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Blog Entry Mini TTT and MWT held in Kolkata
by Tito Dutta — published Jan 09, 2017 — last modified Jun 28, 2017 09:53 AM — filed under: , , , ,
A regional version of Train The Trainer and MediaWiki Training was recently conducted in Kolkata.
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Blog Entry Adikavi Nannaya University Telugu Wikipedia Workshop
by Pavan Santhosh — published Jan 08, 2017 — last modified Apr 16, 2017 08:57 AM — filed under: , , , , ,
A Telugu Wikipedia introductory workshop was conducted for the students of Adikavi Nannaya University, Rajahmundry between 6- 7 January, 2017.
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Blog Entry Orientation & Training session of Jalbiradari Activists
by Subodh Kulkarni — published Jan 04, 2017 — last modified Apr 16, 2017 11:30 AM — filed under: , , , , ,
An Orientation & Training session of Jalbiradari Activists was held on 4 January, 2017
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Blog Entry Ongoing Proof-reading Effort by ALC Student Wikimedians in Telugu Wikisource
by Pavan Santosh & Ting-Yi Chang — published Dec 30, 2016 — last modified Dec 30, 2016 11:00 AM — filed under: , , , , , , ,
Student Wikimedians at Andhra Loyola College, Vijayawada formatted and proof-read more than 1,900 folios in Telugu Wikisource during the last few weeks of November (2016). Each day, a group of twenty students uses the lab facility provided by the college after regular classes to make necessary formatting changes and fix spelling mistakes in the folios of books available in Telugu Wikisource. Till date, the student Wikipedians have proofread eight books.
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విజ్ఞాన నిధి వికీపీడియా..
by Prasad Krishna — published Dec 20, 2016 — filed under: , , ,
The article about Telugu Wikipedia appeared in Namaste Telangana on December 11, 2016.
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Changing the typographic landscape of a country: one letter at a time
by Prasad Krishna — published Dec 20, 2016 — filed under: , , ,
My interest in designing typefaces in Indian scripts grew out of years of disappointment with the way most Hindi books I came across looked. Apart from a few exceptions, they looked like poor cousins of English books. Whether it was a children’s story book or a novel or magazine, there was usually the same drab typeface.
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Blog Entry Pranay Raj record in 100 days-100 articles
by Pavan Santhosh — published Dec 18, 2016 — last modified Dec 19, 2016 06:16 PM — filed under: , , , ,
Telugu Theatre scholar Pranay Raj Vangari from Motkur of Yadadri District, Telangana created record by completing a challenge that is famous worldwide in Wikimedia community - "100 Days-100 Articles". Pranay Raj is a theatre scholar and artist who used to travel length and breadth of Telangana & Andhra Pradesh for research and performances.
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Blog Entry వంద రోజులు.. వంద వ్యాసాలు - తెలుగు వికీపీడియాలో మోత్కూరు యువకుని రికార్డు (100 Days...100 Articles: Wikipedian from Motkur created record in Telugu Wikipedia)
by Pavan Santhosh — published Dec 18, 2016 — filed under: , , ,
Pranay Raj Vangari of Motkur Padmashali colony created record in Telugu Wikipedia. "100 Days- 100 Articles" is already going on in many languages worldwide and Pranay Raj took challenge in Telugu Wikipedia, completed it successfully. Pranay is theatre scholor. He started first article in this challenge on september 8 and continued to write articles on every day till December 16 to complete 100 articles. Pranay said that two other Telugu Wikipedians (Pavan and Meena) successfully completed the challenge and explained that he inspired from them to complete it. Telangana state language & cultural department director Mamidi Harikrishna felicitated Pranay in His chamber on this occasion and appreciated for his work.
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Writing skills improve with Wikipedia editing
by Prasad Krishna — published Dec 15, 2016 — filed under: , , ,
Pavan Santhosh said that contributing to Wikipedia and working in Wikimedia community improves our leadership qualities and writing skills. In an awareness session conducted about "You can edit Wikipedia" in JKC college, Guntur, Santhosh explained how to create and improve articles about Wikipedia in this program. Principal I.Nageswara Rao presided over this meeting.
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Blog Entry Odia Wikipedia: Sambalpur University Workshop
by Sailesh Patnaik — published Nov 28, 2016 — last modified Apr 17, 2017 06:44 AM — filed under: , , , , , ,
An Odia Wikipedia orientation-cum-workshop program was organised for the students of Sambalpur University on 27 November, 2016.
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