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, [...]
TweetSome people who edit the Odia Wikipedia say that getting a Wikipedia in the language is an important tool to keep the language alive. At present, an attempt is on to revive Odia Wikipedia (or.wikipedia.org), one of the earliest Indian language Wikipedias to be created. Interestingly, the guidance to stoke the Odia Wikipedia is led [...]
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 [...]
