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
S. Parvathi, a Tamil teacher at Panchayat Union
Middle School , Kandampatti in Salem
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. She said that, 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.
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 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. She said that, penetration of internet is increasing
and more articles in Tamil are becoming essential nowadays.
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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