Deccanherald published this following article on its website on 5th December.
I guess it was supposed to be “Wikipedia” instead. On contrary, Kannada wikipedia has been live from more than 5 years on the net at https://kn.wikipedia.org and computer savvy kannadiga’s have already been contributing a large amount of articles(there are more than 5000 articles already) voluntarily. Then what is this all about?
Looks like Deccanherald didn’t do the complete homework before publishing the news.
Real Story
* Karnataka government launched a “Wikipedia” like project called “Kanaja (Kanaja.in)” at the cost of 2 crore rupees of tax money collect from public.
* First of all Kanaja.in does not resemble a wiki.
* Kanaja.in is a plain HTML static pages archive as of now.
* Many links are not yet up even when it has been grandly launched by Cheif Minister of Karnataka
* There is no need for developing a new software for building such project for public interest.Mediawiki, a Free and Open Source software is already powering Worlds largest wiki project https://www.wikipedia.org. Wikipedia even contains a language wiki for Kannada. On top of all this, its time tested. So, why reinvent the wheel?
* Hosted on a Windows server (you can find it easily if you click on broken links on the website). Do we really need to pay for licensing softwares when there is an OpenSource solution available? Why not use Gnu/Linux server which is secure, stable, scalable than windows server.
I really wonder if there is any tech savvy member in Karnataka Government who can question this project “after” collecting all relevant technical aspects involved in this project. Is there any one out there on net who knows whats going on with Kanaja?
