Dear all,
Apologies for the delay in sharing the monthly bulletin. Below is the
details of the activities by Centre for Internet and Society's Access To
Knowledge program (CIS-A2K).
University of Mysore Re-releases Kannada Vishwakosha (Encyclopaedia) under
Creative Commons Free License
<http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/university-of-mysore-releases-kannada-vi…>
The University of Mysore and the Centre for Internet and Society
co-organized the Open Knowledge Day in Mysore on July 15, 2014. On this
occasion Mysore University released six volumes of Kannada Vishwakosha
under the Creative Commons (CC) license. Kannada Vishwakosha brought out by
the University of Mysore <http://www.uni-mysore.ac.in/> can easily be
termed as the best encyclopaedia in Kannada. It has been modelled after the
famous Britannica encyclopaedia. Mysore University Vishwakosha has 14
volumes having a total of 13802 pages. The very first volume was brought
out in the year 1969 and the final volume was released in 2004. Many famous
Kannada authors, scientists, academicians and stalwarts from other fields
have worked on creating this encyclopaedia.
Leading English and Kannada dailies like Andolana Kannada, City Today,
Deccan Herald, Hosa Diganta, Kannada Jana Mana, Kannada Prabha, Rajya
Dharma, Samyukta Karnataka, The Hindu, The New Indian Express, Udayavani,
Vijaya Karnataka, and Vijaya Vani published about this. Scanned versions of
the published articles can be downloaded from:
http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/open-knowledge-day-mysore-media-coverage…
AnnouncementOur grant application to the Funds Dissemination Committee
(FDC) of the Wikimedia Foundation was approved by its board which met in
Frankfurt from May 21 to 24, 2014. CIS had requested a grant of Rs.
18,406,454 and were awarded Rs. 12,000,000
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/FDC_recommendations/2013-2014_ro…>
for the next one year.
Articles / Blog Entries
1. Aircel & Wikimedia Foundation announce Wikipedia Zero
<http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/prajavani-july-3-2014-article-on-wikiped…>
(by Dr. U.B.Pavanaja, Prajavani, July 3, 2014). As per this, users of
Aircel need not pay for data for accessing Wikipedia.
2. ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଅକ୍ଷରସଜ୍ଜା
<http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/article-on-akruti-unicode-converter-in-s…>
(by Subhashish Panigrahi, Samaja, July 4, 2014).
3. State of Odia Language in Computing and Future Steps
<http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/state-of-odia-language-in-computing-and-…>
(by Subhashish Panigrahi, Sovereign for national Level Seminar on "Computer
Application and Odia Language", July 7, 2014).
4. ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷା ବିକାଶର ରାସ୍ତା
<http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/sambad-july-21-2014-paths-for-developmen…>
(by Subhashish Panigrahi, The Sambad, July 23, 2014).
5. Wiki Loves Pride 2014 and Adding Diversity to Wikipedia
<http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/wikimedia-blog-dorothy-howard-wiki-loves…>
(by Dorothy Howard, Wikimedia Blog, July 25, 2014).
6. Doctors and Translators Are Working Together to Bridge Wikipedia's
Medical Language Gap
<http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/global-voices-subhashish-panigrahi-july-…>
(by Subhashish Panigrahi, Global Voices, July 27, 2014). This was
re-published
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/07/30/doctors-working-to-bridge-wikipedias-…>
on the Wikimedia Blog, July 30, 2014.
7. Classical Odia Language in the Digital Age
<http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/odisha-review-june-2014-classical-odia-l…>
(by Subhashish Panigrahi, Odisha Review, posted on July 28, 2014). The
essay was published in the magazine’s June edition.
Event Organized
1. Open Knowledge Day
<http://cis-india.org/openness/events/open-knowledge-day-mysore>
(co-organized by Mysore University and CIS-A2K, Kuvempu Institute of
Kannada Studies, University of Mysore, July 15, 2014). The event coincided
with the Open Knowledge Festival in Berlin from July 15 to 17. Dr.
U.B.Pavanaja conducted the event.
2. Wikipedia orientation for Christ University UG students, Bangalore
Participation in Events
1. National Level Seminar on Computer Application and Odia Language
<http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/state-of-odia-language-in-computing-and-…>
(organized by Institute of Odia Studies and Research, July 6, 2014).
Subhashish Panigrahi was a panelist.
2. Open Knowledge Festival 2014
<http://cis-india.org/news/ok-festival-2014> (organized by Google,
Omidyar, et.al., Berlin, July 15 – 17, 2014). Subhashish Panigrahi
represented India as the India Ambassador of OpenGLAM local and made a
presentation.
3. # NAMA: The Future of Indic Languages
<http://cis-india.org/news/nama-the-future-of-indic-languages>
(organized by Medianama, The Oberoi Hotel, Bangalore, July 24, 2014).
Subhashish Panigrahi participated in the event.
4. Kannada Wikipedia Presentation for Kannada Science Writers (organized
by Karnataka Rajya Vijnana Parishath at PDA College of Engineering,
Gulbarga, July 29, 2014). Dr. U.B. Pavanaja gave the presentation and demo.
Thirty-two participants attended the workshop.
5. Kannada Wikipedia Presentation for Students and Research Scholars
(organized by Central University of Karnataka, Gulbarga, July 30, 2014).
Dr. U. B. Pavanaja gave the presentation and demo. 37 participants attended
the presentation.
6. Talk about Kannada Wikipedia (organized by District Kannada Sahithya
Parishath, S.M. Pandit Auditorium, Gulbarga, July 30, 2014). Dr. U.B.
Pavanaja gave a talk as inaugurator of the first session of the Jilla
Sahithya Sammelana (district literary festival). About 600 people attended
this talk.
News and Media CoverageCIS-A2K team gave its inputs to the following media
coverage:
1. Wikipedia edit-a-thons to add content on LGBTs
<http://cis-india.org/news/the-hindu-july-7-2014-renuka-phadnis-wikipedia-ed…>
(by Renuka Phadnis, The Hindu, July 7, 2014).
2. Font problem hits Odia
<http://cis-india.org/news/the-telegraph-july-7-2014-bibhuti-barik-font-prob…>
(by Bibhuti Barik, The Telegraph, July 7, 2014).
3. Four volumes of Kannada Encyclopaedia digitised
<http://cis-india.org/news/the-hindu-july-12-2014-r-krishna-kumar-four-volum…>
(by R. Krishna Kumar, The Hindu, July 12, 2014).
4. ‘ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಶ್ವಕೋಶ’ಕ್ಕೆ ಇನ್ನು ಲೈಸೆನ್ಸ್ ಹಂಗಿಲ್ಲ
<http://cis-india.org/news/prajavani-july-14-2014-four-volumes-of-kannada-en…>
(Prajavani, July 14, 2014).
5. Soon, all 14 volumes of Kannada encyclopaedia to be online
<http://cis-india.org/news/the-hindu-july-15-2014-r-krishna-kumar-soon-all-1…>
(by R. Krishna Kumar, The Hindu, July 15, 2014).
6. ವಿಕಿಪಿಡಿಯಾಗೆ ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಶ್ವಕೋಶ
<http://cis-india.org/news/kannada-prabha-july-15-2014-coverage-of-open-know…>
(Kannada Prabha, July 15, 2014).
7. ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಶ್ವಕೋಶದ ಆರು ಸಂಪುಟ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಾಗೆ
<http://cis-india.org/news/udayavani-july-15-2014-mysore-university-event-co…>
(Udayavani, July 15, 2014).
8. ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಾದಲ್ಲಿ kannada ವಿಶ್ವಕೋಶ : ಈಗ ಆನ್ ಲೈನ್ ನಲ್ಲಿ 6 ಸಂಪುಟಗಳು
ಮುಕ್ತ…ಮುಕ್ತ……
<http://cis-india.org/news/just-kannada-july-15-2014-wikipedia-kannada-vishw…>(Just
Kannada, July 15, 2014).
9. Six Kannada encyclopaedias released
<http://cis-india.org/news/web-india-123-july-15-2014-six-kannada-encyclopae…>
(Webindia 123, July 15, 2014).
10. 150 Rare Books Get New Lease of Life Online, Courtesy Students
<http://cis-india.org/news/new-indian-express-july-15-2014-anila-backer-150-…>
(by Anila Backer, New Indian Express, July 15, 2014).
11. Open Access: Students help revive and digitize rare books for
Malayalam Wiki Library
<http://cis-india.org/news/spicy-ip-swaraj-paul-barooah-july-15-2014-open-ac…>
(Spicy IP, July 15, 2014).
12. 'Trolled' from US Congress, Wikipedia bans edits
<http://cis-india.org/news/the-hindu-narayan-lakshman-july-25-2014-trolled-f…>
(by Narayan Lakshman, The Hindu, July 25, 2014).
13. Telugu Wikipedia struggles to stay afloat
<http://cis-india.org/news/the-hindu-july-27-2014-renuka-phadnis-telugu-wiki…>
(by Renuka Phadnis, The Hindu, July 27, 2014).
14. The joys of being a Wikipedian
<http://cis-india.org/news/new-indian-express-july-29-2014-svetlana-lasrado>
(by Svetlana Lasrado, New Indian Express, July 29, 2014).
15. Kannada Wikipedia Presentation
<http://cis-india.org/news/kannada-wikipedia-presentation-vijayavani-coverage>
(Vijayavani, July 30, 2014).
16. Kannada Wikipedia Presentation for Kannada Science Writers
<http://cis-india.org/news/kannada-wikipedia-presentation-prajavani-coverage>
(Prajavani, July 31, 2014).
Wikimedia Foundation has funded A2K to anchor the growth of Wikimedia
movement in India. The A2K team consists of six members, four based in
Bangalore: T. Vishnu Vardhan, Dr. U.B. Pavanaja, Subhashish Panigrahi and
Rahmanuddin Shaikh. One team member Nitika Tandon is based in Delhi. We
also have one Advisor Dr. Tejaswini Niranjana working with us. Archives of
our newsletters can be accessed here
<http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters>. Wikipedians from various
communities can request for outreach programs, technical bugs,
logistics-merchandize and media, public relations and communications here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Requests>.
About CISThe Centre for Internet and Society is a non-profit research
organization that works on policy issues relating to freedom of expression,
privacy, accessibility for persons with disabilities, access to knowledge
and IPR reform, and openness (including open government, FOSS, open
standards, etc.), and engages in academic research on digital natives and
digital humanities.
Follow us elsewhere
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/CISA2K
- CIS group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/cis.india
- Visit us at: https://cis-india.org
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 or Nishant Shah, Director – Research, at
nishant(a)cis-india.org. To discuss collaborations on Indic language
wikipedia, write to T. Vishnu Vardhan, Programme Director, A2K, at
vishnu(a)cis-india.org.
CIS is grateful to its primary donor the Kusuma Trust founded by Anurag
Dikshit and Soma Pujari, philanthropists of Indian origin for its core
funding and support for most of its projects. CIS is also grateful to its
other donors, Wikimedia Foundation, Ford Foundation, Privacy International,
UK, Hans Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, and IDRC for funding its various
projects.
This bulletin is also available on Meta-Wiki at:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_to_Knowledge/Newsletter/July_2…
Thank you all for your kind support and collaboration!
Subha
Access To Knowledge
Centre for Internet and Society
@psubhashish
The below mail FYI. Hope to see active participation from the Wikimedia
community. This is a good opportunity for all of us to come up with a
shared vision for the Wikimedia movement's growth in India.
Best,
Vishnu
-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] IMPORTANT: Future of work in India -- a
community consultation in Bangalore
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 20:50:36 -0700
From: Asaf Bartov <abartov(a)wikimedia.org>
Reply-To: Wikimedia India Community list
<wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
To: Wikimedia India Community list <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Dear fellow Wikimedians,
(this is important and a rare opportunity -- please do take a few
moments to read.)
I would like to draw your attention to a major piece of news:
The Wikimedia Foundation is convening a community consultation on the
future of Wikimedia work in India, to be held in October in Bangalore,
with significant representation from across India, the different
projects, and the different language communities.
Please see the following page on Meta for details, context, and to begin
discussion the delegates you would like to see participating. All costs
will be borne by the Foundation.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Community_Consultation_2014
Let's try and keep discussion on the talk page of that page on Meta, so
everyone can follow, even people not on this list.
Also, your help in forward this widely, translating as necessary, etc.,
would be MUCH appreciated. Again, this is an important opportunity, and
we need to ensure we get every community's attention.
I look forward to this conversation very much!
Asaf
--
Asaf Bartov
Wikimedia Foundation <http://www.wikimediafoundation.org>
Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share
in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!
https://donate.wikimedia.org
Dear all,
We from the Centre for Internet and Society's Access To Knowledge (CIS-A2K)
thank you all for your support and collaboration. Below is the details of
our work for the month of June:
Telugu Books Re-release Under Creative Commons License
Ten Telugu Books Re-released Under CC-BY-SA 3.0 License
<http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/ten-telugu-books-re-released-under-cc-by…>
(by Rahmanuddin Shaik, June 22, 2014). For the first time in the history of
Indian books, 10 Telugu books by a single author were released under
Creative Commons license (CC-BY-SA 3.0) on June 22, 2014 at 10 a.m. at
Golden Threshold, Abids, Hyderabad.
CIS-A2K has collaborated with Telugu Wikipedians in convincing Indu Gnaana
Vedika to re-release 10 of their books under CC-BY-SA 3.0 license which is
compatible with Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. Unlike the
predominant digitization efforts (which only makes scanned images
available), these books will be uploaded on Telugu Wikisource
<http://www.te.wikisource.org/> and converted into Unicode (searchable)
text. This will ensure that these books are freely read, both online and
offline in various formats like PDF, epub, mobi, text, etc. This is a major
milestone initiative by CIS-A2K to make the sum of all knowledge in Telugu
freely available to all Telugus over the internet and is part of its Telugu
language area plan
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Draft_Work_plan_J…>
.
Article
1. This Twitter Account Puts a Face to the Unsung Volunteer Editors
Behind Wikipedia
<http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/global-voices-online-june-18-2014-subhas…>
(by Subhashish Panigrahi, Global Voices, June 18, 2014).
Blog Entries
1. Twitter weekly Curation WeAreWikipedia brings one Wikipedian
<http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/twitter-weekly-curation-wearewikipedia-b…>
Every Week (by Diptiman Panigrahi, June 16, 2014).
2. Odia Language gets a new Unicode Font Converter
<http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/odia-language-gets-new-unicode-font-conv…>
(by Subhashish Panigrahi, June 20, 2014).
Events Organized
1. Kannada Wikipedia Workshop for Kannada Book Lovers
<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Kannada_Wikipedia_workshop_for_K…>
(co-organized by Navakarnataka Publications, Bangalore, June 4, 2014). Dr.
U.B.Pavanaja conducted the workshop.
2. Knowledge and Openness in the Digital Era
<http://cis-india.org/openness/events/knowledge-and-openness-in-digital-era>
(co-organized by Andhra Loyola College and CIS, Vijaywada, June 24-25,
2014).
News and Media Coverage
CIS gave its inputs to the following media coverage:
1. Knowledge and Openness in the Digital Era: Coverage in Sakshi
<http://cis-india.org/news/coverage-of-event-in-vijaywada-june-25-2014-sakshi>
(June 25, 2014).
2. Knowledge and Openness in the Digital Era: Coverage in Enadu
<http://cis-india.org/news/eenadu-june-25-2014-coverage-of-vijaywada-event>
(June 25, 2014).
3. Loyola Faculty Enlightened About Open Edn Resources
<http://cis-india.org/news/the-new-indian-express-june-25-2014-loyola-facult…>
(The New Indian Express, June 25, 2014).
Wikimedia Foundation has funded A2K to anchor the growth of Wikimedia
movement in India. The A2K team consists of six members, four based in
Bangalore: T. Vishnu Vardhan, Dr. U.B. Pavanaja, Subhashish Panigrahi and
Rahmanuddin Shaikh. One team member Nitika Tandon is based in Delhi. We
also have one Advisor Dr. Tejaswini Niranjana working with us. Archives of
our newsletters can be accessed here
<http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters>. Wikipedians from various
communities can request for outreach programs, technical bugs,
logistics-merchandize and media, public relations and communications here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Requests>.
About CIS
The Centre for Internet and Society is a non-profit research organization
that works on policy issues relating to freedom of expression, privacy,
accessibility for persons with disabilities, access to knowledge and IPR
reform, and openness (including open government, FOSS, open standards,
etc.), and engages in academic research on digital natives and digital
humanities.
Follow us elsewhere
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/CISA2K
- CIS group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/cis.india
- Visit us at: https://cis-india.org
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 or Nishant Shah, Director – Research, at
nishant(a)cis-india.org. To discuss collaborations on Indic language
wikipedia, write to T. Vishnu Vardhan, Programme Director, A2K, at
vishnu(a)cis-india.org.
CIS is grateful to its primary donor the Kusuma Trust founded by Anurag
Dikshit and Soma Pujari, philanthropists of Indian origin for its core
funding and support for most of its projects. CIS is also grateful to its
other donors, Wikimedia Foundation, Ford Foundation, Privacy International,
UK, Hans Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, and IDRC for funding its various
projects.
The same newsletter is available on Meta at:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_to_Knowledge/Newsletter/June_2…
--
Best!
Subhashish Panigrahi
Programme Officer, Access To Knowledge
Centre for Internet and Society
@psubhashish
Dear Wikimedians,
Wiki Loves Pride is a global campaign to expand and improve LGBT-related
content across several Wikimedia projects [1]. We invite you to
participate in a two-week long edit-a-thon to help improve Wikipedia's
coverage of India relevant LGBT-related content. The edit-a-thon will
lead up to offline events on *Saturday, July 19, 2014 in Bangalore and
Delhi* [2]. You are welcome to join the offline events.
The event aims at creating new articles, expanding the existing stubs
and translating English articles to various Indian languages with a
focus on LGBT Rights, Culture and History in India. Please feel free to
chip in with ideas, articles and activities on the event page on Meta [3].
Everyone is welcome to join the event as enthusiasts, editors,
translators, bloggers or event managers. Start by signing up as a
participant [4].
Best,
Vishnu
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Loves_Pride
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Events/Wiki_Loves…
[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Events/Wiki_Loves…
[4]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Events/Wiki_Loves…
Dear all,
A complaint about this page first surfaced on the feministsindia list on
Saturday; Rohini and I are both members of this list. I've been cleaning
the article in bits and pieces this week, but there's still much work ahead.
Do see the article on it that was posted on Kafila.org just now:
http://kafila.org/2014/06/27/wikipedia-bhanwari-devi-and-the-need-for-an-al…
(Also posted to wikimedians working on india-related content in english
list)
Best
Bishakha
Dear Wikimedians,
The Wikipedia Library has new, free research account signups available for
variuos sources across disciplines. Please see the below.
Best,
Vishnu
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jake Orlowitz <jorlowitz(a)gmail.com>
Date: Friday, 20 June 2014
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] The Wikipedia Library: New Free Accounts Available
To: Wikimedia & Libraries <Libraries(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, North American
Cultural Partnerships <glam-us(a)lists.wikimedia.org>,
cultural-partners(a)wikimedia.ch, wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
The Wikipedia Library has new, free research account signups available:
New
* British Newspaper Archive <http://enwp.org/WP:BNA> (50 accounts)
* Keesing's World News Archive <http://enwp.org/WP:Keesings> (25 accounts)
Expanded
* Credo Reference <http://enwp.org/WP:CREDO> (200 new accounts)
* JSTOR!! <http://enwp.org/WP:JSTOR> (400 new accounts).
Medical
* BMJ <http://enwp.org/WP:BMJ> (25 accounts)
* Cochrane Library <http://enwp.org/WP:Cochrane> (100 accounts)
Other
*Questia Online Library <http://enwp.org/WP:Questia (500 accounts)
*HighBeam Research <http://enwp.org/WP:HighBeam (500 accounts)
Sign up!
Accounts are available to ALL global editors with a 1 year old account and
1000 edits. Please notify your local community about the signups. You can
signup today on English Wikipedia. But! If you have started a local
Wikipedia Library branch you can host signups on your local Wiki (Arabic,
Chinese...). To set up a Wikipedia Library branch email Ocaasi at
jorlowitz(a)gmail.com.
Thanks!
Jake Orlowitz (Ocaasi)
The Wikipedia Library
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library>
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