26th September 2024 was the most awaited day to Telugu Community. Telugu Wikipedia (in short Tewiki) crossed 1,00,000 articles, which is a significant mile stone with రతీంద్రనాథ్ ఠాగూర్ contributed by the Wikimedian రవిచంద్ర.
Telugu Wikipedia started with the initiatives of Venna Nagarjuna in December 2003 and The first article was about Guntur District, Andhra Pradesh, India (గుంటూరు జిల్లా), created on 2004, August 3. Telugu wikipedia.
In these 2 decades of Tewiki journey since 2004, the initiatives and efforts of 3786 Telugu Wikimedians are highly appreciable. They strived hard for raising articles count maintaining the quality by imposing self set targets, countering the daily article challenges, launching more than 100 wiki projects, campaigns on various occasions focussing on diverse range of information search base.
The brief details are worth mentioning in this memorable context. Down the memory-lane, listing the top 15 contributor’s exceptional contributions with more than 1000 articles.
- Batthini Vinay Kumar Goud (11023)
- Pranayraj1985 (7866)
- Rajasekhar1961 (5181)
- Chaduvari (4007)
- YVSREDDY (2355)
- K.Venkataramana (2352)
- స్వరలాసిక (2040)
- Muralikrishna m (1904)
- వైజాసత్య (1899)
- యర్రా రామారావు (1625)
- Bhaskaranaidu (1511)
- Divya4232 (1293)
- T.sujatha (1248)
- రవిచంద్ర (1245)
- JVRKPRASAD (1207)
12 Telugu Wikimedians tookup the personal challenges of writing daily articles for 100 days, while 3 people contributed for 7 days, 4 volunteers for 30, 2 people worked for 50 days. The remarkable challenge of writing more than 365 articles in a year were taken up by Wikimedians, Batthini Vinay Kumar Goud, Pranayraj1985, Myadam Abhilash, Muralikrishna M. Pranayraj Vangari drove the challenge beyond 1000 in 2 1/2 years and also completed 7330 articles in 8 years, and appears to be proceeding to 10000 articles by 2026.
Telugu Wikimedans used the platform to run projects to enhance articles base by including major topics on culture, heritage, literature, geography, sciences including health articles connected to Telugu language, people and nativity. Citing few notable among Tewiki projects are about folk literature, culture, women, political essays, cinema, sports, geographical spaces of Telugu speaking states Andhra Pradesh and Telangana – villages, towns, cities were added to the wikipedia. The project was aptly supplemented by Arjunarao and his team with their cartographic work. The size of the Tewiki database reached upto 3G and depth 112.1, with the number of edits 42,73,049 and 3,63,451 pages. The encyclopedia got about 799 millions page views.
So congratulating and wishing Tewiki and Wikimedians while proceeding ahead towards reaching 2 lakh
Telugu Wikimedian’s User Group
(Telugu Wiki Community)
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