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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 Item‘Tulu Wikipedia’ in incubation stage, 600 articles uploaded, says U.B. Pavanaja
https://cis-india.org/openness/news/the-hindu-november-26-2014-ravi-prasad-kamila-tulu-wikipedia-in-incubation-stage
<b>In all, 600 articles have been uploaded to the Tulu Wikipedia which is still in its incubation stage, according to U.B. Pavanaja, Wikipedia representative and Programme Officer, The Centre for Internet and Society, Bengaluru. </b>
<p class="body" style="text-align: justify; ">The article by Ravi Prasad Kamila was <a class="external-link" href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Mangalore/tulu-wikipedia-in-incubation-stage-600-articles-uploaded-says-ub-pavanaja/article6636113.ece">published in the Hindu</a> on November 26, 2014. Dr. U.B.Pavanaja gave his inputs.</p>
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<p class="body" style="text-align: justify; ">Speaking at a workshop on writing articles in Tulu, using Kannada script, for Wikipedia at Sahyadri College of Engineering and Management here on Wednesday, he said that since 2007 till this January there were 135 Tulu articles. The remaining 465 articles were added in the last over nine months.</p>
<p class="body" style="text-align: justify; ">Workshops on writing articles in Tulu for Wikipedia organised in Udupi and Mangaluru had helped in adding more articles.</p>
<p class="body" style="text-align: justify; ">Mr. Pavananja, originally hailing from Sullia in Dakshina Kannada, said that if Tulu Wikipedia was to be kept alive at least 50 to 60 articles would have to be uploaded a month and it required at least 10 dedicated writers.</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 later register there like registering while creating a new e-mail id. Later one can write, edit or read articles written in Tulu using Kannada script.</p>
<p class="body" style="text-align: justify; ">Karnataka Tulu Sahitya Academy had organised the workshop as a prelude to the three-day ‘Vishwa Tuluvere Parba’ (Global Tulu Festival) scheduled at the college from December 12.</p>
<p class="body" style="text-align: justify; ">President of the academy M. Janaki Brahmavar requested the participants to write articles about Tulu language and culture and about the coming festival and upload.</p>
<p class="body" style="text-align: justify; ">One can contact Mr. Pavanaja through pavanaja@gmail.com.</p>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaOpennessTulu Wikipedia2014-12-07T03:21:11ZNews ItemNow, 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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No publisherpraskrishnaOpennessTulu WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2014-12-06T01:23:43ZNews ItemTulu Wikipedia Workshop cum Editathon at Udupi
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/tulu-wikipedia-workshop-cum-editathon-at-udupi
<b>A three-day programme was held at Udupi from October 15 to 17, 2014 with an aim to increase the presence of Tulu in the online world. The first day comprised the inauguration programme and a workshop to understand the Wiki markup. The next two days were devoted to the edit-a-thon where participants added articles to Tulu Wikipedia. </b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The team comprised 18 girls from the Government PU College, Udupi and some other women. The event was organised by Tulu Sahitya Academy and sponsored by MGM College, Udupi and the Regional Research Centre, Udupi. Janaki Brahmavar, Chairperson of Tulu Sahitya Academy, presided over the function. She spoke about the efforts being made to add Tulu in Unicode. Jayakar Shetty, President Tulu Okkoota, expressed his happiness over the fact that it was a batch of about 20 girls who participated in the workshop cum edit-a-thon. There is a grouse that male editors far outnumber females in editing Wikipedia. This could be one instance where only female editors actively added articles to Tulu Wikipedia over three days. The programme was well covered by the print and television media. The good news is that the girls who participated in the edit-a-thon have continued adding articles. As on October 26, 2014, the total number of articles in Tulu Wikipedia has gone up to 574.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Tulu is one of the Dravidian languages spoken primarily by people from the south coast of Karnataka and north coast of Kerala<a href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1">[1]</a>. As per the Census of 2001, there were 1,722,768 Tulu speakers <a href="#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2">[2]</a>; figures of 2011 census are still not available. There are a lot of Tulu-speaking people residing outside Karnataka and Kerala in Mumbai, Goa and Gulf countries. It is estimated that the total number of Tulu-speaking people is more than 2.5 million. There has been a long-standing demand to include Tulu in the 8<sup>th</sup> Schedule of the Constitution of India<a href="#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3">[3]</a>, <a href="#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4">[4]</a>. Tulu had its own script long ago, it is not in use. Currently, Tulu is written in the Kannada script. Tulu has a vast vocal tradition, and there is a huge collection of knowledge that is transferred across generations orally. Efforts are being made to document this vocal tradition. The history of Tulu literature has already been documented in Kannada. Recently, the Karnataka government introduced Tulu as an optional language for schools in Mangalore and Udupi districts. However, these students don't have many books to read apart from the prescribed textbooks. There are some Tulu books in the creative writing domain, but there is hardly any book of an encyclopaedic nature in Tulu language which the students can refer to. This is where Tulu Wikipedia becomes extremely significant.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Tulu Wikipedia has been in incubation since 2007<a href="#_ftn6" name="_ftnref5">[5]</a>. Some editing activities in Tulu Wikipedia were carried out during 2007-08. But the initial momentum gradually subsided, and most editors stopped editing. Tulu Wikipedia thereafter went into a dormant status. During the Alvas Vishwa Nudisiri Programme at Moodabidre in December 2013, Dr BA VivekaRai, former vice-chancellor of Kannada University, who was the President of the cultural and literary meet, dwelt at length on the importance of implementing Tulu language in technology. This was followed by a talk by Dr UB Pavanaja, a member of the CIS-A2K team. He continued from where Viveka Rai left off, and talked about bringing world knowledge in Tulu, rejuvenating Tulu Wikipedia, and pressuring the state and Union governments towards including Tulu in the 8<sup>th</sup> Schedule of the Constitution.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Subsequently, a workshop on editing Tulu Wikipedia was held at Mangalore on January 19 this year under the leadership and initiative of Dr BA VivekaRai. This was followed by another edit-a-thon at Mangalore on April 5 and another workshop at Udupi on May 25. All these efforts have given a new impetus to Tulu Wikipedia. The number of articles in Tulu Wikipedia was 147 as in March 2014, which went up to 365 in July. The Tulu Sahitya Academy realised the importance and pitched into the effort of making it live.</p>
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<p><a href="#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1">[1]</a> <a href="http://www.ethnologue.com/subgroups/dravidian">http://www.ethnologue.com/subgroups/dravidian</a></p>
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<p><a href="#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2">[2]</a> <a href="http://www.censusindia.gov.in/%28S%28i4hlwuf0ltgmdnejdawhdr45%29%29/Census_Data_2001/Census_Data_Online/Language/partb.aspx"> http://www.censusindia.gov.in/%28S%28i4hlwuf0ltgmdnejdawhdr45%29%29/Census_Data_2001/Census_Data_Online/Language/partb.aspx </a></p>
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<p><a href="#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3">[3]</a> <a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/requests-to-include-38-languages-in-constitution-pending-govt/article58221.ece"> http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/requests-to-include-38-languages-in-constitution-pending-govt/article58221.ece </a></p>
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<p><a href="#_ftnref4" name="_ftn4">[4]</a> <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mangalore/Include-Tulu-in-8th-Schedule-demands-forum/articleshow/38992142.cms"> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mangalore/Include-Tulu-in-8th-Schedule-demands-forum/articleshow/38992142.cms </a></p>
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<p><a href="#_ftnref5" name="_ftn5">[5]</a> <a href="http://tools.wmflabs.org/meta/catanalysis/?title=Wp%2Ftcy&cat=0&wiki=incubatorwiki#overview_edits"> http://tools.wmflabs.org/meta/catanalysis/?title=Wp%2Ftcy&cat=0&wiki=incubatorwiki#overview_edits </a></p>
<h3>Media Coverage</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.mangaloretoday.com/newsbriefs/Wikipedia-can-establish-Tulu-in-a-wider-way.html">http://www.mangaloretoday.com/newsbriefs/Wikipedia-can-establish-Tulu-in-a-wider-way.html</a></p>
<p><a href="http://v4news.com/enliven-the-tulu-viki-fidia-first-and-then-add-tulu-to-the-8th-schedule-dr-ug-pavanaja-bangalore-rep-in-udupi/">http://v4news.com/enliven-the-tulu-viki-fidia-first-and-then-add-tulu-to-the-8th-schedule-dr-ug-pavanaja-bangalore-rep-in-udupi/</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.mangaloretoday.com/newsbriefs/2-Day-Workshop-on-Tulu-in-internet.html">http://www.mangaloretoday.com/newsbriefs/2-Day-Workshop-on-Tulu-in-internet.html</a></p>
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No publisherpavanajaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaOpennessTulu Wikipedia2014-10-31T14:54:07ZBlog Entry Wikipedia can establish Tulu in a wider way
https://cis-india.org/openness/news/mangalore-today-october-17-2014-wikipedia-can-establish-tulu-in-a-wider-way
<b>In his predential address after inaugurating the three-day workshop on ‘The use of internet for promotion of Tulu language,’ organised by Karnataka Tulu Sahitya Academy, Karnataka Tulu Sahitya Academy President Janki M Brahmavar opined that internet media, especially Wikipedia, can contribute to a large extent towards the promotion of Tulu language. The president said there was a need for the effective use of Unicode for the digital interpretation of Tulu.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">This was <a class="external-link" href="http://www.mangaloretoday.com/newsbriefs/Wikipedia-can-establish-Tulu-in-a-wider-way.html">published in Mangalore Today</a> on October 17, 2014. Dr. U.B.Pavanaja gave his inputs.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><span>Delivering a talk on the occasion, Centre for Internet and Society (Bangalore) Indian Languages Programme Coordinator and Wikipedia representative Dr U B Pavanaja said that Tulu Wikipedia is in the process of getting life. He said that minimal work has taken place in Tulu language and that too, is not up to the mark, to be considered for the inclusion of the language to the 8th schedule. There is a need for Unicode, which would enable the language to acquire wide recognition, though it positively qualifies as a classical language of ancient times.<br /><br />There should at least be 500-600 articles in Wikipedia to consider it as live. At least 8-10 articles should be uploaded every month. He added that only eight people had updated their Tulu articles into Wikipedia, during previous year, when the workshop was held at Mangalore. At present the number has gone up to 320. Until March, the number of articles uploaded was 137. The government should work towards it. Dr Pavanaja added that Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia, and is in 287 languages across the world. Anyone who is interested can update his or her articles into the encyclopedia. There are nearly 6000 languages across the world. The people who avail the internet facilities at home can also work on some articles and upload their write ups into Wikipedia.</span></p>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaOpennessTulu Wikipedia2014-10-24T16:01:07ZNews Item