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

[Samuel Klein]

Forwarding the update to foundation-l.

Amazing news -- congratulations to the Malayalam Wikisourcerors for
this work and its success.

As far as I know, this is the first offline Wikisource compilation to
be released as a CD.
It would be interesting to see something similar with translations of
essential classics into many languages.

Sam.


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Shiju Alex <shijualexonline at gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 1:55 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Foundation-l] Announcement: Selected
Books from Malayalam Wikisource on CD released
To: Wikimedia India Community list <wikimediaindia-l at lists.wikimedia.org>


Dear All,

We completed one week of Malayalam Wikisource offline release. Here is
some statistics that we have: (Thanks to Jyothis for compiling this)

Hits to the ISO image : 46,922 (this is just number of hits. This does
not mean that all 46,922 hits lead to complete/successful downloads.
We assume at least 70-80% of those hits would be complete downloads.

3,15,274 hits for mlwiki.in- the site hosting iso image and online
version of Offline(Yes! :) ) on June 12.
4,30,959 on June 13th
2,30,985 on June 14th
1,04,280 on June 15th

Yesterday we have started a torrent link also for the ISO image
(http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6477957). So downloads are happening
in that way also now.

Here are the links by which you can access Malayalam wikisource offline release.

iso Image
Torrent link
Online browsing

Remember, last year the download count of Malayalam wikipedia offline
version 1.0 one week after the release was around 5000.

We found that the interest in Malayalam Wikisource offline is more
than that of Malayalam Wikipedia offline.


Shiju Alex




On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala
<arjunaraoc at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 10:31 PM, Jyothis E <jyothis.e at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>> --cut--
>
> Congratulations!  I am happy at the level of engagement in Malayalam community, which contributes to these kind of firsts in off-line access  year after year.
>
> Best wishes
> Arjun
>
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