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 from South Africa) and I'm hoping to figure out exactly how to proceed after a more thorough set of discussions with anyone interested in the subject. I think we can increase the number of languages slightly, but the point overall is to set feasible targets within a limited time-frame and assemble compelling evidence and action. In that sense, it matters less as to which language is used in the process than whether the results overall are useful to Wikipedians in India and South Africa at large. 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 partially, or an article that should be created but can't be because of a lack of supporting scholarly evidence. Until I set up a more formal space for discussion, maybe we can begin discussion here. Have you ever faced a situation as described? Good wishes, Achal On Monday 17 January 2011 10:40 AM, Hari Prasad Nadig wrote: > On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Bishakha Datta > <bishakhada...@gmail.com <mailto:bishakhada...@gmail.com>> 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 Bangalore who has participated as a volunteer in the > Wikimedia movement in India and globally for years, and as a > member of the Foundation’s advisory board. > > Achal will be conducting field research in India and rural South > Africa with Wikipedians and non-Wikipedians across three languages > to explore ways to compensate for the gap in published/printed > sources in many local languages. > > More details at > http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2011/01/12/new-wikimedia-fellow/ > > > Congratulations, Achal. This is good news indeed. > > Curious 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 > _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l