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Vacancy for a Programme Officer for the Access to Knowledge programme (CIS-A2K)
by Subhashish Panigrahi 30 Sep '16

30 Sep '16

Dear friends, First of all, apologies if this mail is not in your native language. This to share with you all that we have published on the jobs section of the CIS website [0] for the position of Programme Officer of the Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) programme. We would really appreciate if you can share with interested friends, colleagues and communities. Please let us know if there is any kind of changes needed. We will love to address any concerns or inputs. Best, Subhashish ---------- The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) is seeking applications from prospective candidates who identify themselves as female, for the position of Programme Officer (Communications) , to support its Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) Programme. The job application is open to women only because we feel that a woman communications person will contribute more towards bridging the gender gap in the Wikimedia movement by emphasising on gender-sensitive communication apart from contributing internally for bringing a gender balance in the team. The position is full time and will be based in CIS’ Bengaluru office. Programme Officer will work closely with CIS-A2K Team (hereinafter Team) and would report to the Executive Director/any supervisor in Team. Position Summary: As a Programme Officer, your job will be to support the Team’s larger goals — growth of Indian-language Wikipedias and other Wikimedia projects (hereinafter Wikimedia projects), and the contributor communities (hereinafter Community). Your primary responsibility will be to support the Programme Associates — that spearhead our on-ground programmatic activities -- with regular communications with the community and the world outside. Characteristics of the Programme Officer: * High level of commitment: The Programme Officer should believe in the values of CIS and Wikimedia projects, exude enthusiasm for the mission and can powerfully embody and communicate the mission. * Intellectual curiosity and flexibility: Must enjoy tackling difficult, ambiguous problems and able to incorporate new knowledge into how one approaches situations and generates solutions, loves learning from others while expanding intellectual horizons. * Open and transparent: Have a high level of integrity and be comfortable working in a highly transparent fashion, open to input and feedback, a proactive and candid communicator who wants people to know what s/he is doing and isn't afraid to bring others in when things are off-track or when you need help and should able to handle criticism in a mature fashion. * Community builder: It is essential that the Programme Officer sees herself/himself as a partner to and supporter of the Wikimedians who have and will continue to be the leaders in building the Wikimedia projects. The Programme Officer must be willing and able to work with a diverse array of people, many of whom come from non-traditional backgrounds and have a fervent commitment to Wikimedia movement’s community-led nature. * Strong cultural competency: Able to navigate in a global movement and on a global team in addition to navigating the complexity of India. * Partnership developer: Able to initiate, negotiate and operate partnerships that advance the Wikimedia mission in Indic languages and English (as relevant to India) with a wide range of institutions across the public, NGO, universities, philanthropic and private sector. * Willing to travel: The Programme Officer must regularly travel within India to engage with Wikimedia communities and partner with institutions. Responsibilities: * You will be responsible for the overall communications of Team that include storytelling in the form of interviews, blogs, opinion pieces in newspaper/other platforms, regular coverage in both Indian language and English media, and anything beyond. * You will be exploring widely from conventional to new media to spread the stories of the hundreds and thousands of volunteers that make the Indian-language Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects such great knowledge repositories. * Creating original stories of challenges and learning, and successes of Wikimedia community in general and the ones that we closely work with in particular. * Function as an interface between A2K team and the community, and help the team better work collaboratively with the community. * Sharing the work of the community and A2k team in a regular basis in the monthly newsletters and other places. * Providing training on effective communications to the communities in a need basis, and supporting them to independently tell their own stories in their own languages. * Announcement of programmatic activities in the form of announcements, blogs and reports, and microblogging (social media, etc.). * Interviewing Wikimedians under the ambit of the WikipediansSpeak [*] project and beyond, and share the story of the Wikimedia community widely in the media. Required Skills: * Graduate or masters in journalism/other media studies, law, or any other discipline with at least two-three years of professional experience with a strong track record of success in high performance organisations, preferably in non-profits. * Experience could be during studies or after, primarily in blogging, writing organisation reports, managing social media for organisations, interviewing and covering people’s stories in mainstream media. * Prior experience of working in a collaborative community, preferably and open one like Wikipedia and in online. * Good understanding of the basics of organisational programme design and management. * Strong understanding of the Internet and the forces that underpin the success of Wikipedia. Active participation as a Wikimedia volunteer would be an asset, though not a prerequisite (must be prepared to demonstrate knowledge of how Wikipedia works in interviews). * Experience working in a global, multicultural and diverse team environment will be preferred. * Must be fluent in English and at least in one Indian language. * A good understanding of the cultural and knowledge universe of the Indian language communities. * Ability to integrate and understand the complexity of the Indian language communities. Pluses: * Support India-focused initiatives to improve quality of India-relevant content and number of editors on Indian-language Wikimedia projects. * Support the growth of Indian-language Wikimedia communities and projects by designing and implementing community collaborations and partnerships projects – detailing rationale, aim and objective, execution, evaluation, timeline, resource investment, etc. * Spearhead CIS-A2K’s pilot projects.Identify institutions/groups that have ready-made content/archived material and aggregate available material in respective languages. * Create a network of state institutions, university departments, non-government organisations, academics, artists, researchers and Wikipedia community members that will work towards creating a repository of knowledge on specific themes by using Wikimedia projects as a platform. * Conduct initial meetings with the principal investigators from each of the shortlisted institutions and share project ideas. * Facilitate Wikimedia community involvement with the core network of institutions and principal investigators to collaboratively participate on specific content/area modules. * Create social media platforms for visibility of these projects and facilitate need-based technical and online support. * Conduct a series of Wikimedia outreach sessions for various nodes within the network. * Conduct periodic monitoring and evaluation of the pilot projects in progress. * Generate and document lessons from programme activities that can inform the work of Indian communities and similar programmes in other countries. * Provide ad hoc support to the Wikipedia community on all aspects of Indian languages as may be deemed necessary. Context of the CIS-A2K programme: As an affiliate of the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit behind Wikipedia and Wikipedia’s sister project, we design and implement different projects with an aim to create high quality content and cultivate new contributors to Wikimedia projects. The projects will be premised on themes and seek to create a multilingual repository of knowledge using Wikimedia projects as a knowledge platform. You are encouraged to deeply engage with the CIS-A2K work plan before making the application. You will work cohesively with the Wikimedia community and the Wikimedia India Chapter to meet specific goals of each language community in India. You will be a part of a small team of 5 to 10 doing high visibility and high impact work. Please note that we, at CIS, do not have any distinction,exclusion, or preference that is based on the basis of race, colour, sex, religion, political opinion, national extraction, social origin, which has the effect of nullifying or impairing equality of opportunity and treatment in employment. (adapted from Declaration ILO Geneva [3]) Location: The position is based out of the CIS’s Bangalore office. Remuneration: Compensation structure will be determined by the level of expertise, experience and current remuneration. To apply, please send your resume along with a covering letter and at least three references to Tanveer Hasan (tanveer(a)cis-india.org) by October 20, 2016. Notes: 0. http://cis-india.org/jobs/cis-a2k-programme-officer 1. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter 2. WikipediansSpeak is an initiative to bring the voices of Wikipedians to the world and include interviews in various media, both multimedia and text-based narratives and beyond. More in the project page <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikipediansSpeak> 3. http://www.ilo.org/public/portugue/region/eurpro/lisbon/pdf/agender_jun06.p… Thanks, Subhashish Panigrahi Programme Officer, Access To Knowledge Centre for Internet and Society @subhapa / https://cis-india.org

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Tulu Wikipedia goes live after 8 years in Incubator; and more in CIS-A2K's August newsletter
by Subhashish Panigrahi 20 Sep '16

20 Sep '16

Community digest: Tulu Wikipedia goes live after eight years in Incubator; news in brief: Eight years after being created in the Wikimedia Incubator, the Tulu-language Wikipedia is now live as the 23rd Indic language. Available at https://tcy.wikipedia.org, the project has a total of 1285 articles contributed by 198 editors. Other news in brief: * Ongoing India At Rio Olympics 2016 Edit-a-thon (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMIN/events/India_At_Rio_Olympics_2016_Edit…) promises to plant one tree for every 20 new articles created * Wiki Loves Monuments (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2016_in_Ind…) returns to India after three years * WikiConference India 2016 (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016) , the largest Wikimedia community gathering of the year in South Asia comes to an end * Ashutosh Sarangi (https://or.wikisource.org/wiki/User:Ashusarangi) , the youngest Wikimedian from the oldest Indian-language Wikipedia community . . . Read more on Blog (https://https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/08/24/digest-tulu-wikipedia/) Community digest: Konkani language speakers are separated by scripts but unite by Wikipedia; news in brief: This post shares learning from a Goan Konkani Wikipedian User:The Discoverer. The discussion spans around the topics of how [Goan Konkani] Wikipedia is playing the role of a binding factor for native speakers that are currently dispersed in many states, speak in different variations of the same language, and write in different scripts. Other news in brief: * WikiConference India 2016 to be held at Chandigarh during August 5–7 * Punjab edit-a-thon * Campaign for relicensing copyrighted books under Creative Commons licenses * Train-the-trainer and Mediawiki training program for capacity building of community leaders from Indian subcontinent * Indian women in Science edit-a-thon * Indigenous South-Asian language Santali gets a new open Unicode font . . . Read more on Blog (https://https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/08/24/digest-tulu-wikipedia/) Programme reports == Outreach, education programme and community engagement programme reports == * A workshop to improve Telugu Wikipedia articles on Nobel laureates (http://cis-india.org/openness/a-workshop-to-improve-telugu-wikipedia-articl…) (Pavan Santhosh S; August 31, 2016) Many articles about Nobel laureates are missing in the Telugu Wikipedia. Recently undergraduate students from four different disciplines of the Andhra Loyola College (ALC), Vijayawada gathered to create and improve articles related to Nobel laureates. * Campaign for relicensing copyrighted books under Creative Commons licenses (http://cis-india.org/openness/campaign-for-relicensing-copyrighted-books-un…) . (Pavan Santhosh S and Subhashish Panigrahi; August 30) A campaign has been started to relicense Telugu-language books of several noted authors from "all rights reserved" to Creative Commons Share-Alike (CC-BY-SA) license. This campaign was started on June 19 and copyright migration process is complete for 17 books so far. Once the copyright migration is over the books—ranging from historical figures and popular personalities to regional history—are going to be digitised on Wikisource. * Wikiwomen’s Meetup at St. Agnes College Explores Potentials and Plans of Women Editors in Mangalore, Karnataka (http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikiwomen2019s-meetup-at-st-agnes-college-ex…) (Ting-Yi Chang, August 27, 2016) Karnataka is known for its diverse linguistic cultures. Aside from Kannada, many are native speakers of Konkani, Tulu, and other languages. A small Wikiwomen's meetup was held on Saturday, August 27th at St. Agnes College, Mangalore, to invite female Wikipedians from the region. Many of them were new to the online encyclopedia but demonstrated strong interest in learning and contributing more Indic language content online. == Participation in events and the ongoing events == * Focus on India—WikiConference produces new apps; state government adopts free licenses (http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/the-signpost-august-18-2016-pete-forsyth-and-…) (Organized by by the Community of Wikimedians in India, supported by Wikimedia India and CIS; August 5 - 7, 2016; Chandigarh; CIS-A2K team participated, and some of the members were part of organising the event and some presented talks and conducted workshops) == Articles, opinion/analysis pieces and event talk submissions == * 3 Copyright Tips for Students and Educators (http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/3-copyright-tips-for-students-and-educators) (Subhashish Panigrahi; Opensource.com; August 16, 2016). * ଓଡ଼ିଆ ପାଇଁ ଓସିଆର: ଛପା ଲେଖାର ଛବିରୁ ଡିଇଟାଲ ଲେଖା (http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/samaja-subhashish-panigrahi-august-21-2016-o…) (Subhashish Panigrahi; Samaja; August 21, 2016). * Preserving Languages and Cultures in India: The Birth of the Tulu Wikipedia (http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/preserving-languages-and-cultures-in-india-t…) (Subhashish Panigrahi; August 26, 2016). * Meet the Newly Born Tulu Wikipedia, the 23rd in a South Asian Language! (http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/global-voices-august-28-2016-subhashish-pani…) (Subhashish Panigrahi; August 28, 2016). * WikiConference India 2016 Submission: How to better tell your Wikimedia Community Story using Media as a Tool (http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikiconference-india-2016-submission-how-to-…) (Subhashish Panigrahi; August 17, 2016). * WikiConference India 2016 Submission: We, Men, Women: Collective Learning in Bridging Indic Wikipedia Gender Gaps (http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikiconference-india-2016-submission-we-men-…) (Ting-Yi Chang; August 17, 2016). * WikiConference India 2016 Submission: Gender Gap in Indian Language Wikipedias – Projects, Outreach and Outcome (http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikiconference-india-2016-submission-gender-…) (Dr. U.B. Pavanaja; August 17, 2016). * Community Digest: Tulu Wikipedia Goes Live after Eight Years in Incubator; News in Brief (http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/community-digest-tulu-wikipedia-goes-live-af…) (Subhashish Panigrahi and Ting-Yi Chang; August 24, 2016). * Wikiwomen’s Meetup at St. Agnes College Explores Potentials and Plans of Women Editors in Mangalore, Karnataka (http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikiwomen2019s-meetup-at-st-agnes-college-ex…) (Ting-Yi Chang; August 31, 2016). == Media coverage == Events and activities that we have organised or participated in: * WikiConference India 2016 Starts Friday in Chandigarh (http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/indo-asian-news-service-ndtv-august-4-2016-wi…) (Indo Asian News Service and NDTV; August 4, 2016). * Tulu Wikipedia Goes 'Live' (http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/tulu-wikipedia-goes-live) (Wikimedia Blog; August 5, 2016). * India's 23rd regional Wikipedia, in Tulu, goes live (http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/business-standard-august-6-2016-india-23-regi…) (IANS and Business Standard; August 6, 2016). * After eight years, Tulu Wikipedia goes live (http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/hindu-raviprasad-kamila-august-7-2016-after-e…) (Raviprasad Kamila; Hindu; August 7, 2016). * In Tulu, India's 23rd Regional Wikipedia Goes Live (http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/huffington-post-august-7-2016-naina-chaturved…) (Naina Chaturvedi; Huffington Post; August 7, 2016) * India's 23rd Regional Wikipedia Launches (http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/ccm-august-8-2016-ranu-p-india-23-regional-wi…) (CMM.net; August 8, 2016). * Wikipedia launches in Tulu, its 23rd Indic language (http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/medianama-august-9-2016-vivek-pai-wikipedia-l…) (Vivek Pai; Medianama; August 9, 2016). * Telugu Wikipedians create Articles on Punjab in Telugu Wikipedia (http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/telugu-wikipedia-articles-on-punjab-media-cov…) (Sakshi; August 11, 2016). * Telugu Wikipedians create Articles on Punjab in Telugu Wikipedia (http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/telugu-wikipedia-articles-on-punjab-media-cov…) (Eenadu; August 11, 2016). * Tulu gets official Wikipedia page, but Mumbai linguists say more is needed (http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/mid-day-anju-maskeri-august-21-2016-tulu-gets…) (Anju Maskeri; Mid-Day; August 21, 2016). * Punjab edit-a-thon & Telugu Wikipedia success (http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/press-coverage-about-punjab-edit-a-thon-telug…) (Andhra Jyothi; August 26, 2016). * Data Xgen launches paid Hindi email service (http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/data-xgen-launches-paid-hindi-email-service) (Sneha Johari; Medianama; August 29, 2016). If you want to receive news from this program, please sign-up here (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/Subscribe) . This newsletter is also available on Meta-wiki at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/August_2016 Best! Subhashish Panigrahi Programme Officer, Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) Centre for Internet and Society Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cisa2k/ Follow us on Twitter at @CISA2K

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વિકિસ્રોત પર નવું સહકાર્ય : પરિયોજના ક્રમાંક ૭૨ - શિવાજીની સૂરતની લૂટ (ભૂલશુદ્ધિ)
by sushant savla 18 Sep '16

18 Sep '16

મિત્રો, વિકિસ્રોત પર સહકાર્ય પરિયોજના - "ન્હાના ન્હાના રાસ ભાગ - ૩" ની ભૂલશુદ્ધિનું કાર્ય પૂર્ણતાને આરે છે. આ સાથે પરિયોજના ક્રમાંક ૭૨ હેઠળ ઇચ્છારામ દેસાઈ રચિત ઐતિહાસિક નવલકથા 'શિવાજીની સૂરતની લૂટ'ને સ્રોત પર ચડાવવાનું કાર્ય હાથમાં લઈએ છીએ. ગુજરાતી ભાષાની આ સુંદર કૃતિને સ્રોત પર ચઢાવવાના કાર્યમાં જોડાવા માટે આપ નીચેની કડી પર જઈ વધુ માહિતી મેળવી શકશો. https://gu.wikisource.org/wiki/%E0%AA%B8%E0%AB%82%E0%AA%9A%E0%AA%BF_%E0%AA%… આભાર સુશાંત સાવલા

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વિકિસ્રોત પરિયોજના ૭૧ - ન્હાનાલાલ કવિ રચિત "ન્હાના ન્હાના રાસ - ભાગ ૩" (પૂર્ણ)
by sushant savla 18 Sep '16

18 Sep '16

મિત્રો, સહભાગી મિત્રોના સહકાર્યને કારણે વિકિસ્રોત પર શ્રી ન્હાનાલાલ કવિ રચિત રાસ સંગ્રહ "ન્હાના ન્હાના રાસ - ભાગ ૩" ચઢાવાનું કાર્ય પૂર્ણ થયું છે. આ પરિયોજના ૦૪-૦૯-૨૦૧૬ ના દિવસે ચાલુ થઈ અને ૧૮-૦૯-૨૦૧૬ ના દિવસે તે પૂર્ણ થઈ છે. તેમાં અશોકભાઈ વૈષ્ણવ (અમદાવાદ), કૃષ્ણકાંતભાઈ ઠાકર (અમરેલી), વ્યોમ (જુનાગઢ), પ્રશાંત સુભાષચંદ્ર સાળુંકે, વિકાસભાઈ કૈલા(રાજકોટ), રવિ જોષી (ગોવા) અને સુશાંત (મુંબઈ)એ ભાગ લીધો હતો. ત્રીજો ભાગ ઉમેરાતા ન્હાના ન્હાના રાસ શ્રેણીનો સંપુટ આ પુસ્તકથી પૂરો થાય છે. વિકિસ્રોત પરની આ પુસ્તકની કડી: https://gu.wikisource.org/wiki/%E0%AA%A8%E0%AB%8D%E0%AA%B9%E0%AA%BE%E0%AA%A… આભાર. સુશાંત સાવલા

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Wikimedia India Monthly report for August 2016
by Yohann Thomas 05 Sep '16

05 Sep '16

Dear one & all Please find below the Monthly Report of Wikimedia India for the Month of August. This also contains an program report of WikiConference India-2016 held in Chandigarh on 5th,6th & 7th August 2016 You can also find this on the reports section of Wikimedia India here - http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Reports/August_2016 Events India at Rio Olympics edit-a-thon 2016 Wikimedia India is organizing the India at Rio Olympics edit-a-thon 2016 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMIN/Events/India_At_Rio_Olympics_2016_Edit…> to celebrate the success of Indian sportsmen at the Olympics. The Event has been in progression all throughout August & many articles were created and improved. Currently more than 600 articles have been created ( stats to be published later). Find the full list of articles to be created & improved here <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMIN/Events/India_At_Rio_Olympics_2016_Edit…> The event intends to end on 18th September when Paralympics Games 2017 end. Wiki Loves Earth in India 2016 The results for Wiki Loves Earth in India 2016 were announced in August. With over 32,000+ images uploaded for the competition by 6,000+ Contributors, the competition saw a phenomenal response from India.Thanks to all the hardwork put by the Volunteers <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2016_in_India#O…> & the Jury was what that made this competition a success. Jury Three Jury from three different diversified fields were invited - Ashish Kothari - Santosh Shingare - Souradeep Ghosh You can find the Jury Biopic Here <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2016_in_India/J…> Results Top 10 images as selected by the Jury <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2016_in_India/R…> - File:Nirar Anai.jpg <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nirar_Anai.jpg> This Picture is taken behind Nirar Dam at Valparai, Tamil nadu overlooking the beautiful Annamalai R.F division (Indra Gandhi Wildlife Reserve) by User:JohnJoelraj - File: Grey Horn Bill.jpg <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grey_Horn_Bill.jpg> Grey horn bill with its favourite fruit by User: Mithan B M - File:Can it or not.jpg <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Can_it_or_not.jpg> A green Bee-eater trying to catch a bee by User:ARIJIT MONDAL - File:The burning mountain.jpg <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_burning_mountain.jpg> Mount Kanchenjunga seen from by User:Yoghya - File:A Morning in Chandratal.jpg <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_Morning_in_Chandratal.jpg> A Morning in Chandratal by User:Mahendra Pal Singh - File: Elephas maximus indicusCorbett.jpg <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elephas_maximus_indicusCorbett.jpg> An Indian elephant (Elephas maximus indicus) taking a dust bath at the Banks of the Ramganga River in Jim Corbett National park by User:Tanmay Haldar - File: Demoiselle cranes in Khichan near Bikaner (Rajasthan).jpg <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Demoiselle_cranes_in_Khichan_near_B…> Beautiful Demoiselle cranes migrate from Mongolia to Khichan near Bikaner (Rajasthan) by User:ANKITNARANG297 - File: Oriental Dwarf Kingfisher (ODKF).jpg <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oriental_Dwarf_Kingfisher_%28ODKF%2…> Oriental Dwarf Kingfisher at Shiravali by User:P Subramanya C K - File:Changu or Tsomgo Lake.jpg <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Changu_or_Tsomgo_Lake.jpg> Changu or Tsomgo Lake is at located at the east of Sikkim & at a very high altitude by User:Sudhanshu Gupta - File:When the big cat turned to my camera!.jpg <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:When_the_big_cat_turned_to_my_camer…> Bengal Tiger posing for the camera by User:NIKHIL CHAMARTY Wiki Loves Monument Overview Wiki Loves Monuments <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2016> is a global photo competition that takes place generally in September. Wikimedia India would officially be organising this competition in India. The aim of the contest is to ask the general public—readers and users of Wikipedia, photographers, hobbyists, etc.—to take pictures of cultural heritage monuments and upload them to Wikimedia Commons for use on Wikipedia and its other sister projects. < https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2016_in_Ind…> Call for Volunteers The Wiki Loves Monument Team invites Wikimedians to be associated in the event as volunteers under different categories Jury Team Cultural Partnership Team Press, Media and Outreach Team Technical Team Heritage Walk Team Volunteer Coordinator Rapid Grant Rapid Grant worth INR 1,35,000 was submitted and subsequently approved by the Wikimedia Foundation. < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2…> Planning of Visit of Katherine Maher to India Wikimedia India was involved in the finalization of Agenda for visit of Katherine Maher & planning of her meetings with media & Organizations for Future Partnerships Post Conference, Katherine made a visit to New Delhi and met few external partners. A synopsis of these meetings has been described below. Meeting with Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi On 8th August, 11 AM, Mr Manish Siosdia (Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi) had an interaction with the Wikimedians. The Delhi Government is all ready to roll out education programs in the Delhi region, in fact, to help us resolve our gender gap issues, Delhi Government would help us focus more on women's colleges at the initial stage. The Delhi Government has also expressed its intent to conduct a Wiki-activity in Indian languages on M.K. Gandhi in September month, such that Delhi Government could further facilitate (small souvenirs) the contributors on 2nd October as a part of the M.K. Gandhi's birthday celebration. Delhi Government is also looking at possible interventions where GLAM activities could be undertaken. Incorporating WIkimedia projects under Delhi Government's free-public wifi scheme has also been proposed. The meeting was arranged by Wikimedia India and attended by Katherine Maher along with Wikimedia India EC's (Yohann Thomas, Sanket Oswal, Abhinav Srivastava). Department of Electronics and Information Technology Meeting On 8th August,1 PM, Wikimedians met Mr. Rajiv Bansal, Joint Secretary. Government of India, Department of Electronics and Information Technology at this office in Delhi. The talks centered around bringing DIETY newsletter under open license, a collaboration between Government of India and WMIN + CIS-A2K over government's vikaspedia, drawing attention to Indian language content to be released under Creative Commons, Collaboration with the ministry towards making the government websites include better and accurate language content, etc. The meeting was arranged by CIS-A2K and attended by Katherine Maher along with CIS-A2K staff (Tanveer Hasan) and Wikimedia India EC's (Sanket Oswal, Abhinav Srivastava). Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) Meeting On 8th August,5.30 PM. Wikimedians met Dr Ramesh Gaur (Head Libarary- JNU) and Dr Anup Das (Documentation Officer). JNU will be opening up its central repository of thesis (almost 22,000 units, including PhDs, M.Phil and Master's Program) under open access. JNU will be assisting us in providing journal articles to our editors for use on Wikipedia. 'One Lib One Ref" workshop at JNU would also be conducted in JNU shortly (maybe in September). JNU also has shown its intent at digitization Dr B.R. Ambedkar's writing under the Hindi Wikisource. Further collaborations during seminars at JNU on Wikisource projects would also be taken up. The meeting was arranged by Wikimedia India and attended by Katherine Maher along with Wikimedia India EC's (Sanket Oswal, Abhinav Srivastava) and CIS-A2K staff (Tanveer Hasan). WikiConference India 2016 (WCI 2016) The WikiConference India 2016 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016> was conducted on August 5,6,7 in Mohali, Punjab. The conference happened after a gap of five years, last conference was held in Mumbai 2011. - Wiki Conference India started on an exceptional note with the signing of an MoU <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MoU_by_and_between_CGC-CIS-WMIN-PWU…> between CIS-A2K,Wikimedia India Punjabi Wikimedians User group with the hosts of the Event, Chandigarh Group of Colleges with plans to start an education program there Conference Schedule <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016/Programs> The Conference schedule was made by the Programs team. - Bodhisattwa <http://wiki.wikimedia.in/User:Bodhisattwa> - Chinmayi S K <http://wiki.wikimedia.in/User:Chinmayisk> - Netha Hussain <http://wiki.wikimedia.in/User:Netha_Hussain> - Rohini Lakshané <http://wiki.wikimedia.in/User:Rohini> - Tito Dutta <http://wiki.wikimedia.in/User:Titodutta> - User:Shyamal <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Shyamal> The Programs Schedule was made by first inviting submissions <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016/Call_for_Particip…> from the community.Then they were shortlisted by the Programs team & the final list of speakers were informed on their talk page. Chandigarh Hackathon Chandigarh Hackathon Group Photo <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chandigarh_Hackathon_Group_Photo_Wiki_…> The Hackathon at the WikiConference India was organized by Santosh Shingare . The Hackathon organized in parallel track with other programs of the Conference. It closed with 7 applications, which are all useful to the community. - WikiSpeak : (Web Application + Android Mobile application).WikiSpeak lets you search text on Wikipedia at just one click and reads aloud that text for you. Source code Link (Web Application) : Github : https://github.com/ashjal/WikiSpeak Source code Link (Android Application) : Github :https://github.com/sandarumk/WikiSpeak - Edit Tamil Wiktionary (Tamil community request) : - (Android application) This is a utility application for any wikipedian who has title of the page and its content in a spreadsheet or document. The user will have to convert that document to .tsv which can easily be done using any Office suite.Source code link: https://bitbucket.org/Shailumani/wiki-tsv/src - Audio file upload to WikiData (Punjabi community request) : Wikipedia articles on google map : This is a web application to annotate Google Maps with location rich data.Source code link (web application) : Github : https://github.com/Shailumani/map_annotate_wiki.git (Android application) Github: https://github.com/Atul22/wikiAudio . - Communication platform (WebRTC) : Community can use this to talk or conference (Audio/video web conferencing application)Github : https://github.com/cherishsantosh/Communication-Platform - Notification (Event based) : showing popup on event eg (If recent changes happen, It will show popup which article was updated) - The extension which is in its inital phase at Github:DesktopNotifications collects in live edit history from http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/RCStream and shows up desktop notifications on edit for users Edit-a-thon Lists of edit-a-thons which were planned for the event - Punjab Edit-a-thon <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016/Punjab_Edit-a-thon> - Edit-a-thon : Rio Olympics 2016 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016/Submissions/Edit-…> - Maithili Wikipedia Edit-a-thon and Discussion <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016/Submissions/Maith…> - Malayalam Wikipedia Edit-a-thon and Discussion <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016/Submissions/Malay…> - Organic & Inorganic Growth of Wikipedias of South Asian Languages <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016/Submissions/Organ…> - Workshop and Edit-a-thon: Forensic Science <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016/Submissions/Works…> Wiki Women Lunch <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016/Meetups/WikiWomen…> Programs, Sessions & activities conducted by Wikimedia India at WikiConference India - Panel Discussion: Whither Wikimedia movement in India? Aims, activities, organizational dynamics and the Wikimedia movement in India - Discussion panel chaired by Ravishankar Ayyakkannu <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016/Submissions/Organ…> - Creative Program Design: create the programs you need for your local community <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016/Submissions/Creat…> - Session: Wiki Loves Earth in India 2016 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016/Submissions/Wiki_…> - Tak: How Projects can unite & shape communities <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016/Submissions/How_P…> - Edit-a-thon: India at Rio Olympics 2016 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016/Submissions/Edit-…> Membership drive by Wikimedia India at WikiConference India 2016 Wikimedia India had a special booth at the conference where attendees were coming & registering for membership. Close to 100 attendees signed up to become member of Wikimedia India SAARC Regional Wikimedian meeting This meeting was in continuation with the past meetup done by Wikimedian from the countries of Bangladesh, India, Nepal & Pakistan in past WikiConferences conducted by WMF in Berlin in 2015 & Wikimania Mexico. This meetup consisted of members from members of Wikimedia Bangladesh, Wikimedia India, Representatives of Wikimedia Nepal & Wikimedia Pakistan represented by editors of Urdu Wikipedia Community. One of the ideas presented by the attendees was to conduct a SAARC regional conference for Wikimedians. To reach this goal, it was agreed to take a first step by setting up a Mailing list amongst the chapters of the 4 countries Other News - Tulu-language Wikipedia goes live Tulu Wikipedia <https://tcy.wikipedia.org/> has finally gone live after being in the Incubator for nine long years. Tulu is spoken by nearly 2 million speakers in the Mangaluru, Udupi and other South West regions of the Indian state of Karnataka and in some places in the state of Kerala. 198 editors have contributed so far to make this happen. The project has started seeing more activity since 2014 when the first ever community meetup was organised in April , 2014. St. Aloysius College and St. Agnes College, two educational institutions in Mangaluru, India have done a commendable job in institutionalizing education programs and several outreach programs for their students. Wikimedia India congratulates everyone who have helped grow this project, the language committee and other friends in the global communities who have supported and guided in working towards the approval of the project. - Bangalore Meetup <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore63> A Bangalore Meetup was organized on 21st August 2016 at the CIS office,Domlur. The Agenda for the conference included Wikiconference India 2016 experiences and learnings sharing, planning for Bangalore-based Wiki activities & discussion on the India at Rio Olympics Edit-a-Thon organized by Wikimedia India - Government of Tamil Nadu orders its departments and institutions to release content under CC-BY-SA Tamil Development and Information Department of Government of Tamil Nadu has issued a Government Order (Number: 105, Date: 01. 07. 2016) to Tamil University, Thanjavur and all other government departments and institutions to release all their publications, archives and collections under Creative Commons by Share-Alike license. This Government Order has got the approval from the TN Government's Legal Department and issued by the order of Governor of Tamil Nadu. The order can be seen here <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GoTN_Tamil_Development_Departments_…>. An English copy will be available soon. This order comes as part of the public policy initiatives undertaken through the collaboration between Global Tamil Wikimedia Community and Tamil Virtual Academy (TVA).The community recognizes this as a significant milestone in spreading free knowledge for the benefit of Tamils. :Wikimedia India hopes that this sets a good precedent for all government institutions across the country. - OpenCon 2015 Ranchi OpenCon is a platform for the next generation to learn about Open Access, Open Education, and Open Data, develop critical skills, and catalyze action toward a more open system of research and education. OpenCon 2016 will be held in Washington DC on November 12-14, with satellite events around the world. OpenCon satellite events held in partnership with the main conference can be of any size, in any place, at any time and are open to anyone. OpenCon 2016 Ranchi <http://www.opencon2016.org/opencon_2016_ranchi> is a satellite event which is organized by Sridar Gautam on 12th November 2016 - Kolkata meetup-13th August Kolkata meetup was held on 13th August Wikimedia India Blog - The World’s Largest Democracy Meets The World’s Largest Encyclopedia-Wiki Loves Monuments 2016 India <http://blog.wikimedia.in/2016/08/27/the-worlds-largest-democracy-meets-the-…> By Abhinav Srivastava Dated 27th Aug 16 In the Media - Carpenter crafts cyber content using ancient mobile <http://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/carpenter-crafts-cyber-c…>. *Business Standard*. *Free Press Journal <http://www.freepressjournal.in/webspecial/carpenter-crafts-cyber-content-us…>*. *The Jodhpur Gazette <http://helpinjodhpur.com/2016/08/10/carpenter-crafts-cyber-content-using-an…>*. *NewsKerala.com <http://www.newkerala.com/news/2016/fullnews-102955.html>*. *ProKerala.com <http://softwaresuites.net/pa/news/articles/a670276.html>*. *SocialNews.xyz <https://www.socialnews.xyz/2016/08/10/carpenter-crafts-cyber-content-using-…>*. *The Statesman <http://www.thestatesman.com/news/science-and-tech/carpenter-crafts-cyber-co…>*. *DaijiWorld.com <http://www.daijiworld.com/news/news_disp.asp?n_id=408461>* *WindowToNews.com <http://www.windowtonews.com/carpenter-crafts-cyber-content-using-ancient-mo…>*. *Business Standard <http://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/carpenter-crafts-cyber-c…>*. *Eastern Mirror, Nagaland <http://www.easternmirrornagaland.com/carpenter-crafts-cyber-content-using-a…>*. Aug 10, 2016. - How (not) to get started on Wikipedia, an 18-year-old's story <http://business-standard.com/article/news-ians/how-not-to-get-started-on-wi…>. *Business Standard*. *Financial Express <http://www.financialexpress.com/industry/tech/how-not-to-get-started-on-wik…>*. *NewKerala.com <http://www.newkerala.com/news/2016/fullnews-101935.html>*. *LeadersSpeak.in <http://leadersspeak.in/wikipedia/>*. Aug 8, 2016. - Wikipedia takes a bite… at Indian food and forts <http://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/food-wine/wikipedia-takes-a-bite…>. *Indian Express*. *Millennium Post <http://millenniumpost.in/NewsContent.aspx?NID=310275>*. *DailyPost.in <http://dailypost.in/lifestyle/wikipedia-takes-a-bite-at-indian-food-and-for…>*. *IndiaEveryDay.in <http://www.indiaeveryday.in/news-wikipedia-takes-a-bite-at-indian-food-and-…>*. *Gizmodo.in <http://www.gizmodo.in/indiamodo/Wikipedia-takes-a-bite-at-Indian-food-and-f…>* .*KollyTalk.com <http://www.kollytalk.com/technology/wikipedia-takes-bite-indian-food-forts-…>*. *New Indian Express <http://www.newindianexpress.com/lifestyle/tech/Wikipedia-takes-a-bite...-at…>*. *PunjabTribune.com <http://punjabtribune.com/news/1125-wikipedia-takes-a-bite-at-indian-food-an…>*. *SocialNews.xyz <https://www.socialnews.xyz/2016/08/08/wikipedia-takes-a-bite-at-indian-food…>*. *VishwaGujarat.com <http://www.vishwagujarat.com/technology/wikipedia-takes-bite-indian-food-fo…>*. *IndRead.com <http://indread.com/50231/wikipedia-takes-bite-indian-food-forts>*. *BFirst.in <http://www.bfirst.in/news/tech-biz/11544/wikipedia-takes-bite-indian-food-a…>*. *The Free Press Journal <http://www.freepressjournal.in/webspecial/wikipedia-takes-a-bite-at-indian-…>*. *W3LiveNews.com (excerpt) <http://www.w3livenews.com/2016/08/09/Wikipedia-takes-a-bite-at-Indian-food-…>*. Aug 8, 2016 - Wikipedia gets 'taste of Indian food' <http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-news/Wikipedia-gets-taste-of-I…>. *Indian Express*, Aug 8, 2016. - India’s 23rd regional Wikipedia, in Tulu, goes live <http://indianexpress.com/article/technology/tech-news-technology/indias-23r…> *The Indian Express*, *DailyWorld.in <http://dailyworld.in/indias-23rd-regional-wikipedia>*, *HuffingtonPost.in <http://www.huffingtonpost.in/2016/08/07/in-tulu-indias-23rd-regional-wikipe…>*, *The News Minute.com <http://www.thenewsminute.com/article/indias-23rd-regional-wikipedia-tulu-go…>*, *DailyHunt.in <http://m.dailyhunt.in/news/india/english/news-karnataka-epaper-newskarn/ind…>*, *The Hindu <http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-in-school/india-s-23rd-regional-wik…>*, *Debate on Reddit.com <https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/4wtwlq/indias_23rd_regional_languag…>*, *ReadBing.in (excerpt) <http://readbing.in/2016/08/indias-23rd-regional-wikipedia-in-tulu-goes-live/>*, *WikipediaReview.com <http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=49909>*, *W3LiveNews.com (excerpt) <http://www.w3livenews.com/2016/08/08/India-s-23rd-regional-Wikipedia-in-Tul…>*, *IndiaEveryday.in <http://www.indiaeveryday.in/news-indias-23rd-regional-wikipedia-in-tulu-goe…>*, *ViralShots.com <http://theviralshots.com/story/-indias-rd-regional-wikipedia-goes-live>*, *in.shagaqna.com (excerpt) <http://in.shafaqna.com/EN/02870355>*, *TodayIndya.com <http://www.todayindya.com/article/technology/india-s-23rd-regional-language…>,* *latestnews360.com (excerpt) <http://www.latestnews360.com/read/1368789/latest-news/India%27s-23rd-region…>*, *electropneumaticpositioner.com (excerpt) <http://www.electropneumaticpositioner.com/news-article/india-s-23rd-regiona…>*, *ccm.net <http://ccm.net/news/27625-india-s-23rd-regional-wikipedia-launches>*, *makemefeed.com -- headline only <http://uk.makemefeed.com/2016/08/07/india-s-23rd-regional-wikipedia-in-tulu…>*, *Bangladesh Sun <http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/246501181>*, Aug 6, 2016 - Wikiconference India 2016: Wikipedia’s plans for growth in India are unclear <http://tech.firstpost.com/news-analysis/wikiconference-india-2016-wikipedia…> Newsthrive <http://newsthrive.com/post/wikiconference-india-2016-wikipedias-plans-for-g…> Huntnews <http://huntnews.in/p/detail/2699183767217963?xlang=en&uc_param_str=dnfrpfbi…> WikiConference India-In the Media All Press & Media links are available here <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016/Press> Regards Yohann Thomas Wikimedia India yohannvt(a)gmail.com

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વિકિસ્રોત પર નવું સહકાર્ય : પરિયોજના ક્રમાંક ૭૧ - ન્હાના ન્હાના રાસ - ભાગ ૩ (ભૂલશુદ્ધિ)
by sushant savla 03 Sep '16

03 Sep '16

મિત્રો, વિકિસ્રોત પર સહકાર્ય પરિયોજના - "બે દેશ દીપક" ની ભૂલશુદ્ધિનું કાર્ય પૂર્ણતાને આરે છે. આ સાથે પરિયોજના ક્રમાંક ૭૧ હેઠળ ન્હાનાલાલ રચિત રાસ સંગ્રહ કથા 'ન્હાના ન્હાના રાસ - ભાગ ૩'ને સ્રોત પર ચડાવવાનું કાર્ય હાથમાં લઈએ છીએ. આ અગાઉ આ પુસ્તક શ્રેણીની ભાગ ૧ અને ૨ સ્રોત પર ઉપલબ્ધ છે. ગુજરાતી ભાષાની આ સુંદર કૃતિને સ્રોત પર ચઢાવવાના કાર્યમાં જોડાવા માટે આપ નીચેની કડી પર જઈ વધુ માહિતી મેળવી શકશો. આભાર, સુશાંત સાવલા

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Fwd: [Wikitech-l] <maplink> to be enabled tomorrow
by Kartik Mistry 01 Sep '16

01 Sep '16

This is interesting feature! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Yuri Astrakhan <yastrakhan(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 1:49 AM Subject: [Wikitech-l] <maplink> to be enabled tomorrow To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Seems we have no more blockers for <maplink> tag on all Wikipedias. We will enable it tomorrow, Sept 1st. <maplink> tag allows editors to add a link to a popup map, complete with extra geojson overlay data. See help page for instructions: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Kartographer#.3Cmaplink.3E Submit bugs to phabricator: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/?tags=Kartogra… _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Kartik Mistry/કાર્તિક મિસ્ત્રી | IRC: kart_ {kartikm, 0x1f1f}.wordpress.com

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