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Meet Telugu Wikipedian Surampudi Meena Gayathri – the first South Indian Wikiwoman completing 100Wikidays Challenge
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/meet-telugu-wikipedian-surampudi-meena-gayathri-2013-the-first-south-indian-wikiwoman-completing-100wikidays-challenge'>http://editors.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 EntryMarathi Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at Rajarshi Chhatrapati Shahu College, Kolhapur
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/marathi-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-at-rajarshi-chhatrapati-shahu-college-kolhapur
<b>A Marathi Wikipedia Edit-a-thon was conducted at Rajarshi Chhatrapati Shahu College, Kolhapur on 23 January, 2017.</b>
<p>A Marathi Wikipedia edit-a-thon was conducted at Shivaji's University's affiliate Rajarshi Chhatrapati Shahu College in Kolhapur on 23 January, 2017. The edit-a-thon aimed to introduce Wikipedia to the students of the College and teach them basic editing skills. The students were trained in categorisation and translation from other language Wikipedias. In addition, the students were taught smart editing on their mobile phones using the Wikipedia app.</p>
<p>The theme of the edit-a-thon was to build resources on Marathi Wikipedia in the field of commerce, so as to keep it relevant to the students who study related subjects at the college. The three-hour-long edit-a-thon conducted at the Computer Lab of the college, involved 50 participants, a mix of male and female students. </p>
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<p><em>The link to the event page on meta can be found <a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Edit-a-thon_at_Rajarshee_Shahu_College,Kolhapur_on_23rd_January_2017">here</a>. </em></p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/marathi-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-at-rajarshi-chhatrapati-shahu-college-kolhapur'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/marathi-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-at-rajarshi-chhatrapati-shahu-college-kolhapur</a>
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No publisherSubodh KulkarniCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaMarathi WikipediaOpenness2017-04-16T14:15:43ZBlog EntryMarathi Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at Shivaji University, Kolhapur
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/marathi-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-at-shivaji-university-kolhapur
<b>A Marathi Wikipedia Edit-a-thon was held at Shivaji University, Kolhapur on 19 January, 2017</b>
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<p>A Marathi Wikipedia edit-a-thon was conducted by CIS-A2K in collaboration with Rajya Marathi Vikas Sanstha at Shivaji Univeristy, Kolhapur on 19 January, 2017. This was similar in nature to the Wikipedia <a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/marathi-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-at-sangli-maharashtra">edit-a-thon conducted at </a><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/marathi-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-at-sangli-maharashtra">Willingdon College in Sangli</a>. The aim of the edit-a-thon was to introduce Wikipedia to the research and post-graduate students of the University. </p>
<p>The three-hour-long edit-a-thon conducted at the University's Marathi Language Computer Lab also focused on building resources in the field of linguistics on Marathi Wikipedia. In addition to equipping the participants with editing and categorisation skills, the workshop encouraged them to contribute to linguistics-related articles and biography articles of Marathi authors and litterateurs. With 50 participants overall, the event increased the reach of Marathi Wikipedia, introducing it to those previously unaware of its existence. </p>
<p>The link to event page on meta can be found <a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Edit-a-thon_with_expert_at_Shivaji_University,Kolhapur_on_19th_January_2017">here</a>. </p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/marathi-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-at-shivaji-university-kolhapur'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/marathi-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-at-shivaji-university-kolhapur</a>
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No publisherSubodh KulkarniCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaMarathi WikipediaOpenness2017-04-16T13:47:44ZBlog EntryMarathi Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at Sangli, Maharashtra
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/marathi-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-at-sangli-maharashtra
<b>A Marathi Wikipedia Edit-a-thon was conducted at Willingdon College, Sangli on 18 January, 2017</b>
<p>A Marathi Wikipedia edit-a-thon was conducted in collaboration with Rajya Marathi Vikas Sanstha at Willingdon College on 18 January, 2017. The goal of the workshop was to begin the building of resources in the field of linguistics on Marathi Wikipedia. To begin with, the edit-a-thon introduced the participants to editing Wikipedia and contributing to Wiki projects. With about 50 participants(of which around 6 were female), the three-hour-long edit-a-thon involved the post-graduate and research students of the Willingdon College. </p>
<p>The edit-a-thon conducted at the Marathi Language Computer Lab of the College also focused on creating/editing Wikipedia pages related to Marathi literature and language. Extensive discussion on these issues was also conducted to develop the concept and theme of the edit-a-thon. While participants were taught basic Wikipedia editing, they were also trained in searching for relevant articles, categorisation and translation from other language Wikipedias. </p>
<p>The workshop received local media coverage by Sakal, a Marathi daily. You can read the article <a class="external-link" href="http://beta1.esakal.com/paschim-maharashtra/marathi-content-significantly-less-wikipedia-26894">here</a>.</p>
<p><em>Link to event page on meta can be found <a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Edit-a-thon_with_expert_at_Willingdon_College,_Sangli_on_18th_January_2017">here</a>.</em></p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/marathi-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-at-sangli-maharashtra'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/marathi-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-at-sangli-maharashtra</a>
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No publisherSubodh KulkarniCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaMarathi WikipediaOpenness2017-04-16T13:22:39ZBlog EntryTelugu Wikipedia stall at Vijayawada Book Festival
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/telugu-wikipedia-stall-at-vijayawada-book-festival
<b>The Telugu Wikipedia community put up a stall at the Vijayawada Book Festival in January, in order to increase reach of the regional language encyclopaedia.</b>
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<p>Last in a series of book stalls set up across the Telugu-speaking region, the Telugu community set up shop at the 27th Vijayawada Book Festival from 3 to 11 January 2017 at the PWD Grounds. The community had previously set up similar book stalls in <a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/telugu-wikipedia-stall-at-rajahmundry-book-fair-1">Rajahmundry </a>and <a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/telugu-wikipedia-stall-at-hyderabad-book-fair">Hyderabad</a>. Considered one of the largest book festivals in India with deep-rooted cultural significance in the Telugu literary circles, the Telugu community aims to increase the reach and visibility of Telugu Wikipedia through the setting up of this stall. </p>
<p>The book festival, open for the public from 11 am to 11 pm, was inaugurated by Kendra Sahitya Akademi winner <a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachapalem_Chandrasekhara_Reddy">Rachapalem Chandrasekhar Reddy</a>, with a collection of 235 stalls to browse from. The festival was organised in partnership with the <a class="external-link" href="http://www.ap.gov.in/about-ap/language-culture/">Andhra Pradesh Department of Language and </a><a class="external-link" href="http://www.ap.gov.in/about-ap/language-culture/">Culture</a><a class="external-link" href="http://www.ap.gov.in/about-ap/language-culture/"> </a>and <a class="external-link" href="http://ntrtrust.org/">NTR Trust</a>. The stall was set up by Telugu Wikipedia community members with support from CIS-A2K and NTR Trust. </p>
<p> More than 150 individuals were engaged through this event. Interested members of public would receive follow-up through "Know-How" videos of Telugu Wikipedia. This provides basic information regarding editing and contributing to Wikipedia and its sister projects. They would also receive invitations to offline events taking place in Vijayawada in the future. </p>
<p> Telugu Wikipedia editor <a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Pranayraj1985">User:Pranayraj1985</a> said of his experience in talking to the public about Telugu Wikipedia, "I learnt a lot about what people know about Wikipedia and what they didn't know. In general, many of the visitors exclaim when they [come to] know, there is Wikipedia in Telugu language. But, in contrast, here in Vijayawada, we could at least find handful of people who knew there is something called Telugu Wikipedia.</p>
<p> <em>The link to the events page on meta can be found <a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/2017/Stall_in_Vijayawada_Book_Festival">here</a>.</em></p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/telugu-wikipedia-stall-at-vijayawada-book-festival'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/telugu-wikipedia-stall-at-vijayawada-book-festival</a>
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No publisherPavan SanthoshCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaTelugu WikipediaOpenness2017-04-15T16:23:32ZBlog EntryGoogle-translated Telugu articles prioritisation exercise: January iteration
http://editors.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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/google-translated-telugu-articles-prioritisation-exercise-january-iteration'>http://editors.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 EntryMini TTT and MWT held in Kolkata
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/mini-ttt-and-mwt-held-in-kolkata
<b>A regional version of Train The Trainer and MediaWiki Training was recently conducted in Kolkata. </b>
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CIS-A2K’s widely well-regarded flagship skill building program was conducted in Kolkata between 7- 8 January 2017, in partnership with the West Bengal Wikimedians User Group. The two-day event was held at the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences. There were 20 participants at the event, of which 18 were male and only two female.
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<p align="center" dir="ltr"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/49HTMkmS0v-CH-6pEwhlzC2YT_trE80gtHppMVPyp-tIrqPAIdGCOiNVXcrR77rV_-jIjrdlATgNdu17hU4ZHX8l9F18tqcy21bhEzDdfI5YJwV6W69SOe15J33suH-q-S-KDzU" alt="Mini_Train_the_Trainer_and_MediaWiki_Training_Proramme_-_Kolkata_2017-01-07_2458-2461.tif.jpg" height="321" width="602" /></p>
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<p dir="ltr">There were three thematic sessions, each broadly dealing with: Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons and Wikisource. The participants were taught article enrichment and how to upgrade articles into good category articles on Wikipedia. The participants learnt reference resources in detail in addition to discussing the different types of syntax required to apply the references meaningfully. The participants were also exposed to advanced search techniques on Google in order to gather relevant references.</p>
<p dir="ltr">During the Commons session, the participants were taught the basics of creating categories and subcategories in order to help narrow down searches and hence, image utility on Commons. Facilitating easy identification of an image helps enrich articles in need of descriptive photos. Additionally, participants were encouraged to give specific file names to their images along with a detailed description of the same. This was followed by a technical session on the following popular tools and gadgets that help frequent uploaders on Commons:<br class="kix-line-break" /><br class="kix-line-break" /></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-Cat-a-lot.js">Cat-a-lot</a> is a JavaScript gadget that helps with moving images (or subcategories) between categories or adding categories to search results</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Google Images tab: On File pages, adds a new tab to easily search for similar images on the Internet using<a href="http://images.google.com"> Google Images</a></p>
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<p dir="ltr">OTRS is a tool used by the Wikimedia projects, including Commons, to manage and archive email conversations. The main use of OTRS in relation to Commons is to verify and archive<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Permission"> licensing permissions</a>.</p>
</li><li style="list-style-type: disc;" dir="ltr">
<p dir="ltr"><a href="https://tools.wmflabs.org/flickr2commons/">Flickr2Commons</a> - Tool to easily upload single and multiple files from Flickr to Commons. This tool uses OAuth to upload files to Commons.</p>
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<p>In addition to these on-wiki discussions, a broader discussion took place on photography tips such as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_thirds">rule of thirds</a> which helps enhance the effect and purpose of the image.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The final thematic session was on Wikisource. Participants had a hands on lesson in proofreading methodology in addition to learning about image formatting, formatting table of contents, <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Help:Page_breaks#Tables_across_page_breakshttps://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Help:Page_breaks#Tables_across_page_breaks">table access page break</a>, text divider, and <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Tools_and_scripts">tools and script of Wikisource</a>.</p>
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<p align="center" dir="ltr"><img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/61UzSTUADNgRVk0uuw9_Qks9xbayum2eg9kd0XmfrxwG9uSql9YX1-PcVoro0ng7ZJUDHghZZUFsPahZroTJs6Aw9BqmWiPzFCy4mbraZ9CGkbWN6nm7ZC_kz4PBk3eoK6Q7o0I" alt="MiniTTTKolkata2017_-_Celebration_by_Participants_09.jpg" height="401" width="602" /></p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/mini-ttt-and-mwt-held-in-kolkata'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/mini-ttt-and-mwt-held-in-kolkata</a>
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No publishertitoCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaOpenness2017-06-28T09:53:55ZBlog EntryAdikavi Nannaya University Telugu Wikipedia Workshop
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/adikavi-nannaya-university-telugu-wikipedia-workshop-1
<b>A Telugu Wikipedia introductory workshop was conducted for the students of Adikavi Nannaya University, Rajahmundry between 6- 7 January, 2017. </b>
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<p>A two-day Telugu Wikipedia workshop was conducted for the
students of <a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adikavi_Nannaya_University">Adikavi Nannaya University</a> in Rajahmundry between 6- 7 January,
2017. The participants were post-graduate students of the Telugu Department of
the University with a notable gender ratio of 13 male and 21 female
participants.</p>
<p>The aim of the workshop was to introduce students to
Wikipedia and contributing to Wikipedia projects. They were taught basic
Wikipedia editing and the usage of Google's advanced tools. This would also
help them create tertiary sources
using primary and secondary sources. The students improved articles about their villages using references available on the
Internet. The workshop,
conducted jointly by CIS-A2K and Telugu Wikipedia community members, was key to
increasing the base of Telugu Wikipedia across the Telugu-speaking region, to cities
like Rajahmundry. Says User:విశ్వనాధ్.బి.కె., "from initial days, Wikipedia offline activities
development is Hyderabad-centric and Wikipedia activities should be done in all
areas (of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh). As this event in Adikavi Nannaya
University helps in that aspect, I would like to offer all of my effort to
these kind of events."</p>
<p> Overall, the event saw the creation 32 new pages on Telugu
Wikipedia by 33 newly registered users with 99118 bytes being deleted/ added. </p>
<p>The link to event page on meta can be found <a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/2017/Adikavi_Nannaya_University_Telugu_Wikipedia_Workshop">here</a>.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/adikavi-nannaya-university-telugu-wikipedia-workshop-1'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/adikavi-nannaya-university-telugu-wikipedia-workshop-1</a>
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No publisherPavan SanthoshCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaTelugu WikipediaOpenness2017-04-16T08:57:21ZBlog EntryOrientation & Training session of Jalbiradari Activists
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/orientation-training-session-of-jalbiradari-activists
<b>An Orientation & Training session of Jalbiradari Activists was held on 4 January, 2017</b>
<p><span style="text-align: justify;">A Marathi Wikipedia orientation and training session was conducted for Jalbirdari activists on 4 January, 2017 at the Kokale District, Sangli, Cooperative Society Hall. The event was keeping in line with CIS-A2K's attempts at engaging with communities of interest. The Jalbiradari water conservationists were introduced to Wikipedia and its projects. They were given an orientation on Marathi Wikipedia as a knowledge resource and encouraged to write about their village, water and environmental issues on Marathi Wikipedia. </span></p>
<p><span style="text-align: justify;">The participants were involved in an open interaction with the community on local issues and cultivation and preservation of local knowledge. With 30 members taking part in the three-hour-long event, four articles were created and edited on Marathi Wikipedia. </span></p>
<p>The meta page for the event can be found <a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Orientation_%26_Training_session_of_Jalbiradari_Activists_on_4th_January_2017">here</a>.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/orientation-training-session-of-jalbiradari-activists'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/orientation-training-session-of-jalbiradari-activists</a>
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No publisherSubodh KulkarniCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaMarathi WikipediaOpenness2017-04-16T11:30:24ZBlog EntryOngoing Proof-reading Effort by ALC Student Wikimedians in Telugu Wikisource
http://editors.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="http://editors.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="http://editors.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='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/ongoing-proof-reading-effort-by-alc-student-wikimedians-in-telugu-wikisource'>http://editors.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 Entryవిజ్ఞాన నిధి వికీపీడియా..
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/news/namaste-telangana-december-11-2016-article-on-wikipedia
<b>The article about Telugu Wikipedia appeared in Namaste Telangana on December 11, 2016.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span class="i-boxlist-Home" id="ContentPlaceHolder1_dlNews"><span>సిటీబ్యూరో:ప్రాపంచిక విషయాలను, చారిత్రక ఘట్టాలను, శాస్త్రీయ విషయాలను ప్రపంచానికి చేరువ చేస్తున్న విజ్ఞాన నిధి వికీపీడియా. ఆధునిక సాంకేతిక పద్ధతుల ఆధారంగా ఆన్లైన్తో ప్రపంచంలోని పలు ఆసక్తికరమైన విషయాలన్నింటనీ ప్రజలందరికీ చేరువ చేసే నేస్తం ఇది. అందరికీ ప్రవేశం, అందరికీ ఉచితంగా అందుబాటులో ఉండే ఈ ఎన్సైక్లోపెడియాలో మన చరిత్ర, మన సంస్కృతి మరెన్నో విషయాలను జోడించేందుకు సమాచార సైనికులతో వికీపీడియా డేను పురస్కరించుకొని గోల్డెన్ త్రెషోల్డ్లో శనివారం ఓ కార్యశాలను నిర్వహించింది. విజ్ఞాన సమాచారం,భౌగోళిక, చారిత్రక అంశాలు, సాంస్కృతిక విషయాలను వికీపీడియాలో చొప్పించేందుకు చేపట్టాల్సిన కార్యక్రమాలను ఈ కార్యశాలలో చర్చించారు. వికీపీడియాలో అందరూ తమకు తెలిసిన ఆసక్తికరమైన అంశాలపై వ్యాసాలు రాయవచ్చని, ప్రపంచానికి కొత్త విషయాలను పరిచయం చేయవచ్చని ఆంగ్ల వికీపీడియన్ టిటో దత్తా అన్నారు. వికీ ట్రైనర్, ట్రైనర్ ద ట్రైనర్ కార్యక్రమంలో వికీపీడీయన్లు కశ్యప్, ప్రణయ్ పలు సాంకేతిక అంశాలను తెలుగు వికిపీడియన్లకు వివరించారు. చరిత్రకారుడు, కవి కట్టా శ్రీనివాస్ మాట్లాడుతూ గోల్కొండ వంటి పలు చారిత్రక ప్రదేశాల్లో ప్రజలకు తెలియని చారిత్రక, సాంకేతిక ప్రదేశాలు, ఆసక్తికరమైన అంశాలు ఉన్నాయని వాటన్నింటినీ సేకరించి, ప్రపంచానికి చేరవేయాల్సిన అవసరం ఉందన్నారు. ఈ కార్యక్రమాన్ని వికీపీడియన్లు చేపట్టి విజయవంతం చేయాలన్నారు. సీనియర్ జర్నలిస్ట్ బీవీ ప్రసాద్, మౌర్య, మీనా గాయత్రి పాల్గొన్నారు. </span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span class="i-boxlist-Home"><span>Link to the original in <a class="external-link" href="http://www.namasthetelangaana.com/district/hyderabad/article.aspx?contentid=650572">Namaste Telangana </a><br /></span></span></p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/news/namaste-telangana-december-11-2016-article-on-wikipedia'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/news/namaste-telangana-december-11-2016-article-on-wikipedia</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaWikimediaCIS-A2KWikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-12-20T16:38:48ZNews ItemChanging the typographic landscape of a country: one letter at a time
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/news/story-weaver-december-1-2016-pooja-saxena-changing-the-typographic-landscape-of-a-country
<b>My interest in designing typefaces in Indian scripts grew out of years of disappointment with the way most Hindi books I came across looked. Apart from a few exceptions, they looked like poor cousins of English books. Whether it was a children’s story book or a novel or magazine, there was usually the same drab typeface. </b>
<p>The blog post by Pooja Saxena was <a class="external-link" href="https://storyweaver.org.in/blog_posts/95-changing-the-typographic-landscape-of-a-country-one-letter-at-a-time">published in Storyweaver</a> on December 1, 2016.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Some letters didn’t look like what we were taught in school, on others the matras (vowel marks) didn’t arch at the right places. Overall, the books and the letters inside them had an air of neglect. They looked old and completely unexciting. When I first learned that designing typefaces was a real job, I thought here was the opportunity to change all that.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/story-weaver-e2e-production/ckeditor_assets/pictures/254/content/cambay.jpg" /></p>
<p><b>Cambay, Devanagari typeface designed by Pooja Saxena for Google Fonts </b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Changing the typographic landscape of a country as diverse as India is not a one-woman job, but every now and then a project comes by that has the potential to make a small difference. Two years ago, as a result of a conversation with <a href="http://psubhashish.com/">Subhashish Panigrahi</a>, the <a href="http://cis-india.org/a2k">Access to Knowledge</a> programme at the <a href="http://cis-india.org">Centre for Internet and Society</a> commissioned a Ol Chiki typeface family. The Ol Chiki script, about which I knew precious little at the time, is used to write the language Santali, which is spoken by over six million people in India and its neighbouring countries. At the time that we started working on this project, there was no Unicode compliant typeface available in the script, making it impossible for it to be used on computers and cellphones, and online in a consistent and future-proof way. We hoped to change that by designing a small, but useful typeface family (it comes in regular, bold and italics) along with input methods and keyboard layouts that would allow a person to type Ol Chiki text easily.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/story-weaver-e2e-production/ckeditor_assets/pictures/256/content/gurugomke.jpg" /></p>
<p><b>Guru Gomke, Ol Chiki typeface designed by Pooja Saxena with research inputs from Shubhashish Panigrahi,for the A2K Programme at the Centre for Internet and Society. </b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">This project was especially challenging because not only was Ol Chiki a completely unfamiliar script to me and Subhashish, but there was limited material available for us to consult. While designing a typeface in a script one reads and/or writes, or is at least familiar with, one’s experience with those letters can act as a guide. By writing them and seeing them printed in different fonts, in many people’s handwriting — some good, some bad — and on hand painted signs, one develops an instinct for identifying which parts of a letter make it recognisable. That way we know what parts of the letter can be exaggerated, and what others can be played down without compromising legibility. For an unfamiliar script, this visual vocabulary and the traditionally correct way of writing letters must be learned. Manuscripts, printed documents, handwriting manuals and samples, metal type, linguistic information about the script, feedback from native readers — all form parts of a puzzle that needs to be put together to design a competent typeface.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The story of Ol Chiki script is fascinating. The script is less than a century old, and was devised by Pandit Raghunath Murmu, who wanted to create a script that could accommodate all the features of the Santali language — something that the scripts used to write Santali so far had failed to do. Legend has it that he based the design of the letters on objects commonly found in the everyday environment of the Santals. Even though the script was created between 1920 – 1940, the Santal community has many myths about how it was created. One says that the script came to be at the time when the Earth itself was created, another says that the script was given as a divine gift to a learned man, Pandit Raghunath Murmu. It is after Pandit Raghunath Murmu, who is reverentially called Guru Gomke, that the Ol Chiki typeface that I designed was named. You can find out more about the Ol Chiki typeface and input methods project <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project_Ol_chiki">here</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/story-weaver-e2e-production/ckeditor_assets/pictures/255/content/coovumartfestival.jpg" /></p>
<p><b>Custom lettering for the Tamil branding of the Coovum Art Festival, designed by Pooja Saxena </b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">If you’re interested in Indian type design and le ering, consider following the work of these exceptional designers — Noopur Datye, one of the co-founders of type design collective, <a href="https://ektype.in">Ek Type</a>, who has designed custom typefaces TV channels like LifeOK; <a href="https://kimyagandhi.wordpress.com/">Kimya Gandhi</a>, who is partner at Mota Italic, and recently designed an inventive Devanagari handwriting font; or <a href="https://twitter.com/lipopsicle">Lipi Raval</a>, whose flamboyant Gujarati typeface <a href="https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Mogra?sort=date">Mogra</a> is a complete head-turner.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/news/story-weaver-december-1-2016-pooja-saxena-changing-the-typographic-landscape-of-a-country'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/news/story-weaver-december-1-2016-pooja-saxena-changing-the-typographic-landscape-of-a-country</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaWikimediaCIS-A2KWikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-12-20T16:06:51ZNews ItemWikipedia workshop for Konkani students conducted in Mangaluru
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikipedia-workshop-for-konkani-students-conducted-in-mangalore
<b>A two days Wikipedia workshop "introduction to Wikipedia" was conducted at Besant College, Mangaluru. 16 undergraduate and post-graduate students from 3 different colleges participated in the event. Here is a report.</b>
<p>A two day workshop was conducted for students who opted konkani at U.G.& P.G.courses of Mangalore University on 16 and 17 December at Besant Evening College, Mangaluru. This event was jointly organised by Mangalore University Konkani Adhyayana Peeta, and the Dept. of Konkani (M. A.). The Centre for Internet Society, India (CIS, India) and Besant Evening College, Mangaluru were the collaborators. Dr. Devadasa Pai of Karnataka Konkani Sahitya Academy was the primary co-ordinator. A representative from CIS, India participated in the workshop as a resource person. Harriet Vidyasagar, a Konkani Wikipedia enthusiast and supporter, and Sabrina Hougaard attended the event to groom the participant and share their expertise.<br /><br />16 undergraduate and post-graduate colleges from 3 different colleges of Mangalore participated in this workshop. The table below shows participation from each college and gender ratio.</p>
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<td align="center"><strong>College</strong></td>
<td align="center"><strong>Participants</strong></td>
<td align="center"><strong>Female</strong></td>
<td align="center"><strong>Male</strong><br /></td>
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<td align="center"> Mangalore University College<br /> <br /></td>
<td align="center">2 <br /></td>
<td align="center"> 1</td>
<td align="center">1 <br /></td>
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<td align="center">St. Aloysius College</td>
<td align="center"> 9</td>
<td align="center">4 <br /></td>
<td align="center">5 <br /></td>
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<td align="center"> Milagress Degree College</td>
<td align="center"> 5</td>
<td align="center"> 3</td>
<td align="center">2 <br /></td>
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<td align="center"><strong>Total</strong></td>
<td align="center"><strong>16</strong></td>
<td align="center"><strong>8</strong><br /></td>
<td align="center"><strong>8</strong><br /></td>
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</tbody>
</table>
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<p>The first day's (16 December) event was started with general introduction to Wikipedia and the Wikimedia movement. The following topics were discussed:</p>
<ol><li>Wikipedia and Wikimedia movement</li><li>Importance of Wikipedia as a source of knowledge and information in the World Wide Web (WWW)</li><li>Free knowledge movement</li><li>Indic language Wikipedias</li></ol>
<p>This was followed by account creation where the participants were asked to create accounts on Wikipedia. After that they were taught about Wikipedia user page, and sandbox page. They were also taught about basic editing (general formatting) on sandbox using Visual Editor.</p>
<p>On the second day (17 December) the participants wrote articles on their Konkani Wikipedia user sandbox page in Kannada script. 16 students wrote more than 25 short articles on their sandbox.</p>
<p>They were also introduced to Wikipedia content translation tool and Wikidata. During the Wikidata session, following a general introduction to Wikidata, the participants were asked to add labels and descriptions in Indian languages such as Kannada, Konkani etc. More than 150 edits were made during this exercise.</p>
<p>This workshop should be followed up by another iteration where the participants will be taught about the next level of editing.</p>
<h2>Image credit</h2>
<p>Source: <a class="external-link" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Konkani_Wiki_Workshop_Mangaluru_7.jpg">Wikimedia Commons</a>, author: User:Outofindia, CC-BY-SA-4.0</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikipedia-workshop-for-konkani-students-conducted-in-mangalore'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikipedia-workshop-for-konkani-students-conducted-in-mangalore</a>
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No publishertitoKonkani WikipediaWikipediaWorkshop2017-06-28T09:57:32ZBlog EntryPranay Raj record in 100 days-100 articles
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/pranay-raj-record-in-100-days-100-articles
<b>Telugu Theatre scholar Pranay Raj Vangari from Motkur of Yadadri District, Telangana created record by completing a challenge that is famous worldwide in Wikimedia community - "100 Days-100 Articles". Pranay Raj is a theatre scholar and artist who used to travel length and breadth of Telangana & Andhra Pradesh for research and performances. </b>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Even in that situations, he started first article in challenge on September 8th and completed 100 articles in December 16th. Telangana State Language & Cultural department director Mamidi Harikrishna felicitated Pranay Raj after completion on completing 100 Wikidays challenge. Pranay said that two other Telugu Wikipedians completed this challenge successfully before him and he told they inspired him to take this up and complete. Pranay agreed that he faced some difficulties in writing articles in places where network is low. He said that he wouldn't stop with 100 wikidays but would continue challenge for whole day by creating 365 days and also said he would create more Telangana related articles.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><img src="http://editors.cis-india.org/home-images/Pranay100WikidaysAndhraJyothi.jpg" alt="null" class="image-inline" title="Pranay 100 Wikidays " /></p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/pranay-raj-record-in-100-days-100-articles'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/pranay-raj-record-in-100-days-100-articles</a>
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No publisherpavanCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeWikimedia100wikidaysWikipedia2016-12-19T18:16:03ZBlog Entryవంద రోజులు.. వంద వ్యాసాలు - తెలుగు వికీపీడియాలో మోత్కూరు యువకుని రికార్డు (100 Days...100 Articles: Wikipedian from Motkur created record in Telugu Wikipedia)
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/100-days-100-articles-wikipedian-from-motkur-created-record-in-telugu-wikipedia
<b>Pranay Raj Vangari of Motkur Padmashali colony created record in Telugu Wikipedia. "100 Days- 100 Articles" is already going on in many languages worldwide and Pranay Raj took challenge in Telugu Wikipedia, completed it successfully. Pranay is theatre scholor. He started first article in this challenge on september 8 and continued to write articles on every day till December 16 to complete 100 articles. Pranay said that two other Telugu Wikipedians (Pavan and Meena) successfully completed the challenge and explained that he inspired from them to complete it. Telangana state language & cultural department director Mamidi Harikrishna felicitated Pranay in His chamber on this occasion and appreciated for his work.</b>
<h3>Clipping of the article in Andhra Jyoti:</h3>
<p><img src="http://editors.cis-india.org/home-images/Pranay100Wikidays.jpg/@@images/8ff935c1-f19b-4aff-8721-7d70b899ecd8.jpeg" alt="Pranay 100 Wikidays" class="image-inline" title="Pranay 100 Wikidays" /></p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/100-days-100-articles-wikipedian-from-motkur-created-record-in-telugu-wikipedia'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/100-days-100-articles-wikipedian-from-motkur-created-record-in-telugu-wikipedia</a>
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No publisherpavanWikimediaCIS-A2KWikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-12-18T15:09:54ZBlog Entry