Dear all,
We from the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS-A2K) thank you all for your support and collaboration and wish you a very Happy New Year. We bring you the details of our work for the month of January 2014:
CIS-A2K, KIIT University and Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences sign MoUs
KIIT University, Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences and the Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) have entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoUs) for furthering Odia Wikipedia. Dr.Achyuta Samanta, Founder-Chairman of KIIT and KISS inaugurated both the collaborations formally. Dr. Sasmitarani Samanta, Registrar, KIIT and Surjya Kanta Mohanty, Chief Operating Officer, KISS signed the MoUs of KIIT and KISS respectively whereas T. Vishnuvardhan, Programme Director, CIS-A2K was there to sign in both the MoUs on behalf of CIS along with Subhashish Panigrahi, Programme Officer, CIS-A2K: http://bit.ly/1j1qtFv.
Article
Odia Wikipedia: Three Years of Active Contributions Gives Life to a Ten Year Old Project (by Subhashish Panigrahi, HASTAC, January 31, 2014): http://bit.ly/1jvxD8r.
WikiSangamotsavam 2013 brings Indian Wikimedians together (by Netha Hussain and Subhashish Panigrahi, DNA, January 14, 2014). The article was edited by Rohini Lakshane: http://bit.ly/1jvynKP.
Blog Entries
Wikipedia Editing as Assessment Tool in the Indian Higher Education Classroom (by Dr. Tejaswini Niranjana, Ashwin Kumar A.P. and T. Vishnu Vardhan, January 30, 2014): http://bit.ly/1m5QHMD.
Wikipedia at Forefront in Christ University (by Syed Muzamiluddin, January 29, 2014): http://bit.ly/LTFA8E.
Events Organised
Odia WikiMeetup (Bhubaneswar, January 11, 2014): http://bit.ly/NBkFJi.
Introductory talk about "Wikipedia in Academics" (KIIT School of Technology, Bhubaneswar, January 12, 2014): http://bit.ly/1j1yv1f.
Wikipedia Editing Demonstration at NIE (Nirmala Institue of Education, Goa, January 15, 2014): http://bit.ly/1fmYkKK
Odia Wikipedia's 10th anniversary @ KISS (Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences, Bhubaneswar, January 28, 2014): http://bit.ly/1gsqkJC.
Odia Wikipedia 10th anniversary (Indian Institute of Mass Communication, Dhenkanal, January 29, 2014): http://bit.ly/1dGRBoy.
Event Participated In
The Dynamics of Education to Employment Journey: Opportunities and Challenges (organized by KIIT School of Management, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, February 21-22, 2014). T. Vishnu Vardhan gave a talk: http://bit.ly/1ePwqHc.
Media Coverage
CIS gave its inputs for the following media coverage:
Digitising contest to preserve rare books in Malayalam (The Hindu, January 4, 2014): http://bit.ly/NBtVgz.
‘With Internet in every pocket, power to the people’ (by Shubhadeep Chaudhury, The Tribune, January 12, 2014): http://bit.ly/1ojb1IZ. Shubhadeep interviews T. Vishnu Vardhan on internet and social media.
ଆଦିବାସୀ ଭାଷାର ଉନ୍ନତିକଳ୍ପେ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ (Odishan.com, January 12, 2014): http://bit.ly/1kAWJmG.
KIIT University to lead building free knowledge repository initiative (India Education Diary.com, January 20, 2014): http://bit.ly/1j1Rzwk.
Odisha: KISS to create tribal languages and heritage repository (Odisha Diary Bureau, January 20, 2014): http://bit.ly/1bLBhmB.
FDC recognition for the Centre for the Internet and Society (Wikimedia Foundation, January 30, 2014): http://bit.ly/1fYdxOz. Wikimedia Foundation published a resolution declaring CIS eligible for funding through the Annual Plan Grants program.
Tech-savvy students given tips to enter IT field (The Times of India, January 31, 2014): http://bit.ly/1j1QvIX.
Odia Wikipedia (Sanchar, January 31, 2014): http://bit.ly/1ePwAON.
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
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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
Hi All,
I am happy to inform you all our two day long Bengali Wikipedia program
successfully end today. 53+ participate this two day event & all
participant student come from different district of Bangladesh. In this
two-day program we discuss about wikipedia run different types of
Workshops.
Wikimedia Bangladesh president Munir Hasan, Me & our another Sysop of
Bengali Wikipedia Nasir Khan jointly run this discussion & workshops. In
this program our another Sysop Nahid Sultan & our offline wikipedian Palash
Nondi help us to run the event. All participant got my written book about
Bengali Wikipedia. This book published last Ekushey Book Fair 2013 [1].
Hope details event & photo share with all of you all via blog soon.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekushey_Book_Fair
On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 8:15 PM, Seb35 <seb35wikipedia(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Great program! Happy to see Wikipedia Zero in Grameen Phone!
>
> For the video you ask, you can browse https://commons.wikimedia.org/
> wiki/Category:Wikipedia_videos_in_English with many video tutorials and
> some Wikipedia introductory videos like https://commons.wikimedia.org/
> wiki/File:Edit_Button.ogv and https://commons.wikimedia.org/
> wiki/File:Great_Feeling.ogv, both of them have bengali subtitles also.
>
> ~ Seb35
>
>
> Le samedi 15 février 2014 12:42:23 (CET), Nurunnaby Chowdhury <
> nh(a)nhasive.com> a écrit :
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> I am happy to inform you Wikimedia Bangladesh (WMBD) has arranged a two
>> day
>> (February 16 & 17, 2014) Wikipedia program with Grameen Phone (A Telenor
>> concern). Grameen Phone is the largest telecommunication company based in
>> Bangladesh. Besides, in Bangladesh Grameen Phone & Banglalink (A Orascom
>> Telecom and VimpelCom Ltd concern) now provide zero.wikipedia.org &
>> m.wikipedia.org, which is completely free of cost.
>>
>> In this two-day program we will arrange different types of Workshops. WMBD
>> president Munir Hasan will conduct two seminars on wikipedia. Me & our
>> another Sysop of Bengali Wikipedia Nasir Khan will jointly run 2/3
>> workshops. Our target audience 70+ I-Genious student. This all I-Genious
>> students selected by a year-long program arranged by Grameen Phone & The
>> Daily Prothom Alo all over the country [1]. On the first day 35 & on the
>> second day 35 students will join this program. During the program we will
>> deliver hands on presentations, How to edit, how to contribute, How to
>> donate photo to commons. Moreover, we will enrich some articles those seem
>> incomplete..
>>
>> After the successful completion of the program all i-Genious students will
>> receive certificates from WMBD & Grameen Phone.
>>
>> In this program we are interested to show a video about wikipedia. It
>> would
>> be great if anyone can give me a link where i may find the video.
>>
>>
>> [1]
>> http://www.telenor.com/media/articles/2012/game-on-mobile-
>> browsing-gets-competitive-in-i-gen
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> *Nurunnaby Chowdhury Hasive* | User: nhasive
>> Sysop of *Bengali Wikipedia*
>>
>> Bangladesh Ambassador of *Open Knowledge Foundation Network*
>>
>
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Good going ....
Discussion transfer to westbengal mailing list for archive !
Jayanta
On Monday, February 17, 2014, SANTANU <santanuc4(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> কল্যাণ,
> তোমার তালিকা দেখলাম যা ক্রমশ দীর্ঘ থেকে দীর্ঘতর হচ্ছে…যথেষ্ট আশাব্যাঞ্জক |
> স্বেচ্ছাসেবক এর ব্যাপারে আমি তোমার সাথে একমত |
> আমাদের মূল লক্ষ্য কৃতি বাঙ্গালিদের সম্বন্ধে লেখা …সেখানে জীবিত বা মৃত
> যেকোনো ব্যাক্তির স্থান থাকা উচিত বলে আমি মনে করি | এভারেস্ট জয়ী /পর্বত
> অভিযাত্রী তালিকাটিতে আরও কয়েকজন এর নাম তালিকাভুক্ত করতে হবে…যেমন দেবরাজ
> দত্ত, অরুপম দাস, ডঃ বারীন্দ্র কুমার বর্মন,ইত্যাদি | এনাদের সম্বন্ধে আমি
> বর্তমানে তথ্য আনুসন্ধান করছি |
> Santanu
> santanuc4(a)gmail.com <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','santanuc4(a)gmail.com');>
>
>
>
> On 16-Feb-2014, at 7:23 PM, Kalyan Sarkar <kalyan.sarkar(a)gmail.com<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','kalyan.sarkar(a)gmail.com');>>
> wrote:
>
> শান্তনুদা / জয়ন্তদা,
>
> আমাদের এই প্রকল্পের বর্তমান স্টেটাস পাঠালাম। আমরা এগুলো মার্চ মাসের
> মাঝামাঝির মধ্যে টার্গেট করি। তারপর ঝাড়াই বাঝাই করে পয়্লা বৈশাখের মধ্যে কিছু
> একটা দাঁড়াবে।
>
> আমাদের আরও স্বেচ্ছাসেবক সরকার। তার জন্য আমি বইমেলায় অংশগ্রহণ করেছিল এমন
> কিছু উত্সাহী ছেলেকে এর মধ্য ঢোকাতে চাইছি। এর জন্য আমি পৃথকভাবে মেল করব।
>
> তালিকাতে আমি * দিয়ে কিছু নাম বসিয়ে রেখেছি। এরা সকলেই পর্বতারোহী এবং মাউন্ট
> এভারেস্ট জয়ী। এদের কি এই প্রকল্পের মধ্যে ধরা উচিত? এরা সকলেই জীবিত, যদিও
> উপরের তালিকার মধ্যে মনোহর আইচও জীবিত। আপনাদের মতামত জানান।
>
> ধন্যবাদ,
> কল্যাণ সরকার
>
>
> 2014-02-07 8:52 GMT+05:30 Kalyan Sarkar <kalyan.sarkar(a)gmail.com>:
>
> শান্তনুদা,
> সঠিক লিঙ্কটি হল -
> http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%89%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AA%…
>
> ধন্যবাদ,
> কল্যাণ সরকার
>
>
> 2014-02-07 SANTANU <santanuc4(a)gmail.com>:
>
> Link not working
> Santanu
> santanuc4(a)gmail.com
>
>
>
> On 06-Feb-2014, at 6:02 PM, Jayanta Nath <jayantanth(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> উইকিপিডিয়া:উইকিপ্রকল্প বাঙালি জীবনী/কৃতী বাঙালির তালিকা
> http://defn.me/r/bn/7cak
>
>
> 2014-02-06 Kalyan Sarkar <kalyan.sarkar(a)gmail.com>:
>
> শান্তনুদা,
>
> ধন্যবাদ। কাল রাতে পড়লাম। বইটার লেখক বা প্রকাশক সম্বন্ধে কোন উল্লেখ নেই। সে
> বিষয়ে কোন তথ্য পাওয়া যেতে পারে?
> মূল তালিকায় আরও একটি নাম যোগ করতে চাই। রেবা রক্ষিত। ইংরাজি উইকিপিডিয়ায়
> নিবন্ধ এখানে - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reba_Rakshit
>
> ধন্যবাদ,
> কল্যাণ সরকার
>
>
> 2014-02-05 SANTANU <santanuc4(a)gmail.com>:
>
> জ
>
> <bnwikiprj.xlsx>
>
>
>
All,
We are pleased to announce that the third edition of Wikipedia Takes
Kolkata would be held on 23 February 2014.
We are going to cover the following places.
1. Dargah of Manik Pir
2. Maniktala Kabarsthan
3. Pareshnath Mandir
4. Mohun Bagan Row
5. House of Nandalal Bose
6. House of Girish Ghosh
7. Naba Vrindaban Mandir
8. Gaudiya Math
9. Ghat of Sarada Ma
10. Galiff Street Bird Market
11. Sahu Ballabh House
12. Belgachhia Pareshnath Mandir
13. Veterinary College
14. Belgachia Rajbari
The relevant details are available at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_Kolkata_III
Thanks and regards,
Kalyan Sarkar
Dear All,
I am happy to inform you Wikimedia Bangladesh (WMBD) has arranged a two day
(February 16 & 17, 2014) Wikipedia program with Grameen Phone (A Telenor
concern). Grameen Phone is the largest telecommunication company based in
Bangladesh. Besides, in Bangladesh Grameen Phone & Banglalink (A Orascom
Telecom and VimpelCom Ltd concern) now provide zero.wikipedia.org &
m.wikipedia.org, which is completely free of cost.
In this two-day program we will arrange different types of Workshops. WMBD
president Munir Hasan will conduct two seminars on wikipedia. Me & our
another Sysop of Bengali Wikipedia Nasir Khan will jointly run 2/3
workshops. Our target audience 70+ I-Genious student. This all I-Genious
students selected by a year-long program arranged by Grameen Phone & The
Daily Prothom Alo all over the country [1]. On the first day 35 & on the
second day 35 students will join this program. During the program we will
deliver hands on presentations, How to edit, how to contribute, How to
donate photo to commons. Moreover, we will enrich some articles those seem
incomplete..
After the successful completion of the program all i-Genious students will
receive certificates from WMBD & Grameen Phone.
In this program we are interested to show a video about wikipedia. It would
be great if anyone can give me a link where i may find the video.
[1]
http://www.telenor.com/media/articles/2012/game-on-mobile-browsing-gets-com…
--
*Nurunnaby Chowdhury Hasive* | User: nhasive
Sysop of *Bengali Wikipedia*
Bangladesh Ambassador of *Open Knowledge Foundation Network*
FYI
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woohoo! go Sara and Pete! :)
please help spread the word to your friends new to Wikipedia.
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For the first quarter of 2014, we are launching School of Open courses on a
rolling basis in February, March, and April. The first course to open for
sign-up is "Writing Wikipedia Articles: The Basics and Beyond."
See the full announcement below and at
https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/41933.
*Below, Sara Frank Bristow invites you to join “Writing Wikipedia Articles:
The Basics & Beyond”. Sara is a co-organizer of the course and a member of
WikiProject Open <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:OPEN>. Both
projects are part of the School of Open.*
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The School of Open will offer its popular “Writing Wikipedia
Articles<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WIKISOO>”
course (WIKISOO) starting *25 February, 2014*. This free introductory
online course, now in its fourth incarnation, runs for six weeks.
Enrollment is open to all.
[image: WikiSOO_Burba]<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WIKISOO_badges>
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WIKISOO students learn about the values and culture that have driven
hundreds of thousands of volunteers to build Wikipedia. Through their work
in the course, they join an effort that has generated millions of free
articles in hundreds of languages since 2001.The course covers the
technical skills needed to edit articles, and also offers practical
insights into the site’s collaborative norms and social dynamics. Students
graduate with a sophisticated understanding of how to use Wikipedia both as
a reader and as an active participant.
The course focuses on articles about openness in education: open
educational resources<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_educational_resources>(OER),
MOOCs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOOCs>, Creative
Commons<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons>
licenses <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons_license> and more.
Students will forge connections with WikiProject
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a community of volunteers focused on this topic area. Upon successful
completion, students earn the WIKISOO Burba
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.
The course is sponsored by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the
University of Mississippi. Course instructors are:
- Pete Forsyth, Wikipedia trainer & consultant (Wiki Strategies)
- Sara Frank Bristow, OER and online education researcher (Salient
Research)
- Dr. Robert Cummings, Associate Professor (University of Mississippi)
Course registration is now open!
- More course information: http://enwp.org/WP:WIKISOO
- Enroll: http://enwp.org/WP:WIKISOO/NOW
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