Dear All,
The A2K team has recently met Bengali wikipedians in Kolkata.[1] Based on our interaction we have worked on preparing an annual work plan on Bengali Wikipedia [2] and reposted on Meta.[3] We'd request you all to share your feedback on the talk page of the work plan [4] regarding the work plan which would help to plan various different activities (Institutional collaboration for resource building, meetups and outreach for community building).
Links:
- http://cis-india.org/news/wiki-meet-up-kolkata
- http://bitly.com/bnwpplan
- http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Work_plan_April_201...
- http://bitly.com/bnwpplantalk
-- Best! Subhashish Panigrahi Programme Officer, Access To Knowledge Centre for Internet and Society
That's a nice plan. One thing I'd recommend is to get media involved (perhaps you already have that in the plan, sorry if I'm just repeating it). In particular, you need to get the local Bengali language media (newspaper, TV) involved so that they publish news reports on Wikipedia.
In Bangladesh, it was not easy at the start to get people interested. It took a good media campaign in Bengali language newspapers to get people interested. Also, you should get in touch with the Bengali language blogging community in India (if there is one) and try to get them involved.
By the way, the number of native speakers cited at the start of the article is vastly underestimated .... Bangladesh alone has 160 million native speakers, plus at least half of that in West Bengal.
Ragib User:Ragib in en and bn
-- Ragib Hasan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor & Director, UAB SECRETLab Department of Computer and Information Sciences University of Alabama at Birmingham Birmingham, AL 35294
http://secret.cis.uab.edu http://www.ragibhasan.com
On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Subhashish Panigrahi subhashish@cis-india.org wrote:
Dear All,
The A2K team has recently met Bengali wikipedians in Kolkata.[1] Based on our interaction we have worked on preparing an annual work plan on Bengali Wikipedia [2] and reposted on Meta.[3] We'd request you all to share your feedback on the talk page of the work plan [4] regarding the work plan which would help to plan various different activities (Institutional collaboration for resource building, meetups and outreach for community building).
Links:
- http://cis-india.org/news/wiki-meet-up-kolkata
- http://bitly.com/bnwpplan
- http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Work_plan_April_201...
- http://bitly.com/bnwpplantalk
-- Best! Subhashish Panigrahi Programme Officer, Access To Knowledge Centre for Internet and Society
Thanks a lot Ragib and Sankarshan for your valuable feedback. I'd request all other Bengali Wikipedians to take part in sharing your feedback and discussing more ideas.
Can we also host an IRC to discuss more about each of the plans mentioned; Need, Plans, Execution and defining A2K's role? We'd love to hear from you about a convenient time for IRC in the coming week.
Best! Subha
On 16-May-2013, at 9:37 PM, Ragib Hasan wrote:
That's a nice plan. One thing I'd recommend is to get media involved (perhaps you already have that in the plan, sorry if I'm just repeating it). In particular, you need to get the local Bengali language media (newspaper, TV) involved so that they publish news reports on Wikipedia.
In Bangladesh, it was not easy at the start to get people interested. It took a good media campaign in Bengali language newspapers to get people interested. Also, you should get in touch with the Bengali language blogging community in India (if there is one) and try to get them involved.
By the way, the number of native speakers cited at the start of the article is vastly underestimated .... Bangladesh alone has 160 million native speakers, plus at least half of that in West Bengal.
Ragib User:Ragib in en and bn
-- Ragib Hasan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor & Director, UAB SECRETLab Department of Computer and Information Sciences University of Alabama at Birmingham Birmingham, AL 35294
http://secret.cis.uab.edu http://www.ragibhasan.com
On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Subhashish Panigrahi subhashish@cis-india.org wrote:
Dear All,
The A2K team has recently met Bengali wikipedians in Kolkata.[1] Based on our interaction we have worked on preparing an annual work plan on Bengali Wikipedia [2] and reposted on Meta.[3] We'd request you all to share your feedback on the talk page of the work plan [4] regarding the work plan which would help to plan various different activities (Institutional collaboration for resource building, meetups and outreach for community building).
Links:
- http://cis-india.org/news/wiki-meet-up-kolkata
- http://bitly.com/bnwpplan
- http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Work_plan_April_201...
- http://bitly.com/bnwpplantalk
-- Best! Subhashish Panigrahi Programme Officer, Access To Knowledge Centre for Internet and Society
As Ragib mentioned, local media is important. Do we have any plan on this already? Anyone in touch with media? Or knows anybody? Jayanta nath may be of help.
Regards,
Dwaipayan Chakraborti
On May 16, 2013, at 9:22 PM, Subhashish Panigrahi subhashish@cis-india.org wrote:
Thanks a lot Ragib and Sankarshan for your valuable feedback. I'd request all other Bengali Wikipedians to take part in sharing your feedback and discussing more ideas.
Can we also host an IRC to discuss more about each of the plans mentioned; Need, Plans, Execution and defining A2K's role? We'd love to hear from you about a convenient time for IRC in the coming week.
Best! Subha
On 16-May-2013, at 9:37 PM, Ragib Hasan wrote:
That's a nice plan. One thing I'd recommend is to get media involved (perhaps you already have that in the plan, sorry if I'm just repeating it). In particular, you need to get the local Bengali language media (newspaper, TV) involved so that they publish news reports on Wikipedia.
In Bangladesh, it was not easy at the start to get people interested. It took a good media campaign in Bengali language newspapers to get people interested. Also, you should get in touch with the Bengali language blogging community in India (if there is one) and try to get them involved.
By the way, the number of native speakers cited at the start of the article is vastly underestimated .... Bangladesh alone has 160 million native speakers, plus at least half of that in West Bengal.
Ragib User:Ragib in en and bn
-- Ragib Hasan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor & Director, UAB SECRETLab Department of Computer and Information Sciences University of Alabama at Birmingham Birmingham, AL 35294
http://secret.cis.uab.edu http://www.ragibhasan.com
On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Subhashish Panigrahi subhashish@cis-india.org wrote:
Dear All,
The A2K team has recently met Bengali wikipedians in Kolkata.[1] Based on our interaction we have worked on preparing an annual work plan on Bengali Wikipedia [2] and reposted on Meta.[3] We'd request you all to share your feedback on the talk page of the work plan [4] regarding the work plan which would help to plan various different activities (Institutional collaboration for resource building, meetups and outreach for community building).
Links:
- http://cis-india.org/news/wiki-meet-up-kolkata
- http://bitly.com/bnwpplan
- http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Work_plan_April_201...
- http://bitly.com/bnwpplantalk
-- Best! Subhashish Panigrahi Programme Officer, Access To Knowledge Centre for Internet and Society
English news media had already reported about Bengali Wikipedia few times. But Local Bengali news media ( Anandabazar, Bartaman, Eisomy, Pratidin, Ajkaal,) no response at all and no interest about Bengali Wikipedia. I had tried with my personal level of contact. All Bengali news print media want business from Wikipedia, then only they can report about Bengali Wikipedia. Anyone in this mailing list in touch with Bengali media for fresh contact?
Regards, Jayanta
On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 7:40 AM, Dwaipayan Chakraborti <dwaipayanc@gmail.com
wrote:
As Ragib mentioned, local media is important. Do we have any plan on this already? Anyone in touch with media? Or knows anybody? Jayanta nath may be of help.
Regards,
Dwaipayan Chakraborti
On May 16, 2013, at 9:22 PM, Subhashish Panigrahi < subhashish@cis-india.org> wrote:
Thanks a lot Ragib and Sankarshan for your valuable feedback. I'd
request all other Bengali Wikipedians to take part in sharing your feedback and discussing more ideas.
Can we also host an IRC to discuss more about each of the plans
mentioned; Need, Plans, Execution and defining A2K's role? We'd love to hear from you about a convenient time for IRC in the coming week.
Best! Subha
On 16-May-2013, at 9:37 PM, Ragib Hasan wrote:
That's a nice plan. One thing I'd recommend is to get media involved (perhaps you already have that in the plan, sorry if I'm just repeating it). In particular, you need to get the local Bengali language media (newspaper, TV) involved so that they publish news reports on Wikipedia.
In Bangladesh, it was not easy at the start to get people interested. It took a good media campaign in Bengali language newspapers to get people interested. Also, you should get in touch with the Bengali language blogging community in India (if there is one) and try to get them involved.
By the way, the number of native speakers cited at the start of the article is vastly underestimated .... Bangladesh alone has 160 million native speakers, plus at least half of that in West Bengal.
Ragib User:Ragib in en and bn
-- Ragib Hasan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor & Director, UAB SECRETLab Department of Computer and Information Sciences University of Alabama at Birmingham Birmingham, AL 35294
http://secret.cis.uab.edu http://www.ragibhasan.com
On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Subhashish Panigrahi subhashish@cis-india.org wrote:
Dear All,
The A2K team has recently met Bengali wikipedians in Kolkata.[1]
Based on our interaction we have worked on preparing an annual work plan on Bengali Wikipedia [2] and reposted on Meta.[3] We'd request you all to share your feedback on the talk page of the work plan [4] regarding the work plan which would help to plan various different activities (Institutional collaboration for resource building, meetups and outreach for community building).
Links:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Work_plan_April_201...
-- Best! Subhashish Panigrahi Programme Officer, Access To Knowledge Centre for Internet and Society
What do they mean by "business" from Bengali wikipedia? They want advertisement !! The Bengali media belonging to the same publishing house as the English one (Anandabazar and Telegraph), they also won't publish?
On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 3:15 AM, Jayanta Nath jayantanth@gmail.com wrote:
English news media had already reported about Bengali Wikipedia few times. But Local Bengali news media ( Anandabazar, Bartaman, Eisomy, Pratidin, Ajkaal,) no response at all and no interest about Bengali Wikipedia. I had tried with my personal level of contact. All Bengali news print media want business from Wikipedia, then only they can report about Bengali Wikipedia. Anyone in this mailing list in touch with Bengali media for fresh contact?
Regards, Jayanta
On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 7:40 AM, Dwaipayan Chakraborti < dwaipayanc@gmail.com
wrote:
As Ragib mentioned, local media is important. Do we have any plan on this already? Anyone in touch with media? Or knows anybody? Jayanta nath may
be
of help.
Regards,
Dwaipayan Chakraborti
On May 16, 2013, at 9:22 PM, Subhashish Panigrahi < subhashish@cis-india.org> wrote:
Thanks a lot Ragib and Sankarshan for your valuable feedback. I'd
request all other Bengali Wikipedians to take part in sharing your
feedback
and discussing more ideas.
Can we also host an IRC to discuss more about each of the plans
mentioned; Need, Plans, Execution and defining A2K's role? We'd love to hear from you about a convenient time for IRC in the coming week.
Best! Subha
On 16-May-2013, at 9:37 PM, Ragib Hasan wrote:
That's a nice plan. One thing I'd recommend is to get media involved (perhaps you already have that in the plan, sorry if I'm just repeating it). In particular, you need to get the local Bengali language media (newspaper, TV) involved so that they publish news reports on Wikipedia.
In Bangladesh, it was not easy at the start to get people interested. It took a good media campaign in Bengali language newspapers to get people interested. Also, you should get in touch with the Bengali language blogging community in India (if there is one) and try to get them involved.
By the way, the number of native speakers cited at the start of the article is vastly underestimated .... Bangladesh alone has 160 million native speakers, plus at least half of that in West Bengal.
Ragib User:Ragib in en and bn
-- Ragib Hasan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor & Director, UAB SECRETLab Department of Computer and Information Sciences University of Alabama at Birmingham Birmingham, AL 35294
http://secret.cis.uab.edu http://www.ragibhasan.com
On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Subhashish Panigrahi subhashish@cis-india.org wrote:
Dear All,
> > The A2K team has recently met Bengali wikipedians in Kolkata.[1]
Based on our interaction we have worked on preparing an annual work plan
on
Bengali Wikipedia [2] and reposted on Meta.[3] We'd request you all to share your feedback on the talk page of the work plan [4] regarding the work plan which would help to plan various different activities (Institutional collaboration for resource building, meetups and outreach for community building).
> > Links: > 1. http://cis-india.org/news/wiki-meet-up-kolkata > 2. http://bitly.com/bnwpplan > 3.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Work_plan_April_201...
> 4. http://bitly.com/bnwpplantalk > > -- > Best! > Subhashish Panigrahi > Programme Officer, Access To Knowledge > Centre for Internet and Society
In this matter may i share my experience. In Bangladeshi media first not published wiki news at all. But i personally talk with all media (newspaper, IT portal) IT page in-charge (who mainly work IT section). In this matter i use my link (I am also IT journalist). When i say about Wikipedia event, activities they show interested to published the news. Now all Bangladeshi media published Wiki news regularly. In our all event, activities i write daily news & send all media. Also some of newspaper/IT magazine published big article about Bangla Wikipedia.
So i think need to contact IT page in-charge. if try to able to talk with IT page in-charge they may help to published the Bangla Wikipedia news. Also try to make news & send all media IT people.
On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 7:26 PM, Dwaipayan Chakraborti <dwaipayanc@gmail.com
wrote:
What do they mean by "business" from Bengali wikipedia? They want advertisement !! The Bengali media belonging to the same publishing house as the English one (Anandabazar and Telegraph), they also won't publish?
On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 3:15 AM, Jayanta Nath jayantanth@gmail.com wrote:
English news media had already reported about Bengali Wikipedia few
times.
But Local Bengali news media ( Anandabazar, Bartaman, Eisomy, Pratidin, Ajkaal,) no response at all and no interest about Bengali Wikipedia. I
had
tried with my personal level of contact. All Bengali news print media
want
business from Wikipedia, then only they can report about Bengali Wikipedia. Anyone in this mailing list in touch with Bengali media for fresh contact?
Regards, Jayanta
On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 7:40 AM, Dwaipayan Chakraborti < dwaipayanc@gmail.com
wrote:
As Ragib mentioned, local media is important. Do we have any plan on
this
already? Anyone in touch with media? Or knows anybody? Jayanta nath may
be
of help.
Regards,
Dwaipayan Chakraborti
On May 16, 2013, at 9:22 PM, Subhashish Panigrahi < subhashish@cis-india.org> wrote:
Thanks a lot Ragib and Sankarshan for your valuable feedback. I'd
request all other Bengali Wikipedians to take part in sharing your
feedback
and discussing more ideas.
Can we also host an IRC to discuss more about each of the plans
mentioned; Need, Plans, Execution and defining A2K's role? We'd love
to
hear from you about a convenient time for IRC in the coming week.
Best! Subha
On 16-May-2013, at 9:37 PM, Ragib Hasan wrote:
That's a nice plan. One thing I'd recommend is to get media involved (perhaps you already have that in the plan, sorry if I'm just repeating it). In particular, you need to get the local Bengali language media (newspaper, TV) involved so that they publish news reports on Wikipedia.
In Bangladesh, it was not easy at the start to get people
interested.
It took a good media campaign in Bengali language newspapers to get people interested. Also, you should get in touch with the Bengali language blogging community in India (if there is one) and try to
get
them involved.
By the way, the number of native speakers cited at the start of the article is vastly underestimated .... Bangladesh alone has 160
million
native speakers, plus at least half of that in West Bengal.
Ragib User:Ragib in en and bn
-- Ragib Hasan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor & Director, UAB SECRETLab Department of Computer and Information Sciences University of Alabama at Birmingham Birmingham, AL 35294
http://secret.cis.uab.edu http://www.ragibhasan.com
On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Subhashish Panigrahi subhashish@cis-india.org wrote:
Dear All, >> >> The A2K team has recently met Bengali wikipedians in Kolkata.[1]
Based on our interaction we have worked on preparing an annual work
plan
on
Bengali Wikipedia [2] and reposted on Meta.[3] We'd request you all to share your feedback on the talk page of the work plan [4] regarding the work plan which would help to plan various different activities (Institutional collaboration for resource building, meetups and
outreach
for community building).
>> >> Links: >> 1. http://cis-india.org/news/wiki-meet-up-kolkata >> 2. http://bitly.com/bnwpplan >> 3.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Work_plan_April_201...
>> 4. http://bitly.com/bnwpplantalk >> >> -- >> Best! >> Subhashish Panigrahi >> Programme Officer, Access To Knowledge >> Centre for Internet and Society
On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 8:59 PM, Subhashish Panigrahi subhashish@cis-india.org wrote:
The A2K team has recently met Bengali wikipedians in Kolkata.[1] Based on our interaction we have worked on preparing an annual work plan on Bengali Wikipedia [2] and reposted on Meta.[3] We'd request you all to share your feedback on the talk page of the work plan [4] regarding the work plan which would help to plan various different activities (Institutional collaboration for resource building, meetups and outreach for community building).
http://tagoreweb.in/, SNLTR's hosted instance and http://sarat-rachanabali.becs.ac.in/ are limited in their utility that they provide no means of using the text as a corpus or, trainer. These are efforts worthy of appreciation. However, providing the means for others to re-use the content as opposed to passive browser based viewing is equally important.
I hope your assessment included that fact. Plus, I am always wary when I read statements like "SNLTR has established that Unicode 5.0 and above as the standard that can be adopted for different e-governance applications and is also in parity with the international practice and standard". In my limited understanding of how standardization does happen, this is not the case.
-- sankarshan mukhopadhyay https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan
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