<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Bishakha Datta <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bishakhadatta@gmail.com">bishakhadatta@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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>More details at <a href="http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2011/01/12/new-wikimedia-fellow/" target="_blank">http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2011/01/12/new-wikimedia-fellow/</a><br>
</blockquote></div><br>Congratulations, Achal. This is good news indeed. <br><br>Curious though to know about the languages you have picked for this research! :-)<br>-- <br>Hari Prasad Nadig <br><a href="http://hpnadig.net" target="_blank">http://hpnadig.net</a> | <a href="http://twitter.com/hpnadig" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/hpnadig</a><br>
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