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Wikipedian Pavan Santhosh says Telugu Wikipedians are creating Knowledge revolution (in Telugu)
https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/andhra-jyoti-december-12-2016-telugu-wikipedians-are-creating-knowledge-revolution
<b>Pavan Santhosh said that Telugu Wikipedians are creating a knowledge revolution in Telugu. On Sunday, December 12, 2016, in Golden Threshold, Abids, Telugu Wikipedians celebrated Telugu Wikipedia day. Telugu Wikipedians Pranay Raj and Meena Gayathri who successfully completed 100 Wikidays challenge successfully were given mementos and cut a cake on this occassion.
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<p>Clipping of the article that appeared in Andhra Jyoti on December 12, 2016:<br /><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/AndhraJyothi12thDec.jpg/@@images/9a570cf6-a8b7-4717-89cb-a331525cab3d.jpeg" alt="Andhra Jyoti" class="image-inline" title="Andhra Jyoti" /></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/andhra-jyoti-december-12-2016-telugu-wikipedians-are-creating-knowledge-revolution'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/andhra-jyoti-december-12-2016-telugu-wikipedians-are-creating-knowledge-revolution</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KTelugu WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-12-17T01:35:04ZNews ItemWikipedia is a Newspaper
https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/namaste-telangana-december-11-2016-wikipedia-is-a-newspaper
<b>Coverage about Mini MWT and TTT first day. News item also explains about Telugu Wikipedia and its growth. Mentioned some of the participants and organizers Pranay, Katta Srinivasa Rao, Kasyap, etc.</b>
<p>Clipping of the article as it appeared in Namaste Telangana on December 11, 2016:</p>
<p><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/NamasteTelangana11thDec.jpg/@@images/8bd4be5c-67be-496d-bbab-d7fea4d2ad39.jpeg" alt="Namaste Telangana" class="image-inline" title="Namaste Telangana" /></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/namaste-telangana-december-11-2016-wikipedia-is-a-newspaper'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/namaste-telangana-december-11-2016-wikipedia-is-a-newspaper</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaTelugu WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-12-17T01:27:21ZNews ItemMini TTT and MWT conducted in Hyderabad, India
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/mini-ttt-and-mwt-conducted-in-hyderabad-india
<b>Mini Train-the-Trainer and MediaWiki Trainer program was conducted on 10 and 11 December 2016 in Hyderabad. 15 Wikipedians from 4 cities of Andhra pradesh and Telangana 2 Indic Wikimedia communities participated in the event. Here is a report.</b>
<p>The 2016 iteration of mini Train-the-Trainer (TTT) and MediaWiki training (MWT) was conducted on 10 and 11 December 2016 at Golden Threshold, Hyderabad. Train-the-Trainer and MediaWiki training are two of the biggest annual national events conducted by CIS-A2K. The first program attempts to groom leadership skills among Indian Wikimedians, and in the second event Indian Wikimedians are taught about MediaWiki, Wikipedia tools, scripts, gadgets and technical things. Following the national-level annual event state-level or city level iterations of the program are conducted.</p>
<p>In this year’s Hyderabad mini TTT and MWT, 15 Wikimedians from 4 cities of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana - Hyderabad, Vijayawada, West Godavari, and Visakhapatnam participated. It is unfortunate that only 1 among the 15 participants was female. 14 of the participants were Telugu Wikimedians, and 1 was from Bengali Wikimedia community. CIS-A2K representative Tito Dutta, from Bangalore, participated in the event as a resource person. Rahmanuddin Shaik, a Telugu Wikimedia administrator Rahmanuddin Shaik attended as a technical resource person. Another CIS-A2K representative Pavan Santhosh was the co-ordinator and also a trainer during the event. 3 student Wikipedians from Andhra Loyola College, Vijayawada participated in the training.</p>
<p>On 10 December, the first day of the event, these topics were discussed:</p>
<ol><li>Editing Wikipedia with Visual editor (mainly for new editors)</li><li>Enablings different options in the Wikipedia preference page, including Wikipedia skins, gadgets such as HotCat, Navigation pop up; (mainly for new editors)</li><li>Conducting a program: group discussion: pre-event activities, conducting an event, post-event activities, preparing report, reimbursement process, Global Metrics;</li><li>General discussion and knowledge sharing on topics like Wikimeetup, education program.</li></ol>
<p>On 11 December, the second day of the event, these topics were discussed:</p>
<ol><li>Wikipedia articles structure, and different Manual of Style topics</li><li>Wikipedia tools, gadgets;</li><li>Wikimedia Foundation new grant structure and different grant options</li><li>Introduction to Wikidata and Wikidata tools such as Wikidata game</li><li>Discussion on Telugu Wikipedia’s workplan</li></ol>
At the end of the event two Telugu Wikipedians a) <a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pranayraj1985">User:Pranayraj1985</a> and b) <a class="external-link" href="https://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:Meena_gayathri.s">User:Meena_gayathri.s</a>, who completed 100wikidays challenge recently, were congratulated and felicitated.
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<h2>Image source</h2>
<ul><li>Source:<a class="external-link" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Telugu_Wikipedia_Mini_Wiki_Trainer_(TTT)_03.jpg"> Wikimedia Commons</a>. author: <a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pranayraj1985">User:Pranayraj1985</a>, license: CC SA 4.0 International<br /></li></ul>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/mini-ttt-and-mwt-conducted-in-hyderabad-india'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/mini-ttt-and-mwt-conducted-in-hyderabad-india</a>
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No publisherduttaTrainingTrain-the-trainer (TTT)Mediawiki training (MWT)WikipediaTelugu Wikipedia2016-12-15T05:28:44ZBlog EntryImproving Telugu Village Articles
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/improving-telugu-village-articles
<b>Telugu wikipedians on 6 October 2016 held a discussion on improving the quality of Telugu articles. The event was organized by IIIT, Hyderabad, CIS-A2K and OpenGeo.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify;">A possible collaboration between Wikipedia and free and open source enthusiasts and environmental groups was explored at the meeting. Subodh Kulkarni and Pavan Santhosh made a presentation about Wikipedia. The participants were from different groups such as SOUL (Save Our Urban Lakes), OpenGeo.org (organization that works for open source mapping) and Sweccha (organization working to expand free software movement in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh).</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Prof. Madhav Gadgil moderated a discussion on how these organizations could collaborate for different Wikimedia projects. The discussion primarily revolved around improving ongoing Telugu village articles.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Prof. Gadgil stressed on compiling articles using reliable and verifiable sources. He also urged the participants to upload geo-tagged photos to Commons especially photos of lakes of which the authorities have denied existence. The discussion also focused on the synergy between OpenGeo and Wikipedia.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Post-lunch, Prof. Gadgil delivered a lecture on “Human Knowledge: An Evolutionary Perspective in IIT”. Prof. Gadgil explained that the next big leap in evolution of human knowledge is free knowledge in which everyone can contribute and utilize which was Wikipedia. He urged the scholars and students to contribute to Wikipedia which is the future for knowledge society.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Telugu and English wikipedians including Vinay, Lubna Sarwath, Undavalli Ravikumar, Raju and many more participated in the event.<br /><br /></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/improving-telugu-village-articles'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/improving-telugu-village-articles</a>
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No publisherPavan SanthoshWikimediaWikipediaTelugu WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-11-26T02:27:39ZBlog EntryMaking Telugu Suitable for Internet
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/ammanudi-september-6-2016-making-telugu-suitable-for-internet
<b>In brief, the article speaks of steps in making a language other than English suitable for Internet and computers, what input methods, fonts and content are available in Telugu as on date and what challenges are ahead in making language fully available on Internet and in computers.</b>
<p><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/Article.jpg" alt="Telugu Article" class="image-inline" title="Telugu Article" /></p>
<p>Click to download the <a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/Ammanudi%20my%20article.pdf" class="internal-link">file here</a></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/ammanudi-september-6-2016-making-telugu-suitable-for-internet'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/ammanudi-september-6-2016-making-telugu-suitable-for-internet</a>
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No publisherrahimCIS-A2KTelugu WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-09-06T14:21:49ZBlog EntryA workshop to improve Telugu Wikipedia articles on Nobel laureates
https://cis-india.org/openness/a-workshop-to-improve-telugu-wikipedia-articles-on-nobel-laureates
<b>Many articles about Nobel laureates are missing in the Telugu Wikipedia. Recently undergraduate students from four different disciplines of the Andhra Loyola College (ALC), Vijayawada gathered to create and improve articles related to Nobel laureates.</b>
<p>Spanned for three days—from August 16 through 18—54 students from the department of Telugu, Botany, Statistics and Physics edited articles related to Nobel laureates, improved the content quality and inserted images that were already there in Wikimedia Commons. There was a great balance of equal participation in the number of female and male students. During this sprint 124 existing articles on Telugu Wikipedia were improved and 118 of them saw images being added. Though it was challenging for me to manage so many participants, I was partly successful in mentoring some of the students who in turn helped their friends with basic editing.</p>
<p>Apart from educating the students about editing Wikipedia, I demonstrated about digitising “Kavitvatattva Vicharam”, a book authored by by Kattamanchi Ramalinga Reddy in 1913 and is considered as the first modern literary criticism in Telugu literature, on Telugu Wikisource. Some of the students tried to proof-read the book for the first time.</p>
There is a plan laid out to work with a small subset of these participating students again for different kind of academic-centric projects like the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QRpedia">QRpedia</a> project. To keep the activity more regular, the students are are creating the missing Botany-related articles. We are hoping to work with remaining students at least once in every quarter.
A few recommendations for bettering the students’ understanding of Wikipedia and the community that Telugu Wikipedian <a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Chaduvari">User:Chaduvari</a> had shared earlier came quite useful during this event. Based on his inputs I did my best elaborating the [Wikipedia] project structure and community dynamics to the new editors. Another long time Wikimedian <a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rajasekhar1961">Rajasekhar</a> followed up on the Wikisource activity remotely. B. Manikantha, a students from the Arts department shares, “Until now I always had a notion that Wikipedia might be some sort of entertainment website where we can listen to music and play games. But after attending this workshop I could understand how great it is as a learning platform. Also I learnt about one of our professors<a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%97%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%AE%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%AE%E0%B0%BE_%E0%B0%B8%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%82%E0%B0%AC%E0%B0%B6%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B5%E0%B1%81"> Dr. Gumma Sambashivarao</a> who is a noted author, and how the articles about more such authors could be made available online in our language.” “It was fun translating articles in my favourite subject—war. I’m hoping to continue my contributions further”, he adds.
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More details in the <a href="http://goo.gl/8EjA1C">event page</a> on Telugu Wikipedia.
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/a-workshop-to-improve-telugu-wikipedia-articles-on-nobel-laureates'>https://cis-india.org/openness/a-workshop-to-improve-telugu-wikipedia-articles-on-nobel-laureates</a>
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No publisherPavan SanthoshTelugu WikisourceCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopTelugu Wikipedia2016-09-12T15:01:15ZBlog EntryCampaign for relicensing copyrighted books under Creative Commons licenses
https://cis-india.org/openness/campaign-for-relicensing-copyrighted-books-under-creative-commons-licenses
<b>A campaign has been started to relicense Telugu-language books of several noted authors from "all rights reserved" to Creative Commons Share-Alike (CC-BY-SA) license.</b>
<p>This
campaign was started on June 19 and copyright migration process is
complete for 17 books so far. Once the copyright migration is over
the books—ranging from historical figures and popular personalities
to regional history—are going to be digitised on Wikisource.<br /><br /></p>
<h4 class="western">
List of books and their authors</h4>
<p><strong>Author:
</strong>Gadam
Gopala Swamy<strong><br />Book:
</strong><a href="https://te.wikisource.org/wiki/సూచిక:Pachima_Godavari_Jillalo_Mahatmuni_sancharam-Gadam_Gopalaswamy.pdf"><u>Paschima
Godavari Jillalo Mahatmuni Sancharam</u></a>,
a historical account on Gandhi's travels and the way he spread his
ideology in and around this area.<strong><br />Significance:
</strong>This
can be used in improving articles related to the history of villages
of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Godavari_district"><u>West
Godavari district</u></a>.
Swamy is going to publish his <em>magnum
opus</em>
on
the national movement in West Godavari along with another
biographical work about the notable people of the district.</p>
<blockquote>
<p><em>"I
dedicate these works to all the people of the West Godavari
district. All my efforts will be useful even if one person [from
West Godavari] reads these works, learns what their ancestors lived
for and died for [in the national independence movement] and tries
to be responsibly contribute to the society. I find this could only
be possible through placing it in digital platform like Wikisource."
</em><br />- Dr. Gadam Gopala Swamy, historian, former professor</p>
</blockquote>
<p><strong>Author:
</strong>Kanuri
Badarinadh (Historian, Novelist and Journalist)<strong><br />Books:
</strong>Biographies,
short biographies like <em>Tanuku
Talukulu</em>,
<em>Yarra
Narayana Swamy Jeevitha Charitra</em>,
Local Histories like <em>Panara
Vishayamu</em>,
<em>Maa
doothikapuramu</em>,
collection of articles on historical, cultural, social and art like
<em>Kasyapa
Vyasalu</em>,
<em>Antharvani</em>,
<em>Badareenadheeyam</em>,
<em>Lochoopu</em>,
<em>Annavi
anukonnavi</em>,
<em>Vyasa
Badarikam</em>,
historical fiction like <em>Kavi
garu</em>,
<em>Koutilyuni
Nireekshanam</em>.<strong><br />Priority:
</strong>These
Books can be used as resources to create articles about notable
personalities of West Godavari district, several important persons
and events in Andhra pradesh politics and history. Can improve
articles related to West Godavari district, especially about the
history sections in the village articles.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>“<em>I
don't want these works to be in bookshelf and get wasted by termites.
My wish as an author and researcher is to make these works available
to future historians who can make use of it, so that our people get
to know the local history” <br /></em>
- Kanuri Badarinadh, historian, novelist and journalist. Badarinadh has
donated some of his books.</p>
</blockquote>
<p><strong>Author:
</strong>Katta
Srinivasa Rao, historian, Wikipedian and poet<strong><br />Book:
</strong><em>Ganapeswaralayam,
</em>a
historical account of temples of historical importance that were
built in Kusumanchi of Khammam district in Telangana. These temples
flourished under the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakatiya_dynasty"><u>Kakatiya
dynasty</u></a>’s
reign.<strong><br />Priority:
</strong>Katta
Sriniavasa Rao is one of the first line Telangana historians who are
working to rebuild Telangana’s History. This work is result of his
research. It contains valuable content about Ganapeswara Temple and
gives a glimpse of the sculpture, history and society under
Kakatiya dynasty in Khammam.</p>
<p><strong>Author:
</strong>Vemuri
Venkateswara Rao<strong><br />Book:
</strong><a href="https://te.wikisource.org/wiki/సూచిక:Ramanujan_Nundi_Etu_Atu_by_Vemuri_Venkateswararao.pdf"><em><u>Ramanujan
Nundi atu itu</u></em></a><em>,
</em>a
book about mathematician <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan"><u>Srinivasa
Ramanujan</u></a>
and
his works in mathematics<br /><strong>Priority:
</strong>Like
many other Indian languages, Telugu also has a lower number of books
related to science and mathematics especially in the contemporary
context.
This
book is about Ramanujan Numbers, formulas and a few more works. It
also has description about contemporary mathematics built upon
Ramanujan's work. This can be used to improve mathematics related
articles in Telugu Wikipedia.</p>
<p><strong>Author:
</strong>Yasaswi
Sateesh Kumar<strong><br />Books:
</strong><a href="https://te.wikisource.org/wiki/సూచిక:TellakagitaM.pdf"><em><u>Okkamata</u></em></a><em>,</em>
contains
brief poetic pen portraits that explains about contemporary Telugu
poets, <em>Tellakagitam
</em>is
anthology of Telugu poet Yasaswi’s poetry.<strong><br />Priority:
</strong>Photos
of many contemporary Telugu poets and brief descriptions about them
are now under CC-BY-SA 4.0 license. These can be used in Wikipedia
articles about notable poets.</p>
<p><strong>Author:
</strong>Emma
Rauschenbusch Clough<strong><br />Translator:
</strong>Vivina
Murthy<strong><br />Book</strong>:
<em>Cheppulu Kuduthu
Kuduthu </em>is a
translation of Emma Rauschenbusch Clough’s English book “<em>While
sewing sandals</em>”.
The English book was released in 1899 and is in Public Domain. The
Telugu book was translated by Vivina Murthy and was published in
2007 by Manasu Foundation. As the translator had rights on his
translated work, he released it under CC-BY-SA 4.0 license to make
it freely available to all on our request.<strong><br />Priority:
</strong>Historical
record especially about Christianity in coastal Andhra Pradesh,
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalit"><em><u>dalit</u></em></a><em>s</em>
in 19th century.</p>
<p><strong>Author:
</strong>Gurajada
Apparao<strong><br />Book</strong>:
<em>Gurujadalu </em>is
a compilation of all the works Gurajada Apparao -- he is considered
as one of the greatest literary figures of modern Telugu literature.
The book was edited and published by the efforts of Manasu
Foundation and its associates. Apparao’s works are under Public
Domain already as per the Indian Copyright Law,. But the critical
introduction and some of the translations included in the book were
copyrighted by Manasu foundation which they released under CC-BY-SA
4.0 license. This move will help digitize them on Wikisource and
make them freely available to Telugu people.<strong><br />Priority:
</strong>Even Though some of
the works of Apparao got digitized on Wikisource, this can showcase
his complete literary journey with bringing a vast set of reading
for the Telugu readers.</p>
<p>All
of these books were released or agreed to be released under a
CC-BY-SA 4.0 license in June and July 2016. Some of these books were
digitized on Wikisource, and the proofreading is going on currently.
Some of the the remaining books being scanned and some are uploaded
on Wikimedia Commons. The ones that have been <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cheppulu_Kudutu_Kudutu.pdf"><u>uploaded</u></a>
on
Commons are being <a href="https://te.wikisource.org/wiki/సూచిక:Ramanujan_Nundi_Etu_Atu_by_Vemuri_Venkateswararao.pdf"><u>indexed
and digitized</u></a>
on
Wikisource.</p>
<p>The
news about all of these license migrated books was shared with the
[Telugu Wikimedia] community, and also personally with some of the
community members like Rajasekhar, Sri Ramamurthy, Gullapalli
Nageswara Rao, Bhaskara Naidu, and a few others who supported in
various stages of digitization like indexing, proofreading, etc.</p>
<blockquote>
<p><em>"I
wish this contribution will go forward in the same way and help
making Telugu Wikisource number one in entire Indic Wikisources. I
will support this work wherever you need and please ask my help
whenever necessary. Definitely we can collaborate."<br /></em>-
User:Rajasekhar1961, Telugu Wikimedian</p>
</blockquote>
<p><strong>The
list of the books can also be located on the</strong><a href="https://te.wikisource.org/wiki/వాడుకరి:Pavan_santhosh.s/cc-by-sa_re-licensed_works_in_2016"><u>
</u><u><strong>Telugu
Wikisource.</strong></u></a></p>
<p> </p>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/campaign-for-relicensing-copyrighted-books-under-creative-commons-licenses'>https://cis-india.org/openness/campaign-for-relicensing-copyrighted-books-under-creative-commons-licenses</a>
</p>
No publisherPavan Santhosh S. & Subhashish PanigrahiTelugu WikisourceCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaTelugu Wikipedia2016-09-20T12:43:29ZBlog 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>
<p>
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>
</p>
No publisherpraskrishnaTelugu WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-08-26T16:16:43ZNews ItemTools orientation session for Telugu Wikimedians of Hyderabad
https://cis-india.org/openness/events/tools-orientation-session-for-telugu-wikimedians-of-hyderabad
<b>A tools orientation session is being organised on July 10 at Hyderabad during the regular monthly meetup. Telugu Wikimedians who would be interested to learn about advanced editing tools like citation templates and Twinkle are welcome to join.</b>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/events/tools-orientation-session-for-telugu-wikimedians-of-hyderabad'>https://cis-india.org/openness/events/tools-orientation-session-for-telugu-wikimedians-of-hyderabad</a>
</p>
No publisherPavan Santhosh S.CIS-A2KWikipediaTelugu WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-08-17T14:35:54ZEventTelugu Wikipedians create Articles on Punjab in Telugu Wikipedia
https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/telugu-wikipedia-articles-on-punjab-media-coverage
<b>Telugu Wikipedians created articles on Punjab in a national level contest. Telugu Wikipedians received a trophy during the closing ceremony of Wiki conference India at Chandigarh.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Telugu Wikipedians created more than 450 articles about Punjab in Telugu Wiki and shared their experiences with English and Malayalam Wikpedians. Along with Pranay Raj, Pavan santhosh worked in co-ordination and Viswanadh in organizing support for this edit-a-thon. Venkata Ramana, Meena Gayathri, Ravi Chandra, Pavan Santhosh, Murali Mohan, Sujatha, Sultan Khadar, Viswanadh, Bhaskara Naidu, Manikantha, Rahmanuddin, Rajasekhar and few others participated in this edit-a-thon and created Punjab related articles such as Punjab cuisine, Punjabi language, history of Sikhism, Punjabi way of dressing, Punjabi dialects and many such aspects. Telugu Wikipedians also made a presentation on the various developments in Telugu Wikipedia.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Media Coverage</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Telugu regional press covered the Punjab edit-a-thon and about the Telugu Wikipedia winning the trophy. The Centre for Internet and Society provided support by releasing an open press note that could be edited by the Wikipedia community in Village pump for press relations.</p>
<table class="grid listing">
<tbody>
<tr>
<th>Coverage in Sakshi</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p style="text-align: center; "><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/Presscoverageinsakshi.jpg" alt="Sakshi" class="image-inline" title="Sakshi" /></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>Coverage in Eenadu</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/Presscoverageineenadu.jpg" alt="Eenadu" class="image-inline" title="Eenadu" /></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/telugu-wikipedia-articles-on-punjab-media-coverage'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/telugu-wikipedia-articles-on-punjab-media-coverage</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KTelugu WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-08-12T14:02:20ZNews ItemTools orientation for Telugu Wikimedians of Hyderabad
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/tools-orientation-for-telugu-wikimedians-at-hyderabad
<b>To help Wikimedians learn about essential tools that are used across Wikimedia projects, a tools orientation session was organised during the monthly meetup on July 10 at Hyderabad.</b>
Six Telugu Wikimedians; Murali Mohan, Pranayraj Vangari, Rajasekhar, Gullapalli Nageswara Rao, Santhosh Panjala and Sravani participated in this session. CIS-A2K member Pavan Santhosh facilitated this event. The major discussions were around <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_templates">Wikipedia citation templates</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Twinkle">Twinkle.</a>
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“After the training, I have started using the citation templates in a series of articles about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avadhanam">Avadhanam,</a>
<p> a literary performance in ancient India and I will use more in coming days. I have also suggedted for creating a thorough documentation about citation templates so that more Wikimedians could find them online” shares Murali Mohan, one of the participants.</p>
<p>Long time Wikimedian <a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rajasekhar1961">Rajasekhar</a> shares, “I am yet to use everything I learnt from this session. I wish I could have learnt these tools much. I also have shared the idea of connecting experienced Wikimedians with those who want to learn using fast online platforms. These could be using social-media based chat clients like WhatsApp or Facebook messenger or anything of that kind that many would otherwise use in life. This will also reduce the pain of the trainers to travel.” “Most tools, gadgets and extensions are available in English and many are not available in Telugu Wikipedia even though they are useful. It would be useful to have more sessions for us to know which of these these could be useful for us to use”, he adds.</p>
<p>More details about the event could be read <a href="https://goo.gl/QP2Lq1">here</a> in the event page.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/tools-orientation-for-telugu-wikimedians-at-hyderabad'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/tools-orientation-for-telugu-wikimedians-at-hyderabad</a>
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No publisherPavan Santhosh STelugu WikisourceCIS-A2KTelugu WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-08-17T14:58:57ZBlog EntryOnline edit-a-thon on incidents in Telugu
https://cis-india.org/openness/online-edit-a-thon-on-incidents-in-telugu
<b>A week-long online edit-a-thon was organised by the Telugu Wikipedia community to cover popular social, political and other events on the Telugu Wikipedia.</b>
<p id="docs-internal-guid-48b40866-dab2-a573-76cc-57c303b7e69a" dir="ltr">Long time Telugu Wikipedians <a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kvr.lohith">Venkata Ramana</a>, <a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%9A%E0%B0%82%E0%B0%A6%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0">Ravi Chandra</a>, <a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rajasekhar1961">Dr. Rajasekhar</a>, <a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:%E0%B0%B8%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%B2%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B8%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95">Kodihalli Muralikrishna</a> and <a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Pranayraj1985">Pranay Raj</a> organised an online edit-a-thon during May 1-May 7 to chronicle events of all kinds<span class="st">—</span>from social to political and everything old and new<span class="st">—</span>that are notable. <a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Pavan_santhosh.s">I (Pavan Santosh)</a> also joined them all in organising this event. 25 articles were created during the event and over the campaign week. The articles were enhanced with more citations and information.</p>
<p dir="ltr">We reached out to two of the organisers to learn about this project and below are what they had to say.</p>
<p class="callout" dir="ltr"><strong>Subhashish Panigrahi (SP)</strong>: Can you please share how you came up with the idea of organising this event? What are the future plans to take this project to the larger Telugu Wikimedia community?<br /><strong>Ravi Chandra (RC)</strong>: The idea of organizing an edit-a-thon for events on Telugu wikipedia came up when I was chatting with Pavan Santhosh about the progress of Telugu Wikipedia. He had also heard similar comments from other Wikipedians. We knew that we were concentrating more on people, places and movies in general. We wanted to pick up a topic which we have not focused much in the past. That's how it was born.</p>
<p class="callout" dir="ltr"><strong>SP</strong>: Did you see anything in particular lacking in Telugu Wikipedia that helped start this project?<br /><strong>RC</strong>: I think the biggest challenge in our community is the lack of editors. The kind of articles we created during this event could have been written better by history scholars from different universities of Andhra Pradesh and Telengana. I feel that we should reach out to more people from diverse background so that we get more contributors.</p>
<p class="callout" dir="ltr"><strong>Pavan Santhosh (PS)</strong>: Why did you participate in this edit-a-thon?<br /><strong>Venkata Ramana (VR)</strong>: I joined in this event to improve articles in Telugu WIkipedia especially related to incidents.</p>
<p class="callout" dir="ltr"><strong>PS</strong>: Where do you see one such initiative adding value to Telugu Wikipedia?<br /><strong>VR</strong>: There are several articles related to incidents in English Wikipedia, that too related to India. But there is a gap in Telugu Wikipedia. For example, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karamchedu_massacre">Karamchedu massacre</a> is one of the very important incidents in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalit">Dalit</a> history and there was no article in Telugu Wikipedia until this edit-a-thon happened. Similarly, this event kickstarted chronicling of several such important incidents in Telugu Wikipedia.Within a short span of one week we have covered some of the very significant incidents.</p>
<p class="callout"><strong>PS</strong>: What was your collective learning? Can you please share some of your future plans?<br /><strong>VR</strong>: Edit-a-thons like this help community recognise some major gaps in content. And community members feel encouraged to work together to fill the gaps. I have seen the impact of edit-a-thons based on incidents, movies and now <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_India/Events/Punjab_Edit-a-thon">Punjab</a>. Going forward, we are planning to conduct a few thematic edit-a-thons as this edit-a-thon and a few ones in the past have proved to be very effective on community building.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/online-edit-a-thon-on-incidents-in-telugu'>https://cis-india.org/openness/online-edit-a-thon-on-incidents-in-telugu</a>
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No publisherSubhashish Panigrahi and Pavan SanthoshCIS-A2KTelugu Wikipedia2016-07-11T16:23:12ZBlog EntryDeveloping Open Educational Resources in Indian Languages
https://cis-india.org/openness/developing-open-educational-resources-in-indian-languages
<b>The Centre for Indian Languages in Higher Education (CILHE), Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), in collaboration with the Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) programme at the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), has been involved in organising workshops on developing open educational resources (OER) in Indian languages with undergraduate and postgraduate students across various partner institutions. The objective of these workshops is to introduce students to: a) tools of collaborative knowledge production on the Internet, and b) methods for generating new online content in Indian languages.</b>
<p id="docs-internal-guid-6a5cf4f0-34dc-8053-8ba7-e604a4aef120" dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; ">During November 2015 - February 2016, four such workshops have been organised at TISS’ Mumbai and Tuljapur campuses, <a href="http://www.srtt.org/casestudies/Pune_University_Case_Study%20-%202.pdf">Krantijyoti Savitribai Phule Women's Studies Centre</a> (KSPWSC), Pune University, and at the <a href="http://www.efluniversity.ac.in/">English and Foreign Languages University</a> (EFLU), Hyderabad.</p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; ">A one and half day workshop was organised at KSPWSC, Pune during January 22-23, 2016. A total of 20 students attended this workshop along with three faculty members from the Centre. This workshop is a part of CILHE's ongoing and sustained engagement with KSPWSC to generate and strengthen content pertaining to women's studies on the <a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/">Marathi Wikipedia</a>.</p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; "><strong>Pune</strong><br />On Day 1, after the opening address by Dr. Anagha Tambe from KSPWSC, Sohnee Harshey from CILHE, TISS spoke about the importance of creating open educational resources in Indian languages for social sciences and humanities. She sought responses from participants about the nature of their engagement with their research areas—which languages they used while collecting data, whether they had accessed reading material in languages other than English, and what were their sources of information. All the participants had used languages other than English in their learning process, some had even accessed Indian language Wikipedias, and all of them felt the need for more resources in Indian languages—especially in simpler and more accessible formats. Tanveer Hasan from CIS then spoke about the utility of Wikipedia for knowledge consumers and its immense potential for students to become knowledge producers, especially in the Indian languages.</p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; ">In order to familiarize the participants with social sciences (specifically women's studies) terminology in Indian languages, an exercise was conducted, wherein they were asked to describe a concept (from a given list) without using the term itself. The idea behind this was to highlight what function a concept performs in a sentence and in the language context, and what assumptions are made while using this concept. This was followed up with another exercise where the participants were encouraged to choose two concepts and explain their denotation and connotation. This was done in order to familiarise them with the web of other concepts in which a concept is located. The concept of ‘labour’ or ‘shram’ (in Marathi) was chosen for discussion.</p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; ">On Day 2 of the workshop, Abhinav Garule, Programme Associate with A2K-CIS, introduced the participants to the basics of Wikipedia editing through a hands-on activity. They navigated through both the English and Indian language Wikipedias to see how the edit, talk, and view history functions work, what the key characteristics of a good article are, and how one can read more about a certain topic through interwiki and external links and categories. This was interspersed with recalling the exercises done on the previous day and comparing the critical thinking process involved.</p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; ">Since one of the simpler ways to populate Indian language Wikipedias is through translation of existing content in English, participants were encouraged to try this with an entry of their choice. They were asked to also list difficulties that they faced in the process of translation. At the end of this exercise, a range of ‘problems’ like lack of appropriate terminology for complex concepts, the dangers of oversimplification, differences between languages in terms of the structure of sentences, and lack of references in Indian languages, were highlighted by the participants. While they were still thinking about these problems, another challenge was put forth for them to look at two conflicting or opposing references for a topic (for example, a movie review, or reporting around an event) and come up with a ‘neutral’ write-up about it. Questions of what constitutes a valid reference, issues of plagiarism, personal opinion, codes of civility on Talk pages formed part of this discussion.</p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; ">Following this, the participants chose one topic (each) on which they wished to create a Wikipedia article in an Indian language. Most of the participants worked on the Marathi Wikipedia. They worked in groups of 3-4 to edit and create a range of articles including ones on patriarchy, colonialism, masculinity, family, and tribes, among others. A total of 12 entries were created in this workshop. Participants also explored Wikimedia Commons, Meta, and Wikisource as allied repositories. The students have now become active as knowledge producers and will join the existing group of editors at KSPWSC in the wiki-sprints to generate new content every month.</p>
<p><strong>Hyderabad: </strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Similar exercises were also conducted during the two-day workshop at EFLU, Hyderabad in February 2016. The participants worked on the Malayalam, Telugu, and Hindi Wikipedias. Articles were written on geographical entities like Tamil Eelam and West Godavari district, on academic figures like M.S.S. Pandian and Maxine Berstein, academic and literary works such as My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk and Towards a World of Equals by Susie Tharu, among other topics. Since creating an article from scratch also involved deliberation regarding issues of translation, and the limits of concepts and their meanings in the Indian context, it is hoped that these new editors will find it useful for their own research to think critically about the process of generating content on the Indian language Wikipedias.</p>
<p class="discreet"><em>* Sohnee Harshey works at the</em><em> Centre for Indian Languages in Higher Education, Tata Institute of Social Sciences. Article edited by Subhashish Panigrahi of CIS-A2K.<br /></em></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/developing-open-educational-resources-in-indian-languages'>https://cis-india.org/openness/developing-open-educational-resources-in-indian-languages</a>
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No publisherSohnee Harshey*CIS-A2KMalayalam WikipediaMarathi WikipediaTelugu WikipediaHindi Wikipedia2016-06-10T01:50:22ZBlog 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 EntryInternational Mother Language Day
https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/eenadu-february-21-2016-international-mother-language-day
<b>On 21 February 2016, Eenadu published a special story on the occasion of International Mother language day in Hyderabad edition. The special story covered Wikipedians effort to develop Encyclopedic content online and also about multi-lingual (English-Telugu) Wikipedians meetup organized in December 2015. </b>
<p><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/InternationalMotherlanguageday.jpg/@@images/13138b95-ecd7-4541-875a-ca0872db2ac8.jpeg" alt="International Mother Language Day" class="image-inline" title="International Mother Language Day" /></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/eenadu-february-21-2016-international-mother-language-day'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/eenadu-february-21-2016-international-mother-language-day</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KTelugu WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-02-27T06:17:37ZNews Item