Apabhraṃśa Sahitya needs attention @Wikipedia
Jaipur , 17 January 2016: Wikipedia 15th Birthday was celebrated at Shilp Gram side of Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur. Wikipedia completed its 15th year as The World’s Encyclopedia on January 15th 2016. It is considered as the prime source of information by the most of the people in the world.
Wikipedia is a Web-based, multi-language, free-content encyclopedia written collaboratively by volunteers, scholars, researchers and literates around the world. It has editions in about 180 languages and contains entries on traditional encyclopedic topics and on almanac, gazetteer, and current events topics. It contains about 2.3 million articles. More than 700,000 of these are in English, more than 250,000 in German, more than 150,000 in French and more than 100,000 in Japanese, Swedish and Italian.
Among the distinguished guests the former chairperson of RSHRC Justice Nagendera Kumar Jain said:-
“Wikipedia is doing a tremendous job of providing unprecedented help support and guidance in the form of information as the world encyclopedia. It is playing a very crucial & important role in our life just like Veda’s & Purans have shaped our present civilization. It is going shape the future world being a reliable digital source of info. on any subject topic ranging from a pin-point till inter Galactic black-holes and beyond. With this kind of information reference we have to get actively get involved and present the correct information on topics like Apabhraṃśa Sahitya or Literaturewhich is almost extinct due to prevalence and social religious dogma. In other words we must increase the efforts in training our researchers and scholars to get involved on such platform and provide the correct picture”
imilarly, Prof. Kamal Chand Sogani eminent scholar of Apabhraṃśa Sahitya Academysaid: “We have to keep the pace with the rest of the world and provide the most reliable and credible interpretations of the Manuscripts or Pandulipis. Since the present generation is already so much involved in understanding the modern infrastructure there is a stronger need for scholars and literates to ensure unbiased information in its core form.” He further took the guests around the Reception and ICH side of the JKK and explained the wall depictions from these scriptures.
National Fame Jyotirvid and Senior Journalists Mahavir Kumar Soni fromInternational centre for Jyotish, Vastu, Spiritual & Cultural Activities Trust said: “Wikipedia is already holding a detailed documentation on the topics like History, Jyotish, Vastu and Culture supported with the relevant references & research work published so far. But some of the research work which was never published and is kept as Sacred Notes locked in the temples shall get justice and place on Wikipedia”
One of the Anonymous contributors wearing a mask said “Wikipedia is already guiding the Artificial intelligence and it will be treated as the future reference and we have to ensure that machines are able to identify the humanitarian aspects”
The celebrations were concluded with the release of best wishes for Wikipedia hand written on wishing lanterns by the guests.
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