See below for reply: In line
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Thanks Nadig, Gautam, Srikeit, Tinu, Mahesh, all...I will shortly set up
a public discussion around the scope of the project and am interested in
hearing from you.
No specific languages set HPN, I've had initial discussions with a
number of people including Shiju, Sundar and Mohau (a Wikipedian from
South Africa) and I'm hoping to figure out exactly how to proceed after
a more thorough set of discussions with anyone interested in the
subject. I think we can increase the number of languages slightly, but
the point overall is to set feasible targets within a limited time-frame
and assemble compelling evidence and action. In that sense, it matters
less as to which language is used in the process than whether the
results overall are useful to Wikipedians in India and South Africa at
large.
In general, the idea is to focus on instances of a citation gap: either
an already created article whose basis has been established but for
which there are no citations available, or a situation where citations
cover a topic only partially, or an article that should be created but
can't be because of a lack of supporting scholarly evidence.
Until I set up a more formal space for discussion, maybe we can begin
discussion here. Have you ever faced a situation as described?
Good wishes,
Achal
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Dear Mr.Achal and all
Compliments to Mr.Achal for much needed study fellowship.
I am not sure whether your study will include following points , but this is
just an attempt to begin a discussion
1) For most people, certain areas and certain phase of life they come across
certain valuable written info but afterward one tend to remember info to some
extant and try to include the info on a wiki but does not remember exact name of
the books etc On Marathi Language wikipedia I get some flexibility to write
since many of the fellow Marathi people are aware of same fact so they do not
insist on citation immediately but that does not mean that citation is not
needed. But in the same case if I try to include the same info on en wiki might
get rejected because they may insist for the citation
2) Another problem is in India we did not have good enough of tradition to note
down things which can be used for reference , about previous generation Indian
people had big enough tradition to shy away from any sort of publicity , such
cases may be eve about many prominent people so people are aware of the facts
but written material is hard to find
3) Problems are coming from information coming from rural areas information may
be genuine but hard to find reference to support the same.
4) Info coming from rural area problem becomes more acute with personalities and
rural institutions and NGOs working in rural areas , for want of proper
documentation and what to accept on encyclopedia and what not to accept becomes
really challenging.
I am keenly interested in knowing how other indic language wikipedias are
handling such info being uploaded
Regards
Mahitgar
On Monday 17 January 2011 10:40 AM, Hari Prasad Nadig wrote:
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Bishakha Datta
<bishakhadatta(a)gmail.com <mailto:bishakhadatta@gmail.com>> wrote:
Dear all,
As part of the continuing spate of good news, I'd like to
congratulate Achal Prabhala for becoming the latest Wikimedia
Foundation Fellow.
For those of you who don't know him, Achal is a writer and
researcher in Bangalore who has participated as a volunteer in the
Wikimedia movement in India and globally for years, and as a
member of the Foundation?s advisory board.
Achal will be conducting field research in India and rural South
Africa with Wikipedians and non-Wikipedians across three languages
to explore ways to compensate for the gap in published/printed
sources in many local languages.
More details at
http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2011/01/12/new-wikimedia-fellow/
Congratulations, Achal. This is good news indeed.
Curious though to know about the languages you have picked for this
research! :-)
--
Hari Prasad Nadig
http://hpnadig.net |
http://twitter.com/hpnadig
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Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 21:45:15 -0800 (PST)
From: BalaSundaraRaman <sundarbecse(a)yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] A Wikimedia Foundation Fellow from
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Congrats, Achal. Your area of research is very interesting and has a huge
potential fallout.
- Sundar
"That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for
the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted."
- George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture
From: Bishakha Datta <bishakhadatta(a)gmail.com>
To: India List Wikimedia <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc: Achal Prabhala <aprabhala(a)gmail.com>
Sent: Mon, January 17, 2011 10:32:07 AM
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] A Wikimedia Foundation Fellow from India
Dear all,
As part of the continuing spate of good news, I'd like to congratulate Achal
Prabhala for becoming the latest Wikimedia Foundation Fellow.
For those of you who don't know him, Achal is a writer and researcher in
Bangalore who has participated as a volunteer in the Wikimedia movement in
India and globally for years, and as a member of the Foundation?s advisory
board.
Achal will be conducting field research in India and rural South Africa with
Wikipedians and non-Wikipedians across three languages to explore ways to
compensate for the gap in published/printed sources in many local languages.
More details at
http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2011/01/12/new-wikimedia-fellow/
Cheers
Bishakha