On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 6:21 PM, Basavaraj Itnal
<basavarajitnal@yahoo.com> wrote:
| explain. how social relevance of sanskrit is out of scope of wiki in sanskrit and govt funding to it? |
Basavaraj,
You must differentiate between the following:
- The social relevance of Sanskrit in India (as you put it)
- Impact of Wikipedia in Sanskrit to society.
The first topic, I maintain is beyond the scope of this list. It is to wide a topic.
As far as the second one goes, Wikipedia in Sanskrit is too small to discuss this now.
If you question was with regards to the process followed to start a wikipedia in a language (like Sankrit or any other), you are referred to the following:
As you can see from the links above, there *are* active discussions before a wikipedia project is created.
do you guys discuss social relavance of what you are doing at all? if yes, where? if no, that is a grave ommission.
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Wikipedia has evolved over 10 years. It did not become a phenomenon just like that. There surely is a "method" to most things, even if it doesn't seem very apparent to some. And these methods keep improving. You too can contribute to bettering these while participating in the processes and experiencing them.
A lot of links and references have been shared on this thread. Hope it helps you form your views on the processes behind wikipedia. And as they say, "Rome was not built in one day"! In this case it took 10 years (and it is still a WIP).
Thanks
Arun
--- On Sat, 2/26/11, Arun Ramarathnam <arunram25@gmail.com> wrote:
From: Arun Ramarathnam <arunram25@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-in-blr] [Wikimediaindia-l] ToI front page: Rs 1 cr for Sanskrit WP
To: "Mailing list for Wikimedians / Wikipedians in & from Bangalore, India" <wikimedia-in-blr@lists.wikimedia.org>, "Basavaraj Itnal" <basavarajitnal@yahoo.com>
Date: Saturday, February 26, 2011, 12:47 PM
Basavaraj,
The social relevance of Sanskrit in India, is not a topic that is in the scope if this list.
It is a much larger topic.
As far as your observations on factual inaccuracies of some articles, that is certainly something you can take up on the talk page of the respective wiki page. There may be more knowledgeable contributors on the subject who can comment on it.
Could you also please refer the following links or pages that may assist you further:
Thank you
Arun
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