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Wikidata India Edit-a-thon 2018
by Krishna Chaitanya Velaga 20 Feb '18

20 Feb '18

G'evening everyone, I am happy to inform you all that a national level Wikidata editing campaign on content related to India is being organized from from 21 February 2018 to 3 March 2018, marking International Mother Language Day and Open Data Day respectively. The campaign will be considered as active from "00:01 hrs on 21 February 2018" to "23:59 hrs on 3 March 2018", contributions on the content related to India will only be considered. Event page: https://goo.gl/PmBLqJ To participate: https://goo.gl/uWcCdU Item lists: https://goo.gl/Yvbhoc Note: We also have a limited fund to support community led activities as a part of the campaign. So if any editor is interested to organize a physical edit-a-thon, please let me know. The event has to be organized on or before 3 March 2018. Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga

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We invite you to join the movement strategy conversation (now through April 15)
by Wikimedia Movement Strategy 17 Mar '17

17 Mar '17

Dear Wikimedians/Wikipedians: We are starting a broad discussion to define Wikimedia's future role in the world and develop a collaborative strategy to fulfill that role. You are warmly invited to join the conversation. There are many ways to participate, by joining an existing conversation or starting your own: · Track A (organized groups): Discussions with your affiliate, committee or other organized group (these are groups that support the Wikimedia movement)[1] · Track B (individual contributors): On Meta[2] or your local language or project wiki[3] This is the first of three conversations, and it will run between now and April 15. The purpose of cycle 1 is to discuss the future of the movement and generate major themes around potential directions. What do we want to build or achieve together over the next 15 years? We welcome you, as we create this conversation together, and look forward to broad and diverse participation from all parts of our movement. Sincerely, Nicole Ebber (Track A Lead), Jaime Anstee (Track B Lead), & the engagement support teams [1][4] PS. A version of this message is available for translation on Meta-Wiki: https://meta.wikimedia.org/?curid=10222641 [1] Organized Groups: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Track_A [2] Conversation on Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Cycle_1 [3] Individual Contributors: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Participate [4] Track B support team: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Track_B/Pe… * Find out more about the movement strategy process: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017 * To learn more about volunteering to be a Discussion Coordinator: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Toolkit/Di…

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Wikimedia Grants: Every language in the world
by Daniel Bogre Udell 13 Oct '16

13 Oct '16

ਸਤ ਸ੍ਰੀ ਅਕਾਲ, Wikimedia Punjabi! My name is Daniel Bogre Udell and I'm a co-founder at Wikitongues, a non-profit organization and international volunteer community dedicated to defending linguistic diversity. We're building the world's first public archive of every language in the world, and counting some very enthusiastic Wikimedians among our ranks, we're excited to announce that we've submitted a proposal <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Wikitongues_Poly_Feature_Set…> for this upcoming round of Wikimedia Project Grants to support Poly, an open source platform for sharing and learning languages. Poly stands to improve the language content for both Wiktionary and Wikivoyages by creating a broader network of language content aggregation. Through it, the breadth of these projects will be expanded and their language accuracy improved. Furthermore, in gaining access to new language communities working with Wikitongues, Wikipedia stands to benefit from the incubation of new language editions. We're eager for community feedback, so if you think there are points of alignment between Poly and other Wikimedia projects, especially related to Punjabi language and culture, please let us know in the project's discussion section <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:Project/Wikitongues_Poly_Featur…> . Finally, if you believe this project to be worthwhile, we would be honored to have your endorsement, which you can enter in the project's Endorsements section <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Wikitongues_Poly_Feature_Set…>. We would also greatly appreciate it if you can spread the word among your fellow Wikimedians. Thank you very much! Warmly, Daniel Bogre Udell Director *Wikitongues* www.wikitongues.org Every language in the world +1 (917) 975 1410 @dbudell

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[CIS-A2K] August Newsletter
by Dr.U.B. Pavanaja 15 Sep '15

15 Sep '15

Dear all, CIS-A2K would like to share with you the newsletter below for the month of August 2015. We look forward to hear any feedback or input you might have. Odia Wikipedia (available at <https://or.wikipedia.org> or.wikipedia.org), an Indian-language Wikipedia project, celebrated thirteen years of free knowledge contribution in June 2015. It was one of the first four Indic Wikipedias (Assamese, malayalam and Punjabi being the other three)to have started in 2002. The first edit on the Wikipedia was made on 3 June 2002. Currently the project has over 8,900 articles and about 17 active editors (also known as "uikiali"). The voluntary editor community has put its efforts into acquiring valuable content, re-licensing them under Creative Commons (CC) licenses, and building tools for acquiring more encyclopedic content from various sources. Odia Wikipedia community assessment survey June 2015. It gives an overview about the various hindrances for the growth of Odia Wikipedia and the community. During the thirteenth anniversary celebrations, the community came together to assess community needs, address issues that had been identified earlier via irc and mailing list discussions, and identify priority areas to focus on in the future. Odia Wikipedia administrators Mrutyunjaya Kar and Subhashish Panigrahi designed a needs assessment survey. (https://or.wikipedia.org/s/tnp) Participating Wikimedians were asked to discuss various problems they face in editing and outreach two major areas that ensures quality standards. . Two-fifths of participants said that problems with the rendering of Odia characters in different operating systems, ignorance or lack of more documentation about enabling encoding for Odia, input methods and keyboard layouts, and other font- and keyboard-related issues as the major reason for low readership and contribution on Wikipedia. . . .Read more in the Wikimedia blog at: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/08/21/odia-wikipedia-celebrates-13/ == Event organized/participated == (CIS-A2K events page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events) ⬤ Telugu Wikipedia edit-a-thon at Annamacharya library (http://cis-india.org/openness/events/rare-telugu-religious-and-historical-w… ): On 6 August a Telugu Wikipedia edit-a-thon was conducted at Annamacharya library to preserve rare Telugu literature text. Annamacharya library has a rare collection of the religious and historical works in Telugu language. This event was conducted by Telugu Wikipedia Community and the Centre for Internet & Society's Access To Knowledge program. The second iteration of the event was organized on 31 August. ⬤ Tamil Virtual University workshop (http://cis-india.org/openness/events/workshop-on-digital-collaborations-in-… ): On 8-9 August, a two-day long workshop on digital collaborations in Tamil-language was organized by Tamil Virtual University, Anna University Campus, Chennai. U.B.Pavanaja, on behalf of CIS-A2K, participated in this event. Four major topics discussed during the event were: Digitization, Research and Development, e-learning and Open source and Outreach. ⬤ SDM Ujire Kannada workshop: (http://cis-india.org/openness/events/kannada-wikipedia-workshop-at-shree-dh…) CIS-A2K has ongoing partnership with SDM College, Ujire. The college's academic year started on 12 August. It was followed by a one-day workshop where the students were introduced to editing in Kannada Wikipedia. The head of the journalism department of the College Bhaskar Shetty and others supported the event. ⬤ Tulu Wikipedia edit-a-thon at Mangalore (http://cis-india.org/openness/wikipedia-edit-a-thon-in-mangalore-to-bring-t… ): A three-day edit-a-thon was organized between 14-16 August in Mangalore for bringing good quality content in Tulu Wikipedia. This event, organized in collaboration with the Tulu Sahitya Academy and Ramakrishna Pre University College, saw 30 Wikipedia editors participating and creating about 89 new articles. 12 of these 30 participants crossed more than 10 edits. Some of the new participants faced problems with using the input methods and the Wiki-markup. It is important to note that because of the lack of addition of Tulu-alphabet code points in the Unicode chart, and the speakers being well conversant in Kannada, they are using Kannada script for Tulu Wikipedia Incubator project. There is a plan to organize a monthly meetup and/or edit-a-thon to continue the momentum these editors have brought in. ⬤ Kannada Wikipedia workshop at DSERT (http://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/edit-a-thon-to-improve-kannada-langu…): A Kannada Wikipedia workshop was organized between 18-20 August at the Department of State Educational Research and Training to improve science-related articles that are part of the Government of Karnataka's high school syllabus. During the workshop the lecturers were taught about the basics of Kannada Wikipedia, article editing policies, Kannada input, creating and editing articles on Kannada Wikipedia. U.B. Pavanaja and Tito Dutta from CIS-A2K conducted the workshop, behalf of CIS-A2K. === Sau Dhuni Teen project === ⬤ Wikipedia workshop in Pune (http://cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-workshop-in-theme-of-sou-dhu…: A Wikipedia workshop was organized at Srimati Savitribai Phule Pune University on 20 August 2015. Under the scope of “Sau Dhuni Teen” project, the workshop focused on building resources in Indian languages for women's studies on Wikipedia. ⬤ Wikipedia workshop in TISS, Mumbai: (http://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/sau-dhuni-teen-project-wikipedia-wor…) A two-day long and multilingual Wikipedia workshop was organized at the Women's Studies Department of Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai between 22-24 August. This was an outreach event conducted under the scope of the "Sau Dhuni Teen" project. == Blog posts == ⬤ Pavanaja, U. B. "Tulu Wikipedia edit-a-thon in Mangalore" (http://goo.gl/ZxJVnS) (18 August 2015) ⬤ Pavanaja, U. B. "Edit-a-thon to improve Kannada-language science-related Wikipedia articles" (http://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/edit-a-thon-to-improve-kannada-langu…) (19 August 2015) ⬤ Panigrahi, Subhashish. "Odia Wikisource has a new Wikisourcer, and he is the youngest in the Odia Wikimedia community!" (http://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/kisorachandrananachampu-on-odia-wiki…) (21 August 2015) == Media coverage == 1. ಬೆಳ್ತಂಗಡಿ:ಎಲ್ಲಾ ಕಾಲಕ್ಕೂ ಲಭ್ಯ ಇರುವ ಸ್ವತಂತ್ರ ಹಾಗೂ ಮುಕ್ತ ವಿಶ್ವಕೋಶ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಾ-ಪವನಜ (http://cis-india.org/openness/news/sahil-online-august-14-2015 ) SahilOnline; 14 August 2015 2. ಗ್ರಾಮೀಣ ಪ್ರದೇಶದ ಆರ್ಥಿಕ ಪ್ರಗತಿಯಿಂದ ದೇಶದ ಆರ್ಥಿಕ ಪ್ರಗತಿ ಸಾಧ್ಯವಾಗುತ್ತದೆ ( <http://cis-india.org/openness/news/mangalorean-dotcom-august-13-2015> http://cis-india.org/openness/news/mangalorean-dotcom-august-13-2015 ) Mangalorean.com; 13 August 2015 3. Telugu religious and historical work preserved at Annamacharya library to come on Wikisource! ( <http://www.thehansindia.com/posts/index/2015-08-07/Rare-Telugu-religious-an…> http://www.thehansindia.com/posts/index/2015-08-07/Rare-Telugu-religious-an… ) The Hans India; 7 August 2015 This newsletter is also available on Meta at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/August_2015

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MediaWikiTTT-2015
by Dr.U.B. Pavanaja 10 Jun '15

10 Jun '15

Dear Wikimedians, It gives WMIN and CIS-A2K great pleasure to announce that we have started preparations for MediaWiki Train the Trainer Program. It is a matter of grave concern that while the Indian Language Wikipedias are slowly improving their content and expanding their volunteer base, there is very less and often zero representation from the Indian Language Communities towards MediaWiki software and the available tools around. CIS-A2K intends to bridge this gap by creating and grooming 'tech' leaders in the MediaWiki sphere from the existing Indian Language Wikipedians. MediaWiki Train the Trainer program aims to facilitate discussions around nurturing leadership regarding tech related issues, file bugs that hinder the growth of Indian Language Wikipedias, active contribution towards improving the existing MediaWiki software and understanding the importance of mediating technology for outreach activities. The 4 day residential event will happen in last week of June, 2015. Exact dates and venue will be announced soon. We welcome specific issues that should be discussed during the MWTTT as well as feedback and suggestions. Please write to us if there are any concerns. The event page : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/Mediawiki_Train_the_Trainer_P rogram Thanks and regards, Pavanaja ---------------------------------------------------- U.B. Pavanaja, MSc, PhD Programme Manager <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pavanaja> - Indian languages, Access to Knowledge program The Centre for Internet & Society

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Good Bye as CIS-A2K Program Director
by Vishnu T 30 Apr '15

30 Apr '15

Dear Wikimedians, This is my last day as the CIS-A2K Program Director. The last 2 years and 3 months have been immensely exciting with tons of learning and work! I have loved meeting many Wikimedians, face to face, across the length and breadth of India. The interactions I had with many of you have been immensely useful to my learning. The diversity of our community and the Wikimedia projects in India is so rich and intricate - I wish I could map out my entire set of impressions to only give a slight glimpse of it!! Signing off as the Program Director for now. See you on-wiki, here on the lists and in real life whenever our paths cross. A quick update: The next A2K Program Director selection is under process and hopefully we should all be able to welcome the new incumbent in June, 2015. Until then the A2K team is being internally monitored by CIS leadership. Best wishes, Vishnu

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CIS-A2K draft work plans July 2015 to June 2016
by Vishnu 01 Apr '15

01 Apr '15

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CIS-A2K Quarterly Reports (Announcement)
by Vishnu 28 Feb '15

28 Feb '15

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CIS-A2K Newsletter January 2015
by Rahmanuddin 25 Feb '15

25 Feb '15

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CIS-A2K Newsletter December 2014
by Rahmanuddin 25 Feb '15

25 Feb '15

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