Keep it up Manoj , it's a great initiatives. We
shall try the same for
Bengali wiki source .
Jayanta
On Thursday, January 2, 2014, manoj k wrote:
Dear friends,
New year wishes to all.
Wikisource project, a project of Wikimedia foundation is celebrating its
tenth anniversary. As a part of the decennary celebrations, the
Wikisource projects in various languages all over the world are conducting
competitions that enrich their contents including but not limited to
proof-reading and digitization. Being a part of it, Wikisource's
Malayalam version - Wiki Grandhasala community, a voluntary unit engaged
in collecting and digitizing valuable Malayalam books of yesteryears, is
organizing a digitization (Typing & Proofreading) competition, along
with various Government as well as Non-Government establishments and
other voluntary organisations with similar interests like Kerala
Sahithya Academy, IT@ school Project, Swathanthra Malayalam Computingand Center for
Internet and Society (CIS-A2K)under the banner of Malayalam Wiki community..
This digitisation competition is being conducted as a part of an effort
that collects Malayalam Books whose copyright date has expired in digital
form (in unicode format) preserving the content and makig them more
accessible and popular. The competition lasts for a month, starting on
January 1, 2014 and ending on Jan 31, 2014. The competition focuses
especially individuals and schools and includes some attractive prizes
including E-book readers, Tablets and selected books for those who lead
the scoreboard. In this competition, books that was recently released by
Kerala Sahithya Academy to its public collection will be digitised.
Details of the competition;There are two specific competitions
*Competition for individuals:-*
This competition is for the general public. It includes typing and
proofreading of selected books. The main aim is to attract people who
are active in social media into Wiki Grandhasala activities. Those who
wish to participate in this competition should register before January 31st
2014. Here are the pages which are to be typed in as part of this
competition.
*Competition for schools:-*
Presently many student groups, through the IT Cell of their respective
schools, participate actively in the Wiki Grandhasala effort. This
version of the competition aims to increase the participation of such
student groups. The idea is to inculcate more love for their mother tongue
among the students. The process also aims at providing awareness out
about such collaborative activities, getting them interested in computer
related areas, specifically Language Computing. Scanned copies of books
that are in public domain will be made available to the respectiveschools. Under the
supervision of IT@schoolcoordinators of each school, students have to typethemand proof
read,which will be added
to Wiki Grandhasala.
The prizes (like E-book readers, Portable scanners) are sponsored by
Center for Internet and Society, Kerala Sahithya Academy and Swathanthra
Malayalam Computing. Also, certificates will be awarded to all students
who participate in the school level competition and IT@schoolcoordinators
, for their coordination activities.
Those who wish to sponsor more prizes, and those who wish to makescanned/hard copiesbooks
in
the public domain availale to Wiki Grandhasala can contact
mlwikisource(a)gmail.com.
Project Page:
https://ml.wikisource.org/wiki/WS:DC2014
Facebook event page:
https://www.facebook.com/events/265018530322640/
Score Bord :
http://balasankarc.in/ProofreadingContest/index.html
For Malayalam Wikisource Community
Manoj.K/മനോജ്.കെ
General Convener, Malayalam Wikisource Digitization Contest 2014
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