Dreaming Cherries
TweetWikipedia, the free online encyclopedia, celebrated its tenth anniversary this year, and almost 100 cities and towns in India registered to host celebrations, the highest number of any country. Wikipedia is the fourth most popular website in India, and there are over 20 Wikipedia sites in Indian languages, with more on the way. The Wikimedia Foundation’s [...]
TweetWikipedia is betting on its Indian language versions to drive growth. The Fountainhead Wikipedia, a free online encyclopaedia that anybody can contribute to, has 3.6 million articles in its English version Over 60% of Wikipedia’s traffic comes from the US, Germany, Japan, the UK, Canada, France Big opportunities now in China, South Korea and India, [...]
TweetVoices : “Is going on a fast an effective way to protest in a democracy?” “Yes , It is better to protest via peaceful means than getting violent ” – Tinu C Abraham, Software Engineer. Copyrights : Mid-Day : ”Voices : Is going on a fast an effective way to protest in a democracy?”appeared on Mid-Day [...]
Tweet One of the top trending topics on Twitter India over the weekend had people ROFL. Dowrycalculator.com, an ingenuous application designed by one Tanul Thakur, has got tweeple in splits. Based on a guy’s caste, salary, alma mater and skin colour, among other things, the application comes up with his going rate in the marriage [...]
TweetIt’s not just Hindi and Tamil. The online encyclopaedia is serious about Wiki versions in Sanskrit, Pali and forgotten languages like Angika too. Do people know the power of their ideas? Take Jim Wales, founder, Wikimedia, for instance. Could he have pictured a decade ago that a government-run primary school in a remote village in [...]
TweetSays a visitor to the city, referring to the tremendous media coverage the Carlton Towers incident had got last year In a twist of irony, Carlton Towers has now become a tourist spot of sorts for visitors to the city. According to a cabbie, persons new to the city often ask them to take to [...]
