Hey folks,
The Tamil Wikimedia Contest organized by User: Sodabottle and other members of the Tamil community recently got over. As you are all aware, it generated over 15,000 media files and got over 250 new contributors to Commons. A detailed report was published at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Tamil_Wikimedians/TamilWiki_Media_Contest/Report
There's also a blog post that we've been working on that takes a peek at TWMC behind the scenes with inputs from the organizing team. It might be really useful to any community planning to conduct a similar events in future. You can read the post here: http://blog.wikimedia.in/2012/04/17/postcard-from-the-tamil-community/. It's a great story of how an off-the-cuff conversation between 2 editors resulted in a massive community wide initiative - with participation of the Tamil community (and other communities) from across the world, the kind of intense efforts, the use of technology enablers and last - and most certainly not the least - some fantastic images (a sample of which can be seen at http://www.tawp.in/r/33zx) - which have now been used to create or improve articles (6122 on Tamil Wiktionary, 1659 on Tamil Wikipedia and more).