Dear All,
As part of the India Programs of WMFhttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages I am having discussions with wikipedians across various Indic languages. I already shared the summary of the discussions I had with the Assamesehttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages/Assamese/Discussions/2011 , Hindihttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages/Hindi/Discussions/2011, Sanskrithttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages/Sanskrit/Discussions/2011 and Tamilhttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages/Tamil/Discussions/2011wikimedians. Thank you all for continuing the discussions in meta wiki and in mailing lists.
Today I am sharing the summary of the discussions I had with Telugu wiki community members. It is available here. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_L...
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.
- http://telugutanam.blogspot.com/2006/09/telugu-wikipedia-crosses-10000.html(... about Telugu wikipedia crossing 10,000 articles - 2006 September) - http://crossroads.veeven.com/2007/06/26/telugu-wikipedia-reaches-30000-artic... about Telugu wikipedia crossing 30,000 articles - 2007 June) - http://crossroads.veeven.com/2007/09/10/3000-members-in-telugu-wikipedia/(Ne... about Telugu Wikipedia having 3000 registered users - 2007 September)
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.
Also among Indian language wiki communities, the concept of *Community Newsletter http://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/వికీపీడియా:తెవికీ_వార్* 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.
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.
Regards Shiju
Much appreciate the effort to treat - and talk to - each indic language community separately, rather than lumping them all into the same box.
Congratulations on this nuanced approach.
Cheers Bishakha
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Shiju Alex shiju@wikimedia.org wrote:
Dear All,
As part of the India Programs of WMFhttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages I am having discussions with wikipedians across various Indic languages. I already shared the summary of the discussions I had with the Assamesehttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages/Assamese/Discussions/2011 , Hindihttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages/Hindi/Discussions/2011, Sanskrithttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages/Sanskrit/Discussions/2011 and Tamilhttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages/Tamil/Discussions/2011wikimedians. Thank you all for continuing the discussions in meta wiki and in mailing lists.
Today I am sharing the summary of the discussions I had with Telugu wiki community members. It is available here. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_L...
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.
http://telugutanam.blogspot.com/2006/09/telugu-wikipedia-crosses-10000.html(... about Telugu wikipedia crossing 10,000 articles - 2006 September)
http://crossroads.veeven.com/2007/06/26/telugu-wikipedia-reaches-30000-artic... about Telugu wikipedia crossing 30,000 articles - 2007 June)
http://crossroads.veeven.com/2007/09/10/3000-members-in-telugu-wikipedia/(Ne... about Telugu Wikipedia having 3000 registered users - 2007 September)
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.
Also among Indian language wiki communities, the concept of *Community Newsletter http://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/వికీపీడియా:తెవికీ_వార్* 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.
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.
Regards Shiju
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