Congratulations!
Fabulous news and should be emulated in other states.
All the best
Harriet
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> Hi,
>
> Tamil Development and Information Department of Government of Tamil Nadu
> has issued a Government Order (Number: 105, Date: 01. 07. 2016) to Tamil
> University, Thanjavur and all other government departments and institutions
> to release all their publications, archives and collections under Creative
> Commons by Share-Alike license.
>
> This Government Order has got the approval from the TN Government's Legal
> Department and issued by the order of Governor of Tamil Nadu. The order can
> be seen here
> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GoTN_Tamil_
> Development_Departments_order_on_creative_commons_cc_by_sa.pdf>.
> We have asked for a copy of this order in English.
>
> This order comes as part of the public policy initiatives undertaken
> through the collaboration between Global Tamil Wikimedia Community and
> Tamil Virtual Academy <https://ta.wikipedia.org/s/4o7x> (TVA).
>
> The community recognizes this as a significant milestone in spreading free
> knowledge for the benefit of Tamils. We also hope that this sets a good
> precedent for all government institutions across the country. We thank the
> Government of Tamil Nadu, former director of TVA Mr. T. Udhayachandran I.
> A. S., and Assistant Director of TVA Mr. Thamizhpparithi Maari who played a
> key role in getting this order issued.
>
> Ravi
>
Great news. I am waiting for the English version of the order.
Regards
Satdeep Gill
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> Hi,
>
> Tamil Development and Information Department of Government of Tamil Nadu
> has issued a Government Order (Number: 105, Date: 01. 07. 2016) to Tamil
> University, Thanjavur and all other government departments and institutions
> to release all their publications, archives and collections under Creative
> Commons by Share-Alike license.
>
> This Government Order has got the approval from the TN Government's Legal
> Department and issued by the order of Governor of Tamil Nadu. The order can
> be seen here
> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GoTN_Tamil_Development_Departments_…>.
> We have asked for a copy of this order in English.
>
> This order comes as part of the public policy initiatives undertaken
> through the collaboration between Global Tamil Wikimedia Community and
> Tamil Virtual Academy <https://ta.wikipedia.org/s/4o7x> (TVA).
>
> The community recognizes this as a significant milestone in spreading free
> knowledge for the benefit of Tamils. We also hope that this sets a good
> precedent for all government institutions across the country. We thank the
> Government of Tamil Nadu, former director of TVA Mr. T. Udhayachandran I.
> A. S., and Assistant Director of TVA Mr. Thamizhpparithi Maari who played a
> key role in getting this order issued.
>
> Ravi
>
Thanks Dr. Pavanaja for your reply. We have received similar date changing
request
The meetup has been rescheduled to:
*Date:* : Sunday, *21 August 2016* 3:00 pm IST
*Venue:*
CIS office, No. 194, 2nd C Cross, Domlur 2nd stage
Please check event page here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore63
On 10 August 2016 at 19:50, Dr. U.B. Pavanaja <pavanaja(a)vishvakannada.com>
wrote:
> The date seems to be a bad one. There is a long weekend and hence most
> people will be going out including me.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Pavanaja
>
>
>
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> Hello,
>
> On 14 August 2016, a Bangalore Wikipedians' meetup is proposed. If you are
> in/around Bangalore, you are requested to attend this meetup. An important
> agenda of this meetup is sharing learnings and experiences of
> Wikiconference India 2016.
>
> Please see the meetup page and add your name here:
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Creating this thread to share the media coverage, blogs and reports, etc,
related to WikiConference India. Please keep sharing more here. Also, if
you are a blogger or author, do write about this huge gathering.
Below are my two cents:
Community digest: Konkani language speakers are separated by scripts but
unite by Wikipedia; news in brief, Wikimedia Blog (there are two short
updates; one about WCI and the other one about the Punjab edit-a-thon> <
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/08/04/digest-konkani-unite/>
The largest Wikipedia gathering in South Asia kicks off <
https://opensource.com/life/16/8/wikipedia-conference-india-2016>
Best!
Subhashish Panigrahi
Programme Officer, Access To Knowledge
Centre for Internet and Society
@subhapa / https://cis-india.org
Hello,
Can anyone here refer me to someone who is active in making Hindi-language
contributions to Wikisource? I wish to meet someone with experience in that
language and project. Otherwise, can anyone suggest to me which Indic
languages in Wikisource seem to be most active?
Is anyone able to make a recommendation for any OCR software for converting
scanned Hindi language documents to digital text? Does anyone know anything
about in-Wikisource support for OCR in Hindi language? Does it exist? Is
there documentation?
Thanks for anything anyone can share.
yours,
--
Lane Rasberry
user:bluerasberry on Wikipedia
206.801.0814
lane(a)bluerasberry.com
This might be of interest to some Wikipedians in Bangalore.
best wishes
Shyamal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Shyamalhttps://muscicapa.blogspot.com
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Dear All,
*CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY STUDIES*
Invites you to a talk on:
*Human Knowledge: An Evolutionary Perspective*
{INSA Golden Jubilee Commemoration Medal (Animal Sciences) 2015 Lecture}
*Speaker:* Prof. Madhav Gadgil
*Day and Date:* Thursday 11th August 2016
*Time:* 5:00 pm
*Venue:* CCS Seminar Hall, IISc
Tea/Coffee will be served at 4.30 pm
All are cordially invited
*Abstract:* Life is an information-based, cooperative enterprise, evolving
organisms capable of continually handling {1} greater quantities {2} of
increasingly more complex information {3} ever more effectively. Social
animals have taken this to new heights, with humans surpassing them all
thanks to our language abilities, and capacity to elaborate an enormous
diversity of memes, ranging over mythologies to scientific knowledge.
Knowledge has grown through interplay of seeking after truth, monopolizing
knowledge and telling calculated lies; science has succeeded in ensuring
its truly progressive evolution by promoting diversity amongst knowledge
elements and a regime of selection that ensures objective validity and
internal consistency.
*-------------------------------------------------Centre for Contemporary
StudiesIndian Institute of Science, Bangalore - 560012.*
*(Near Health Centre).Phone: 91-80-2360 6559, *
*2293 2486Chair: Prof. Raghavendra Gadagkar*
*email: ccs.iisc(a)gmail.com <ccs.iisc(a)gmail.com>*
*URL: ces.iisc.ac.in/hpg/ragh/ccs <http://ces.iisc.ernet.in/hpg/ragh/ccs>*
Dear All,
Katherine Maher recently made a visit to India to attend The WikiConference
India 2016. Post Conference, Katherine made a visit to New Delhi and met
few external partners. A synopsis of these meetings have been described
below.
1.) Meeting with Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi: At 11 AM, this Monday, Mr
Manish Siosdia (Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi) had an interaction with the
Wikimedians. The Delhi Government is all ready to roll out education
programs in the Delhi region, in fact, to help us resolve our gender gap
issues, Delhi Government would help us focus more on women's colleges at
the initial stage. The Delhi Government has also expressed its intent to
conduct a Wiki-activity in Indian languages on M.K. Gandhi in September
month, such that Delhi Government could further facilitate (small
souvenirs) the contributors on 2nd October as a part of the M.K. Gandhi's
birthday celebration. Delhi Government is also looking at possible
interventions where GLAM activities could be undertaken. Incorporating
WIkimedia projects under Delhi Government's free-public wifi scheme has
also been proposed.
The meeting was arranged by Wikimedia India and attended by Katherine Maher
along with Wikimedia India EC's (Yohann Thomas, Sanket Oswal, Abhinav
Srivastava).
2.) DIETY Meeting : At 1 AM, Wikimedians met Mr. Rajiv Bansal, Joint
Secretary. Government of India, Department of Electronics and Information
Technology at this office in Delhi. The talks centered around bringing
DIETY newsletter under open license, a collaboration between Government of
India and WMIN + CIS-A2K over government's vikaspedia, drawing attention to
Indian language content to be released under Creative Commons,
Collaboration with the ministry towards making the government websites
include better and accurate language content, etc.
The meeting was arranged by CIS-A2K and attended by Katherine Maher along
with CIS-A2K staff (Tanveer Hasan) and Wikimedia India EC's (Sanket Oswal,
Abhinav Srivastava).
3.) Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) Meeting : At 5.30 PM. Wikimedians met
Dr Ramesh Gaur (Head Libarary- JNU) and Dr Anup Das (Documentation
Officer). JNU will be opening up its central repository of thesis (almost
22,000 units, including PhDs, M.Phil and Master's Program) under open
access. JNU will be assisting us in providing journal articles to our
editors for use on Wikipedia. 'One Lib One Ref" workshop at JNU would also
be conducted in JNU shortly (maybe in September). JNU also has shown its
intent at digitization Dr B.R. Ambedkar's writing under the Hindi
Wikisource. Further collaborations during seminars at JNU on Wikisource
projects would also be taken up.
The meeting was arranged by Wikimedia India and attended by Katherine Maher
along with Wikimedia India EC's (Sanket Oswal, Abhinav Srivastava) and
CIS-A2K staff (Tanveer Hasan).
Wikimedia India takes this opportunity to thank CIS-A2K team for working
with us. Both institutions look forward to materialize these developments
collectively.
Thanks
--
Srivastava Abhinav
Executive Committee Member|Wikimedia India
Ph - +91-9711739003|Skype: abhinavsrivastava619
Wiki Username - abhinav619
Hello,
On 14 August 2016, a Bangalore Wikipedians' meetup is proposed. If you are
in/around Bangalore, you are requested to attend this meetup. An important
agenda of this meetup is sharing learnings and experiences of
Wikiconference India 2016.
Please see the meetup page and add your name here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore63
Please share this email with anyone who many be interested to join, but not
on this mailing list.
Thank you.
Dear all,
I agree about the frustration that everybody went through looking around
for rooms, I salute the effort that Ravi, Satdeep and Punjabi Wikimedia
community gave to put all of is in a pretty good and safe place.
Regards,
On 4 Aug 2016 10:09 p.m., "Jayanta Nath" <jayantanth(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Are there any accommodation for scholarship grantee? Because all 90
participant waiting for room as of now 10:15pm at Chandigarh university !
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