On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <parakara.ghoda@gmail.com> wrote:

Seeing the recent state of affairs wrt Internet and information, I think the Government of India WOULD want to create a 'new' Urdu project where they CAN have control over what goes on and what doesn't.

And unless wikipedia itself is blocked (which I doubt if it ever will), all their efforts at containing information are useless.

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Srikanth

On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 7:58 PM, Gautam John <gautam@prathambooks.org> wrote:

On 5 June 2012 14:50, Noopur Raval <nraval@wikimedia.org> wrote:

> http://www.indianexpress.com/news/to-counter-pak-india-to-launch-its-own-urdu-wiki/957849/

"In Wikipedia, information contributed is vetted for authenticity by
experts; we will do the same to ensure that information provided to
the public is a rich database free of prejudice and misinformation"

Say what?

Why don't they just fork the existing Urdu Wikipedia and fix it? Makes
no sense to throw it *all* out. Then again, the Government oh so does
love reinventing the wheel.

Thank you.

Best,

Gautam
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Srikanth Ramakrishnan.

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