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== Kannada Wikipediaಪೀಠಿಕೆ ==
Kannada is a language spoken primarily by people living in the state of Karnataka. There are about 50 million Kannada speakers of this language, which has more than 2000 years of history. Kannada also has a rich literary legacy. It was declared a '''classical language''' by the Government of India in October 2008<ref name="ftn1"> "Declaration of Telugu and Kannada as classical languages". Press Information Bureau. Ministry of Culture, Government of(contracted; show full)
Given that Kannada has done substantially well in the field of writing this would be the ideal time to make these resources available through internet. Populating Wikipedia and other sister projects with Kannada materials is a huge step in that direction.


Kannada Wikipedia, which was started in the month of July 2003,currently has about 13,000 articles. Kannada Wiktionary, started in September 2004, has more than 2,30,000 words. Kannada Wikiquotes and Wikisource are in a nascent stage. 


== 
Fact Sheetಫಾಕ್ಟ್ ಶೀಟ್ ==

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If we look at the number of Active Editors over the last two years, it is evident that the Kannada Wikipedia is not doing so well. That many of the active editors have become dormant is a major cause for concern. There is thus an urgent need to not only cultivate new editors but also bring the formerly active editors back into action. 


== 
Identified Needsಗುರುತಿಸಿದ ಅಗತ್ಯಗಳು ==
The number of active editors is very low as is evident from the fact sheet. The A2K team has held meetings with these editors from the Kannada Wikipedia and had discussions on the needs and support requirements of the community. These are listed below:


=== Communityಸಮುದಾಯ ===
# As was evidenced in the above fact-sheet the community strongly feels that a large pool of new editors is required to grow the Kannada Wikipedia. Towards this end, the community suggested that we hold various Training Workshops. However, it was also felt that these workshops should be tailored to specific requirements. The following sets of people were identified:

# People who know how to use computers and internet but don’t know how to type in Kannada.
(contracted; show full) terms into Kannada or writing names with initials, there is a need to arrive at standard terminology and a uniform policy. Regarding technical glossaries in Kannada, there do exist some but only one is available online. That too has not many terms in the field of information technology and medicine. Names can be written in many ways. For example ಕೆ.ಪಿ.ರಾವ್, ಕೆ.ಪಿ. ರಾವ್, ಕೆ. ಪಿ. ರಾವ್, ಕೆ ಪಿ ರಾವ್, etc. There should be an accepted policy on how to write names and stick to that on the entire Wikipedia. 

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Contentವಿಷಯಗಳು ===
# Focus subjects: Sometimes the enthusiastic community needs some torch-bearing for content addition. This could be for example, something like a month long focus on women achievers on account of Women’s day.
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# When translating from English to Kannada, especially science and technology articles, many times the editors face a dilemma on which Kannada term is to use. This problem can be addressed by providing a standardised glossary of technical terms.

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Technical/Othersತಾಂತ್ರಿಕ ಮತ್ತು ಇತರೆ ===
# Input method editor: There are many keyboard layouts in Kannada for users. Among them the GoK layout (modified K.P. Rao layout also known Nudi or Kagapa layout) is the most popular. This layout is not available in Kannada Wikipedia. Some of the new editors expressed the need to have this keyboard layout made available on Kannada Wikipedia.
# There are some minor bugs related to the rendering of Kannada text when some unique combination is used. These need to be fixed.
# Media outreach/awareness: Many events are conducted by Kannada Wikipedians to make people aware of Kannada Wikipedia. But everyone does not come to know about this. Often the Wikipedians express the desire to have media (mainstream and social media) coverage to increase the spread of awareness about Kannada Wikipedia. 
# Quality of the articles on Kannada Wikipedia is debated on the Village Pump and the community has expressed the need to tag and rate the articles, which could in turn result in the improvement of the quality over a period of time.

Based on this initial needs assessment and in consultation with the Kannada Wikipedia community the A2K team has put together the below work-plan towards the improvement and growth of Kannada Wikipedia during 2013-14.


== Work Plan ==

=== Strengthening Existing Kannada Wiki-Communityಕ್ರಿಯಾಯೋಜನೆ ==

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* Advanced User Training: Many existing editors need some training in using the advanced features like creating tables, using mathematical and scientific symbols, adding a category for the articles in Wikipedia or photo in Commons, creating an InfoBox, etc. Imparting these training will increase the number of articles as well as quality of the articles. These trainings will be held at two or three major cities apart from Bangalore.
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* Evolve policies: This will be one of the agenda for the regular meet-ups. It will be ideal to devote some meet-ups only to arrive at using uniform terminology and policies on various aspects.

=== 
Cultivating New Editorsಹೊಸ ಸಂಪಾದಕರನ್ನು ತಯಾರಿಸುವುದು ===

* Workshops are planned in various small cities across Karnataka where we expect a sizeable number of participants. These workshops will be conducted in collaboration with Karnataka Sahitya Parishat who have good presence in these cities and will help with logistics. 
* Institutional partnerships

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** '''Kalike''' is an institution working for the improvement of quality education in government schools of Yadgir district. They have 25 trainers who are well versed with computers, internet and Kannada typing. The group will be trained on editing Wikipedia with an aim that they will contribute high quality content that can be used by children. This can be a potential content for offline Wikipedia that can be used by schools across Karnataka. 

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Content Creation on Kannada Wikipediaಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯದಲ್ಲಿ ವಿಷಯಗಳ ಸೃಷ್ಠಿ ===

* Theme or topic based content addition

** Women’s day and month: A workshop was conducted to focus on women achievers. This will be followed by month long editing activities to add content on women achievers as well as create new content. 
** '''Kannada science writers''': Kannada has a history of having good popular science writing. There is a sizeable number of good popular science writers in Kannada. Science articles in Kannada Wikipedia will be enhanced and quality of existing articles will be improved. Science articles need to be regularly updated as well. 
** My place my people (ನನ್ನೂರು ನನ್ನ ಜನ): Here the focus will be on writing by Wikipedians about their place (village, town, and city), the highlights of their place, any achievers who were born there, etc. Articles about places all over Karnataka are planned. 
** '''Karnataka History''': Karnataka has a long history. Articles on the history of Karnataka will be enhanced and quality of existing articles will be improved.

=== Quality improvement of Kannada Wikipediaಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯದ ಗುಣಮಟ್ಟದ ಸುಧಾರಣೆ ===

* '''Projects to focus on stubs''': There are many stubs in Kannada Wikipedia. Activities to expand these stubs will be encouraged. All the groups mentioned in the “content” section will be encouraged to involve themselves in improving the stubs. In every interaction and workshop, this aspect will also be included in the agenda. 
* '''Community policy''': A policy will be evolved on many aspects of content addition to Kannada Wikipedia. This will be on matters like creating new stubs, writing names, etc.
* Well known Kannada writers and editors of newspaper and magazines will be motivated to edit existing articles in Wikipedia with a view to improving their quality. 
* '''Incentivise''': Rate the article tool will be implemented for Kannada Wikipedia. Community rating of the articles will motivate people to improve the content quality. People who put quality content can be incentivised by Wikipedia merchandising, displaying the photos of star wikipedians on Kannada Wikipedia, showing animated badges, etc.

=== Content acquiring from public domainಸಾರ್ವಜನಿಕ ಕ್ಷೇತ್ರದಿಂದ ವಿಷಯ ಸಂಗ್ರಹಣೆ ===

* There is a lot of data in the public domain. Activities will be conducted to identify data/material in public domain to bring them into Kannada Wikipedia. Meet-up with the concerned authorities will be held to convince them to part with content under CC. This will bring lot of useful content to Kannada Wikipedia.
* Example: Government of Karnataka has a knowledge text portal called '''Kanaja'''. This was set up by the Karnataka Knowledge Commission. Now this portal is handed over to a consortium headed by the Dept. of IT & BT. There are lots of materials which may be brought in to Kannada Wikipedia. 
* CC events will be held exclusively for the institutions which possess lot of public domain data and convince them about putting them under creative commons. Once convinced, lot of good content will come to Wikipedia.
* There are many special groups like journalists, activists, and NGOs who have created lot of useful data. Most of them can be brought under creative commons. Efforts will be made in this direction.

== Goalsಗುರಿ ==
The A2K team has committed to achieving the following goals for Kannada Wikipedia, in collaboration with the Kannada Wikipedia community during 2013-14. The progress of work-plan and the outcomes will be reviewed periodically.


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