Lots of good ideas. I support this initiative.
Regards
Arjun
On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 9:27 PM, Mahitgar from Marathi Wikipedia <
mahitgar(a)yahoo.co.in> wrote:
Unfortunately following project proposals suggested
for proposed wikimedia
india chapter are still not taken up for discussion,I am copy pasting them
from meta Wikimedia India/projects page, Can we begin a discussion what
needto be real priorities and how many of uscan support the given cause
actively.
==Proposals==
* Promoting study and usage of [[:en:Wikipedia:WikiProject_India/Fair_use]]
knowledge and information about Indian copy right regime,arranging
unconference of supportive legal fraternity.
* promoting usage of free transiliteration schemes for Indian Languages
among Indian Internet users by arranging unconference with Network Engineers
in India and arranging call center's telephonic and field support in this
respect.
* Indegenisation of IPA transliteration making technically advance and
Indian languages friendly,with audio recording support to all wiktionaries
for availability of free audio content.
* PDF and transformation of content and promoting among other medias like
print ,radio,TV etc for republishing at resonable cost for the benefit of
masses
*Promoting Generation of common free India centric photographic resources
* promoting usage programming analysis and development of free wiki
software, also training and promoting advance tools like BOTs among Indian
wikipedians.
* Arranging India centric [[:en:cartography]] support wherever necessary
*Supporting and promoting local language wikipedias which still have not
picked up adequate membership specialy like Odissa language wikipedia and
Assamese Language Wikipedia
* Using Wikipedia in Indian schools: School projects
* Promoting Wikipedia assignments in universities and colleges: The Indian
languages will benefit greatly if college and university students start
contributing.
* Work on articles on local history and other local topics that are not
covered by mainstream encyclopedias (e.g. [[en:Jhumri Tilaiya|Jhumri
Tilaiya]])
* Get images related to Indian articles
* Get Government of India agencies and departments to license their
images/content under a free license (like NASA does)
* Work on stable version (CDs) of Indian languages, or articles related to
India
* [[Promoting the South Asian languages projects]]
* General promotion of free culture in India
==See Also==
*[[Project India centric Localisation of IPA]]
[[Category:Wikimedia India]]
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