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Exercise to Correct articles in Tulu Wikipedia begins
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/news/exercise-to-correct-articles-in-tulu-wikipedia-begins
<b>It will go on till Saturday at the Ramakrishna pre-university college.</b>
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No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaTulu Wikipedia2016-05-01T10:37:12ZNews ItemCommunity Discussion for Making Tulu Wikipedia Live
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/making-tulu-wikipedia-live
<b>CIS-A2K Programme Officer Rahmanuddin Shaik visited Mangalore on October 28 and 29 and again on November 5 and 6, 2015. During his visit he interacted with Wikipedians for making the Tulu Wikipedia live.</b>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">There were discussions on translations of system messages that appear on Wikipedia interface, creating templates pages and adding images. Around 79 strings were translated on Translatewiki.net, the community project for MediaWiki localization, and about 500 strings were approved. This event was organised at Tulu Bhavana, Karnataka Tulu Sahitya Akademy. The director of the institution was part of the meeting who agreed for the following:</p>
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<li>To relicense a lower resolution cover pages, and metadata of their 157 volumes of books under Creative Commons licenses. This will bring in those many articles on Tulu Wikipedia.</li>
<li>To give detailed information of winners of Tulu Sahitya Akademy award winners (this was being given away across 6 disciplines from 1993 onwards), which would add close to 100 biography articles on Tulu Wikipedia.</li></ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;">A possibility of CIS-A2K and Tulu Sahitya Akademy collaboration was also discussed briefly. Vishwanatha Badikana was there throughout these talks and he would be the contact person for further work.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Rahmanuddin was also invited to be a part of the World Konkani Literature festival where he spoke briefly about Konkani Wikipedia to the gathering.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/making-tulu-wikipedia-live'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/making-tulu-wikipedia-live</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeTulu Wikipedia2015-12-15T07:45:54ZNews ItemTulu Wikipedia Tutorial
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/tulu-wikipedia-tutorial
<b>Dr. U.B. Pavanaja trained the people involved in the creation of the videos. </b>
<p>Tutorial video on starting with Tulu Wikipedia which is in incubation:<a class="free external" href="https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/tcy/%E0%B2%AE%E0%B3%81%E0%B2%96%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%AF_%E0%B2%AA%E0%B3%81%E0%B2%9F"></a></p>
<p><iframe src="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ATulu_Wikipedia_Tutorial_01.webm?embedplayer=yes" frameborder="0" height="288" width="512"></iframe></p>
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<p><br />Tutorial video explaining how to start with Tulu Wikipedia which is in incubator:</p>
<p><iframe src="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ATuluWikipediaTutorial01-With-Audio.webmhd.webm?embedplayer=yes" frameborder="0" height="288" width="512"></iframe></p>
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<p><br />Tutorial video explaining how to add new article to Tulu Wikipedia:<br /><br /> <iframe src="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ATuluWikiTutorial02.webm?embedplayer=yes" frameborder="0" height="288.0891364902507" width="512"></iframe></p>
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<p><br />Tutorial video explaining how to type in Tulu Wikipedia:<br /><br /> <iframe src="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ATuluWikiTutorial03.webm?embedplayer=yes" frameborder="0" height="288.0891364902507" width="512"></iframe></p>
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<p><br />Tutorial video explaining how to format articles in Tulu Wikipedia:<br /><br /> <iframe src="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ATuluWikiTutorial04.webm?embedplayer=yes" frameborder="0" height="288.0891364902507" width="512"></iframe></p>
<p><br /> The people behind these videos:</p>
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<li>Prof. Vishwanatha Badikana for Script</li>
<li>Lasya Shetty for Voice</li>
<li>Abhishek Shetty, Saarang Community radio at St Aloysius College Mangaluru for Audio Recording</li>
<li>Soundarya Shetty for Mixing and Editing</li>
<li>Dr. U.B. Pavanaja for Conception, Direction, Mixing and Editing<br /><br /></li></ul>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/tulu-wikipedia-tutorial'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/tulu-wikipedia-tutorial</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaSocial MediaCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeVideoTulu Wikipedia2015-12-15T07:50:52ZNews ItemTulu Wikipedia edit-a-thon in Mangalore
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/tulu-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-in-mangalore
<b>This edit-a-thon is aimed to encourage more Tulu speakers to contribute to Tulu Wikipedia which is currently in incubator. The edit-a-thon is being organised by the Tulu Wikimedia community in Mangalore.</b>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/tulu-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-in-mangalore'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/tulu-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-in-mangalore</a>
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No publisherpavanajaWikimediaTulu WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-06-18T18:06:28ZEventWikipediansSpeak with Dr. Kishore Kumar Rai Sheni: Tulu Wikipedia in the making
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wikipediansspeak-with-dr-kishore-kumar-rai-sheni-tulu-wikipedia-in-academics
<b>Dr. Kishore Kumar Rai Sheni, Principal, Shri Ramakrishna P.U. College, Mangaluru shares with Dr. U.B. Pavanaja of the Centre for Internet and Society's Access To Knowledge (CIS-A2K) programme his insights on bringing more contributors of different corners of the society to grow Tulu Wikipedia. Tulu Wikipedia is in Incubator at present and there are a bunch of contributors who are expanding the project to bring it live.</b>
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When I caught up with Dr. Kishore Kumar Rai Sheni during an ongoing Tulu Wikipedia edit-a-thon in his college, Shri Ramakrishna P.U. College, Mangaluru, he left me with his wonderful ideas of expanding the Tulu Wikipedia. Back in 2014, with a few sporadic contributors, the Tulu Wikipedia community probably did not exist. After several outreach programmes in and around Mangaluru, it has grown to about an eight-editor community. It could look really tiny today but has potential to grow to a bigger community provided the constant effort by these eight people continue. This edit-a-thon is one of the stepping stones to build this community. About 37 people who hardly know anything about Tulu Wikipedia are participating in this event where six of the experienced editors will support them. The project is all about creating a live encyclopedia on the internet. We have enough and many Tulu authors and teachers who otherwise contribute to the language and literature. The idea is to bring them aboard. In collaboration with three other institutions here; Ramakrishna PU College, Ramakrishna Degree College and Tulu Sahitya Academy, we're trying to bridge the gap of lack of Wikipedia in our language. So far, very little work has been done in documenting the rich Tulu culture in Tulu language. There is no encyclopaedia of any sort in Tulu at this moment. There is also a need to bring the entire world's knowledge to the Tulu speakers. I hope Tulu Wikipedia will be the future to take our language and culture to the world, and fill the gap of knowledge that exists today.</p>
<em><strong>Tulu Wikipedia Incubator is available at <a class="external-link" href="https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/tcy"><cite class="_Rm">https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/tcy.</cite></a></strong></em>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wikipediansspeak-with-dr-kishore-kumar-rai-sheni-tulu-wikipedia-in-academics'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wikipediansspeak-with-dr-kishore-kumar-rai-sheni-tulu-wikipedia-in-academics</a>
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No publisherpavanajaTulu WikipediaWikipediaWikipedianSpeak2016-06-18T18:06:49ZBlog EntryWikipedia edit-a-thon in Mangalore to bring Tulu Wikipedia live
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/wikipedia-edit-a-thon-in-mangalore-to-bring-tulu-wikipedia-live
<b>A Wikipedia edit-a-thon was organised in Mangalore, Karnataka this 14th to encourage more Tulu-language speakers to contribute to Tulu Wikipedia. Tulu Wikipedia is is currently in the Incubator but the enthusiastic editor community is putting their best effort to bring it live out of Incubator. This edit-a-thon is one of the many activities the Tulu Wikimedia community has organised.</b>
<p>30 Wikipedia editors participated and created about 89 new articles. Interestingly, 12 of these 30 participants crossed more than 10 edits. Some of the new participants faced problems with using the<a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:UniversalLanguageSelector/Input_methods#Kannada"> input methods</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Wiki_markup">Wiki-markup</a>. It is important to note that because of the lack of addition of Tulu-alphabet code points in the Unicode chart, and the speakers being well conversant in Kannada, they are using Kannada script for Tulu Wikipedia Incubator project. There is a plan to organise a monthly meetup and/or edit-a-thon to continue the momentum these editors have brought in. <a href="http://www.tuluacademy.org/en/">Tulu Sahitya Academy</a> has kindly supported the event.</p>
More details in the <a class="external-link" href="https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/tcy/ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ:ಕಜ್ಜಕೊಟ್ಯ-5">event page</a> (in Tulu).
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/wikipedia-edit-a-thon-in-mangalore-to-bring-tulu-wikipedia-live'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/wikipedia-edit-a-thon-in-mangalore-to-bring-tulu-wikipedia-live</a>
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No publisherpavanajaWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpennessTulu Wikipedia2015-09-15T09:07:24ZBlog EntryMore articles for Tulu Wikipedia
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/the-hindu-ravi-prasad-kamila-more-articles-for-tulu-wikipedia
<b>In all, 100 more articles will be uploaded to the Tulu Wikipedia by teachers and students in Udupi shortly, according to Janaki M. Brahmavara, president, Karnataka Tulu Sahitya Academy.</b>
<p class="body" style="text-align: justify; ">The article by Ravi Prasad Kamila was <a class="external-link" href="http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/more-articles-for-tulu-wikipedia/article6976954.ece">published in the Hindu</a> on March 10, 2015.</p>
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<p class="body" style="text-align: justify; ">She told <i>The Hindu</i> that more than 700 articles have been uploaded to the Tulu Wikipedia, which is still in its incubation stage, by different persons now.</p>
<p class="body" style="text-align: justify; ">Last year, the academy had conducted a training programme on uploading contents to Wikipedia for students at Mahatma Gandhi Memorial College, Udupi. In all, 17 students had been trained.</p>
<p class="body" style="text-align: justify; ">Now three teachers of Government Girls’ Pre-University College, Nagaraja, Dayananda and Yadava Karkera, have come forward to upload 100 articles with the help of 17 trained students, at the government pre-university college which had computer facilities.</p>
<p class="body" style="text-align: justify; ">The articles would be on varied subjects like culture, life, places. She said that the academy has set a target of ensuring 1,000 articles on Wikipedia shortly.</p>
<p class="body" style="text-align: justify; ">U.B. Pavanaja, Wikipedia representative and programme officer, said The Centre for Internet and Society, Bengaluru, uploading contents to the Tulu Wikipedia had begun since 2007.</p>
<p class="body" style="text-align: justify; ">If one wants to write articles in Tulu, he or she would have to log on to bilty.com/tuluwiki and register there to write, edit or read articles written in Tulu using Kannada script.</p>
<p class="body" style="text-align: justify; ">Ms. Janaki said that some college teachers have also begun uploading contents to Tulu Wikipedia now.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/the-hindu-ravi-prasad-kamila-more-articles-for-tulu-wikipedia'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/the-hindu-ravi-prasad-kamila-more-articles-for-tulu-wikipedia</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaOpennessTulu Wikipedia2015-04-05T04:33:02ZNews ItemTulu Wikipedia - Coverage in Vijaya Karnataka
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/tulu-wikipedia-december-15-2014-coverage-in-vijaya-karnataka
<b>This is the coverage in Vijaya Karnataka on December 15.</b>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/tulu-wikipedia-december-15-2014-coverage-in-vijaya-karnataka'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/tulu-wikipedia-december-15-2014-coverage-in-vijaya-karnataka</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaOpennessTulu WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2014-12-27T16:36:09ZNews ItemTulu Wikipedia (Coverage in VijayaVani)
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/tulu-wikipedia-coverage-in-vijayavani
<b>Media coverage in Vijayavani.</b>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/tulu-wikipedia-coverage-in-vijayavani'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/tulu-wikipedia-coverage-in-vijayavani</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaOpennessTulu WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2014-12-27T16:30:57ZNews ItemTulu Wikipedia Presentation: Coverage in Kannada Prabha
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/kannada-prabha-december-14-2014-tulu-wikipedia-presentation
<b>Dr. U.B. Pavanaja made a presentation on Tulu Wikipedia at a workshop held in Mangalore on December 14, 2014. This was covered by Kannada Prabha.</b>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/kannada-prabha-december-14-2014-tulu-wikipedia-presentation'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/kannada-prabha-december-14-2014-tulu-wikipedia-presentation</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaOpennessTulu WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2014-12-27T14:46:59ZNews ItemTulu Wikipedia gets some push
http://editors.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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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/hindu-businessline-december-13-2014-tulu-wikipedia-gets-some-push'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/hindu-businessline-december-13-2014-tulu-wikipedia-gets-some-push</a>
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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
http://editors.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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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/the-hindu-november-26-2014-ravi-prasad-kamila-tulu-wikipedia-in-incubation-stage'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/the-hindu-november-26-2014-ravi-prasad-kamila-tulu-wikipedia-in-incubation-stage</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaOpennessTulu Wikipedia2014-12-07T03:21:11ZNews ItemNow, Tulu set to be promoted through Wikipedia articles
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/the-hindu-november-24-2014-govind-d-belgaumkar-now-tulu-set-to-be-promoted-through-wikipedia-articles
<b>With the dream of including Tulu in the list of official languages of the country (eighth schedule of the Constitution) remaining far from being realised, enthusiasts seem to be keen to promote the language through Wikipedia.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The article by Govind D. Belgaumkar was <a class="external-link" href="http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/now-tulu-set-to-be-promoted-through-wikipedia-articles/article6629007.ece">published in the Hindu</a> on November 24, 2014.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Beginning on Wednesday, a three-day convention at Sahyadri College will ideate to find means to achieve this goal with the Karnataka Tulu Academy leading the initiative.<br /><br />The convention will focus on writing Wikipedia articles in Tulu.<br /><br />Nearly 30 students, mostly from Canara College and some from Aloysius College, and some teachers from Bantwal have registered for the event.<br /><br />The plan is to ensure that about 25-30 people keep writing in Tulu on Wikipedia.<br /><br />Some students from the Government Girls PU College in Udupi had already been contributing articles in Tulu, according to the academy’s registrar Chandrahas Rai.<br /><br />He hoped that the activity would help to pressure authorities to include Tulu in the eighth schedule of the Constitution.<br /><br />The convention comes ahead of the mega Tulu event – Tuluvere Parba planned in December – and it is hoped that it would awaken the Tulu spirit among the people of the region.<br /><br />The resource person will be Wikipedia representative and Bengaluru-based Programme Manger, Indian Languages, The Centre for Internet and Society Sri Pavanaja U.B..<br /><br />Mr. Rai said the articles need to be written regularly to keep the language alive on the platform otherwise it would be notified as inactive.<br /><br />The convention will be inaugurated by Shivaram Shetty, professor in Mangalore University’s SVP Kannada Study Centre.<br /><br />President of the academy Janaki Brahmabar, president of Bantwal Tulukuta A.C. Bhandary and Tuluvere Parba’s chief convenor Kadri Navaneet Shetty will be present.<br /><br />Others who are expected to take part include Mangaluru Tulukuta President Damodar Nisarga, General Secretary of Tuluvere Parba Nitte Shashidhar Shetty.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/the-hindu-november-24-2014-govind-d-belgaumkar-now-tulu-set-to-be-promoted-through-wikipedia-articles'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/the-hindu-november-24-2014-govind-d-belgaumkar-now-tulu-set-to-be-promoted-through-wikipedia-articles</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaOpennessTulu WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2014-12-06T01:23:43ZNews ItemTulu Wikipedia Workshop cum Editathon at Udupi
http://editors.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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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/tulu-wikipedia-workshop-cum-editathon-at-udupi'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/tulu-wikipedia-workshop-cum-editathon-at-udupi</a>
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No publisherpavanajaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaOpennessTulu Wikipedia2014-10-31T14:54:07ZBlog Entry Wikipedia can establish Tulu in a wider way
http://editors.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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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/mangalore-today-october-17-2014-wikipedia-can-establish-tulu-in-a-wider-way'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/mangalore-today-october-17-2014-wikipedia-can-establish-tulu-in-a-wider-way</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaOpennessTulu Wikipedia2014-10-24T16:01:07ZNews Item