Hallo all,
Beginning this month, I will be working on a project that finds ways of
making Wikipedias work in languages where there is a shortage of
scholarly publishing. The question is something that has been on many
people's minds - and I'm hoping to work in two or three Indian languages
and at least one South African language. I've been speaking to Mohau
about this, and we're going to be working together to see what we can do
within Northern Sotho Wikipedia.
The email below was sent to WikimediaIndia-l; more information on the
scope of the project can be found on the Wikimedia Foundation's blog:
http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2011/01/12/new-wikimedia-fellow/
I will be shortly setting up a public forum where a broader discussion
on the topic of citations/publishing/language can be held. I'll let you
know as soon as I do that, and I look forward to your ideas, opinions
and suggestions - as well as working with you - very much!
Good wishes,
Achal
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Subject: A Wikimedia Foundation Fellow from India
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 10:32:07 +0530
From: Bishakha Datta <bishakhadatta(a)gmail.com>
To: India List Wikimedia <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
CC: Achal Prabhala <aprabhala(a)gmail.com>
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