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Tulu Wikipedia gets some push
https://cis-india.org/openness/news/hindu-businessline-december-13-2014-tulu-wikipedia-gets-some-push
<b>Tulu Wikipedia, which was launched in 2007, is still in incubation stage, according to UB Pavanaja, Programme Officer at the Bengaluru-based Centre for Internet and Society. </b>
<p class="body" style="text-align: justify; ">The article was <a class="external-link" href="http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/states/tulu-wikipedia-gets-some-push/article6689108.ece">published in the Hindu Businessline</a> on December 13, 2014</p>
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<p class="body" style="text-align: justify; ">Speaking at a technical session on ‘Tulu in technology’ as part of Global Tulu Festival in Mangaluru on Saturday, he said that now some push has been given for reviving Tulu Wikipedia.</p>
<p class="body" style="text-align: justify; ">Workshops on Tulu Wikipedia were conducted in March, April and November this year. The number of Tulu articles in Wikipedia was 135 in January 2014. It has increased to around 750 now, he said.</p>
<p class="body" style="text-align: justify; ">Referring to the lack of encyclopaedic knowledge in Tulu language, he said there is a need to give push for creating encyclopaedic knowledge in Tulu in such a situation.</p>
<p class="body" style="text-align: justify; ">Steps should be taken to contribute entries for Tulu Wikipedia regularly to keep it live. Those who work for Tulu Wikipedia should meet regularly to discuss future course of action.</p>
<p class="body" style="text-align: justify; ">He said that Wikipedia entries in Tulu language can be made under the URL <a href="http://bitly.com/tuluwiki">http://bitly.com/tuluwiki</a></p>
<p class="body" style="text-align: justify; ">A live Tulu Wikipedia will help bring pressure on the Government to include Tulu in the Eighth Schedule of the India Constitution, he said.</p>
<p class="body" style="text-align: justify; ">Tulu-speaking people can request for including the Tulu script in Unicode, if there is a live Tulu Wikipedia, he added.</p>
<p class="body" style="text-align: justify; ">It may be mentioned here that works in Tulu language are prominently written in Kannada script, as Tulu script has not gained acceptability.</p>
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No publisherpraskrishnaOpennessTulu WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2014-12-27T15:20:04ZNews ItemTulu Wikipedia Editathon to Improve Quality of Articles in Tulu Wikipedia
https://cis-india.org/a2k/events/tulu-wikipedia-editathon-to-improve-quality-of-articles-in-tulu-wikipedia
<b>The Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) organized a Wikipedia editathon for improving Tulu Wikipedia. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja conducted the sessions.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Dr. Kishore Kumar Rai, Principal of Shri Ramakrishna PU College, who himself is an active Tulu and Kannada Wikipedian provided the lab for this activity. Any Wikipedian (Tulu/Kannada) can walk-in and make use of the lab to edit Wikipedia. He has also procured more than 100 Tulu books from Tulu Sahitya Academy which will be kept there for reference.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Agenda</h3>
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<li>Improve the quality of articles in Tulu Wikipedia</li>
<li>Increase the length of short articles</li>
<li>Add inter-wiki links</li>
<li>Add references</li>
<li>Add images</li>
<li>Add categories</li>
<li>Improve language</li>
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<p>The event will continue in June. More details can be <a class="external-link" href="https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/tcy/ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ:ಕಜ್ಜಕೊಟ್ಯ-೮">accessed here</a>.</p>
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No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KEventAccess to KnowledgeTulu Wikipedia2016-05-07T15:43:42ZEventTulu Wikipedia edit-a-thon in Mangalore
https://cis-india.org/openness/events/tulu-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-in-mangalore
<b>This edit-a-thon is aimed to encourage more Tulu speakers to contribute to Tulu Wikipedia which is currently in incubator. The edit-a-thon is being organised by the Tulu Wikimedia community in Mangalore.</b>
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No publisherpavanajaWikimediaTulu WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-06-18T18:06:28ZEventTulu 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 ItemTulu Wikipedia - Coverage in Vijaya Karnataka
https://cis-india.org/openness/news/tulu-wikipedia-december-15-2014-coverage-in-vijaya-karnataka
<b>This is the coverage in Vijaya Karnataka on December 15.</b>
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No publisherpraskrishnaOpennessTulu WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2014-12-27T16:36:09ZNews ItemTulu Wikipedia (Coverage in VijayaVani)
https://cis-india.org/openness/news/tulu-wikipedia-coverage-in-vijayavani
<b>Media coverage in Vijayavani.</b>
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No publisherpraskrishnaOpennessTulu WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2014-12-27T16:30:57ZNews ItemTulu Wiki may go live soon as writers work day and night
https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/tulu-wiki-may-go-live-soon-as-writers-work-day-and-night
<b>An article about Tulu Wikipedia progress was published in the Times of India, Mangaluru edition on April 30, 2016.</b>
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No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeTulu Wikipedia2016-05-03T02:17:10ZNews 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 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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No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeTulu Wikipedia2016-08-22T02:43:08ZNews ItemPreserving 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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No publishersubhaCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeTulu Wikipedia2016-09-07T15:35:43ZBlog EntryNow, Tulu set to be promoted through Wikipedia articles
https://cis-india.org/openness/news/the-hindu-november-24-2014-govind-d-belgaumkar-now-tulu-set-to-be-promoted-through-wikipedia-articles
<b>With the dream of including Tulu in the list of official languages of the country (eighth schedule of the Constitution) remaining far from being realised, enthusiasts seem to be keen to promote the language through Wikipedia.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The article by Govind D. Belgaumkar was <a class="external-link" href="http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/now-tulu-set-to-be-promoted-through-wikipedia-articles/article6629007.ece">published in the Hindu</a> on November 24, 2014.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Beginning on Wednesday, a three-day convention at Sahyadri College will ideate to find means to achieve this goal with the Karnataka Tulu Academy leading the initiative.<br /><br />The convention will focus on writing Wikipedia articles in Tulu.<br /><br />Nearly 30 students, mostly from Canara College and some from Aloysius College, and some teachers from Bantwal have registered for the event.<br /><br />The plan is to ensure that about 25-30 people keep writing in Tulu on Wikipedia.<br /><br />Some students from the Government Girls PU College in Udupi had already been contributing articles in Tulu, according to the academy’s registrar Chandrahas Rai.<br /><br />He hoped that the activity would help to pressure authorities to include Tulu in the eighth schedule of the Constitution.<br /><br />The convention comes ahead of the mega Tulu event – Tuluvere Parba planned in December – and it is hoped that it would awaken the Tulu spirit among the people of the region.<br /><br />The resource person will be Wikipedia representative and Bengaluru-based Programme Manger, Indian Languages, The Centre for Internet and Society Sri Pavanaja U.B..<br /><br />Mr. Rai said the articles need to be written regularly to keep the language alive on the platform otherwise it would be notified as inactive.<br /><br />The convention will be inaugurated by Shivaram Shetty, professor in Mangalore University’s SVP Kannada Study Centre.<br /><br />President of the academy Janaki Brahmabar, president of Bantwal Tulukuta A.C. Bhandary and Tuluvere Parba’s chief convenor Kadri Navaneet Shetty will be present.<br /><br />Others who are expected to take part include Mangaluru Tulukuta President Damodar Nisarga, General Secretary of Tuluvere Parba Nitte Shashidhar Shetty.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/news/the-hindu-november-24-2014-govind-d-belgaumkar-now-tulu-set-to-be-promoted-through-wikipedia-articles'>https://cis-india.org/openness/news/the-hindu-november-24-2014-govind-d-belgaumkar-now-tulu-set-to-be-promoted-through-wikipedia-articles</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaOpennessTulu WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2014-12-06T01:23:43ZNews ItemMore articles for Tulu Wikipedia
https://cis-india.org/openness/news/the-hindu-ravi-prasad-kamila-more-articles-for-tulu-wikipedia
<b>In all, 100 more articles will be uploaded to the Tulu Wikipedia by teachers and students in Udupi shortly, according to Janaki M. Brahmavara, president, Karnataka Tulu Sahitya Academy.</b>
<p class="body" style="text-align: justify; ">The article by Ravi Prasad Kamila was <a class="external-link" href="http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/more-articles-for-tulu-wikipedia/article6976954.ece">published in the Hindu</a> on March 10, 2015.</p>
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<p class="body" style="text-align: justify; ">She told <i>The Hindu</i> that more than 700 articles have been uploaded to the Tulu Wikipedia, which is still in its incubation stage, by different persons now.</p>
<p class="body" style="text-align: justify; ">Last year, the academy had conducted a training programme on uploading contents to Wikipedia for students at Mahatma Gandhi Memorial College, Udupi. In all, 17 students had been trained.</p>
<p class="body" style="text-align: justify; ">Now three teachers of Government Girls’ Pre-University College, Nagaraja, Dayananda and Yadava Karkera, have come forward to upload 100 articles with the help of 17 trained students, at the government pre-university college which had computer facilities.</p>
<p class="body" style="text-align: justify; ">The articles would be on varied subjects like culture, life, places. She said that the academy has set a target of ensuring 1,000 articles on Wikipedia shortly.</p>
<p class="body" style="text-align: justify; ">U.B. Pavanaja, Wikipedia representative and programme officer, said The Centre for Internet and Society, Bengaluru, uploading contents to the Tulu Wikipedia had begun since 2007.</p>
<p class="body" style="text-align: justify; ">If one wants to write articles in Tulu, he or she would have to log on to bilty.com/tuluwiki and register there to write, edit or read articles written in Tulu using Kannada script.</p>
<p class="body" style="text-align: justify; ">Ms. Janaki said that some college teachers have also begun uploading contents to Tulu Wikipedia now.</p>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaOpennessTulu Wikipedia2015-04-05T04:33:02ZNews 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 Entry India's 23rd regional Wikipedia, in Tulu, goes live
https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/business-standard-august-6-2016-india-23-regional-wikipedia-in-tulu-goes-live
<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.
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<p>Originally published by IANS, it was <a class="external-link" href="http://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/india-s-23rd-regional-wikipedia-in-tulu-goes-live-116080600673_1.html">mirrored by Business Standard</a> on August 6, 2016.</p>
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<p>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 <a class="storyTags" href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=India" target="_blank">India </a>2016, India's second national Wikipedia meet in half a decade being held here this weekend.</p>
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<p>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>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>Located at tcy.wikipdia.org, 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>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>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>"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>"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>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>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>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>
<p>(Frederick Noronha can be contacted at fredericknoronha1@gmail.com)</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/business-standard-august-6-2016-india-23-regional-wikipedia-in-tulu-goes-live'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/business-standard-august-6-2016-india-23-regional-wikipedia-in-tulu-goes-live</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeTulu Wikipedia2016-08-07T10:31:21ZNews 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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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/ccm-august-8-2016-ranu-p-india-23-regional-wikipedia-launches'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/ccm-august-8-2016-ranu-p-india-23-regional-wikipedia-launches</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeTulu Wikipedia2016-08-09T03:14:58ZNews Item