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-Governmentestablishments and
other voluntary organisations with similar interestslike Kerala Sahithya Academy,
IT@schoolProject,
Swathanthra Malayalam Computing and 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 especiallyindividuals and schools
andincludes someattractive 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 incomputer related areas,
specifically
Language Computing. Scanned copies of books that are in public domain
will be made available to the respective schools. Under the
supervision of IT@school coordinators of each school, students have
to type them and 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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