[Wikimediaindia-l] A Wikimedia Foundation Fellow from India

[Achal Prabhala]

Thanks Nadig, Gautam, Srikeit, Tinu, Mahesh, all...I will shortly set up 
a public discussion around the scope of the project and am interested in 
hearing from you.

No specific languages set HPN, I've had initial discussions with a 
number of people including Shiju, Sundar and Mohau (a Wikipedian from 
South Africa) and I'm hoping to figure out exactly how to proceed after 
a more thorough set of discussions with anyone interested in the 
subject. I think we can increase the number of languages slightly, but 
the point overall is to set feasible targets within a limited time-frame 
and assemble compelling evidence and action. In that sense, it matters 
less as to which language is used in the process than whether the 
results overall are useful to Wikipedians in India and South Africa at 
large.

In general, the idea is to focus on instances of a citation gap: either 
an already created article whose basis has been established but for 
which there are no citations available, or a situation where citations 
cover a topic only partially, or an article that should be created but 
can't be because of a lack of supporting scholarly evidence.

Until I set up a more formal space for discussion, maybe we can begin 
discussion here. Have you ever faced a situation as described?

Good wishes,
Achal



On Monday 17 January 2011 10:40 AM, Hari Prasad Nadig wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Bishakha Datta 
> <bishakhadatta at gmail.com <mailto:bishakhadatta at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Dear all,
>
>     As part of the continuing spate of good news, I'd like to
>     congratulate Achal Prabhala for becoming the latest Wikimedia
>     Foundation Fellow.
>
>     For those of you who don't know him, Achal is a writer and
>     researcher in Bangalore who has participated as a volunteer in the
>     Wikimedia movement in India and globally for years, and as a
>     member of the Foundation’s advisory board.
>
>     Achal will be conducting field research in India and rural South
>     Africa with Wikipedians and non-Wikipedians across three languages
>     to explore ways to compensate for the gap in published/printed
>     sources in many local languages.
>
>     More details at
>     http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2011/01/12/new-wikimedia-fellow/
>
>
> Congratulations, Achal. This is good news indeed.
>
> Curious though to know about the languages you have picked for this 
> research! :-)
> -- 
> Hari Prasad Nadig
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>