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Blog Entry Rare Telugu religious and historical work preserved at Annamacharya library to come on Wikisource!
by Rahmanuddin Shaikh — published Aug 09, 2015 — last modified Sep 04, 2015 12:53 PM
Telugu Wikipedia Community and the Centre for Internet & Society conducted a day long edit-a-thon at Annamaya Library on August 6, 2015 at Andhra Loyola College, Vijayawada.
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Blog Entry Odia Wikipedia progress from July to December, 2015
by Rahmanuddin Shaikh — published Jan 01, 2016 — last modified Feb 05, 2016 02:45 AM — filed under: , , ,
Odia Wikipedia, one of the very active Wikipedias in Indian languages has been showing a negative rate of growth for the last 6 months. We will try to analyse, what has been happening and how can that be improved.
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Blog Entry Report of Konkani Wikipedia's progress (July-December 2015)
by Rahmanuddin Shaikh — published Jan 01, 2016 — last modified Feb 05, 2016 02:49 AM — filed under: , , ,
Konkani language is one of the 22 languages recognized by Indian union in 8th schedule. As per the 2007 census there are about 7.4 million Konkani speakers.[1] Konkani language has its own Wikipedia created on 15th June 2015. This blog post will try to put out Konkani Wikipedia's growth from a perspective based on Wikimedia stats.
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Image ALC Wiki Winer Camp students
by Rahmanuddin Shaikh — last modified Jan 13, 2015 07:03 AM
Students and Faculty who attended Wiki Winter Camp
Image Participants at Tewiki hackathon 2014
by Rahmanuddin Shaikh — last modified Feb 10, 2015 04:32 PM
Participants at Tewiki Hackathon 2014
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Blog Entry Telugu Wikimedia Hackathon 2014
by Rahmanuddin Shaikh — published Jan 31, 2015 — last modified Feb 10, 2015 05:17 PM — filed under: , ,
Telugu Wikimedia (including their projects Telugu Wikipedia, Telugu Wikisource etc.) is one of the largest and most powerful Indian language Wikimedia projects, and it is growing and expanding everyday. In the last half of 2014, Telugu Wikimedia community members contacted CIS-A2K team with a request to organize a MediaWiki tutorial workshop for them. Following their request, on 28 December 2014, CIS-A2K team organized a MediaWiki hackathon event for Telugu Wikimedia community members to enhance their skills and understanding of technical matters related to MediaWiki usage. The theme of the workshop was “Mediawiki, its extensions and tools to work around” and it aimed at allowing Wikipedians to use MediaWiki tools more effectively.
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Blog Entry Images and links matter quality
by Rahmanuddin Shaikh — published May 04, 2016 — last modified Jun 08, 2016 09:54 AM — filed under: ,
Wikipedia articles are considered of a higher quality when they have illustrations. An article without images is considered dull. Wikipedia is all about references. Any information on Wikipedia is encouraged to have verifiable citations. Hence images and external links form a criterion for quality of articles on Wikipedias. This blog post tries to analyse the current scenario of CIS-A2K's Focus language areas with respect to images and links.
Located in Openness
Blog Entry Stats for March 2016
by Rahmanuddin Shaikh — published May 08, 2016 — last modified Jun 07, 2016 04:06 AM — filed under: , , , , , , ,
CIS-A2K team closely works with 5 Indian languages, we call as focus language areas. Here are the stats for the month of March 2016.
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Image Stubs vs Total Articles Created, April 2016
by Rahmanuddin Shaikh — last modified May 23, 2016 07:45 PM
Bar graph showing articles created and stubs created.The bars above x axis show count of all articles created, those in negative y axis show stubs.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
Blog Entry Telugu Wikipedia completes 10 years
by Rahmanuddin Shaikh — published Dec 31, 2013 — last modified Dec 31, 2013 04:40 AM — filed under: , , , ,
Telugu Wikipedia completed 10 years on December 10, 2013. Several training sessions, aka Wiki Academies, were planned by the Telugu Wikipedia community to mark the occasion.
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