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Doteli Wikipedia Questionnaire

1. Can you tell us about your association with this incubator project?

-- A year back when the project is started i associate with this project. I know about the incubator projects and my earliest association with Maithili incubator project so i feel that this should be out from Incubator. And most important the script is friendly for me.

2. What do you think is the additional scope of contributors for Doteli?

-- Information flow about the emergence of Doteli Wikipedia is not quite enough though we are working hard on this so there is very much scope that contributors for the project will increase because the information is widely distributed through inwiki and outwiki.

3. Although Doteli is also spoken in India, your profile as well as the profiles of some other users seem to indicate the contributions mostly by Nepali people. How would you deal with that i.e. encouraging more participation for Doteli Wikipedia, especially from Indian Doteli speakers?

---We are also aware of that fact so we guys are working out to make the involvements from Indian people (specially doteli is spoken in northern part of India).

4. In one of my blogs (http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/06/09/samskrita-bharati-and-sanskrit-wikipedia-the-journey-ahead) I discussed the proactive approach of Samkrita Bharathi in promoting Sanskrit. Do you think there can possibly be a tie-up with some institution for Doteli?

---Actually in current scenario within Nepal there are only government run institute that offer courses in Doteli as far as academic is concerned but there are few groups of local and regional level that are involved for the promotion of the language.

5. What is the level of support for Doteli in your country (i.e. school-level education/ university level education)? If so, what are the prominent education centres for the language?

---I have mentioned in previous question also that in our country support for Doteli language is limited to university level education . People used this language to communication for day to day life.

6. Does Doteli have some sort of official status in Nepal?

--Yes in Nepal As per Part 1, Section 5 of Interim Constitution of Nepal 2063 (2007) the Doteli language is included in Constitution.(1)

7. Does the existence of distinct dialects create some sort of impediment in the development of the language Wikipedia?

---We do not feel such impediment so far.

8. It is indeed satisfactory that the no. of articles in project is increasing. But the average is too small - not beyond one or two lines in most cases. How do you propose the expansion of the stubs to satisfactory levels?

Yes I agree with you. But we are trying hard to make those stubs full as the contributor increment shown in the test page in recent months. Soon we will make it full length article and many articles are in the process too.

9. Tell us about themes of most common articles so far.

--Mostly we are focused to write about doteli language its culture and hertigae but we are working out for every subject that we can cover.

10. What are the online sources available helpful to editors (dictionaries, language encyclopedias, old text, etc). Can you give a few examples?

-- There are some resources available online but it wont fulfil all the requirements. There is only one dictionary of this language so far and few online blogs and websites that are working for this language.

11. Has there been any drive for Doteli Wikipedia - outreach events, informal meetings, online blogs, social media pages/ groups / posts etc? If so, what has been the impact?

--- There is few social media blog of Doteli Wikipedia. But there is no any outreach events done for the particular work. But very soon (most probable in Dashain (Dasehara)) some of us and are going to organize an event. It will definitely help us to make a good community for the project

12. Apart from Wikipedia, what are Wiki projects do you feel are in the offing for Doteli - Wikisource, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, etc?

--- Firstly we are focusing for the Wikipedia only. After the significant growth of the community we will work for other Projects.

13. Are you aware of the current project statistics:  http://tinyurl.com/dtystats ?

--- Yes I am aware of the stats.

14. Could you share any and all ideas - small or big, successful & not-so-successful - that you think can help drive Doteli and other language projects, especially those in incubator?

---Tough one for me. Wikipedia is the source of knowledge. You have to be passionate about your language and culture. There are many projects in incubator in different language. But only few have good number of contributors. So I like to request all especially those who have access to the internet to start involving in Wikipedia. I am ready to assist anytime to the level that I can do.

Link

(1)   http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Nepal_Interim_Constitution2007.pdf