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 in computer 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@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 > _______________________________________________ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l