Interesting movement. Kudos to the community! On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 10:10 AM, Subhashish Panigrahi < subhash...@cis-india.org> wrote:
> Quite an impressive report I must say, Ravi. Kudos to all of you in the > community for everything, but especially for the policy level push. > > Best, > Subha > > > On 12/8/2015 8:05 PM, Ravishankar wrote: > > > Hi, > > We have some exciting updates from the Global Tamil Wikimedia Community. > > We have partnered with Tamil Virtual Academy (TVA), an autonomous > institution established by the Government of Tamil Nadu. Wikimedia Chapter, > India is acting on behalf of the *Global Tamil Wikimedia Community *to > facilitate this partnership. > > * In August 2015, The *Government of Tamil Nadu made an announcement in > the State Legislative Assembly* *that it will be partnering with > Wikipedia and will work to release various resources under Creative Commons > licenses.* Please check page 91 in the *policy document* available on the > web here <http://www.tn.gov.in/documents/dept/17> (also attached in this > mail). > > * Tamil Wikipedia registered *251% increase in editors* who made at least > an edit in November 2015. It jumped from 331 to 1165 in a month. During > this peak, Tamil Wikipedia became the most active Wikipedia in the world > having less than 1,00,00 articles. This was made possible because of Wikipedia > training camps <https://ta.wikipedia.org/s/4t34> in various districts for > school teachers organized by State council for Education Research and > Technology <http://www.tnscert.org/>. This training was organized with *zero > cost* for Wikimedia resources in 32 districts of the state and *1500+ > school teachers* were trained to contribute to Wikipedia, Wiktionary and > Wikimedia Commons. 9 Tamil Wikipedians under the coordination of > User:Parvathisri travelled across the state to conduct these training > programs. > > Though we know from movement learning that new user retention will be an > issue, we have won partners like these who will continue to repeat this > training every year as part of the ICT curriculum for teachers. > > Though Wikipedia in Education > <https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education> program runs in over 70 > countries, we believe this is the first time a systematic training program > has been organized for the teachers. We have now formed a WhatsApp group to > guide the most active teachers turned Wikipedians. > > * Tamil Wikimedia also *added 10,400+ articles* > <https://ta.wikipedia.org/s/4u75> of around 10 kb each *adding 104 > megabytes of data* to article namespace. User:Neechalkaran worked on this > extensively. This was made possible as the government made its statistical > records accessible on our request and we engaged a bot with community > consensus to create these articles. We see this as a model in convincing > other governments to release data in a similar fashion so useful > information like these can be added to all language Wikipedias. This bot > and data can be used to create articles in other languages as well > (especially English) and we look forward to working together. > > See also: > > ** October 2015 stats <https://ta.wikipedia.org/s/4qg7> for Tamil > Wikipedia > > ** November 2015 stats <https://ta.wikipedia.org/s/4t60> for Tamil > Wikipedia > > ** State wide Tamil Computing Clubs in universities and colleges* > > The TN government is kick-starting Tamil Computing Clubs across all > colleges and universities in the state. Starting this September 2015, > inauguration programs for these have been conducted in Madras University, > Anna University, Madurai Kamaraj University, Salem Periyar University, > Karaikudi Alagappa University. 1000s of students and teachers from at least > 400 constituent colleges have participated in these programs. Growing > Wikimedia projects will be one of the focus areas for these clubs. A > dedicated session was allotted to Wikipedia outreach in these events and we > worked along with the Free Software Foundation, Tami Nadu to drive home the > message of Free Culture movements. > > ** Wikimedian in Residence* > > User:Info-farmer will be working as a Wikimedia in Residence at TVA until > March 2016. Through this we expect to add more content to Tamil Wikisource, > bring policy changes and more GLAM partnerships. > > ** Tamil Wikipedia stall in Madurai Book fair* > > Tamil Wikimedians operated a stall in Madurai book fair > <https://ta.wikipedia.org/s/4nzr> for 10 days. The stall was arranged > free of cost and 8 different Wikipedians helped to run it. This helped us > gain widespread press coverage and awareness. User:Srithern, User:எஸ்ஸார், > User:எஸ். பி. கிருஷ்ணமூர்த்தி and User:Dineshkumar Ponnusamy played a major > role in this. > > ** Workshops* > > We ran two workshops in August 2015. One focused in creating training > resources for outreach while the other focused in encouraging writers and > media professionals to contribute to Wikipedia. User:Rsmn and > User:Selvasivagurunathan m helped coordinate these efforts. > > A MoU <https://ta.wikipedia.org/s/4o7x> regarding this has been written > and approved by the community on wiki <https://ta.wikipedia.org/s/4ros>. > From the genesis of this partnership, all discussions > <https://ta.wikipedia.org/s/4ka9> (see also the archive > <https://ta.wikipedia.org/s/4s3m>) and activities have been done on wiki. > We recommend this as *a best practice* whenever a MoU is signed as this > reiterates that the local Wikimedia community is the primary stakeholder of > Wikimedia projects and ensures full trust and cooperation from them. > > User:Thamizhpparithi Maari, User:Mayooranathan, User:Natkeeran, > User:Sundar, User:சஞ்சீவி சிவகுமார், User:Rsmn, User:Shanmugamp7, > User:Neechalkaran, User:Commons sibi, User:zsenthil, User:Kanags, > User:AntanO and numerous other contributors helped to forge this > partnership and conduct the activities. > > *Press coverage:* > > * On Tamil Wikipedia stall in Madurai book fair. > > ** The Hindu - Into the world of books > <http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/events/madurai-book-fair-a-platform-for-budding-writers/article7607862.ece> > > ** Dinamalar - புத்தக கண்காட்சியில் 'தமிழ் விக்கிபீடியா' > <http://www.dinamalar.com/district_detail.asp?id=1335688> > > ** Dinamani - தினமணியில் செய்தி > <http://epaper.dinamani.com/581552/Dinamani-Chennai/06-09-2015#page/8/2> > > ** The Hindu - Tamil Wikipedia invites articles > <http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Madurai/tamil-wikipedia-invites-articles/article7627180.ece> > > * On Tamil Computing Clubs > > > ** Times of India - 1 lakh Tamil articles to come up on Wikipedia > <http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/madurai/1-lakh-Tamil-articles-to-come-up-on-Wikipedia/articleshow/48842690.cms> > > General: > > * Wikipedia on massive drive to increase Tamil content > <http://www.dnaindia.com/scitech/report-wikipedia-on-massive-drive-to-increase-tamil-content-2123004> > > * The Hindu - தமிழுக்குள் விக்கிப்பீடியாவை நுழையுங்கள்! > <http://tamil.thehindu.com/general/education/%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%AE%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%B4%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%B3%E0%AF%8D-%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%80%E0%AE%9F%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%AF%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%B5%E0%AF%88-%E0%AE%A8%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%B4%E0%AF%88%E0%AE%AF%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%99%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%B3%E0%AF%8D/article7654967.ece> > > * Nakkeeran - வல்லுநர்கள் பங்களிப்பு அதிகரிக்க வேண்டும் - > விக்கிப்பீடியர்கள் வேண்டுகோள் > <http://nakkheeran.in/Users/frmNews.aspx?N=149980> > > We thank Tamil Virtual Academy, Wikimedia India and the Wikimedia > Foundation who offered extensive support and guidance throughout these > activities. > > We are excited to share these updates with the larger community. Stay > tuned for more updates and details from us. > > Ravi > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing listwikimediaindi...@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > > > -- > Best! > Subhashish Panigrahi > Programme Officer, Access To Knowledge > Centre for Internet and Society > @subhapa / https://cis-india.org > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > -- Regards, Karthik Nadar. /karthikndr <https://www.facebook.com/karthikndr>, @karthikndr <http://twitter.com/karthikndr>
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