<br><div class="gmail_quote">Malayala Manorama, a malayalam newspaper & the largest regional language newspaper by circulation in India, has a half page wide article on Wikipedia today.<br><br>Unfortunately I couldn't get find a weblink or get a scanned scopy of this newspaper.<br>
<br>You can see the epaper here >><br><br><a href="http://epaper.manoramaonline.com/edaily/flashclient/client_panel.aspx" target="_blank">http://epaper.manoramaonline.com/edaily/flashclient/client_panel.aspx</a> <br>
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<br>Date : 19/05/2011<br>Kochi Edition<br>Page 17 -Education.<br><br>The article has 2 sets , one on Santhosh Thootingal in WIkimedia Language commmitte and other on Wikipedia. <br><br>For those non-Malayalam speaking crowd , this is what the article talks about. <br>
<br>* How Malayalam Wikipedia is very active.<br>* 2500 Uploads to Wikimedia Commons in 23 days.<br>* History of Wiki software.<br>* Free Editing culture of Wikipedia<br>* Wikimedia Foundation. <br>* Availability of Wikipedia in 279 languages <br>
* Birth of WIkipedia in 15 Jan 2001<br>* 2002 June - Punjabi , Assamese & Odiya Wikipedias<br>* 2002 Dec 21 - Birth of Malayalam Wikipedia.<br>* Anyone who wants to share knowledge and loves Malayalam can be part of the Malayalam Wikipedia.<br>
* No control over Wikipedia by nations and governments<br>* Artciles created and edited by multiple people. People add truths and facts to WIkipedia [ ;) ]<br>* Nobody "owns" Wikipedia articles.<br>* Usage of Unicode on Wikipedia.<br>
* Creation of maps on Wikipedia on ward ( lowest geographical division in india) level <br>* Shiju Alex's contributions.<br>* Also introduces Wikisource, Wikibooks , Wikiquote and Wikitionary in Malayalam. <br>* The article compares Santhosh Thootingal in Mal computing with the legend of Malayalam language <br>
* Brief description of Wikimedia Language committee. <br><br><br>Regards<br>Tinu Cherian <br><br>
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