NOTICE : Tomorrow, sunday, Feb 19 event is canceled, due to unstable political conditions, in Chennai.
Todays event notes : Explained about the wikipedia projects to the students. With tamil Wikipedia team, Discussed about the changes required for articles on TN temples. https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/tntemples Here are the sample articles - http://bit.ly/2l6lFZi Will plan for the changes required and start the test upload tomorrow. To know more about the project, read here - https://ta.wikipedia.org/s/5ghm Sample data given by TN govt - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JKhT_N8bJZodQmlX-iLI476v9tK3hdxUdvbqmAKxjSQ/edit#gid=0 Sample article - https://ta.wikipedia.org/s/5gez Thanks for the participants. 2017-02-17 21:54 GMT+05:30 Shrinivasan T <tshriniva...@gmail.com>: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Shrinivasan T <tshriniva...@gmail.com> > Date: 2017-02-17 21:53 GMT+05:30 > Subject: Tamil Wikipedia edit-a-thon - Automation > To: il...@freelists.org > > > Tamil Wikipedians are conducting a two day automation workshop & edit-a-thon > to > > Upload articles about Temples in Tamil Nadu. > > > Recently, Tamil Nadu government provided data about ~40,000 > > temples in Tamilnadu in an excel sheet. As the data is authentic, Tamil > > Wikipedians wish to publish all the details in Tamil Wikipedia. > > > Instead of manually creating articles with the content, we can write > > bot, a.k.a small program to publish the contents in ta.wikipedia.org, > > automatically. > > > Tamil Wikipedia team, conducting a two days event to complete this > > task in a single go. > > > We invite you learn about Wikipedia, Wikipedia API, writing bots for > > wikipedia etc., > > > Dates : Feb 18,19 2017 (two days) > > Time : 10.00 - 4.00 > > Venue : Chennai Institute of Technology > > Sarathi Nagar, Kundrathur, State Highway 113, Chennai - 69 > > > Route : Free College bus will be available from Kundrathur Bus stand by 9 AM. > > Govt buses are available from Pammal Bus Stand. Google Map directions here . > https://goo.gl/maps/VJrtpHmj3Mx > > Contact : Ravi - (9943168304, 9986993336) > > > All are welcome. > > Formal announcement on Tamil Wikipedia can be found here. > https://goo.gl/AG4hdY > > > Attend the event to learn wikipedia APIs, writing bots, helping > wikimedia community with programming. > > Attending the event, any one the day also fine. > > > > -- > Regards, > T.Shrinivasan > > > My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com > Free E-Magazine on Free Open Source Software in Tamil : http://kaniyam.com > > Get Free Tamil Ebooks for Android, iOS, Kindle, Computer : > http://FreeTamilEbooks.com > > > -- > Regards, > T.Shrinivasan > > > My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com > Free E-Magazine on Free Open Source Software in Tamil : http://kaniyam.com > > Get Free Tamil Ebooks for Android, iOS, Kindle, Computer : > http://FreeTamilEbooks.com -- Regards, T.Shrinivasan My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com Free E-Magazine on Free Open Source Software in Tamil : http://kaniyam.com Get Free Tamil Ebooks for Android, iOS, Kindle, Computer : http://FreeTamilEbooks.com _______________________________________________ Chennaipy mailing list Chennaipy@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chennaipy
