Congrats to the Samskrit community. Let's hope this brings up a fresh new lease of life to this wonderful language.


On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Subhashish Panigrahi <subhashish@cis-india.org> wrote:
Congratulations to all the Sanskrit Wikipedians for the great achievement! Kudos Dr. Sumana and Samskrit Bharati for being so deeply involved with the project and taking it to such a new level.

Best!
Subha

On 10-Feb-2013, at 2:10 PM, Gaurav Pruthi wrote:

> Regarding preceding mail chain, It should be 'Sanskrit' rather than
> 'Samskrit' .Please correct me if I am wrong.
> Congrats to all who helped Sanskrit board the wiki.
>
> On 2/10/13, Vishnu t <visdaviva@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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@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@gmail.com>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@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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