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Youth is responsible for protecting Telugu
https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/eenadu-telugu-wikipedia-january-14-2016-youth-responsible-for-protecting-telugu
<b>G. Umamaheshwara Rao, head of linguist research at Hyderabad Central university observed that there is every possibility for Telugu to be extinct soon. Its responsibility of youth to protect and preserve the language. And it is Wikipedia which would help in doing so. </b>
<p style="text-align: justify;">A program was arranged to inaugurate Telugu Wkipedia digital resource center at Andhra Loyola College. Others who were present were Dr. Samala Ramesh Babu, Editor Ammanudi magazine, Fr. GAP Kishore, Principal, Rahmanuddin, Program officer, CIS-A2K, Prof B. Sivakumari, Botany dept, N Srinivas, Statistics dept, Kola Sekhara, Telugu dept, Pavan Santhosh, PA, CIS-A2K.A workshop for 40 students (10 each from Botany, Telugu, Physics and Statistics) took place from 11 to 13 January in the college campus.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Scanned version of article published by Eenaudu on January 14, 2016<br /><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/eenadu1412016.jpg" alt="null" class="image-inline" title="Eenadu Article" /></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/eenadu-telugu-wikipedia-january-14-2016-youth-responsible-for-protecting-telugu'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/eenadu-telugu-wikipedia-january-14-2016-youth-responsible-for-protecting-telugu</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KTelugu WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-02-05T20:49:00ZNews ItemWorks 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 ItemWikiSangamotsavam 2016
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikisangamotsavam-2016
<b>The Malayalam Wikipedia community jointly held its anniversary celebrations and annual gathering in Kasaragod district, Kerala from 26 to 28 December, 2016. The Centre for Internet and Society was invited to partake in the event.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-85891707-6de5-4c20-912b-1f4bcd542741">The <a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%A7%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%A8_%E0%B4%A4%E0%B4%BE%E0%B5%BE">Malayalam Wikipedia</a> community held its fifth annual gathering, <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiSangamotsavam-2016">WikiSangamotsavam</a>, in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasaragod_district">Kasaragod</a>, the northernmost district of the state of Kerala. The culturally diverse district is a melting pot of seven actively spoken languages- Malayalam, Kannada, Tulu, the Beary dialect, Tamil, Marathi and Konkani. It was a three day affair from the 26th to 28th December 2016, with the third day’s WikiVoyage incubator session fittingly held on a houseboat out in the Bekal lake! The event commemorated the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malayalam_Wikipedia">regional Wikipedia’s</a> completion of 14 years which fell on the 21st of the month. The community aims to build advanced technical support for its members in the next year. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">The first day was marked by a seminar by Mr. Sathyaseelan, a differently abled Wikipedian who demonstrated(video from previous meetup <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gr1T3HeBTvU">here</a>) how to convert voice to text using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) methods for visually challenged Wikipedians. This was followed by a session on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap">Open Street Mapping</a> by the newly elected Malayalam Wikipedia administrator <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ranjithsiji">Ranjith Siji</a>. In a one-on-one sit down, Ranjit candidly spoke about the technical challenges that the Malayalam Wikipedia and the wider Wikipedia community faces today. He opines that the existing mobile support for editing wikis is proving insufficient and more robust apps need to be developed to make Wikipedia more mobile ready for on-the-go editors. He’s taking this up as his personal mission for the upcoming year. In light of using freely reusable data, Ranjit says, “collaborative editing must also be enabled as groups can work together to improve local knowledge.”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">The second day began with a formal opening ceremony by P. Karunakaran, Member of Parliament for the Kasaragod constituency. He spoke on the importance of furthering the cause of knowledge in India’s most literate state. Then, the Malayalam Wikipedia community sat down for a transparent round table discussion on progress made and targets to be set for 2017. The community noted the success of programs and activities like Ente Gramam (which encouraged members to detail information regarding their village/ ancestral village), Olympics month, Wikipedia Asian Month, Wiki 100 Days, etc. The <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/thiruvananthapuram/Malayalam-Wikipedia-leaps-forward-with-100-day-challenge/articleshow/55171206.cms">Wiki 100 Days</a> in particular led to the creation of close to 80 articles a day in Malayalam Wikipedia. The number of articles also saw a surge post the <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016">Wiki Conference India 2016</a> held in Punjab. The discussion mulled on the aspects that need to be improved upon such as selected articles and selected photos on the Main Page which see unenthusiastic voting numbers amongst the community members. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Manojk">Manoj K</a>, an active community member, proposed the strategy of targeting groups of editors(old/new) with niche knowledge of a specific subject or focus area. He related his own experience in this regard: “I’m part of many bird watching and environmental clubs and I talk to them about Wikipedia so that they can use their knowledge about conservation or birds to edit or create those specific wikis.” He also identified challenges that were administrative in nature. “When offline events increase, online participation tends to decrease due to the leg work involved”, he observes. In addition, he feels grant writing and documentation training would also benefit the community. He added that religious vandalism of articles on monuments by fringe groups is also an issue faced by the community.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Anilankv">Anil Kumar</a>, another long time Wikipedian, spoke of the general increase in awareness regarding editing Wikipedia in smaller towns and districts in Kerala. He pointed out that reviving <a href="http://schoolwiki.in/">School Wiki</a> would further increase awareness and, subsequently, participation. The Kerala government’s <a href="https://www.itschool.gov.in/">IT@School project</a> is now leading the efforts behind reviving School Wiki which aims to document (in Malayalam) details of all the schools in the state. <a href="https://itschool.gov.in/ictschoolscheme.php">K. Anvar Sadat</a>, the Executive Director of IT@School spoke to the Malayalam Wikipedia community in a video message enumerating the benefits of a detailed statewide school database. The community also aims to complete their target of 50, 000 Wikipedia articles by the end of the year. The second day came to a close with a seminar on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangalamkali">mangalamkali</a>, a local folk dance in the district by Master Ramachandran.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">Ranjit Siji further outlined the agenda for 2017 saying that data scraping of public records onto Wikipedia and a tool to maintain edit-a-thons will be a key focus for the community this year. He said, “when data can flow from public record to a wiki, it makes editing much easier and accessible even for new editors.”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">When asked Manoj added that the community plans to conduct more online and offline events for community bonding. He said, “monthly meetings and edit-a-thons will keep the community active.” 2017 will also see Wikipedians in the community being rewarded through recognition of their pioneering efforts, he said. However, he emphasised the need for public and social media branding of future events. The final day of the annual gathering was held on a houseboat in Nileshwar. Wikipedian <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Karikkan">Sajal Karikkan</a> gave a presentation on the <a href="https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wy/ml">Malayalam WikiVoyage project</a>, still in incubation, where users could provide travel guidance about areas they are most familiar with. It was enthusiastically received by the community members. While the event was timed between Christmas and New Year, it did see some enthusiastic participation. However, the community did lack significant participation of women to bridge the gender divide(see chart below). <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User%3AChiyami">Smitha</a>, a long time Wikipedian and oceanographer feels that working women find it harder. She says, “they simply don’t have the time with their work and family commitments.” With the community planning to create mobile apps for editing in Malayalam, this could be sufficiently addressed through focused efforts to involve more women.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr"><img title="Points scored" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/ykAf-b3MJ02tTrygahbQBCL7WPFNPuhimwqbzI04iYZklPxtt21J856SNaS0bkz51ZgJWU5BYDTXM3wxD0NcwCasNw8chXk1o7pUAin1g2yqDox8mSAYaC6E2l14xdwqJCIkcLc" alt="null" height="317" width="512" /></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr"><img title="Points scored" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/cHVQSOPZcNvt7BznXD-eaCy0dspur6ZP862K23ujbmhPTOP6myXZKPUATzUWi86_EPNE4uCJ3ccLJDoa2bNeZwUGXxQNnlGfIH-YSroK2eU2sEZTQeStJBFrf3nAS9-jJVEH7Dw" alt="null" height="317" width="512" /></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikisangamotsavam-2016'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikisangamotsavam-2016</a>
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No publishermanasa@cis-india.orgCIS-A2KTelugu WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2017-02-06T12:47:54ZBlog EntryWikipedian Pavan Santhosh says Telugu Wikipedians are creating Knowledge revolution (in Telugu)
https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/andhra-jyoti-december-12-2016-telugu-wikipedians-are-creating-knowledge-revolution
<b>Pavan Santhosh said that Telugu Wikipedians are creating a knowledge revolution in Telugu. On Sunday, December 12, 2016, in Golden Threshold, Abids, Telugu Wikipedians celebrated Telugu Wikipedia day. Telugu Wikipedians Pranay Raj and Meena Gayathri who successfully completed 100 Wikidays challenge successfully were given mementos and cut a cake on this occassion.
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<p>Clipping of the article that appeared in Andhra Jyoti on December 12, 2016:<br /><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/AndhraJyothi12thDec.jpg/@@images/9a570cf6-a8b7-4717-89cb-a331525cab3d.jpeg" alt="Andhra Jyoti" class="image-inline" title="Andhra Jyoti" /></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/andhra-jyoti-december-12-2016-telugu-wikipedians-are-creating-knowledge-revolution'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/andhra-jyoti-december-12-2016-telugu-wikipedians-are-creating-knowledge-revolution</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KTelugu WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-12-17T01:35:04ZNews ItemWikipedia 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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<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 ItemWikipedia reaches Classrooms in Hyderabad
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wikipedia-classrooms-hyderabad
<b>The Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Hyderabad organised a one-day workshop on editing Wikipedia in Indian languages. It was attended by participants who formed a small but proactive group of students who eagerly tried to register the first edits on four different Indian language wikipedias.</b>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; "><b>A Mela for a Mélange of Learners</b></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">As a run-up to the TISS Indian Languages Mela (scheduled for September 20 – 21, 2013), the Centre for Indian Languages in Higher Education on August 24 conducted a workshop in Hyderabad. CIS-A2K in collaboration with the Wikipedia Hyderabad community had organized this workshop. The objective of the workshop was to inform and educate students on creating articles in any of the Indian languages on Wikipedia. Participants were encouraged to edit in Telugu, Malayalam, Hindi, and Marathi, Kannada or any other language of their choice.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; "><b>A Weekend for the Cause of Knowledge</b></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">A total of 20 participants came over for the weekend workshop. Nine participants had Malayalam as their native language. Five people had Telugu as their mother tongue. Four participants were Maharashtrians, and the remaining two were Kannadigas.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; "><b>Two Sessions</b></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The workshop was divided in two sessions. In the introductory session, participants were introduced to Wikipedia and its unique nature as an editable online encyclopaedia. Participants learnt about adding, modifying and deleting content on the Wikipedia, the various styles of formatting the content including creation of the heading level, sub-headings, etc. In the hands-on-session the participants were exposed to a hands-on practice about the editing features of Wikipedia, Wikimedia syntax, quality articles, new article creation, and Wikipedia’s transliteration tools for Indian languages.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; "><b>End of the Day Gains</b></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The students got a first-hand exposure to Indian languages wiki editing. Many students were thrilled at the novelty of the universal licensing system application and how it could switch between English and Indian languages. The use of shift key and multiple keys for certain consonants, diphthongs and special characters were particularly quite exciting for students. Students were eager to explore more about creating headings, sub-headings, bold, italics, underlining, bullet formats on Wikipedia. They also tested the online appearance of the Wikipedia code.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The participants were all thrilled on attending this workshop. Anand Kumar said that he was happy to get exposure about Wikipedia. Manomi Nair said that she was glad to be part of this workshop. Haseeb said it was very educative, and finally to sum up in the words of Dheeraj Kumar, an enthusiastic participant from the workshop, “this was an exciting way to explore a new world of knowledge.”</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wikipedia-classrooms-hyderabad'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wikipedia-classrooms-hyderabad</a>
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No publishersyedAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaTelugu WikipediaOpenness2013-09-20T07:20:54ZBlog EntryWikipedia is a Newspaper
https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/namaste-telangana-december-11-2016-wikipedia-is-a-newspaper
<b>Coverage about Mini MWT and TTT first day. News item also explains about Telugu Wikipedia and its growth. Mentioned some of the participants and organizers Pranay, Katta Srinivasa Rao, Kasyap, etc.</b>
<p>Clipping of the article as it appeared in Namaste Telangana on December 11, 2016:</p>
<p><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/NamasteTelangana11thDec.jpg/@@images/8bd4be5c-67be-496d-bbab-d7fea4d2ad39.jpeg" alt="Namaste Telangana" class="image-inline" title="Namaste Telangana" /></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/namaste-telangana-december-11-2016-wikipedia-is-a-newspaper'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/namaste-telangana-december-11-2016-wikipedia-is-a-newspaper</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaTelugu WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-12-17T01:27:21ZNews ItemWikipedia Digital Centre now at Andhra Loyola College
https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/the-hans-india-january-14-2016-wikipedia-digital-centre-now-at-andhra-loyola-college
<b>Access to Knowledge programme (CIS-A2K) of the Centre for Internet and Society has opened up a Wikipedia Digital Centre at Andhra Loyola College in the city on Wednesday. The centre, which has trained a couple of students in contributing to Wikipedia earlier, has now set up a lab called ‘Wikipedia Digital Centre’ to continue the activity. </b>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Under the programme, organisers of Access to Knowledge train the students from each department such as botany, statistics, physics and Telugu to become Wikimedians so that they offer content in Telugu and other regional languages.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">A two-day-long programme trained nearly 40 students from the college to enable them update the information. The students, as a part of training would work on their respective subjects in languages and will update their works on articles in Wikipedia.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The lab is equipped with 10 computers and will be managed by Andhra Loyola College and CIS together, said one of the organisers Rahmanuddin Shaik. College management and respective faculty were present during the programme.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Read the article published by Hans India on January 14, 2016 <a class="external-link" href="http://www.thehansindia.com/posts/index/Andhra-Pradesh/2016-01-14/Wikipedia-Digital-Centre-now-at-Andhra-Loyola-College/200163">here</a>.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/the-hans-india-january-14-2016-wikipedia-digital-centre-now-at-andhra-loyola-college'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/the-hans-india-january-14-2016-wikipedia-digital-centre-now-at-andhra-loyola-college</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KTelugu WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-02-05T20:49:22ZNews 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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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/news/sakshi-december-31-2014-wiki-winter-camp'>https://cis-india.org/openness/news/sakshi-december-31-2014-wiki-winter-camp</a>
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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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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/news/eenadu-december-31-wiki-winter-camp'>https://cis-india.org/openness/news/eenadu-december-31-wiki-winter-camp</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaOpennessTelugu WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2015-01-01T17:17:42ZNews ItemWiki Loves Mayabazaar
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wiki-loves-mayabazaar
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<div>On the 60th anniversary of the movie Mayabazar, Telugu Wikimedians celebrated <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Mayabazar">Wiki Loves Mayabazar</a>, an event to commemorate the cult Telugu film <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayabazar" target="_blank">Mayabazar.</a> As part of the celebrations, an edit-a-thon of the same name was held at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravindra_Bharathi" target="_blank">Ravindra Bharathi in Hyderabad. </a>Interestingly, the Cultural Department of Telangana Government sponsored the entire event. <br /><br />In
the Telugu speaking regions, there is a well-known appreciation of the
cinematic arts. Mayabazar, released in 1957 captured the imagination of
fans like no other film had before. Telugu Wikipedians decided to pay
tribute to the movie by improving articles and content related to it on
Telugu Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects.</div>
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edit-a-thon was held on 30 April, 2017 at the monthly Wikimitra Vedika
meetup of Telugu Wikipedians. A screening of the film took place
followed by discussions on references, citations, film studies and
articles related to the film. From 1 May 2017, the edit-a-thon took
place online. <br /><br />There were 15 participants of which only one member was female. Telugu Wikipedian, Kasyap hoped for more participation as this "is an interesting event."</div>
<p>However, the event was made popular by the wide ranging media coverage in print and electronic media.</p>
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<p>Media pieces on the event:</p>
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1. <span id="gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT147_com_zimbra_date" class="gmail-Object"></span><span id="gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT148_com_zimbra_url" class="gmail-Object"><a href="http://www.eenadu.net/andhra-pradesh-news-inner.aspx?category=home&item=%20ap-story6" target="_blank">‘మాయాబజార్’కు వినూత్న షష్టిపూర్తి</a></span>
<p> (Eenadu Newspaper; 1 May, 2017)</p>
2.‘మాయాబజార్’కు 60 ఏళ్లు.. వినూత్న షష్టిపూర్తి వేడుకకు సిద్ధమవుతున్న వికీపీడియన్లు! (Ap7am.com; 1 May 2017)Wiki Loves Mayabazaar
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wiki-loves-mayabazaar'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wiki-loves-mayabazaar</a>
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No publisherPavan SanthoshCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaTelugu WikipediaOpenness2017-06-07T09:24:35ZBlog EntryTools orientation session for Telugu Wikimedians of Hyderabad
https://cis-india.org/openness/events/tools-orientation-session-for-telugu-wikimedians-of-hyderabad
<b>A tools orientation session is being organised on July 10 at Hyderabad during the regular monthly meetup. Telugu Wikimedians who would be interested to learn about advanced editing tools like citation templates and Twinkle are welcome to join.</b>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/events/tools-orientation-session-for-telugu-wikimedians-of-hyderabad'>https://cis-india.org/openness/events/tools-orientation-session-for-telugu-wikimedians-of-hyderabad</a>
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No publisherPavan Santhosh S.CIS-A2KWikipediaTelugu WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-08-17T14:35:54ZEventTools orientation for Telugu Wikimedians of Hyderabad
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/tools-orientation-for-telugu-wikimedians-at-hyderabad
<b>To help Wikimedians learn about essential tools that are used across Wikimedia projects, a tools orientation session was organised during the monthly meetup on July 10 at Hyderabad.</b>
Six Telugu Wikimedians; Murali Mohan, Pranayraj Vangari, Rajasekhar, Gullapalli Nageswara Rao, Santhosh Panjala and Sravani participated in this session. CIS-A2K member Pavan Santhosh facilitated this event. The major discussions were around <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_templates">Wikipedia citation templates</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Twinkle">Twinkle.</a>
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“After the training, I have started using the citation templates in a series of articles about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avadhanam">Avadhanam,</a>
<p> a literary performance in ancient India and I will use more in coming days. I have also suggedted for creating a thorough documentation about citation templates so that more Wikimedians could find them online” shares Murali Mohan, one of the participants.</p>
<p>Long time Wikimedian <a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rajasekhar1961">Rajasekhar</a> shares, “I am yet to use everything I learnt from this session. I wish I could have learnt these tools much. I also have shared the idea of connecting experienced Wikimedians with those who want to learn using fast online platforms. These could be using social-media based chat clients like WhatsApp or Facebook messenger or anything of that kind that many would otherwise use in life. This will also reduce the pain of the trainers to travel.” “Most tools, gadgets and extensions are available in English and many are not available in Telugu Wikipedia even though they are useful. It would be useful to have more sessions for us to know which of these these could be useful for us to use”, he adds.</p>
<p>More details about the event could be read <a href="https://goo.gl/QP2Lq1">here</a> in the event page.</p>
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No publisherPavan Santhosh STelugu WikisourceCIS-A2KTelugu WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-08-17T14:58:57ZBlog EntryTewiki 10th Anniversary
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<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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No publisherrahimAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaTelugu WikipediaOpenness2014-03-19T11:01:01ZBlog EntryTen Telugu Books Re-released Under CC-BY-SA 3.0 License
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<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: center; "><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/DSC06789.resized.JPG" title="Signed Agreement" height="459" width="614" alt="Signed Agreement" class="image-inline" /></p>
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<td style="text-align: center; ">Above: Prabodhananda handing over the signed agreement to Vishnu Vardhan (by Rahmanuddin Shaik, CC-BY-SA 3.0 License)</td>
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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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<th><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/DSC06849.resized.JPG" alt="Certificate CC-BY-3.0 License" class="image-inline" title="Certificate CC-BY-3.0 License" /></th>
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