Apologies for the draft that was sent by mistake. Below are the complete newsletters.
OCTOBEROdia Wikisource goes live!
After a long wait of the project in incubation,
Odia Wikisource (https://or.wikisource.org)
went live on October 20. Centre for Internet and Society's Access to
Knowledge (CIS-A2K) congratulates all the wikilibrarians whose
persistent effort for bringing new contributors and digitizing books
made this happen. CIS-A2K is also honored to be instrumental for
bringing about more than 40 books relicensed under Creative Commons
Share-Alike (CC-by-SA 4.0) license by reaching out to authors and
copyright holders. The first Odia Wikipedia campus program at Kalinga
Institute of Social Sciences (KISS) was implemented where 43 students
under the guidance of 9 faculty were trained to digitize books of
iconic Odia author Dr Jagannath Mohanty that were relicensed earlier
this year. Collaboration with Wikimedians Manoj Sahukar and
Shitikantha Dash has resulted encoding converters that convert other
encoding to Unicode. This has helped to bring new wikilibrarians to
digitize Odia classic "Odia Bhagabata" on Wikisource.
Op-ed:1. ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷା ବିକାଶରେ ପ୍ରତିବନ୍ଧକ ଓ ସମ୍ଭାବନା (Subhashish Panigrahi; Samaja; October 13, 2014):
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog/subhashish-panigrahi-october-13-2014-editorial-in-samajaBlogs:1. More Than 40 Million People Await the Launch of Odia Wikisource (Subhashish Panigrahi; Global Voices and Wikimedia Blog; October 21, 2014):
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog/global-voices-subhashish-panigrahi-october-18-2014-more-than-400-million-people-await-launch-of-odia-wikisource2. Odia Littérateur Ramakrushna Nanda's 4 Books Now Available Under a Creative Commons License (Subhashish Panigrahi; October 22, 2014):
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog/ramakrushna-nanda-four-books-under-cc-license3. Open Access Platform to Save the Odia Indian Language (Subhashish Panigrahi; Opensource.com; October 22, 2014):
http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/open-source-subhashish-panigrahi-october-22-2014-open-access-platform-to-save-the-odia-indian-language4. Odia Wikisource Goes Live! (Subhashish Panigrahi; October 26, 2014):
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog/odia-wikisource-goes-live5. Samskrita Vaibhavam (Shubha and Sayant Mahato; October 30, 2014):
http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/samskrita-vaibhavam6. Tulu Wikipedia Workshop cum Editathon at Udupi (Dr. U.B.Pavanaja; October 31, 2014):
http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/tulu-wikipedia-workshop-cum-editathon-at-udupi7. The event was covered by V4News.com (
http://v4news.com/enliven-the-tulu-viki-fidia-first-and-then-add-tulu-to-the-8th-schedule-dr-ug-pavanaja-bangalore-rep-in-udupi/) and Mangalore Today (
http://www.mangaloretoday.com/newsbriefs/2-Day-Workshop-on-Tulu-in-internet.html).
8. Converting from nonUnicode (Nudi, Baraha, ...) font encoding to Unicode Kannada (Dr. U.B.Pavanaja; October 31, 2014): (
http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/converting-from-non-unicode-nudi-baraha-font-encoding-to-unicode-kannada)
Events Co-organized:1. Sangeet Baithak: A Hindustani Music Resource Donation Event in Mumbai. (Organized by CIS-A2K and Khayal Trust; Shivaji Park, Dadar, Mumbai; October 7, 2014): (
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/sangeet-baithak)
2. Indian Women in Science Wiki edit-a-thon (Organized by IndoBioScience and CIS-A2K; Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore; October 11, 2014):
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/india-women-in-science-wiki-edit-a-thon3. Ada Lovelace Edit-a-thon 2014 (Organized by IndoBioScience and CIS-A2K; Urban Solace; October 14, 2014):
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/ada-lovelace-edit-a-thon-2014News and Media Coverage:CIS-A2K team gave its inputs to the following media coverage:
1. Enliven the Tulu Viki Fidia first and then add Tulu to the 8th Schedule : Dr.UG Pavanaja, Bangalore Rep. in Udupi (V4News.com; October 15, 2014):
http://v4news.com/enliven-the-tulu-viki-fidia-first-and-then-add-tulu-to-the-8th-schedule-dr-ug-pavanaja-bangalore-rep-in-udupi/2. Wikipedia can establish Tulu in a wider way (Mangalore Today; October 17, 2014):
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/mangalore-today-october-17-2014-wikipedia-can-establish-tulu-in-a-wider-way3. Pushing women scientists (Renuka Phadnis; Hindu; October 19, 2014):
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/the-hindu-renuka-phadnis-october-19-2014-wikipedia-editathon-attempts-to-raise-awareness-of-the-contribution-of-indian-women-to-science4. Wiki Media Foundation keen on developing Urdu Wikipedia (Nisar Ahmed Syed; October 22, 2014):
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/karnataka-muslims-nisar-ahmed-syed-october-22-2014-wiki-media-foundation-keen-on-developing-urdu-wikipedia5. Wiki Media Foundation keen on developing Urdu Wikipedia (Siasat Daily; October 24, 2014):
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/siasat-daily-october-24-2014-wiki-media-foundation-keen-on-developing-urdu-wikipedia
Participation in Events:Barcamp Bangalore (Organized by SAP Labs; Bangalore; October 12, 2014). Dr. U.B.Pavanaja and Rahmanuddin Shaik took part in the event. (
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/barcamp-bangalore)
Blogs:1. Odia author Nirmala Kumari Mohapatra's 21 books relicensed under CC-by-SA 4.0 (Subhashish Panigrahi; November 17, 2014):
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog/odia-author-nirmala-kumari-mohapatra-21-books-under-cc2. Nineteen Books Published by Ama Odisha Relicensed under CC-by-SA 4.0 (Subhashish Panigrahi; November 25, 2014):
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog/nineteen-books-by-ama-odisha-relicensed
Event Co-organized:Odia Wikisource Sabha 2014. (Co-organized by CIS-A2K and Odia Wikimedia Community; November 28, 2014). Subhashish Panigrahi participated in the event. (
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/odia-wikisource-sabha-2014)
News and Media Coverage:CIS-A2K team gave its inputs to the following media coverage:
1.ಭಾಷಣದಿಂದ ಭಾಷೆ ಉಳಿಯಲ್ಲ, ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲೇ ಮಾಹಿತಿ ಸಿಗುವುದು ಅಗತ್ಯ: ಪವನಜ (Just Kannada; November 23, 2014).
2. Kannada Wikipedia Presentation in Mysuru (Prajavani; November 24, 2014).
3. Now, Tulu set to be promoted through Wikipedia articles (Hindu; November 24, 2014).
4. ‘Tulu Wikipedia’ in incubation stage, 600 articles uploaded, says U.B. Pavanaja (Ravi Prasad Kamila; Hindu; November 26, 2014).
5. Sahu, Diana (5 December 2014). "Access to Rare Books Made Easy". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 5 December 2014. (
http://www.newindianexpress.com/states/odisha/Access-to-Rare-Books-Made-Easy/2014/12/05/article2555236.ece)
6. Odia Wikisource launched in Odisha capital. (Odisha Sun Times; November 28, 2014):
http://cis-india.org/openness/news/odisha-sun-times-november-28-2014-odia-wikisource-launched-in-odisha-capital7. [
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/orissa-diary-november-28-2014-odia-wikisource-aims-to-bring-valuable-and-rare-books-on-the-internet Odia Wikisource aims to bring valuable and rare books on the Internet] (Odisha Diary; November 28, 2014).
More press coverage in the event page: 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 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, 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.
Thanks,
Subhashish Panigrahi
Programme Officer, Access To Knowledge
Centre for Internet and Society