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