This must have been a long journey to get all of these and I look
forward to hearing more from you, Ravi. And all the best for getting
them under CC license. Hey, BTW more than 4 Indic languages (or even
more) have recently got free licensed scholarly/encyclopedic books online.
Cheers to all o
Aren't we all volunteers here?
Atleast the ones not getting paid?
On 2 May 2014 14:15, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
> Hoi,
> Ravi, I am not a professional. I am a volunteer.
> Thanks,
> GerardM
>
>
> On 2 May 2014 09:47, Ravishankar wrote:
>
>> Hoi Gerard,
>>
>> The disucssion in the mail thre
Subha,
We don't have a dedicated Wikisource community yet and this was initiated
as part of tawiki10 celebrations.
We are awaiting official written confirmation on the re-release. But, the
Tamil develpment board which owns these encyclopedias have given approval
of our request already.
The plan
Gerard,
I am aware that you have been largely a volunteer except for a brieft part
time stint with WMF some time before.
And, I have already appreciated your work in WikiData and TranslateWiki as
a volunteer.
Ravi
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Thanks Ravi for sharing this. This sounds like an interesting project.
Are these books coming on WikiSource as well or only digitized? It will
be great if you could share more details about the entire project and
how the Tamil Wikisource community is involved here in A) getting these
encycloped
Hoi,
Ravi, I am not a professional. I am a volunteer.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 2 May 2014 09:47, Ravishankar wrote:
> Hoi Gerard,
>
> The disucssion in the mail thread is about cost / benefit comparison of
> two similar outreach events
>
> 1.
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Kno
Subha,
Kudos for the good work.
There is some similar work undertaken by Tamil Wikipedians and we expect
official confirmation to release many volumes of encyclopedias under CC
license soon.
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/a-push-for-tamil-resources-online/article53
Hoi Gerard,
The disucssion in the mail thread is about cost / benefit comparison of two
similar outreach events
1.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Draft_Work_plan_July_2014_-_June_2015/Wiki-Data_India_Marathon
and
2.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Tinucheri
Thank you Dhaval for confirming that , I was assuming that Gujarati
Wikisource project was coming from Gujarati wiki community. It is mean
that project is CIS own preparation So why they are not proposed for
others Indic Wikisource project like Bengali, Tamil Telugu, Marathi,
Malayalam?
Hi all,
Fortunately more Indian language authors are agreeing to migrate their
copyrighted books under Creative Commons licenses even the printed
publication industry is shrinking for many languages. I have written a
blog on Opensource.com about the license migration from "All Rights
Reserved
Dear Dhaval,
I am sharing the link on the Meta where this has been discussed
Grants_talk:APG/Proposals/2013-2014_round2/The_Centre_for_Internet_and_Society/Proposal_form#Questions_about_this_form_and_the_relationship_between_CIS_and_Wikimedia
Best,
Vishnu
On Friday 02 May 2014 12:38 PM, Dhaval
Dear Dhaval,
I am sharing the link on the Meta where this has been discussed
Grants_talk:APG/Proposals/2013-2014_round2/The_Centre_for_Internet_and_Society/Proposal_form#Questions_about_this_form_and_the_relationship_between_CIS_and_Wikimedia
Best,
Vishnu
On Friday 02 May 2014 12:38 PM, Dhava
Dear Kartikbhai,
That is not the proposal by Gujarati wiki community, it is from CIS. Also,
if you notice, in that proposal, there is no payment to the community, who
will really be putting pain in digitising/uploading/typing/correcting the
content. And on the contrary, CIS staff will be paid a re
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