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Community support
edit| Sl No. | Date of request | Name | Details of support extended | Status | When the request was fulfilled | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | 11 February2013 | Rahimanuddin, Telugu Wikimedia Community | Support for swags for wiki academy at BV Raju Institute of Technologies.
Swags:
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Fulfilled | 28 February 2013 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | July 2013 | Diptiman Panigrahi, Odia Wikimedia Community | Odia Wikipedia Workshop/Meetup Expenses in the month of June-July 2013 | Fulfilled | 01.08.2013 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | 18 April 2013 | Radhakrishna, Telugu Wikimedia Community | Swags for Wikimedia presentation at Alcatel-Lucent (5 T-shirts) | Fulfilled | April 2013 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | 24 March 2013 | Rahimanuddin, Telugu Wikimedia Community | Request for funding Telugu Wikipedia Mahotsavam 2013
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Fulfilled | 11-12-2013 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | 11 July 2013 | Shirish Nag, English Wikimedia Community | Swags for Wikipedia outreach activities in Nagpur
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Fulfilled | 24 July 2013 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 6 | 2 August 2013 | Gorvachove Pothal, Odia Wikimedia Community | Odia Wikipedia Workshop/Meetup Expenses in the month of June–July 2013. details below:
Grand Total Rs. 2000/- |
Fulfilled | 17 September 2013 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 7 | 15.09.2013 | Ravishankar, Tamil Wikimedia Community | Contingency funding request for Tamil Wikipedia's 10th anniversary | Fulfilled | 03-10-2013 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | 15.092013 | Ravishankar, Tamil Wikimedia Community | Swags for Tamil Wikipedia's 10th anniversary (25 Wikipedia T-Shirts and 100 Wikipedia stickers) | Fulfilled | 3 September 2013 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | 04.10.2013 | Anivar, Malayalam Wikimedia Community | 12th Year Celebrations of Swathanthra Malayalam Computing. Details below:
Total = 41,765.96 |
Fulfilled | 7 November 2013 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | 10 November 2013 | Kiran Ravikumar, Kannada Wikimedia Community | Support for 10th anniversary of Kannada Wikipedia 2013. Details:
Total: Rs. 11,000 |
Fulfilled | 11 December 2013 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | 20 November 2013 | Adv. T.K. Sujith, Malayalam Wikimedia Community | Support for WikiSangamotsavam 2013/Malayalam Wiki Conference 2013
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In progress | -- | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | 10 January 2014 | Pranayraj Vangari, Telugu Wikimedia Community | Support for Tewiki10 /Telugu Wikipedia Dasabdi Utsavalu 2014
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Fulfilled | 24 January 2014 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | 13 January 2014 | Jayanta Nath, Bengali Wikimedia Community | Kolkata Bookfair 2014 and Wikipedia 13 celebration
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Funded, unused money to be refunded | 17 January 2014 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | 23 January 2014 | Mrutyunjaya Kar, Odia Wikimedia Community | Support for Odiawiki10 /Odia Wikipedia 10th Birthday celebration, 2014
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Funded, unused money refunded | 28 January 2014 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | 11 March 2014 | Mrutyunjaya Kar, Odia Wikimedia Community | Support for Odisha Day 2014
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Funded  50,000, final expenses settled, 50 T-Shirts and 100 stickers provided |
30 March 2014 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | 5 August 2014 | Shubha, Sanskrit Wikimedia Community | Training on Wikisource | In progress | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | 18 November 2014 | Mrutyunjaya Kar, Odia Wikimedia Community | Support for Odia Wikisource Sabha 2014
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Funded 50,000, final expenses to be settled, 50 T-Shirts provided |
19 November 2014 |
Request for outreach programs
edit| Sl No. | Date | Name | Details of the outreach program | Status | When the request was fulfilled |
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| 1 | October 2012 | Assamese Wikimedia Community | Support for Assamese Education Program | In progress | |
| 2 | October 2012 | Gujarati Wikimedia Community | Support for Gujarati Education Program | ||
| 3 | October 2012 | Mumbai Wiki Community | Support for WikiWomenDay 2012 | ||
| 4 | January 2013 | Punjabi Wikimedia Community | Support for outreach programs in January in Patiala | Being planned to be done in March | |
| 5 | January 2013 | Odia Wikimedia Community | Support for closing ceremony of Odia Education Program and Celebration of Odia Wikipedia's 9th anniversary | Supported | 26 and 29 January |
| 6 | May 2013 | Kannada Wikimedia Community | Request to organize outreach program at Hassan | Supported | Conducted on 4 June 2013 |
| 7 | May 2013 | Kannada Wikimedia Community | Request to organize outreach program at Sagar | Planned | Planned for July 28 |
| 8 | May 2013 | Kannada Wikimedia Community | Request to organize outreach program for Kannada bloggers | Supported | Conducted on Jun 23, 2013 |
| 9 | June 5, 2013 | Kannada Wikimedia Community | Request to organize outreach program for Bangalore dotnet users group | Planned | date not yet finalised |
| 10 | June 6, 2013 | Kannada Wikimedia Community | Request to organize outreach program for Mumbai University Kannada Department | Planned | Planned for August 23 |
| 11 | June 2013 | Kannada Wikimedia Community | Request to organize outreach program at Hubli | Supported | Conducted on July 21, 2013 |
| 12 | June 2013 | Kannada Wikimedia Community | Request to organize outreach program at Sagar | Supported | Conducted on July 28, 2013 |
| 13 | July 2013 | Kannada Wikimedia Community | Request to organize outreach program at Mysore | Supported | Conducted on Aug 06, 2013 |
| 14 | July 29, 2013 | Kannada Wikimedia Community | Request to organize outreach program at K R Pet | Supported | Conducted on Aug 11, 2013 |
| 15 | July 2013 | Kannada Wikimedia Community | Request to organize outreach program at Karnataka Sangha, Mumbai | Planned | Did not happen |
| 16 | July 2013 | Centre for Indian Languages in Higher Educaiton, TISS | Wikipedia Training programme in Marathi and Hindi for TISS, Pandhrapur campus students | Supported | Conducted on Aug 16, 2013 |
| 17 | Aug 2, 2013 | Kannada Wikimedia Community | Request to organize outreach program at KRVP, Bangalore | Planned | Did not happen |
| 18 | Jan 21, 2014 | Odia Wikimedia Community | Request to organize outreach program at NIT, Warangal | In progress |
Technical
editBugs
edit| Sl No. | Date | Name | Details of the bug | Status | When the request was fulfilled |
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| 1 | October 2012 | Chaipau, Bishnu Saikia, Gitartha, Jyoti, Assamese Wikimedia Community | English numbers in Assamese Wikipedia, Collation issue | Unsolved - Problem from browser end | - |
| 2 | 10 October 2012 | Subhashish, Odia Wikimedia Community | Update Lekhani typing scheme for Narayam based on jquery.ime changes | WONTFIXed as the codebase had changed. Please open seprate Bugzilla tickets for remaining issues. | - |
| 3 | 4 November 2012 | Bill William Compton, Siddhartha, Hindi Wikimedia Community | Old pending bug for enabling special:import on Hindi Wikipedia | Fixed in May 2013 | - |
| 4 | 8 January 2013 | Guglani, Punjabi Wikimedia Community | DRCHatrik Phonetic Gurumukhi keyboard layout: Font kerning problem and problems with web fonts | Resolved, will be enabled in the next version of 1.21wmf8 | 16 January 2013 |
| 5 | 13 January 2013 | Abhishek Suryawanshi and members of Wikipedia Club Pune | 2 bugs(1 and 2) reported for account creation during the Wikipedia Summit India | 13 January 2013 | Done, 13 January 2013 |
| 6 | 15 January 2013 | Subhashish | Deploy Narayam or ULS on the multilingual WikiSource | Discussion and community consensus done, resolved | 14 February 2013 |
| 7 | 24 January 2013 | Subhashish | Indic typing not working for search field even when Narayam is enabled | Resolved | 29 May 2013 |
| 8 | 29 May 2013 | Pavanaja | Remove IP throttle for account creation | Still in process | - |
| 9 | 14 June 2013 | Praveenp | ULS icon is too small and unidentifiable | Works for developers as they say, but still issues to be addressed | - |
| 10 | 16 June 2013 | Subhashish | Icon for switching between languages missing in Indic Wikipedias | Resolved Invalid | - |
| 11 | 21 June 2013 | Subhashish | Auto-capitalization for Indic typing in mobiles to be disabled | Pending (missing good steps to reproduce) | - |
| 12 | 21 June 2013 | Subhashish | Reloading of page because of changing webfont and loss of data | Closed - not successful to reproduce the problem | - |
| 13 | 24 June 2013 | Guglani, Punjabi Wikimedia Community | Lohit Panjabi font display error of siharis (vowel short I) | UNCONFIRMED | - |
| 14 | 27 June 2013 | Subhashish | ULS doesn't work while using VisualEditor | - | |
| 15 | 28 June 2013 | Pavanaja | ULS doesn't work while using VisualEditor | - | |
| 16 | 28 June 2013 | Pavanaja | VE does not support typing in Kannada | NEW | - |
| 17 | 5 July 2013 | Subha | Faulty display of typing layouts for ULS Odia Wikipedia | NEW | - |
| 18 | 25 Aug 2013 | Pavanaja | VE-ULS support needed in dialog boxes | NEW | - |
| 19 | 25 Aug 2013 | Pavanaja | VE-Inserting and editing tables | - | |
| 20 | 25 Aug 2013 | Pavanaja | VE-Search and replace feature needed | - | |
| 21 | 04 Nov 2013 | Pavanaja | Mediaviewer does not show full screen preview sometimes | WORKSFORME | 07 Feb 2014 |
| 22 | 21 Nov 2013 | Pavanaja | Wrong display for Kannada in ULS | Resolved | 22 Nov 2013 |
| 23 | 10 Dec 2013 | Pavanaja | Personal sandbox needed in Kannada Wikipedia | Resolved | 10 Dec 2013 |
| 24 | 10 Dec 2013 | Pavanaja | Request to whitelist IP numbers for Wiki Education program | Resolved | 31 Jan 2014 |
| 25 | 01 Jan 2014 | Pavanaja | Make ULS enabled by default for Indian language Wikipedias | Resolved | 02 Feb 2014 |
| 26 | 06 Feb 2014 | Pavanaja | Wrong text in Kannada Wikipedia login page | Resolved | 06 Feb 2014 |
| 27 | 14 March 2014 | Muzammil | Problems in ULS typing on Urdu Wikipedia | NEW | |
| 28 | 17 September 2014 | Subhashish on behalf of Preetinanda Routray, Coordinator at KIIS Odia Wikisource program | Oriya webfont not getting loaded for edit field on wikisource (FF31 on Windows XP) | NEW | |
| 29 | 12 July 2015 | Subhashish followed up for Odia keyboard layout OdiScript, later discussed in the community for modifications and renaming. | Push request made | Ongoing | |
| 30 | 12 July 2015 | Followed up on Assamese keyboard layout Rodali that was pending since 2014. Worked with the developer-Wikimedian Gunadeep and WMF engineer Amir for pushing this. | Github thread | Ongoing | |
| 31 | 05 August 2015 | Subhashish on behalf of the Odia Wikimedia community | Adding new Odia (Oriya) webfont | NEW | |
| 32 | 05 August 2015 | Subhashish on behalf of the Odia Wikimedia community | Adding Odia (Oriya) Wikisource to Stats Wiki | NEW | |
| 33 | 13 August 2015 | Subhashish on behald of the Odia Wikimedia community | Updates and fixing issues with Lekhani keyboard layout | NEW |
Other technical support
edit| Sl No. | Date | Name | Details of the technical support | Status | When the request was fulfilled |
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| 1 | January 2013 | Assamese Wikimedia Community | Creating IRC Channel for Assamese Wikipedia | Done | 17 January 2013 |
| 2 | 5 February 2013 | Guglani, Punjabi Wikimedia Community | Redirect issues with Community portal | Done | February 2013 |
Logistics-Merchandize
edit| Sl No. | Date | Name | Details of the logistics support | Status | When the request was fulfilled | |
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| 1 | October 2012 | Abhishek Suryawanshi, Wikipedia Club Pune | Requested logistics and merchandize support for for WikiWomenDay 2012 | Supported as per request | October 2012 | |
| 2 | November 2012 | Srikant Kedia, Odia Wikimedia Community | Requested for logistics support for various outreach programs | Supported as per request | November 2012 | |
| 3 | December 2012 | Shiju Alex, Malayalam Wikimedia Community | Community requested for stickers and buttons for 10th anniversary celebration of Malayalam Wikipedia on December 21, Bangalore | Supported as per request | December 2012 | |
| 4 | January 2013 | Abhishek Suryawanshi, Wikipedia Club Pune | Requested for support for Wikipedia Summit India | Supported as per request | January 2012 | |
| 5 | January 2013 | Mrutyunjaya Kar & Srikant Kedia, Odia Wikimedia Community | Requested for logistics support for 9th anniversary celebration of Odia Wikipedia on 29 January, Bhubaneswar | Supported as per request | January 2013 | |
| 6 | February 2013 | Rahimanuddin, Telugu Wikimedia Community | Requested for badges and stickers, BV Raju Institute of Technologies, Andhra Pradesh | Supported as per request | February 2013 | |
| 7 | March 2013 | Deepon, Bengali Wikimedia Community | Requested for T-shirts for wikipedians | Supported as per request | ||
| 8 | March 2013 | Rahimanuddin, Telugu Wikimedia Community | Requested for financial support for Telugu Wiki Mahotsavam, 10-11 April | Supported as per request | April 2013 | |
| 9 | April 2013 | A Radha Krishna, Telugu Wikimedia Community | Requested for T-shirts and stickers for Wikipedia Training Programme, Bangalore | Supported as per request | April 2013 | |
| 10 | Oct 2013 | Omshivaprakash H L, Kannada Wikimedia Community | Requested for banner, laptops, monitor, brochures for Kannada Wikipedia Kiosk, at BMRC Metro Boulevard on Nov.1, 2013, Bangalore | supported | Nov.1, 2013 | |
| 11 | Nov 2013 | Kiran Ravikumar, Kannada Wikimedia Community | Requested for food sponsorship, local travel for guests, t-shirts for 10th anniversry program of Kannada Wikipedia on Nov.17, 2013, Bangalore | Supported | Nov.17, 2013 |