[Wikimediaindia-l] Inbuilt Tamil typing tool added in Tamil Wikimedia projects

[സുനിൽ (Sunil)]

Great!. This will surely increase edits in tamilwikis

On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 8:44 PM, Ravishankar <ravidreams at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We are glad to inform that inbuilt Tamil typing tool has been added in
> Tamil Wikipedia and Tamil WikiNews. After some testing, we will add it in
> other Wikimedia projects and release the code for use in all sites using
> MediaWiki.
>
> We hope that this will help many first time editors and increase Tamil word
> searches in the site search box.
>
> This was possible as a follow up of the recent Chennai Wikimedia meetup
> when Malayalam Wikimedia user Shiju Alex urged us to have this tool. Then
> Malayalam Wikimedia user Junaid. P. V. joined the team to transfer the code
> from Malayalam Wiki and modified it for Tamil needs. All work done in a week
> and three cheers for the interwiki collaborative spirit of Malayalam
> Wikipedians.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ravi
>
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