Konkani Wikipedia Projects
Wikipedia workshop for Konkani students conducted in Mangaluru
— by Tito Dutta — last modified Jun 28, 2017 09:57 AMA two days Wikipedia workshop "introduction to Wikipedia" was conducted at Besant College, Mangaluru. 16 undergraduate and post-graduate students from 3 different colleges participated in the event. Here is a report.
Wikiwomen’s Meetup at St. Agnes College Explores Potentials and Plans of Women Editors in Mangalore, Karnataka
— by Ting-Yi Chang — last modified Sep 01, 2016 02:39 PMKarnataka is known for its diverse linguistic cultures. Aside from Kannada, many are native speakers of Konkani, Tulu, and other languages. A small Wikiwomen's meetup was held on Saturday, August 27th at St. Agnes College, Mangalore, to invite female Wikipedians from the region. Many of them were new to the online encyclopedia but demonstrated strong interest in learning and contributing more Indic language content online.
Community digest: Konkani language speakers are separated by scripts but unite by Wikipedia; news in brief
— by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Aug 07, 2016 03:11 AMKonkani-language Wikipedians on what they think of Wikipedia as a binding factor for native speakers who speak in different variations of the same language and write in different scripts.
Stats for March 2016
— by Rahmanuddin Shaikh — last modified Jun 07, 2016 04:06 AMCIS-A2K team closely works with 5 Indian languages, we call as focus language areas. Here are the stats for the month of March 2016.
Report of Konkani Wikipedia's progress (July-December 2015)
— by Rahmanuddin Shaikh — last modified Feb 05, 2016 02:49 AMKonkani language is one of the 22 languages recognized by Indian union in 8th schedule. As per the 2007 census there are about 7.4 million Konkani speakers.[1] Konkani language has its own Wikipedia created on 15th June 2015. This blog post will try to put out Konkani Wikipedia's growth from a perspective based on Wikimedia stats.
Konkani-language books from Konkani-language culture center Mannd Sobhaann to enrich Konkani Wikipedia
— by Rahmanuddin Shaik and Tanveer Hasan — last modified Nov 12, 2015 01:08 PMMangalore based cultural centre Maand Sobhaann has recently relicensed 3 of their publications under a free license so that the books could be digitised on Konkani Wikisource and enrich Konkani Wikipedia.
Reading Devanagari script based sites like Konkani Wikipedia in Kannada Script
— by U.B.Pavanaja — last modified Jun 18, 2016 06:14 PMThis is a small hack to read websites with Devanagari script (used for Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, Maithili and a few more languages) based sites like Konkani Wikipedia in Kannada script.
Konkani Wikipedia Goes Live After 'Nine Years' of Incubation
— by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Jun 18, 2016 06:15 PMKonkani Wikipedia is the second Wikimedia project after Odia Wikisource that has gone live out of incubation. The project stayed in the incubation for nine long years and the community has gone through a long debate to have a Wikipedia of their own. Here is a blog highlighting three Konkani Wikimedians and an advocate of the Wikipedia movement whose efforts finally paid off.
NIE Steps in to Grow Konkani Wikipedia
— by T. Vishnu Vardhan — last modified Oct 10, 2014 11:26 AMThe Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) signed a memorandum of agreement (MoU) with Nirmala Institute of Education, Goa to enhance digital literacy in Konkani in the education sector across Goa.
Community led Konkani Wikipedia Outreach
— by Nitika Tandon — last modified Jun 10, 2014 08:44 AMGoa University students organised the first ever community led Konkani Wikipedia outreach on May 14, 2014. Fifteen first year M.A. students from Konkani Department participated in the six hour long workshop.
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