Thanks, Ananth for sharing these events and updates! This is exciting :)
If you need any help in designing a curriculum, or gathering tools or resources for running a technical workshop/event, feel free to reach out to the Developer Advocacy team: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Developer_Advocacy.
Best, Srishti
*Srishti Sethi* Developer Advocate Wikimedia Foundation https://wikimediafoundation.org/
On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 8:24 AM Samuel Klein meta.sj@gmail.com wrote:
+++ Thanks for these updates, as always :) SJ
On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 9:07 AM Shani Evenstein shani.even@gmail.com wrote:
This is great! So wonderful to see such wonderful activity from India! Keep up the good work!
Shani.
*Shani Evenstein Sigalov*
- Lecturer, Tel Aviv University.
- EdTech Innovation Strategist, NY/American Medical Program, Sackler
School
of Medicine, Tel Aviv University.
- PhD Candidate, School of Education, Tel Aviv University.
- OER & Emerging Technologies Coordinator, UNESCO Chair
https://education.tau.ac.il/node/3495 on Technology, Internationalization and Education, School of Education, Tel Aviv University https://education.tau.ac.il/node/3495.
- Chairperson, WikiProject Medicine Foundation
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Project_Med.
- Chairperson, Wikipedia & Education User Group
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_%26_Education_User_Group.
- Chairperson, The Hebrew Literature Digitization Society
http://www.israelgives.org/amuta/580428621.
- Chief Editor, Project Ben-Yehuda http://bybe.benyehuda.org.
+972-525640648
On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 3:36 PM Ananth Subray ananth.subray@gmail.com wrote:
Dear All,
We are glad to inform that CIS-A2K has published our newsletter for
January
*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
- *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
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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
Co-founder of Lakshya <
https://www.facebook.com/lakshyaforchange/?eid=ARDO9f7NCVPHN1bsF2mChlPDM4qSy...
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