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Regards Tinu Cherian On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 10:27 AM, CherianTinu Abraham <tinucher...@gmail.com > wrote: > *DNA : "Here’s chance to become Wiki editors"* > > http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report_heres-chance-to-become-wiki-editors_1610665 > > > *Achu Kunameara, 10, from Kochi, uses Wikipedia on a daily basis to > promote his mother tongue by regularly editing and uploading content in > Malayalam.* > * > * > *Now he will present a paper on how students like him are using Wikipedia > to help generate content, at the Wikipedia conference to be held at the > Mumbai University’s Fort campus from November 18 to 20. “I started using > Wikipedia when I was in class IV. Instead of using its content, I started > editing some articles,’’ he said.* > *Like Kunameara, many people in the age group of 10 to 30 are using and > generating content on Wikipedia.* > * > * > *Now, Wikipedia is encouraging Indian youth to become content generators > and editors, as well as being the end users. * > *At the two-day conference, workshops like Editahon and Hackathon, will > teach students how to edit content on Wikipedia and will give chance to > tech savvy youth to develop components for mobile applications, offline > open source application and improving its interface.* > > Regards > Tinu Cherian > pr...@wikimedia.in > http://wiki.wikimedia.in/In_the_news > > Important Note : The publisher ( DNA / Dainik Bhaskar ) of the above news > article owns the copyrights of the article / content. Request to kindly not > reproduce or circulate the content further. The information is only shared > only with an internal community who have been featured on this article. > All copyrights are duly acknowledged. >
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