Malayalam Wikisource on CD
Here is an interesting thing from the Malayalam Wikimedia community I just saw: Wikisource Offline. Here is what it looks like. You’ll need Malayalam fonts installed to see how it looks. Details of how to install these are on Malayalam Wikipedia.
The Malayalam community has already put out a CD with 500 articles from Wikipedia, but this seems to be the first offline/CD distribution of Wikisource texts.
According to Santhosh Thottingal’s post, the CD contains novels, religious texts, poems and much more. I also read that the Malayalam community are working hard on translating texts from other languages including English into Malayalam. Putting them on CD is a really good way of getting these texts out to schools and the many places that still don’t have Internet access.
Creative Commons + community + decent input support + Unicode + passion = people doing interesting and awesome things in languages you probably haven’t heard of.
