Grants:TPS/Thamizhpparithi Maari/Wikimania/2016/Report

Welcome back from Wikimania 2016!

Participant

Thamizhpparithi Maari

GLAM, Tamil Wikipedia

Outcome

Option 1:

I have posted my experience in the blog viz, http://thamizhpparithi.blogspot.in/. I have shared my experience with my office friends about the learning. Then we have panned to conduct ten 100 events in the colleges of Tamilnadu: to impart hands on training on Wiki editing and open source software movement.

Connections

• User:Astinson (WMF)-shared my GLAM activities
• User:Satdeep Gill-explored the Panjab related initiatives
• User:Rohini-Discussed about copyright issues
• User:Psubhashish-discussed about Oriya Wikipedia
• User:Bodhisattwa-explored the initiative of digitization

Anything else

• After attending this conference I have fine tuned the Tamil mega Encyclopedia (http://www.tamilkalanjiyam.in) with and organizing the students of Tamilnadu and Professionals to write articles under the license of CC by SA 4.0.
• I have discussed with User:Astinson (WMF) about the GLAM activities of our organization, shortly we are going to publish ten thousand books under CC by SA 4.0
• I have uploaded the photos in Commons-https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:ListFiles/Thamizhpparithi_Maari&ilshowall=1