సుందర్/Sundar
2013/12/10 BalaSundaraRaman <sundarbecse(a)yahoo.com>
> పుట్టిన రోజు శుభాకాంక్షలు :)
>
తెలుగులో సందేశమిచ్చినందులకు ధన్యవాదాలు /Thanks for your greetings in
Telugu Script
భవదీయుడు/Sincerely
అర్జున/Arjuna
తాక/PS: యూరోపియన్ విమాన పత్రికలలాగా, రెండు భాషలలో సందేశమివ్వటం చాలా ఆనందం/
It is such a fun to type in two languages like the European Airline
magazines.
>
> - Sundar
>
> "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium
> for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted."
> - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Arjuna Rao Chavala <arjunaraoc(a)gmail.com>
> *To:* wmin-members <wmin-members(a)googlegroups.com>;
> wikimedia-in-hyd(a)lists.wikimedia.org; "Mailing list for Wikimedians /
> Wikipedians in Bangalore, India" <wikimedia-in-blr(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, December 10, 2013 10:46 AM
> *Subject:* [WMIN-Members] Fwd: Telugu Wikipedia Tenth Anniversary today
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: *Arjuna Rao Chavala* <arjunaraoc(a)gmail.com>
> Date: 2013/12/10
> Subject: Telugu Wikipedia Tenth Anniversary today
> To: Ravi Vyzasatya <vyzasatya(a)gmail.com>
> Cc: "Wikimedians working on India related content on English Wikipedia &
> related projects." <wikimedia-in-en(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, "Discussion
> list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia." <
> wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
>
>
> 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
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From: Arjuna Rao Chavala <arjunaraoc(a)gmail.com>
Date: 2013/12/10
Subject: Telugu Wikipedia Tenth Anniversary today
To: Ravi Vyzasatya <vyzasatya(a)gmail.com>
Cc: "Wikimedians working on India related content on English Wikipedia &
related projects." <wikimedia-in-en(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, "Discussion list
on Indian language projects of Wikimedia." <
wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
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
---------- ఫార్వర్డ్ చేసిన సందేశం ----------
పంపినవారు: Arjuna Rao Chavala <arjunaraoc(a)gmail.com>
తేది: 10 డిసెంబర్ 2013 9:39 AM
సబ్జెక్టు: వికీపీడియా దశాబ్ది శుభాకాంక్షలు.
వీరికి: "teluguwiki(a)googlegroups.com" <teluguwiki(a)googlegroups.com>, తెవికి
telugu wiki <wikite-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
నమస్తే,
తెలుగు వికీపీడియా మరియు సోదర వికీ ప్రాజెక్టుల అభివృద్ధికి కృషి చేసిన
సభ్యులకు, ఆదరించి, ప్రోత్సహించిన సమాజంలోని వ్యక్తులు, సంస్థలందరికి
వికీపీడియా దశాబ్ది సందర్భంగా ధన్యవాదాలు. తెవికీ విజ్ఞానగనిలా విలసిల్లి
ప్రతి ఒక్కరికి విజ్ఞానాన్ని పంచుతూ, ప్రతి ఒక్కరి విజ్ఞానాన్ని
అందిపుచ్చుకుంటూ అభివృద్ధి చెందాలని కోరిక. మీ అనుభవాలను, అభిప్రాయాలను
మెయిల్ జట్టులో లేక వికీపీడియా
అభిప్రాయాల<https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:FB>పేజీలో తెలపండి.
భవదీయుడు
అర్జున
తెలుగు వికీపీడియాలో సభ్యుడు మరియు స్వచ్ఛంద అధికారి.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Ravi Vyzasatya <vyzasatya(a)gmail.com>
Date: 2013/12/3
Subject: Komarraju Lakshmana Rao Wikimedia Awards (Telugu) - Request for
Nominations
To: wikimedia-in-en(a)lists.wikimedia.org,
wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Cc: Arjuna Rao Chavala <arjunaraoc(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…
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.
Follow us elsewhere
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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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> 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>
>
>
>
> (1) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/About_Beta_Features
>
> (2) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer
>
>
> (3) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Beta_Features/Formulae
>
> (4) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Typography_Update
>
> (5)
>
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatur
> es
>
>
>
> (6) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:About_Beta_Features
>
>
>
> (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
>
>
>
>
Dear all,
We thank you all for your support and collaboration. Please find below the details of our work in the month of September 2013.
Re-release of Konkani Vishwakosh under CC-BY-SA 3.0
Goa University re-released Konkani Vishwakosh under Creative Commons License CC-BY-SA 3.0. To celebrate and further the movement of open knowledge and open access Goa University in collaboration with Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge Programme (CIS-A2K) organised an event on September 26, 2013 at 10 a.m. at the Goa University Conference Hall. Konkani Vishwakosh is a four-volume encyclopedia published by Goa University. It encompasses all the world information in a nutshell with special emphasis and detailed information on Goa, Konkani, Goan culture, folklore, history, geography, etc. By releasing Vishwakosh under Creative Commons license, Goa University is making it freely available to public and giving them the right to share, use and even build upon the work that has already been done. For more on Konkani Vishwakosh re-release see http://bit.ly/19y0EJx
► Announcements
CIS Signs MoU with Goa University: The A2K team at CIS has signed an MoU with the Goa University to digitize the “Konkani Vishwakosh” under the Creative Commons license and build a digital knowledge partnership to enhance digital literacy in Konkani language. See http://bit.ly/1fBZXlR for more details.
Konkani Vishwakosh Digitization Project: The Centre for Internet and Society in collaboration with the University of Goa is doing a two-month project on digitization of Konkani Vishwakosh.: http://bit.ly/15Idlh7.
► Video
Wikipedians Speak: Piotr Konieczny: This episode brings you a conversation with Piotr Konieczny, a veteran Wikipedian from Poland. He has contributed to over 514 DYK articles on Wikipedia: http://bit.ly/16jYsBF.
► Columns and Blog Entries
Recap on Konkani Wikipedia Workshop (by Subhashish Panigrahi, Startup Goa Blog, September 9, 2013): http://bit.ly/19KtIwo
ଅବସର ପରର ଦ୍ବିତୀୟ ଜୀବନ, ଅବସର ପରେ ସକ୍ରିୟ ଭାବେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆରେ ଲେଖାଲେଖି ଜାରୀ ରଖିଥିବା ଜଣେ ଡାକ୍ତରଙ୍କ ସହ ଭାବାଲୋଚନା (by Subhashish Panigrahi, Odiapua, September 10, 2013): http://bit.ly/14QQkIo.
Selection of Programme Officer — Pilot Projects, CIS-A2K (by Nitika Tandon, September 10, 2013): http://bit.ly/1fU7Ikl.
Wikipedia reaches Classrooms in Hyderabad (by Syed Muzammiluddin, September 20, 2013): http://bit.ly/18f9n1o.
► Events Organised
A Kannada Wikipedia Workshop in Mysore (University of Mysore, August 6, 2013): This is a report of the workshop conducted last month. Dr. Pavanaja conducted the workshop: http://bit.ly/15LPoKZ.
Indian Language Wikipedia Training Workshop (TISS, Mumbai, August 16, 2013). Dr. U.B.Pavanaja was the trainer at this workshop. This workshop was organized as part of the CIS-A2K MoU with TISS. This is also part of the Indian Language Mela being organized by Centre for Indian Languages in Higher Education, TISS: http://bit.ly/1ajmH7G.
Indian Language Wikipedia Training Workshop (TISS, Tuljapur, August 24, 2013). Abhishek Suryavanshi was the trainer for this workshop: http://bit.ly/1aHg6AL.
Wikipedia Introductory Workshop (Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Goa, September 28, 2013). Nitika Tandon conducted this workshop. The details will be posted soon.
Train the Trainer — Four-day long Residential Training Workshop in Bangalore (organised by CIS-A2K, Bangalore, October 3 – 6, 2013): http://bit.ly/1f1KOvm.
► Events Co-organised
Digital Resources in Telugu: A Workshop for Research Scholars (co-organised by CIS-A2K and the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad and CILHE, TISS on September 13, 2013). T. Vishnu Vardhan curated and conducted this day-long event for M.Phil and Ph.D students of the EFL University: http://bit.ly/174pugy.
Re-releasing Konkani Vishwakosh & Building Konkani Wikipedia (organised by CIS-A2K and the University of Goa, Conference Hall, Goa University, Taleigao, September 26, 2013): http://bit.ly/18SsChu.
Wikipedia Introductory Workshop (co-organised by CIS-A2K and wikipedians John Noronha and Supriya Kankumbikar, September 27, 2013). Nitika Tandon participated in this workshop.
Odisha: Wikipedia workshop at IIMC, Dhenkanal (co-organised by CIS-A2K and Odia Wikimedia community, September 30, 2013). Subhashish Panigrahi coordinated the entire event along with members of Odia Wikipedia, Dr Subas Chandra Rout, Mrutyunjaya Kar and Sasanka Sekhar Das: http://bit.ly/15NsTjM. This was covered by Odisha Diary (http://bit.ly/1bna9zd), and eOdisha Samachar (http://bit.ly/1aNJvv4).
► Events Participated In
Workshop on e-Content Development (organised by Centre for Staff Training and Development, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Open University, Hyderabad, September 4 – 6, 2013). Vishnu Vardhan gave guest lectures on Open Source to Open Knowledge; Building Knowledge Bases and Platforms via Mass Collaboration on the Internet; e-Content in Indian languages – History, Challenges and Opportunities; Wikipedia Users to Wikipedia Authors – Exploring Wikipedia as an OER Tool; and e-Content, e-Student, e-Faculty – Reimagining classroom in the digital Age: http://bit.ly/16HNZpy.
Kannada Wikipedia Workshop (organised by Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, SDM College, Ujire, September 15, 2013). Dr. U.B.Pavanaja was the trainer at this workshop: http://bit.ly/183Atq0.
T. Vishnu Vardhan gave a talk on Building Knowledge Bases and Platforms via Mass Collaboration on the Internet (organised by Jadavpur University, School of Cultural Texts and Records, Jadavpur University, and Department of Film Studies, Jadavpur University on September 23, 2013). http://bit.ly/163oEpz.
Konkani Wikipedia Workshop (organised by St. Aloysius College, AIMIT, St Aloysius College (Autonomous), Beeri, Mangalore, September 13, 2013). Dr. U.B. Pavanaja was the trainer at this workshop: http://bit.ly/1eGviTY.
Indian Languages Mela (organised by Centre for Indian Languages in Higher Education, TISS, Mumbai, September 20-21, 2013). Tejaswini Niranjana, T. Vishnu Vardhan and Dr. U.B. Pavanaja participated in this event: http://bit.ly/16hdTLb
'Digital Humanities and Higher Education' (organised by School of Cultural Texts and Records, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, September 2013). Dr. Tejaswini Niranjana gave a talk.
► Media Coverage
'Help Konkani Wikipedia come out of incubation' (Deccan Herald, September 13, 2013): The article talks about the relative lack of content in Konkani Wikipedia. “To get it out of incubation, many should write Konkani articles for Wikipedia,” Dr. Pavanaja was quoted as having said: http://bit.ly/152vA0g.
Konkani Vishwakosh relaunch tomorrow (The Hindu, September 26, 2013). A coverage of the re-release of the Konkani encyclopaedia under Creative Commons license: http://bit.ly/18VgnEN.
Goa University re-releasing Konkani encyclopaedia on Sept 26 (The Times of India, September 24, 2013): Goa University and CIS-A2K re-released the four volume 3632 page Konkani Vishwakosh (encyclopaedia) in Goa: http://bit.ly/18VgnV8.
Goa University announces plan to upload Konkani encyclopedia on Wikipedia (Navhind Times, September 27, 2013):http://bit.ly/174rmpA.
Konkani Wikipedia from Goa University in 6 months (The Times of India, September 27, 2013): Goa University becomes the first varsity in India to allow data produced and copyrighted by an Indian university to be used by internet users. Professors, students and anyone with expertise or love for Konkani can come forward to help with the project for which training will be provided, says Vishnu Vardhan: http://bit.ly/19EYl5T.
Konkani Wikipedia in the making (by Prakash Kamat, The Hindu, September 29, 2013): Goa University re-launched a four-volume Konkani encyclopaedia and will upload it on Wikipedia. The process will be completed in six months times, says Vishnu Vardhan: http://bit.ly/18jiG1B.
For the love of Konkani: Preserving Goa's official language (by Joanna Lobo, DNA, September 29, 2013): Konkani has 24 lakh speakers as per the Census Department of India 2001 but online documentation is limited. CIS-A2K wants to strengthen the Konkani Wikipedia, says Nitika Tandon: http://bit.ly/1bV5XWH.
Goa University to make available online Konkani Wikipedia, within 6 months (by Jagran Josh, September 30, 2013): http://bit.ly/18ROmfb.
Goa University Partners CIS India to Build Konkani Wikipedia (by Apurva Chaudhary, Medianama, September 30, 2013): http://bit.ly/1bsZW4u.
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.
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