<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>Thank you all for your encouragement of Telugu Wikipedia community's
initiative to recognize the contributors by a special award called
Komarraju Lakshmana Rao Wikimedia Puraskaram[1], named after first
modern encyclopedist in Telugu, perhaps the first among Indian languages
(c.1912-13).</p>
<p>We got 28 nominated proposals for the awards[2] out of which 18 were
complete, based on the acceptance criteria outlined in the initial
announcement. Selection council analyzed all proposals based on
quantitative metrics like wiki statistics and qualitative assessment of
each nominee's contribution and it's impact on Wiki 's growth and
development. We would like to thank all the people who participated in
the nomination and proposal development process and also those who
helped to improve the process by their feedback during its roll out. As
this is the debut year for the awards, Selection council decided to
award 10 recipients recognizing their contributions during the last
decade of Telugu Wikipedia. In the order of final assessment score, the
awardees are <b>Chaduvari, M Pradeep, Chava Kiran, Veeven, Palagiri, Ravichandra, Ahmed Nisar, Veera.sj, JVRK PRASAD and Bhaskaranaidu.</b>
They will be presented with cash prize and certificate during the
Telugu Wiki Ten Celebrations . You can see their pictures, citation
remarks in Telugu and English [3]. The background material[4] and
scoring sheet[5] are also available, if you are interested.</p>
<p>To recognize members who contributed significantly to Telugu
wikimedia projects but could not/ did not give their consent for the
award nomination and/or did not get selected for the award, Selection
council decided to award Jury appreciation certificates. These will be
given to 30 members selected by the council[6]. An electronic
certificate will be presented in their user talk pages shortly</p>
<p>It's been an arduous effort and the selection council members have
put in nearly 1000 hours of effort as a group in the past couple of
months since award conception. Can't thank enough the selection council
members Arjuna Rao Chavala, A. Rajasekhar, T. Sujatha and A.
Radhakrishna. Special thanks to Arjuna Rao Chavala, Selection council
secretary for taking the major responsibility for this initiative. We
also thank Tewiki 10 Celebrations committee[7] for ensuring necessary
funds to support this award.</p>
<p>As with any first time endeavor, I am sure there is room for
improvements in this process. We appreciate your feedback and
suggestions for future attempts.</p>
<p>Sincerely,</p>
<p>Ravi Vyzasatya</p>
<pre>1. Award details and rules (in Telugu) <a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:KLRWP">https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:KLRWP</a>
2. Proposals <a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Komarraju_LakshmanaRao_Wikimedia_Award_Proposals">https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Komarraju_LakshmanaRao_Wikimedia_Award_Proposals</a>
3. Award winner details <a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:KLRWP/2013/Winners">https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:KLRWP/2013/Winners</a>
4. Applicants work statistics and factors aiding growth <a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KLRWP-2013_Applicants_work_Statistics_and_Factors_Aiding_Growth.pdf">https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KLRWP-2013_Applicants_work_Statistics_and_Factors_Aiding_Growth.pdf</a>
5.Scoring sheet <a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:KLRWP/2013/Scoring">https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:KLRWP/2013/Scoring</a>
6. Jury Appreciation certificate winners <a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:KLRWP/2013/Jury_Appreciation_Winners">https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:KLRWP/2013/Jury_Appreciation_Winners</a>
7. Tewiki 10 Celebrations Committee <a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:TEWIKI10/Committee">https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:TEWIKI10/Committee</a>
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