About seven years after Tulu Wikipedia went stay, it has more than doubled in size and has over 2,100 articles now. It had a bit over 1,000 articles when it went stay on August 6, 2016, on the Wikiconference India, 2016, at Chandigarh, in which Katherine Maher, Executive Director, Wikmedia Foundation, U.S., had introduced the brand new mission.
U.B. Pavanaja, admin of each Tulu and Kannada Wikipedia.
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Tulu Wikipedia, which may be accessed at http://tcy.wikipedia.org, was in incubation for about eight years since 2008 earlier than it went stay. It was the 23rd Indian language Wikipedia to attain this distinction. Presently Tulu Wikipedia has 11,434 pages with 7,61,224 phrases.
A non-scheduled language, Tulu is spoken generally and prominently in Dakshina Kannada district and southern elements of Udupi district in Karnataka and northern elements of Kasaragod district in Kerala. Tulu audio system are unfold throughout India and overseas.
Wikipedia is now accessible in 24 Indian languages with Santali being the 24th to go stay, mentioned U.B. Pavanaja, who can also be the founder and editor of www.vishvakannada.com, which is the primary on-line Kannada journal. Kannada Wikipedia, which went stay on June 12, 2003, has more than 31,500 articles, Pavanaja mentioned.
The foremost web page of Tulu Wikipedia.
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Mentors of Tulu Wikipedia
Tulu talking professionals from Dakshina Kannada – Pavanaja, an IT skilled, Vishwanath Badikana and Kishore Kumar Rai Sheni, each senior school lecturers, Bharatesh Alasandemajalu, a financial institution worker, and Benett G. Ammanna, a former member of Karnataka Tulu Sahitya Academy — are among the many distinguished individuals behind the start of Tulu Wikipedia. This group continues to maintain the pages alive.
The mentors launched Karavali Wikimedians User Group, a registered physique completely for writing for Tulu Wikipedia.
“It is the only such user group in Karnataka now devoted for writing for a language Wikipedia,” mentioned Badikana, the president of the person group who teaches Kannada at St. Aloysius College in Mangaluru. Writers use Kannada script for writing in Tulu.
Kambala conventional rural sports activities of Tulu Nadu in Karnataka.
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Criteria for an excellent article
Pavanaja, the mind behind the launch of Tulu Wikipedia, mentioned that as per the standards for an excellent article prescribed by Wikipedia, it ought to have no less than 2,000 bytes or 500 phrases to 600 phrases offering complete info. For instance, an article on a persona ought to have particulars concerning his or her start, childhood and training, achievements, awards if any gained and the like.
Pavanaja, the admin of each Tulu and Kannada Wikipedia, mentioned that if the Wikipedia web page is to be energetic, between 5 and 10 articles must be uploaded and no less than 15 editors must edit it on a month-to-month foundation.
“The article should also provide “inter-wiki link” to the reference materials. It ought to go along with a picture of the persona. The article must be listed in prescribed classes, for instance like Indian language or Indian tradition,” added Badikana.
A sequence of workshops and editathons carried out by the User Group in Mangaluru and Udupi helped in the expansion of Tulu Wikipedia, Pavanaja, who can also be the secretary of the person group, mentioned. Badikana added, “Of 6,089 registered users (writers) 60 are active.” Contributions are fully voluntary.
Pursa Kattuna is a singular Tulu folks custom celebration at Didupe in Belthangady Taluk of Dakshina Kannada.
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Advantage of writing in native languages
Referring to writing for vernacular language Wikipedia, together with Tulu, Badikana mentioned that some writers who wrote each in English and in vernacular languages translated the distinguished articles of vernacular languages to English Wikipedia from the place it will get translated to different overseas languages and vernacular languages. “Thus the contents of one language, relating to culture, practices or any other matter, travel to many other languages,” he mentioned.
“Recently a Tulu article of mine related to Karnataka coastal belt’s Siri Aradhane (Siri cult of worship) went to English from where it travelled to the German language,” Badikana identified. He has written 113 articles for each Tulu and Kannada Wikipedia from December 1, 2023 alone in addition to a variety of articles written earlier.
Nagamandala, is a singular worship custom of Karnataka’s coastal belt.
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Lacks institutional help
Edithons and workshops on writing for Tulu Wikipedia organised by the person group lack any institutional help, together with from Mangalore University which has a Tulu Peetha (Tulu Study Chair) and different non-public and deemed to be universities in the coastal belt. “The educational institutions should groom the new writers by organising training sessions,” mentioned Pavanaja.
In addition, not many Tulu researchers, writers and artistes have bothered to jot down in Tulu for Wikipedia. Organising theme primarily based edithons, like girl and folklore, by establishments will assist to extend the variety of articles, Pavanaja mentioned.
He mentioned that IT firms and different establishments can present laptops or desktops to Tulu talking school college students to offer them entry to jot down for Tulu Wikipedia.
Badikana mentioned that the federal government and deemed to be universities ought to establish writing for Tulu Wikipedia as an instructional work whereas counting articles underneath annual efficiency index (API). If that’s achieved, more school lecturers will come ahead to jot down.
Absence of an unicode for Tulu is one other downside in rising articles on Tulu Wikipedia, he mentioned.
Bhootaradhane, a worship custom of Karnataka and Kerala’s coastal belt.
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Not but in Eighth Schedule
“An active Tulu Wikipedia will help bring pressure on the government to include Tulu in the Eighth Schedule of Indian Constitution,” Pavanaja argued.
If Tulu is included in the Eighth Schedule, it could get recognition from the Sahitya Akademi. Then, it may get Tulu books translated into different recognised Indian languages. Elected members can ask questions in Tulu in Parliament and State Legislature. Candidates may finally even write All-India aggressive examinations in Tulu, he mentioned.
Bhootaradhane
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Union authorities’s reply
The Union authorities advised the Rajya Sabha in March, 2023, that there aren’t any fastened standards for consideration of any language for inclusion in the Eighth Schedule. The try to repair such standards by means of the Sitakant Mohapatra Committee has been inconclusive, Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai mentioned, whereas replying to a query by member D. Veerendra Heggade.
In December, 2021, the Union authorities advised the Lok Sabha that there isn’t a transfer to incorporate Tulu in the Eighth Schedule. “It is neither practical nor administratively feasible, at present, to increase the number of official languages,” Rai mentioned whereas replying to an un-starred query by member from Kasaragod (Kerala) Rajmohan Unnithan.
A file picture of Thenkuthittu yakshagana prasanga.
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Demand to declare as second State language
The Karnataka authorities has mentioned that following the demand for declaring Tulu because the second State language, it has requested Bihar, Andhra Pradesh, and West Bengal governments to furnish info on the steps taken by them to undertake their second State language.
Replying to an unstarred query by B.M. Farooq in the Karnataka Legislative Council in February, 2024, Karnataka Minister for Kannada and Culture Shivaraj S. Tangadagi mentioned info from three States had been sought on the opinion by the State’s Legal Department.
The Minister mentioned the State authorities on January 12, 2023, issued an order constituting a committee headed by M. Mohan Alva, chairman, Alva’s Education Foundation, Moodbidri, to check and submit it a report on declaring Tulu because the second State language. The committee submitted its report after finding out the construction of Tulu, its historical past, literary custom, trendy and historical Tulu literature, Tulu inscriptions, and Tulu script and tradition. Later, the federal government sought the opinion of the Legal Department on the report. The Legal Department opined that if any State was to declare a language because the second State language, it ought to get hold of a report from a legally constituted committee and it ought to research the steps taken by different States in this regard.
