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Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 20:10:26 +0530
From: Subbiah Arunachalam
Friends:
Please spread the word.
Arun
Wikipedia is a global non-profit movement to collaboratively build a free
encyclopaedia containing the sum of human knowledge. Tamil Wikipedia was
started in 2003. It can be accessed in your computers and cell phones at
http://ta.wikipedia.orghttp://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4185&qid=328339.
Contributors from all over the world are meeting in Chennai on September 29th,
2013 to celebrate the 10 years of Tamil Wikipedia.
Till date, Tamil Wikipedia has 935 contributors collectively adding 55,745
articles containing over 2 crore words. Tamil Wikipedia is the biggest
online collaboration project in Tamil and ranks first or second among
Indian language Wikipedias in terms of several quality metrics.
Contributors from diverse professions aged between 11 and 77 contribute
daily to Tamil Wikipedia from across the world. There are about 1,75,000
page views to the website daily. A number of websites and mass media cite
the information from Tamil Wikipedia. Some schools have dedicated periods
for students to browse Tamil Wikipedia and improve their knowledge in
science, history, geography, tamil and mathematics. Among Wikipedia's
sister projects, Tamil Wiktionary is the biggest in India with 2,83,000
words and ranks 16th among global wiktionaries. Tamil Wikinews and
Wikisource are other actively growing projects.
Despite having made such an impact, Tamil Wikipedia has much of its
potential untapped. Some Wikipedias in languages with speakers fewer than
Tamil population have more contributors. Tamil Wikipedia can be as useful
as the English Wikipedia if at least a few thousand contributors sign up.
Apart from writing articles, contributions are required in creating
illustrations, developing software tools, capturing photographs and
translating articles. Teaching computer based Tamil typing in schools,
releasing government documents and other publications from universities in
public domain for unrestricted use, introducing Tamil Wikipedia in school
syllabus are some measures that can add fuel to Tamil Wikimedia movement.
As part of the celebrations for the 10th anniversary of Tamil Wikipedia, an
essay contest with prizes worth 30,000 Indian Rupee has been launched. The
anniversary celebrations are happening on September 29 (Sunday) from 9:00
am to 5:30 pm at the TAG Auditorium, College of Engineering, Guindy, Anna
Universityhttp://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4186&qid=328339.
There will be free workshops on contributing to Wikipedia and discussions
about the growth of Tamil Wiki projects. It is also an occasion to meet a
cross-section of Tamil Wikipedia contributors from across the world.
Everyone interested in the future of Tamil online is welcome to the event.
Given that modern era is a knowledge era, developing Tamil Wikipedia is
among the foremost needs for the future of Tamil society.
MEDIA FILES THAT CAN BE FREELY USED
1) Event Page in English
https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:10koodal/enhttp://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4186&qid=328339
2) Event Page in Tamil
https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:10koodalhttp://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4187&qid=328339
3) Facebook page for the event
https://www.facebook.com/events/330424000428376/http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4188&qid=328339
4) Tamil Wikipedia 10th anniversary logo <https://upload.wikimedia.org/
wikipedia/ta/e/e3/Tamil_wiki_10th_anniversary_4.png>https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ta/e/e3/Tamil_wiki_10th_anniversary_4...
5) Event invite in English <https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ta
/4/41/Meetup-invite-ta-wiki-10-english.png>https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ta/4/41/Meetup-invite-ta-wiki-10-engl...
6) Event invite in Tamil <https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ta
/f/fa/Meetup-invite-ta-wiki-10-tamil.png>https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ta/f/fa/Meetup-invite-ta-wiki-10-tami...
Thanks and regards,
T. Vishnu Vardhan
Programme Director - Access to Knowledge
Centre for Internet and Society
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