[Foundation-l] Announcement: Selected Books from Malayalam Wikisource on CD released

emijrp emijrp at gmail.com
Sun Jun 12 17:28:02 UTC 2011


I'm interested in uploading these CDs ISOs to Internet Archive. Are you OK
with this? Your server is a bit slow, so, you will have a mirror an a bit
faster.

2011/6/11 Jyothis E <jyothis.e at gmail.com>

> 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
> post<
> http://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.
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