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Article: Wikipedia for more Indian languages on its website
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- The Hindustan Times
- Article date:
- September 1, 2006
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Bangalore, Sep 1 -- More and more Indians can contribute to the volunteer-edited Wikipedia encyclopedia project, now rated among the top 20 websites globally.
So says Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales, founder of the Web-based free content multilingual project.
During a visit to India, Wales noted that volunteer contributions to the Kannada Wikipedia had been growing 22 percent and Bengali 35 percent a month.
"These growth rates are fairly high. Of course, they're growing from a small base. But Kannada already has over 5,000 articles and is still growing. That's really exciting. Bengali too has a growth rate of 35 percent," he said.
"It's not as bad as it was a year ago. We had almost nothing then. Now, ...