Re: [Langcom] Fwd: Tulu Wikipedia status? - Langcom

22 May 2016

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.
-- 
    Asaf Bartov
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