Kannada Wikipedia community is celebrating 13th year of Kannada Wikipedia. As part of the cebrations 4 pre-event theme based editathons are planned. Two editathons were conducted already. The third editathon in the series was held in Mysore from January 11 to 13 at Centre for Proficiency Development and Placement Services (CPDPS), Manasa Gangotri, University of Mysore.
Around 30 participants turned up for the editathon organized by the Kannada Wikipedia community. Almost all of them were new editors. It is expected that the delegates will contribute significantly to Kannada Wikipedia. The theme for the current editathon was Kannada literature. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja from the Centre for Internet & Society attended as the key resource person. Kannada Wikipedians Tejas Jain and Dr Vishwanatha Badikana also attended the editathon.
For more info click here. Prajavani (Mysore edition) published a report on January 13, 2016.
For more details visit http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/editathon-at-mysore
