Difference between revisions of "Adding content to wikipedia"

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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.

Visual editor
Content Translation

Using Content translation

Following steps can be followed to use the Content Translation tool -

Please create an account on Wikipedia from this link.
Visit your desired language Wikipedia (For ex.,. if you want to translate from English to Kannada, go to kn.wikipedia.org)
Enable Content Translation under Preferences→ Beta features.
Go to Content translation page at Contributions→ Translation.
Click on Add new translation to start translating an article from English to your language.

Articles published

VTC 2017-19 Semester 4 batch

VTC 2018-20 Semester 2 batch

ದಕ್ಷಿಣ ಭಾರತದ ಸಂಸ್ಕೃತಿ
ಕರ್ನಾಟಕದ ಮೊದಲ ಸೌರ ವಿದ್ಯುತ್ ಸ್ಥಾವರ
[https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/21ನೇ ಶತಮಾನದ ಕೌಶಲ್ಯಗಳು 21ನೇ ಶತಮಾನದ ಕೌಶಲ್ಯಗಳು]
[https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/ಭಾರತದ ಭೌಗೋಳಿಕತೆ ಭಾರತದ ಭೌಗೋಳಿಕತೆ]
[https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/ಟಪ್ಪುವಿನ ಹುಲಿ ಟಪ್ಪುವಿನ ಹುಲಿ]
[https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/ಆಗ್ನೇಯ ಏಷ್ಯಾದಲ್ಲಿ ಜೈನಧರ್ಮ ಆಗ್ನೇಯ ಏಷ್ಯಾದಲ್ಲಿ ಜೈನಧರ್ಮ]
[https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/ಭೌಗೋಳಿಕ ಲಕ್ಷಣಗಳು ಭೌಗೋಳಿಕ ಲಕ್ಷಣಗಳು]
[https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/ಎ .ಪಿ.ಜೆ ಅಬ್ದುಲ್ ಕಲಾಂ ತಾಂತ್ರಿಕ ವಿಶ್ವವಿದ್ಯಾಲಯ ಎ .ಪಿ.ಜೆ ಅಬ್ದುಲ್ ಕಲಾಂ ತಾಂತ್ರಿಕ ವಿಶ್ವವಿದ್ಯಾಲಯ]

Resources

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-Anyone can add/edit content in Wikipedia. It is good to know the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars fundamental principles of Wikipedia] before you get started.
+Anyone can add/edit content in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias 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 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars fundamental principles of Wikipedia] before you get started.
 === Editors ===
-Following editors are commonly used to add/edit content in Wikipedia. Tools like [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation Content Tranlsation] can only be used to create new articles.
+Following editors are commonly used to add/edit content in Wikipedia. Tools like [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation Content Translation] can only be used to create new articles.
-# Source editor
 # Visual editor
 # Content Translation
 === Using Content translation ===
-Following steps can be followed to use the Content Tranlsation tool -
+Following steps can be followed to use the Content Translation tool -
 # Please create an account on Wikipedia from this [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:CreateAccount link].
 # Visit your desired language Wikipedia (For ex.,. if you want to translate from English to Kannada, go to [https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%AE%E0%B3%81%E0%B2%96%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%AF_%E0%B2%AA%E0%B3%81%E0%B2%9F kn.wikipedia.org])
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 === Articles published ===
-==== By VTC 2018-20 Semester 2 batch ====
+==== VTC 2017-19 Semester 4 batch ====
+==== VTC 2018-20 Semester 2 batch ====
 # [https://kn.wikipedia.org/s/25k7 ದಕ್ಷಿಣ ಭಾರತದ ಸಂಸ್ಕೃತಿ]
 # [https://kn.wikipedia.org/s/25js ಕರ್ನಾಟಕದ ಮೊದಲ ಸೌರ ವಿದ್ಯುತ್ ಸ್ಥಾವರ]
-# [https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/21ನೇ&#x20;ಶತಮಾನದ&#x20;ಕೌಶಲ್ಯಗಳು 21ನೇ ಶತಮಾನದ ಕೌಶಲ್ಯಗಳು]
+# [<nowiki>https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/21ನೇ</nowiki>&#x20;ಶತಮಾನದ&#x20;ಕೌಶಲ್ಯಗಳು 21ನೇ ಶತಮಾನದ ಕೌಶಲ್ಯಗಳು]
-# [https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/ಭಾರತದ&#x20;ಭೌಗೋಳಿಕತೆ ಭಾರತದ ಭೌಗೋಳಿಕತೆ]
+# [<nowiki>https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/ಭಾರತದ</nowiki>&#x20;ಭೌಗೋಳಿಕತೆ ಭಾರತದ ಭೌಗೋಳಿಕತೆ]
-# [https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/ಟಪ್ಪುವಿನ&#x20;ಹುಲಿ ಟಪ್ಪುವಿನ ಹುಲಿ]
+# [<nowiki>https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/ಟಪ್ಪುವಿನ</nowiki>&#x20;ಹುಲಿ ಟಪ್ಪುವಿನ ಹುಲಿ]
-# [https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/ಆಗ್ನೇಯ&#x20;ಏಷ್ಯಾದಲ್ಲಿ&#x20;ಜೈನಧರ್ಮ ಆಗ್ನೇಯ ಏಷ್ಯಾದಲ್ಲಿ ಜೈನಧರ್ಮ]
+# [<nowiki>https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/ಆಗ್ನೇಯ</nowiki>&#x20;ಏಷ್ಯಾದಲ್ಲಿ&#x20;ಜೈನಧರ್ಮ ಆಗ್ನೇಯ ಏಷ್ಯಾದಲ್ಲಿ ಜೈನಧರ್ಮ]
-# [https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/ಭೌಗೋಳಿಕ&#x20;ಲಕ್ಷಣಗಳು ಭೌಗೋಳಿಕ ಲಕ್ಷಣಗಳು]
+# [<nowiki>https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/ಭೌಗೋಳಿಕ</nowiki>&#x20;ಲಕ್ಷಣಗಳು ಭೌಗೋಳಿಕ ಲಕ್ಷಣಗಳು]
-# [https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/ಎ&#x20;.ಪಿ.ಜೆ&#x20;ಅಬ್ದುಲ್&#x20;ಕಲಾಂ&#x20;&#x20;ತಾಂತ್ರಿಕ&#x20;ವಿಶ್ವವಿದ್ಯಾಲಯ ಎ .ಪಿ.ಜೆ ಅಬ್ದುಲ್ ಕಲಾಂ  ತಾಂತ್ರಿಕ ವಿಶ್ವವಿದ್ಯಾಲಯ]
+# [<nowiki>https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/ಎ</nowiki>&#x20;.ಪಿ.ಜೆ&#x20;ಅಬ್ದುಲ್&#x20;ಕಲಾಂ&#x20;&#x20;ತಾಂತ್ರಿಕ&#x20;ವಿಶ್ವವಿದ್ಯಾಲಯ ಎ .ಪಿ.ಜೆ ಅಬ್ದುಲ್ ಕಲಾಂ  ತಾಂತ್ರಿಕ ವಿಶ್ವವಿದ್ಯಾಲಯ]
 === Resources ===