[Foundation-l] Promotion of Indian languages

[Ray Saintonge]

Yann Forget wrote:

>I just came back from a 3 weeks trip to India, where I got the
>opportunity for doing research for Wikimedia on two subjects:
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>>1. Recruiting new volunteers for Indian languages projects, mainly Hindi
>>and Gujarati languages.
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>My tentative to recruit new volunteers directly was not very successful,
>so it leads me to look for new ways of promotion. However I had a nice
>wikimeet with three Wikimedians in Ahmedadad. All three are computer
>students and only edit the English Wikipedia. Hopefully direct contact
>will enable us to work better together on a promotion campaign.
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>>2. Contacting organisations and people who have some data which may be
>>suitable for Wikimedia projects, mainly Commons and Wikisource.
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>I was able to get some documents on Gandhi not available outside India:
>a copy of the "Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi" (100 volumes!) and
>multimedia CDROMs.
>See http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Collected_Works_of_Mahatma_Gandhi
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Sounds like your time was well spent.  Good effort!

Ec