Hello,

Centre for Internet and Society’s Access To Knowledge (CIS-A2K) program would like to share with you the newsletter below for the month of March 2016. We look forward to hear any feedback or input you might have.

== CIS-A2K Work-plan for July 2016 - June 2017 ==

Based on the learning and experience from its work with the Indic-language Wikimedia communities, CIS-A2K has submitted its Annual Grant Proposal along with a detailed work plan for the year 2016-2017.

Read the proposal and the work-plans:

⬤ Proposal form: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2015-2016_round2/The_Centre_for_Internet_and_Society/Proposal_form

⬤ Main work-plan page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Work_plan_July_2016_-_June_2017

⬤ Kannada Work-plan: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Work_plan_July_2016_-_June_2017/Kannada

⬤ Konkani Work-plan: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Work_plan_July_2016_-_June_2017/Konkani

⬤ Marathi Work-plan: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Work_plan_July_2016_-_June_2017/Marathi

⬤ Odia Work-plan: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Work_plan_July_2016_-_June_2017/Odia

⬤ Telugu Work-plan: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Work_plan_July_2016_-_June_2017/Telugu

⬤ Tulu Work-plan: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Work_plan_July_2016_-_June_2017/Tulu

== National-level Wikipedia Education Program review meeting at Christ University Bengaluru ==

During this 18-19th, a two-day long national-level Wikipedia Education Program Review meeting was organized at Christ University, Bengaluru. Around 25 participants consisting of Wikipedia Education Program (WEP) leaders from institutes like St. Aloysius College Mangalore, Maharashtra and Andhra Loyola College, Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, Krantijyoti Savitribai Phule Women's Study Centre participated in this event. The event aimed at collaboratively build an educational project in languages like Kannada, Marathi, Telugu and Tulu.

WEPs organized by CIS-A2K have managed to enroll about 3000 students so far to the program where the participating student have contributed in creating Wikipedia articles in five Indic languages and editing them as part of their classroom task.

Read the press release here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Press_releases/National_Wikipedia_Education_Program_Review_Meeting_At_Christ_University_Bengaluru

== Events ==

In this month we have organized or participated in this event:

⬤ BHASHA-Indian Languages Digital Festival (http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/bhasha-indian-languages-digital-festival Organized by news media YourStory; March 11, 2016; New Delhi). Subhashish Panigrahi gave a talk in the panel “The challenges of making regional language content available on the Web and on mobiles.

== Articles/Blogs ==

In this month these articles have been published:

⬤ Panigrahi, Subhashish. Eight Challenges That Indian-Language Wikipedias Need to Overcome (The Wire http://thewire.in/2016/03/17/eight-challenges-that-indian-language-wikipedias-need-to-overcome-25062/ (March 17, 2016), Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.in/subhashish-panigrahi-/8-of-many-challenges-in-g_b_9457704.html, Opensource.com https://opensource.com/life/16/3/8-challenges-improving-indian-language-wikipedias, Medianama http://www.medianama.com/2016/03/223-indic-wikipedia-growth-slow-subhashish-panigrahi/)

== Learning pattern ==

This month the following learning pattern has been created:

⬤ Storytelling over demonstration in a Wikipedia outreach (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Learning_patterns/Storytelling_over_demonstration_in_a_Wikipedia_outreach): A learning pattern describing the importance of storytelling over demonstration in a Wikipedia outreach;

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https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/March_2016