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General

 * Malayalam Wikimedians conducted the "10th Anniversary of Wikipedia" celebrations and "8th Anniversary of Malayalam Wikipedia" celebrations in Kannur on 2011 January 15. The event was organised with the support of Kannur District Library Council and Kerala Sasthra Sahithya Parishat (Kannur District Committee). The meeting started with Kannur District Library Council Secretary P. K. Baiju welcoming all. Ex Kerala University Vice-Chancellor and Social Worker Dr. B. Iqbal inaugurated the event by delivering his speech online. Language computing researcher and a teacher from Mahe MG College, Dr. Mahesh Mangalat presided over the function. In association with this, a study class and discussions on Malayalam Wikipedia and free information was also conducted. The audience was also briefed about the sister concerns of Wikipedia. The participants expressed their delight after the function on knowing how to edit in Wikipedia and how to be part of the community.
 * Around   14 Malayalam wiki workshops were conducted during the period 2010    October to 2011 May in various districts of Kerala and in neighboring    states. Out of these, 12 were in Kerala, one was in Madurai and another    one was in Bangalore. In Kerala study classes were conducted In the    districts of Kozhikode, Kannur, Kottayam, Kasargod, Kollam, Malappuram,    Alappuzha, Ernakulam, Kannur, Thrissur and Thiruvananthapuram.
 * Malayalam Wikimedians conducted an event called Malayalam loves Wikimedia from 2011 April 2 to April 25 to encourage and educate Malayalam Wikipedia users to contribute to Wikimedia Commons. Through this event we aimed in contributing the maximum copyleft informative images to Wikimedia Commons. The event was covered in main stream medias as well. Due to an overwhelming participation, Malayalam Wikipedians contributed over 2155 images to Wikimedia Commons.
 * Malayalam   Wikimedian Junaid developed a MediaWiki extension called Narayam which    helps Malayalam Wikipedia users to type Malayalam in Wikipedia without    using any external tools.  With this extension, users are able to type    Malayalam in almost all text boxes of Malayalam Wiki projects. Later   this tool was extended to be used with Wikis of other Indian languages.

Malayalam Wikipedia

 * On 2010 December 21, the same day of Malayalam Wikipedia's 8th anniversary, Malayalam Wikipedia completed 16,0000 articles. On 2011 March 10, Malayalam Wikipedia crossed 17,000 articles.
 * On 2011   January 22, Malayalam Wikipedia finished 1 million edits. With this    Malayalam Wikipedia became the first Indian Wikipedia to have over a    million edits.
 * Malayalam Wikipedia started a project called   Malayalam Wikipedia Map Project which aimed in creating    open-source maps related to places and districts in Kerala, maintain    categories related to maps of Kerala, convert raster map images to    vector images and also to encourage new users in creating maps.

Malayalam Wikisource

 * Added Panchathanthram Kilippattu by Kunchan Nambiar to Wikisource
 * The efforts are in full swing to add Aithihyamala by Kottarathil Sankunni to Wikisource
 * Started adding the complete collection of Chattambi Swamikal to Wikisource
 * Aesop's fables are being made available a few at a time. Currently 38 fables are online . Many of them illustrated.

Malayalam Wikiquotes
It   has to be stated at the outset that Malyalam WIKIQUOTE (mlwq) seems  to   have the least participation among the various Malayalam wikimedia    projects. At present there appearsto be only a couple of active editors. In the last few months the wikiqoute homepage received a major   facelift. The main subpages at present incude: Of   these, there have been  inputs in the 1st and eighth categories. However these too seem like single handed efforts. It does appear that   contributors to other wikimedia projects are not aware of the  activities   and relevance  of wikiquote ! The traditonal proverbs section of   malayalam wikiquote can definitely be said to be by far the  largest and   most exhaustive repository of malayalam  quotes availabe  on the  internet  at present. However we have miles and miles to go. Malayalam has  plenty more to offer in terms of quotes and the iceberg  is buried  far  too deep at present.
 * 1) Traditional proverbs
 * 2) Folk riddles
 * 3) Movies
 * 4) Literary works
 * 5) Themes
 * 6) Idioms
 * 7) similies and metaphors
 * 8) quotes from Famous personalities / scriptural quotes
 * 9) folk songs.

Malayalam Wiktionary
ml wikitonary aims to provide not just definitions, but also:


 * 1) examples of usage,
 * 2) related proverbs,
 * 3) quotations and citations using the said word,
 * 4) synonyms, antynomys ,
 * 5) dialectial/regional variations in usage

Towards   this end ml wiktionary has made only small strides so far. The number   of wiktionarians stands at 62, which is a mere increae of 3 during the period under review. Also the present database is a small 20MB, an increase of 5% from the previous year. Entries   currently are mainly one word or one sentence definitions. Particpation in this wikimedia project is abysmally low and seems mainly   bot aided. Malayalm being a very synonym rich language, wiktionary   should have a great future, as it appears that there is no other  source   on the internet that provides as much lexicographical  information  as   ml wikitionary.

Malayalam Wikibooks
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