Adding content to wikipedia

Anyone can add/edit content in Wikipedia. In fact, Wikipedia has become the world's most popular encyclopedia due to the efforts of thousands of ordinary people, who have contributed to it.

Teachers, as public intellectuals, have a special responsibility to contribute to this global knowledge resource. Especially teachers who are familiar with Indian/ Indic languages must take on the responsibility of adding content to the Indic Wikipedias. One way of doing this is to do simple translations of existing Wikipedia English pages, which do not have equivalent pages in the Indic language.

Instead of feeling bad about the relative lack of resources in Indian languages, let us join together and add content to the Indian Language Wikipedias.

It is good to know the fundamental principles of Wikipedia before you get started.

Editors
Following editors are commonly used to add/edit content in Wikipedia. Tools like Content Translation can only be used to create new articles.
 * 1) Source editor
 * 2) Visual editor
 * 3) Content Translation

Using Content translation
Following steps can be followed to use the Content Translation tool -
 * 1) Please create an account on Wikipedia from this link.
 * 2) Visit your desired language Wikipedia (For ex., if you want to translate from English to Kannada, go to kn.wikipedia.org)
 * 3) Go to Content translation page at Contributions→ Translation.
 * 4) Click on Add new translation (ಹೊಸ ಅನುವಾದ ಸೃಷ್ಟಿಸಿ) to start translating an article from English to your language.



Please follow below steps to use Content translation on Mobile -
 * 1) Visit the Content Translation link directly from here.
 * 2) Login to Wikipedia using your account.
 * 3) Post login, go to browser menu and request for the Desktop site
 * 4) Click on Add new translation (ಹೊಸ ಅನುವಾದ ಸೃಷ್ಟಿಸಿ) to start translating an article from English to your language.



Using voice to text feature in phone

 * 1) On your Android phone or tablet, install Gboard.
 * 2) Open Gboard app and add Kannada to the language list
 * 3) To make Gboard your default virtual keyboard in Android, go to Settings > System > Language and Input > Manage Keyboards. Then, tap the slider next to Gboard to turn it on.
 * 4) Now, Open wikipedia translation section in your browser and tap an area where you can enter text.
 * 5) By default, it will be in the English language, Long press on the "space" key and select Kannada from the list
 * 6) At the top of your keyboard, touch/hold Microphone icon.
 * 7) When you see "Speak now," say what you want written in Kannada.
 * 8) If you need to switch back to English keyboard, hold the "space" key and select English.

VTC 2018-20 Semester 2 batch
More details on the team and articles published can be found here

Resources

 * 1) Creating knowledge for the world
 * 2) How to use content translation