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 <jw...@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 <sh...@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_Languages/Kannada/Discussions/2011 >> >> >> 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_Languages/Kannada/Discussions/2011 >> >> >> >> Regards >> Shiju >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >> Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >> >> > > > -- > *Jessie Wild > Global Development, Manager > Wikimedia Foundation > * > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > > -- Ansuman Giri * ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ * http://twitter.com/smileyansu * _______________________________________________ Wikipedia Odia (Oriya) mailing list wikipedia...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-or facebook.com/OdiaWiki Tweet @OdiaWiki *
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