Just a reminder of the upcoming Wikimeetups in Chennai and Bangalore on Nov
14 , this weekend
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Chennai/Chennai2http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore21
Please do sign up if you are planning to attend.
Regards
Tinu Cherian
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 9:25 PM, CherianTinu Abraham
<tinucherian(a)gmail.com>wrote:
> A wikimeetup @ Chennai is planned for Nov 14 , 2010.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Chennai/Chennai2
>
> The venue & agenda is currently under discussion . We need some more local
> help from Wikimedians in Chennai in organizing it.. It will be great if you
> can drop me a personal mail at the earliest , if you are willing to lend a
> hand.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards
> Tinu Cherian
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 12:26 PM, CherianTinu Abraham <
> tinucherian(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> It has been a long time since Wikicamp 2007 Chennai...
>> Planning for a Wikipedia Wikimeetup @ Chennai , possibly next month.
>> Need volunteers. If you are interested , please send a personal mail to me
>> .
>>
>> Regards
>> Tinu Cherian
>>
>
>
Hi,
Tamil Wiktionarians added 70,000+ English words recently to make it the 9th
biggest Wiktionary globally. Now, we have 1,90,000+ words.
http://www.wiktionary.org/
This addition was done by a community run auto Wiki Browser bot account
after a 3 month long careful planning and redesign of page format for Tamil
Wiktionary.
The words are mainly technical in nature and donated in an excel sheet
format by the State Government of Tamilnadu during Tamil Internet
Conference, 2010.
We hope to bring more such publicly available sources to Tamil Wiki projects
in future.
Regards,
Ravi
(On behalf of Tamil Wiktionarians)
FYI.
Yours sincerely,
Anirudh Bhati
00 91 9328712208
Skype: anirudhsbh
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Date: Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 11:20 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia Announcements] NEWS: Seventh Annual Campaign to
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What about Bombay?
Thank you.
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From: Anirudh Bhati
Sent: 15/11/2010 5:18:31 pm
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Wikimeetup @ Kolkata
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 5:16 PM, CherianTinu Abraham
<tinucherian(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Wikipedians,
> We are planning for Wikipedia Wikimeetup @ Kolkata in
> near future. If you are from the city or can help in Wikimeetup or
> interested to attend the same, please drop me a personal mail.
Great initiative, Tinu!
>
> If you would like to see a Wikimeetup @ also in your town /city and can
> possibly help us seting it up , feel free to contact me.
I am currently working with Netra to organize a Wikimeetup in Ahmedabad.
Anirudh Bhati
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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.
--
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.
