Hi all,
The tenth anniversary of Wikipedia was celebrated at Madras Institute of
Technology, Chennai. It was attended by ~70 people including English,Tamil
and Malayalam Wikipedians. The event started with a cake cutting ceremony.
Ravichandar spoke about English wikipedia. Mahir spoke about Tamil
Wikipedia,Wikinews and Wiktionary. A book "Tamil Wikipedia"(in Tamil)
written by Tamil wikipedian and writer Theni.M.Subramani was released by
Badri Sheshadri(Publisher,New Horizon Media). Badri then spoke about
Wikipedia,importance of language wikipedia and how books like the one
released is essential in reaching out to masses. There were discussions and
then there was a live chat with Jimmy wales over Skype.
I would like to thank CSMIT for providing the venue, Wikimedia Foundation
for the merchandise and Manian for the cake.
I would also like to thank Manian / Ravishankar (Parithimathi) / Mahir /
Ravichandar for making this event happen.
I would get all the pictures into one place in commons and post the same.
There is a video of the book release / Jimmy chat is available here[1]
[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JFpkx3iEw8
Regards
Srikanth.L
http://srik.me
Ravi,
(dropped Hyd mailing list and added wikita-l and Steven Walling into the loop)
Thanks for the alert. Both events do seem suspect.
- Sundar
"That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for
the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted."
- George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture
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>From: Ravishankar <ravidreams(a)gmail.com>
>To: Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia.
><wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
>Cc: wikimedia-in-hyd(a)lists.wikimedia.org
>Sent: Wed, January 12, 2011 12:17:54 PM
>Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-hyd] Anniversary event in
>Hyderabad
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>Just now found two events in Tamilnadu organized by people whose wiki
>involvement is not recognizable. Found a spamy link too. Raised an alert notice
>in respective pages and left the details in talk pages.
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>http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podanur
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>http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coimbatore
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விக்கிப்பீடியாவின் பத்தாவது ஆண்டுநிறைவினை யொட்டி சென்னையில் தமிழ் புத்தாண்டு
தினமான 15/1/2011 அல்லது அடுத்த நாள் ஓர் விக்கி சந்திப்பு/பட்டறை நடத்த
திட்டமிடப்பட்டுள்ளது. இது குறித்த பக்கம் ஒன்று உருவாக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது.
[1] http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chennai
ஸ்ரீகாந்த் இதற்கான இடம் மற்றும் பிற ஏற்பாடுகளை செய்து வருகிறார். இது குறித்த
உங்கள் ஆலோசனைகளையும் வழிகாட்டுதல்களையும் எதிர்நோக்குகிறேன்.
அன்புடன்,
மணியன்