Dear fellow Wikimedians,
With great pleasure, Malayalam Wikimedia Community announced its 2011 CD project "Selected Books from Malayalam Wikisource on CD - 1.0" at the 4th annual Wiki Meetup in Kannur, Kerala. This is by far the biggest digital collection of free books in Malayalam language available on CD for offline use. This is an important milestone, as majority of the households in Kerala does not have internet or does not have an always on connection and this will enable them to access these books as an offline content.
Contents:
Selected Poems by * Kumaranasan * Cherusseri * Changampuzha Krishna Pillai * Kalakkaththu Kunchan Nambiar * Irayimman Thampi * Ramapurathu Warrier
Malayalam Grammer * Kerala Panineeyam by AR Rajaraja Varma
Legends/Folklore * Aithihyamala
Novels * Indulekha
Religious * Bhagavad Gita * Adhyatma Ramayanam Kilippaatu * Harinama Keerthanam * Geetha Govindam * Sathya Veda Pusthakam (Malayalam Bible) * Quran * Works of Sree Narayana Guru * Devotional songs for Christian, Hindu and Islamic religions
Native Art Form * Parichamuttukali pattukal
Philosophy (Political) * Communist Manifesto * Principles of Communism (Friedrich Engels)
The CD also contains the commons collections of images on food, plants, birds, maps and celebrations from Kerala. The CD is made available for download in iso format as well as browsing at our community website - http://www.mlwiki.in. For those who are interested in the technical challenges and aspects of the background work may read Santhosh's blog posthttp://thottingal.in/blog/2011/06/11/malayalam-wikisource-offline-version/about it.
We thank every one who participated in the effort. Comments and questions are welcome.
Thanks and Regards, Malayalam Wikimedia Community.
Jyothis E, 11/06/2011 19:01:
With great pleasure, Malayalam Wikimedia Community announced its 2011 CD project "Selected Books from Malayalam Wikisource on CD - 1.0" at the 4th annual Wiki Meetup in Kannur, Kerala. This is by far the biggest digital collection of free books in Malayalam language available on CD for offline use. This is an important milestone, as majority of the households in Kerala does not have internet or does not have an always on connection and this will enable them to access these books as an offline content.
Very nice! What software did you use? And how are you going to distribute it?
Nemo
What software did you use?
The technical details of this offline release is available in Santhosh's blogpost.
http://thottingal.in/blog/2011/06/11/malayalam-wikisource-offline-version/
As you can see from the online version of this offline release ( http://www.mlwiki.in/wikisrccd/), we have used a different approach for display since the content of wikisource are *books*.
And how are you going to distribute it?
As of now we have produced *500 CD*s to distribute among the participants of 4th Malayalam wikimeetup. It is almost over now. Now few social organizations, books, magazines, and so on have come forwrad to reuse the content of this CD for their various types of distributions. Malayalam Wikimedians do not have plans to produce more copies of this wikisource CD. We expect people outside wiki community will take over it now.
Shiju
On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 11:18 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.comwrote:
Jyothis E, 11/06/2011 19:01:
With great pleasure, Malayalam Wikimedia Community announced its 2011 CD project "Selected Books from Malayalam Wikisource on CD - 1.0" at the 4th annual Wiki Meetup in Kannur, Kerala. This is by far the biggest digital collection of free books in Malayalam language available on CD for offline use. This is an important milestone, as majority of the households in Kerala does not have internet or does not have an always on connection and this will enable them to access these books as an offline content.
Very nice! What software did you use? And how are you going to distribute it?
Nemo
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Shiju Alex, 13/06/2011 04:14:
The technical details of this offline release is available in Santhosh's blogpost.
http://thottingal.in/blog/2011/06/11/malayalam-wikisource-offline-version/
As you can see from the online version of this offline release (http://www.mlwiki.in/wikisrccd/), we have used a different approach for display since the content of wikisource are *books*.
Thank you. I'll hope we'll have better tools fot this soon.
And how are you going to distribute it?As of now we have produced *500 CD*s to distribute among the participants of 4th Malayalam wikimeetup. It is almost over now. Now few social organizations, books, magazines, and so on have come forwrad to reuse the content of this CD for their various types of distributions. Malayalam Wikimedians do not have plans to produce more copies of this wikisource CD. We expect people outside wiki community will take over it now.
I see. Did you outreach to libraries, schools and so on to make them aware of the possibility?
Nemo
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