RE: Wikimedia Sponsorships for Indian LanguageContent in Wikipedia
"Atanu Garai" <[email protected]>
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Dear Muruthu This initiative is commendable, yet it shall not necessarily be limited to the students only, as working professionals might be equally interested to contribute to the development. Thanks Atanu Garai OneWorld South Asia, New Delhi ---- Original Message ---- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [fsug-kochi-discuss] Wikimedia Sponsorships for Indian LanguageContent in Wikipedia Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 10:53:36 +0530 >Begin forwarded message: > >> From: Maruthu Pandian <[email protected]> >> Date: 1 July 2005 11.25.27 GMT+05:30 >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [LIS-Forum] Sponsorship for students on Indian languages >> for Wikipedia >> >> >> Hi, >> >> So far the Wikipedias in Indian languages have seen >> very slow progress. These are among the lowest ratio >> "number of articles / number of speakers". There a >> number of technical and other reasons. >> >> Some people from the Wikimedia Foundation think that a >> financial help may boost these languages. They are >> willing to sponsor students who might contribute >> writing articles in Indian languages on different >> subjects for Wikipedia. >> >> Here is the URL for further reading. >> >> >http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Promoting_the_Indian_languages_project >s >> >> Here are some proposed rules: >> * The articles should be written in Indian languages >> from scratch or translated (probably from the English >> Wikipedia). >> * The articles should be encoded in Unicode. >> * The articles sould be released under the GFDL >> licence (free to edit and copy). >> * The articles should be more than 500 words. >> >> Here are a list of articles: >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ >> Wikipedia:List_of_articles_all_languages_should_have >> This list should be completed with specific Indian >> topics (Indian states and cities, personalities, >> events, etc.). >> >> A proposition of a list of Indian subjects is welcome. >> >> For each language, at least two persons are needed to >> review the quality of the articles (teachers, writers, >> etc.). >> >> Please could you also transfer this message to people >> who might be interested by this project ? >> >> Regards, >> Maruthu Pandian.B >> Pubsub Concepts Pvt Ltd. >> >> >> >> >> __________________________________ >> Discover Yahoo! >> Have fun online with music videos, cool games, IM and more. Check >> it out! >> http://discover.yahoo.com/online.html >> _______________________________________________ >> LIS-Forum mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum >> > >_______________________________________________ >FSUG-Kochi-Discuss mailing list >[email protected] >http://puggy.symonds.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fsug-kochi-discuss