Dear all,
Here's an article by Medianama on Wikisource in Indic languages (
Thank you to everyone (around 25 at the last count!) who helped out on Patrika.
I was going through this again and 5 particular stories caught my attention -
from the HUGE number of stories in Patrika[0]
a) The 10th anniversary plans of the Assamese community.[1] For a small
community, you
Hey folks,
Shiju has published an interesting post on numerals in an Indic context.
It's a really fascinating overview - including how numerals are depicted
across Indic languages, their use across languages, the policies adopted by
the various Indic communities, the need for some community
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 4:09 PM, Noopur Raval nra...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hey folks,
Shiju has published an interesting post on numerals in an Indic context.
It's a really fascinating overview - including how numerals are depicted
across Indic languages, their use across languages, the
This article in today's Times of India left me puzzled. This is not related
to the Urdu wikipedia is it?
excerpt:
Mooted by the National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language (NCPUL),
instituted by the human resource development ministry, the project is
likely to be up and running in June.
2012/6/1 Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.com:
This article in today's Times of India left me puzzled. This is not related
to the Urdu wikipedia is it?
Hmm, it's a curious article, but I'm as puzzled as you are.
Are they uploading an existing encyclopedia to Wikipedia?
Are they creating a new
Amir, I didn't understand what you mean by Pakistan being ahead?
Has Pakistan also taken up any govt-backed initiative for Urdu development?
Arun, this could be like what the K'taka govt tried with Kanaja.[1]
Curiously, when it was released, the press said Kannada Wikipedia
launched.[2]
1:
2012/6/1 Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com:
Amir, I didn't understand what you mean by Pakistan being ahead?
Has Pakistan also taken up any govt-backed initiative for Urdu development?
Well, the article says that India has been so far left behind by
Pakistan and other countries and
On Jun 1, 2012, at 7:13 PM, Arun Ganesh wrote:
This article in today's Times of India left me puzzled. This is not related
to the Urdu wikipedia is it?
snip
Mooted by the National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language (NCPUL),
instituted by the human resource development ministry, the
//The Urdu Wiki, its current tentative nomenclature, will work along the
lines of Wikipedia allowing readers to edit and add comments.//
This makes it clear that this is an independent encyclopaedia initiative.
Wikipedia, Wiki have long become common names to indicate anything like
encyclopaedia.
On Jun 1, 2012, at 9:11 PM, Ravishankar wrote:
//The Urdu Wiki, its current tentative nomenclature, will work along the
lines of Wikipedia allowing readers to edit and add comments.//
This makes it clear that this is an independent encyclopaedia initiative.
Wikipedia, Wiki have long
I would also like to ask Shiju if Wikipedia community has the right to
adopt the say its own numeral standard without considering the fact that
whole world does not use it.
This is my personal opinion as an Indic language wikimedian. According to
me, Wikimedia community should be following
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