From: Ganesh Paudel <gpaudel@gmail.com>
Date: 15 Oct 2014 09:28:11 +0000 (UTC)
To: Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen@gmail.com>;Martin Rulsch <derhexer87@yahoo.de>;Carlos Colina <jewbask@wikimedia.org.ve>;Biplab Anand <biplabanand@gmail.com>;"wikipedia-ne@lists.wikimedia.org" <wikipedia-ne@lists.wikimedia.org>;MF-Warburg <mfwarburg@googlemail.com>;nepaliwiki <nepaliwiki@googlegroups.com>;Abhishek Singh <aks.abhishek@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Request for approving Maithili Wikipedia

Dear Language Committee and All,
Thanks for approving Maithili Wikipedia. We are more than happy to hear this news. Now we have got the free and open encyclopedia in the second largest language spoken in Nepal.

I hope this will open a new arena to develop and share content in one more of our own languages.

I acknowledge Prof. Dr. Yogendra P. Yadava, Mr. Dharmendra Jha, Mr. Shiv Bhushan Lal, Mr. Biplav Anand from Nepal and Muzammil and all Maithili Wikipedians from India for your support for revision and content creation.

I also acknowledge Mr. MF-Warburg, Gerard, Carlos, Alolita, Martin and all friends from WMF and Language Committee for your support and enthusiasm on this.

Happy editing!

With best regards

Ganesh K Paudel

Wikimedians of Nepal

On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 2:38 PM, MF-Warburg <mfwarburg@googlemail.com> wrote:

Dear all,
thank you for your evaluations of the content of Maithili Wikipedia Incubator.
The Wikimedia Board of Trustees, on the recommendation of the Language Committee of Wikimedia, has now, based on yours and others' assessments approved the creation of the Maithili Wikipedia as a proper site based on the content of the Incubator project.

You will be able to visit (and contribute to) Maithili Wikipedia soon at <https://mai.wikipedia.org> (the technical set-up may take some days).

Best regards,
MF-Warburg
Member, Language Committee, Wikimedia Foundation

2014-10-08 15:15 GMT+02:00 Y.P. Yadava <ypyadava@gmail.com>:

Dear all,

I very much appreciate Maithili incubator Wikipedia initiative and would like to contribute to it. Some of the areas of my specialization include linguistic studies in Maithili and other Nepalese languages and their application to mother tongue-based multilingual education ( MLE). Please brief me about the template of the Wikipedia entries to facilitate me to send in my contributions.

Wish you success in this momentous task.

Yogendra P. Yadava, PhD

Professor (Linguistics, retired)

Tribhuvan University

Kathmandu, Nepal

&

Life Member

Nepal Academy

Sent from my iPad

On Oct 8, 2014, at 4:21 PM, Dharmendra Jha <djanakpur@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,
I Have visited Maithili Wikipedia. It is fantastic. It is great job. I have randomly seen some article in this Wikipedia. I found they all are written in Maithili. I wish for the success of Maithili Wikipedia.
Best

On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 1:44 PM, <shiv.lal@ntc.net.np> wrote:

Dear Ganesh ji & Mr. MF-Warburg,

I have reviewed the following articles randomly and found all content
written in Maithili lanugage.
http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/mai/%E0%A4%8F%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%A3%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A1_%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%80

http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/mai/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BF

http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/mai/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE:%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%AD_%E0%A4%AD%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B7%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%95_%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%87_%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%B9_%E0%A4%9A%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B9%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AF%E0%A5%82%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%AE_%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%96

I wish for the success of Maithili Wikipedia.

Regars

Shiv Bhushan Lal

> Prof. Dr. Haribansa Jha, Economist, Maithili Scholar
> Prof. Dr. Yogendra Prasad Yadav, Maithili Linguist
> Dr. Ram Dayal Rakesh, Writer, Maithili Scholar
> Mr. Shiv Bhushan Lal, Advisor, Wikimedia Nepal
> Mr. Dharmendra Jha, Writer, Journalist and Former President of Federation
> of Nepalese Journalists
>
>
> Dear Sirs,
> Wikipedia is a free and open source online encyclopedia made by the
> individual efforts of volunteers. Wikipedia
>
> can be edited by every individual.
> Wikipedia is made in 287 languages in the world. Many language Wikipedia
> are in test now.
>
> We have been testing Maithili Wikipedia since 2008. Now the Wikipedia has
> got over 1,100 pages. It has got a
>
> pretty good number of volunteers contributors.
> https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/mai/Main_Page
>
> Now the Maithili Wikipedia has met all requirements needed to a Full Wiki.
> The language committee in the Wikimedia Foundation will approve it when
> scholars (renowned linguists, writers,
>
> professors) will approve the existing content. We need your big favour in
> this regard.
>
> What we request you to do is You have to go through any three random pages
> of your choice in the Maithili Wiki
>
> test, read the content and tell whether it is written in Maithili language
> or not.
>
> This revision will support the entire Maithili Wikipedia community to have
> full Wikipedia in our language.
>
> The link of Maithili Wikipedia article index is as follows
> https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex/Wp/mai
>
>
> or you can find any article by typing in the search box at the top right.
>
> This test wiki may contain very short articles like one liners. If you
> selected very short one, please skip to
>
> another one.
>
> If you have any difficulty or confusion, feel free to contact us.
>
> With best regards
> Ganesh K. Paudel
> Wikipedian/Wikimedian
> Wikimedia Nepal
> (Affiliated as Wikimedians of Nepal)
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 10:15 PM, MF-Warburg <mfwarburg@googlemail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello Muzammil and Ganesh,
>>
>> the activity of Maithili Wikipedia in Incubator is now acceptable for
>> approval indeed.
>> The Language committee is willing to approve it, but usually for the
>> first
>> Wikimedia project in a language, we contact a linguist or other scholar
>> who
>> is an expert in the language, and ask him to verify that the content in
>> Incubator is indeed written in this language (as I already explained to
>> Ganesh when we talked in London).
>>
>> Do you know any such linguists/expert on Maithili language which LangCom
>> could contact for this verification?
>> Best regards,
>> MF-Warburg
>>
>> 2014-09-29 22:00 GMT+02:00 Hindustanilanguage <
>> muzammil.wikipedian@asia.com>:
>>
>>> Dear MF Warburg,
>>>
>>> Greetings.
>>>
>>> We are working quite intensely for an independent Maithili Wikipedia.
>>>
>>> Can you can probably see a brief list of our efforts:
>>>
>>> 1) Activity level has increased - 16 active users and about 60 overall
>>> users (from the link you had earlier shared with me).
>>>
>>> 2) Wikimedia blog (see:
>>> http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/09/08/a-focused-approach-for-maithili-wikipedia/
>>> )
>>>
>>> 3) Growing social media activity for the Wikipedia:
>>> https://www.facebook.com/MaithiliWikipedia?fref=ts
>>>
>>> We eagerly await a formal approval from the language committee in this
>>> direction.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Muzammil.
>>>
>>> --
>>> This email was sent by Hindustanilanguage to MF-Warburg by the "Email
>>> user" function at Meta.
>>>
>>
>>
>

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