Sounds great!
Bishakha
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Anoop <anoop.ind(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 10:02 AM, BalaSundaraRaman <sundarbecse(a)yahoo.com>wrote;wrote:
Wonderful. My best wishes to all Malayalam Wiki
participants.
We had earlier faced some issues with PediaPress to generate PDF versions
of Tamil Wiki articles. Was following up with the developers, but somehow
left it in the limbo. Given this state, do you think the software that you
people have developed can be used to create printable books also? If so,
that would be great. Please share the technical details and open source the
software as much as possible.
Yes we are focusing all Malayalam Wiki projects like Wiktionary,
Wikibooks,
Wikisource and Wikiquotes
Does this meetup also focus on other Malayalam
Wiki projects like
Wiktionary?
- Sundar
"That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium
for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted."
- George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture
*From:* Shiju Alex <shijualexonline(a)gmail.com>
*To:* wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
*Sent:* Sat, April 17, 2010 9:25:36 AM
*Subject:* [Wikimediaindia-l] Malayalam Wikimedians meetup - 2010 April
17 - Kalamasseri, Ernakulam
Hello WikiMedians,
With great pleasure let me inform you about the *Malayalam Wikimedia
users meetup*. Today *(2010 April 17) Malayalam Wikimedians* are coming
together for the 3rd wikimeetup at RajaGiri College of Social Sciences,
Kalamassery, Ernakulam <http://www.rajagiri.edu/>. The first malayalam
wikimeetup was happened in 2007 Decemver 31, and the second meetup was in
2008 October 31.
We are extremely happy to inform you about some of the major things
happening as a part of this meetup.
1. *We are releasing a Malayalam Wikipedia CD* that contain 500 articles
selected from the 12,000 articles that were available in Malayalam Wikipedia
during 2010 March.
Please note that we are not releasing an offline version of malayalam wiki
articles. It is a customized version of articles very much similar to the
English Wikipedia on CD
(
http://wikipediaondvd.com/). We have provided many other additional
facilities/addons that are applicable to Malayalam language on this CD. I
will provide you the link to download this CD after we release the CD at 3
PM Indian standard time.
With the release of this CD, we have become the first Indian language
WikiMdedia foundation Wiki releasing such a CD. Also, I assume that no other
non-latin languages tried this due to the number of technical hurdles that
need to over come while working with non-latin languages.
*We have developed a dedicated application (in GNU/Linux) for creating
this CD. *I will share you the details of this software as soon as it is
available for community development. I will write a separate mail regarding
the efforts that went behind the creation of this CD.
2.* We are setting up a new website for coordinating the various
activities of Malayalam Wikimedians.* I will share the link soon. The CD
version of Malayalam Wikipedia will be avilable for download from this site
later today.
3. *We are releasing a printed book (in Malayalam language) that contain
25 frequently asked questions about Wiki, Wikipedia, and Malayalam
Wikipedia. *I think if this docuemnt is translated to English, many other
Indian languages can reuse it. Requeting the help of wikimedians to
translate it to English and available it to all. I will provide you the link
to download this book later today.
The production cost of CD and the book is sponsored by
IT@school<http://www.itschool.gov.in/>and the meetup is sponsored by number of
NGO's including
SPACE <http://www.space-kerala.org/>.
*We are trying for the live streaming of this event.* The link will be
provided as soon as it is available.
I will share more details about the meetup later today.
Regards
Shiju Alex
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