Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Tamil Wiktionary now Top 10 globally

2010-11-14 Thread CherianTinu Abraham
Also glad to see an indic langugae on the main page of a Wikimedia project http://www.wiktionary.org/ Congratulations to all who made this happen. Would love to see atleast one Indic language on top 10 of every Wikimedia project in next 5 years. Regards Tinu Cherian On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 9:31

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Tamil Encyclopedia merge into Wikipedia.

2010-11-14 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
It's license needs to be verified. (I don't know whether it includes other earlier Tamil encyclopaedias which are in public domain. PD-OLD) Also, it may not go directly into Tamil Wikipedia, but would rather be suitable for Tamil Wikisource, I think. We can then pick appropriate material for Tami

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Tamil Encyclopedia merge into Wikipedia.

2010-11-14 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
Yes, we need to get it under a suitable license. If the technical issue related to OCR is resolved, we can talk to them about releasing the content into public domain. - Sundar "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth g

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Tamil Encyclopedia merge into Wikipedia.

2010-11-14 Thread John Vandenberg
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Shiju Alex wrote: > I have a query. > > What is the license of Tamil Kalaikalanjiam? Did Tamil Nadu government or > Tamil Virtual University had officially announced that this Encyclopedia is > released in Public Domain or in some creative commons license so that w

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Tamil Encyclopedia merge into Wikipedia.

2010-11-14 Thread Shiju Alex
I have a query. What is the license of Tamil Kalaikalanjiam? Did Tamil Nadu government or Tamil Virtual University had officially announced that this Encyclopedia is released in Public Domain or in some creative commons license so that we can reuse the content. If yes, we can very well reuse the c

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Tamil Encyclopedia merge into Wikipedia.

2010-11-14 Thread Gautam John
On 15 November 2010 11:40, Nagarjuna G wrote: > do we have license to adopt or use this material for tamil wikipedia? > I am working on a similar plan with Marathi Viswakosh project in Mumbai. Is this material out of copyright? Or is there some indication from the Government that they might be w

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Tamil Encyclopedia merge into Wikipedia.

2010-11-14 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
Dear Murali, Thanks for your efforts. Natkeeran, an active Tamil Wikipedian, has also downloaded the entire encyclopaedia. He is also stalled at the OCR stage. There are some Tamil OCR projects at IISc Mile lab under Prof.A.G.Ramakrishnan and some other government-supported labs. However, I'm y

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Tamil Encyclopedia merge into Wikipedia.

2010-11-14 Thread Nagarjuna G
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Murali Kumar wrote: > Dear Wikimedia India, > As you probably aware the Govt. of India, immediately post Independence > started multiple Indian language encyclopedia projects to stream in Science > and Technology. The Tamil language encyclopedia was completed > [h

[Wikimediaindia-l] Tamil Encyclopedia merge into Wikipedia.

2010-11-14 Thread Murali Kumar
Dear Wikimedia India, As you probably aware the Govt. of India, immediately post Independence started multiple Indian language encyclopedia projects to stream in Science and Technology. The Tamil language encyclopedia was completed [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_Encyclopedia] I'm pleas

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Tamil Wiktionary now Top 10 globally

2010-11-14 Thread Gautam John
On 15 November 2010 00:17, Ravishankar wrote: > Tamil Wiktionarians added 70,000+ English words recently to make it the 9th > biggest Wiktionary globally. Now, we have 1,90,000+ words. Wow! Thanks fantastic, Ravi! Congratulations to everyone who helped make this happen! Thank you. Best, Gauta

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Tamil Wiktionary now Top 10 globally

2010-11-14 Thread Sunil
Great news. Congrats to all On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 12:21 AM, theo10011 wrote: > Congratulations, Ravi and all other Tamil Wiktionarians, that is quite an > achievement. > > > Looking forward to seeing Tamil Wiktionary grow larger. > > > Regards > > > Salmaan Haroon > > > On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Tamil Wiktionary now Top 10 globally

2010-11-14 Thread theo10011
Congratulations, Ravi and all other Tamil Wiktionarians, that is quite an achievement. Looking forward to seeing Tamil Wiktionary grow larger. Regards Salmaan Haroon On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 12:17 AM, Ravishankar wrote: > Hi, > > Tamil Wiktionarians added 70,000+ English words recently to

[Wikimediaindia-l] Tamil Wiktionary now Top 10 globally

2010-11-14 Thread Ravishankar
Hi, Tamil Wiktionarians added 70,000+ English words recently to make it the 9th biggest Wiktionary globally. Now, we have 1,90,000+ words. http://www.wiktionary.org/ This addition was done by a community run auto Wiki Browser bot account after a 3 month long careful planning and redesign of page

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Help : Translation of Licensing tutorial

2010-11-14 Thread praveenp
On Sunday 14 November 2010 07:58 AM, Naveen Francis wrote: Hi All, The following file requires translation. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bb/Licensing_tutorial_en.svg Link for licensing tutorial. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Licensing_tutorial Checkout new upload tool http