Good to see a richer portal, Naveen. Kudos to everyone who helped with the
effort.
- Sundar
"That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for
the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted."
- George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture
>________________________________
> From: Ashwin Baindur <ashwin.bain...@gmail.com>
>To: wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com
>Cc: Wikimedia India Community list <wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
>Sent: Friday, February 3, 2012 8:43 AM
>Subject: Re: [WMIN-Members] New Wikimedia India Portals
>
>
>This is an awesome development. Real infrastructure building. All these make
>for ease of use of Indian wikis especially for a polyglot people like we are.
>
>
>It is obvious that a whole lot of people came together and developed this. it
>has happened very smoothly too. None of the fireworks we have seen in some of
>our larger collaborations.
>
>
>Awarding barnstars seems too trivial an award here. On behalf of all of us, I
>would like to offer our heartfelt thanks :
> * Wikimedia CH / Switzerland Chapter and Manuel Schneider
> * Rajesh K Odayanchal
> * Jyothis E
> * Anirudh, Noopur Raval, Surya, Radhakrishna, Omshivaprakash, Debanjan,
> Saroj, Swaroop, Abhishek Suryawanshi and any others who have helped in
> translations .
> * Tanvir Rahman , Tinu Cherian and Arun Ram.
> * Arjuna Rao C, and everyone at Wikimedia India Chapter.
> * Anyone else inadvertantly left out but who contributed
> * Last but not least, our hardworking secretary, Naveen.
>May I request Naveen to forward this post to those not on this list so that
>they realise that the community really appreciates the hard work put in.
>
>
>This imho should be one of the positive trends celebrated in next
>WikiConference like we mentioned Narayam in the last one.
>
>
>Finally, those like Arun, who may desire a spot of liquid cheer ;), in
>addition to the thanks,are free to seek me out and drop in any evening.
>
>
>Warm regards,
>
>Ashwin Baindur
>------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
>On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 8:18 AM, Naveen Francis <navee...@wikimedia.in> wrote:
>
>Hi all,
>>
>>We are pleased to formally announce the launch of the following new Wikimedia
>>India Portals:
>>
>>http://wikimedia.in/- The new landing page will be the gateway to the various
>>Project pages and Wikis.
>>
>>http://wiki.wikimedia.inThe public wiki is now revamped with an all-new look
>>and lots of information. Feel free to add more information to the wikis.
>>
>>http://members.wikimedia.inWiki for India Chapter Members
>>
>>http://blog.wikimedia.in/Wikimedia India Blog - to post a blog, contact
>>Arjuna Rao Chavala or Tinu Cherian
>>
>>We are pleased to introduce the following new Wikimedia Project gateways for
>>the various Indic languages:
>>
>>http://wikisource.in
>>http://wikiquote.in
>>http://wikibooks.in
>>http://wikinews.in
>>http://wikibooks.org.in
>>http://wikisource.org.in
>>http://wiktionary.org.in
>>
>>The planned landing page for http://wikipedia.in is available here.
>>
>>Efforts are currently underway to obtain control of a few more important
domains and announcements will be made as and when we get them. We
sincerely believe this initiative will help drive more traffic to Indic
language Wikimedia Projects.
>>
>>We would like to express our sincere gratitude to the Wikimedia CH /
Switzerland Chapter and Manuel Schneider (Wikimedia CH / Switzerland)
for hosting our websites and portals at no cost.
>>
>>A number of people need to be thanked, who helped in the this initiative.
>>
>>Rajesh K Oayanchal who designed the portals and Jyothis E who gave his
webspace for the testing purposes. Anirudh, Noopur Raval, ,Surya,
Radhakrishna, Omshivaprakash, Debanjan, Saroj, Swaroop, Abhishek
Suryawanshi and others have helped in translations .
>>
>>Tanvir Rahman , Tinu Cherian and Arun Ram helped in revamping the public
>>wiki.
>>
>>We hope that you will find these portals useful and informative.
>>
>>Please do get back to us with your feedback and suggestions.
>>
>>Regards,
>>Naveen Francis
>>Wikimedia India Chapter
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