Re: [Wikisa-l] [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Samskrit Wikiquote ( Wiki SuktayaH)

Dear Dr. Sumana, Shiju and all others behind Wiki-Sukthi (

Wonderful achievement! We should celebrate this!! Many congratulations

keep it going. Best, Vishnu On 10 February 2013 11:55, Karthik Nadar <karthikndr(a)wikimedia.in>

> This is an awesome news. > > Congratulations to all behind this one, and wish you all a great

> > On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Abhiram C > &lt;abhivasishtaa(a)gmail.com&gt;wrote;wrote: > >> Hello Wikipedians, >> >> A new way to contribute to Samskrit is here!!!! The Samskrit Wikiquote >> is >> officially open for contributions. Thanks to all the people who have >> striven hard to make it count. >> >> The webpage can be found at *sa.wikiquote.org* <

>> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Sumana &lt;sumana.koundinya(a)gmail.com&gt; >> >> Namaste, >> >> It is with immense pleasure, I wish to announce that Samskrit Wikiquote >> project ( *विकिसूक्तिः*) is out of Incubator and is available as an >> open source project like Wikipedia now. It was in a dormant stage with >> very >> limited editing options and visibility since its inception. >> >> We had started our efforts towards this in August 2012, persuading >> Wikipedia Language Committee. Over 7000 system messages were translated >> to >> samskrit, some 800 articles of useful content related to this project >> were >> created and uploaded, which were some of the requirements to approve

>> projects.Thanks to dedicated Wikipedians like Shiju Alex, that today we >> have the project out of incubator, which means, this project would be >> readily available for everyone to edit and use now on. >> >> The project is a store house of Subhashitas extracted from different >> scriptures like Veda, Upanishat Puraana, RamayaNa, Mahabharatam etc, >> categorised based on the topics with explanations. Also, it contains

>> idioms and phrases, witty puzzles, sayings of great people, >> Chitrakaavyam >> etc, everything in Samskrit. It is to be noted that all these, in a >> single >> webpage is not available anywhere else in such an easily available

>> We >> have about 1260 pages under various categories, for a ready review at >> *sa. >> wikiquote.org* >> >> I request everyone to visit once for guidance, comments or >> contributions... >> >> Once again, Congratulations to one and all who have been instrumental