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Tamil Wikipedia: a case study L.BalaSundaraRaman (User:Sundar) With generous inputs from Dr.C.R.SelvaKumar, Natkeeran, Ravishankar, Karthick and other Tamil Wikipedians historical context… First decade of 1900s – Abidhaanakosam, Abidhaana Chindhaamani 1950s…
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- Tamil Wikipedia: a case study L.BalaSundaraRaman (User:Sundar) With generous inputs from Dr.C.R.SelvaKumar, Natkeeran, Ravishankar, Karthick and other Tamil Wikipedians
- historical context…
- First decade of 1900s – Abidhaanakosam, Abidhaana Chindhaamani
- 1950s – Humanities Encyclopaedia and Encyclopaedia of Science from Tamil University
- September 30, 2003 – birth of Tamil Wikipedia with an anonymous post
- November 4, 2003 to November 22, 2003 – real action begins due to Mayooranathan
- growth phases
- Linear increment in users would cause super-linear growth in articles
- Very active contributors matter a lot in phase 2, active users beyond that
- editors
- Diverse backgrounds..
- Areas of expertise: Architecture, Biotechnology, Economics, Electronics, Information Technology, Mathematics, Music, Social Welfare etc.
- Professions: engineers, scientists, academics, students, administrators, self-employed people, etc.
- Age: 15 to 85 years!
- characteristics of the wiki
- Cordiality and good faith
- Quality focus
- Citing sources
- Single major contributor for many articles
- But, great inputs from fellow Wikipedians in every aspect
- Specialist roles
- Articles on emerging science, technology, society
- challenges
- Low internet penetration among the majority of the population
- Low awareness about Tamil typing tools
- Low awareness about Tamil Wikipedia
- Less than 2% editors female
- Disconnect between skilled writers and internet access
- Still not reached critical mass of tech-savvy editors who can fix interface issues
- outreach
- Chennai academy
- Host: Kiruba
- Speakers: Ravishankar
- Bangalore academy - 1
- Host: Mugiltech
- Speakers: Mugunth, Sundar, Santhosh, and Sathya
- Bangalore academy – 2
- Host: IISc
- Speakers: Sundar, Karthick, and Mugunth
- Many other talks by Natkeeran and Ravishankar
- tutorial agenda
- Introductions by the host and the Tamil Wikipedia member who acted as an interface with the host
- A short presentation on what Wikipedia is, its history, philosophies, software, etc.,
- A tutorial on Tamil typing tools
- Tea break
- Tutorial on editing through someone from the audience. The newbie picks the topic and content.
- Q & A session
- tutorial best practices
- Tutor-learner ratio: around 1:5
- Multiple tutors handling different aspects of editing
- A classroom is good, a computer science lab is better.
- Asking some uninitiated person from the audience to come forward and edit
- convinces others about ease of use
- gives feedback to the tutors about difficulties faced by new editors.
- An immediate message at the user’s talkpage helps
- Examples relevant to the audience
- Follow-up
- First session should be about the native language typing
- other projects
- Wiktionary
- more than 1,00,000 entries
- Wikisource
- Numerous PD works
- Wikinews
- neutrality
- Wikibooks
- Wikiquotes
- …
- future
- firming up policies and guidelines
- media outreach
- bringing out an offline collection of wiki articles
- The 28,000 articles in the Tamil edition of the concise Britannica, currently being sold in the market, are of stub-quality.
- A collection of 5,000 selected articles from Tamil Wikipedia, published after manual perusal, will definitely have a number of takers.
- A collection of wildlife articles for school children
- An assorted collection of good articles given to scientific research students
- liaising with the Indian Wikimedia Chapter being formed and other bodies
- conducting article-writing contests, local conferences, etc.,
- questions please?
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