Silly controversies , I would say.
Some of the newspapers reported criticisms on the inclusion of "Lavalin Scandel" ( some said , it was an attempt of the current governement to justify their stand on the case) and Mata Hari ( which they saw "unfit" for a school student reader).  Some critised why articles of Adoor Gopalakrishnan ( veteran Malayali film director) and Satyan (  Malayali film actor ) etc are not included while some others were included ...Hence the focus was shifted to these controversies than the huge achievement of these people in bringing out something for a good social cause.

But I also believe we good some traction on publicity in Kerala for Wikipedia due to this... Perhaps why 150+ people attended the next Wiki Academy @ Palakkad. Negative or positive, it creates some buzz... Last time when we got negative publicity due to a reseach "finding" that on "Wikipedia losing interest" , we used the timing to get more articles /buzz on WIkipedia on Indian media.

Eg: http://epaper.dnaindia.com/dnabangalore/epaperpdf/26112009/25bangalore%20main%20edition-pg7-0.pdf

Regards
Tinu Cherian



On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Bishakha Datta <bishakhadatta@gmail.com> wrote:
A superb effort - curious about the media controversy in Kerala and how that undermined this?
Bishakha


On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 12:01 PM, CherianTinu Abraham <tinucherian@gmail.com> wrote:
The efforts behind the Malayalam offline Wikipedia CD is really appreciable. It required a hardwork of 20+ Wikipedians for more than 2-3 months to make it a success. They also faced several technical / software hurdles which they successfully overcame later. Atleast 2 other Indian languages are now re-using this software to make their Wikipedia CDs..

But unfortunately media in Kerala state created a silly controversy about it and thereby undermining the efforts of these self-less people. Glad to know that atleast the rest of the world recognizes the true value of their efforts.

Regards
Tinu Cherian

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Kul Takanao Wadhwa <kwadhwa@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Sorry, I meant Shiju not Shinju. ;)

On 9/12/10 8:57 PM, Kul Takanao Wadhwa wrote:
> This is a great post by Martin, who's been an advocate for offline
> Wikipedia for many years. I also like the link to Shinju's post. I'll
> work on getting more offline related posts to the Foundation blog as
> well to highlight the great work by the Malayalam Wikipedians.
>
> --Kul
>
> On 9/12/10 7:42 PM, Arun Ram wrote:
>> Thanks for sharing Tinu.
>>
>> This good work by the Malayalam wikipedians requires all the visibility
>> it deserves. There surely would be other wikipedias that would be keen
>> to replicate this.
>>
>> regards
>> Arun
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 10:08 PM, CherianTinu Abraham
>> <tinucherian@gmail.com<mailto:tinucherian@gmail.com>>  wrote:
>>
>>      Malayalam Wikipedia CD- mentioned in NewYork State University Blog
>>
>>      http://blogs.potsdam.edu/wikipediaoffline/2010/09/08/malayalam-wikipedia/
>>
>>
>>
>>      Regards
>>      Tinu Cherian
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