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Tenth Anniversary of Kannada Wikipedia: Udayavani Coverage
http://editors.cis-india.org/news/kannada-wikipedia-tenth-anniversary-udayavani-november-15
<b>Udayavani, on November 15, 2013 published about the upcoming tenth anniversary of Kannada Wikipedia.</b>
<p>See the original published by <a class="external-link" href="http://kannada.oneindia.in/news/bangalore/kannada-wikipedia-tenth-anniversary-on-17th-november-079308.html">Udayavani here</a>.</p>
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<h2 style="text-align: justify; ">ನ.17ರಂದು ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ದಶಮಾನೋತ್ಸವ</h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">ಕನ್ನಡ ನೆಟ್ಟಿಗರ ಜ್ಞಾನದಾಹವನ್ನು ತಣಿಸುತ್ತಿರುವ ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ 10 ವಸಂತಗಳನ್ನು ಪೂರೈಸಿರುವ ಸಂತಸವನ್ನು ಹಂಚಿಕೊಳ್ಳಲು ಇದೇ ಭಾನುವಾರ, ನವೆಂಬರ್ 17, 2013ರಂದು ಡಾ. ಎಚ್. ನರಸಿಂಹಯ್ಯ ಸಭಾಂಗಣ, ನ್ಯಾಶನಲ್ ಕಾಲೇಜು, ಬಸವನಗುಡಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ದಶಮಾನೋತ್ಸವ ಸಮಾರಂಭವನ್ನು ಆಯೋಜಿಸಿದೆ.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ಮುಖಾಂತರವೇ ವಿಷಯಗಳ ವಿನಿಮಯ ಮಾಡಿಕೊಳ್ಳುತ್ತಿದ್ದ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯನ್ನರು ಈ ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ರಮದಲ್ಲಿ ಭಾಗವಹಿಸಿ, ತಾವು ಬರೆದ ಲೇಖನ, ಮಾಹಿತಿಗಳ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಮುಖತಃ ಚರ್ಚಿಸುವ ಅವಕಾಶವನ್ನು ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ಒದಗಿಸಿದೆ. ಜೊತೆಗೆ, ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ಪರಿಚಯ, ಸಂಪಾದಕ ಆಗುವ ವಿಧಾನ, ಲೇಖನ ಬರೆಯುವ ಬಗೆ, ಚಿತ್ರಗಳನ್ನು ಸೇರಿಸುವ ವಿವರಗಳನ್ನು ಈ ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ರಮದಲ್ಲಿ ತಿಳಿಸಿಕೊಡಲಾಗುವುದು.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">ಕನ್ನಡದ ಖ್ಯಾತ ಲೇಖಕ ಡಾ. ಯು.ಆರ್. ಅನಂತಮೂರ್ತಿ, ಸಂಶೋಧಕ ಡಾ. ಜಿ. ವೆಂಕಟಸುಬ್ಬಯ್ಯ ಮತ್ತು ಪತ್ರಕರ್ತ ರವಿ ಹೆಗಡೆ ಅವರ ಮಾತುಗಳನ್ನು ಕೇಳುವ ಸುಯೋಗ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯನ್ನರಿಗೆ ಲಭಿಸಲಿದೆ. ಭಾಗವಹಿಸಲಿಚ್ಛಿಸುವವರು ಮೊದಲೇ ನೋಂದಾಯಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳಬೇಕು.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>ಸ್ಥಳ :</b> ಎಚ್.ಎನ್. ಮಲ್ಟಿಮೀಡಿಯ ಹಾಲ್, ನ್ಯಾಶನಲ್ ಕಾಲೇಜು, ಬಸವನಗುಡಿ</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">ದಿನಾಂಕ : ನವಂಬರ್ 17, 2013<br />ಸಮಯ : 9:30ರಿಂದ 13:00<br /><br />ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ರಮ ವಿವರ:<br /><br />9:30-10:00 ನೋಂದಣಿ<br />10:00 ರಿಂದ 11:00 ಸಭಾ ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ರಮ<br />ಸ್ವಾಗತ ಗೀತೆ - ಲಕ್ಷ್ಮಿ ಚೈತನ್ಯ<br />ಸ್ವಾಗತ ಮತ್ತು ನಿರ್ವಹಣೆ - ಡಾ. ಎ. ಸತ್ಯನಾರಾಯಣ<br />ಪ್ರಸ್ತಾವನೆ - ಡಾ. ಯು. ಬಿ. ಪವನಜ<br /><br />ಮುಖ್ಯ ಅತಿಥಿಗಳ ಮಾತು<br /><br />ಡಾ. ಯು. ಆರ್. ಅನಂತಮೂರ್ತಿ<br />ನಾಡೋಜ ಪ್ರೊ.ಜಿ. ವೆಂಕಟಸುಬ್ಬಯ್ಯ<br />ರವಿ ಹೆಗಡೆ, ಸಮೂಹ ಸಂಪಾದಕ, ಉದಯವಾಣಿ<br /><br />ಹತ್ತು ವರ್ಷದಲ್ಲಿ ಉತ್ತಮ ಕೆಲಸ ಮಾಡಿದ ಪ್ರಮುಖ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯನ್ನರುಗಳಿಗೆ ಮತ್ತು ನಿರ್ವಾಹಕರುಗಳಿಗೆ ಸ್ಮರಣಿಕೆ ನೀಡಿಕೆ<br />ಧನ್ಯವಾದ ಸಮರ್ಪಣೆ<br />11:00 - 11:15 - ಚಹಾ</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">11:15 - 12:00</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ಪ್ರಾತ್ಯಕ್ಷಿಕೆ - ಓಂಶಿವಪ್ರಕಾಶ<br />ಕ್ರಿಯೇಟಿವ್ ಕಾಮನ್ಸ್ - ಕಿರಣ್ ರವಿಕುಮಾರ<br />ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯನ್ನರುಗಳ ಮಾತು</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">12:00-13:00 - ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ಸಂಪಾದನೋತ್ಸವ (edit-a-thon)<br />ಲೇಖನಗಳನ್ನು ಸಿದ್ಧ ಮಾಡಿಕೊಂಡು ಬಂದು ಲೇಖನ ಸೇರಿಸುವುದು.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">ಸಾಧ್ಯವಿದ್ದವರು ಲ್ಯಾಪ್ಟಾಪ್, ಇಂಟರ್ನೆಟ್ ಡಾಂಗಲ್ ಮತ್ತು ಒಂದು ಸಿದ್ಧಪಡಿಸಿದ ಲೇಖನ ತಂದು ಕೊನೆಯ ಸಂಪಾದನೋತ್ಸವದಲ್ಲಿ ಪಾಲ್ಗೊಳ್ಳಬಹುದು. ಬರುವವರು ದಯವಿಟ್ಟು ಈ ಪುಟದಲ್ಲಿ ನೋಂದಾಯಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳಿ - https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ:ಸಮ್ಮಿಲನ/ದಶಮಾನೋತ್ಸವ</p>
<div class="mobile_content_text" style="text-align: justify; ">ಎಲ್ಲ ಪ್ರಮುಖ ಸುದ್ದಿಗಳ ಮೇಲೆ ಒನ್ಇಂಡಿಯಾ ನೋಟ. ನಿರಂತರ ಸುದ್ದಿ ಪಡೆಯಲು <a href="http://www.facebook.com/oneindiakannada" target="_blank">Facebook</a> ಮತ್ತು <a href="http://www.twitter.com/oneindiakannada" target="_blank">Twitter</a> ಮೇಲೆ ಇರಲಿ ಕಣ್ಣು.</div>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/news/kannada-wikipedia-tenth-anniversary-udayavani-november-15'>http://editors.cis-india.org/news/kannada-wikipedia-tenth-anniversary-udayavani-november-15</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaOpennessKannada Wikipedia2013-11-20T07:25:08ZNews ItemTenth Anniversary of Kannada Wikipedia
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/tenth-anniversary-of-kannada-wikipedia
<b>Kannada Wikipedia has completed 10 years. The Kannada Wikipedia community will be celebrating the tenth anniversary of Kannada Wikpedia on Nov 17, 2013 from 9.30 a.m. to 1.30 p.m. at H N Multimedia Hall, National College, Basavanagudi, Bangalore. CIS-A2K is a co-sponsor for the program.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The guests of honour will be <a class="external-link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U._R._Ananthamurthy">Dr. U R Ananthamurthy</a>, <a class="external-link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._Venkatasubbaiah">Prof. G. Venkatasubbiah</a> and <a class="external-link" href="http://glocalfunda.blogspot.in/">Ravi Hegde</a>. There will be speeches by the chief guests from 10.00 a.m. to 11.00 a.m. <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog/pavanaja-profile.pdf" class="external-link">Dr. U.B. Pavanaja</a>. This will be followed by a talk by some Kannada Wikipedians. At the end there will be a edit-a-thon where Wikipedians will add some articles to Kannada Wikipedia.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b><a class="external-link" href="http://bit.ly/KNWP10">Register for the event here</a></b>.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/tenth-anniversary-of-kannada-wikipedia'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/tenth-anniversary-of-kannada-wikipedia</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaOpennessKannada WikipediaEvent2013-11-14T10:17:23ZEventStats for March 2016
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/stats-for-march-2016
<b>CIS-A2K team closely works with 5 Indian languages, we call as focus language areas.
Here are the stats for the month of March 2016.</b>
<p>We generate stats for each of our focus language area month on month, and it has been used for designing and modifying our strategies from time to time. Though these stats were never published publicly, as we get them at stats.wikimedia.org already and publishing here is just repeating it; it was felt that some more metrics can be added and published month on month here at CIS blog. Also, the data here would be for the last month, while it takes two months for data to get updated at stats.wikimedia.org.</p>
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<p>Stub articles created :</p>
<p>Kannada - 3/131</p>
<p>Konkani - 9/38</p>
<p>Marathi - 50/176</p>
<p>Odia - 8/89</p>
<p>Telugu - 59/284</p>
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<p>In Kannada Wikipedia, about 131 new articles were created and of these only 3 are stub class articles. This is because Kannada Wikipedia is implementing a strict policy on not allowing a stub class article. There is an abuse filter created by one of the admins, Harish MG, which does not allow an editor to submit a smaller article than 1000 bytes. While Konkani showed a good progress in creation of new articles and only 9 of these 38 articles were stub class articles.</p>
<p>Marathi and Odia had a 28% and 9% share of total articles created as stubs respectively, while Telugu has about 21% of total articles created as stubs.</p>
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<p>Active editors count has gone up in Kannada with 133 active editors during March 2016 - this could be accounted to the post 13th anniversary activities. Four focused editathons were organised as part of the 13th anniversary celebrations. The number of active editors increased in Konkani too. While in Marathi, Odia and Telugu the number was consistent with the previous months' numbers.</p>
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<p>Now. lets look at the editing activity.</p>
<p>Kannada had 3279 edits adding about 86.57 MB of data. Konkani Wikipedia saw 920 edits in all, adding 8.41 MB of data. Marathi Wikipedia had 2926 edits with 68.42 MB of data; Odia Wikipedia added 1106 edits and 15.28 MB of data and Telugu Wikipedia had 8559 edits with 122.17 MB of data.</p>
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<p>Having a provision of local image upload, Telugu Wikipedia added 53 images to the project while Marathi, one image was added. </p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/stats-for-march-2016'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/stats-for-march-2016</a>
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No publisherrahimCIS-A2KWikimediaWikipediaMarathi WikipediaKonkani WikipediaOdia WikipediaTelugu WikipediaKannada Wikipedia2016-06-07T04:06:03ZBlog EntrySix Kannada encyclopaedias released
http://editors.cis-india.org/news/web-india-123-july-15-2014-six-kannada-encyclopaedias-released
<b>The first six online volumes of the University of Mysore's Kannada Encyclopaedia were launched on wikipedia's Creative Commons (CC) to mark the 'Muktha Jana Dina Dayu' (Dissemination of Knowledge) today.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><a class="external-link" href="http://news.webindia123.com/news/Articles/India/20140715/2425035.html">Click to read</a> the blog entry posted on Webindia 123 website on July 15, 2014.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Launching the works Vice-Chancellor Prof K S Rangappa said the project seeks to give new lease of life to encyclopaedia editions in Kannada. The repository of information shared on the internet will surely be a boon for many. With this, the works of great Kannada writers and experts will be accessible to all, he added.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The university will encourage more such works and make sure the remaining 14 volumes are launched soon, he said.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The Kannada encyclopaedia project was taken up by Dr U B Pavanaja, programme officer, centre for internet and society, and his colleague Tejas Jain, a software engineer. Mr Pavanja said the initiative will expand the reach of Kannada language across the world. Over a 1000 articles have been shared on creative commons, he added.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/news/web-india-123-july-15-2014-six-kannada-encyclopaedias-released'>http://editors.cis-india.org/news/web-india-123-july-15-2014-six-kannada-encyclopaedias-released</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaOpennessKannada Wikipedia2014-07-18T05:22:56ZNews ItemSessions on Kannada Wikipedia at Tumkur University
http://editors.cis-india.org/news/sessions-on-kannada-wikipedia-tumkur-university
<b>Dr. U.B. Pavanaja conducted a session on Kannada Wikipedia for students of M.Sc. Library and Information Sciences followed by an advanced Kannada Wikipedia session for students of M.A. Literature on March 27, 2014. The event was organized by Tumkur University. </b>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/news/sessions-on-kannada-wikipedia-tumkur-university'>http://editors.cis-india.org/news/sessions-on-kannada-wikipedia-tumkur-university</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaOpennessKannada Wikipedia2014-04-06T04:50:42ZNews 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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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/news/post-more-articles-on-kannada-wikipedia'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/news/post-more-articles-on-kannada-wikipedia</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KKannada WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-01-05T06:38:06ZNews ItemOrientation Program at Kannada University, Hampi
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/orientation-program-at-kannada-university-hampi
<b>A Kannada Wikipedia Orientation Program was conducted at Kannada University Hampi on 31 August and 1 September 2017.</b>
<p>A Kannada Wikipedia orientation program was conducted at the Kannada University in Hampi recently wherein the participants where introduced to the various Wikimedia projects in Kannada. The participants were doctoral research students of the Dravida Samskruti Adhyayana Kendra of which 5 were male and 1 female.</p>
<p>Working on Wiktionary, the students added 3300 words to their sandboxes, which will be moved to the main space on Wiktionary.</p>
<p>The meta page of the event can be found <a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/Kannada_University_Hampi_Orientation_Program">here</a>.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/orientation-program-at-kannada-university-hampi'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/orientation-program-at-kannada-university-hampi</a>
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No publisherGopalakrishna A.CIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaOpennessKannada Wikipedia2017-10-24T13:01:25ZBlog EntryOpen Knowledge Day at Mysore
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/open-knowledge-day-mysore
<b>Mysore University along with the Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) team invites you to an Open Knowledge Day at the University of Mysore on July 15, 2014.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">We signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the University of Mysore earlier this year in January to re-release the first six volumes of their Kannada encyclopaedia under Creative Commons (CC) license.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS-A2K facilitated extracting the legacy text from the soft-copies, converting them to Unicode, distributing the files among volunteers and Christ University interns and uploading them to Kannada Wikisource. So far about 1200 articles have been added. These articles will feed to articles in Kannada Wikipedia.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">To commemorate this, the University of Mysore and CIS-A2K is organizing this event. This will also coincide with the Open Knowledge Festival happening at Berlin from July 15 to 17, 2014.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The invitation for the Mysore program given below:</p>
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<td><img src="http://editors.cis-india.org/home-images/Uiversity9x6MuktaJnanaInvitation2.jpg" alt="Mukta Jnana Invitation 2" class="image-inline" title="Mukta Jnana Invitation 2" /></td>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/open-knowledge-day-mysore'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/open-knowledge-day-mysore</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaKannada WikipediaEvent2014-07-14T09:41:39ZEventNot many contributors for Kannada-centric Wiki page
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/the-times-of-india-july-5-2015-not-many-contributors-for-kannada-centric-wiki-page
<b>Wikipedia, which has over 60,000 contributing editors in India, has only 33 Kannadigas contributing to the Kannada section, said Pavanaja U B, programme manager, The Centre for Internet and Society, Bengaluru.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The article was published in the <a class="external-link" href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mangaluru/Not-many-contributors-for-Kannada-centric-Wiki-page/articleshow/47945412.cms">Times of India (Mangaluru edition)</a> on July 5, 2015.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><span id="advenueINTEXT" style="float:left; ">At the inaugural of the two-day workshop on 'Kannada Wikipedia' organized for students by the department of Kannada at St Aloysius College on Saturday, he said, "Wikipedia, which has over three crore articles, has 18 lakh editors spread across the world. While there are 33 editors for Kannada, only eight are involved actively," he said, adding that Wikipedia at present has about 20,500 articles in Kannada. <br /><br /> On the objectives of the workshop, Pavanaja said, "We have plans to train 25 Kannada students from St Aloysius College in uploading and updating Kannada articles in Wikipedia. Those 25 students will train 500 more Kannada students in the college and thereby increase the number of articles uploaded to Kannada Wikipedia. It will be a part of their academic assignment." <br /><br /> Pavanaja told students to cross-check each article before uploading to Wikipedia. "Students should adopt a research methodology to prepare articles for Wikipedia. One must study the subject in detail and then upload it to Wikipedia. It does not require scholarly knowledge," he added. <br /><br /> Wikipedia, which is a collaborative encyclopedia, has 23 Indian languages including Kannada and Tulu, he said. "Though Tulu articles were being published from 2007, there were only 135 articles uploaded to Wikipedia. Later, after 2013, many volunteered to upload articles and at present there are more than 800 articles in it. We have plans to increase the number of Tulu articles," he added. <br /><br /> "It is very easy for one to become a Wikipedia editor. Those who want to become the Kannada Wikipedia editor may create a login after opening kn.wikipedia.org and go through the tutorial files. Writing suitable articles for Wikipedia will neither fetch you money, nor name in it. It is selfless social service and necessary for the protection of language," Pavanaja said.</span></p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/the-times-of-india-july-5-2015-not-many-contributors-for-kannada-centric-wiki-page'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/the-times-of-india-july-5-2015-not-many-contributors-for-kannada-centric-wiki-page</a>
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No publisherpavanajaOpennessKannada WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2015-09-13T05:42:46ZNews ItemM'lore: Wikipedia Workshop held for Konkani writers
http://editors.cis-india.org/news/daijiworld-april-6-2014-mangalore-wikipedia-workshop-held-for-konkani-writers
<b>A Wikipedia Workshop for Konkani writers writing in the Kannada script, was organised by All India Konkani Writers’ Organisation (AIKWO) in association with Wikipedia, on Apr 6, 2014, at Kalaangann, Mangalore.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Read the media release published in Daijiworld on April 6 <a class="external-link" href="http://www.daijiworld.com/news/news_disp.asp?n_id=227399">here</a>.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Dr U. B. Pavanaja (Programme Officer – Indian Languages, Access to Knowledge Program, The Centre for Internet and Society), conducted the workshop. Harriet Vidyasagar, Wikipedian volunteer, was also present.</p>
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<td>Above: Dr. Pavanaja felicitated at the workshop. Picture by Daijiworld.com</td>
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<p>This one-day hands-on workshop included presentations on Wikipedia in general, and Konkani Wikipedia in particular, and the participants were taught how to add and edit Konkani articles in the Kannada script in Wikipedia.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">On behalf of Mandd Sobhann, Dr. Pratap Naik SJ handed-over three research works published by Mandd Sobhann – 1. Konkani Songs Among Mangalorean Catholics, 2. Anthology Of Konkani Literature In The Kannada Script and 3. Mandd Sobhann And Its Impact On Konkani Language And Literature – the representatives of Wikipedia – Dr. U. B. Pavanaja and Ms. Harriet Vidyasagar, to be updated in the Konkani Wikipedia. Shri Eric Ozario, Gurkar – Mandd Sobhann, Ms. Irine Rebello, Secretary – Mandd Sobhann and Dr. Edward Nazareth, General Secretary – AIKWO, were present on stage.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/news/daijiworld-april-6-2014-mangalore-wikipedia-workshop-held-for-konkani-writers'>http://editors.cis-india.org/news/daijiworld-april-6-2014-mangalore-wikipedia-workshop-held-for-konkani-writers</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaWikimediaWikipediaKannada WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2014-04-14T10:36:25ZNews 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 Workshop in Mangaluru (Coverage in Udayavani)
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/kannada-wikipedia-workshop-july-4-2015-coverage-in-udayavani
<b>As part of its ongoing partnership with St Aloysius College Mangaluru, CIS-A2K co-organized a workshop with the Kannada wikipedia community on Kannada Wikipedia. Udayavani covered this in their edition on July 5.</b>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/kannada-wikipedia-workshop-july-4-2015-coverage-in-udayavani'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/kannada-wikipedia-workshop-july-4-2015-coverage-in-udayavani</a>
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No publisherpavanajaOpennessKannada WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2015-09-13T06:17:49ZNews ItemKannada Wikipedia Workshop in Mangaluru (Coverage in Prajavani)
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/kannada-wikipedia-workshop-july-5-2015-coverage-in-prajavani
<b>As part of its ongoing partnership with St. Aloysius College, Mangaluru, CIS-A2K along with the Wikipedia community in Karnataka organized a workshop on Kannada Wikipedia. Prajavani reported this in their edition published on July 5, 2015.</b>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/kannada-wikipedia-workshop-july-5-2015-coverage-in-prajavani'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/kannada-wikipedia-workshop-july-5-2015-coverage-in-prajavani</a>
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No publisherpavanajaKannada WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-06-18T18:14:22ZNews ItemKannada Wikipedia workshop at Shree Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara (SDM) College Ujire, Karnataka
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/kannada-wikipedia-workshop-at-shree-dharmasthala-manjunatheshwara-sdm-college-ujire-karnataka
<b>A Kannada Wikipedia workshop is being planned to be organised in Shree Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara (SDM) College Ujire on the 13th August 2015. This is going to be part of the several outreach programmes in the institution.</b>
<p>Topics to be discussed:</p>
<ul><li>What, Why & How of Wikipedia</li><li>Basics of Wikipedia markup</li><li>Kannada Wikipedia</li><li>Editing Kannada Wikipedia</li><li>What can be added to Kannada Wikipedia and how to add articles</li></ul>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/kannada-wikipedia-workshop-at-shree-dharmasthala-manjunatheshwara-sdm-college-ujire-karnataka'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/kannada-wikipedia-workshop-at-shree-dharmasthala-manjunatheshwara-sdm-college-ujire-karnataka</a>
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No publisherpavanajaWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopKannada Wikipedia2016-06-18T18:12:41ZEventKannada Wikipedia Workshop at Alvas Vishva Nudisiri Virasat
http://editors.cis-india.org/news/kannada-wikipedia-workshop-alvas-vishva-nudisiri-virasat
<b>The Access to Knowledge team from the Centre for Internet and Society conducted a workshop at Moodabidre from December 19 to 22, 2013.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Dr. U.B. Pavanaja gave a presentation about Kannada Wikipedia and also conducted a workshop on Kannada Wikipedia as a parallel track. He spoke about Kannada and IT in general and also about Kannada Wikipedia. The event was covered by Prajavani (December 22), Hosadigantha (December 22), and Deccan Herald (December 22). Scanned copies of these are reproduced below:</p>
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<td>Above: Article by Guruprasad TN about Kannada Wikipedia, Dr. Pavanaja is quoted.</td>
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<td>Above: Article in Hosadigantha. Dr. Pavanaja is quoted.</td>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Also there was a report published by Udayavani on December 24, 2013. This can be accessed here: <a class="external-link" href="http://bit.ly/1cjwIyD">http://bit.ly/1cjwIyD</a>.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/news/kannada-wikipedia-workshop-alvas-vishva-nudisiri-virasat'>http://editors.cis-india.org/news/kannada-wikipedia-workshop-alvas-vishva-nudisiri-virasat</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaOpennessKannada Wikipedia2013-12-31T09:48:19ZNews Item