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_L...
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_L...
Regards Shiju
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@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_L...
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_L...
Regards Shiju
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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@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@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_L...
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_L...
Regards Shiju
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That is not always true. Even the apparently (for us) easy pages on English Wikipedia are too technical for a would-be enthusiatic neo wiki editor as he/she just steps into editing attempts even after a long experience of "reading" wikipedia.
I can wow on to this as I have met many such people who would, at first 'dare into editing' often at the forceful prompting of an experienced user, but soon withdraw. To them, there seems to be too may syntax formalities and restricting rules and regulations.
The same people, if continuously and intensively supported by an experienced one, crosses the learning curve quite fast and become able to stand on his own as an independent contributor.
I sincerely think that there is a clear need of preparing and showcasing a Real Idiot's Guide to early Wikipedia editing. Perhaps, we do not realize such lack of user-friendliness ourselves as most of us have come away a long way from that stage.
-Viswam
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 22:33, ansuman ansumang@gmail.com wrote:
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@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@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_L...
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_L...
Regards Shiju
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There isn't a lack of easyness. Some people are just scared away by so called veteran editors.
On 10/12/2011, ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ) viswaprabha@gmail.com wrote:
That is not always true. Even the apparently (for us) easy pages on English Wikipedia are too technical for a would-be enthusiatic neo wiki editor as he/she just steps into editing attempts even after a long experience of "reading" wikipedia.
I can wow on to this as I have met many such people who would, at first 'dare into editing' often at the forceful prompting of an experienced user, but soon withdraw. To them, there seems to be too may syntax formalities and restricting rules and regulations.
The same people, if continuously and intensively supported by an experienced one, crosses the learning curve quite fast and become able to stand on his own as an independent contributor.
I sincerely think that there is a clear need of preparing and showcasing a Real Idiot's Guide to early Wikipedia editing. Perhaps, we do not realize such lack of user-friendliness ourselves as most of us have come away a long way from that stage.
-Viswam
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 22:33, ansuman ansumang@gmail.com wrote:
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@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@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_L...
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_L...
Regards Shiju
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Thanks Shiju for the mail.
I am trying to connect my Engineering College for organizing a Kannada Wiki Academy, but a Kannada Wikimedian should volunteer, And after taking part in the Wiki Academy in Jaya Engineering Collegehttp://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wiki_Academy/Jaya_Engineering_CollegeI could see the potential of Indic language Wiki academies in even Engineering colleges, there are always enthusiasts for regional Wikipedias, none ever tried to reach them and they never took interest to take part in editing Wikipedia :)
Vacations are going on, but few volunteers of Parishudhhttp://www.parishudh.org have taken interest for conducting an academy, please let me know the whereabouts of active Kannada Wikipedians.
regards Subha
On 11 December 2011 00:25, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.ghoda@gmail.comwrote:
There isn't a lack of easyness. Some people are just scared away by so called veteran editors.
On 10/12/2011, ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ) viswaprabha@gmail.com wrote:
That is not always true. Even the apparently (for us) easy pages on English Wikipedia are too technical for a would-be enthusiatic neo wiki editor as he/she just steps into editing attempts even after a long experience of "reading" wikipedia.
I can wow on to this as I have met many such people who would, at first 'dare into editing' often at the forceful prompting of an experienced
user,
but soon withdraw. To them, there seems to be too may syntax formalities and restricting
rules
and regulations.
The same people, if continuously and intensively supported by an experienced one, crosses the learning curve quite fast and become able to stand on his own as an independent contributor.
I sincerely think that there is a clear need of preparing and showcasing
a
Real Idiot's Guide to early Wikipedia editing. Perhaps, we do not realize such lack of user-friendliness ourselves as most of us have come away a long way from that stage.
-Viswam
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 22:33, ansuman ansumang@gmail.com wrote:
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@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@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_L...
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_L...
Regards Shiju
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+1 to ViswaPrabha comment. Still I think It depends on the user.
On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 7:49 AM, Subhashish Panigrahi <psubhashish@gmail.com
wrote:
Thanks Shiju for the mail.
I am trying to connect my Engineering College for organizing a Kannada Wiki Academy, but a Kannada Wikimedian should volunteer, And after taking part in the Wiki Academy in Jaya Engineering Collegehttp://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wiki_Academy/Jaya_Engineering_CollegeI could see the potential of Indic language Wiki academies in even Engineering colleges, there are always enthusiasts for regional Wikipedias, none ever tried to reach them and they never took interest to take part in editing Wikipedia :)
Vacations are going on, but few volunteers of Parishudhhttp://www.parishudh.org have taken interest for conducting an academy, please let me know the whereabouts of active Kannada Wikipedians.
regards Subha
On 11 December 2011 00:25, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <parakara.ghoda@gmail.com
wrote:
There isn't a lack of easyness. Some people are just scared away by so called veteran editors.
On 10/12/2011, ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ) viswaprabha@gmail.com wrote:
That is not always true. Even the apparently (for us) easy pages on English Wikipedia are too technical for a would-be enthusiatic neo wiki editor as he/she just steps into editing attempts even after a long experience of "reading" wikipedia.
I can wow on to this as I have met many such people who would, at first 'dare into editing' often at the forceful prompting of an experienced
user,
but soon withdraw. To them, there seems to be too may syntax formalities and restricting
rules
and regulations.
The same people, if continuously and intensively supported by an experienced one, crosses the learning curve quite fast and become able
to
stand on his own as an independent contributor.
I sincerely think that there is a clear need of preparing and
showcasing a
Real Idiot's Guide to early Wikipedia editing. Perhaps, we do not
realize
such lack of user-friendliness ourselves as most of us have come away a long way from that stage.
-Viswam
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 22:33, ansuman ansumang@gmail.com wrote:
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@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@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_L...
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_L...
Regards Shiju
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On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 04:18, Jessie Wild jwild@wikimedia.org wrote:
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.
The answer is above. I think communities must use front page much more effectively. There are many communities which don't update front page regularly, still keep it similar to English Wikipedia, wasting(IMO) some space. Instead, they could redesign front page to allocate significant space for attracting newbies.
Agree with Logic. Each community differs in every way. Needs, usage, exposure and more. Each community, while running on a common backend, must have a different frontend. Tamil is doing its best from what I've seen to be different and get new editors. Hindi, sadly is scaring them away. Kannada must ensure new editor retention.
On 11/12/2011, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik.lak@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 04:18, Jessie Wild jwild@wikimedia.org wrote:
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.
The answer is above. I think communities must use front page much more effectively. There are many communities which don't update front page regularly, still keep it similar to English Wikipedia, wasting(IMO) some space. Instead, they could redesign front page to allocate significant space for attracting newbies.
-- Regards Srikanth.L
Hindi, sadly is scaring them away.
Srikanth, do you have any specific example/experience that made you to say so?
Shiju
On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan < parakara.ghoda@gmail.com> wrote:
Agree with Logic. Each community differs in every way. Needs, usage, exposure and more. Each community, while running on a common backend, must have a different frontend. Tamil is doing its best from what I've seen to be different and get new editors. Hindi, sadly is scaring them away. Kannada must ensure new editor retention.
On 11/12/2011, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik.lak@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 04:18, Jessie Wild jwild@wikimedia.org wrote:
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.
The answer is above. I think communities must use front page much more effectively. There are many communities which don't update front page regularly, still keep it similar to English Wikipedia, wasting(IMO) some space. Instead, they could redesign front page to allocate
significant
space for attracting newbies.
-- Regards Srikanth.L
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Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore
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