Conceptually, this is similar to the effort made in India over the last couple of years, and it is heartening that the failure here is not representative of the end of the road.

However, the degree of buy-in from the institution, obvious in the remarks made by the professor, as well as hints of a certain degree of commitment, in this case to the subject matter, on the part of the active editors, is telling. I am sure we may have had some examples of a similar nature here too, but perhaps we tried too soon to attempt scaling it up.

There is mention of an 'official' input from Wikimedia, and there may be some data there that will give us a clue about how the many difficult bridges were traversed. If anyone from this list was involved, please do share your experience.

Vickram