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Hi Giri My comments below. hisham On Mar 19, 2012, at 7:16 PM, Giri RAO wrote: Please don't read into this reply any discouragement of your initiative and your idea. Any form of constructive participation is of course welcome and we should encourage far and wide involvement. (fyi, making audio files of articles is something that is extraordinarily useful especially for the visually challenged. It does present some problems like edits and updates - but it's a great start.) I would caution that while you are exploring this route - and I understand the issues you are perceiving of getting editors with adequate Telugu writing skills - it's not AS bad as you might think. Just imagine the numbers. 5 new editors is a 20% addition to the December Telugu active community size. I urge you to look at the challenge as what can be done in small, baby steps. A couple of outreach sessions in medical colleges in Hyderabad (and I'm suggesting Hyderabad because there are already at least 5 active, passionate and helpful community members to support newbies) - might have a total of 50 folks attending. If we are able to get 2-3 of them to start editing, it'll be a wonderful addition to the community. You'd be amazed how 1-2 people become 2-5 and then become 5-10. My suggestion is that if one picks the articles form this list http://toolserver.org/~enwp10/bin/list2.fcgi?run=yes&projecta=Medicine&…op-Class, it is a good start. Articles will of course evolve - but this can be addressed going forward. Another aspect to keep in mind is even if it is going to be done on audio format, the doctor (or other expert) will still need to "script" what he or she is going to say. Even if they use the English articles as a starting point, the biggest effort is going to be articulating it in Telugu. ...If this is done, then that itself is a huge amount of work covered. Presumably, they will have to write it down BEFORE they start recording. It's only a little bit additional effort to put it on a wiki page instead. I agree fully - and like I said, please don't read this as discouragement. Do read it as a pointer that getting Telugu editors is not impossible - but does require a bit of effort. If we get editors to join the community, they can create, improve and update these articles - and of course cover so many other topics related to Telugu / state culture or otherwise.

Giri, You can help your friends to start a audio / video blog and add those to the external links / media section. Any other way to add the audio / transcription will be tough to align with the wiki ways. Ravi