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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Malayalam Wikipediahttp://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Malayalam-Wikipediahas made it big the third time too. A project to upload informative and copyright-free images through Malayalam Loves Wikipediahttp://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Malayalam-Loves-Wikipedia(MLW) has become a hit, with nearly 14,600 images uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. The third edition, from July 15 to August 31, saw participation of more than 75 contributors.
Contributions made by renowned wildlife photographer *N A Nazeer* was an icing on the cake for the project. More than 170 wildlife photographs of Nazeer, which included rare ones of Nilgiri Marten, Indian bisons, elephants and sloth bears, were uploaded. Nazeer's friend and photographer *Joseph Lazar* also contributed more than 150 pictures. The pictures are published using CC-BY SA license by which people can share them giving attribution to the photographer.
"*I think my pictures in Wikimedia Commons would inspire more people to enter the field of wildlife photography. I never had hesitation to make my pictures copyright-free because I have faith in the nature. The forest will give always provide more interesting pictures. The other day, I could click a striking picture of a tiger,*" said an excited *Nazeer*. The forest department had earlier allegedly used his pictures without giving attribution.
According to *Manoj K*, a Wikimedia contributor, who was instrumental in bringing works of Nazeer to the repository, "*as many as 14,606 pictures have been uploaded to the Wikimedia Commons. The next big task is to categorize them. Malayalam Wikipedia community has already begun the process.*"
As many as 2,155 images were uploaded during the first edition of MLW in 2011 and 11,159 pictures during the second edition last year. The project aimed at creating more contributors for Wikimedia Commons, the online repository of free-use images, sound and other media files.
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Jisha Surya, TNN | Oct 2, 2013, 06.36 AM IST READ MORE Malayalam Wikipediahttp://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Malayalam-Wikipedia |Malayalam Loves Wikipediahttp://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Malayalam-Loves-Wikipedia
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