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| Other South Indian languages fare far better than Kannada on Wikipedia |
January 19, 2016, NewsCrunch
Despite Bangalore being the IT capital of the country, Kannada languishes at the 10th place among Indian languages on Wikipedia.
Kannada has just 19,070 Wiki pages .
The top slot in the list goes to Urdu which has 1,01,397 pages. Urdu has 55 million speakers. It beats Hindi narrowly, which has three times the speakers, to claim the top slot.
Other South Indian languages fare far better than Kannada - Tamil (83,432), Telugu (64,451), and Malayalam (41,334).
In the world ranking of languages, Kannada stands 107th.
The Kannada language edition of Wikipedia was set up in 2003, but has not taken off, despite the effort of a small group of volunteers.
In the world ranking of languages, Kannada stands 107th.
The Kannada language edition of Wikipedia was set up in 2003, but has not taken off, despite the effort of a small group of volunteers.
The Hindu quoted Omshivaprakash, an administrator of Wikipedia’s Kannada version, saying: “Authors, publishers, government bodies don’t seem to be confident enough to use Wikipedia platform. Not many show interest to learn and contribute,” he says.
Indian languages and number of Wikipedia pages
Urdu--1,01,397
Hindi -- 1,00,912
Tamil -- 83,042
Telugu -- 65,451
Marathi - 42,888
Malayalam -- 41,334
Bengali -- 40,261
Gujarati -- 26,044
Punjabi-- 20,564
Kannada --19,070