Supporting Indian Language Wikipedias Program/Support/Pranayraj1985
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[edit]- Wikipedia username
- Pranayraj1985
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- pranayrajvangari@gmail.com
Your contribution
[edit]Please tell us which existing Wikimedia projects (Wikipedia, Commons, etc.) and language versions you are contributing to, and some of your best contribution towards the project and movement. Please add relevant Wiki/external link wherever applicable
- I am one of the most active Wikimedians on Telugu Wikimedia projects. I completed 100wikidays and continued to 200wikidays, 300wikidays, Wikiyear, 400wikidays and 500wikidays planning to do 1000wikidays. This is one of the rarest achievements on the Wiki-world. Writing one article one day everyday. Contributing to sister projects (Wikicommons, Wikidata, Wikisource) and guided my frnds into wikipedians and new Wikipedians.
- My Wikiyear achievement has been appreciated by the honorable Vice President of India through Twitter. (https://twitter.com/VPSecretariat/status/905985165251403777, https://twitter.com/VPSecretariat/status/905985266011127808) Many others have congratulated me and this brought lot of mileage and exposure to Telugu Wikipedia in local newspapers, political followers and public in general.
- Telangana IT Minister also appreciated through Twitter (https://twitter.com/MinIT_Telangana/status/906054747630604289) and he officially felicitated in his chamber. (https://twitter.com/MinIT_Telangana/status/907558639942037505)
- My contributing Telugu wikipedia projects are (a) Telangana (https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/వికీపీడియా:వికీప్రాజెక్టు/తెలంగాణ), (b) Telangana Tejomurthulu (Eminent Persons from Telangana) https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/వికీపీడియా:వికీప్రాజెక్టు/తెలంగాణ/తెలంగాణ_తేజోమూర్తులు_ఎడిటథాన్, (c) Edit-a-Than of Tourist Places in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana (https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/వికీపీడియా:వికీప్రాజెక్టు/ఆంధ్రప్రదేశ్,_తెలంగాణల్లోని_పర్యాటక_ప్రదేశాలు,_చారిత్రక_స్థలాలు_ఎడిటథాన్), (d) Andhra Pradesh and Telangana Villages (https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/వికీపీడియా:వికీప్రాజెక్టు/ఆంధ్ర_ప్రదేశ్,_తెలంగాణ_గ్రామాలు), (e) Telugu Movies (https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/వికీపీడియా:వికీప్రాజెక్టు/తెలుగు_సినిమాలు),
- I got Invitation and participated in World Telugu Conference organised by Telangana State Government on 15th to 19th December, 2017 in Hyderabad. And represented wikipedia. Here i spoke about how wikipedia can be used as a tool to promote Telugu Language. this eventually let to Telangana State Government to Open up its resources for Wikipedia Projects. (http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-telangana/it-dept-signs-mou-for-free-e-content/article19936197.ece)
- Participated in Telugu Wikisource Workshop - 2017 in association with CIS A2K on 22nd & 23rd July, 2017 in NTR Trust, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad. (https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/వికీపీడియా:సమావేశం/హైదరాబాదు/తెలుగు_వికీసోర్సు_కార్యశాల_2017)
- Participated in Wikidata and Technical Workshop - 2017 by Asaf Bartov (Wikimedia Foundation Senior Programme Officer) on 6 & 7 September 2017 in NTR Trust, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad. (https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/వికీపీడియా:కార్యశాల/హైదరాబాద్/వికీడేటా_మరియు_సాంకేతిక_కార్యశాల)
- Posted Daily on Facebook - (a) This day in History section of Telugu Wikipedia Home Page, with links to all Wikipedia Articles (https://www.facebook.com/PranayrajVangari/media_set?set=a.1418840951518391.1073741883.100001775003957&type=3 (b) 100wikidays articles in four facebook Pages, 10 whatsapp groups. (c) Wikipedia article links posted in facebook and other social media on special occasions like birthdays of famous personalities, Festivals, anniversaries of certain significant events. (d) DYK of Telugu Wikipedia posted on daily basis in four facebook Pages, 10 whatsapp groups. (https://www.facebook.com/PranayrajVangari/media_set?set=a.1438947886174364.1073741884.100001775003957&type=3)
- Telugu Wikipedia MoU with Telangana’s Information Technology Department to get authentic content of Telangana in acquisition of Telangana Government into public domain, increasing the participation from Telangana state in the Wikimedia movement through workshops for volunteers.(http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-telangana/it-dept-signs-mou-for-free-e-content/article19936197.ece)
- In the part of my Wikiyear i wrote one article on my Wedding day and inspired my wife (వాడుకరి:Nagarani Bethi) to join Wikipedia on that day itself. This is called Wiki Wedding (https://telugufreeknowledge.wordpress.com/2017/02/27/first-blog-post/). She came into my life being a Wikipedian and she continues to take inspiration from me to write on Wikipedia.
- My Wikiyear achievement has been placed on Wikimedia blog - https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/09/07/pranayraj-wikiyear-challenge/
Support details
[edit]Support type
[edit]What type of support you need
- Internet Required
Reason
[edit]presently am using Internet in my Office. i want to contribute more to Wikimedia Projects. if i have Internet at my Home i will contribute more time.
Future activities
[edit]- I will create 250 above articles in Telugu Wikipedia
- I will upload Monthly 100 above Photos to Wikipedia Commons
- I will Encourage to my Wife contribute more to Wikipedia
- Status
- open
Community discussion and endorsements
[edit]Please keep the discussion friendly, and note number of endorsement may not be the only way to assess an application's merit
Support
- Support - I am supporting Sri PranayRaj for his enormous efforts that he is putting to improve Telugu Wikipedia Quality and content.--సుల్తాన్ ఖాదర్ (talk) 11:13, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
- Support - Because his contributions to Telugu Wikimedia Projects are improving both Content and Reach. Also, using earlier infrastructure grant, Pranayraj made great contributions. --Pavan santhosh.s (talk) 12:04, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
- Support - K.Venkataramana (talk) 12:08, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
- Support -- Rahmanuddin (talk) 12:28, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
- Support -- --Ajaybanbi (talk) 12:47, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
- Support Palagiri (talk) 04:16, 31 January 2018 (UTC)
- SupportT.sujatha (talk)
- Support----విశ్వనాధ్.బి.కె. (talk) 15:23, 31 January 2018 (UTC)
- Support --శ్రీరామమూర్తి (talk) 15:23, 2 February 2018 (UTC)
- Support --రవిచంద్ర (talk) 20:06, 4 February 2018 (UTC)
- Support -- AbhiSuryawanshi (talk) 18:17, 5 February 2018 (UTC)
- Support - Pranayraj has been a great contributor to Wikipedia. This grant will help him contribute better. He richly deserves the grant.__Chaduvari (talk) 16:37, 6 February 2018 (UTC)
- Abha Pradhan (talk) |Contribs) 07:34, 9 February 2018 (UTC)
- Support --Kannan Shanmugam (talk) 23:27, 13 February 2018 (UTC)
- Support--Kritzolina (talk) 08:05, 15 February 2018 (UTC)
- Support (I'm an applicant here, so I hope my support won't weigh any less here..) -- ɑηsuмaη «Talk»
- Support- Wikiyear champion Manavpreet Kaur (talk) 17:06, 22 February 2018 (UTC)
- Support-- A relentless contributor and outreach volunteer as I know him for several years now. I endorse tis application. ViswaPrabhaവിശ്വപ്രഭtalk 16:49, 25 February 2018 (UTC)
- Support-- No-brainer.Best,Winged Blades of Godric (talk) 14:41, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
- Support--Sugeesh (talk) 18:04, 26 February 2018 (UTC)