Dear all,
We thank you all for your support and collaboration. Please find below the details of our work in the month of October 2013.
Train the Trainer Program
Wikipedians, about 20 of them, from 10 different cities, speaking 8 different languages, joined together for the first ever four days "Train the Trainer Program" organised by the Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) team in Bangalore from October 3 to 6, 2013. CIS-A2K organised the residency training program to build capacities amongst different language Wikimedia communities. A good diversity of Wikipedians from various language communities such as Bengali, Gujarati, Sanskrit, Malayalam, Hindi, Marathi, Telugu, Odia, came over for the event. Two prominent reasons identified for organizing the event were the limitations of a virtual sphere and the limited number of Wikipedians leading outreach activities. Seventeen people participated in the event: http://bit.ly/18hjw0n
► Events Organised
Workshop on Wikipedia in the Indian Undergraduate Language Classrooms (October 1, 203, Christ University, Bangalore). Dr. U.B. Pavanaja conducted the workshop: http://bit.ly/HIiC30.
వికీపీడియా:సమావేశం/బెంగుళూరు/అక్టోబర్ (UTC, Bangalore, October 12, 2013). T. Vishnu Vardhan gave a talk: http://bit.ly/1hpmXrt.
Konkani Vishwakosh Digitization (Goa University, October 19-20, 2013). CIS-A2K team conducted the workshop. Thirty-seven people participated in the event: http://bit.ly/1a9m8N2. Nitika Tandon shares a detailed blog post on the re-release of Konkani Vishwakosh under CC License: http://bit.ly/1cm9wBH.
► Event Participated In
Re-sourcing Indian Cinema: Humanities Research, New Archives and Collaborative Knowledge Production (organised by the Centre for Contemporary Studies and the Centre for Study of Culture and Society, October 29, 2013). T. Vishnu Vardhan gave a talk on “Let Cinephiles Collaborate: Pleasures and Perils of Indian Film History on Wikipedia”: http://bit.ly/18Obr2P.
► Media Coverage
CIS gave its inputs for the following media coverage:
Mangalore: Konkani writers resolve to form all-India forum at JKS conference (Daijiworld, October 1, 2013): http://bit.ly/1ek8AzW.
Wikipedia in Indian Languages on Mobile Phones (by Megha Prakash, Sci Dev Net, October 15, 2013): http://bit.ly/Hfh7sI.
कोंकणी विश्वकोश ‘विकिपीडिया’वर (Navprabha Daily, October 22, 2013). A detailed article about the digitalization of Konkani Vishwakosh: http://bit.ly/18J3YlB.
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.
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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
Hello TheOriginalSoni,
There are monthly Telugu Wikipedia meet-ups that happen at Golden
Threshold, Nampally in Hyderad. These usually happen on 3rd Sunday of every
month and are happening since March 2013. To take part in this you may get
in touch with Dr. Rajasekhar [1].
In addition Wikimedians also meet-up occasionally. You may get in touch
with Abhijith (Hyderabad SIG Chair) [2].
Hope to meet you sometime.
Cheers,
Vishnu
[1]
https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95…
[2]
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/City_and_Language_Special_Interest_Group_Chair#Hyd…
> Hello,
>
> How many active editors from hyderabad do we have? I was hoping we could
> have a hyderabad meetup sometime soon or some Wikipedia editing workshops.
>
> Regards,
> TheOriginalSoni from enwiki
>
>
Hello,
How many active editors from hyderabad do we have? I was hoping we could
have a hyderabad meetup sometime soon or some Wikipedia editing workshops.
Regards,
TheOriginalSoni from enwiki
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> 1. Introducing Beta Features (Pavanaja U B)
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> WMF is introducing Beta Features
> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/About_Beta_Features> (1), a new program
> that lets you test new features on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites
> before they are released for everyone.
>
> Think of it as a digital laboratory where community members can preview
> upcoming software and give feedback to help improve them. This special
> preference page lets designers and engineers experiment with new features
> on
> a broad scale, but not in a disruptive manner.
>
>
>
> Beta Features is released on all wikis worldwide on November 7, 2013. You
> can test it now on MediaWiki.org <http://MediaWiki.org/> and on TestWiki.
>
>
>
> Here are the first features you can test this week:
> * Media Viewer
> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer> -- view
> images in large size or full screen. (2)
>
> * VisualEditor Formulæ
> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Beta_Features/Formulae> --
> edit algebra or equations on your pages. (3) –This feature is yet to work
> for Indic. You may test on English Wiki
>
> * Typography Refresh <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Typography_Update>
> --
> make text more readable and consistent. (4)
>
>
>
> Would you like to try out BetaFeatures now? After you log in here on
> MediaWiki.org
> <
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatu
> res> (5), a small 'Beta' link will appear next to your 'Preferences':
> click
> on it to see features you can test, check the ones you want, then click
> 'Save'. Learn more here <
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/About_Beta_Features>
> (1)
>
>
>
> After you've tested Beta Features, please let developers know what you
> think
> on <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:About_Beta_Features> this
> discussion page (6) -- or report any bugs here on Bugzilla
> <
> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWiki%20extensions
> &component=BetaFeatures> (7).
>
>
>
> Beta Features was developed by the Wikimedia Foundation's Design,
> Multimedia
> and VisualEditor teams. Along with other developers, they will be adding
> new
> features to this experimental program every few weeks.
>
>
> Enjoy, and don't forget to let us know what you think!
>
>
>
> Pavanaja <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pavanaja>
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>
>
> (1) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/About_Beta_Features
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> (2) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer
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> (3) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Beta_Features/Formulae
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> (4) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Typography_Update
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> (5)
>
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatur
> es
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> (6) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:About_Beta_Features
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>
>
> (7)
> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWiki%20extensions
> <
> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWiki%20extensions
> &component=BetaFeatures> &component=BetaFeatures
>
>
>
>
>
> Thanks and regards,
>
> Pavanaja
>
> U.B. Pavanaja, MSc, PhD
>
> Programme Officer <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pavanaja> – Indian
> languages,
>
> Access to Knowledge program
>
> The Centre for Internet & Society
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>
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