+1 with Ashwin. A word is not the whole of the message Gerard is trying to convey. "*ILLITERATE" *may sound little harsh, please ignore it considering the effort of Gerard and whole of Localization team for the efforts for creating a platform for Indic language. People have started using Wikipedia to type and copy pasting comments in Idnian languages, is in't that a good sign of people moving back to more usage of Indian languages in WEB. This term *illiterate*also is more of *Illiterate in Indian language on web* in the Wikipedia context as 80 % of the netizens I know (in case of Odia language) are illiterate of usage of using it on web, and the rest 20 % come up with typing with more and more typos :)
So Patient is the key, we all are here to make people aware that language is not just a medium of communication, if then, we all the city dwellers are good in English. Rather, language is a platform for a race to preserve their literature, heritage, culture and humanity in a documented and natural form. We can't just push our languages to die because we speak good English. And IMHO, please STOP discussing more about the *"ILLITERATE" * thing and it'd be great if the discussion thread lengthens with more inputs, hurdles, solutions about Indian language usage on Web. regards Subha On 30 November 2011 20:08, Ashwin Baindur <ashwin.bain...@gmail.com> wrote: > The aggressive/offended tone in a couple of posts on this thread > distresses me. I humbly request that all respondents may please tone down > any agression you may feel. Gerard is trying to understand Indian culture > in good faith. He has made some assumptions that he is keen to explore. May > I request that we please discuss maturely without getting offended? We need > to not only AGF but be CIVIL also. The same points can also be made > politely. > > Warm regards, > > Ashwin Baindur > ------------------------------------------------------ > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > > -- * ସୁ ଭା ସି ସ ପା ଣି ଗା ହି ** S u b h a s i s a P a n i g a h i ** ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ _______________________________________________ Wikipedia Odia (Oriya) mailing list wikipedia...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-or facebook.com/OdiaWiki Tweet @OdiaWiki *
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