Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] A Wikimedia Foundation Fellow from India

2011-01-22 Thread CherianTinu Abraham
There is an interesting but unfortunately ridiculous discussion regarding this on the foundation list. http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2011-January/thread.html Sharing this with those who are not subscribed to the foundation-l alias. Regards Tinu Cherian On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 a

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] A Wikimedia Foundation Fellow from India

2011-01-17 Thread Asaf Bartov
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 7:30 AM, Achal Prabhala wrote: > 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 part

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] A Wikimedia Foundation Fellow from India

2011-01-17 Thread Mahitgar from Marathi Wikipedia
though to know about the languages you have picked for this > research! :-) > -- > Hari Prasad Nadig > http://hpnadig.net | http://twitter.com/hpnadig > http://flickr.com/hpnadig > ---------- Message: 2 Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 21:45:15 -0800 (PST) From

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] A Wikimedia Foundation Fellow from India

2011-01-16 Thread jayanta nath
Congratulations Achal from Bengal Kolkata On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Clinton Gonsalvez < clintongonsal...@gmail.com> wrote: > Congratulations Achal, > This Is Good News > Looking Forward To The Research > > Cheers > Clinton > > > On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Bishakha Datta > wrote:

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] A Wikimedia Foundation Fellow from India

2011-01-16 Thread Clinton Gonsalvez
Congratulations Achal, This Is Good News Looking Forward To The Research Cheers Clinton On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Bishakha Datta 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 Fe

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] A Wikimedia Foundation Fellow from India

2011-01-16 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
Congrats Achal, While you focus on Indic languages about sources, I would also request you to consider including lack of English sources available online on various subjects concerning these geographies too due to slower internet adoption by publishing companies and even lack of literature itself

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] A Wikimedia Foundation Fellow from India

2011-01-16 Thread Jacob Joseph Puthenparambil
Congratulations Achal. Cheers, Jacob On 17-Jan-11, at 1:02 PM, Bishakha Datta 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 w

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] A Wikimedia Foundation Fellow from India

2011-01-16 Thread Arun Ramarathnam
Achal, Congratulations. This is great news!! Look forward to discussing this further when we meet again! Regards Arun Sent from my iPad On 17-Jan-2011, at 10:32 AM, Bishakha Datta wrote: > Dear all, > > As part of the continuing spate of good news, I'd like to congratulate Achal > Prabhala

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] A Wikimedia Foundation Fellow from India

2011-01-16 Thread Aditya Sengupta
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 11:00, Achal Prabhala wrote: > > 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 part

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] A Wikimedia Foundation Fellow from India

2011-01-16 Thread Belayet Hossain
t merely a medium > for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted." > - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture > > > *From:* Bishakha Datta > *To:* India List Wikimedia > *Cc:* Achal Prabhala > *Sent:* Mon, January 17, 2011 10:32:07

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] A Wikimedia Foundation Fellow from India

2011-01-16 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
;s Turing Award Lecture > >From: Bishakha Datta >To: India List Wikimedia >Cc: Achal Prabhala >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,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] A Wikimedia Foundation Fellow from India

2011-01-16 Thread 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

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] A Wikimedia Foundation Fellow from India

2011-01-16 Thread Gautam John
Congratulations, Achal! Thank you. Best, Gautam http://social.prathambooks.org/ On 17 January 2011 10:42, Srikeit wrote: > Congratulations Achal :-) > > Looking forward to updates on your research. > > On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Hari Prasad Nadig wrote: > >> On Mon, Jan 17,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] A Wikimedia Foundation Fellow from India

2011-01-16 Thread Srikeit
Congratulations Achal :-) Looking forward to updates on your research. On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Hari Prasad Nadig wrote: > On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Bishakha Datta > wrote: > >> Dear all, >> >> As part of the continuing spate of good news, I'd like to congratulate >> Achal Prab

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] A Wikimedia Foundation Fellow from India

2011-01-16 Thread Hari Prasad Nadig
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Bishakha Datta 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 > Bangal

[Wikimediaindia-l] A Wikimedia Foundation Fellow from India

2011-01-16 Thread Bishakha Datta
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