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<br></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">As part of the <a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); ">India Programs of WMF</a> I am having discussions with wikipedians across various Indic languages.  I already shared the summary of the discussions I had with the <a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages/Assamese/Discussions/2011" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); ">Assamese</a>, <a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages/Hindi/Discussions/2011" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); ">Hindi</a>, <a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages/Sanskrit/Discussions/2011" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); ">Sanskrit</a> and <a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages/Tamil/Discussions/2011">Tamil</a> wikimedians. Thank you all for continuing the discussions in meta wiki and in mailing lists.</div>
<div><br></div></span><div><div>Today I am sharing the summary of the discussions I had with Telugu wiki community members. It is available here. <a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages/Telugu/Discussions/2011">http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages/Telugu/Discussions/2011</a></div>
</div><div><br></div><div>Among Indian language wikipedias, Telugu wikipedia is the first Indian language wikipedia that caught the attention of other Indic language wikipedians in 2006 itself.  I remember reading about Telugu Wikipedia and the activities of Telugu wikipedians in many online forums during 2006-2007. Following are some of the blogposts published that time.</div>
<div><br></div><div><ul><li><a href="http://telugutanam.blogspot.com/2006/09/telugu-wikipedia-crosses-10000.html">http://telugutanam.blogspot.com/2006/09/telugu-wikipedia-crosses-10000.html</a> (News about Telugu wikipedia crossing 10,000 articles - 2006 September)</li>
<li><a href="http://crossroads.veeven.com/2007/06/26/telugu-wikipedia-reaches-30000-articles/">http://crossroads.veeven.com/2007/06/26/telugu-wikipedia-reaches-30000-articles/</a> (News about Telugu wikipedia crossing 30,000 articles - 2007 June)</li>
<li><a href="http://crossroads.veeven.com/2007/09/10/3000-members-in-telugu-wikipedia/">http://crossroads.veeven.com/2007/09/10/3000-members-in-telugu-wikipedia/</a> (News about Telugu Wikipedia having 3000 registered users - 2007 September)</li>
</ul></div><div>In technical front also Telugu wikipedia was showing the way for other Indic language wikipedias. Telugu wikipedia is one of the first Indic language wikipedia to integrate a typing solution into wikipedia. Even though much activism happened during 2006-2008, the community was not able to keep that tempo and increase the community size. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Also among Indian language wiki communities, the concept of <b><a href="http://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/వికీపీడియా:తెవికీ_వార్">Community Newsletter</a></b> came out first from the Telugu wiki community. Community already published 5 or 6 editions of Telugu wiki Newsletter. Remember still no other Indic language wiki community has a community newsletter.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Soon Telugu wikipedia will cross 50,000 articles, the third Indic language wikipedia to cross that milestone. l  Hope Telugu wikipedians will make use of that opportunity to add more members to its community. Telugu wikipedia has roughly 30 active editors now. </div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div>Shiju </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>