Dear All,
The Access to Knowledge (A2K) team at CIS has been engaged with work on
research on Indian language Wikimedia projects as part of the APG since
2019. This year, following up on our learnings from work so far, we are
undertaking a needs assessment exercise to understand a) the awareness
about research within Indian language Wikimedia communities, and identify
existing projects if any, and b) to gather community inputs on knowledge
gaps and priority areas of focus and the role of research in addressing the
same.
We would therefore request interested community members to respond to the
needs assessment questionnaire here: https://forms.gle/2xGAUBKSVJTK7Wks9
Please respond in any Indian language as suitable. The deadline for this
exercise is February 20, 2021. For any queries do write to us on the
CIS-A2K research talk page here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:CIS-A2K/Research
User:Jayanta (CIS-A2K)
Centre for Internet and Society (CIS)
Access to Knowledge
Greetings,
We write to thank you for your immense contribution so far to our event
titled *"Wikipedia 20th celebration the way I & my family feels"
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_20th_celebration_the_way_I_%26_my…>*
To give more time to participate we have decided to extend the contest for
four additional weeks and continue the celebration.
So the new date is now 14th February 2021.
To know about already submitted creative work, kindly visit here
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_20th_birthday>
For more information, kindly have a look at the event page: *"Wikipedia
20th celebration the way I & my family feels"
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_20th_celebration_the_way_I_%26_my…>*
Let's all be creative and celebrate Wikipedia20 birthday, *"the way I and
my family feels"*.
If you are interested to contribute please participate. Do feel free to
share the news and ask others to participate.
Namaste,
Rajeeb.
(U:Marajozkee)
Hello everyone,
We are excited to announce that registration for participation has been
opened for Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021, the upcoming online wiki-event
which is to be conducted from 19 – 21 February 2021 during the occasion of
International Mother Language Day. The registration will remain open until
16 February 2021.
You can register yourself here -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Wikimeet_India_2021/Registration
If you have any questions or comments please contact
wmwm(a)cis-india.org Otherwise,
please continue to follow our program and developments on Wikimedia
wikimeet 2021 on meta-wiki.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Wikimeet_India_2021
Please help us by forwarding this email to relevant lists!
Jayanta Nath
Hello everyone,
We are excited to announce that submission for session proposals has been
opened for Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021, the upcoming online wiki-event
which is to be conducted from 19 – 21 February 2021 during the occasion of
International Mother Language Day. The submission will remain open until 24
January 2021.
You can submit your session proposals here -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Wikimeet_India_2021/Submissions
A program team has been formed recently from highly experienced Wikimedia
volunteers within and outside India. It is currently under the process of
expansion to include more diversity in the team. The team will evaluate the
submissions, accept, modify or reject them, design and finalise the program
schedule by the end of January 2021. Details about the team will come soon.
We are sure that you will share some of your most inspiring stories and
conduct some really exciting sessions during the event. Best of luck for
your submissions!
Regards,
Jayanta
On behalf of WMWM India 2021
Hi all,
This is to update you all that Wikimedia Wikimeet 2021, the upcoming online
wiki-event which is to be conducted from 19 – 21 February 2021 during the
occasion of International Mother Language Day, will be open for submissions
for session proposals from tomorrow.
You can choose from the several formats of the sessions like Presentation,
Lightning talk, Panel discussion and Workshops to submit proposals on any
Wikimedia related topics you like.
A detailed guideline on how to submit session proposals will be shared very
soon.
Event details: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Wikimeet_India_2021
Thanks and Regards,
*ANANTH SUBRAY P V*
Programme Officer
Access to Knowledge Programme <https://cis-india.org/a2k/cis-a2k>
The Centre for Internet & Society
+91-9739811664
Hello Wikimedians,
CIS-A2K <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K> is planning to invest
some resources from May-June 2020 to create community movement resource
(CMR) materials in English and different Indic languages for Wikidata in
the form of tutorials, handbooks, infographics, videos, animations etc. The
aim of this initiative is to build a pool of resource materials for
Wikidata eventually, which will serve as ready-made handy references for
new as well as experienced users. You are requested to fill up this form
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfqSEoYLfjlIgDLOTlkDcLF9xDlHYfgkJI…>
so
that we can understand your needs on different topics of Wikidata. You are
also very welcome to actively participate in the process and help us build
the CMR with your different areas of expertise.
Thanks and Regards,
*ANANTH SUBRAY P V*
Programme Officer
Access to Knowledge Programme <https://cis-india.org/a2k/cis-a2k>
The Centre for Internet & Society
+91-9739811664
Hi all,
CIS-A2K <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K> is planning to invest
some resources from May-June 2020 to create community movement resource
(CMR) materials in English and different Indic languages for Wikisource in
the form of tutorials, handbooks, infographics, videos, animations etc. The
aim of this initiative is to build a pool of resource materials for
Wikisource eventually, which will serve as ready-made handy references for
new as well as experienced users. You are requested to fill up this form
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeTgGEXCjONue6owzPtPdMU9Erc2jgas8p…>,
so that we can understand your needs on different topics of Wikisource. You
are also very welcome to actively participate in the process and help us
build the CMR with your different areas of expertise.
Take care,
Jayanta Nath
Wikisource Advisor, CIS-A2K
Hello,
I am writing this email to inform you that the last date has been extended
to apply for these job openings,
1. Graphics Design - 4 May 2020
https://cis-india.org/jobs/programme-associate-graphic-designer
2. Communications - 27 April 2020
https://cis-india.org/jobs/programme-associate-communications
Thanks and Regards,
*ANANTH SUBRAY P V*
Programme Officer
Access to Knowledge Programme <https://cis-india.org/a2k/cis-a2k>
The Centre for Internet & Society
+91-9739811664
On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 1:40 PM Ananth CIS <ananth(a)cis-india.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Would like to bring to your notice that CIS-A2K has job vacancies open
> currently for the post of "Programme Associate":
> 1. Graphics Design -
> https://cis-india.org/jobs/programme-associate-graphic-designer
> 2.Communications -
> https://cis-india.org/jobs/programme-associate-communications
> Looking for highly interested candidates who are ready to work with the
> Access to Knowledge program team which is working on programmatic
> activities and contributors that involves Wikimedia projects.
>
> Deadline: *20.04.2020*
>
> Please share this across your circles too.
>
> Thanks and Regards,
>
> *ANANTH SUBRAY P V*
> Programme Officer
> Access to Knowledge Programme <https://cis-india.org/a2k/cis-a2k>
> The Centre for Internet & Society
>
> +91-9739811664
>
>
>
Hi Assamese Wikisource Community,
As COVID-19 has forced the Wikimedia communities to stay at home and like
many other affiliates, CIS-A2K has decided to suspend all offline
activities till 15th September 2020 (or till further notice).I present to
you for an online training session for future coming months.
1. Wikisource Skill Share,[1] a capacity-building initiative, where Indic
Wikisource contributors, both newcomers and experienced, can share
knowledge and skills with each other and clear confusions. Most of the
time, it will be done online on 1:1 basis, so it is just the right time to
participate there if you have not planned to do it or done it already.
Let's learn Wikisource together! I would like to invite experienced Indic
Wikisource contributors and sign your name at Willing to respond section
[2]. Newcomer or any Indic Wikisource contributors are welcome to join the
session with your queries and doubts.
2. Intensive Personalized Training (or IPT),[3] this also a
capacity-building initiative, where Indic Wikisource contributors,
especially newcomers could come with his/her queries and doubts. I, myself
will share my knowledge and skills with each contributor and clear
confusions. It will be done online on a 1:1 basis, so it is just the right
time to participate there if you have not planned to do so.
3. Online Proofread-edithon for all 12 Indic Wikisource language projects.
We are planning for an indic level online proofreadthon from 1 May 2020 to
10 May 2020. The book of the subject will be the classical literature of
your languages. We’ll share details about this in a separate email in a
couple of days.
Regards,
Jayanta Nath
Wikisource Advisor, CIS-A2K
1) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic_Wikisource_Helpdesk/Skill_sharing
2)
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic_Wikisource_Helpdesk/Skill_sharing#Wil…
3)
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic_Wikisource_Helpdesk/Intensive_Persona…