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idea creator• Cavaleiro~ptwiki

created on16:03, Wednesday, January 17, 2018 (UTC)

Audience

Who are the people you want to introduce Wikipedia to?

People that live in my country (Portugal).

The people of the Indian subcontinent as also to the people of the whole world.

In what languages do they search for information, online or otherwise?

Portuguese (European).

Urdu has been a widely spoken language in the Asian countries until now.

In what ways does this group communicate with each other?

They communicate via social media, mail, etc...

What are some reasons this group would use Wikipedia? How would they benefit from it, or what would they find useful?

They often do academic work, and search for interesting articles.

Project idea

What language Wikipedia projects will you promote to new readers?

Portuguese from Portugal.

How will you communicate with new readers? Will you be communicating with them online, in-person, or both?

Both.

Describe your idea to engage new readers. How might it be implemented? What will you tell people about Wikipedia?

They could use Wikipedia more often, if there was a CLEAR separation between European Portuguese (the real portuguese), and brazilian portuguese, they don't read many articles in brazilian because it is a language that as many erros (for those who speak the european portuguese), and that causes them to have a bad language rating in school and social conversations.

How will you know if this project is successful? What are some outcomes that you can share after the project is completed?

Sending a survey.

Do you think you can implement this idea? What support do you need?

I don't have the tecnhical ability to do so.

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Endorsements

• As this language is the composition of many Asian languages. Muhammad Shokat (talk) 06:20, 21 January 2018 (UTC)
• Because every one living in the entire world irrespective of any discriminations ; is from the one family; that is the family of the Adam and the Eve. Muhammad Shokat (talk) 06:26, 21 January 2018 (UTC)

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