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Re: [Wikimedia-in-blr] [WMIN-Members] Re: A day in Wiki Women Workshop
by ansuman 25 Mar '13

25 Mar '13

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: > > > Excellent work & congrats to everyone who has participated > > Yohann Thomas > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "wmin-members" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to wmin-members+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > >

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A day in Wiki Women Workshop
by Pavithra H 24 Mar '13

24 Mar '13

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

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[A2K]: The Access to Knowledge - Bulletin - February '13
by noopur 11 Mar '13

11 Mar '13

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 __ Links: ------ [1] 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

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[A2K]: Introducing Dr. U.B Pavanaja, Consultant - Indian languages
by noopur 10 Mar '13

10 Mar '13

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: ------ [1] http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/pavanaja-profile.pdf

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Wikipedia Women workshop in Bangalore
by RadhaKrishna Arvapally 08 Mar '13

08 Mar '13

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

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Wiki Women Bangalore - Saturday 9th March
by RadhaKrishna Arvapally 07 Mar '13

07 Mar '13

Dear All, I invite all of you to participate the wikimedia Women workshop. For details please refer to http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wikipedia_Women%27s_Workshop_Bangalore_2013 All those who want to volunteer in organizing the event, please refer to event planning page: http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wikipedia_Women%27s_Workshop_Bangalore_2013/Planni… Please spread the word ... -- Thanks & Regards, A.Radha Krishna http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Arkrishna

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Vote for Nominations for Gendergap SIG Chair
by Pavithra H 05 Mar '13

05 Mar '13

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

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Creative Commons workshop in Bengaluru, right now!
by Subhashish Panigrahi 25 Feb '13

25 Feb '13

Dear all, Creative Commons team is in Bengaluru and is talking about Creative Commons license and culture. Arun Ram from Wikimedia India Chapter along with chapter EC members and Omshivaprakash and many wikipedians discussing about Wikipedia, CC Licenses, Kannada Wikipedia and other Indian language wikipedias and GLAM projects. We are live streaming the video and writing minutes. Links below: Event link: http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Events/Creative_Commons_workshop_in_Bangalore Live video cast: http://www.justin.tv/cisindia Live pad/Minutes: http://openetherpad.org/ccmeetup Commons category: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Creative_Commons_meet_25February… Twitter link: https://twitter.com/search?q=%23ccblr&src=typd -- Best! Subhashish Panigrahi

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Opportunity to meet Wikimedia EC
by RadhaKrishna Arvapally 24 Feb '13

24 Feb '13

> > Dear Wikimedians, Wikimedia Executive Committee came to Bangalore and would like to meet us. Date & Time: 24th Feb, Sunday; 6PM Venue: Will confirm shortly (around MG Road) Agenda: Getting to know each other. Action plan for the next one year Looking forward to meet all of you on sunday. Best Regards, RadhaKrishna

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Fwd: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki Loves Monuments 2013
by noopur 20 Feb '13

20 Feb '13

Forwarding to all city lists for those interested in volunteering for Wiki Loves Monuments 2013. -------- Original Message -------- SUBJECT: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 DATE: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 08:00:22 -0800 (PST) FROM: Pradeep Mohandas TO: Wikimedia Members List , Wikipedia Mailing List REPLY-TO: Pradeep Mohandas , Wikimedia India Community list hi, While looking up on Wiki Loves Public Art, I noticed that the wiki page for WLM 2013 is also up. I saw India's name missing in the list of participating countries and was bold enough to add our name there. It would be awesome to make WLM 2013 more bigger and more collaborative than 2012. If you're interested in being a part of the WLM 2013, please sign up on this page - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2013_in_India. warm regards, Pradeep Pradeep Mohandas How Pradeep uses email? - http://goo.gl/6v1I9

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