Invitation of youths: contribute to the protection and dissemination of Tamil cultural heritage

Tamil youths in Norway is inviting everyone who is interested in writing Tamil-Norwegian local history at lokalhistoriewiki.no.

Mathushiya Pirabaharan, Amirtha Philip and Pakalon Nirmalan are three Tamil youths from the wiki workshop in summer 2021. Ola Alsvik is a researcher at the Norwegian Local History Institute. He is one of the members of the steering team of the “Tamil-Norwegian history and culture” project at lokalhistoriewiki.no. In October 2021, they participated at two Tamil radio stations in Norway to inform and talk about the importance of this project.

They invite interested people to develop academic skills and social skills such as personality development and social involvement through involving in recording the history and culture of Diaspora Tamils. They also express that this is a good platform to meet different cultures to reflect the history and culture of Tamils ​​as part of Norwegian history and heritage.

“Tamil-Norwegian history and culture” project

The website, lokalhistoriewiki.no is a site with wiki technology. The website was started in 2007 and is administrated by the Norwegian Local History Institute at the National Library of Norway. Thus, it is a Norwegian state administrated wiki site. But all the content at the lokalhistoriewiki.no is created through voluntary work and participatory contribution by the Norwegian public. And the staff of the Norwegian Local History Institute provide guidance and help.

In summer 2020, a Tamil-Norwegian history project was reactivated at the Norwegian Local History Institute (Norsk Lokalhistorsk Institutt – NLI). A group of young Tamils participated in a wiki workshop in summer 2021. Around 26 wiki articles were written in approximately 2 months.

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