Abhinav & WMIN team who did this, excellent work. I do hope some Wikimedian will take this up and deliver some value to NMML and secondly, by helping them make the knowledge available to the world.
Let's hope this is a successful and fruitful collaboration. On Fri, Jul 5, 2019, 3:09 AM Asaf Bartov <[email protected]> wrote: > Excellent news! Congratulations to WMIN for creating this opportunity! > > I would love to hear from Wikimedians who take this opportunity and use it > to create or improve content on the wikis, once that happens. > > A. > > On Thu, Jul 4, 2019 at 8:02 PM Tito Dutta <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Excellent news. Glad to see this. Thanks for sharing. Regards. :) >> >> On Thu, Jul 4, 2019, 9:11 PM Sailesh Patnaik < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> That’s a great News! Congratulations team :) >>> >>> On Thu, 4 Jul 2019 at 5:15 PM, Sanket Oswal <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Dear all, >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Wikimedia India (WMIN) is happy to announce The Library at Nehru >>>> Memorial Museum [1] and Library, New Delhi (NMML) is now available for >>>> Wikimedians. The library which is exclusive for use by research scholars >>>> representing a particular Institute can now also be availed by Wikimedians >>>> and WMIN is happy to facilitate the same. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> The Library has a collection of mainly Pre-Independent India documents >>>> such as >>>> >>>> · 267 Thousand printed books >>>> >>>> · 200 Thousand Photographs Of Pandit Nehru and Other Freedom >>>> Fighters >>>> >>>> · 18,231 Microfilms of private paper, missionary records, >>>> newspapers and old journals. >>>> >>>> · 51,322 Microfiche plates of research material etc. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> WMIN encourages the community to use the Library and work towards our >>>> common goal of making content on Wikimedia Projects better every day. >>>> Whosoever interested may drop a mail at [email protected] / >>>> [email protected]. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> We also encourage the community to drop suggestions on how to further >>>> enhance this partnership. Sharing a few suggestions: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> · NMML has expressed its interest in releasing a set of >>>> document on a pilot basis to be transcribed on Wikisource. We may ask them >>>> to request documents on a specific thematic area wherever the community is >>>> more interested in working. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> · NMML is interested in hosting Wikimedia Workshops to train >>>> the common public and also their staff. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> · NMML has shown interest in having #1lib1ref workshops. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> · NMML plans to release their digitised documents in future on >>>> a web-portal with a paywall and has shown their interest to be a part of >>>> The Wikipedia Library (this is for long term). >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Please feel free to drop suggestions so that we can take them up during >>>> our next meeting and make the best for our movement. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nehru_Memorial_Museum_%26_Library >>>> >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> >>>> Sanket Oswal, >>>> >>>> Wikimedia India >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >>>> >>> -- >>> Sailesh Patnaik "ଶୈଳେଶ ପଟ୍ଟନାୟକ" >>> Community Advocate, The Centre for Internet and Society >>> https://www.linkedin.com/in/sailesh-patnaik-551a10b4 >>> Twitter: @saileshpat >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >> > > > -- > Asaf Bartov > Wikimedia Foundation <http://www.wikimediafoundation.org> > > Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the > sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! > https://donate.wikimedia.org > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >
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