[Wikimediaindia-l] Sharing insights and experiences from Indian language wiki communities - Kannada

[ansuman]

I think the pages available for beginners on english wikipedia is more than
enough to learn.

On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 4:18 AM, Jessie Wild <jwild at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Thanks for sending this, Shiju!
>
> I just got off the phone with a wonderful woman who works for EDC India
> who was asking me how she could participate in Kannada Wikipedia editing.
> Obviously I can just direct her to the homepage of kn-wiki, but is there
> somewhere she could go to get some coaching to begin? She's never edited
> before, but is fluent in English too and wants to increase the educational
> content.
>
> Thanks for your help!
> Jessie
>
> On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 9:55 PM, Shiju Alex <shiju at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>>
>> As part of my discussion with Indic language Wikipedians I spoke with few
>> Kannada wikipedians. I have summarized the discussion in meta wiki. It is
>> here:
>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages/Kannada/Discussions/2011
>>
>>
>> Kannada with more than 4 crore speakers and is one of the 22 scheduled
>> languages of india. Kannada is primarily spoken in the Indian state
>> Karnataka.
>>
>> Kannada Wikipedia has a very interesting heritage.  This is the community
>> that started Wiki outreach programs in India.  In fact, the first Indic
>> wiki workshop that I am aware of was organized by HPN way back in 2004! A lot
>> of interesting things happened for a while and there was a time when Kannda
>> has a vibrant 40+ strong community.
>>
>> However, off late, things appear to have slowed down and the number of
>> active editors is on a relative decline.  Having said that, the seeds have
>> already been sown in this community and I am confident that with a little
>> nurturing, we can see activism in Kannada wikipedia coming back. I am
>> basing my optimism on Kananda Wiktionary -where the community has taken it
>> to the 2nd largest wiktionary in the country.  There is much activism
>> happening around kannada wiktionary. In Kannada wikipedia I got opportunity
>> to interact with high prolific editors like User:Radhatanaya who is
>> silently doing wonderful job.
>>
>> Kannada wikipedia has more than 11,000 articles now and kannada
>> wiktionary has whopping 1,50,000 entries (making it the second biggest
>> Wiktionary among Indic language wiktionaries).
>>
>> Kindly read the experience of Kannada Wikimedians at:
>>
>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages/Kannada/Discussions/2011
>>
>>
>>
>>  Regards
>> Shiju
>>
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