Dear all,
Here is the link to the blog post by Sajjad Anwar and
Sumandro Chattopadhyay on the visualization of the growth of Indic
Wikipedias:
http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/indic-wikipedia-visualisation-project-vi…
The data obtained is for the period from January 2001 to December
2012 and has been visualized into motion charts and calendar charts. The
parameters used have also been listed chart wise.
I am not sure if
Sajjad and Sumandro are on the mailing lists but I would be happy to
connect you with them or take the community responses to them if any.
Best,
Noopur
Great work and report, thanks for sharing :-)
Regards,
Ansuman <http://twitter.com/an5um>
*ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ <http://or.wikipedia.org/>*
On 25 March 2013 21:22, Yohann Thomas <yohannvt(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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Hi All,
Here is my blog<http://phjot.techfiz.info/2013/03/a-day-in-wiki-women-workshop/>post
on Wiki Women Workshop that we conducted on 9th March.
As we all know, Wikipedia is the world’s biggest encyclopedia and
recognized as the 5th most website accessed by people across the globe.
Being one of the biggest community driven project, Wikipedia has pooled in
millions of articles which have been added/edited/monitored/ by people like
you and me.
By nature, gender has not only been the distinguishing factor for human
being but also acts as a barrier to perform limited set of activities from
the ages. At various stages of evolution, men and women have been
continuously striving to overcome their boundaries which were set by
themselves or by the society. It’s the same story when it comes to
statistics of Wikipedians and the ratio of men and women participation is
9:1. To bridge this gap Wikipdedia has been organizing many activities to
bring in more women participants around Wikipedia and other Wiki projects.
On the occasion of International Women’s Day 2013, many of the volunteer
Wikipedians conducted workshops with dedicated focus to women across the
India.
On this occasion, I got an opportunity to organize the workshop in
Bangalore as well for women with ideas floated by Nikita (EC member of
India Chapter) and Radhakrishna (SIG chair Bangalore). With guidance and
support by Sowmyan (EC member of India Chapter),
Arun<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/User:Arunram> (founder
member of India Wikipedia) and
Omshivapraksh<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/User:Omshivaprakash> (Kannada
SIG chair of Bangalore), we could conduct Wikipedia Women’s
Workshop<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wikipedia_Women%27s_Workshop_Bangalore_2013>
successfully
for the first time in Bangalore on 9th of March at Servelots Infotech Pvt.
Ltd <http://servelots.com/>. As mentioned in the event page, the workshop
was started with giving an overview of Wikipedia and introduction of
participants along with their interests. Continuing further participants
were able to found their answers for their initial set of questions like
what is Wikipedia all about? Why do we participate? Who all will edit? in
about an hour session by Omshivaprakash.
After a small tea break and a press byte organized by
Pavanaja<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/User:Pavanaja>,
the sessions were continued by introducing the next step to Wikipedia.
i.e., How do we edit? To make our hands on session more interactive, we
made one of our participant, Dr. A Sumitra to create an account live and
explained various steps to edit Wikipedia like start a new page, edit a
page, formatting, preview, adding references, history, etc. In between we
played the recorded videos of Bishakha
Datta<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuIgDP4KDck>
and Netha Hussain<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WWC-Netha-Hussain.ogv>
who
shared their experience with Wikipedia and their message on Women’s Day.
With excited participants, we extended the session and took some more time
to explain what else we can do beyond editing by giving a brief overview on
other wiki projects like Commons, WikiBooks, Wikisource, Wikinews,
Wikiquote, Wikitionary, MediaWiki, etc.
**
New items on the cards:
1. During the event, Dr. A Sumitra based out of Bangalore did add the
page on Nalini Nayak <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nalini_Nayak> who is
famous as India’s Fisher Women.
2. We have compiled a list of
topics<http://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%B5%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%95%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%AA%…>
for
Kannada Wikipedia for which women can participate in adding/enhancing the
content on Wikipedia.
3. Our participant, Lakshimi Chaitanya has come forward to introduce
many female achievers by adding content in Kannada Wikipedia.
4. Sumana from Sanskrit Wikipedia and other Wikipedians have been
working on making audio files for Sanskrit Shlokas since few days and they
are very happy to welcome volunteers who would like to join them in adding
their content to Commons.
Couple of other women who could not make it to the event also got in touch
to be part of the celebrations by contributing to Kannada Wikipedia:
5. Recent Wikipedian, Shyamala Janardhan has been trying to add
contents of HariKathamrutha Saara to WikiSource.
6. Savitha S.R. from Bangalore celebrating this occasion by adding
contents of Vyasa Bharata -Kumara Vyasa to Wikipedia.
I have created a new Facebook group called WikiWomen
Bangalore<https://www.facebook.com/groups/145050568996982/> to
gather all women participants of Wikipedia and other Wiki projects. The
space can be used to discuss and interact about topics around Wikipedia and
to bring in more women participants to share their knowledge. I request all
of you to join the group and share your thoughts.
Also refer to event page International Women’s Day,
India<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WHMIN13> which
lists all the events happening in India in March 2013 on the occasion of
Women’s day and participate in the area of your interest.
As a personal note, it gave immense pleasure and was a great learning
experience for me interacting with new excited Wikipedians. Thanks to
everyone who were part of the event and make it a big success.
Press Release:
- Kannadaprabha Daily report on Event,ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯದತ್ತ ಮಹಿಳೆಯರು
ಆಕರ್ಷಿತರಾಗಲಿ<http://archives.kannadaprabha.com/pdf/1032013/3.pdf> 10th
March, 2013
- ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಮಾಹಿತಿ: ಸ್ತ್ರೀಯರ ಪಾತ್ರ
ಇರಲಿ<http://www.prajavani.net/article/%E0%B2%B5%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%95%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2…>
Prajavani,
11th March, 2013
Photo credits goes to: Pavanaja <http://wiki.wikimedia.in/User:Pavanaja>
--
Thanks,
Pavithra
Dear all,
Here is the A2K newsletter for the month of February,
2013.
Wikimedia Foundation, beginning from September 1, 2012, awarded
the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) a two-year grant of INR
26,000,000 to support and develop free knowledge in India. Consequently,
Wikimedia Foundation's India Program became the Access to Knowledge
(A2K) program [1] of CIS. In the second issue of our newsletter for
2013, we are glad to introduce you to our new programme officer, Dr.
U.B. Pavanaja [2]. The A2K team [3] consists of four members based in
Delhi: T. Vishnu Vardhan [4], Nitika Tandon [5], Subhashish Panigrahi
[6] and Noopur Raval [7], and one new team member Dr. U.B. Pavanaja [8]
who works from Bangalore office. Archives of our newsletters are here
[9].
Wikipedians from various communities can request for outreach
programs, technical bugs, logistics-merchandize and media, public
relations and communications at http://bit.ly/TOcXId [10].
# New Team
Member
* Dr. U.B. Pavanaja [11] joined the A2K team as Programme
Officer, India Language Initiatives on March 4, 2013. Dr. Pavanaja holds
a Master's degree from Mysore University and Ph.D. from Mumbai
University. He was a scientist at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai,
for about 15 years. He is one of the oldest editors of Kannada
Wikipedia. He has to his credit many firsts, viz., first Kannada
website, first Kannada online magazine, first Indian language (Kannada)
website to receive Golden Web Award, first Indian language (Kannada)
editor for Palm OS, first Indian language (Kannada) editor for WinCE
device (HP Jornado 720), first Indian language version (Kannada) of
universally popular Logo (programming language for children) software,
etc. His Kannada logo won the Manthan Award for the year 2006. He was a
member of the technical advisory committee setup by the Govt. of
Karnataka for Standardization of Kannada on Computers (2000). He is also
a member of the Kannada Software Committee of Govt. of Karnataka
(2008-current).
# Events Organised by CIS
* Creative Commons comes
to India [12] (Chitrakala Parishad, Bangalore, February 1, 2013).
Meetings were held in Pune and Bangalore. The Access to Knowledge team
participated in two meetings organized in Bangalore.
* Knowledge
Sharing through GLAM at Bangalore [13](Karnataka Chitrakala Parishad,
Kumara Krupa Road, Bangalore, February 25, 2013). Dr. U.B. Pavanaja,
Nitika Tandon and Subhashish Panigrahi participated in the event.
*
Fifty-fourth Bangalore Wikimedia Meet-up at IIM, Bangalore [14]
(co-organized with Radhakrishna Arvapally, Special Interest Group,
Solutions IQ and Wikimedia India Chapter, Indian Institute of
Management, February 25, 2013). Vishnu Vardhan gave a talk on
accessibility and knowledge. Noopur Raval participated in the event.
#
Event Participated
* GNUnify 2013 [15] (organized by Pune Linux/Unix
User Group and Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies & Research, Pune,
February 15 - 17, 2013). Subhashish Panigrahi participated in the
event.
# Education Program
* Odia Wikipedia Community Brings
Wikipedia Education Program to IIMC, Dhenkanal [16] (by Subhashish
Panigrahi, February 28, 2013).
# Event Reports
CIS organised one Wiki
workshop in the month of February 2013, and also brings you the report
from an event organised in the month of January:
* Celebrating Odia
Wikipedia's Ninth Anniversary [17] (organized by the Odia Wiki Community
with support from CIS and Academy for Media Learning, January 29, 2013,
Bhubaneswar). Few glimpses of the event are available as an audio
podcast.
* Digital Literacy Workshop at Department of Arts, Delhi
University [18] (by Nitika Tandon, February 5, 2013).
# Media Coverage
* ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆର ନବମ ଜନ୍ମତିଥି ଅବସରରେ କର୍ମଶାଳା: ଇମିଡ଼ିଆରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ
ଭାଷାର ପ୍ରୟୋଗ [19] (Odishan.com, February 4, 2013).
* ସମ୍ବାଦ:_ _ଲିପି
ବ୍ୟାକରଣ ଓ ମାନକ ଭାଷାର ପ୍ରୟୋଗ ଜରୁରୀ [20]. (Sambad, February, 2013).
*
Odisha: Workshop organized on 9th Anniversary of Odia language:
Application of Odia language in e-media [21] (e India Bureau, March 2,
2013).
* Odia Wikipedia's 9th anniversary [22] (fullOrissa News,
February 13, 2013).
* Odisha: Workshop organized on 9th Anniversary of
Odia language: Application of Odia language in e-media [23] (India
Education Diary.com, March 2, 2013). Subhashish Panigrahi is quoted.
*
Odia language workshop organized on 9th Anniversary of Odia Wikipedia:
Application of Odia language in e-media [24] (Odishaviews.com, February
5, 2013). Subhashish Panigrahi is quoted.
# Ongoing Events
*
Wikipedia Workshop @ BITS Goa [25] (BITS Pilani K K Birla Goa Campus,
March 7, 2013, 5.30 p.m. to 8.00 p.m.).
* A Wikipedia Editing Workshop
in Goa [26] (Nirmala Institute of Education, Goa, March 8, 2013, 3 p.m.
to 5 p.m.).
# Announcement
* Sanskrit Wikiquote -- Now Available
[27]!: The Access to Knowledge team at CIS is happy to announce the
availability of Sanskrit Wikiquote. Shiju Alex, an ex-team member played
an active role in bringing this out. For more info see
http://bit.ly/Y9OY9R [28].
*About CIS [29]*
CIS was registered as a
society in Bangalore in 2008. As an independent, non-profit research
organisation, it runs different policy research programmes such as
Accessibility, Access to Knowledge, Openness, Internet Governance, and
Telecom. The policy research programmes have resulted in outputs such as
the e-Accessibility Policy Handbook for Persons with Disabilities [30]
with ITU and G3ict, and Digital Alternatives with a Cause? [31],
Thinkathon Position Papers [32] and the Digital Natives with a Cause?
Report [33] with Hivos, etc. We have conducted policy research for the
Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, Ministry of Human
Resource Development, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and
Pensions, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, etc., on WIPO
Treaties [34], Copyright Bill [35], NIA Bill [36], etc.
CIS is
accredited as an observer at WIPO. CIS staff participates in the
Standing Committee for Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) meetings
regularly held in Geneva, and participate in the discussions and
comments on them from a public interest perspective. Our Policy
Director, Nirmita Narasimhan won the National Award for Empowerment of
Persons with Disabilities [37] from the Government of India and also
received the NIVH Excellence Award [38].
*Follow us elsewhere*
*
Get short, timely messages from us on Twitter [39]
* Join the CIS
group on Facebook [40]
* Visit us at http://cis-india.org [41]
*Support Us*
Please help us defend consumer / citizen rights on the
Internet! Write a cheque in favour of 'The Centre for Internet and
Society' and mail it to us at No. 194, 2nd 'C' Cross, Domlur, 2nd Stage,
Bengaluru - 5600 71.
*Request for Collaboration*
We invite
researchers, practitioners, and theoreticians, both organisationally and
as individuals, to collaboratively engage with Internet and society and
improve our understanding of this new field. To discuss the research
collaborations, write to Sunil Abraham, Executive Director, at
sunil(a)cis-india.org [42] or Nishant Shah, Director - Research, at
nishant(a)cis-india.org [43]
_CIS is grateful to its donors, Wikimedia
Foundation, Ford Foundation, Privacy International, UK, Hans Foundation
and the Kusuma Trust which was founded by Anurag Dikshit and Soma
Pujari, philanthropists of Indian origin, for its core funding and
support for most of its projects._
Thank you,
Noopur Raval __
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http://cis-india.org/a2k/access-to-knowledge-program-plan
[2]
http://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team
[3]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Access_To_Knowledge/Team
[4]
http://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team
[5]
http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/people/our-team
[6]
http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/people/our-team
[7]
http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/people/our-team
[8]
http://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team
[9]
http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters
[10] http://bit.ly/TOcXId
[11]
http://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team
[12]
http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/creative-commons-comes-to-india
[13]
http://cis-india.org/openness/events/knowledge-sharing-through-glam
[14]
http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/fifty-fourth-bangalore-wikimedia-meetup
[15]
http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/foss-wikimedia-under-one-roof-gnunify
[16]
http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/odia-wikipedia-education-program-iimc-dh…
[17]
http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/celebrating-odia-wikipedias-ninth-annive…
[18]
http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/digital-literacy-workshop
[19]
http://odishan.com/?p=2534
[20]
http://sambadepaper.com/Details.aspx?id=36615|+|amp|+|boxid=23625437
[21]
http://www.eindiadiary.com/content/odisha-workshop-organized-9th-anniversar…
[22]
http://news.fullorissa.com/odia-wikipedias-9th-anniversary/
[23]
http://indiaeducationdiary.in/Orissa/Shownews.asp?newsid=19485
[24]
http://www.odishaviews.com/odia-language-workshop-organized-on-9th-annivers…
[25]
http://cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-workshop-bits-goa
[26]
http://cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-editing-workshop-in-goa
[27]
http://cis-india.org/news/sanskrit-wikiquote
[28]
http://bit.ly/Y9OY9R
[29] http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/
[30]
http://cis-india.org/about/advocacy/accessibility/blog/e-accessibility-hand…
[31]
http://cis-india.org/about/digital-natives/front-page/blog/dnbook
[32]
http://cis-india.org/about/digital-natives/front-page/blog/position-papers
[33]
http://cis-india.org/about/digital-natives/front-page/blog/digital-natives-…
[34]
http://cis-india.org/about/a2k/blog/cis-analysis-july2011-treaty-print-disa…
[35]
http://cis-india.org/about/a2k/blog/analysis-copyright-amendment-bill-2012
[36]
http://cis-india.org/about/internet-governance/front-page/blog/cis-feedback…
[37]
http://cis-india.org/about/accessibility/blog/national-award
[38]
http://cis-india.org/about/news/nirmita-nivh-award
[39]
https://twitter.com/cis_india
[40]
http://www.facebook.com/groups/28535315687/
[41]
http://cis-india.org
[42] mailto:sunil@cis-india.org
[43]
mailto:nishant@cis-india.org
Dear all,
I take immense pleasure in (re)introducing Dr. U.B
Pavanaja to the entire Wikimedia community! Dr. Pavanaja has joined the
Access to Knowledge team at CIS as a consultant from March 4 onward.
Those associated with Indian language computing and especially that in
Kannada may know him already for having started the first Kannada
website: Vishvakannada.com, the first Kannada online magazine, the first
Indian language (Kannada) website to receive Golden Web Award, the first
Indian language (Kannada) editor for Palm OS and many more firsts.
Dr.
Pavanaja holds a Master's degree from Mysore University and Ph.D. from
Mumbai University. He was a scientist at the Bhabha Atomic Research
Centre, Mumbai, for about 15 years and has done advanced research in
Taiwan. He resigned from BARC in 1997 and dedicated himself fully for
the cause of Computer and Indian languages. You could read more about
his contributions here [1]. Prior to this he has also worked at
Microsoft Research Labs and has been a long time contributor to Kannada
Wikipedia.
We are very fortunate to have him on board. You can reach
him at pavanaja [at] cis-india [dot] org. Please join me in welcoming
him to our community :)
Thank you,
Noopur
Links:
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[1]
http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/pavanaja-profile.pdf
Dear Wikimedians,
WikiWomen workshop is being organized in Bangalore.
For more details, please visit
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wikipedia_Women%27s_Workshop_Bangalore_2013
*Date:*: 9-March-2013
*Time*: 2 PM - 6 PM (tentative)
Servelots Infotech Pvt. Ltd. and Janastu
3354, KR Road
Bangalore 560070
Karnataka
INDIA
Best Regards,
RadhaKrishna
Hi All,
This is to inform you all that nominations for Chair of the Special
Interest Group for Gender Gap has been listed in the following page. I have
been nominated by Asha Asha and Arun Ram has seconded the nomination. I
accept this nomination to be part of the larger movement around Wikipedia.
My nomination can be found here -
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/SIG_Nominations/Gendergap_2013#Pavithra_Hanchagaiah
Please review the nominations and support me by voting.
--
Thanks,
Pavithra