Hi all,
On behalf of the Wikimedia India chapter, I would like to
sincerely thank everyone who helped this initiative.
The job is not complete and the portals still need lots of tweaking
and improvements.
If the efforts of Naveen are left unmentioned, it would be very
unfair. The Wikimedia Project Gateways is essentially the brain
child and one of the dream projects of our Secretary, Naveen
Francis.
I am sure he wouldn't allow me to tell it here if asked, but I have
to confess that Naveen had even invested lots of his personal money
in obtaining the domains too.
His efforts in getting this work done is really applaudable.
Thank you, Naveen & everyone.
We sincerely hope that you will find these portals useful and
informative.
Regards
Tinu Cherian
Wikimedia India Chapter
http://wiki.wikimedia.in
On 2/3/2012 8:18 AM, Naveen Francis wrote:
Hi all,
We
are pleased to formally announce the launch of the following new
Wikimedia India Portals:
http://wikimedia.in/
- The new landing page will be the gateway to the various
Project pages and Wikis.
http://wiki.wikimedia.in
The public wiki is now revamped with an all-new look and lots of
information. Feel free to add more information to the wikis.
http://members.wikimedia.in
Wiki for India Chapter Members
http://blog.wikimedia.in/
Wikimedia India Blog - to post a blog, contact Arjuna Rao
Chavala or Tinu Cherian
We
are pleased to introduce the following new Wikimedia Project
gateways for the various Indic languages:
The
planned landing page for http://wikipedia.in is
available here.
Efforts
are currently underway to obtain control of a few more important
domains and announcements will be made as and when we get them.
We sincerely believe this initiative will help drive more
traffic to Indic language Wikimedia Projects.
We
would like to express our sincere gratitude to the Wikimedia CH
/ Switzerland Chapter and Manuel Schneider (Wikimedia CH /
Switzerland) for hosting our websites and portals at no cost.
A
number of people need to be thanked, who helped in the this
initiative.
Rajesh
K Oayanchal who designed the portals and Jyothis E who gave his
webspace for the testing purposes. Anirudh, Noopur Raval,
,Surya, Radhakrishna, Omshivaprakash, Debanjan, Saroj, Swaroop,
Abhishek Suryawanshi and others have helped in translations .
Tanvir
Rahman , Tinu Cherian and Arun Ram helped in revamping the
public wiki.
We
hope that you will find these portals useful and informative.
Please
do get back to us with your feedback and suggestions.
Regards,
Naveen
Francis
Wikimedia
India Chapter
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