[Wikikn-l (kannada wikipedia)] Kannada Wikipedia reaches 50 articles...

Fri Nov 5 23:38:30 UTC 2004

hi folks,

     Started around a month back, Kannada wikipedia 
[http://kn.wikipedia.org/], the Kannada version initiative of free 
Encyclopedia on the net - wikipedia*, has come to a milestone down the 
lane to reach first 50 articles in its garner. It has fast become a 
place on the web where there's already quite a bit of information 
reagarding kannada and kannada related stuffs. Kannada wikipedia is now 
the *fourth largest* Indian language wikipedia behind  Hindi and Sanskrit.

Thanks to all the initial contributors, and all those people who took 
their sweat out besides their regular work for helping expand the 
kannada wikipedia. As the overlooking sys-op on the project, I would 
like to mention  the volunteers,
Pramod R (admin at kannada.sf),
Mr. Ashwattha mattur,
Mr. CK Major,
for all the efforts they put in to realising this. Thanks to the 
wikipedia  folks (kturner & brion) for the technical help they streched 
forward for the 'all Kannada' interface for the wikipedia & thanks to 
Angela Beasley[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Angela] for the support 
all the way through this effort. 

All the editing and producing content in Kannada *wouldn't have been 
possible* without the Baraha direct tool [http://baraha.com/] on 
windows, and Pramod's Nudi keyboard 
[http://kannada.sourceforge.net/nudi.tar.gz] for Linux. Thanks the 
respective developers for such nice tools.

We hope to see more people getting involved in this knowledge movement 
and help realise a complete kannada knowledge bank, a first kannada 
online encyclopedia!. If you are interested in contributing to this free 
open-content project, Please visit 
http://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Community_Portal for details.

There is also a mailing list for discussion on Kannada wikipedia. Please 
visit http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikikn-l  to subscribe 
to it.

Cheers,

Hari Prasad Nadig  

* - http://en.wikipedia.org/

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