Sanskrit Wikipedia ( sa, संस्कृत विकिपीडिया;
IAST
The International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration (IAST) is a transliteration scheme that allows the lossless romanisation of Indic scripts as employed by Sanskrit and related Indic languages. It is based on a scheme that emerged during ...
: Saṃskṛta Vikipīḍiyā) (also known as sawiki) is the
Sanskrit edition of
Wikipedia, a
free
Free may refer to:
Concept
* Freedom, having the ability to do something, without having to obey anyone/anything
* Freethought, a position that beliefs should be formed only on the basis of logic, reason, and empiricism
* Emancipate, to procur ...
,
web-based,
collaborative
Collaboration (from Latin ''com-'' "with" + ''laborare'' "to labor", "to work") is the process of two or more people, entities or organizations working together to complete a task or achieve a goal. Collaboration is similar to cooperation. Most ...
,
multilingual encyclopedia
An encyclopedia (American English) or encyclopædia (British English) is a reference work or compendium providing summaries of knowledge either general or special to a particular field or discipline. Encyclopedias are divided into articles ...
project supported by the non-profit
Wikimedia Foundation. Its five thousand articles have been written collaboratively by
volunteers around the world, with major concentration of contributors in
India and
Nepal.
Founded in December 2003, it reached five thousand articles by August 2011.
The Sanskrit Wikipedia
Community also participated in a project named
Tell us about your Wikipedia, and Community news from Sanskrit Wikipedia also came on WikiPatrika, a community-written and community-edited newspaper, covering stories, events and reports related to Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation sister projects in India.
As of , it has articles and is the largest version of Wikipedia. ''
The Times of India'' considered that "Sanskrit was making a comeback, thanks to Wikipedia community" ''
Mother India'' considered the Sanskrit Wikipedia as a "wonderful learning tool"
Early history
One of the earliest snapshots of the home page, dated 1 June 2004, can be seen at the earlier archives of Sanskrit Wikipedia. The earliest article still available on Sanskrit Wikipedia's site is apparently
Damana dīva, dated July 9, 2004, however the first article was made on March 21, 2004.
The number of articles dropped from the 1,000-article mark to only 600 in August 2005 after nearly half were deleted; many of the deletions were due to the articles being in English. The Sanskrit Wikipedia reached 9,405 articles as of December 12, 2013.
Collaboration with Samskrita Bharati
Sanskrit Wikipedia has a collaboration with
Samskrita Bharati, a
non-profit organisation working to
revive
Revive or Revived may refer to:
* Revival, especially bringing back to life
* Revive (video gaming), resurrecting a defeated character.
Music
* Revive (band), a Christian rock band
* ''Revive'', classical album by Elīna Garanča 2016
* ''Revive' ...
Sanskrit.
The collaboration efforts started in the
Wikipedia Academy organized in
Bangalore on Jan 23, 2010. That Wikipedia Academy was also the first in India.
There were 11 Sanskrita Bharathi participants at the Academy. They were introduced to Wikipedia and contributing to Wikipedia content and were helped in this by a team of roughly 3
Wikipedians.
Later the first Sanskrit Wiki workshop was held in Sanskrit Bharati's office at Bangalore for an audience of 20 participants. The presentation was intended to give a basic working knowledge of Wikipedia and its interface.
A second workshop was held at the same location on March 26, 2011 for another 15 participants from software companies and the ''Om Shantidham Gurukulam''.
Other collaborations
Through an initiative by
Gujarat University's Department of Sanskrit, around 150 Sanskrit teachers from different colleges in Gujarat gathered in July 2012 to add materials to the Sanskrit Wikipedia through a two-day-long workshop held titled ''Sanskrit Wikipedia — Introduction and Expectations''.
DNA India - Sanskrit Wikipedia in the offing: Gujarat teachers planning details
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Referenced
External links
*
Sanskrit Wikipedia
*
Sanskrit Wikipedia mobile
Wikipedia.org multilingual portal
Wikimedia Foundation
{{Wikipedias
Internet properties established in 2004
Sanskrit encyclopedias
Wikipedias by language
21st-century Indian books
Sanskrit revival
Wikipedia in India