This is great news Ravi. Indeed, we need to explore newer avenues to promote open access and learn from each other.
On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 11:03 PM, Adethya Sudarsanan <adethyas...@gmail.com>wrote: > Congrats on the initiative. My best wishes. > > It would be great if we can (@least guys in Chennai, given the proximity > of Sri Lanks) get to know about these initiatives before they are > started/conducted, so that we can also contribute. > > Regards, > Ade. S > > > On 7 May 2013 22:28, Ravishankar <ravidre...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hey, >> >> We just concluded a week long Tamil Wikipedia outreach in Srilanka. >> >> April 25 - Seminar on free content, creative commons and Tamil Wikipedia >> organized by Noolaham foundation (meaning the Library foundation that works >> for documenting Srilankan Tamil knowledge resoureces), Colombo. Students >> from the Engineering faculty of Moratuwa University participated. The >> discussion was also slightly off-beat as we discussed how transparency and >> community building is done in Tamil Wikipedia and how it could be applied >> to similar non-profit and volunteer based projects. Details and pictures at >> http://ta.wikipedia.org/s/2swy >> >> April 26 - Tamil Wikipedia introduction at National Arts and Literature >> front, Colombo. Details and pictures at http://ta.wikipedia.org/s/2qdq >> >> April 29 - Tamil Wikipedia introduction for students of Jaffna >> University's campus at Vavuniya city. Details and pictures at >> http://ta.wikipedia.org/s/2rk9 . >> >> Besides this, few of us also participated in the Tamil Documentation >> conference held during April 27, 28 and spread the news about Tamil >> Wikipedia projects among the various scholars who came for the conference. >> >> An informal discussion was also held with the members of Noolaham >> foundation on ways to colloborate. >> >> A huge share of contributions to Tamil Wikipedia comes from Tamils in >> Srilanka and their diaspora. In this context, I find these meetings >> important and hope to see increased activity from this region in the >> future. >> >> 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 >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > -- Srikanth Ramakrishnan Treasurer, Wikimedia Chapter [India] Donate to the Wikimedia India Chapter today<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Donations>
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