Wikimedia-in-mum November 2016

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Meeting in Mumbai
by Tito Dutta 25 Nov '16

25 Nov '16

Hello, Behalf of CIS-A2K, Ting-Yi Chang and I will be in Mumbai in the coming week for some work. We would like to meet Wikimedians in Mumbai. The possible topics of discussion: general Wikimedia discussion, how can CIS-A2K help you or your work, any other query you may have. If you can meet us let us know your availability on 30 November, and 1 December (evening), 2 December (evening). You can email us at tito@cis-india, or call 09591295619 Thanks and regards, Tito Dutta tito(a)cis-india.org Program Associate, CIS-A2K +91 9591295619

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Wikipedia Asian Month, and more in CIS-A2K's October newsletter
by Subhashish Panigrahi 18 Nov '16

18 Nov '16

Dear friends, We are happy to share the consolidated newsletter for October 2016. Wikipedia Asian Month — 2016 iteration starts on 1 November The second iteration of Wikipedia Asian Month (WAM), a month-long edit-a-thon to create and improve Asia-related articles on Wikipedia, is going to start on November 1. In this blog post CIS-A2K's Tito Dutta has revisited the statistics of the 2015 iteration of the event. We also spoke to Addis Wang, an organizer of WAM, to know more about their progress and preparation of the event. . . . Read more on Blog ( http://cis-india.org/a2k/wikipedia-asian-month-2014-2016-iteration-starts-o… <https://psubhashish-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1PJvbCaYjAlErR…> ) == Program reports == Outreach, education programme and community engagement programme reports: Impact Report form for the Annual Program Grant ( http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/grants-apg-proposals-2014-2015-round2-the-ce… <https://psubhashish-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1PJvbCaYjAlErR…> ) * CIS-A2K published the impact report form for receiving the Annual Plan Grant from Wikimedia Foundation. The time period of this report is the first six months of each grant (e.g. 1 January - 30 June of the current year) * Subray, Ananth. "Kannada Wikipedia Education Program at Christ university: Work so far" ( http://cis-india.org/openness/kannada-wikipedia-education-program-at-christ… <https://psubhashish-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1PJvbCaYjAlErR…>, 30 October 2016) As you know we are working closely with Christ university in Bengaluru for the Education Programs in Kannada Wikipedia and Kannada Wikisource, we worked on redesigning the programme for this academic year 2016-17 based on the lessons learned from the earlier intervention. == Articles/blogs == Articles, opinion pieces, analysis pieces: * Panigrahi, Subhashish. "What Indian Language Wikipedias can do for Greater Open Access in India". Your Story ( http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/your-story-subhashish-panigrahi-october-20-2… <https://psubhashish-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1PJvbCaYjAlErR…>, October 20, 2016) It’s been almost a decade since most largely spoken Indian languages started having a Wikipedia project of their own. With the Open Access Week—a week dedicated for promoting Open Access globally—around the corner with “Open in Action” as the theme of the year, there is no better time for anyone who can read and write in their native Indian language.. * Panigrahi, Subhashish. "Open Access Content helps Fuel Growth in Indian-language Wikipedias". Opensource.com ( http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/opensource.com-subhashish-panigrahi-october-… <https://psubhashish-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1PJvbCaYjAlErR…>, October 24, 2016) Mobile Internet connectivity is growing rapidly in rural India, and because most Internet users are more comfortable in their native languages, websites producing content in Indian languages are going to drive this growth. In a country like India in which only a handful of journals are available in Indian languages, open access to research and educational resources is hugely important for populating content for the various Indian language Wikipedias. * Pavanaja, U.B. "UTF-8, Indic and Stub Length Article in Wikipedia" ( http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/utf-8-indic-and-stub-length-article-in-wikip… <https://psubhashish-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1PJvbCaYjAlErR…>, October 20, 2016) * Pavanaja, U.B. "Querying Wikipedia Data" ( http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/querying-wikipedia-data <https://psubhashish-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1PJvbCaYjAlErR…>, October 21, 2016) * Dutta, Tito. "Wikipedia Asian Month — 2016 iteration starts on 1 November" ( http://cis-india.org/a2k/wikipedia-asian-month-2014-2016-iteration-starts-o… <https://psubhashish-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1PJvbCaYjAlErR…>, October 30, 2016) == Media coverage == In this month we have organised or participated in this event: * Sharma, Mayank. "Indian language localization community meets in New Delhi". Opensource.com ( http://cis-india.org/openness/news/open-source-mayank-sharma-october-3-2016… <https://psubhashish-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1PJvbCaYjAlErR…>, 03 October 2016) * Bagchi, Shrabonti. "Changing Wikipedia’s (and society’s) male bias is work in progress". Factor Daily ( http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/factordaily-shrabonti-bagchi-october-5-2016-c… <https://psubhashish-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1PJvbCaYjAlErR…>, October 5, 2016) * Rao, Madanmohan. "‘Entrepreneurship will become a common, respectable profession’ – 25 quotes from Indian startup journeys". YourStory.com ( http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/your-story-madan-mohan-rao-october-23-2016-st… <https://psubhashish-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1PJvbCaYjAlErR…>, October 23, 2016) == Celebrations and upcoming events == Odia Wikisource turned 2! The Odia-language Wikisource that became live on October 20, 2014, has come an eventful journey of two years. The project, that currently has six active editors < https://stats.wikimedia.org/wikisource/EN/TablesWikipediansEditsGt5.htm <https://psubhashish-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1PJvbCaYjAlErR…>> and is viewed by 10,533 unique visitors < https://stats.wikimedia.org/wikisource/EN/SummaryOR.htm <https://psubhashish-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1PJvbCaYjAlErR…>> every month, houses 460 volumes < https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/or:Special:Statistics <https://psubhashish-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1PJvbCaYjAlErR…>> of Odia text. The community and CIS-A2K together have managed to relicense < https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/01/14/odia-wikisource-digitizes-classic-boo… <https://psubhashish-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1PJvbCaYjAlErR…>> more than 309 books <https://or.wikisource.org/s/68 <https://psubhashish-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1PJvbCaYjAlErR…>> from "All Rights Reserved" to Creative Commons Share-Alike licenses. == Team updates == Our Programme Manager Dr. U.B. Pavanaja < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pavanaja <https://psubhashish-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1PJvbCaYjAlErR…>> has left the team recently, and our Programme Officer Subhashish Panigrahi < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Psubhashish <https://psubhashish-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1PJvbCaYjAlErR…>> is leaving soon to continue with their other personal/professional commitments. We thank both of them for their association and support both to the team and to the community. We wish them success in their forthcoming endeavours, and hope that they will keep contributing to the Wikimedia movement in their volunteer capacity. If you want to receive news from this program, please sign-up here ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/Subscribe <https://psubhashish-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1PJvbCaYjAlErR…>) . This newsletter is also available on Meta-wiki at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/October_2016 <https://psubhashish-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1PJvbCaYjAlErR…> Best! Subhashish Panigrahi Programme Officer, Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) Centre for Internet and Society Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cisa2k/ <https://psubhashish-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1PJvbCaYjAlErR…> Follow us on Twitter at @CISA2K [image: beacon]

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Signing out with my official hat!
by Subhashish Panigrahi 10 Nov '16

10 Nov '16

Friends, TL; DR After almost five years of professional engagement with the South Asian language Wikimedia communities, I have decided to step down from my current role. And I will remain a Wikipedian friend of yours who you can reach out in volunteer capacity on my talk page. —— I was about to complete my first wiki-versary when I joined the Wikimedia Foundation’s India Program as a Consultant for Community and Program Support. The program ran until August of 2012 and then got housed at the Centre for Internet Society’s Access to Knowledge program (CIS-A2K) [0]. Thanks to Sunil, Pranesh, Nirmita, Nishant and many others at the CIS family who embraced my team from India Program with great amount of trust. CIS became more like a family for me all these years. It will always remain my other home and alma mater - calling CIS a former employer will be quite an understatement. I feel I grew as a person along with the organization that is today a noted name for its research in openness, accessibility, privacy, IP reform, access to knowledge, and digital humanity. Over these years I have had the most memorable time in my personal and professional life. I have traveled a lot in the country and across the world, met many friends in the Wikimedia and the open knowledge community, and had the privilege of working on many important projects both locally and globally. The South Asian language Wikimedia communities that I have worked with have not just been patient and understanding, but have been my mentor in many ways. I thank you all wholeheartedly for being such great friends and guides. And I hope that I have added some value to your community, project and the larger Wikimedia movement. This was an incredible journey and I feel really honored to see as many as three new Wikimedia projects taking birth where I had a chance to contribute. Many of you have shared your stories in an interview series WikipediansSpeak [1] that I started during my time at CIS, and I felt so touched and connected to many people that spoke languages that I never even understood. I want to thank many Wikimedians both from the Indian and the global Wikimedia community that participated in @WeAreWikipedia [2], a rotation curation project on Twitter that I started as a voluntary project. The good news is @WeAreWikipedia has always been and will be a volunteer-led project even after I leave my professional role at CIS. In the last few days of my work at CIS, my biggest worry was if I will be able to give much time to wrap up Project Ol Chiki [3], a project to create typeface family and input tools for the Ol Chiki script (used to write the Santali language) that I was leading. I would like to personally thank to colleagues T.Vishnuvardhan (former Programme Director of CIS-A2K) for his guidance, Pooja Saxena for designing the typeface and several other peripherals, Prof. Damayanti Besra and other friends of the Santali-language community who have reviewed the typeface, and Wikimedians Jnanaranjan Sahu and Nasim Ali who have created the input tools. A few years of my childhood was spent in a place where 30% of people spoke this aboriginal language Santali, and I cannot share how nostalgic it felt when the opportunity came to lead this project. Once again, thanks you all the friends in the Wikimedia community, and the larger openness movement for your kind support over all these years. In the long road, this was a great milestone but there are many more to come. I hope to continue working with you in my volunteer capacity, and/or may be in my new role. Where I am heading next? Some of you might know this already. I am super excited that the next milestone is going to be another open source community as I am joining Mozilla’s Participation team as South Asia Community Catalyzer [4]. I am super excited for it. And I will keep seeing you all amazing people on the Wikimedia projects like before. Do feel free to get in touch with me in my talk page at User:Psubhashish, or over email at psubhashish (at) gmail (dot) com, or at @subhapa on both Twitter and Telegram. 0. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K <https://psubhashish-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1PJvbCaYjAlErR…> 1. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikipediansSpeak <https://psubhashish-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1PJvbCaYjAlErR…> 2. https://twitter.com/wearewikipedia <https://psubhashish-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1PJvbCaYjAlErR…> 3. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project_Ol_chiki <https://psubhashish-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1PJvbCaYjAlErR…> 4. https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/t/introducing-our-new-south-asia-co… <https://psubhashish-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1PJvbCaYjAlErR…> Love, Subhashish Subhashish Panigrahi Programme Officer, Access To Knowledge Centre for Internet and Society @subhapa / https://cis-india.org <https://psubhashish-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1PJvbCaYjAlErR…> [image: beacon]

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