This is amazing news Haidar.. Congratulations to the Santali language community.. :)
Is there a mailing list for the community?? I need to add it to the WMIN site, in the section of the Indic language wiki projects.. http://wiki.wikimedia.in/List_of_Indian_language_wiki_projects Regards, Yohann On Wed 8 Aug, 2018, 20:19 Ali Haidar Khan, <tonmoy...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear All, > > We are very pleased to announce the launch of Santali Language Wikipedia ( > https://sat.wikipedia.org). The site has been launched on August 2, 2018 > and, after the import of pages from Wikimedia Incubator and some > maintenance work, it’s now open for all. Santali Language’s own alphabet, > Ol Chiki, has been used as the alphabet of this Wikipedia. Santali is > a language in the Munda subfamily of Austroasiatic languages, spoken by > around 7.4 million people in South Asia (Bangladesh, India and Nepal). > > This is a very special moment for us and has been made possible because of > the joint effort by Santali Language Wikipedian’s from Bangladesh, India > and Nepal. Wikimedia Bangladesh and Bangla Wikimedia Community > congratulates the Santali Language Community for their accomplishment and > are honored to be a part of this tremendous achievement. Manik Soren, a > dedicated Santali Wikipedian from Bangladesh, along with some very active > Santali Language Wikipedians from Bangladesh and India has been > instrumental in this effort. We would also like to thank Shabab Mustafa, > President of Wikimedia Bangladesh and Nahid Sultan, a very active steward > and Secretary of Wikimedia Bangladesh, for coordinating the effort in > Bangladesh and Odia Wikimedians User Group for coordinating the effort in > India. > > It is worth mentioning that the process of creating a Santali Language > Wikipedia began in 2012 and, later on, got momentum in February, 2017. Back > in 2012, Wikimedia Bangladesh organized a Wikipedia meetup and workshop > with the Santali Language Community in Dinajpur District of Bangladesh with > the goal of launching a Santali Language Wikipedia. However, that process > slowed down after some time. Then in September 2017, Wikimedia Bangladesh > organized another meeting with Santali Language Community in a Dhaka > Wikipedia meetup where a decision was made to expedite the launch of the > Wikipedia. Following that discussion, a workshop was organized by Wikimedia > Bangladesh for Santali Language Wikipedians on December 30, 2017. Santali > Language Wikipedians from India also participated in that program through > online discussion. Subsequently, another workshop was organized for Santali > Language Community in India on March 11, 2018 in collaboration with Odia > Wikimedians User Group. > > After months of work, Santali Language Wikipedia got the approval of > Language Committee on June 28, 2018 and finally, the Santali Wikipedia site > was launched on August 2, 2018. > > Let us congratulate and welcome the Santali Language Community. > > > Cheers! > > Ali Haidar Khan > > Executive Committee Member, Wikimedia Bangladesh > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
