Hi all,
Would those of you who have accounts on facebook join this page and
suggest it to their friends?
http://www.facebook.com/WikimediaIndia
Tinu Cherian is currently maintaining the page, let us all thank him
for his work. :)
Yours sincerely,
Anirudh Bhati
00 91 9328712208
Skype: anirudhsbh
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Murali Kumar <pthooran(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Wikimedia India,
> As you probably aware the Govt. of India, immediately post Independence
> started multiple Indian language encyclopedia projects to stream in Science
> and Technology. The Tamil language encyclopedia was completed
> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_Encyclopedia]
> I'm pleased to report Tamil Virtual University has scanned in the Tamil
> Kalaikalanjiam / Tamil Encyclopedia [Please see Reference 1 below].
> I was able to download the material via the wonderful wget command and the
> 'convert' (from imagemagick lib) in GNU/Linux. However each of the 10
> volumes is close to 700 MB without compression.
> I would imagine, the people behind this mammoth task (pre-internet era)
> would have liked it to be merged into a Wiki type format, which would make
> it a truly living document in-sync with the times.
> I do not have any experience with 1) Tamil OCR software and 2) Automated
> updates to Wikipedia.
>
> Can anyone take the lead on this project ? It will help boost the number of
> quality, articles in Indian languages. The Children's encyclopedia is being
> scanned and has a lot of great visual content.
> I have uploaded a sample (10 MB) PDF file at
> https://sites.google.com/site/periasamythooran/kalaikalanjiam/kalaikalanjia…
do we have license to adopt or use this material for tamil wikipedia?
I am working on a similar plan with Marathi Viswakosh project in Mumbai.
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GN
Dear Wikimedia India,
As you probably aware the Govt. of India, immediately post Independence started multiple Indian language encyclopedia projects to stream in Science and Technology. The Tamil language encyclopedia was completed [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_Encyclopedia]
I'm pleased to report Tamil Virtual University has scanned in the Tamil Kalaikalanjiam / Tamil Encyclopedia [Please see Reference 1 below].
I was able to download the material via the wonderful wget command and the 'convert' (from imagemagick lib) in GNU/Linux. However each of the 10 volumes is close to 700 MB without compression.
I would imagine, the people behind this mammoth task (pre-internet era) would have liked it to be merged into a Wiki type format, which would make it a truly living document in-sync with the times.
I do not have any experience with 1) Tamil OCR software and 2) Automated updates to Wikipedia. Can anyone take the lead on this project ? It will help boost the number of quality, articles in Indian languages. The Children's encyclopedia is being scanned and has a lot of great visual content.
I have uploaded a sample (10 MB) PDF file at https://sites.google.com/site/periasamythooran/kalaikalanjiam/kalaikalanjia… if you are interested to give it a spin.
Thanks,
Murali.
1. http://www.tamilvu.org/library/libindex.htm and click on Kalaikalanjiam / Tamil Encyclopedia.
Hi,
An idea / proposal for the next Wiki meetups:
There has been lot of talk. So would like to see some action :)
Can we decide a Sunday in next month and call for meetups in all cities at
the same time? This time can be a bit extended the usual duration. Say, 4-6
hours?
During this time, all of us can sit down and do edits in Indian language
Wikis, Indian topics in English Wiki? This way we can engage the onlookers
and convert them to real Wikians. We can also ask people world over to edit
Wiki at the same time. We can see what we have achieved at the end of the
day !
Hope this will be fun and can be done every 3 months.
Regards,
Ravi
Remove me from the list please
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Regards,
Milind Prabhat
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On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:58 PM, Naveen Francis <naveenpf(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Malayalam Wikipedia has crossed the 15,000 article milestone today.
> Congrats Malayalam wiki community !!!
>
great!
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GN
Hi,
First of all my most sincere apologies for the huge delay in posting my
report of
the Wikipedia Mumbai Meetup 3.
My report can be found on my blog,
http://vivekvc.wordpress.com/2010/11/10/802/
Thanks & Regards,
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