Dear all,
We from the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS-A2K) thank you all for your support and collaboration and wish you a very Happy New Year. We bring you the details of our work for the month of January 2014:
CIS-A2K, KIIT University and Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences sign MoUs
KIIT University, Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences and the Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) have entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoUs) for furthering Odia Wikipedia. Dr.Achyuta Samanta, Founder-Chairman of KIIT and KISS inaugurated both the collaborations formally. Dr. Sasmitarani Samanta, Registrar, KIIT and Surjya Kanta Mohanty, Chief Operating Officer, KISS signed the MoUs of KIIT and KISS respectively whereas T. Vishnuvardhan, Programme Director, CIS-A2K was there to sign in both the MoUs on behalf of CIS along with Subhashish Panigrahi, Programme Officer, CIS-A2K: http://bit.ly/1j1qtFv.
Article
Odia Wikipedia: Three Years of Active Contributions Gives Life to a Ten Year Old Project (by Subhashish Panigrahi, HASTAC, January 31, 2014): http://bit.ly/1jvxD8r.
WikiSangamotsavam 2013 brings Indian Wikimedians together (by Netha Hussain and Subhashish Panigrahi, DNA, January 14, 2014). The article was edited by Rohini Lakshane: http://bit.ly/1jvynKP.
Blog Entries
Wikipedia Editing as Assessment Tool in the Indian Higher Education Classroom (by Dr. Tejaswini Niranjana, Ashwin Kumar A.P. and T. Vishnu Vardhan, January 30, 2014): http://bit.ly/1m5QHMD.
Wikipedia at Forefront in Christ University (by Syed Muzamiluddin, January 29, 2014): http://bit.ly/LTFA8E.
Events Organised
Odia WikiMeetup (Bhubaneswar, January 11, 2014): http://bit.ly/NBkFJi.
Introductory talk about "Wikipedia in Academics" (KIIT School of Technology, Bhubaneswar, January 12, 2014): http://bit.ly/1j1yv1f.
Wikipedia Editing Demonstration at NIE (Nirmala Institue of Education, Goa, January 15, 2014): http://bit.ly/1fmYkKK
Odia Wikipedia's 10th anniversary @ KISS (Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences, Bhubaneswar, January 28, 2014): http://bit.ly/1gsqkJC.
Odia Wikipedia 10th anniversary (Indian Institute of Mass Communication, Dhenkanal, January 29, 2014): http://bit.ly/1dGRBoy.
Event Participated In
The Dynamics of Education to Employment Journey: Opportunities and Challenges (organized by KIIT School of Management, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, February 21-22, 2014). T. Vishnu Vardhan gave a talk: http://bit.ly/1ePwqHc.
Media Coverage
CIS gave its inputs for the following media coverage:
Digitising contest to preserve rare books in Malayalam (The Hindu, January 4, 2014): http://bit.ly/NBtVgz.
‘With Internet in every pocket, power to the people’ (by Shubhadeep Chaudhury, The Tribune, January 12, 2014): http://bit.ly/1ojb1IZ. Shubhadeep interviews T. Vishnu Vardhan on internet and social media.
ଆଦିବାସୀ ଭାଷାର ଉନ୍ନତିକଳ୍ପେ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ (Odishan.com, January 12, 2014): http://bit.ly/1kAWJmG.
KIIT University to lead building free knowledge repository initiative (India Education Diary.com, January 20, 2014): http://bit.ly/1j1Rzwk.
Odisha: KISS to create tribal languages and heritage repository (Odisha Diary Bureau, January 20, 2014): http://bit.ly/1bLBhmB.
FDC recognition for the Centre for the Internet and Society (Wikimedia Foundation, January 30, 2014): http://bit.ly/1fYdxOz. Wikimedia Foundation published a resolution declaring CIS eligible for funding through the Annual Plan Grants program.
Tech-savvy students given tips to enter IT field (The Times of India, January 31, 2014): http://bit.ly/1j1QvIX.
Odia Wikipedia (Sanchar, January 31, 2014): http://bit.ly/1ePwAON.
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 Muzammiluddin Syed, one member Nitika Tandon in Delhi and one Advisor Dr. Tejaswini Niranjana. 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 at http://bit.ly/TOcXId.
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
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 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 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.
Thanks
Nitika Tandon
Dear all,
We from the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS-A2K) thank you all for your support and collaboration and wish you a very Happy New Year. We bring you the details of our work for the month of December 2013:
CIS-A2K: Work Accomplished on Konkani Wikipedia
We are pleased to share with you the key accomplishments on Konkani Wikipedia from September to December 2013 in this report. It has been found that there has been an increased editing activity on Konkani Wikipedia, and an increase in the number of articles on Konkani Wikipedia. Konkani Vishwakosh was re-released under Creative Commons License, we initiated Konkani Vishwakosh Digitization project and signed a MoU with Goa University to build Konkani Wikipedia: http://bit.ly/1l6ttmp.
Article
Telugu Wikipedia completes 10 years (by Rahmanuddin Shaik, DNA, December 16, 2013): http://bit.ly/19OAvUV. The article was edited by Rohini Lakshané.
Blog Entries
First ever Train-the-Trainer Program in India (by Nitika Tandon, December 5, 2013): http://bit.ly/1euwSXt.
Priyadarshini Tadkodkar on Konkani language (by Subhashish Panigrahi, November 17, 2013): http://bit.ly/1hldNM8. We are featuring this here as we didn’t carry this in the last newsletter.
Varsha Kavlekar on Konkani Wikipedia Incubator (by Nitika Tandon, December 12, 2013): http://bit.ly/KmxyFo.
Darshan Kandolkar on Konkani Vishwakosh Digitization Process (by Nitika Tandon, December 13, 2013): http://bit.ly/1cqKyQ2.
Darshana Mandrekar speaks on Konkani Wikipedia (by Nitika Tandon, December 16, 2013): http://bit.ly/1keWyya.
Pooja Tople on Wikimedia Projects (by Nitika Tandon, December 17, 2013): http://bit.ly/1hlbubU.
(2-6 are videos of participants from the Konkani Vishwakosh Digitization project (jointly organised by CIS-A2K and Goa University) speaking on their experiences with Wikimedia projects.)
Events Organised
You Too Can Write on Wikipedia! — Training workshop (National Institute of Tourism and Hotel Management, Gachibowli, Hyderabad, December 5, 2013): http://bit.ly/1edmx1z.
Telugu Wikipedia Training Workshop (KBN College, Vijaywada, December 16, 2013): http://bit.ly/1i8ScnL.
Kannada Wikipedia Workshop at Alvas Vishva Nudisiri Virasat (Moodabidre, December 19 – 22, 2013). Dr. U.B. Pavanaja gave a presentation about Kannada Wikipedia and also conducted a workshop on Kannada Wikipedia as a parallel track. The event was covered by Prajavani (December 22), Hosadigantha (December 22), and Deccan Herald (December 22): http://bit.ly/1dGTBkw.
Events Co-organised
Wikipedia Orientation Workshop (organised by CIS-A2K and Christ University, Bangalore, December 2, 2013): http://bit.ly/1lrkwEy.
Wikipedia Training Session @ Tiruvur (organised by CIS-A2K and Telugu Wikipedia community, Srivahini College, Tiruvur, December 19, 2013). T. Vishnu Vardhan and Rahmanuddin Shaik conducted the workshop: http://bit.ly/1e3oQX7. It was covered by Andhraprabha (http://bit.ly/1bU5VsQ).
Thanks
Nitika Tandon
Congratulations to all the awardees!
On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Ravi Vyzasatya <vyzasatya(a)gmail.com>wrote:
> Dear fellow Wikimedians,
>
> Thank you all for your encouragement of Telugu Wikipedia community's
> initiative to recognize the contributors by a special award called
> Komarraju Lakshmana Rao Wikimedia Puraskaram[1], named after first modern
> encyclopedist in Telugu, perhaps the first among Indian languages
> (c.1912-13).
>
> We got 28 nominated proposals for the awards[2] out of which 18 were
> complete, based on the acceptance criteria outlined in the initial
> announcement. Selection council analyzed all proposals based on
> quantitative metrics like wiki statistics and qualitative assessment of
> each nominee's contribution and it's impact on Wiki 's growth and
> development. We would like to thank all the people who participated in the
> nomination and proposal development process and also those who helped to
> improve the process by their feedback during its roll out. As this is the
> debut year for the awards, Selection council decided to award 10 recipients
> recognizing their contributions during the last decade of Telugu Wikipedia.
> In the order of final assessment score, the awardees are *Chaduvari, M
> Pradeep, Chava Kiran, Veeven, Palagiri, Ravichandra, Ahmed Nisar, Veera.sj,
> JVRK PRASAD and Bhaskaranaidu.* They will be presented with cash prize
> and certificate during the Telugu Wiki Ten Celebrations . You can see their
> pictures, citation remarks in Telugu and English [3]. The background
> material[4] and scoring sheet[5] are also available, if you are interested.
>
> To recognize members who contributed significantly to Telugu wikimedia
> projects but could not/ did not give their consent for the award nomination
> and/or did not get selected for the award, Selection council decided to
> award Jury appreciation certificates. These will be given to 30 members
> selected by the council[6]. An electronic certificate will be presented in
> their user talk pages shortly
>
> It's been an arduous effort and the selection council members have put in
> nearly 1000 hours of effort as a group in the past couple of months since
> award conception. Can't thank enough the selection council members Arjuna
> Rao Chavala, A. Rajasekhar, T. Sujatha and A. Radhakrishna. Special thanks
> to Arjuna Rao Chavala, Selection council secretary for taking the major
> responsibility for this initiative. We also thank Tewiki 10 Celebrations
> committee[7] for ensuring necessary funds to support this award.
>
> As with any first time endeavor, I am sure there is room for improvements
> in this process. We appreciate your feedback and suggestions for future
> attempts.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Ravi Vyzasatya
>
> 1. Award details and rules (in Telugu) https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:KLRWP
> 2. Proposals https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Komarraju_LakshmanaRao_Wikimedia_Aw…
> 3. Award winner details https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:KLRWP/2013/Winners
> 4. Applicants work statistics and factors aiding growth https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KLRWP-2013_Applicants_work_Statistics_an…
> 5.Scoring sheet https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:KLRWP/2013/Scoring
> 6. Jury Appreciation certificate winners https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:KLRWP/2013/Jury_Appreciation_Winners
> 7. Tewiki 10 Celebrations Committee https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:TEWIKI10/Committee
>
>
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Treasurer,
Wikimedia Chapter [India]
Donate to the Wikimedia India Chapter today<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Donations>
Dear all,
We thank you all for your support and collaboration. Please find below the details of our work in the month of November 2013.
CIS-A2K Narrative Report
This narrative report captures the work done by the A2K program during the period of September 2012 to June 2013. It examines projects and activities and its impact and outcomes over a period of the initial Ten months of the Grant. This report will also inform CIS-A2K program’s strategy for the next one year to achieve the goals set out by its donor, Wikimedia Foundation, and goals listed in our Work Plans (which were developed in consultation with the Wikimedia community in India). Importantly, this Narrative Report is critical for the Wikimedia community in India, Global Wikimedia community and the Wikimedia Foundation to get a comprehensive overview of A2K’s work and to critically assess the A2K program’s eligibility for further support. The report compiled by by T. Vishnu Vardhan, Nitika Tandon and Subhashish Panigrahi can be accessed at http://bit.ly/1dFyjpO.
► Announcements
CIS Signs MoU with Christ University, Bangalore (November 20, 2013): The Access to Knowledge team signed a MoU as part of which CIS-A2K and Christ University will impart Wikipedia education in Indian classrooms: http://bit.ly/1ehr8kz.
We are happy to share with you that Rahmanuddin Shaik has been selected for the role of "Community Communications Consultant" at CIS-A2K! Rahmanuddin is an active contributor on Wikimedia Commons, Telugu Wikipedia and Telugu Wikisource: http://bit.ly/1bwrEu3.
►Articles
ಅಂತರ್ಜಾಲದಲ್ಲಿ ನೆಟ್ಟ ಸಸಿಗೆ ಈಗ ಹತ್ತು ವರ್ಷ (by Dr. U.B. Pavanaja, Kannada Prabha, November 1, 2013): http://bit.ly/17LOw4O. The article highlights 10 years of Kannada Wikipedia, the current status of the Kannada Wikipedia vis-a-vis number of articles, number of editors, active editors, and page views per month.
Train The Trainer Programme for Wikipedians (by Subhashish Panigrahi, DNA, November 14, 2013):http://bit.ly/ILwLMr. The article was edited by Rohini Lakshane of DNA.
►Blog Entries
Train the Trainer Program (by Subhashish Panigrahi, November 18, 2013): http://bit.ly/18hjw0n.
Konkani Vishwakosh Under CC-BY-SA (by Nitika Tandon, November 26, 2013): http://bit.ly/1gnVV2z.
► Events Organised
Wikipedia Orientation Programme for MA Students (Christ University, Bangalore, November 12, 2013): http://bit.ly/ItxAtu. Syed Muzammiluddin was the trainer. Twenty students participated.
Wikipedia Orientation Programme for the Second Language Students (Christ University, Bangalore, November 12, 13, 16 and 19, 2013): http://bit.ly/1bxsOYF. T. Vishnu Vardhan, Syed Muzammiluddin and Dr. U.B.Pavanaja were the trainers. About 1200 second language students participated in the programme.
Documentation and Wikipedia Contribution — A One Day Workshop (Kalinga Institute of Social Studies, Bhubaneswar, November 14, 2013). The workshop was conducted by Subhashish Panigrahi: http://bit.ly/1fSvl1v.
Documentation and Wikipedia Workshop (Kalinga School of Management, Bhubaneswar, November 16, 2013): http://bit.ly/Imf0DV. Subhashish Panigrahi conducted the workshop.
Konknni Wikipedia Workshop (organised by Dalgado Konknni Akademi and CIS-A2K, Goa Central State Library, November 16 and 17, 2013): http://bit.ly/1fSwiH5.
Tenth Anniversary of Wikipedia (H N Multimedia Hall, National College, Basavanagudi, Bangalore, November 17, 2013): http://bit.ly/1eJ6da9. Dr. U R Ananthamurthy, Prof. G. Venkatasubbiah and Ravi Hegde were the guests of honour. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja conducted the workshop.
First Phase of Odia Wikipedia Workshop (Indian Institute of Mass Communication, Bhubaneswar, November 18, 2013): http://bit.ly/18doDer. Subhashish Panigrahi conducted the workshop.
Konkani Wikipedia Workshop (Nirmala Institute of Education, Goa, November 19, 2013): http://bit.ly/1fSAUwT. Nitika Tandon conducted the event.
Konkani Vishwakosh: Doubt Solving Session I (Goa Central State Library, November 26, 2013): http://bit.ly/1gnVV2z. Nitika Tandon conducted the session.
Konkani Vishwakosh: Doubt Solving Session II (Goa Central State Library, November 28, 2013): http://bit.ly/1gnVV2z. Nitika Tandon conducted the session.
Editing Sprint for Vishwakosh (Goa Central, State Library, November 30, 2013): http://bit.ly/1gnVV2z. Nitika Tandon conducted the event.
► Event Co-organised
The Relaunch of Creative Commons India (co-organised by Wikimedia India, Acharya Narendra Dev College and CIS, India Islamic Cultural Centre, November 12, 2013): http://bit.ly/HPxrAO. Dr. Shashi Tharoor, Minister of State for Human Resource Development was the chief guest at the event.
► Event Participated In
Wikimedia Diversity Conference (organized by German Wikipedia Community, GLS Campus, Berlin): http://bit.ly/Ixr9W8. T. Vishnu Vardhan was a speaker at this event and made a presentation on the challenges and opportunities for the Wikimedia movement in India.
► Media Coverage
CIS gave its inputs for the following media coverage:
Kannada Wikipedia and its Tenth Anniversary (RadioCity, November 2, 2013): http://bit.ly/1dHEwBI.
Indian Govt to Build Machine Translation System for 22 Indic Languages (by Brindaalakshmi, Medianama, November 14, 2013): http://bit.ly/J4qg7V. CIS MoU with Goa University is mentioned.
10th anniversary of Kannada wikipedia (by ND Shiva Kumar, The Times of India, November 15, 2013): http://bit.ly/IxqDr7.
Tenth Anniversary of Kannada Wikipedia (Udayavani, November 15, 2013): http://bit.ly/1aFwqF1.
ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಕ್ಕೆ ಈಗ ದಶಮಾನೋತ್ಸವ. ಅದರ ಪ್ರಯುಕ್ತ ಒಂದು ಆಚರಣೆ (Avadhi Website, November 16, 2013): http://bit.ly/ImiBSy.
ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಗೆ 10, ಬೆಳವಣಿಗೆ ಸಾಲದು: ಪ್ರೊ .ಜಿವಿ (OneindiaKannada, November 17, 2013): http://bit.ly/19blS17.
Tenth Anniversary of Kannada Wikipedia (Vijayavani, November 17, 2013): http://bit.ly/1b7exSa.
ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಕ್ಕೆ ದಶಮಾನೋತ್ಸವ ಸಂಭ್ರಮ (Prajavani, November 18, 2013): http://bit.ly/1hWtt9v.
ಕನ್ನಡದ ಆನ್ಲೈನ್ ವಿಶ್ವಕೋಶ ದುರ್ಬಲ (Vijaya Karnataka, November 19, 2013): http://bit.ly/1hWtsCy.
Panaji: DKA organizes two day Konkani Wikipedia workshop (Daijiworld, November 18, 2013): http://bit.ly/1inoi03.
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 Muzammiluddin Syed, one member Nitika Tandon in Delhi and one Advisor Dr. Tejaswini Niranjana. 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 at http://bit.ly/TOcXId.
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
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 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 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.
Thanks
Nitika Tandon
Dear Nitika,
"
Train The Trainer Programme for Wikipedians (by Subhashish Panigrahi, DNA,
November 14, 2013):http://bit.ly/ILwLMr. The article was edited by Rohini
Lakshane of DNA."
I would like to clarify that I am not employed with DNA. I maintain a blog,
WikipeDNA, pertaining to Wikipedia in the blogs section of DNAindia.com in
my capacity as a Wikipedia volunteer.
Regards,
Rohini
--
http://about.me/rohini
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 12:04 PM, Nitika Tandon <nitika(a)cis-india.org>wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> We thank you all for your support and collaboration. Please find below the
> details of our work in the month of November 2013.
>
> CIS-A2K Narrative Report
> This narrative report captures the work done by the A2K program during the
> period of September 2012 to June 2013. It examines projects and activities
> and its impact and outcomes over a period of the initial Ten months of the
> Grant. This report will also inform CIS-A2K program’s strategy for the next
> one year to achieve the goals set out by its donor, Wikimedia Foundation,
> and goals<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Programme_Plan> listed
> in our Work Plans<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Work_plan_April_2…> (which
> were developed in consultation with the Wikimedia community in India).
> Importantly, this Narrative Report is critical for the Wikimedia community
> in India, Global Wikimedia community and the Wikimedia Foundation to get a
> comprehensive overview of A2K’s work and to critically assess the A2K
> program’s eligibility for further support. The report compiled by by T.
> Vishnu Vardhan, Nitika Tandon and Subhashish Panigrahi can be accessed at
> http://bit.ly/1dFyjpO.
>
> ► Announcements
>
> - CIS Signs MoU with Christ University, Bangalore (November 20, 2013):
> The Access to Knowledge team signed a MoU as part of which CIS-A2K and
> Christ University will impart Wikipedia education in Indian classrooms:
> http://bit.ly/1ehr8kz <http://bit.ly/1ehr8kz>.
> - We are happy to share with you that Rahmanuddin Shaik has been
> selected for the role of "Community Communications Consultant" at CIS-A2K!
> Rahmanuddin is an active contributor on Wikimedia Commons, Telugu Wikipedia
> and Telugu Wikisource: http://bit.ly/1bwrEu3.
>
>
> ►Articles
>
> - ಅಂತರ್ಜಾಲದಲ್ಲಿ ನೆಟ್ಟ ಸಸಿಗೆ ಈಗ ಹತ್ತು ವರ್ಷ (by Dr. U.B. Pavanaja,
> Kannada Prabha, November 1, 2013): http://bit.ly/17LOw4O<http://bit.ly/17LOw4O>.
> The article highlights 10 years of Kannada Wikipedia, the current status of
> the Kannada Wikipedia vis-a-vis number of articles, number of editors,
> active editors, and page views per month.
> -
> Train The Trainer Programme for Wikipedians (by Subhashish Panigrahi,
> DNA, November 14, 2013):http://bit.ly/ILwLMr. The article was edited
> by Rohini Lakshane of DNA.
>
>
> ►Blog Entries
>
> - Train the Trainer Program (by Subhashish Panigrahi, November 18,
> 2013): http://bit.ly/18hjw0n <http://bit.ly/18hjw0n>.
> - Konkani Vishwakosh Under CC-BY-SA (by Nitika Tandon, November 26,
> 2013): http://bit.ly/1gnVV2z.
>
>
> ► Events Organised
>
> - Wikipedia Orientation Programme for MA Students (Christ University,
> Bangalore, November 12, 2013): http://bit.ly/ItxAtu<http://bit.ly/ItxAtu>.
> Syed Muzammiluddin was the trainer. Twenty students participated.
>
>
> - Wikipedia Orientation Programme for the Second Language Students
> (Christ University, Bangalore, November 12, 13, 16 and 19, 2013):
> http://bit.ly/1bxsOYF <http://bit.ly/1bxsOYF>. T. Vishnu Vardhan, Syed
> Muzammiluddin and Dr. U.B.Pavanaja were the trainers. About 1200 second
> language students participated in the programme.
> - Documentation and Wikipedia Contribution — A One Day Workshop
> (Kalinga Institute of Social Studies, Bhubaneswar, November 14, 2013). The
> workshop was conducted by Subhashish Panigrahi: http://bit.ly/1fSvl1v<http://bit.ly/1fSvl1v>
> .
> - Documentation and Wikipedia Workshop (Kalinga School of Management,
> Bhubaneswar, November 16, 2013): http://bit.ly/Imf0DV<http://bit.ly/Imf0DV>.
> Subhashish Panigrahi conducted the workshop.
> - Konknni Wikipedia Workshop (organised by Dalgado Konknni Akademi and
> CIS-A2K, Goa Central State Library, November 16 and 17, 2013):
> http://bit.ly/1fSwiH5 <http://bit.ly/1fSwiH5>.
> - Tenth Anniversary of Wikipedia (H N Multimedia Hall, National
> College, Basavanagudi, Bangalore, November 17, 2013):
> http://bit.ly/1eJ6da9 <http://bit.ly/1eJ6da9>. Dr. U R Ananthamurthy,
> Prof. G. Venkatasubbiah and Ravi Hegde were the guests of honour. Dr. U.B.
> Pavanaja conducted the workshop.
> - First Phase of Odia Wikipedia Workshop (Indian Institute of Mass
> Communication, Bhubaneswar, November 18, 2013): http://bit.ly/18doDer<http://bit.ly/18doDer>.
> Subhashish Panigrahi conducted the workshop.
> - Konkani Wikipedia Workshop (Nirmala Institute of Education, Goa,
> November 19, 2013): http://bit.ly/1fSAUwT <http://bit.ly/1fSAUwT>.
> Nitika Tandon conducted the event.
> - Konkani Vishwakosh: Doubt Solving Session I (Goa Central State
> Library, November 26, 2013): http://bit.ly/1gnVV2z. Nitika Tandon
> conducted the session.
> - Konkani Vishwakosh: Doubt Solving Session II (Goa Central State
> Library, November 28, 2013): http://bit.ly/1gnVV2z. Nitika Tandon
> conducted the session.
> - Editing Sprint for Vishwakosh (Goa Central, State Library, November
> 30, 2013): http://bit.ly/1gnVV2z. Nitika Tandon conducted the event.
>
>
> ► Event Co-organised
>
> - The Relaunch of Creative Commons India (co-organised by Wikimedia
> India, Acharya Narendra Dev College and CIS, India Islamic Cultural Centre,
> November 12, 2013): http://bit.ly/HPxrAO <http://bit.ly/HPxrAO>. Dr.
> Shashi Tharoor, Minister of State for Human Resource Development was the
> chief guest at the event.
>
>
> ► Event Participated In
>
> - Wikimedia Diversity Conference (organized by German Wikipedia
> Community, GLS Campus, Berlin): http://bit.ly/Ixr9W8<http://bit.ly/Ixr9W8>.
> T. Vishnu Vardhan was a speaker at this event and made a presentation on
> the challenges and opportunities for the Wikimedia movement in India.
>
>
> ► Media Coverage
> CIS gave its inputs for the following media coverage:
>
> - Kannada Wikipedia and its Tenth Anniversary (RadioCity, November 2,
> 2013): http://bit.ly/1dHEwBI <http://bit.ly/1dHEwBI>.
> - Indian Govt to Build Machine Translation System for 22 Indic
> Languages (by Brindaalakshmi, Medianama, November 14, 2013):
> http://bit.ly/J4qg7V. CIS MoU with Goa University is mentioned.
> - 10th anniversary of Kannada wikipedia (by ND Shiva Kumar, The Times
> of India, November 15, 2013): http://bit.ly/IxqDr7<http://bit.ly/IxqDr7>
> .
> - Tenth Anniversary of Kannada Wikipedia (Udayavani, November 15,
> 2013): http://bit.ly/1aFwqF1 <http://bit.ly/1aFwqF1>.
> - ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಕ್ಕೆ ಈಗ ದಶಮಾನೋತ್ಸವ. ಅದರ ಪ್ರಯುಕ್ತ ಒಂದು ಆಚರಣೆ (Avadhi
> Website, November 16, 2013): http://bit.ly/ImiBSy<http://bit.ly/ImiBSy>
> .
> - ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಗೆ 10, ಬೆಳವಣಿಗೆ ಸಾಲದು: ಪ್ರೊ .ಜಿವಿ (OneindiaKannada,
> November 17, 2013): http://bit.ly/19blS17 <http://bit.ly/19blS17>.
> - Tenth Anniversary of Kannada Wikipedia (Vijayavani, November 17,
> 2013): http://bit.ly/1b7exSa <http://bit.ly/1b7exSa>.
> - ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಕ್ಕೆ ದಶಮಾನೋತ್ಸವ ಸಂಭ್ರಮ (Prajavani, November 18, 2013):
> http://bit.ly/1hWtt9v <http://bit.ly/1hWtt9v>.
> - ಕನ್ನಡದ ಆನ್ಲೈನ್ ವಿಶ್ವಕೋಶ ದುರ್ಬಲ (Vijaya Karnataka, November 19,
> 2013): http://bit.ly/1hWtsCy <http://bit.ly/1hWtsCy>.
> - Panaji: DKA organizes two day Konkani Wikipedia workshop
> (Daijiworld, November 18, 2013): http://bit.ly/1inoi03<http://bit.ly/1inoi03>
> .
>
>
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> Bangalore: T. Vishnu Vardhan, Dr. U.B. Pavanaja, Subhashish Panigrahi and
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Hi All,
The proposal due date has been extended to 16 Dec 2013, in order to give
more time for proposals and also to strengthen the nominations. You can
check the current status of nominations and initiate new proposals at this
page<https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Komarraju_LakshmanaRao_Wikimedia_Aw…>
.
Thanks
Arjuna
2013/12/3 Ravi Vyzasatya <vyzasatya(a)gmail.com>
> Dear fellow Wikimedians,
>
> I will start by introducing myself to the community. I am Ravi Vyzasatya
> based in Maryland. I have contributed to Telugu Wikipedia since 2005 and to
> a lesser extent in Telugu Wiktionary and Wikisource. I did serve as admin
> in all these projects. Although my primary interest is in writing well
> researched articles in the area of South Indian history, I do help the
> community by running bot scripts and taking care of miscellaneous
> administrative tasks.
>
> Telugu wikipedia will be 10 years old in another week from now. On this
> auspicious occasion Telugu Wikimedia Community is organizing celebrations
> under the leadership of an organizing committee headed by Vishwanath B.K,
> Pranayraj as Secretary, Kasyap as Treasurer along with Rahimanuddin, WMIN
> SIG lead Telugu, Vishnuvardhan, CIS-A2K Program Director as members. We
> have also constituted an awards committee with myself as President, Arjuna
> Rao Chavala, WMIN Co-founder and its first President as Secretary and A.
> Rajasekhar, T. Sujatha, NWR 2011 award winners from Telugu Wikis and A.
> Radhakrishna, Former WMIN SIG lead for Bangalore as members. The award is
> named after Komarraju Lakshmana Rao[1], pioneer Telugu encyclopedian who
> undertook the first modern encyclopedic effort in Telugu, perhaps the first
> among Indian languages (c.1912-13). It is also quite fitting tribute to
> Lakshmana Rao to honor his memory in the centennial anniversary of such
> pioneering effort. The award carries a citation and cash prize of Rs
> 10,000/. Organizing committee and awards committee members are ineligible
> for the awards to avoid any perceived or real conflict of interest.
>
> We are inviting nominations [2] for awards on Telugu Wikimedia projects.
> Nominations are due by 9th Dec 2013 24:00 midnight (UTC). Members can self
> -nominate or be nominated by others, in consideration for these awards.
> Nomination process has been developed by Arjuna building upon the NWR 2011
> nomination process[3] pioneered by another WMIN Cofounder and the then EC
> Member Arunram . We express our sincere appreciation for the same. We think
> that this initiative with nominal cash prize by Telugu community may be the
> first of its kind and will complement the existing recognition mechanisms
> and help encourage budding Wikimedians in their initial years of
> contribution. We invite all Indian Wikimedians to participate in the award
> nomination process as you may be familiar with our Telugu Wikimedians
> through their efforts in English, Kannada, Tamil language Wikimedia
> projects. For the benefit of wider Wikimedia community, we have provided
> for relevant remarks on the nomination pages in English and also invite
> nominations or support for the existing nominations in English, if you
> choose to do so.
>
> We solicit your wishes on this happy occasion and will be sharing the
> updates about the celebrations, awards and other related Telugu wiki
> activities as things roll out.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Ravi Vyzasatya
>
> References 1.English wiki page on Komarraju Lakshmana Rao, the first
> Encylopaedist among Indian languages from India
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komarraju_Venkata_Lakshmana_Rao
>
> 2. Award details page in Telugu
> https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA…
>
> 3. Nominations page in Telugu
> https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA…
>
Hi Friends,
On behalf of Telugu Wikipedia and other Telugu Wikimedia projects, I greet
you on the ocassion of tenth anniversary of Telugu Wikipedia today. Many
thanks to each one of you for your contributions and support to Wiki
eco-system. I am sure that some of your contributions are utilised in
Telugu Wikipedia. We encourage you to leave any messages to the Telugu
Community on this email thread or on Telugu Wikipedia Feedback
page<https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:FB>in Telugu or English.
Sincerely
Arjuna Rao Chavala
Telugu Wikipedia Bureaucrat