The International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIITH) conducted Telugu Wikipedia Symposium – 2020 at IIIT, Hyderabad campus on 8th February, 2020. Eminent computer scientist and Chairman IIIT-Hyderabad Prof. Raj Reddy, retired IAS & former legislator Sri Jayaprakash Narayan, former MLC Sri K. Nageshwar, Director, Dept. of Language & Culture Sri Mamidi Harikrishna, Director IIIT Hyderabad Prof. PJ. Narayanan, Project Investigator, IndicWiki Prof. Vasudeva Varma, Asst. Director, ITE&C Dept., Sri Madhav Mudumbai, among others, graced the occasion.
Around 800 enthusiasts enrolled to volunteer on Project Telugu Wiki, he stated. Project Telugu Wiki aims at creating 30 lakh Wiki articles in the coming years without compromising on the quality.
Prof. Raj Reddy, Turing Award winner, has shared his vision on the Project Telugu Wiki. He suggested that technology and machines can be leveraged to create vernacular content in bulk and the same can be curated later with human intervention. He further wished for a day where technology can translate the Wikipedia articles in one Indian language into another.
Stating that the articles in English Wikipedia are not India-centric, he opined that the goal must be to create Indian language Wikipedia content from Indian perspective. Sri Raj Reddy added that only 5-10% of the Indians are conversant with English and yet Indians constitute the second-highest consumers of Wikipedia. So, the effort of creating more and more content in vernacular languages lies squarely on Indian Govts., technology companies, NGOs, language experts and volunteers.
The Indian language Wikipedias have to be populated with rich content and the same may be presented to the next generation learners. Institutional efforts towards Digital Literacy must be taken up for the people to use technology effectively. “Learn to learn and learn to think” is the guiding mantra! .
Sri Mamidi Harikrishna, Director, Dept. of Language & Culture, Govt. of Telangana, in his speech stated that Culture is the collective knowledge that humanity carries through generations and should be looked at in a broad sense.
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