CIS-A2K/Events/Kannada University Hampi Orientation Program

Background

Kannada University Hampi has four Nikaya's. They are 1. Bhasha Nikaya, 2. Samaja Vijnana Nikaya, 3. Lalithakale Nikaya 4. Vijnana Nikaya. The Dravida Samskruthi Adhyana Kendra also included in different branches of Bhasha Nikaya. Till now we have not done major contribution for Wiktionary. With the help of Dravida Samskrita Adhyana Kendra, we are going to bring the Dravida Nighantu to Wiktionary. The Nighantu (Dictionary) has translated meaning for the word in Kannada with four other Dravidian languages different languages including English. The five languages are Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, Tulu, Malayalam. Along with that Dravida Samskruthi Adhyana Kendra have published many books so far. By adding an article about those very important books which would help Wikipedians who would like to refer related to their interest, they can solve their queries and etc. Unfortunately we did not get a good internet connection so we continued to digitize Dravida Nighantu in offline.

Goals

1. Bringing Dravida Nighantu to Wiktionary.
2. Translating the script and write in other respective languages Wiktionary.
3. Creating articles about very important books which is published by Dravida Samskruthi Adhyana Kendra.
4. Wikisource orientation.

Organizers

• Dravida Samskrita Adhyayana Kendra, Kannada University Hampi.
• The Centre for Internet & Society-Access To Knowledge (A2K)

Venue

• 31 August 2017

From 10:30 AM to 5:30 PM

• 1 September 2017

From 10:30 AM to 5:00 PM

Participants

(Manually bought from Event page)

1. --ಪ್ರಭಾಕರ ಪಿ (ಚರ್ಚೆ)
2. --ಮಂಜುಳ ಡಿ ಓ (ಚರ್ಚೆ)
3. --Gangappatalur (ಚರ್ಚೆ)
4. --Pradeepa md (ಚರ್ಚೆ)
5. --ಮಲ್ಲಯ್ಯ (ಚರ್ಚೆ)
6. --Sangashiva (ಚರ್ಚೆ)

Output

We introduced Wikisource to them to know more about Wikimedia project. In two days students added more than 3000 words in different Dravidian language including English. There was deadline to complete full book in one month.