Awesome! I do hope our Indic language communities take up this golden opportnity. What is the amount needed in Kb/documents before one can get one's own WikiProject, Amir?
Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur ------------------------------------------------------
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Amir E. Aharoni < amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
2012/3/9 Ashwin Baindur ashwin.baindur@gmail.com:
Gerard, that is really very very good news. Hopefully we will see
valuable
heritage texts in Gujarati come into open access. I feel that each Indic language community must ask for Wikisource if not already held in that language.
Yes, a Wikisource is indeed very important for every language. Many languages of India have rich literature that can be uploaded, proofread and disseminated using Wikisource, reigniting the interest in it.
The Malayalam Wikisource is a very successful project, cooperating with teachers and students to transcribe and proofread books and making literature learning fun again. Its first batch of completed texts was also published on CD. Any language of India can do that.
In fact, you can start writing content for a new Wikisource project immediately in http://wikisource.org (note that there's no language code). This is the site for beginning Wikisource projects; once they have enough content, they get their own domain, as is happening now to Gujarati.
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