Hi Heggade, I will connect you with few Kannada wikipedians who are based in Bangalore.
Shiju On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 10:22 PM, karikala heggade d dondaheggade < [email protected]> wrote: > Hai shiju,I am working as a teacher is one of the school in bangaloreand > we started language lab for children. i am searching for resource for the > lang lab, if u have soomething related to this lab ples help me as soon as > possible > Thank uKARIKALA HEGGADE DCO ORDINATORKANNADA DEPT VIDYA SHILP > ACADEMYB`LORE 64 > > --- On Tue, 12/6/11, Shiju Alex <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: Shiju Alex <[email protected]> > Subject: [Wikikn-l (kannada wikipedia)] Sharing insights and experiences > from Indian language wiki communities - Kannada > To: "Wikimedia India Community list" <[email protected]>, > [email protected] > Date: Tuesday, December 6, 2011, 8:55 AM > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > 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 > _______________________________________________ Wikikn-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikikn-l
