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Tools orientation for Telugu Wikimedians of Hyderabad
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/tools-orientation-for-telugu-wikimedians-at-hyderabad
<b>To help Wikimedians learn about essential tools that are used across Wikimedia projects, a tools orientation session was organised during the monthly meetup on July 10 at Hyderabad.</b>
Six Telugu Wikimedians; Murali Mohan, Pranayraj Vangari, Rajasekhar, Gullapalli Nageswara Rao, Santhosh Panjala and Sravani participated in this session. CIS-A2K member Pavan Santhosh facilitated this event. The major discussions were around <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_templates">Wikipedia citation templates</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Twinkle">Twinkle.</a>
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“After the training, I have started using the citation templates in a series of articles about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avadhanam">Avadhanam,</a>
<p> a literary performance in ancient India and I will use more in coming days. I have also suggedted for creating a thorough documentation about citation templates so that more Wikimedians could find them online” shares Murali Mohan, one of the participants.</p>
<p>Long time Wikimedian <a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rajasekhar1961">Rajasekhar</a> shares, “I am yet to use everything I learnt from this session. I wish I could have learnt these tools much. I also have shared the idea of connecting experienced Wikimedians with those who want to learn using fast online platforms. These could be using social-media based chat clients like WhatsApp or Facebook messenger or anything of that kind that many would otherwise use in life. This will also reduce the pain of the trainers to travel.” “Most tools, gadgets and extensions are available in English and many are not available in Telugu Wikipedia even though they are useful. It would be useful to have more sessions for us to know which of these these could be useful for us to use”, he adds.</p>
<p>More details about the event could be read <a href="https://goo.gl/QP2Lq1">here</a> in the event page.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/tools-orientation-for-telugu-wikimedians-at-hyderabad'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/tools-orientation-for-telugu-wikimedians-at-hyderabad</a>
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No publisherPavan Santhosh STelugu WikisourceCIS-A2KTelugu WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-08-17T14:58:57ZBlog EntryOnline edit-a-thon on incidents in Telugu
https://cis-india.org/openness/online-edit-a-thon-on-incidents-in-telugu
<b>A week-long online edit-a-thon was organised by the Telugu Wikipedia community to cover popular social, political and other events on the Telugu Wikipedia.</b>
<p id="docs-internal-guid-48b40866-dab2-a573-76cc-57c303b7e69a" dir="ltr">Long time Telugu Wikipedians <a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kvr.lohith">Venkata Ramana</a>, <a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%9A%E0%B0%82%E0%B0%A6%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0">Ravi Chandra</a>, <a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rajasekhar1961">Dr. Rajasekhar</a>, <a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:%E0%B0%B8%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%B2%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B8%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95">Kodihalli Muralikrishna</a> and <a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Pranayraj1985">Pranay Raj</a> organised an online edit-a-thon during May 1-May 7 to chronicle events of all kinds<span class="st">—</span>from social to political and everything old and new<span class="st">—</span>that are notable. <a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Pavan_santhosh.s">I (Pavan Santosh)</a> also joined them all in organising this event. 25 articles were created during the event and over the campaign week. The articles were enhanced with more citations and information.</p>
<p dir="ltr">We reached out to two of the organisers to learn about this project and below are what they had to say.</p>
<p class="callout" dir="ltr"><strong>Subhashish Panigrahi (SP)</strong>: Can you please share how you came up with the idea of organising this event? What are the future plans to take this project to the larger Telugu Wikimedia community?<br /><strong>Ravi Chandra (RC)</strong>: The idea of organizing an edit-a-thon for events on Telugu wikipedia came up when I was chatting with Pavan Santhosh about the progress of Telugu Wikipedia. He had also heard similar comments from other Wikipedians. We knew that we were concentrating more on people, places and movies in general. We wanted to pick up a topic which we have not focused much in the past. That's how it was born.</p>
<p class="callout" dir="ltr"><strong>SP</strong>: Did you see anything in particular lacking in Telugu Wikipedia that helped start this project?<br /><strong>RC</strong>: I think the biggest challenge in our community is the lack of editors. The kind of articles we created during this event could have been written better by history scholars from different universities of Andhra Pradesh and Telengana. I feel that we should reach out to more people from diverse background so that we get more contributors.</p>
<p class="callout" dir="ltr"><strong>Pavan Santhosh (PS)</strong>: Why did you participate in this edit-a-thon?<br /><strong>Venkata Ramana (VR)</strong>: I joined in this event to improve articles in Telugu WIkipedia especially related to incidents.</p>
<p class="callout" dir="ltr"><strong>PS</strong>: Where do you see one such initiative adding value to Telugu Wikipedia?<br /><strong>VR</strong>: There are several articles related to incidents in English Wikipedia, that too related to India. But there is a gap in Telugu Wikipedia. For example, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karamchedu_massacre">Karamchedu massacre</a> is one of the very important incidents in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalit">Dalit</a> history and there was no article in Telugu Wikipedia until this edit-a-thon happened. Similarly, this event kickstarted chronicling of several such important incidents in Telugu Wikipedia.Within a short span of one week we have covered some of the very significant incidents.</p>
<p class="callout"><strong>PS</strong>: What was your collective learning? Can you please share some of your future plans?<br /><strong>VR</strong>: Edit-a-thons like this help community recognise some major gaps in content. And community members feel encouraged to work together to fill the gaps. I have seen the impact of edit-a-thons based on incidents, movies and now <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_India/Events/Punjab_Edit-a-thon">Punjab</a>. Going forward, we are planning to conduct a few thematic edit-a-thons as this edit-a-thon and a few ones in the past have proved to be very effective on community building.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/online-edit-a-thon-on-incidents-in-telugu'>https://cis-india.org/openness/online-edit-a-thon-on-incidents-in-telugu</a>
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No publisherSubhashish Panigrahi and Pavan SanthoshCIS-A2KTelugu Wikipedia2016-07-11T16:23:12ZBlog EntryDeveloping Open Educational Resources in Indian Languages
https://cis-india.org/openness/developing-open-educational-resources-in-indian-languages
<b>The Centre for Indian Languages in Higher Education (CILHE), Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), in collaboration with the Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) programme at the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), has been involved in organising workshops on developing open educational resources (OER) in Indian languages with undergraduate and postgraduate students across various partner institutions. The objective of these workshops is to introduce students to: a) tools of collaborative knowledge production on the Internet, and b) methods for generating new online content in Indian languages.</b>
<p id="docs-internal-guid-6a5cf4f0-34dc-8053-8ba7-e604a4aef120" dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; ">During November 2015 - February 2016, four such workshops have been organised at TISS’ Mumbai and Tuljapur campuses, <a href="http://www.srtt.org/casestudies/Pune_University_Case_Study%20-%202.pdf">Krantijyoti Savitribai Phule Women's Studies Centre</a> (KSPWSC), Pune University, and at the <a href="http://www.efluniversity.ac.in/">English and Foreign Languages University</a> (EFLU), Hyderabad.</p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; ">A one and half day workshop was organised at KSPWSC, Pune during January 22-23, 2016. A total of 20 students attended this workshop along with three faculty members from the Centre. This workshop is a part of CILHE's ongoing and sustained engagement with KSPWSC to generate and strengthen content pertaining to women's studies on the <a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/">Marathi Wikipedia</a>.</p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; "><strong>Pune</strong><br />On Day 1, after the opening address by Dr. Anagha Tambe from KSPWSC, Sohnee Harshey from CILHE, TISS spoke about the importance of creating open educational resources in Indian languages for social sciences and humanities. She sought responses from participants about the nature of their engagement with their research areas—which languages they used while collecting data, whether they had accessed reading material in languages other than English, and what were their sources of information. All the participants had used languages other than English in their learning process, some had even accessed Indian language Wikipedias, and all of them felt the need for more resources in Indian languages—especially in simpler and more accessible formats. Tanveer Hasan from CIS then spoke about the utility of Wikipedia for knowledge consumers and its immense potential for students to become knowledge producers, especially in the Indian languages.</p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; ">In order to familiarize the participants with social sciences (specifically women's studies) terminology in Indian languages, an exercise was conducted, wherein they were asked to describe a concept (from a given list) without using the term itself. The idea behind this was to highlight what function a concept performs in a sentence and in the language context, and what assumptions are made while using this concept. This was followed up with another exercise where the participants were encouraged to choose two concepts and explain their denotation and connotation. This was done in order to familiarise them with the web of other concepts in which a concept is located. The concept of ‘labour’ or ‘shram’ (in Marathi) was chosen for discussion.</p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; ">On Day 2 of the workshop, Abhinav Garule, Programme Associate with A2K-CIS, introduced the participants to the basics of Wikipedia editing through a hands-on activity. They navigated through both the English and Indian language Wikipedias to see how the edit, talk, and view history functions work, what the key characteristics of a good article are, and how one can read more about a certain topic through interwiki and external links and categories. This was interspersed with recalling the exercises done on the previous day and comparing the critical thinking process involved.</p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; ">Since one of the simpler ways to populate Indian language Wikipedias is through translation of existing content in English, participants were encouraged to try this with an entry of their choice. They were asked to also list difficulties that they faced in the process of translation. At the end of this exercise, a range of ‘problems’ like lack of appropriate terminology for complex concepts, the dangers of oversimplification, differences between languages in terms of the structure of sentences, and lack of references in Indian languages, were highlighted by the participants. While they were still thinking about these problems, another challenge was put forth for them to look at two conflicting or opposing references for a topic (for example, a movie review, or reporting around an event) and come up with a ‘neutral’ write-up about it. Questions of what constitutes a valid reference, issues of plagiarism, personal opinion, codes of civility on Talk pages formed part of this discussion.</p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; ">Following this, the participants chose one topic (each) on which they wished to create a Wikipedia article in an Indian language. Most of the participants worked on the Marathi Wikipedia. They worked in groups of 3-4 to edit and create a range of articles including ones on patriarchy, colonialism, masculinity, family, and tribes, among others. A total of 12 entries were created in this workshop. Participants also explored Wikimedia Commons, Meta, and Wikisource as allied repositories. The students have now become active as knowledge producers and will join the existing group of editors at KSPWSC in the wiki-sprints to generate new content every month.</p>
<p><strong>Hyderabad: </strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Similar exercises were also conducted during the two-day workshop at EFLU, Hyderabad in February 2016. The participants worked on the Malayalam, Telugu, and Hindi Wikipedias. Articles were written on geographical entities like Tamil Eelam and West Godavari district, on academic figures like M.S.S. Pandian and Maxine Berstein, academic and literary works such as My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk and Towards a World of Equals by Susie Tharu, among other topics. Since creating an article from scratch also involved deliberation regarding issues of translation, and the limits of concepts and their meanings in the Indian context, it is hoped that these new editors will find it useful for their own research to think critically about the process of generating content on the Indian language Wikipedias.</p>
<p class="discreet"><em>* Sohnee Harshey works at the</em><em> Centre for Indian Languages in Higher Education, Tata Institute of Social Sciences. Article edited by Subhashish Panigrahi of CIS-A2K.<br /></em></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/developing-open-educational-resources-in-indian-languages'>https://cis-india.org/openness/developing-open-educational-resources-in-indian-languages</a>
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No publisherSohnee Harshey*CIS-A2KMalayalam WikipediaMarathi WikipediaTelugu WikipediaHindi Wikipedia2016-06-10T01:50:22ZBlog EntryStats for March 2016
https://cis-india.org/openness/stats-for-march-2016
<b>CIS-A2K team closely works with 5 Indian languages, we call as focus language areas.
Here are the stats for the month of March 2016.</b>
<p>We generate stats for each of our focus language area month on month, and it has been used for designing and modifying our strategies from time to time. Though these stats were never published publicly, as we get them at stats.wikimedia.org already and publishing here is just repeating it; it was felt that some more metrics can be added and published month on month here at CIS blog. Also, the data here would be for the last month, while it takes two months for data to get updated at stats.wikimedia.org.</p>
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<p>Stub articles created :</p>
<p>Kannada - 3/131</p>
<p>Konkani - 9/38</p>
<p>Marathi - 50/176</p>
<p>Odia - 8/89</p>
<p>Telugu - 59/284</p>
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<p>In Kannada Wikipedia, about 131 new articles were created and of these only 3 are stub class articles. This is because Kannada Wikipedia is implementing a strict policy on not allowing a stub class article. There is an abuse filter created by one of the admins, Harish MG, which does not allow an editor to submit a smaller article than 1000 bytes. While Konkani showed a good progress in creation of new articles and only 9 of these 38 articles were stub class articles.</p>
<p>Marathi and Odia had a 28% and 9% share of total articles created as stubs respectively, while Telugu has about 21% of total articles created as stubs.</p>
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<p>Active editors count has gone up in Kannada with 133 active editors during March 2016 - this could be accounted to the post 13th anniversary activities. Four focused editathons were organised as part of the 13th anniversary celebrations. The number of active editors increased in Konkani too. While in Marathi, Odia and Telugu the number was consistent with the previous months' numbers.</p>
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<p>Now. lets look at the editing activity.</p>
<p>Kannada had 3279 edits adding about 86.57 MB of data. Konkani Wikipedia saw 920 edits in all, adding 8.41 MB of data. Marathi Wikipedia had 2926 edits with 68.42 MB of data; Odia Wikipedia added 1106 edits and 15.28 MB of data and Telugu Wikipedia had 8559 edits with 122.17 MB of data.</p>
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<p>Having a provision of local image upload, Telugu Wikipedia added 53 images to the project while Marathi, one image was added. </p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/stats-for-march-2016'>https://cis-india.org/openness/stats-for-march-2016</a>
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No publisherrahimCIS-A2KWikimediaWikipediaMarathi WikipediaKonkani WikipediaOdia WikipediaTelugu WikipediaKannada Wikipedia2016-06-07T04:06:03ZBlog EntryInternational Mother Language Day
https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/eenadu-february-21-2016-international-mother-language-day
<b>On 21 February 2016, Eenadu published a special story on the occasion of International Mother language day in Hyderabad edition. The special story covered Wikipedians effort to develop Encyclopedic content online and also about multi-lingual (English-Telugu) Wikipedians meetup organized in December 2015. </b>
<p><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/InternationalMotherlanguageday.jpg/@@images/13138b95-ecd7-4541-875a-ca0872db2ac8.jpeg" alt="International Mother Language Day" class="image-inline" title="International Mother Language Day" /></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/eenadu-february-21-2016-international-mother-language-day'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/eenadu-february-21-2016-international-mother-language-day</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KTelugu WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-02-27T06:17:37ZNews ItemDigitisation sprint at Andhra Loyola College Vijayawada to bring more books on Telugu Wikisource
https://cis-india.org/openness/events/digitisation-sprint-at-andhra-loyola-college-vijayawada-to-bring-more-books-on-telugu-wikisource
<b>This 12th, A digitisation sprint is being organised for student Wikipedians of Andhra Loyola College Vijayawada. Students will learn about scanning books, will use OCR engine and digitise books on Telugu Wikisource. The event is organised by CIS-A2K where Telugu Wikimedian Viswanadh will be participating to mentor the new Wikimedians.</b>
<p> Telugu Wikisource, a free online library in Telugu-language. Currently there are about 8 volunteers, known as Wikisourcers, who find Telugu-language text that are available under free licenses like Public Domain or Creative Commons licenses, digitise them and make the books available on the project. Their effort has brought about 29,680 pages of digitised text from old and new published works of different genres ranging from popular science and religious literature to literary contributions of notable authors of the states of Andhra and Telengana.</p>
<p>35 student Wikipedians of the Andhra Loyola College will be participating in this event and will learn about scanning of books, converting text from scanned images using OCR engine and digitising books on Telugu Wikisource by typing and proof-reading. At least 150-200 folios are expected to be digitized on Telugu Wikisource. Most importantly, this activity will also help bring 5-10 new Wikisourcers to Telugu Wikisource. As this is just a two-day long event, more follow up sessions will be conducted over time with the same set of students to help them learn better about the technical process involved and overall digitisation.This is the first of its kind in the institution where the students will not just learn about digitisation of books but will participate in a live contribution and make more Telugu books available online.</p>
<p class="callout">"Introducing Student Wikisourcers to Telugu Wikisource will help in developing the project. Also this is a very timely activity because even few days delay might result in really low participation as exams are coming up. "<br />— Viswanadh (User:విశ్వనాధ్.బి.కె.) ,Telugu Wikipedian (comment from Telugu Wikipedia Village Pump)</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/events/digitisation-sprint-at-andhra-loyola-college-vijayawada-to-bring-more-books-on-telugu-wikisource'>https://cis-india.org/openness/events/digitisation-sprint-at-andhra-loyola-college-vijayawada-to-bring-more-books-on-telugu-wikisource</a>
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No publisherPavan SanthoshTelugu WikisourceCIS-A2KTelugu WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-02-12T11:29:10ZEventYouth is responsible for protecting Telugu
https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/eenadu-telugu-wikipedia-january-14-2016-youth-responsible-for-protecting-telugu
<b>G. Umamaheshwara Rao, head of linguist research at Hyderabad Central university observed that there is every possibility for Telugu to be extinct soon. Its responsibility of youth to protect and preserve the language. And it is Wikipedia which would help in doing so. </b>
<p style="text-align: justify;">A program was arranged to inaugurate Telugu Wkipedia digital resource center at Andhra Loyola College. Others who were present were Dr. Samala Ramesh Babu, Editor Ammanudi magazine, Fr. GAP Kishore, Principal, Rahmanuddin, Program officer, CIS-A2K, Prof B. Sivakumari, Botany dept, N Srinivas, Statistics dept, Kola Sekhara, Telugu dept, Pavan Santhosh, PA, CIS-A2K.A workshop for 40 students (10 each from Botany, Telugu, Physics and Statistics) took place from 11 to 13 January in the college campus.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Scanned version of article published by Eenaudu on January 14, 2016<br /><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/eenadu1412016.jpg" alt="null" class="image-inline" title="Eenadu Article" /></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/eenadu-telugu-wikipedia-january-14-2016-youth-responsible-for-protecting-telugu'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/eenadu-telugu-wikipedia-january-14-2016-youth-responsible-for-protecting-telugu</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KTelugu WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-02-05T20:49:00ZNews ItemWikipedia Digital Centre now at Andhra Loyola College
https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/the-hans-india-january-14-2016-wikipedia-digital-centre-now-at-andhra-loyola-college
<b>Access to Knowledge programme (CIS-A2K) of the Centre for Internet and Society has opened up a Wikipedia Digital Centre at Andhra Loyola College in the city on Wednesday. The centre, which has trained a couple of students in contributing to Wikipedia earlier, has now set up a lab called ‘Wikipedia Digital Centre’ to continue the activity. </b>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Under the programme, organisers of Access to Knowledge train the students from each department such as botany, statistics, physics and Telugu to become Wikimedians so that they offer content in Telugu and other regional languages.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">A two-day-long programme trained nearly 40 students from the college to enable them update the information. The students, as a part of training would work on their respective subjects in languages and will update their works on articles in Wikipedia.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The lab is equipped with 10 computers and will be managed by Andhra Loyola College and CIS together, said one of the organisers Rahmanuddin Shaik. College management and respective faculty were present during the programme.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Read the article published by Hans India on January 14, 2016 <a class="external-link" href="http://www.thehansindia.com/posts/index/Andhra-Pradesh/2016-01-14/Wikipedia-Digital-Centre-now-at-Andhra-Loyola-College/200163">here</a>.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/the-hans-india-january-14-2016-wikipedia-digital-centre-now-at-andhra-loyola-college'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/the-hans-india-january-14-2016-wikipedia-digital-centre-now-at-andhra-loyola-college</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KTelugu WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-02-05T20:49:22ZNews ItemTelugu Wikipedia Education Program at Andhra Loyola College, Vijayawada
https://cis-india.org/openness/events/telugu-wikipedia-education-program-at-andhra-loyola-college-vijayawada
<b>In collaboration with Andhra Loyola College (ALC), Vijayawada, Access to Knowledge programme (CIS-A2K) of the Centre for Internet and Society is opening up a Wikipedia Digital Centre in the college so that students and local Wikimedians could grow Wikipedia and other Wikimedia content in Telugu and other Indian languages. To begin with this, a two-day long Wikipedia Education Program is also being initiated which will continue to grow further by expanding local content on Wikipedia.</b>
<p>As part of this two-day programme 40 undergraduate students (10 each from Botany, Statistics,
Physics and Telugu) will be taking part and will be creating articles in their respective subjects in four languages; Telugu, Hindi, Malayalam and Tamil.</p>
<p>On the 13th a Wikipedia Digital Centre will be opened at ALC. G Umamaheswara Rao of Centre for Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies (CALTS) lab, University of Hyderabad will be joining as the chief guest. This lab will have 10 computers and will be jointly managed by the CIS and ALC where the student-Wikipedians and the local Wikimedia community could conduct regular Wikipedia outreach programmes. Joining in this event are principal of the institution Fr. Kishore, Professsor
Sivakumari from Department of Botany, Professor Sahayabaskaran, Department of Physics, and Professor
Kola Sekhar, Department of Telugu. On behalf of CIS-A2K, Rahmanuddin Shaik and Pavan Santosh will be participating and facilitating the Wikipedia Education Program and the inauguration of the lab.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/events/telugu-wikipedia-education-program-at-andhra-loyola-college-vijayawada'>https://cis-india.org/openness/events/telugu-wikipedia-education-program-at-andhra-loyola-college-vijayawada</a>
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No publisherPavan SantoshCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeMalayalam WikipediaTelugu WikipediaHindi Wikipedia2016-01-13T07:51:13ZEventTelugu Wikipedia Day 2015, Photo Walk
https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/telugu-wikipedia-day-2015-photo-walk
<b>On December 13, 2015, Telugu Wikipedians conducted a historical photowalk in Dr.YSR state archeological museum to celebrate Telugu Wikipedia Day 2015. Pavan Santhosh attended the event as a CIS-A2K representative and facilitated media coverage for the programme.</b>
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<p>One of the popular telugu news channel TV9 covered the event and telecasted the same. Eenadu published a special item on photowalk on December 13, 2015.</p>
<p><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/eenaduspecialitemonphotowalk13dec15.jpg" alt="null" class="image-inline" title="Eenadu Special" /></p>
<p>Andhra Jyoti published an article on photowalk on December 18:</p>
<p><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/andhrajyothionphotowalk.jpg" alt="null" class="image-inline" title="Andhra Jyoti Photowalk" /></p>
<p>Eenadu news report on photowalk on December 18:</p>
<p><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/eenadunewsreportonphotowalk.jpg" alt="null" class="image-inline" title="Eenadu news report" /></p>
<p>Namaste Telangana on Photowalk on December 18:</p>
<p><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/namastetelanganaonphotowalk.jpg" alt="null" class="image-inline" title="Namaste Telangana" /></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/telugu-wikipedia-day-2015-photo-walk'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/telugu-wikipedia-day-2015-photo-walk</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KTelugu WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-01-05T06:27:08ZNews ItemEnglish Wikipedia and the Telugu Wikipedia joint meetup and edit-a-thon: Sakshi
https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/english-wikipedia-and-the-telugu-wikipedia-joint-meetup-and-edit-a-thon-sakshi
<b>The article was published in Sakshi on December 20, 2015. A scanned version of the article is given below.</b>
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<p>On December 20, 2015 English Wikipedia and the Telugu Wikipedia joint meetup and edit-a-thon were conducted on Golden Threshold, Hyderabad.</p>
<p><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/sakshicoverageonengtelwikimediansmeetup.jpg/@@images/09acd76a-6bdb-4155-91e4-443f4c259f56.jpeg" alt="null" class="image-inline" title="Sakshi" /></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/english-wikipedia-and-the-telugu-wikipedia-joint-meetup-and-edit-a-thon-sakshi'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/english-wikipedia-and-the-telugu-wikipedia-joint-meetup-and-edit-a-thon-sakshi</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KTelugu WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-01-05T06:31:25ZNews ItemEnglish Wikipedia and the Telugu Wikipedia joint meetup and edit-a-thon: Andhra Jyoti
https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/english-wikipedia-and-the-telugu-wikipedia-joint-meetup-and-edit-a-thon-andhra-jyoti
<b>The article was published in Andhra Jyoti on December 20, 2015. A scanned version of the article is below.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify;">On December 20, 2015 English Wikipedia and the Telugu Wikipedia joint meetup and edit-a-thon were conducted on Golden Threshold, Hyderabad. Andhra Jyoti covered the programme.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/Andhrajyothicoverageonengtelwikimediansmeetup.jpg" alt="null" class="image-inline" title="Andhra Jyoti" /></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/english-wikipedia-and-the-telugu-wikipedia-joint-meetup-and-edit-a-thon-andhra-jyoti'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/english-wikipedia-and-the-telugu-wikipedia-joint-meetup-and-edit-a-thon-andhra-jyoti</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KTelugu WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-01-05T06:33:09ZNews ItemTelugu Wikipedia Day 2015: Eenadu Coverage
https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/telugu-wikipedia-day-2015-eenadu-coverage
<b>Telugu Wikipedians conducted history photowalk in Dr. YSR state archaeological museum to celebrate Telugu Wikipedia Day 2015 on December 13, 2015. Pavan Santosh supported the community as a representative from CIS-A2K</b>
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<p>Below is the media coverage of the event published by leading newspaper Eenadu (Hyderabad edition) on December 13, 2015.</p>
<p><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/Eenadu.jpg/@@images/a1d4f1b7-078d-44f5-b38e-083e80049f4b.jpeg" alt="null" class="image-inline" title="Eenadu Coverage" /></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/telugu-wikipedia-day-2015-eenadu-coverage'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/telugu-wikipedia-day-2015-eenadu-coverage</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KTelugu WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-01-05T06:33:51ZNews ItemEnglish and Telugu Wikipedia edit-a-thon in Hyderabad
https://cis-india.org/openness/english-and-telugu-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-in-hyderabad
<b>After a long time, a collaborative Telugu and English Wikipedia edit-a-thon is being organised in Hyderabad on December 20.</b>
<p id="docs-internal-guid-98d87700-f6fa-1493-9772-105a5994d0a4" dir="ltr">This Sunday, the Telugu and English language Wikipedia editors are organising a unique edit-a-thon at Golden Threshold, Abids. The event is aimed at translating many English Wikipedia articles related to Telugu language and culture to Telugu and vice versa. Theatre scholar and Telugu Wikimedian Pranay Raj Vangari and English Wikimedian Srikar Kasyap are organising this event with support from Centre for Internet and Society. Telugu speakers who contribute to English Wikipedia are going to contribute to Telugu Wikipedia. “The event is scheduled at 10 am and over a dozen articles are planned to be created during the sprint”, explains Vangari. Kashyap adds saying, “the Wikimedians are also planning to share best practices of the two communities which will benefit everyone”. The event is open to all and newbies will be oriented with the basics of Wikipedia editing and enriching the knowledge pool in Telugu and other languages on the Internet.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/english-and-telugu-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-in-hyderabad'>https://cis-india.org/openness/english-and-telugu-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-in-hyderabad</a>
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No publisherPavan SantoshCIS-A2KWikipediaTelugu WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2015-12-31T07:49:19ZEventCIS brings Nadustunna Charithra magazine under by CC BY SA licence
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/cis-brings-nadustunna-charithra-magazine-under-by-cc-by-sa-licence
<b>As a part of its content donation initiative, the Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) has brought all issues of Nadustunna Charithra magazine under Creative Common Licence. </b>
<p style="text-align: justify;">CIS-A2K has received 74 issues as of now from the Telugu Jaati foundation. These issues shall be published by A2K on a blog site under CC BY SA licence to make it a reliable reference resource and adhere Wikipedia guidelines.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Nadustunna Charithra magazine has dealt extensively with Telugu semantics and Telugu Cultural history and we hope to upload all the issues to Telugu Wikisource. These magazines will also serve as handy reference guides for Telugu Wikipedians and shall act as a major referencing and citation resource.<br /><br />CIS-A2K has also been successful in acquiring 250 song books (booklets that have the lyrics of songs featured in a film) of Telugu movies for content donation. These song books serve as introduction to the film itself. They contain lyrics of the songs, poster of the movie, details of the cast and crew, a short synopsis both in Telugu and English along with photographs of the lead actors. As of now CIS-A2K has been able to locate song books for most of the films produced between 1930-1954.<br /><br />These resources shall also help the Telugu community in coming up with new/improved articles related to Telugu cinema. With most of the basic information regarding a film available in the song book, we expect that the Telugu community along with active cooperation from A2K shall create GA quality articles and this content donation will also help in improving stubs that were created earlier.<br /><br />CIS-A2K is extremely grateful for the support received by the Telugu community during this content donation initiative and would like to thank in person Mr. Bhaskarnaidu, Mr. Gullapalli Nageshwara Rao who have been part of these conversations and helped us identify the resources to be re-licensed.<br /><br /></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/cis-brings-nadustunna-charithra-magazine-under-by-cc-by-sa-licence'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/cis-brings-nadustunna-charithra-magazine-under-by-cc-by-sa-licence</a>
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