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From: "Nick Wilson (Quiddity)" <nwilson(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: 6 Jan 2015 00:45
Subject: [Wikitech-ambassadors] User Research - sign-up to help out
To: "Coordination of technology deployments across languages/projects" <
wikitech-ambassadors(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc:
Hi all,
The Wikimedia Foundation's Design Research team,[1] Abbey Ripstra and Daisy
Chen, are looking for people to participate in research about editing.
They want to talk with both experienced editors and new editors to better
understand what you do, how you do it, what is difficult and what works
well with editing tools.
Currently, they're doing some hour-long research interviews over Google
Hangouts.
In the future, there will be other types of research programs, probably
including a card sorting task to determine how editing tools and tasks
could be organized to suit you best.
If you would like to hear about opportunities to participate in user-based
research, please sign up here:
https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_6R04ammTX8uoJFP
This is a small survey to fill out so the research team knows a little bit
about your experience level and how to contact you to invite you to
research. You can always opt out again, and signing up does not obligate
you to participate.
Please pass this along. Thank you!
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Design/Research
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Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
Community Liaison
Wikimedia Foundation
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Apologies for the draft that was sent by mistake. Below are the complete
newsletters.
*OCTOBER*
*Odia 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-…
*Blogs:*
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-panigra…
2. 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-und…
3. 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…
4. Odia Wikisource Goes Live! (Subhashish Panigrahi; October 26, 2014):
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog/odia-wikisource-goes-live
5. Samskrita Vaibhavam (Shubha and Sayant Mahato; October 30, 2014):
http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/samskrita-vaibhavam
6. 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…
7. The event was covered by V4News.com (
http://v4news.com/enliven-the-tulu-viki-fidia-first-and-then-add-tulu-to-th…)
and Mangalore Today (
http://www.mangaloretoday.com/newsbriefs/2-Day-Workshop-on-Tulu-in-internet…
).
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-…
)
*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-ed…
3. 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-2014
*News 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-th…
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-…
3. Pushing women scientists (Renuka Phadnis; Hindu; October 19, 2014):
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/the-hindu-renuka-phadnis-october…
4. 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-sy…
5. 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-wik…
*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)
This newsletter could also be read on Meta (
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_to_Knowledge/Newsletter/Octobe…
)
*NOVEMBER*
*55 Works of Iconic Indian writer released under Free Licence to benefit
Wikisource*
Kannada is a language spoken by 40 million people in Karnataka – one of the
four southern states of India.The Kannada Wikimedia community, in
collaboration with CIS-A2K, are enthusiastic about having almost all of the
works of Niranjana re-licensed under CC-BY-SA 4.0 on the occasion of
Kannada Rajyotsava. Niranjana was a prolific Indian author and activist,
and wrote more than 60 books over the course of his career. These works
will be digitized and made available on Kannada Wikisource (
https://kn.wikisource.org), allowing Kannada speakers to freely access the
diverse set of works. Niranjana’s works give a rich glimpse into social,
political, and cultural history of Karnataka from the 1940s to 1990s; they
can be used as a potential resource for creating and improving articles on
Kannada Wikipedia (https://kn.wikipedia.org). Read more:
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog/55-works-of-iconic-indian-writer…
*Op-ed:*
Odia Wikisource, its Potential (Subhashish Panigrahi; Samaja; November 17,
2014):
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog/the-samaja-november-17-2014-subh…
*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-mohap…
2. 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-rel…
*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-Eas…
)
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-w…
7. [
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/orissa-diary-november-28-2014-od…
Odia Wikisource aims to bring valuable and rare books on the Internet]
(Odisha Diary; November 28, 2014).
More press coverage in the event page: https://or.wikipedia.org/s/quk
*Participation in Event:*
1. A Seminar on E-publishing of Odia Books (Organized by Molybtech
Technology Solutions; November 30, 2014). Subhashish Panigrahi was a
speaker. (http://cis-india.org/openness/news/seminar-e-publishing-odia-books
)
*CIS-A2K:*
Wikimedia Foundation has funded A2K to anchor the growth of the Wikimedia
movement in India. The A2K team consists of six members, four of them being
based in Bangalore: T. Vishnu Vardhan, Dr. U.B. Pavanaja, Subhashish
Panigrahi and Rahmanuddin Shaikh. One team member Nitika Tandon has left
the organisation -- We wish Nitika all the best in her career. 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 programmes, technical bugs,
logistics-merchandise 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 organisation
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:*
Twitter: https://twitter.com/CISA2KCIS
Group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/cis.india
Visit us at: https://cis-india.org
*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(a)cis-india.org or Nishant Shah, Director – Research, at
nishant(a)cis-india.org. To discuss collaborations on Indic language
Wikipedia, write to T. Vishnu Vardhan, Programme Director, A2K, at
vishnu(a)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.
This newsletter could also be read on Meta (
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_to_Knowledge/Newsletter/Novemb…
).
Thanks,
Subhashish Panigrahi
Programme Officer, Access To Knowledge
Centre for Internet and Society
On 16 December 2014 at 13:39, Subhashish Panigrahi <psubhashish(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> Our sincere apologies for the delayed posts. Below are the newsletters for
> the months of October and November 2014.
>
> OCTOBER
>
> Odia 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.
> Blogs:
>
>
>
> --
> *Subha*
>
મિત્રો,
સહભાગી મિત્રોના સહકાર્યને કારણે વિકિસ્રોત પર શ્રી. શામળ ભટ્ટ રચિત કાવ્ય કથા "રાવણ મંદોદરી સંવાદ" ચઢાવાનું કાર્ય પૂર્ણ થયું છે. રામાયણની કથાના અંતિમ યુદ્ધ પહેલાં મંદોદરી દ્વારા રાવણને સમજાવવાના પ્રયત્નની આ કાવ્યકથા છે. આ પરિયોજના ૧૯-૧૧-૨૦૧૪ ના દિવસે ચાલુ થઈ અને ૧૨-૧૨-૨૦૧૪ ના દિવસે તે પૂર્ણ થઈ છે.
આ પરિયોજનામાં અશોકભાઈ વૈષ્ણવ (અમદાવાદ), અશોક મોઢવાડીયા (જૂનાગઢ) અને સુશાંત (મુંબઈ)એ ભાગ લીધો હતો. પરિયોજનાનું વ્યવસ્થાપન વ્યોમ (જૂનાગઢ)એ સંભાળ્યું હતું
શ્રી. શામળ ભટ્ટની આ પદ્યકથાને માણવા સૌને આમંત્રણ છે. વિકિસ્રોત પરની આ પુસ્તકની કડી:
https://gu.wikisource.org/wiki/%E0%AA%B0%E0%AA%BE%E0%AA%B5%E0%AA%A3_%E0%AA%…
સુશાંત સાવલા
ભાઈઓ, બહેનો અને પ્રિય મિત્રો,
જો આપમાંથી કોઈને આ કોન્ફરન્સમાં રસ હોય તો પોતાનું નામાંકન નોંધાવી શકો છો.
સાભાર,
ધવલ
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From: "Rahmanuddin" <rahim(a)cis-india.org>
Date: 4 Dec 2014 15:54
Subject: [Wikimedia-IN-AMD] Community Participation Support at Swatantra
2014
To: <wikimedia-in-amd(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc:
Dear Wikimedians,
ICFOSS, Govt of Kerala in collaboration with FSF-India, CIS, SFLC.in,
Swatantra Malayalam Computing and other like minded organisations is
celebrating Swtantra-2014, fifth international free software confrence of
Kerala. This is scheduled during 18-20 December 2014 at Thiruvananthapuram.
More details about the event can be seen at : http://icfoss.in/fs2014/ .
CIS-A2K will be providing limited travel and stay scholarships to
interested Wikimedians from various language communities to attend this
event and benefit from it. Upto 10 scholarships are available for
Wikimiedians applying from Kerala. Upto 3 scholarships will be considered
from other Indic Wikimedians and India based English Wikipedians. If you
are interested please register your name here on Meta
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Requests/Swatantra>
.
*Eligibility*: You should have been a Wikimedian with a minimum of 200
edits on Wikimedia projects as on June 1, 2014.
*Important dates*: Nominate yourself by *December 8*, 2014 (many apologies
for this delay and short notice). We will confirm support by December 9,
2014.
*Travel & Stay information*: (applicable only once the support is
confirmed)
* Low fare flight costs will be considered if your travel by bus/train is
more than 24 hours to Thiruvananthapuram.
* Stay in budget hotels, preferably on twin sharing basis.
* All costs of the selected Wikimedians will be reimbursed on actual
basis upon submission of original bills to CIS Office in Bangalore within
10 days of receipt.
* It is essential to submit boarding passes along with tickets if you
travel by a flight.
* CIS could help book flight tickets upon request. Those interested to
avail this support need to fill a form that we will circulate
*Queries and correspondence*:
* For all queries, please write to rahim{at}cis-india.org and vishnu{at}
cis-india.org
*Expectations from selected Wikimedians*:
* Please see if you could utilize this opportunity to find solutions to
some of the technical/other problems your community may be facing.
* Do consider giving back the learning to your respective communities.
* We would appreciate if you could share your experience and learning
publicly. CIS-A2K will be happy to publish your write-up on our blog
If you know of a Wikimedian in your community who could benefit from this
event and also could bring back learning to benefit your community, please
encourage them to apply.
Thank you
Rahmanuddin Shaik
Program Officer
CIS-A2K
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મિત્રો,
સહભાગી મિત્રોના સહકાર્યને કારણે વિકિસ્રોત પર શ્રી. શામળ ભટ્ટ રચિત કાવ્ય કથા "અંગદવિષ્ટિ " ચઢાવાનું કાર્ય પૂર્ણ થયું છે. રામાયણની કથાના રામ-રાવણ વચ્ચેના લંકા યુદ્ધ પહેલાં યુદ્ધ નિવારી શકાય એ ઉદ્દેશથી અંગદને દૂત તરીકે લંકા મોકલ્વામાં આવ્યા હતા તેની આ કાવ્યકથા છે. આ પરિયોજના ૦૫-૧૧-૨૦૧૪ ના દિવસે ચાલુ થઈ અને ૩૦-૧૧-૨૦૧૪ ના દિવસે તે પૂર્ણ થઈ છે.
આ પરિયોજનામાં અશોકભાઈ વૈષ્ણવ (અમદાવાદ), ધવલ ભાવસાર (બારડોલી), અશોક મોઢવાડીયા (જૂનાગઢ) અને સુશાંત (મુંબઈ)એ ભાગ લીધો હતો. પરિયોજનાનું વ્યવસ્થાપન વ્યોમ (જૂનાગઢ)એ સંભાળ્યું હતું
શ્રી. શામળ ભટ્ટની આ પદ્યકથાને માણવા સૌને આમંત્રણ છે. વિકિસ્રોત પરની આ પુસ્તકની કડી:
https://gu.wikisource.org/wiki/%E0%AA%85%E0%AA%82%E0%AA%97%E0%AA%A6%E0%AA%B…
સુશાંત સાવલા
Dear all,
As many of you may know Bengali Wikipedia completed 10 Years on March 2014.
To celebrate this historic milestone the Bengali Wikimedia Community has
planned to meet over for two days Bengali Wikipedia 10th Anniversary
Celebration Conference during January 9 and 10, 2015 in Kolkata. We have
also undertaken a series of On-Wiki and Off-Wiki activities. It will the
gathering of users of two nation ( India & Bangladesh) and well wishers of
Bengali Wikimedia projects. Please click here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/BN10> to go to the official page to see
more details. .
This conference is our first attempt to invite and host selected members
from other Indian Wikipedia communities. We are planning to invite our
friends and well-wishers from most of all active Indic language wiki
communities in India to this most auspicious occasion hosted by Bengali
Wikimedia community! We are also planning to arrange few 30 scholarships
for non-Bengali Indic Wikimedians who are interested in participating in
this event. With all these, we expect coming year’s conference shall
become the largest outreach program any Indian wiki community have ever
attempted.
As a part of Conference, we are organizing edit-a-thons, a conference of
students interested in Wikimedia projects, a meetup of youth interested in
Wikimedia projects, photography contest and Workshop/Hackathon.
We cordially invite you to participate in Conference to share your
experiences, to connect with your peers and create partnerships thereby
strengthening the Indian Wikimedia community.
To participate in Conference, please register here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bengali%20Wikipedia%2010th%20Anniversary%20…>
To participate in Conference as a speaker please submit your paper here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bengali_Wikipedia_10th_Anniversary_Celebrat…>
.
To participate Photography Contest , click here
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Bangla_Wikipedia_Photography_Con…>
Looking forward to meeting you in Kolkata from 9-10 January, 2015!
On behalf of Bengali Wikimedia Community,
Jayanta Nath
User: jayantanth on Wikimedia projects