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Telugu Wiki Academy at Centre for Good Governance
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/telugu-wiki-academy-at-centre-for-good-governance
<b>An account of the Telugu Wiki Academy organized for the staff of Centre for Good Governance, Hyderabad on April 9, 2013 at their Jubilee Hills premises.</b>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">This was planned as a pre-event to <i>Telugu Wiki Mahotsavam 2013</i>. Senior Wikipedian and administrator on <a class="external-link" href="http://te.wikipedia.org">Telugu Wikipedia</a>, <a class="external-link" href="http://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF:Arjunaraoc">Arjuna Rao Chavala</a> had built a useful contact with a staff at <a class="external-link" href="http://www.cgg.gov.in/">Centre for Good Governance (CGG)</a>, Hyderabad. Once Arjuna had planned to come for the Telugu Wiki Mahotsavam, he touch based with CGG and explored the possibility of organizing a Wiki Academy for their staff in Hyderabad. CGG primarily works with government departments and other stakeholders on issues of governance, identifying solutions, help government in developing actionable plans and support the implementation of these plans. CGG has majorly worked as a think tank for the government of Andhra Pradesh, since its inception and has also worked with other state governments in India and brings together the power of knowledge, technology and people. Arjuna, <a class="external-link" href="http://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF:%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%B9%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%AE%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A8%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%A6%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%A6%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%A8%E0%B1%8D">Rahmanuddin Shaik </a>(Telugu SIG Chair) and <a class="external-link" href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Visdaviva">T. Vishnu Vardhan</a> (from <a class="external-link" href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge">CIS-A2K</a>) undertook this Academy and another Wikipedian <a class="external-link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Pavithrans">Pavithran</a> joined the event</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Karthik Subramanian, Programme Officer at CGG had organized for meeting with the Assistant Director of the CGG. During the meeting with the Assistant Director, we explained to him about the many possibilities of using Wikipedia as an open knowledge and information platform in Indian languages and how even CGG can put up its work on it to share with larger public. He raised questions about the authenticity of information on Wikipedia and the wiki model was explained to him. Following this, the Wiki Academy began with 20 participants. The Academy was mainly lead by Arjuna and Rahmanuddin.</p>
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<td>Workshop in progress. Interactions with staff of CGG on their queries pertaining to Telugu Wikipedia.</td>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">As many people did not turn up with laptops it was not possible for all the participants to practically use Wikipedia. Rahmanuddin helped various participants in creating User names on Wikipedia. Simultaneously during the hands-on session a discussion on various aspects of Wikipedia was held with some of the participants, who were senior retired officers from the Government of Andhra Pradesh. This was anchored by Arjuna and Vishnu. Other than the usual questions of how to ensure authenticity of contributions and vandalism to articles, the group offered suggestions on collaborating with various government departments in putting out relevant information on various aspects on Telugu Wikipedia.</p>
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<td>Director General of CGG being presented with Telugu Wiki Mahotsavam T-Shirt by Arjuna Rao, T. Vishnu Vardhan and Rahmanuddin Shaik</td>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Further, a meeting was held with the Director General of CGG Mr. Sinha (see image above), who offered help in getting media held by the Department of Information and Public Relations, Andhra Pradesh in public domain and on Wiki Commons. Before concluding the Wiki Academy Telugu Wiki Mahotsavam T-shirt was presented to the Director General and Kartik Subramanain for hosting the Academy at CGG at such a short notice.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/telugu-wiki-academy-at-centre-for-good-governance'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/telugu-wiki-academy-at-centre-for-good-governance</a>
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No publishervishnuOpennessWikipediaTelugu WikipediaWikimedia2013-08-19T06:49:36ZBlog EntryTallapaka Pada Sahityam is now on Wikisource
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/tallapaka-pada-sahityam-is-now-on-wikisource
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Tallapaka Pada Sahityam, a
compilation of over fourteen thousand Telugu compositions is now
available on Wikisource. Tallapaka Annamacharya was a 15th-century
Hindu saint and composer who was renowned for singing in praise of
Lord Venkateswara. The Tallapaka lineage began with him, giving rise
to many bards in the Telugu language from the family. The Tallapaka
Pada Sahityam is a compilation of three generations of Tallapaka
poets: Tallapaka Annamacharya,
Tallapaka Peda Tirumalacharya, and Tallapaka China
Tirumalacharya. This compilation, published by Annamayya Library,
Guntur has been uploaded by the library on Wikisource as part of
their efforts to digitize the library archives. These lyrical works,
dealing with a variety of themes, are of immense literary and
cultural significance to Telugu speakers the world over.</p>
<p>Owing to the large
size of the file donated by the library, the works need to be
separated into 29 volumes. These separated files would be uploaded
and indexed on Commons as well. A Unicode version of the work needs
to be published and proofread in addition to their print version.
Telugu Wikimedians are also exploring the possiblity of re-licensing
recitations of the poems by literary connoisseurs. On 9 June, an orientation of these activities was conducted for long time Telugu Wikipedia, <a title="te:user:శ్రీరామమూర్తి" class="extiw" href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:%E0%B0%B6%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%AE%E0%B0%AE%E0%B1%82%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%A4%E0%B0%BF">te:user:శ్రీరామమూర్తి</a>, who has begun publishing Unicode text and proof-reading on Telugu Wikisource.</p>
<p>The link to the work
is here:</p>
<p><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4a/Tallapaka_pada_sahityam.pdf">https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4a/Tallapaka_pada_sahityam.pdf</a></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/tallapaka-pada-sahityam-is-now-on-wikisource'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/tallapaka-pada-sahityam-is-now-on-wikisource</a>
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No publisherPavan SanthoshTelugu WikisourceCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaTelugu WikipediaOpenness2017-07-10T13:44:41ZBlog EntryStats for March 2016
https://cis-india.org/openness/stats-for-march-2016
<b>CIS-A2K team closely works with 5 Indian languages, we call as focus language areas.
Here are the stats for the month of March 2016.</b>
<p>We generate stats for each of our focus language area month on month, and it has been used for designing and modifying our strategies from time to time. Though these stats were never published publicly, as we get them at stats.wikimedia.org already and publishing here is just repeating it; it was felt that some more metrics can be added and published month on month here at CIS blog. Also, the data here would be for the last month, while it takes two months for data to get updated at stats.wikimedia.org.</p>
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<p>Stub articles created :</p>
<p>Kannada - 3/131</p>
<p>Konkani - 9/38</p>
<p>Marathi - 50/176</p>
<p>Odia - 8/89</p>
<p>Telugu - 59/284</p>
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<p>In Kannada Wikipedia, about 131 new articles were created and of these only 3 are stub class articles. This is because Kannada Wikipedia is implementing a strict policy on not allowing a stub class article. There is an abuse filter created by one of the admins, Harish MG, which does not allow an editor to submit a smaller article than 1000 bytes. While Konkani showed a good progress in creation of new articles and only 9 of these 38 articles were stub class articles.</p>
<p>Marathi and Odia had a 28% and 9% share of total articles created as stubs respectively, while Telugu has about 21% of total articles created as stubs.</p>
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<p>Active editors count has gone up in Kannada with 133 active editors during March 2016 - this could be accounted to the post 13th anniversary activities. Four focused editathons were organised as part of the 13th anniversary celebrations. The number of active editors increased in Konkani too. While in Marathi, Odia and Telugu the number was consistent with the previous months' numbers.</p>
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<p>Now. lets look at the editing activity.</p>
<p>Kannada had 3279 edits adding about 86.57 MB of data. Konkani Wikipedia saw 920 edits in all, adding 8.41 MB of data. Marathi Wikipedia had 2926 edits with 68.42 MB of data; Odia Wikipedia added 1106 edits and 15.28 MB of data and Telugu Wikipedia had 8559 edits with 122.17 MB of data.</p>
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<p>Having a provision of local image upload, Telugu Wikipedia added 53 images to the project while Marathi, one image was added. </p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/stats-for-march-2016'>https://cis-india.org/openness/stats-for-march-2016</a>
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No publisherrahimCIS-A2KWikimediaWikipediaMarathi WikipediaKonkani WikipediaOdia WikipediaTelugu WikipediaKannada Wikipedia2016-06-07T04:06:03ZBlog EntryPress coverage about Punjab edit-a-thon & Telugu Wikipedia success
https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/press-coverage-about-punjab-edit-a-thon-telugu-wikipedia-success
<b>Andhra Jyothi, one of the leading news papers in Telugu covered Punjab edit-a-thon & Telugu wikipedia success in national level with the angle of Pranaraj involvement in it.</b>
<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160826125613/http://epaper.andhrajyothy.com/c/12753407">Here</a> is the news clipping.</p>
<p><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/TeluguWikipedia.jpg/@@images/4bbcceed-1267-415f-a36a-9d836158266e.jpeg" alt="Telugu Wikipedia" class="image-inline" title="Telugu Wikipedia" /></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/press-coverage-about-punjab-edit-a-thon-telugu-wikipedia-success'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/press-coverage-about-punjab-edit-a-thon-telugu-wikipedia-success</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaTelugu WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-08-26T16:16:43ZNews ItemOnline Free Content in Telugu Wikipedia
https://cis-india.org/openness/news/andhra-jyothy-february-16-2015-online-free-content-in-telugu-wikipedia
<b>Wikimedians gathered at Tirupati for a strategic meet. This was covered by the regional newspaper Andhra Jyothy </b>
<p>Click to read the article published on the website of <a class="external-link" href="http://epaper.andhrajyothy.com/detailednews?box=aHR0cDovL2VjZG4uYW5kaHJhanlvdGh5LmNvbS9GaWxlcy8yMDE1MDIxNjAyMTYwMjQ3NDIyMDguanBn&day=20150216">Andhra Jyothy</a>.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/news/andhra-jyothy-february-16-2015-online-free-content-in-telugu-wikipedia'>https://cis-india.org/openness/news/andhra-jyothy-february-16-2015-online-free-content-in-telugu-wikipedia</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaTelugu WikipediaOpenness2015-02-19T15:51:32ZNews ItemOnline edit-a-thon on incidents in Telugu
https://cis-india.org/openness/online-edit-a-thon-on-incidents-in-telugu
<b>A week-long online edit-a-thon was organised by the Telugu Wikipedia community to cover popular social, political and other events on the Telugu Wikipedia.</b>
<p id="docs-internal-guid-48b40866-dab2-a573-76cc-57c303b7e69a" dir="ltr">Long time Telugu Wikipedians <a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kvr.lohith">Venkata Ramana</a>, <a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%9A%E0%B0%82%E0%B0%A6%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0">Ravi Chandra</a>, <a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rajasekhar1961">Dr. Rajasekhar</a>, <a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:%E0%B0%B8%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%B2%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B8%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95">Kodihalli Muralikrishna</a> and <a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Pranayraj1985">Pranay Raj</a> organised an online edit-a-thon during May 1-May 7 to chronicle events of all kinds<span class="st">—</span>from social to political and everything old and new<span class="st">—</span>that are notable. <a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Pavan_santhosh.s">I (Pavan Santosh)</a> also joined them all in organising this event. 25 articles were created during the event and over the campaign week. The articles were enhanced with more citations and information.</p>
<p dir="ltr">We reached out to two of the organisers to learn about this project and below are what they had to say.</p>
<p class="callout" dir="ltr"><strong>Subhashish Panigrahi (SP)</strong>: Can you please share how you came up with the idea of organising this event? What are the future plans to take this project to the larger Telugu Wikimedia community?<br /><strong>Ravi Chandra (RC)</strong>: The idea of organizing an edit-a-thon for events on Telugu wikipedia came up when I was chatting with Pavan Santhosh about the progress of Telugu Wikipedia. He had also heard similar comments from other Wikipedians. We knew that we were concentrating more on people, places and movies in general. We wanted to pick up a topic which we have not focused much in the past. That's how it was born.</p>
<p class="callout" dir="ltr"><strong>SP</strong>: Did you see anything in particular lacking in Telugu Wikipedia that helped start this project?<br /><strong>RC</strong>: I think the biggest challenge in our community is the lack of editors. The kind of articles we created during this event could have been written better by history scholars from different universities of Andhra Pradesh and Telengana. I feel that we should reach out to more people from diverse background so that we get more contributors.</p>
<p class="callout" dir="ltr"><strong>Pavan Santhosh (PS)</strong>: Why did you participate in this edit-a-thon?<br /><strong>Venkata Ramana (VR)</strong>: I joined in this event to improve articles in Telugu WIkipedia especially related to incidents.</p>
<p class="callout" dir="ltr"><strong>PS</strong>: Where do you see one such initiative adding value to Telugu Wikipedia?<br /><strong>VR</strong>: There are several articles related to incidents in English Wikipedia, that too related to India. But there is a gap in Telugu Wikipedia. For example, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karamchedu_massacre">Karamchedu massacre</a> is one of the very important incidents in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalit">Dalit</a> history and there was no article in Telugu Wikipedia until this edit-a-thon happened. Similarly, this event kickstarted chronicling of several such important incidents in Telugu Wikipedia.Within a short span of one week we have covered some of the very significant incidents.</p>
<p class="callout"><strong>PS</strong>: What was your collective learning? Can you please share some of your future plans?<br /><strong>VR</strong>: Edit-a-thons like this help community recognise some major gaps in content. And community members feel encouraged to work together to fill the gaps. I have seen the impact of edit-a-thons based on incidents, movies and now <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_India/Events/Punjab_Edit-a-thon">Punjab</a>. Going forward, we are planning to conduct a few thematic edit-a-thons as this edit-a-thon and a few ones in the past have proved to be very effective on community building.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/online-edit-a-thon-on-incidents-in-telugu'>https://cis-india.org/openness/online-edit-a-thon-on-incidents-in-telugu</a>
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No publisherSubhashish Panigrahi and Pavan SanthoshCIS-A2KTelugu Wikipedia2016-07-11T16:23:12ZBlog EntryOngoing Proof-reading Effort by ALC Student Wikimedians in Telugu Wikisource
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/ongoing-proof-reading-effort-by-alc-student-wikimedians-in-telugu-wikisource
<b>Student Wikimedians at Andhra Loyola College, Vijayawada formatted and proof-read more than 1,900 folios in Telugu Wikisource during the last few weeks of November (2016). Each day, a group of twenty students uses the lab facility provided by the college after regular classes to make necessary formatting changes and fix spelling mistakes in the folios of books available in Telugu Wikisource. Till date, the student Wikipedians have proofread eight books.</b>
<p style="text-align: left;" dir="ltr">The work was initiated and supported by CIS-A2K members who organized a proofreading workshop of the <a href="https://te.wikisource.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B8%E0%B1%82%E0%B0%9A%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95:Bible_Bhashya_Samputavali_Volume_02_Bible_Bodhanalu_P_Jojayya_2003_280_P.pdf">Bible Bhashya Samputavali Volume 06</a> on Telugu Wikisource in Andhra Loyola College during 18 to 20 November 2016. During the workshop, Telugu Wikimedian Gullapalli Nageswara Rao (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Nrgullapalli">User:Nrgullapalli</a>), along with CIS-A2K community advocate Pavan Santhosh helped students to learn about the process of digitizing book in Telugu Wikisource and other formatting aspects involved. In this event, nearly twenty students picked up the skills required to proof-read a book as well as the formatting techniques in Telugu Wikisource. Some students had also started to proof-read three other books that are currently available in Telugu Wikisource.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr"><img src="https://cis-india.org/ALC_Wikisource_workshop_November_2016.jpg/image_preview" alt="ALC Wikisource Workshop" class="image-inline image-inline" title="ALC Wikisource Workshop" /></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-876383aa-4f4a-6ed7-5efb-e440c9687414">This event also marked great effort and accomplishment of promoting gender balance and diversity in local community events — as the organizers and institution successfully assured a minimum 50% female participation rate throughout the three days. CIS-A2K member Ting-Yi Chang also gave a short introduction to the participants about the issue in Wikipedia (media) Gender Gap. Students who had previous Wikipedia editing experience at the ALC were also invited to the session, rendering around thirty female audience. The presentation included small brainstorm activities for students to discuss reasons behind the gender asymmetry online and on Wikipedia/media projects, as well as how we as community members can make a difference to help women feel more welcomed.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">A follow-up Wikisource session was conducted on 25 and 26 November 2016 for students to learn about the remaining steps in digitization and the OCR tool. Thanks to encouragement and motivation given by Principal Rev. Fr., Dr. Peter Kishore, staff members Prof. Siva Kumari, and Dr. K. Sekhar, the student Wikipedians had started to contribute to Wikisource after class for at least a couple of hours every day. These events and accomplishments show remarkable efforts and dedication from both student Wikimedians and the institutional partner.</p>
<p style="text-align: right;" dir="ltr"><img src="https://cis-india.org/Gender_gap_awareness_session_in_ALC_3.jpg/image_mini" alt="Gender Gap Awareness session in ALC" class="image-inline" title="Gender Gap Awareness session in ALC" /></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/ongoing-proof-reading-effort-by-alc-student-wikimedians-in-telugu-wikisource'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/ongoing-proof-reading-effort-by-alc-student-wikimedians-in-telugu-wikisource</a>
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No publisherPavan Santosh & Ting-Yi ChangTelugu WikisourceCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWikipedia gender gapWorkshopTelugu Wikipedia2016-12-30T11:00:09ZBlog EntryMy First Wikipedia Training Workshop – Theatre Outreach Unit, University of Hyderabad
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/my-first-wikipedia-training-workshop
<b>On March 8, 2013, a day-long Telugu Wikipedia training workshop was organized by the Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) team at the Golden Threshold, Nampally, Hyderabad in collaboration with Theatre Outreach Unit, University of Hyderabad. This blog post gives a concise account of the event.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b><a class="external-link" href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge">CIS-A2K</a></b> had planned a day long <a class="external-link" href="http://te.wikipedia.org">Telugu Wikipedia</a> training workshop in collaboration with Telugu Wikipedians at the <a class="external-link" href="http://www.efluniversity.ac.in/">English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU)</a>, Hyderabad on March 8, 2013. The intention was to target research students at EFLU who are using Telugu material or working on topics related to Telugu and Andhra Pradesh. This event was also to be part of the Wiki Women’s month events across India. However, this event had to be cancelled in the last minute as a Research Student of EFLU committed suicide on the campus and there was major unrest. The faculty from EFLU though had informed of the possible cancellation of the event earlier, had only confirmed it on March 7, 2013. <b><a class="external-link" href="http://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF:%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%B9%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%AE%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A8%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%A6%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%A6%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%A8%E0%B1%8D">Rahmanuddin Shaik</a></b> (Telugu SIG, <a class="external-link" href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_India_chapter">Wikimedia India Chapter</a>) and <a class="external-link" href="http://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF:Rajasekhar1961"><b>Dr. Rajasekhar</b> </a>(Telugu Wikipedia Administrator) had already blocked an entire day for this training workshop. In fact a lot of background work was already done for the EFLU event.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">When I got the news of cancellation of the workshop, initially I was very dejected at the thought of informing the two active Telugu Wikipedians about it, which I had to do. As my tickets were anyhow booked to Hyderabad and there was no point cancelling them, as I was already on my way to catch the flight, I decided to go ahead with my journey. I made some couple of quick calls and with some effort managed to organize a Wikipedia Training Workshop in collaboration with the <a class="external-link" href="http://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%A5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AF%E0%B1%87%E0%B0%9F%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D_%E0%B0%94%E0%B0%9F%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%9A%E0%B1%8D_%E0%B0%AF%E0%B1%82%E0%B0%A8%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%9F%E0%B1%8D_%28%E0%B0%9F%E0%B0%BF.%E0%B0%93.%E0%B0%AF%E0%B1%81%29">Theatre Outreach Unit (TOU)</a>, <a class="external-link" href="http://www.uohyd.ac.in/">University of Hyderabad (UoH)</a>. I was anyhow planning on visiting them to explore an institutional collaboration. The Project Director of TOU Dr. Peddi Ramarao, though agreed to spread the word about the workshop, yet was not sure how many would turn up at such a short notice of one night.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">So on March 8, 2013 Rahmanuddin, Dr. Rajasekhar and I landed at the <a class="external-link" href="http://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%97%E0%B1%8B%E0%B0%B2%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%86%E0%B0%A8%E0%B1%8D_%E0%B0%A4%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%86%E0%B0%B7%E0%B1%8B%E0%B0%B2%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%8D">Golden Threshold</a> hoping against hope to see at least 3 or 4 participants. But alas there were only 2 people when we reached the venue by 10 a.m.. By 10.25 a.m. we had 9 participants, which excited us all. The training workshop began with an introduction of all the participants. Following this a presentation was made on the significance of Wikipedia in the digital era and how Indian language-Wikipedias are pivotal in preserving the vernacular language and culture. This session was interactive with participants asking many questions. Dr. Peddi Ramarao, later, spoke about his experience of using Wikipedia as a reference tool and how he got introduced to contributing Wikipedia. Further, the discussion went on to the poor quality of articles on Telugu Wikipedia and how the participants can take part in improving the existing articles and contribute new articles. Rahmanuddin and Rajasekhar practically demonstrated the process of editing on <a class="external-link" href="http://te.wikipedia.org">Telugu Wikipedia</a>. This was followed by a hands-on session where the participants actively participated in creating their Wikipedia User name on Telugu Wikipedia and did editing of few articles. The training programme was to officially end at Lunch time but even post lunch some of the participants were enthusiastic about learning more nuances of contributing on Telugu Wikipedia. The hands-on session thus continued until 4 p.m.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Post the Wikipedia training programme, I have had interactions with the Project Director of TOU to explore possible future collaborations. TOU, UoH agreed to offer space to host all Telugu Wikipedia meet-ups. As the Golden Threshold space was in the central part of the city, having this infrastructure accessible was a major boost for the Telugu Wikipedia community in Hyderabad. Further, in the discussions we have agreed to collaborate with TOU, UoH in hosting the first mega Telugu Wikipedia community event <i>Telugu Wiki Mahotsavam 2013</i>.</p>
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<h3><b>Outcomes and Impact:</b></h3>
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<li style="text-align: justify; ">Out of the 9 new Users, who were trained during this workshop, 5 people have done more than 5 edits.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">One person has become a very active editor on Telugu Wikipedia with more than 1000 edits in 3 months. A detailed account of this event was put up by this user on Telugu Wikipedia here <a href="#fn*" name="fr*">[*]</a></li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Because of CIS-A2K’s efforts, Telugu Wikipedians in Hyderabad now have a good meeting space.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">The availability of this space has also encouraged the Telugu Wikipedians to meet more often than before. Since March 8, 2013 Telugu Wikipedians had a total of 6 meet-ups, and all these were held at Golden Threshold.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Golden Threshold also became a venue for hosting <i>Telugu Wiki Mahotsavam 2013</i>.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">This visit to Hyderabad triggered a discussion about organizing <i>Telugu Wiki Mahotsavam</i>, which was successfully organized in a month’s time.</li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Looking back, though this event was done as a last minute measure without many expectations, yet it turned out to be a lucky break! Especially, because this was my first ever event as the CIS-A2K Programme Director. It will remain a very memorable one. More so because it was done in collaboration with two of the active Telugu Wikipedians. Even more so because it has created some positive energy for the Telugu Wikipedia community, which has since then become a home turf.</p>
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<p>[<a href="#fr*" name="fn*">*</a>]. <a class="external-link" href="http://bit.ly/17WYq7X">http://bit.ly/17WYq7X</a></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/my-first-wikipedia-training-workshop'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/my-first-wikipedia-training-workshop</a>
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No publishervishnuDigital ActivismArtAccess to KnowledgeDigital AccessWikimediaWikipediaCyberculturesTelugu WikipediaOpen ContentCommunitiesOpennessMeetingEvent2013-08-19T06:51:16ZBlog EntryMini Workshop on Tools: Wikipedia Monthly Meetup, Hyderabad
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/mini-workshop-on-tools-wikipedia-monthly-meetup-hyderabad
<b>Telugu Wikipedia community held its monthly meet-up in Hyderabad on 28 August 2016. </b>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The event was marked by a presentati<span class="highlightedSearchTerm">on</span> <span class="highlightedSearchTerm">on</span> quick tools by <a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF:Pavan_santhosh.s">Pavan Santhosh</a>, Community Advocate and l<span class="highlightedSearchTerm">on</span>g time member of the Telugu <span class="highlightedSearchTerm">Wikipedia</span> community. He dem<span class="highlightedSearchTerm">on</span>strated the use of <a href="http://tools.wmflabs.org/magnustools/prepbio.php">PrepBio</a>, a tool that helps create infoboxes <span class="highlightedSearchTerm">on</span> biographical articles. “This make the process of editing and updating edits easier,” he said. He also spoke about <a href="http://tools.wmflabs.org/wiki-todo/">Wiki ToDo</a>, a tool that helps find articles with specific edits or improvements required. “This ensures that even new editors can c<span class="highlightedSearchTerm">on</span>tribute to quality improvement <span class="highlightedSearchTerm">on</span> wikis,” he pointed out. At the end of the sessi<span class="highlightedSearchTerm">on</span>, the community members engaged in an activity that gave them a hands <span class="highlightedSearchTerm">on</span> insight into using these tools.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/mini-workshop-on-tools-wikipedia-monthly-meetup-hyderabad'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/mini-workshop-on-tools-wikipedia-monthly-meetup-hyderabad</a>
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No publisherManasa Rao and Pavan SanthoshCIS-A2KTelugu WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2017-02-06T12:49:00ZBlog EntryMini TTT and MWT conducted in Hyderabad, India
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/mini-ttt-and-mwt-conducted-in-hyderabad-india
<b>Mini Train-the-Trainer and MediaWiki Trainer program was conducted on 10 and 11 December 2016 in Hyderabad. 15 Wikipedians from 4 cities of Andhra pradesh and Telangana 2 Indic Wikimedia communities participated in the event. Here is a report.</b>
<p>The 2016 iteration of mini Train-the-Trainer (TTT) and MediaWiki training (MWT) was conducted on 10 and 11 December 2016 at Golden Threshold, Hyderabad. Train-the-Trainer and MediaWiki training are two of the biggest annual national events conducted by CIS-A2K. The first program attempts to groom leadership skills among Indian Wikimedians, and in the second event Indian Wikimedians are taught about MediaWiki, Wikipedia tools, scripts, gadgets and technical things. Following the national-level annual event state-level or city level iterations of the program are conducted.</p>
<p>In this year’s Hyderabad mini TTT and MWT, 15 Wikimedians from 4 cities of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana - Hyderabad, Vijayawada, West Godavari, and Visakhapatnam participated. It is unfortunate that only 1 among the 15 participants was female. 14 of the participants were Telugu Wikimedians, and 1 was from Bengali Wikimedia community. CIS-A2K representative Tito Dutta, from Bangalore, participated in the event as a resource person. Rahmanuddin Shaik, a Telugu Wikimedia administrator Rahmanuddin Shaik attended as a technical resource person. Another CIS-A2K representative Pavan Santhosh was the co-ordinator and also a trainer during the event. 3 student Wikipedians from Andhra Loyola College, Vijayawada participated in the training.</p>
<p>On 10 December, the first day of the event, these topics were discussed:</p>
<ol><li>Editing Wikipedia with Visual editor (mainly for new editors)</li><li>Enablings different options in the Wikipedia preference page, including Wikipedia skins, gadgets such as HotCat, Navigation pop up; (mainly for new editors)</li><li>Conducting a program: group discussion: pre-event activities, conducting an event, post-event activities, preparing report, reimbursement process, Global Metrics;</li><li>General discussion and knowledge sharing on topics like Wikimeetup, education program.</li></ol>
<p>On 11 December, the second day of the event, these topics were discussed:</p>
<ol><li>Wikipedia articles structure, and different Manual of Style topics</li><li>Wikipedia tools, gadgets;</li><li>Wikimedia Foundation new grant structure and different grant options</li><li>Introduction to Wikidata and Wikidata tools such as Wikidata game</li><li>Discussion on Telugu Wikipedia’s workplan</li></ol>
At the end of the event two Telugu Wikipedians a) <a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pranayraj1985">User:Pranayraj1985</a> and b) <a class="external-link" href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF:Meena_gayathri.s">User:Meena_gayathri.s</a>, who completed 100wikidays challenge recently, were congratulated and felicitated.
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<h2>Image source</h2>
<ul><li>Source:<a class="external-link" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Telugu_Wikipedia_Mini_Wiki_Trainer_(TTT)_03.jpg"> Wikimedia Commons</a>. author: <a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pranayraj1985">User:Pranayraj1985</a>, license: CC SA 4.0 International<br /></li></ul>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/mini-ttt-and-mwt-conducted-in-hyderabad-india'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/mini-ttt-and-mwt-conducted-in-hyderabad-india</a>
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No publisherduttaTrainingTrain-the-trainer (TTT)Mediawiki training (MWT)WikipediaTelugu Wikipedia2016-12-15T05:28:44ZBlog EntryMeet Telugu Wikipedian Surampudi Meena Gayathri – the first South Indian Wikiwoman completing 100Wikidays Challenge
https://cis-india.org/a2k/meet-telugu-wikipedian-surampudi-meena-gayathri-2013-the-first-south-indian-wikiwoman-completing-100wikidays-challenge
<b>In December 2016, Ms. Meena Gayathri and her fellow Telugu Wikipedians celebrated the Telugu Wikipedia Day and her accomplishment in the 100Wikidays Challenge – a challenge that requires Wikipedians to create one new article per day for one hundred days in a row. When asked about how it feels to take up the challenge and to become the first South Indian Wikiwoman who completed it, she replied “Like exericing, you would think it is hard to do it every day but if you try, it is really satisfying.” Ms. Meena Gayathri has been one of the few active female Telugu Wikipedians since 2014. Her contribution and passion towards her language and culture have transcended into what she called a “knowledge revolution.”</b>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Ms. Meena
Gayathri is an active Telugu Wikipedian who started her <a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/100wikidays">100Wikidays challenge</a> at the end of August 2016. Her
motivation came from the support of her family, the satisfaction of creating
articles, and her determination to be an inspiration for her fellow Wikipedians. Ms. Meena Gayathri had chosen topics
from her interests, including freedom fighters from Andhra Pradesh, wherein articles were present on English Wikipedia but not in Telugu. “I think those
are really basic things that Telugu Wikipedia should have but somehow there
isn’t” she said. Meena Gayathri reached out to the Telugu community
for assistance with MediaWiki’s content translation tools. She also had the support of CIS A2K for books and reference resources. Drawing inspiration from current events and Indian culture, Meena Gayathri also wrote articles on Hindu Goddesses on each the ten days of Dussehra in coordination with the <a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vijayadashami">worshiping of a different Goddess on each day </a>of the festival.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The creation of articles on Hindu Goddesses also mark Meena Gayathri’s effort and passion in bridging
the <a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_bias_on_Wikipedia">Wikipedia gender gap</a> in content coverage. Half way through her challenge, in
coordination with the <a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Asian_Month">Wikipedia Asian Month</a> in November 2016, she started writing
on biographies of Asian women, including female politicians in Sri Lanka and
Pakistan. “It’s very interesting” she said, while mentioning her experience in
researching and writing about these female figures, “(how) these women, under hard
situations… are still securing their positions in the government and in the
politics… I want to let people see how they gain and sustain their power as
women.” Additionally, Meena Gayathri pioneered a
new challenge called “100Women Wikidays Challenge” in which participants would
write a woman-related article each day in an endeavor to balance the content
gender gap on Wikipedia.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"> </p>
<blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">“People
said to me that I am the first South India female Wikipedian to complete the
100WikiDays, and the first in the whole world to take up the 100Women Wikidays.”</p>
</blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;"> </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Her
attempt to complete the 100Women Wikidays challenge, however, stopped a few
days ago due to the lack of internet connection and time. In fact, this is not
the first time that she has faced such difficulty during the completion of her
challenges. She described how during a family tour outside of the city, she used
to bring a laptop and ensure stable internet connection just so she can wake up
as early as possible each day to finish her daily articles for the 100Wikidays.
She agrees that women usually seem to be occupied by different
responsibilities and activities – family, work, and socializing. She was glad
that her family and community have given her full support, materially and
mentally, to complete the challenge. When asked about tips on sparing some
time for Wikipedia every day, she answered, “The first thing I do in a day… (is
to) plan each and every moment of what I need to do in my day. And I maintain a
task list in my mind. I will say, just remind yourself twice or thrice a day,
remind yourself what you really want to do and you can make some time for Wiki(pedia)
too.”</p>
<p>At the end of our conversation, we asked Gayathri to share
some advice and encouragement to those who want to take up or are completing
the 100Wikidays (or the 100Women Wikidays) Challenge. She answered without
hesitation, “I will say, don’t feel afraid, that work you want to do is not
that tough after all… It will be satisfying. You are contributing to the
knowledge revolution... I think for Telugu, for the online knowledge in our
linguistic background, this is going to be history. I will tell them ‘We’re
creating a history.’”</p>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/meet-telugu-wikipedian-surampudi-meena-gayathri-2013-the-first-south-indian-wikiwoman-completing-100wikidays-challenge'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/meet-telugu-wikipedian-surampudi-meena-gayathri-2013-the-first-south-indian-wikiwoman-completing-100wikidays-challenge</a>
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No publishertingAccess to KnowledgeWikimedia100wikidaysWikipediaWikipedia gender gapTelugu Wikipedia2017-01-23T11:53:32ZBlog EntryMaking Telugu Suitable for Internet
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/ammanudi-september-6-2016-making-telugu-suitable-for-internet
<b>In brief, the article speaks of steps in making a language other than English suitable for Internet and computers, what input methods, fonts and content are available in Telugu as on date and what challenges are ahead in making language fully available on Internet and in computers.</b>
<p><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/Article.jpg" alt="Telugu Article" class="image-inline" title="Telugu Article" /></p>
<p>Click to download the <a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/Ammanudi%20my%20article.pdf" class="internal-link">file here</a></p>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/ammanudi-september-6-2016-making-telugu-suitable-for-internet'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/ammanudi-september-6-2016-making-telugu-suitable-for-internet</a>
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No publisherrahimCIS-A2KTelugu WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-09-06T14:21:49ZBlog EntryInternational Mother Language Day
https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/eenadu-february-21-2016-international-mother-language-day
<b>On 21 February 2016, Eenadu published a special story on the occasion of International Mother language day in Hyderabad edition. The special story covered Wikipedians effort to develop Encyclopedic content online and also about multi-lingual (English-Telugu) Wikipedians meetup organized in December 2015. </b>
<p><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/InternationalMotherlanguageday.jpg/@@images/13138b95-ecd7-4541-875a-ca0872db2ac8.jpeg" alt="International Mother Language Day" class="image-inline" title="International Mother Language Day" /></p>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/eenadu-february-21-2016-international-mother-language-day'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/eenadu-february-21-2016-international-mother-language-day</a>
</p>
No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KTelugu WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-02-27T06:17:37ZNews ItemImproving Telugu Village Articles
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/improving-telugu-village-articles
<b>Telugu wikipedians on 6 October 2016 held a discussion on improving the quality of Telugu articles. The event was organized by IIIT, Hyderabad, CIS-A2K and OpenGeo.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify;">A possible collaboration between Wikipedia and free and open source enthusiasts and environmental groups was explored at the meeting. Subodh Kulkarni and Pavan Santhosh made a presentation about Wikipedia. The participants were from different groups such as SOUL (Save Our Urban Lakes), OpenGeo.org (organization that works for open source mapping) and Sweccha (organization working to expand free software movement in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh).</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Prof. Madhav Gadgil moderated a discussion on how these organizations could collaborate for different Wikimedia projects. The discussion primarily revolved around improving ongoing Telugu village articles.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Prof. Gadgil stressed on compiling articles using reliable and verifiable sources. He also urged the participants to upload geo-tagged photos to Commons especially photos of lakes of which the authorities have denied existence. The discussion also focused on the synergy between OpenGeo and Wikipedia.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Post-lunch, Prof. Gadgil delivered a lecture on “Human Knowledge: An Evolutionary Perspective in IIT”. Prof. Gadgil explained that the next big leap in evolution of human knowledge is free knowledge in which everyone can contribute and utilize which was Wikipedia. He urged the scholars and students to contribute to Wikipedia which is the future for knowledge society.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Telugu and English wikipedians including Vinay, Lubna Sarwath, Undavalli Ravikumar, Raju and many more participated in the event.<br /><br /></p>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/improving-telugu-village-articles'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/improving-telugu-village-articles</a>
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No publisherPavan SanthoshWikimediaWikipediaTelugu WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-11-26T02:27:39ZBlog EntryGoogle-translated Telugu articles prioritisation exercise: January iteration
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/google-translated-telugu-articles-prioritisation-exercise-january-iteration
<b>The January iteration of the Google-translated Telugu articles prioritisation exercise took place online.</b>
<p> </p>
<p>The Google-translated Telugu articles prioritization is an online exercise intended to prioritize and improve over 1,900 machine-translated articles on Telugu Wikipedia. This project began from 2009- 2011 when Google translation project took place on Telugu Wikipedia in several rounds. Jointly organised by the Telugu Wikipedia community and CIS-A2K, this exercise saw the participation of 1 female Wikipedian and 4 male Wikipedians. </p>
<p> </p>
<p>12 machine translated articles were improved and 39 have been deleted due to their poor quality. In addition to this, 42 articles have been prioritised for further improvement. Says Telugu Wikipedian <a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Meena_gayathri.s">User:Meena gayathri.s</a>, "people who wanted to improve Google-translated article waited [for a] long time to get a priority list of articles to be improved and in that aspect, this exercise is very useful."</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Several such iterations are planned for the coming months. The meta page for the event can be found <a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/2017/Google_translated_Telugu_articles_prioritization">here</a>.</p>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/google-translated-telugu-articles-prioritisation-exercise-january-iteration'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/google-translated-telugu-articles-prioritisation-exercise-january-iteration</a>
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No publisherPavan SanthoshCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaTelugu WikipediaOpenness2017-04-15T17:47:50ZBlog Entry