WikiConference India 2011/Submissions/Colloborating with corporates - the Tamil Wiki experience
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- Timestamp
- 20:41, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
- Title of the submission
Colloborating with corporates - the Tamil Wiki experience
- Type of submission (workshop, tutorial, or presentation)
Presentation/Talk
- Author of the submission
- E-mail address or username (if username, please confirm email address in Special:Preferences)
sodaottle@gmail.com
- State of your origin (Country, if you are not based in India)
Tamil Nadu, India
- Affiliation, if any (organization, company etc.)
None
- Personal homepage or blog
None
- Abstract (maximum 500 words)
During the past two years Tamil wikipedia has tried to collaborate with two big corporates - Google and Microsoft. The Google translation project was a large scale community wide effort which saw tens of Tamil wikipedians put in thousands of man hours to make the project work and ultimately fail. The other one is the Microsoft's Wikibasha tool project, which after some initial missteps, went in the right direction but has stalled due to community disinterest. This presentation will document the backgrounds of, the community experience and the lessons learnt from both projects.
- Track (Community/Knowledge/Outreach/Technology)
Community
- Will you attend Wikiconference if your submission is not accepted?
Maybe (As of now yes. But November is too far away to tell with 100% certainty)
- Slides or further information (optional)