<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hi All,<br><br><br></div>The proposal due date has been extended to 16 Dec 2013, in order to give more time for proposals and also to strengthen the nominations. You can check the current status of nominations and initiate new proposals at <a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Komarraju_LakshmanaRao_Wikimedia_Award_Proposals">this page</a>.<br>
<br></div>Thanks<br>Arjuna<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/12/3 Ravi Vyzasatya <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vyzasatya@gmail.com" target="_blank">vyzasatya@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,153)"><p>Dear fellow Wikimedians,</p>
<p>I will start by introducing myself to the community. I am Ravi
Vyzasatya based in Maryland. I have contributed to Telugu Wikipedia
since 2005 and to a lesser extent in Telugu Wiktionary and Wikisource. I
did serve as admin in all these projects. Although my primary interest
is in writing well researched articles in the area of South Indian
history, I do help the community by running bot scripts and taking care
of miscellaneous administrative tasks.</p>
<p>Telugu wikipedia will be 10 years old in another week from now. On
this auspicious occasion Telugu Wikimedia Community is organizing
celebrations under the leadership of an organizing committee headed by
Vishwanath B.K, Pranayraj as Secretary, Kasyap as Treasurer along with
Rahimanuddin, WMIN SIG lead Telugu, Vishnuvardhan, CIS-A2K Program
Director as members. We have also constituted an awards committee with
myself as President, Arjuna Rao Chavala, WMIN Co-founder and its first
President as Secretary and A. Rajasekhar, T. Sujatha, NWR 2011 award
winners from Telugu Wikis and A. Radhakrishna, Former WMIN SIG lead for
Bangalore as members. The award is named after Komarraju Lakshmana
Rao[1], pioneer Telugu encyclopedian who undertook the first modern
encyclopedic effort in Telugu, perhaps the first among Indian languages
(c.1912-13). It is also quite fitting tribute to Lakshmana Rao to honor
his memory in the centennial anniversary of such pioneering effort. The
award carries a citation and cash prize of Rs 10,000/. Organizing
committee and awards committee members are ineligible for the awards to
avoid any perceived or real conflict of interest.</p>
<p>We are inviting nominations [2] for awards on Telugu Wikimedia
projects. Nominations are due by 9th Dec 2013 24:00 midnight (UTC).
Members can self -nominate or be nominated by others, in consideration
for these awards. Nomination process has been developed by Arjuna
building upon the NWR 2011 nomination process[3] pioneered by another
WMIN Cofounder and the then EC Member Arunram . We express our sincere
appreciation for the same. We think that this initiative with nominal
cash prize by Telugu community may be the first of its kind and will
complement the existing recognition mechanisms and help encourage
budding Wikimedians in their initial years of contribution. We invite
all Indian Wikimedians to participate in the award nomination process as
you may be familiar with our Telugu Wikimedians through their efforts
in English, Kannada, Tamil language Wikimedia projects. For the benefit
of wider Wikimedia community, we have provided for relevant remarks on
the nomination pages in English and also invite nominations or support
for the existing nominations in English, if you choose to do so.</p>
<p>We solicit your wishes on this happy occasion and will be sharing the
updates about the celebrations, awards and other related Telugu wiki
activities as things roll out.</p>
<p>Sincerely,</p>
<p>Ravi Vyzasatya</p>
<p>References 1.English wiki page on Komarraju Lakshmana Rao, the first Encylopaedist among Indian languages from India <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komarraju_Venkata_Lakshmana_Rao" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komarraju_Venkata_Lakshmana_Rao</a></p>
<p>2. Award details page in Telugu <a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%A1%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BE:%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%8A%E0%B0%AE%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%9C%E0%B1%81_%E0%B0%B2%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B7%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%AE%E0%B0%A3%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B5%E0%B1%81_%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AE%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%A1%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BE_%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%B8%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%82" target="_blank">https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%A1%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BE:%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%8A%E0%B0%AE%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%9C%E0%B1%81_%E0%B0%B2%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B7%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%AE%E0%B0%A3%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B5%E0%B1%81_%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AE%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%A1%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BE_%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%B8%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%82</a></p>
<p>3. Nominations page in Telugu <a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%A1%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BE:%E0%B0%A6%E0%B0%B6%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%AC%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%A6%E0%B0%BF_%E0%B0%89%E0%B0%A4%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B8%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B2_%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80_%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%B8%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B0_%E0%B0%8E%E0%B0%82%E0%B0%AA%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95/%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%A4%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AA%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A6%E0%B0%A8%E0%B0%B2%E0%B1%81" target="_blank">https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%A1%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BE:%E0%B0%A6%E0%B0%B6%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%AC%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%A6%E0%B0%BF_%E0%B0%89%E0%B0%A4%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B8%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B2_%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80_%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%B8%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B0_%E0%B0%8E%E0%B0%82%E0%B0%AA%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95/%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%A4%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AA%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A6%E0%B0%A8%E0%B0%B2%E0%B1%81</a></p>
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