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Telugu Wikipedia Stall at Rajahmundry Book Fair
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/telugu-wikipedia-stall-at-rajahmundry-book-fair-1
<b>Telugu Wikipedia community put up a stall at the three day Rajahmundry Book Fair from 20 - 23 November 2016. </b>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The initi<span class="highlightedSearchTerm">at</span>ive was supported by <a href="http://cis-india.org/">The Centre for Internet and Society </a>and <a href="http://ntrtrust.org/">NTR Trust</a>. The <span class="highlightedSearchTerm">stall</span> was run by long time community advoc<span class="highlightedSearchTerm">at</span>es and editors of <span class="highlightedSearchTerm">Telugu</span> <span class="highlightedSearchTerm">Wikipedia</span>. The volunteers distributed pamphlets and explained to the visitors the basics of editing <span class="highlightedSearchTerm">Wikipedia</span>. They distributed a survey to understand current topics of interest in order to upd<span class="highlightedSearchTerm">at</span>e the <span class="highlightedSearchTerm">Telugu</span> wiki pages. Some visitors utilized the expertise of the volunteers and set up <span class="highlightedSearchTerm">Wikipedia</span> accounts <span class="highlightedSearchTerm">at</span> the <span class="highlightedSearchTerm">stall</span>s.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The <span class="highlightedSearchTerm">book</span> <span class="highlightedSearchTerm">fair</span> in the river side city didn’t see many takers this time round considering the move to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Indian_banknote_demonetisation">demonetise</a> was announced the previous week. The organizers had not made altern<span class="highlightedSearchTerm">at</span>ive payment arrangements <span class="highlightedSearchTerm">at</span> such short notice. Volunteer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Pranayraj1985">Pranay Raj</a> said, “although there were uncontrollable factors <span class="highlightedSearchTerm">at</span> play, the city has gre<span class="highlightedSearchTerm">at</span> potential and <span class="highlightedSearchTerm">Telugu</span> <span class="highlightedSearchTerm">Wikipedia</span> plans to expand its editor base in the city through institutional partnerships from schools and colleges.”</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/telugu-wikipedia-stall-at-rajahmundry-book-fair-1'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/telugu-wikipedia-stall-at-rajahmundry-book-fair-1</a>
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No publishermanasa@cis-india.orgCIS-A2KTelugu WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2017-02-06T12:48:36ZBlog EntryTelugu Wikipedia Stall at Hyderabad Book Fair
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/telugu-wikipedia-stall-at-hyderabad-book-fair
<b>Telugu Wikipedia community put up a stall at the Hyderabad Book Fair in December welcoming members of the public to join as editors on the regional encyclopaedia. </b>
<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">The <a href="https://te.wikipedia.org">Telugu Wikipedia</a> community put up a stall at the 30th edition of the Hyderabad Book Fair from 15th to 26th December, 2016 at the NTR Stadium. Supported by <a href="http://cis-india.org/">The Centre for Internet and Society</a>, the volunteers were long time Telugu Wikipedia community members. They helped visitors <a href="http://www.wikihow.com/Create-a-Wikipedia-Account">set up Wikipedia accounts</a> and become editors on the free access encyclopedia. They also spoke to the visitors and explained how Wikipedia works and the collaborative efforts undertaken by various language communities in maintaining the regional language wiki pages. Additionally, a survey was conducted to find out what topics of interest are currently trending among the public. The Telugu Wikipedia community aims to take this feedback into consideration in order to update the topics they frequently edit.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">Some visitors seemed interested in attending upcoming Wikipedia events and workshops. The organisers welcomed interested members of the public to attend the Hyderabad Wikipedia Monthly meetup on 22nd January, 2017.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/telugu-wikipedia-stall-at-hyderabad-book-fair'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/telugu-wikipedia-stall-at-hyderabad-book-fair</a>
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No publishermanasa@cis-india.orgCIS-A2KTelugu WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2017-02-06T12:48:09ZBlog EntryTelugu Wikipedia Education Program at Andhra Loyola College, Vijayawada
https://cis-india.org/openness/events/telugu-wikipedia-education-program-at-andhra-loyola-college-vijayawada
<b>In collaboration with Andhra Loyola College (ALC), Vijayawada, Access to Knowledge programme (CIS-A2K) of the Centre for Internet and Society is opening up a Wikipedia Digital Centre in the college so that students and local Wikimedians could grow Wikipedia and other Wikimedia content in Telugu and other Indian languages. To begin with this, a two-day long Wikipedia Education Program is also being initiated which will continue to grow further by expanding local content on Wikipedia.</b>
<p>As part of this two-day programme 40 undergraduate students (10 each from Botany, Statistics,
Physics and Telugu) will be taking part and will be creating articles in their respective subjects in four languages; Telugu, Hindi, Malayalam and Tamil.</p>
<p>On the 13th a Wikipedia Digital Centre will be opened at ALC. G Umamaheswara Rao of Centre for Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies (CALTS) lab, University of Hyderabad will be joining as the chief guest. This lab will have 10 computers and will be jointly managed by the CIS and ALC where the student-Wikipedians and the local Wikimedia community could conduct regular Wikipedia outreach programmes. Joining in this event are principal of the institution Fr. Kishore, Professsor
Sivakumari from Department of Botany, Professor Sahayabaskaran, Department of Physics, and Professor
Kola Sekhar, Department of Telugu. On behalf of CIS-A2K, Rahmanuddin Shaik and Pavan Santosh will be participating and facilitating the Wikipedia Education Program and the inauguration of the lab.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/events/telugu-wikipedia-education-program-at-andhra-loyola-college-vijayawada'>https://cis-india.org/openness/events/telugu-wikipedia-education-program-at-andhra-loyola-college-vijayawada</a>
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No publisherPavan SantoshCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeMalayalam WikipediaTelugu WikipediaHindi Wikipedia2016-01-13T07:51:13ZEventTelugu Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at ALC
https://cis-india.org/openness/news/telugu-wiki-edit-a-thon-at-alc
<b>The Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team conducted an edit-a-thon at Andhra Loyola College on August 6, 2015. Eenadu published a report.</b>
<p><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/eenadunews.png" alt="null" class="image-inline" title="Eenadu" /></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/news/telugu-wiki-edit-a-thon-at-alc'>https://cis-india.org/openness/news/telugu-wiki-edit-a-thon-at-alc</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaTelugu WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-06-18T18:11:50ZNews ItemTelugu Wikipedia Day 2015: Eenadu Coverage
https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/telugu-wikipedia-day-2015-eenadu-coverage
<b>Telugu Wikipedians conducted history photowalk in Dr. YSR state archaeological museum to celebrate Telugu Wikipedia Day 2015 on December 13, 2015. Pavan Santosh supported the community as a representative from CIS-A2K</b>
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<p>Below is the media coverage of the event published by leading newspaper Eenadu (Hyderabad edition) on December 13, 2015.</p>
<p><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/Eenadu.jpg/@@images/a1d4f1b7-078d-44f5-b38e-083e80049f4b.jpeg" alt="null" class="image-inline" title="Eenadu Coverage" /></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/telugu-wikipedia-day-2015-eenadu-coverage'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/telugu-wikipedia-day-2015-eenadu-coverage</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KTelugu WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-01-05T06:33:51ZNews ItemTelugu Wikipedia Day 2015, Photo Walk
https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/telugu-wikipedia-day-2015-photo-walk
<b>On December 13, 2015, Telugu Wikipedians conducted a historical photowalk in Dr.YSR state archeological museum to celebrate Telugu Wikipedia Day 2015. Pavan Santhosh attended the event as a CIS-A2K representative and facilitated media coverage for the programme.</b>
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<p>One of the popular telugu news channel TV9 covered the event and telecasted the same. Eenadu published a special item on photowalk on December 13, 2015.</p>
<p><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/eenaduspecialitemonphotowalk13dec15.jpg" alt="null" class="image-inline" title="Eenadu Special" /></p>
<p>Andhra Jyoti published an article on photowalk on December 18:</p>
<p><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/andhrajyothionphotowalk.jpg" alt="null" class="image-inline" title="Andhra Jyoti Photowalk" /></p>
<p>Eenadu news report on photowalk on December 18:</p>
<p><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/eenadunewsreportonphotowalk.jpg" alt="null" class="image-inline" title="Eenadu news report" /></p>
<p>Namaste Telangana on Photowalk on December 18:</p>
<p><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/namastetelanganaonphotowalk.jpg" alt="null" class="image-inline" title="Namaste Telangana" /></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/telugu-wikipedia-day-2015-photo-walk'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/telugu-wikipedia-day-2015-photo-walk</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KTelugu WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-01-05T06:27:08ZNews ItemTelugu 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 EntryTelugu 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 WikipediaEvent2014-04-15T11:13:00ZEventTelugu Wikimedia Hackathon 2014
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/telugu-wikimedia-hackathon-2014
<b>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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<p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-4253b969-7456-2df0-c705-f7e4b07c5b18" style="text-align: justify; ">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.</p>
<p align="center" dir="ltr"><img src="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/Telugu_Wikimedia_Hackathon__2014_40.jpg/image_preview" alt="Participants at Tewiki hackathon 2014" class="image-inline image-inline" title="Participants at Tewiki hackathon 2014" /></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; ">This one day workshop was organized at Golden Threshold, Hyderabad. 25 Telugu Wikimedia community members participated in this workshop. In the Hackathon, there were knowledge transferring sessions on various MediaWiki related technicalities and the participants got an opportunity to engage and communicate with each other and some of the MediaWiki expert users. Advanced MediaWiki users Rahmanuddin Shaik, Veeven and Kasyap were the speakers who gave short but eloquent speeches.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Discussion topics of this Hackathon event included:</p>
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<li>Understanding of MediaWiki software</li>
<li>Basic understanding of MediaWiki extensions</li>
<li>Typing Telugu in English keyboard</li>
<li>Creating, using and managing templates</li>
<li>Adding and managing references, reference formats, tables, images, audios and videos following Wikipedia format</li>
<li>Using Wikidata</li>
<li>Categorization process</li>
<li>Geo-tagging</li>
</ul>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; ">Some of these topics are comparatively more difficult than others. Wikidata is an addition to the Wikimedia projects that replaced Interwiki linking procedure.Typing Telugu in an English keyboard has been confusing to some users too. Using, specially creating and managing templates, categories, infoboxes, scripts require some training. In this workshop CIS-A2K attempted to teach and discuss all these topics. There was a doubt-clearing session as well, where participants were allowed to ask their questions and discuss their doubts.</p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; ">CIS-A2K believes that the participants were benefited from this workshop and they will use and apply their learnings in editing and improving Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><b>See also</b></p>
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<li><a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/వికీపీడియా:తెలుగు_వికీమీడియా_హాకథాన్_-_2014">Official event page</a> (in Telugu)</li>
<li><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Telugu_Wikimedia_Hackathon_-_2014">Free images and media related to Hackathon 2014</a> (Wikimedia Commons)</li>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/telugu-wikimedia-hackathon-2014'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/telugu-wikimedia-hackathon-2014</a>
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No publisherrahimOpennessTelugu WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2015-02-10T17:17:03ZBlog EntryTelugu Wiki Edit-a-thon in ALC
https://cis-india.org/openness/news/telugu-wiki-editathon-alc
<b>The Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team along with Telugu Wikipedia had conducted an edit-a-thon at Andhra Loyola College on August 6, 2015. Eenadu published a report on the edit-a-thon.</b>
<p><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/eenadunews.jpg" alt="null" class="image-inline" title="Eenadu" /></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/news/telugu-wiki-editathon-alc'>https://cis-india.org/openness/news/telugu-wiki-editathon-alc</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaTelugu WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-06-18T18:12:06ZNews ItemTelugu Wiki Academy at Centre for Good Governance
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/telugu-wiki-academy-at-centre-for-good-governance
<b>An account of the Telugu Wiki Academy organized for the staff of Centre for Good Governance, Hyderabad on April 9, 2013 at their Jubilee Hills premises.</b>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">This was planned as a pre-event to <i>Telugu Wiki Mahotsavam 2013</i>. Senior Wikipedian and administrator on <a class="external-link" href="http://te.wikipedia.org">Telugu Wikipedia</a>, <a class="external-link" href="http://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF:Arjunaraoc">Arjuna Rao Chavala</a> had built a useful contact with a staff at <a class="external-link" href="http://www.cgg.gov.in/">Centre for Good Governance (CGG)</a>, Hyderabad. Once Arjuna had planned to come for the Telugu Wiki Mahotsavam, he touch based with CGG and explored the possibility of organizing a Wiki Academy for their staff in Hyderabad. CGG primarily works with government departments and other stakeholders on issues of governance, identifying solutions, help government in developing actionable plans and support the implementation of these plans. CGG has majorly worked as a think tank for the government of Andhra Pradesh, since its inception and has also worked with other state governments in India and brings together the power of knowledge, technology and people. Arjuna, <a class="external-link" href="http://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF:%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%B9%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%AE%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A8%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%A6%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%A6%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%A8%E0%B1%8D">Rahmanuddin Shaik </a>(Telugu SIG Chair) and <a class="external-link" href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Visdaviva">T. Vishnu Vardhan</a> (from <a class="external-link" href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge">CIS-A2K</a>) undertook this Academy and another Wikipedian <a class="external-link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Pavithrans">Pavithran</a> joined the event</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Karthik Subramanian, Programme Officer at CGG had organized for meeting with the Assistant Director of the CGG. During the meeting with the Assistant Director, we explained to him about the many possibilities of using Wikipedia as an open knowledge and information platform in Indian languages and how even CGG can put up its work on it to share with larger public. He raised questions about the authenticity of information on Wikipedia and the wiki model was explained to him. Following this, the Wiki Academy began with 20 participants. The Academy was mainly lead by Arjuna and Rahmanuddin.</p>
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<th><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/WorkshopinProgress.png" alt="null" class="image-inline" title="Workshop in Progress" /></th>
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<td>Workshop in progress. Interactions with staff of CGG on their queries pertaining to Telugu Wikipedia.</td>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">As many people did not turn up with laptops it was not possible for all the participants to practically use Wikipedia. Rahmanuddin helped various participants in creating User names on Wikipedia. Simultaneously during the hands-on session a discussion on various aspects of Wikipedia was held with some of the participants, who were senior retired officers from the Government of Andhra Pradesh. This was anchored by Arjuna and Vishnu. Other than the usual questions of how to ensure authenticity of contributions and vandalism to articles, the group offered suggestions on collaborating with various government departments in putting out relevant information on various aspects on Telugu Wikipedia.</p>
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<th><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/TeleguWikipedia3.png" alt="null" class="image-inline" title="Meeting with Director General of CCG" /></th>
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<td>Director General of CGG being presented with Telugu Wiki Mahotsavam T-Shirt by Arjuna Rao, T. Vishnu Vardhan and Rahmanuddin Shaik</td>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Further, a meeting was held with the Director General of CGG Mr. Sinha (see image above), who offered help in getting media held by the Department of Information and Public Relations, Andhra Pradesh in public domain and on Wiki Commons. Before concluding the Wiki Academy Telugu Wiki Mahotsavam T-shirt was presented to the Director General and Kartik Subramanain for hosting the Academy at CGG at such a short notice.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/telugu-wiki-academy-at-centre-for-good-governance'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/telugu-wiki-academy-at-centre-for-good-governance</a>
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No publishervishnuOpennessWikipediaTelugu WikipediaWikimedia2013-08-19T06:49:36ZBlog EntryTallapaka Pada Sahityam is now on Wikisource
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/tallapaka-pada-sahityam-is-now-on-wikisource
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Tallapaka Pada Sahityam, a
compilation of over fourteen thousand Telugu compositions is now
available on Wikisource. Tallapaka Annamacharya was a 15th-century
Hindu saint and composer who was renowned for singing in praise of
Lord Venkateswara. The Tallapaka lineage began with him, giving rise
to many bards in the Telugu language from the family. The Tallapaka
Pada Sahityam is a compilation of three generations of Tallapaka
poets: Tallapaka Annamacharya,
Tallapaka Peda Tirumalacharya, and Tallapaka China
Tirumalacharya. This compilation, published by Annamayya Library,
Guntur has been uploaded by the library on Wikisource as part of
their efforts to digitize the library archives. These lyrical works,
dealing with a variety of themes, are of immense literary and
cultural significance to Telugu speakers the world over.</p>
<p>Owing to the large
size of the file donated by the library, the works need to be
separated into 29 volumes. These separated files would be uploaded
and indexed on Commons as well. A Unicode version of the work needs
to be published and proofread in addition to their print version.
Telugu Wikimedians are also exploring the possiblity of re-licensing
recitations of the poems by literary connoisseurs. On 9 June, an orientation of these activities was conducted for long time Telugu Wikipedia, <a title="te:user:శ్రీరామమూర్తి" class="extiw" href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:%E0%B0%B6%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%AE%E0%B0%AE%E0%B1%82%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%A4%E0%B0%BF">te:user:శ్రీరామమూర్తి</a>, who has begun publishing Unicode text and proof-reading on Telugu Wikisource.</p>
<p>The link to the work
is here:</p>
<p><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4a/Tallapaka_pada_sahityam.pdf">https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4a/Tallapaka_pada_sahityam.pdf</a></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/tallapaka-pada-sahityam-is-now-on-wikisource'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/tallapaka-pada-sahityam-is-now-on-wikisource</a>
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No publisherPavan SanthoshTelugu WikisourceCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaTelugu WikipediaOpenness2017-07-10T13:44:41ZBlog EntryStats for March 2016
https://cis-india.org/openness/stats-for-march-2016
<b>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.</b>
<p>We generate stats for each of our focus language area month on month, and it has been used for designing and modifying our strategies from time to time. Though these stats were never published publicly, as we get them at stats.wikimedia.org already and publishing here is just repeating it; it was felt that some more metrics can be added and published month on month here at CIS blog. Also, the data here would be for the last month, while it takes two months for data to get updated at stats.wikimedia.org.</p>
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<p>Stub articles created :</p>
<p>Kannada - 3/131</p>
<p>Konkani - 9/38</p>
<p>Marathi - 50/176</p>
<p>Odia - 8/89</p>
<p>Telugu - 59/284</p>
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<p>In Kannada Wikipedia, about 131 new articles were created and of these only 3 are stub class articles. This is because Kannada Wikipedia is implementing a strict policy on not allowing a stub class article. There is an abuse filter created by one of the admins, Harish MG, which does not allow an editor to submit a smaller article than 1000 bytes. While Konkani showed a good progress in creation of new articles and only 9 of these 38 articles were stub class articles.</p>
<p>Marathi and Odia had a 28% and 9% share of total articles created as stubs respectively, while Telugu has about 21% of total articles created as stubs.</p>
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<p>Active editors count has gone up in Kannada with 133 active editors during March 2016 - this could be accounted to the post 13th anniversary activities. Four focused editathons were organised as part of the 13th anniversary celebrations. The number of active editors increased in Konkani too. While in Marathi, Odia and Telugu the number was consistent with the previous months' numbers.</p>
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<p>Now. lets look at the editing activity.</p>
<p>Kannada had 3279 edits adding about 86.57 MB of data. Konkani Wikipedia saw 920 edits in all, adding 8.41 MB of data. Marathi Wikipedia had 2926 edits with 68.42 MB of data; Odia Wikipedia added 1106 edits and 15.28 MB of data and Telugu Wikipedia had 8559 edits with 122.17 MB of data.</p>
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<p>Having a provision of local image upload, Telugu Wikipedia added 53 images to the project while Marathi, one image was added. </p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/stats-for-march-2016'>https://cis-india.org/openness/stats-for-march-2016</a>
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No publisherrahimCIS-A2KWikimediaWikipediaMarathi WikipediaKonkani WikipediaOdia WikipediaTelugu WikipediaKannada Wikipedia2016-06-07T04:06:03ZBlog EntryPress coverage about Punjab edit-a-thon & Telugu Wikipedia success
https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/press-coverage-about-punjab-edit-a-thon-telugu-wikipedia-success
<b>Andhra Jyothi, one of the leading news papers in Telugu covered Punjab edit-a-thon & Telugu wikipedia success in national level with the angle of Pranaraj involvement in it.</b>
<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160826125613/http://epaper.andhrajyothy.com/c/12753407">Here</a> is the news clipping.</p>
<p><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/TeluguWikipedia.jpg/@@images/4bbcceed-1267-415f-a36a-9d836158266e.jpeg" alt="Telugu Wikipedia" class="image-inline" title="Telugu Wikipedia" /></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/press-coverage-about-punjab-edit-a-thon-telugu-wikipedia-success'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/press-coverage-about-punjab-edit-a-thon-telugu-wikipedia-success</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaTelugu WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-08-26T16:16:43ZNews ItemOnline Free Content in Telugu Wikipedia
https://cis-india.org/openness/news/andhra-jyothy-february-16-2015-online-free-content-in-telugu-wikipedia
<b>Wikimedians gathered at Tirupati for a strategic meet. This was covered by the regional newspaper Andhra Jyothy </b>
<p>Click to read the article published on the website of <a class="external-link" href="http://epaper.andhrajyothy.com/detailednews?box=aHR0cDovL2VjZG4uYW5kaHJhanlvdGh5LmNvbS9GaWxlcy8yMDE1MDIxNjAyMTYwMjQ3NDIyMDguanBn&day=20150216">Andhra Jyothy</a>.</p>
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<p>
For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/news/andhra-jyothy-february-16-2015-online-free-content-in-telugu-wikipedia'>https://cis-india.org/openness/news/andhra-jyothy-february-16-2015-online-free-content-in-telugu-wikipedia</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaTelugu WikipediaOpenness2015-02-19T15:51:32ZNews Item