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.
- 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
| English Wikipedia | Kannada Wikipedia |
| Tannirbhavi Beach | ತನ್ನೀರ್ ಭಾವಿ ಬೀಚ್ |
| Visvesvaraya Iron and Steel Plant | ವಿಶ್ವೇಶ್ವರಯ್ಯ ಕಬ್ಬಿಣ ಮತ್ತು ಉಕ್ಕು ಸ್ಥಾವರ |
| National Human Rights Commission of India | ರಾಷ್ಟ್ರೀಯ ಮಾನವ ಹಕ್ಕುಗಳ ಆಯೋಗ |
| Anthropology | ಆಂತ್ರೋಪಾಲಜಿ |
| Environmental protection | ಪರಿಸರ ರಕ್ಷಣೆ |
| Kadamba architecture | ಕದಂಬ ವಾಸ್ತುಶಿಲ್ಪ |
| Benjamin Bloom | ಬೆಂಜಮಿನ್ ಬ್ಲೂಮ್ |
| Experiential learning | ಅನುಭವಾತ್ಮಕ ಕಲಿಕೆ |
| Newton's law of universal gravitation | ತಣ್ಣೀರುಬಾವಿ ಕಡಲತೀರ |
| Society of the Hoysala Empire | ಹೊಯ್ಸಳ ಸಾಮ್ರಾಜ್ಯದ ಸಮಾಜ. |
| Educational technology | ಶ್ಯೆಕ್ಷಣಿಕ ತಂತ್ರಜ್ಞಾನ |
VTC 2018-20 Semester 2 batch
| English Wikipedia | Kannada Wikipedia |
| South Indian Culture | ದಕ್ಷಿಣ ಭಾರತದ ಸಂಸ್ಕೃತಿ |
| Karnataka 1st Solar Power Plant | ಕರ್ನಾಟಕದ ಮೊದಲ ಸೌರ ವಿದ್ಯುತ್ ಸ್ಥಾವರ |
| 21st Century skills | 21ನೇ ಶತಮಾನದ ಕೌಶಲ್ಯಗಳು |
| Geography of India | ಭಾರತದ ಭೌಗೋಳಿಕತೆ |
| Tippu’s Tiger | ಟಿಪ್ಪುವಿನ ಹುಲಿ |
| Jainism in South East Asia | ಆಗ್ನೇಯ ಏಷ್ಯಾದಲ್ಲಿ ಜೈನಧರ್ಮ |
| Geographical features | ಭೌಗೋಳಿಕ ಲಕ್ಷಣಗಳು |
| A P J Abdul Kalam Technological University | ಎ.ಪಿ.ಜೆ ಅಬ್ದುಲ್ ಕಲಾಂ ತಾಂತ್ರಿಕ ವಿಶ್ವವಿದ್ಯಾಲಯ |
| Social Science | ಸಮಾಜ ವಿಜ್ಞಾನ |
| Euclidean Geometry | ಯುಕ್ಲಿಡ್'ನ ಜ್ಯಾಮಿತಿ |
| Hard Water | ಗಡಸು ನೀರು |
| Natural disasters in India | ಭಾರತದಲ್ಲಿನ ನೈಸರ್ಗಿಕ ವಿಕೋಪಗಳು |
| Palindrome | ದ್ವಿಮುಖಿ ಪದಗಳು |
| Transport in India | ಭಾರತದ ಸಾರಿಗೆ ವ್ಯವಸ್ಥೆ |
| Chemical Change | ರಾಸಾಯನಿಕ ಬದಲಾವಣೆ |
| Swami Vivekananda at the parliament of the world religions | ವಿಶ್ವ ಧರ್ಮಗಳ ಸಂಸತ್ತಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಸ್ವಾಮಿ ವಿವೇಕಾನಂದರು |
| M Chinnaswamy stadium | ಎಂ. ಚಿನ್ನಸ್ವಾಮಿ ಕ್ರೀಡಾಂಗಣ |
| Social Issues | ಸಾಮಾಜಿಕ ಸಮಸ್ಯೆಗಳು |
| Conservation of Energy | ಶಕ್ತಿಯ ಸ೦ರಕ್ಷಣೆ |
More details on the team and articles published can be found here