18 ഒക്ടോബർ 2011 (UTC)

Article request

Hi! Here is an article that would be nice to have in Malayalam:

• en:City of God (2011 film) -> സിറ്റി ഓഫ് ഗോഡ് (the article സിറ്റി ഓഫ് ഗോഡ് is about the Brazilian film while this one is an Indian film)

Thank you, WhisperToMe 16:42, 22 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2011 (UTC)

Terms of Use update

I apologize that you are receiving this message in English. Please help translate it.

Hello,

The Wikimedia Foundation is discussing changes to its Terms of Use. The discussion can be found at Talk:Terms of use. Everyone is invited to join in. Because the new version of Terms of use is not in final form, we are not able to present official translations of it. Volunteers are welcome to translate it, as German volunteers have done at m:Terms of use/de, but we ask that you note at the top that the translation is unofficial and may become outdated as the English version is changed. The translation request can be found at m:Translation requests/WMF/Terms of Use 2 -- Maggie Dennis, Community Liaison 01:05, 27 ഒക്ടോബർ 2011 (UTC)

dear embassy wer auch immer du bist haben wir dich ganz dolle lieb deine d.katzeberger c.o kreissprache´

Protocol relative

I was looking at this wiki and got insecure content warnings from Chrome and Firefox. This is caused by links in MediaWiki:Common.css that look like url(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ml/5/5c/Allpagesredirect.gif). These should be changed to url(//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ml/5/5c/Allpagesredirect.gif), so that they become protocol relative. TheDJ (സംവാദം) 08:44, 19 ഡിസംബർ 2011 (UTC)

Open Call for 2012 Wikimedia Fellowship Applicants

I apologize that you are receiving this message in English. Please help translate it.

• Do you want to help attract new contributors to Wikimedia projects?
• Do you want to improve retention of our existing editors?
• Do you want to strengthen our community by diversifying its base and increasing the overall number of excellent participants around the world?

The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking Community Fellows and project ideas for the Community Fellowship Program. A Fellowship is a temporary position at the Wikimedia Foundation in order to work on a specific project or set of projects. Submissions for 2012 are encouraged to focus on the theme of improving editor retention and increasing participation in Wikimedia projects. If interested, please submit a project idea or apply to be a fellow by January 15, 2012. Please visit https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Fellowships for more information.

Thanks!

--Siko Bouterse, Head of Community Fellowships, Wikimedia Foundation 02:55, 22 ഡിസംബർ 2011 (UTC)

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Translation Request

Hi Malyalam Wiki friends. As I don't know Malayalam language (though I wish I could learn it) but I need a piece of text which needs to be translated into Malayalam I need your help. Could you guys please translate this to Malayalam?

The text is: "Welcome to the embassy of the Hindi-Wikipedia! If you have any announcements or questions regarding international issues or the Hindi Wikipedia, you are invited to post them here or to the Talk page for this article. Posts can be in any language but posts in Hindi and English are most likely to be answered in a timely manner."

Thanks a lot in advance. My name is Rohit Rawat from Hindi Wikipedia. रोहित रावत (സംവാദം) 08:47, 25 ഡിസംബർ 2011 (UTC)

Hi Rohit,

here is the translation.

ഹിന്ദി വിക്കിപീഡിയയുടെ എംബസിയിലേക്ക് സ്വാഗതം. ഹിന്ദി വിക്കിപീഡിയ സംബന്ധിച്ച എന്തെങ്കിലും ചോദ്യങ്ങൾ താങ്കൾക്ക് ഉണ്ടെങ്കിൽ അത് ഇവിടെ (അല്ലെങ്കിൽ ഈ താളിന്റെ സംവാദം താളിൽ) ചോദിക്കുക. ഏതു ഭാഷയിലും ചോദിക്കാമെങ്കിലും, ഇംഗ്ലീഷിലോ ഹിന്ദിയിലോ ചോദിക്കുകയാണെങ്കിൽ പെട്ടെന്ന് ഉത്തരം ലഭിച്ചേക്കാം.--ഷിജു അലക്സ് (സംവാദം) 10:01, 25 ഡിസംബർ 2011 (UTC)

Thanks a lot for the translation. रोहित रावत (സംവാദം) 17:03, 28 ഡിസംബർ 2011 (UTC)

Special Box for Indian Languages on Main Page

Telugu Wikipedia has been using a special box (Link to template in Telugu) on its main page to point to Indian language Wikipedias. Can you include a similar one on your main page?--Arjunaraoc (സംവാദം) 06:24, 9 ജനുവരി 2012 (UTC)

Announcing Wikipedia 1.19 beta

Wikimedia Foundation is getting ready to push out 1.19 to all the WMF-hosted wikis. As we finish wrapping up our code review, you can test the new version right now on beta.wmflabs.org. For more information, please read the release notes or the start of the final announcement.

The following are the areas that you will probably be most interested in:

• Faster loading of javascript files makes dependency tracking more important.
• New common*.css files usable by skins instead of having to copy piles of generic styles from MonoBook or Vector's css.
• The default user signature now contains a talk link in addition to the user link.
• Searching blocked usernames in block log is now clearer.
• Better timezone recognition in user preferences.
• Improved diff readability for colorblind people.
• The interwiki links table can now be accessed also when the interwiki cache is used (used in the API and the Interwiki extension).
• More gender support (for instance in logs and user lists).
• Language converter improved, e.g. it now works depending on the page content language.
• Time and number-formatting magic words also now depend on the page content language.
• Bidirectional support further improved after 1.18.

Report any problems on the labs beta wiki and we'll work to address them before they software is released to the production wikis.

Note that this cluster does have SUL but it is not integrated with SUL in production, so you'll need to create another account. You should avoid using the same password as you use here. — Global message delivery 16:23, 15 ജനുവരി 2012 (UTC)

MediaWiki 1.19

(Apologies if this message isn't in your language.) The Wikimedia Foundation is planning to upgrade MediaWiki (the software powering this wiki) to its latest version this month. You can help to test it before it is enabled, to avoid disruption and breakage. More information is available in the full announcement. Thank you for your understanding.

Guillaume Paumier, via the Global message delivery system (wrong page? You can fix it.). 15:11, 12 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2012 (UTC)

Notable record holders from Kerala

There are many notable record holders from Kerala. I searched for them, but lack of infos. For example, I searched for L. Athira Krishna, a Guinness World Recorder. Kindly have a plan to increase your stuff.Before that have a look over this category. My suggestion is that have a plan to collect their fotos first.See you then. BYE! --தகவலுழவன் (സംവാദം) 06:56, 2 മേയ് 2012 (UTC)

Article request

ta:முசிறி-அலெக்சாந்திரியா வணிக உடன்படிக்கை

Helpful links

1. Little information in en wiki When did Egyptians start trading with Muziris is not known, but a document discovered in Egypt in 1980 and first published in 1985 confirms that by 2nd century CE it was well established. Known as the Muziris papyrus or the Vienna papyrus it is now preserved in a Vienna Museum.[17] This papyrus document mentions a loan agreement made by an Egyptian merchant and a merchant in Muziris, for exporting Gangetic Nard, ivorys and textiles. It also estimates the value of goods and a 25% tax for the items.

That Egyptian merchant gave this agreement to the Roman government as a guarantee for a loan and that is how this agreement survived through the ages. This discovery has opened a strong base to ancient international and trade laws in particular and has been studied at length by economists, lawyers as well as historians.[18]

1. http://historicalleys.blogspot.in/2010_06_01_archive.html

Soon @ June 3 2012 it'll be a first page article in Tamil Wikipedia. So try to translate it soon.--தென்காசி சுப்பிரமணியன் (സംവാദം) 15:57, 31 മേയ് 2012 (UTC)

Update on IPv6

(Apologies if this message isn't in your language. Please consider translating it, as well as the full version of this announcement on Meta)

The Wikimedia Foundation is planning to do limited testing of IPv6 on June 2-3. If there are not too many problems, we may fully enable IPv6 on World IPv6 day (June 6), and keep it enabled.

What this means for your project:

• At least on June 2-3, 2012, you may see a small number of edits from IPv6 addresses, which are in the form "2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334". See e.g. w:en:IPv6 address. These addresses should behave like any other IP address: You can leave messages on their talk pages; you can track their contributions; you can block them. (See the full version of this announcement for notes on range blocks.)

• In the mid term, some user scripts and tools will need to be adapted for IPv6.

• We suspect that IPv6 usage is going to be very low initially, meaning that abuse should be manageable, and we will assist in the monitoring of the situation.

Read the full version of this announcement on how to test the behavior of IPv6 with various tools and how to leave bug reports, and to find a fuller analysis of the implications of the IPv6 migration.

--Erik Möller, VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation 01:13, 2 ജൂൺ 2012 (UTC)

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