Seeing the recent state of affairs wrt Internet and information, I think the Government of India WOULD want to create a 'new' Urdu project where they CAN have control over what goes on and what doesn't.
-- Srikanth On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 7:58 PM, Gautam John <gau...@prathambooks.org> wrote: > On 5 June 2012 14:50, Noopur Raval <nra...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > > > http://www.indianexpress.com/news/to-counter-pak-india-to-launch-its-own-urdu-wiki/957849/ > > "In Wikipedia, information contributed is vetted for authenticity by > experts; we will do the same to ensure that information provided to > the public is a rich database free of prejudice and misinformation" > > Say what? > > Why don't they just fork the existing Urdu Wikipedia and fix it? Makes > no sense to throw it *all* out. Then again, the Government oh so does > love reinventing the wheel. > > Thank you. > > Best, > > Gautam > ________ > http://blog.prathambooks.org/p/social-media.html > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan.
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