Hello everyone,

Kanchi Linux Users Group [ KanchiLUG ] has been spreading awareness
on Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) in Kanchipuram since
November 2006.

We usually meet on every Sunday. For this week, we shall meet online
on Sunday March 21, 2021 at 04:00 PM IST.

Meeting link to Join : https://meet.jit.si/KanchiLug Can join with any
browser or JitSi android app.

All the Discussions are in Tamil.

Talk Details:

Talk 1:

Topic: Need of Web Scraping in Wikisource

Description: Wikisource is a Free Library of source texts which are in the public domain or legally available for free redistribution. Wikisource is an official project of the Wikimedia Foundation and a sister project of Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikisource contains large data. we can reuse this data and we don’t have to manually copy and paste data from websites but a scraper can perform that task for us in a couple of seconds.

In this talk, web scraping in Wikisource will be explored, Scraping program will be explained.

Duration: 1 Hr

Speaker Name: Info Farmer, tha.uzhavan@gmail.com

About Speaker: Info Farmer is a long time (12+ years) wikipedia
contributor. He contributes to ta.wikisource.org and ta.wiktionary.org
majorly.

After Talks:
QA & general discussions

Entry Free.
All are welcome.

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Thanks & Regards,

Thirumurugan K