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Kannada Wikipedia edit-a-thon organised at Sagara, Karnataka
https://cis-india.org/openness/kannada-wikipedia-editathon-sagara
<b>A two-day-long Kannada Wikipedia edit-a-thon was organised at Sagara, Karnataka during January 26-27. A photowalk was also organised on the 25th to cover places of encyclopedic importance.</b>
<p>The theme of this edit-a-thon was Mechanical Engineering. 12 editors including seven new editors participated in this event. 20 articles were created/improved and four media files were uploaded. This was first of its kinds of edit-a-thon in Sagara and was useful to improve articles related to the field of mechanical engineering in Kannada Wikipedia which otherwise did not much content nor many editors to contribute in this domain. Six full fledged articles were created during the event. It was planned to organise more such events at Sagara in the future to gather people interested in the same subject area and expand the reach of mechanical engineering in Kannada language.<br /><br />
A day before the edit-a-thon, four active Kannada Wikimedians and I went on a photowalk and clicked about 100 images of places that are important and could be used for Wikipedia articles.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/kannada-wikipedia-editathon-sagara'>https://cis-india.org/openness/kannada-wikipedia-editathon-sagara</a>
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No publisherAnanth SubrayCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaEdit-a-thonKannada Wikipedia2016-08-22T10:58:40ZBlog EntryKannada Wikipedia edit-a-thon in St. Agnes College, Mangaluru to bridge gender gap in Wikipedia
https://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='https://cis-india.org/openness/kannada-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-in-st-agnes-college-mangaluru-to-bridge-gender-gap-in-wikipedia'>https://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 EntryKannada Wikipedia edit-a-thon for Mechanical Engineering students of Sagara
https://cis-india.org/openness/kannada-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-for-mechanical-engineering-students-of-sagara
<b>In Sagara, Karnataka, a Kannada Wikipedia edit-a-thon is being planned to be organised during January 26-27.</b>
<p>Kannada Wikipedia has turned 13 this year. Started in June 2003, the
free Kannada-language online encyclopedia is one of the major resources
in the language on the Internet. With over 19700 and even with many
broader topics like art, literature, politics, science and culture
covered in Kannada Wikipedia, there is significantly low content about
Mechanical Engineering. Mechanical Engineering enthusiasts of the city
are coming together to bridge this gap by creating and enhancing content
in Kannada on the internet. Out of the three days, the whole day of the
25th is dedicated for clicking pictures of historical places of the
city which will additionally contribute to articles related to the city.
The event is being organised by the Kannada Wikimedia community that
voluntarily contributes to grow Kannada Wikipedia and several other
Kannada Wikimedia projects, and the Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge programme. The edit-a-thon will
include demonstration and practice sessions of input in Kannada script,
basics of Wikipedia editing and its policies and guidelines, searching
for references from various journals and notable books, and translation
of technical content, and is open to all. Anant Subray, Programme
Associate who is the organiser of the event could be contacted at
9739811664 for more information.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/kannada-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-for-mechanical-engineering-students-of-sagara'>https://cis-india.org/openness/kannada-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-for-mechanical-engineering-students-of-sagara</a>
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No publisherAnanth SubrayWikimediaWikipediaCIS-A2KKannada Wikipedia2016-03-01T13:56:54ZEventKannada Wikipedia and its Tenth Anniversary
https://cis-india.org/news/kannada-wikipedia-tenth-anniversary
<b>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.</b>
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<td>Above: Dr. U.B. Pavanaja speaking on RadioCity.</td>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/news/kannada-wikipedia-tenth-anniversary'>https://cis-india.org/news/kannada-wikipedia-tenth-anniversary</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaOpennessKannada Wikipedia2016-01-28T13:14:20ZNews ItemJournalism Students of the SDM College Ujire Enrich Karnataka’s Folklore And Folk Art in Kannada Wikipedia
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/journalism-students-of-the-shree-dharmasthala-manjunatheshwara-sdm-college-ujire-enrich-karnataka2019s-folklore-and-folk-art-in-kannada-wikipedia
<b>As part of an ongoing partnership with the Shree Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara (SDM) College Ujjire, with active support from a few Kannada Wikipedia editors, CIS-A2K began an outreach programme so that the journalism students could help many Kannada readers about Karnataka’s rich folklore and folk art.</b>
<p id="docs-internal-guid-e599ce9d-d03b-a6b5-0c6a-3e6664727eb0" dir="ltr">Both first year and second year students of Master of Communication and Journalism (MCJ) of SDM College participated in this workshop. Out of 35 participants, 11 were female. Students had discussed already about enhancing Kannada Wikipedia articles on folklore and folk art forms of Karnataka. About 20 new user accounts were created and the students have started creating articles in their user <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sandbox">sandboxes</a> which they will later move as articles upon enhancement with vital information. Some of the students chose to find existing articles and add more information to them. Long time Kannada Wikimedian <a href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:VASANTH S.N.">S N Vasanthkn</a>. from Dharmasthala helped as resource person to help the new editors with Wikipedia editing. However, as first timers, many struggled with the encyclopedic way of writing and maintaining <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view">neutral point of view</a>. These students will be mentored by Vasanth as he is visiting them every Monday.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">More details from the <a href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/s/1cpm">event </a>page.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/journalism-students-of-the-shree-dharmasthala-manjunatheshwara-sdm-college-ujire-enrich-karnataka2019s-folklore-and-folk-art-in-kannada-wikipedia'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/journalism-students-of-the-shree-dharmasthala-manjunatheshwara-sdm-college-ujire-enrich-karnataka2019s-folklore-and-folk-art-in-kannada-wikipedia</a>
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No publisherpavanajaOpennessWikipediaKannada WikipediaWikimedia2015-09-15T09:09:12ZBlog EntryIndian Women and Craft Edit-a-thon
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/indian-women-and-craft-edit-a-thon-1
<b>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.
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<p dir="ltr">On 8th March 2018, The Access to Knowledge program in collaboration with the<a href="http://srishti.ac.in/"> Srishti Institute of Art, design, and technology</a> organised a Kannada Wikipedia workshop at<a href="http://janastu.org/home/index.html#/about-us"> Janastu</a>, 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.</p>
<p dir="ltr">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<a href="https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/janastu"> 7 articles</a> 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.</p>
<p dir="ltr">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 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daroji_Eramma">Daroji Eramma’</a>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.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/indian-women-and-craft-edit-a-thon-1'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/indian-women-and-craft-edit-a-thon-1</a>
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No publisherGopalakrishna A.Edit-a-thonKannada WikipediaAccess to KnowledgeWorkshop2018-07-04T16:30:28ZBlog EntryEdit-a-thon to improve Kannada-language science-related Wikipedia articles
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/edit-a-thon-to-improve-kannada-language-science-related-wikipedia-articles-1
<b>A three-day Kannada Wikipedia edit-a-thon was conducted for science lecturers of institutions who gathered at the District Institute of Education and Training (DIET), Bengaluru this August 18. The idea of this event was to improve science-related articles that are part of the Government of Karnataka's high school syllabus.
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<p id="docs-internal-guid-02799d05-975b-5a5b-76ff-0de8ae8101e7" dir="ltr">During the span of three days the lecturers were taught about basics of <a href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/">Kannada Wikipedia</a>, editing policies, Kannada input, creating and editing articles on Kannada Wikipedia, and they all participated in contributing to about 20 articles science-related article based on topics listed in the high school syllabus (as per the Karnataka state syllabus). Some of the lecturers who were first-timers faced problems with Kannada typing where most others took some time to understand the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Wiki_markup">Wikipedia markup</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources">citations</a>. As this was the first iteration of the project, two more edit-a-thons will follow; one in November 2015 and another one in February 2016. We invite all Kannada Wikimedians to join and mentor these new Wikimedians.</p>
Images of the edit-a-thon can be found on Wikimedia Commons Category “<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Kannada_Wikipedia_Workshop_for_DSERT_Bengaluru_Aug_18-20_2015">Kannada Wikipedia Workshop for DSERT Bengaluru Aug 18-20 2015</a>”. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja and Tito Dutta from CIS-A2K conducted the workshop.
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/edit-a-thon-to-improve-kannada-language-science-related-wikipedia-articles-1'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/edit-a-thon-to-improve-kannada-language-science-related-wikipedia-articles-1</a>
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No publisherpavanajaLanguageKannada WikipediaEventAccess to Knowledge2015-09-04T08:25:51ZBlog EntryEdit-a-thon organised to grow content on medicinal plants in Kannada Wikipedia
https://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='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/edit-a-thon-organised-to-grow-content-on-medicinal-plants-in-kannada-wikipedia'>https://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
https://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='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/edit-a-thon-organised-at-christ-university-bangalore-to-celebrate-women2019s-day'>https://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 EntryEdit-a-thon at DSERT Bengaluru to improve Science-related articles in Kannada Wikipedia
https://cis-india.org/openness/edit-a-thon-at-dsert-bengaluru-to-improve-science-related-articles-in-kannada-wikipedia
<b>We have been working with the Department of State Educational Research and Training of Karnataka (DSERT), a Government of Karnataka-run research and training institution headquartered in Bengaluru. With the hope of expanding the reach of Science-related content in Kannada Wikipedia, we organised an edit-a-thon spanning over three days from the 11th January through the 13th.</b>
<p id="docs-internal-guid-37d9719d-9278-b9b3-081f-905efd20910b" dir="ltr">This edit-a-thon was part of many ongoing <a href="http://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/edit-a-thon-to-improve-kannada-language-science-related-wikipedia-articles-1">outreach programmes</a> at <a href="http://dsert.kar.nic.in/">DSERT</a> and had engagement with faculty members from several schools and colleges in Karnataka, and help them contribute to the Science-related articles in Kannada Wikipedia. The edit-a-thon was organised by the Centre for Internet and Society’s <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K">Access to Knowledge programme</a> and 12 educators participated in the programme. In total, 53 articles were created/improved during these three days. With six female educator-editors actively participating in this event, there was a fair balance in the gender demography. More details about the event can be read in the event page <a href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/s/1gf2">here</a>.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/edit-a-thon-at-dsert-bengaluru-to-improve-science-related-articles-in-kannada-wikipedia'>https://cis-india.org/openness/edit-a-thon-at-dsert-bengaluru-to-improve-science-related-articles-in-kannada-wikipedia</a>
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No publisherAnanth SubrayCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeEdit-a-thonWorkshopKannada Wikipedia2016-08-16T08:31:50ZBlog EntryDr. Pavanaja Featured in Vijayavani
https://cis-india.org/openness/news/dr-pavanaja-featured-in-vijayavani
<b>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.</b>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/news/dr-pavanaja-featured-in-vijayavani'>https://cis-india.org/openness/news/dr-pavanaja-featured-in-vijayavani</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KKannada WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2015-12-15T07:49:55ZNews ItemConverting from nonUnicode (Nudi, Baraha, ...) font encoding to Unicode Kannada
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/converting-from-non-unicode-nudi-baraha-font-encoding-to-unicode-kannada
<b>People have been using computers for typing and printing Kannada text for more than 25 years. Most of the usage of Kannada on computers was limited to the DTP arena.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">People made use of packages like PageMaker (Version 6.5 or 7) to type and compose pages. Even now, many people still use these packages for Kannada DTP work. The text entered into these packages is stored as font glyph codes rather than character encodings. Non-Unicode truetype fonts like Nudi, Baraha, ShreeLipi, Akruti, etc, are some of the most popular fonts being used.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The system does not understand these characters as Kannada characters. Any text based operations like search, replace, sorting, spell-check, text-to-speech, etc, are not possible with this kind of text. Employing Unicode for all digitisation works of Kannada text solves this problem. Usage of Unicode for Kannada has become prominent only recently. All websites like Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, Wikisource, etc, want the text only in Unicode. There is still a large amount of text entered and stored with old non-Unicode font based encodings. These are mostly present in the form of PageMaker files. This blog post explains the process of converting the text present in PageMaker into Kannada Unicode text.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The Kannada and Culture Department of the Government of Karnataka have released Unicode complaint open-type fonts and Unicode based software for Kannada under GPL. These are available for free download on their website (<a class="external-link" href="http://kannadasiri.co.in/index/software">http://kannadasiri.co.in/index/software</a>). Download and<br />install “Ascii to Unicode Kannada Converter” from this page. This software works only in Windows. Now you are ready to convert the text from PageMaker file into Unicode.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Open the PageMaker file. Select the Text tool depicted by a big “T” shaped icon. Click anywhere in the text area. Select the entire text (Ctrl-A followed by Ctrl-C). Now open Notepad and paste this text into that (press Ctrl-V). The text will appear gibberish in Notepad. Don’t worry about it. Save the file as plain text file (.TXT file). Remember where you have saved the file.</p>
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<th><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/Screen2.PNG/@@images/b154a5cc-156a-4f6c-bf66-ffb1ed3650b8.png" alt="screen-shot2" class="image-inline" title="screen-shot2" /></th><th><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/screen4.PNG/@@images/455ac9ff-d249-4014-8cb5-46aa17c0da3c.png" alt="screen4" class="image-inline" title="screen4" /><br /></th>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Now run the “Kannada ASCII Unicode Converter” software. In the first textbox enter the name of the ASCII file to be converted (the file you just saved from Notepad). In the bottom textbox enter a filename for the Unicode text file that will be created by the software. Select the default “GOK (Kuvempu Nudi Baraha)”, or other encoding as the case may be, as the encoding from which the text has to be converted. Click on the button written “ಪರಿವರ್ತಿಸಿ”. It will show the progress of conversion.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Once the conversion is complete, it will display an appropriate message to indicate completion of the conversion. If you open the text file created by the software, it will have the text converted into Unicode. This text can be used in Wikisource, Wikipedia, etc.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/converting-from-non-unicode-nudi-baraha-font-encoding-to-unicode-kannada'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/converting-from-non-unicode-nudi-baraha-font-encoding-to-unicode-kannada</a>
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No publisherpavanajaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaOpennessKannada Wikipedia2016-10-23T15:36:25ZBlog EntryCIS Signs MoU with Mysore University
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<b>CIS-A2K signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the University of Mysore for converting to Unicode and re-releasing their encyclopaedia under Creative Commons License. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja on behalf of the CIS-A2K team signed the MoU.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Registrar and VC Prof. K.S. Rangappa was present on the occasion. The signing of the MoU took place on February 22, 2014. As part of the MoU CIS will convert and upload the encyclopaedia into Kannada Wikisource and then it will be moved to Kannada Wikipedia.</p>
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<td style="text-align: justify; ">Above: Dr. Pavanaja with Prof. C. Basavaraju and <a name="_MailEndCompose"><span> </span></a>Prof. K.S. Rangappa at Mysore University on occasion of signing the MoU.<br /></td>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/cis-signs-mou-with-mysore-university'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/cis-signs-mou-with-mysore-university</a>
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No publisherpavanajaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaOpennessKannada Wikipedia2014-05-05T06:29:37ZBlog EntryChrist University Wikipedia Education Program Internship
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/christ-university-wikipedia-education-program-internship-1
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<p dir="ltr">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.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">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.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">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:</p>
<p dir="ltr">https://goo.gl/forms/Ffxh3T3DRZz8Q25F3</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/christ-university-wikipedia-education-program-internship-1'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/christ-university-wikipedia-education-program-internship-1</a>
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No publishermanasaraoCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeWikipedia Education ProgramWikimediaWikipediaSanskrit WikipediaUrdu WikipediaOpennessHindi WikipediaTulu WikipediaKannada Wikipedia2017-12-14T08:55:05ZBlog EntryChrist University Wikipedia Education Program Internship
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/christ-university-wikipedia-education-program-internship
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<p id="docs-internal-guid-0f6be479-11df-80e2-bfe1-1c86f83e058d" dir="ltr">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.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">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.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">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</p>
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<p dir="ltr">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.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">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.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/christ-university-wikipedia-education-program-internship'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/christ-university-wikipedia-education-program-internship</a>
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No publisherManasa Rao and Ananth SubrayCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeWikipedia Education ProgramWikimediaWikipediaSanskrit WikipediaOpennessHindi WikipediaKannada Wikipedia2017-07-05T09:33:19ZBlog Entry