Telugu Wikipedia has just reached 3,000 member mark. It is the second Indian language Wikipedia to have more than 3,000 members. (Currently, Malayalam Wikipedia is in the first place with 3,163 members.)
However, at this moment, Telugu Wikipedia has more number of articles (36,196) than any other Indian languageWikipedia.
The following is a table showing article counts in various Indian language Wikipedias, as of 2007-09-10:
Continue reading 3,000 members in Telugu Wikipedia
Cinema is the biggest entertainment for Indian masses and classes. If things about cinema and movies fascinate you, there is something for you in the Telugu blogosphere. Film reviews, discussions about cinema, articles relating movies and film industry, (what not?)— a lot is happening. There are some blogs that exclusively and regularly feature movie related posts. Some other bloggers regularly share their views about movies they watched. The following are the lists you need.
What is your favorite online Telugu news source? Which ones do you regularly visit? Vote below. You can select multiple news sources.
Post your reasons, etc as comments.
Though majority of Telugu bloggers have some kind of technical background, very few of them write on tech things. The following (not in any particular order) are some of tech blogs in Telugu or blogs which cover technical aspects regularly. Continue reading Tech Blogs in Telugu
Telugu Wikipedia reaches 30,000 articles! Currently, it has 2,622 registered users. It is the only Indian Language Wikipedia ever to have more than 20,000 articles.
However, it is good to see that 6 Indian Language Wikipedias (Telugu, Manipuri, Bengali, Hindi, Tamil and Marathi) have crossed 10,000 article mark. The following table shows the number of articles and registered users (as I write) in each of the Indian Language Wikipedias.
There are lot of ways that you can help Telugu on the Web grow.
Surprisingly, there are many websites that serve news in Telugu. It is pleasing to see websites that provide content in Unicode Telugu are growing. This post presents links to Telugu news sites that I knew or readers of this blog brought to my notice.
The number of Telugu blogs has been increasing day by day. Especially, there is a phenomenal growth in the last six months. There seems to be more than a thousand Telugu blogs, with around 250 being regularly updated.
The topics covered by Telugu blogs range from comics to cinema, politics to poetry, media to mythology, technology to tradition, education to environment and more. However, not many Telugu people are aware of blogs in their own language. This article is an attempt in spreading Telugu blogs.
If you have some good thoughts to share with the world, you can start a Telugu blog. Thinking how to type in Telugu? It’s no longer difficult. Thanks to the recent tools, it is as easy as typing in English. The following is a quick guide that lets you get started blogging in Telugu.
1. How to get yourself a blog?
You can get yourself a free blog at WordPress.com or Blogger.com or blaagu.com. There are also other places where you can get a free blog. (You can even have a blog in your own domain. That is for the next time.)
2. How to Type in Telugu?
After you get yourself a blog, you need a way to write in Telugu. Don’t worry. There are many tools available. Pick a tool that suits you the best from the following popular ones:
Tools for typing in Telugu
3. Let people know about your Telugu blog
Commenting on other peoples blogs allows your blog to be get noticed. There are also aggregators for Telugu blogs. Getting listed in these aggregators ensures your Telugu blog will reach to fellow bloggers and many more people. You just need to send an e-mail to the maintainers of the aggregators that you have started a Telugu blog.
Telugu Blog aggregators
Regularly visiting one of these aggregators keeps you abreast of what is going on in Telugu blogosphere and brings to your notice good blog posts that you would otherwise have missed.
4. Participate
Telugu bloggers are an active community. You can join them at TeluguBlog Google Group for discussions on technical and general problems in writing blogs in Telugu.
Update (2007-07-15): Added Jalleda.com to Telugu blog aggregators and blaagu.com to the sites where you can start a Telugu blog.
Welcome to Crossroads, a place where Telugu blog posts (mostly excerpts, though) appear in English. The primary objective of this blog is to be a bridge blog and speak to global audience.
Telugu blogging community is active and growing. However, there is a little interaction with other Indic blogging communities, as well as with the global blogosphere. I hope this blog would bridge the gap and let the world hear our voice.
I would also occasionally invite other Telugu bloggers to write in English here for you, global audience.
This effort is inspired by Global Voices.
Update (2007-06-11): I changed the course of this blog, rather increased the scope. I wish to cover all about the Telugu on the Web.