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 Telugu Misplaced Pages main page | |
| Type of site | Internet encyclopedia project |
|---|---|
| Available in | Telugu |
| Headquarters | Miami, Florida |
| Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
| URL | te.wikipedia.org |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | 10 December 2003; 21 years ago (2003-12-10) |
| Current status | Online |
| Content license | Creative Commons Attribution/ Share-Alike 4.0 (most text also dual-licensed under GFDL) Media licensing varies |
The Telugu Misplaced Pages (Telugu: తెలుగు వికీపీడియా) was begun on 10 December 2003 by Venna Nagarjuna, who is known for Padma (a system for transforming text in Indic scripts among open-source and proprietary formats). On 26 September 2024, its article count reached the 100k milestone and it is the fifth largest Indian-language Misplaced Pages by article count, after Urdu, Tamil, Hindi, and Bengali.
Background
In 2005, the Telugu Misplaced Pages received a boost when Chava Kiran, Makineni Pradeep, Vyzasatya, Veeven and Chaduvari joined; Chaduvari later spearheaded the Telugu campaign. Satya planned and executed a project to add stubs for districts, mandals and Telugu films with the aid of a bot. The stubs were expanded into articles with the help of volunteers from the Telugu online and blogging communities. Chaduvari translated and drafted many of the initial policies, Pradeep wrote scripts automating mundane tasks and the article count increased to 6,000.
History
A symbiotic relationship between the early Telugu blogger-Wikipedians with the larger Telugu online community was a big boon for the Telugu Misplaced Pages. Its initial momentum was furthered by committed members such as Kasubabu, Dr Rajasekhar, Chandrakantha Rao, Ravichandra, Veeven, Kasyap, Rahamtulla and Sujatha. Misplaced Pages was promoted at book fairs in Hyderabad and Vijayawada and supported by the e-Telugu organization and the local-language media, sparking interest from the general public.
Telugu Wiktionary has had a major contribution from Sujatha. Charles Phillip Brown's English-Telugu dictionary was added to the Telugu Wiktionary in its entirety with a bot script written by Telugu Wikipedian Makineni Pradeep.
Telugu wiki-academies were established in 2009 to heighten awareness at engineering and MCA colleges in small towns in Andhra Pradesh. Tewiki Vartha, an e-zine, was created in 2010 to share behind-the-scenes stories of Telugu Misplaced Pages pages and editors. In 2012, another effort was made to revitalize the Telugu Misplaced Pages. The community organized a two-day celebration in Hyderabad on 10–11 April 2013, coinciding with the Telugu New Year.
The Telugu Misplaced Pages is now available offline in Kiwix. HMTV broadcast a documentary about Misplaced Pages celebrations, and Rajasekhar, Rahimanuddin, Malladi and Vishnuvardhan participated in a phone-in program about the encyclopedia. In October 2013, the Telugu Misplaced Pages had 2.1 million page views. The greatest number of page views was 4.5 million, recorded in February 2010.
Telugu Wikipedian Pranayraj Vangari wrote 365 Wiki Articles in 365 days under WikiVastaram concept. He started on 8 September 2016, writing a wiki article every day, he completed WikiVastaram on 7 September 2017. On this occasion, Vice President of India Venkaiah Naidu congratulated Pranayraj through his Twitter Account. Telangana State Minister K.T.R along with congratulating him through his Twitter and Facebook Account, felicitated Pranayraj in his chamber at Pragathi Bhavan. Continuing that trend, he completed 1000 articles in 1000 days as of 4 June 2019.
Fonts and input methods
Any Unicode Telugu font input system may be used for the Telugu Misplaced Pages. Although some editors use the InScript keyboard, many use Google phonetic transliteration or the Telugu Misplaced Pages's Universal Language Selector. The latter offers phonetic and InScript keyboards.
References
- "List of Wikipedias - Meta". meta.wikimedia.org. Retrieved 28 September 2024.
- IBN report on the event
- Blogpost on CIS website with video link for the feature program on Misplaced Pages
- The first part of Phone in the program on 1 Jun 2013, by HMTV
- Second part of phone in program on 1 Jun 2013, by HMTV
- ఈనాడు, ఆదివారం అనుబంధం సంచిక (15 October 2017). "రోజుకో వ్యాసం... ఏడాది యజ్ఞం!". Archived from the original on 15 October 2017. Retrieved 12 September 2020.
- నమస్తే తెలంగాణ, జిందగీ న్యూస్ (19 September 2017). "వికీ వ్యాసాల ప్రణయ్". Archived from the original on 19 September 2017. Retrieved 12 September 2020.
- Elsharbaty, Samir (7 September 2017). "Pranayraj Vangari has written a new Misplaced Pages article every day for the last year". blog.wikimedia.org. Retrieved 12 September 2020.
- @VPSecretariat (8 September 2017). "తెలంగాణా యాదాద్రి భువనగిరి జిల్లా..." (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- telanganatoday (12 September 2017). "KTR congratulates Telugu Misplaced Pages Volunteer". Retrieved 12 September 2020.
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