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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.
Dr. Radhika Mamidi · Principal Investigator · LTRC, IIIT Hyderabad
The Mission
Democratizing Scientific Knowledge
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.
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.
Scientific Coverage
From biological sciences and chemistry to biodiversity, species taxonomy, and landmark inventions — every domain covered in both Hindi and Telugu.
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.
Krupal
Contributor
Abi
Contributor
Ram
Contributor
Gopal
Contributor
Saudha
Contributor
Raghav
Contributor
