ഇംഗ്ലീഷിൽ നിന്ന് മലയാളത്തിലേയ്ക്ക് വിവർത്തനം ചെയ്യുന്നത് ഇഷ്ടമുള്ളവർക്ക്
ഇവിടെ ഒരു പേജ് കാത്തിരിക്കുന്നു.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Huggle/Localization/ml
വാൻഡലിസം കണ്ടുപിടിച്ച് അത് ഒഴിവാക്കാനുള്ള ഹഗ്ഗിൾ എന്ന ഉപകരണത്തിന്റേതാണ് ഈ
സന്ദേശങ്ങൾ. ഇവ മുഴുവനായും മലയാളത്തിൽ ആക്കിയാൽ ഈ ഉപകരണം മലയാളം വിക്കിയിൽ
ഉപയോഗിക്കാൻ പ്രാപ്തമാക്കാനും നമുക്ക് ശ്രമിക്കാവുന്നതാണ്.
താത്പര്യമുള്ളവർ ശ്രദ്ധിക്കുമല്ലോ.
- ശ്രീജിത്ത് കെ.
Tamil Wiki - Media
Contest<http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%…>
വിക്കിമീഡിയ കോമൺസിൽ തമിഴ്, തമിഴർ, തമിഴ് നാട് എന്നിവയെ സംബന്ധിച്ചുള്ള
ചിത്രങ്ങൾ മറ്റ് മീഡിയ ഫയലുകൾ എന്നിവയുടെ അപര്യാപത പരിഹരിക്കുക എന്ന
ഉദ്ദേശത്തോടെ തമിഴ് വിക്കിപീഡിയയിൽ ഒരു Media Contest നടക്കുന്നു. മലയാളം
വിക്കിപീഡിയർ കുറേ നാൾ മുൻപ് നടത്തിയ "മലയാളം വിക്കിമീഡിയയെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു"
എന്ന പരിപാടിയുടെ ചുവടു പിടിച്ചു് ഉള്ളതാണു് ഇത്.
തമിഴ് പരിപാടിയുടെ വിശദാംശങ്ങൾ നമ്മുടെ വിക്കിപഞ്ചായത്തിൽ വന്ന മുകളിലെ
കണ്ണിയിൽ ചേർത്തിരിക്കുന്ന വാർത്തയിൽ ഉണ്ട്. തമിഴ്, തമിഴർ, തമിഴ് നാട്
എന്നിവയെ സംബന്ധിച്ചുള്ള ചിത്രങ്ങൾ മറ്റ് മീഡിയ ഫയലുകൾ എന്നിവ സംഭാവന ചെയ്യാൻ
കഴിയുന്നവർ ഈ പരിപാടിയിൽ ചേരുമല്ലോ. പരിപാടിയുടെ ഭാഗമാകാതെയും കൊമൺസിലേക്ക്
പതിവ് പോലെ നിങ്ങൾക്ക് ചിത്രങ്ങൾ അപ്‌ലൊഡ് ചെയ്യാവുന്നതാണു്. താല്പര്യ്മുള്ളവർ
തമിഴ് പരിപാടിയോട് സഹകരിക്കുമല്ലോ.
ഷിജു
Hi,
At the India Hackathon 2011, help us improve access to Wikipedia and
Wikimedia's other projects across all languages, via mobile devices,
and for people without Internet access! Hackers of all backgrounds are
welcome and prior experience with the MediaWiki software is not
required. Translators who want to help localize the latest and
greatest Wikimedia technology projects are also welcome.
This coding event will happen concurrently with the WikiConference
India 2011, and near its venue. About 100–150 participants are
expected.
More information about the hackathon :
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/India_Hackathon_2011
When - 19–20 November 2011
Where- The MACCIA Halls, Mumbai, India
If you are interested in participating, please fill the registration
form http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/India_Hackathon_2011#Registration
(sorry for cross posting, please help us to spread the word)
Thanks
Santhosh Thottingal
hi all
the category for the picture of WCI 2011 is
Category:WikiConference India 2011
for the presentations
Category:WikiConference India 2011 Presentations
please start uploading the good useful snaps.
From
http://www.thenational.ae/news/worldwide/south-asia/eager-to-preserve-langu…
NEW DELHI // Eager to preserve their language, Keralites have eagerly
responded to Wikipedia's request for submissions in their native language
Malayalam.
The campaign to expand Wikipedia offerings in Indian languages is aimed at
boosting the website's exposure in India, which, when compared to the rest
of the world, remains relatively small.
Of the scores of regional languages in India, Nepali and Hindi speakers
have posted the most articles on Wikipedia in these languages. But an
active online community of expatriate Keralites has made Malayalam the
fastest growing regional language version of Wikipedia.
Keralites are proud of their language and culture. That devotion is driven
partly by the Indian government's efforts to promote Hindi, a North Indian
language, as the lingua franca of India.
In December last year, there were 90 active editors for the
Malayalam-language website. There are now 564. Many joined when Wikipedia
launched a campaign dubbed, "Malayalam loves Wikipedia" that solicited
articles and photos from Keralites.
Wikipedia hopes the campaign could become a model to garner similar
responses from other regional language speakers in India.
Many of these new editors for the Malayalam Wikimedia site came from Gulf
countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Qatar. More than 15 per cent
of all photo and text contributions came from Keralites based in the Gulf,
such as Simy Nazarath, a software sales manager in Dubai. "You do it so
that the language does not die," he said.
Wikipedia is the fifth most visited site in the world, where content is
generated by 90,000 readers from across the world. Despite the global
popularity of Wikipedia, the site remains relatively unknown in India.
Every month, 400 million people visit the site, but only 14 million are
from India.
"The potential in India is enormous," said Hisham Mundol, a consultant for
Wikimedia Foundation's India programmes. The Wikimedia Foundation is a
non-profit organisation that pays to operate Wikipedia.
Despite India's potential, getting Indians to read or write articles in
their native language is difficult. "It is a case of the chicken or the
egg," said Mr Mundol. "People don't write because there are not enough
readers but people don't read because they think pages in their regional
language don't exist."
But Malayalam Wikipedia is bucking the trend. It is the most rapidly
growing regional language site in India. That is driven partly by the fact
that Kerala has the highest literacy rate in the country — 93.9 per cent,
according to the 2011 Census of India. English is the language of
instruction in most private schools, while the government school courses
are taught primarily in Malayalam.
Mr Nazarath finds the process of creating articles deeply rewarding. "It is
quite fulfilling because if you look at it, not even the best of
encyclopedias in the Malayalam language available in India has this many
articles."
The Kerala government spent the last 20 years working on an encyclopaedia
in Malayalam, but has managed to produce only 3,300 articles. In contrast,
Malayalam Wikipedia now has more than 20,000. The state government has
eagerly embraced the efforts of the Wikipedians, opening its archives to
the website's amateur historians.
Mr Nazarath is one of the longest serving editors of Malayalam Wikipedia.
He has written more than 400 articles since he began in 2006.
Mr Nazarath's areas of interest is Indian and Keralite history, especially
medieval and ancient history. He both translates from English pages and
writes new entries from references in Malayalam history books.
Now, Wikimedia is trying to engage India's elderly to preserve mythology or
artists to write about folklore or interest groups to contribute more about
fabric and craft techniques. "The opportunities are huge, but the question
is how do we identify which ones to pursue," said Mr Mundol.
Mr Mundol said that the success of Malayalam Wikipedia could prove to be a
benchmark for future efforts by the Wikimedia Foundation in India.
"With the Malayalam projects, the emphasis was on community building, on
getting new editors."
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With Regards,
Anoop