<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt">Congrats, Achal. Your area of research is very interesting and has a huge potential fallout.<br><br>- Sundar<br><div> </div>"That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted."<br>- George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture<div><br></div><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Bishakha Datta <bishakhadatta@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> India List Wikimedia
<wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> Achal Prabhala <aprabhala@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Mon, January 17, 2011 10:32:07 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [Wikimediaindia-l] A Wikimedia Foundation Fellow from India<br></font><br>
Dear all,<br><br>As part of the continuing spate of good news, I'd like to congratulate Achal Prabhala for becoming the latest Wikimedia Foundation Fellow.<br><span style="font-size: 11.6667px;"><br>For those of you who don't know him, Achal is a writer and researcher
in Bangalore who has participated as a volunteer in the Wikimedia
movement in India and globally for years, and as a member of the
Foundation’s advisory board. </span>
<p><span style="font-size: 11.6667px;">Achal will be conducting field
research in India and rural South Africa with Wikipedians and
non-Wikipedians across three languages to explore ways to compensate for
the gap in published/printed sources in many local languages. </span></p>
<span style="font-size: 11.6667px;"></span><span>More details at <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2011/01/12/new-wikimedia-fellow/">http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2011/01/12/new-wikimedia-fellow/</a></span><br>
<br>Cheers<br>Bishakha<br>
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