Dear All,
CIS-A2K had a two day meeting with WMF & FDC visiting team in its Bangalore office on 11th & 12th Feb 2014. The main agenda of the meeting was:
Understanding current state of A2K -- basic facts (finance snapshot, organizational context within CIS)
Financial review of CIS-A2K, per grant agreement
Reflection on past year - successes and challenges in activities
Reflection on past year - spending vs. plan
Discussion of the preparation for funding via the FDC process; Q&A
Reflection on relationship with various communities - successes; obstacles; gaps
Discussion of A2K's current resources: staff, funds, engaged volunteers; discuss actual plans; discuss path according to roadmap
Meeting minutes can be found here.[1]
Thanks
Nitika
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Meetings/Minutes_…
Dear friends,
I am pleased to inform you that today the Urdu Wikipedia has crossed the
50,000 articles mark.
I am honoured to be a humble contributor of this Wikipedia which has
reached a dream milestone which is yet to be covered by many other
Wikipedias.
The focus, as the community feels, will now shift on referencing and
elaborating many of the existing articles to satisfactory levels.
Also, the next target is to cross the 1,00,000 articles mark.
Regards,
Muzammil.
1.Topic: Re: Wikimedia-in-WB Digest, Vol 38, Issue 4 (Sumantro)
Thanks to Jayanta Sir and Varun Sir for taking out precious time from your
schedule and going through.The blogpost capturing the experience has been
published at
http://eloquentlyfoss3d.blogspot.in/2014/04/wikiacademynsec.html
I will be posting the pics to commons shorty.
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> Dear Sumantro, Ayan and Sarbartha,
>
> Glad to hear about this outreach event! It will be nice to have your
> experiences captured in a blog-post.
>
> Do post the link to commons if you have uploaded images of the event.
>
> Best wishes,
> Vishnu
>
> On Sunday 20 April 2014 05:30 PM,
> wikimedia-in-wb-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org wrote:
> > Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 07:31:55 +0530
> > From: Sumantro Mukherjee<saggy.zone(a)gmail.com>
> > To:wikimedia-in-wb@lists.wikimedia.org
> > Cc: Sucheta Ghoshal<sghoshal(a)wikimedia.org>, debjeet sarkar
> > <deb.jeet.sar.kar.17.08.91(a)gmail.com>, Ayan Choudhury
> > <ayay700(a)gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-in-WB] Wikimedia-in-WB Digest, Vol 38, Issue 4
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> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
> >
> > Hello All,
> >
> > Event Name:WikiAcademy@NSEC
> >
> > Description: An outreach event to grow wiki-awareness and to increase the
> > number of editors especially in bengali.
> >
> > Event date: 10th April, 2014
> >
> > Event time: 12 pm to 3 pm
> >
> > No. of days for event: 1
> >
> > City: Kolkata
> >
> > Region: West Bengal
> >
> > Country: India
> >
> >
> > Category: Wikipedia, Introduction to wikipedia, Introduction to commons,
> > Contribution Areas [Commons and Wikipedia editing]
> >
> > On 10th April, me along with 2 fellow Editors and Volunteers Ayan
> Choudhury and
> > Sarbartha Mallick
> > had organised an outreach event as a part of Avenir'14[Tech Fest of
> NSEC].West
> > Bengal.
> > Debjeet and Sucheta played an important part by giving Wikipedia Chapter[
> > Kolkata] opportunity and also helped us to arrange and conduct the event
> > successfully . The event was a quite a success as everyone responded
> > very well. Thanks to Jayanta Nath and All the senior members for
> > Encouraging us to go ahead and conduct such an event.
> > We hope to conduct more events like this in future. Special thanks to
> > for Debjeet and Sucheta for taking all the trouble and Jayanta Nath
> for
> > encouraging us.
> >
> > Blog post:
> http://eloquentlyfoss3d.blogspot.in/2014/04/wikiacademynsec.html
> > Photographs:https://www.facebook.com/Wikipediakolkatachapter
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Sumantro Mukherjee
>
>
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CISE,RHCE,MCTS,MCSE,CCNA,CCNP
Dear Sumantro, Ayan and Sarbartha,
Glad to hear about this outreach event! It will be nice to have your
experiences captured in a blog-post.
Do post the link to commons if you have uploaded images of the event.
Best wishes,
Vishnu
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> Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 07:31:55 +0530
> From: Sumantro Mukherjee<saggy.zone(a)gmail.com>
> To:wikimedia-in-wb@lists.wikimedia.org
> Cc: Sucheta Ghoshal<sghoshal(a)wikimedia.org>, debjeet sarkar
> <deb.jeet.sar.kar.17.08.91(a)gmail.com>, Ayan Choudhury
> <ayay700(a)gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-in-WB] Wikimedia-in-WB Digest, Vol 38, Issue 4
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> Hello All,
>
> Event Name:WikiAcademy@NSEC
>
> Description: An outreach event to grow wiki-awareness and to increase the
> number of editors especially in bengali.
>
> Event date: 10th April, 2014
>
> Event time: 12 pm to 3 pm
>
> No. of days for event: 1
>
> City: Kolkata
>
> Region: West Bengal
>
> Country: India
>
>
> Category: Wikipedia, Introduction to wikipedia, Introduction to commons,
> Contribution Areas [Commons and Wikipedia editing]
>
> On 10th April, me along with 2 fellow Editors and Volunteers Ayan Choudhury and
> Sarbartha Mallick
> had organised an outreach event as a part of Avenir'14[Tech Fest of NSEC].West
> Bengal.
> Debjeet and Sucheta played an important part by giving Wikipedia Chapter[
> Kolkata] opportunity and also helped us to arrange and conduct the event
> successfully . The event was a quite a success as everyone responded
> very well. Thanks to Jayanta Nath and All the senior members for
> Encouraging us to go ahead and conduct such an event.
> We hope to conduct more events like this in future. Special thanks to
> for Debjeet and Sucheta for taking all the trouble and Jayanta Nath for
> encouraging us.
>
> Blog post:http://eloquentlyfoss3d.blogspot.in/2014/04/wikiacademynsec.html
> Photographs:https://www.facebook.com/Wikipediakolkatachapter
>
> Thanks,
> Sumantro Mukherjee
Hello All,
Event Name:WikiAcademy@NSEC
Description: An outreach event to grow wiki-awareness and to increase the
number of editors especially in bengali.
Event date: 10th April, 2014
Event time: 12 pm to 3 pm
No. of days for event: 1
City: Kolkata
Region: West Bengal
Country: India
Category: Wikipedia, Introduction to wikipedia, Introduction to commons,
Contribution Areas [Commons and Wikipedia editing]
On 10th April, me along with 2 fellow Editors and Volunteers Ayan Choudhury and
Sarbartha Mallick
had organised an outreach event as a part of Avenir'14[Tech Fest of NSEC].West
Bengal.
Debjeet and Sucheta played an important part by giving Wikipedia Chapter[
Kolkata] opportunity and also helped us to arrange and conduct the event
successfully . The event was a quite a success as everyone responded
very well. Thanks to Jayanta Nath and All the senior members for
Encouraging us to go ahead and conduct such an event.
We hope to conduct more events like this in future. Special thanks to
for Debjeet and Sucheta for taking all the trouble and Jayanta Nath for
encouraging us.
Blog post: http://eloquentlyfoss3d.blogspot.in/2014/04/wikiacademynsec.html
Photographs: https://www.facebook.com/Wikipediakolkatachapter
Thanks,
Sumantro Mukherjee
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> পয়লা বৈশাখ মিট করা যায়? রঙ্গন দা জায়গা ঠিক করবেন?? বিকালের দিকে সবার সুবিধা
> হবে আশা করা যায়।
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> জয়ন্ত
>
Dear All,
It’s with deep regret that we announce the exit of Muzammiluddin Syed as Programme Officer CIS-A2K due to his personal reasons. Muzammil has been a great asset to the A2K team. CIS would like to thank him for all his valuable contributions to the Wikimedia movement and particularly helping grow Hindi and Urdu Wikimedia projects and community. During his stint at CIS Muzammil also put in concerted efforts to grow the partnership at Christ University. We're hoping that he'll continue to be a part of the movement as a treasured volunteer and we wish him the best in life.
In another context, CIS is happy to share that Rahimanuddin Shaik who was brought on board to work as Community Communications Consultant at CIS-A2K for 3 months will now continue as Programme Officer in lieu of Muzammil. Hence no separate hiring process will be undertaken for this position. In a short period of time Rahim has done some amazing work including building Telugu Wikipedia work plan for next year. Please join us in congratulating him and wishing him success in his new role.
Thanks
Nitika
Dear all,
Thank again for supporting Kolkata/Bangla community events. I think you
shall expand your support in coming year.
We have submitted our Kolkata Bookfair 2014 Project report.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Jayanta_Nath_-_Kolkata_Wiki_Comm…
Regards,
Jayanta Nath
On behalf of Kolkata & Bangla wikipedia community
Dear Wikimedians,
CIS-A2K is glad to share with you the news about the re-release of the
below listed 14 books (13 Odia and 1 English) under CC-BY-SA 3.0 license
during the Odisha Day 2014 [1] celebration in Bhubaneswar. This has been
done in collaboration with the Odia Wikipedia community, Manik Biswanath
Smrutinyasa and Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS). As some of
you may know KISS is one our institutional partners.
1) 11 Odia books by noted writer and academic Dr. Jagannath Mohanty (we
partnered Manik Biswanath Smrutinyasa Trust, founded by Dr. Mohanty for
the re-release)
2) 2 scholarly books on Odia language by Odia language scholar Subrat
Prusty from Institute of Odia Studies and Research.
3) Classical Odia (in English) co-authored by noted linguist Padmashree
Debiprasanna Pattanayak and Subrat Prusty.
We have also managed to get significant media coverage for this event,
which has got 14 print and web media mentions. [2] We will continue to
bring much more Odia content under free license as per our next year's
Odia Wikipedia work plan [3] and will try to use it to make the Odia
Wikisource live [4].
1. https://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:OD14
2. http://goo.gl/s8gvLl
3.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Draft_Work_plan_J…
4.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Draft_Work_plan_J…
Best,
Subhashish Panigrahi
Programme Officer, Access To Knowledge
Centre for Internet and Society
http://cis-india.org
@psubhashish