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From: Srujanika <srujanika-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Date: Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 11:30 PM
Subject: Fw: FUEL & Style Guide for Odia.
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Hello,

 

FUEL - frequently used entries for localization - is basically a set of terms used for computer work in any particular language. Efforts are on among the open source workers to standardise these terms to maintain uniformity. Results of the work in Odia, carried out mostly at RedHat, is attached. That for Hindi is available at https://fedorahosted.org/fuel/wiki/fuel-hindi .

 

As far as Odia is concerned different vendors/developers have come out with their versions of many products. Two major examples are Microsoft's Windows 7 / Office 2010 and Fedora Linux. Modular's Ankur Indian Laguage Office Suite also has tried to present Odia interface for all the applications included. However, the variations are wide and Odia interfaces are far from being smooth. All these are available with us if anyone wants to take a look. We are preparing some notes on these. Microsoft's style guide is at

http://www.google.co.in/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=ori-ind-styleguide&source=web&cd=3&ved=0CC4QFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdownload.microsoft.com%2Fdownload%2FA%2FE%2FF%2FAEF09212-6102-484C-8F7D-39FFFCAACC97%2Fori-ind-StyleGuide.pdf&ei=g-0BT8GEH4nWrQeXvv3-Dw&usg=AFQjCNGvy_hMpuxYcBtUjXc_cQZIYn99QQ&cad=rja .

 

Personally, I have always felt the need for a dedicated group taking up this work on a long term and continuous basis. But we have not been able to devote that time and energy in this direction. Even now we are very short of manpower and are rather pressed with our work on the digitization of Odia periodicals. We hope to be in a better position after April 2012. In the meantime we can use any help available in this direction.

 

Manoj, whose mail is appended below, has been planning for a workshop on the subject as detailed below. We feel that it should be taken up seriously as a starting point for a concerted effort over a period of at least one year, rather than achieving definite results during the workshop. We should also look at some general problems faced in the Odia language computing activity. Some of these are outlined in the old notes attached with this mail. Windows issues will also have to be addressed in some way.

 

Please consider the matter and air your views as to the best way to go about this. Also please try to bring this to the notice of others. If everyone feels that we should get together on January 26-27, we can make arrangements here at Srujanika or any other suitable place.

 

We will make a wider announcement after the event is fixed up.

 

Looking forward to hearing from all soon.

 

With best wishes,

 

Nikhil

 

Nikhil Mohan Pattnaik,
"Srujanika", 101 Saraswati Kunja,
Near Jagamara Bazar, PO: Khandagiri,
Bhubaneswar 751030
Orissa
 
Tel: 0674-2350664 / 2350640
 
(Srujanika - A Society for Research and Innovation in Science, Education and Development)

 

PS: Jitendra babu - can we rope in Prafulla babu (Tripathy) for this? Would you please give a thought to the lucidity of the terms?

 

 

 

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From: Manoj Kumar Giri

To: Srujanika

Sent: Monday, January 02, 2012 2:56 PM

Subject: Re: FUEL & Style Guide for Odia.

Dear Nikhil Sir,
                     Happy New Year to you and Srujanika team.

Sending you the fuel Odia .pdf file in attachment. And i'm preparing the FUEL Style Guide for Odia. I'll send that to you for verification after completing.
I already spoke to Gora bhai and Arun (working in Microsoft, Hyderabad) about the event. They will come to bbsr for two days to attend this event.
Only we need one or two Linguist people during the evaluation process. Please let me know if you have any contacts.
We are planning to have it on January last week, probably on 26 th & 27 th.
Please let me know if it is possible for you on 26 th & 27th. Else let us know your convenient time.
Also i'm relying on you about the venue where we can sit together for the discussion.

Thanks & Regards!
Manoj

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Thanks & Regards,
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Odia (Oriya) Wikipedia Community
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they sound interested and there is a
potential to host a work shop to 100 students (class 6 to 10th) on

Saturday 21st jan. let me know if any support in form of take away's  (t

shirt/badges/printed faq booklet etc) that cd be possible for this.
also pls community members if few of us could connec to plan properly

for this.

We shall plan this. Since we already have few Odia wiki community members in Cuttack/Bhubaneshwar it is easy to organize this workshop. So we shall discuss this in wiki and take this forward.

I remember Subhashish and few Odia wiki community members created an FAQ booklet earlier. It might require some update. Definitely we can reuse it after the update. 

also siju is it possible to mail me foundation official  doc as cover
letter/introduction letter in  about the Wiki workshop targeted to
schools. i think mentioning the success of tamil /Malalayam school
programme can be of help too. i ll take this to school authority with
a event poster may be for generating interest .

The Headmaster

Secondary Board High School

Cuttack, Odisha - PLEASE LET ME KNOW THE PIN CODE

 

Let me discuss this. I come back to you regarding this.

Best wishes for all the efforts of Odia wiki community members to build its community. We definitely need more programs to attract more Odia speakers to Odia wikipedia and its sister projects.

Shiju

On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 9:52 PM, asutosh kar <kar.asutosh-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:

Thanks Siju

for the pointer to celebrate the birthday of the Odia Wiki. we
community members will surely do something here. currently i am in
Odisha and am here till this month end.
Today i got a chance to connect to the Principal & computer teacher of
 My school, SBHS here at cuttack. they sound interested and there is a
potential to host a work shop to 100 students (class 6 to 10th) on
Saturday 21st jan.

pls let me know if any support in form of take away's  (t
shirt/badges/printed faq booklet etc) that cd be possible for this.
also pls community members if few of us could connec to plan properly
for this.

also siju is it possible to mail me foundation official  doc as cover
letter/introduction letter in  about the Wiki workshop targeted to
schools. i think mentioning the success of tamil /Malalayam school
programme can be of help too. i ll take this to school authority with
a event poster may be for generating interest .

hope this will be good pilot project to start similar activity ahead.
waiting to hear from you .

regards
asutosh
M: 91 801 821 5819

On 1/4/12, Shiju Alex <shiju-AeOJrEpdGNeGglJvpFV4uA@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> The below message is about the birthday of Indic wikipedias and the

> birthday of Odia (Oriya) wikipedia is on *January 29*. The first edit in

> Odia wikipedia had happened on

> *2004-January-29<http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/?diff=1>
> * which means Odia wikipedia will celebrate 8th anniversary this month.

>
> Thanks
> Shiju Alex
>
>
>
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> From: Shiju Alex <shiju-AeOJrEpdGNeGglJvpFV4uA@public.gmane.org>
> Date: Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 6:04 PM
> Subject: Birthday of Indic language wikipedias
> To: Wikimedia India Community list <wikimediaindia-l-RusutVdil2haHRNjGDgK7w@public.gmane.org.org>
>
>
> Dear Indic wikipedians
>
> One of the aspects that was raised during the discussions with almost all
> Indic language wiki communities was the need to build existing
> communities, motivate existing community members, attract new community
> members by increasing awareness of projects and communities, and to
> celebrate all the possible occasions.
>
> I have a suggestion that can contribute to all of these in some manner. The
> suggestion is to celebrate the anniversaries of Indic language wikipedias.

> And as you might agree, the first edit date of a wiki is the best *
> anniversary* that a community can celebrate.  I have collected information

> for the birthdays of each Indic Wikipedia.  This is the day on which the

> first edit happened on the respective language wikipedia. (The *Indian
> Standard Time* is used while recording the date and time).

>
>
> I am listing those days below for your reference,
>

>    *Indic Language wikipedia*
>
> *Birthday/Anniversary (Date of first edit)*
>
> *Number of active editors*
>

> *Assamese* <http://as.wikipedia.org/>
>
> *June 02 (2002-June-02) <http://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/?diff=1>*
>
> 10
>
> *Nepali* <http://ne.wikipedia.org/>
>
> *June 03 (2002-June-03) <http://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/?diff=1>*
>
> 13
>
> *Punjab <http://pa.wikipedia.org/>i*
>
> *June 03 (2002-June-03) <http://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/?diff=1>*
>
> 3
>
> *Malayalam* <http://ml.wikipedia.org/>
>
> *December 21 (2002-December-21) <http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/?diff=1>*
>
> 93
>
> *Kannada* <http://kn.wikipedia.org/>
>
> *January 12 (2003-January-12) <http://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/?diff=1>*
>
> 20
>
> *Bhojpuri* <http://bh.wikipedia.org/>
>
> *February 21 (2003-February-21) <http://bh.wikipedia.org/wiki/?diff=1>*
>
> 0
>
> *Hindi* <http://hi.wikipedia.org/>
>
> *July 11 <http://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/?diff=1> (2003-July-11)
> <http://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/?diff=1>*
>
> 55
>
> *Kashmiri* <http://ks.wikipedia.org/>
>
> *July 26 (2003-July-26) <http://ks.wikipedia.org/wiki/?diff=5>*
>
> 1
>
> *Tamil* <http://ta.wikipedia.org/>
>
> *September 30 (2003-September-30) <http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/?diff=5>*
>
> 85
>
> *Marathi* <http://mr.wikipedia.org/>
>
> *October 20 (2003-October-20) <http://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/?diff=1>*
>
> 44
>
> *Gujarati* <http://gu.wikipedia.org/>
>
> *December 09 (2003-December-09) <http://gu.wikipedia.org/wiki/?diff=1>*
>
> 11
>
> *Sanskrit* <http://sa.wikipedia.org/>
>
> *December 21 (2003-December-21) <http://sa.wikipedia.org/wiki/?diff=1>*
>
> 16
>
> *Sindhi* <http://sd.wikipedia.org/>
>
> *December 26 (2003-December-26) <http://sd.wikipedia.org/wiki/?diff=1>*
>
> 5
>
> *Bengali* <http://bn.wikipedia.org/>
>
> *January 27 <http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/?diff=6>
> (2004-January-27)<http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/?diff=6>
> *
>
> 52
>
> *Urdu* <http://ur.wikipedia.org/>
>
> *January 27 (2004-January-27) <http://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/?diff=2>*
>
> 15
>
> *Odia (Oriya <http://or.wikipedia.org/>)*
>
> *January 29 (2004-January-29) <http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/?diff=1>*
>
> 10
>
> *Telugu* <http://te.wikipedia.org/>
>
> *January 29 (2004-January-29) <http://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/?diff=1>*
>
> 32
>
> *Pali* <http://pi.wikipedia.org/>
>
> *July 29 (2004-July-29) <http://pi.wikipedia.org/wiki/?diff=1>*
>
> 0
>
> *Newari* <http://new.wikipedia.org/>
>
> *October 01 (2006-October-01) <http://new.wikipedia.org/wiki/?diff=4>*
>
> 1
>
> *Bishnupriya Manipuri* <http://bpy.wikipedia.org/>
>
> *October 01 (2006-October-01) <http://bpy.wikipedia.org/wiki/?diff=2>*
>

> 2
>
>
> This list is available in meta also.
>
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages#State_of_Indic_Language_Projects
>
>
> I recommend that we use these anniversary dates to do the following
>

>    - Organize a small wikiconfernce or some other major event for the
>    respective language wikipedia
>    - Organize community meetups to celebrate this
>    - Coincide community events around these meetups (such as outreach

>    sessions, photo events, or launching specific WikiProjects)

>    - Invite press to these meetups and use different platforms to spread

>    word about respective language wikipedia.
>

> From the above table we can see that *Assamese* is the first Indic language
> wikipedia, and 4 Indic language wikipedias will celebrate *10th
> anniversary* this

> year (2012). :) So it is time to get prepared for the celebration.
>
> Happy Birthday Celebrations!
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Shiju Alex
> India Programs of Wikimedia Foundation
>

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