The Kannada Wikipedia (Kannada: ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಶ್ವಕೋಶ, romanized: Kannaḍa Viśvakōśa) is the Kannada-language edition of Wikipedia. Started in June 2003, it is moderately active and as of June 2026, it has 35,212 articles with 150 active users.[1][2] It is the twelfth-most popular Wikipedia in the Indian subcontinent.[3]
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Type of site | Internet encyclopedia project |
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| Available in | Kannada |
| Headquarters | Miami, Florida |
| Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
| URL | kn |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional |
Content license | Creative Commons Attribution/ Share-Alike 4.0 (most text also dual-licensed under GFDL) Media licensing varies |
The Kannada Wikipedia community held a meeting in Bangalore on 2 April 2006, which got fairly high press coverage.[4]
History
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As of 16 August 2009 the Kannada Wikipedia had about 6,800 articles,[5] making it the 100th-biggest Wikipedia edition.
As of January 2016, the Kannada Wikipedia is the tenth-largest Indian-language Wikipedia, behind Urdu, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Malayalam, Bengali, Gujarati, and Punjabi. Administrator Omshivaprakash attributes the lack of articles to a lack of interest among the Kannada-speaking community, a lack of awareness of the Kannada Wikipedia and Kannada typing tools, and limited Internet access in parts of Karnataka.[6]
Users and editors
edit| Number of user accounts | Number of articles | Number of files | Number of administrators |
|---|---|---|---|
| 98064 | 35212 | 2364 | 4 |
See also
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edit- ↑ Kiran Joseph J K V (7 October 2014). "Kannada Wiki finds going tough". Retrieved 11 October 2014.
- ↑ Kamila, Raviprasad (29 March 2024). "Tulu Wikipedia more than doubles in size in seven years". The Hindu. Retrieved 29 March 2024.
- ↑ Phadnis, Renuka (26 February 2014). "Workshops to teach Wikipedia editing". The Hindu.
- ↑ "Wikipedia Event Press Coverage" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 September 2018. Retrieved 25 November 2007.
- ↑ Statistics - Wikipedia (in Kannada)
- ↑ Khajane, Muralidhara (19 January 2016). "Kannada Wikipedia not on top of the charts". The Hindu. Retrieved 29 March 2016.
- (in Kannada) ಅಂತರ್ಜಾಲದಲ್ಲಿ ನೆಟ್ಟ ಸಸಿಗೆ ಈಗ ಹತ್ತು ವರ್ಷ | - Kannadaprabha.com Archived 2018-09-22 at the Wayback Machine
- "10 years on, Kannada Wikipedia lags". The Hindu. 10 December 2013.
- Phadnis, Renuka (19 February 2012). "The struggles of keeping Kannada Wikipedia afloat". The Hindu.
- Sadu, Charan (6 September 2020). "Building Wikipedia, in Kannada and Tulu". Times of India.
Further reading
edit- Statistics for Kannada Wikipedia Archived 29 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine by Erik Zachte
External links
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