Column: Contribute to Kannada Wikipedia to strengthen namma Kannada

My thirteenth column in “Vijaya Next” (Kannada) was about writing in Kannada Wikipedia. Main points were,

• A brief introduction to Wikipedia
• Wikipedia was formally launched on Jan 15, 2001, by Jimmy Wales & Larry Sanger (he quit in 2002). Jimmy Wales has actively promoted Wikipedia over the years.
• A mere 60 employees are employed by Wikipedia
• The site runs only on donations, no ads allowed
• Wrote about my visit to my first Bangalore Wikipedia meet (there are some interesting points in my post)
• English is the most popular language on Wikipedia (over 3.5 million articles)
• Hindi, Telugu, Tamil are having a reasonable amount of content. Kannada has just 10,000 articles because the number of volunteers is very few.
• If we want to see the quantity & quality of Indian language content increasing on Wikipedia then we have to participate in this awesome project.
• Aren’t there enough Kannadigas who can contribute one article a week to strengthen namma Wikipedia?
• For a change let us stop complaining and start being part of the solution. Please contact me if you are interested in contributing to the growth of ‘namma Kannada’ on Wikipedia.