You are right. English Wikipedia has more than 42 lakh articles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics
The reporter should have researched on the stats.
-TC
On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 8:09 PM, Yogesh Khandke <yogesh_khandke(a)yahoo.com>wrote:
> Doesn't Wikipedia English have >40 lakh articles, Hindu is supposed to be
> reliable.
>
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> *Subject:* [WMIN-Members] [Press] : The Hindu : "Tamil teacher to
> participate in Wikimania"
>
> *The Hindu : "Tamil teacher to participate in Wikimania"
> *
>
> http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/tamil-teacher-to-participa…
>
> *She will be one among the 10 persons selected from the country and one
> among the two persons selected from the State for participating in
> Wikimania 2013, an annual international conference of the Wikimedia
> movement, to be held in Hong Kong, China between August 7 and 11.
>
> S. Parvathi, a Tamil teacher at Panchayat Union Middle School,
> Kandampatti in Salem rural block, has contributed 500 articles, edited
> 10,500 articles and wrote three books for children in the Tamil language
> edition of Wikipedia and was selected for her continuous contribution to
> the portal.
>
>
> Talking about her journey in the knowledge world, she said that while
> searching for projects for class eight students in the website, she could
> not find suitable documents in Tamil and that made her mind to contribute
> something to the growth of development of the language. “It is the passion
> towards Tamil that started contributions in 2001. An article on Onam
> festival was published as main story and it motivated me,” she said.
>
> The Tamil Wikipedia currently has 52,000 articles when compared to 12 lakh
> in English. It is the second largest Wikipedia among Indian languages by
> article count and 59 largest in the world. Ms. Parvathi along with Sengai
> Podhuvan from Chennai were selected for contributions to Tamil while the
> rest eight were selected for their contributions in Oriya, Gujarati,
> Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi.
>
> Her contributions were in subjects dealing with noble laureates,
> scientists, Tamil literature and grammar apart from general issues.
> “Penetration of internet is increasing and more articles in Tamil are
> becoming essential nowadays,” added the teacher.
>
> Though there is no financial incentive for posting articles and editing
> works, she is happy about the contributions to the growth of Tamil
> language. She wanted more women to contribute for the Tamil Wikipedia and
> be a part of knowledge sharing society.
>
> About 2,500 people representing 200 languages are expected to take part in
> the conference that would help them to learn and share experience and come
> out with new knowledge initiatives across the world.
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*The Hindu : "Tamil teacher to participate in Wikimania"
*
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/tamil-teacher-to-participa…
*She will be one among the 10 persons selected from the country and one
among the two persons selected from the State for participating in
Wikimania 2013, an annual international conference of the Wikimedia
movement, to be held in Hong Kong, China between August 7 and 11.
S. Parvathi, a Tamil teacher at Panchayat Union Middle School, Kandampatti
in Salem rural block, has contributed 500 articles, edited 10,500 articles
and wrote three books for children in the Tamil language edition of
Wikipedia and was selected for her continuous contribution to the portal.
Talking about her journey in the knowledge world, she said that while
searching for projects for class eight students in the website, she could
not find suitable documents in Tamil and that made her mind to contribute
something to the growth of development of the language. “It is the passion
towards Tamil that started contributions in 2001. An article on Onam
festival was published as main story and it motivated me,” she said.
The Tamil Wikipedia currently has 52,000 articles when compared to 12 lakh
in English. It is the second largest Wikipedia among Indian languages by
article count and 59 largest in the world. Ms. Parvathi along with Sengai
Podhuvan from Chennai were selected for contributions to Tamil while the
rest eight were selected for their contributions in Oriya, Gujarati,
Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi.
Her contributions were in subjects dealing with noble laureates,
scientists, Tamil literature and grammar apart from general issues.
“Penetration of internet is increasing and more articles in Tamil are
becoming essential nowadays,” added the teacher.
Though there is no financial incentive for posting articles and editing
works, she is happy about the contributions to the growth of Tamil
language. She wanted more women to contribute for the Tamil Wikipedia and
be a part of knowledge sharing society.
About 2,500 people representing 200 languages are expected to take part in
the conference that would help them to learn and share experience and come
out with new knowledge initiatives across the world.
--
*
Regards
Tinu Cherian
press(a)wikimedia.in
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/In_the_news
*Important Note : *Non-commercial reproduction for informative purposes
only. The publisher ( The Hindu ) of the above news article owns the
copyrights of the article / content. All copyrights are duly acknowledged.
Congrats all of them behind the achievements....
Sujith,
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> Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 19:57:49 +0530
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Dear All,
The A2K team is organising an IRC on 13th May 2012, Monday from 8.30pm - 9.30 pm on: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#wikimedia-in.
The main agenda for IRC is to discuss the A2K Work Plan for the year 2013-2014 [1] that we had shared with you earlier. We'd like to hear comments/suggestions from as many of you as possible. This mail is to invite each one of you to join us for this IRC and help improvise our work plan. Just incase you'd like to join but cannot due to prior commitments please drop me a private message and we'll arrange a call with your separately.
Looking forward to see you tomorrow at IRC!
Thanks
Nitika Tandon
Program Manager
Access to Knowledge
The Centre for Internet & Society
[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Work_plan_April_20…
Dear All,
Institutional partnerships (especially in the higher education context) is a cross-cutting activity across A2K's various language plans and also the pilot project. A2K Team is happy to share with you an important outcome on this front.
CIS-A2K has signed an MoU with TISS as part of which we will collaboratively work towards building Digital Knowledge Partnerships with select higher education institutions. The objective is to enhance digital literacy in the Indian languages and facilitate collaborative knowledge production and free dissemination. A2K along with TISS will co-design and jointly implement relevant training programmes to achieve this. Further, within TISS campuses we will endeavour to bring teaching-learning processes onto free and open digital platforms, including Indian language Wikipedias. The A2K team would like to acknowledge the pivotal role played by our Adviser Dr. Tejaswini Niranjana in buildig this collaboration.
We'll keep you posted as and when new developments shape up and would like to actively involve Mumbai Wikipedians in planning, designing and rolling out Wikipedia training programmes.
Thanks
Nitika Tandon
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Yesterday, I met Mr. Sridaran, Retd Archaeologist, TN govt in a tamil books
digitation workshop in chennai.
I discussed with him about GLAM projects.
He is interested in providing contacts with govt departments.
Do we have any GLAM activity in chennai?
How can we make him help to GLAM activities?
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T.Shrinivasan
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Hiya,
As some of you may be aware, I was in London for GLAM-Wiki which was held
at the British Library a couple of months ago. This gave me the chance to
interact with several members/trustees etc at Wikimedia UK. One of the
discussions we had was getting images from the India Office Records onto
Wikimedia Commons. These images are rare insights into our country in the
19th and 20th century. Andrew Gray, formerly Wikipedian in Residence at the
British Library agreed to help.
Andrew has managed to get a few collections onto Commons in the last couple
of months. A couple of days ago he emailed me, suggesting it may be easier
for him to push for further collections to be shared (there are thousands
of images, the process would take years to get everything) should we
showcase use of images already donated on various Wikis.
Requesting community members to share this far and wide and to help add the
images onto relevant articles.
Excerpt from Andrew's email:
------cut----------
One thing that would be good is being able to show the material we've
got so far is reaching a new audience - not just in en.wp, but in
hi.wp, bn.wp, etc. Any chance you could see if we can get some more of
these used on Indic-language projects?
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:British_Library_Photo_24_(Girdw…https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:British_Library_Photo_429_(Jinn…https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Art_of_India_in_the_British_Lib…
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Hiya,
Bala and I received a request a few days ago from Tim Seal of the Open
University (UK), with whom we have been in touch in the last few months
regarding open licensing of content and donation to Wikisource etc. among
other matters.
Tim requested us if we could help with translation of the Paris OER
declaration, which is currently not available in any Indian Language. Would
appreciate if community members could take this up. In case your
interested, please contact Bala or myself offlist.
Excerpt from email:
-----cut--------
Volunteers for translating the Paris OER Declaration
The Paris OER Declaration, adopted in 2012 during the World OER Congress,
is now available in 10 languages:
http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/access-to-knowle…
In order to make the document accessible to the largest number, we are
looking for volunteers to translate it into other languages. They are all
accepted, so if you want to translate it into your language that would be a
great opportunity to contribute to the awareness of OER.
-----cut--------
Many have asked questions on whether scanned copies by email will do.
Yes, please send scanned copies of age and nationality proof by email. Pls
mention your membership number if you already have one.
Regards,
Sowmyan
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> Dhaval Vyas,
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> I guess my mail was ambiguous. We are not admitting foreign members. We
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> Abhilash Unni,
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> Your suggestion of scanned documents is fine.
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> Regards,
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> > Message: 3
> > Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2013 18:28:00 +0100
> > From: "Dhaval S. Vyas" <dsvyas(a)gmail.com>
> > To: Wikimedia India Community list
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> > Have you started accepting foreign nationals as members now?
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> > Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2013 01:21:39 +0530
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> > Does a scanned image do?
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> > Abhi
> > സ്നേഹപൂര്വ്വം അഭി
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> > On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 9:32 PM, Sowmyan Tirumurti <tsowmyan(a)wikimedia.in
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> >
>