Template:WikiPatrika/2011-06/Community News/sa

Sanskrit News
Sanskrit Wikipedia was started on December 21, 2003. However, there was not much progress till 2010, at the end of   which there were only 4000 articles.

Sanskrit Wikipedia got a fresh  lease of life when the first Sanskrit Wiki   workshop was held in Sanskrit Bharati's  office at Aksharam, Girinagar,   Bangalore. After a long hiatus, the first Sanskrit Wiki Workshop was  held on  February 19, 2011, by    Shijualex at Sanskrit Bharati, Bangalore, for an audience of 20  participants. The presentation was intended to give a basic working  knowledge of Wikipedia and its interface. More importantly, considerable enthusiasm was generated in the project.

Sanskrit  Bharati is already well-known for having made  Sanskrit a popular   language among the masses. It is hoped that alumni of Sanskrit Bharati,   as well as from all the other Sanskrit education  centres all over   India, will now start contributing to Sanskrit Wiki to  make it a   vibrant community online and a destination for all seekers of  resources   related to Sanskrit.

Sanskrit Wikipedia

 * A second workshop was held at the same location on March 26, 2011. It was taken by  Uttara Neurkar for another 15 participants from leading software  companies and the Om Shantidham Gurukulam. Again, considerable interest  was generated. This time  SumanaKoundinya, distributed some units of work to some of the  participants with a 'Complete By' Date.
 * Since then with the   help of some other positive factors, the number of articles has gone up by 750. While this is still very far from the desirable rate, it is  anticipated that more and more gurukulas and Sanskrit Departments of    schools and colleges will be brought into the ambit of this project.  Also, the quality of the articles needs to be substantially improved.
 * Creation of articles about famous personalities has been initiated in the month of May and about 25 articles have been created newly and many other existing pages were enriched with data.
 * The Sanskrit Wiki Embassy has been set up recently. This will allow other users who  do not know Sanskrit to get help in their language and would be a    central place for resources to help with cross-language issues — site-wide policy and software decisions that affect all of us and    interlanguage linking.
 * Nepal and Karnataka are chosen as strategic locations and to target one of them, Nepal week was organised.
 * A project has been started by Harshavs to create articles on all the districts of India and it is pretty near to its completion.
 * As of May 16, 2011, four Sanskrit  Wikipedia Sysops   (Yann,    Vibhijain,    Eukesh and   HPN) were placed at 20, 67, 91 and 97 respectively on   Top Indic sysops.

Sanskrit Wikisource

 * Sanskrit wikisource was approved and created on 2011 March 18.  User:Shijualex took the initiative to transfer content from old Wikisource to the new Sanskrit Wikisource.
 * Sanskrit Wikisource has reached 2000 articles after the hard-work of many Wikimedians.
 * Improving the wikisource work also has been started with addition of Mahabharatam shlokaH.
 * 75 shlokas Bhartruhari Shatakam has been added.

Sanskrit Wikitionary

 * Though largely dormant, some activity has been done on Wiktionary this week which is a very positive sign.

Sanskrit Wikiquote
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