Dera Anunad,
Sorry for this slight delay in replying to your mail. I am Vishnu and I
head the programme Access to Knowledge (funded by WMF) at CIS.
Your proposal is very interesting and we would like to consider supporting
this. Would like few more details before that.
1) Which will be these 5000 articles? (assuming that these will be from the
Hindi Wikipedia)
2) Will you or friends from the Hindi Wiki community be able to curate this?
3) Do you have a clear understanding of where you would like to distribute
this DVD?
4) Is it possible to capture (at least in couple of locations) the
'multiplying effect' you mentioned?
5) How shall we take this idea forward?
Would be happy to hear your other friends thoughts on this. Should you
prefer to speak to me, please feel free to directly call me on
+91-9845207308.
Look forward to hearing from you.
Warmly,
Vishnu
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Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 14:11:58 +0530
From: Anunad Singh <anunad(a)gmail.com>
To: Hindi Wikipedia <wikihi-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [Wikihi-l] [A2K]: The Access to Knowledge - Bulletin -
February '13
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It is a happy news that Wikimedia has granted some fund for development of
Indian language wikis.
You might be thinking how best to spend this money. I would like to mention
one such venue. It is this: Let us make 1000 o 5000 DVDs of Indian language
wikis which have more than 5000 articles in Kiwix format. let us distribute
it for Rs 20/- in different cities/towns/villages.
This will have a multiplying effect on development of wikis. people will
see wikis in action and understand their importance. Thus many new people
will join creation and development of these wikis.
We can also include some other language softwares with it such as
Dictionaries, IMEs, language editors, open source word processors, font
converters, font files etc.
-- ANUNAD
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