Wikipedia-BN September 2013

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Re-releasing Konkani Viswakosh under CC-BY-SA 3.0 (Event Invitation)
by Nitika Tandon 24 Sep '13

24 Sep '13

Greetings from CIS-A2K! We request the pleasure of your company at the event 'Re-releasing Konkani Vishwakosh & Building Konkani Wikipedia' . The event will take place on the 26th September, Thursday,10am - 11am at the Conference Hall, Goa University, Taleigao. Upon CIS-A2K' explicit request, Goa University has approved the re-release of Konkani Vishwakosh under Creative Commons License (CC‐BY‐SA 3.0) to make it freely available to public and thus preserve Konkani language and culture in the digital era. This encyclopedia will also serve as one of the main sources of building and writing articles on Konkani Wikipedia (which is currently under incubation). This is a major win for the Wikimedia movement in India. This is, probably, the first time ever a State run higher education institution has re-released copyrighted content under Creative Commons. Hope more such initiatives will be underway to "Let the Knowledge Go around"! We'd like you to be a part of this event and help showcase Konkani community and language on a global digital platform such as Konkani Wikipedia. Please see the link for the invite.[1] We look forward to seeing you at the event. Best, Nitika Tandon Program Manager Access to Knowledge The Centre for Internet & Society [1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Re-release_of_Konkani_Vishwakosh_un…

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CIS-A2K MoU with Goa University (Announcement)
by Vishnu T 23 Sep '13

23 Sep '13

Dear All, On behalf of CIS-A2K, I am glad to share with you that GOA University has signed an MoU with CIS-A2K. As part of this MoU Goa University and CIS-A2K will work together to digitize “Konkani Vishwakosh” under Creative Common license and build a Digital Knowledge Partnership in order to enhance digital literacy in the Konkani language and facilitate collaborative knowledge production and disseminate the same free of cost through Kokani Wikipedia (currently under incubation). Gos University and CIS-A2K will co-design and jointly implement relevant training programmes to achieve this objective. CIS-A2K is grateful for the support and encouragement received from the Goa University Vice-Chancellor Dr. Satish Shetye; Prof. Alito Siqueira; Prof. Priyadarshini Tadkodkar; Dr. Madhavi Sardesai; Dr. Gopakumar; and other faculty of Goa University. We are also equally grateful to Wikipedians Harriet Vidyasagar and Frederick Noronha who have engaged with CIS-A2K team and been a constant source of support. Wish us best of luck! Vishnu

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Kolkata Bookfair 2014-Application submitted
by Jayanta Nath 11 Sep '13

11 Sep '13

Dear All, Today, 11 September 2013, the application was submitted by Mr Biswarup Ganguly & Me. The application is contained with; 1. The cover letter. 2. Print out registration certificate. 3. en copy of the certificate. 3. Main page of Wikimedia Foundation site. 4. Main page of en. wikipedia 5. Main page of bn. wikipedia. 6. Main page of hi. wikipedia 7. Main page of Wikimedia Chapter. It is known that the will call a meeting for finalizing the contract at late October, 2013. With regards. Jayanta Nath

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Planning type-a-thon for Bangla Wikisource (Wikisangkalan)
by Belayet Hossain 10 Sep '13

10 Sep '13

Dear Wikimedians, Bangla Wikisource[0], we called it Wikisangkalan is the 2nd largest Wikimedia projects in Bangla. Now there are 5800+ Bangla texts available in Wikisangkalan. You know there are lots of Bangla literatures are available in public domain license and many of them available at web in unicode, pdf, djvu, jpg etc. Wikisource have a nice way to host the digital files like pdf and djvu and digitize them to unicode. But unfortunate, Bangla does not have any good OCR to digitize the texts from pdf or djvu file. Till Bangla got any free/opensource OCR with satisfactory quality, the only way to do the digitization is by human typing. And we need large collaborations at these works. More people we involve in typing more digitize Bangla texts will be available in free at the web for Reader. I am planning a day long offline event at the eatherpad[1] to do the collaborative typing for Wikisangkalan. Where people can learn how to type Bangla and edit Wikisangkalan. And They will type texts from the file for Wikisangkalan. That event helps to improve Wikisource, recruit new Wikisourcers and builds relations in the community. I need your inputs, opinions and feedbacks in planning and execution. If you want to host that event, please let me know. I am happy to help you. Also please spread the words and discuss about it with others. The event may get helps from others. [0]https://bn.wikisource.org [1]https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/type-a-thon Regards, Belayet -- Belayet Hossain http://www.facebook.com/bellayet http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:bellayet https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/bellayet http://twitter.com/bellayet http://bellayet.wordpress.com (Bangla) Knowledge is universal ...so share it.

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Re: [Wikipedia-BN] [Wikimedia-BD] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing the round 2 IEG Committee
by Tonmoy Khan 07 Sep '13

07 Sep '13

Congratulations to new committee!! ---------------------- Ali Haidar Khan Treasurer, Wikimedia Bangladesh Sent from mobile On Sep 7, 2013 2:02 PM, "Khalid Khan" <khalid.mappingbd(a)gmail.com> wrote: > congratulation > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-BD mailing list > Wikimedia-BD(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-bd > >

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