Dear Indic Wikimedia Community members,
As part of the Indic Languages initiative of India Programshttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages, I have been having detailed discussions with a wide range of Indic language wikipedians for the past few weeks. These discussions have been to build the understanding, provide insight, and explore opportunities to expand Indic language projects. The end result of these discussions is to help identify language communities with whom we can collaboratively design pilots to drive our projects.
These discussions have been conducted on IRC, one-on-one, group voice conversations, as well as through email questionnaires.
Over the next few days, I am going to share a series of these with you. The intention is to give you a sense of the kind of perspectives that exist within the overall Indic community, to share ideas and to generate discussion on potential ideas. Please note that I have edited the discussions to preserve confidentiality as well as to remove any particularly personal comments that might have been shared.
Please do let me have your views on these discussions and do please join the debate on the talk page or on this mailing list or offline to me.
For today, I am sharing the discussions with the *Assamese communityhttp://as.wikipedia.org *. The summary of this discussion is placed at: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_L...
Assamese wikipedia community is a tiny but vibrant community - that is slowly building itself. There is huge opportunity given that Assamese is spoken by more than 1.3 crore people. As we all know, there was not much progress in Assamese wiki community till recently. But now the situation is slowly changing after the arrival of few dedicated users. And in this early stage, Assamese community show very promising potential. I remember discussing the importance of preparing a small FAQ in AS Wiki to help the new users. In no time few community members prepared a good FAQ pagehttp://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%A4%E0%A7%87_%E0%A6%89%E0%A6%A6%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A4_%E0%A6%B9%E0%A7%8B%E0%A7%B1%E0%A6%BE_%E0%A6%AA%E0%A7%8D%E0%A7%B0%E0%A6%B6%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%82%E0%A6%B9for the Assamese wiki. I am sure with the arrival of such dedicated users Assamese wiki is going to make good progress.
Inviting your active participation in these discussions (either on talk page or in this mailing list).
Warm Regards,
Shiju Alex
Hi Shiju,
Thank you for this initiative about Assamese Wikipedia. I am personal eager to work with this community because our are using same script (Bengali). As you know that my future plan is not only in Kolkata, I want to expand Wikimedia movement to rural Bengal (India), where most of the native speakers live.
We are waiting for help each other between Bengali/Assamese/Manipuri community and Foundation/Chapter to future expansion our native language in Wikipedia.
On Nov 23, 2011, at 6:10 PM, Jayanta Nath wrote:
Hi Shiju,
Thank you for this initiative about Assamese Wikipedia. I am personal eager to work with this community because our are using same script (Bengali). As you know that my future plan is not only in Kolkata, I want to expand Wikimedia movement to rural Bengal (India), where most of the native speakers live.
We are waiting for help each other between Bengali/Assamese/Manipuri community and Foundation/Chapter to future expansion our native language in Wikipedia.
As Shiju mentioned, he will be sharing the discussions that he's been having (and continues to have) with various communities. We can and must identify ways that the Foundation / Chapter can support various communities. Let's talk more on Bengali and any ideas that you might have including the ones that were discussed at WCI.
hisham
I am personal eager to work with this community because our are using same script (Bengali).
yes, please help Assamese wikipedians. They need support in various forms (technical, community development, and other stuff) since a small community started forming there. I feel the immediate support that Begali community can extend to Assamese community is in the form of supporting them to prepare an FAQ booklet for Assamese wiki projects, which they can use in their outreach activities. Also we need to introduce them with the larger Indian wiki community (india mailing list, other Indic wikipedians,...).
We are waiting for help each other between Bengali/Assamese/Manipuri
community and Foundation/Chapter to future expansion our native language in Wikipedia.
Yes, languages that use same or similar script can collaborate and adapt many things especially in the technical front.
Shiju
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Jayanta Nath jayantanth@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Shiju,
Thank you for this initiative about Assamese Wikipedia. I am personal eager to work with this community because our are using same script (Bengali). As you know that my future plan is not only in Kolkata, I want to expand Wikimedia movement to rural Bengal (India), where most of the native speakers live.
We are waiting for help each other between Bengali/Assamese/Manipuri community and Foundation/Chapter to future expansion our native language in Wikipedia.
-- With Warm Regards, *Jayanta Nath* Calcutta,West Bengal
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Good to see the progress the Assamese Wiki Community building, and the FAQ set. Hoping to see the FAQ Booklet in PDF and more outreach activities, WCI would work like a catalyst to promote. In fact Assamese people are widespread all over India and quite conscious for language and literature. So, that is a great way to reach to more language enthusiasts.
Cheers! Subha
On 23 November 2011 17:53, Shiju Alex shiju@wikimedia.org wrote:
Dear Indic Wikimedia Community members,
As part of the Indic Languages initiative of India Programshttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages, I have been having detailed discussions with a wide range of Indic language wikipedians for the past few weeks. These discussions have been to build the understanding, provide insight, and explore opportunities to expand Indic language projects. The end result of these discussions is to help identify language communities with whom we can collaboratively design pilots to drive our projects.
These discussions have been conducted on IRC, one-on-one, group voice conversations, as well as through email questionnaires.
Over the next few days, I am going to share a series of these with you. The intention is to give you a sense of the kind of perspectives that exist within the overall Indic community, to share ideas and to generate discussion on potential ideas. Please note that I have edited the discussions to preserve confidentiality as well as to remove any particularly personal comments that might have been shared.
Please do let me have your views on these discussions and do please join the debate on the talk page or on this mailing list or offline to me.
For today, I am sharing the discussions with the *Assamese communityhttp://as.wikipedia.org *. The summary of this discussion is placed at: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_L...
Assamese wikipedia community is a tiny but vibrant community - that is slowly building itself. There is huge opportunity given that Assamese is spoken by more than 1.3 crore people. As we all know, there was not much progress in Assamese wiki community till recently. But now the situation is slowly changing after the arrival of few dedicated users. And in this early stage, Assamese community show very promising potential. I remember discussing the importance of preparing a small FAQ in AS Wiki to help the new users. In no time few community members prepared a good FAQ pagehttp://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%A4%E0%A7%87_%E0%A6%89%E0%A6%A6%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A4_%E0%A6%B9%E0%A7%8B%E0%A7%B1%E0%A6%BE_%E0%A6%AA%E0%A7%8D%E0%A7%B0%E0%A6%B6%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%82%E0%A6%B9for the Assamese wiki. I am sure with the arrival of such dedicated users Assamese wiki is going to make good progress.
Inviting your active participation in these discussions (either on talk page or in this mailing list).
Warm Regards,
Shiju Alex
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Couldn't agree more
On Nov 23, 2011, at 6:11 PM, Subhashish Panigrahi wrote:
Good to see the progress the Assamese Wiki Community building, and the FAQ set. Hoping to see the FAQ Booklet in PDF and more outreach activities, WCI would work like a catalyst to promote.
Personally, I think the *real* value of WCI was to serve as a catalyst for further growth. Of course the sessions were important - but (arguably) even more important was the opportunity to make connections, share ideas informally, start conversations that lead to friendships and motivate community building.
In fact Assamese people are widespread all over India and quite conscious for language and literature. So, that is a great way to reach to more language enthusiasts.
An interesting point, Subha.
hisham
On 23 November 2011 18:55, Hisham hisham@wikimedia.org wrote:
Couldn't agree more
On Nov 23, 2011, at 6:11 PM, Subhashish Panigrahi wrote:
Good to see the progress the Assamese Wiki Community building, and the FAQ set. Hoping to see the FAQ Booklet in PDF and more outreach activities, WCI would work like a catalyst to promote.
Personally, I think the *real* value of WCI was to serve as a catalyst for further growth. Of course the sessions were important - but (arguably) even more important was the opportunity to make connections, share ideas informally, start conversations that lead to friendships and motivate community building.
Well, yes, I do agree that WCI will help primarily to make more contacts which will ease meetups. But, regular meetups and post-meetup/academy follow ups are very important. But an initial foundation building need a LOUD event. The 1st Odia Wikipedia Academy in Bhubaneswar never produced any single active Wikipedian, but people in the state became aware that there is a active Wiki project. But, it's really amazing to see a NITan to take part in it, hope it grows in the insti campus as well and lead to more outreach programs.
In fact Assamese people are widespread all over India and quite conscious for language and literature. So, that is a great way to reach to more language enthusiasts.
In fact Assamese people are widespread all over India and quite conscious for language and literature. So, that is a great way to reach to more language enthusiasts.
An interesting point, Subha.
hisham
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