wikipedia

The incorrect characters on the Wikipedia logo [:http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/25/technology/25wikipedia.html|has now made it to the New York Times] as news. There were numerous people wondering about the incorrect characters (easily four of them for Indians), and many had started talking about it on Wiki last year. Turns out that there is a petition now and [:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Ambuj.Saxena/Wikipedia-logo|much more discussion going on].

[:http://www.ibnlive.com/|IBN-Live] has [:http://www.ibnlive.com/news/wikipedia-gets-bigger-better-freer/28219-7.html|a story today] covering Wikipedia (the story although probably best suited on their other site - moneycontrol.com).

[:http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%8F:%D0%97%D0%B0%D1%8F%D0%B2%D0%BA%D0%B8_%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%83%D1%81_%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%BC%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B0/Edward_Chernenko|Edward Chernenko] of [:http://ru.wikipedia.org/|Russian Wikipedia] has put across [:http://tools.wikimedia.de/~edwardspec/cgi-bin/top100.cgi?uselang=kn|this very nice tool] that counts the hits that various language Wikipedias receive (Javascript snippet needs to be inserted on wiki to get it started, though). For many months now, Wikimedia has not been keeping page hit statistics on Wikipedia project since they add up to the load on the servers.

Thanks largely to [:http://manadamaatu.blogspot.com/|Manohar], [:http://kn.wikisource.org|Wikisource Kannada] is now a very active project and recently got its own domain, too.

Visit the project and [:http://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:CP|contribute], take part. Don't let the initial Main page template scare you. It is still in the making at the [:http://kn.wikisource.org/wiki/Main_page/draft|Draft page]. You too can pitch in and add to the design and structure.

Hope to see a vibrant community building up on Kannada Wikisource as well.

And yeah, [:http://kn.wikipedia.org|Kannada Wikipedia] crossed [:http://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%B5%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%B6%E0%B3%87%E0%B2%B7:Statistics|2,500 article count] with an article created on "[:http://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/ಜಲಿಯನ್‍ವಾಲ ಬಾಗ್ ಹತ್ಯಾಕಾಂಡ|Jalianwala bagh massacre]".

If I haven't yet pulled your attention towards it, let me do it now. [:http://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/|Kannada Wikipedia] now has more than [:http://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics|2000 articles] in its garner!

Kannada Wikipedia Event

2nd April, Sunday, 2006.

4.00 PM to 8.00 PM.

Nayana Auditorium, Kannada Bhavana, J C Road, Bangalore.

Links: Invitation, Registration, More about the event

[:http://hpnadig.net/Kannada-Wikipedia-Meet|Registration ] for the [:http://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:PM|Kannada Wikipedia event] today crossed 100. Taking into account that the news about the event has just started to make it to the news media - with more than a week remaining for the event, this number sounds like a very good response until now.