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
Dear All,
Firstly I would like to thank you for the continuous support and
contribution to the Wikimedia movement.
Wikisource is originally called Project Sourceberg as a play on words
for Project Gutenberg <https://www.gutenberg.org/>. Wikisource began in
November 2003, as a collection of supporting texts for articles in
Wikipedia. Grew rapidly, reaching a total of 20,000 text units in various
languages by May 18, 2005. For updated page/ digitised content you go here
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/phetools/statistics.php?diff=0>
In August and September of 2005, Wikisource moved to separate subdomains
for different languages. From that time Indic community members are
actively taking part to increase the content in your language Wikisource.
But Indic community members have not got any chance to meet each other and
share best practices of their community. Keeping this in mind we are
planning to have an IRC[1] on 25th February 2018 (@8:00 PM) for the Indic
community. Please suggest Agenda for the IRC in Google Doc
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/11T9qUpNfx6wY06mVQ8XqXox26PP34eEPyswz8qP…>
[3]
[1]. https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#cis-a2k
[2]. https://tools.wmflabs.org/phetools/statistics.php?diff=0
[3]. https://docs.google.com/document/d/11T9qUpNfx6wY06mVQ8X
qXox26PP34eEPyswz8qP_xwU/edit?usp=sharing
Thanks and Regards,
*ANANTH SUBRAY P V(ಅನಂತ್)*
Programme Associate
Access to Knowledge program
The Centre for Internet & Society
+91-9739811664
ನಮಸ್ಕಾರ,
ತುಳುನಾಡಿನ ಶಾಲೆಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ತುಳುವನ್ನು ಒಂದು ಭಾಷೆಯಾಗಿ ಕಲಿಸುತ್ತಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ತುಳುವನ್ನು ಕಲಿಯುವ ವಿದ್ಯಾರ್ಥಿಗಳಿಗೆ ಉಪಯುಕ್ತವಾಗುವ ವಿಷಯಗಳ ಬಗೆಗೆ ತುಳು ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಲೇಖನಗಳನ್ನು ಸೇರಿಸಿ, ನಂತರ ತುಳು ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯದ ಆಫ್‍ಲೈನ್ ಆವೃತ್ತಿ (Kiwix) ತಯಾರಿಸಿ, ಅವುಗಳನ್ನು ಶಾಲೆಗಳಿಗೆ ತಲುಪಿಸುವ ಒಂದು ಯೋಜನೆಯನ್ನು ತಯಾರಿಸಲಾಗಿದೆ. ಅದಕ್ಕಾಗಿ ವಿಕಿಮೀಡಿಯ ಫೌಂಡೇಶನ್‍ಗೆ ಧನಸಹಾಯಕ್ಕೆ ಅರ್ಜಿಯನ್ನು ಸಲ್ಲಿಸಲಾಗಿದೆ. ಅದು <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Pavanaja/Tulu_offline_Wikipe…> ಇಲ್ಲಿದೆ. ದಯವಿಟ್ಟು ಎಲ್ಲರೂ ಅದನ್ನು ಓದಿ ನಿಮ್ಮ ಸಲಹೆ ಸೂಚನೆಗಳನ್ನು ಆ ಯೋಜನೆಯ ಚರ್ಚಾ ಪುಟದಲ್ಲಿ ದಾಖಲಿಸಿ. ಹಾಗೆಯೇ ಈ ಯೋಜನೆಗೆ ನಿಮಗೆ ಸಮ್ಮತಿ ಇದ್ದಲ್ಲಿ ಅದನ್ನು ಬೆಂಬಲಿಸಬೇಕಾಗಿ ಕೋರುತ್ತೇನೆ.
ಸಿಗೋಣ,
ಪವನಜ
Dear Indic Wikimedians,
As you are all aware, WMF and CIS-A2K have come together in a
partnership with Google to launch a pilot project to address local
online knowledge content gaps in India. In order to engage and support
active Wikipedia volunteers to produce valuable new content in local
Indian languages, we are conducting a needs assessment survey. The aim
of this survey is to understand the needs of the Indic Wikimedia
community and ascertaining their infrastructure requirements that we can
fulfill during the course of this project. Please help us by
participating in the survey below:
https://goo.gl/forms/Pinthff3OumSn1Ke2
We request you to share this survey across your communities, user groups
and network of fellow Indic Wikimedians.
Please do share your valuable suggestions with us and sign up on the
meta page below:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Supporting_Indian_Language_Wikipedias_Progr…
Regards,
The Center for Internet and Society - Access to Knowledge
Partnerships & Global Reach Team, Wikimedia Foundation
Wikimedia India &
Indian language Wikimedia communities and User Groups
ನಮಸ್ಕಾರ,
ಆಳ್ವಾಸ್ ನುಡಿಸಿರಿ ಮೊದಲ ದಿನ, ಸುಮಾರ್ ೧೫ ಜನರಿದ್ದಾರೆ, ಸಣ್ಣ ಭಾಷಣದ ಮೂಲಕ ಮಾಹಿತಿ,
ತುಳು, ಕನ್ನಡ ಲೇಖನ ಬರೆಯುವಂತೆ ಸೇರಿದವರನ್ನು ಪ್ರೋತ್ಸಾಹಿಸಿದೆವು.
ಸಮಯ : ೧೦:೦೦
ಸಂತೋಷ,
ಭರತೇಶ ಅಲಸಂಡೆಮಜಲು