Telugu -
Telugu announcement was made on 19 August, Candidate A applied on 20 August. As this was the only application, the application deadline was extended to 15 September and an announcement in this regard was put out on 7 September on Telugu Wikipedia village pump. Candidate B and Candidate C submitted their applications on 26 September and 28 September respectively. Mr. Ravi Vyzasatya, Dr. Rajsekhar and Ms. Sujatha were part of the selection committee. Selection committee members and their profiles:
Ravi Vyzasatya: Mr. Ravi Vyzasatya
with username వైజాసత్య is one of the earliest Telugu
Wikipedians and sysop on Telugu Wikipedia and Telugu
Wiktionary. He has been a Wikipedian for more than 10 years.
His areas of interest are research articles, biographies of
personalities. He is instrumental in creation of village
articles on Wikipedia using his bot, which has created close
to 24,000 articles on Telugu Wikipedia. He also proposes rules
and policies on Telugu Wikipedia. By profession he is a
researcher with expertise in Molecular Biology, Immunology,
Cell Biology.
Rajasekhar: Dr. Rajasekhar, username Rajasekhar1961,
has been a Telugu Wikipedian for over 8 years and is a
bureaucrat & sysop on Telugu Wikipedia, sysop on Telugu
Wikisource and Telugu Wiktionary. He was one of the senior
most Wikipedians with interest in wide range of areas like
Biology, Telugu language, Yoga, Telugu personalities,
Medicine and Transportation. He is a pathologist by
profession. Interesting thing is that he has turned his lab
into Wikipedia help centre and has provided his phone number
publicly for anyone to call and know about Wikipedia.
Sujatha: Ms. Sujatha Thummapudi, username T.sujatha, has been a Telugu Wikipedian for over 9 years and is a sysop on Telugu Wikipedia, Wiktionary and Wikisource. She has been writing articles on spirituality, religion, places and so on. She was part of the Lilavathi's daughters project and lead the project in Telugu. She, along with her husband Mr. Sriramamurthy garu has been actively working in Te Wiktionary, Te Wikipedia and Te Wikisource as well.
Mr. Ravi Vyzasatya asked the three
candidates two questions and the candidates answered the
same on Tewiki village pump. Later A2K team asked the
selection committee to send us their decision.
The selection committee for Telugu came to
a consensus and selected Mr. Pavan Santhosh as the candidate
for the post of PA for Telugu for a period of 3 months on
trial basis. If the performance is satisfactory during this
period, we can continue with him. His profile is given below:
Pavan
Santhosh: He has been a very active Telugu
Wikipedian with more than 16000 edits to his credit and has
worked extensively to improve content and quality in Telugu
Wikipedia, Wikisource & Wiktionary. He was the joint
secretary of the committee that organized the 11th anniversary
of Telugu Wikipedia. He has been an Individual Engagement
grantee from Wikimedia Foundation for the project “Making
Telugu content accessible”. He has organized and co-organized
many meetups, events and outreach programs.
Kannada -
The announcement
for PA was made on Kannada Wikipedia village pump on August
12, It was postponed twice to 15 September and 15 October. The
decision was given by selection committee in last week of
October.
Selection committee members and their profiles:
Tejas Jain (User:Teju2friends): Software engineer by profession. Has been an active Kannada Wikipedian since 2007. Has more than 4500 edits in Kannada Wikipedia, about 250 in Kannada Wiktionary, about 35 in Kannada Wikiquote. He has also contributed to other Wikimedia projects. He has written useful scripts. He has participated in many Kannada Wikipedia events, meetups and conducted outreach programs.
Harish M G (User:M G Harish): Software engineer by profession. Has been an active Kannada Wikipedian since 2006. He has more than 2700 edits to his credit in Kannada Wikipedia, about 105 in Kannada Wikiquote. He has been an administrator of Kannada Wikipedia. he has written useful scripts. He has participated in many Kannada Wikipedia event, meetups and conducted many outreach programs.
Vikas Hegde (User:Vikashegde): Software engineer by profession. Has been an active Kannada Wikipedian since 2009. He has nearly 800 edits to his credit in Kannada Wikipedia and about 35 edits in Kannada Wikiquote. He has also contributed to other Wikimedia projects. He has been the major contributor to some projects in Kannada Wikipedia. He has participated in many Kannada Wikipedia events and meetups. He is also a well known Kannada blogger and written some useful blogs about using Kannada in IT.
The selection committee has agreed to appoint Mr. Ananth Subray for a period of 3 months on trial basis. If the performance is satisfactory during this period, we can continue with him. Here is a profile of Mr. Ananth Subray. As he is a student, he would be employed as an intern.
Ananth Subray (User:Ananth subray):
Mr. Ananth Subray is a 2nd year BSc. (PCM) student at Christ
University, Bengaluru. He has been part of the Wikipedia
Education Program in the university from last 2 years. Having
been recommended by the faculty and his other fellow
batch-mates, he also helped us to run the Wikisource
activities for the Education Program for the junior batches in
his university. Ananth is fluent in Kannada, Hindi and Telugu
apart from English. Even though new in the Wikimedia
community, Ananth has been a fast learner and is active as a
Wikimedian. He has participated in the Mediawiki
Train-the-Trainer programme conducted by CIS-A2K this year.
Konkani
The Konkani Wikipedia community has
selected Ms. Melissa Simoes as the consensus candidate to
become the next PA for Konkani. Here is her profile.