Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Books and more are relicensed to Creative Commons
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 of us! :0 Subha On 02/05/14 2:28 pm, Ravishankar wrote: 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 is to get these encyclopedias on Wikisource. How we can get that done is still under discussion. Ravi ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Subhashish Panigrahi Programme Officer, Access To Knowledge Centre for Internet and Society http://cis-india.org @psubhashish ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Books and more are relicensed to Creative Commons
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 is to get these encyclopedias on Wikisource. How we can get that done is still under discussion. Ravi ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Books and more are relicensed to Creative Commons
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 encyclopedias relicensed B) digitizing them on Wikisource. Best, Subha On 02/05/14 1:29 pm, Ravishankar wrote: 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/article5316150.ece Some of the local FOSS activits including some Tamil Wikipedians are engaged in a new project called http://freetamilebooks.com/ This aims to release CC licensed contemporary works that can be read in smart phones and tablets in epub and mobi formats. Ravi ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Subhashish Panigrahi Programme Officer, Access To Knowledge Centre for Internet and Society http://cis-india.org @psubhashish ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Books and more are relicensed to Creative Commons
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/article5316150.ece Some of the local FOSS activits including some Tamil Wikipedians are engaged in a new project called http://freetamilebooks.com/ This aims to release CC licensed contemporary works that can be read in smart phones and tablets in epub and mobi formats. Ravi ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
