NOTICE : Tomorrow, sunday, Feb 19 event is canceled, due to unstable
political conditions, in Chennai.
Todays event notes :
Explained about the wikipedia projects to the students.
With tamil Wikipedia team, Discussed about the changes required for
articles on TN temples.
https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/tntemples
Here are the sample articles - http://bit.ly/2l6lFZi
Will plan for the changes required and start the test upload tomorrow.
To know more about the project, read here -
https://ta.wikipedia.org/s/5ghm
Sample data given by TN govt -
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JKhT_N8bJZodQmlX-iLI476v9tK3hdxUdvbqmAKxjSQ/edit#gid=0
Sample article -
https://ta.wikipedia.org/s/5gez
Thanks for the participants.
2017-02-17 21:54 GMT+05:30 Shrinivasan T <tshrinivasan@xxxxxxxxx>:
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From: Shrinivasan T <tshrinivasan@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: 2017-02-17 21:53 GMT+05:30
Subject: Tamil Wikipedia edit-a-thon - Automation
To: ilugc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Tamil Wikipedians are conducting a two day automation workshop & edit-a-thon
to
Upload articles about Temples in Tamil Nadu.
Recently, Tamil Nadu government provided data about ~40,000
temples in Tamilnadu in an excel sheet. As the data is authentic, Tamil
Wikipedians wish to publish all the details in Tamil Wikipedia.
Instead of manually creating articles with the content, we can write
bot, a.k.a small program to publish the contents in ta.wikipedia.org,
automatically.
Tamil Wikipedia team, conducting a two days event to complete this
task in a single go.
We invite you learn about Wikipedia, Wikipedia API, writing bots for
wikipedia etc.,
Dates : Feb 18,19 2017 (two days)
Time : 10.00 - 4.00
Venue : Chennai Institute of Technology
Sarathi Nagar, Kundrathur, State Highway 113, Chennai - 69
Route : Free College bus will be available from Kundrathur Bus stand by 9 AM.
Govt buses are available from Pammal Bus Stand. Google Map directions here .
https://goo.gl/maps/VJrtpHmj3Mx
Contact : Ravi - (9943168304, 9986993336)
All are welcome.
Formal announcement on Tamil Wikipedia can be found here.
https://goo.gl/AG4hdY
Attend the event to learn wikipedia APIs, writing bots, helping
wikimedia community with programming.
Attending the event, any one the day also fine.
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Regards,
T.Shrinivasan
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Regards,
T.Shrinivasan
My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com
Free E-Magazine on Free Open Source Software in Tamil : http://kaniyam.com
Get Free Tamil Ebooks for Android, iOS, Kindle, Computer :
http://FreeTamilEbooks.com