Hello everyone,
Greetings from CIS-A2K. We are happy to announce that, Wikimedia Education
SAARC conference 2019 programme submissions (proposals) are open[1]. It
will be a full-weekend Conference to talk about the relation between
Wikimedia and our education projects, and the way Education is being shaped
in SAARC countries.
We request all the interested Wikimedians to submit the programme
submissions (proposals). Please note the date to submit the proposal will
start from today (25 May 2019). The last date for submission is 10 May
2019.
The other important dates for the conference are
- Scholarship applications open: 10 May 2019
- Deadline for applying for scholarships: 20 May 2019
- Applicants will be notified about final decisions: 25 May 2019
- The final list of recipients will be announced: 25 May 2019
[1]. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Education_SAARC_conference
Thanks and Regards,
*ANANTH SUBRAY P V*
MSc Candidate at CHRIST (Deemed to be University)
Programme Associate at The Centre for Internet & Society
<https://cis-india.org/a2k/cis-a2k>
Secretary of Wikipedia & Education User Group
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_%26_Education_User_Group>
Co-founder of Lakshya
<https://www.facebook.com/lakshyaforchange/?eid=ARDO9f7NCVPHN1bsF2mChlPDM4qS…>
+91-9739811664
Hello,
Thanks for your emails and comments.
Some notes:
Samir contacted CIS-A2K and CIS-A2K is directly co-ordinating the Bangalore
meet that is to be taken place on 21 April 2019. Samir also asked other
Wikimedians for suggestions.
For Delhi and Patiala event please contact Samir (selsharbaty(a)wikimedia.org
).
Event page link:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Brand_Project_-_Community_review_…
CIS is also providing support for a venue in Delhi, and I am will help in
the venue in Delhi.
For Bangalore meet support contact me. (gopala(a)cis-india.org)
Following the interesting discussion in the mailing list, we would like to
invite interested Wikimedians in India to attend the Bangalore event,
organised by CIS, on 21 April 2019. If you are an active Wikimedian from
India, and want to join the survey, please email to gopala(a)cis-india.org
and tito(a)cis-india.org (please send to both) and write in brief the
topics/a few questions related to rebranding and strategy you want to
discuss in the meet.
We are also in the process of arranging hangout calls for more community
input. We will give updates about the online call.
On Sun, Apr 14, 2019 at 12:52 AM Krishna Chaitanya Velaga <
kcvelaga(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> In line with Bodhi's comments,
>
> I feel that there are several other communities which have been left out
> in this consultation process. I completely understand that CIS-A2K is
> trying to accommodate their best to represent all the voices, but it would
> be even better to include the "major" communities and movement affiliates.
> I know it is too late to change Samir's plan, but it would be great if
> CIS-A2K can support representatives from certain communities to participate
> in-person and voice their opinion about the branding strategy. Physically
> participating can have much more impact than a remote call.
>
> All Wikimedians from Northern Indian can easily come to Delhi, and South
> ones Bengaluru. At least, if you think 18th is too close, 21st in Bengaluru
> can be a good option to invite some experienced Wikimedians (say five
> people from communities those which haven't been consulted).
>
> I think it is a fair decision to make.
>
> Best,
> Krishna
>
> On Sat, Apr 13, 2019 at 10:07 AM Bodhisattwa Mandal <
> bodhisattwa.rgkmc(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Gopala,
>>
>> Thanks for the quick response. It would be great if it is possible for
>> you to create a Doodle poll or similar for the online meeting.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Bodhisattwa
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, 13 Apr 2019, 09:57 Gopala Krishna A, <bhat.gka666(a)gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Bodhi,
>>> Thank you for the feedback. I would like to give a small update. We will
>>> arrange for an online session along with offline meet-up in Bengaluru. Date
>>> and Time - 21 April 2019, 11:00AM to 2:00 PM.
>>>
>>> On Sat, 13 Apr 2019, 08:41 Bodhisattwa Mandal, <
>>> bodhisattwa.rgkmc(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Gopal,
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the information.
>>>>
>>>> Is it possible for other user groups and communities to provide him
>>>> feedback somehow? If it is not possible to change the schedule in the last
>>>> moment and bring him to some other places like Kolkata, is it possible to
>>>> have an online session with user group and community representatives?
>>>>
>>>> If it is somehow possible, then please make it happen as West Bengal
>>>> Wikimedians have definitely some concern on the branding proposal which
>>>> needs to be addressed.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Bodhisattwa
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, 13 Apr 2019, 08:29 Gopala Krishna A, <bhat.gka666(a)gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello Wikimedians,
>>>>>
>>>>> Greetings from A2K. In upcoming week, Wikimedia Foundation Community
>>>>> brand and marketing coordinator Samir Elsharbaty
>>>>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Selsharbaty_(WMF)> is visiting
>>>>> India to collect feedback from affiliates and communities in India.
>>>>> Schedule will be as follows:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1. 16 April 2019 - Session with Hindi Wikimedians User group
>>>>> members and other Wikimedians in New Delhi. This is going to takes place at
>>>>> CIS office, First floor, B 1/8, Hauz Khaas, near G Block market, New Delhi
>>>>> between 11 AM and 2 PM.
>>>>> 2. 18 April 2019: Session with Punjabi Wikimedians User group in
>>>>> Patiala between 11 AM and 2 PM.
>>>>> 3. 21 April 2019: Session with CIS-A2K and Wikimedians in
>>>>> Bangaluru. Event is going to take place at CIS office, No. 194, 2nd 'C'
>>>>> cross, Domlur, 2nd Stage, Bengaluru between 11 AM to 2PM.
>>>>>
>>>>> Main agenda will be:
>>>>>
>>>>> - Wikimedia brand project presentation for the 2030 strategic
>>>>> direction.
>>>>> - Discussion and open Q&A.
>>>>> - Introduction about the Wikimedia Foundation's communication's
>>>>> team and their work.
>>>>> - Open discussion on communications.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Please read more about these sessions here and register your name for
>>>>> participation:
>>>>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Brand_Project_-_Community_review_…
>>>>>
>>>>> Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions.
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Gopala Krishna A
>>>>> Community Advocate, CIS-A2K
>>>>> Contact : +918884244408
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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Gopala Krishna A
Community Advocate, CIS-A2K
Contact : +918884244408
Hello Bodhi,
Thank you for the feedback. I would like to give a small update. We will
arrange for an online session along with offline meet-up in Bengaluru. Date
and Time - 21 April 2019, 11:00AM to 2:00 PM.
On Sat, 13 Apr 2019, 08:41 Bodhisattwa Mandal, <bodhisattwa.rgkmc(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi Gopal,
>
> Thanks for the information.
>
> Is it possible for other user groups and communities to provide him
> feedback somehow? If it is not possible to change the schedule in the last
> moment and bring him to some other places like Kolkata, is it possible to
> have an online session with user group and community representatives?
>
> If it is somehow possible, then please make it happen as West Bengal
> Wikimedians have definitely some concern on the branding proposal which
> needs to be addressed.
>
> Regards,
> Bodhisattwa
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, 13 Apr 2019, 08:29 Gopala Krishna A, <bhat.gka666(a)gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello Wikimedians,
>>
>> Greetings from A2K. In upcoming week, Wikimedia Foundation Community
>> brand and marketing coordinator Samir Elsharbaty
>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Selsharbaty_(WMF)> is visiting
>> India to collect feedback from affiliates and communities in India.
>> Schedule will be as follows:
>>
>> 1. 16 April 2019 - Session with Hindi Wikimedians User group members
>> and other Wikimedians in New Delhi. This is going to takes place at CIS
>> office, First floor, B 1/8, Hauz Khaas, near G Block market, New Delhi
>> between 11 AM and 2 PM.
>> 2. 18 April 2019: Session with Punjabi Wikimedians User group in
>> Patiala between 11 AM and 2 PM.
>> 3. 21 April 2019: Session with CIS-A2K and Wikimedians in Bangaluru.
>> Event is going to take place at CIS office, No. 194, 2nd 'C' cross, Domlur,
>> 2nd Stage, Bengaluru between 11 AM to 2PM.
>>
>> Main agenda will be:
>>
>> - Wikimedia brand project presentation for the 2030 strategic
>> direction.
>> - Discussion and open Q&A.
>> - Introduction about the Wikimedia Foundation's communication's team
>> and their work.
>> - Open discussion on communications.
>>
>>
>> Please read more about these sessions here and register your name for
>> participation:
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Brand_Project_-_Community_review_…
>>
>> Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions.
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Gopala Krishna A
>> Community Advocate, CIS-A2K
>> Contact : +918884244408
>>
>>
>>
>>
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Hello Wikimedians,
Greetings from A2K. In upcoming week, Wikimedia Foundation Community brand
and marketing coordinator Samir Elsharbaty
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Selsharbaty_(WMF)> is visiting India
to collect feedback from affiliates and communities in India. Schedule will
be as follows:
1. 16 April 2019 - Session with Hindi Wikimedians User group members and
other Wikimedians in New Delhi. This is going to takes place at CIS office,
First floor, B 1/8, Hauz Khaas, near G Block market, New Delhi between 11
AM and 2 PM.
2. 18 April 2019: Session with Punjabi Wikimedians User group in Patiala
between 11 AM and 2 PM.
3. 21 April 2019: Session with CIS-A2K and Wikimedians in Bangaluru.
Event is going to take place at CIS office, No. 194, 2nd 'C' cross, Domlur,
2nd Stage, Bengaluru between 11 AM to 2PM.
Main agenda will be:
- Wikimedia brand project presentation for the 2030 strategic direction.
- Discussion and open Q&A.
- Introduction about the Wikimedia Foundation's communication's team and
their work.
- Open discussion on communications.
Please read more about these sessions here and register your name for
participation:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Brand_Project_-_Community_review_…
Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions.
--
Regards,
Gopala Krishna A
Community Advocate, CIS-A2K
Contact : +918884244408
Greetings from CIS-A2K,
I am writing this email to inform you about the Wikimedia Education SAARC
conference which is going to be organised at Christ University on 20-22
June 2019. The CIS-A2K team has been working with the language department
of Christ University and other institutions to enrich the content of Indic
Wikimedia projects with the help of students.
Wikimedia Education SAARC conference will be the first of its kind
conference in SAARC countries which will engage students, education program
leaders, educators and researchers engaged with Open Education and free
knowledge movement. This conference will allow us to understand the
different efforts made by the communities involved in the Wikimedia
Education movement.
We're thankful to Christ University for helping us to the host the event,
for more details and further updates, Please have a look at this page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Education_SAARC_conference>[1].
[1]. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Education_SAARC_conference
Thanks and Regards,
*ANANTH SUBRAY P V*
MSc Candidate at CHRIST (Deemed to be University)
Programme Associate at The Centre for Internet & Society
<https://cis-india.org/a2k/cis-a2k>
Secretary of Wikipedia & Education User Group
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_%26_Education_User_Group>
Co-founder of Lakshya
<https://www.facebook.com/lakshyaforchange/?eid=ARDO9f7NCVPHN1bsF2mChlPDM4qS…>
+91-9739811664
Dear All,
We are glad to inform that CIS-A2K has published our newsletter for January
2019.
*Events*
- *Mini MediaWiki Training Theni:* Indic TechCom members and CIS-A2K
decided to reach out to students with the Computer science background and
help them understand how to contribute on MediaWiki. As a pilot project,
we reached out to Nadar Saraswathi College of Engineering and Technology
and organised a two-day long Mini MediaWiki training for the students on
22nd and 23rd of January 2019.
- *Marathi Language Fortnight Workshops: * CIS-A2K started collaborating
with State language dept. in 2017. In the first series
<https://mr.wikipedia.org/s/48ug> of workshops, we conducted three
workshops. In the second series <https://mr.wikipedia.org/s/48u9> in
2018, we conducted six workshops out of a total of 17 workshops conducted
across the state. In the year 2019, the awareness spread to more
educational institutions located in different regions of the state.
In this third
series <https://mr.wikipedia.org/s/48gs>, CIS-A2K conducted five
workshops out of a total of 21 workshops
- *Wikisource training Bengaluru: * During the Indic Wikisource
Community Consultation at Kolkata, India on 24–25 November 2018,User
:Shubha requested to conduct a Wikisource specific Workshop for
Sankrit Wikisource
Team at Bengaluru Samkrit Bharati. The CIS-A2K Team conducted a workshop
for Sanskrit Community at Bengaluru, Karnataka on 23 - 24 January 2019.
- *TWLCon (2019 India): * TWL Con or the Wikipedia Library conference
was supported by the CIS-A2K. The aim of the conference was to spread
awareness about TWL among the Indian languages community, understand and
identify different challenges of the movement in India.
- *1lib1ref session at Goa University: * Marathi language department and
faculty from other languages organised the #1lib1ref event at Goa
University. The practice of Marathi typing in Unicode was carried out
through preparing articles as a Word document. The students selected the
articles on the history of Goa, writers & artists of Goa, Tourism in Goa
and villages in Goa. Total of 37 editors actively participated in the
workshop. They learnt basic editing skills, adding references and uploading
on Commons.
- *Punjabi Wikimedians meetup: * Punjabi Wikimedians had an online
meeting on 27 January 2019. 11 participants joined this meeting.
*Upcoming Events: *
- *Project Tiger Community Consultation: * Project Tiger Community
Consultation is a consultation program that will take place on 2-3 March
2019 at Chennai (most probably).
- *Gujarati Meetup & Workshop, Ahmedabad: * CIS-A2K along with the
Gujarati Wikimedia community is planning the Gujarati Wikisource Workshop
and Gujarati Wikimedia Meetup in Ahmedabad. The goal of the meetup is to
introduce Wikisource and help the community better understand the scope and
future of Wikisource.
- *Train the Trainer-2019(Bids): **The bids for Train-the-trainer
program 2019 has already taken place. Currently, the jury members are
deciding the place for the TTT 2019. TTT 2019, the 6th iteration of the
Train-the-trainer program. *
You can find the meta version of the newsletter at:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/January_2019
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/January_2019>
Thanks and Regards,
*ANANTH SUBRAY P V*
MSc Candidate at CHRIST (Deemed to be University)
Programme Associate at The Centre for Internet & Society
<https://cis-india.org/a2k/cis-a2k>
Secretary of Wikipedia & Education User Group
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_%26_Education_User_Group>
Co-founder of Lakshya
<https://www.facebook.com/lakshyaforchange/?eid=ARDO9f7NCVPHN1bsF2mChlPDM4qS…>
+91-9739811664