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