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Kannada Wikipedia Presentation in Mysuru: Coverage in Prajavani

praskrishna — 2014-12-06T02:40:17Z

Media coverage of Kannada Wikipedia presentation at Mysuru on November 23, 2014.

Scanned version of the report published by Prajavani on November 24, 2014

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/openness/news/prajavani-november-24-2014-kannada-wikipedia-presentation-in-mysuru

Indian Women and Craft Edit-a-thon

Gopalakrishna A. — 2018-07-04T16:30:28Z

A two-day long edit-a-thon aimed to archive the Women achievers in the field of art and craft on Kannada Wikipedia was held with the help of Srishti Institute and Janastu on 8th March and 25th March 2018.

On 8th March 2018, The Access to Knowledge program in collaboration with the Srishti Institute of Art, design, and technology organised a Kannada Wikipedia workshop at Janastu, Bangalore. Srishti Institute is a Bangalore based non-residential institute which provides art and design education to various individuals, and Jantsu is a Non-profit organisation which provides FOSS support to NGOs and NPOs. The theme of the event was to create articles on Indian women and crafts, Padmini, the course leader for Digital Humanities at Srishti Institute helped the A2K program in preparing a list of articles which can be added into Wikipedia.

Near about 15 staffs of Janastu attended the workshop, as the majority of the participants had Kannada language background the event was conducted in the Kannada language. During the workshop, the participants were introduced to their user sandbox, and after the orientation program, they started creating articles on them. A total number of 7 articles were developed on the same day, we also introduced Wikimedia Commons to the participant, on how to upload images to Commons and how to add images from Commons to Wikipedia articles.

After the workshop at Janastu, a follow-up edit-a-thon was also conducted on 25th March 2018 at The CIS office. Five participants from the previous workshop joined us for the edit-a-thon and eight articles were created or improved as a part of that edit-a-thon, of which Daroji Eramma’s article was one among them. Daroji Eramma was a Kannada folk singer and performer of a South Indian folk art called Burrakatha. At the end of the event, a Wikidata training was given to the participants which helped them to translate a few labels on Wikidata.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/indian-women-and-craft-edit-a-thon-1

Orientation Program at Kannada University, Hampi

Gopalakrishna A. — 2017-10-24T13:01:25Z

A Kannada Wikipedia Orientation Program was conducted at Kannada University Hampi on 31 August and 1 September 2017.

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.

Working on Wiktionary, the students added 3300 words to their sandboxes, which will be moved to the main space on Wiktionary.

The meta page of the event can be found here.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/orientation-program-at-kannada-university-hampi

Kannada Wikipedia not on top of the charts

praskrishna — 2016-06-18T16:23:37Z

It occupies the 10th place among Indian languages.

The article by Muralidhara Khajane was published in the Hindu on January 19, 2016. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja was quoted.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.”

According to him, things are now moving in a positive direction with more people showing interest in this community attempt.

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.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/the-hindu-january-19-muralidhara-khajane-kannada-wikipedia-not-on-top-of-the-charts

Wikipedia Event in Mangalore

praskrishna — 2016-12-20T16:43:30Z

The article was published by Vijaya Karnataka on December 18, 2016.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/vijaya-karnataka-december-18-2016-wikipedia-event-in-mangalore

Looking ahead to the future of the Kannada Wikipedia: Vasanth S.N.

subha — 2016-02-29T14:15:41Z

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.

Subhashish Panigrahi (SP): Hi Vasanth, thanks for agreeing to share about yourself. Can you tell me little about yourself and how you started contributing to Kannada Wikipedia?

Vasanth S.N. (VSN): I grew up in a small town in the Indian state of Karnataka. After completing my PG Diploma in Human Resources studies from Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) I started working at Dharmasthala temple in Karnataka where I have been working over last 35 years. As a student, I was voracious reader of Kannada-language 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 chemical elements. 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.

SP: What are you currently working on?

VSN: After the 14 volume Kannada encyclopedia “Kannada Vishwakosha” got relicensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0 license by Mysore University, we have started digitizing it on Kannada Wikisource. 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.

SP: What are the kind of challenges you generally face?

VSN: Something that really bothers me is the low participation of Kannadiga s 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 Radhatanaya, 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 Tejas Jain 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.

SP: What do you suggest we—all the Wikimedians, the Wikimedia India chapter, and us (CIS-A2K)—should work on?

VSN: 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 46,000 state-run schools 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.

Subhashish Panigrahi, Wikimedian and Programme Officer, Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K), Centre for Internet and Society

This post is part of the WikipediansSpeak series, which aims to chronicle the voices of the Wikipedia community. You can find more of these posts on the Wikimedia Commons. The views expressed are not necessarily those of the Wikimedia Foundation or Wikipedia; responses and critical commentary are invited in the comments section below.

Read the original published on Wikimedia Blog

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikimedia-blog-february-28-2016-subhashish-panigrahi-looking-ahead-to-future-of-kannada-wikipedia

Christ University Wikipedia Education Program Internship

Manasa Rao and Ananth Subray — 2017-07-05T09:33:19Z

CIS-A2K’s Wikipedia Education Program with Christ University, Bangalore is coming to an end after another year of intense classes, certificate courses and an internship at The Centre for Internet and Society. The internship activity in particular has successfully managed to engage students beyond classroom hours. The selection of 12 students for the internship program was based on their penchant for the language as well as their interest in the wiki world.

The internship was structured into three stages. Firstly, the students were asked to develop stub articles. The aim of this activity was for students to learn searching skills. As a result, over 1500 articles were developed with qualitative work.

Secondly, the students were asked to create new articles from scratch. They searched for the topic on the Wikipedia, ascertained whether the article exists or not and later researched further on the content of the articles. As a result, the students were able to create 1400+ articles

Finally, the students were asked to draft policy pages for their respective language Wikipedia. They went through the policy pages in different languages including English and were asked to create similar policy pages for Kannada Wikipedia.

Unlike previous years, the activities during the internship program were tailored to suit the individual capabilities of the students, taking into consideration the suggestions from community members. The students were of the opinion that in addition to rekindling their love for the language, the internship program also enabled them to develop their overall knowledge of various subjects. The students felt that their vocabulary and typing skills also improved. However, the students were of the opinion that they could have been taken a level or two higher from article writing and introduced to other Wikimedia projects and topics related to the overall movement. The CIS-A2K WEP Program hopes to incorporate these suggestions for the upcoming year while also trying to increase the number of days of the internship in order not to tax the students.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/christ-university-wikipedia-education-program-internship

Wikipedia Workshop on Template Creation and Modification Conducted in Bengaluru

tito — 2017-08-10T06:48:26Z

A Wikipedia workshop on template creation, modification was conducted in Bengaluru on 30 July 2017. Here is a report.

A Wikipedia workshop on template creation, modification was conducted in Bengaluru on 30 July 2017. 9 Wikipedians, mostly associated with Karavali Wikimedians and Kannada Wikimedia projects attended the workshop. A template is a Wikipedia page created to be included in other pages. Templates usually contain repetitive material that might need to show up on any number of articles or pages. They are commonly used for boilerplate messages, standard warnings or notices, infoboxes, navigational boxes and similar purposes.¹ The workshop was requested by Kannada Wikimedians.

The workshop started with explaining template and its importance. This was followed by discussing structure of a template, and creation of a simple template with a couple of variables. This activity continued for sometime, and designing a template with CSS markup was shown. Following this different types of templates such as infobox, navbox, sidebar, informational templates such as Hatnote were shown and discussed. On Wikipedia there is a Special page with a list of wanted templates. The participants studied the page and started making a list of templates they should create or improve. It was found that a good number of templates on Kannada Wikipedia don't have proper documentation in native languages. The participants came to a conclusion that attempts should be made to properly localize the template. During the workshop the participants spent sometime to translate and localize some template documentations.

The workshop was a preliminary one in nature and should be followed up by an advanced workshop.

Image credit

File:Kannada wiki workshop on Template 02.jpg by User:Gopala Krishna A from Wikimedia Commons, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license

Footnotes

Help:Template on English Wikipedia, accessed 10 August 2017
Special:WantedTemplates on a Wikipedia

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikipedia-workshop-on-template-creation-and-modification-conducted-in-bengaluru

A Kannada Wikipedia brochure for newbies

pavanaja — 2015-10-19T10:46:38Z

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.

What does it contain?

How Wikipedia is world’s largest free and open encyclopaedia?
Did you know that "anyone can edit Wikipedia"?
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.
There is no financial gain by writing in Wikipedia. It is very easy to start editing Kannada Wikipedia. Open kn.wikipedia.org, check the help file, tutorial file & videos, start editing in your sandbox (learn more about the Wikipedia sandbox).
No poetry, blog, story, criticism, writing about self, advertisements of any sorts, etc are not allowed in Wikipedia

Download this brochure from here.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/a-kannada-wikipedia-brochure-for-newbies

Tenth Anniversary of Kannada Wikipedia

praskrishna — 2013-11-14T10:17:23Z

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.

The guests of honour will be Dr. U R Ananthamurthy, Prof. G. Venkatasubbiah and Ravi Hegde. There will be speeches by the chief guests from 10.00 a.m. to 11.00 a.m. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja. 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.

Register for the event here.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/openness/events/tenth-anniversary-of-kannada-wikipedia

Kannada Wikipedia and its Tenth Anniversary

praskrishna — 2016-01-28T13:14:20Z

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.


Above: Dr. U.B. Pavanaja speaking on RadioCity.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/news/kannada-wikipedia-tenth-anniversary

ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಗೆ 10, ಬೆಳವಣಿಗೆ ಸಾಲದು : ಪ್ರೊ .ಜಿವಿ

praskrishna — 2013-11-20T08:54:46Z

A post-event report of the program published in OneindiaKannada on November 17, 2013.

Read about the event published in Oneindia Kannada on November 17 here.

ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು, ನ.17: ಕನ್ನಡ ನೆಟ್ಟಿಗರ ಜ್ಞಾನದಾಹವನ್ನು ತಣಿಸುತ್ತಿರುವ ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ 10 ವಸಂತಗಳನ್ನು ಪೂರೈಸಿರುವ ಸಂತಸವನ್ನು ನವೆಂಬರ್ 17 ರಂದು ನಗರದ ಬಸವನಗುಡಿಯ ನ್ಯಾಷನಲ್ ಕಾಲೇಜಿನ ಡಾ. ಎಚ್ ನರಸಿಂಹಯ್ಯ ಸಭಾಂಗಣದಲ್ಲಿ ಹಂಚಿಕೊಳ್ಳಲಾಯಿತು.

ದಶಮಾನೋತ್ಸವ ಸಮಾರಂಭಕ್ಕೆ ಮುಖ್ಯ ಅತಿಥಿಗಳಾಗಿದ್ದ ಡಾ. ಯುಆರ್ ಅನಂತಮೂರ್ತಿ ಹಾಗೂ ರವಿ ಹೆಗಡೆ ಅವರು ಕಾರಣಾಂತರದಿಂದ ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ರಮಕ್ಕೆ ಆಗಮಿಸಿರಲಿಲ್ಲ. ಮತ್ತೊಬ್ಬ ಮುಖ್ಯ ಅತಿಥಿಗಳಾದ ನಾಡೋಜ ಪ್ರೊ.ಜಿ. ವೆಂಕಟಸುಬ್ಬಯ್ಯ ಅವರು ಸಭೆಯನ್ನು ಉದ್ದೇಶಿಸಿ ಹೀಗೆ ಮಾತನಾಡಿದರು :

'ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯದ ಬೆಳವಣಿಗೆ ಸಾಲದು. ನಾಡಿನ ಯುವ ಜನತೆ ಮತ್ತಷ್ಟು ಉತ್ಸುಕರಾಗಿ ಲೇಖನಗಳನ್ನು ಸೇರಿಸಿ ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯವನ್ನು ಮಾಹಿತಿಯೋಗ್ಯ ತಾಣವಾಗಿ ಮಾರ್ಪಡಿಸಿ' ಎಂದು ನಾಡೋಜ ಪ್ರೊ.ಜಿ. ವೆಂಕಟಸುಬ್ಬಯ್ಯ ಯುವಜನತೆಗೆ ಕರೆ ನೀಡಿದರು.

ಬೆಂಗಳೂರಿನ ಬಸವನಗುಡಿಯ ನ್ಯಾಷನಲ್ ಕಾಲೇಜು ಸಭಾಂಗಣದಲ್ಲಿ ನಡೆದ ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ದಶಮಾನೋತ್ಸವ ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ರಮದಲ್ಲಿ ಮುಖ್ಯ ಅತಿಥಿಯಾಗಿ ಮಾತನಾಡಿದ ಪ್ರೊ.ಜಿ. ವೆಂಕಟಸುಬ್ಬಯ್ಯ ಅವರು, 'ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯವನ್ನು ಹತ್ತು ಪೂರೈಸಿದ ಮಾತ್ರಕ್ಕೆ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ಮುಂದುವರೆಯುತ್ತದೆ ಎನ್ನುವ ಭಾವನೆ ಬೇಡ. ಪ್ರೀತಿಯಿಂದ ಕಟ್ಟಿದ ಒಂದು ಸಂಸ್ಥೆ ಮುಂದುವರೆಯಬೇಕಾದರೆ ಅದಕ್ಕೆ ಬಹಳಷ್ಟು ಜನರ ಸಹಕಾರ ಬೇಕು. ಈ ಸಹಕಾರ ಈಗ ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಕ್ಕೆ ಅಗತ್ಯವಿದೆ. ನನಗೆ ಈಗಾಗಲೇ ನೂರು ವರ್ಷವಾಗಿದೆ. ಆದರೂ ನನ್ನಿಂದಾಗುವ ಸಹಾಯವನ್ನು ನೀಡಲು ಸಿದ್ದ. ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಕ್ಕೆ ನನ್ನ ಬೆಂಬಲ ಯಾವತ್ತೂ ನಿರಂತರ' ಎಂದರು.

ಇಂದು ಇಂಟರ್ನೆಟ್ನಲ್ಲಿ ಒಂದು ವಿಚಾರಕ್ಕೆ ಸಂಬಂಧಿಸಿದಂತೆ ಸಾವಿರಾರು ಮಾಹಿತಿಗಳು ಸಿಗುತ್ತದೆ.ಇವುಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ನಿಖರವಾಗಿರುವ ಮಾಹಿತಿ ಎಲ್ಲಾ ತಾಣಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಸಿಗುವುದು ಕಷ್ಟ. ಹೀಗಾಗಿ ಅಯಾ ಕ್ಷೇತ್ರದಲ್ಲಿ ಸಾಧನೆ ಮಾಡಿರುವ ಕನ್ನಡದ ಸಾಧಕರು ತಮ್ಮ ಕರ್ತವ್ಯವೆಂದು ಭಾವಿಸಿ ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಮಾಹಿತಿ ಸೇರಿಸುವ ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ಕೆ ಮುಂದಾಗಬೇಕು' ಎಂದು ವಿಜ್ಞಾನಿ ಅನಂತರಾಮು ಅಭಿಪ್ರಾಯಪಟ್ಟರು.

ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯದ ಸಂಪಾದಕ ಯು.ಬಿ. ಪವನಜ ಮಾತನಾಡಿ, 'ಪೆಟ್ರೋಲ್‌ ಉಳಿಸಲು ಕಡಿಮೆ ಪೆಟ್ರೋಲ್‌ ಬಳಸಿ ಎಂದು ಹೇಳುತ್ತೇವೆ. ಆದರೆ ಕನ್ನಡ ಉಳಿಸಲು ಏನು ಮಾಡಬೇಕು ಎಂಬ ಪ್ರಶ್ನೆಗೆ ಉತ್ತರ ಸಿಗುವುದು ಕಷ್ಟ. ಆದರೆ ವಿಶ್ವದ ಮಾಹಿತಿಗಳು ನಮ್ಮ ಭಾಷೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಸಿಕ್ಕಿದಾಗ ಮಾತ್ರ ಕನ್ನಡ ಉಳಿಸಬಹುದು. ಕಥೆ, ಕವನ ಇತ್ಯಾದಿ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯದ ಜೊತೆಗೆ ಈಗ ಮಾಹಿತಿ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯವನ್ನು ಬರೆಯುವ ಮಾಹಿತಿ ಸಾಹಿತಿಗಳ ಅಗತ್ಯವಿದೆ. ಈ ಸಾಹಿತಿಗಳಿಗೆ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ಒಂದು ಉತ್ತಮ ವೇದಿಕೆ.ಈ ವೇದಿಕೆಯನ್ನು ಬಳಸಿ ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯವನ್ನು ಉತ್ತಮ ಮಾಹಿತಿ ಕೋಶವನ್ನಾಗಿ ರೂಪಿಸಬೇಕಾಗಿದೆ' ಎಂದು ಹೇಳಿದರು.

ನಿರ್ದೇಶಕ ಅಭಯ್ ಸಿಂಹ ಮಾತನಾಡಿ. 'ನನ್ನ ಅಜ್ಜ ಜಿ.ಟಿ ನಾರಾಯಣರಾಯರು ಬರೆದಿರುವ ವಿಜ್ಞಾನಕ್ಕೆ ಸಂಬಂಧಿಸಿ ಬರೆದಿರುವ ಲೇಖನಗಳು ಕ್ರಿಯೆಟಿವ್ ಕಾಮನ್ಸ್‌ ಲೈಸನ್ಸ್‌ನಿಂದಾಗಿ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಲಭ್ಯವಾಗಿದೆ.ಈ ಲೈಸನ್ಸ್‌ ಮೂಲಕ ಈಗಾಗಲೇ ಮುದ್ರಣಗೊಂಡಿರುವ ಮತ್ತಷ್ಟು ಲೇಖನಗಳು ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಸೇರುವಂತಾಗಬೇಕು' ಎಂದು ಆಶಿಸಿದರು.

ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ರಮದಲ್ಲಿ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಅತಿ ಹೆಚ್ಚಾಗಿ ಲೇಖನಗಳನ್ನು ಸಂಪಾದನೆ ಮಾಡಿದ ಲೇಖಕರಿಗೆ ಸ್ಮರಣಿಕೆ ನೀಡಿ ಗೌರವಿಸಲಾಯಿತು. ಬಳಿಕ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಕ್ಕೆ ಹೊಸ ಲೇಖನ ಸೇರಿಸುವ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಓಂ ಶಿವಪ್ರಕಾಶ ಪ್ರಾತ್ಯಕ್ಷಿಕೆ ನೀಡಿದರು. ಕ್ರಿಯೇಟಿವ್ ಕಾಮನ್ಸ್ ವಿಚಾರದ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಕಿರಣ್ ರವಿಕುಮಾರ ಉಪನ್ಯಾಸ ನೀಡಿದರು.

ಎಲ್ಲ ಪ್ರಮುಖ ಸುದ್ದಿಗಳ ಮೇಲೆ ಒನ್ಇಂಡಿಯಾ ನೋಟ. ನಿರಂತರ ಸುದ್ದಿ ಪಡೆಯಲು Facebook ಮತ್ತು Twitter ಮೇಲೆ ಇರಲಿ ಕಣ್ಣು.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/news/one-india-november-17-2013-kannada-wikipedia-10th-anniversary-celebration-basavanagudi

Stats for March 2016

rahim — 2016-06-07T04:06:03Z

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.

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.

Stub articles created :

Kannada - 3/131

Konkani - 9/38

Marathi - 50/176

Odia - 8/89

Telugu - 59/284

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.

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.

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.

Now. lets look at the editing activity.

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.

Having a provision of local image upload, Telugu Wikipedia added 53 images to the project while Marathi, one image was added.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/openness/stats-for-march-2016

Dr. Pavanaja Featured in Vijayavani

praskrishna — 2015-12-15T07:49:55Z

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.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/openness/news/dr-pavanaja-featured-in-vijayavani

Christ University Wikipedia Education Program Internship

manasarao — 2017-12-14T08:55:05Z

The Centre for Internet and Society - Access to Knowledge program, in partnership with Christ University, is announcing its annual internship program for the 1200 students enrolled in the Wikipedia Education Program. The Wikipedia Education Program at Christ University, now in its fourth year, is an effort to bring together educators and students to use Wikipedia as an educational implement. CIS-A2K conducts the internship activity for passionate Christ University students to improve the quality of the articles created or edited by their fellow WEP peers. The internship will largely involve improving upon the articles created by their peers as well as gathering community consensus based on which these articles would be moved to the main namespace.

The students will be working on Wikipedia over the course of 21 days in developing upon the content created by Christ University Wikipedia Education Program participants. The fledgling articles currently housed in the individual “sandboxes” of the WEP participants will be improved upon by the interns through addition of detailed content, images and info-boxes.

The students are selected based on three main criteria: fluency of language(written and spoken), knowledge of Wikipedia and its processes, and their personal interest levels. The applications are open from 13 to 17 December, 2017. Interested students can apply here:

https://goo.gl/forms/Ffxh3T3DRZz8Q25F3

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/christ-university-wikipedia-education-program-internship-1