hi, who's the blind contributor mentioned here??? i wish they had mentioned his name.
On 8/1/13, Siddalingeshwar Ingalagi <[email protected]> wrote: > Wikipedia boom in Marathi, Malayalam and other desi languages > Aug 1, 2013, 01.46AM IST TNN[ Sandhya Soman ] > > > Wiki, the world’s largest online encyclopaedia where anyone can write > and edit articles, didn’t have much content in vernacular till a few > years ago.MUMBAI: A vibrant vernacular Wikipedia seems to be taking > root in India. In the last eight months, the number of Wikipedia > entries has grown substantially in 20 Indian languages, says a study > by the Bangalore-based Centre for Internet and Society (CIS). > > Wiki, the world's largest online encyclopaedia where anyone can write > and edit articles, didn't have much content in vernacular till a few > years ago. According to the study, Wikis in Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada > and Hindi have added thousands of new articles on various subjects > from September 2012 to April 2013. A few of these pages were viewed > more during this period. Marathi, which had 30 lakh page views per > month previously, had another 10 lakh visitors, while Bengali > Wikipedia had 14 lakh page views. > > While Malayalam Wiki took the top position with an enviable team of > 100 plus editors, the number Hindi, Marathi and Sanskrit editors came > down. "Marathi has 40,000 articles. But most editors in Mumbai prefer > to work on English. Pune has more Marathi editors,' says T Vishnu > Vardhan, programme director, Access to Knowledge project at CIS. > > "In the last two years, the demand for knowledge in Indian languages > has grown as we have moved to the motto of 'roti, kapda and > internet'," says Vardhan. > > One of the reasons for growth is that many browsers now support Indian > language scripts. But this was not the case in early 2000. Though many > wanted to read and type in their own language, there was no browser > support, says Shiju Alex, blogger and Malayalam Wiki editor. Moreover, > many didn't know how to type in their mother tongues. > > But once Indian languages were encoded in Unicode, the fonts became > accessible. "There was no need to write Malayalam in English and > people started blogging in their mother tongues," says Alex. According > to Vardhan, communities with better literacy rates seem to have taken > the lead online. > > "Telugu Wiki is stronger as internet penetration in Andhra Pradesh is > higher than in places where Bhojpuri or Assamese is spoken." > > As with most online language initiatives, the Wiki movement was also > fuelled by the diaspora. Tinu Cherian Abraham, a former board member > of the Wikimedia India chapter, talks about how an NRI's love for > Malayalam kick-started the project. > > But now there are many Wiki foot soldiers in India, including a blind > editor of Hindi Wikipedia and an elderly contributor from Kerala whose > passion for free knowledge has helped him forget his ailments. > source link is: > http://m.timesofindia.com/tech/tech-news/internet/Wikipedia-boom-in-Marathi-Malayalam-and-other-desi-languages/articleshow/21518534.cms > > -- > thanks and regards. > Siddalingeshwar ingalagi. > State karnataka. Country india. > My contact info: E-mail ID [email protected] Follow me on > twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ingalagisiddu/ > search me on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/siddalingeshwar.ingalagi > please note my skype ID: siddalingeshwar2 > send your private message to [email protected] > Practice makes man perfect. > Attitude Is Everything > work is worship. > so be happy!! 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