[Wikimediaindia-l] Sharing insights and experiences from Indian language wiki communities - Telugu

[Shiju Alex]

Dear All,

As part of the India Programs of
WMF<http://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
Assamese<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages/Assamese/Discussions/2011>
, Hindi<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages/Hindi/Discussions/2011>,
Sanskrit<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages/Sanskrit/Discussions/2011>
and
Tamil<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages/Tamil/Discussions/2011>wikimedians.
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_Languages/Telugu/Discussions/2011

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(News
about Telugu wikipedia crossing 10,000 articles - 2006 September)
   -
   http://crossroads.veeven.com/2007/06/26/telugu-wikipedia-reaches-30000-articles/(News
about Telugu wikipedia crossing 30,000 articles - 2007 June)
   -
   http://crossroads.veeven.com/2007/09/10/3000-members-in-telugu-wikipedia/(News
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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