பயனர்:Mayooranathan/Wikimania2010

Tamil Wikipedia: A Study of The Challenges and Potentials in Relation to Socio-Cultural Context of the Tamil Community

• Tamil Community Background Information
  • Definition
  • Population and Distribution
  • Language
  • Brief socio-cultural and political history

• Tamil Community and its Socio-Cultural Background
  • Early phase
  • Sanskritization
  • Colonial Rule and English Domination
  • Growth of Tamil Nationalistic Sentiments
  • Independance and Political Realities
  • Migration and its Impact

• Tamil Wikipedia
  • Current Status
  • Challenges and their Socio-cultural Background
    • Taking Tamil Wikipedia to the People
      • Socio-cultural and Economic Issues
      • Understanding the Needs
    • Lack of Contributors
      • Socio-cultural and Economic Issues
      • Familiarity Issues
    • Language Related Issues
      • Terminology Issues
      • Usage of Foreign Words
      • Transliteration
      • Differences of Language usage within the Community
    • Miscellaneous

• • Meeting the Challenge
    • Popularizing Tamil Wikipedia
      • Blogs, online media, mass media, books
    • Efforts to Improve Contributor Participation
      • Work Shops
    • Handling Language Issues
      • Discussions, Help pages, Wiktionary
    • Government Initiatives
      • Article Competition
    • Managing Miscellaneous Issues
      • Google Translation Issues

• • Potentials
    • Role as an Encyclopedia
    • Role beyond its use as an Encyclopedia
      • Co-ordination platform for terminology creation and usage
      • Facilitates co-ordination between geographically separated community groups
      • Widening Knowledge domain
      • Powerful media for knowledge transfer and distribution

• • Planning for the Future
    • Improving Content
      • Number of Articles, Useful Content, Quality
    • Improving Contributor base
    • Improving Tools and Resources
    • Improving Community Awareness