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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Noopur Raval nraval@wikimedia.org Date: Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 11:57 AM Subject: [Blog]: Postcard from the Tamil Community To: Wikimedia India Community list wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Hey folks,

The Tamil Wikimedia Contest organized by User: Sodabottle and other members of the Tamil community recently got over. As you are all aware, it generated over 15,000 media files and got over 250 new contributors to Commons. A detailed report was published at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Tamil_Wikimedians/TamilWiki_Media_Cont...

There's also a blog post that we've been working on that takes a peek at TWMC behind the scenes with inputs from the organizing team. It might be really useful to any community planning to conduct a similar events in future. You can read the post here: http://blog.wikimedia.in/2012/04/17/postcard-from-the-tamil-community/. It's a great story of how an off-the-cuff conversation between 2 editors resulted in a massive community wide initiative - with participation of the Tamil community (and other communities) from across the world, the kind of intense efforts, the use of technology enablers and last - and most certainly not the least - some fantastic images (a sample of which can be seen at http://www.tawp.in/r/33zx) - which have now been used to create or improve articles (6122 on Tamil Wiktionary, 1659 on Tamil Wikipedia and more).

Do go through the story and add comments. Please also share it with others. Don't forget to use the images to improve articles on your Wikipedia! (They are all available on Commons at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:TamilWiki_Media_Contest)

I am thankful to Natkeeran for the wonderful story idea and to Sodabottle, Logicwiki and others for your inputs, insights and times!

Regards Noopur