Dear Jagadish, If improving Health and medicine related content in Kannada WP is the objective, one could look at the translating articles from WikiProject Medicine. See here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine .
It has some really good articles and one can start right away (no need to wait for any permission) :) Cheers, Vishnu ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 23:55:55 +0530 > From: jagadish <[email protected]> > To: Kannada Wikipedia Discussion List <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Wikikn-l (kannada wikipedia)] Converting some of the > great and helpful websites in to kannada > Message-ID: > <CAFjcZSj-a3qffXRiPfhs7pdsyetzF829vuuVC+PUMGKk= > [email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Dear Hari, > > I have already written a mail to WHO regarding this, i am just waiting for > their response. Yes Hari you are true this is a good initiative because > they have a good knowledge base regarding the health issues and concerns > being Kannadigas we should contribute something to our state, lets do it. > Just waiting for a positive response from WHO. > > Thanks for your reply. > > > On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 11:36 PM, Hari Prasad Nadig <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > Or better still, get WHO to release their knowledge base in Creative > > Commons or similar license. > > > > In any case, this is off-topic on a Wikimedia mailing list. > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > On 18 November 2013 23:34, Hari Prasad Nadig <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Sounds like a good initiative to take up. > > > > > > However, you should write to WHO and request their permissions first to > > > translate as they hold the copyright to the text. > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > > > > On 18 November 2013 16:14, jagadish <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > >> Dear All, > > >> > > >> I am Jagadesha NH from South Asian University, i work in the filed of > > Text > > >> Analytic's and Text Mining. I was wondering how helpful it would be if > > we > > >> can translate WHO(http://www.who.int/en/) website in to Kannada. Due > to > > >> the > > >> increase in number of Mobile Internet users it would be helpful we can > > >> translate this site and can spread across many rural people who can > get > > >> information on many things like family planning and etc. > > >> > > >> -- > > >> Regards > > >> > > >> Jagadesha NH > > >> +91-9986021989 > > >> M.Sc Computer Science > > >> South Asian University > > >> New Delhi > > >> http://www.creativewebdesigners.in > > >> http://www.jagadeshanh.name > > >> _______________________________________________ > > >> Wikikn-l mailing list > > >> [email protected] > > >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikikn-l > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Hari Prasad Nadig > > > http://hpnadig.net > > > http://twitter.com/hpnadig > > > http://flickr.com/hpnadig > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Hari Prasad Nadig > > http://hpnadig.net > > http://twitter.com/hpnadig > > http://flickr.com/hpnadig > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikikn-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikikn-l > > > > > > -- > Regards > > Jagadesha NH > +91-9986021989 > M.Sc Computer Science > South Asian University > New Delhi > http://www.creativewebdesigners.in > http://www.jagadeshanh.name > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Wikikn-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikikn-l > > > End of Wikikn-l Digest, Vol 53, Issue 8 > *************************************** > _______________________________________________ Wikikn-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikikn-l
