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Exploring the Opportunities and Challenges in Contributing to Tamil Wikimedia

2023; Springer Science+Business Media; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-3-031-33231-9_18

1865-0937

C. N. Subalalitha, S. Thangasamy, R Nithya, Info-farmer, Neechalkaran,

Open Education and E-Learning

The term "Wikipedia" is one of the most frequent words that pop up in the minds of all the academicians and the researchers across the globe as it serves to be one of the most important data sources. Wikipedia is one of the projects of "Wikimedia". The Wikimedia project includes Wikipedia, Wikinews, Wikisource, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, and Wikidata. All these projects are successfully done and still being enhanced by the consistent efforts of volunteers from all parts of the world. This article elucidates the experiences of such volunteers, Info-Farmer and Neechalkaran who have been contributing to the Tamil Wikimedia projects for more than 12 years. This article focusses on bringing out the challenges and problems faced by most of Tamil Wikimedia contributors who are called, "Tamil Wikimedians". The article also insists about the benefits of being part of Tamil Wikimedia. The prime aim of this article is to encourage more volunteers to contribute to Tamil Wikimedia.