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Looking ahead to the future of the Kannada Wikipedia: Vasanth S.N.
https://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='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikimedia-blog-february-28-2016-subhashish-panigrahi-looking-ahead-to-future-of-kannada-wikipedia'>https://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)
https://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='https://cis-india.org/openness/news/kannada-wikipedia-workshop-july-4-2015-coverage-in-udayavani'>https://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)
https://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='https://cis-india.org/openness/news/kannada-wikipedia-workshop-july-5-2015-coverage-in-prajavani'>https://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
https://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='https://cis-india.org/openness/events/kannada-wikipedia-workshop-at-shree-dharmasthala-manjunatheshwara-sdm-college-ujire-karnataka'>https://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
https://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: A report published by Prajavani</td>
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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='https://cis-india.org/news/kannada-wikipedia-workshop-alvas-vishva-nudisiri-virasat'>https://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 ItemKannada Wikipedia Workshop (Coverage in Vijayavani)
https://cis-india.org/news/vijayavani-kannada-wiki-workshop-march-3-2014
<b>Vijayavani covered the Kannada Wikipedia workshop held in Sagara.</b>
<p>Read the scanned version of the article published in Vijayavani below</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/news/vijayavani-kannada-wiki-workshop-march-3-2014'>https://cis-india.org/news/vijayavani-kannada-wiki-workshop-march-3-2014</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaOpennessKannada Wikipedia2014-04-11T10:15:45ZNews ItemKannada Wikipedia Workshop (Coverage in Suvarna Prabha)
https://cis-india.org/news/kannada-wikipedia-workshop-coverage-suvarna-prabha-march-1-2014
<b>Dr. U.B. Pavanaja conducted a Kannada Wikipedia workshop on March 1, followed a by edit-a-thon on Mar 2, 2014, at Sagara. A report of the inauguration program, appeared in Suvarna Prabha, Sagara on March 1, 2014. </b>
<p>A scanned version of the report is given below. The event was organised by Kannada Times Sagara and co-sponsored by CIS-A2K.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/news/kannada-wikipedia-workshop-coverage-suvarna-prabha-march-1-2014'>https://cis-india.org/news/kannada-wikipedia-workshop-coverage-suvarna-prabha-march-1-2014</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaOpennessKannada Wikipedia2014-03-05T11:05:23ZNews ItemKannada Wikipedia Presentation in Mysuru: Coverage in Prajavani
https://cis-india.org/openness/news/prajavani-november-24-2014-kannada-wikipedia-presentation-in-mysuru
<b>Media coverage of Kannada Wikipedia presentation at Mysuru on November 23, 2014.</b>
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<th>Scanned version of the report published by Prajavani on November 24, 2014</th>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/news/prajavani-november-24-2014-kannada-wikipedia-presentation-in-mysuru'>https://cis-india.org/openness/news/prajavani-november-24-2014-kannada-wikipedia-presentation-in-mysuru</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaOpennessKannada WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2014-12-06T02:40:17ZNews ItemKannada Wikipedia Presentation for Kannada Science Writers
https://cis-india.org/news/kannada-wikipedia-presentation-prajavani-coverage
<b>The following is the media coverage for the Kannada Wikipedia presentation at the Central University at Gulbarga on July 30,2014, in Gulbarga edition of Prajavani Kannada daily, dated July 31.</b>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/news/kannada-wikipedia-presentation-prajavani-coverage'>https://cis-india.org/news/kannada-wikipedia-presentation-prajavani-coverage</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaOpennessKannada Wikipedia2014-08-06T10:15:09ZNews ItemKannada Wikipedia Presentation
https://cis-india.org/news/kannada-wikipedia-presentation-vijayavani-coverage
<b>The following is a scanned copy of the media coverage for the Kannada Wikipedia presentation at the Kannada Science Writers workshop at Gulbarga on July 29,2014, in Gulbarga edition of Vijayavani Kannada daily, dated July 30.</b>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/news/kannada-wikipedia-presentation-vijayavani-coverage'>https://cis-india.org/news/kannada-wikipedia-presentation-vijayavani-coverage</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaOpennessKannada Wikipedia2014-08-06T09:57:48ZNews ItemKannada Wikipedia Orientation Workshop at IISc, Bengaluru
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/kannada-wikipedia-orientation-workshop-at-iisc-bengaluru
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<p>A Kannada Wikipedia orientation workshop was held at the Entrepreneurship Centre, SID, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru on 26 November, 2017. The day long event was aimed at adding content to Kannada Wikimedia projects on topics such as ecology, environment, wildlife and sciences of Karnataka. The event was organised by Gubbi Labs in conjunction with CIS-A2K. Gubbi Labs is a research collective and social collective run by environmental scientists. The event was attended was attended by 8 participants of which one member was female.</p>
<p>The participants created six articles and expanded one article. The impact of this workshop was the fact that participants were made aware of the importance of open access data. It helped initiate another similar workshop in Mysuru. Upon sharing the idea for projects like Wiki Loves Butterfly Idea, a participant was interested in starting a project titled 'Wiki Loves Spiders'. We are hoping to take this project forward on Kannada Wikipedia.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/kannada-wikipedia-orientation-workshop-at-iisc-bengaluru'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/kannada-wikipedia-orientation-workshop-at-iisc-bengaluru</a>
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No publisherGopalakrishna ACIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaOpennessKannada Wikipedia2017-12-19T16:16:29ZBlog EntryKannada Wikipedia not on top of the charts
https://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>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/the-hindu-january-19-muralidhara-khajane-kannada-wikipedia-not-on-top-of-the-charts'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/the-hindu-january-19-muralidhara-khajane-kannada-wikipedia-not-on-top-of-the-charts</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KKannada WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-06-18T16:23:37ZNews ItemKannada Wikipedia Education Program at Christ university: Work so far
https://cis-india.org/openness/kannada-wikipedia-education-program-at-christ-university-work-so-far
<b>As you know we are working closely with Christ university in Bengaluru for the Education Programs in Kannada Wikipedia and Kannada Wikisource, we worked on redesigning the programme for this academic year 2016-17 based on the lessons learned from the earlier intervention.</b>
<p id="docs-internal-guid-5d7cde76-7547-2867-cc52-7be3d80b126a" dir="ltr">Before beginning this programme, we provided training for campus ambassadors who in turn provided training to the faculty and fellow students. This new design of the programme allowed us to spend more time with the undergraduate students of various disciplines in Arts, Science and Commerce that are part of the programme. And this exercise resulted in improving the quality of the articles created by the students. So far, 218 second-year students in total have created 108 good quality articles in Kannada Wikipedia and 70 start class articles. The latter ones will need further work like adding images and citations. 20 of the articles are stub-start class articles, and 20 more are stubs of poor quality. The articles are still in the user sandboxes for the evaluation work and will soon be moved to the article namespace.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The freshman year students contributed in digitising books on Kannada Wikisource by proofreading about 2000 folios from four books.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Focus on multiple workshops that were conducted by multiple facilitators to ensure the series does not become monotonous. Facilitators included myself, some of the faculty and the Campus Ambassadors where the latter was useful for more peer-to-peer to learning.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Sessions were made more interactive and were spaced evenly that gave the students go through a learning curve.</p>
</li><li style="list-style-type: disc;" dir="ltr">Faculty support and engagement that was less last year was increased this year.</li></ul>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/kannada-wikipedia-education-program-at-christ-university-work-so-far'>https://cis-india.org/openness/kannada-wikipedia-education-program-at-christ-university-work-so-far</a>
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No publisherAnanth SubrayCIS-A2KWikipedia Education ProgramWikipediaKannada WikisourceKannada Wikipedia2016-11-18T02:45:05ZBlog EntryKannada Wikipedia Editathon: Vijayavani
https://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="https://cis-india.org/home-images/VijayavaniMangaluruDec112015.jpg/@@images/0a33d6f1-4943-4481-8c56-bd80ae3891f1.jpeg" alt="null" class="image-inline" title="Vijayavani" /><img src="https://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='https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/kannada-wikipedia-editathon-vijayavani'>https://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
https://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="https://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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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/kannada-wikipedia-editathon-vijaya-karnataka'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/kannada-wikipedia-editathon-vijaya-karnataka</a>
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