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It was a busy weekend, last one. On Saturday morning I had to dust curtains, vacuum the floor of the entire house as my sister had called up and said she would be moving in for couple of days to be with mother. She wouldn't like it if it isn't clean and things aren't organized! And then Murali was here to discuss about Tech Sampada, which is a new initiative on Sampada that we're coming up with (with an ambitious plan of getting people to write about technology, and developments surrounding technology in Kannada). Interviews we had recorded with Prof. U R Rao, Prof.

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.

[:http://www.ibnlive.com/|IBN-Live] has [:http://www.ibnlive.com/news/wikipedia-gets-bigger-better-freer/28219-7…|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…|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.

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!

[: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.