Lots of good ideas. I&nbsp; support this initiative.<br><br>Regards<br>Arjun<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 9:27 PM, Mahitgar from Marathi Wikipedia &lt;<a href="mailto:mahitgar@yahoo.co.in">mahitgar@yahoo.co.in</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Unfortunately following project proposals suggested for proposed wikimedia india chapter are still not taken up for discussion,I am copy pasting them from meta &nbsp;Wikimedia India/projects page, &nbsp;Can we begin a discussion what needto be real priorities and how many of uscan support the given cause actively.<br>

==Proposals==<br>
* 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.<br>
* 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&#39;s telephonic and field support in this respect.<br>

* Indegenisation of IPA transliteration making technically advance and Indian languages friendly,with audio recording support to all wiktionaries for availability of free audio content.<br>
* PDF and transformation &nbsp;of content and promoting among other medias like print ,radio,TV etc for republishing at resonable cost for the benefit of masses<br>
*Promoting Generation of common free India centric photographic resources<br>
* promoting usage programming analysis and development of free wiki software, also training and promoting advance tools like BOTs among Indian wikipedians.<br>
* Arranging India centric [[:en:cartography]] support wherever necessary<br>
*Supporting and promoting local language wikipedias which still have not picked up adequate membership specialy like Odissa language wikipedia and Assamese Language Wikipedia<br>
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* Using Wikipedia in Indian schools: School projects<br>
* Promoting Wikipedia assignments in universities and colleges: The Indian languages will benefit greatly if college and university students start contributing.<br>
* Work on articles on local history and other local topics that are not covered by mainstream encyclopedias (e.g. [[en:Jhumri Tilaiya|Jhumri Tilaiya]])<br>
* Get images related to Indian articles<br>
* Get Government of India agencies and departments to license their images/content under a free license (like NASA does)<br>
* Work on stable version (CDs) of Indian languages, or articles related to India<br>
* [[Promoting the South Asian languages projects]]<br>
* General promotion of free culture in India<br>
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==See Also==<br>
*[[Project India centric Localisation of IPA]]<br>
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[[Category:Wikimedia India]]<br>
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