On Monday 10 October 2011 12:03 AM, Srikanth Lakshmanan wrote:
On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 23:23, Gautam John <gautam@prathambooks.org mailto:gautam@prathambooks.org> wrote:
On 9 October 2011 21:57, Bishakha Datta <bishakhadatta@gmail.com <mailto:bishakhadatta@gmail.com>> wrote: > I think Tory did a great job and had her finger on the pulse I mostly agree with you, Bishakha.
Agree, It was a quite an elaborate one.
> So I think one good way forward in general - and this doesn't hold only for > wikipedia, but for history making in general - is for others to start > documenting and writing histories too. Either of individual indic language > wikipedias, or alternate views of the same thing. This is pretty much what I was referring to. That if there are individuals, groups or communities who feel this is not representative of their view, then please document your narrative. Else, it'll be lost and this is the only and dominant narrative we will have to rely upon.
I would treat her history just like a "Wikipedia page" having bunch of references.Gone are the days when people relied on one document to get narrative and am not sure if it would be worthier effort to keep documenting "open communities" which document itself periodically. Like we have the list archives, village pumps, millions of other publically crawl-able pages on internet that anyone who wants to know can always dig and get more. Wait for few more years, you will have history.li http://history.li like paper.li http://paper.li which can digest and create personal accounts of history on subjects intelligently, automatically given the public sources.
I hope we dont need Oral citations for this "page" ;) ;) , What say Aachal?
Oral citations are a *must* for anything related to India, obviously. :)
On a serious note I think a Wikipedia page for Wikimedia in India (would that be notable enough?) that accumulates all the different writings over the years would be a great idea - there are several newsletters, all the online discussions, Gautam's paper, etc. plus this, to provide multiple perspectives.
-- Regards Srikanth.L
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