# விக்கிப்பீடியா:தமிழ் விக்கிப்பீடியா பத்தாண்டுகள்/கூடல்கள்/சென்னை/கருத்துகள்

## இரகீம்

(மின்மடல் மூலம் இரவியிடம் தெரிவித்தது)  
I was invited for Tamil Wikipedia's decennial celebrations recently by Ravishankar.  
My association with Ravishankar was from the days I initially started working more focussed towards Telugu wikipedia while at Hyderabad. He startd with monthly meetups and encouraged other wikipedians to join.  
After almost two years, I was meeting him back.  
And the occasion was Tamil Wikipedia's ten years celebrations.  
The event was spread across two days, the first one was a field trip to Mamallapuram and second day was a formal event at Anna university amidst Tamil wikipedians and stalwarts from various fields.  
I reached the venue a day before and had this opportunity meet wikipedians coming from Srilanka. It was a very nice opportunity sharing thoughts on developing wikipedia and sister projects. In the evening, I and Sancheevini visited a nearby temple and had lot of exchange of thoughts during our journey. We exchanged our ideas and opinions. Next, reaching venue for dinner, i met this super human Sundar Lakshmanan, I was amazed by his knowledge on a diaspora of topics. Indeed every wikipedian is such a beautiful person with enormous knowledge. Mayuranathan, another such person and also the first Tamil wikipedian was there to welcome us both. After dinner, a small talk was initiated and went on till late night.  
Next day morning, we got ready and went out for breakfast; after returning from breakfast Vishnu and Sowmyan reached. We had a lot of talks and conversations. Then, we set out for Mamallapuram. First we reached Anna Centenary library, met few other wikipedians, and got into the bus. Throughout journey, there were different persons coming from different backgrounds meeting each other for the first time face to face, surprisingly it was least suggested. Everyone knew each other already through their edits over wikipedia. This shows how wikipedia strengthens society towards knowing each other more better than any other social networking site.  
We reached Mahabalipuram around noon and headed for lunch first. Then we visited various monuments. In the mean time I got a chance to talk to many more people, more versatile and varying fields of interest each. We played around, singing, photo sessions, it was all fun. By evening we headed to seashore temple and beach. At beach, we had this game where every one sat around in a circular formation and suggested his own idea of wiki and probable way of implementing it. I suppose this was documented and is available for others to work upon.  
Returning back, I had busy talk with newly met friends.  
Next day morning, was the big day. Delegates from Government, FSMTN, TVU, and other organisations along with press media had arrived well in time.  
There were panel discussions and some book releases happened on stage. It was good if all the points discussed could have been documented as well and few of those points marked as goals for the coming years.  
Post event, I had a big talk with Selvakumar which might have disturbed others in the group. But it gave me some clarification about Tamil alphabet and spoken form of Tamil.  
This event proved a great opportunity for me to take back some points and implement them in Te wikipedia from ta wikipedia.  
Hope Tamil wikipedia shines to greater heights and Tamil wikipedians work more towards the ultimate goal of contributing to sum of human knowledge.