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Welcome to Amchipedia!
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Welcome to the Amchipedia Wiki[]
Amchipedia is an endeavour by Chitrapur Saraswats to preserve their heritage and culture using open cultural principles and Net 2.0 techniques.
The prefix "Amchi" represents the "amchi" or "amchigale" - a term that the Chitrapur or Bhanap community calls itself. The suffix "-pedia' suggests that it is a wiki. Gopalkrishna Bhat Maam suggested the name for this wiki. He opines that it also represents the Konkani word "Peedi" meaning generation & "-pedia" suggests the involvement of three generations - past, present and future. A very big thank you, Maam for suggesting the name and its interpretation.
Amchipedia has just been born on 18 August 2011 ariound 1700 hrs. The suggestion came up on a thread begun by Dev Nadkarni on the Facebook group - Chitrapur Saraswats: How many on FB let's see, which he formed on November 7, 2009. At the time for forming this Wiki, the group had 2636 members, which is more than 10% of the small community.
The thread that set in motion the establishment of this Wiki began:
"Volunteers needed… First, thanks for all this enthusiastic participation and contributions. These threads are becoming incredibly long and need to be woven into a fabric of a page that everyone can use conveniently and meaningfully. Can we create teams of volunteers? Say two or three per topic? Within a thread, it's inevitable that there's a bit of banter and joking. That needs to be weeded out and the relevant contributions need to be put into a doc which could then be hosted someplace (perhaps a separate web resource) which can be a living document of everything Konkani… A collaborative oral history? How many hands do we see going up?"
Here's how to learn to edit Amchipedia![]
- Have you signed up for an account yet?
- Watch this short video to learn what Wikia is about!.
- After that you can visit The Beginner's Corner where :
- you can learn to edit Amchipedia.
- to modify text.
- to organise a page.
- to add a comment.
- to add a picture.
- to create a new page.
- to link text.
- You can also :
- edit your user profile.
- learn how to ask for help.
- Eager for more after you master the basics? :).
Contents of Amchipedia[]
The Doorway (main index page) is found here.
License[]
Why should information and media be free? Free as in "freedom of speech", not free as in "free beer". Freedom from unhealthy restrictions in copyright. Here is a justification (wriiten about Wikipedia but applicable in rationale here also).
The license proposed for the Amchipedia is Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution required, Share-alike. It is a free license which is the same as for Wikipedia.
Here is an easily-understood version of the the license.
Latest activity[]
Read about the latest activity on Amchipedia here!