Thursday, January 13, 2011

Wikipedia -- In India!


Wikipedia, the world's most accessed encyclopedia, is all set to open it's office in India... Says Sue Gardner, Chief of Wikimedia, "India was chosen due to it's vast population accessing internet through Mobile phones and an environ known for free speech, culture of intellectual debate, valuing education!".. Being the first base abroad, Wikipedia in India will focus on expanding database in Hindi and other regional languages... New office would encourage more people to push data in the regional languages, thereby expanding the database in Kannada, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Bengali, Malayalam and Punjabi..
Proud to know that first international base of Wikipedia is to be opened in India! Although there do exist many articles in regional languages, many software impediments still persist, in editing the same.....

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