Thank you for your detailed response, Satdeep. I have put the word around myself through a couple of friends who are spreading word in the community, so let us see what we can find.
You make a good point about the potential of the WikiSource aspect of Tibetan language. As we do have a large number of monasteries in India, this is definitely a meaningful and purposeful venture to be undertaken if we can find willing people to do it. Accordingly, I would like to keep our community doors open for any existing community that we come across and for the community to rise in the future. Sadly, this unexplored potential is a very common story for languages of South Asia. However, I am confident that if we carry out the effort, we can better the situation than before. I wish you all the best in your own contribution to WikiSource and GLAM. Ashwin Baindur (User: AshLin) On Mon, 9 Aug, 2021, 3:02 pm Satdeep Gill, <satdeepg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Ashwin, > > This has been something of a concern to me as well. I even learnt the > Tibetan alphabet at one point in my life. That aside, looking at the > activity at Tibetan Wikipedia, there doesn't seem to be anything but > certain IP edits and some users creating random pages in English. So, I > think it would be safe to assume that there isn't any Tibetan Wikimedia > community in India right now. > > Looking at the number of manuscripts that are there in Tibetan and have > been carefully preserved at various monasteries, I believe digitizing those > manuscripts and creating a Tibetan Wikisource might be a great first step > of engagement with the community. I see that thousands of manuscripts in > Tibetan have been scanned by various organizations such as the Buddhist > Digital Resource Center > <https://archive.org/details/bdrc-palmleafmanuscripts>. > > If good enough input methods are available to type Tibetan, then I think > transcribing these texts on Wikisource can be really useful to the Tibetan > community. This is very different from trying to build a Wikipedia. > Wikipedia needs to be updated every now and then but on Wikisource, once a > text has been transcribed and validated, It would remain useful forever > with a scope for improvement such as annotations but the text in itself > will have its value, forever. > > Best > Satdeep > > > On Mon, 9 Aug 2021 at 13:49, Ashwin Baindur <ashwin.bain...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Dear fellow Indian Wikimedians, >> >> Would you know if there are Tibetan language (bo) Wikimedia project >> editors in India? I ask because presently Tibetan is not listed in the set >> of what we consider language wikimedia communities concerning India. >> >> In India, Tibetic people are found in the regions of Ladakh (Ladakhi and >> Balti), Spiti valley, Uttarakhand (Bhotiya), Sikkim (Bhutia), and Arunachal >> Pradesh (Khamba, Lhoba and Monpa people). There are also nearly 100,000 >> Tibetans living in exile in India since 1959. >> >> (Please see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibetan_people#In_India) >> >> It is highly unlikely that the Tibetan community, which has the maximum >> population in Tibet proper, and which uses the Tibetan script for writing >> the language, would get any support in their homeland. As we have lakhs of >> Indian citizens of ancestral Tibetic origin who belong to this community >> and most likely use these Tibetan language (bo) Wikimedia projects in >> India, we need to look out for them. >> >> >> Ashwin Baindur (User:AshLin) >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list -- wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> To unsubscribe send an email to >> wikimediaindia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org >> To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list -- wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe send an email to wikimediaindia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit
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