Dear all,
We are excited to share that Tanveer Hasan A.K. has joined CIS-A2K as the
Programme Officer (Institutional Partnerships). We thank all the
Wikimedians from various Indian language communities and Wikimedia India
Chapter EC for taking part in the hiring process. [1]
Tanveer, has been working in the Higher Education sector for the past 3
years and is interested in analyzing the policy framework and its impacts
with particular emphasis on linguistic policies. He is committed to the
cause of spreading and cultivating the Free and Open Knowledge movement in
Indian Languages. He is also interested in the questions of language,
competence and social justice and would like to understand them through his
present engagement at CIS-A2K.
Please join us in congratulating him and wishing him success in his new
role.
Note:
1. http://cis-india.org/jobs/programme-officer-institutional-partnership
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Best!
Subhashish Panigrahi
Programme Officer, Access To Knowledge
Centre for Internet and Society
@psubhashish
Dear all,
Our sincere apologies for the delayed posts. Below are the newsletters for
the months of October and November 2014.
OCTOBER
Odia Wikisource goes live!
After a long wait of the project in incubation, Odia Wikisource (
https://or.wikisource.org) went live on October 20. Centre for Internet and
Society's Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) congratulates all the
wikilibrarians whose persistent effort for bringing new contributors and
digitizing books made this happen. CIS-A2K is also honored to be
instrumental for bringing about more than 40 books relicensed under
Creative Commons Share-Alike (CC-by-SA 4.0) license by reaching out to
authors and copyright holders. The first Odia Wikipedia campus program at
Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS) was implemented where 43
students under the guidance of 9 faculty were trained to digitize books of
iconic Odia author Dr Jagannath Mohanty that were relicensed earlier this
year. Collaboration with Wikimedians Manoj Sahukar and Shitikantha Dash has
resulted encoding converters that convert other encoding to Unicode. This
has helped to bring new wikilibrarians to digitize Odia classic "Odia
Bhagabata" on Wikisource.
Blogs:
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*Subha*
Dear all,
As many of you may know Bengali Wikipedia completed 10 Years on March 2014.
To celebrate this historic milestone the Bengali Wikimedia Community has
planned to meet over for two days Bengali Wikipedia 10th Anniversary
Celebration Conference during January 9 and 10, 2015 in Kolkata. We have
also undertaken a series of On-Wiki and Off-Wiki activities. It will the
gathering of users of two nation ( India & Bangladesh) and well wishers of
Bengali Wikimedia projects. Please click here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/BN10> to go to the official page to see
more details. .
This conference is our first attempt to invite and host selected members
from other Indian Wikipedia communities. We are planning to invite our
friends and well-wishers from most of all active Indic language wiki
communities in India to this most auspicious occasion hosted by Bengali
Wikimedia community! We are also planning to arrange few 30 scholarships
for non-Bengali Indic Wikimedians who are interested in participating in
this event. With all these, we expect coming year’s conference shall
become the largest outreach program any Indian wiki community have ever
attempted.
As a part of Conference, we are organizing edit-a-thons, a conference of
students interested in Wikimedia projects, a meetup of youth interested in
Wikimedia projects, photography contest and Workshop/Hackathon.
We cordially invite you to participate in Conference to share your
experiences, to connect with your peers and create partnerships thereby
strengthening the Indian Wikimedia community.
To participate in Conference, please register here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bengali%20Wikipedia%2010th%20Anniversary%20…>
To participate in Conference as a speaker please submit your paper here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bengali_Wikipedia_10th_Anniversary_Celebrat…>
.
To participate Photography Contest , click here
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Bangla_Wikipedia_Photography_Con…>
Looking forward to meeting you in Kolkata from 9-10 January, 2015!
On behalf of Bengali Wikimedia Community,
Jayanta Nath
User: jayantanth on Wikimedia projects
Dear Editors,
Please vote for your choice of article for WikiProject India Collaboration
of the Month. You may place your own nomination to the list if you choose.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_India/Collaborations_of…
Last date 25 November 2014
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Warm regards,
User:AshLin
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