---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Shrinivasan T <tshrinivasan@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 11:58 AM Subject: The TamilWiki Media contest To: ILUG-C <ilugc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Tamil Wikipedia is conducting a Media Contest. Participate and upload your photos, audio and video files, animations, graphs and maps related to Tamil and Tamils. The TamilWiki Media contest is being organised to increase the quality media content related to Tamil and Tamilians in Wikimedia projects, To attract non-text contributors like photographers, graphic artists, animators, map makers and videographers to Tamil wiki projects. Not everyone can write articles can Wikipedia. Some may don't have enough time to write articles while some may not like writing articles. But taking photographs or videos might be easier and preferable for them. They might also possess many multimedia files they have created in the past. Moreover the procedure for uploading files to Wikimedia has become simple now. So anyone can take part in this contest easily and contribute to Tamil Wiki projects. By uploading the files to Wikimedia Commons - a sister project of Wikipedia, they can be be used not only in Tamil Wikipedia but also in other language wikipedias and other Wikimedia projects like Wiktionary, Wikibooks and Wikinews Dates: November 15, 2011 - February 29, 2012 Social Media: Facebook – #twmc on Twitter – Blog E-Mail: tamil.wikipedia [at] gmail.com Total Prize money: 850 US Dollars I-II-III prizes - 200-100-50 $ Consolation prizes - 2 X 25 $ Continuous contribution prizes - 3 x 100 $ Special category prize - 150 $ Topics: Photos, animations, videos, graphs, maps, audio files related to Tamil and Tamils Upload : @Wikimedia Commons Contest Portal: http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contest/en Banners: http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/விக்கிப்பீடியா:தமிழ்_விக்கி_ஊடகப்_போட்டி/பதாகைகள்; Post the banners with a link back to http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contest/en in all your blogs/sites. Please spread the information to your friends and social media. -- Regards, T.Shrinivasan My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com Free/Open Source Jobs : http://fossjobs.in Get CollabNet Subversion Edge : http://www.collab.net/svnedge -- Regards, T.Shrinivasan My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com Free/Open Source Jobs : http://fossjobs.in Get CollabNet Subversion Edge : http://www.collab.net/svnedge Kanchilug Blog : http://kanchilug.wordpress.com To subscribe/unsubscribe kanchilug mailing list : http://kanchilug.wordpress.com/join-mailing-list/