<div dir="ltr">(millions, not billions, of course.)<div><br></div><div>  A.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 10:16 AM Satdeep Gill <<a href="mailto:satdeepgill@gmail.com">satdeepgill@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div>Hi everyone,<br><br></div>Santali is a language from the Indian subcontinent with around 6.3 billion speakers. The <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Santali" target="_blank">request</a> for the Wikipedi in Santali has been there for long and it was a part of <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K//Work_plan_July_2014_-_June_2015/Making_the_Santali_Wikipedia_Live" target="_blank">CIS-A2K's 2014-15 Work Plan</a> as well. <br><br>The volunteer community has been <a href="https://tools.wmflabs.org/meta/catanalysis/index.php?cat=0&title=wp/sat&wiki=incubatorwiki" target="_blank">working actively</a> since September 2017 and all the <a href="https://tools.wmflabs.org/robin/?tool=codelookup&code=sat" target="_blank">translations </a>have been completed as well.<br><br>
In a campaign of supporting Indian language Wikipedia program 
coordinated by Wikimedia Foundation , Google, Centre for Internet and 
Society (CIS), Wikimedia India chapter (WMIN), two of their editors, <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ramjit_Tudu" title="User:Ramjit Tudu" target="_blank">Ramjit Tudu</a> and <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fagu_Baskey" title="User:Fagu Baskey" target="_blank">Fagu Baskey</a> have received laptops for their consistent effort for Santali Wikipedia (<a class="m_-8445636976358172454external m_-8445636976358172454gmail-free" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Supporting_Indian_Language_Wikipedias_Program/Support/Laptops" target="_blank">https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Supporting_Indian_Language_Wikipedias_Program/Support/Laptops</a>).

<br><br></div>I even got some sample articles from a volunteer:<br><br></div>1. <a href="https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/sat/%E1%B1%9E%E1%B1%A4%E1%B1%AD%E1%B1%9A%E1%B1%B1%E1%B1%9F%E1%B1%A8%E1%B1%AB%E1%B1%9A_%E1%B1%AB%E1%B1%9F_%E1%B1%B5%E1%B1%B7%E1%B1%A4%E1%B1%A7%E1%B1%AA%E1%B1%A4" target="_blank">Leonardo da Vinci</a><br></div>2. <a href="https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/sat/%E1%B1%9B%E1%B1%B7%E1%B1%9A%E1%B1%A2%E1%B1%9F%E1%B1%A5_%E1%B1%9F%E1%B1%9E%E1%B1%B5%E1%B1%B7%E1%B1%9F_%E1%B1%AE%E1%B1%B0%E1%B1%A4%E1%B1%A5%E1%B1%9A%E1%B1%B1" target="_blank">Thomas Edison</a><br></div>3. <a href="https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/sat/%E1%B1%9A%E1%B1%B5%E1%B1%BD%E1%B1%AB%E1%B1%A9%E1%B1%9E_%E1%B1%A0%E1%B1%9A%E1%B1%9E%E1%B1%9F%E1%B1%A2" target="_blank">Abdul Kalam</a><br><br></div>I strongly suggest the approval of this Wikipedia as soon as possible.<br><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><br clear="all"><div><div><div class="m_-8445636976358172454gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Regards<br></div>Satdeep Gill</div><div><br></div><div>Community Outreach Coordinator, <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_Readers" target="_blank">Wikimedia Foundation</a></div><div>Co-founder, <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Punjabi_Wikimedians" target="_blank"><span>Punjabi Wikimedians</span></a><br>Treasurer, <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee" target="_blank">Affiliations Committee</a><br></div><div>Member, <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Language_committee" target="_blank">Language Committee</a><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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