SOAS just got a multimillion pound donation for a language preservation project. Sounds like something that should have a Wikipedian in Residence.
I saw something about it in the Evening Standard last night, I think this is it: *http://www.hrelp.org/aboutus/ http://www.hrelp.org/aboutus/*
*Edward Saperia* email edsaperia@gmail.com • facebook http://www.facebook.com/edsaperia • twitter http://www.twitter.com/edsaperia • 07796955572 133-135 Bethnal Green Road, E2 7DG
On 29 April 2015 at 10:45, Edward Saperia edsaperia@gmail.com wrote:
SOAS just got a multimillion pound donation for a language preservation project. Sounds like something that should have a Wikipedian in Residence.
Also of interest is the project "Beyond Boundaries: Religion, Region, Language and the State" for which SOAS secured a €7 million European Research Council (ERC) Synergy Grant (https://www.soas.ac.uk/news/newsitem90862.html). Part of this project (starting next month for about 4 years) will be a study and attempted decipherment of the corpus of inscriptions in the extinct [[Pyu language (Burma)]], and there should be scope for improving Wikipedia's coverage of Pyu topics. One of the principal investigators, Dr Nathan Hill, is a Wikipedian (although not very active), and would probably be a good person to approach.
Andrew
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