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New Delhi: Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia is on a massive drive to increase the content of Tamil on its site.
With almost 5 million articles on the site, Wikipedia currently receives around 89oo articles a month from users. Keeping this in mind, Tamil Wikipedia is striving to increase the number of articles that it receives.
- Wikipedia is on a drive in Tamil Nadu to build Tamil content for its site.
- Currently, receiving around 8900 articles a month from users, Tamil Wikipedia is striving to increase the scope and number of articles it receives.
- Tamil Wiktionary - Has Tamil meanings for 3,13,000+ words. Ranks first among Indian language Wiktionaries and Top 20 among global wiktionaries.
- A major change is possible here when Google voice search is enabled for Tamil like in Hindi.
- The quality of writing - writing for an encyclopaedia-format is also different from writing blogs and Facebook posts that most are comfortable with.
- The core focus had always been in building more quality content across all topics.
