Thanks very much, we were waiting for it for a long time. Not only Sanskrit scholars but other Indic language speakers whose script is Devanagari (like Hindi) can contribute to Sanskrit wikisource.
2011/3/22 Shiju Alex <[email protected]> > Dear All, > > Few wikimedians who understood the importance of wiki source project is > giving proper care to it. From Indic Wikis, I can show you the example of > Bengali wikisource. According to me, both the wiktionary and wikisource > projects are very important for any language which has online presence. > > For a language like Sanskrit (which is a classical language),wikisource is > very much relevant and important projects. Perhaps it might have more number > of source texts (which are in public domain) than most of the Indian > languages. > > A request for Sanskrit wikisource is logged on 2010 October > 04<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikisource_Sanskrit>. > The request was approved by the language committee on 2010 November 04, and > finally the wiki is created on *2011 March 18* <http://sa.wikisource.org/>. > It is available here: http://sa.wikisource.org > > Most of the text from Old Wikisource <http://wikisource.org> is already > migrated to this new wikisource <http://sa.wikisource.org>. A cleanup is > required in the wiki. I request Sanskrit wiki community to take of your wiki > project. > > Thanks > Shiju Alex > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > > -- *Shrish Benjwal Sharma* *(श्रीश बेंजवाल शर्मा <http://hindi.shrish.in>)* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ *If u can't beat them, join them.* ePandit <http://epandit.shrish.in/>:* *http://epandit.shrish.in/
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