On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Murali Kumar <pthoo...@hotmail.com> 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 > [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_Encyclopedia] > I'm pleased to report Tamil Virtual University has scanned in the Tamil > Kalaikalanjiam / Tamil Encyclopedia [Please see Reference 1 below]. > I was able to download the material via the wonderful wget command and the > 'convert' (from imagemagick lib) in GNU/Linux. However each of the 10 > volumes is close to 700 MB without compression. > I would imagine, the people behind this mammoth task (pre-internet era) > would have liked it to be merged into a Wiki type format, which would make > it a truly living document in-sync with the times. > I do not have any experience with 1) Tamil OCR software and 2) Automated > updates to Wikipedia. > > Can anyone take the lead on this project ? It will help boost the number of > quality, articles in Indian languages. The Children's encyclopedia is being > scanned and has a lot of great visual content. > I have uploaded a sample (10 MB) PDF file at > https://sites.google.com/site/periasamythooran/kalaikalanjiam/kalaikalanjiamWikiMergeAttempt.pdf
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. -- GN _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
