Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] 20 volumes (8376 pages) of Tamil Encylopedia released under Creative Commons

2014-09-06 Thread Ravishankar
The Hindu covers this news: * ... *is the first regional language encyclopaedia work in the country. “More than 2,000 knowledge scholars were involved in preparing it. It was done in the good-fashioned way of meticulous fact-checking and extraordinary care was taken before preparing its first

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] 20 volumes (8376 pages) of Tamil Encylopedia released under Creative Commons

2014-09-06 Thread Subhashish Panigrahi
Thanks Ravi for sharing this. A great news indeed and kudos to the Tamil community! Would love to see the project page - there might be takeaways for all of us for similar work. Best! Subha On 07-Sep-2014, at 1:51 am, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote: The Hindu covers this news:

[Wikimediaindia-l] 20 volumes (8376 pages) of Tamil Encylopedia released under Creative Commons

2014-08-30 Thread Ravishankar
Hi, Tamil Development Board (an autonomous institution under Government of Tamilnadu) releases its Encyclopedia (10 volumes, 7407 pages) and Children's Encyclopedia (10 volumes, 969 pages) under Creative Commons license. Tamil Wikipedians lead by Prof. C. R. Selvakumar and Prof. P. R. Nakkeeran,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] 20 volumes (8376 pages) of Tamil Encylopedia released under Creative Commons

2014-08-30 Thread Vishnu
Dear Ravi and Tamil Wikimedians, This is fantastic news! Congratulations to Prof. C.R. Selvakumar and all the Tamil Wikimedians and to Prof. P.R. Nakkeeran of (Tamil Virtual Academy) for this significant content donation!! Best wishes, Vishnu On Saturday 30 August 2014 08:10 PM,