FYI
Muzammil
From: Ganesh Paudel <gpaudel(a)gmail.com>
Date: 15 Oct 2014 09:28:11 +0000 (UTC)
To: Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com>;Martin Rulsch
<derhexer87(a)yahoo.de>;Carlos Colina <jewbask(a)wikimedia.org.ve>;Biplab
Anand <biplabanand@gmail.com>;"wikipedia-ne@lists.wikimedia.org"
<wikipedia-ne(a)lists.wikimedia.org>;MF-Warburg
<mfwarburg(a)googlemail.com>;nepaliwiki
<nepaliwiki(a)googlegroups.com>;Abhishek Singh <aks.abhishek(a)gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Request for approving Maithili Wikipedia
Dear Language Committee and All,
Thanks for approving Maithili Wikipedia. We are more than happy to
hear this news. Now we have got the free and open encyclopedia in
the second largest language spoken in Nepal.
I hope this will open a new arena to develop and share content in
one more of our own languages.
I acknowledge Prof. Dr. Yogendra P. Yadava, Mr. Dharmendra Jha, Mr.
Shiv Bhushan Lal, Mr. Biplav Anand from Nepal and Muzammil and all
Maithili Wikipedians from India for your support for revision and
content creation.
I also acknowledge Mr. MF-Warburg, Gerard, Carlos, Alolita, Martin
and all friends from WMF and Language Committee for your support and
enthusiasm on this.
Happy editing!
With best regards
Ganesh K Paudel
Wikimedians of Nepal
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 2:38 PM, MF-Warburg
<mfwarburg(a)googlemail.com <mailto:mfwarburg@googlemail.com>> wrote:
Dear all,
thank you for your evaluations of the content of Maithili
Wikipedia Incubator.
The Wikimedia Board of Trustees, on the recommendation of the
Language Committee of Wikimedia, has now, based on yours and
others' assessments approved the creation of the Maithili
Wikipedia as a proper site based on the content of the Incubator
project.
You will be able to visit (and contribute to) Maithili Wikipedia
soon at <https://mai.wikipedia.org> (the technical set-up may
take some days).
Best regards,
MF-Warburg
Member, Language Committee, Wikimedia Foundation
2014-10-08 15:15 GMT+02:00 Y.P. Yadava <ypyadava(a)gmail.com
<mailto:ypyadava@gmail.com>>:
Dear all,
I very much appreciate Maithili incubator Wikipedia
initiative and would like to contribute to it. Some of the
areas of my specialization include linguistic studies in
Maithili and other Nepalese languages and their application
to mother tongue-based multilingual education ( MLE). Please
brief me about the template of the Wikipedia entries to
facilitate me to send in my contributions.
Wish you success in this momentous task.
Yogendra P. Yadava, PhD
Professor (Linguistics, retired)
Tribhuvan University
Kathmandu, Nepal
&
Life Member
Nepal Academy
Sent from my iPad
On Oct 8, 2014, at 4:21 PM, Dharmendra Jha
<djanakpur(a)gmail.com <mailto:djanakpur@gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi,
I Have visited Maithili Wikipedia. It is fantastic. It
is great job. I have randomly seen some article in this
Wikipedia. I found they all are written in Maithili. I
wish for the success of Maithili Wikipedia.
Best
On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 1:44 PM, <shiv.lal(a)ntc.net.np
<mailto:shiv.lal@ntc.net.np>> wrote:
Dear Ganesh ji & Mr. MF-Warburg,
I have reviewed the following articles randomly and
found all content
written in Maithili lanugage.
http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/mai/%E0%A4%8F%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%AE%E0%A…
http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/mai/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A6%E0%A…
http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/mai/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A…
I wish for the success of Maithili Wikipedia.
Regars
Shiv Bhushan Lal
Prof. Dr. Haribansa Jha, Economist, Maithili Scholar
Prof. Dr. Yogendra Prasad Yadav, Maithili Linguist
Dr. Ram Dayal Rakesh, Writer, Maithili Scholar
Mr. Shiv Bhushan Lal, Advisor, Wikimedia Nepal
Mr. Dharmendra Jha, Writer, Journalist and Former
President of
Federation
of Nepalese Journalists
Dear Sirs,
Wikipedia is a free and open source online
encyclopedia made by
the
individual efforts of volunteers. Wikipedia
can be edited by every individual.
Wikipedia is made in 287 languages in the world.
Many language
Wikipedia
are in test now.
We have been testing Maithili Wikipedia since
2008. Now the
Wikipedia has
got over 1,100 pages. It has got a
pretty good number of volunteers contributors.
https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/mai/Main_Page
Now the Maithili Wikipedia has met all
requirements needed to a
Full Wiki.
The language committee in the Wikimedia
Foundation will approve it when
scholars (renowned linguists, writers,
professors) will approve the existing content. We
need your big
favour in
this regard.
What we request you to do is You have to go
through any three
random pages
of your choice in the Maithili Wiki
test, read the content and tell whether it is
written in
Maithili language
or not.
This revision will support the entire Maithili
Wikipedia
community to have
full Wikipedia in our language.
The link of Maithili Wikipedia article index is
as follows
https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex/Wp/mai
> or you can find any article by typing in the
search box at the top right.
> This test wiki may
contain very short articles
like one liners. If you
> selected very short one, please skip to
> another one.
> If you have any
difficulty or confusion, feel
free to contact us.
> With best regards
> Ganesh K. Paudel
> Wikipedian/Wikimedian
> Wikimedia Nepal
> (Affiliated as Wikimedians of Nepal)
> On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 10:15 PM, MF-Warburg
<mfwarburg(a)googlemail.com
<mailto:mfwarburg@googlemail.com>>
> wrote:
>> Hello Muzammil and
Ganesh,
>>
>> the activity of Maithili Wikipedia in Incubator
is now acceptable for
> approval indeed.
> The Language committee is willing to approve it,
but
usually for the
> first
> Wikimedia project in a language, we contact a
linguist or
other scholar
> who
> is an expert in the language, and ask him to
verify that
the content in
> Incubator is indeed written in this language (as
I already explained to
> Ganesh when we talked in London).
>
> Do you know any such linguists/expert on
Maithili language
which LangCom
> could contact for this verification?
> Best regards,
> MF-Warburg
>
> 2014-09-29 22:00 GMT+02:00 Hindustanilanguage <
> muzammil.wikipedian(a)asia.com
<mailto:muzammil.wikipedian@asia.com>>:
>
>> Dear MF Warburg,
>>
>> Greetings.
>>
>> We are working quite intensely for an
independent
Maithili Wikipedia.
>>
>> Can you can probably see a brief list of our
efforts:
>>
>> 1) Activity level has increased - 16 active
users and
about 60 overall
>> users (from the link you had earlier shared
with me).
>>
>> 2) Wikimedia blog (see:
>>
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/09/08/a-focused-approach-for-maithili-wikipe…
>> )
>>
>> 3) Growing social media activity for the Wikipedia:
>>
https://www.facebook.com/MaithiliWikipedia?fref=ts
>>
>> We eagerly await a formal approval from the
language
committee in this
>> direction.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Muzammil.
>>
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>>>
>>
>>
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