Tamil teacher to participate in Wikimania
S. Parvathi
She will be one among the 10 persons selected from the
country and one among the two persons selected from the State for
participating in Wikimania 2013, an annual international conference of
the Wikimedia movement, to be held in Hong Kong, China between August 7
and 11.
S. Parvathi, a Tamil teacher at Panchayat
Union Middle School, Kandampatti in Salem rural block, has contributed
500 articles, edited 10,500 articles and wrote three books for children
in the Tamil language edition of Wikipedia and was selected for her
continuous contribution to the portal.
Talking about
her journey in the knowledge world, she said that while searching for
projects for class eight students in the website, she could not find
suitable documents in Tamil and that made her mind to contribute
something to the growth of development of the language. “It is the
passion towards Tamil that started contributions in 2001. An article on
Onam festival was published as main story and it motivated me,” she
said.
The Tamil Wikipedia currently has 52,000
articles when compared to 12 lakh in English. It is the second largest
Wikipedia among Indian languages by article count and 59{+t}{+h}largest
in the world. Ms. Parvathi along with Sengai Podhuvan from Chennai were
selected for contributions to Tamil while the rest eight were selected
for their contributions in Oriya, Gujarati, Malayalam, Kannada and
Hindi.
Her contributions were in subjects dealing
with noble laureates, scientists, Tamil literature and grammar apart
from general issues. “Penetration of internet is increasing and more
articles in Tamil are becoming essential nowadays,” added the teacher.
Though
there is no financial incentive for posting articles and editing works,
she is happy about the contributions to the growth of Tamil language.
She wanted more women to contribute for the Tamil Wikipedia and be a
part of knowledge sharing society.
About 2,500 people
representing 200 languages are expected to take part in the conference
that would help them to learn and share experience and come out with new
knowledge initiatives across the world.
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