NWR 2011:Veera Venkata Choudary Veerapaneni

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Nomination summary
Nomination Submitted by: Praveen Illa, Arjuna Rao Chavala

Nomination type:Nomination (Peer)

Nominee Details
''Nominee name:'Veera Venkata Choudary Veerapaneni'

Wikipedia User Name: Veeven

User page(s):Veeven

Start of contributions (date): 23/02/2006

Wikimedia Projects
Telugu wikipedia system administrator since 2006

History of Contributions

 * Organised wiki ten event in hyderabad.
 * Improved the quality of articles.

Key contributions (till 2010)

 * Pioneer in Telugu computing, blogs. wikipedia both as a technologist and contributor. He launched phonetic typing tool called lekhini and managed a blog aggregators called Koodali and Crossroads.
 * He also initiated Telugu blog emailing list and helped several in getting started with Telugu  on Internet.
 * As founding member of e-telugu organisation and its president, he launched several initiatives to popularize Telugu Computing including contributions to Wikipedia. E-telugu stall in Hyderabad book fair has been a big enabler for Wikipedia promotion.
 * Set up phonetic input method on Telugu wikipedia
 * Member of several telugu wiki projects and conducted electronic Telugu academy and physical academies.

Peer Recognition (if any)

 * Could not locate any, unfortunately

Press coverage (if any)

 * Quoted extensively in print media and covered in electronic media for various Telugu computing promotion events including Wikipedia.

Relevant Publications by contributor (if any)
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Any other information

 * He has been made part of AP Government Committee on promotion of Telugu computing called Global Internet Forum for Telugu