• Wikipedia Academy Launched

    Wikipedia Academy Launched

    Techtree News Staff, Dec 15, 2008 1803 hrs IST

    To boost participation of Indian users

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Wikipedia, a community-built multilingual encyclopedia, launched the 'Wikipedia Academy' on Friday to boost its recognition amongst the rural masses in India.

WikiAcademy was started recently by Kiruba, founder of the Knowledge foundation.

"The core concept behind the WikiAcademy is sharing knowledge, India values education, free speech and Wiki is the definition of free speech, simply because information is available to all," executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation said.

It focuses on teaching people how to edit Wikipedia as most of the articles on the website can be edited by anyone with access to the Internet.

Looks like now one of the most talked about websites in the world will get more Indian contributors.

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(4) Comments
dev
,bangalore, on Nov 24, 2009 11:36 PM
i wish to join this academy from Bangaloreto contribute and updatein my humble way
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harsh bardhan
,ghaziabad, on Nov 24, 2009 05:45 PM
only need to please avalaible space in wikipedia to edit the edit...
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Harshit Hada
,Ajmer, on Dec 18, 2008 08:40 PM
I want to join this program and interested to open or join a wikipedia academy in Ajmer to contribute and update to wikipedia.
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Gregory Kohs
,Philadelphia, PA, on Dec 16, 2008 07:53 PM
Hundreds of thousands of people have contributed to Wikipedia. It would seem that its interface is "self explanatory". So, could someone explain to me why two executives had to burn jet fuel and dollars to travel all the way to India (anyone ever heard of a web-cam?), to let Indians know that they are allowed to click the "edit" button on Wikipedia? With cost-efficiencies like that, now I understand why Sue Gardner's rattling the tin cup for $6 million in 2009.
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