+++ Thanks for these updates, as always :) SJ
On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 9:07 AM Shani Evenstein <shani.even(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
This is great!
So wonderful to see such wonderful activity from India!
Keep up the good work!
Shani.
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*Shani Evenstein Sigalov*
* Lecturer, Tel Aviv University.
* EdTech Innovation Strategist, NY/American Medical Program, Sackler School
of Medicine, Tel Aviv University.
* PhD Candidate, School of Education, Tel Aviv University.
* OER & Emerging Technologies Coordinator, UNESCO Chair
<https://education.tau.ac.il/node/3495> on Technology,
Internationalization
and Education, School of Education, Tel Aviv University
<https://education.tau.ac.il/node/3495>.
* Chairperson, WikiProject Medicine Foundation
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Project_Med>.
* Chairperson, Wikipedia & Education User Group
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_%26_Education_User_Group>.
* Chairperson, The Hebrew Literature Digitization Society
<http://www.israelgives.org/amuta/580428621>.
* Chief Editor, Project Ben-Yehuda <http://bybe.benyehuda.org>.
+972-525640648
On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 3:36 PM Ananth Subray <ananth.subray(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Dear All,
We are glad to inform that CIS-A2K has published our newsletter for
January
2019.
*Events*
- *Mini MediaWiki Training Theni:* Indic TechCom members and CIS-A2K
decided to reach out to students with the Computer science background
and
help them understand how to contribute on MediaWiki. As a pilot
project, we
reached out to Nadar Saraswathi College of Engineering and Technology
and
organised a two-day long Mini MediaWiki training for the students on
22nd
and 23rd of January 2019.
- *Marathi Language Fortnight Workshops: * CIS-A2K started
collaborating
with State language dept. in 2017. In the
first series
<https://mr.wikipedia.org/s/48ug> of workshops, we conducted three
workshops. In the second series <https://mr.wikipedia.org/s/48u9> in
2018, we conducted six workshops out of a total of 17 workshops
conducted
across the state. In the year 2019, the awareness spread to more
educational institutions located in different regions of the state.
In this third
series <https://mr.wikipedia.org/s/48gs>, CIS-A2K conducted five
workshops out of a total of 21 workshops
- *Wikisource training Bengaluru: * During the Indic Wikisource
Community Consultation at Kolkata, India on 24–25 November
2018,User:Shubha
requested to conduct a Wikisource specific Workshop for Sankrit
Wikisource
Team at Bengaluru Samkrit Bharati. The CIS-A2K Team conducted a
workshop
for Sanskrit Community at Bengaluru, Karnataka
on 23 - 24 January
2019.
- *TWLCon (2019 India): * TWL Con or the
Wikipedia Library conference
was supported by the CIS-A2K. The aim of the conference was to spread
awareness about TWL among the Indian languages community, understand
and
identify different challenges of the movement
in India.
- *1lib1ref session at Goa University: * Marathi language department
and
faculty from other languages organised the
#1lib1ref event at Goa
University. The practice of Marathi typing in Unicode was carried out
through preparing articles as a Word document. The students selected
the
articles on the history of Goa, writers &
artists of Goa, Tourism in
Goa
and villages in Goa. Total of 37 editors
actively participated in the
workshop. They learnt basic editing skills, adding references and
uploading
on Commons.
- *Punjabi Wikimedians meetup: * Punjabi Wikimedians had an online
meeting on 27 January 2019. 11 participants joined this meeting.
*Upcoming Events: *
- *Project Tiger Community Consultation: * Project Tiger Community
Consultation is a consultation program that will take place on 2-3
March
2019 at Chennai (most probably).
- *Gujarati Meetup & Workshop, Ahmedabad: * CIS-A2K along with the
Gujarati Wikimedia community is planning the Gujarati Wikisource
Workshop
and Gujarati Wikimedia Meetup in Ahmedabad. The goal of the meetup is
to
introduce Wikisource and help the community
better understand the
scope
and
future of Wikisource.
- *Train the Trainer-2019(Bids): **The bids for Train-the-trainer
program 2019 has already taken place. Currently, the jury members are
deciding the place for the TTT 2019. TTT 2019, the 6th iteration of
the
Train-the-trainer program. *
You can find the meta version of the newsletter at:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/January_2019
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/January_2019
Thanks and Regards,
*ANANTH SUBRAY P V*
MSc Candidate at CHRIST (Deemed to be University)
Programme Associate at The Centre for Internet & Society
<https://cis-india.org/a2k/cis-a2k>
Secretary of Wikipedia & Education User Group
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_%26_Education_User_Group>
Co-founder of Lakshya
<
https://www.facebook.com/lakshyaforchange/?eid=ARDO9f7NCVPHN1bsF2mChlPDM4qS…
+91-9739811664
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