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
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