Great work by Malayalam Wikimedia team again !

Besides the collection, the amount and quality of technical work involved in producing a usuable CD is highly laudable.

The annual Wikimedia meetup for a language is also one of its kind for Indic languages.

I will definitely watch the next year's event expecting some surprise :)

Ravi

Great job.congrats all of you..

Subha

On 12 June 2011 12:06, wheredevelsdare@hotmail.com wrote:

This is great!

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From: arunram25@gmail.com Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 00:23:37 +0530 To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org CC: wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org; wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org; commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org; wikiml-l@lists.wikimedia.org; wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org; foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Announcement: Selected Books from Malayalam Wikisource on CD released

Congratulations and Kudos! Another really great effort! Excellent collection all in one CD.

And thanks for continuing to raise the bar.

Best regards Arun

On 11-Jun-2011, at 10:31 PM, Jyothis E jyothis.e@gmail.com wrote:

Dear fellow Wikimedians,

With great pleasure, Malayalam Wikimedia Community announced its 2011 CD project "Selected Books from Malayalam Wikisource on CD - 1.0" at the 4th annual Wiki Meetup in Kannur, Kerala. This is by far the biggest digital collection of free books in Malayalam language available on CD for offline use. This is an important milestone, as majority of the households in Kerala does not have internet or does not have an always on connection and this will enable them to access these books as an offline content.

Contents:

 Selected Poems by
      * Kumaranasan
      * Cherusseri
      * Changampuzha Krishna Pillai
      * Kalakkaththu Kunchan Nambiar
      * Irayimman Thampi
      * Ramapurathu Warrier

 Malayalam Grammer
      * Kerala Panineeyam by AR Rajaraja Varma

 Legends/Folklore
      * Aithihyamala

 Novels
      * Indulekha

 Religious
      * Bhagavad Gita
      * Adhyatma Ramayanam Kilippaatu
      * Harinama Keerthanam
      * Geetha Govindam
      * Sathya Veda Pusthakam (Malayalam Bible)
      * Quran
      * Works of Sree Narayana Guru
      * Devotional songs for Christian, Hindu and Islamic religions

  Native Art Form
      * Parichamuttukali pattukal

  Philosophy (Political)
      * Communist Manifesto
      * Principles of Communism (Friedrich Engels)

The CD also contains the commons collections of images on food, plants, birds, maps and celebrations from Kerala. The CD is made available for download in iso format as well as browsing at our community website - http://www.mlwiki.in http://www.mlwiki.in. For those who are interested in the technical challenges and aspects of the background work may read Santhosh's blog posthttp://thottingal.in/blog/2011/06/11/malayalam-wikisource-offline-version/about it.

We thank every one who participated in the effort. Comments and questions are welcome.

Thanks and Regards, Malayalam Wikimedia Community.

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Dear All,

We completed one week of Malayalam Wikisource offline releasehttp://shijualex.wordpress.com/2011/06/14/creating-malayalam-wikisource-cd/. Here is some statistics that we have: (Thanks to Jyothis for compiling this)

Hits to the ISO image : *46,922* (this is just number of hits. This does not mean that all 46,922 hits lead to complete/successful downloads. We assume at least 70-80% of those hits would be complete downloads.

- 3,15,274 hits for mlwiki.in- the site hosting iso image and online version of Offline(Yes! :) ) on *June 12.* - 4,30,959 on *June 13*th - 2,30,985 on *June **14*th - 1,04,280 on *June **15*th

Yesterday we have started a torrent link also for the ISO image ( http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6477957). So downloads are happening in that way also now.

Here are the links by which you can access Malayalam wikisource offline release.

- iso Image http://www.mlwiki.in/cdimage/mlwikisource.iso - Torrent link http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6477957 - Online browsing http://www.mlwiki.in/wikisrccd/index.html

Remember, last year the download count of Malayalam wikipedia offline version 1.0 one week after the release was around 5000.

We found that the interest in Malayalam Wikisource offline is more than that of Malayalam Wikipedia offline.

Shiju Alex

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala < arjunaraoc@googlemail.com> wrote:

Hi,

On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 10:31 PM, Jyothis E jyothis.e@gmail.com wrote:

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Dear fellow Wikimedians,

With great pleasure, Malayalam Wikimedia Community announced its 2011 CD project "Selected Books from Malayalam Wikisource on CD - 1.0" at the 4th annual Wiki Meetup in Kannur, Kerala. --cut--

Congratulations! I am happy at the level of engagement in Malayalam community, which contributes to these kind of firsts in off-line access year after year.

Best wishes Arjun

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