Hi, So far the Wikipedias in Indian languages have seen very slow progress. There 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 are some proposed rules: * The articles should be written in Indian languages from scratch or translated (propably 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, we will need at least two persons to review the quality of the articles (teachers, writers, etc.). So far, we got very few answers although we contacted languages departments of all main Indian universities. So we want to spread this offer further. Please could you also transfer this message to people who might be interested by this project ? Regards, Yann Forget http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Promoting_the_Indian_languages_projects -- http://www.non-violence.org/ | Site collaboratif sur la non-violence http://www.forget-me.net/ | Alternatives sur le Net http://fr.wikipedia.org/ | Encyclopédie libre http://www.forget-me.net/pro/ | Formations et services Linux ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idt77&alloc_id492&opÌk _______________________________________________ Linux-india-general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-general _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
