Dear all,
We from the Centre for Internet and Society's Access To Knowledge (CIS-A2K) thank you all for your support and collaboration. Below is the details of our work for the month of June: Telugu Books Re-release Under Creative Commons License
Ten Telugu Books Re-released Under CC-BY-SA 3.0 License http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/ten-telugu-books-re-released-under-cc-by-sa-license (by Rahmanuddin Shaik, June 22, 2014). For the first time in the history of Indian books, 10 Telugu books by a single author were released under Creative Commons license (CC-BY-SA 3.0) on June 22, 2014 at 10 a.m. at Golden Threshold, Abids, Hyderabad. CIS-A2K has collaborated with Telugu Wikipedians in convincing Indu Gnaana Vedika to re-release 10 of their books under CC-BY-SA 3.0 license which is compatible with Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. Unlike the predominant digitization efforts (which only makes scanned images available), these books will be uploaded on Telugu Wikisource http://www.te.wikisource.org/ and converted into Unicode (searchable) text. This will ensure that these books are freely read, both online and offline in various formats like PDF, epub, mobi, text, etc. This is a major milestone initiative by CIS-A2K to make the sum of all knowledge in Telugu freely available to all Telugus over the internet and is part of its Telugu language area plan https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Draft_Work_plan_July_2014_-_June_2015/Telugu . Article
1. This Twitter Account Puts a Face to the Unsung Volunteer Editors Behind Wikipedia http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/global-voices-online-june-18-2014-subhashish-panigrahi-twitter-account-puts-a-face-to-unsung-volunteer-editors-behind-wikipedia (by Subhashish Panigrahi, Global Voices, June 18, 2014).
Blog Entries
1. Twitter weekly Curation WeAreWikipedia brings one Wikipedian http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/twitter-weekly-curation-wearewikipedia-brings-one-wikipedian-every-week Every Week (by Diptiman Panigrahi, June 16, 2014). 2. Odia Language gets a new Unicode Font Converter http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/odia-language-gets-new-unicode-font-converter (by Subhashish Panigrahi, June 20, 2014).
Events Organized
1. Kannada Wikipedia Workshop for Kannada Book Lovers http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Kannada_Wikipedia_workshop_for_Kannada_Book_lovers (co-organized by Navakarnataka Publications, Bangalore, June 4, 2014). Dr. U.B.Pavanaja conducted the workshop. 2. Knowledge and Openness in the Digital Era http://cis-india.org/openness/events/knowledge-and-openness-in-digital-era (co-organized by Andhra Loyola College and CIS, Vijaywada, June 24-25, 2014).
News and Media Coverage
CIS gave its inputs to the following media coverage:
1. Knowledge and Openness in the Digital Era: Coverage in Sakshi http://cis-india.org/news/coverage-of-event-in-vijaywada-june-25-2014-sakshi (June 25, 2014). 2. Knowledge and Openness in the Digital Era: Coverage in Enadu http://cis-india.org/news/eenadu-june-25-2014-coverage-of-vijaywada-event (June 25, 2014). 3. Loyola Faculty Enlightened About Open Edn Resources http://cis-india.org/news/the-new-indian-express-june-25-2014-loyola-faculty-enlightened-about-open-edn-resources (The New Indian Express, June 25, 2014).
Wikimedia Foundation has funded A2K to anchor the growth of Wikimedia movement in India. The A2K team consists of six members, four based in Bangalore: T. Vishnu Vardhan, Dr. U.B. Pavanaja, Subhashish Panigrahi and Rahmanuddin Shaikh. One team member Nitika Tandon is based in Delhi. We also have one Advisor Dr. Tejaswini Niranjana working with us. Archives of our newsletters can be accessed here http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters. Wikipedians from various communities can request for outreach programs, technical bugs, logistics-merchandize and media, public relations and communications here https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Requests. About CIS
The Centre for Internet and Society is a non-profit research organization that works on policy issues relating to freedom of expression, privacy, accessibility for persons with disabilities, access to knowledge and IPR reform, and openness (including open government, FOSS, open standards, etc.), and engages in academic research on digital natives and digital humanities. Follow us elsewhere
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Request for Collaboration:
We invite researchers, practitioners, and theoreticians, both organisationally and as individuals, to collaboratively engage with Internet and society and improve our understanding of this new field. To discuss the research collaborations, write to Sunil Abraham, Executive Director, at sunil@cis-india.org or Nishant Shah, Director – Research, at nishant@cis-india.org. To discuss collaborations on Indic language wikipedia, write to T. Vishnu Vardhan, Programme Director, A2K, at vishnu@cis-india.org.
CIS is grateful to its primary donor the Kusuma Trust founded by Anurag Dikshit and Soma Pujari, philanthropists of Indian origin for its core funding and support for most of its projects. CIS is also grateful to its other donors, Wikimedia Foundation, Ford Foundation, Privacy International, UK, Hans Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, and IDRC for funding its various projects.
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Hi Subha,
Could you please state it explicitly at http://twitter.com/wearewikipedia that it is a CiS-A2K initiative?
Because I contributed once thinking it is a community project initiated by you as a Odia / Indic Wikipedian :)
Ravi
Hi Ravi,
I think there is a small confusion. The WeAreWikipedia initiative is of course a community project. It is always a difficult task to distinguish between work done in official and personal capacity. But, as you have asked me to clarify, I would only tell that part of my office time was spent to author the blog post. CIS-A2K, at times, publishes some of the posts written by the community and it is not intended to take credit of community work. Rather, it is to take the news of the activities done to more people. Hope that explains.
And you were one of the initial contributors to the project and I thank you again heartily for volunteering.
Best, Subha
On 10/07/14 6:16 pm, Ravishankar wrote:
Hi Subha,
Could you please state it explicitly at http://twitter.com/wearewikipedia that it is a CiS-A2K initiative?
Because I contributed once thinking it is a community project initiated by you as a Odia / Indic Wikipedian :)
Ravi
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Subha,
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Draft_Work_plan_Ju...
says as following:
"We have also recently started Twitter handle @WeAreWikipedia https://twitter.com/WeAreWikipedia, which works on a rotation curation model, involving Wikimedians from across the world."
Ravi
. On Jul 10, 2014 7:36 PM, "Ravishankar" ravidreams@gmail.com wrote:
Subha,
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Draft_Work_plan_Ju...
says as following:
"We have also recently started Twitter handle @WeAreWikipedia, which
works on a rotation curation model, involving Wikimedians from across the world."
Ravi
No wonder none of the people who were critical of A2K are being allowed to curate it. _______________________________________________
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We all know of their intentions..they have to do something..how else would they show their presence! I'm tired of lame reports and naive explanations whenever questions being asked..please have a separate mailing list..folks interested can subscribe there. Thanks.
Ansuman
On 10 July 2014 20:23, Srikanth Ramakrishnan rsrikanth05@gmail.com wrote:
. On Jul 10, 2014 7:36 PM, "Ravishankar" ravidreams@gmail.com wrote:
Subha,
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Draft_Work_plan_Ju...
says as following:
"We have also recently started Twitter handle @WeAreWikipedia, which
works on a rotation curation model, involving Wikimedians from across the world."
Ravi
No wonder none of the people who were critical of A2K are being allowed to curate it. _______________________________________________
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Dear Srikanth,
Thanks for pointing this. But, I do not agree with your accusation. I am considering this as your interest to curate WeAreWikipedia. Please get in touch in a personal mail so I could share the credentials. Furthermore, if you or anyone from the community would like to take the responsibility of finding Wikipedians and having them to curate WeAreWikipedia, I am happy to pass on the adminship.
Ravi, I am still unable to understand what is wrong in that. As I had stated earlier I created WeAreWikipedia as an open, collaborative and community owned project and it is running in that way. You could share your own experience, and correct me if I am wrong in anywhere so I could correct myself.
Best, Subha
On 10/07/14 8:23 pm, Srikanth Ramakrishnan wrote:
. On Jul 10, 2014 7:36 PM, "Ravishankar" <ravidreams@gmail.com mailto:ravidreams@gmail.com> wrote:
Subha,
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Draft_Work_plan_Ju...
says as following:
"We have also recently started Twitter handle @WeAreWikipedia, which
works on a rotation curation model, involving Wikimedians from across the world."
Ravi
No wonder none of the people who were critical of A2K are being allowed to curate it. _______________________________________________
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Subha,
//As I had stated earlier I created WeAreWikipedia as an open, collaborative and community owned project and it is running in that way.//
If this is true, why should Vishnu document this as a CIS-A2K work at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Draft_Work_plan_Ju...
If CIS-A2K is claiming credit for this work, then the Twitter handle should explicitly state this affiliation.
Ravi
Subha,
To clarify further:
* This is a good project.
* I don't mind whether you spend your personal time or official time for this.
* Issues regarding denial of contribution requests doens't fit in this discussion.
My issue is when you asked me to contribute for this, I saw you as a community member and contributed.
But, I was shocked to see this reported as a CIS-A2K project later. I might have even contributed knowing that but not revealing that in advance is a serious disappointment. I am not sure how many other contributors were informed of the CIS-A2K affiliation.
Here is another instance where CIS-A2K claims affiliation to this work:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:APG/Proposals/2013-2014_round2/T...
My request is simple:
EITHER declare this affiliation in the Twitter page.
OR stop mentioning this as a CIS-A2K initiative anywhere.
Ravi
Dear Subha,
I think, Ravi has a valid observation and a useful suggestion.
Cheers, Vishnu
On Friday 11 July 2014 03:19 PM, Ravishankar wrote:
Subha,
To clarify further:
This is a good project.
I don't mind whether you spend your personal time or official time
for this.
- Issues regarding denial of contribution requests doens't fit in this
discussion.
My issue is when you asked me to contribute for this, I saw you as a community member and contributed.
But, I was shocked to see this reported as a CIS-A2K project later. I might have even contributed knowing that but not revealing that in advance is a serious disappointment. I am not sure how many other contributors were informed of the CIS-A2K affiliation.
Here is another instance where CIS-A2K claims affiliation to this work:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:APG/Proposals/2013-2014_round2/T...
My request is simple:
EITHER declare this affiliation in the Twitter page.
OR stop mentioning this as a CIS-A2K initiative anywhere.
Ravi
The impression given here to someone who does not know the existence of community project WeAreWikipedia, such as me, is that CIS-A2K began the twitter handle & by implication the initiative.
On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 6:43 PM, Ravishankar ravidreams@gmail.com wrote:
Vishnu, Subha
Thanks for reflecting the affiliation at https://twitter.com/WeAreWikipedia now.
Ravi
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True that. This ought to be addressed or corrected. A note citing the overlook to the mailing lists that this has been shared with, perhaps?
On 12 July 2014 19:27, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.baindur@gmail.com wrote:
The impression given here to someone who does not know the existence of community project WeAreWikipedia, such as me, is that CIS-A2K began the twitter handle & by implication the initiative.
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