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Wiki Loves Mayabazaar
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<div>On the 60th anniversary of the movie Mayabazar, Telugu Wikimedians celebrated <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Mayabazar">Wiki Loves Mayabazar</a>, an event to commemorate the cult Telugu film <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayabazar" target="_blank">Mayabazar.</a> As part of the celebrations, an edit-a-thon of the same name was held at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravindra_Bharathi" target="_blank">Ravindra Bharathi in Hyderabad. </a>Interestingly, the Cultural Department of Telangana Government sponsored the entire event. <br /><br />In
the Telugu speaking regions, there is a well-known appreciation of the
cinematic arts. Mayabazar, released in 1957 captured the imagination of
fans like no other film had before. Telugu Wikipedians decided to pay
tribute to the movie by improving articles and content related to it on
Telugu Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects.</div>
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edit-a-thon was held on 30 April, 2017 at the monthly Wikimitra Vedika
meetup of Telugu Wikipedians. A screening of the film took place
followed by discussions on references, citations, film studies and
articles related to the film. From 1 May 2017, the edit-a-thon took
place online. <br /><br />There were 15 participants of which only one member was female. Telugu Wikipedian, Kasyap hoped for more participation as this "is an interesting event."</div>
<p>However, the event was made popular by the wide ranging media coverage in print and electronic media.</p>
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<p>Media pieces on the event:</p>
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1. <span id="gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT147_com_zimbra_date" class="gmail-Object"></span><span id="gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT148_com_zimbra_url" class="gmail-Object"><a href="http://www.eenadu.net/andhra-pradesh-news-inner.aspx?category=home&item=%20ap-story6" target="_blank">‘మాయాబజార్’కు వినూత్న షష్టిపూర్తి</a></span>
<p> (Eenadu Newspaper; 1 May, 2017)</p>
2.‘మాయాబజార్’కు 60 ఏళ్లు.. వినూత్న షష్టిపూర్తి వేడుకకు సిద్ధమవుతున్న వికీపీడియన్లు! (Ap7am.com; 1 May 2017)Wiki Loves Mayabazaar
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No publisherPavan SanthoshCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaTelugu WikipediaOpenness2017-06-07T09:24:35ZBlog EntryTools orientation session for Telugu Wikimedians of Hyderabad
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<b>A tools orientation session is being organised on July 10 at Hyderabad during the regular monthly meetup. Telugu Wikimedians who would be interested to learn about advanced editing tools like citation templates and Twinkle are welcome to join.</b>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/events/tools-orientation-session-for-telugu-wikimedians-of-hyderabad'>https://cis-india.org/openness/events/tools-orientation-session-for-telugu-wikimedians-of-hyderabad</a>
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No publisherPavan Santhosh S.CIS-A2KWikipediaTelugu WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-08-17T14:35:54ZEventTools orientation for Telugu Wikimedians of Hyderabad
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/tools-orientation-for-telugu-wikimedians-at-hyderabad
<b>To help Wikimedians learn about essential tools that are used across Wikimedia projects, a tools orientation session was organised during the monthly meetup on July 10 at Hyderabad.</b>
Six Telugu Wikimedians; Murali Mohan, Pranayraj Vangari, Rajasekhar, Gullapalli Nageswara Rao, Santhosh Panjala and Sravani participated in this session. CIS-A2K member Pavan Santhosh facilitated this event. The major discussions were around <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_templates">Wikipedia citation templates</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Twinkle">Twinkle.</a>
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“After the training, I have started using the citation templates in a series of articles about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avadhanam">Avadhanam,</a>
<p> a literary performance in ancient India and I will use more in coming days. I have also suggedted for creating a thorough documentation about citation templates so that more Wikimedians could find them online” shares Murali Mohan, one of the participants.</p>
<p>Long time Wikimedian <a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rajasekhar1961">Rajasekhar</a> shares, “I am yet to use everything I learnt from this session. I wish I could have learnt these tools much. I also have shared the idea of connecting experienced Wikimedians with those who want to learn using fast online platforms. These could be using social-media based chat clients like WhatsApp or Facebook messenger or anything of that kind that many would otherwise use in life. This will also reduce the pain of the trainers to travel.” “Most tools, gadgets and extensions are available in English and many are not available in Telugu Wikipedia even though they are useful. It would be useful to have more sessions for us to know which of these these could be useful for us to use”, he adds.</p>
<p>More details about the event could be read <a href="https://goo.gl/QP2Lq1">here</a> in the event page.</p>
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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 EntryTewiki 10th Anniversary
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<b>Tewiki 10th anniversary celebration 2014, started on February 15 in Vijayawada at Kakaraparti Bhavanarayana College. It was co-organized by the Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) team and the Telugu Wikipedia community. Ch.Arjuna Rao expressed his happiness on Telugu Wikipedias completion of 10 years and 55000 articles in Telugu on the inauguration of decade celebrations. </b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The <a class="external-link" href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:Tewiki10/Documentation">full details are captured in the report published on the meta page</a>. The following is an abridged version of the same in English.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">The founding president of the Wikimedia India Chapter CH.Arjunarao , T.Vishnu Vardhan, Programme Director, CIS-A2K, President of the decade ceremonial committee BK Viswanath. K.B.N.college officials Sambasiva Rao, Rajith Kumar and Krishnamurthy inaugurated the function by Jyothi Prajwalana.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Talking on the occasion the chairman of Andhra Pradesh official languages commission Buddha Prasad said that 2014-15 must be declared as the year of the Telugu Wikipedia and to make the most of it by more exciting activities. Telugu Wikipedia has put in more efforts than governments and universities to the culture of the Telugu language. Many great personalities served Telugu language and culture were remembered in this occasion including Lakshmanrao, Mallampalli.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Telugu Computer: Past, Present, Future of the Convention</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Komarraju Laxmana Rao Visishta Wikipedian award-winner Veeven organised an awareness seminar. Veeven talked about how in 2004, a decade ago, the Internet Telugu writing, and reading had many problems, and how by the year 2014 they got eliminated in the sequence. He also touched upon the future development of the technology used in the Telugu language. He said that Microsoft Office, Libre Office, Adobe In Design, Adobe Photoshop, etc., will be used as the applications in Telugu. Today Telugu is expected to be used in mobile phones, i. Pods, and this justifies the use of Android in Telugu.</p>
<h3>Convention on Wikidata</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Rahmanuddin spoke about wikidata. He explained in detail how linking an article in all languages is the first step and linking diagrams and figures is the second step and showed participants that in the third stage classification is included. He explained it with examples of the mango tree and the word 'mother'. After this he showed how the link the particular article to the word. Thereafter he spoke about the app developed by Tamil students to link a particular word to the article and urged that people should start using these apps early on in their life as then only development in this field would be possible.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Experiences of Other Language Wikipedians</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Some Tamilians shared their experience in developing Tamil wiki. They said that government and other organisations have helped a lot in developing Tamil wiki. Government organisations helped a lot in filing data in digital form. Many educational institutions have take part in this project. Some even proposed that Tamil wiki might be made a part of the education for students. They said that they shared this info about Tamil wiki to various friends and organisations.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Odia wikipedian Mrutunjay said that they attached the voice app feature to help with pronounciation. They attached the Odiya files to English words so that it will be useful for easy search. He also mentioned that there is a lack of creative writers in Odisha and that they are trying to overcome this problem.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Malayalam wikipedian K.Manoj said that from wikisource Malayalam remains the topmost Indian language for obtaining various data from a specific language. He said that over 200 books and 800 articles were included in the Malayalam wiki. They organised the structure in such a way that students will be able to use it from a very early age. These books in wikisource were used by many students.Konkani wiki. Darsan said that in 2007 they started the Konkani wiki. Goa students made a significant contribution to the development of this project. They uploaded 290 articles till now and they are trying to digitalise konkani wiki and other projects to help them develop.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Making a substantial contribution to the Telugu Wikipedia Nisar Ahmed also spoke about the developments in Urdu Wikipedia. He came to share his experience with others. He said that Urdu language was born in India and in the globalized Urdu wikipedia there are only 2 or 3 Urdu wikipedians from India. He also spoke of the experiences of an article on national anthem and about the views of the Pakistani community.He further discussed about the difficulties in work caused by different countries, the available options and how to solve those problems and gain experiences.</p>
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<p>More pictures of the event can be found <a class="external-link" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Tewiki_10">here</a>.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/tewiki-10-anniversary'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/tewiki-10-anniversary</a>
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No publisherrahimAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaTelugu WikipediaOpenness2014-03-19T11:01:01ZBlog EntryTen Telugu Books Re-released Under CC-BY-SA 3.0 License
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<b>For the first time in the history of Indian books, 10 Telugu books by a single author were released under Creative Commons license (CC-BY-SA 3.0) on June 22, 2014 at 10 a.m. at Golden Threshold, Abids, Hyderabad.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The event was organised by the Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) team.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS-A2K has collaborated with Telugu Wikipedians in convincing Indu Gnaana Vedika to re-release 10 of their books under CC-BY-SA 3.0 license which is compatible with Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. Unlike the predominant digitization efforts (which only makes scanned images available), these books will be uploaded on Telugu Wikisource (<span><a href="http://www.te.wikisource.org/">www</a><a href="http://www.te.wikisource.org/">.</a><a href="http://www.te.wikisource.org/">te</a><a href="http://www.te.wikisource.org/">.</a><a href="http://www.te.wikisource.org/">wikisource</a><a href="http://www.te.wikisource.org/">.</a><a href="http://www.te.wikisource.org/">org</a></span>) and converted into Unicode (searchable) text. This will ensure that these books are freely read, both online and offline in various formats like PDF, epub, mobi, text, etc. This is a major milestone initiative by CIS-A2K to make the sum of all knowledge in Telugu freely available to all Telugus over the internet and is part of its <a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Draft_Work_plan_July_2014_-_June_2015/Telugu">Telugu language area plan</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Telugu Wikipedia has been in existence for 10 years and has 57000 articles on various topics. Telugu Wikisource is one of the sister projects of Wikipedia which has more than 9600 pages and 100 books, it is the largest online Unicode book library available today at the service of Telugu people.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">The Programme</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The event started with invocation by Indu Gnaana Vedika followed by introduction of Chief Guest and Guest of Honour.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The patron of Indu Gnaana Vedika, Sri Sri Sri Prabodhananda Yogeeswarulu presided over as the chief guest and N Rahamthulla, long time wikipedian and Special collector, Srisailam project, Kurnool was the guest of honour.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Addressing the gathering, Prabodhananda emphasised on the importance of availability of knowledge in ones own mother language, and also why knowledge should not be confined to books alone, but should be brought onto various platforms, internet being one among them. This would not only ensure wider reach for the books, but also enable the language to survive in the fast changing era.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Then, a <a class="external-link" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXKCeyZXlZo">video interview</a> of guest of honour, Rahamthulla was played, where he spoke about creation of new technical jargon in ones own mother language and how Telugu was being used as administrative language in his office among his subordinates.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Rahamthulla also spoke on the practices he brought into in his own office to adopt mother language at work and gave out suggestions that would effectively help all in adoption of mother language at work places with Telugu as an example.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">This was followed by Veeven’s talk on “End-User’s perspective of free licenses”, where he spoke about importance of open content, free software and free licenses.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Then, program director of CIS-A2K, T. Vishnu Vardhan spoke about the importance of creative commons licenses in the context of Indian languages in Internet. In his speech, Vishnu informed that there is enormous literature and content available in Indian languages which is unusable because of ignorance of licenses. He listed out guidelines that would help writers to have their work reach millions through releasing it under a free license.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Then, in a formal manner, the copyright holder of the books signed on the documents, specifying that the books are released under CC-BY-SA 3.0 license. In the tea break that followed, participants enquired experts on free licenses.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center; "><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/DSC06789.resized.JPG" title="Signed Agreement" height="459" width="614" alt="Signed Agreement" class="image-inline" /></p>
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<td style="text-align: center; ">Above: Prabodhananda handing over the signed agreement to Vishnu Vardhan (by Rahmanuddin Shaik, CC-BY-SA 3.0 License)</td>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">A Wikisource demonstration by Rahmanuddin Shaik was shown followed by Q & A session.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Then there was a panel discussion on “CC licenses” which saw participation from one each of a free license expert, writer and end user. This brought in awareness and more deeper thought into bringing in more literature in Telugu into CC licenses.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">An outcome of the event was:</p>
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<li>N Rahamthulla promised to re-release his books under CC license.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Mandali Buddhaprasad, Deputy Speaker, Andhra Pradesh legislative assembly, gave permission to release 4 of his books under CC license.</li>
<li>Several other writers have come forward to re-release their books under free licenses. </li>
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<p>Given below is the certificate signed by Sri Sri Sri Acharya Yogeeshwarulu giving permission to publish his works under CC-BY-SA 3.0 License:</p>
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<p>For additional details of the event, <a class="external-link" href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%A1%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BE:%E0%B0%B8%E0%B0%AE%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B5%E0%B1%87%E0%B0%B6%E0%B0%82/%E0%B0%87%E0%B0%82%E0%B0%A6%E0%B1%82_%E0%B0%9C%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9E%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A8_%E0%B0%B5%E0%B1%87%E0%B0%A6%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95_%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%B8%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%A4%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B2_%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%A8%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%A6%E0%B0%B2">click here</a>.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/ten-telugu-books-re-released-under-cc-by-sa-license'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/ten-telugu-books-re-released-under-cc-by-sa-license</a>
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No publisherrahimAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaTelugu WikipediaOpenness2014-07-08T05:29:39ZBlog EntryTelugu Wikisource Workshop
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/telugu-wikisource-workshop
<b>Recently, a Telugu Wikisource Workshop was conducted in Hyderabad between 22- 23 July, 2017</b>
<p>An introductory <a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/Telugu_Wikisource_Workshop">Wikisource workshop</a> was recently held for Telugu Wikipedians in Hyderabad. This event was held in conjunction with the NTR Trust, an organisation working towards socio-economic change in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.</p>
<div>Wikisource aims to build a library of source texts as well as translations. The workshop held between 22- 23 July was conducted for both existing Wikimedians and those new to the movement. Prior to the workshop, Telugu Wikipedians were consulted and were asked to take part in the event and provide their support. The participants were taught the basics of Wikisource and encouraged to contribute to it. They were given a tutorial on the entire process from uploading the book to completing it as an eBook. They were taught important aspects such as copyright, Creative Commons licenses as this would help them select books to upload on Wikisource.</div>
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<div>Says participant Sri Ramamurthy "I am contributing to Telugu Wikisource for a long time, regularly. I could learn how to do some important aspects of Telugu Wikisource like indexing a book and techniques like OCR in this event. This turned out to be a very useful event. As resource persons are from Telugu language and sessions were in Telugu, I could easily and quickly grasp things."</div>
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<div>Ten index pages were created during the event and 193 pages were uploaded onto Telugu Wikisource after the event. The event had only two female participants and eight male participants. CIS-A2K hopes to make more of a concerted effort to bridge this gap in participation between males and females.</div>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/telugu-wikisource-workshop'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/telugu-wikisource-workshop</a>
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No publisherPavan SanthoshTelugu WikisourceTelegu WikipediaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaTelugu WikipediaOpenness2017-08-16T08:40:55ZBlog EntryTelugu 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>
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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 ItemTelugu Wikipedia Winter Camp at Andhra Loyola College
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/telugu-wikipedia-winter-camp-at-andhra-loyola-college
<b>Students of physics, statistics and Telugu departments of Andhra Loyola College spent 5 days of their Christmas vacation of 2014 to edit and enrich Telugu Wikipedia and Wikisource. They worked on their respective subject areas and came up with more than 100 new articles on Telugu Wikipedia and about 300 pages of Veeresalingam's works were typed on Telugu Wikisource. </b>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span id="docs-internal-guid-7001bc56-0180-4b37-3473-0a5ddcc84e87">CIS-A2K has signed an </span><a href="http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/expanding-the-world-of-telugu-wikipedia-cis-and-alc-join-hands">MoU</a> with <a href="http://andhraloyolacollege.ac.in/">Andhra Loyola College</a> to make available free knowledge in Telugu to all Telugus across the globe. In this approoach, a two month camp was organised in the college campus. In continuation to the two month camp, 5 days of students' Christmas vacation were marked as Wiki Winter Camp at Andhra Loyola College. 5 students from each of Physics, Statistics and Telugu showed interest to attend the camp. By the time, camp began, there were not 15 but 41 students from various disciplines who attended the camp.</p>
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<td>Students and faculty who attended the camp. Source :<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ALC_Wiki_winter_camp_students.JPG">Wikimedia Commons</a><br /></td>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">For physics and statistics-department students, first day of the wiki winter camp involved students exploring English and Telugu Wikipedias, glancing through various reference websites such as JSTOR, IEEE Explorer, Google scholar, and their own textbooks in Telugu medium. New entrants created their user accounts on Telugu Wikipedia. Students got an essence of how an article on Wikipedia should look like, what should be there and what not. Few students came up with their own ray diagrams for physics (optics - mirrors) articles, uploaded them to Wkimedia Commons and then put them up in their articles. For some of the students, it was the first time they were typing in Telugu, and they felt very curious and excited. The rest of the three days students added about <a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%A1%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BE:%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%9C%E0%B1%86%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9F%E0%B1%81/%E0%B0%86%E0%B0%82%E0%B0%A7%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0_%E0%B0%B2%E0%B1%8A%E0%B0%AF%E0%B1%8B%E0%B0%B2_%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B3%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B6%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B2/%E0%B0%AD%E0%B1%8C%E0%B0%A4%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B6%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B8%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%A4%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%82">103 articles on Telugu Wikipedia on physics</a>, and <a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%A1%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BE:%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%9C%E0%B1%86%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9F%E0%B1%81/%E0%B0%86%E0%B0%82%E0%B0%A7%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0_%E0%B0%B2%E0%B1%8A%E0%B0%AF%E0%B1%8B%E0%B0%B2_%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B3%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B6%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B2/%E0%B0%B8%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%82%E0%B0%96%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%95_%E0%B0%B6%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B8%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%A4%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%AE%E0%B1%81#.E0.B0.95.E0.B1.8A.E0.B0.A4.E0.B1.8D.E0.B0.A4_.E0.B0.B5.E0.B1.8D.E0.B0.AF.E0.B0.BE.E0.B0.B8.E0.B0.BE.E0.B0.B2.E0.B1.81">a 10 articles on statistics</a>. By the end of 5 days camp, faculty and co-ordinator for physics, Dr. Sahaya Bhaskaran expressed happiness at his students' work, he affirmed that one can learn his respective subject only if he understands it in his native language, and if he could reproduce that in his native language, he would remember for long.</p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; ">For Telugu students the five-day camp was fun typing in works of Kandukuri Veeresaingam. First day, students who were new entrants learnt to type in Telugu, and were introduced to the Wikisource platform. In all, they typed about 300 pages of a compilation of Veeresalingam's works. Sri Kola Sekhar, faculty of Telugu a ALC and co-ordinator for Telugu wiki winter camp said he was confident of making students type entire Veeresalingam works in a year's time.</p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; ">At the end of the 5 day camp, students were given a review of their work, and students felicitated with certificates.</p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; ">Convener for the camp, Dr. B. Sivakumari, who is also a Wikipedia co-ordinator for Botany, expressed her gratitude to CIS-A2K team for organising the program.</p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; ">This event has also contributed in achieving the 60,000+ article count landmark at Telugu Wikipedia and 10,000+ pages landmark at Telugu Wikisource.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/telugu-wikipedia-winter-camp-at-andhra-loyola-college'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/telugu-wikipedia-winter-camp-at-andhra-loyola-college</a>
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No publisherrahimAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaTelugu WikipediaOpenness2015-02-26T02:27:05ZBlog EntryTelugu Wikipedia struggles to stay afloat
https://cis-india.org/news/the-hindu-july-27-2014-renuka-phadnis-telugu-wikipedia-struggles-to-stay-afloat
<b>For a language that is spoken by 10 crore people, content is sparse.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The article by Renuka Phadnis was <a class="external-link" href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/telugu-wikipedia-struggles-to-stay-afloat/article6255003.ece">published in the Hindu</a> on July 28, 2014. T. Vishnu Vardhan gave his inputs.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Sujatha, a Chennai-based homemaker, has set for herself the task of updating the Telugu Wikipedia with details of all the districts in Andhra Pradesh.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">“I asked others but no one joined me in adding ‘edits’. They said they were too busy,” she says.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">For a language that is spoken by 10 crore people, including a tech-savvy population, content in the 11-year-old Telugu Wikipedia is sparse and growing slowly with 20,000 articles added in the last one decade.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">T. Vishnu Vardhan, Programme Director, Access to Knowledge Programme of Bangalore-based Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), said Telugu Wikipedia was lagging behind its other Indian-language counterparts despite there being no other content repository in Telugu.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The reason is not lack of writers in the language. There are 1,000 to 2,000 active Telugu bloggers writing on topics ranging from poetry to politics. In fact, the Telugu Wikipedia was started by such bloggers.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">But they are reluctant to contribute to the Telugu Wikipedia and prefer blogging because they can see their names after adding the content. Rahimanuddin Shaik, Programme Officer and system operator for Telugu Wikipedia at CIS, said, “You could call it the ‘identity crisis’ of Telugu Wikipedia writers.”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">In 2006-07, an attempt was made to induce content in the Telugu Wikipedia by injecting 30,000 ‘articles’ by a bot, a Python-based script. They were one-liners about villages in Andhra Pradesh, introduced with the expectation that people would add more content. That effort did trigger 5,000 articles.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Later, in 2013, the Telugu Wikipedia became more collaborative and Hyderabad University associated itself with it by hosting Telugu Wikipedia events on its Golden Threshold campus.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/news/the-hindu-july-27-2014-renuka-phadnis-telugu-wikipedia-struggles-to-stay-afloat'>https://cis-india.org/news/the-hindu-july-27-2014-renuka-phadnis-telugu-wikipedia-struggles-to-stay-afloat</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaTelugu WikipediaOpenness2014-07-28T07:46:10ZNews ItemTelugu Wikipedia stall at Vijayawada Book Festival
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/telugu-wikipedia-stall-at-vijayawada-book-festival
<b>The Telugu Wikipedia community put up a stall at the Vijayawada Book Festival in January, in order to increase reach of the regional language encyclopaedia.</b>
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<p>Last in a series of book stalls set up across the Telugu-speaking region, the Telugu community set up shop at the 27th Vijayawada Book Festival from 3 to 11 January 2017 at the PWD Grounds. The community had previously set up similar book stalls in <a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/telugu-wikipedia-stall-at-rajahmundry-book-fair-1">Rajahmundry </a>and <a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/telugu-wikipedia-stall-at-hyderabad-book-fair">Hyderabad</a>. Considered one of the largest book festivals in India with deep-rooted cultural significance in the Telugu literary circles, the Telugu community aims to increase the reach and visibility of Telugu Wikipedia through the setting up of this stall. </p>
<p>The book festival, open for the public from 11 am to 11 pm, was inaugurated by Kendra Sahitya Akademi winner <a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachapalem_Chandrasekhara_Reddy">Rachapalem Chandrasekhar Reddy</a>, with a collection of 235 stalls to browse from. The festival was organised in partnership with the <a class="external-link" href="http://www.ap.gov.in/about-ap/language-culture/">Andhra Pradesh Department of Language and </a><a class="external-link" href="http://www.ap.gov.in/about-ap/language-culture/">Culture</a><a class="external-link" href="http://www.ap.gov.in/about-ap/language-culture/"> </a>and <a class="external-link" href="http://ntrtrust.org/">NTR Trust</a>. The stall was set up by Telugu Wikipedia community members with support from CIS-A2K and NTR Trust. </p>
<p> More than 150 individuals were engaged through this event. Interested members of public would receive follow-up through "Know-How" videos of Telugu Wikipedia. This provides basic information regarding editing and contributing to Wikipedia and its sister projects. They would also receive invitations to offline events taking place in Vijayawada in the future. </p>
<p> Telugu Wikipedia editor <a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Pranayraj1985">User:Pranayraj1985</a> said of his experience in talking to the public about Telugu Wikipedia, "I learnt a lot about what people know about Wikipedia and what they didn't know. In general, many of the visitors exclaim when they [come to] know, there is Wikipedia in Telugu language. But, in contrast, here in Vijayawada, we could at least find handful of people who knew there is something called Telugu Wikipedia.</p>
<p> <em>The link to the events page on meta can be found <a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/2017/Stall_in_Vijayawada_Book_Festival">here</a>.</em></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/telugu-wikipedia-stall-at-vijayawada-book-festival'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/telugu-wikipedia-stall-at-vijayawada-book-festival</a>
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No publisherPavan SanthoshCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaTelugu WikipediaOpenness2017-04-15T16:23:32ZBlog Entry Telugu Wikipedia Stall at Rajahmundry Book Fair
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/telugu-wikipedia-stall-at-rajahmundry-book-fair-1
<b>Telugu Wikipedia community put up a stall at the three day Rajahmundry Book Fair from 20 - 23 November 2016. </b>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The initi<span class="highlightedSearchTerm">at</span>ive was supported by <a href="http://cis-india.org/">The Centre for Internet and Society </a>and <a href="http://ntrtrust.org/">NTR Trust</a>. The <span class="highlightedSearchTerm">stall</span> was run by long time community advoc<span class="highlightedSearchTerm">at</span>es and editors of <span class="highlightedSearchTerm">Telugu</span> <span class="highlightedSearchTerm">Wikipedia</span>. The volunteers distributed pamphlets and explained to the visitors the basics of editing <span class="highlightedSearchTerm">Wikipedia</span>. They distributed a survey to understand current topics of interest in order to upd<span class="highlightedSearchTerm">at</span>e the <span class="highlightedSearchTerm">Telugu</span> wiki pages. Some visitors utilized the expertise of the volunteers and set up <span class="highlightedSearchTerm">Wikipedia</span> accounts <span class="highlightedSearchTerm">at</span> the <span class="highlightedSearchTerm">stall</span>s.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The <span class="highlightedSearchTerm">book</span> <span class="highlightedSearchTerm">fair</span> in the river side city didn’t see many takers this time round considering the move to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Indian_banknote_demonetisation">demonetise</a> was announced the previous week. The organizers had not made altern<span class="highlightedSearchTerm">at</span>ive payment arrangements <span class="highlightedSearchTerm">at</span> such short notice. Volunteer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Pranayraj1985">Pranay Raj</a> said, “although there were uncontrollable factors <span class="highlightedSearchTerm">at</span> play, the city has gre<span class="highlightedSearchTerm">at</span> potential and <span class="highlightedSearchTerm">Telugu</span> <span class="highlightedSearchTerm">Wikipedia</span> plans to expand its editor base in the city through institutional partnerships from schools and colleges.”</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/telugu-wikipedia-stall-at-rajahmundry-book-fair-1'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/telugu-wikipedia-stall-at-rajahmundry-book-fair-1</a>
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No publishermanasa@cis-india.orgCIS-A2KTelugu WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2017-02-06T12:48:36ZBlog EntryTelugu Wikipedia Stall at Hyderabad Book Fair
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/telugu-wikipedia-stall-at-hyderabad-book-fair
<b>Telugu Wikipedia community put up a stall at the Hyderabad Book Fair in December welcoming members of the public to join as editors on the regional encyclopaedia. </b>
<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">The <a href="https://te.wikipedia.org">Telugu Wikipedia</a> community put up a stall at the 30th edition of the Hyderabad Book Fair from 15th to 26th December, 2016 at the NTR Stadium. Supported by <a href="http://cis-india.org/">The Centre for Internet and Society</a>, the volunteers were long time Telugu Wikipedia community members. They helped visitors <a href="http://www.wikihow.com/Create-a-Wikipedia-Account">set up Wikipedia accounts</a> and become editors on the free access encyclopedia. They also spoke to the visitors and explained how Wikipedia works and the collaborative efforts undertaken by various language communities in maintaining the regional language wiki pages. Additionally, a survey was conducted to find out what topics of interest are currently trending among the public. The Telugu Wikipedia community aims to take this feedback into consideration in order to update the topics they frequently edit.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">Some visitors seemed interested in attending upcoming Wikipedia events and workshops. The organisers welcomed interested members of the public to attend the Hyderabad Wikipedia Monthly meetup on 22nd January, 2017.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/telugu-wikipedia-stall-at-hyderabad-book-fair'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/telugu-wikipedia-stall-at-hyderabad-book-fair</a>
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No publishermanasa@cis-india.orgCIS-A2KTelugu WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2017-02-06T12:48:09ZBlog EntryTelugu Wikipedia Education Program at Andhra Loyola College, Vijayawada
https://cis-india.org/openness/events/telugu-wikipedia-education-program-at-andhra-loyola-college-vijayawada
<b>In collaboration with Andhra Loyola College (ALC), Vijayawada, Access to Knowledge programme (CIS-A2K) of the Centre for Internet and Society is opening up a Wikipedia Digital Centre in the college so that students and local Wikimedians could grow Wikipedia and other Wikimedia content in Telugu and other Indian languages. To begin with this, a two-day long Wikipedia Education Program is also being initiated which will continue to grow further by expanding local content on Wikipedia.</b>
<p>As part of this two-day programme 40 undergraduate students (10 each from Botany, Statistics,
Physics and Telugu) will be taking part and will be creating articles in their respective subjects in four languages; Telugu, Hindi, Malayalam and Tamil.</p>
<p>On the 13th a Wikipedia Digital Centre will be opened at ALC. G Umamaheswara Rao of Centre for Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies (CALTS) lab, University of Hyderabad will be joining as the chief guest. This lab will have 10 computers and will be jointly managed by the CIS and ALC where the student-Wikipedians and the local Wikimedia community could conduct regular Wikipedia outreach programmes. Joining in this event are principal of the institution Fr. Kishore, Professsor
Sivakumari from Department of Botany, Professor Sahayabaskaran, Department of Physics, and Professor
Kola Sekhar, Department of Telugu. On behalf of CIS-A2K, Rahmanuddin Shaik and Pavan Santosh will be participating and facilitating the Wikipedia Education Program and the inauguration of the lab.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/events/telugu-wikipedia-education-program-at-andhra-loyola-college-vijayawada'>https://cis-india.org/openness/events/telugu-wikipedia-education-program-at-andhra-loyola-college-vijayawada</a>
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No publisherPavan SantoshCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeMalayalam WikipediaTelugu WikipediaHindi Wikipedia2016-01-13T07:51:13ZEventTelugu Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at ALC
https://cis-india.org/openness/news/telugu-wiki-edit-a-thon-at-alc
<b>The Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team conducted an edit-a-thon at Andhra Loyola College on August 6, 2015. Eenadu published a report.</b>
<p><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/eenadunews.png" alt="null" class="image-inline" title="Eenadu" /></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/news/telugu-wiki-edit-a-thon-at-alc'>https://cis-india.org/openness/news/telugu-wiki-edit-a-thon-at-alc</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaTelugu WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-06-18T18:11:50ZNews ItemTelugu Wikipedia Day 2015: Eenadu Coverage
https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/telugu-wikipedia-day-2015-eenadu-coverage
<b>Telugu Wikipedians conducted history photowalk in Dr. YSR state archaeological museum to celebrate Telugu Wikipedia Day 2015 on December 13, 2015. Pavan Santosh supported the community as a representative from CIS-A2K</b>
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<p>Below is the media coverage of the event published by leading newspaper Eenadu (Hyderabad edition) on December 13, 2015.</p>
<p><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/Eenadu.jpg/@@images/a1d4f1b7-078d-44f5-b38e-083e80049f4b.jpeg" alt="null" class="image-inline" title="Eenadu Coverage" /></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/telugu-wikipedia-day-2015-eenadu-coverage'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/telugu-wikipedia-day-2015-eenadu-coverage</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KTelugu WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-01-05T06:33:51ZNews Item