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Enhancing Scientific Wiki Articles in Indic Languages

Bridging the knowledge gap for the majority of India's population — making science, biodiversity, and innovation accessible in Hindi and Telugu , Bengali and other leading Indian Language

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     Dr. Radhika Mamidi · Principal Investigator · LTRC, IIIT Hyderabad

 The Mission

Democratizing Scientific Knowledge

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The Knowledge Gap

India records 117 million daily Wikipedia views, yet the vast majority of scientific content remains locked in English — out of reach for most Indian-language readers. We are fixing this at scale.

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Language Empowerment

Inspired by the success of native-language knowledge platforms elsewhere in the world, we are building a lasting Indian-language scientific corpus for generations to come.

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Scientific Coverage

From biological sciences and chemistry to biodiversity, species taxonomy, and landmark inventions — every domain covered in both Hindi and Telugu.

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AI-Powered Scale

Automated bot pipelines and NLP translation tools allow us to process WikiData and WikiSpecies at a scale impossible with manual effort alone.

Automated Technological Pipeline

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       🗄️ Data Sourcing

Harvesting structured data from WikiData and WikiSpecies — over 800,000 species entries.

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       🤖 Bot Creation

Automated Wikipedia bots programmed to generate, format, and upload article skeletons.

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       🔤 NLP Translation

Translation models fine-tuned on low-resource Indic language corpora.

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       ✅ Quality Review

Human-in-the-loop validation by LTRC linguists and domain experts before publication.

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       🌍 Open Release

All tools, datasets, and corpora released open-source for the global research community.

   Our Team

Contributing Interns

Recognizing the student researchers and contributors building and reviewing Indic scientific content.

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     Krupal
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     Abinaya
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     Aditya  N Dwivedi
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     Ameya Purohit
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     Sourav Nath
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     Intern 2 
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