In India, the English media, English writers, bloggers, PR agencies have the habit of referring to Indian languages as vernacular languages. Way back when I…
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Making of Tulu Wikipedia Live
By pavanaja on December 8, 2016
A brief about Tulu language Tulu is one of the Dravidian languages spoken mainly in the south coastal districts of Karnataka state and Kasaragod…
Converting from non Unicode (Nudi, Baraha, …) font encoding to Unicode Kannada
By pavanaja on October 23, 2016
People have been using computers for typing and printing Kannada text for more than 25 years. Majority of the usage of Kannada on computers was…
Querying Wikipedia data
By pavanaja on October 21, 2016
Recently I wrote a blog about the stub article length of Wikipedia articles. I mentioned the difference in actual number of characters and number of…
UTF-8, Indic and stub article length in Wikipedia
By pavanaja on October 19, 2016
One of the activities conducted as part of Wiki Conference India 2016 was the Punjab Editathon. It was about adding articles related to Punjab to…
Localisation experiences in Kannada and Tulu Wikipedias
By pavanaja on October 4, 2016
FUELling Indic computing It has become a fashion to talk about the digital divide in India. These talks are going on for more than 2…
Teched India 2012
By pavanaja on March 17, 2012
I will be participating in Microsoft TechEd India 2012. The official web-site has the details about programs and other associated events. I a very happy…
Windows Phone DevDay organised by Mysore Geeks, supported by CS & IS Depts, SJCE, Mysore
By pavanaja on March 6, 2012
Windows Phone is the latest mobile phone operating system from Microsoft. It has caught the attention of developers. This is due to the fact that…
Wikipedia 10th Anniversary at Mysore
By pavanaja on January 14, 2011
Wikipedia 10th anniversary at Mysore
CTD at Mysore
By pavanaja on February 28, 2010
We had a fantastic Community Techday at JSS Center for Management Studies, SJCE Campus, Mysore on Feb 20, 2010. The program was scheduled to begin…