[Chennaipy] Tamil Wikipedia edit-a-thon - Automation

[Shrinivasan T]

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 <tshrinivasan at gmail.com>:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Shrinivasan T <tshrinivasan at gmail.com>
> Date: 2017-02-17 21:53 GMT+05:30
> Subject: Tamil Wikipedia edit-a-thon - Automation
> To: ilugc at 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
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> 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
>
>
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>
>
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