ৱিকিপিডিয়া:সততে উদিত প্ৰশ্নসমূহ: বিভিন্ন সংশোধনসমূহৰ মাজৰ পাৰ্থক্য

২০১১ চনৰ ১৩ নৱেম্বৰলৈ প্ৰায় ৩৮ লাখ প্ৰবন্ধৰে ইংৰাজী ৱিকিপিডিয়াই বৰ্তমান সৰ্ববৃহত্‍ ৱিকিপিডিয়া। অসমীয়া ৱিকিপিডিয়াত একে তাৰিখলৈ ৭৪২টা প্ৰবন্ধ আছে।

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We acquired the knowledge that we have now from various sources at various times. We have the social responsibility to store and share this knowledge to others. There is a lot of information that has been irrecoverably lost because nobody cared to store it. By sharing our knowledge through Wikipedia, we are doing a service for the generations to come.

Wikipedia editors keep the knowledge in Wikipedia more up to date and complete about our favorite subjects than on any other place on the internet. Wikipedia writers always comment that to write articles they study about it first and that helps to increase their knowledge as well. The corrections other knowledgeable persons make on your article helps you to understand the topic better. Also, by the conversations with other Wikipedia writers who contribute on your topic of interest, your knowledge increases again. So by contributing to articles, your knowledge also increases in multiple ways.

 

 

You will not be get any monetary benefit by contributing to Wikipedia. You are practicing an old phrase that says: "Rolling Stone gathers no moss", by sharing your knowledge. It is always a good practice to brush up your knowledge that might otherwise be forgotten.

 

 

An easy way for typing and reading Malayalam on computer was not available even in the first couple of years of this century. So if somebody want to read a Malayalam article written by someone else, then the reader was required to have the same type of computer and font as that of the writer. After the project to 'assign code points for all language's characters' named 'Unicode' gained popularity, computer became more flexible to Malayalam. Malayalam Wikipedia became active only after Unicode-Malayalam started getting it's share and after the errors in Malayalam font rendering in browsers were reasonably fixed.

After getting some active users, diversity and count of articles increased. On 2006 April 10, Malayalam Wikipedia crossed the 500 article milestone. On same year September the article count reached 1,000. On 2007 December 12 count increased to 5,000 and 10,000 article milestone was crossed on 2009 June 01. As of now (2010 November) Malayalam Wikipedia has more than 15,000 articles.

 

 

After the grand success of the free online encyclopedia wikipedia, wikimedia foundation slowly started focussing on other knowledge bases. A multi lingual free dictionary - "Wiktionary", a place to store public domain or with free licensed books - "Wikisource", a wiki for free content textbooks and annotated texts - "Wikibooks", A free content news souce which works by collabarative journalism and citizen journalism - "Wikinews", a project to produce collaboratively a vast reference of quotations - "Wikiquote", an online multimedia file repository - "Commons", are some of them.

Among these four projects are available in Malayalam. They are Wikigranthashala (Wikisource), Wikinighantu (Wiktionary), Wikipatashala (Wikibooks), and Wikichollukal (wikiquote). Now all these projects are in their childhood stage, but all projects are important to Malayalam language.

 

 

While the objective of wikimedia foundation, which includes wikipedia, is to free up knowledge and spread knowledge with everyone, malayalam wiki initiatives have an added aim to keep our ailing language alive, and to provide a healthy presence of malayalam in the cyber space.

In this age where school education is becoming more student-centric, knowledge gathering and assimilation outside text books is critical. As the reach of internet increases in schools and homes, children have an opportunity to utilize various wiki-initiatives including malayalam wikipedia. Malayalam wikipedia provides a wealth of knowledge in different areas including history, geography, astronomy etc. A lot of copy-right free books are available in malayalam wiki source. Wiki Pathasala provides an opportunity to write wiki books in any knowledge area. Wiki Nikhantu (wiki dictionary) helps you know the malayalam meaning of words in different languages. Through these malayalam wiki initiatives, you have an opportunity to gather knowledge as well as to share knowledge with others. Along with that, you are contributing to the sustenance and growth of our language.

 

 

This confusion probably arises by equating wikipedia with traditional knowledge sources. In traditional knowledge sources (including news papers, books, blogs, television, etc) you don't have an opportunity to correct factual errors, or even to point them out to the right listeners. The difference is that wikipedia is free and editable by anyone. Wikipedia gives you the power and the right to correct any factual error as you see it. I believe that it is the responsibility of every user (or reader) to participate actively, and correct any factual errors that you encounter them.