Dear Dr. Sumana, Shiju and all others behind
Wiki-Sukthi ( *विकिसूक्तिः*),
Wonderful achievement! We should celebrate this!! Many congratulations and
keep it going.
Best,
Vishnu
On 10 February 2013 11:55, Karthik Nadar <karthikndr(a)wikimedia.in> wrote:
This is an awesome news.
Congratulations to all behind this one, and wish you all a great success.
On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Abhiram C
<abhivasishtaa(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
> Hello Wikipedians,
>
> A new way to contribute to Samskrit is here!!!! The Samskrit Wikiquote
> is
> officially open for contributions. Thanks to all the people who have
> striven hard to make it count.
>
> The webpage can be found at *sa.wikiquote.org* <http://sa.wikiquote.org>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Sumana <sumana.koundinya(a)gmail.com>
>
> Namaste,
>
> It is with immense pleasure, I wish to announce that Samskrit Wikiquote
> project ( *विकिसूक्तिः*) is out of Incubator and is available as an
> open source project like Wikipedia now. It was in a dormant stage with
> very
> limited editing options and visibility since its inception.
>
> We had started our efforts towards this in August 2012, persuading
> Wikipedia Language Committee. Over 7000 system messages were translated
> to
> samskrit, some 800 articles of useful content related to this project
> were
> created and uploaded, which were some of the requirements to approve new
> projects.Thanks to dedicated Wikipedians like Shiju Alex, that today we
> have the project out of incubator, which means, this project would be
> readily available for everyone to edit and use now on.
>
> The project is a store house of Subhashitas extracted from different
> scriptures like Veda, Upanishat Puraana, RamayaNa, Mahabharatam etc,
> categorised based on the topics with explanations. Also, it contains the
> idioms and phrases, witty puzzles, sayings of great people,
> Chitrakaavyam
> etc, everything in Samskrit. It is to be noted that all these, in a
> single
> webpage is not available anywhere else in such an easily available form.
> We
> have about 1260 pages under various categories, for a ready review at
> *sa.
> wikiquote.org*
>
> I request everyone to visit once for guidance, comments or
> contributions...
>
> Once again, Congratulations to one and all who have been instrumental in
> crossing this milestone...
>
> Thanks and Warm Regards,
>
> Dr Sumana
> Wikipedia Wing, Samskrita Bharati
> 98807 93423
>
>
> --
> Thanks & Regards,
> Abhiram C,
> Wikipedia <http://en.wikipedia.org> Editor,
> User: sbblr0803 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sbblr0803>
>
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