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Works of Veerasalingam Pantulu on web
https://cis-india.org/openness/news/the-hans-india-december-31-2014-works-of-veerasalingam-pantulu-on-web
<b>Andhra Loyola College in association with Centre for Internet and Society (CIS- A2K) is conducting a six-day camp titled ‘Wiki Winter’ at Wikipedia Lab in the campus.</b>
<p>Click to read the PDF of the original article published by Hans India <a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/works-of-veerasalingam-pantulu-on-web.pdf" class="external-link">here</a>.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">The camp will conclude on Wednesday. Around 45 volunteers from BSc (Physics) and BA (Telugu) streams are attending the camp. The students are being trained to be the contributors for Wikipedia and they are authorised to add, edit and delete articles in Wikipedia using validated user ids.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The articles in the field of Physics which are not in Telugu language are being prepared by the students. The articles are scrutinised by experts from other parts of the world and are accepted on permanent basis. The students of BA (Telugu) are preparing the classical works of Kandukuri Veerasalingam. His works are being digitalised and are made available to people.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Kola Sekhar of Department of Telugu and the organising secretary said that Kandukuri Veerasalingam is a well-known social activist and a writer. His works reflected the social evils prevailing in the society which are still relevant today. The solutions Veerasalingam showcased through his works are not available to current generation. This camp aims to put his works online. Sekhar said that they would strive hard to add more and more classical works in Telugu to the Wikipedia.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/news/the-hans-india-december-31-2014-works-of-veerasalingam-pantulu-on-web'>https://cis-india.org/openness/news/the-hans-india-december-31-2014-works-of-veerasalingam-pantulu-on-web</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaOpennessTelugu WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2015-01-01T14:49:05ZNews ItemWiki Winter Camp - Coverage in Sakshi
https://cis-india.org/openness/news/sakshi-december-31-2014-wiki-winter-camp
<b>Media coverage for the Wiki winter camp held at Andhra Loyola College.</b>
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No publisherpraskrishnaOpennessTelugu WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2015-01-01T16:58:23ZNews ItemWiki Winter Camp - Coverage in Eenadu
https://cis-india.org/openness/news/eenadu-december-31-wiki-winter-camp
<b>Media coverage of Wiki Winter Camp held at Andhra Loyola College.</b>
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No publisherpraskrishnaOpennessTelugu WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2015-01-01T17:17:42ZNews ItemCreating Free Software Environment at Andhra Loyola College
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/creating-free-software-environment-at-alc
<b>Andhra Loyola college has signed an MoU with CIS-A2K and as part of it CIS-A2K team has provided a free and open software environment at Andhra Lyola College's Computer Center. Thirty machines have been installed with free software Operating system and some useful applications such as GIMP, Inkscape, firefox, libreoffice, etc.</b>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Principal, Vice-principal, management and faculty at Andhra Loyola College expressed interest in upgrading their lab computers to latest software without having the glitches of piracy issues. The obvious solution to this was to install Linux based free OS like Ubuntu/Debian</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Program Director of CIS-A2K advised to have this process done in a pilot manner instead of forced imposition on faculty and students to use a totally new working environment. So, 30 machines from PG lab were selected for this purpose.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">These machines were installed with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS edition. In addition to the default available Libre office, firefox and terminal, Tools like Gimp, inkscape, apache web server were also installed.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Each of the faculty and students present at the installation time were evangelized about Free Software and its wise uses in the long term.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/creating-free-software-environment-at-alc'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/creating-free-software-environment-at-alc</a>
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No publisherrahimOpennessTelugu WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2015-05-27T00:54:42ZBlog EntryExpanding the World of Telugu Wikipedia – CIS-A2K and ALC join hands
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/expanding-the-world-of-telugu-wikipedia-cis-and-alc-join-hands
<b>Students and faculty of Andhra Loyola College in Vijayawada aim to enhance Telugu Wikipedia through increased contributions to Wikipedia and make it available under free license.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge">The Access to Knowledge </a>(A2K) programme of the Centre for Internet and Society (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_for_Internet_and_Society_(India)">CIS</a>) in its quest to catalyze the growth of open knowledge movement in Indic languages recently added another feather to its cap by signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with <a href="http://www.andhraloyolacollege.ac.in/">Andhra Loyola College</a> (ALC) in Vijayawada on August 14, 2014 to work collaboratively to improve <a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%AE%E0%B1%8A%E0%B0%A6%E0%B0%9F%E0%B0%BF_%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%87%E0%B0%9C%E0%B1%80">Telugu Wikipedia</a> and <a href="https://te.wikisource.org/wiki/%E0%B0%AE%E0%B1%8A%E0%B0%A6%E0%B0%9F%E0%B0%BF_%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%87%E0%B0%9C%E0%B1%80">Telugu Wikisource</a>. College Principal Fr. G.A.P. Kishore, Vice-Principals Fr. P. Anil Kumar and Fr. Rex Angelo, correspondent Fr. Raju signed the agreement with CIS-A2K programme director T. Vishnu Vardhan.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">The MoU signed with ALC is for a period of five years and encompasses four activities:</p>
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<li>Open knowledge creation in Telugu across various disciplines on Telugu Wikipedia: ALC faculty and students will be trained by CIS-A2K staff and interested Telugu Wikimedians to understand the principles that govern Wikipedia in order to generate quality entries. Faculty from Botany, Physics, Statistics, Ethics, Religion, Telugu Literature, and Music will work with CIS-A2K. Each of the faculty in the coming months will come up with a plan to generate open knowledge in Telugu in their respective disciplines.</li>
<li>Content donation and digitization on Telugu Wikisource: ALC through its networks will help CIS-A2K to bring Telugu content under CC-BY-SA 4.0 license. The Telugu department of the college expressed keen interest to work with CIS-A2K in digitizing historical Telugu content and to make it available on Telugu Wikisource. Various competitions will be planned in the future.</li>
<li>Creating a free software environment at Andhra Loyola College: 400 machines within various labs on the campus will be converted into FOSS systems with free and open source software including support for Telugu and other Indic languages. It should be noted that all the existing computers of ALC are run on proprietary software. As a pilot initiative CIS-A2K has already converted 30 systems in a lab and named it as Loyola FOSS Lab.</li>
<li>CIS-A2K to revise the FIT (Fundamentals in Information Technology): A mandatory course for all undergraduate students which will introduce students to FOSS, Openness and Wikipedia. This is an outcome of the FOSS orientation done by T. Vishnu Vardhan and Rahimanuddin Shaik during the two workshops that were held at ALC.</li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS-A2K will put every effort to involve Telugu Wikimedians and FOSS community in taking this collaboration with ALC forward. CIS-A2K will also create a project page on Telugu Wikipedia to actively document and publicly share the detailed plans and progress. More updates will also be shared on this website.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">The signing of the MoU was done at a public event in the presence of students, faculty and management of ALC and various representatives from media. The media covered this event enthusiastically. The Hindu coverage can be found <a href="http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-andhrapradesh/alc-signs-mou-for-better-net-access/article6320555.ece">here</a> and Eenadu article coverage is <a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/news/cis-mou-with-alc-coverage-in-eenadu" class="external-link">here</a>.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/expanding-the-world-of-telugu-wikipedia-cis-and-alc-join-hands'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/expanding-the-world-of-telugu-wikipedia-cis-and-alc-join-hands</a>
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No publisherT Vishnu Vardhan and Rahmanuddin ShaikAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaFeaturedTelugu WikipediaOpennessHomepage2014-09-30T05:11:29ZBlog EntryALC signs MoU for better net access
https://cis-india.org/news/the-hindu-august-15-2014-alc-signs-mou-for-better-net-access
<b>Andhra Loyola College (ALC) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Bangalore-based Centre for Internet and Society – Access to Knowledge (CSI-A2K) here on Thursday.</b>
<p>The MoU will enable faculty and students to have more access on internet world, said the ALC management.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Read the original article <a class="external-link" href="http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-andhrapradesh/alc-signs-mou-for-better-net-access/article6320555.ece">published in the Hindu</a> on August 15, 2014.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Institute principal Fr. G.A.P. Kishore, vice-principals Fr. P. Anil Kumar and Fr. Rex Angelo, correspondent Fr. Raju and CSI-A2K programme director T. Vishnu Vardhan signed the papers. Faculty of various departments participated in the programme. Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Kishore said for the first time in AP, ALC has made the MoU with CSI-A2K to work collaboratively to improve Telugu Wikipedia. Very soon the digital content in botany, physics, Telugu, chemistry, ethics, religion, music and other subjects of the institution would be produced in Telugu Wikipedia, said the principal.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">“A ten-member core committee has been constituted to train the faculty in each department in the college on A2K, who will teach the students. CSI will train the trainers and upload the material from time to time,” said Mr. Rex Angelo. Mr. Vishnu Vardhan said that CSI is promoting institutional partnerships across the country to promote regional languages. The society has plans to team up with more colleges in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh and take up more outreach programmes in the next few days.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">“Wikipedia has access to over 287 languages and 3.5 crore essays in the world. It is very unfortunate, that it has very few items in Indian languages,” said the programme director.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/news/the-hindu-august-15-2014-alc-signs-mou-for-better-net-access'>https://cis-india.org/news/the-hindu-august-15-2014-alc-signs-mou-for-better-net-access</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaTelugu WikipediaOpenness2014-08-20T06:50:48ZNews ItemAndhra Loyola College and the Centre for Internet & Society sign MoU for Better Net Access
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/alc-cis-sign-mou-better-net-access
<b>Andhra Loyola College (ALC) and the Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) have entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to steward the growth of Telugu Wikipedia and to make available free knowledge in Telugu to all Telugus across the globe. </b>
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<li style="text-align: justify; ">Ten theosophical books authored by Rev. Fr. P. Jojaiah, SJ released under free license (CC-BY-SA-4.0)</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">For the first time an educational institution in the state of Andhra Pradesh is signing an MoU with CIS-A2K to work collaboratively to qualitatively improve Telugu Wikipedia.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">ALC faculty and students to create free e-content in Telugu on Telugu Wikipedia.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Digital content from the fields of Botany, Physics, Chemistry, Telugu, Statistics, Ethics and Religion, Music and Dance to be produced on Telugu Wikipedia</li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">This is a big leap for the college in opening up itself to the internet world. The college is planning to train its faculty and students to create free econtent in Telugu. These resources will in turn be dedicated to the society.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The signing of the MoU took place in the college premises on August 14, 2014 at 2.00 p.m.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Ten theosophical books authored by Rev. Fr. P. Jojaiah, SJ was released under free license (CC-BY-SA-4.0) on the same stage.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The event was organized by ALC and CIS.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS-A2K has been closely working with ALC. They have organised 4 workshops for students and faculty. CIS-A2K also helped in QR coding of the institute.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Now, this MoU would further enable CISA2K and ALC to collaboratively work on creating free and open knowledge in Telugu across various disciplines on Telugu Wikipedia. This collaboration is set to benefit millions of Telugus to freely access knowledge in Telugu on the internet.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Media Coverage</h3>
<p><a class="external-link" href="http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-andhrapradesh/alc-signs-mou-for-better-net-access/article6320555.ece?css=print">ALC signs MoU for better net access</a> (The Hindu, August 15, 2014)</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/alc-cis-sign-mou-better-net-access'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/alc-cis-sign-mou-better-net-access</a>
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No publisherrahimAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaTelugu WikipediaOpenness2015-01-20T18:47:13ZBlog EntryCIS-A2K Signs MoU with Andhra Loyola College in Vijayawada: Coverage in Eenadu
https://cis-india.org/openness/news/cis-mou-with-alc-coverage-in-eenadu
<b>This article was published in Enadu on August 15, 2014.</b>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/news/cis-mou-with-alc-coverage-in-eenadu'>https://cis-india.org/openness/news/cis-mou-with-alc-coverage-in-eenadu</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaTelugu WikipediaOpenness2014-09-09T09:22:23ZNews ItemTelugu Wikipedia struggles to stay afloat
https://cis-india.org/news/the-hindu-july-27-2014-renuka-phadnis-telugu-wikipedia-struggles-to-stay-afloat
<b>For a language that is spoken by 10 crore people, content is sparse.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The article by Renuka Phadnis was <a class="external-link" href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/telugu-wikipedia-struggles-to-stay-afloat/article6255003.ece">published in the Hindu</a> on July 28, 2014. T. Vishnu Vardhan gave his inputs.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Sujatha, a Chennai-based homemaker, has set for herself the task of updating the Telugu Wikipedia with details of all the districts in Andhra Pradesh.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">“I asked others but no one joined me in adding ‘edits’. They said they were too busy,” she says.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">For a language that is spoken by 10 crore people, including a tech-savvy population, content in the 11-year-old Telugu Wikipedia is sparse and growing slowly with 20,000 articles added in the last one decade.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">T. Vishnu Vardhan, Programme Director, Access to Knowledge Programme of Bangalore-based Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), said Telugu Wikipedia was lagging behind its other Indian-language counterparts despite there being no other content repository in Telugu.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The reason is not lack of writers in the language. There are 1,000 to 2,000 active Telugu bloggers writing on topics ranging from poetry to politics. In fact, the Telugu Wikipedia was started by such bloggers.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">But they are reluctant to contribute to the Telugu Wikipedia and prefer blogging because they can see their names after adding the content. Rahimanuddin Shaik, Programme Officer and system operator for Telugu Wikipedia at CIS, said, “You could call it the ‘identity crisis’ of Telugu Wikipedia writers.”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">In 2006-07, an attempt was made to induce content in the Telugu Wikipedia by injecting 30,000 ‘articles’ by a bot, a Python-based script. They were one-liners about villages in Andhra Pradesh, introduced with the expectation that people would add more content. That effort did trigger 5,000 articles.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Later, in 2013, the Telugu Wikipedia became more collaborative and Hyderabad University associated itself with it by hosting Telugu Wikipedia events on its Golden Threshold campus.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/news/the-hindu-july-27-2014-renuka-phadnis-telugu-wikipedia-struggles-to-stay-afloat'>https://cis-india.org/news/the-hindu-july-27-2014-renuka-phadnis-telugu-wikipedia-struggles-to-stay-afloat</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaTelugu WikipediaOpenness2014-07-28T07:46:10ZNews ItemTen Telugu Books Re-released Under CC-BY-SA 3.0 License
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/ten-telugu-books-re-released-under-cc-by-sa-license
<b>For the first time in the history of Indian books, 10 Telugu books by a single author were released under Creative Commons license (CC-BY-SA 3.0) on June 22, 2014 at 10 a.m. at Golden Threshold, Abids, Hyderabad.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The event was organised by the Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) team.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS-A2K has collaborated with Telugu Wikipedians in convincing Indu Gnaana Vedika to re-release 10 of their books under CC-BY-SA 3.0 license which is compatible with Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. Unlike the predominant digitization efforts (which only makes scanned images available), these books will be uploaded on Telugu Wikisource (<span><a href="http://www.te.wikisource.org/">www</a><a href="http://www.te.wikisource.org/">.</a><a href="http://www.te.wikisource.org/">te</a><a href="http://www.te.wikisource.org/">.</a><a href="http://www.te.wikisource.org/">wikisource</a><a href="http://www.te.wikisource.org/">.</a><a href="http://www.te.wikisource.org/">org</a></span>) and converted into Unicode (searchable) text. This will ensure that these books are freely read, both online and offline in various formats like PDF, epub, mobi, text, etc. This is a major milestone initiative by CIS-A2K to make the sum of all knowledge in Telugu freely available to all Telugus over the internet and is part of its <a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Draft_Work_plan_July_2014_-_June_2015/Telugu">Telugu language area plan</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Telugu Wikipedia has been in existence for 10 years and has 57000 articles on various topics. Telugu Wikisource is one of the sister projects of Wikipedia which has more than 9600 pages and 100 books, it is the largest online Unicode book library available today at the service of Telugu people.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">The Programme</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The event started with invocation by Indu Gnaana Vedika followed by introduction of Chief Guest and Guest of Honour.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The patron of Indu Gnaana Vedika, Sri Sri Sri Prabodhananda Yogeeswarulu presided over as the chief guest and N Rahamthulla, long time wikipedian and Special collector, Srisailam project, Kurnool was the guest of honour.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Addressing the gathering, Prabodhananda emphasised on the importance of availability of knowledge in ones own mother language, and also why knowledge should not be confined to books alone, but should be brought onto various platforms, internet being one among them. This would not only ensure wider reach for the books, but also enable the language to survive in the fast changing era.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Then, a <a class="external-link" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXKCeyZXlZo">video interview</a> of guest of honour, Rahamthulla was played, where he spoke about creation of new technical jargon in ones own mother language and how Telugu was being used as administrative language in his office among his subordinates.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Rahamthulla also spoke on the practices he brought into in his own office to adopt mother language at work and gave out suggestions that would effectively help all in adoption of mother language at work places with Telugu as an example.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">This was followed by Veeven’s talk on “End-User’s perspective of free licenses”, where he spoke about importance of open content, free software and free licenses.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Then, program director of CIS-A2K, T. Vishnu Vardhan spoke about the importance of creative commons licenses in the context of Indian languages in Internet. In his speech, Vishnu informed that there is enormous literature and content available in Indian languages which is unusable because of ignorance of licenses. He listed out guidelines that would help writers to have their work reach millions through releasing it under a free license.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Then, in a formal manner, the copyright holder of the books signed on the documents, specifying that the books are released under CC-BY-SA 3.0 license. In the tea break that followed, participants enquired experts on free licenses.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">A Wikisource demonstration by Rahmanuddin Shaik was shown followed by Q & A session.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Then there was a panel discussion on “CC licenses” which saw participation from one each of a free license expert, writer and end user. This brought in awareness and more deeper thought into bringing in more literature in Telugu into CC licenses.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">An outcome of the event was:</p>
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<li>N Rahamthulla promised to re-release his books under CC license.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Mandali Buddhaprasad, Deputy Speaker, Andhra Pradesh legislative assembly, gave permission to release 4 of his books under CC license.</li>
<li>Several other writers have come forward to re-release their books under free licenses. </li>
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<p>Given below is the certificate signed by Sri Sri Sri Acharya Yogeeshwarulu giving permission to publish his works under CC-BY-SA 3.0 License:</p>
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<p>For additional details of the event, <a class="external-link" href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%A1%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BE:%E0%B0%B8%E0%B0%AE%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B5%E0%B1%87%E0%B0%B6%E0%B0%82/%E0%B0%87%E0%B0%82%E0%B0%A6%E0%B1%82_%E0%B0%9C%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9E%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A8_%E0%B0%B5%E0%B1%87%E0%B0%A6%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95_%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%B8%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%A4%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B2_%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%A8%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%A6%E0%B0%B2">click here</a>.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/ten-telugu-books-re-released-under-cc-by-sa-license'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/ten-telugu-books-re-released-under-cc-by-sa-license</a>
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No publisherrahimAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaTelugu WikipediaOpenness2014-07-08T05:29:39ZBlog EntryEmphasis on developing vernacular encyclopaedias
https://cis-india.org/news/the-hindu-march-30-2014-emphasis-on-developing-vernacular-encyclopaedias
<b>emphasis-on-developing-vernacular-encyclopaedias.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">This article <a class="external-link" href="http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-andhrapradesh/emphasis-on-developing-vernacular-encyclopaedias/article5850462.ece">published in the Hindu</a> on March 30, 2014 quotes Rehmanuddin Sheikh.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">It is imperative to make efforts to develop encyclopaedias in all vernacular languages, S. Rehmanuddin, programme officer, Centre of Internet Society - Access To Knowledge, said.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">In a guest lecture on Telugu Wikipedia organised by the Computer Science department in JNTU College of Engineering, Pulivendula, he explained the way Wikipedia works - the wiki model and the Wiki mark-up language.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Students were also told about the workings of the media wiki framework, which forms the backend of Wikipedia and several similar projects.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Head of Computer Science, A. Suresh Babu, explained that the guest lecture was organised to enlighten CSE students about Wikipedia, the largest encyclopaedia ever.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">It is the biggest multilingual textual source with over three crore articles in 287 languages including Telugu, students were told.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">It has over four million articles on various topics ranging from arts to mythology and science to advanced computing, he added.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">He explained to the participants about Media wiki API that would help them understand web services and create applications based on the API data.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">IT will help them to create data-driven projects in future, he said.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Automation of tasks in the form of running bot scripts were also demonstrated during the lecture.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/news/the-hindu-march-30-2014-emphasis-on-developing-vernacular-encyclopaedias'>https://cis-india.org/news/the-hindu-march-30-2014-emphasis-on-developing-vernacular-encyclopaedias</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaTelugu WikipediaOpenness2014-04-15T10:22:04ZNews ItemTelugu Wikipedia at JNTUACEP
https://cis-india.org/openness/events/telugu-wiki-jntuacep
<b>CIS along with the Department of Computer Science, JNTUACEP invite you to a Telugu Wikipedia workshop on March 28, 2014.</b>
<p>Rahmanuddin Shaik, Program Officer from CIS-A2K participates in the event as a speaker.</p>
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<td>10.00 <br />10.30</td>
<td>సుస్వాగతం మరియు పరిచయం</td>
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<td>10.30 <br />15.00</td>
<td>వికీపీడియా ఒక అవగాహన, వికీపీడియా ఎలాపనిచేస్తుంది ?</td>
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<td>15.00<br />15.30</td>
<td>వికీపీడియా ప్రదర్శన+ వికీలో రాయడం (hands on activity)</td>
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<td>15.30<br />15.45</td>
<td>తేనీటి విరామం</td>
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<td>15.45<br />18.15</td>
<td>Basics of Wikipedia Editing (Hands on activity) – LAB SESSION- వికీలో రాయడం ఎలా మొదలుపెట్టాలి, వనరుల ఉపయోగం</td>
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<td>18.15<br />18.30</td>
<td>Feedback and Closing Session</td>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/events/telugu-wiki-jntuacep'>https://cis-india.org/openness/events/telugu-wiki-jntuacep</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaTelugu WikipediaEvent2014-04-15T11:13:00ZEventTewiki 10th Anniversary
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/tewiki-10-anniversary
<b>Tewiki 10th anniversary celebration 2014, started on February 15 in Vijayawada at Kakaraparti Bhavanarayana College. It was co-organized by the Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) team and the Telugu Wikipedia community. Ch.Arjuna Rao expressed his happiness on Telugu Wikipedias completion of 10 years and 55000 articles in Telugu on the inauguration of decade celebrations. </b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The <a class="external-link" href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:Tewiki10/Documentation">full details are captured in the report published on the meta page</a>. The following is an abridged version of the same in English.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">The founding president of the Wikimedia India Chapter CH.Arjunarao , T.Vishnu Vardhan, Programme Director, CIS-A2K, President of the decade ceremonial committee BK Viswanath. K.B.N.college officials Sambasiva Rao, Rajith Kumar and Krishnamurthy inaugurated the function by Jyothi Prajwalana.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Talking on the occasion the chairman of Andhra Pradesh official languages commission Buddha Prasad said that 2014-15 must be declared as the year of the Telugu Wikipedia and to make the most of it by more exciting activities. Telugu Wikipedia has put in more efforts than governments and universities to the culture of the Telugu language. Many great personalities served Telugu language and culture were remembered in this occasion including Lakshmanrao, Mallampalli.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Telugu Computer: Past, Present, Future of the Convention</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Komarraju Laxmana Rao Visishta Wikipedian award-winner Veeven organised an awareness seminar. Veeven talked about how in 2004, a decade ago, the Internet Telugu writing, and reading had many problems, and how by the year 2014 they got eliminated in the sequence. He also touched upon the future development of the technology used in the Telugu language. He said that Microsoft Office, Libre Office, Adobe In Design, Adobe Photoshop, etc., will be used as the applications in Telugu. Today Telugu is expected to be used in mobile phones, i. Pods, and this justifies the use of Android in Telugu.</p>
<h3>Convention on Wikidata</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Rahmanuddin spoke about wikidata. He explained in detail how linking an article in all languages is the first step and linking diagrams and figures is the second step and showed participants that in the third stage classification is included. He explained it with examples of the mango tree and the word 'mother'. After this he showed how the link the particular article to the word. Thereafter he spoke about the app developed by Tamil students to link a particular word to the article and urged that people should start using these apps early on in their life as then only development in this field would be possible.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Experiences of Other Language Wikipedians</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Some Tamilians shared their experience in developing Tamil wiki. They said that government and other organisations have helped a lot in developing Tamil wiki. Government organisations helped a lot in filing data in digital form. Many educational institutions have take part in this project. Some even proposed that Tamil wiki might be made a part of the education for students. They said that they shared this info about Tamil wiki to various friends and organisations.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Odia wikipedian Mrutunjay said that they attached the voice app feature to help with pronounciation. They attached the Odiya files to English words so that it will be useful for easy search. He also mentioned that there is a lack of creative writers in Odisha and that they are trying to overcome this problem.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Malayalam wikipedian K.Manoj said that from wikisource Malayalam remains the topmost Indian language for obtaining various data from a specific language. He said that over 200 books and 800 articles were included in the Malayalam wiki. They organised the structure in such a way that students will be able to use it from a very early age. These books in wikisource were used by many students.Konkani wiki. Darsan said that in 2007 they started the Konkani wiki. Goa students made a significant contribution to the development of this project. They uploaded 290 articles till now and they are trying to digitalise konkani wiki and other projects to help them develop.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Making a substantial contribution to the Telugu Wikipedia Nisar Ahmed also spoke about the developments in Urdu Wikipedia. He came to share his experience with others. He said that Urdu language was born in India and in the globalized Urdu wikipedia there are only 2 or 3 Urdu wikipedians from India. He also spoke of the experiences of an article on national anthem and about the views of the Pakistani community.He further discussed about the difficulties in work caused by different countries, the available options and how to solve those problems and gain experiences.</p>
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<p>More pictures of the event can be found <a class="external-link" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Tewiki_10">here</a>.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/tewiki-10-anniversary'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/tewiki-10-anniversary</a>
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No publisherrahimAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaTelugu WikipediaOpenness2014-03-19T11:01:01ZBlog EntryTelugu Wikipedia completes 10 years
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/dna-december-16-2013-rahmanuddin-shaikh-telugu-wikipedia-completes-10-years
<b>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. </b>
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<p>The article by <i>Rahmanuddin Shaikh </i>was<a class="external-link" href="http://www.dnaindia.com/blogs/post-telugu-wikipedia-completes-10-years-1932667"> published by DNA</a> on December 16, 2013. It was <i>edited by Rohini Lakshané.</i></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">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. One such session, the Te-Wiki Shikshana Shibir was organised at Hyderabad on December 8. It was the fifth Wiki Academy ever held in the city.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The Wiki Academy saw a turnout of around 21 people coming from various teaching backgrounds, right from a professor of Telugu from Osmania University to a teacher at a private school. Teachers, professors, student-teachers, and instructors participated in the event. It has carved the way for organising Te-Wiki Dasabdi (Telugu Wikipedia decennial celebrations) with more enthusiasm.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The Telugu teaching community has affirmed that it would make use of the Telugu Wikipedia in and out of the classroom. Many of the participants have already turned into Wikipedia editors. "A few of the difficulties the Telugu teaching fraternity faces have been solved by the Telugu Wikipedia," said one of the participants hailing from Mysore CIIL. "I've been horrified by the mere touch of keyboard and mouse, this Telugu Wikipedia seems promising to deal with my Computerophobia," said HoD, Telugu Osmania University, Prof S.V. Satyanarayana. The professor also urged the organisers to conduct one such workshop for his students in the coming days.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Resources:</p>
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<li><a class="external-link" href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%A1%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BE:%E0%B0%B6%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B7%E0%B0%A3-%E0%B0%B6%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AC%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%82/%E0%B0%B9%E0%B1%88%E0%B0%A6%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%AC%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A6%E0%B1%8D/%E0%B0%B9%E0%B1%88%E0%B0%A6%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%AC%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A6%E0%B1%8D_5">Event page </a>on Telugu Wikipedia</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%A1%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BE:%E0%B0%B6%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B7%E0%B0%A3-%E0%B0%B6%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AC%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%82/%E0%B0%B9%E0%B1%88%E0%B0%A6%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%AC%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A6%E0%B1%8D/%E0%B0%B9%E0%B1%88%E0%B0%A6%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%AC%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A6%E0%B1%8D_5#.E0.B0.9A.E0.B0.BF.E0.B0.A4.E0.B1.8D.E0.B0.B0.E0.B0.AE.E0.B0.BE.E0.B0.B2.E0.B0.BF.E0.B0.95">Photos</a> of the WikiAcademy</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://blog.wikimedia.in/2013/12/16/10-years-of-telugu-wikipedia/">Cross-posted</a> at Wikimedia India Chapter blog</li>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/dna-december-16-2013-rahmanuddin-shaikh-telugu-wikipedia-completes-10-years'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/dna-december-16-2013-rahmanuddin-shaikh-telugu-wikipedia-completes-10-years</a>
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No publisherrahimAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaTelugu WikipediaOpenness2013-12-31T04:40:40ZBlog EntryWikipedia Training Session @ Tiruvur
https://cis-india.org/news/wikipedia-training-session-tiruvur
<b>A Wikipedia training session was conducted by T. Vishnu Vardhan and Rahmanuddin Shaik at Srivahini College in Tiruvur on December 19, 2013. </b>
<p>About 150 - 200 people attended in each of the two sessions. The event was co-organised by CIS-A2K and the Telugu Wikipedia community.</p>
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<th><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/VishnuAddressingstudents5.png" alt="Vishnu at Tiruvur" class="image-inline" title="Vishnu at Tiruvur" /></th>
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<td>Above: T. Vishnu Vardhan addressing students at the Srivahini college in Tiruvur.</td>
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<p>The following newspapers covered the event on December 19, 2013:</p>
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<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/home-images/AndhraprabhaAwarenessonWikipedia.png" class="internal-link">Awareness on Wikipedia, Andhraprabha</a>, December 19, 2013 </li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/home-images/EEnaduWikipediaHelpsspreadKnowledge.png" class="internal-link">Wikipedia Helps Spread Knowledge</a>, Eenadu, December 19, 2013</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/home-images/SakshiThemanyusesofWikipedia.png" class="internal-link">The Many Uses of Wikipedia</a>, Sakshi, December 19, 2013</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/home-images/PrajasakthiAwarenessonWikipedia.png" class="internal-link">Awareness on Wikipedia</a>, Prajasakthi, December 19, 2013</li>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/news/wikipedia-training-session-tiruvur'>https://cis-india.org/news/wikipedia-training-session-tiruvur</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaTelugu WikipediaOpenness2014-01-09T09:52:42ZNews Item