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Wikipedia Takes Chennai

Wikipedia Takes Chennai is a a scavenger hunt and free content photography in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India in association with The Knowledge Foundation, Chennai. This is inspired by "Wikipedia Takes The City" that happens all around the world. The aim of this exercise is to encourage participants to compete to take photographs of as many local sights as possible for Wikipedia articles. This is aimed at illustrating Wikipedia articles, thereby nourishing Wikipedia and promote awareness about Wikipedia in the city.

All Wikipedians and non-Wikipedians were invited to participate in team of up to three (no special knowledge was required at all, just a digital camera and a love of the city).

The event is to be held on Sunday, 16th August, 2009. It is the starting day of the week long celebrations of Madras Day.

Prizes are not yet decided. If you would like to donate something, please contact the organizers.

Pre-event discussion

Chennai based articles that need Photographs

A list of articles needing photographs can be compiled from sources such as Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Chennai and Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Tamil Nadu, and even by manually going through articles in subcategories of Category:Chennai.

Please list down the links to the articles that need photos below.

• Category:Tamil literature: Marina beach is lined with statues of Tamil literary figures - poets (e.g. Avvaiyar), scholars (e.g. G.U. Pope) and characters from Tamil literature (e.g. Kannagi). Having a photo of each of those statues on Commons would be excellent from the point of view of illustrating these articles. -- Arvind (talk) 11:49, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
• Tamil nationalism: If I remember correctly, the municipal corporation building in Chennai (the one by Chennai Central station) has a huge neon "Valka Tamil" sign that's turned on at night. That would be nice to have as an example of Tamil cultural nationalism. -- Arvind (talk) 11:49, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
• Photos of the major temples and churches - we have some, but important ones are missing e.g. Vadapalani Andavar Temple and Ashtalakshmi Kovil -- Arvind (talk) 11:49, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
• Chennai Suburban Railway: Pictures of the individual stations of the suburban railway system will help too. Regards, Ganeshk (talk) 12:03, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

Exercise caution doing this. I am not sure, but you may require permission. Read page 13 here. Organisers can help in this regard. Srikanth (speak) 12:24, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

• Transport: Pictures of MTC,SETC,TNSTC buses,CMBT,Broadway bus stands, NH 4, NH 5, NH 45,East Coast Road,and any major road / flyovers in Chennai will help Transport in Chennai , Indian Roads Projects — Preceding unsigned comment added by Logicwiki (talk • contribs)

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Organizers

• Kirubashankar (talk) 10:58, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
• Karthik Narayan

Participants

• RajasekarNonburaj (talk) | rajaobj at gmail dot com | 9840727371
• Balakumar Muthu | balakumar.muthu at gmail dot com | 9941189227
• Dinesh Cyanam (talk) | dinesh at cyanam dot net | 9884397154
• Sankarapandian T | spnjsp at gmail dot com | 9381090864

Not in Chennai but still willing to help

• Srikanth (speak) 12:14, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
• Ganeshk (talk) 12:22, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
• -- Tinu Cherian - 12:30, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
• Naveenpf (talk) 12:36, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

Categories illustrated

See the full list at commons:Commons:Wikipedia Takes Chennai.