Just to update you on Tipu's Tiger, now that Fae brought up the topic. User Shyamal and I have been helping User:Johnbod, Fae and others in developing Tipu's Tiger. The collaboration is successful and Tipu's Tiger has gone much beyond the C- class article that was the version Tamil Wikipedians translated to a GA nominee today with many new facts and images. The surprising thing we learnt in this collaboration that despite just being on the internet in India and never having been to England, much less the V&A Museum, it was possible for us to contribute in so many ways - from finding derivative works, and public domain images to adding facts and references. The reasons for this were primarily that thanks to Shyamal's knowledge of open resources we found historical material on the net and also to some plain old grunt work churning through page after page of search results in Google Web, Google Books, Google Scholar and Google Images. All in all, collaborating with UK GLAM on this initiative was a very positive experience that we recommend to others. In one sense, this international collaboration is the defauilt mode for all editting in Wikipedia and thus nothing really new - in another sense, it was an interesting, purposeful and deliberate collaboration between Wikimedians all over the world and the V&A Museum. We hope that this is just the first of many such initiatives with the Victoria and Albert Museum, a museum which holds many objects important to Indian heritage. Our thanks and good wishes to our British colleagues for this venture. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur ------------------------------------------------------ On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Fae <faenwp(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Hi, The Tipu's Tiger English article is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipu's_Tigeriger. A Bengali version would be fantastic. It is currently in 13 different languages which you can see listed in the languages side-bar. As this is the key case study for the V&A we would love to have as many languages as possible and some of the current stub class language variations double checked for accuracy, for example Welsh needs some help. The English version is currently nominated for a DYK and has an outstanding GA nomination (strong hint to :en regulars). Cheers, Fae -- http://enwp.org/user_talk:fae Guide to email tags: http://j.mp/faetags On 20 July 2011 15:35, Jayanta Nath <jayantanth(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Just read the article; it's great. And what a fantastic collaboration! Also, this specific article can be shown to GLAM institutions in India as an example of what is possible. Cheers Bishakha On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 9:20 PM, Bala Jeyaraman <sodabottle(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote: