[Wikimediaindia-l] A Wikimedia Foundation Fellow from India

[BalaSundaraRaman]

Congrats, Achal. Your area of research is very interesting and has a huge 
potential fallout.

- Sundar

 "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for 
the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted."
- George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture


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>From: Bishakha Datta <bishakhadatta at gmail.com>
>To: India List Wikimedia <wikimediaindia-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
>Cc: Achal Prabhala <aprabhala at gmail.com>
>Sent: Mon, January 17, 2011 10:32:07 AM
>Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] A Wikimedia Foundation Fellow from India
>
>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/
>
>Cheers
>Bishakha
>  
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