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From: Yann Forget <yann@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
So far the Wikipedias in Indian languages have seen very slow
progress. There are among the lowest ratio "number of articles /number
of speakers". There a number of technical and other reasons.
Some people from the Wikimedia Foundation think that a financial help
may boost these languages.They are willing to sponsor students who
might contribute writing articles in Indian languages on different
subjects for Wikipedia.
Here are some proposed rules:
* The articles should be written in Indian languages from scratch or
translated (propably from the English Wikipedia).
* The articles should be encoded in Unicode.
* The articles sould be released under the GFDL licence (free to edit
and copy).
* The articles should be more than 500 words.
Here are a list of articles:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_articles_all_languages_should_have
This list should be completed with specific Indian topics (Indian
states and cities, personalities, events, etc.). A proposition of a
list of Indian subjects is welcome.
For each language, we will need at least two persons to review the
quality of the articles (teachers, writers, etc.).
So far, we got very few answers although we contacted languages
departments of all main Indian universities. So we want to spread this
offer further.
Please could you also transfer this message to people who might be
interested by this project?
Regards,
Yann Forget