This is an awesome news. Congratulations to all behind this one, and wish you all a great success.
On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Abhiram C <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Wikipedians, > > A new way to contribute to Samskrit is here!!!! The Samskrit Wikiquote is > officially open for contributions. Thanks to all the people who have > striven hard to make it count. > > The webpage can be found at *sa.wikiquote.org* <http://sa.wikiquote.org> > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Sumana <[email protected]> > > Namaste, > > It is with immense pleasure, I wish to announce that Samskrit Wikiquote > project ( *विकिसूक्तिः*) is out of Incubator and is available as an open > source project like Wikipedia now. It was in a dormant stage with very > limited editing options and visibility since its inception. > > We had started our efforts towards this in August 2012, persuading > Wikipedia Language Committee. Over 7000 system messages were translated to > samskrit, some 800 articles of useful content related to this project were > created and uploaded, which were some of the requirements to approve new > projects.Thanks to dedicated Wikipedians like Shiju Alex, that today we > have the project out of incubator, which means, this project would be > readily available for everyone to edit and use now on. > > The project is a store house of Subhashitas extracted from different > scriptures like Veda, Upanishat Puraana, RamayaNa, Mahabharatam etc, > categorised based on the topics with explanations. Also, it contains the > idioms and phrases, witty puzzles, sayings of great people, Chitrakaavyam > etc, everything in Samskrit. It is to be noted that all these, in a single > webpage is not available anywhere else in such an easily available form. We > have about 1260 pages under various categories, for a ready review at *sa. > wikiquote.org* > > I request everyone to visit once for guidance, comments or contributions... > > Once again, Congratulations to one and all who have been instrumental in > crossing this milestone... > > Thanks and Warm Regards, > > Dr Sumana > Wikipedia Wing, Samskrita Bharati > 98807 93423 > > > -- > Thanks & Regards, > Abhiram C, > Wikipedia <http://en.wikipedia.org> Editor, > User: sbblr0803 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sbblr0803> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikisa-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisa-l > > -- Thanks and regards, Karthik Nadar, Secretary, Wikimedia India Chapter. _______________________________________________ Wikikn-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikikn-l
