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

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: A Wikimedia Foundation Fellow from India Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 10:32:07 +0530 From: Bishakha Datta bishakhadatta@gmail.com To: India List Wikimedia wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org CC: Achal Prabhala aprabhala@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