Dear Indic Wikimedia Community members, As part of the Indic Languages initiative of India Programs<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Pro…es>, I have been having detailed discussions with a wide range of Indic language wikipedians for the past few weeks. These discussions have been to build the understanding, provide insight, and explore opportunities to expand Indic language projects. The end result of these discussions is to help identify language communities with whom we can collaboratively design pilots to drive our projects. These discussions have been conducted on IRC, one-on-one, group voice conversations, as well as through email questionnaires. Over the next few days, I am going to share a series of these with you. The intention is to give you a sense of the kind of perspectives that exist within the overall Indic community, to share ideas and to generate discussion on potential ideas. Please note that I have edited the discussions to preserve confidentiality as well as to remove any particularly personal comments that might have been shared. Please do let me have your views on these discussions and do please join the debate on the talk page or on this mailing list or offline to me. For today, I am sharing the discussions with the *Assamese community<http://as.wikipedia.org> *. The summary of this discussion is placed at: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_… Assamese wikipedia community is a tiny but vibrant community - that is slowly building itself. There is huge opportunity given that Assamese is spoken by more than 1.3 crore people. As we all know, there was not much progress in Assamese wiki community till recently. But now the situation is slowly changing after the arrival of few dedicated users. And in this early stage, Assamese community show very promising potential. I remember discussing the importance of preparing a small FAQ in AS Wiki to help the new users. In no time few community members prepared a good FAQ page<http://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%A4%… the Assamese wiki. I am sure with the arrival of such dedicated users Assamese wiki is going to make good progress. Inviting your active participation in these discussions (either on talk page or in this mailing list). Warm Regards, Shiju Alex _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l