Template:Sri Lankan Tamil Who is Who: A Pilot Project
| Project Number | NF/PG/2014/0003 | Grant Agency / Donors | Noolaham Foundation | Project Owner | Kopinath Thillainathan |
| Project Mentor | Kopinath Thillainathan | Project Locations | Jaffna | Project Period | 2013 - 2014 |
| Stakeholders | Vidivu Australia Limited, Seran Sivananthamoorthy, |
The Sri Lankan Tamil Who is Who Pilot Project was carried out by Noolaham to initiate a biographical reference resource about personalities from the Sri Lankan Tamil communities. Even though a small number of biographical dictionaries and family histories exist, there are no comprehensive biographical reference resources about Sri Lankan Tamils. By starting this initiative Noolaham Foundation expects to fill that information gap.
Entries about 612 personalities were created during the project period. Even though the initial target number of entries was not met, Noolaham Foundation successfully tested various strategies to collect information about people and verifying such information. A Mediawiki platform was created to continue updating the ‘who is who’ entries. As a pilot initiative, this project has paved way to create a vast collection of biographical reference resources.
