On 29 April 2015 at 10:45, Edward Saperia <edsaperia(a)gmail.com> wrote:
SOAS just got a multimillion pound donation for a
language preservation
project. Sounds like something that should have a Wikipedian in Residence.
Also of interest is the project "Beyond Boundaries: Religion, Region,
Language and the State" for which SOAS secured a €7 million European
Research Council (ERC) Synergy Grant
(
https://www.soas.ac.uk/news/newsitem90862.html). Part of this
project (starting next month for about 4 years) will be a study and
attempted decipherment of the corpus of inscriptions in the extinct
[[Pyu language (Burma)]], and there should be scope for improving
Wikipedia's coverage of Pyu topics. One of the principal
investigators, Dr Nathan Hill, is a Wikipedian (although not very
active), and would probably be a good person to approach.
Andrew
[[User:BabelStone]]