Congratulations and what an achievement! Accolades for the team... How can we help too in this endeavour? On 16 Apr 2014 16:38, "Pavanaja U B" <[email protected]> wrote:
> namaste, > > > > It is with great pleasure that we announce the re-release of first 6 > volumes > of Kannada Encyclopaedia published by Mysore University under Creative > Commons License CC-BY-SA 3.0. > > > > CIS-A2K has been following up with the Mysore University since months > requesting them to re-release the encyclopaedia under CC. Being convinced > of > the importance of preserving the rich culture and heritage of Kannada, > Mysore University has approved the conversion into Unicode and re-release > of > the encyclopaedia under CC to make it freely available to Kannadigas all > over the world. > > > > This is a great achievement for CIS-A2K programme and Wikimedia India > community. We are extremely thankful to Prof. K. S. Rangappa, > Vice-Chancellor of Mysore University for realising the importance of > growing > free and open knowledge in Kannada. Thanks are also due to the Mysore > University faculty and officials, specifically Prof. S. Ravi (Director, > PMEB), Prof C. Basavaraju (Ex Registrar), Prof. N. M. Talawar (Director, > Institute of Kannada Studies), Prof Hati Krishne Gowda (then Chief Editor > of > Mysore University Encyclopaedia project) and others. > > > > CIS-A2K will be converting the encyclopaedia into Unicode and uploading it > on Kannada Wikisource; that will feed into articles on Kannada Wikipedia. > > > > > > Thanks and regards, > > Pavanaja > > U.B. Pavanaja, MSc, PhD > > Programme Officer <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pavanaja> - Indian > languages, > > Access to Knowledge program > > The Centre for Internet & Society > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikikn-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikikn-l > _______________________________________________ Wikikn-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikikn-l
