Dear Indic wikimedians,<br>
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Thank you very much for the welcome messages and for making me feel at home. <br>
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Over the past few years I have interacted with many of you for the
various Indic Wiki related activities and we have done many successful
projects. Thank you very much for all those wonderful projects. Now when
we are moving to a different phase of growth of
Wikimedia in India, I request more support from your side.<br>
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To get started we shall together develop a plan for Indic language wikis
and design few pilot projects to gain learnings to drive growth. I
propose to develop this plan collaboratively and openly - in true wiki
style. This will include focused Indic language
meetups, virtual meetings, desk research and constantly synthesizing the
findings from all of these into learnings. These learnings will then
flow into pilots that we will implement and review and learn from.<br>
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For this purpose, I will be using the following page <a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages" target="_blank">http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages</a>.
It is very preliminary
right now - but will keep updating it. The page will give you a flavor
of the kind of process and methodology I plan to use - and also give you
a hint of the end output. However, I stress that is nothing more than a
stub right now. So please provide your
suggestions.<br>
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I will be in touch soon and regularly on the next steps and I will keep
you constantly posted on progress - both positive and whenever we face
setbacks.<br>
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The task is huge. The potential is even more massive. I will need a
lot of your help. I invite and welcome and urge all of you to
contribute to this process - during physical meetups, in virtual
meetings, one-on-one conversations or meetings, on the talk
page to the Indic Languages page and in any and every manner that you
can imagine.<br>
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As part of the India Programs of WMF, my official ID is <a href="mailto:shiju@wikimedia.org">shiju@wikimedia.org</a>. You can reach me anytime regarding any WMF's Indic wiki related topic.<br>
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Thanks<br>
Shiju<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im"><br><br><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 7:24 AM, Hisham <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hisham@wikimedia.org" target="_blank">hisham@wikimedia.org</a>></span> wrote:<br></div><div><div class="h5"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><div style="word-wrap:break-word">cross-posting to reach pan-India; apologies if you have got it from other mailing lists.</div></div><div><br></div>Dear All<br>
<br>As I had mentioned in a previous posting (and as was so touchingly welcomed by so many of of you), Shiju Alex is joining us to lead our Indic Languages initiatives. In this mail (<a href="http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-July/003845.html" target="_blank">http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-July/003845.html</a>), I had indicated that he would join around September-October. <br>
<br>I'm really pleased to inform you that he has now joined India Programs (on September 24th.) <br><br>Indic Languages is an important priority for us - and Shiju intends to start work on this urgently. He'll be in touch shortly on this matter.<div>
<br></div><div>Welcome aboard, Shiju!<br><br>Warmest Regards,<br><br><div><span style="font-style:italic">hisham</span>
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