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Kannada Wikipedia Orientation Workshop at IISc, Bengaluru
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/kannada-wikipedia-orientation-workshop-at-iisc-bengaluru
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<p>A Kannada Wikipedia orientation workshop was held at the Entrepreneurship Centre, SID, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru on 26 November, 2017. The day long event was aimed at adding content to Kannada Wikimedia projects on topics such as ecology, environment, wildlife and sciences of Karnataka. The event was organised by Gubbi Labs in conjunction with CIS-A2K. Gubbi Labs is a research collective and social collective run by environmental scientists. The event was attended was attended by 8 participants of which one member was female.</p>
<p>The participants created six articles and expanded one article. The impact of this workshop was the fact that participants were made aware of the importance of open access data. It helped initiate another similar workshop in Mysuru. Upon sharing the idea for projects like Wiki Loves Butterfly Idea, a participant was interested in starting a project titled 'Wiki Loves Spiders'. We are hoping to take this project forward on Kannada Wikipedia.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/kannada-wikipedia-orientation-workshop-at-iisc-bengaluru'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/kannada-wikipedia-orientation-workshop-at-iisc-bengaluru</a>
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No publisherGopalakrishna ACIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaOpennessKannada Wikipedia2017-12-19T16:16:29ZBlog EntryKannada Wikipedia not on top of the charts
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/news/the-hindu-january-19-muralidhara-khajane-kannada-wikipedia-not-on-top-of-the-charts
<b>It occupies the 10th place among Indian languages.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The article by Muralidhara Khajane was <a class="external-link" href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/kannada-wikipedia-not-on-top-of-the-charts/article8123183.ece">published in the Hindu</a> on January 19, 2016. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja was quoted.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Bengaluru being the IT capital of the country has made little difference to Kannada’s presence in the cyber world. Compare any major Indian language on Wikipedia with the 13-year-old Kannada language pages, and you are in for a surprise: Kannada occupies the 10th place among Indian languages, while Urdu occupies the first slot in terms of number of articles.<br /><br />As on January 2016, the number of articles in Kannada Wikipedia is just 19,070, while Tamil (83,432), Telugu (64,451), and Malayalam (41,334) are way ahead. Urdu version occupies the first place with 1,10,367 articles and Hindi version follows with 1,00,912 articles.<br /><br />As far as the world ranking of languages is concerned, Kannada stands 107th. It is interesting to note that Cebuano spoken by 21 million people and second most spoken language in the Philippines stands fourth in the list of global languages with 18,65,033 articles after English, Swedish, and German.<br /><br />It has been 13 years since a small group of tech-savvy Kannadigas got together to create the first few article stubs on Kannada. This resulted in starting the Kannada language edition of Wikipedia in 2003.<br /><br />Though the articles in Wikipedia pages drew flak for their lack of depth and quality initially, the site showed signs of improvement only to fall back again. Initially, it was the issue of fonts that came in the way of developing Kannada pages and interestingly very few people knew that Wikipedia could be written in a regional language.<br /><br />Omshivaprakash, one of the five administrators of Wikipedia’s Kannada version, blames laxity in community participation for Kannada version’s poor show. “Authors, publishers, government bodies don’t seem to be confident enough to use Wikipedia platform. Not many show interest to learn and contribute,” he says.<br /><br />Awareness of Kannada Wikipedia, lack of awareness about Kannada typing tools, Internet accessibility issues, and lack of self-motivated volunteers who can drive the Wiki learning activities are reasons for the slowdown, he says.<br /><br />Admitting that Kannada Wikipedia is lagging behind in terms of quantity (number of articles), U.B. Pavanaja, another administrator, argued that it was however good in terms of quality.<br /><br />Attributing the rise in number of articles in other Indian language versions, especially in Tamil and Telugu, to uploading government data, he said, “But we have not done that. Our focus was mainly on quality, rather than quantity and the intention is to make the page more theme-based. We have deleted some 2,000 articles to provide the content in Encyclopaedia format.”<br /><br />According to him, things are now moving in a positive direction with more people showing interest in this community attempt.<br /><br />Kannada Development Authority chairperson L. Hanumanthaiah said he would immediately convene a meeting of administrators of the Kannada version of Wikipedia and discuss the mode of support Kannada bodies could expend in enriching Kannada pages.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><img src="http://editors.cis-india.org/home-images/copy_of_Wiki.png" alt="null" class="image-inline" title="Wiki Kannada" /></p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/news/the-hindu-january-19-muralidhara-khajane-kannada-wikipedia-not-on-top-of-the-charts'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/news/the-hindu-january-19-muralidhara-khajane-kannada-wikipedia-not-on-top-of-the-charts</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KKannada WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-06-18T16:23:37ZNews ItemKannada Wikipedia Education Program at Christ university: Work so far
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/kannada-wikipedia-education-program-at-christ-university-work-so-far
<b>As you know we are working closely with Christ university in Bengaluru for the Education Programs in Kannada Wikipedia and Kannada Wikisource, we worked on redesigning the programme for this academic year 2016-17 based on the lessons learned from the earlier intervention.</b>
<p id="docs-internal-guid-5d7cde76-7547-2867-cc52-7be3d80b126a" dir="ltr">Before beginning this programme, we provided training for campus ambassadors who in turn provided training to the faculty and fellow students. This new design of the programme allowed us to spend more time with the undergraduate students of various disciplines in Arts, Science and Commerce that are part of the programme. And this exercise resulted in improving the quality of the articles created by the students. So far, 218 second-year students in total have created 108 good quality articles in Kannada Wikipedia and 70 start class articles. The latter ones will need further work like adding images and citations. 20 of the articles are stub-start class articles, and 20 more are stubs of poor quality. The articles are still in the user sandboxes for the evaluation work and will soon be moved to the article namespace.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The freshman year students contributed in digitising books on Kannada Wikisource by proofreading about 2000 folios from four books.</p>
<h3 dir="ltr">How we did things differently this time?</h3>
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<p dir="ltr">Focus on multiple workshops that were conducted by multiple facilitators to ensure the series does not become monotonous. Facilitators included myself, some of the faculty and the Campus Ambassadors where the latter was useful for more peer-to-peer to learning.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Sessions were made more interactive and were spaced evenly that gave the students go through a learning curve.</p>
</li><li style="list-style-type: disc;" dir="ltr">Faculty support and engagement that was less last year was increased this year.</li></ul>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/kannada-wikipedia-education-program-at-christ-university-work-so-far'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/kannada-wikipedia-education-program-at-christ-university-work-so-far</a>
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No publisherAnanth SubrayCIS-A2KWikipedia Education ProgramWikipediaKannada WikisourceKannada Wikipedia2016-11-18T02:45:05ZBlog EntryKannada Wikipedia Editathon: Vijayavani
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/news/kannada-wikipedia-editathon-vijayavani
<b>The article was published in Vijayavani on December 11, 2015. A scanned version of the article is given below.</b>
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<p><img src="http://editors.cis-india.org/home-images/VijayavaniMangaluruDec112015.jpg/@@images/0a33d6f1-4943-4481-8c56-bd80ae3891f1.jpeg" alt="null" class="image-inline" title="Vijayavani" /><img src="http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/news/kannada-wikipedia-editathon-vijayavani" alt="null" id="__mce_tmp" title="Kannada Wikipedia Editathon: Vijayavani" /></p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/news/kannada-wikipedia-editathon-vijayavani'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/news/kannada-wikipedia-editathon-vijayavani</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KKannada WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-01-05T06:34:46ZNews ItemKannada Wikipedia Editathon: Vijaya Karnataka
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/news/kannada-wikipedia-editathon-vijaya-karnataka
<b>The article was published in Vijaya Karnataka on December 11, 2015. A scanned version of the article is below.</b>
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<p><img src="http://editors.cis-india.org/home-images/VijayaKarnatakaMangaluruDec112015.jpg/@@images/b282e3da-5a01-4064-aa40-dbe6d4226ca6.jpeg" alt="null" class="image-inline" title="Vijayakarnataka" /></p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/news/kannada-wikipedia-editathon-vijaya-karnataka'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/news/kannada-wikipedia-editathon-vijaya-karnataka</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KKannada WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-01-05T06:35:13ZNews ItemKannada Wikipedia Editathon: Udayavani Coverage
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/news/kannada-wikipedia-editathon-udayavani-coverage
<b>The article was published in Udayavani on December 7, 2015. A scanned version of the article is below.</b>
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<p><img src="http://editors.cis-india.org/home-images/UdayavaniMangaluruDec072015.jpg" alt="null" class="image-inline" title="Udayavani" /></p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/news/kannada-wikipedia-editathon-udayavani-coverage'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/news/kannada-wikipedia-editathon-udayavani-coverage</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KKannada WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-01-05T06:36:53ZNews ItemKannada Wikipedia Editathon: Prajavani
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/news/kannada-wikipedia-editathon-prajavani-mangal
<b>The article was published in Prajavani Mangal on December 11, 2015. A scanned version of the article is given below.</b>
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<p><img src="http://editors.cis-india.org/home-images/PrajavaniMangaluruDec112015.jpg/@@images/855a3251-6bb9-43a3-84a8-a3285c5d9976.jpeg" alt="null" class="image-inline" title="Prajavani Mangal" /></p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/news/kannada-wikipedia-editathon-prajavani-mangal'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/news/kannada-wikipedia-editathon-prajavani-mangal</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KKannada WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-01-05T06:40:23ZNews ItemKannada Wikipedia Editathon in Prajavani
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/news/kannada-wikipedia-editathon-in-prajavani
<b>The article was published in Prajavani on December 13, 2015. A scanned version of the article is below.</b>
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<p><img src="http://editors.cis-india.org/home-images/PrajavaniMangaluruDec132015.jpg/@@images/fbc094d4-6ac1-4e14-93ed-666103c6fcfc.jpeg" alt="null" class="image-inline" title="Prajavani Mangaluru Edition" /></p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/news/kannada-wikipedia-editathon-in-prajavani'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/news/kannada-wikipedia-editathon-in-prajavani</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KKannada WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-01-05T06:39:56ZNews ItemKannada Wikipedia Editathon in Mangalore: Udayavani
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/news/kannada-wikipedia-editathon-in-mangalore-udayavani
<b>The article was published in Udayavani on December 11, 2015. A scanned version of the article is given below.</b>
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<p><img src="http://editors.cis-india.org/home-images/UdayavaniMangaluruDec112015.jpg/@@images/a22f9ba2-c6cb-41ee-8daf-6e8143d895ea.jpeg" alt="null" class="image-inline" title="Udayavani " /></p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/news/kannada-wikipedia-editathon-in-mangalore-udayavani'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/news/kannada-wikipedia-editathon-in-mangalore-udayavani</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KKannada WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-01-05T06:36:24ZNews ItemKannada Wikipedia Editathon Coverage in Prajavani
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/news/kannada-wikipedia-prajavani-mangal
<b>The article was published in Prajavani Mangal on December 10, 2015. A scanned version of the article is below.</b>
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<p><img src="http://editors.cis-india.org/home-images/PrajavaniMangaluruDec102015b.jpg/@@images/62c10e73-16ef-44e1-b84a-1be2a70e7e3e.jpeg" alt="null" class="image-inline" title="Prajavani Mangal" /></p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/news/kannada-wikipedia-prajavani-mangal'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/news/kannada-wikipedia-prajavani-mangal</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KKannada WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-01-05T06:40:52ZNews ItemKannada Wikipedia edit-a-thon organised at Sagara, Karnataka
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/kannada-wikipedia-editathon-sagara
<b>A two-day-long Kannada Wikipedia edit-a-thon was organised at Sagara, Karnataka during January 26-27. A photowalk was also organised on the 25th to cover places of encyclopedic importance.</b>
<p>The theme of this edit-a-thon was Mechanical Engineering. 12 editors including seven new editors participated in this event. 20 articles were created/improved and four media files were uploaded. This was first of its kinds of edit-a-thon in Sagara and was useful to improve articles related to the field of mechanical engineering in Kannada Wikipedia which otherwise did not much content nor many editors to contribute in this domain. Six full fledged articles were created during the event. It was planned to organise more such events at Sagara in the future to gather people interested in the same subject area and expand the reach of mechanical engineering in Kannada language.<br /><br />
A day before the edit-a-thon, four active Kannada Wikimedians and I went on a photowalk and clicked about 100 images of places that are important and could be used for Wikipedia articles.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/kannada-wikipedia-editathon-sagara'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/kannada-wikipedia-editathon-sagara</a>
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No publisherAnanth SubrayCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaEdit-a-thonKannada Wikipedia2016-08-22T10:58:40ZBlog EntryKannada Wikipedia edit-a-thon in St. Agnes College, Mangaluru to bridge gender gap in Wikipedia
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/kannada-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-in-st-agnes-college-mangaluru-to-bridge-gender-gap-in-wikipedia
<b>As part of a series of workshops to mark the 13th anniversary, Kannada Wikipedia, a Kannada Wikipedia edit-a-thon was organised during this 10th-12th in St. Agnes College, Mangaluru to address the issue of gender gap in Wikipedia. </b>
<p>Totally 24 female students Wikimedians
participated in this edit-a-thon. Three female Wikipedia editors from the institution also joined as facilitators. Vishwanatha Badikana, Kannada professor of the institution who is also a Kannada and Tulu Wikipedian inaugurated the event as
chief guest. The first day was spent in demonstrating
about the <a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Wiki_markup">Wiki markup</a>. During the following two days the participants created articles
about notable writers and other notable women of coastal Karnataka. 25 new articles were
created by the participants on the second day. By the end of the last day, 25 more articles were created in <a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:About_the_Sandbox">sandboxes</a> on
the last day by lunch time. They will soon work on the articles and improve before moving them to the article namespace so they become live articles. From the three day long edit-a-thon about 75 new
articles are expected to come on Kannada Wikipedia. More details about the edit-a-thon could be read on Kannada Wikipedia <a class="external-link" href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/s/1e9n">event page</a>.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/kannada-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-in-st-agnes-college-mangaluru-to-bridge-gender-gap-in-wikipedia'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/kannada-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-in-st-agnes-college-mangaluru-to-bridge-gender-gap-in-wikipedia</a>
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No publisherpavanajaWikipediaCIS-A2KKannada Wikipedia2016-01-12T11:22:25ZBlog EntryKannada Wikipedia edit-a-thon for Mechanical Engineering students of Sagara
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/kannada-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-for-mechanical-engineering-students-of-sagara
<b>In Sagara, Karnataka, a Kannada Wikipedia edit-a-thon is being planned to be organised during January 26-27.</b>
<p>Kannada Wikipedia has turned 13 this year. Started in June 2003, the
free Kannada-language online encyclopedia is one of the major resources
in the language on the Internet. With over 19700 and even with many
broader topics like art, literature, politics, science and culture
covered in Kannada Wikipedia, there is significantly low content about
Mechanical Engineering. Mechanical Engineering enthusiasts of the city
are coming together to bridge this gap by creating and enhancing content
in Kannada on the internet. Out of the three days, the whole day of the
25th is dedicated for clicking pictures of historical places of the
city which will additionally contribute to articles related to the city.
The event is being organised by the Kannada Wikimedia community that
voluntarily contributes to grow Kannada Wikipedia and several other
Kannada Wikimedia projects, and the Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge programme. The edit-a-thon will
include demonstration and practice sessions of input in Kannada script,
basics of Wikipedia editing and its policies and guidelines, searching
for references from various journals and notable books, and translation
of technical content, and is open to all. Anant Subray, Programme
Associate who is the organiser of the event could be contacted at
9739811664 for more information.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/kannada-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-for-mechanical-engineering-students-of-sagara'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/kannada-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-for-mechanical-engineering-students-of-sagara</a>
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No publisherAnanth SubrayWikimediaWikipediaCIS-A2KKannada Wikipedia2016-03-01T13:56:54ZEventKannada Wikipedia and its Tenth Anniversary
http://editors.cis-india.org/news/kannada-wikipedia-tenth-anniversary
<b>Dr. U.B. Pavanaja was on RadioCity to talk about Kannada Wikipedia and its tenth anniversary. The programme was aired on November 2, between 8 a.m. and 9 a.m.</b>
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<td>Above: Dr. U.B. Pavanaja speaking on RadioCity.</td>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/news/kannada-wikipedia-tenth-anniversary'>http://editors.cis-india.org/news/kannada-wikipedia-tenth-anniversary</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaOpennessKannada Wikipedia2016-01-28T13:14:20ZNews ItemJournalism Students of the SDM College Ujire Enrich Karnataka’s Folklore And Folk Art in Kannada Wikipedia
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/journalism-students-of-the-shree-dharmasthala-manjunatheshwara-sdm-college-ujire-enrich-karnataka2019s-folklore-and-folk-art-in-kannada-wikipedia
<b>As part of an ongoing partnership with the Shree Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara (SDM) College Ujjire, with active support from a few Kannada Wikipedia editors, CIS-A2K began an outreach programme so that the journalism students could help many Kannada readers about Karnataka’s rich folklore and folk art.</b>
<p id="docs-internal-guid-e599ce9d-d03b-a6b5-0c6a-3e6664727eb0" dir="ltr">Both first year and second year students of Master of Communication and Journalism (MCJ) of SDM College participated in this workshop. Out of 35 participants, 11 were female. Students had discussed already about enhancing Kannada Wikipedia articles on folklore and folk art forms of Karnataka. About 20 new user accounts were created and the students have started creating articles in their user <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sandbox">sandboxes</a> which they will later move as articles upon enhancement with vital information. Some of the students chose to find existing articles and add more information to them. Long time Kannada Wikimedian <a href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:VASANTH S.N.">S N Vasanthkn</a>. from Dharmasthala helped as resource person to help the new editors with Wikipedia editing. However, as first timers, many struggled with the encyclopedic way of writing and maintaining <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view">neutral point of view</a>. These students will be mentored by Vasanth as he is visiting them every Monday.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">More details from the <a href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/s/1cpm">event </a>page.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/journalism-students-of-the-shree-dharmasthala-manjunatheshwara-sdm-college-ujire-enrich-karnataka2019s-folklore-and-folk-art-in-kannada-wikipedia'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/journalism-students-of-the-shree-dharmasthala-manjunatheshwara-sdm-college-ujire-enrich-karnataka2019s-folklore-and-folk-art-in-kannada-wikipedia</a>
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No publisherpavanajaOpennessWikipediaKannada WikipediaWikimedia2015-09-15T09:09:12ZBlog Entry