Congratulations Santali community. Thanks to Wikimedia Bangladesh and Odia
Wikimedians User Group for the all the support.
West Bengal Wikimedians User Group will be happy to work together in future
to grow Santali Wikimedia community in the state of West Bengal.
Looking forward,
Bodhisattwa
On 8 Aug 2018 11:31 pm, "Tito Dutta" <trulytito(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Amazing news. Congratulations and best wishes.
Thanks
Tito Dutta
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On Wed, 8 Aug 2018 at 23:01, Jean-Philippe Béland <jpbeland(a)wikimedia.ca>
wrote:
Congratulations and thank you for sharing your
experience!
JP
User:Amqui
On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 12:34 PM, Subhashish Panigrahi <
psubhashish(a)gmail.com
wrote:
Thank you Haidar for sharing in details about the
amazing support that
Wikimedia Bangladesh has provided to the community there. Kudos to the
Santali community for this achievement and all the best for their
activities. And Odia Wikimedians User Group will continue to work with
them
> more in the future.
>
> Subhashish
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 8:27 PM Amir E. Aharoni <
> amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il>
wrote:
>
> > This is a wonderful achievement. Shows that dedication and
organization
> can
> > take you far. Good luck in continuing and developing it further!
> >
> > בתאריך יום ד׳, 8 באוג׳ 2018, 17:49, מאת Ali Haidar Khan <
> > tonmoy.du(a)gmail.com>gt;:
> >
> > > Dear All,
> > >
> > > We are very pleased to announce the launch of Santali Language
> Wikipedia
> > (
> > >
https://sat.wikipedia.org). The site has been launched on August 2,
> 2018
> > > and, after the import of pages from Wikimedia Incubator and some
> > > maintenance work, it’s now open for all. Santali Language’s own
> alphabet,
> > > Ol Chiki, has been used as the alphabet of this Wikipedia. Santali
is
> > a
language in the Munda subfamily of Austroasiatic languages, spoken
by
> > around 7.4 million people in South Asia
(Bangladesh, India and
Nepal).
> >
> > This is a very special moment for us and has been made possible
because
> > of
> > > the joint effort by Santali Language Wikipedian’s from Bangladesh,
> India
> > > and Nepal. Wikimedia Bangladesh and Bangla Wikimedia Community
> > > congratulates the Santali Language Community for their
accomplishment
and
> > are honored to be a part of this tremendous achievement. Manik
Soren, a
> > > dedicated Santali Wikipedian from Bangladesh, along with some very
> active
> > > Santali Language Wikipedians from Bangladesh and India has been
> > > instrumental in this effort. We would also like to thank Shabab
> Mustafa,
> > > President of Wikimedia Bangladesh and Nahid Sultan, a very active
> steward
> > > and Secretary of Wikimedia Bangladesh, for coordinating the effort
in
> >
Bangladesh and Odia Wikimedians User Group for coordinating the
effort
in
> > India.
> >
> > It is worth mentioning that the process of creating a Santali
Language
> > Wikipedia began in 2012 and, later on,
got momentum in February,
2017.
> Back
> > in 2012, Wikimedia Bangladesh organized a Wikipedia meetup and
workshop
> > with the Santali Language Community in
Dinajpur District of
Bangladesh
with
> the goal of launching a Santali Language Wikipedia. However, that
process
> slowed down after some time. Then in
September 2017, Wikimedia
Bangladesh
> organized another meeting with Santali
Language Community in a Dhaka
> Wikipedia meetup where a decision was made to expedite the launch of
the
Wikipedia. Following that discussion, a workshop was organized by
Wikimedia
> Bangladesh for Santali Language Wikipedians on December 30, 2017.
Santali
> Language Wikipedians from India also
participated in that program
through
online
discussion. Subsequently, another workshop was organized for
Santali
> Language Community in India on March 11, 2018 in collaboration with
Odia
> > Wikimedians User Group.
> >
> > After months of work, Santali Language Wikipedia got the approval of
> > Language Committee on June 28, 2018 and finally, the Santali
Wikipedia
> site
> > was launched on August 2, 2018.
> >
> > Let us congratulate and welcome the Santali Language Community.
> >
> >
> > Cheers!
> >
> > Ali Haidar Khan
> >
> > Executive Committee Member, Wikimedia Bangladesh
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