Hello,
It gives us great pleasure to inform that the Train-the-Trainer (TTT) 2017
programme organised by CIS-A2K is going to be held from 20-22 February 2017.
*What is TTT?*
Train the Trainer or TTT is a residential training program. The program
attempts to groom leadership skills among the Indian Wikimedia community
members. Earlier TTT have been conducted in 2013, 2015 and 2016.
*Who should join?*
Any active Wikimedian contributing to any Indic language Wikimedia project
is eligible to apply.
An editor must have 500+ edits.
Anyone who have already participated in an earlier iteration of TTT, can
not apply.
Please see more about this program and apply to participate or encourage
the deserving candidates from your community to do so:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/Train_the_Tra
iner_Program/2017
If you have any question, please let us know.
Regards
Hello
An edit-a-thon is being conducted with an aim to create or improve articles
related to Punjab. This edit-a-thon is a part of WikiConference India 2016.
You and your community are cordially invited to join this edit-a-thon as
participants or co-ordinators.
This will be our gift for the Chandigarh team which is hosting us for the
conference. The community that adds most number of words or bytes to the
articles will be awarded a trophy during the conference!
Participate or learn more here.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016/Punjab_Edit-a-thon
Regards.
WikiConference India team
(https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016)
PS. Feel free to share or forward this message
Greetings from CIS-A2K.
List of selected participants for Train-the-Trainer 2016 has been
published *here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/Train_the_Trainer_Program/20…>*.
Following criteria were followed while making the selection:
1. On Wiki and Off Wiki participation and contribution.
2. Not more than two participants from a language community.
3. Application form
4. First time participants were given preference over Wikimedians who have
already participated.
Due to the incredibly large number of applications that we received it
would be difficult for us to write to all applicants individually.
Please write to us if there are any queries.
Regards,
Tito Dutta
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*द्विदिवसीयविकिस्रोतःकार्यशाला २०१६*
Twoday Workshop on Wikisource, 2016
विकिमित्राणि !
संस्कृतविकिस्रोतःप्रकल्पः बहुभिः अपेक्ष्यमाणः अन्तर्जालाधारितश्च
ग्रन्थालयः। संस्कृतसाहित्यमन्दाकिनी विकिस्रोतसि प्रवाहनीया इत्यतः सर्वैः
सम्पादकैः भगीरथप्रयासः करणीयः। विकिस्रोतसः व्यवस्था, अत्रत्या साध्यता च यदि
सुष्ठु अवगम्येत तर्हि अल्पेनैव कालेन अधिकं साधयितुं शक्नुयाम । एतदर्थं
संस्कृतविकिस्रोतसि अद्यत्वे ये कार्यरताः सन्ति, ये च कार्यरताः
भवितुमिच्छन्ति तेभ्यः दिनद्वयात्मिका काचित् कार्यशाला आयोजयिष्यते
बेङ्गलूरुनगरस्थेन संस्कृतविकिगणेन । कार्यशाला एप्रिल्-मासस्य ९, १०
दिनाङ्कयोः बेङ्गलूरुनगरे भविष्यति । कार्यशालायाः अस्याः उद्देशः - सदस्यानां
सम्पादनकौशलवर्धनम् । आसक्ताः सर्वे अस्य अवसरस्य प्रयोजनं स्वीकुर्वन्तु इति
प्रार्थ्यते ।
It is well known that Wikisource is a grand project created as an online
Library and keenly desired by all. To make the great Sanskrit Literature
continuously flow into this project, keen efforts are to be made by the
editors. Mainly, the editors should clearly understand the nature and
arrangement of Wikisource project, and how to make richer, Once the editors
are confident about the processes involved, then it would be possible to
make considerable progress within a short time. As a first step, the
existing editors and those who want to become editors, are to be trained.
What better way could there be, than a hands on training in Wiki source ?
It is therefore proposed to organize a two-day workshop, on April 9th and
10th in Bangalore. The core aim of this workshop would be to enhance the
editing skills of the participants. A warm welcome awaits you on 9th and
10th April. Please join. Free Arrangements for staying and for food, would
be made by the organizers.
- *प्रतिभागिनाम् आवासभोजनादिव्यवस्था नि:शुल्कं कल्प्यते व्यवस्थापकगणेन ।*
- अस्यां कार्यशालायां भागग्रहणाय स्वनामोल्लेखम् अत्र कुर्वन्तु इति
निवेद्यते ।
<https://sa.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4…>
dear Wiki friends!
Sanskrit Wikipedia, (sa. Wiki) Bangalore and Centre for Internet Security(
CIS), Bangalore, held a meeting on 16-1-2016, for defining and demarcating
the Training protocol for Prospective Wikipedians. The discussions took
place at the Premises of
C I S , Bangalore . The following officials were present in the meeting:
1. Mr. Tito Dutta Project Officer
C I S
2. Ms. Shubha Sa. Wikipedia Admin. sa.
Wiki
3. Mr. Sayant Mahato Sa. Wikipedia Admin. sa.
Wiki
The following are the minutes of the meeting.
1. The meeting commenced at 3:30 p.m.. At the outset, Ms Shubha and
Mr. Sayant Mahato thanked both C I S and Mr. Tito Dutta for arranging the
meeting and for conducting the meeting in the office of C I S.
2. It was felt that for giving effective training to the Wikipedians,
both current and prospective, it is necessary to lay down the operating
guidelines based on the policies of Wikipedia.
3. Therefore it would be necessary to specify the procedures
unambiguously, viz. specify the guidelines in areas where they are not
indicated and review and modify those procedures which may be deviating
from the Wikipedia Principles.
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
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
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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