One day Symposium on Telugu Wikipedia was conducted on 9 February at KRB Auditorium with an aim of enhancing wikipedia content in Indian languages – focusing on Telugu and Hindi, by several thousand folds in the next 5 years. As part of this endeavour, Prof. Vasudeva Varma and his team are conducting a series of round tables and symposia. Eminent people like Prof. Raj Reddy, Carnegie Mellon University, (Turing award winner and chairman of IIIT Hyderabad governing council), Dr Jayaprakash Narayan, retired IAS officer, Prof. K Nageswar, former MLC and Shri Mamidi Harikrishna, Director of Language and Culture, Telangana State Government, IIITH Director Prof. P J Narayanan and IndicWiki Project Investigator Prof. Vasudeva Varma took part in the symposium.
Prof. Vasudeva Varma outlined the activities undertaken by Project Telugu Wiki team like forming four focus groups, organising Wiki workshops at IIIT Hyderabad on Saturdays, setting up a stall at Hyderabad National Book Fair, among others. According to him, around 800 enthusiasts have enrolled to volunteer on Project Telugu Wiki. Project Telugu Wiki aims at creating 30 lakh Wiki articles in the coming years without compromising on the quality.