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From: Ravishankar <ravidreams(a)gmail.com>
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Sent: Friday, April 8, 2011 10:52 AM
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] The Hindu : "Malayalam Wiki all set to expand
database"
Hi
Someone should help create a template to keep congratulating ml wikimedians :)
Ravi
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 7:06 AM, CherianTinu Abraham <tinucherian(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The Hindu : "Malayalam Wiki all set to expand database"
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-kerala/article1611002.e…
The Malayalam Wiki is on a roll. After winning accolades for its innovative endeavours,
the Malayalam Wiki continues to hog the limelight with its latest project titled,
‘Malayalam Wikimediayaye Snehikkunnu' (Malayalam loves Wikimedia).
Inspired by the resounding success of Wiki projects elsewhere—like ‘London loves
Wikimedia'—the new Malayalam Wiki project seeks to expand the Malayalam Wiki
repositories of free-to-access and use knowledge by adding copyright-free news and feature
photographs concerning Malayalam users. “During the two-week project period between April
2 and April 17, we intend to sensitise Malayalam Wiki contributors and users to enrich
Malayalam Wiki ventures by contributing free-to-use photographs. Despite boasting over
17,000 articles on a variety of topics, the Malayalam Wiki can't claim to have many
copyright-free pictures. Hence the project,” maintains Shiju Alex, Malayalam Wiki activist
and coordinator.
The timing of the project couldn't have been any better, given the forthcoming
assembly polls. “This is the time you get to photograph the State's prominent
political personalities. We have articles on many of them, but most of their available
photographs are copyrighted,” he says. Four days into the project, over 400 free-to-use
photographs have been generated by Malayalam Wiki users across the globe and uploaded into
http://commons.wikimedia.org and
http://ml.wikipedia.org.
Besides political leaders, the project seeks to obtain copyright-free photographs of
places of historical significance; monuments; institutions of governance including local
bodies; noted personalities in the State's social and cultural spheres as part of the
project. “The two-week project period is just a token observance. The exercise is sure to
stay on further,” says Mr. Alex. Contributors are encouraged to provide material besides
additional information pertaining to the photographs they upload. They have also been
asked to give, if possible, the geo-coding (on-map location coordinates) of the
photographs. An FAQ on the objectives and mode of implementation of the project is
available on the Malayalam Wiki page announcing it. A help mail, help(a)mlwiki.in, has also
been set up to field queries. Wiki activists Rajesh Odayanchal and Ajay Kuyiloor have
designed a unique logo and advertisement for the project.
Regards
Tinu Cherian
http://wikimedia.in/wiki/In_the_news
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