Tamil Wikipedia
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Logo of the Tamil Wikipedia
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The homepage of the Tamil Wikipedia (December, 2013)
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| Web address | ta |
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| Slogan | கட்டற்ற கலைக்களஞ்சியம் |
| Commercial? | No |
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Internet encyclopedia |
| Registration | Open read access. No registration needed for general editing, but necessary for certain tasks including
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| Available in | Tamil |
| Users | 77,750+ (as of March 2015) |
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Creative Commons Attribution/ Share-Alike 3.0 (most text also dual-licensed under GFDL) Media licensing varies |
| Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
| Launched | September 2003 |
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 7(Global ), 6 (US) (US/Global 03/2015) |
The Tamil Wikipedia is the Tamil language edition of Wikipedia, run by the Wikimedia Foundation.[1] It was established in September 2003 and crossed 57,000 articles on November 2013. The Tamil Wikipedia is the 61st largest Wikipedia and the second largest Wikipedia among Indian languages by article count. It is also the first Wikipedia of Dravidian origin to possess more than 10,000 articles. The project is one of the leading Wikipedia among other South Asian language Wikipedia's in various quality matrices.[2] It has more than 69,400 articles and 82,000 registered users as of October 2015[update].[3]
Cultural Significance
Contrary to common academic criticism of Wikipedia in the Western countries, the Tamil Wikipedia is widely regarded as an important source of information in the Tamil language on the Internet.[4] The encyclopedia undergoes far less vandalism compared to larger Wikipedia projects, largely because the project has slower growth, mainly due to the lack of computers or Internet service in rural areas of Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka. Most of the project's development comes from the overseas Tamil diaspora.[4][5]
In April 2010, the Tamil Internet Conference held a contest for college students across the state of Tamil Nadu, India for increasing content on the Tamil Wikipedia.[6] The contest was made with regards to the World Classical Tamil Conference 2010, a meeting of Tamil scholars across the world who discuss modern development of the language. With over 2000 contestants enrolled, the contest concluded with the creation of 1,200 new academically reviewed articles on the Tamil Wikipedia in various subjects.[7]
In September 2013, The Tamil Wikipedia celebrated its 10th year anniversary.[8]
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References
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- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Tamil Wikipedia 1000 Articles CD Project Proposal – Version 1.0 : MAYU’s Personal Blog
- ↑ The Photologue of the Tamil Wikipedia Academy | kiruba.com
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தமிழ் edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
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- Tamil Wikipedia (Tamil)
- Tamil Wikipedia mobile version
- Tamil Wikipedia on Meta-Wiki
- Wikipedia.org multilingual portal
- Wikimedia Foundation
- Statistics for Tamil Wikipedia by Erik Zachte
- Tamil Wikipedia: A case study, presented at Wikimania 2009 by L. Balasundara Raman
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