Since Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia that allows anyone “irrespective of qualifications and expertise” to add content while being its strength is also a source of controversy. The user-generated encyclopaedia is based on Wiki technology, which allows editorial access to user with or without registering. It’s popularity is probably no justification for concerns of being a viable reference source.
What apparently looks like a recipe for disaster hides a process that has stores a lot under the hood. In the new media environment media literacy is important. Wikipedia lends itself to a transparent process in which the evolution of the “final product” is evident, unlike in professionally run encyclopaedias. It helps in distinguishing the “wheat from the chaff”, as David J. Rosen says in a post to DDN. Rosen lists the Discussion tab where one can see the “discussion/debate/ controversy has been in developing the article to date”. And then there is the History tab that “shows every version of the article”. As Sonya Lipczynska says in Reference Reviews that “the criticisms that have been levelled at Wikipedia are, in fact, the very source of its strength”.
For Indian content to be in Wikipedia is simply because more than anything else it is the lack of good Indian content in cyberspace that requires urgent correction. What better effort than a citizen-led effort.

Treating Human Waste:

A South African company offers a self-contained toilet that treats waste without water or chemicals, protecting precious drinking water from contamination.

Enviro Options (Pty) Ltd., Kya Sands, South Africa.

Cleaning the Air:

A U.S. nonprofit has developed an inexpensive kit that turns smog-belching two-stroke engines – the kind that power mini-vehicles throughout Asia and Africa – into cleaner-burning, fuel-efficient sources of power.
Envirofit International Ltd., Fort Collins, Colo., United States

Harnessing the Sun:

An Indian company is selling small-scale solar
power systems that not only produce electric power,
but also generate cash by enabling people to
set up their own home-based businesses.
SELCO Solar Light Private Ltd., Bangalore, India

Enhancing Nutrition:

A Canadian nonprofit is partnering with African
companies to manufacture and distribute an
electricity-free food preservation system.

Malnutrition Matters, Ottawa, Canada

Educating the World:

A prestigious U.S. university is making many of its
academic courses available on the Internet where
users can learn from them – free.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cambridge, Mass., United States

Fighting Illiteracy:
College students and corporate volunteers from across
the United States have developed a solar-powered
microfilm projector that will help tens of thousands
of Africans learn to read this year.

Design That Matters Inc., Cambridge, Mass., United States
Crafting Inexpensive Vaccines:
A team of Cuban and Canadian scientists has
invented an inexpensive vaccine that could save the
lives of half a million infants each year.

Hib Vaccine Team, Havana, Cuba, and Ottawa, Canada

Helping People See:

An Oxford University professor has invented low-cost
eyeglasses that wearers can tune without the aid
of an optometrist.

Adaptive Eyecare Ltd., Oxford, England
Reducing Child Labour:

A Pakistani organization is selling ergonomically correct
weaving looms that let adults create the same
intricate rugs that children now make.

Centre for the Improvement of Working
Conditions & Environment, Lahore, Pakistan

Bridging the Digital Divide:

A Brazilian nonprofit is rolling out telecenters that
provide Internet access, telephone service,
computer training, and other technology-based
services to the poor and working class.

CEMINA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
www.radiofalamulher.com