Dear all,
As part of the continuing spate of good news, I'd like to congratulate Achal Prabhala for becoming the latest Wikimedia Foundation Fellow.
For those of you who don't know him, Achal is a writer and researcher in Bangalore who has participated as a volunteer in the Wikimedia movement in India and globally for years, and as a member of the Foundation’s advisory board.
Achal will be conducting field research in India and rural South Africa with Wikipedians and non-Wikipedians across three languages to explore ways to compensate for the gap in published/printed sources in many local languages.
More details at http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2011/01/12/new-wikimedia-fellow/
Cheers Bishakha
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Bishakha Datta bishakhadatta@gmail.comwrote:
Dear all,
As part of the continuing spate of good news, I'd like to congratulate Achal Prabhala for becoming the latest Wikimedia Foundation Fellow.
For those of you who don't know him, Achal is a writer and researcher in Bangalore who has participated as a volunteer in the Wikimedia movement in India and globally for years, and as a member of the Foundation’s advisory board.
Achal will be conducting field research in India and rural South Africa with Wikipedians and non-Wikipedians across three languages to explore ways to compensate for the gap in published/printed sources in many local languages. More details at http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2011/01/12/new-wikimedia-fellow/
Congratulations, Achal. This is good news indeed.
Curious though to know about the languages you have picked for this research! :-)
Congratulations Achal :-)
Looking forward to updates on your research.
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Hari Prasad Nadig hpnadig@gmail.comwrote:
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Bishakha Datta bishakhadatta@gmail.comwrote:
Dear all,
As part of the continuing spate of good news, I'd like to congratulate Achal Prabhala for becoming the latest Wikimedia Foundation Fellow.
For those of you who don't know him, Achal is a writer and researcher in Bangalore who has participated as a volunteer in the Wikimedia movement in India and globally for years, and as a member of the Foundation’s advisory board.
Achal will be conducting field research in India and rural South Africa with Wikipedians and non-Wikipedians across three languages to explore ways to compensate for the gap in published/printed sources in many local languages. More details at http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2011/01/12/new-wikimedia-fellow/
Congratulations, Achal. This is good news indeed.
Curious though to know about the languages you have picked for this research! :-) -- Hari Prasad Nadig http://hpnadig.net | http://twitter.com/hpnadig http://flickr.com/hpnadig
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Regards
Congratulations, Achal!
Thank you.
Best,
Gautam ________ http://social.prathambooks.org/
On 17 January 2011 10:42, Srikeit srikeit@gmail.com wrote:
Congratulations Achal :-)
Looking forward to updates on your research.
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Hari Prasad Nadig hpnadig@gmail.comwrote:
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Bishakha Datta <bishakhadatta@gmail.com
wrote:
Dear all,
As part of the continuing spate of good news, I'd like to congratulate Achal Prabhala for becoming the latest Wikimedia Foundation Fellow.
For those of you who don't know him, Achal is a writer and researcher in Bangalore who has participated as a volunteer in the Wikimedia movement in India and globally for years, and as a member of the Foundation’s advisory board.
Achal will be conducting field research in India and rural South Africa with Wikipedians and non-Wikipedians across three languages to explore ways to compensate for the gap in published/printed sources in many local languages. More details at http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2011/01/12/new-wikimedia-fellow/
Congratulations, Achal. This is good news indeed.
Curious though to know about the languages you have picked for this research! :-) -- Hari Prasad Nadig http://hpnadig.net | http://twitter.com/hpnadig http://flickr.com/hpnadig
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Regards
Srikeit Tadepalli Communication Management Trainee MBA-Advertising 2010-2012 Symbiosis Institute of Media and Communication, Pune +91-9371160998
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Thanks Nadig, Gautam, Srikeit, Tinu, Mahesh, all...I will shortly set up a public discussion around the scope of the project and am interested in hearing from you.
No specific languages set HPN, I've had initial discussions with a number of people including Shiju, Sundar and Mohau (a Wikipedian from South Africa) and I'm hoping to figure out exactly how to proceed after a more thorough set of discussions with anyone interested in the subject. I think we can increase the number of languages slightly, but the point overall is to set feasible targets within a limited time-frame and assemble compelling evidence and action. In that sense, it matters less as to which language is used in the process than whether the results overall are useful to Wikipedians in India and South Africa at large.
In general, the idea is to focus on instances of a citation gap: either an already created article whose basis has been established but for which there are no citations available, or a situation where citations cover a topic only partially, or an article that should be created but can't be because of a lack of supporting scholarly evidence.
Until I set up a more formal space for discussion, maybe we can begin discussion here. Have you ever faced a situation as described?
Good wishes, Achal
On Monday 17 January 2011 10:40 AM, Hari Prasad Nadig wrote:
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Bishakha Datta <bishakhadatta@gmail.com mailto:bishakhadatta@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear all, As part of the continuing spate of good news, I'd like to congratulate Achal Prabhala for becoming the latest Wikimedia Foundation Fellow. For those of you who don't know him, Achal is a writer and researcher in Bangalore who has participated as a volunteer in the Wikimedia movement in India and globally for years, and as a member of the Foundation’s advisory board. Achal will be conducting field research in India and rural South Africa with Wikipedians and non-Wikipedians across three languages to explore ways to compensate for the gap in published/printed sources in many local languages. More details at http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2011/01/12/new-wikimedia-fellow/Congratulations, Achal. This is good news indeed.
Curious though to know about the languages you have picked for this research! :-) -- Hari Prasad Nadig http://hpnadig.net | http://twitter.com/hpnadig http://flickr.com/hpnadig
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 11:00, Achal Prabhala aprabhala@gmail.com wrote:
In general, the idea is to focus on instances of a citation gap: either an already created article whose basis has been established but for which there are no citations available, or a situation where citations cover a topic only partially, or an article that should be created but can't be because of a lack of supporting scholarly evidence.
From the release:
To put it another way, it’s possible that the sum of published scholarly work from Europe is somewhat close to the sum of ‘European’ knowledge, and that the sum of accessible, published scholarly work in many Asian and African languages is nowhere close to the corresponding body of knowledge that circulates among speakers of those languages.
This is quite an interesting challenge. Do you have a blog (or any other device) where one can follow your work in this area?
Aditya Sengupta
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 7:30 AM, Achal Prabhala aprabhala@gmail.com wrote:
In general, the idea is to focus on instances of a citation gap: either an already created article whose basis has been established but for which there are no citations available, or a situation where citations cover a topic only partially, or an article that should be created but can't be because of a lack of supporting scholarly evidence.
Congratulations, Achal. I look forward to following your work on this.
The only thing I can contribute from our experience in the Hebrew Wikipedia is a simple observation: a small Wikipedia begins with laxer norms, including allowing plenty of "common wisdom" assertion in articles.
In the past couple of years, as the Hebrew Wikipedia approached (and passed) 100,000 entries, there was a distinct "maturing" of the editing community (without external pressure, mind!), and now citations are considered necessary, substantive (as distinct from stylistic, grammatical) edits are expected to be supported by references, and even previously-"featured" articles are _demoted_ to regular articles for lack of citations. I.e. it used to be possible for an article to be featured even without any citations; it no longer is.
If others small editing communities experienced the same "maturation", perhaps it can be posited as an expected, natural course for nascent editing communities?
Cheers,
Asaf
Congrats, Achal. Your area of research is very interesting and has a huge potential fallout.
- Sundar
"That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted." - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture
From: Bishakha Datta bishakhadatta@gmail.com To: India List Wikimedia wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Cc: Achal Prabhala aprabhala@gmail.com Sent: Mon, January 17, 2011 10:32:07 AM Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] A Wikimedia Foundation Fellow from India
Dear all,
As part of the continuing spate of good news, I'd like to congratulate Achal Prabhala for becoming the latest Wikimedia Foundation Fellow.
For those of you who don't know him, Achal is a writer and researcher in Bangalore who has participated as a volunteer in the Wikimedia movement in India and globally for years, and as a member of the Foundation’s advisory board.
Achal will be conducting field research in India and rural South Africa with Wikipedians and non-Wikipedians across three languages to explore ways to compensate for the gap in published/printed sources in many local languages. More details at http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2011/01/12/new-wikimedia-fellow/
Cheers Bishakha
Congratulations, Achal.
Belayet from Bangaladesh
On 17 January 2011 11:45, BalaSundaraRaman sundarbecse@yahoo.com wrote:
Congrats, Achal. Your area of research is very interesting and has a huge potential fallout.
- Sundar
"That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted."
- George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture
*From:* Bishakha Datta bishakhadatta@gmail.com *To:* India List Wikimedia wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org *Cc:* Achal Prabhala aprabhala@gmail.com *Sent:* Mon, January 17, 2011 10:32:07 AM *Subject:* [Wikimediaindia-l] A Wikimedia Foundation Fellow from India
Dear all,
As part of the continuing spate of good news, I'd like to congratulate Achal Prabhala for becoming the latest Wikimedia Foundation Fellow.
For those of you who don't know him, Achal is a writer and researcher in Bangalore who has participated as a volunteer in the Wikimedia movement in India and globally for years, and as a member of the Foundation’s advisory board.
Achal will be conducting field research in India and rural South Africa with Wikipedians and non-Wikipedians across three languages to explore ways to compensate for the gap in published/printed sources in many local languages. More details at http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2011/01/12/new-wikimedia-fellow/
Cheers Bishakha
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Achal,
Congratulations. This is great news!! Look forward to discussing this further when we meet again!
Regards Arun
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On 17-Jan-2011, at 10:32 AM, Bishakha Datta bishakhadatta@gmail.com wrote:
Dear all,
As part of the continuing spate of good news, I'd like to congratulate Achal Prabhala for becoming the latest Wikimedia Foundation Fellow.
For those of you who don't know him, Achal is a writer and researcher in Bangalore who has participated as a volunteer in the Wikimedia movement in India and globally for years, and as a member of the Foundation’s advisory board. Achal will be conducting field research in India and rural South Africa with Wikipedians and non-Wikipedians across three languages to explore ways to compensate for the gap in published/printed sources in many local languages.
More details at http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2011/01/12/new-wikimedia-fellow/
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Congratulations Achal.
Cheers,
Jacob
On 17-Jan-11, at 1:02 PM, Bishakha Datta wrote:
Dear all,
As part of the continuing spate of good news, I'd like to congratulate Achal Prabhala for becoming the latest Wikimedia Foundation Fellow.
For those of you who don't know him, Achal is a writer and researcher in Bangalore who has participated as a volunteer in the Wikimedia movement in India and globally for years, and as a member of the Foundation’s advisory board. Achal will be conducting field research in India and rural South Africa with Wikipedians and non-Wikipedians across three languages to explore ways to compensate for the gap in published/printed sources in many local languages.
More details at http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2011/01/12/new-wikimedia-fellow/
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Congrats Achal,
While you focus on Indic languages about sources, I would also request you to consider including lack of English sources available online on various subjects concerning these geographies too due to slower internet adoption by publishing companies and even lack of literature itself in first place.(Ex:- Huge edit warring happens on en.wiki esp on caste related articles where literature is very sparsely available). Looking forward to more discussions.
Regards Srikanth.L
On 17-Jan-11, at 1:02 PM, Bishakha Datta wrote:
Dear all,
As part of the continuing spate of good news, I'd like to congratulate Achal Prabhala for becoming the latest Wikimedia Foundation Fellow.
For those of you who don't know him, Achal is a writer and researcher in Bangalore who has participated as a volunteer in the Wikimedia movement in India and globally for years, and as a member of the Foundation’s advisory board.
Achal will be conducting field research in India and rural South Africa with Wikipedians and non-Wikipedians across three languages to explore ways to compensate for the gap in published/printed sources in many local languages. More details at http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2011/01/12/new-wikimedia-fellow/
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Congratulations Achal, This Is Good News Looking Forward To The Research
Cheers Clinton
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Bishakha Datta bishakhadatta@gmail.comwrote:
Dear all,
As part of the continuing spate of good news, I'd like to congratulate Achal Prabhala for becoming the latest Wikimedia Foundation Fellow.
For those of you who don't know him, Achal is a writer and researcher in Bangalore who has participated as a volunteer in the Wikimedia movement in India and globally for years, and as a member of the Foundation’s advisory board.
Achal will be conducting field research in India and rural South Africa with Wikipedians and non-Wikipedians across three languages to explore ways to compensate for the gap in published/printed sources in many local languages. More details at http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2011/01/12/new-wikimedia-fellow/
Cheers Bishakha
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Congratulations Achal from Bengal Kolkata
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Clinton Gonsalvez < clintongonsalvez@gmail.com> wrote:
Congratulations Achal, This Is Good News Looking Forward To The Research
Cheers Clinton
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Bishakha Datta bishakhadatta@gmail.comwrote:
Dear all,
As part of the continuing spate of good news, I'd like to congratulate Achal Prabhala for becoming the latest Wikimedia Foundation Fellow.
For those of you who don't know him, Achal is a writer and researcher in Bangalore who has participated as a volunteer in the Wikimedia movement in India and globally for years, and as a member of the Foundation’s advisory board.
Achal will be conducting field research in India and rural South Africa with Wikipedians and non-Wikipedians across three languages to explore ways to compensate for the gap in published/printed sources in many local languages. More details at http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2011/01/12/new-wikimedia-fellow/
Cheers Bishakha
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There is an interesting but unfortunately ridiculous discussion regarding this on the foundation list.
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2011-January/thread.html
Sharing this with those who are not subscribed to the foundation-l alias.
Regards Tinu Cherian
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Bishakha Datta bishakhadatta@gmail.comwrote:
Dear all,
As part of the continuing spate of good news, I'd like to congratulate Achal Prabhala for becoming the latest Wikimedia Foundation Fellow.
For those of you who don't know him, Achal is a writer and researcher in Bangalore who has participated as a volunteer in the Wikimedia movement in India and globally for years, and as a member of the Foundation’s advisory board.
Achal will be conducting field research in India and rural South Africa with Wikipedians and non-Wikipedians across three languages to explore ways to compensate for the gap in published/printed sources in many local languages. More details at http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2011/01/12/new-wikimedia-fellow/
Cheers Bishakha
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