hi folks,
Started around a month back, Kannada wikipedia
[
http://kn.wikipedia.org/], the Kannada version initiative of free
Encyclopedia on the net - wikipedia*, has come to a milestone down the
lane to reach first 50 articles in its garner. It has fast become a
place on the web where there's already quite a bit of information
reagarding kannada and kannada related stuffs. Kannada wikipedia is now
the *fourth largest* Indian language wikipedia behind Hindi and Sanskrit.
Thanks to all the initial contributors, and all those people who took
their sweat out besides their regular work for helping expand the
kannada wikipedia. As the overlooking sys-op on the project, I would
like to mention the volunteers,
Pramod R (admin at kannada.sf),
Mr. Ashwattha mattur,
Mr. CK Major,
for all the efforts they put in to realising this. Thanks to the
wikipedia folks (kturner & brion) for the technical help they streched
forward for the 'all Kannada' interface for the wikipedia & thanks to
Angela
Beasley[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Angela] for the support
all the way through this effort.
All the editing and producing content in Kannada *wouldn't have been
possible* without the Baraha direct tool [
http://baraha.com/] on
windows, and Pramod's Nudi keyboard
[
http://kannada.sourceforge.net/nudi.tar.gz] for Linux. Thanks the
respective developers for such nice tools.
We hope to see more people getting involved in this knowledge movement
and help realise a complete kannada knowledge bank, a first kannada
online encyclopedia!. If you are interested in contributing to this free
open-content project, Please visit
http://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Community_Portal for details.
There is also a mailing list for discussion on Kannada wikipedia. Please
visit
http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikikn-l to subscribe
to it.
Cheers,
Hari Prasad Nadig
* -
http://en.wikipedia.org/
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sysop & bureaucrat @
http://kn.wikipedia.org/
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