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Kannada 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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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: 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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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 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: 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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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: 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 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 EntryCelebrating the 13th anniversary of Kannada Wikipedia
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/kannada-wikipedias-13-year-old-journey-of-knowledge-sharing
<b>The Kannada-language Wikipedia, arguably the largest online encyclopedia in Kannada language, celebrated its 13th anniversary on February 14, 2016 in Mangalore.</b>
<p id="docs-internal-guid-f8142534-c87e-3859-9966-b4739a2a351e" dir="ltr">To celebrate the journey of the project and the community, Kannada Wikipedians gathered at St. Aloysius College Mangalore, Karnataka. The larger Kannada Wikimedia community including long time Wikipedians and new members like the students, faculty involved in <a href="https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education">Wikipedia Education Programs</a> gathered, participated in a day long edit-a-thon and chalked out plans for the future. The event is organised by the Kannada Wikimedia community and Dr. Vishwanatha Badikana, Wikipedian and Assistant Professor of Kannada department at St. Aloysius College coordinated the event locally.</p>
<p dir="ltr">117 people gathered in the event out of which 96 were active editors of the Kannada Wikipedia community. Noted Kannada-computing researcher Kinnikambla Padmanabha Rao (widely known as KP Rao) addressed the public event and engaged with the audience about defining Kannada Wikipedia’s role a large role in widening Kannada’s presence on the Internet. The local organisers also took the event participants through a heritage walk in the heritage village of Pilikula Nisarga Dhama, an open library of the rich cultural heritage of Karnataka. The heritage walk resulted in over 300 image uploads on Wikimedia Commons ranging from the life and culture of coastal Karnataka to select rich heritage of the state. 20 new editors also participated in the event and they were oriented on basics of Wikipedia editing and <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/">Creative Commons licenses</a>.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Triveni.K, one of the participants who is now pursuing her MSc. at Christ University, explains this event as a great learning platform for even core Wikipedia policies in details apart from many other Wikipedia policies she learnt here. “I’m little occupied for my exams but when it is over, I will be back on Wikipedia”, shares Triveni.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Prior to the event, four edit-a-thons were organised in four different cities of Karnataka. Themes chosen for the cities were <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kannada_literature">Kannada literature</a> in Mysore, Mechanical Engineering in Sagara, Science-related articles in Bangalore and article on notable female of the coastal Karnataka region in Mangalore. Follow up edit-a-thons were organised after the anniversary celebration with the same themes that were there in the previous session for the first three places where the follow up edit-a-thons in St. Aloysius College and St. Agnes College were both on medicinal plants.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The<a href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/?diff=1"> first ever edit</a> on Kannada Wikipedia was made on 12 June 2003 with a message “Kannada Vishwa Koshakke Suswaagatha!” (meaning “Welcome to the Kannada encyclopedia” in Kannada). However it took over a year -- on July 12, 2004 the first article about a city<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimoga"> Shimoga</a><a href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E0%B2%B6%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%B5%E0%B2%AE%E0%B3%8A%E0%B2%97%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%97&oldid=1463"> was created</a>. Over the last decade Kannada Wikipedia has been a great gamechanger for the<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kannada"> Kannada language</a> where the Wikipedians have played a great role in making it a household name -- needless to say that <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kannada_Wikipedia_stats_%28December_2015%29.png">705,199 unique visitors</a> read the articles every month as per the December 2015 statistics. The annual average of active editors for last year was 48, 91 (February) being the highest and 22 (May) the lowest and 80 being the count in last December. The peaks and valleys also signify that major outreach like<a href="https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Countries/India/Christ_University/CUWEP2015_NOVEMBER"> Wikipedia Education Program at Christ University Bengaluru</a> could have boosted the total number of editors during the months when the program was being rolled out. The project since its inception has gone through many ups and downs over time, the major one being a small community to edit and curate such a high level task of creating new articles in Kannada, editing and enriching them with more information and citations, and cleaning up many articles. The biggest hurdle, as<a href="http://www.hpnadig.net/blog/2011/10/22/how-google-irreparably-wounded-kannada-wikipedia/755"> explained</a> by Wikimedian<a href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:HPNadig"> Hari Prasad Nadig</a>, has been cleaning up the articles created by paid translations of Google when Kannada Wikipedia along with many other Indian language Wikipedias were used as testing grounds for improving<a href="http://translate.google.com/"> Google Translate</a>, a multilingual machine translation tool.<a href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:VASANTH_S.N."> Vasanth S.N.</a>, a Kannada Wikipedian who has cleaned up over 60 such articles prefers to use an existing good quality encyclopedia like the 14 volume Kannada Vishwakosha, published by Mysore University and<a href="http://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/university-of-mysore-releases-kannada-vishwakosha-under-cc-license"> relicensed</a> under<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/"> CC-BY-SA 3.0</a> by the university, as a resource to create and improve articles.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The 14th anniversary of Kannada Wikipedia was another milestone in the long journey of Kannada language and there are many more to come. More about the event could be read on the <a href="http://kn.wikipedia.org/s/1daf">event page</a> on Kannada Wikipedia.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><em>Ananth Subray, Programme Associate, CIS-A2K contributed to this blog.</em></p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/kannada-wikipedias-13-year-old-journey-of-knowledge-sharing'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/kannada-wikipedias-13-year-old-journey-of-knowledge-sharing</a>
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No publishersubhaCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaKannada Wikipedia2016-05-23T09:08:23ZBlog EntryEdit-a-thon organised to grow content on medicinal plants in Kannada Wikipedia
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/edit-a-thon-organised-to-grow-content-on-medicinal-plants-in-kannada-wikipedia
<b>Two two-day long edit-a-thons were organised in St. Aloysius College and St. Agnes College, both in Mangalore, during March 10-11 and March 12-13 respectively. The edit-a-thons were aimed at creating and enhancing Wikipedia articles related to medicinal plants.</b>
<p id="docs-internal-guid-2da73ff1-c890-cd8d-c0e1-d041fa30f279" dir="ltr">It is always a challenge to find much information about the medicinal plants grown locally, especially in Indian languages and on the Internet. The <a href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/">Kannada Wikipedia</a> also <a href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/s/3uw">does not have</a> many quality articles in this topic. The Kannada Wikimedia community felt the need for documenting more about the medicinal plants and their use when they gathered for the <a href="http://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/kannada-wikipedias-13-year-old-journey-of-knowledge-sharing">Kannada Wikipedia’s 13th anniversary</a>. So right after the anniversary a two day edit-a-thon was organised in St. Aloysius College Mangalore during March 10-11, and another one at St. Agnes College Mangalore during March 12-13. This event being a follow up of an earlier edit-a-thon, had 17 participants who already edited Wikipedia and there were three new editors. They, together, created 66 articles during the event. Three active Wikimedians participated in the event and helped in mentoring the new editors. 20 images were uploaded by these participants on Wikimedia Commons and they all had contributed 1412612 bytes of data.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Read more on the <a href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%B5%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%95%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%AA%E0%B3%80%E0%B2%A1%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%AF:%E0%B2%B8%E0%B2%82%E0%B2%AA%E0%B2%BE%E0%B2%A6%E0%B2%A8%E0%B3%8B%E0%B2%A4%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%B8%E0%B2%B5%E0%B2%97%E0%B2%B3%E0%B3%81/%E0%B2%94%E0%B2%B7%E0%B2%A7%E0%B3%80%E0%B2%AF_%E0%B2%AE%E0%B2%A4%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%A4%E0%B3%81_%E0%B2%89%E0%B2%AA%E0%B2%AF%E0%B3%81%E0%B2%95%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%A4_%E0%B2%B8%E0%B2%B8%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%AF%E0%B2%97%E0%B2%B3%E0%B3%81_%E0%B2%B8%E0%B2%82%E0%B2%AA%E0%B2%BE%E0%B2%A6%E0%B2%A8%E0%B3%8B%E0%B2%A4%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%B8%E0%B2%B5_%E0%B2%AE%E0%B2%82%E0%B2%97%E0%B2%B3%E0%B3%82%E0%B2%B0%E0%B3%81">event page</a>.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/edit-a-thon-organised-to-grow-content-on-medicinal-plants-in-kannada-wikipedia'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/edit-a-thon-organised-to-grow-content-on-medicinal-plants-in-kannada-wikipedia</a>
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No publisherAnanth SubrayCIS-A2KKannada WikipediaWorkshop2016-05-19T10:34:42ZBlog EntryEdit-a-thon organised at Christ University Bangalore to celebrate Women’s Day
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/edit-a-thon-organised-at-christ-university-bangalore-to-celebrate-women2019s-day
<b>A day-long edit-a-thon was organised at Christ University Bangalore on March 12, 2016 to celebrate the Women’s Day and grow the women-related articles on Kannada Wikipedia.</b>
<p id="docs-internal-guid-ed624c5e-ce6a-a416-8323-c7078d2dcd29" dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/31/business/media/31link.html?_r=0">Like most other Wikipedia projects</a>, Kannada Wikipedia also has way to go with bringing a balance in articles of all genders. 10 undergraduate students from the university participated in this event and created 20 quality articles of 137819 bytes during this edit-a-thon. Two experienced editors participated as mentors. More about the event could be read in the <a href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%B5%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%95%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%AA%E0%B3%80%E0%B2%A1%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%AF:%E0%B2%B8%E0%B2%82%E0%B2%AA%E0%B2%BE%E0%B2%A6%E0%B2%A8%E0%B3%8B%E0%B2%A4%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%B8%E0%B2%B5%E0%B2%97%E0%B2%B3%E0%B3%81/%E0%B2%B8%E0%B2%82%E0%B2%AA%E0%B2%BE%E0%B2%A6%E0%B2%A8%E0%B3%8B%E0%B2%A4%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%B8%E0%B2%B5_%E0%B2%85%E0%B2%82%E0%B2%A4%E0%B2%BE%E0%B2%B0%E0%B2%BE%E0%B2%B7%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%9F%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%B0%E0%B3%80%E0%B2%AF_%E0%B2%AE%E0%B2%B9%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%B3%E0%B2%BE_%E0%B2%A6%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%A8%E0%B2%BE%E0%B2%9A%E0%B2%B0%E0%B2%A3%E0%B3%86_%E0%B3%A8%E0%B3%A6%E0%B3%A7%E0%B3%AC">event page</a> on Kannada Wikipedia.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/edit-a-thon-organised-at-christ-university-bangalore-to-celebrate-women2019s-day'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/edit-a-thon-organised-at-christ-university-bangalore-to-celebrate-women2019s-day</a>
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No publisherAnanth SubrayCIS-A2KKannada WikipediaEdit-a-thon2016-05-20T13:47:24ZBlog EntryCelebrating 13 Years of the Kannada-language Wikipedia
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/dna-may-22-2016-subhashish-panigrahi-celebrating-13-years-of-kannada-language-wikipedia
<b>The Kannada-language Wikipedia celebrated its 13th anniversary on February 14 in Mangalore. To celebrate the journey of the project and the community, Kannada Wikipedians gathered at Saint Aloysius College, Mangaluru on May 14. </b>
<p>The article was published in <a class="external-link" href="http://www.dnaindia.com/scitech/report-celebrating-13-years-of-the-kannada-language-wikipedia-2215490">DNA</a> on May 22, 2016.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">The larger community including long-time Wikipedians and new members like the students faculty involved in Wikipedia Education Programs gathered to participate in a day long edit-a-thon and chalk out plans for the future. The event was organised by the Kannada Wikimedia community and Dr. Vishwanatha Badikana, Wikipedian and Assistant Professor of Kannada department at St. Aloysius College, who coordinated the event locally.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Prior to the event, four edit-a-thons were organised in four different cities of Karnataka. The local organisers also took the participants through a heritage walk in the village of Pilikula Nisarga Dhama, an open library of the rich cultural heritage of Karnataka. Prior to the event, four edit-a-thons were organised in four different cities of Karnataka. The local organisers also took the participants through a heritage walk in the village of Pilikula Nisarga Dhama, an open library of the rich cultural heritage of Karnataka.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">117 people gathered at the event out of which 96 were active editors of the Kannada Wikipedia to celebrate thirteen years of <strong><a href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kannada Wikipedia</a></strong>, arguably the largest online encyclopedia in <strong><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kannada" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><strong>Kannada</strong> language</a></strong>. Noted Kannada-computing researcher Kinnikambla Padmanabha Rao (widely known as KP Rao) addressed the public event and engaged with the audience about defining Kannada Wikipedia’s large role in widening the language’s presence on the internet. The heritage walk resulted in over 300 image uploads on Wikimedia Commons ranging from the life and culture of coastal Karnataka to select rich heritage of the state. 20 new editors also participated in the event and they were oriented on basics of Wikipedia editing and <strong><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Creative Commons licenses</a></strong>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Much before the event, preparation was begun to organise four different thematic edit-a-thons; <strong><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kannada_literature" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kannada literature</a></strong> in Mysore, Mechanical Engineering in Sagara, Science-related articles in Bengaluru and article on notable women of the coastal Karnataka region in Mangaluru. Follow up edit-a-thons were organised after the anniversary celebration, based on the same themes in the first three places.</p>
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<p>Much before the event, preparation was begun to organise four different thematic edit-a-thons; <strong><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kannada_literature" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kannada literature</a></strong> in Mysore, Mechanical Engineering in Sagara, Science-related articles in Bengaluru and article on notable women of the coastal Karnataka region in Mangaluru. Follow up edit-a-thons were organised after the anniversary celebration, based on the same themes in the first three places.</p>
<p>Triveni K, one of the participants who is now pursuing her M.Sc at Christ University, called this event a great learning platform for learning core Wikipedia policies in detail. “I’m little occupied for my exams but when it is over, I will be back on Wikipedia”, shares Triveni.</p>
<p>The <strong><a href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/?diff=1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">first ever edit</a></strong> on Kannada Wikipedia was made on June 12, 2003 with a message saying “Kannada Vishwa Koshakke Suswaagatha!” (meaning ‘Welcome to the Kannada encyclopedia’). However it took over a year, July 12, 2004, before the first article, about a city <strong><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimoga" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Shimoga</a></strong>, was created. Over the last decade, Kannada Wikipedia has been a great gamechanger for the<strong><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kannada" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kannada language</a></strong> where the Wikipedians have played a great role in making it a household name. <strong><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kannada_Wikipedia_stats_%28December_2015%29.png" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">7,05,199 unique visitors</a></strong> read the articles every month as per the December 2015 statistics. The annual average of active editors for last year was 48, 91 (in February) being the highest, 22 (in May) the lowest and 80 being the count in December 2015. The peaks and valleys also signify that major outreach like <strong><a href="https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Countries/India/Christ_University/CUWEP2015_NOVEMBER" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Wikipedia Education Program at Christ University, Bengaluru</a></strong> could have boosted the total number of editors during the months when the program was being rolled out. The project since its inception has gone through many ups and downs over time, the major one being a small community to edit and curate such a high level task of creating new articles in Kannada, editing and enriching them with more information and citations, and cleaning up many articles. The biggest hurdle, as <strong><a href="http://www.hpnadig.net/blog/2011/10/22/how-google-irreparably-wounded-kannada-wikipedia/755" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">explained</a></strong> by Wikimedian <strong><a href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:HPNadig" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Hari Prasad Nadig</a></strong>, has been cleaning up the articles created by paid translations of Google when Kannada Wikipedia along with many other Indian language Wikipedias was used as testing ground for improving <strong><a href="http://translate.google.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Google Translate</a></strong>, a multilingual machine translation tool. <strong><a href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:VASANTH_S.N." rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Vasanth SN</a></strong>, a Kannada Wikipedian who has cleaned up over 60 such articles, prefers to use an existing good quality encyclopedia like the 14 volume Kannada Vishwakosha published by Mysore University and <strong><a href="http://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/university-of-mysore-releases-kannada-vishwakosha-under-cc-license" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">relicensed</a></strong> under <strong><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">CC-BY-SA 3.0</a></strong> by the university, as a resource to create and improve articles.</p>
<p>The 14th anniversary was another milestone in the journey and there are many more to come. You can read more about it <strong><a href="http://kn.wikipedia.org/s/1daf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a></strong> on Kannada Wikipedia.</p>
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