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

[mayur]

Lots of congratulations to Malayalam Wiki Community for this good Work.

Regards
Mayur

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. 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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