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8th IBA International Conference
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/news/8th-iba-international-conference
<b>The 8th IBA International Conference was organized by Indus Business Academy in Bengaluru from March 24 to 26, 2016. The theme of the conference was Taking India to Greater Heights. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja gave a talk on Democratizing of Knowledge Access- Case of Regional Language Wikipedia.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">India’s journey since independence has been eventful. The long struggle against colonialism left Indian private capital in a poor state. The Government intervention was essential and hence there was a need for the public sector. Experiments with socialism and national planning turned out to be a mixed success. The 1991 crisis propelled India towards a market driven economy. Politically, its unpopularity reverted India to a state of socialism once again. The 2014 elections have renewed interest in a market driven economy.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Indian achievements have been sizable. The successful Mars Mission, Agni mission, Green Revolution, White Revolution, IT industry growth all demonstrate the positive achievements that India has made in the last 60 odd years. In recent months, across the world, there is a renewed interest in India.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Yet we can hardly be complacent. The lowering oil prices, conflict in the Middle East, slowdown in Chinese economy, fears of Russian expansionism, decline in European growth, concerns about the state of US economy and rising trends in terrorism have created turbulence across different parts of the world. India cannot be immune to these changes.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">India’s response can manifest itself in multiple forms. There could be rapid expansion of defence procurement and preparedness both on external as well as internal fronts. It could involve building alliances with countries aligned strategically to Indi’s interests.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">It could manifest through the rapid growth of manufacturing sector. The services sector could move higher in the value chain. The spillovers generated by the establishment of industries could spawn a major entrepreneurial ecosystem.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">With the UN approval to celebrate International Yoga Day, India’s soft spiritual power is also rising in the horizon. Indian philosophical and ideological thoughts are getting renewed interest across different parts of the world. Indian talent, youth demographics etc. have literally placed India on the centre stage. No doubt, exciting times are ahead.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">This Conference aims to deliberate on such changes and suggest ways and means to leverage this growing interest in India and identify the new perspectives emerging in Business, Management, Leadership and Consciousness as a result of these changes.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The schedule for 8th IBA International Conference can be accessed <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1w4qJMW1CRor7v3qwifu3yoDlpezQAzsC64To7blxRPY/pubhtml"><span>here</span></a>. More info on the event <a class="external-link" href="http://iba.ac.in/8th-iba-international-conference/">here</a>.</p>
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No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaKannada Wikipedia2016-04-04T15:32:54ZNews ItemLooking ahead to the future of the Kannada Wikipedia: Vasanth S.N.
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikimedia-blog-february-28-2016-subhashish-panigrahi-looking-ahead-to-future-of-kannada-wikipedia
<b>Vasanth S.N. has edited the Kannada-langauge Wikipedia since 2006. As part of the WikipediansSpeak series, I caught up with Vasanth to learn about his contributions to the Kannada Wikipedia, which just celebrated its 13th anniversary. In the discussion Vasanth shares his long time involvement in the Wikimedia movement, and what drives him every day to edit Wikipedia and helping other fellow Wikimedians.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><strong>Subhashish Panigrahi (SP)</strong>: Hi Vasanth, thanks for agreeing to share about yourself. Can you tell me little about yourself and how you started contributing to Kannada Wikipedia?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><strong>Vasanth S.N. (VSN)</strong>: I grew up in a small town in the Indian state of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karnataka"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Karnataka</span></a>. After completing my PG Diploma in Human Resources studies from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indira_Gandhi_National_Open_University"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Indira Gandhi National Open University</span></a> (IGNOU) I started working at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dharmasthala_Temple"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Dharmasthala temple</span></a> in Karnataka where I have been working over last 35 years. As a student, I was voracious reader of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kannada"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Kannada-language</span></a> books. Science, art and culture were my favorite subjects back then. I started contributing to Kannada Wikipedia back in 2006. Shushrutha, a scientist based outside India helped me with several technical needs like creating templates in Kannada Wikipedia. With his help, I contributed to articles related <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_element"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">chemical elements</span></a>. He helped a lot in importing templates then. These days another Wikipedia editor Omshivaprakash is helping in importing templates and several other technical needs I have, thanks to Pavanaja who is also helping and encouraging me regularly.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><strong>SP</strong>: What are you currently working on?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><strong>VSN</strong>: After the 14 volume Kannada encyclopedia “<a href="http://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/university-of-mysore-releases-kannada-vishwakosha-under-cc-license"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Kannada Vishwakosha</span></a>” got <a href="http://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/university-of-mysore-releases-kannada-vishwakosha-under-cc-license"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">relicensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0</span></a> license by Mysore University, we have started digitizing it on <a href="http://kn.wikisource.org/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Kannada Wikisource</span></a>. I am taking the digitized articles from here to Kannada Wikisource. I first check for the English Wikipedia article, use some of the updated content from there with citations, and wikify the Kannada Vishwakosha articles to create articles on Kannada Wikipedia.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><strong>SP</strong>: What are the kind of challenges you generally face?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><strong>VSN</strong>: Something that really bothers me is the low participation of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kannada_people"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Kannadiga</span></a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kannada_people"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">s</span></a> in contributing to Kannada Wikipedia. I wish there could be more discussions in the village pump and collaborations between fellow editors. Many of the long time Wikimedians like <a href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Radhatanaya"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Radhatanaya</span></a>, who is probably over 70 years old, need more support with complex Wikipedia policies, and more appreciation. And so are B.S. Chandra from Sagara, Karnataka and many other editors so that every single editor feels to be an important aspect of the community. We also have to bring back editors like <a href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Teju2friends"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Tejas Jain</span></a> who were active some time back but have slowed down over time. I feel bad that we are lagging behind our neighboring Wikimedia communities like Tamil and Malayalam. When we cannot scale up too fast, a valuable resource like Kannada Vishwakosha that I mentioned before would be really useful in populating Kannada Wikipedia with good quality article. The Vishwakosha is not just compiled by subject experts but has been updated over time. I am more than happy if more editors are willing to join use this encyclopedia as a resource and I am sure we could create over 14,000 articles that a handful of editors like me will take over years to complete otherwise. However the community is skeptical about just one citation but i think we could always rely on English Wikipedia and search for more resources for additional citations.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><strong>SP</strong>: What do you suggest we—all the Wikimedians, the Wikimedia India chapter, and us (CIS-A2K)—should work on?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><strong>VSN</strong>: I feel that we are focusing so much only on cities and there might be potential editors in rural areas. But may be reaching out to people who have access to computer and internet is a low hanging fruit as compared to outreach in rural Karnataka. There are over <a href="http://www.schooleducation.kar.nic.in/schooladoption.htm"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">46,000 state-run schools</span></a> and many have computers. Taking Kannada Wikipedia to select schools with the facilities needed might result in bringing in flesh blood to the community. I also think that the veteran professors and educators could help grow Wikipedia by correcting articles and wikifying if not writing articles. There might be collectives of such people that I do not know of but in my opinion, it is worth trying. I tried to request some professors in Ujjire, Karnataka to help with correcting over 60 articles related to plant varieties of Karnataka but could not get much help. But that is just one failure and should not stop reaching out to more professors. And if a collective of professors does not exist we could find a common area of interest and create a group.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><em><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Psubhashish"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Subhashish Panigrahi</span></a>, Wikimedian and Programme Officer, Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K), Centre for Internet and Society</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><em>This post is part of the <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikipediansSpeak"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">WikipediansSpeak series</span></a>, which aims to chronicle the voices of the Wikipedia community. You can find more of these posts on the <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:WikipediansSpeak"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Wikimedia Commons</span></a>. <i>The views expressed are not necessarily those of the Wikimedia Foundation or Wikipedia; responses and critical commentary are invited in the comments section below.</i></em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Read the original published on <a class="external-link" href="https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/02/28/kannada-wikipedia-vasanth-sn/">Wikimedia Blog</a><i></i></p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikimedia-blog-february-28-2016-subhashish-panigrahi-looking-ahead-to-future-of-kannada-wikipedia'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikimedia-blog-february-28-2016-subhashish-panigrahi-looking-ahead-to-future-of-kannada-wikipedia</a>
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No publishersubhaCIS-A2KKannada WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-02-29T14:15:41ZBlog 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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No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KKannada WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-06-18T16:23:37ZNews ItemKannada 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 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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No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KKannada WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-01-05T06:35:13ZNews 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: 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 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: 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 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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No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KKannada WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-01-05T06:40:52ZNews ItemPost More Articles on Kannada Wikipedia
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/news/post-more-articles-on-kannada-wikipedia
<b>The article was published in Indian Express, Mangaluru edition on December 12, 2015. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja was quoted. A scanned version of the article is given below.</b>
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<p><img src="http://editors.cis-india.org/home-images/IndianExpressMangaluruDec122015.jpg/@@images/6deff004-d1f3-40c6-9c12-38add439df54.jpeg" alt="null" class="image-inline" title="Indian Express Article" /></p>
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No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KKannada WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-01-05T06:38:06ZNews ItemKannada 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 EntryDr. Pavanaja Featured in Vijayavani
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/dr-pavanaja-featured-in-vijayavani
<b>Dr. U.B. Pavanaja was invited to the office of Vijayavani, Kannada daily. Vijayavani runs a programme in which a celebrity will be invited to their office and have informal discussions with them. Later a lead article based on that discussions will be generated. The article which featured Dr. Pavanaja was published on November 16, 2015.</b>
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No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KKannada WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2015-12-15T07:49:55ZNews ItemA Kannada Wikipedia brochure for newbies
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/a-kannada-wikipedia-brochure-for-newbies
<b>This brochure has been created keeping readers and new Wikipedia editors in mind. This would come handy to learn editing Kannada Wikipedia and creating/editing articles in Kannada.</b>
<h2>What does it contain? <br /></h2>
<ul><li>How Wikipedia is world’s largest free and open encyclopaedia?</li><li>Did you know that "<strong>anyone can edit Wikipedia</strong>"?</li><li>How Wikipedia helps in preserving the knowledge and taking it to the next generation. For our languages to survive and grow, it is very important to bring world knowledge in our language. Wikipedia helps in expanding that knowledge repository as anyone can contribute to Wikipedia.</li><li>There is <em>no </em>financial gain by writing in Wikipedia. It is very easy to start editing <a class="external-link" href="https://kn.wikipedia.org">Kannada Wikipedia</a>. Open <a class="external-link" href="https://kn.wikipedia.org">kn.wikipedia.org</a>, check the help file, tutorial file & videos, start editing in your sandbox (<a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sandbox">learn more about the Wikipedia sandbox</a>). <br /></li><li>No poetry, blog, story, criticism, writing about self, advertisements of any sorts, etc are not allowed in Wikipedia<br /></li></ul>
<h3>Download this brochure from <a class="external-link" href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/Kannada_Wikipedia_Brochure.pdf">here</a>.<br /></h3>
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