Dear committee members,
I have approached the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) in India, a WMF grantee, whose Access To Knowledge program has been supporting and encouraging the Tulu Wikipedia development efforts, to help identify a scholar who could verify the content.
Here is their response (I've copy-edited slightly):
We can recommend the name of Prof Purushothama Bilimale. He holds the
Kannada Chair at JNU, Delhi. A Kannada Wikipedia article about him is here
https://kn.wikipedia.org/s/10uo.
His brief bio – Scholar in Kannada and Tulu languages, ex Prof & researcher at Kannada Univ, Hampi; ex Director (of a section) at American Institute of Indian Studies, Delhi and currently Kannada Chair at JNU, Delhi. He was a member of the Karnataka Folk Academy. He has guided 8 persons for PhD. Written many books in the area of folk culture and literature. He is a recipient of Karnataka Rajyotsava Award. Currently he is video documenting folk culture of Kodagu district.
His email is <redacted> and phone number is <redacted>. Since he is in some village in
Kodagu district till May 30, his phone may not be reachable all the time.
Same is true with email.
I [Dr. Pavanaja U. Bellippady from CIS-A2K --AB] have spoken to him and he has kindly agreed to do the evaluations.
Since this is a public and archived list, whoever wants to contact Prof. Bilimale -- please say so and I will e-mail you privately with his contact information.
Cheers,
A.