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(a)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(a)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_…
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_…
Regards
Shiju
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