perhaps it will soon be just as likely and authoritative that people will write this material directly here. To think we are always going to remain a secondary or tertiary medium is perhaps looking a little narrowly. I know we're trying to resist this, but things will proceed in any case. Or, if we resist strongly enough, they will proceed in such a way that we may soon be forgotten except for the specialists--like usenet, perhaps.
On 10/1/07, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 01/10/2007, Earle Martin wikipedia@downlode.org wrote:
On 30/09/2007, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
2)Literacy levels. India has a literacy rate of a bit under 70%
Out of a population of 1.14 billion [1], that leaves us a mere 798 million people. Of whom (if we take a naïve view and assume literacy as a prerequisite) some 65 million speak English as a second language... [2]
small pool to do the writing
...and over forty million of those people have access to the internet. [3]
I don't think we're going to be short of willing writers any time soon.
Not our writers. Writers to write the local history books. Writers to write the detailed history of every train used on the Indian lines ever. Writers to write books on local football and cricket teams.
-- geni
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