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Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest
by Subhashish Panigrahi 18 Oct '15

18 Oct '15

Dear all, Though we added this announcement in our September newsletter, it has not delivered in most mailing lists. So, I am sharing this again. CIS-A2K invites applications from Indian and Indic Wikimedians for the upcoming Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest.[1] The event, happening during December 15-17 in New Delhi, is the most significant event on the calendar for scholars and policy advocates working on intellectual property from a public interest perspective. The last date of application is 27 October. Indian and Indic Wikipedians are welcome to apply in the /event page[2]/ to apply. /1. https://goo.gl/1uOJ3E/ 2. https://goo.gl/kAVkrM -- Best! Subhashish Panigrahi Programme Officer, Access To Knowledge Centre for Internet and Society @subhapa / https://cis-india.org

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Wikimedia India chapter Elections 2015 [Announcement]
by Yohann Thomas 07 Oct '15

07 Oct '15

Hello One and all Just wanted to Inform that the Election Committee of Wikimedia India has made an announcement of the Executive Committee Elections 2015. The Elections are for the 2 vacancies of the Executive Committee & will be held on 22nd November 2015. Announcement link - http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Elections_2015/Announcement The Election Committee comprises of the following members: - Srinivas Rao D B : Returning Officer - Chinmayi SK: Polling Officer - Subas Chandra Rout: Polling Officer - Yogesh KS: Polling Officer Thank you Yohann Thomas yohannvt(a)gmail.com

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[CIS-A2K] August Newsletter
by Dr.U.B. Pavanaja 15 Sep '15

15 Sep '15

Dear all, CIS-A2K would like to share with you the newsletter below for the month of August 2015. We look forward to hear any feedback or input you might have. Odia Wikipedia (available at <https://or.wikipedia.org> or.wikipedia.org), an Indian-language Wikipedia project, celebrated thirteen years of free knowledge contribution in June 2015. It was one of the first four Indic Wikipedias (Assamese, malayalam and Punjabi being the other three)to have started in 2002. The first edit on the Wikipedia was made on 3 June 2002. Currently the project has over 8,900 articles and about 17 active editors (also known as "uikiali"). The voluntary editor community has put its efforts into acquiring valuable content, re-licensing them under Creative Commons (CC) licenses, and building tools for acquiring more encyclopedic content from various sources. Odia Wikipedia community assessment survey June 2015. It gives an overview about the various hindrances for the growth of Odia Wikipedia and the community. During the thirteenth anniversary celebrations, the community came together to assess community needs, address issues that had been identified earlier via irc and mailing list discussions, and identify priority areas to focus on in the future. Odia Wikipedia administrators Mrutyunjaya Kar and Subhashish Panigrahi designed a needs assessment survey. (https://or.wikipedia.org/s/tnp) Participating Wikimedians were asked to discuss various problems they face in editing and outreach two major areas that ensures quality standards. . Two-fifths of participants said that problems with the rendering of Odia characters in different operating systems, ignorance or lack of more documentation about enabling encoding for Odia, input methods and keyboard layouts, and other font- and keyboard-related issues as the major reason for low readership and contribution on Wikipedia. . . .Read more in the Wikimedia blog at: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/08/21/odia-wikipedia-celebrates-13/ == Event organized/participated == (CIS-A2K events page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events) ⬤ Telugu Wikipedia edit-a-thon at Annamacharya library (http://cis-india.org/openness/events/rare-telugu-religious-and-historical-w… ): On 6 August a Telugu Wikipedia edit-a-thon was conducted at Annamacharya library to preserve rare Telugu literature text. Annamacharya library has a rare collection of the religious and historical works in Telugu language. This event was conducted by Telugu Wikipedia Community and the Centre for Internet & Society's Access To Knowledge program. The second iteration of the event was organized on 31 August. ⬤ Tamil Virtual University workshop (http://cis-india.org/openness/events/workshop-on-digital-collaborations-in-… ): On 8-9 August, a two-day long workshop on digital collaborations in Tamil-language was organized by Tamil Virtual University, Anna University Campus, Chennai. U.B.Pavanaja, on behalf of CIS-A2K, participated in this event. Four major topics discussed during the event were: Digitization, Research and Development, e-learning and Open source and Outreach. ⬤ SDM Ujire Kannada workshop: (http://cis-india.org/openness/events/kannada-wikipedia-workshop-at-shree-dh…) CIS-A2K has ongoing partnership with SDM College, Ujire. The college's academic year started on 12 August. It was followed by a one-day workshop where the students were introduced to editing in Kannada Wikipedia. The head of the journalism department of the College Bhaskar Shetty and others supported the event. ⬤ Tulu Wikipedia edit-a-thon at Mangalore (http://cis-india.org/openness/wikipedia-edit-a-thon-in-mangalore-to-bring-t… ): A three-day edit-a-thon was organized between 14-16 August in Mangalore for bringing good quality content in Tulu Wikipedia. This event, organized in collaboration with the Tulu Sahitya Academy and Ramakrishna Pre University College, saw 30 Wikipedia editors participating and creating about 89 new articles. 12 of these 30 participants crossed more than 10 edits. Some of the new participants faced problems with using the input methods and the Wiki-markup. It is important to note that because of the lack of addition of Tulu-alphabet code points in the Unicode chart, and the speakers being well conversant in Kannada, they are using Kannada script for Tulu Wikipedia Incubator project. There is a plan to organize a monthly meetup and/or edit-a-thon to continue the momentum these editors have brought in. ⬤ Kannada Wikipedia workshop at DSERT (http://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/edit-a-thon-to-improve-kannada-langu…): A Kannada Wikipedia workshop was organized between 18-20 August at the Department of State Educational Research and Training to improve science-related articles that are part of the Government of Karnataka's high school syllabus. During the workshop the lecturers were taught about the basics of Kannada Wikipedia, article editing policies, Kannada input, creating and editing articles on Kannada Wikipedia. U.B. Pavanaja and Tito Dutta from CIS-A2K conducted the workshop, behalf of CIS-A2K. === Sau Dhuni Teen project === ⬤ Wikipedia workshop in Pune (http://cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-workshop-in-theme-of-sou-dhu…: A Wikipedia workshop was organized at Srimati Savitribai Phule Pune University on 20 August 2015. Under the scope of “Sau Dhuni Teen” project, the workshop focused on building resources in Indian languages for women's studies on Wikipedia. ⬤ Wikipedia workshop in TISS, Mumbai: (http://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/sau-dhuni-teen-project-wikipedia-wor…) A two-day long and multilingual Wikipedia workshop was organized at the Women's Studies Department of Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai between 22-24 August. This was an outreach event conducted under the scope of the "Sau Dhuni Teen" project. == Blog posts == ⬤ Pavanaja, U. B. "Tulu Wikipedia edit-a-thon in Mangalore" (http://goo.gl/ZxJVnS) (18 August 2015) ⬤ Pavanaja, U. B. "Edit-a-thon to improve Kannada-language science-related Wikipedia articles" (http://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/edit-a-thon-to-improve-kannada-langu…) (19 August 2015) ⬤ Panigrahi, Subhashish. "Odia Wikisource has a new Wikisourcer, and he is the youngest in the Odia Wikimedia community!" (http://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/kisorachandrananachampu-on-odia-wiki…) (21 August 2015) == Media coverage == 1. ಬೆಳ್ತಂಗಡಿ:ಎಲ್ಲಾ ಕಾಲಕ್ಕೂ ಲಭ್ಯ ಇರುವ ಸ್ವತಂತ್ರ ಹಾಗೂ ಮುಕ್ತ ವಿಶ್ವಕೋಶ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಾ-ಪವನಜ (http://cis-india.org/openness/news/sahil-online-august-14-2015 ) SahilOnline; 14 August 2015 2. ಗ್ರಾಮೀಣ ಪ್ರದೇಶದ ಆರ್ಥಿಕ ಪ್ರಗತಿಯಿಂದ ದೇಶದ ಆರ್ಥಿಕ ಪ್ರಗತಿ ಸಾಧ್ಯವಾಗುತ್ತದೆ ( <http://cis-india.org/openness/news/mangalorean-dotcom-august-13-2015> http://cis-india.org/openness/news/mangalorean-dotcom-august-13-2015 ) Mangalorean.com; 13 August 2015 3. Telugu religious and historical work preserved at Annamacharya library to come on Wikisource! ( <http://www.thehansindia.com/posts/index/2015-08-07/Rare-Telugu-religious-an…> http://www.thehansindia.com/posts/index/2015-08-07/Rare-Telugu-religious-an… ) The Hans India; 7 August 2015 This newsletter is also available on Meta at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/August_2015

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Pratham Books' CC-powered Story Weaver Platform
by Gautam John 09 Sep '15

09 Sep '15

Hi all and sorry for cross-posting. Sharing this here because it's all openly licensed and because we'd be happy to see you all re-use the content and perhaps translate and remix stories too. I wanted to share this with you since it is Creative Commons powered and that we have talked about it in the past.. It launched yesterday. We'd be very grateful if you could share it with your local Wikipedia communities. https://storyweaver.org.in/ Blog post: http://blog.prathambooks.org/2015/09/the-future-is-open.html If we could have one wish, it would be this : Joyful reading material for all the 300 million children of India. So they could fall in love with reading, and discover new ideas, new thoughts, and eventually, have richer lives. In the past ten years, at Pratham Books <http://www.prathambooks.org/>, we’ve created inexpensive, but high quality storybooks and spread them across schools and libraries in every corner of the country. We reached millions of children, but we still had a long way to travel to reach each of those 300 million little minds. 2008 introduced us to two little letters that would change the way we worked. And brought us closer to that one wish. Those two letters were CC or Creative Commons <http://creativecommons.org/>. <http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZfRnvcPs1Lg/Ve2OvWSinXI/AAAAAAAAJh8/-0mMWoep-1s/s…> Creative Commons took conventional publishing wisdom of restrictive copyright and threw it to the wind. It meant that when we released our stories under this open license, we gave anyone the right to use, share or even build upon the creative work that we were licensing. It allowed our stories to travel to places that we couldn’t reach directly. It opened the doors to readers – of all ages, geographies, and nationalities. It’s how our stories found their way into newer languages, audio versions, YouTube videos, and digital apps. Its how a whole new multiplier effect got created. <http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-El88gCOo8xo/Ve2PC8dnvsI/AAAAAAAAJiE/ig5vSiGaMl4/s…> This led us to our brand new initiative, *StoryWeaver <https://storyweaver.org.in/>*, an open source platform of multilingual children’s stories. StoryWeaver is a window into this enchanting world of Open stories and images and languages. Open to parents. Open to educators. Open to other publishers. And, most importantly, *open to children!* Log onto *StoryWeaver* <https://storyweaver.org.in/> from a desktop computer, laptop, tablet or mobile phone. You can then read from a collection of 800 stories in 24 languages. You can create a new story from a bank of 2000 images. You can translate any of the stories into newer languages and share them with others. You can print and use the stories in the way that you want. And also connect with a community of content creators and readers. And this is just the beginning. We will continue to grow the repository through more participation and more collaboration with like-minded partners. Imagine a story written in English being translated into ladakhi, being read by children in Kashmir. And the same illustrations being used by a teacher in bihar to retell the story. And the same story being versioned into a play in assamese. The possibilities are endless. We believe that the joy of reading is the greatest gift of all. So we’re giving it – to the children of India, and the world. Not just for now, but for the future. We believe in Open! <http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-khcB170mbeo/Ve2PR3XtkSI/AAAAAAAAJiM/yKjsR78sUEA/s…> Thank you. Best, Gautam ________ http://prathambooks.org/

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Re: [Wikimedia-in-en] [Wikimediaindia-l] [CIS-A2K] July Newsletter
by Subhashish Panigrahi 22 Aug '15

22 Aug '15

Glad that you liked it, Ashwin. Looking forward to hear from you more about your activities there in Pune. :) best, Subha On 22-08-15 20:41, Ashwin Baindur wrote: > Subhashish, thanks for this detailed report. Wish I was there for some > of these interesting events. I'm in Pune now so hopefully, a little > more activity from my side will follow... > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > -- Best! Subhashish Panigrahi Programme Officer, Access To Knowledge Centre for Internet and Society @subhapa / https://cis-india.org

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[CIS-A2K] July Newsletter
by Subhashish Panigrahi 22 Aug '15

22 Aug '15

Dear all, CIS-A2K would like to share with you the newsletter for the month of July 2015. We look forward to hearing any feedback or input you might have. The Goan Konkani Wikipedia (available at gom.wikipedia.org) has gone live after spending nine long years in incubation. Konkani Wikipedia has many heroes, Melissa Simoes and Darshan Kandolkar are two of the many long-term contributors who joined Konkani Wikipedia during the Konkani Wikipedia @ Goa University program and are still active even after the program was formally concluded. Darshan is an Assistant Professor at the Government College Pernem in Goa. His professor at Goa University, Dr. Madhavi Sardesai—who passed away last year—played a vital role in inspiring him to pursue higher studies in Konkani. Darshan realized that there is a lot to be written in Konkani when he was introduced to Wikipedia, and after that, he became dedicated towards contributing to the project. The Konkani Wikimedia community has been using social media actively to promote the Konkani Wikipedia project, and to celebrate the successes of its contributors. After Melissa became the top contributor to the project, her fellow editor Luis Gomes congratulated her. That brought Melissa into the spotlight, gaining the attention of editors from the global Wikimedia community. The community is continuing a tradition to rewarding the most prolific contributor of each month as the "Wikipedian of the Month". More in the Wikimedia blog: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/07/15/konkani-wikipedia-goes-live/ == Event organized/participated == * Christ university Undergraduate program (July 1-8): Students were initiated into the Wikimedia activities with hands on sessions of typing on Wikisource. Faculty of the Christ University helped the A2K team in deciding on the texts that were to be typed. These texts will provide much needed impetus for Wikisource related activities in Indian Languages. Wikipedia Education Programme at Christ University received support from Ravishankar.A of the Tamil Wikimedia community and Sayant Mahato from Sanskrit Wikimedia community. * St. Aloyisius college, Mangalore (July 4-5): Tulu and Kannada Wikipedia workshops were conducted in St. Aloysis College, Mangalore. Tulu Wikipedia is in Incubator and a small community is growing in Mangalore. Pavanaja U.B. and Rahmanuddin Shaik participated in this events. * MediaWiki Train the Trainer Program2015 A four-day long train-the-trainer program aimed at building leadership among technical contributors to Indic language Wikimedians in the areas of bugs, bots--Pywikipedia and Auto Wiki Browser, various MediaWiki tools, and translations. This program was organized during June 24-27 by CIS-A2K with support from Ravishankar.A from Wikimedia India, MediaWiki developers Pavithra H., Yogesh Omshivaprakash H.L. and Harsh Kothari, and Tamil Wikimedian Dineshkumar Ponnusamy. * Wikimania 2015, Mexico City: ** Learning Day (15 July 2015): A whole day dedicated for evaluation of strategies and activities by various major stakeholders of the Wikimedia movement; community members who lead major activities, Wikimedia chapters, affiliate organizations and Wikimedia Foundation itself. There were several group activities, exchange of ideas focused on project and community level outreach and other activities, tools and techniques, and best practices. Subhashish Panigrahi participated in this event. ** Talk on Guerrilla GLAM: Subhashish presented about doing GLAM the guerrilla way--by sharing many frugal practices, and ways around acquiring cultural content to enrich Wikipedia and Wikipedia's sister projects where the conventional GLAM partnerships do not fetch much success. * * Panel discussion "Edit-a-thons for bridging the gender gap on Wikimedia: A panel discussion centered around using edit-a-thons as an outreach tool among women, measuring its impact and comparing it with other modes of outreach. Subhashish along with Malayalam Wikimedian Netha Hussain as moderator, and other fellow Wikimedians in the panel Rohini Lakshane, Emily Temple-Wood, Siko Bouterse (WMF) and Heather Walls participated in the discussion. ** Indic meetup: During Wikimania, an Indic meetup was organized where Wikimedians from India, Bangladesh and Nepal representing various language communities, Wikimedia India, Wikimedia Bangladesh, Wikimedia Nepal, and Access To Knowledge (CIS-A2K) gathered to discuss about various challenges, cross-community collaborative projects, organizing larger events, and strategies to grow the Wikimedia movement in South Asia. * "Classical Languages In The Digital Era" conference, Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore (Participated by Tanveer Hasan on 17 July 2015): Organized by Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL), Mysore this conference was aimed at discussing about the future of Indian classical languages in the digital era. Classical languages that are more of confined within the print media have to find their way out to reach to masses using the digital media. Linguists, researchers and scholars representing various Indian languages gathered at CIIL where Tanveer Hasan from CIS-A2K participated. * Hackathon at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay (28 June 2015) Around 35 students (25 male and 10 female) and interns together from IIT Bombay participated in a hackathon organized in the institution by the Wikimedia community led by Santosh Singare and Rahul Deshmukh. Rahimanuddin Shaik from CIS-A2K delivered a presentation on Wikidata and bots and Abhinav Garule supported in organizing the event. The students formed groups and worked on brainstorming about different bots. * Odia Wikipedia Turning 13 this June 3 (Organized by the Odia Wikipedia Community and supported by CIS-A2K; Institute of Physics, Sachivalaya Marg, Sainik School PO, Gajapati Nagar, Bhubaneswar, Odisha; June 3, 2015): The Odia Wikipedia turned 13 on June 3. The community gathered in Odisha's capital city Bhubaneswar for a day to celebrate this day. During the thirteenth anniversary celebrations, the community had a day long session to assess community needs, address issues, and identify priority areas to focus on for the future. A legacy encoding → Unicodeencoding converter was released publicly during the event. This 'encoding converter' is a community project led by Wikimedians Jnanaranjan Sahu and Manoj Sahukar and converts the encoding systems used by Odia newspapers, the Odisha government websites and many publications into Unicode. == Blogs == * Panigrahi, Subhashish. Konkani Wikipedia Goes Live After 'Nine Years' of Incubation (July 18, 2015) * Patnaik, Sailesh. Odia Wikipedia meets Google Developer Group * Hasan, Tanveer. Magic words (29 July 2015) * Hasan, Tanveer. Train the Trainer: Running effective outreach activities in India (30 July 2015) == Team updates == Tito Dutta, Luis Gomes and Abhinav Garule have joined the CIS-A2K team as Programme Associates from March this year. Tito will be working for internal documentation and resource building, and Luis and Abhinav will be implementing the Konkani and Marathi work plan respectively along with community liaison. Communications: * Twitter: https://twitter.com/CISA2K * Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CISA2K * Visit us at: https://cis-india.org This newsletter is also available on Meta at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/July_2015 -- Best! Subhashish Panigrahi Programme Officer, Access To Knowledge Centre for Internet and Society @subhapa / https://cis-india.org

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Tag & Assess 2014 is officially over!
by Ashwin Baindur 13 Jun '15

13 Jun '15

Great news! The second article assessment drive has been completed and Tag & Assess 2014 is officially over. Kudos to the handful of editors who participated to the best of their abilities to make this happen - (alphabetically) - Cesdeva (talk), Kautilya3 (talk), Ninney (talk), OccultZone (talk), Titodutta (talk), Ugog Nizdast (talk) & VasuVR (talk). We are also grateful to all those editors who contributed anonymously to this drive. Though it took months, we persisted & we got it done. Der aaye, durust aaye! goes an old Indian saying (never mind the lateness of a safe return)! It is hard work & not quite cool to do assessments, but these guys did it! All these editors have earned well-deserved barnstars & some have won medals or awards. A special mention goes to the top three contributors - VasuVR, Ugog Nizdast & Ninney. Congrats guys. We request the community participate more widely in these essential maintenance tasks about the WikiProject that we love so much - WikiProject India! AshLin (talk) 8:30 pm, Today (UTC+5.5) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_India/Assessment/Tag_%2… -- Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur ------------------------------------------------------

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MediaWikiTTT-2015
by Dr.U.B. Pavanaja 10 Jun '15

10 Jun '15

Dear Wikimedians, It gives WMIN and CIS-A2K great pleasure to announce that we have started preparations for MediaWiki Train the Trainer Program. It is a matter of grave concern that while the Indian Language Wikipedias are slowly improving their content and expanding their volunteer base, there is very less and often zero representation from the Indian Language Communities towards MediaWiki software and the available tools around. CIS-A2K intends to bridge this gap by creating and grooming 'tech' leaders in the MediaWiki sphere from the existing Indian Language Wikipedians. MediaWiki Train the Trainer program aims to facilitate discussions around nurturing leadership regarding tech related issues, file bugs that hinder the growth of Indian Language Wikipedias, active contribution towards improving the existing MediaWiki software and understanding the importance of mediating technology for outreach activities. The 4 day residential event will happen in last week of June, 2015. Exact dates and venue will be announced soon. We welcome specific issues that should be discussed during the MWTTT as well as feedback and suggestions. Please write to us if there are any concerns. The event page : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/Mediawiki_Train_the_Trainer_P rogram Thanks and regards, Pavanaja ---------------------------------------------------- U.B. Pavanaja, MSc, PhD Programme Manager <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pavanaja> - Indian languages, Access to Knowledge program The Centre for Internet & Society

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Better communication channels
by Akshay Agrawal 03 May '15

03 May '15

Hi Guys,I was just wondering if if it would acceptable to all to form a Facebook group or some other form of non-email interaction to help us communicate faster and allow us to contribute more of our time to article write and other related activities than checking our mail. Im sorry if there is already some channel and i am unaware of it. Please let me know if it is so. If you agree, please join this interim group created on facebook so that we can discuss and form the appropriate communication channelshttps://www.facebook.com/groups/700702266740422/ Cheers.Akshay Agrawalkooldudeakshay(a)Yahoo.in

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Good Bye as CIS-A2K Program Director
by Vishnu T 30 Apr '15

30 Apr '15

Dear Wikimedians, This is my last day as the CIS-A2K Program Director. The last 2 years and 3 months have been immensely exciting with tons of learning and work! I have loved meeting many Wikimedians, face to face, across the length and breadth of India. The interactions I had with many of you have been immensely useful to my learning. The diversity of our community and the Wikimedia projects in India is so rich and intricate - I wish I could map out my entire set of impressions to only give a slight glimpse of it!! Signing off as the Program Director for now. See you on-wiki, here on the lists and in real life whenever our paths cross. A quick update: The next A2K Program Director selection is under process and hopefully we should all be able to welcome the new incumbent in June, 2015. Until then the A2K team is being internally monitored by CIS leadership. Best wishes, Vishnu

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