Template:WikiPatrika/2011-06/Community News/ta

Activities

 * During   November 2010 - May 2011, Tamil Wikipedians conducted eleven  Wikipedia   workshops across the world. These workshops were conducted  in Norway,   Canada, India (Tamil Nadu) and Sri Lanka.
 * Tamil Wikipedia was  also  introduced at the Native Language Tamil conference  held by the   Norwegian education directorate at Bergen, Norway and the  Canadian Tamil   Children's day celebrations at Toronto, Canada
 * A Wikimarathon was organised on November 14, 2010 (to coincide with the Chennai Wikimeetup)
 * Wiki 10 celebrations were organised in Chennai on January 15, 2011
 * Tamil   Wikipedian Theni. M. Subramani's book on Tamil Wikipedia (titled Tamil Wikipedia) was released as part of the Wiki 10 celebrations.

Tamil Wikipedia

 * The   period October 2010 - May 2011, has witnessed a notable increase in    Tamil Wikipedia's growth rate in terms of number of edits and articles.    Number of articles created per day has jumped from around 20 a day in  September 2010 to around 50 a day in April 2011; Similarly; the  number   of edits per month has increased from 13,000 to 28,000 for the    corresponding months. This growth has been completely organic and the rate of growth seems to be holding.
 * On April 8, 2011 Tamil   Wikipedia crossed 30,000 articles. The growth from 25,000 to 30,000 was achieved in 6 months, compared to the 11 month period it took to add   the  previous 5,000 articles.
 * Malayalam Wikipedia's inbuilt  typing  tool solution was customised for Tamil by Malayalam Wikimedians   Junaid  and Shiju with the help of Tamil Wikipedians and it was installed in  Tamil Wikipedia in November 2010. (It has since been added   to Tamil  Wiktionary too)
 * A short URL facility based on the  Shortify URL  system was implemented in March 2011. This facility was   customised for  Tamil Wikipedia by Wikipedians Yuvi Panda and Srikanth   (Logicwiki)
 * On April 20, 2011, Tamil Wikipedian P. M. Punniyameen assisted by his  family members and other Tamil Wikipedians   attempted a feat to create  200 articles within a 24 hour period. This   collaborative effort was a  huge success and 300 articles were created,   proofread and categorised in  a single day.

Tamil Wiktionary

 * The  uploading of  the technical glossary donated by the Tamilnadu   Government and Tamil Virtual University to Tamil Wiktionary was   completed in October 2010. This made Tamil wiktionary a Top 10   Wiktionary globally and earned it a place in the Wiktionary.org   homepage. Nearly 70,000 words were added in this uploading effort.
 * In  May 2011, the uploading part of another word donation project was completed. This donation came from Sorkovai - a Tamil technical glossary   project compiled by a group of Canadian Tamil enthusiasts. Nearly  2,000  words were added in this effort.
 * Currently, Tamil Wiktionary has  2,01,000 words and has become the first Indic language  Wiktionary to  reach the 2,00,000 word mark.

Tamil Wikinews and Wikisource

 * Apart   from Wikipedia and Wiktionary, Tamil Wikinews is also an active Tamil Wikimedia project. With nearly 1500 news articles, it ranks 13th in  the   list of Wikinews sites.  About 2 to 3 new news articles are published   every day.
 * Next in the list of Tamil Wiki projects (ordered by activity   levels) is Wikisource with more than 10,000 pages. Current  efforts   include uploading of ancient Tamil literary works and the  Tamil Bible.

Translatewiki

 * Tamil Wikipedian Surya Prakash. S. A. who took part in the Translatewiki  April rally made more than 500 new translations. He was one among the winners who split a collective prize of 1000 Euro sponsored by Wikia.