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Christ University Wikipedia Education Program Internship
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<p dir="ltr">The Centre for Internet and Society - Access to Knowledge program, in partnership with Christ University, is announcing its annual internship program for the 1200 students enrolled in the Wikipedia Education Program. The Wikipedia Education Program at Christ University, now in its fourth year, is an effort to bring together educators and students to use Wikipedia as an educational implement. CIS-A2K conducts the internship activity for passionate Christ University students to improve the quality of the articles created or edited by their fellow WEP peers. The internship will largely involve improving upon the articles created by their peers as well as gathering community consensus based on which these articles would be moved to the main namespace.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">The students will be working on Wikipedia over the course of 21 days in developing upon the content created by Christ University Wikipedia Education Program participants. The fledgling articles currently housed in the individual “sandboxes” of the WEP participants will be improved upon by the interns through addition of detailed content, images and info-boxes.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">The students are selected based on three main criteria: fluency of language(written and spoken), knowledge of Wikipedia and its processes, and their personal interest levels. The applications are open from 13 to 17 December, 2017. Interested students can apply here:</p>
<p dir="ltr">https://goo.gl/forms/Ffxh3T3DRZz8Q25F3</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/christ-university-wikipedia-education-program-internship-1'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/christ-university-wikipedia-education-program-internship-1</a>
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No publishermanasaraoCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeWikipedia Education ProgramWikimediaWikipediaSanskrit WikipediaUrdu WikipediaOpennessHindi WikipediaTulu WikipediaKannada Wikipedia2017-12-14T08:55:05ZBlog EntryTulu Wikipedia Goes 'Live' after 8 Years on Incubator
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<b>Eight years after being created in the Wikimedia Incubator, the Tulu-language Wikipedia is now live as the 23rd Indic language.</b>
<p>The Tulu Wikipedia page is <a class="external-link" href="https://tcy.wikipedia.org">available here</a>. The project has a total of 1285 articles contributed by 198 editors.</p>
<p>Other news in brief:</p>
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<li><a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMIN/events/India_At_Rio_Olympics_2016_Edit-a-thon">Ongoing India At Rio Olympics 2016 Edit-a-thon</a> promises to plant one tree for every 20 new articles created.</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2016_in_India">Wiki Loves Monuments</a> returns to India after three years.</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016">WikiConference India 2016</a>, the largest Wikimedia community gathering of the year in South Asia comes to an end.</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="https://or.wikisource.org/wiki/User:Ashusarangi">Ashutosh Sarangi</a> , the youngest Wikimedian from the oldest Indian-language Wikipedia community.</li>
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<p>Read more on Blog <a class="external-link" href="https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/08/24/digest-tulu-wikipedia/">here</a></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/tulu-wikipedia-goes-live-after-8-years-on-incubator'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/tulu-wikipedia-goes-live-after-8-years-on-incubator</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeTulu Wikipedia2016-09-22T01:33:29ZNews Item Meet the Newly Born Tulu Wikipedia, the 23rd in a South Asian Language!
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/global-voices-august-28-2016-subhashish-panigrahi-meet-the-newly-born-tulu-wikipedia-the-23-in-south-asian-language
<b>The Tulu language Wikipedia became the latest entrant in the family of 294 world-language Wikipedia projects after the project went live from Wikimedia Incubator earlier this month.</b>
<p class="c5" style="text-align: justify; ">The post was published in <a class="external-link" href="https://globalvoices.org/2016/08/28/meet-the-newly-born-tulu-wikipedia-the-23rd-in-a-south-asian-language/">Global Voices</a> on August 28, 2016.</p>
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<p class="c5" style="text-align: justify; ">The project waited <span class="c3">as long as </span><span class="c2"><a class="c1" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/after-eight-years-tulu-wikipedia-goes-live/article8953527.ece&sa=D&ust=1472239163179000&usg=AFQjCNFhEa10SoPM41ILK0p3GgaQe86nQA">eight years</a></span><span class="c3"> in the Incubator before becoming the </span><span class="c2"><a class="c1" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://gadgets.ndtv.com/internet/news/indias-23rd-regional-language-wikipedia-goes-live-in-tulu-870353&sa=D&ust=1472239163180000&usg=AFQjCNGa1k1Afhym8NjZgMDwY0APc-EeZA">23rd South Asian language</a></span> Wikipedia<span class="c3">. </span><span class="c3">Available at </span><span class="c3"><a class="c1" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://tcy.wikipedia.org/&sa=D&ust=1472239163181000&usg=AFQjCNEKWWR-RYG-VSLf0CkXrVS07XLK5A">https://tcy.wikipedia.org</a></span><span class="c3">, the Tulu Wiki space has a total of 1,285 articles contributed by 198 editors, about 5-10 of which are active with over five edits every month. </span></p>
<p class="c5" style="text-align: justify; "><span class="c3">The announcement about the project going live was made by Katherine Maher, Executive Director of Wikimedia Foundation during the <a href="https://globalvoices.org/2016/08/05/south-asias-largest-wikimedia-conference-kicks-off-in-india/">WikiConference India</a>.</span></p>
<p class="c5" style="text-align: justify; "><span class="c3">Wikimedia Incubator is a sister project of Wikipedia and before any new language Wikipedia is created, an Incubator project is created and grown by volunteer editors. </span><span class="c3">Once the project gains momentum with more editors developing more content more often, the project goes live as a new Wikipedia project.</span></p>
<p class="c5" style="text-align: justify; ">The <span class="c2"><a class="c1" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulu_language&sa=D&ust=1472239163182000&usg=AFQjCNFo-b-NX-C_KUICQTe52tZAy2H-EQ">Tulu language</a></span> is spoken by about three to five million people in the Indian states of Karnataka and Kerala, and there is a sizeable diaspora living in US and the Gulf countries.</p>
<p class="c5" style="text-align: justify; ">Eight years back in 2008, Tulu Wikipedia was created in Incubator with just a handful of editors. But apart from a few sporadic edits every so often, there was little impetus to take the project forward.</p>
<p class="c5" style="text-align: justify; ">A community in a real sense is one that engages in discussion, consensus and collaboration. This never existed for Tulu Wikipedia as individual editors were working in isolation from each other.</p>
<p class="c5" style="text-align: justify; ">There was therefore a need for them to meet and form a strategic plan to grow the community and the Incubator by brining in more active contributors.</p>
<p class="c5" style="text-align: justify; ">In 2014, the need to connect the Tulu Wikipedia editors and foster an interactive editorial group was discussed and a meetup was organized in Mangalore by the <span class="c2"><a class="c1" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K&sa=D&ust=1472239163183000&usg=AFQjCNHZ7fPYArPhGG24IGPh5PjNSygKNQ">Centre for Internet and Society—Access to Knowledge</a></span> (CIS-A2K) program, a catalytic program funded by the Wikimedia Foundation to support and grow Indian language Wikipedias and Wikimedia projects in the Indian subcontinent.</p>
<p class="c5" style="text-align: justify; ">As an offshoot of that meeting, more community meetups started to happen. A few workshops were organized in Mangalore to provide hands-on training to participants and the city's <a href="http://staloysiuscollege.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Al-Shodana-July-2013.pdf">St. Aloysius College</a> opened its door to include Wikipedia editing as part of its syllabus.</p>
<p class="c5" style="text-align: justify; ">A <span class="c2"><a class="c1" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education&sa=D&ust=1472239163183000&usg=AFQjCNFJ6zG6VfMhlwbsMMXK28yhAzFmrg">Wikipedia Education Program</a></span> was promptly organized for the undergraduate students in this college where students started editing Wikipedia as a classroom assignment and the faculty was involved both in providing training and evaluating the articles.</p>
<p class="c5" style="text-align: justify; "><span class="c4 c2"><a class="c1" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://tcy.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Vishwanatha_Badikana&sa=D&ust=1472239163184000&usg=AFQjCNF3mG-hIIQWupw03q_kT8O3FcbKXg">Vishwanatha Badikana</a></span>, assistant professor of the Kannada language department at St. Aloysius College, became an active Tulu Wikipedia editor himself and led outreach activities at the institution. His students have enriched the Tulu Wikipedia with articles across a broad range of topics.</p>
<p class="c5" style="text-align: justify; ">However, what has been achieved so far is still only the tip of the iceberg. The community is still fairly small and has to grow beyond one supporting institution. The larger Tulu language community also has to take ownership and become stewards in growing Tulu Wikipedia.</p>
<p class="c5" style="text-align: justify; ">Despite its long, rich linguistic heritage, Tulu is still <span class="c2 c4"><a class="c1" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://opensource.com/life/16/8/how-wikimedia-helped-birth-tulu-wikipedia&sa=D&ust=1472239163184000&usg=AFQjCNH03LorX3azpcQT3ExivdqJQYEAwg">struggling</a></span> in terms of achieving wider usage in written form, especially in its native script. The lack of promotion is also quite evident as the Karnataka<a class="c1" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.tuluacademy.org/en/&sa=D&ust=1472239163185000&usg=AFQjCNGuiW4ebaOSfA2ajHEEiNGQ5CVeeg"> </a><span class="c2"><a class="c1" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.tuluacademy.org/en/&sa=D&ust=1472239163185000&usg=AFQjCNGuiW4ebaOSfA2ajHEEiNGQ5CVeeg">Tulu Sahitya Academy</a></span>, an official body set up by the Karnataka government uses<a class="c1" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.tuluacademy.org/ml/&sa=D&ust=1472239163186000&usg=AFQjCNFD2HE41R5ExCYOcaiGVorQ4sfpLw"> </a><span class="c2"><a class="c1" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.tuluacademy.org/ml/&sa=D&ust=1472239163186000&usg=AFQjCNFD2HE41R5ExCYOcaiGVorQ4sfpLw">Kannada</a></span> and English for its official portal.</p>
<p class="c5" style="text-align: justify; ">The biggest challenge of all is the lack of <span class="c2 c4"><a class="c1" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode&sa=D&ust=1472239163186000&usg=AFQjCNHWYHml2DNGOk6HsFvIstldJsNYZg">Unicode</a></span> support. Unicode is a global standard for scripts, and the<a class="c1" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigalari_alphabet&sa=D&ust=1472239163187000&usg=AFQjCNHmsVQ-fbGDHq6FKm_00yQJFIC9og"> </a><span class="c2"><a class="c1" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigalari_alphabet&sa=D&ust=1472239163187000&usg=AFQjCNHmsVQ-fbGDHq6FKm_00yQJFIC9og">Tigalari script</a></span> that is used to write in Tulu is not encoded in Unicode. At the moment, all the articles in the Tulu Wikipedia are written in the<a class="c1" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kannada_alphabet&sa=D&ust=1472239163187000&usg=AFQjCNG-r_p0kAGpwOX1GP7Lp6MoriO3kw"> </a><span class="c2"><a class="c1" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kannada_alphabet&sa=D&ust=1472239163188000&usg=AFQjCNHrKJib2xMw_WIlQyZ22JgKHIRyQA">Kannada script</a></span> as most of the speakers are based in the state of Karnataka, and speak Kannada as a second language.</p>
<p class="c5" style="text-align: justify; ">The only possibility of using Tigaliri script is tied to standardizing the script on Unicode, releasing a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_property_protection_of_typefaces#Licensing">freely licensed</a> typeface so that it can be bundled as a <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:WebFonts">web font</a> to display the script in the case of any mobile or desktop user not having the font installed on their device.Finally the script for existing content<a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedias_in_multiple_writing_systems"> must be converted</a> from Kannada to Tigaliri.</p>
<p class="c5" style="text-align: justify; ">There is a series of eight<a class="c1" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Tulu_Wikipedia_Tutorial&sa=D&ust=1472239163188000&usg=AFQjCNFke7XyUvuyW2lHuF_ee8pX3XSMew"> </a><span class="c2"><a class="c1" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Tulu_Wikipedia_Tutorial&sa=D&ust=1472239163189000&usg=AFQjCNH-8wkOnFZaCnJH8KEADI6E4Gab6g">how-to video tutorials</a></span> that have been created to help new and existing editors to learn more about<a class="c1" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Policies_and_guidelines&sa=D&ust=1472239163189000&usg=AFQjCNGnq2K21jd7wjAlllj2EJ9kLgIpmA"> </a><span class="c2"><a class="c1" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Policies_and_guidelines&sa=D&ust=1472239163189000&usg=AFQjCNGnq2K21jd7wjAlllj2EJ9kLgIpmA">Wikipedia policies and guidelines</a></span>,<a class="c1" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style&sa=D&ust=1472239163190000&usg=AFQjCNFjRSA5-hgW6ekOZSk8txcAOKU9XA"> </a><span class="c2"><a class="c1" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style&sa=D&ust=1472239163190000&usg=AFQjCNFjRSA5-hgW6ekOZSk8txcAOKU9XA">style</a></span> and the editing process.</p>
<p class="c5" style="text-align: justify; ">“Many students have contributed by creating these tutorials,” says Dr. Badikana.</p>
<p class="c5" style="text-align: justify; ">The current set of editors are doing their best to spread the word about the project while safeguarding the core values of Wikipedia.</p>
<p class="c5" style="text-align: justify; ">In an interview to the media portal<a class="c1" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.daijiworld.com/news/news_disp.asp?n_id%3D408455&sa=D&ust=1472239163191000&usg=AFQjCNEkMJ_8hrzgYI9gNDwlDyr_9fM7YA"> </a><span class="c2"><a class="c1" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.daijiworld.com/news/news_disp.asp?n_id%3D408455&sa=D&ust=1472239163191000&usg=AFQjCNEkMJ_8hrzgYI9gNDwlDyr_9fM7YA">Daijiworld</a></span>, <span class="c2 c4"><a class="c1" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://tcy.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:BHARATHESHA_ALASANDEMAJALU&sa=D&ust=1472239163191000&usg=AFQjCNHDO7zseddsVIJrIFcQTNt6AvLXPA">Bharathesha Alasandemajalu</a></span>, an active editor based in Oman said, “Anyone can write or edit articles on Wikipedia Tulu, but it should not be plagiarised [..] Photos should be one's own or uploaded with valid permission from the owner. This will help the future generation to know more about the language and act as a source of information on Tulu language and culture.”</p>
<p class="c5" style="text-align: justify; ">Dr. Badikana moreover shared in an interview with this author that he is hopeful of seeing more Tulu speakers contributing to Tulu Wikipedia, as he feels that growing language content online, combined with work in conventional classrooms, is the best approach to preserving the language.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/global-voices-august-28-2016-subhashish-panigrahi-meet-the-newly-born-tulu-wikipedia-the-23-in-south-asian-language'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/global-voices-august-28-2016-subhashish-panigrahi-meet-the-newly-born-tulu-wikipedia-the-23-in-south-asian-language</a>
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No publishersubhaCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeTulu Wikipedia2016-08-30T02:14:13ZBlog EntryCommunity Digest: Tulu Wikipedia Goes Live after Eight Years in Incubator; News in Brief
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/community-digest-tulu-wikipedia-goes-live-after-eight-years-in-incubator-news-in-brief
<b>Eight years after being created in the Wikimedia Incubator, the Tulu-language Wikipedia is now live as the 23rd Indic language Wikipedia.
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">The blog post was published in the <a class="external-link" href="https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/08/24/digest-tulu-wikipedia/">Wikimedia blog</a> on August 24, 2016.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Available at <a href="https://tcy.wikipedia.org/">https://tcy.wikipedia.org</a>, the project has a total of 1285 articles contributed by 198 editors.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulu_language">Tulu</a> is spoken by between three and five million people principally concentrated in the states of Karnataka and Kerala in south-west and south India (respectively), with more in the US and in Gulf countries. The Wikimedia Foundation’s Executive Director Katherine Maher <a href="https://twitter.com/SanketOswal/status/761791302132379648">announced</a> that the project would go live in her keynote at <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016">WikiConference India 2016</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Tulu Wikipedia was started in the Wikimedia Incubator back in 2008 with a one or two editors, but neither the project nor the community remained active except sporadic edits. Without any meetups and outreach, it was difficult for those editors to work as a community to bring the project live from Incubator. The Centre for Internet and Society’s <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K">Access to Knowledge</a> program, a catalytic program funded by the Wikimedia Foundation to support and grow Indian language Wikipedias and Wikimedia projects in the Indian subcontinent, started building a Tulu-language community in 2014. They and the community conducted Wikipedia editing training workshops at St. Aloysius College in Mangaluru, who opened their doors to introduce the <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Education_Program">Wikipedia Education Program</a> (WEP). As part of the WEP, students started editing Wikipedia as part of their syllabus with the leadership and guidance of Dr. Vishwanatha Badikana, assistant professor of the Kannada-language department at St. Aloysius, who himself became an active Tulu Wikipedia editor. Similarly, many students from both the institutions also contributed articles of diverse subject areas.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">However, the community is fairly small and needs a way to grow outside the institution. “A series of eight <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Tulu_Wikipedia_Tutorial">how-to video tutorials</a> have been created to help editors to learn about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_policies_and_guidelines">Wikipedia policies and guidelines</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manual_of_style">manual of style</a> and overall editing. Many students have contributed in creating these tutorials”, Badikana says, and the existing set of editors are doing their best to spread the word about the project. In an interview with the media portal <a href="http://www.daijiworld.com/news/news_disp.asp?n_id=408455">Daijiworld</a>, Bharathesha Alasandemajalu, an active editor based in Oman, said, “anyone can write or edit articles on the Tulu Wikipedia but it should not be plagiarised. The photos should be one’s own or uploaded with valid permission from the owner. This will help the future generation to know more about the language and act as a source of information on Tulu language and culture.”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">One of the biggest challenges in growing the project—apart the community’s limitations within institutional frameworks and having just a handful of editors outside—is the lack of codification of the project as per <a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode" title="w:Unicode">Unicode</a> compliance. Unicode is a global standard for scripts, and the modern Tulu script (derived from the original <a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigalari_alphabet" title="w:Tigalari alphabet">Tigalari script</a>) is not yet encoded in Unicode. As a result, all the articles in the Tulu Wikipedia are written in the <a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kannada_script" title="w:Kannada script">Kannada script</a>, as the speakers are mostly based in the state of Karnataka and speak Kannada as a second language.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Despite a long linguistic heritage, Tulu is still struggling to be widely used, especially in its native script. Badikana says that he is really hopeful that he will see more Tulu speakers start contributing to the language’s Wikipedia, as he feels that growing language content online would be the best thing to do while working in a conventional classroom.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Ongoing <a class="extiw" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMIN/events/India_At_Rio_Olympics_2016_Edit-a-thon">India At Rio Olympics 2016 Edit-a-thon</a> promises to plant one tree for every 20 new articles created</b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">India this year has a great participation in the Rio Olympics; some of the participating athletes have brought medals and glory for the country and some lost in the tight competition. But for Wikipedia, every single athlete matters! An edit-a-thon is being organized by <a class="extiw" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_India" title="m:Wikimedia India">Wikimedia India</a> in collaboration with not-for-profit “Sankalp Taru”<span>, publication house Niyogi books. S</span>everal Indian-language Wikipedia communities are participating in creating Wikipedia articles related to the Rio Olympics and India’s participation in it. A unique goal is set for this edit-a-thon where a tree will be planted for every 20 new articles created and it could also be <a class="text external" href="http://www.sankalptaru.org/c/642" rel="nofollow">monitored</a> online. The edit-a-thon started officially at 0:00 UTC on 29 July 2016 and will go on 23:59 UTC on 18 September 2016. Apart from several other rules for participation, the rule also discourages pure machine translation of the articles as <a class="text external" href="http://ravidreams.com/A-Review-on-Google-Translation-project-in-Tamil.pdf" rel="nofollow">historically</a> there has been disastrous impact of <a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Translate" title="w:Google Translate">Google Translate</a> for many Indian language Wikipedias.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b><a class="extiw" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2016_in_India" title="commons:Commons:Wiki Loves Monuments 2016 in India">Wiki Loves Monuments</a> returns to India after three years</b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><a class="extiw" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments" title="commons:Commons:Wiki Loves Monuments">Wiki Loves Monuments</a>, the global photo competition that is organized by the Wikimedia communities in September with the focus of getting good quality photographs of monuments of historical interest, will be organized in India. “The aim of the contest is to ask the general public—readers and users of Wikipedia, photographers, hobbyists, etc.—to take pictures of cultural heritage monuments and upload them to Wikimedia Commons for use on Wikipedia and its other sister projects.”, <a class="text external" href="https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2016-August/012667.html">shared</a> Abhinav Srivastava, Executive Committee member of Wikimedia India which is the official organizer of the event. More details about participating in this event could be found in the <a class="extiw" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2016_in_India" title="commons:Commons:Wiki Loves Monuments 2016 in India">event page</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b><a class="extiw" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016">WikiConference India 2016</a>, the largest Wikimedia community gathering of the year in South Asia comes to an end</b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Organized by the Wikimedia communities in India, the <a class="extiw" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016" title="m:WikiConference India 2016">WikiConference India 2016</a> was the largest Wikimedia gathering in the subcontinent of this year. After a long break of <a class="text external" href="https://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/12/02/wikiconference-india/">five years</a>, the event has about 250 participants including over 100 scholarship recipients from four countries representing Wikimedia projects in 20 Indic languages. As reported in the <a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Single/2016-08-18" title="w:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Single/2016-08-18">Signpost</a>, nearly 25% of scholarship recipients were women, and the inclusion of speakers of ~20 languages. There were <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:WikiConference_India_2016_submissions/Accepted" title="Category:WikiConference India 2016 submissions/Accepted">89 accepted submissions</a> including workshops, presentations, The event also included an <a class="extiw" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016/Punjab_Edit-a-thon#List_of_recommended_articles">edit-a-thon</a> to improve the content related to Punjab, Punjabi language and culture as a gesture of respect to the place where the event was organized. Over 2000 articles have been created by more than 150 editors in 12 different language Wikipedias.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">A gender gap-focused panel, led by formed Wikimedia Foundation’s Board of Trustees member <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Bishdatta">Bishakha Datta</a>, was held on the second day of the conference to share the research and outreach experiences in different communities (featuring <a class="extiw" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016/Submissions/Efforts_to_bridge_the_gender_gap_in_Kannada_Wikipedia_-our_work_at_Mangaluru" title="m:WikiConference India 2016/Submissions/Efforts to bridge the gender gap in Kannada Wikipedia -our work at Mangaluru">Kannada</a>, <a class="extiw" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016/Submissions/Gender_Gap_in_Wikipedia:_The_India_Context" title="m:WikiConference India 2016/Submissions/Gender Gap in Wikipedia: The India Context">Tamil</a>, and <a class="extiw" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016/Submissions/Encouraging_Women_Participation%E2%80%93_an_experiment_in_Marathi_Wikipedia" title="m:WikiConference India 2016/Submissions/Encouraging Women Participation– an experiment in Marathi Wikipedia">Marathi</a> communities). Researchers proposed new strategies and practices in tackling the systematic and social barriers for Indian women joining Wikimedia projects. Other presenters shared tips and event-organizing experience on various outreach activities—from edit-a-thons and photo-thons in the International Women’s Month to student-led events in college institutions—demonstrating respective communities’ efforts on the local, national, and global scales. The panel was followed by a Wikiwomen’s Lunch meetup attended by most female Wikipedians at the conference along with Bishakha, Wikimedia Foundation’s Board of Trustees member <a class="text external" href="https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:NTymkiv_%28WMF%29">Nataliia Tymkiv</a>and WMF staff members.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Ashutosh Sarangi, the youngest Wikimedian from the oldest Indian-language Wikipedia community</b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">At the closing ceremony WikiConference India 2016, <a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/or:%E0%AC%AC%E0%AD%8D%E0%AD%9F%E0%AC%AC%E0%AC%B9%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%B0%E0%AC%95%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%B0%E0%AD%80:Ashusarangi" title="wikisource:or:ବ୍ୟବହାରକାରୀ:Ashusarangi">Ashutosh Sarangi</a> was <a class="text external" href="https://twitter.com/subhapa/status/762233612414685184" rel="nofollow">awarded</a> as the youngest Wikimedian at the conference by , two days after Katherine <a class="text external" href="https://twitter.com/Saileshpat/status/761783018969268224" rel="nofollow">congratulated</a> the <a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/or:Main_page" title="w:or:Main page">Odia Wikipedia</a> for celebrating its <a class="text external" href="https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/06/23/odia-wikipedia-wiktionary-birthdays/">14th birthday</a>, where the project happens to be the oldest of all Indian-language Wikipedias. Ashutosh, a 6th grade student, is the son of <a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/or:User:Pmrsarangi" title="wikisource:or:User:Pmrsarangi">Pankajmala Sarangi</a>, the most active <a class="text external" href="https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/01/29/odia-wikisourcer-journey-goals/">Odia Wikisourcer</a>, and is active in Odia Wikisource with <a class="text external" href="https://tools.wmflabs.org/guc/?user=Ashusarangi">226 edits</a> for digitization of two books so far. “Living and studying in New Delhi where Hindi is predominantly the primary language, having a conversation in our native language Odia itself is so difficult. I am proud to be a mother who not only teaches Odia language to her kids but also helps them contribute to the open Internet. At some point of time, these valuable books Ashutosh has contributed in digitizing on Odia Wikisource will be of great read for others”, she shares. Long time Hindi-language Wikipedian Raju Suthar has <a class="text external" href="http://www.sanjeevnitoday.com/shareClip/118844/5-3-1/1470778591348.jpg" rel="nofollow">mentioned</a> in a news article in Hindi newspaper the Sanjivani saying, “Ashutosh has won everyone’s heart as the youngest Wikimedian in this conference. Asaf Bartov and Nataliia Tymkov have awarded him for his contribution”. Ashutosh started contributing to Odia Wikisource in February this year on the day of the <a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/or:%E0%AC%89%E0%AC%87%E0%AC%95%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%AA%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%A0%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%97%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%B0:%E0%AC%95%E0%AC%B0%E0%AD%8D%E0%AC%AE%E0%AC%B6%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%B3%E0%AC%BE/%E0%AC%A6%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%B2%E0%AD%8D%E0%AC%B2%E0%AD%80/%E0%AD%A8" title="wikisource:or:ଉଇକିପାଠାଗାର:କର୍ମଶାଳା/ଦିଲ୍ଲୀ/୨">second workshop in New Delhi</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>MediaWiki hackathon at WikiConference India 2016 has seven important outputs</b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The MediaWiki hackathon that was running at the WikiConference India in the leadership of <a class="extiw" href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Cherishsantosh" title="mw:User:Cherishsantosh">Santosh Shingare</a> was productive to engage with several participants and bring as many as <a class="text external" href="https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2016-August/012673.html">seven</a> most important outcomes:</p>
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<li>WikiSpeak, an easy-to-use Android <a class="text external" href="https://github.com/sandarumk/WikiSpeak" rel="nofollow">(source code)</a> and web app <a class="text external" href="https://github.com/ashjal/WikiSpeak" rel="nofollow">(source code)</a> that read the the Wikipedia articles in native languages.</li>
<li><a class="text external" href="https://bitbucket.org/Shailumani/wiki-tsv/src" rel="nofollow">Edit Tamil Wiktionary</a>, android app that helps create entries in <a class="extiw" href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ta:%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%B1%E0%AF%8D_%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%8D" title="wikt:ta:முதற் பக்கம்">Tamil-language Wiktionary</a> from a spreadsheet created with a <a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tab-separated_values" title="w:Tab-separated values">.tsv</a> extension. The app checks for existing entries and creates only entries that are not existent. (<a class="text external" href="https://bitbucket.org/Shailumani/wiki-tsv/src" rel="nofollow">source code</a>)</li>
<li>Commons audio uploader, Android app that helps a user to log in using Mediawiki credentials, create audio recordings using their phone microphone, and upload them on Commons. (<a class="text external" href="https://github.com/Atul22/wikiAudio" rel="nofollow">source code</a>)</li>
<li>Wikipedia articles on Google map, web application that can show Wikipedia articles with geo-cordinates in Google Maps when the phone’s <a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Location-based_service" title="w:Location-based service">location is enabled</a> for Google Maps. The application is responsive enough to adjust the portion of the Wikipedia article it displays on the screen, and works for all the Indian languages. (<a class="text external" href="https://github.com/Shailumani/map_annotate_wiki.git" rel="nofollow">source code</a>)</li>
<li>OCR (Native Application) : Convert scanned book copy to Indian language text with google doc (Tested for Hindi and Malayalam).</li>
<li>Communication platform[WebRTC] (Web Application) : Community used this to talk or conference (Audio/video web conferencing application)</li>
<li>Notification (Event based) : showing popup on event eg (If recent changes happen, It will show popup which article was updated)</li>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/community-digest-tulu-wikipedia-goes-live-after-eight-years-in-incubator-news-in-brief'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/community-digest-tulu-wikipedia-goes-live-after-eight-years-in-incubator-news-in-brief</a>
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No publisherSubhashish Panigrahi and Ting-Yi ChangCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeTulu Wikipedia2016-08-26T15:21:58ZBlog EntryPreserving Languages and Cultures in India: The Birth of the Tulu Wikipedia
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/preserving-languages-and-cultures-in-india-the-birth-of-the-tulu-wikipedia
<b>After eight years of effort and outreach, the Tulu language Wikipedia has gone live. Wikimedia contributors play a key role in preserving languages and cultures, and tools like the Wikimedia Incubator help new projects like the Tulu Wikipedia get started.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The blog post was <a class="external-link" href="https://opensource.com/life/16/8/how-wikimedia-helped-birth-tulu-wikipedia">published by Opensource.com</a> on August 26, 2016. This got mentioned in Wikipedia's newsletter "<a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Single#In_brief">The Signpost</a>".</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Tulu is a language spoken by three to five million people in the states of Karnataka and Kerala in the southwest and south India respectively, and by some people in the US and in Gulf countries. Tulu Wikipedia is the <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias#100.2B_articles" target="_blank">294th Wikipedia</a> and the <a href="http://gadgets.ndtv.com/internet/news/indias-23rd-regional-language-wikipedia-goes-live-in-tulu-870353" target="_blank">23rd South Asian language</a> Wikipedia.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The Tulu Wikipedia grew in the Wikimedia Incubator for about <a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/after-eight-years-tulu-wikipedia-goes-live/article8953527.ece" target="_blank">eight years</a> before going online. So far, 198 editors have contributed 1285 articles, and the <a href="https://tcy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%B5%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%B8%E0%B3%87%E0%B2%B8%E0%B3%8A:ActiveUsers" target="_blank">active editors</a> that have more than 5 edits in the project number between 5-10.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Tulu Wikipedia started back in 2008 with just one or two editors. But neither the project nor the community remained active except for sporadic edits. Without any meetups or outreach it was difficult for those editors to work as a community to bring the project live. The <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K" target="_blank">Centre for Internet and Society—Access to Knowledge</a> (CIS-A2K) program, a catalytic program funded by the Wikimedia Foundation to support and grow the Indian language Wikipedias and Wikimedia projects in the Indian subcontinent, started work on building a community for Tulu in 2014. It all started with an informal meetup, and then more community meetups started happening. The community also conducted Wikipedia editing training workshops, and two major educational institutions came forward to help grow the community and the project.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">These institutions, St. Aloysius College and St. Agnes College in Mangaluru in the state of Karnataka, introduced the <a href="https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education" target="_blank">Wikipedia Education Program </a> where students started editing Wikipedia as part of their syllabus. Vishwanatha Badikana, assistant professor of the Kannada language department at St. Aloysius, became an active Tulu Wikipedia editor himself and led the outreach activities in the institution. Similarly, many students from both the institutions also contributed articles of diverse subject areas.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">However, the community is still fairly small and has to grow outside of the institutions. "A series of eight <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Tulu_Wikipedia_Tutorial" target="_blank">how-to video tutorials</a> have been created to help editors to learn about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Policies_and_guidelines" target="_blank">Wikipedia policies and guidelines</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style" target="_blank">manual of style</a> and overall editing. Many students have contributed in creating these tutorials", says Dr. Badikana. The current set of editors are doing their best in spreading the word about the project while safeguarding the core values of Wikipedia. In an interview to media portal <a href="http://www.daijiworld.com/news/news_disp.asp?n_id=408455" target="_blank">Daijiworld</a>, Bharathesha Alasandemajalu, an active editor based in Oman said, "Anyone can write or edit articles on Wikipedia Tulu, but it should not be plagiarised. The photos should be one's own or uploaded with valid permission from the owner. This will help the future generation to know more about the language and act as a source of information on Tulu language and culture."</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">One of the biggest challenges, apart from the limitations in attracting new contributors, is the lack of Unicode support. Unicode is a global standard for scripts, and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigalari_alphabet" target="_blank">Tigalari script</a> that is used to write in Tulu is not encoded in Unicode. At the moment, all the articles in the Tulu Wikipedia are written in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kannada_alphabet" target="_blank">Kannada script</a> as the speakers are mostly based in the state of Karnataka, and speak Kannada as a second language.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">With its great and long linguistic heritage, Tulu is still struggling to be widely used, especially in its native script. The lack of promotion is also evident as the official body, the Karnataka <a href="http://www.tuluacademy.org/en/" target="_blank">Tulu Sahitya Academy</a>, that is set up by the Karnataka government uses <a href="http://www.tuluacademy.org/ml/" target="_blank">Kannada</a> and English in the official portal. However, Dr. Badikana shared in an interview to the author that he is hopeful to see more Tulu speakers contributing to Tulu Wikipedia, as he feels that growing language content online would be the best thing to do along with working in a conventional classroom.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/preserving-languages-and-cultures-in-india-the-birth-of-the-tulu-wikipedia'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/preserving-languages-and-cultures-in-india-the-birth-of-the-tulu-wikipedia</a>
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No publishersubhaCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeTulu Wikipedia2016-09-07T15:35:43ZBlog EntryTulu gets official Wikipedia page, but Mumbai linguists say more is needed
https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/mid-day-anju-maskeri-august-21-2016-tulu-gets-official-wikipedia-page-but-mumbai-linguists-say-more-is-needed
<b>Sitting in his Sunkadakatte home in Bengaluru, Dr UB Pavanaja still recalls the moment when he was at the WikiConference India 2016 in Chandigarh earlier this month. Academicians from all over India had gathered at the event, to share their views about issues related to India on Wikipedia. While the talks were still in progress, Katherine Maher, executive director, Wikimedia Foun-dation, USA, paused to make an announcement.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The article by Anju Maskeri was <a class="external-link" href="http://www.mid-day.com/articles/tulu-gets-official-wikipedia-page-but-mumbai-linguists-say-more-is-needed/17546190">published in Mid-day</a> on August 21, 2016. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja was quoted.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">“The Tulu Wikipedia page has just gone live,” she boomed into the microphone. “It was a moment of great joy because we were working on this project for the last eight years,” says Pavanaja, programme manager (Indian languages) at the Centre for Internet and Society, Bengaluru, and one of the mentors of Tulu Wikipedia.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">UNESCO has listed Tulu as one of the endangered languages, which is at the risk of falling out of use, because it has a few surviving speakers. Pavanaja says the Wikipedia page is a medium for people to access material on Tulu. “Today, it’s the first page that appears on Google, so the accessibility of the language will hopefully increase manifold,” Pavanaja says.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">The Mumbai connect</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Sukesh Shetty, owner of Hindmata Hotel in Tardeo, who is continuing the tradition of running a restaurant business started by his grandfather, feels his connection with the language is restricted to his interaction at home. “I ensure I speak in Tulu with my children. But, my four-year-old speaks Marathi better than Tulu because we have a Mah-arashtrian maid,” he laughs.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The 46-year-old is part of the Bunta Sangha, an organisation devoted towards rallying the Tulu-speaking Bunt community.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Shetty feels the lack of availability of Tulu literature and movies in Mumbai are responsible for the declining interest in the language. “You don’t get to watch any Tulu films because they are never screened here. We don’t even have a channel that telecasts Tulu movies. But, the Wikipedia page is a step ahead,” he says.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><img alt="The Tulu Wikipedia page (tcy.wikipedia.org) went live this month. Currently, there are around 200 registered users of the page" src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/2016/aug/21-Tulu.jpg" title="The Tulu Wikipedia page (tcy.wikipedia.org) went live this month. Currently, there are around 200 registered users of the page" /><br /><span><b><i>The Tulu Wikipedia page (tcy.wikipedia.org) went live this month. Currently, there are around 200 registered users of the page</i></b></span></p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; "><span>Accessing Tulu</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Wikipedia is currently available in 22 Indian languages, including, Assamese, Bish-nupriya, Kashmiri, Konkani, Newari, Odia, Pali and Urdu among others. With the inclusion of Tulu, the count has gone up to 23. “There are about 200 registered users (editors) of Tulu Wikipedia. On an average, we have around eight to 10 active editors. Dr Vishwanatha Badikana, a Kannada professor, and engineer Bharatesha Alasandemaj-alu are the highest contributors,” says Dr Pavanaja.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Tulu Wikipedia was in “incubation” since 2008. This term is used to describe similar online encyclopedias, which are still waiting to go “live”. “Tulu is written in the Kannada script, but the language is believed to be 2,000 years old. But, to create a Wiki page, we needed to prove that it’s a classical language and deserves recognition. We had to submit sizeable amount of literature, ancient manuscripts and literary work for the language to qualify,” he says.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Dr Badikana, who works as a History professor at St Alosious College, Mangalore University, says they had to generate awareness about the language through workshops. “Tulu is predominantly an oral language, and hence, people don’t take interest in documenting it. With Kannada being state-recognised, it’s more popular. We had to hold writing workshops in Tulu to motivate people,” he says.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">A languishing script</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Of late, Tulu — believed to be one of the oldest Dravidian languages — has been generating great interest amongst linguists and academicians alike. The excavation of an ancient manuscript, Tulu Devimahatme, a prose work like the Mahabharata, from the 15th century and two epic poems written in 17th century, namely Sri Bhagavata and Kaveri by language experts in the last few years have revived interest in the language.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">However, a major grouse in the community has been its non-inclusion in the Eighth Schedule of the Indian Constitution, which lists the official languages of the country. Presently, it recognises 22 languages with Tulu being the only Dravidian language to have been left out.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Professor Tukaram Poojary, who was instrumental in setting up the Rani Abbakka Tulu Research Centre in Bantwal, Karnataka in 1995, has sent a memorandum to Pranab Mukherjee, President of India for the inclusion of the language in the Eight Schedule.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">“Scholars like the nineteenth missionary-linguist Bishop Robert Caldwell have called this language ‘peculiar and very interesting’,” says Poojary. According to him, Tulu is one of the most highly developed languages in the Dravidian family. “But it never received any royal patronisation as was seen with other Dravidian languages such as Telugu, Tamil or Malayalam,” he says.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Shimantur Chandrahas Suvarna, a popular Tulu writer based in Borivli has been diligently writing short stories, poems and novels in the language for the last 40 years. “Although, I write in both Kannada and Tulu, I have been focusing more on the latter, because if we don’t speak and document the language, it will die,” says the 61-year-old, who moved to Mumbai in 1979 after his father set up an Udipi hotel called Hotel Sadanand in Mazgaon.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Suvarna feels the lack of serious literature before the 15th century has hampered Tulu’s claim as one of the legitimate South Indian languages. “In the first half of the 19th century, the German missionaries popularised the language. They produced the Tulu lexicon and a Tulu-English dictionary. But, after the Christian missionaries started printing the Bible and related literature in Kannada, the old script was discarded and the Kannada script was adopted to write Tulu,” he said.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Today, there are no books or literature in the Tulu script and there are only a handful of tuluvas, who can read the script, says Suvarna.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">According to him, during the last three years, there has been a surge in literary interest with more than 100 writers contributing articles, poems to a quarterly journal published by the Karnataka Tulu Sahitya Academy Research.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Last year, the University of Mumbai, in collaboration with the Kannada department, and the Rani Abbakka Tulu Research Centre, held a series of lectures on the inclusion of Tulu in the Eighth Schedule. Professor GN Upadhya, head of the department of Kannada at MU, who was part of the series, feels the issue has now become political. “There’s no political willingness on part of the MPs and MLAs to lobby for this language, because it doesn’t constitute a vote bank,” he says.</p>
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<h3>A language in restoration</h3>
<p>Around two million people in the southwest part of Karnataka and the Kasaragod district of Kerala speak Tulu. In Mumbai, about 10 lakh people speak the language. At the beginning of the 20th century, the practice of writing the language in the Tulu script witnessed a decline and was gradually abandoned in favour of the Kannada script. It was only in 2010 that Tulu began to be taught as a subject at the higher primary level schools of coastal Karnataka.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/mid-day-anju-maskeri-august-21-2016-tulu-gets-official-wikipedia-page-but-mumbai-linguists-say-more-is-needed'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/mid-day-anju-maskeri-august-21-2016-tulu-gets-official-wikipedia-page-but-mumbai-linguists-say-more-is-needed</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeTulu Wikipedia2016-08-22T02:43:08ZNews ItemTulu takes a major Wiki leap, all thanks to a dedicated team
https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/indian-express-august-21-2016-akram-mohammed-tulu-takes-a-major-wiki-leap-all-thanks-to-a-dedicated-team
<b>Tulu is one of the five Dravidian languages but it has the least number of speakers. Though it has a script, lack of usage has made it almost obsolete, forcing Tulu writers to write in Kannada. This has, however, benefited Tulu today, allowing it to boast of its own Wikipedia</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The article by Akram Mohammed was <a class="external-link" href="http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/bengaluru/Tulu-takes-a-major-Wiki-leap-all-thanks-to-a-dedicated-team/2016/08/21/article3589672.ece">published in the Indian Express</a> on August 21, 2016. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja was quoted. Also mirrored in <a class="external-link" href="http://www.nyoooz.com/bengaluru/578726/tulu-takes-a-major-wiki-leap-all-thanks-to-a-dedicated-team">Nyooz</a> on August 22, 2016.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Anyone who proposes a Wikipedia in a new language knows the labour between the proposal stage and the period it goes live. The long phase usually erodes the enthusiasm and in many cases, the proposal never passes the incubation period. In the case of Tulu Wikipedia, there were a few determined to ensure it saw the light of the day.<br /><br />Like Vasanth CN, who had rallied for the Wikipedia page since it was first proposed in 2008. A native of Dharmasthala, the language enthusiast detailed how tcy.wikipedia.org came into being. “When it was first proposed in 2008, there were six people behind it,” he recalled. After a while, the Board of Trustees and Language Committee of Wikipedia accepted the proposal.<br /><br />Then came the incubation period, stretching over eight years, where enthusiasm ebbed and swelled among the parties working for a Tulu Wikipedia page. “If you see the Wikipedia homepage, you see a lot of system messages. Our task was to translate these system messages first. By 2011-12, we had succeeded in generating about 120 articles related to the Tulu language and the region in which it is spoken,” he said.The tricky part was to get the page active. It needed volunteers and they were hard to come by. “For a Wikipedia page to become live, we required at least 600 articles. Moreover, we also required at least five active volunteers who could contribute content or edit existing pages” he said.<br /><br />It took several workshops at different venues to get the numbers.<br /><br />Vasanth told Express that the motivation behind the project was to ensure a recognition for the language and to help it evolve. “It is important to have a knowledge base in the local language,” he said. At present, the page has over 780 articles. “If there is encouragement from government agencies such as the Tulu Academy, we can easily increase the content,” he said. He added that further support was required to upload works of ancient and modern Tulu literature, in online avenues such as wikisource.<br /><br />U B Pavanaja from Centre for Internet and Society, said that efforts picked up in 2014 to make the page live. Commenting on the significance of the language, he said that Tulu had a rich heritage. Several religious books and works of literature had been translated to Tulu during the late 18th century, which included the Bible. In coastal districts, Tulu can be chosen as an optional subject today, he said.</p>
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No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeTulu Wikipedia2016-08-22T16:38:47ZNews ItemTulu Wikipedia Conference in Mangaluru
https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/tulu-wikipedia-conference-in-mangaluru
<b>A Tulu Wikipedia conference organized by the Times of Kudla (Tulu name for Mangaluru) newspaper was held at Malki, near Mangaluru on August 13 and 14, 2016. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja gave a presentation on Tulu Wikipedia. </b>
<p>Prominent Tulu Wikipedians Dr. Vishwanatha Badikana and Dr. Kishore Kumar Rai also talked about their experiences of making Tulu Wikipedia live.</p>
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No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeTulu Wikipedia2016-09-22T23:50:18ZNews ItemWikipedia launches in Tulu, its 23rd Indic language
https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/medianama-august-9-2016-vivek-pai-wikipedia-launches-in-tulu-23rd-indic-language
<b>Wikipedia has launched in Tulu, making it the 23rd Indian language Wiki, reports domain-b. The announcement was made at the Wikiconference India 2016 held in Chandigarh last weekend.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">This was <a class="external-link" href="http://www.medianama.com/2016/08/223-wikipedia-tulu-launch/">published on Medianama website</a> on August 9, 2016.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">The Tulu wiki is located at <a href="https://tcy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%AE%E0%B3%81%E0%B2%96%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%AF_%E0%B2%AA%E0%B3%81%E0%B2%9F">tcy.wikipedia.org</a>, and has been in ‘incubation’ since 2008, basically still waiting to go live or active. However, it was reactivated in 2014 following meetings and workshops at the ‘World Tulu Conference’ held the same year. As of now, the Wiki has about 200 registered editors, of which it claims around 100 have more than 10 edits, with 8-10 active editors online on an average. Note that there are around 2 million Tulu speakers.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Other Indic language wikis</b>: In September 2013, the Goa University had <a href="http://www.medianama.com/2013/09/223-goa-university-partners-cis-india-to-build-konkani-wikipedia/">entered</a> into a three year memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) for building the Konkani Wikipedia, which was launched 6 months later. Similarly in August 2014, former Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar <a href="http://www.medianama.com/2014/08/223-nitish-kumar-launches-biharonwikipedia-campaign-details-please/">launched</a> the ‘Bihar on Wikipedia’ campaign inviting people of the state to write about their villages, towns, and the unique culture of the state, its history, development over the years, eminent personalities and other important aspects of the state.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Wikipedia is currently available in 23 Indian languages including Tulu, Assamese, Bengali, Bhojpuri, Bishnupriya Manipuri, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Newari, Odia, Pali, Panjabi, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu. Note that in 2012, Wikipedians were <a href="http://www.medianama.com/2012/05/223-wikipedians-digitizing-out-of-copyright-text-in-eight-indian-languages/">digitizing</a> Indian language, out-of-copyright texts online, trying to address the comparative paucity of Indic language texts online.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Wikipedia Indic language stats</b>: As of June 2016, Wikipedia had 1<a href="https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/Sitemap.htm#comparisons">6 million page view per month</a> on the Hindi wiki, with overall 106,844 articles. This is not a significant increase. According to this August 2011 <a href="http://www.medianama.com/2011/11/223-wikipedia-in-indic-languages-32-95-million-pageviews-in-aug-2011-online-vs-mobile/">report</a>, there were 0.1 million Hindi articles on the platform, and 9 million overall views.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Ban for paid advocacy</b>: In September last year, the editors at the English Wiki <a href="http://www.medianama.com/2015/09/223-wikipedia-paid-advocacy-ban/">blocked 381 user accounts</a> for ‘black hat’ editing. The platform claims that these users were engaged in undisclosed paid advocacy, the practice of accepting or charging money to promote external interests on Wikipedia without revealing their affiliation, a violation of Wikipedia’s terms of use.</p>
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No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeTulu Wikipedia2016-08-09T13:56:00ZNews ItemIndia's 23rd Regional Wikipedia Launches
https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/ccm-august-8-2016-ranu-p-india-23-regional-wikipedia-launches
<b>A Tulu version has gone live on Wikipedia, making it the 23rd one in an Indian language to do so.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The blog post by Ranu P. was <a class="external-link" href="http://ccm.net/news/27625-india-s-23rd-regional-wikipedia-launches">published by CCM.net</a> on August 8, 2016. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja was quoted.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Tulu, an Indian language that is popular in the southern part of the country has received its own <a href="https://tcy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%AE%E0%B3%81%E0%B2%96%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%AF_%E0%B2%AA%E0%B3%81%E0%B2%9F" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a> version — for which over 100 editors created 1,100 articles. The announcement was made on Aug. 6 during the Chandigarh-based WikiConference India 2016 by Vishwanatha Badikana and Bharatesha Alasandemajalu, two community organizers who made an 8-year-old dream come true. The greatest hope is that the Tulu wiki will lend support to the struggling language, which is used by just over 2 million native speakers who largely reside in Karnataka. Some research even suggests that it is among the earliest of Dravidian languages, which would make it roughly 2,000 years old. <br /> <br />"After we became [sic] live, we will import articles from the 'incubator' site, build the 'village pump,' set up policies, administration structure, info boxes, and templates," said Dr. UB Panavaja, an engineer and a longtime supporter of regional language computing. In addition to the 23 already-launched Indian <a href="http://ccm.net/news/25190-wikipedia-publishes-forgotten-links" target="_blank">Wiki</a> versions, which include Bengali, Manipuri, Hindi, Nepali, Punjabi, and Urdu, there are another 18 Indian languages that are still in the incubator stage awaiting publishing.</p>
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No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeTulu Wikipedia2016-08-09T03:14:58ZNews ItemWikipedia now available in Tulu
https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/domain-b-august-8-2016-wikipedia-now-available-in-tulu
<b>In another boost to yet another Indian language, the Wikipedia in Tulu has gone live.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">This was published by <a class="external-link" href="http://www.domain-b.com/industry/Media/20160808_available.html">domain-b.com</a> on August 8, 2016. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja was quoted.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">The news was announced by two key community organisers on Saturday who helped to make an eight-year-dream come true, IANS reported.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Dr Vishwanatha Badikana, a PhD in Kannada literature in Mangalore (Karnataka) and Bharathesha, a mechanical engineer based in Muscat announced at the Wikiconference India 2016, India's second national Wikipedia meet in half a decade which is being held in Chandigarh this weekend.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Tulu, which is spoken by around 2 million speakers mostly in southwest Karnataka and in Kasaragod district of Kerala belongs to the family of Dravidian languages. According to some scholars, Tulu is among the earliest Dravidian languages with its roots going back some 2,000 years.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Wikipedia itself is available in 22 Indian languages, with Tulu becoming the 23rd. There are another one-and-half dozen Indian language Wikipedias under development at present. However, not all languages have an active wiki community.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Located at tcy.wikipedia.org, the Tulu Wikipedia had been in "incubation" since 2008 and the term was used to describe such online collaborately-crafted encyclopedias which were still waiting to go "live" or active and come online.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">It was reactivated around 2014, following some meetings and workshops and the concept was also showcased that year at a "World Tulu Conference" stall in December.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">"There are about 200 registered users (editors), out of which around 100 have more than 10 edits. On an average, there are about 8 to 10 active editors," Dr UB Pavanaja from the Bengaluru-based Centre for Internet and Society, Bengaluru, and one of the mentors of Tulu Wikipedia, told The Hindu newspaper.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">He further added that, "Vishwanatha Badikana, a Kannada professor, followed by Bharatesha Alasandemajalu, an engineer, are the highest contributors."</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">According to Pavanaja, the achievement would help create pressure on the government to include Tulu in the Eighth Schedule of Indian Constitution.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Wikipedia is available in 22 Indian languages including, Assamese, Bengali, Bhojpuri, Bishnupriya Manipuri, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Newari, Odia, Pali, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The inclusion of Tulu takes the count to 23.</p>
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No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeTulu Wikipedia2016-08-09T03:05:28ZNews ItemIndia's 23rd Regional Language Wikipedia Goes Live in Tulu
https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/indo-asian-news-service-ndtv-august-8-india-23-regional-language-wikipedia-goes-live-in-tulu
<b>The Tulu Wikipedia has just gone live, giving another boost to yet another ancient Indian language otherwise struggling to keep up with the times and speedily changing technology.</b>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Originally <a class="external-link" href="http://gadgets.ndtv.com/internet/news/indias-23rd-regional-language-wikipedia-goes-live-in-tulu-870353">published by Indo Asian News Service, the blog post was mirrored by NDTV</a> on August 8, 2016.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">The news was announced by two key community organisers on Saturday who helped to make an eight-year-dream come true. Dr Vishwanatha Badikana, a PhD in Kannada literature in Mangalore (Karnataka) and Bharathesha, a mechanical engineer based in Muscat, announced this while attending Wikiconference India 2016, India's second national <a href="http://gadgets.ndtv.com/tags/wikipedia">Wikipedia</a> meet in half a decade being held in Chandigarh this weekend.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Tulu is a language spoken by around two million native speakers mainly in southwest Karnataka and in Kasaragod district, Kerala. It belongs to the Dravidian family of languages. Some scholars suggest Tulu is among the earliest Dravidian languages with its roots going back some 2000 years.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Wikipedia itself is available in 22 Indian languages, with Tulu becoming the 23rd. There are another one-and-half dozen Indian language Wikipedias in the incubator stage at present. Not all languages have an active wiki community.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Located at <a href="http://tcy.wikipedia.org/" target="_blank">tcy.wikipedia.org</a>, the Tulu Wikipedia has been in "incubation" since 2008. This term is used to describe such online collaborately-crafted encyclopedias which are still waiting to to go "live" or active and come online.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Around 2014, it was reactivated. Following some meetings and workshops, the concept was also showcased that year at a "World Tulu Conference" stall in December of that year.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">After much work, some 1,100 articles (or 1,050 if one could ignore those which are not redirects) went live. There are currently about 100 editors who have made over 10 edits each.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">"Dr Vishwanatha and Bharathesha are the number one and number two contributors," said Dr UB Panavaja, a former scientist and techie and long-term supporter of Kannada computing. Pavanaja currently looks after the CMR (Creating Movement Resources) of the Bengaluru-based Centre for Internet and Society which works with some language groups to promote their Wikipedia presence.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">"After we became live, we will import articles from the 'incubator' site, build the 'village pump', set up policies, administration structure, info boxes and templates," said Pavanaja, describing the tools that any new Wikipedia needs to set up.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Scholars like the nineteenth missionary-linguist Bishop Robert Caldwell have called this language "peculiar and very interesting". According to him, "Tulu is one of the most highly developed languages of the Dravidian family. It looks as if it had been cultivated for its own sake."</p>
<p>The language has a lot of written literature and a rich oral literature such as the Epic of Siri, according to the Wikipedia itself.</p>
<p>In coastal Karnataka, both the Mangalore and Udupi areas today allow the language as an optional third-language in local schools.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">This role in schooling makes it all the more mandatory to create encyclopaedic texts in the language, say its Wikipedia promoters. Mangalore University also has a Tulu language chair while St Aloysius's Radio Sarang community radio station broadcasts daily in this tiny language and the local All India Radio also broadcasts in the language.</p>
<p>Some five Kannada language representatives and one from Tulu are presently in Mohali-Chandigarh attending Wikiconference India 2016.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Indian Wikipedias include Assamese, Bengali, Bhojpuri, Bishnupriya Manipuri, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Newari, Odia, Pali, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu, besides, now, Tulu.</p>
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No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeTulu Wikipedia2016-08-09T03:02:16ZNews Itemತುಳು ಭಾಷೆಯಲ್ಲೂ ಬಂತು ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ
https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/asianet-suvarna-news-august-7-2016-tulu-wikipedia-goes-live
<b>ಪಂಚ ದ್ರಾವಿಡ ಭಾಷೆಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಒಂದಾದ `ತುಳು' ಸಹ ಇದೀಗ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಾಗೆ ಎಂಟ್ರಿಯಾಗಿದೆ. ಭಾರತದ 23ನೇ ಪ್ರಾದೇಶಿಕ ಭಾಷೆಯ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಾ ತುಳು ಭಾಷೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಆರಂಭವಾಗಿದೆ.</b>
<p><span>ಈ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಾ ಸೃಷ್ಟಿಗೆ ಕಾರಕರ್ತರಾದ ಮಂಗಳೂರಿನ ಡಾ. ವಿಶ್ವನಾಥ ಬಡಿಕಾನ ಮತ್ತು ಮಸ್ಕತ್`ನ ಮೆಕಾನಿಕಲ್ ಇಂಜಿನಿಯರ್ ಭರತೇಶ ಈ ವಿಷಯವನ್ನ 2016ರ ವಿಕಿ ಕಾನ್ಫರೆನ್ಸ್`ನಲ್ಲಿ ಘೋಷಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ದಕ್ಷಿಣ ಕನ್ನಡ ಮತ್ತು ಕೇರಳದ ಕಾಸರಗೂಡಿನ ಸುಮಾರು 20 ಲಕ್ಷಕ್ಕೂ ಅಧಿಕ ಜನರಿಗೆ ತುಳು ಮಾತೃಭಾಷೆಯಾಗಿದೆ. ಪಂಚದ್ರಾವಿಡ ಭಾಷೆಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಒಂದಾದ ತುಳು ಭಾಷೆಗೆ 2000 ವರ್ಷಗಳಷ್ಟು ಇತಿಹಾಸವಿದೆ.</span></p>
<p><span>The news was published by <a class="external-link" href="http://archive.suvarnanews.tv/news/Karnataka/wikipedia-in-tulu-language-27883">Asianet Suvarna News</a> on August 7, 2016<br /></span></p>
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No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeTulu Wikipedia2016-09-23T00:22:53ZNews Itemತುಳು ಭಾಷೆಗೆ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ಮನ್ನಣೆ!
https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/mumbai-news-august-8-2016-tulu-wikipedia-goes-live
<b>ಮಂಗಳೂರು: ಇಂದಲ್ಲ ನಾಳೆ ಸಂವಿಧಾನದ ಎಂಟನೇ ಪರಿಚ್ಛೇದಕ್ಕೆ ಸೇರ್ಪಡೆಯಾಗುತ್ತದೆ ಎಂಬ ಆಶಯದಲ್ಲೇ ಇರುವ ಕರಾವಳಿಯ ತುಳು ಭಾಷೆಗೆ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ಮನ್ನಣೆ ನೀಡುವ ಮೂಲಕ ಜಾಗತಿಕ ಮಟ್ಟದಲ್ಲಿ ಗುರುತಿಸುವಂತಾಗಿದೆ.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ಫೌಂಡೇಷನ್ನ ವ್ಯವಸ್ಥಾಪಕ ನಿರ್ದೇಶಕಿ ಕ್ಯಾಥರಿನ್ ಮಹೆರ್ ಶನಿವಾರ ಪಂಜಾಬಿನ ಚಂಡೀಗಡದಲ್ಲಿ ನಡೆದ ‘ವಿಕಿ ಕಾನ್ಫರೆನ್ಸ್ ಇಂಡಿಯಾ-2016’ ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ರಮದಲ್ಲಿ ಈ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಅಧಿಕೃತವಾಗಿ ಘೋಷಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಇದುವರೆಗೆ ಇನ್ಕ್ಯುಬೇಟರ್ನಲ್ಲಿ ಇದ್ದ ತುಳು ಲಿಪಿಯನ್ನು ಈಗ ಲೈವ್ ಸ್ಥಾನಕ್ಕೆ ತರಲಾಗಿದೆ. ಅಂದರೆ ತುಳು ಜಾನಪದಕ್ಕೆ ಸಂಬಂಧಿಸಿ ಯಾವುದೇ ವಿಷಯ ಟೈಪ್ ಮಾಡಿದರೆ ಸಾಕು. ತಕ್ಷಣ ಸಮಗ್ರ ವಿವರ ಅನಾವರಣಗೊಳ್ಳುತ್ತದೆ.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">ಈಗಾಗಲೇ ತುಳು ಭಾಷೆಗೆ ಸಂಬಂಧಿಸಿದ 1,050 ಲೇಖನಗಳು ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಅಡಕವಾಗಿವೆ. ಸುಮಾರು 200 ಮಂದಿ ಲೇಖನ ಬರೆದಿದ್ದು, 100ಕ್ಕೂ ಅಧಿಕ ಮಂದಿ ತುಳು ಲೇಖನದ ಸಂಪಾದಕರಾಗಿದ್ದಾರೆ. 10ಕ್ಕೂ ಅಧಿಕ ಮಂದಿ ನಿರಂತರ ಲೇಖನ ಅಪ್ಲೋಡ್ ಮಾಡುತ್ತಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಬೆಂಗಳೂರಿನ ಸೆಂಟರ್ ಫಾರ್ ಇಂಟರ್ನೆಟ್ ಅಂಡ್ ಭಾರತೀಯ ಭಾಷೆಗಳ ಯೋಜನಾ ವ್ಯವಸ್ಥಾಪಕ ಡಾ. ಯು.ಬಿ.ಪವನಜ ಅವರ ಮಾರ್ಗದರ್ಶನದಲ್ಲಿ ಮಂಗಳೂರಿನ ಉಪನ್ಯಾಸಕ ಡಾ. ವಿಶ್ವನಾಥ ಬದಿಕಾನ ಮತ್ತು ಭರತೇಶ್ ಈ ಮನ್ನಣೆ ದೊರೆಯಲು ಶ್ರಮಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">2008ರಿಂದ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಕ್ಕೆ ತುಳು ಭಾಷೆಯನ್ನು ಸೇರಿಸುವ ಕಾರ್ಯ ಆರಂಭಗೊಂಡಿತ್ತು. ಇದರಲ್ಲಿ ಕನ್ನಡ ಲಿಪಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ತುಳು ಭಾಷೆಯನ್ನು ಬರೆಯಲಾಗಿದೆ. 2014 ಜನವರಿಯಿಂದ ತುಳು ಭಾಷೆಯ ಲೇಖನಗಳನ್ನು ಸೇರಿಸುವ ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ಕೆ ವೇಗ ಹೆಚ್ಚಿದೆ.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">This was <a class="external-link" href="http://mumbainewsworld.com/%E0%B2%A4%E0%B3%81%E0%B2%B3%E0%B3%81-%E0%B2%AD%E0%B2%BE%E0%B2%B7%E0%B3%86%E0%B2%97%E0%B3%86-%E0%B2%B5%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%95%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%AA%E0%B3%80%E0%B2%A1%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%AF-%E0%B2%AE%E0%B2%A8/">published by Mumbai News World</a> on August 8, 2016.</p>
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No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeTulu Wikipedia2016-09-23T00:01:44ZNews ItemIn Tulu, India's 23rd Regional Wikipedia Goes Live
https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/huffington-post-august-7-2016-naina-chaturvedi-in-tulu-indias-23-regional-wikipedia-goes-live
<b>In a major boost to ancient Indian languages, Tulu wikipedia has finally gone live.</b>
<p>The article by Naina Chaturvedi was <a class="external-link" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.in/2016/08/07/in-tulu-indias-23rd-regional-wikipedia-goes-live/">published in Huffington Post</a> on August 7, 2016. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja was quoted.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">According to a report in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/after-eight-years-tulu-wikipedia-goes-live/article8953527.ece" target="_blank"><i>The Hindu</i></a>, eight years after its launch, Tulu Wikipedia has gone live with over 1,000 articles.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The announcement was made by Katherine Maher, executive director, Wikimedia Foundation, USA, at the Wikiconference India 2016, India's second national Wikipedia meet in half a decade, held in Chandigarh on Friday.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">"There are about 200 registered users (editors), out of which around 100 have more than 10 edits. On an average, there are about 8 to 10 active editors," Dr. U.B. Pavanaja from the Bengaluru-based Centre for Internet and Society, Bengaluru, and one of the mentors of Tulu Wikipedia,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/after-eight-years-tulu-wikipedia-goes-live/article8953527.ece" target="_blank">told<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></a><i><a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/after-eight-years-tulu-wikipedia-goes-live/article8953527.ece" target="_blank">The Hindu</a>.</i></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">He further added that, "Vishwanatha Badikana, a Kannada professor, followed by Bharatesha Alasandemajalu, an engineer, are the highest contributors."</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The language is spoken by around two million native speakers, mainly in southwest Karnataka and in Kasaragod district, Kerala,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://indianexpress.com/article/technology/tech-news-technology/indias-23rd-regional-wikipedia-in-tulu-goes-live-2957854/" target="_blank"><i>The Indian Express</i></a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>reported.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Pavanaja, further explained how this achievement would help create pressure on the government to include<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/after-eight-years-tulu-wikipedia-goes-live/article8953527.ece" target="_blank">Tulu in the Eighth Schedule of Indian Constitution.</a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">"After we became live, we will import articles from the 'incubator' site, build the 'village pump', set up policies, administration structure, info boxes and templates,"<a href="http://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/india-s-23rd-regional-wikipedia-in-tulu-goes-live-116080600673_1.html" target="_blank">IANS quoted Pavanaja saying</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/india-s-23rd-regional-wikipedia-in-tulu-goes-live-116080600673_1.html" target="_blank">Wikipedia which is available in 22 Indian languages</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>include, Assamese, Bengali, Bhojpuri, Bishnupriya Manipuri, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Newari, Odia, Pali, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu, now, including Tulu making the count 23.</p>
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