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2010-11-01T05:56:42Z

Acyuta:

As of today we have created '''<span id="cats-stats"></span>''' categories, '''<span id="pages-stats"></span>''' pages ('''<span id="pages-complete"></span>''' are completed and '''<span id="pages-incomplete"></span>''' are in process) and there are now '''<span id="total-stats"></span>''' quotes drawn from the following places.

:'''<span id="bg-stats"></span>''' '''quotes''' from Bhagavad-gītā As It Is
:'''<span id="sb-stats"></span>''' '''quotes''' from Śrīmad Bhāgavatam
:'''<span id="cc-stats"></span>''' '''quotes''' from Śrī Caitanya Caritāmṛta
:'''<span id="ob-stats"></span>''' '''quotes''' from other books by Śrīla Prabhupāda
:'''<span id="lec-stats"></span>''' '''quotes''' from Śrīla Prabhupāda's Lectures
:'''<span id="con-stats"></span>''' '''quotes''' from Śrīla Prabhupāda's Conversations and Morning Walks
:'''<span id="let-stats"></span>''' '''quotes''' from Śrīla Prabhupāda's Correspondence

Once completed we estimate that Vaniquotes will have around 10,000 categories, 250,000 to 500,000 pages, and somewhere between 5 to 10 million quotes.

*By the end of '''2010''' our goal is to have at least - <span id="quotes-goal">600,108</span> quotes '''(<span id="quotes-goal-percent"></span>% done)''' and <span id="pages-goal">30,108</span> pages '''(<span id="pages-goal-percent"></span>% done)'''

'''Serving all together - we are actually doing it.'''

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2010-04-18T18:42:53Z

Acyuta:

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2010-03-23T13:20:13Z

Acyuta:

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2010-03-23T13:16:14Z

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2010-03-23T13:14:55Z

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2010-03-23T13:12:05Z

Acyuta:

Vanipedia:Vanitech news and report

2010-01-30T19:48:48Z

Acyuta:

''' Currently we have a few projects we are working on: '''

== The improvement of the tools by which we compile quotes in [[Vaniquotes:Main Page|Vaniquotes]] ==
The Vaniquotes compiling system works by taking portions of text from the Bhaktivedanta Vedabase and formats them as "vaniquotes" in order to be inserted into pages.

We have finished working on the 2.0 version that presents a rich text (WYSIWYG) interface with automation on: 99% link (to [http://vanisource.org Vanisource]) creation accuracy, cited verse in quote detection and formating, text formating according to its attribute (heading, translation, purport or conversation), spacing in the text and between quotes, insertion of table of contents and placement of a quote in a page according to its (semantic) nature: BG, SB, CC, Other books, Conversation, Lecture, Letter and their subcontents (BG -> BG Chapter 1, Other Books -> Nectar of devotion, Lectures -> Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures, etc).

The 2.0 version has been released and tested thoroughly during the 2009 Srila Prabhupada's Vanimarathon, but of course there are always some bugs to fix and room for improvement:

* Statistics have been kept for all compilations created. We want to extend this by having also statistics and goals automatically populated by compiler. With the infrastructure and systems we have in place it shouldn't be too hard to implement this, since it was already in mind at the time of the Statistics system creation. It will populate a list of the compilers with their goals and the daily amount of quotes (and pages) compiled. Compilers will also be able to set their own goals and follow up on them.

* We are working on a system that will automatically submit completed pages to the Editors and will thus improve the communication with compilers on compilation issues and personal progress.

* Creation of pages is vital and we wish to extend it to very serious and committed compilers who will have even more tools to do this wonderful, very academic and research oriented service. The new feature is an auto-suggestion of synonym and antonym categories for new pages based on the page's categories and expressions list. This will help the researcher (compiler) find even more ways to study and populate themes and topics based on Srila Prabhupada's teachings.

The person currently in charge of this project is Acyutananda Caitanya Das. acyuta108@gmail.com

== The development of Vanimedia: The repository of video, audio and pictures of His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada ==

* A dynamic, very appealing and easy to use gallery where users/visitors can browse and access the huge repository of media.
: video - 50 hours
: audio - 1700 clips
: pictures - 20,000 pics

We are still in search of qualified and enthusiastic devotees who would like to build the most fun and dynamic way to browse through Srila Prabhupada's pictures, audio and video.

== The indexing of Srila Prabhupada's audio and video ==

* A searchable media system that will be tied to Vaniquotes and Vanisource, in order to supply the audio (and possibly video) of vaniquotes from within a [[Vaniquotes:Main Page|Vaniquotes]] page. We will also have audio inside Vanisource Conversations and Lectures so we can listen to the entire recording or portions of it.

As far as our knowledge and research goes, we envision to either:
# find the software or a qualified person to write the software (with currently open source ASR - automatic speech recognition - libraries) to "tag/index" the audio (and possibly video) in the way that google labs is doing in their beta version of [http://labs.google.com/gaudi Gaudi] ([http://www.voodish.co.uk/articles/gaudi-searchable-audio-and-video-from-google/ searchable audio]); or
# create a system to "index" audio, in a similar way we are compiling text in vaniquotes: by engaging hundreds of volunteers in a collaborative network.

Based on extensive research done by Bhakta Robert prabhu on speech recognition's immaturity and (in)accessibility for us humble servants, we are concluding that the semi-automated indexing system presents a more feasible alternative to automated indexing of Srila Prabhupada's media through ASR.
We are also very enthusiastic about this model since it will present devotees with a new opportunity to study and research Srila Prabhupada's vani, now through hearing opposed to reading as done in Vaniquotes.

This indexing tool will be accessible through Vanisource and wherever the audio is available, and the reader is interested in rendering vaniseva in this way, s/he will have the opportunity to do it in a very simple way. Once the audio in a page (Lecture or Conversation) has been indexed, it will become immediately available in that Vanisource text and in EVERY quote in Vaniquotes that was extracted (through the process of compiling) from that lecture or conversation.
Imagine how amazing and fun it will be to audibly browse through a [[Vaniquotes:Main Page|Vaniquotes]] compilation, and listen to the audio of every lecture and conversation directly in a [[Vanisource:Main Page|Vanisource]] page!

Searchable media was in hold for some time but now it will become a reality since we count with very qualified developers who can make this happen.

How is this related to the Vanimedia petal? Well, Vanimedia is our catalog of media so we want to pull the media from this main media repository (avoiding duplication of resources) and eventually we will implement this search system inside the Vanimedia experience for everyone to make "audio and video searches" in Srila Prabhupada's media.

The persons currently in charge of this project are Bhakta David Roncancio (david.roncancio@gmail.com) and Acyutananda Caitanya Das (acyuta108@gmail.com).

== Vanisource clean-up system and import of BBT earlier editions ==

* We are committed to providing the most authoritative repository of spiritual knowledge based on the "Vani" given by His Divine Grace A.C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. For this we have imported all of his writtings and teachings in the text form into the Vanisource petal extracted from the Vedabase software. Unfortunately, we have inherited many errors in the texts that need to be corrected and we believe that responsibility lies in all of us, not just the publishers and developers of Vedabase (BBT). We have one great advantage compared to the system that may be offered by the publishers: We have already in place a bulletproof collaborative system (Krsna bless mediawiki), in which we can make this corrections and have instant benefit of it.
We will create a very easy system by which registered users can submit corrections (misspells, characters missing, punctuation, etc) of the Vanisource texts which will be immediately reflected (after revision) in Vanisource and Vaniquotes. In this way we hope that the BBT publishers will use the corrected version made by hundreds of volunteers whose sole interest is to propagate the knowledge they were given in the quality it deserves.

* The vanitech team has also been busy importing the previous editions of the main books written by His Divine Grace. The purpose is to have an easy and accessible way to read and compare different editions of the texts. We are solely interested in academic and devotional research and have NO interest in politics or conspiracies, reason why we endeavor to provide the facts.
The 1972 version of the [[Vanisource:BG|Bhagavad-gita]] is already, and it can be viewed and compared with the current (1983) edition by visiting any BG text in Vanisource. We will extend that to other books as time permits.
We hope this encourages devotees and ISKCON authorities to make their own judgment and learn about the corrections made in the latest editions.

* Another improvement we wish to make in our Vanisource is the accessibility to the original Sanskrit (and Bengali) Devanagari in every text. Our source is the Vedabase, and at the time Srila Prabhupada's books were digitized, the standards for Sanskrit Devanagari were not as well established as they are today. (This is of course merely a conclusion drawn from our vanitech team since haven't had the pleasure to hear it directly from the developers of the Vedabase software) The Vedabase created their own font with their own encoding for the sanskrit devanagari, making it only accessible to those who have the font installed in their computer. Meaning that, if you were to copy and paste a portion of the text to a text (word) document or an email (either a client software or the more popular way the internet browser) your text will appear in a strange code, unless you have the font installed.
For this purpose we have created a tool that will allow us to convert Sanskrit Devanagari to a standard universal (unicode) encoding that nearly all personal computers can read (display properly). The difference between the conversion of the romanized sanskrit (Balaram to Unicode) and this system, is that since the current devnagari sanskrit in Vedabase encoding doesn't meet any standard encoding known to us, we have to use a semi-automatic tool that will allow a volunteer, with a good understanding of sanskrit, to verify and correct our version of the text.
There are already a couple of volunteers, Archana Dasi and Bhaktin Matea, who will start working on the Devanagari conversion in the Bhagavad-gita. Once the tool is refined through this beta process then we'll continue with Srimad-Bhagavatam and other books.
You are welcome to join them in this nice effort.

The person currently in charge of this project is Acyutananda Caitanya Das. (acyuta108@gmail.com)

'''Vanitech''' team is growing and you can help too. Please come forward and offer whatever technical knowledge and experience you have, and work on cutting edge technologies for a great mission, the spreading of Krsna Consciousness. Do not hesitate to inquire how you can help, because you'll be surprised how easy it is to be engaged in vaniseva.

Contact us @'''[mailto:VaniTech.for.Vanipedia@pamho.net here.]''' (VaniTech.for.Vanipedia@pamho.net)

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Template:Vanipedia news

2009-12-23T18:51:19Z

Acyuta:

* '''[[Vanipedia:Vanitech news and report|Vanitech news and report... (Updated! 12-23-09)]] '''

* '''[[Vanipedia:News and Views / Autumn 2008#Progress report from March 08|Since the launching of version 0.1 in March we have been developing the logistics...]]'''

* '''[[Vanipedia:News and Views / Autumn 2008#Now you can experience the compiling|Now you can experience the compiling...]]'''

* ''' [[Vanipedia:News and Views / Autumn 2008#Are people really getting involved?|Are people really getting involved? Here are a few testimonials...]]'''

* '''[[Vanipedia:News and Views / Autumn 2008#Big party saying thank you to Eivind|A big party saying thank you to Eivind...]]'''

* '''[[Vanipedia:News and Views / Autumn 2008#The three S's are present in Vanipedia|The three S's are present in Vanipedia...]]'''

* '''[[Vanipedia:News and Views / Autumn 2008#The printing press is the representative of Radharani |The printing press is the representative of Radharani...]]'''

* '''[[Vanipedia:News and Views / Autumn 2008#6 years to prepare - 12 years to perform |7 years to prepare - 12 years to perform...]]'''

* '''[[Vanipedia:News and Views / Autumn 2008#contact us|contact us]]'''

Vanipedia:Vanitech news and report

2009-12-23T18:48:42Z

Acyuta:

''' Currently we have a few projects we are working on: '''

== The improvement of the tools by which we compile quotes in [[Vaniquotes:Main Page|Vaniquotes]] ==
The Vaniquotes compiling system works by taking portions of text from the Bhaktivedanta Vedabase and formats them as "vaniquotes" in order to be inserted into pages.

We have finished working on the 2.0 version that presents a rich text (WYSIWYG) interface with automation on: 99% link (to [http://vanisource.org Vanisource]) creation accuracy, cited verse in quote detection and formating, text formating according to its attribute (heading, translation, purport or conversation), spacing in the text and between quotes, insertion of table of contents and placement of a quote in a page according to its (semantic) nature: BG, SB, CC, Other books, Conversation, Lecture, Letter and their subcontents (BG -> BG Chapter 1, Other Books -> Nectar of devotion, Lectures -> Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures, etc).

The 2.0 version has been released and tested thoroughly during the 2009 Srila Prabhupada's Vanimarathon, but of course there are always some bugs to fix and room for improvement:

* Statistics have been kept for all compilations created. We want to extend this by having also statistics and goals automatically populated by compiler. With the infrastructure and systems we have in place it shouldn't be too hard to implement this, since it was already in mind at the time of the Statistics system creation. It will populate a list of the compilers with their goals and the daily amount of quotes (and pages) compiled. Compilers will also be able to set their own goals and follow up on them.

* We are working on a system that will automatically submit completed pages to the Editors and will thus improve the communication with compilers on compilation issues and personal progress.

* Creation of pages is vital and we wish to extend it to very serious and committed compilers who will have even more tools to do this wonderful, very academic and research oriented service. The new feature is an auto-suggestion of synonym and antonym categories for new pages based on the page's categories and expressions list. This will help the researcher (compiler) find even more ways to study and populate themes and topics based on Srila Prabhupada's teachings.

The person currently in charge of this project is Acyutananda Caitanya Das.

== The development of Vanimedia: The repository of video, audio and pictures of His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada ==

* A dynamic, very appealing and easy to use gallery where users/visitors can browse and access the huge repository of media.
: video - 50 hours
: audio - 1700 clips
: pictures - 20,000 pics

We are still in search of qualified and enthusiastic devotees who would like to build the most fun and dynamic way to browse through Srila Prabhupada's pictures, audio and video.

== The indexing of Srila Prabhupada's audio and video ==

* A searchable media system that will be tied to Vaniquotes and Vanisource, in order to supply the audio (and possibly video) of vaniquotes from within a [[Vaniquotes:Main Page|Vaniquotes]] page. We will also have audio inside Vanisource Conversations and Lectures so we can listen to the entire recording or portions of it.

As far as our knowledge and research goes, we envision to either:
# find the software or a qualified person to write the software (with currently open source ASR - automatic speech recognition - libraries) to "tag/index" the audio (and possibly video) in the way that google labs is doing in their beta version of [http://labs.google.com/gaudi Gaudi] ([http://www.voodish.co.uk/articles/gaudi-searchable-audio-and-video-from-google/ searchable audio]); or
# create a system to "index" audio, in a similar way we are compiling text in vaniquotes: by engaging hundreds of volunteers in a collaborative network.

Based on extensive research done by Bhakta Robert prabhu on speech recognition's immaturity and (in)accessibility for us humble servants, we are concluding that the semi-automated indexing system presents a more feasible alternative to automated indexing of Srila Prabhupada's media through ASR.
We are also very enthusiastic about this model since it will present devotees with a new opportunity to study and research Srila Prabhupada's vani, now through hearing opposed to reading as done in Vaniquotes.

This indexing tool will be accessible through Vanisource and wherever the audio is available, and the reader is interested in rendering vaniseva in this way, s/he will have the opportunity to do it in a very simple way. Once the audio in a page (Lecture or Conversation) has been indexed, it will become immediately available in that Vanisource text and in EVERY quote in Vaniquotes that was extracted (through the process of compiling) from that lecture or conversation.
Imagine how amazing and fun it will be to audibly browse through a [[Vaniquotes:Main Page|Vaniquotes]] compilation, and listen to the audio of every lecture and conversation directly in a [[Vanisource:Main Page|Vanisource]] page!

Searchable media was in hold for some time but now it will become a reality since we count with very qualified developers who can make this happen.

How is this related to the Vanimedia petal? Well, Vanimedia is our catalog of media so we want to pull the media from this main media repository (avoiding duplication of resources) and eventually we will implement this search system inside the Vanimedia experience for everyone to make "audio and video searches" in Srila Prabhupada's media.

The persons currently in charge of this project are Bhakta Robert Dinah, Bhakta David Roncancio and Acyutananda Caitanya Das.

== Vanisource clean-up system and import of BBT earlier editions ==

* We are committed to providing the most authoritative repository of spiritual knowledge based on the "Vani" given by His Divine Grace A.C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. For this we have imported all of his writtings and teachings in the text form into the Vanisource petal extracted from the Vedabase software. Unfortunately, we have inherited many errors in the texts that need to be corrected and we believe that responsibility lies in all of us, not just the publishers and developers of Vedabase (BBT). We have one great advantage compared to the system that may be offered by the publishers: We have already in place a bulletproof collaborative system (Krsna bless mediawiki), in which we can make this corrections and have instant benefit of it.
We will create a very easy system by which registered users can submit corrections (misspells, characters missing, punctuation, etc) of the Vanisource texts which will be immediately reflected (after revision) in Vanisource and Vaniquotes. In this way we hope that the BBT publishers will use the corrected version made by hundreds of volunteers whose sole interest is to propagate the knowledge they were given in the quality it deserves.

* The vanitech team has also been busy importing the previous editions of the main books written by His Divine Grace. The purpose is to have an easy and accessible way to read and compare different editions of the texts. We are solely interested in academic and devotional research and have NO interest in politics or conspiracies, reason why we endeavor to provide the facts.
The 1972 version of the [[Vanisource:BG|Bhagavad-gita]] is already, and it can be viewed and compared with the current (1983) edition by visiting any BG text in Vanisource. We will extend that to other books as time permits.
We hope this encourages devotees and ISKCON authorities to make their own judgment and learn about the corrections made in the latest editions.

* Another improvement we wish to make in our Vanisource is the accessibility to the original Sanskrit (and Bengali) Devanagari in every text. Our source is the Vedabase, and at the time Srila Prabhupada's books were digitized, the standards for Sanskrit Devanagari were not as well established as they are today. (This is of course merely a conclusion drawn from our vanitech team since haven't had the pleasure to hear it directly from the developers of the Vedabase software) The Vedabase created their own font with their own encoding for the sanskrit devanagari, making it only accessible to those who have the font installed in their computer. Meaning that, if you were to copy and paste a portion of the text to a text (word) document or an email (either a client software or the more popular way the internet browser) your text will appear in a strange code, unless you have the font installed.
For this purpose we have created a tool that will allow us to convert Sanskrit Devanagari to a standard universal (unicode) encoding that nearly all personal computers can read (display properly). The difference between the conversion of the romanized sanskrit (Balaram to Unicode) and this system, is that since the current devnagari sanskrit in Vedabase encoding doesn't meet any standard encoding known to us, we have to use a semi-automatic tool that will allow a volunteer, with a good understanding of sanskrit, to verify and correct our version of the text.
There are already a couple of volunteers, Archana Dasi and Bhaktin Matea, who will start working on the Devanagari conversion in the Bhagavad-gita. Once the tool is refined through this beta process then we'll continue with Srimad-Bhagavatam and other books.
You are welcome to join them in this nice effort.

The person currently in charge of this project is Acyutananda Caitanya Das.

'''Vanitech''' team is growing and you can help too. Please come forward and offer whatever technical knowledge and experience you have, and work on cutting edge technologies for a great mission, the spreading of Krsna Consciousness. Do not hesitate to inquire how you can help, because you'll be surprised how easy it is to be engaged in vaniseva.

Contact us @'''[mailto:VaniTech.for.Vanipedia@pamho.net here.]'''

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Vanipedia:Vanitech news and report

2009-12-23T13:50:09Z

Acyuta:

''' Currently we have a few projects we are working on: '''

== The improvement of the tools by which we compile quotes in [[Vaniquotes:Main Page|Vaniquotes]] ==
The Vaniquotes compiling system works by taking portions of text from the Bhaktivedanta Vedabase and formats them as "vaniquotes" in order to be inserted into pages.

We have finished working on the 2.0 version that presents a rich text (WYSIWYG) interface with automation on: 99% link (to [http://vanisource.org Vanisource]) creation accuracy, cited verse in quote detection and formating, text formating according to its attribute (heading, translation, purport or conversation), spacing in the text and between quotes, insertion of table of contents and placement of a quote in a page according to its (semantic) nature: BG, SB, CC, Other books, Conversation, Lecture, Letter and their subcontents (BG -> BG Chapter 1, Other Books -> Nectar of devotion, Lectures -> Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures, etc).

The 2.0 version has been released and tested thoroughly during the 2009 Srila Prabhupada's Vanimarathon, but of course there are always some bugs to fix and room for improvement:

* Statistics have been kept for all compilations created. We want to extend this by having also statistics and goals automatically populated by compiler. With the infrastructure and systems we have in place it shouldn't be too hard to implement this, since it was already in mind at the time of the Statistics system creation. It will populate a list of the compilers with their goals and the daily amount of quotes (and pages) compiled. Compilers will also be able to set their own goals and follow up on them.

* We are working on a system that will automatically submit completed pages to the Editors and will thus improve the communication with compilers on compilation issues and personal progress.

* Creation of pages is vital and we wish to extend it to very serious and committed compilers who will have even more tools to do this wonderful, very academic and research oriented service. The new feature is an auto-suggestion of synonym and antonym categories for new pages based on the page's categories and expressions list. This will help the researcher (compiler) find even more ways to study and populate themes and topics based on Srila Prabhupada's teachings.

The person currently in charge of this project is Acyutananda Caitanya Das.

== The development of Vanimedia: The repository of video, audio and pictures of His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada ==

* A dynamic, very appealing and easy to use gallery where users/visitors can browse and access the huge repository of media.
: video - 50 hours
: audio - 1700 clips
: pictures - 20,000 pics

We are still in search of qualified and enthusiastic devotees who would like to build the most fun and dynamic way to browse through Srila Prabhupada's pictures, audio and video.

== The indexing of Srila Prabhupada's audio and video ==

* A searchable media system that will be tied to Vaniquotes and Vanisource, in order to supply the audio (and possibly video) of vaniquotes from within a [[Vaniquotes:Main Page|Vaniquotes]] page. We will also have audio inside Vanisource Conversations and Lectures so we can listen to the entire recording or portions of it.

As far as our knowledge and research goes, we envision to either:
# find the software or a qualified person to write the software (with currently open source ASR - automatic speech recognition - libraries) to "tag/index" the audio (and possibly video) in the way that google labs is doing in their beta version of [http://labs.google.com/gaudi Gaudi] ([http://www.voodish.co.uk/articles/gaudi-searchable-audio-and-video-from-google/ searchable audio]); or
# create a system to "index" audio, in a similar way we are compiling text in vaniquotes: by engaging hundreds of volunteers in a collaborative network.

Based on extensive research done by Bhakta Robert prabhu on speech recognition's immaturity and (in)accessibility for us humble servants, we are concluding that the semi-automated indexing system presents a more feasible alternative to automated indexing of Srila Prabhupada's media through ASR.
We are also very enthusiastic about this model since it will present devotees with a new opportunity to study and research Srila Prabhupada's vani, now through hearing opposed to reading as done in Vaniquotes.

This indexing tool will be accessible through Vanisource and wherever the audio is available, and the reader is interested in rendering vaniseva in this way, s/he will have the opportunity to do it in a very simple way. Once the audio in a page (Lecture or Conversation) has been indexed, it will become immediately available in that Vanisource text and in EVERY quote in Vaniquotes that was extracted (through the process of compiling) from that lecture or conversation.
Imagine how amazing and fun it will be to audibly browse through a [[Vaniquotes:Main Page|Vaniquotes]] compilation, and listen to the audio of every lecture and conversation directly in a [[Vanisource:Main Page|Vanisource]] page!

Searchable media was in hold for some time but now it will become a reality since we count with very qualified developers who can make this happen.

How is this related to the Vanimedia petal? Well, Vanimedia is our catalog of media so we want to pull the media from this main media repository (avoiding duplication of resources) and eventually we will implement this search system inside the Vanimedia experience for everyone to make "audio and video searches" in Srila Prabhupada's media.

The persons currently in charge of this project are Bhakta Robert Dinah, Bhakta David Roncancio and Acyutananda Caitanya Das.

== Vanisource clean-up system and import of BBT earlier editions ==

* We are committed to providing the most authoritative repository of spiritual knowledge based on the "Vani" given by His Divine Grace A.C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. For this we have imported all of his writtings and teachings in the text form into the Vanisource petal extracted from the Vedabase software. Unfortunately we have inhereted many errors in the texts that need to be corrected and we believe that responsibility lies in all of us not just the publishers and developers of Vedabase (BBT). We have one great advantage compare to the system that may be offered by the publishers: We have already in place a bulletproof collaborative system (Krsna bless mediawiki), in which we can make this corrections and have instant benefit of it.
We will create a very easy system by which registered users can submit corrections (misspells, characters missing, punctuation, etc) of the text which will be immediately reflected (after revision) in the Vanisource text and the Vaniquotes that were created with that text. In this way we hope that the publishers will use the corrected version made by hundreds of volunteers whose sole interest is to propagate the knowledge they were given in the quality it deserves.

* The vanitech team has also been busy importing the previous editions of the main books written by His Divine Grace. This is done with the purpose to have a easy and accessible way to read and compare different editions of the texts. We are solely interested in academic and devotional research and have NO interest in politics or conspiracies, reason why we endeavor to provide the facts.
There is already available the 1972 version of the [[Vanisource:BG|Bhagavad-gita]] which can be viewed and compare with the current (1983) edition by visiting any BG text in Vanisource. We will extend that to other books as time permits.
We hope this encourages devotees and ISKCON authorities to make their own judgment and learn about the corrections made in the latest editions.

* Another improvement we wish to have in our Vanisource is the accessibility to the original Sanskrit (and Bengali) Devanagari in every text. Because our source is the Vedabase, and at the time the Vedabase was made (making Srila Prabhupada's books in digital form) the standards for Sanskrit Devanagari were not so established as they are today (This is of course merely a conclusion drawn from our vanitech team since haven't had the pleasure to hear it directly from the developers of the Vedabase software). The Vedabase created their own font with their own encoding for the sanskrit devanagari, making it only accessible to those who have the font installed in their computer. Meaning that if you were to copy and paste a portion of the text to a text (word) document or an email (either a client software or the more popular way the internet browser) your text will appear in a strange code unless you have the font installed.
For this purpose we have created a tool that will allow us to convert, in the same way we converted the "romanized sanskrit" in every Vanisource verse, to a standard universal (unicode) encoding that nearly all personal computers can read (display properly). The difference between the conversion of the romanized sanskrit (Balaram to Unicode) is that since that encoding doesn't meet any standard encoding known to us, we have to use a semi-automatic tool that will allow a volunteer with a good understanding of sanskrit, to verify and correct our version of the text.
There are already a couple of volunteers, Archana Dasi and Bhaktin Matea who will start working on the devanagari conversion in the Bhagavad-gita and once the tool is refined through this beta process then we'll continue with Srimad-Bhagavatam and other books.
You are welcome to join them in this nice effort.

The person currently in charge of this project is Acyutananda Caitanya Das.

'''Vanitech''' team is growing and you can help too. Please come forward and offer whatever technical knowledge and experience you have, and work on cutting edge technologies for a great mission, the spreading of Krsna Consciousness. Do not hesitate to inquire how you can help, because you'll be surprise how easy is to be engaged in vaniseva.

Contact us @'''[mailto:VaniTech.for.Vanipedia@pamho.net here.]'''

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Vanipedia:Vanitech news and report

2009-12-23T13:26:06Z

Acyuta:

''' Currently we have a few projects we are working on: '''

== The improvement of the tools by which we compile quotes in [[Vaniquotes:Main Page|Vaniquotes]] ==
The Vaniquotes compiling system works by taking portions of text from the Bhaktivedanta Vedabase and formats them as "vaniquotes" in order to be inserted into pages.

We have finished working on the 2.0 version that presents a rich text (WYSIWYG) interface with automation on: 99% link (to [http://vanisource.org Vanisource]) creation accuracy, cited verse in quote detection and formating, text formating according to its attribute (heading, translation, purport or conversation), spacing in text and between quotes, insertion of table of contents and placement of quote in page according to its (semantic) nature: BG, SB, CC, Other books, Conversation, Lecture, Letter and their subcontents (BG -> BG Chapter 1, Other Books -> Nectar of devotion, Lectures -> Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures, etc).

The 2.0 version has been released and tested thoroughly during the 2009 Srila Prabhupada's Vanimarathon but of course there is always some bugs to fix and room for improvement:

* Statistics have been kept for all compilations created. We want to extend this by having also statistics and goals automatically populated by compiler. With the infrastructure and systems we have in place it shouldn't be too hard to implement this, since it was already in mind at the time of the Statistics system creation. It will populate a list of the compilers with their goals and the daily amount of quotes (and pages) compiled. Compilers will also be able to set their own goals and follow up on them.

* Automation of submission of completed pages for Editors to be notified and improve the communication with compilers on compilation issues and improvement.

* Creation of pages is vital and we wish to extend it to very serious and committed compilers who will have even more tools do this wonderful and very academic and research oriented service. The new feature will be auto-suggestion of synonym and antonym categories for new pages based on the pages categories and expressions list. This will help the researcher (compiler) find even more ways to study and populate themes and topics based on Srila Prabhupada's teachings.

The person currently in charge of this project is Acyutananda Caitanya Das.

== The development of Vanimedia: The repository of video, audio and pictures of His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada ==

* A dynamic, very appealing and easy to use gallery where users/visitors can browse and access the huge repository of media.
: video - 50 hours
: audio - 1700 clips
: pictures - 20,000 pics

We are still in search of qualified and enthusiastic devotees who would like to build the most fun and dynamic way to browse through Srila Prabhupada's pictures, audio and video.

== The indexing of Srila Prabhupada's audio and video ==

* A searchable media system that will be tied to Vaniquotes and Vanisource, in order to supply the audio (and possibly video) of vaniquotes from within a [[Vaniquotes:Main Page|Vaniquotes]] page. We will also have audio inside Vanisource Conversations and Lectures so we can listen to the entire recording or portions of it.

As far as our knowledge and research goes, we envision to either:
# find the software or a qualified person to write the software (with currently open source ASR - automatic speech recognition - libraries) to "tag/index" the audio (and possibly video) in the way that google labs is doing in their beta version of [http://labs.google.com/gaudi Gaudi] ([http://www.voodish.co.uk/articles/gaudi-searchable-audio-and-video-from-google/ searchable audio]); or
# create a system to "index" audio, in a similar way we are compiling text in vaniquotes: by engaging hundreds of volunteers in a collaborative network.

Based on extensive research done by Bhakta Robert prabhu on speech recognition's immaturity and (in)accessibility for us humble servants, we are concluding that the semi-automated indexing system presents a more feasible alternative to automated indexing of Srila Prabhupada's media through ASR.
We are also very enthusiastic about this model since it will present devotees with a new opportunity to study and research Srila Prabhupada's vani, now through hearing opposed to reading as done in Vaniquotes.

This indexing tool will be accessible through Vanisource and wherever the audio is available, and the reader is interested in rendering vaniseva in this way, she will have the opportunity to do it in a very simple way. Once the audio in a page (Lecture or Conversation) has been indexed, it will become immediately available in that Vanisource text and in EVERY quote in Vaniquotes that was extracted (through the process of compiling) from that lecture or conversation.
Imagine how amazing and fun it will be to audibly browse through a [[Vaniquotes:Main Page|Vaniquotes]] compilation, and listen to the audio of every lectures and conversations directly in a [[Vanisource:Main Page|Vanisource]] page!

Searchable media was in hold for some time but now it will become a reality since we count with very qualified developers who can make this happen.

How is this related to the Vanimedia petal? Well, Vanimedia is our catalog of media so we want to pull the media from this main media repository (avoiding duplication of resources) and eventually we will implement this search system inside the Vanimedia experience for everyone to make "audio and video searches" in Srila Prabhupada's media.

The persons currently in charge of this project are Bhakta Robert Dinah, Bhakta David Roncancio and Acyutananda Caitanya Das.

== Vanisource clean-up system and import of BBT earlier editions ==

* We are committed to provide the most authoritative repository of spiritual knowledge based on the "Vani" given by His Divine Grace A.C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. For this we have imported all of his writtings and teachings in the text form into the Vanisource petal extracted from the Vedabase software. Unfortunately we have inhereted many errors in the texts that need to be corrected and we believe that responsibility lies in all of us not just the publishers and developers of Vedabase (BBT). We have one great advantage compare to the system that may be offered by the publishers: We have already in place a bulletproof collaborative system (Krsna bless mediawiki), in which we can make this corrections and have instant benefit of it.
We will create a very easy system by which registered users can submit corrections (misspells, characters missing, punctuation, etc) of the text which will be immediately reflected (after revision) in the Vanisource text and the Vaniquotes that were created with that text. In this way we hope that the publishers will use the corrected version made by hundreds of volunteers whose sole interest is to propagate the knowledge they were given in the quality it deserves.

* The vanitech team has also been busy importing the previous editions of the main books written by His Divine Grace. This is done with the purpose to have a easy and accessible way to read and compare different editions of the texts. We are solely interested in academic and devotional research and have NO interest in politics or conspiracies, reason why we endeavor to provide the facts.
There is already available the 1972 version of the [[Vanisource:BG|Bhagavad-gita]] which can be viewed and compare with the current (1983) edition by visiting any BG text in Vanisource. We will extend that to other books as time permits.
We hope this encourages devotees and ISKCON authorities to make their own judgment and learn about the corrections made in the latest editions.

* Another improvement we wish to have in our Vanisource is the accessibility to the original Sanskrit (and Bengali) Devanagari in every text. Because our source is the Vedabase, and at the time the Vedabase was made (making Srila Prabhupada's books in digital form) the standards for Sanskrit Devanagari were not so established as they are today (This is of course merely a conclusion drawn from our vanitech team since haven't had the pleasure to hear it directly from the developers of the Vedabase software). The Vedabase created their own font with their own encoding for the sanskrit devanagari, making it only accessible to those who have the font installed in their computer. Meaning that if you were to copy and paste a portion of the text to a text (word) document or an email (either a client software or the more popular way the internet browser) your text will appear in a strange code unless you have the font installed.
For this purpose we have created a tool that will allow us to convert, in the same way we converted the "romanized sanskrit" in every Vanisource verse, to a standard universal (unicode) encoding that nearly all personal computers can read (display properly). The difference between the conversion of the romanized sanskrit (Balaram to Unicode) is that since that encoding doesn't meet any standard encoding known to us, we have to use a semi-automatic tool that will allow a volunteer with a good understanding of sanskrit, to verify and correct our version of the text.
There are already a couple of volunteers, Archana Dasi and Bhaktin Matea who will start working on the devanagari conversion in the Bhagavad-gita and once the tool is refined through this beta process then we'll continue with Srimad-Bhagavatam and other books.
You are welcome to join them in this nice effort.

The person currently in charge of this project is Acyutananda Caitanya Das.

'''Vanitech''' team is growing and you can help too. Please come forward and offer whatever technical knowledge and experience you have, and work on cutting edge technologies for a great mission, the spreading of Krsna Consciousness. Do not hesitate to inquire how you can help, because you'll be surprise how easy is to be engaged in vaniseva.

Contact us @'''[mailto:VaniTech.for.Vanipedia@pamho.net here.]'''

__NOTOC__

Vanipedia:Vanitech news and report

2009-12-23T13:25:41Z

Acyuta:

''' Currently we have a few projects we are working on: '''

== The improvement of the tools by which we compile quotes in [[Vaniquotes:Main Page|Vaniquotes]] ==
The Vaniquotes compiling system works by taking portions of text from the Bhaktivedanta Vedabase and formats them as "vaniquotes" in order to be inserted into pages.

We have finished working on the 2.0 version that presents a rich text (WYSIWYG) interface with automation on: 99% link (to [http://vanisource.org Vanisource]) creation accuracy, cited verse in quote detection and formating, text formating according to its attribute (heading, translation, purport or conversation), spacing in text and between quotes, insertion of table of contents and placement of quote in page according to its (semantic) nature: BG, SB, CC, Other books, Conversation, Lecture, Letter and their subcontents (BG -> BG Chapter 1, Other Books -> Nectar of devotion, Lectures -> Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures, etc).

The 2.0 version has been released and tested thoroughly during the 2009 Srila Prabhupada's Vanimarathon but of course there is always some bugs to fix and room for improvement:

* Statistics have been kept for all compilations created. We want to extend this by having also statistics and goals automatically populated by compiler. With the infrastructure and systems we have in place it shouldn't be too hard to implement this, since it was already in mind at the time of the Statistics system creation. It will populate a list of the compilers with their goals and the daily amount of quotes (and pages) compiled. Compilers will also be able to set their own goals and follow up on them.

* Automation of submission of completed pages for Editors to be notified and improve the communication with compilers on compilation issues and improvement.

* Creation of pages is vital and we wish to extend it to very serious and committed compilers who will have even more tools do this wonderful and very academic and research oriented service. The new feature will be auto-suggestion of synonym and antonym categories for new pages based on the pages categories and expressions list. This will help the researcher (compiler) find even more ways to study and populate themes and topics based on Srila Prabhupada's teachings.

The person currently in charge of this project is Acyutananda Caitanya Das.

== The development of Vanimedia: The repository of video, audio and pictures of His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada ==

* A dynamic, very appealing and easy to use gallery where users/visitors can browse and access the huge repository of media.
: video - 50 hours
: audio - 1700 clips
: pictures - 20,000 pics

We are still in search of qualified and enthusiastic devotees who would like to build the most fun and dynamic way to browse through Srila Prabhupada's pictures, audio and video.

== The indexing of Srila Prabhupada's audio and video ==

* A searchable media system that will be tied to Vaniquotes and Vanisource, in order to supply the audio (and possibly video) of vaniquotes from within a [[Vaniquotes:Main Page|Vaniquotes]] page. We will also have audio inside Vanisource Conversations and Lectures so we can listen to the entire recording or portions of it.

As far as our knowledge and research goes, we envision to either:
# find the software or a qualified person to write the software (with currently open source ASR - automatic speech recognition - libraries) to "tag/index" the audio (and possibly video) in the way that google labs is doing in their beta version of [http://labs.google.com/gaudi Gaudi] ([http://www.voodish.co.uk/articles/gaudi-searchable-audio-and-video-from-google/ searchable audio]); or
# create a system to "index" audio, in a similar way we are compiling text in vaniquotes: by engaging hundreds of volunteers in a collaborative network.

Based on extensive research done by Bhakta Robert prabhu on speech recognition's immaturity and (in)accessibility for us humble servants, we are concluding that the semi-automated indexing system presents a more feasible alternative to automated indexing of Srila Prabhupada's media through ASR.
We are also very enthusiastic about this model since it will present devotees with a new opportunity to study and research Srila Prabhupada's vani, now through hearing opposed to reading as done in Vaniquotes.

This indexing tool will be accessible through Vanisource and wherever the audio is available, and the reader is interested in rendering vaniseva in this way, she will have the opportunity to do it in a very simple way. Once the audio in a page (Lecture or Conversation) has been indexed, it will become immediately available in that Vanisource text and in EVERY quote in Vaniquotes that was extracted (through the process of compiling) from that lecture or conversation.
Imagine how amazing and fun it will be to audibly browse through a [[Vaniquotes:Main Page|Vaniquotes]] compilation, and listen to the audio of every lectures and conversations directly in a [[Vanisource:Main Page|Vanisource]] page!

Searchable media was in hold for some time but now it will become a reality since we count with very qualified developers who can make this happen.

How is this related to the Vanimedia petal? Well, Vanimedia is our catalog of media so we want to pull the media from this main media repository (avoiding duplication of resources) and eventually we will implement this search system inside the Vanimedia experience for everyone to make "audio and video searches" in Srila Prabhupada's media.

The persons currently in charge of this project are Bhakta Robert Dinah, Bhakta David Roncancio and Acyutananda Caitanya Das.

== Vanisource clean-up system and import of BBT earlier editions ==

* We are committed to provide the most authoritative repository of spiritual knowledge based on the "Vani" given by His Divine Grace A.C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. For this we have imported all of his writtings and teachings in the text form into the Vanisource petal extracted from the Vedabase software. Unfortunately we have inhereted many errors in the texts that need to be corrected and we believe that responsibility lies in all of us not just the publishers and developers of Vedabase (BBT). We have one great advantage compare to the system that may be offered by the publishers: We have already in place a bulletproof collaborative system (Krsna bless mediawiki), in which we can make this corrections and have instant benefit of it.
We will create a very easy system by which registered users can submit corrections (misspells, characters missing, punctuation, etc) of the text which will be immediately reflected (after revision) in the Vanisource text and the Vaniquotes that were created with that text. In this way we hope that the publishers will use the corrected version made by hundreds of volunteers whose sole interest is to propagate the knowledge they were given in the quality it deserves.

* The vanitech team has also been busy importing the previous editions of the main books written by His Divine Grace. This is done with the purpose to have a easy and accessible way to read and compare different editions of the texts. We are solely interested in academic and devotional research and have NO interest in politics or conspiracies, reason why we endeavor to provide the facts.
There is already available the 1972 version of the [[Vanisource:BG|Bhagavad-gita]] which can be viewed and compare with the current (1983) edition by visiting any BG text in Vanisource. We will extend that to other books as time permits.
We hope this encourages devotees and ISKCON authorities to make their own judgment and learn about the corrections made in the latest editions.

* Another improvement we wish to have in our Vanisource is the accessibility to the original Sanskrit (and Bengali) Devanagari in every text. Because our source is the Vedabase, and at the time the Vedabase was made (making Srila Prabhupada's books in digital form) the standards for Sanskrit Devanagari were not so established as they are today (This is of course merely a conclusion drawn from our vanitech team since haven't had the pleasure to hear it directly from the developers of the Vedabase software). The Vedabase created their own font with their own encoding for the sanskrit devanagari, making it only accessible to those who have the font installed in their computer. Meaning that if you were to copy and paste a portion of the text to a text (word) document or an email (either a client software or the more popular way the internet browser) your text will appear in a strange code unless you have the font installed.
For this purpose we have created a tool that will allow us to convert, in the same way we converted the "romanized sanskrit" in every Vanisource verse, to a standard universal (unicode) encoding that nearly all personal computers can read (display properly). The difference between the conversion of the romanized sanskrit (Balaram to Unicode) is that since that encoding doesn't meet any standard encoding known to us, we have to use a semi-automatic tool that will allow a volunteer with a good understanding of sanskrit, to verify and correct our version of the text.
There are already a couple of volunteers, Archana Dasi and Bhaktin Matea who will start working on the devanagari conversion in the Bhagavad-gita and once the tool is refined through this beta process then we'll continue with Srimad-Bhagavatam and other books.
You are welcome to join them in this nice effort.

The person currently in charge of this project is Acyutananda Caitanya Das.

'''Vanitech''' team is growing and you can help too. Please come forward and offer whatever technical knowledge and experience you have, and work on cutting edge technologies for a great mission, the spreading of Krsna Consciousness. Do not hesitate to inquire how you can help, because you'll be surprise how easy is to be engaged in vaniseva.

Contact us @'''[mailto:VaniTech.for.Vanipedia@pamho.net here.]'''

Vanipedia:Vanitech news and report

2009-12-23T13:25:11Z

Acyuta:

=== Currently we have a few projects we are working on: ===

== The improvement of the tools by which we compile quotes in [[Vaniquotes:Main Page|Vaniquotes]] ==
The Vaniquotes compiling system works by taking portions of text from the Bhaktivedanta Vedabase and formats them as "vaniquotes" in order to be inserted into pages.

We have finished working on the 2.0 version that presents a rich text (WYSIWYG) interface with automation on: 99% link (to [http://vanisource.org Vanisource]) creation accuracy, cited verse in quote detection and formating, text formating according to its attribute (heading, translation, purport or conversation), spacing in text and between quotes, insertion of table of contents and placement of quote in page according to its (semantic) nature: BG, SB, CC, Other books, Conversation, Lecture, Letter and their subcontents (BG -> BG Chapter 1, Other Books -> Nectar of devotion, Lectures -> Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures, etc).

The 2.0 version has been released and tested thoroughly during the 2009 Srila Prabhupada's Vanimarathon but of course there is always some bugs to fix and room for improvement:

* Statistics have been kept for all compilations created. We want to extend this by having also statistics and goals automatically populated by compiler. With the infrastructure and systems we have in place it shouldn't be too hard to implement this, since it was already in mind at the time of the Statistics system creation. It will populate a list of the compilers with their goals and the daily amount of quotes (and pages) compiled. Compilers will also be able to set their own goals and follow up on them.

* Automation of submission of completed pages for Editors to be notified and improve the communication with compilers on compilation issues and improvement.

* Creation of pages is vital and we wish to extend it to very serious and committed compilers who will have even more tools do this wonderful and very academic and research oriented service. The new feature will be auto-suggestion of synonym and antonym categories for new pages based on the pages categories and expressions list. This will help the researcher (compiler) find even more ways to study and populate themes and topics based on Srila Prabhupada's teachings.

The person currently in charge of this project is Acyutananda Caitanya Das.

== The development of Vanimedia: The repository of video, audio and pictures of His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada ==

* A dynamic, very appealing and easy to use gallery where users/visitors can browse and access the huge repository of media.
: video - 50 hours
: audio - 1700 clips
: pictures - 20,000 pics

We are still in search of qualified and enthusiastic devotees who would like to build the most fun and dynamic way to browse through Srila Prabhupada's pictures, audio and video.

== The indexing of Srila Prabhupada's audio and video ==

* A searchable media system that will be tied to Vaniquotes and Vanisource, in order to supply the audio (and possibly video) of vaniquotes from within a [[Vaniquotes:Main Page|Vaniquotes]] page. We will also have audio inside Vanisource Conversations and Lectures so we can listen to the entire recording or portions of it.

As far as our knowledge and research goes, we envision to either:
# find the software or a qualified person to write the software (with currently open source ASR - automatic speech recognition - libraries) to "tag/index" the audio (and possibly video) in the way that google labs is doing in their beta version of [http://labs.google.com/gaudi Gaudi] ([http://www.voodish.co.uk/articles/gaudi-searchable-audio-and-video-from-google/ searchable audio]); or
# create a system to "index" audio, in a similar way we are compiling text in vaniquotes: by engaging hundreds of volunteers in a collaborative network.

Based on extensive research done by Bhakta Robert prabhu on speech recognition's immaturity and (in)accessibility for us humble servants, we are concluding that the semi-automated indexing system presents a more feasible alternative to automated indexing of Srila Prabhupada's media through ASR.
We are also very enthusiastic about this model since it will present devotees with a new opportunity to study and research Srila Prabhupada's vani, now through hearing opposed to reading as done in Vaniquotes.

This indexing tool will be accessible through Vanisource and wherever the audio is available, and the reader is interested in rendering vaniseva in this way, she will have the opportunity to do it in a very simple way. Once the audio in a page (Lecture or Conversation) has been indexed, it will become immediately available in that Vanisource text and in EVERY quote in Vaniquotes that was extracted (through the process of compiling) from that lecture or conversation.
Imagine how amazing and fun it will be to audibly browse through a [[Vaniquotes:Main Page|Vaniquotes]] compilation, and listen to the audio of every lectures and conversations directly in a [[Vanisource:Main Page|Vanisource]] page!

Searchable media was in hold for some time but now it will become a reality since we count with very qualified developers who can make this happen.

How is this related to the Vanimedia petal? Well, Vanimedia is our catalog of media so we want to pull the media from this main media repository (avoiding duplication of resources) and eventually we will implement this search system inside the Vanimedia experience for everyone to make "audio and video searches" in Srila Prabhupada's media.

The persons currently in charge of this project are Bhakta Robert Dinah, Bhakta David Roncancio and Acyutananda Caitanya Das.

== Vanisource clean-up system and import of BBT earlier editions ==

* We are committed to provide the most authoritative repository of spiritual knowledge based on the "Vani" given by His Divine Grace A.C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. For this we have imported all of his writtings and teachings in the text form into the Vanisource petal extracted from the Vedabase software. Unfortunately we have inhereted many errors in the texts that need to be corrected and we believe that responsibility lies in all of us not just the publishers and developers of Vedabase (BBT). We have one great advantage compare to the system that may be offered by the publishers: We have already in place a bulletproof collaborative system (Krsna bless mediawiki), in which we can make this corrections and have instant benefit of it.
We will create a very easy system by which registered users can submit corrections (misspells, characters missing, punctuation, etc) of the text which will be immediately reflected (after revision) in the Vanisource text and the Vaniquotes that were created with that text. In this way we hope that the publishers will use the corrected version made by hundreds of volunteers whose sole interest is to propagate the knowledge they were given in the quality it deserves.

* The vanitech team has also been busy importing the previous editions of the main books written by His Divine Grace. This is done with the purpose to have a easy and accessible way to read and compare different editions of the texts. We are solely interested in academic and devotional research and have NO interest in politics or conspiracies, reason why we endeavor to provide the facts.
There is already available the 1972 version of the [[Vanisource:BG|Bhagavad-gita]] which can be viewed and compare with the current (1983) edition by visiting any BG text in Vanisource. We will extend that to other books as time permits.
We hope this encourages devotees and ISKCON authorities to make their own judgment and learn about the corrections made in the latest editions.

* Another improvement we wish to have in our Vanisource is the accessibility to the original Sanskrit (and Bengali) Devanagari in every text. Because our source is the Vedabase, and at the time the Vedabase was made (making Srila Prabhupada's books in digital form) the standards for Sanskrit Devanagari were not so established as they are today (This is of course merely a conclusion drawn from our vanitech team since haven't had the pleasure to hear it directly from the developers of the Vedabase software). The Vedabase created their own font with their own encoding for the sanskrit devanagari, making it only accessible to those who have the font installed in their computer. Meaning that if you were to copy and paste a portion of the text to a text (word) document or an email (either a client software or the more popular way the internet browser) your text will appear in a strange code unless you have the font installed.
For this purpose we have created a tool that will allow us to convert, in the same way we converted the "romanized sanskrit" in every Vanisource verse, to a standard universal (unicode) encoding that nearly all personal computers can read (display properly). The difference between the conversion of the romanized sanskrit (Balaram to Unicode) is that since that encoding doesn't meet any standard encoding known to us, we have to use a semi-automatic tool that will allow a volunteer with a good understanding of sanskrit, to verify and correct our version of the text.
There are already a couple of volunteers, Archana Dasi and Bhaktin Matea who will start working on the devanagari conversion in the Bhagavad-gita and once the tool is refined through this beta process then we'll continue with Srimad-Bhagavatam and other books.
You are welcome to join them in this nice effort.

The person currently in charge of this project is Acyutananda Caitanya Das.

'''Vanitech''' team is growing and you can help too. Please come forward and offer whatever technical knowledge and experience you have, and work on cutting edge technologies for a great mission, the spreading of Krsna Consciousness. Do not hesitate to inquire how you can help, because you'll be surprise how easy is to be engaged in vaniseva.

Contact us @'''[mailto:VaniTech.for.Vanipedia@pamho.net here.]'''

Template:Statistics

2009-12-21T23:35:26Z

Acyuta:

As of today we have created '''<span id="cats-stats"></span>''' categories, '''<span id="pages-stats"></span>''' pages ('''<span id="pages-complete"></span>''' are completed and '''<span id="pages-incomplete"></span>''' are in process) and there are now '''<span id="total-stats"></span>''' quotes drawn from the following places.

:'''<span id="bg-stats"></span>''' '''quotes''' from Bhagavad-gītā As It Is
:'''<span id="sb-stats"></span>''' '''quotes''' from Śrīmad Bhāgavatam
:'''<span id="cc-stats"></span>''' '''quotes''' from Śrī Caitanya Caritāmṛta
:'''<span id="ob-stats"></span>''' '''quotes''' from other books by Śrīla Prabhupāda
:'''<span id="lec-stats"></span>''' '''quotes''' from Śrīla Prabhupāda's Lectures
:'''<span id="con-stats"></span>''' '''quotes''' from Śrīla Prabhupāda's Conversations and Morning Walks
:'''<span id="let-stats"></span>''' '''quotes''' from Śrīla Prabhupāda's Correspondence

Once completed we estimate that Vaniquotes will have around 7,000 categories, 250,000 pages, and somewhere between 2 to 3 million quotes.

*By the end of '''2010''' our goal is to have at least - <span id="quotes-goal">500,108</span> quotes '''(<span id="quotes-goal-percent"></span>% done)''' and <span id="pages-goal">50,108</span> completed pages '''(<span id="pages-goal-percent"></span>% done)'''

'''Serving all together - we are actually doing it.'''

Template:Statistics

2009-12-21T23:34:47Z

Acyuta:

Template:Statistics

2009-12-21T23:33:46Z

Acyuta:

As of today we have created '''<span id="cats-stats"></span>''' categories, '''<span id="page-stats"></span>''' pages ('''<span id="pages-complete"></span>''' are completed and '''<span id="pages-incomplete"></span>''' are in process) and there are now '''<span id="total-stats"></span>''' quotes drawn from the following places.

:'''<span id="bg-stats"></span>''' '''quotes''' from Bhagavad-gītā As It Is
:'''<span id="sb-stats"></span>''' '''quotes''' from Śrīmad Bhāgavatam
:'''<span id="cc-stats"></span>''' '''quotes''' from Śrī Caitanya Caritāmṛta
:'''<span id="ob-stats"></span>''' '''quotes''' from other books by Śrīla Prabhupāda
:'''<span id="lec-stats"></span>''' '''quotes''' from Śrīla Prabhupāda's Lectures
:'''<span id="con-stats"></span>''' '''quotes''' from Śrīla Prabhupāda's Conversations and Morning Walks
:'''<span id="let-stats"></span>''' '''quotes''' from Śrīla Prabhupāda's Correspondence

Once completed we estimate that Vaniquotes will have around 7,000 categories, 250,000 pages, and somewhere between 2 to 3 million quotes.

*By the end of '''2010''' our goal is to have at least - <span id="quotes-goal">500,108</span> quotes '''(<span id="quotes-goal-percent"></span>% done)''' and <span id="pages-goal">50,108</span> completed pages '''(<span id="pages-goal-percent"></span>% done)'''

'''Serving all together - we are actually doing it.'''

=====Statistics in Vaniquotes - categories - pages - quotes =====

*Today's count, '''<span id="cats-stats"></span> categories'''
**estimated to be about 7,000 categories when completed.

*Today's count, '''<span id="page-stats"></span> pages''' of which '''<span id="pages-complete"></span> pages''' are completed and ''''<span id="pages-incomplete"></span> pages''' are in process.
** our first goal is to create 108,000 pages.

'''These statements are drawn from the following places and today we have a count of:'''

*'''<span id="bg-stats"></span>''' '''quotes''' from Bhagavad-gītā As It Is
*'''<span id="sb-stats"></span>''' '''quotes''' from Śrīmad Bhāgavatam
*'''<span id="cc-stats"></span>''' '''quotes''' from Śrī Caitanya Caritāmṛta
*'''<span id="ob-stats"></span>''' '''quotes''' from other books by Śrīla Prabhupāda
*'''<span id="lec-stats"></span>''' '''quotes''' from Śrīla Prabhupāda's Lectures
*'''<span id="con-stats"></span>''' '''quotes''' from Śrīla Prabhupāda's Conversations and Morning Walks
*'''<span id="let-stats"></span>''' '''quotes''' from Śrīla Prabhupāda's Correspondence

*Today's count, '''<span id="total-stats"></span>''' '''quotes''' in '''total''' - there will be an estimated 2 to 3 million quotes when Vaniquotes is completed.

*By the end of '''2010''' our goal is to have at least - <span id="quotes-goal">500,108</span> quotes '''(<span id="quotes-goal-percent"></span>% done)''' and <span id="pages-goal">50,108</span> completed pages '''(<span id="pages-goal-percent"></span>% done)'''

'''Śrīla Prabhupāda's transcendental vani ki jaya!'''

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2009-05-09T11:03:36Z

Acyuta:

=== Currently we have a couple of projects we are working on: ===

== The improvement of the tools by which we compile quotes in [[Vaniquotes:Main Page|Vaniquotes]] ==
The Vaniquotes compiling system works by taking portions of text from the Bhaktivedanta Vedabase and formats them as "vaniquotes" in order to be inserted into pages.

We are working on the 2.0 version that presents a rich text (WYSIWYG) interface with automation on: 99% link (to [http://vanisource.org Vanisource]) creation accuracy, cited verse in quote detection and formating, text formating according to its attribute (heading, translation, purport or conversation), spacing in text and between quotes, insertion of table of contents and placement of quote in page according to its (semantic) nature: BG, SB, CC, Other books, Conversation, Lecture, Letter and their subcontents (BG -> BG Chapter 1, Other Books -> Nectar of devotion, Lectures -> Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures, etc).

It is currently under testing/debug and will be (hopefully) released soon under compile-2.0.0.

The person currently in charge of this project is Acyutananda Caitanya Das.

== The development of Vanimedia: The repository of video, audio and pictures of His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada ==
Within it there are two main projects:
* A dynamic, very appealing and easy to use gallery where users/visitors can browse and access the huge repository of media.
: video - 50 hours
: audio - 1700 clips
: pictures - 20,000 pics

* A searchable media system that will be tied to Vaniquotes, in order to supply the audio (and possibly video) of vaniquotes from within a [[Vaniquotes:Main Page|Vaniquotes]] page. As far as our knowledge and research goes, we envision to either:
# find the software or a qualified person to write the software (with currently open source ASR - automatic speech recognition - libraries) to "tag" the audio (and possibly video) in the way that google labs is doing in their beta version of [http://labs.google.com/gaudi Gaudi] ([http://www.voodish.co.uk/articles/gaudi-searchable-audio-and-video-from-google/ searchable audio]); or
# create a system to "compile" audio, in a similar way we are compiling text in vaniquotes, by engaging hundreds of volunteers in a collaborative network.

Searchable media is a feature we have put on hold for some time, and we'll keep it in our top priority wish list, until we find the qualified devotees who can either implement or come up with a better solution for this very exciting feature.

How is this related to the Vanimedia petal? Well, Vanimedia is our catalog of media so we want to pull the data from the main repository (avoiding duplication of resources) and eventually we could implement this searchable system inside the Vanimedia experience for everyone to take advantage of.
The persons currently in charge of this project are Sumit Kumar Jain and Mayank Gupta.

'''Vanitech''' team is growing and you can help too. Please come forward and offer whatever technical knowledge and experience you have, and work on cutting edge technologies for a great mission, the spreading of Krsna Consciousness.

Contact us @'''[mailto:VaniTech.for.Vanipedia@pamho.net here.]'''

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2009-05-09T10:51:47Z

Acyuta:

== Currently we have a couple of projects we are working on: ==

; The improvement of the tools by which we compile quotes in [[Vaniquotes:Main Page|Vaniquotes]].
The Vaniquotes compiling system works by taking portions of text from the Bhaktivedanta Vedabase and formats them as "vaniquotes" in order to be inserted into pages.
We are working on the 2.0 version that presents a rich text (WYSIWYG) interface with automation on: 99% link (to [http://vanisource.org Vanisource]) creation accuracy, cited verse in quote detection and formating, text formating according to its attribute (heading, translation, purport or conversation), spacing in text and between quotes, insertion of table of contents and placement of quote in page according to its (semantic) nature: BG, SB, CC, Other books, Conversation, Lecture, Letter and their subcontents (BG -> BG Chapter 1, Other Books -> Nectar of devotion, Lectures -> Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures, etc).
It is currently under testing/debug and will be (hopefully) released soon under compile-2.0.0.
The person currently in charge of this project is Acyutananda Caitanya Das.

; The next petal we have planned to develop is Vanimedia: The repository of video, audio and pictures of His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada.
Within it there are two main projects:
* A dynamic, very appealing and easy to use gallery where users/visitors can browse and access the huge repository of media.
: video - 50 hours
: audio - 1700 clips
: pictures - 20,000 pics

* A searchable media system that will be tied to Vaniquotes, in order to supply the audio (and possibly video) of vaniquotes from within a [[Vaniquotes:Main Page|Vaniquotes]] page. As far as our knowledge and research goes, we envision to either:
# find the software or a qualified person to write the software (with currently open source ASR - automatic speech recognition - libraries) to "tag" the audio (and possibly video) in the way that google labs is doing in their beta version of [http://labs.google.com/gaudi Gaudi] ([http://www.voodish.co.uk/articles/gaudi-searchable-audio-and-video-from-google/ searchable audio]); or
# create a system to "compile" audio, in a similar way we are compiling text in vaniquotes, by engaging hundreds of volunteers in a collaborative network.

Searchable media is a feature we have put on hold for some time, and we'll keep it in our top priority wish list, until we find the qualified devotees who can either implement or come up with a better solution for this very exciting feature.

How is this related to the Vanimedia petal? Well, Vanimedia is our catalog of media so we want to pull the data from the main repository (avoiding duplication of resources) and eventually we could implement this searchable system inside the Vanimedia experience for everyone to take advantage of.
The persons currently in charge of this project are Sumit Kumar Jain and Mayank Gupta.

'''Vanitech''' team is growing and you can help too. Please come forward and offer whatever technical knowledge and experience you have, and work on cutting edge technologies for a great mission, the spreading of Krsna Consciousness.

Contact us at VaniTech.for.Vanipedia@pamho.net

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* '''[[Vanipedia:Vanitech news and report|Vanitech news and report...]]'''

* '''[[Vanipedia:News and Views / Autumn 2008#Progress report from March 08|Since the launching of version 0.1 in March we have been developing the logistics...]]'''

* '''[[Vanipedia:News and Views / Autumn 2008#Now you can experience the compiling|Now you can experience the compiling...]]'''

* ''' [[Vanipedia:News and Views / Autumn 2008#Are people really getting involved?|Are people really getting involved? Here are a few testimonials...]]'''

* '''[[Vanipedia:News and Views / Autumn 2008#Big party saying thank you to Eivind|A big party saying thank you to Eivind...]]'''

* '''[[Vanipedia:News and Views / Autumn 2008#The three S's are present in Vanipedia|The three S's are present in Vanipedia...]]'''

* '''[[Vanipedia:News and Views / Autumn 2008#The printing press is the representative of Radharani |The printing press is the representative of Radharani...]]'''

* '''[[Vanipedia:News and Views / Autumn 2008#7 years to prepare - 12 years to perform |7 years to prepare - 12 years to perform...]]'''

* '''[[Vanipedia:News and Views / Autumn 2008#contact us|contact us]]'''

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== Currently we have a couple of projects we are working on: ==

; The improvement of the system by which we compile quotes in [[Vaniquotes:Main Page|Vaniquotes]].
It works by taking portions of text from the Bhaktivedanta Vedabase and format them as vaniquotes to be inserted into pages/compilations.
We are working on the 2.0 version that presents a rich text (WYSIWYG) interface with automation on: 99% link (to [http://vanisource.org Vanisource]) creation accuracy, cited verse in quote detection and formating, text formating according to its attribute(heading, translation, purport or conversation), spacing in text and between quotes, insertion of table of contents and placement of quote in page/compilation according to its (semantic) nature: BG, SB, CC, Other books, Conversation, Lecture, Letter and their subcontents (BG -> BG Chapter 1, Other Books -> Nectar of devotion, Lectures -> Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures, etc).
It is currently under testing/debug and will be (hopefully) released soon under compile-2.0.0.
(The person currently in charge of this project is Acyutananda Caitanya Das)

; The next petal we have planned to develop is Vanimedia. The repository of video, audio and pictures of His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada.
Within it there are two main projects:
* A dynamic, very appealing and easy to use gallery where users/visitors can browse and access the huge repository of media.
: video-50 hours
: audio clips - 1700 clips
: pictures - 20,000 pics

* A searchable media system that will be tied to Vaniquotes, in order to supply the audio (and possibly video) of vaniquotes from within a [[Vaniquotes:Main Page|Vaniquotes]] page/compilation. As far as our knowledge and research goes, we envision to either
# find the software or a qualified person to write the software (with currently open source ASR(automatic speech recognition) libraries) to "tag" the audio (and possibly video) in the way that google labas is doing in their beta version of [http://labs.google.com/gaudi Gaudi] ([http://www.voodish.co.uk/articles/gaudi-searchable-audio-and-video-from-google/ searchable audio]).
# create a system to "compile" audio, in a similar way we are compiling text in vaniquotes, by engaging hundreds of volunteers in a collaborative network.

This is a feature we have put on hold for some time, and we'll keep in our top priority wish list, until we find the qualified devotees who can either implement or come up with a better solution for this very exciting feature.

How is this related to the Vanimedia petal? well, Vanimedia is our catalog of media so we wish to be pulling the media from the main Vanimedia repository (avoiding duplication of resources) and eventually we could implement this searchable system inside the Vanimedia experience for everyone to take advantage of.
(The persons currently in charge of this project are Sumit Kumar Jain and Mayank Gupta)

'''Vanitech''' team is growing and you can help too. Please come forward and offer whatever technical knowledge and experience you have, and work on cutting edge technologies for a great mission, the spread of Krsna Consciousness.

Contact us at VaniTech.for.Vanipedia@pamho.net

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'''Progress report from March 08'''

On the 21st of March we launched the introductory version of Vanipedia to communicate the vision of the project. Since then we have been working on different logistical stuff.

==Evaluating the platforms==

*We spent a few months checking out some platforms for the other petals, and even challenged ourselves to see if wiki was the platform that we would continue with for the Vanisource, Vaniquotes and Vanipedia petals. We bounced back and forth the advantages of a centralized database system against the wiki platform of individual non related pages. After some '''[[Vaniquotes:Souls|soul]]''' searching we again embraced Wiki as the platform for developing these three petals. The conclusion was that while a centralized database system has some advantages to it, at this stage with the manpower and resources we have it is totally beyond us to create a platform that offers a centralized database and all the other features needed for collaboration that wiki faciliates us to do. While this exercise took some time it ended up deepening our resolve to go with the wiki platform due to its wonderful collaborating possibilities. Actually we love wiki as it flows, feels good, is easy to handle, and their philosophy of liberal '''[[Vaniquotes:Distribution of knowledge|distribution of knowledge]]''' resonates very much with Srila Prabhupada's '''[[Vaniquotes:Category:Mood|mood.]]''' The only difference is in their definition and our definition of what '''[[Vaniquotes:Category:Real Knowledge|real knowledge]]''' actually is.

==Compling form for Vaniquotes==

*So with that exercise out of the way, Acyuta started making a compiling form for transferring Vedabase text into Vaniquotes pages with all the links to Vanisource. This took time as the there are many complicated variables in the Vedabases references, and all of that had to be worked out so that we could end up having clean links from Vaniquotes into Vanisource. We have at the moment a pretty clean form and now as more people use it for compiling any last dead links can be worked out. Actually the compilers who are already using the form can testify that this really makes the whole process very '''[[Vaniquotes:easy and sublime|easy and sublime.]]'''

==Compiling Manual==

*Rita and Matea started a crash course on compiling and writing a manual simultaneously. They did a great job and now we have a pretty good beginning '''[[Vaniquotes:Manual for compilers in Vaniquotes|manual for compilers]]''' to refer to after being trained by a vanitutor. As compilers become more familiar with the compiling process and use the manual we will be able to fine tune it further. As we envision to have hundreds of compilers the time spent on the manual has been well worth it, as it is a great help to refer to when one gets a little lost.

==Completing Vanisource==

*This is a work in process. Now we have all of the major texts included, photos on each page, the speakers of every verse of the '''[[Vaniquotes:Category:Srimad Bhagavatam|Bhagavatam]]''' on the bottom of each page (great resource when coming in from Vaniquotes) and practically all the links from cited verses in purports working. Haven’t started as yet, but as an ongoing thing we will be linking different key words from Vanisource back into Vaniquotes. There is still some more content to place in; the original 1972 version of the Gita, the legal documents, pre 1966 BTGs, and Prabhupada's diaries. We will do that as the time allows. Need more of you to be involved.....

== Constructing new facilities ==

*With '''[[Vaniquotes:Category:Faith|faith]]''' that there is a steady future for Vanipedia we are moving forward with the construction of an extension on to BLS's existing building. The architectural plans were submitted for permission on the 27th of August, and they have 115 days to reply. So lets see what happens there. The extension will be 5 living rooms and storage facilities for the books. When it is finished we will move things around to create a more efficient setup for BLS on the ground floor. Shop, office, mail-order, packing and book storage. This will also give Vanipedia a really cool facility on the first floor with two nice offices (we only have one now), a great kitchen and the 5 extra living rooms will mean that more devotees can come forward to join the core team to help with all the infrastructural stuff needed to get this Vanivision off the ground and flying high.

==Are people really getting involved?==

*'''Acyutananda Caitanya dasa - Colombia - Croatia'''

My '''[[Vaniquotes:Category:Experience|experience]]''' serving Srila Prabhupada has always been blessed by great association; I have found in the Vanipedia team wonderful persons who are very intelligent, dedicated, humble and personal. Now my service has become the perfect arrangement by the mix of great sanga with Srila Prabhupada himself (through his teachings), sanga with his servants, and the fact that in Krsna Consciousness you can (and should) be engaged according to your abilities and qualities. Mine are computer systems and technology, and Vanipedia offers to Srila Prabhupada the most advanced, influential and interactive '''[[Vaniquotes:Medium|medium]]''' to propagate his teachings: the internet.
I am very happy and honored to have this '''[[Vaniquotes:Category:Opportunity|opportunity]]''' to render service and at the same time grow intellectually and spiritually.

*'''Anasuya dasi - Belgium

*'''Archana devi dasi - Sinpapore

Vanipedia is one of the best and most interesting ways to serve Srila Prabhupada. I found that I can actually feel Srila Prabhupada speaking to me while I am doing this service. This means that this service is making me more and more Prabhupada Conscious.

To compile Srila Prabhupada's teachings into Vaniquotes is a great joy. A sense of pride and achievement is easily attained by performing this unique service. 'Joy' because you intensely read up a lot of different quotations from Srila Prabhupada's nectarine books and compile them according to different categories. I feel that Srila Prabhupada will be very pleased with this project launched because it provides easy access to His Divine Grace's teachings to countless generations of people at a touch of a finger. '''[[Vaniquotes:An intelligent person|All intelligent persons]]''' should join in this service and make their
lives successful. Thank you once again for engaging me in this service.

*'''Arundhati Biswas (Aparajita Radika dasi) - India - USA'''

*'''Chris Fellingham - UK'''

When I was first asked to take part in the Vanipedia project, I did not know what to expect. I soon found what a joy it is to be a part of such a monumental project and at the same time immersed in the '''[[Vaniquotes:Category:Nectar|nectar]]''' of Srila Prabhupada's books. This project will truly give Srila Prabhupada to the world, unlike anything that has gone before. It will also, being arranged thematically, serve as the '''[[Vaniquotes:Category:Ultimate|ultimate]]''' reference/resource tool for generations of Iskcon devotees to come. Srila Prabhupada Ki jaya!

*'''Jamuna Priya devi dasi - UK - India'''

*'''Laksmipriya devi dasi - Slovakia - Radhadesh'''

I have been serving with BLS for the last 6 years and have loved every part of it from the very beginning. What can be better than being surrounded with all the wonderful books every day? When I came in, I said: "I want to learn everything about BLS" and over time I did. By now I have mastered quite a few things and am always eager to be '''[[Vaniquotes:Engaged in Devotional Service (Books)|fully engaged.]]''' The nature of the service with BLS is wavelike, which means that it comes in waves - sometimes I don’t know what to start first and sometimes I am wondering how to be engaged.

Assisting from the sideline, I have seen the conception and birth of Vanipedia, understanding the potential and the greatness of the whole project. In spite of that, I felt hesitant to become engaged in compiling, thinking that its not really for me. After all, I already spend so much time in front of a computer and I am more of a physical person, even though I love '''[[Vaniquotes:Category:Read Our Books|reading Srila Prabhupada's books every day.]]'''

When the last wave of wondering how to keep myself engaged came, Visnu Murti suggested that he train me in compiling in Vaniquotes, so being unengaged I agreed. After the initial training session I started to explore the whole world of Vanipedia and Vaniquotes in detail. I have become awestruck. Diving deeper and deeper into the different compilations and finding the pearls of exquisite beauty of Srila Prabhupada's usage of language was such a soul refreshing shelter, that I couldn’t hold my happiness for myself. We discussed, and brainstormed on everything we can compile and how we can organize things to develop better the project.

My first steps in making the different compilations on my own felt a little insecure, but with each and every new push of the save button, I became more confident to continue on. I realize how Srila Prabhupada is calling us again and again to assist him in his service and how making these compilations available are such a wealth of treasure for every devotee and for all people.

I am very much gladdened and grateful to Acyuta who made the compiling process so easy and automated by creating the compiling form. It is really simple and everyone can learn it, if they so desire. Hare Krishna.

*'''Matea Zajec - Croatia'''

From the first year of living in Radhadesh and studying at the Bhaktivedanta College, I have found a true well-wisher, mentor and a spiritual guide in Vishnu Murti Prabhu. I have considered myself to be a small part of the Vanipedia team even before I actually started offering service, because I have tracked the project's creation and advancement through it's senior team members. If one spends time with and takes knowledge and association of well-engaged devotees, and listens to incredibly enthusiastic testimonies of Vishnu Murti, I think the natural step is to become very amazed and interested in the service project that has been so fruitful and fulfilling to others. In this way I officially embraced the Vanipedia and presented myself to Vishnu Murti for professional training and instruction.

Every day is like a whole new world is reveling itself before me. I knew the depth of Srila Prabhupada's wisdom and instructions is unmeasurable, but I never imagined there would be one place where a whole ocean of knowledge could be accessed. What amuses me even more is that each devotee in the Vaniteam naturally experiences a completely individual adventure working on this project. This has definitely been one of the most pragmatic and intriguing experiences I had in ISKCON, I perceive working on this project to be very helpful for deepening my understanding of Vaishnava philosophy, and I will carry the experience gained working on Vanipedia throughout my life. And thanks to the internet, Vanipedia will be available for active access and engagement for a very long time.

*'''Sahadeva dasa - UK - Vrndavana'''

At the beginning of this year Visnu Murti prabhu introduced me to a wonderful way of glorifying Srila Prabhupada and Krsna lila! This Vanipedia project offers a new way to study and research with a computer and Internet connection. I'm very interested in seeing who's who in '''[[Vaniquotes:Category:Saintly Personalities|Krsna lila and Gaura lila]]''' and so started researching the Vedabase for all references Srila Prabhupada makes to different personalities. This seva is an absorbing way of reading i.e. to choose a subject and fully research it over hours and sometimes days and then to present the results of that work on the Web for others to '''[[Vaniquotes:Category:Benefit|benefit]]''' is very satisfying. Vanipedia allows for anyone to '''[[Vaniquotes:Category:Contribute|contribute]]''' on subjects that interest them and as Srila Prabhupada wrote and spoke about so many different things, we now have a place on the Web to collect, preserve and refer to all of his vani nectar.

*'''Yajnesh dasa - France'''

*'''Visnu Murti dasa - NZ - Radhadesh'''

What can I say, I have such an '''[[Vaniquotes:Category:Enthusiasm|enthusiasm]]''' for Vanipedia that it is truly inspiring me. My prayers for developing the abilities needed to help the whole project to be realized are more intense than in any other project I have ever served with. Serving in Vanipedia means directly serving Prabhupada's heart, and I have seen there is some very special '''[[Vaniquotes:Category:Mercy|mercy]]''' to be experienced, so I just keep diving into the '''[[Vaniquotes:Category:Ocean|ocean]]''' of Vani with full faith and continual experience that Srila Prabhupada lives in his teachings and that we can all live with him. I am also convinced that inside of Srila Prabhupada's teachings is the key for the people of this planet to actually become successful in attaining the '''[[Vaniquotes:Category:Goal of Life|goal of human life.]]'''

== Big party saying thank you to Eivind ==

*Two years ago in September 2006, Eivind Morland came for a few months to BLS to help with the distribution of books. He offered services in customer care, packing up books for shipping, cleaning, and little general tasks to help. Joyful Eivind created a nice spirit around him, as he was always available to do whatever was asked of him.

*In October 2006, Visnu Murti requested him to spend some time looking for the best platform to begin the Vanipedia project. He jumped into it, and spent whatever time he could surfing around the web. In January 07 we decided on wiki and we bought the domain name Vanipedia. As this was in his real nature and passion we freed Eivind to work on Vanipedia full time. So little by little, along with Acyuta who came in May of 2007, they both built the whole site up to what it is today. Eivind spent many hours becoming expert in different areas of web management.

*Now after two years of wonderful service he is going back to Norway to see what the next things are that Krsna has in store for him. Eivind will always be a founding member of Vanipedia, stop being a core team member, and will now offer different services to Vanipedia as a volunteer from his home land.

*We want to take this opportunity to thank Eivind from the bottom of our hearts. There is no doubt in our minds that Vanipedia will one day grow to become the standard of how we approach Prabhupada's teachings for qualitative research on all topics. Thousands and millions of people will use Vanipedia in the future and every one of them, when understanding the history of how it all began, will be able to thank Eivind that he came forward when he did, and how he was chosen by Krsna to begin a very strategic service for the glorification of Srila Prabhupada and the '''[[Vaniquotes:Spreading Krsna Concsciousness|spreading of Krsna consciousness]]''' throughout the world.

== The printing press is the representative of Radharani ==

*All the Vanipedia servants received the following message on the auspicious day of Srimati Radharani's appearance. I speak for myself, but I found it very inspiring, so much so that I wanted to share it with more devotees. Hope you get inspired too.
Your servant Laksmipriya dd

Haribol Prabhus!
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Today is Srimati Radharani's appearance day, and so I have been doing a little compiling about Her in Vaniquotes. I came accross this quote which I found very profound.

<span class="LET-statistics">'''[[Vanisource:Letter to Jayagovinda — Los Angeles 4 July, 1969|Letter to Jayagovinda — Los Angeles 4 July, 1969]]:''' I am glad that you have named your printing press the Radha Press. It is very gratifying. May your Radha Press be enriched in publishing all our books and literatures in the German language. It is a very nice name. Radharani is the best, topmost servitor of Krishna, and the printing machine is the biggest medium at the present moment for serving Krishna. Therefore, it is really a representative of Srimati Radharani. I like the idea very much.

I want to share with you my realizations:

Here Srila Prabhupada is stating that Radharani is the topmost servitor of Krsna and the printing press is the representative of Radharani as it is the biggest medium at the present moment for serving Krsna.

I note that he says '''[[Vaniquotes:At the present moment (BG and SB)|at the present moment]]'''. This was written in 1969 and we know that Srila Prabhupada did not ever change his understanding of the power of the printing press in distributing Krsna consciousness for all the time he was phisically with us. He embibed this spirit from his spiritual master Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Maharaja who in the 1930's had stated many times that the printing press was the "brhat mrdanga" as it could be heard far more further a field than the mrdanga which could only be heard around the neighborhood.

In May I introduced Radhika Raman prabhu to the vision of Vanipedia. He embraced the vision quickly and could easily understand what we were trying to do. He made two very enthused and clear statements which I could immediately identify with.

"There is no doubt in my mind that Vanipedia will become the standard for how we approach Srila Prabhupada's teachings because it is presented via themes and it is on the web" and he also said "Bhaktisiddanta Sasavati said that the printing press was the '''[[Vaniquotes:brhat mrdanga|brhat mrdanga,]]''' and Prabhupada understood it as such. I think that Vanipedia is the brhat brhat mrdanga"

It is this second statement that I want to explore a little. For the best part of the 20th century the printing press and the products that it produced was the tool that resulted in so much successful propaganda by so many groups of people to influence others into their ideals. Prabhupada stated how expert the communists were to spread their '''[[Vaniquotes:Communists are very expert in distributing their literature, their propopanda|influence in India]]''' via the pamphlets and books they distributed. Prabhupada used this example to express how he wanted to make a large propaganda program for Krishna consciousness by distributing his books all over the world.

Now in the 21st century the power of influence has shifted to the internet. In the last 20 years it has started to slowly influence how we do things in so many ways. And its influence is not waning. It is on the increase.

Srila Prabhupada's statement of '''"at the present moment"''' was made long before the internet started to have any influence on people's lives.

In 1970 Srila Prabhupada wrote this letter to one of his leading disciples.

<span class="LET-statistics">'''[[Vanisource:Letter to Bhagavan — Bombay 24 November, 1970|Letter to Bhagavan — Bombay 24 November, 1970]]:''' Krishna has said in Bhagavad-gita that "whoever explains my transcendental glories to others is most dear to me in this world and never will there be one more dear to me than he". So go on with your organization for distribution of my books through press and other modern media and Krishna will certainly be pleased upon you. We can use everything—television, radio, movies, or whatever there may be—to tell about Krishna and outside of devotional service all these modern paraphernalia are just so much rubbish.

So it is without doubt that Srila Prabhupada would embrace the internet as a way to communicate to people the '''[[Vaniquotes:Truth of Krsna consciousness|truths of Krsna consciousness.]]'''

Notice that Prabhupada directly says '''"go on with your organization for distribution of my books through press and other modern media"''' so this is indeed what we trying to do with Vanipedia. We are trying to give Srila Prabhupada an unparalleled platform in an unparalleled modern media.

Let us rise to whatever challenges we face and make this significant platform for Srila Prabhupada books. For there is no doubt it is the '''"biggest medium at the present moment for serving Krishna"'''

If Radha's Press can be stated by Prabhupada to be '''"really the representative of Srimati Radharani"''' then we can be sure that Vanipedia is also '''"really the representative of Srimati Radharani"'''

May Radharani bless you all in your aspirations to assist Her in '''[[Vaniquotes:Make Krsna happy|making Krsna happy.]]'''

inspiring stuff........ or at least I think so :-)

your servant
Visnu Murti dasa

Vanipedia:News and Views

2008-10-09T16:37:18Z

Acyuta: /* Are people really getting involved? */

{{toc right}}
{{NewsBAR2008}}

'''Progress report from March 08'''

On the 21st of March we launched the introductory version of Vanipedia to communicate the vision of the project. Since then we have been working on different logistical stuff.

==Evaluating the platforms==

*We spent a few months checking out some platforms for the other petals, and even challenged ourselves to see if wiki was the platform that we would continue with for the Vanisource, Vaniquotes and Vanipedia petals. We bounced back and forth the advantages of a centralized database system against the wiki platform of individual non related pages. After some '''[[Vaniquotes:Souls|soul]]''' searching we again embraced Wiki as the platform for developing these three petals. The conclusion was that while a centralized database system has some advantages to it, at this stage with the manpower and resources we have it is totally beyond us to create a platform that offers a centralized database and all the other features needed for collaboration that wiki faciliates us to do. While this exercise took some time it ended up deepening our resolve to go with the wiki platform due to its wonderful collaborating possibilities. Actually we love wiki as it flows, feels good, is easy to handle, and their philosophy of liberal '''[[Vaniquotes:Distribution of knowledge|distribution of knowledge]]''' resonates very much with Srila Prabhupada's '''[[Vaniquotes:Category:Mood|mood.]]''' The only difference is in their definition and our definition of what '''[[Vaniquotes:Category:Real Knowledge|real knowledge]]''' actually is.

==Compling form for Vaniquotes==

*So with that exercise out of the way, Acyuta started making a compiling form for transferring Vedabase text into Vaniquotes pages with all the links to Vanisource. This took time as the there are many complicated variables in the Vedabases references, and all of that had to be worked out so that we could end up having clean links from Vaniquotes into Vanisource. We have at the moment a pretty clean form and now as more people use it for compiling any last dead links can be worked out. Actually the compilers who are already using the form can testify that this really makes the whole process very '''[[Vaniquotes:easy and sublime|easy and sublime.]]'''

==Compiling Manual==

*Rita and Matea started a crash course on compiling and writing a manual simultaneously. They did a great job and now we have a pretty good beginning '''[[Vaniquotes:Manual for compilers in Vaniquotes|manual for compilers]]''' to refer to after being trained by a vanitutor. As compilers become more familiar with the compiling process and use the manual we will be able to fine tune it further. As we envision to have hundreds of compilers the time spent on the manual has been well worth it, as it is a great help to refer to when one gets a little lost.

==Completing Vanisource==

*This is a work in process. Now we have all of the major texts included, photos on each page, the speakers of every verse of the '''[[Vaniquotes:Category:Srimad Bhagavatam|Bhagavatam]]''' on the bottom of each page (great resource when coming in from Vaniquotes) and practically all the links from cited verses in purports working. Haven’t started as yet, but as an ongoing thing we will be linking different key words from Vanisource back into Vaniquotes. There is still some more content to place in; the original 1972 version of the Gita, the legal documents, pre 1966 BTGs, and Prabhupada's diaries. We will do that as the time allows. Need more of you to be involved.....

== Constructing new facilities ==

*With '''[[Vaniquotes:Category:Faith|faith]]''' that there is a steady future for Vanipedia we are moving forward with the construction of an extension on to BLS's existing building. The architectural plans were submitted for permission on the 27th of August, and they have 115 days to reply. So lets see what happens there. The extension will be 5 living rooms and storage facilities for the books. When it is finished we will move things around to create a more efficient setup for BLS on the ground floor. Shop, office, mail-order, packing and book storage. This will also give Vanipedia a really cool facility on the first floor with two nice offices (we only have one now), a great kitchen and the 5 extra living rooms will mean that more devotees can come forward to join the core team to help with all the infrastructural stuff needed to get this Vanivision off the ground and flying high.

==Are people really getting involved?==

*'''Acyutananda Caitanya dasa - Colombia - Croatia'''

My '''[[Vaniquotes:Category:Experience|experience]]''' serving Srila Prabhupada has always been blessed by great association; I have found in the Vanipedia team wonderful persons who are very intelligent, dedicated, humble and personal. Now my service has become the perfect arrangement by the mix of great sanga with Srila Prabhupada himself (through his teachings), sanga with his servants, and the fact that in Krsna Consciousness you can (and should) be engaged according to your abilities and qualities. Mine are computer systems and technology, and Vanipedia offers to Srila Prabhupada the most advanced, influential and interactive '''[[Vaniquotes:Medium|medium]]''' to propagate his teachings: the internet.
I am very happy and honored to have this '''[[Vaniquotes:Category:Opportunity|opportunity]]''' to render service and at the same time grow intellectually and spiritually.

*'''Anasuya dasi - Belgium

*'''Archana devi dasi - Sinpapore

Vanipedia is one of the best and most interesting ways to serve Srila Prabhupada. I found that I can actually feel Srila Prabhupada speaking to me while I am doing this service. This means that this service is making me more and more Prabhupada Conscious.

To compile Srila Prabhupada's teachings into Vaniquotes is a great joy. A sense of pride and achievement is easily attained by performing this unique service. 'Joy' because you intensely read up a lot of different quotations from Srila Prabhupada's nectarine books and compile them according to different categories. I feel that Srila Prabhupada will be very pleased with this project launched because it provides easy access to His Divine Grace's teachings to countless generations of people at a touch of a finger. '''[[Vaniquotes:An intelligent person|All intelligent persons]]''' should join in this service and make their
lives successful. Thank you once again for engaging me in this service.

*'''Arundhati Biswas (Aparajita Radika dasi) - India - USA'''

*'''Chris Fellingham - UK'''

When I was first asked to take part in the Vanipedia project, I did not know what to expect. I soon found what a joy it is to be a part of such a monumental project and at the same time immersed in the '''[[Vaniquotes:Category:Nectar|nectar]]''' of Srila Prabhupada's books. This project will truly give Srila Prabhupada to the world, unlike anything that has gone before. It will also, being arranged thematically, serve as the '''[[Vaniquotes:Category:Ultimate|ultimate]]''' reference/resource tool for generations of Iskcon devotees to come. Srila Prabhupada Ki jaya!

*'''Jamuna Priya devi dasi - UK - India'''

*'''Laksmipriya devi dasi - Slovakia - Radhadesh'''

I have been serving with BLS for the last 6 years and have loved every part of it from the very beginning. What can be better than being surrounded with all the wonderful books every day? When I came in, I said: "I want to learn everything about BLS" and over time I did. By now I have mastered quite a few things and am always eager to be '''[[Vaniquotes:Engaged in Devotional Service (Books)|fully engaged.]]''' The nature of the service with BLS is wavelike, which means that it comes in waves - sometimes I don’t know what to start first and sometimes I am wondering how to be engaged.

Assisting from the sideline, I have seen the conception and birth of Vanipedia, understanding the potential and the greatness of the whole project. In spite of that, I felt hesitant to become engaged in compiling, thinking that its not really for me. After all, I already spend so much time in front of a computer and I am more of a physical person, even though I love '''[[Vaniquotes:Category:Read Our Books|reading Srila Prabhupada's books every day.]]'''

When the last wave of wondering how to keep myself engaged came, Visnu Murti suggested that he train me in compiling in Vaniquotes, so being unengaged I agreed. After the initial training session I started to explore the whole world of Vanipedia and Vaniquotes in detail. I have become awestruck. Diving deeper and deeper into the different compilations and finding the pearls of exquisite beauty of Srila Prabhupada's usage of language was such a soul refreshing shelter, that I couldn’t hold my happiness for myself. We discussed, and brainstormed on everything we can compile and how we can organize things to develop better the project.

My first steps in making the different compilations on my own felt a little insecure, but with each and every new push of the save button, I became more confident to continue on. I realize how Srila Prabhupada is calling us again and again to assist him in his service and how making these compilations available are such a wealth of treasure for every devotee and for all people.

I am very much gladdened and grateful to Acyuta who made the compiling process so easy and automated by creating the compiling form. It is really simple and everyone can learn it, if they so desire. Hare Krishna.

*'''Matea Zajec - Croatia'''

*'''Sahadeva dasa - UK - Vrndavana'''

At the beginning of this year Visnu Murti prabhu introduced me to a wonderful way of glorifying Srila Prabhupada and Krsna lila! This Vanipedia project offers a new way to study and research with a computer and Internet connection. I'm very interested in seeing who's who in '''[[Vaniquotes:Category:Saintly Personalities|Krsna lila and Gaura lila]]''' and so started researching the Vedabase for all references Srila Prabhupada makes to different personalities. This seva is an absorbing way of reading i.e. to choose a subject and fully research it over hours and sometimes days and then to present the results of that work on the Web for others to '''[[Vaniquotes:Category:Benefit|benefit]]''' is very satisfying. Vanipedia allows for anyone to '''[[Vaniquotes:Category:Contribute|contribute]]''' on subjects that interest them and as Srila Prabhupada wrote and spoke about so many different things, we now have a place on the Web to collect, preserve and refer to all of his vani nectar.

*'''Yajnesh dasa - France'''

*'''Visnu Murti dasa - NZ - Radhadesh'''

What can I say, I have such an '''[[Vaniquotes:Category:Enthusiasm|enthusiasm]]''' for Vanipedia that it is truly inspiring me. My prayers for developing the abilities needed to help the whole project to be realized are more intense than in any other project I have ever served with. Serving in Vanipedia means directly serving Prabhupada's heart, and I have seen there is some very special '''[[Vaniquotes:Category:Mercy|mercy]]''' to be experienced, so I just keep diving into the '''[[Vaniquotes:Category:Ocean|ocean]]''' of Vani with full faith and continual experience that Srila Prabhupada lives in his teachings and that we can all live with him. I am also convinced that inside of Srila Prabhupada's teachings is the key for the people of this planet to actually become successful in attaining the '''[[Vaniquotes:Category:Goal of Life|goal of human life.]]'''

== Big party saying thank you to Eivind ==

*Two years ago in September 2006, Eivind Morland came for a few months to BLS to help with the distribution of books. He offered services in customer care, packing up books for shipping, cleaning, and little general tasks to help. Joyful Eivind created a nice spirit around him, as he was always available to do whatever was asked of him.

*In October 2006, Visnu Murti requested him to spend some time looking for the best platform to begin the Vanipedia project. He jumped into it, and spent whatever time he could surfing around the web. In January 07 we decided on wiki and we bought the domain name Vanipedia. As this was in his real nature and passion we freed Eivind to work on Vanipedia full time. So little by little, along with Acyuta who came in May of 2007, they both built the whole site up to what it is today. Eivind spent many hours becoming expert in different areas of web management.

*Now after two years of wonderful service he is going back to Norway to see what the next things are that Krsna has in store for him. Eivind will always be a founding member of Vanipedia, stop being a core team member, and will now offer different services to Vanipedia as a volunteer from his home land.

*We want to take this opportunity to thank Eivind from the bottom of our hearts. There is no doubt in our minds that Vanipedia will one day grow to become the standard of how we approach Prabhupada's teachings for qualitative research on all topics. Thousands and millions of people will use Vanipedia in the future and every one of them, when understanding the history of how it all began, will be able to thank Eivind that he came forward when he did, and how he was chosen by Krsna to begin a very strategic service for the glorification of Srila Prabhupada and the '''[[Vaniquotes:Spreading Krsna Concsciousness|spreading of Krsna consciousness]]''' throughout the world.

== The printing press is the representative of Radharani ==

*All the Vanipedia servants received the following message on the auspicious day of Srimati Radharani's appearance. I speak for myself, but I found it very inspiring, so much so that I wanted to share it with more devotees. Hope you get inspired too.
Your servant Laksmipriya dd

Haribol Prabhus!
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Today is Srimati Radharani's appearance day, and so I have been doing a little compiling about Her in Vaniquotes. I came accross this quote which I found very profound.

<span class="LET-statistics">'''[[Vanisource:Letter to Jayagovinda — Los Angeles 4 July, 1969|Letter to Jayagovinda — Los Angeles 4 July, 1969]]:''' I am glad that you have named your printing press the Radha Press. It is very gratifying. May your Radha Press be enriched in publishing all our books and literatures in the German language. It is a very nice name. Radharani is the best, topmost servitor of Krishna, and the printing machine is the biggest medium at the present moment for serving Krishna. Therefore, it is really a representative of Srimati Radharani. I like the idea very much.

I want to share with you my realizations:

Here Srila Prabhupada is stating that Radharani is the topmost servitor of Krsna and the printing press is the representative of Radharani as it is the biggest medium at the present moment for serving Krsna.

I note that he says '''[[Vaniquotes:At the present moment (BG and SB)|at the present moment]]'''. This was written in 1969 and we know that Srila Prabhupada did not ever change his understanding of the power of the printing press in distributing Krsna consciousness for all the time he was phisically with us. He embibed this spirit from his spiritual master Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Maharaja who in the 1930's had stated many times that the printing press was the "brhat mrdanga" as it could be heard far more further a field than the mrdanga which could only be heard around the neighborhood.

In May I introduced Radhika Raman prabhu to the vision of Vanipedia. He embraced the vision quickly and could easily understand what we were trying to do. He made two very enthused and clear statements which I could immediately identify with.

"There is no doubt in my mind that Vanipedia will become the standard for how we approach Srila Prabhupada's teachings because it is presented via themes and it is on the web" and he also said "Bhaktisiddanta Sasavati said that the printing press was the '''[[Vaniquotes:brhat mrdanga|brhat mrdanga,]]''' and Prabhupada understood it as such. I think that Vanipedia is the brhat brhat mrdanga"

It is this second statement that I want to explore a little. For the best part of the 20th century the printing press and the products that it produced was the tool that resulted in so much successful propaganda by so many groups of people to influence others into their ideals. Prabhupada stated how expert the communists were to spread their '''[[Vaniquotes:Communists are very expert in distributing their literature, their propopanda|influence in India]]''' via the pamphlets and books they distributed. Prabhupada used this example to express how he wanted to make a large propaganda program for Krishna consciousness by distributing his books all over the world.

Now in the 21st century the power of influence has shifted to the internet. In the last 20 years it has started to slowly influence how we do things in so many ways. And its influence is not waning. It is on the increase.

Srila Prabhupada's statement of '''"at the present moment"''' was made long before the internet started to have any influence on people's lives.

In 1970 Srila Prabhupada wrote this letter to one of his leading disciples.

<span class="LET-statistics">'''[[Vanisource:Letter to Bhagavan — Bombay 24 November, 1970|Letter to Bhagavan — Bombay 24 November, 1970]]:''' Krishna has said in Bhagavad-gita that "whoever explains my transcendental glories to others is most dear to me in this world and never will there be one more dear to me than he". So go on with your organization for distribution of my books through press and other modern media and Krishna will certainly be pleased upon you. We can use everything—television, radio, movies, or whatever there may be—to tell about Krishna and outside of devotional service all these modern paraphernalia are just so much rubbish.

So it is without doubt that Srila Prabhupada would embrace the internet as a way to communicate to people the '''[[Vaniquotes:Truth of Krsna consciousness|truths of Krsna consciousness.]]'''

Notice that Prabhupada directly says '''"go on with your organization for distribution of my books through press and other modern media"''' so this is indeed what we trying to do with Vanipedia. We are trying to give Srila Prabhupada an unparalleled platform in an unparalleled modern media.

Let us rise to whatever challenges we face and make this significant platform for Srila Prabhupada books. For there is no doubt it is the '''"biggest medium at the present moment for serving Krishna"'''

If Radha's Press can be stated by Prabhupada to be '''"really the representative of Srimati Radharani"''' then we can be sure that Vanipedia is also '''"really the representative of Srimati Radharani"'''

May Radharani bless you all in your aspirations to assist Her in '''[[Vaniquotes:Make Krsna happy|making Krsna happy.]]'''

inspiring stuff........ or at least I think so :-)

your servant
Visnu Murti dasa

Vanipedia:News and Views

2008-09-26T11:38:47Z

Acyuta: /* Are people really getting involved? */

{{toc right}}
{{NewsBAR2008}}

'''Progress report from March 08'''

On the 21st of March we launched the introductory version of Vanipedia to communicate the vision of the project. Since then we have been working on different logistical stuff.

==Evaluating the platforms==

*We spent a few months checking out some platforms for the other petals, and even challenged ourselves to see if wiki was the platform that we would continue with for the Vanisource, Vaniquotes and Vanipedia petals. We bounced back and forth the advantages of a centralized database system against the wiki platform of individual non related pages. After some '''[[Vaniquotes:Souls|soul]]''' searching we again embraced Wiki as the platform for developing these three petals. The conclusion was that while a centralized database system has some advantages to it, at this stage with the manpower and resources we have it is totally beyond us to create a platform that offers a centralized database and all the other features needed for collaboration that wiki faciliates us to do. While this exercise took some time it ended up deepening our resolve to go with the wiki platform due to its wonderful collaborating possibilities. Actually we love wiki as it flows, feels good, is easy to handle, and their philosophy of liberal '''[[Vaniquotes:Distribution of knowledge|distribution of knowledge]]''' resonates very much with Srila Prabhupada's '''[[Vaniquotes:Category:Mood|mood.]]''' The only difference is in their definition and our definition of what '''[[Vaniquotes:Category:Real Knowledge|real knowledge]]''' actually is.

==Compling form for Vaniquotes==

*So with that exercise out of the way, Acyuta started making a compiling form for transferring Vedabase text into Vaniquotes pages with all the links to Vanisource. This took time as the there are many complicated variables in the Vedabases references, and all of that had to be worked out so that we could end up having clean links from Vaniquotes into Vanisource. We have at the moment a pretty clean form and now as more people use it for compiling any last dead links can be worked out. Actually the compilers who are already using the form can testify that this really makes the whole process very '''[[Vaniquotes:easy and sublime|easy and sublime.]]'''

==Compiling Manual==

*Rita and Matea started a crash course on compiling and writing a manual simultaneously. They did a great job and now we have a pretty good beginning '''[[Vaniquotes:Manual for compilers in Vaniquotes|manual for compilers]]''' to refer to after being trained by a vanitutor. As compilers become more familiar with the compiling process and use the manual we will be able to fine tune it further. As we envision to have hundreds of compilers the time spent on the manual has been well worth it, as it is a great help to refer to when one gets a little lost.

==Completing Vanisource==

*This is a work in process. Now we have all of the major texts included, photos on each page, the speakers of every verse of the '''[[Vaniquotes:Category:Srimad Bhagavatam|Bhagavatam]]''' on the bottom of each page (great resource when coming in from Vaniquotes) and practically all the links from cited verses in purports working. Haven’t started as yet, but as an ongoing thing we will be linking different key words from Vanisource back into Vaniquotes. There is still some more content to place in; the original 1972 version of the Gita, the legal documents, pre 1966 BTGs, and Prabhupada's diaries. We will do that as the time allows. Need more of you to be involved.....

== Constructing new facilities ==

*With '''[[Vaniquotes:Category:Faith|faith]]''' that there is a steady future for Vanipedia we are moving forward with the construction of an extension on to BLS's existing building. The architectural plans were submitted for permission on the 27th of August, and they have 115 days to reply. So lets see what happens there. The extension will be 5 living rooms and storage facilities for the books. When it is finished we will move things around to create a more efficient setup for BLS on the ground floor. Shop, office, mail-order, packing and book storage. This will also give Vanipedia a really cool facility on the first floor with two nice offices (we only have one now), a great kitchen and the 5 extra living rooms will mean that more devotees can come forward to join the core team to help with all the infrastructural stuff needed to get this Vanivision off the ground and flying high.

==Are people really getting involved?==

*'''Acyutananda Caitanya dasa - Colombia - Croatia'''

My experience serving Srila Prabhupada has always been blessed by great association; I have found in the Vanipedia team wonderful persons who are very intelligent, dedicated, humble and personal. Now my service has become the perfect arrangement by the mix of great sanga with Srila Prabhupada himself (through his teachings), sanga with his servants, and the fact that in Krsna Consciousness you can (and should) be engaged according to your abilities and qualities; mine is computer systems and technology, and Vanipedia offers to Srila Prabhupada the most advanced, influencial and interactive medium to propagate his teachings: the internet.
I am very happy and honored to have this opportunity to render service and at the same time grow intellectually and spiritually.

*'''Anasuya dasi - Belgium

*'''Archana devi dasi - Sinpapore

*'''Arundhati Biswas (Aparajita Radika dasi) - India - USA'''

*'''Chris Fellingham - UK'''

*'''Jamuna Priya devi dasi - UK - India'''

*'''Laksmipriya devi dasi - Slovakia - Radhadesh'''

I have been serving with BLS for the last 6 years and have loved every part of it from the very beginning. What can be better than being surrounded with all the wonderful books every day? When I came in, I said: "I want to learn everything about BLS" and over time I did. By now I have mastered quite a few things and am always eager to be '''[[Vaniquotes:Engaged in Devotional Service (Books)|fully engaged.]]''' The nature of the service with BLS is wavelike, which means that it comes in waves - sometimes I don’t know what to start first and sometimes I am wondering how to be engaged.

Assisting from the sideline, I have seen the conception and birth of Vanipedia, understanding the potential and the greatness of the whole project. In spite of that, I felt hesitant to become engaged in compiling, thinking that its not really for me. After all, I already spend so much time in front of a computer and I am more of a physical person, even though I love '''[[Vaniquotes:Category:Read Our Books|reading Srila Prabhupada's books every day.]]'''

When the last wave of wondering how to keep myself engaged came, Visnu Murti suggested that he train me in compiling in Vaniquotes, so being unengaged I agreed. After the initial training session I started to explore the whole world of Vanipedia and Vaniquotes in detail. I have become awestruck. Diving deeper and deeper into the different compilations and finding the pearls of exquisite beauty of Srila Prabhupada's usage of language was such a soul refreshing shelter, that I couldn’t hold my happiness for myself. We discussed, and brainstormed on everything we can compile and how we can organize things to develop better the project.

My first steps in making the different compilations on my own felt a little insecure, but with each and every new push of the save button, I became more confident to continue on. I realize how Srila Prabhupada is calling us again and again to assist him in his service and how making these compilations available are such a wealth of treasure for every devotee and for all people.

I am very much gladdened and grateful to Acyuta who made the compiling process so easy and automated by creating the compiling form. It is really simple and everyone can learn it, if they so desire. Hare Krishna.

*'''Matea Zajec - Croatia'''

*'''Rita Gupta - USA - Radhadesh'''

I feel very fortunate to be a core member of Vanipedia. Thanks to this '''[[Vaniquotes:Category:Service|service,]]''' I have developed skills that will last a lifetime. I have also made friendships that will last a lifetime -- and other lifetimes as well! Since beginning this service, I have reached a deeper appreciation for the '''[[Vaniquotes:Category:Devotee|devotees.]]''' I can see that the '''[[Vaniquotes:Category:Process|processes]]''' established by Srila Prabhupada are working. I hope Vanipedia develops into a forum for the glorification of Srila Prabhupada's teachings. I am very '''[[Vaniquotes:Category:Grateful|grateful]]''' to be engaged with Vanipedia.

*'''Sahadeva dasa - UK - Vrndavana'''

At the beginning of this year Visnu Murti prabhu introduced me to a wonderful way of glorifying Srila Prabhupada and Krsna lila! This Vanipedia project offers a new way to study and research with a computer and Internet connection. I'm very interested in seeing who's who in '''[[Vaniquotes:Category:Saintly Personalities|Krsna lila and Gaura lila]]''' and so started researching the Vedabase for all references Srila Prabhupada makes to different personalities. This seva is an absorbing way of reading i.e. to choose a subject and fully research it over hours and sometimes days and then to present the results of that work on the Web for others to '''[[Vaniquotes:Category:Benefit|benefit]]''' is very satisfying. Vanipedia allows for anyone to '''[[Vaniquotes:Category:Contribute|contribute]]''' on subjects that interest them and as Srila Prabhupada wrote and spoke about so many different things, we now have a place on the Web to collect, preserve and refer to all of his vani nectar.

*'''Yajnesh dasa - France'''

*'''Visnu Murti dasa - NZ - Radhadesh'''

What can I say, I have such an '''[[Vaniquotes:Category:Enthusiasm|enthusiasm]]''' for Vanipedia that it is overwhelming me. My prayers for developing the abilities needed to help the whole project to be realized are more intense than in any other project I have ever served with. Serving in Vanipedia means directly serving Prabhupada's heart, and I have seen there is some very special '''[[Vaniquotes:Category:Mercy|mercy]]''' to be experienced, so I just keep diving into the '''[[Vaniquotes:Category:Ocean|ocean]]''' of Vani with full faith and continual experience that Srila Prabhupada lives in his teachings and that we can all live with him. I am also convinced that inside of Srila Prabhupada's teachings is the key for the people of this planet to actually become successful in attaining the '''[[Vaniquotes:Category:Goal of Life|goal of human life.]]'''

== Big party saying thank you to Eivind ==

*Two years ago in September 2006, Eivind Morland came for a few months to BLS to help with the distribution of books. He offered services in customer care, packing up books for shipping, cleaning, and little general tasks to help. Joyful Eivind created a nice spirit around him, as he was always available to do whatever was asked of him.

*In October 2006, Visnu Murti requested him to spend some time looking for the best platform to begin the Vanipedia project. He jumped into it, and spent whatever time he could surfing around the web. In January 07 we decided on wiki and we bought the domain name Vanipedia. As this was in his real nature and passion we freed Eivind to work on Vanipedia full time. So little by little, along with Acyuta who came in May of 2007, they both built the whole site up to what it is today. Eivind spent many hours becoming expert in different areas of web management.

*Now after two years of wonderful service he is going back to Norway to see what the next things are that Krsna has in store for him. Eivind will always be a founding member of Vanipedia, stop being a core team member, and will now offer different services to Vanipedia as a volunteer from his home land.

*We want to take this opportunity to thank Eivind from the bottom of our hearts. There is no doubt in our minds that Vanipedia will one day grow to become the standard of how we approach Prabhupada's teachings for qualitative research on all topics. Thousands and millions of people will use Vanipedia in the future and every one of them, when understanding the history of how it all began, will be able to thank Eivind that he came forward when he did, and how he was chosen by Krsna to begin a very strategic service for the glorification of Srila Prabhupada and the '''[[Vaniquotes:Spreading Krsna Concsciousness|spreading of Krsna consciousness]]''' throughout the world.

== The printing press is the representative of Radharani ==

*All the Vanipedia servants received the following message on the auspicious day of Srimati Radharani's appearance. I speak for myself, but I found it very inspiring, so much so that I wanted to share it with more devotees. Hope you get inspired too.
Your servant Laksmipriya dd

Haribol Prabhus!
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Today is Srimati Radharani's appearance day, and so I have been doing a little compiling about Her in Vaniquotes. I came accross this quote which I found very profound.

<span class="LET-statistics">'''[[Vanisource:Letter to Jayagovinda — Los Angeles 4 July, 1969|Letter to Jayagovinda — Los Angeles 4 July, 1969]]:''' I am glad that you have named your printing press the Radha Press. It is very gratifying. May your Radha Press be enriched in publishing all our books and literatures in the German language. It is a very nice name. Radharani is the best, topmost servitor of Krishna, and the printing machine is the biggest medium at the present moment for serving Krishna. Therefore, it is really a representative of Srimati Radharani. I like the idea very much.

I want to share with you my realizations:

Here Srila Prabhupada is stating that Radharani is the topmost servitor of Krsna and the printing press is the representative of Radharani as it is the biggest medium at the present moment for serving Krsna.

I note that he says '''[[Vaniquotes:At the present moment (BG and SB)|at the present moment]]'''. This was written in 1969 and we know that Srila Prabhupada did not ever change his understanding of the power of the printing press in distributing Krsna consciousness for all the time he was phisically with us. He embibed this spirit from his spiritual master Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Maharaja who in the 1930's had stated many times that the printing press was the "brhat mrdanga" as it could be heard far more further a field than the mrdanga which could only be heard around the neighborhood.

In May I introduced Radhika Raman prabhu to the vision of Vanipedia. He embraced the vision quickly and could easily understand what we were trying to do. He made two very enthused and clear statements which I could immediately identify with.

"There is no doubt in my mind that Vanipedia will become the standard for how we approach Srila Prabhupada's teachings because it is presented via themes and it is on the web" and he also said "Bhaktisiddanta Sasavati said that the printing press was the '''[[Vaniquotes:brhat mrdanga|brhat mrdanga,]]''' and Prabhupada understood it as such. I think that Vanipedia is the brhat brhat mrdanga"

It is this second statement that I want to explore a little. For the best part of the 20th century the printing press and the products that it produced was the tool that resulted in so much successful propaganda by so many groups of people to influence others into their ideals. Prabhupada stated how expert the communists were to spread their '''[[Vaniquotes:Communists are very expert in distributing their literature, their propopanda|influence in India]]''' via the pamphlets and books they distributed. Prabhupada used this example to express how he wanted to make a large propaganda program for Krishna consciousness by distributing his books all over the world.

Now in the 21st century the power of influence has shifted to the internet. In the last 20 years it has started to slowly influence how we do things in so many ways. And its influence is not waning. It is on the increase.

Srila Prabhupada's statement of '''"at the present moment"''' was made long before the internet started to have any influence on people's lives.

In 1970 Srila Prabhupada wrote this letter to one of his leading disciples.

<span class="LET-statistics">'''[[Vanisource:Letter to Bhagavan — Bombay 24 November, 1970|Letter to Bhagavan — Bombay 24 November, 1970]]:''' Krishna has said in Bhagavad-gita that "whoever explains my transcendental glories to others is most dear to me in this world and never will there be one more dear to me than he". So go on with your organization for distribution of my books through press and other modern media and Krishna will certainly be pleased upon you. We can use everything—television, radio, movies, or whatever there may be—to tell about Krishna and outside of devotional service all these modern paraphernalia are just so much rubbish.

So it is without doubt that Srila Prabhupada would embrace the internet as a way to communicate to people the '''[[Vaniquotes:Truth of Krsna Consciousness|truths of Krsna consciousness.]]'''

Notice that Prabhupada directly says '''"go on with your organization for distribution of my books through press and other modern media"''' so this is indeed what we trying to do with Vanipedia. We are trying to give Srila Prabhupada an unparalleled platform in an unparalleled modern media.

Let us rise to whatever challenges we face and make this significant platform for Srila Prabhupada books. For there is no doubt it is the '''"biggest medium at the present moment for serving Krishna"'''

If Radha's Press can be stated by Prabhupada to be '''"really the representative of Srimati Radharani"''' then we can be sure that Vanipedia is also '''"really the representative of Srimati Radharani"'''

May Radharani bless you all in your aspirations to assist Her in '''[[Vaniquotes:Make Krsna happy|making Krsna happy.]]'''

inspiring stuff........ or at least I think so :-)

your servant
Visnu Murti dasa

MediaWiki:HighlightTermsURL.js

2008-08-05T13:57:48Z

Acyuta:

//jQuery function to parse url_terms from url when current page was linked from Vaniquotes
//The vaniquotes link was modified to include these url_terms in order to highlight them in the current page in Vanisource

document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="'+$jquery_dir+'Jquery.highlight_sanskrit.js'+$raw_mode+'"></script>');
document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="'+$jquery_dir+'Jquery.getParams.js'+$raw_mode+'"></script>');

$(document).ready(function() {
//First check if the current page is an Article
if (wgIsArticle && location.search && wgAction == "view") {
if (this.location.search) {
var url_string = $.getURLParam('terms');
var url_terms = decodeURI(url_string).split('+');
if (url_terms.length > 0 ) {
for (var i = 0, len = url_terms.length; i < len; ++i) {
//sanitize text for search
if (url_terms[i] != "") {
url_term = url_terms[i];
$('#bodyContent').highlight_sanskrit(url_term);
}
}
}
$.scrollTo('span.highlight_terms', '1500', {offset:-100});
}
}
});

MediaWiki:HighlightTermsURL.js

2008-08-05T11:59:04Z

Acyuta:

//jQuery function to parse url_terms from url when current page was linked from Vaniquotes
//The vaniquotes link was modified to include these url_terms in order to highlight them in the current page in Vanisource

$jquery_dir = '/jquery/';

document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="'+$jquery_dir+'jquery.highlight_sanskrit.js'+$raw_mode+'"></script>');
document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="'+$jquery_dir+'jquery.getParams.js'+$raw_mode+'"></script>');

$(document).ready(function() {
//First check if the current page is an Article
if (wgIsArticle && location.search && wgAction == "view") {
if (this.location.search) {
var url_string = $.getURLParam('terms');
var url_terms = decodeURI(url_string).split('+');
if (url_terms.length > 0 ) {
for (var i = 0, len = url_terms.length; i < len; ++i) {
//sanitize text for search
if (url_terms[i] != "") {
url_term = url_terms[i];
$('#bodyContent').highlight_sanskrit(url_term);
}
}
}
$.scrollTo('span.highlight_terms', '1500', {offset:-100});
}
}
});

MediaWiki:HighlightTermsURL.js

2008-08-05T11:56:01Z

Acyuta:

//jQuery function to parse url_terms from url when current page was linked from Vaniquotes
//The vaniquotes link was modified to include these url_terms in order to highlight them in the current page in Vanisource

$jquery_dir = '/jquery/';

document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="'+$jquery_dir+'Jquery.highlight_sanskrit.js'+$raw_mode+'"></script>');
document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="'+$jquery_dir+'Jquery.getParams.js'+$raw_mode+'"></script>');

$(document).ready(function() {
//First check if the current page is an Article
if (wgIsArticle && location.search && wgAction == "view") {
if (this.location.search) {
var url_string = $.getURLParam('terms');
var url_terms = decodeURI(url_string).split('+');
if (url_terms.length > 0 ) {
for (var i = 0, len = url_terms.length; i < len; ++i) {
//sanitize text for search
if (url_terms[i] != "") {
url_term = url_terms[i];
$('#bodyContent').highlight_sanskrit(url_term);
}
}
}
$.scrollTo('span.highlight_terms', '1500', {offset:-100});
}
}
});

MediaWiki:Jquery.highlight sanskrit.js

2008-08-05T11:38:52Z

Acyuta:

/**
Highlight_sanskrit.js plug-in for jQuery
This plug-in is used to highlight terms used in every vaniquotes article and to highlight terms passed
from a vaniquote to a vanisource page.
Usage: $(elem).highlight_sanskrit('Krsna', { global: false, i: true });
options are global: boolean(true|false) and i(case insensitive): boolean(true|false). By default they are both true.
**/
// Dependencies
$jquery_dir = '/jquery/';

document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="'+$jquery_dir+'Unify.js"></' + 'script>');
document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="'+$jquery_dir+'UniToASCII.js"></' + 'script>');

(function($) {
jQuery.fn.highlight_sanskrit = function(key, flags) {
flags = jQuery.extend({
i: true,
global: true
}, flags);
return this.each(function() {
var html_1 = $(this).html();
var html_2 = UniToASCII(html_1);
var set_flags = '';
flags.i ? set_flags += 'i':'';
flags.global ? set_flags += 'g':'';
if (/ä|é|ü|å|è|ì|ï|ö|ò|ë|ç|à|ù|ÿ|û|Ä|É|Ü|Å|È|Ì|Ñ|Ï|Ö|Ò|Ë|Ç|À|Ù|ß/.test(key)) {
key = UniToASCII(Unify(key));
}
if(/ā|ī|ū|ṛ|ṟ|ṅ|ṣ|ñ|ṭ|ḍ|ṇ|ś|ṁ|ḥ|ḷ|ḻ|Ā|Ī|Ū|Ṛ|Ṟ|Ṣ|Ñ|Ṭ|Ḍ|Ṇ|Ś|Ṁ|Ḥ|Ḷ/.test(key)) {
key = UniToASCII(key);
}

html_f = html_1;
re1 = new RegExp('\\b'+key+'\\b', set_flags);
matches=html_2.match(re1);
if(matches) {
var found=0;
var indexes=new Array(matches.length);
for(var m=0; m < matches.length; m++){
found=html_2.substring(0, found).length;
indexes[m]=found+html_2.substring(found).search(re1);
key1 = '<span class="highlight_terms">'+html_1.substr(indexes[m], key.length)+'</span>';
key2 = '<span class="highlight_terms">'+matches[m]+'</span>';
len = matches[m].length;
a1 = html_1.substring(0, indexes[m]);
a2 = html_2.substring(0, indexes[m]);
b1 = html_1.substring(a1.length+len);
b2 = html_2.substring(a2.length+len);
html_1 = a1+key1+b1;
html_2 = a2+key2+b2;
found=indexes[m]+key2.length;
$(this).html(html_1);
}
}
})
}
/* Hack derived from imatch.js
Thanks to imatch.js in http://www.fullposter.com/?1
*/
})(jQuery);

MediaWiki:Jquery.highlight sanskrit.js

2008-08-05T11:19:22Z

Acyuta:

/**
Highlight_sanskrit.js plug-in for jQuery
This plug-in is used to highlight terms used in every vaniquotes article and to highlight terms passed
from a vaniquote to a vanisource page.
Usage: $(elem).highlight_sanskrit('Krsna', { global: false, i: true });
options are global: boolean(true|false) and i(case insensitive): boolean(true|false). By default they are both true.
**/
// Dependencies
document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="'+$jquery_dir+'Unify.js"></' + 'script>');
document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="'+$jquery_dir+'UniToASCII.js"></' + 'script>');

(function($) {
jQuery.fn.highlight_sanskrit = function(key, flags) {
flags = jQuery.extend({
i: true,
global: true
}, flags);
return this.each(function() {
var html_1 = $(this).html();
var html_2 = UniToASCII(html_1);
var set_flags = '';
flags.i ? set_flags += 'i':'';
flags.global ? set_flags += 'g':'';
if (/ä|é|ü|å|è|ì|ï|ö|ò|ë|ç|à|ù|ÿ|û|Ä|É|Ü|Å|È|Ì|Ñ|Ï|Ö|Ò|Ë|Ç|À|Ù|ß/.test(key)) {
key = UniToASCII(Unify(key));
}
if(/ā|ī|ū|ṛ|ṟ|ṅ|ṣ|ñ|ṭ|ḍ|ṇ|ś|ṁ|ḥ|ḷ|ḻ|Ā|Ī|Ū|Ṛ|Ṟ|Ṣ|Ñ|Ṭ|Ḍ|Ṇ|Ś|Ṁ|Ḥ|Ḷ/.test(key)) {
key = UniToASCII(key);
}

html_f = html_1;
re1 = new RegExp('\\b'+key+'\\b', set_flags);
matches=html_2.match(re1);
if(matches) {
var found=0;
var indexes=new Array(matches.length);
for(var m=0; m < matches.length; m++){
found=html_2.substring(0, found).length;
indexes[m]=found+html_2.substring(found).search(re1);
key1 = '<span class="highlight_terms">'+html_1.substr(indexes[m], key.length)+'</span>';
key2 = '<span class="highlight_terms">'+matches[m]+'</span>';
len = matches[m].length;
a1 = html_1.substring(0, indexes[m]);
a2 = html_2.substring(0, indexes[m]);
b1 = html_1.substring(a1.length+len);
b2 = html_2.substring(a2.length+len);
html_1 = a1+key1+b1;
html_2 = a2+key2+b2;
found=indexes[m]+key2.length;
$(this).html(html_1);
}
}
})
}
/* Hack derived from imatch.js
Thanks to imatch.js in http://www.fullposter.com/?1
*/
})(jQuery);

MediaWiki:Jquery.highlight sanskrit.js

2008-08-05T11:11:21Z

Acyuta:

/**
Highlight_sanskrit.js plug-in for jQuery
This plug-in is used to highlight terms used in every vaniquotes article and to highlight terms passed
from a vaniquote to a vanisource page.
Usage: $(elem).highlight_sanskrit('Krsna', { global: false, i: true });
options are global: boolean(true|false) and i(case insensitive): boolean(true|false). By default they are both true.
**/
// Dependencies
document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="'+$jquery_dir+'/Unify.js"></' + 'script>');
document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="'+$jquery_dir+'/UniToASCII.js"></' + 'script>');

(function($) {
jQuery.fn.highlight_sanskrit = function(key, flags) {
flags = jQuery.extend({
i: true,
global: true
}, flags);
return this.each(function() {
var html_1 = $(this).html();
var html_2 = UniToASCII(html_1);
var set_flags = '';
flags.i ? set_flags += 'i':'';
flags.global ? set_flags += 'g':'';
if (/ä|é|ü|å|è|ì|ï|ö|ò|ë|ç|à|ù|ÿ|û|Ä|É|Ü|Å|È|Ì|Ñ|Ï|Ö|Ò|Ë|Ç|À|Ù|ß/.test(key)) {
key = UniToASCII(Unify(key));
}
if(/ā|ī|ū|ṛ|ṟ|ṅ|ṣ|ñ|ṭ|ḍ|ṇ|ś|ṁ|ḥ|ḷ|ḻ|Ā|Ī|Ū|Ṛ|Ṟ|Ṣ|Ñ|Ṭ|Ḍ|Ṇ|Ś|Ṁ|Ḥ|Ḷ/.test(key)) {
key = UniToASCII(key);
}

html_f = html_1;
re1 = new RegExp('\\b'+key+'\\b', set_flags);
matches=html_2.match(re1);
if(matches) {
var found=0;
var indexes=new Array(matches.length);
for(var m=0; m < matches.length; m++){
found=html_2.substring(0, found).length;
indexes[m]=found+html_2.substring(found).search(re1);
key1 = '<span class="highlight_terms">'+html_1.substr(indexes[m], key.length)+'</span>';
key2 = '<span class="highlight_terms">'+matches[m]+'</span>';
len = matches[m].length;
a1 = html_1.substring(0, indexes[m]);
a2 = html_2.substring(0, indexes[m]);
b1 = html_1.substring(a1.length+len);
b2 = html_2.substring(a2.length+len);
html_1 = a1+key1+b1;
html_2 = a2+key2+b2;
found=indexes[m]+key2.length;
$(this).html(html_1);
}
}
})
}
/* Hack derived from imatch.js
Thanks to imatch.js in http://www.fullposter.com/?1
*/
})(jQuery);

MediaWiki:HighlightTerms.js

2008-07-31T16:18:26Z

Acyuta:

/******* Vars ********/

$jquery_dir = 'http://vanipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:';
$raw_mode = '&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript';

// Dependencies
document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="'+$jquery_dir+'Jquery.highlight_sanskrit.js'+$raw_mode+'"></' + 'script>');

//Jquery highlighting function taking terms from page header inside <span class="terms" id="termN">
//Jquery highlighting function taking terms from page header inside <span class="terms" id="termN">
function high_this(key) {
$('p b a').parent().parent().highlight_sanskrit(quotemeta(key));

$('p').filter(function() {
return ! $(this).children().size() > 0;
}).highlight_sanskrit(quotemeta(key));
}
function quotemeta (string) {
return string.replace(/([])/g, "\\$1");
}
//BEGIN!!!
$(document).ready(function() {
//First check if the current page is an Article and that we are on view mode
if (wgCanonicalNamespace == '' && wgAction == 'view') {

//if spans with class terms exist
if ($('span.terms').length) {
//iterate
hi_term = new Array();
$('span.terms').each(function(i) {
//sanitize hi_term for search
hi_term[i] = $(this).text().replace(/"/g, "");
hi_term[i] = hi_term[i].replace(/(^ *| *$)/mg, "");
hi_term[i] = hi_term[i].replace(/ {2,}/g, ' ');
high_this(hi_term[i]);
});
} else {
//if no terms found, use wgTitle(title of article) as the search term for highlighting
hi_term = wgTitle;
high_this(hi_term);
}

}

});

MediaWiki:HighlightTerms.js

2008-07-31T16:16:15Z

Acyuta: Reverted edits by Acyuta (Talk) to last version by Eivind

//Jquery highlighting function taking terms from page header inside <span class="terms" id="termN">
//Define functions
//function for Highlighting
high_this = function($hi_term) {
//regex search including "hi_term" which is the current term in the loop
search1 = new RegExp('([^a-zA-Z])('+$hi_term+')([^a-zA-Z])', 'ig');
//search and replace where term is found in html copy
span = "$1<span class='highlight_terms'>$2</span>$3";
new_html = new_html.replace(search1, span);
}
//Functions for unhighlighting
//Unhighlighting would not be necessary if we could process the page element by element(DOM elements) but proved to be extremely slow when attempted.
//unhigh_plus will fix anything that was highlighted(or was attempted to) within links(in their attributes), category divs and other infoboxes, etc.
//All the unhigh functions will be called from the necesary objects found at the bottom of this app.
unhigh_plus = function() {
$now = $(this).html();
//alert($now);
///wiki/index.php?title=%3Cspan%20class=%27highlight_terms%27%3EManagement%3C/span%3E_%28Letters%29&action=edit&section=12
search2 = new RegExp('<span class=(?:"|\')highlight_terms(?:"|\')>(.+?)</span>', 'img');
search3 = new RegExp('<span class=(?:"|\')highlight_terms(?:"|\')>(.+?)</span>', 'img');
search4 = new RegExp('%3Cspan%20class=%27highlight_terms%27%3E(.+?)%3C/span%3E', 'img')
$now = $now.replace(search2, '$1');
$now = $now.replace(search3, '$1');
$now = $now.replace(search4, '$1');
$(this).html($now);
}
//Simple unhighlighting for 1 level ancestor html replacement
unhigh_simple = function() {
text = $(this).text();
$(this).text(text);
}
//Functions for debug, alert and window.write (use for debugging only)
alert_this = function() {
return alert($(this).html());
}
//win1 = window.open();
print_this = function() {
win1.document.write($(this).html()+'<br/>');
}

//BEGIN!!!
$(document).ready(function() {
//First check if the current page is an Article and that we are on view mode
if (wgCanonicalNamespace == "" && wgAction == 'view') {
//make copy of body html
new_html = $('#bodyContent').html();

//if spans with class terms exist
if ($('span.terms').length) {
//iterate
hi_term = new Array();
$('span.terms').each(function(i) {
//sanitize hi_term for search
hi_term[i] = $(this).text().replace(/"/g, "");
hi_term[i] = hi_term[i].replace(/(^ *| *$)/mg, "");
hi_term[i] = hi_term[i].replace(/(\w+)[\ ]{2,}(\w+)/g, "$1 $2");
high_this(hi_term[i]);
});
} else {
//if no terms found, use wgTitle(title of article) as the search term for highlighting
hi_term = wgTitle;
high_this(hi_term);
}

//replace html body with new html coming from high_this() function
$('#bodyContent').html(new_html);

//We dont want titles to be highlighted ... (tough one)..jQuery to the rescue..
//Find every <b> with children <span class=hightlight_terms that do NOT have an anchor <a sibling... jQuery KiJaya!
$('b span.highlight_terms').filter(function() {
return !$(this).siblings('a').length;
}).removeClass('highlight_terms');

//Fix terms by unhighlighting them with the unhigh function
$('span.highlight_terms').parent('span').each(unhigh_simple);
//Fix edit links
//$('a').parent('span').each(unhigh_plus);
//TODO exclude from category links <div id="catlinks"><p class="catlinks"
//<span class="smwfactboxhead"
$('#bodyContent').children().not('p').each(unhigh_plus);
//$('p.catlinks').each(unhigh_plus);

}
});

MediaWiki:HighlightTerms.js

2008-07-31T16:15:03Z

Acyuta:

/******* Vars ********/
$root_dir = '';
$img_dir = '/images';
$jquery_dir = '/jquery';

// Dependencies
document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="'+$jquery_dir+'/jquery.highlight_sanskrit.js"></' + 'script>');

//Jquery highlighting function taking terms from page header inside <span class="terms" id="termN">
function high_this(key) {
$('p b a').parent().parent().highlight_sanskrit(quotemeta(key));

$('p').filter(function() {
return ! $(this).children().size() > 0;
}).highlight_sanskrit(quotemeta(key));
}
function quotemeta (string) {
return string.replace(/([])/g, "\\$1");
}
//BEGIN!!!
$(document).ready(function() {
//First check if the current page is an Article and that we are on view mode
if (wgCanonicalNamespace == '' && wgAction == 'view') {

//if spans with class terms exist
if ($('span.terms').length) {
//iterate
hi_term = new Array();
$('span.terms').each(function(i) {
//sanitize hi_term for search
hi_term[i] = $(this).text().replace(/"/g, "");
hi_term[i] = hi_term[i].replace(/(^ *| *$)/mg, "");
hi_term[i] = hi_term[i].replace(/ {2,}/g, ' ');
high_this(hi_term[i]);
});
} else {
//if no terms found, use wgTitle(title of article) as the search term for highlighting
hi_term = wgTitle;
high_this(hi_term);
}

}

});

MediaWiki:HighlightTerms.js

2008-07-31T09:47:03Z

Acyuta:

/******* Vars ********/

$jquery_dir = 'http://vanipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:';
$raw_mode = '&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript';

// Dependencies
document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="'+$jquery_dir+'Jquery.highlight_sanskrit.js'+$raw_mode+'"></' + 'script>');

//Jquery highlighting function taking terms from page header inside <span class="terms" id="termN">
function high_this(key) {
$('p b a').parent().parent().highlight_sanskrit(key);

$('p').filter(function() {
return ! $(this).children().size() > 0;
}).highlight_sanskrit(key);
}
//BEGIN!!!
$(document).ready(function() {
//First check if the current page is an Article and that we are on view mode
if (wgCanonicalNamespace == '' && wgAction == 'view') {

//if spans with class terms exist
if ($('span.terms').length) {
//iterate
hi_term = new Array();
$('span.terms').each(function(i) {
//sanitize hi_term for search
hi_term[i] = $(this).text().replace(/"/g, "");
hi_term[i] = hi_term[i].replace(/(^ *| *$)/mg, "");
hi_term[i] = hi_term[i].replace(/ {2,}/g, ' ');
high_this(hi_term[i]);
});
} else {
//if no terms found, use wgTitle(title of article) as the search term for highlighting
hi_term = wgTitle;
high_this(hi_term);
}

}

});

MediaWiki:HighlightTermsURL.js

2008-07-11T09:53:57Z

Acyuta:

MediaWiki:HighlightTermsURL.js

2008-07-11T09:43:25Z

Acyuta:

//jQuery function to parse url_terms from url when current page was linked from Vaniquotes
//The vaniquotes link was modified to include these url_terms in order to highlight them in the current page in Vanisource

document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="'+$jquery_dir+'/Jquery.highlight_sanskrit.js'+$raw_mode+'"></script>');
document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="'+$jquery_dir+'/Jquery.getParams.js'+$raw_mode+'"></script>');

$(document).ready(function() {
//First check if the current page is an Article
if (wgIsArticle && location.search && wgAction == "view") {
if (this.location.search) {
var url_string = $.getURLParam('terms');
var url_terms = decodeURI(url_string).split('+');
if (url_terms.length > 0 ) {
for (var i = 0, len = url_terms.length; i < len; ++i) {
//sanitize text for search
if (url_terms[i] != "") {
url_term = url_terms[i];
$('#bodyContent').highlight_sanskrit(url_term);
}
}
}
$.scrollTo('span.highlight_terms', '1500', {offset:-100});
}
}
});

MediaWiki:HighlightTermsURL.js

2008-07-11T09:40:43Z

Acyuta:

//jQuery function to parse url_terms from url when current page was linked from Vaniquotes
//The vaniquotes link was modified to include these url_terms in order to highlight them in the current page in Vanisource

document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="'+$jquery_dir+'/Jquery.highlight_sanskrit.js"'+$raw_mode+'></script>');
document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="'+$jquery_dir+'/Jquery.getParams.js'+$raw_mode+'"></script>');

$(document).ready(function() {
//First check if the current page is an Article
if (wgIsArticle && location.search && wgAction == "view") {
if (this.location.search) {
var url_string = $.getURLParam('terms');
var url_terms = decodeURI(url_string).split('+');
if (url_terms.length > 0 ) {
for (var i = 0, len = url_terms.length; i < len; ++i) {
//sanitize text for search
if (url_terms[i] != "") {
url_term = url_terms[i];
$('#bodyContent').highlight_sanskrit(url_term);
}
}
}
$.scrollTo('span.highlight_terms', '1500', {offset:-100});
}
}
});

MediaWiki:Jquery.getParams.js

2008-07-11T09:32:47Z

Acyuta: New page: /* Copyright (c) 2006 Mathias Bank (http://www.mathias-bank.de) * Dual licensed under the MIT (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php) * and GPL (http://www.opensource.org/l...

/* Copyright (c) 2006 Mathias Bank (http://www.mathias-bank.de)
* Dual licensed under the MIT (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php)
* and GPL (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.php) licenses.
*
* Thanks to Hinnerk Ruemenapf - http://hinnerk.ruemenapf.de/ for bug reporting and fixing.
*/
jQuery.extend({
/**
* Returns get parameters.
*
* If the desired param does not exist, null will be returned
*
* @example value = $.getURLParam("paramName");
*/
getURLParam: function(strParamName){
var strReturn = "";
var strHref = window.location.href;
var bFound=false;

var cmpstring = strParamName + "=";
var cmplen = cmpstring.length;

if ( strHref.indexOf("?") > -1 ){
var strQueryString = strHref.substr(strHref.indexOf("?")+1);
var aQueryString = strQueryString.split("&");
for ( var iParam = 0; iParam < aQueryString.length; iParam++ ){
if (aQueryString[iParam].substr(0,cmplen)==cmpstring){
var aParam = aQueryString[iParam].split("=");
strReturn = aParam[1];
bFound=true;
break;
}

}
}
if (bFound==false) return null;
return strReturn;
}
});

MediaWiki:HighlightTermsURL.js

2008-07-11T09:29:57Z

Acyuta:

//jQuery function to parse url_terms from url when current page was linked from Vaniquotes
//The vaniquotes link was modified to include these url_terms in order to highlight them in the current page in Vanisource

document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="'+$jquery_dir+'/Jquery.highlight_sanskrit.js"></script>');
document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="'+$jquery_dir+'/Jquery.getParams.js"></script>');

$(document).ready(function() {
//First check if the current page is an Article
if (wgIsArticle && location.search && wgAction == "view") {
if (this.location.search) {
var url_string = $.getURLParam('terms');
var url_terms = decodeURI(url_string).split('+');
if (url_terms.length > 0 ) {
for (var i = 0, len = url_terms.length; i < len; ++i) {
//sanitize text for search
if (url_terms[i] != "") {
url_term = url_terms[i];
$('#bodyContent').highlight_sanskrit(url_term);
}
}
}
$.scrollTo('span.highlight_terms', '1500', {offset:-100});
}
}
});

MediaWiki:Vani suggest.js

2008-06-22T14:09:08Z

Acyuta:

// This Jquery code is used to give suggestions in the search box for words with diacritics.
// It uses jquery.autocomplete and all its dependencies to fetch suggestions from a php script in the server
// and show it in a suggest box as the visitor types.

document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="'
+ 'http://vanipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Jquery.bgiframe.min.js'
+ '&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript"></' + 'script>');
document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="'
+ 'http://vanipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Jquery.dimensions.js'
+ '&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript"></' + 'script>');
document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="'
+ 'http://vanipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Jquery.autocomplete.js'
+ '&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript"></' + 'script>');
document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="'
+ 'http://vanipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Jquery.ajaxQueue.js'
+ '&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript"></' + 'script>');

document.write('<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://vanipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:jquery.autocomplete.css&action=raw&ctype=text/css" />');

$('document').ready(function () {
$("#google_search").autocomplete("/php_scripts/dictionary.php", {
scroll: true,
autofill: false,
selectFirst: false,
maxItemsToShow: 10,
minChars: 2,
multiple: true,
multipleSeparator: ' '
});
$("#searchInput").autocomplete("/php_scripts/dictionary.php", {
scroll: true,
autofill: false,
selectFirst: false,
maxItemsToShow: 10,
minChars: 2,
multiple: true,
multipleSeparator: ' '
});
});

MediaWiki:Vani suggest.js

2008-06-22T14:06:02Z

Acyuta:

// This Jquery code is used to give suggestions in the search box for words with diacritics.
// It uses jquery.autocomplete and all its dependencies to fetch suggestions from a php script in the server
// and show it in a suggest box as the visitor types.

document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="'
+ 'http://vanipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Jquery.bgiframe.min.js'
+ '&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript"></' + 'script>');
document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="'
+ 'http://vanipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Jquery.dimensions.js'
+ '&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript"></' + 'script>');
document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="'
+ 'http://vanipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Jquery.autocomplete.js'
+ '&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript"></' + 'script>');
document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="'
+ 'http://vanipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Jquery.ajaxQueue.js'
+ '&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript"></' + 'script>');

document.write('<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://vanipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:jquery.autocomplete.css&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript" />');

$('document').ready(function () {
$("#google_search").autocomplete("/php_scripts/dictionary.php", {
scroll: true,
autofill: false,
selectFirst: false,
maxItemsToShow: 10,
minChars: 2,
multiple: true,
multipleSeparator: ' '
});
$("#searchInput").autocomplete("/php_scripts/dictionary.php", {
scroll: true,
autofill: false,
selectFirst: false,
maxItemsToShow: 10,
minChars: 2,
multiple: true,
multipleSeparator: ' '
});
});

MediaWiki:Vani suggest.js

2008-06-22T14:00:04Z

Acyuta:

// This Jquery code is used to give suggestions in the search box for words with diacritics.
// It uses jquery.autocomplete and all its dependencies to fetch suggestions from a php script in the server
// and show it in a suggest box as the visitor types.

document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="'
+ 'http://vanipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Jquery.bgiframe.min.js'
+ '&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript"></' + 'script>');
document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="'
+ 'http://vanipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Jquery.dimensions.js'
+ '&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript"></' + 'script>');
document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="'
+ 'http://vanipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Jquery.autocomplete.js'
+ '&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript"></' + 'script>');
document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="'
+ 'http://vanipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Jquery.ajaxQueue.js'
+ '&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript"></' + 'script>');

document.write('<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://vanipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:jquery.autocomplete.css" />');

$('document').ready(function () {
$("#google_search").autocomplete("/php_scripts/dictionary.php", {
scroll: true,
autofill: false,
selectFirst: false,
maxItemsToShow: 10,
minChars: 2,
multiple: true,
multipleSeparator: ' '
});
$("#searchInput").autocomplete("/php_scripts/dictionary.php", {
scroll: true,
autofill: false,
selectFirst: false,
maxItemsToShow: 10,
minChars: 2,
multiple: true,
multipleSeparator: ' '
});
});

MediaWiki:Vani suggest.js

2008-06-22T13:57:56Z

Acyuta:

// This Jquery code is used to give suggestions in the search box for words with diacritics.
// It uses jquery.autocomplete and all its dependencies to fetch suggestions from a php script in the server
// and show it in a suggest box as the visitor types.

document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="'
+ 'http://vanipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Jquery.bgiframe.min.js'
+ '&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript"></' + 'script>');
document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="'
+ 'http://vanipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Jquery.dimensions.js'
+ '&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript"></' + 'script>');
document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="'
+ 'http://vanipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Jquery.autocomplete.js'
+ '&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript"></' + 'script>');
document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="'
+ 'http://vanipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Jquery.ajaxQueue.js'
+ '&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript"></' + 'script>');

14document.write('<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://vanipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:jquery.autocomplete.css" />');

$('document').ready(function () {
$("#google_search").autocomplete("/php_scripts/dictionary.php", {
scroll: true,
autofill: false,
selectFirst: false,
maxItemsToShow: 10,
minChars: 2,
multiple: true,
multipleSeparator: ' '
});
$("#searchInput").autocomplete("/php_scripts/dictionary.php", {
scroll: true,
autofill: false,
selectFirst: false,
maxItemsToShow: 10,
minChars: 2,
multiple: true,
multipleSeparator: ' '
});
});

MediaWiki:Unify.js

2008-06-10T16:40:53Z

Acyuta:

/**** Function Unify - formats Balaram fonts to Unicode ****/
Unify = function(obj) {

obj = obj.replace (/ä/g, "ā"); // long a
obj = obj.replace (/é/g, "ī"); // long i
obj = obj.replace (/ü/g, "ū"); // long u
obj = obj.replace (/å/g, "ṛ"); // r cedilla
obj = obj.replace (/è/g, "ṟ"); // long r cedilla
obj = obj.replace (/ì/g, "ṅ"); // n dot over

obj = obj.replace (/ñ/g, "ṣ"); // s cedilla
obj = obj.replace (/ï/g, "ñ"); // n tilde

obj = obj.replace (/ö/g, "ṭ"); // t cedilla
obj = obj.replace (/ò/g, "ḍ"); // d cedilla
obj = obj.replace (/ë/g, "ṇ"); // n cedilla
obj = obj.replace (/ç/g, "ś"); // s accent

obj = obj.replace (/à/g, "ṁ"); // m dot over (anusvara)
obj = obj.replace (/ù/g, "ḥ"); // h cedilla (visarga)
obj = obj.replace (/ÿ/g, "ḷ"); // l cedilla
obj = obj.replace (/û/g, "ḻ"); // long l cedilla

obj = obj.replace (/Ä/g, "Ā"); // long a
obj = obj.replace (/É/g, "Ī"); // long i
obj = obj.replace (/Ü/g, "Ū"); // long u
obj = obj.replace (/Å/g, "Ṛ"); // r cedilla
obj = obj.replace (/È/g, "Ṟ"); // long r cedilla
obj = obj.replace (/Ì/g, "Ṅ"); // n dot over

obj = obj.replace (/Ñ/g, "Ṣ"); // s cedilla
obj = obj.replace (/Ï/g, "Ñ"); // n tilde

obj = obj.replace (/Ö/g, "Ṭ"); // t cedilla
obj = obj.replace (/Ò/g, "Ḍ"); // d cedilla
obj = obj.replace (/Ë/g, "Ṇ"); // n cedilla
obj = obj.replace (/Ç/g, "Ś"); // s accent

obj = obj.replace (/À/g, "Ṁ"); // m dot over (anusvara)
obj = obj.replace (/Ù/g, "Ḥ"); // h cedilla (visarga)
obj = obj.replace (/ß/g, "Ḷ"); // l cedilla

return obj;
} // end Unify

MediaWiki:UniToASCII.js

2008-06-10T16:40:23Z

Acyuta: New page: /**** Function to Convert Unicode to ASCII ****/ UniToASCII = function(obj) { obj = obj.replace(/ā/g, "a"); // long a o...

/**** Function to Convert Unicode to ASCII ****/

UniToASCII = function(obj) {

obj = obj.replace(/ā/g, "a"); // long a
obj = obj.replace(/ī/g, "i"); // long i
obj = obj.replace(/ū/g, "u"); // long u
obj = obj.replace(/ṛ/g, "r"); // r cedilla
obj = obj.replace(/ṟ/g, "r"); // long r cedilla
obj = obj.replace(/ṅ/g, "n"); // n dot over

obj = obj.replace(/ṣ/g, "s"); // s cedilla
obj = obj.replace(/ñ/g, "n"); // n tilde

obj = obj.replace(/ṭ/g, "t"); // t cedilla
obj = obj.replace(/ḍ/g, "d"); // d cedilla
obj = obj.replace(/ṇ/g, "n"); // n cedilla
obj = obj.replace(/ś/g, "s"); // s accent

obj = obj.replace(/ṁ/g, "m"); // m dot over (anusvara)
obj = obj.replace(/ḥ/g, "h"); // h cedilla (visarga)
obj = obj.replace(/ḷ/g, "l"); // l cedilla
obj = obj.replace(/ḻ/g, "l"); // long l cedilla

obj = obj.replace(/Ā/g, "A"); // long a
obj = obj.replace(/Ī/g, "I"); // long i
obj = obj.replace(/Ū/g, "U"); // long u
obj = obj.replace(/Ṛ/g, "R"); // r cedilla
obj = obj.replace(/Ṟ/g, "R"); // long r cedilla
obj = obj.replace(/Ṅ/g, "N"); // n dot over

obj = obj.replace(/Ṣ/g, "S"); // s cedilla
obj = obj.replace(/Ñ/g, "N"); // n tilde

obj = obj.replace(/Ṭ/g, "T"); // t cedilla
obj = obj.replace(/Ḍ/g, "D"); // d cedilla
obj = obj.replace(/Ṇ/g, "N"); // n cedilla
obj = obj.replace(/Ś/g, "S"); // s accent

obj = obj.replace(/Ṁ/g, "M"); // m dot over (anusvara)
obj = obj.replace(/Ḥ/g, "H"); // h cedilla (visarga)
obj = obj.replace(/Ḷ/g, "L"); // l cedilla

return obj;
}

MediaWiki:Jquery.highlight sanskrit.js

2008-06-10T16:38:23Z

Acyuta:

/**
Highlight_sanskrit.js plug-in for jQuery
This plug-in is used to highlight terms used in every vaniquotes article and to highlight terms passed
from a vaniquote to a vanisource page.
Usage: $(elem).highlight_sanskrit('Krsna', { global: false, i: true });
options are global: boolean(true|false) and i(case insensitive): boolean(true|false). By default they are both true.
**/
// Dependencies
document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="'+$jquery_dir+'Unify.js'+$raw_mode+'"></' + 'script>');
document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="'+$jquery_dir+'UniToASCII.js'+$raw_mode+'"></' + 'script>');

(function($) {
jQuery.fn.highlight_sanskrit = function(key, flags) {
flags = jQuery.extend({
i: true,
global: true
}, flags);
return this.each(function() {
var html_1 = $(this).html();
var html_2 = UniToASCII(html_1);
var set_flags = '';
flags.i ? set_flags += 'i':'';
flags.global ? set_flags += 'g':'';
if (/ä|é|ü|å|è|ì|ï|ö|ò|ë|ç|à|ù|ÿ|û|Ä|É|Ü|Å|È|Ì|Ñ|Ï|Ö|Ò|Ë|Ç|À|Ù|ß/.test(key)) {
key = UniToASCII(Unify(key));
}
if(/ā|ī|ū|ṛ|ṟ|ṅ|ṣ|ñ|ṭ|ḍ|ṇ|ś|ṁ|ḥ|ḷ|ḻ|Ā|Ī|Ū|Ṛ|Ṟ|Ṣ|Ñ|Ṭ|Ḍ|Ṇ|Ś|Ṁ|Ḥ|Ḷ/.test(key)) {
key = UniToASCII(key);
}
var re1 = new RegExp('$\\b'+key+'\\b$', set_flags);
// re2 = /\bkey\b/i; // Javascript is picky about this one in our wiki pages
if(html_2.search(re1) != -1) {
match_index = html_2.search(re1);
html_1 = html_1.substring(0, match_index)+'<span class="highlight_terms">'+
html_1.substring(match_index, match_index + key.length)+
'</span>'+ html_1.substring(match_index + key.length, html_1.length);
$(this).html(html_1);
}
})
}
})(jQuery);

MediaWiki:HighlightTerms.js

2008-06-10T16:35:32Z

Acyuta:

/******* Vars ********/

$jquery_dir = 'http://vanipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:';
$raw_mode = '&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript';

// Dependencies
document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="'+$jquery_dir+'Jquery.highlight_sanskrit.js'+$raw_mode+'"></' + 'script>');

//Jquery highlighting function taking terms from page header inside <span class="terms" id="termN">
function high_this(key) {
$('p b a').parent().parent().highlight_sanskrit(key, { global: false});

$('p').filter(function() {
return ! $(this).children().size() > 0;
}).highlight_sanskrit(key, {global: false});
}
//BEGIN!!!
$(document).ready(function() {
//First check if the current page is an Article and that we are on view mode
if (wgCanonicalNamespace == "" && wgAction == 'view') {

//if spans with class terms exist
if ($('span.terms').length) {
//iterate
hi_term = new Array();
$('span.terms').each(function(i) {
//sanitize hi_term for search
hi_term[i] = $(this).text().replace(/"/g, "");
hi_term[i] = hi_term[i].replace(/(^ *| *$)/mg, "");
hi_term[i] = hi_term[i].replace(/ {2,}/g, ' ');
high_this(hi_term[i]);
});
} else {
//if no terms found, use wgTitle(title of article) as the search term for highlighting
hi_term = wgTitle;
high_this(hi_term);
}

}

});