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…
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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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Date: Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 3:09 PM
Subject: "Writing Wikipedia Articles" Course Now Open for Registration
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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>
WIKISOO Burba Badge
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
Open<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:OPEN>,
a community of volunteers focused on this topic area. Upon successful
completion, students earn the WIKISOO Burba
Badge<http://badges.p2pu.org/en/badge/view/22/>
.
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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Creative Commons
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Social Media Interaction Expert &
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Bangladesh Ambassador | Open Knowledge Foundation Network
<http://www.okfn.org>
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Dear All,
In inform to you that I have taken a project of Wikivoyage for Bengali version. I create a main page for that. If you all Kindly help the Bengali Wikivoyage by your contribution. There is no pages in Bengali version and it is in incubator position now or projects under incubation. There is no Wikivoyage projects in any Indian language and has only 15 foreign languages.
Now let start Wikivoyage or উকিভ্রমণ by contributing from incubator stage to main stage.
I give the main page link of Bengali Wikivoyage or উকিভ্রমণ below:
<https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wy/bn/%E0%A6%AA%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A…> https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wy/bn/%E0%A6%AA%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A…
It is requested to all kindly take the project as Bengali Wikipedia. Anyone can contact or discussed me freely.
Thanks & Regards,
Sourav Dey
Ph No. 9883092338/9674447930
E-mail:souravdey.news@gmail.com
User Id: DeSou27
প্রিয় সবাই,
একটা ভালো খবর..
২০১২ সালের ডিসেম্বর থেকে ২০১৩ সালের ডিসেম্বর পর্যন্ত পাওয়া তথ্য অনুযায়ী এক
বছরে বাংলা উইকিপিডিয়ার ব্যবহার বেড়েছে ৪৬ শতাংশ। বাংলার পাশাপাশি
উইকিপিডিয়ার হিন্দি সংস্করণের ব্যবহার ৩৪ শতাংশ, মালায়ালাম সংস্করণ ৩৬ শতাংশ,
মারাঠি সংস্করণ ৪ শতাংশ এবং তেলেগু ১ শতাংশ বেড়েছে। এ নিয়ে আজ প্রথম আলোতে
প্রকাশিত সংবাদ:
*বাংলা উইকিপিডিয়ার ব্যবহার
বেড়েছে*<http://www.prothom-alo.com/technology/article/128638>
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Administrator | Bangla Wikipedia <http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:nhasive>
Social Media Interaction Expert &
Assignment Reporter | The Daily Prothom-Alo <http://www.prothom-alo.com>
Bangladesh Ambassador | Open Knowledge Foundation Network
<http://www.okfn.org>
Treasurer | Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN) <http://www.bdosn.org>
fb.com/nhasive | @nhasive <http://www.twitter.com/nhasive> | Skype: nhasive
| www.nhasive.com
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 December 2013:
CIS-A2K: Work Accomplished on Konkani Wikipedia
We are pleased to share with you the key accomplishments on Konkani Wikipedia from September to December 2013 in this report. It has been found that there has been an increased editing activity on Konkani Wikipedia, and an increase in the number of articles on Konkani Wikipedia. Konkani Vishwakosh was re-released under Creative Commons License, we initiated Konkani Vishwakosh Digitization project and signed a MoU with Goa University to build Konkani Wikipedia: http://bit.ly/1l6ttmp.
Article
Telugu Wikipedia completes 10 years (by Rahmanuddin Shaik, DNA, December 16, 2013): http://bit.ly/19OAvUV. The article was edited by Rohini Lakshané.
Blog Entries
First ever Train-the-Trainer Program in India (by Nitika Tandon, December 5, 2013): http://bit.ly/1euwSXt.
Priyadarshini Tadkodkar on Konkani language (by Subhashish Panigrahi, November 17, 2013): http://bit.ly/1hldNM8. We are featuring this here as we didn’t carry this in the last newsletter.
Varsha Kavlekar on Konkani Wikipedia Incubator (by Nitika Tandon, December 12, 2013): http://bit.ly/KmxyFo.
Darshan Kandolkar on Konkani Vishwakosh Digitization Process (by Nitika Tandon, December 13, 2013): http://bit.ly/1cqKyQ2.
Darshana Mandrekar speaks on Konkani Wikipedia (by Nitika Tandon, December 16, 2013): http://bit.ly/1keWyya.
Pooja Tople on Wikimedia Projects (by Nitika Tandon, December 17, 2013): http://bit.ly/1hlbubU.
(2-6 are videos of participants from the Konkani Vishwakosh Digitization project (jointly organised by CIS-A2K and Goa University) speaking on their experiences with Wikimedia projects.)
Events Organised
You Too Can Write on Wikipedia! — Training workshop (National Institute of Tourism and Hotel Management, Gachibowli, Hyderabad, December 5, 2013): http://bit.ly/1edmx1z.
Telugu Wikipedia Training Workshop (KBN College, Vijaywada, December 16, 2013): http://bit.ly/1i8ScnL.
Kannada Wikipedia Workshop at Alvas Vishva Nudisiri Virasat (Moodabidre, December 19 – 22, 2013). Dr. U.B. Pavanaja gave a presentation about Kannada Wikipedia and also conducted a workshop on Kannada Wikipedia as a parallel track. The event was covered by Prajavani (December 22), Hosadigantha (December 22), and Deccan Herald (December 22): http://bit.ly/1dGTBkw.
Events Co-organised
Wikipedia Orientation Workshop (organised by CIS-A2K and Christ University, Bangalore, December 2, 2013): http://bit.ly/1lrkwEy.
Wikipedia Training Session @ Tiruvur (organised by CIS-A2K and Telugu Wikipedia community, Srivahini College, Tiruvur, December 19, 2013). T. Vishnu Vardhan and Rahmanuddin Shaik conducted the workshop: http://bit.ly/1e3oQX7. It was covered by Andhraprabha (http://bit.ly/1bU5VsQ).
Thanks
Nitika Tandon
Hi Everyone
I would like to invite each one of you to the *Wikipedia Day 2014*, which
is going to be held on the 19th January 2014 at 1:00 pm ,Birla Industrial &
Technological Museum<https://www.facebook.com/pages/Birla-Industrial-Technological-Museum/132732…>19A
Gurusaday Road, Kolkata 700019 The program for the day shall include the
following.
1. Induction session for the volunteers at the Kolkata Book Fair
(1.00PM-3.00PM)
2. Thoughts on 10 years of Bengali Wikipedia & Introduction of Wikipedia
(3.00PM-4.00PM)
3. Press Release for the upcoming events (4.00PM-4.30PM)
4. Celebrations of the Wikipedia Day 2014 (4.30PM-5.15PM)
Wikipedia Event Page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Kolkata/Kolkata13
It requested to everybody please register yourself, Seats are limited,on
first come first served basis. Registration is free of cost.
Registration link-https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/
viewform?usp=drive_web&formkey=dDV5d2w0M1VTR0hSTzBfTnU5aVZvWXc6MQ#gid=0
Thanking you
Jayanta Nath