RE: [Internal-l] Looking for stories of readers affected by Wikipedia

[Sri Sritharan]

tamilwi...@googlegroups.com

இற்கு அனுப்புங்கள். மார்ச் மாதத்துக்குப் பின்னர் ஒரு மடலும் இடப்படவில்லை. மீண்டும் புதுப்பிப்போம். இதுவரை இணையாதவர்கள் இணைந்து கொள்ளுங்கள்.

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> Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 20:40:48 -0800
> From: sunda...@yahoo.com
> Subject: Fw: [Internal-l] Looking for stories of readers affected by Wikipedia
> To: rmayoor...@gmail.com; natk...@gmail.com; ksth...@hotmail.com; ravishankar...@gmail.com; c.r.sel...@gmail.com; sodab...@gmail.com; manimal...@gmail.com; kalai...@gmail.com
>
> இது போன்ற மடல்களை இனி தமிழ் விக்கி மடற்குழுவுக்கு அனுப்பலாமா? நம்மில்
> அனைவருக்கும் அதன் மடல்கள் வருகின்றனவா?
>
> - சுந்தர்
> "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for
> the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted."
> - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture
>
>
>
> ----- Forwarded Message ----
> > From: BalaSundaraRaman
> > To: "Local Chapters, board and officers coordination (closed subscription)"
> >
> > Cc: Ravishankar Ayyakkannu
> > Sent: Wed, November 17, 2010 9:45:50 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Internal-l] Looking for stories of readers affected by Wikipedia
> >
> > Hi Sue,
> >
> > I just got reminded of the following story about how students and staff of a
> > village school benefited from Tamil Wikipedia.
> > We found this from an article in a magazine called "pudhiya thalaimurai" (New
>
> > Generation) and another blogpost.[1]
> > It is about how a school headmaster Mr.Jothimani transformed the state-funded
>
> > free education school at a village Mangudi near Kumbakonam in Tamil Nadu.
> >Among
> >
> > others, it includes a section on how Tamil Wikipedia and Wiktionary are being
>
> > used by the students and staff.
> > Subsequently, a Tamil Wikipedian Ravishankar Ayyakkannu (User:Ravidreams)
> >called
> >
> > Mr.Jothimani over phone and collected more information.
> > He wrote the findings in the Tamil Wikipedia blogpost.[2]
> >
> > Translation of some excerpts:
> > * Students of sixth, seventh, and eighth standard (aged ~11-13) use Tamil
> > Wikipedia.
> >
> > * One class everyday is dedicated for Wikipedia during school hours. During
> >this
> >
> > period, students research about the topics that they learned that day in other
> >
> > classes (examples below). If they need to access the Wiki for their home work,
> >
> > writing or speaking contests, students spend time online during lunch or after
> >
> > hours.
> >
> > * They find the information accessible most of the time.
> >
> > * Teachers too find it useful.
> >
> > * They felt that they could use more of local information about their district
> >
> > and about Tamil Nadu and India in general.
> >
> > * Example use cases: if the teacher gives a topic "statesmen", students look
>
> > for Nehru, Kamarajar, etc., If they give a story writing contest of the title
> >"a
> >
> > story of itself told by River Cauvery", they search for the article on the
> >river
> >
> > and write the details in first person. They also go find other interlinked
> > articles on Coorg, Poombuhar, etc., and get excited about their findings. The
>
> > headmaster finds that the students' creative expression has clearly increased
>
> > after introducing Tamil Wikipedia. A student who would write 20 sentences on a
> >
> > topic now writes 60 sentences.
> >
> > * They also use the Tamil Wiktionary which has nearly two hundred thousand
> > entries including technical glossaries donated by the Tamil Virtual Academy.
> >
> >
> > Given that typically students in such remote villages do not have access to
> >much
> >
> > information, the utility of this exposure is immense.
> > Also, most of the students of state-run schools come from under-previleged and
> >
> > low-income families. Given that, this helps to even out the systemic bias
> > somewhat.
> >
> > I've taken the liberty to copy Ravishankar who spoke to the headmaster.
> >
> > - Sundar
> >
> > [1] - http://infinityholes.blogspot.com/2009/10/blog-post.html (in Tamil)
> > [2] - http://tamilwikipedia.blogspot.com/2009/10/blog-post_5826.html (in
> >Tamil)
> > "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for
>
> > the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted."
> > - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----
> > > From: Sue Gardner
> > > To: "Local Chapters, board and officers coordination (closed subscription)"
>
> > >
> > > Sent: Thu, November 11, 2010 12:01:48 PM
> > > Subject: [Internal-l] Looking for stories of readers affected by Wikipedia
> > >
> > > Hi folks,
> > >
> > > Megan Hernandez on the staff is looking out for me, for stories of
> > > readers whose lives have been impacted by Wikipedia or the other
> > > projects. (Donors often send us stories like that, and I am often
> > > looking for stories to tell people about the projects. So I've asked
> > > her to send good ones to me.)
> > >
> > > I was writing her a set of criteria for the kinds of stories I want,
> > > and it occurred to me that you might yourselves have some good stories
> > > of exactly this kind. So I am sending along the criteria here too :-)
> > > If you have stories that fit many/all of these criteria, please send
> > > them to me, onlist or off. And please forgive my cross-posting to
> > > several lists at once.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Sue
> > >
> > > * Ideally, they'd be along the theme of "how Wikipedia made my life
> > > better." This might be an anecdote, or bigger-picture (ie, 'how
> > > Wikipedia makes my life better every day').
> > >
> > > * Ideally, they would be stories of people who
> > > pre-exposure-to-Wikipedia would have had circumscribed access to
> > > information. Because they grew up in a small town with no library,
> > > because their school didn't stock certain kinds of books, because
> > > materials in their language are of limited availability, because their
> > > government limits access to certain types of information -- in
> > > general, because their economic/political/socio-cultural circumstances
> > > somehow impede(d) easy access to information.
> > >
> > > * Ideally, the information that Wikipedia gives them is important, and
> > > directly, immediately useful. Like, it helped them better understand a
> > > health issue they were having, or it equipped them to do some
> > > important task better; it helped them understand a new situation or
> > > some aspect of themselves, or enabled them to solve an important
> > > problem. Maybe it helped them get a job they otherwise couldn't have
> > > gotten, or enabled them to avoid some specific danger or risk.
> > >
> > > * And/or, the information fed a general curiosity and desire to
> > > understand the world better. It got them interested in going to
> > > college which nobody in their family had done before, it helped them
> > > develop a more thoughtful position on a public policy issue, it
> > > stimulated them to travel or read more widely, or to question
> > > assumptions they had been making.
> > >
> > > * Ideally, their lives are better today because of the information
> > > they are exposed to via Wikipedia. Maybe this would be better in some
> > > really specific way -- like, "Three months later I persuaded my doctor
> > > to let me try the new treatment, and it worked." Or, it might be much
> > > more general.
> > >
> > > * It is fine if the information they found on Wikipedia might
> > > otherwise have been kept from them, either deliberately or through
> > > lack of easy opportunity. It is fine if the information is considered
> > > risky or controversial in some way.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Sue Gardner
> > > Executive Director
> > > Wikimedia Foundation
> > >
> > > 415 839 6885 office
> > > 415 816 9967 cell
> > >
> > > Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in
> > > the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!
> > >
> > > http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
> > >
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> > >
> >

[BalaSundaraRaman]

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"That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted."
- George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture

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To: Sri Sritharan <ksth...@hotmail.com>
Cc: BalaSundaraRaman <sunda...@yahoo.com>; rmayoor...@gmail.com; natk...@gmail.com; c.r.sel...@gmail.com; sodab...@gmail.com; manimal...@gmail.com; kalai...@gmail.com; tamilwi...@googlegroups.com
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