[Reader-list] Wikimedia Sponsorships for Indian Language Content in Wikipedia

[Shekhar Krishnan]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Maruthu Pandian <haipandian79 at yahoo.com>
> Date: 1 July 2005 11.25.27 GMT+05:30
> To: lis-forum at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in
> Subject: [LIS-Forum] Sponsorship for students on Indian languages  
> for Wikipedia
>
>
> Hi,
>
> So far the Wikipedias in Indian languages have seen
> very slow progress. These are among the lowest ratio
> "number of articles / number of speakers". There a
> number of technical and other reasons.
>
> Some people from the Wikimedia Foundation think that a
> financial help may  boost these languages. They are
> willing to sponsor students who might  contribute
> writing articles in Indian languages on different
> subjects for  Wikipedia.
>
> Here is the URL for further reading.
>
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Promoting_the_Indian_languages_projects
>
> Here are some proposed rules:
>  * The articles should be written in Indian languages
> from scratch or translated (probably from the English
> Wikipedia).
>  * The articles should be encoded in Unicode.
>  * The articles sould be released under the GFDL
> licence (free to edit and copy).
>  * The articles should be more than 500 words.
>
>  Here are a list of articles:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ 
> Wikipedia:List_of_articles_all_languages_should_have
>  This list should be completed with specific Indian
> topics (Indian states and cities, personalities,
> events, etc.).
>
> A proposition of a list of Indian subjects is welcome.
>
> For each language, at least two persons are needed to
> review the quality of the articles (teachers, writers,
> etc.).
>
> Please could you also transfer this message to people
> who might be interested by this project ?
>
> Regards,
> Maruthu Pandian.B
> Pubsub Concepts Pvt Ltd.
>
>
>
>
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