You are right. English Wikipedia has more than 42 lakh articles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics
The reporter should have researched on the stats. -TC On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 8:09 PM, Yogesh Khandke <yogesh_khan...@yahoo.com>wrote: > Doesn't Wikipedia English have >40 lakh articles, Hindu is supposed to be > reliable. > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Tinu Cherian (Wikimedia India) <tinucher...@wikimedia.in> > *To:* Wikimedia India community list <wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>; > wikit...@lists.wikimedia.org; WMIN chapter members list < > wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com> > *Cc:* Wikimedia India Press <pr...@wikimedia.in> > *Sent:* Saturday, 22 June 2013 5:22 PM > *Subject:* [WMIN-Members] [Press] : The Hindu : "Tamil teacher to > participate in Wikimania" > > *The Hindu : "Tamil teacher to participate in Wikimania" > * > > http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/tamil-teacher-to-participate-in-wikimania/article4810118.ece > > *She will be one among the 10 persons selected from the country and one > among the two persons selected from the State for participating in > Wikimania 2013, an annual international conference of the Wikimedia > movement, to be held in Hong Kong, China between August 7 and 11. > > S. Parvathi, a Tamil teacher at Panchayat Union Middle School, > Kandampatti in Salem rural block, has contributed 500 articles, edited > 10,500 articles and wrote three books for children in the Tamil language > edition of Wikipedia and was selected for her continuous contribution to > the portal. > > > Talking about her journey in the knowledge world, she said that while > searching for projects for class eight students in the website, she could > not find suitable documents in Tamil and that made her mind to contribute > something to the growth of development of the language. “It is the passion > towards Tamil that started contributions in 2001. An article on Onam > festival was published as main story and it motivated me,” she said. > > The Tamil Wikipedia currently has 52,000 articles when compared to 12 lakh > in English. It is the second largest Wikipedia among Indian languages by > article count and 59 largest in the world. Ms. Parvathi along with Sengai > Podhuvan from Chennai were selected for contributions to Tamil while the > rest eight were selected for their contributions in Oriya, Gujarati, > Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi. > > Her contributions were in subjects dealing with noble laureates, > scientists, Tamil literature and grammar apart from general issues. > “Penetration of internet is increasing and more articles in Tamil are > becoming essential nowadays,” added the teacher. > > Though there is no financial incentive for posting articles and editing > works, she is happy about the contributions to the growth of Tamil > language. She wanted more women to contribute for the Tamil Wikipedia and > be a part of knowledge sharing society. > > About 2,500 people representing 200 languages are expected to take part in > the conference that would help them to learn and share experience and come > out with new knowledge initiatives across the world. > -- > > * > Regards > Tinu Cherian > pr...@wikimedia.in > http://wiki.wikimedia.in/In_the_news > > *Important Note : *Non-commercial reproduction for informative purposes > only. The publisher ( The Hindu ) of the above news article owns the > copyrights of the article / content. All copyrights are duly acknowledged. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "wmin-members" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to wmin-members+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "wmin-members" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to wmin-members+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > >
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