Dear All,
The much awaited project Maithili Wikipedia has been approved by the
Language Committee today. Please see
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Maithi…
(some settings are still needed to proceed).
Now we have got the free and open encyclopedia in the second largest
language spoken in Nepal.
I want to thanks each and everyone who contributed in the project. and also
want to thank the Language committee for approving the project.
=== Nepali Wikipedian===
* Mr. Janak Bhatta
* Mr. Saroj Dhakal
* Mr. Ganesh Poudel
* Mr. Ram Prasad Joshi
* Mr. Ramesh Singh Bohora
* Mr. Bijay Chaurasia
* Mr. Naman Bhagat
* Mr. Satish Kumar Dutta
* Mr. Nirmal Dulal
* Mr. Krish Dulal
* Mr. Tulasi Bhagat
=== Indian Wikipedian==
* Mr. Satyam Mishra
* Mr. Muzammil
* Mr. Umeshberma
Happy Editing!
Regards
Biplab Anand
Wikipedians of Nepal
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(a)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(a)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(a)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(a)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%A…
>>>
>>>
>>> http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/mai/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A6%E0%A…
>>>
>>>
>>> http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/mai/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A…
>>>
>>>
>>> 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(a)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(a)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-wikipe…
>>> >>> )
>>> >>>
>>> >>> 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.
>>> >>>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Dharmendra Jha
>> News Consultant
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>> Mid Baneshwor, Kathmandu, Nepal
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>> *Cell-00977-9801071459*
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
FYI ,
Hope you are aware of what people are doing .
Thanks,
Saroj
2014-10-07 16:38 GMT+05:45 muzammil <muzammil.wikipedia(a)gmail.com>:
> Dear Rajesh,
>
> Can I give out your email to Warburg either as reply-mail or on his talk
> page?
>
> You might be asked a series of questions pertaining to the existing
> content on the incubator project, especially the fact that it is indeed
> Maithili.
>
> --Muzammil
>
> On 07-10-2014 13:15, Rajesh Ranjan wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Thanks Sudhanwa jee for asking me to comment here.
>
> I know Maithili and worked for Maithili Desktop with project like Fedora,
> Firefox, Libreoffice, Gnome, KDE. I am also associate with Maithili
> wikipedia process.
>
> Amir also asked me for the feedback weeks before. This language is
> Maithili and I know the community working in Maithili Wikipedia. I think,
> Maithili Wikipedia creation should be approved.
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 6:12 PM, Tejaswini Niranjana <teju(a)cscs.res.in>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear Muzammil,
>> You could try getting in touch with Prof.Uday Narayan Singh, a famous
>> Maithili poet and linguist. See: http://www.udayanarayana.com/. His
>> phone number and address are available from this site.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Tejaswini
>>
>> On 6 October 2014 17:52, muzammil <muzammil.wikipedia(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear friends,
>>>
>>> I am pleased to inform you that the language committee is ready to
>>> approve independent Maithili Wikipedia project.[1]
>>>
>>> In a related development, a separate mailing list for the language which
>>> was denied earlier has been approved on my request for reconsideration. [2]
>>>
>>> I just need an endorsement from Maithili language experts that the
>>> painstakingly developed content in the incubator project (
>>> https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex/Wp/mai) is
>>> that of the language and NOT ANOTHER LANGUAGE.
>>>
>>> I request help from any friendly quarter -- WMIN / CIS / other
>>> volunteers in this direction.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Muzammil
>>>
>>> [1] *Email feom Language Committee Member WF Warburg*:
>>>
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>> [2] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44938
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Tejaswini Niranjana, PhD
>> Senior Fellow - Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (CSCS)
>> Visiting Professor - Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS)
>> Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Humanities, Lingnan University, Hong
>> Kong
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>> Visiting Faculty - Centre for Contemporary Studies, Indian Institute
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>>
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