Hi, This is to inform you that Tamil Wikipedia community has won the Project Tiger Contest, which was a joint initiative of Google and wikimedia foundation. This Contest was mainly aims to encourage online content in vernacular Indian languages.
Salem Wikipedian S. Balasubramanian with more than 600 articles and Virudunagar Wikipedian G. Sridhar with nearly 500 articles, Kumbakonam Wikipedian B Jambulingam with 260 articles played a vital role in this lead.
Beside srilanka contributor Fathima Rinosa, Salem contributor Vasantha Lakshmi have scored above 200 articles. K. Moorthy from Vellore, Mahalingam from Madurai, Arularasan from krishnagiri are the century finishers in articles count. With 62 participants from Tamil wikipedia, we able to write 2959 articles and became topper in the contest.
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Here is the official announcement https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Growing_Local_Language_Content_on_Wikipedia_... Tamil Wikipedia Blog news: http://tamilwikipedia.blogspot.com/2020/02/blog-post.html
You can find the Tamil community page. https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:TIGER2
Related news in Tamil main stream Media https://www.polimernews.com/amp/news-article.php?id=101218&cid=1 (english) https://www.bbc.com/tamil/india-51582172 (Tamil) https://tamil.news18.com/news/education/wikipedia-project-tiger-writing-cont... (Tamil)
Regards, Neechalkaran