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From: Noopur Raval <nraval@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 11:57 AM
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Blog]: Postcard from the Tamil Community
To: Wikimedia India Community list <wikimediaindia-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Hey folks,
The Tamil Wikimedia Contest organized by User: Sodabottle and other
members of the Tamil community recently got over. As you are all
aware, it generated over 15,000 media files and got over 250 new
contributors to Commons. A detailed report was published at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Tamil_Wikimedians/TamilWiki_Media_Contest/Report
There's also a blog post that we've been working on that takes a peek
at TWMC behind the scenes with inputs from the organizing team. It
might be really useful to any community planning to conduct a similar
events in future. You can read the post here:
http://blog.wikimedia.in/2012/04/17/postcard-from-the-tamil-community/.
It's a great story of how an off-the-cuff conversation between 2
editors resulted in a massive community wide initiative - with
participation of the Tamil community (and other communities) from
across the world, the kind of intense efforts, the use of technology
enablers and last - and most certainly not the least - some fantastic
images (a sample of which can be seen at http://www.tawp.in/r/33zx) ?-
which have now been used to create or improve articles (6122 on Tamil
Wiktionary, 1659 on Tamil Wikipedia and more).
Do go through the story and add comments. ?Please also share it with
others. ?Don't forget to use the images to improve articles on your
Wikipedia! ?(They are all available on Commons at
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:TamilWiki_Media_Contest)
I am thankful to Natkeeran for the wonderful story idea and to
Sodabottle, Logicwiki and others? for your inputs, insights and times!
Regards
Noopur
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