Thanks @Jayanta, @Moksh Juneja, @Andrea Zanni
The Contest is now Progressing and Crossing 6th day. Now 93+ Participants
and 997 Page digitized. We are now preparing more scanned books as ready
for type. Am Very Happy to see more new active users in ml.wikisource. it's
unexpected and exciting response from community.
Will try to write a blog-post. For first we need to create a eng. sub page
of the project page.
Thanks Again.
--User:Manojk
On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 5:45 PM, Andrea Zanni <zanni.andrea84(a)gmail.com>wrote:
> That is an amazing news, Manoj,
> good job!
>
> Also, think about writing a blog post for the Wikimedia blog:
> they are always interested in hosting news a about Wikisources all around
> the world.
>
> Aubrey
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 7:13 PM, Jayanta Nath <jayantanth(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Keep it up Manoj , it's a great initiatives. We shall try the same for
>> Bengali wiki source .
>>
>> Jayanta
>>
>> On Thursday, January 2, 2014, manoj k wrote:
>>
>>> Dear friends,
>>>
>>> New year wishes to all.
>>>
>>> Wikisource project, a project of Wikimedia foundation is celebrating
>>> its tenth anniversary. As a part of the decennary celebrations, the
>>> Wikisource projects in various languages all over the world are conducting
>>> competitions that enrich their contents including but not limited to
>>> proof-reading and digitization. Being a part of it, Wikisource's
>>> Malayalam version - Wiki Grandhasala community, a voluntary unit
>>> engaged in collecting and digitizing valuable Malayalam books of
>>> yesteryears, is organizing a digitization (Typing & Proofreading)
>>> competition, along with various Government as well as Non-Governmentestablishments and other voluntary organisations with similar interestslike Kerala Sahithya Academy, IT@schoolProject,
>>> Swathanthra Malayalam Computing and Center for Internet and Society
>>> (CIS-A2K) under the banner of Malayalam Wiki community.. This
>>> digitisation competition is being conducted as a part of an effort that
>>> collects Malayalam Books whose copyright date has expired in digital form
>>> (in unicode format) preserving the content and makig them more accessible
>>> and popular. The competition lasts for a month, starting on January 1, 2014
>>> and ending on Jan 31, 2014. The competition focuses especiallyindividuals and schools andincludes someattractive prizes including E-book readers, Tablets and selected books for
>>> those who lead the scoreboard. In this competition, books that was
>>> recently released by Kerala Sahithya Academy to its public collection
>>> will be digitised.
>>>
>>> Details of the competition;There are two specific competitions
>>>
>>> *Competition for individuals:-*
>>> This competition is for the general public. It includes typing and
>>> proofreading of selected books. The main aim is to attract people who
>>> are active in social media into Wiki Grandhasala activities. Those who
>>> wish to participate in this competition should register before January 31st
>>> 2014. Here are the pages which are to be typed in as part of this
>>> competition.
>>>
>>> *Competition for schools:-*
>>> Presently many student groups, through the IT Cell of their respective
>>> schools, participate actively in the Wiki Grandhasala effort. This
>>> version of the competition aims to increase the participation of such
>>> student groups. The idea is to inculcate more love for their mother tongue
>>> among the students. The process also aims at providing awareness out
>>> about such collaborative activities, getting them interested incomputer related areas, specifically
>>> Language Computing. Scanned copies of books that are in public domain
>>> will be made available to the respective schools. Under the supervision
>>> of IT@school coordinators of each school, students have to type themand proof read,which will be added
>>> to Wiki Grandhasala.
>>>
>>> The prizes (like E-book readers, Portable scanners) are sponsored by
>>> Center for Internet and Society, Kerala Sahithya Academy and Swathanthra
>>> Malayalam Computing. Also, certificates will be awarded to all students
>>> who participate in the school level competition and IT@schoolcoordinators
>>> , for their coordination activities.
>>>
>>> Those who wish to sponsor more prizes, and those who wish to makescanned/hard copiesbooks in
>>> the public domain availale to Wiki Grandhasala can contact
>>> mlwikisource(a)gmail.com.
>>>
>>> Project Page: https://ml.wikisource.org/wiki/WS:DC2014
>>> Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/265018530322640/
>>> Score Bord : http://balasankarc.in/ProofreadingContest/index.html
>>>
>>> For Malayalam Wikisource Community
>>>
>>> Manoj.K/മനോജ്.കെ
>>> General Convener, Malayalam Wikisource Digitization Contest 2014
>>>
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http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0077056
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Abstract: Of the approximately 7,000 languages spoken today, some
2,500 are generally considered endangered. Here we argue that this
consensus figure vastly underestimates the danger of digital language
death, in that less than 5% of all languages can still ascend to the
digital realm. We present evidence of a massive die-off caused by the
digital divide.
________________________
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A. Mani
A. Mani
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CU, ASL, AMS, ISRS, CLC, CMS
http://www.logicamani.in
It is widely covered in vernacular press
This is one among the english reports
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/digitising-contest-to-preserve…
I think it may be relevant to share the context of this too . This may be
helpful and useful for other wikisource communities. I am part of the
Organizing Team and our organization , Swathanthra Malayalam Computing is
one of the partners for this
1. Unlike Latin based languages , Most of the Indian languages does not
have a functional OCR solution. So for us the digitalising means typing
the pages and proofreading them .
2. Even though there are many state run institutions and libraries are
engaged in scanning books for their digitization , The public domain works
are not available in most cases . Initiatives like GLAM s not much suited
for small librarys and state institutions.
3. In short the absence / Way to thank library for preserving books till
they release under public domain with proper media attention becomes a
difficult task . This program experimenting a way to thank Govt institution
named Keral Sahithya academi via media attention for preserving and
donating the public domain copies to many books to wikisource .
4.Wikisource can be used as a way of training new users to familiarize with
mediawiki and wikisyntax . A Typing+proofreading competition with declared
prizes anyway attracts more users and attention . within first 5 days 80+
new contributors and 798 pages added to Malayalam wikisource
5. We Succeeded in getting IT@School program of Govt of Kerala as an
official partner and created a seperate competition for schools . So
Students under the guidance of teachers can involve in Malayalam
wikisource and get exposure for wikimedia projects
6. This helps in building more references for wikipedia articles . This is
an important concern for many languages without much digital archives
Thanks to Vishnu , Director of CIS-A2K for initially coming up with an idea
of running a proofreading contest in malayalam wikipedia by offering some
Devices . This helped us to start exploring the possibilities and expanding
the program with more partners .
In last October Malayalam wikisource community released a 2.0 version of
its offline CD . This is the next major endeavour
~ regards
Anivar Aravind
User:AniVar
On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 5:45 PM, Andrea Zanni <zanni.andrea84(a)gmail.com>wrote:
> That is an amazing news, Manoj,
> good job!
>
> Also, think about writing a blog post for the Wikimedia blog:
> they are always interested in hosting news a about Wikisources all around
> the world.
>
> Aubrey
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 7:13 PM, Jayanta Nath <jayantanth(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Keep it up Manoj , it's a great initiatives. We shall try the same for
>> Bengali wiki source .
>>
>> Jayanta
>>
>> On Thursday, January 2, 2014, manoj k wrote:
>>
>>> Dear friends,
>>>
>>> New year wishes to all.
>>>
>>> Wikisource project, a project of Wikimedia foundation is celebrating
>>> its tenth anniversary. As a part of the decennary celebrations, the
>>> Wikisource projects in various languages all over the world are conducting
>>> competitions that enrich their contents including but not limited to
>>> proof-reading and digitization. Being a part of it, Wikisource's
>>> Malayalam version - Wiki Grandhasala community, a voluntary unit
>>> engaged in collecting and digitizing valuable Malayalam books of
>>> yesteryears, is organizing a digitization (Typing & Proofreading)
>>> competition, along with various Government as well as Non-Governmentestablishments and other voluntary organisations with similar interestslike Kerala Sahithya Academy, IT@schoolProject,
>>> Swathanthra Malayalam Computing and Center for Internet and Society
>>> (CIS-A2K) under the banner of Malayalam Wiki community.. This
>>> digitisation competition is being conducted as a part of an effort that
>>> collects Malayalam Books whose copyright date has expired in digital form
>>> (in unicode format) preserving the content and makig them more accessible
>>> and popular. The competition lasts for a month, starting on January 1, 2014
>>> and ending on Jan 31, 2014. The competition focuses especiallyindividuals and schools andincludes someattractive prizes including E-book readers, Tablets and selected books for
>>> those who lead the scoreboard. In this competition, books that was
>>> recently released by Kerala Sahithya Academy to its public collection
>>> will be digitised.
>>>
>>> Details of the competition;There are two specific competitions
>>>
>>> *Competition for individuals:-*
>>> This competition is for the general public. It includes typing and
>>> proofreading of selected books. The main aim is to attract people who
>>> are active in social media into Wiki Grandhasala activities. Those who
>>> wish to participate in this competition should register before January 31st
>>> 2014. Here are the pages which are to be typed in as part of this
>>> competition.
>>>
>>> *Competition for schools:-*
>>> Presently many student groups, through the IT Cell of their respective
>>> schools, participate actively in the Wiki Grandhasala effort. This
>>> version of the competition aims to increase the participation of such
>>> student groups. The idea is to inculcate more love for their mother tongue
>>> among the students. The process also aims at providing awareness out
>>> about such collaborative activities, getting them interested incomputer related areas, specifically
>>> Language Computing. Scanned copies of books that are in public domain
>>> will be made available to the respective schools. Under the supervision
>>> of IT@school coordinators of each school, students have to type themand proof read,which will be added
>>> to Wiki Grandhasala.
>>>
>>> The prizes (like E-book readers, Portable scanners) are sponsored by
>>> Center for Internet and Society, Kerala Sahithya Academy and Swathanthra
>>> Malayalam Computing. Also, certificates will be awarded to all students
>>> who participate in the school level competition and IT@schoolcoordinators
>>> , for their coordination activities.
>>>
>>> Those who wish to sponsor more prizes, and those who wish to makescanned/hard copiesbooks in
>>> the public domain availale to Wiki Grandhasala can contact
>>> mlwikisource(a)gmail.com.
>>>
>>> Project Page: https://ml.wikisource.org/wiki/WS:DC2014
>>> Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/265018530322640/
>>> Score Bord : http://balasankarc.in/ProofreadingContest/index.html
>>>
>>> For Malayalam Wikisource Community
>>>
>>> Manoj.K/മനോജ്.കെ
>>> General Convener, Malayalam Wikisource Digitization Contest 2014
>>>
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Dear friends,
New year wishes to all.
Wikisource project, a project of Wikimedia foundation is celebrating its
tenth anniversary. As a part of the decennary celebrations, the Wikisource
projects in various languages all over the world are conducting
competitions that enrich their contents including but not limited to proof-
reading and digitization. Being a part of it, Wikisource's Malayalam
version - Wiki Grandhasala community, a voluntary unit engaged in
collecting and digitizing valuable Malayalam books of yesteryears, is
organizing a digitization (Typing & Proofreading) competition, along with
various Government as well as Non-Government establishments and other
voluntary organisations with similar interests like Kerala Sahithya
Academy, IT@ school Project, Swathanthra Malayalam Computing and Center
for Internet and Society (CIS-A2K) under the banner of Malayalam Wiki
community.. This digitisation competition is being conducted as a part of
an effort that collects Malayalam Books whose copyright date has expired in
digital form (in unicode format) preserving the content and makig them more
accessible and popular. The competition lasts for a month, starting on
January 1, 2014 and ending on Jan 31, 2014. The competition focuses
especially individuals and schools and includes some attractive prizes
including E-book readers, Tablets and selected books for those who lead the
scoreboard. In this competition, books that was recently released by Kerala
Sahithya Academy to its public collection will be digitised.
Details of the competition;There are two specific competitions
*Competition for individuals:-*
This competition is for the general public. It includes typing and
proofreading of selected books. The main aim is to attract people who are
active in social media into Wiki Grandhasala activities. Those who wish to
participate in this competition should register before January 31st 2014.
Here are the pages which are to be typed in as part of this competition.
*Competition for schools:-*
Presently many student groups, through the IT Cell of their respective
schools, participate actively in the Wiki Grandhasala effort. This version
of the competition aims to increase the participation of such student
groups. The idea is to inculcate more love for their mother tongue among
the students. The process also aims at providing awareness out about such c
ollaborative activities, getting them interested in computer related areas,
specifically Language Computing. Scanned copies of books that are in public
domain will be made available to the respective schools. Under the
supervision of IT@school coordinators of each school, students have to
type them and proof read, which will be added to Wiki Grandhasala.
The prizes (like E-book readers, Portable scanners) are sponsored by Center
for Internet and Society, Kerala Sahithya Academy and Swathanthra Malayalam
Computing. Also, certificates will be awarded to all students who
participate in the school level competition and IT@school
coordinators, for their coordination activities.
Those who wish to sponsor more prizes, and those who wish to
makescanned/hard copiesbooks in
the public domain availale to Wiki Grandhasala can contact
mlwikisource(a)gmail.com.
Project Page: https://ml.wikisource.org/wiki/WS:DC2014
Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/265018530322640/
Score Bord : http://balasankarc.in/ProofreadingContest/index.html
For Malayalam Wikisource Community
Manoj.K/മനോജ്.കെ
General Convener, Malayalam Wikisource Digitization Contest 2014
The national archives seems to be open to all public and info is free
without charge. One needs to go physically to NA, search the catalogue for
documents of interest, fill out an application, and these will be retreived
and made available for browsing. Digitization is on, but may take years.
Catalogue is not available for online request. JSecy is abroad. So could
not meet. NA would contain Govt files. Private collections of Gandhi Nehru
and such others are also available. Oldest doc is fm 650 AD. Most from
yr1700+.
Sowmyan
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> Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2013 13:08:55 +0530
> From: Jayanta Nath <jayantanth(a)gmail.com>
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> Dear Vishnu,
>
> We should published Press-Note ASAP.
>
> Jayanta
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 9:13 PM, Vishnu <visdaviva(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Dear Jayanta,
> >
> > It's difficult to work with journalists who may be rushing to meet
> > submission deadlines and end up mis-quoting the facts or give wrong
> > details :)
> >
> > Probably, it may help if you could do a Press-Note and send it to all the
> > Media agencies. At least they will have the correct details in hand.
> >
> > All the best!!
> >
> > Vishnu
> >
> >
> >
> > On Saturday 21 December 2013 11:44 PM, Jayanta Nath wrote:
> >
> > KOLKATA: In an effort to enthuse people to become regular contributors to
> > its site, Wikipedia will launch a campaign at the Kolkata Book Fair<
> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Kolkata-Book-Fair>next year. It
> has already booked a stall and lined up an awareness
> > programme to sign up volunteers. Incidentally, Kolkata fares poorly when
> it
> > comes to contribute to the world's biggest online encyclopedia. At
> present,
> > the city has only five contributors.
> >
> > Wikipedia needs people from Kolkata to contribute voluntarily not only to
> > the mother website but also to its Bengali link, Banglapedia. "We would
> > hold workshops where we would give presentations about how to edit
> existing
> > material on Wiki/Banglapedia. The biggest incentive for any contributor
> is
> > that, the moment he/she writes a piece or edits something, it gets
> updated
> > and is published for the world to see," explained Jayanta Nath, chief of
> > Banglapedia.
> >
> > The Book Fair authorities have already sealed the deal and are looking
> > forward to this heavyweight participant.
> >
> > "Wikipedia's participation will add glamour to the fair," said Tridib
> > Chatterjee, general secretary of the Publishers and Booksellers Guild<
> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Publishers-and-Booksellers-Guild>
> > .
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 11:32 PM, Jayanta Nath <jayantanth(a)gmail.com
> >wrote:
> >
> >> Dear all,
> >>
> >> Now another wrong report....
> >>
> >>
> >>
> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/Wikipedia-stall-at-book-fai…
> >>
> >> Jayanta
> >>
> >
> >
> >
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