The Hindu covers this news:
"* ... *is the first regional language encyclopaedia work in the country.
“More than 2,000 knowledge scholars were involved in preparing it. It was
done in the good-fashioned way of meticulous fact-checking and
extraordinary care was taken before preparing its first edition. A lot of
articles were even submitted in English and painstakingly translated into
Tamil."
Read more at
http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/chen-society/tamil-wikipedia-to…
Thanks,
Ravi