WikiTe-L October 2012

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[A2K]: Blog updates on recent Wikipedia events

by noopur

Dear all, Here are a few blog post updates on the recent events, education program workshops as well as the Access to Knowledge program plan. Please do have a look and post your feedback on how we could do things better! All Wikipedia - Access to Knowledge posts are filed here: http://cis-india.org/openness/blog Recent updates: # Launch of the Assamese Wikipedia education program: http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/launch-of-assamese-wikipedia-education-p… # Wikipedia workshop @ Inmantec College, Ghaziabad: http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/wikipedia-workshop-ghaziabad # Bengaluru: A Hub for Kannada and Sanskrit Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects!: http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/bengaluru-a-substratum-to-kannada-and-sa… # Access to Knowledge program plan: http://cis-india.org/a2k/access-to-knowledge-program-plan Thank you, Best Noopur Raval

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[A2K]: Blog updates on recent Wikipedia events

by noopur

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[A2K]: Bulletin - September '12

by noopur

Dear all, Here is the September bulletin with updates from the Access to Knowledge programme supported by a grant from the Wikimedia Foundation. Beginning from September 1, 2012, Wikimedia Foundation has awarded CIS a two-year grant of upto INR 26,000,000 to support and develop free knowledge in India: # Access to Knowledge Programme [1] * The Wikimedia Foundation's India Program has become the Access to Knowledge (A2K) programme of CIS. # CIS Office in Delhi * The A2K team [2] consists of four members: Nitika Tandon [3], Shiju Alex [4], Subhashish Panigrahi [5] and Noopur Raval [6]. # Statistical Report * Indic Language Wikipedias - Statistical Report [7] (January - June 2012) (by Shiju Alex). The data for this report and analysis are based on the statistical data published at http://stats.wikimedia.org [8]. # Wikipedia Workshops NOTE: Although most of these workshops were conducted prior to the grant period, the reports for all of these were written during September, hence we are featuring these: * The First Punjabi Wikipedia Workshop [9] (by Shiju Alex and Subhashish Panigrahi, September 27, 2012). * Punjabi Wikipedia Workshop at Punjabi University, Patiala [10] (by Shiju Alex and Subhashish Panigrahi, September 28, 2012). * Punjabi Wikipedia Workshop at Amritsar [11] (by Shiju Alex and Subhashish Panigrahi, September 30, 2012). * Wikipedia Workshop in British Library, Chandigarh [12] (by Subhashish Panigrahi, September 27, 2012). * Kannada Wiki Workshop at Tumkur University [13] (Tumkur, Karnataka, September 15, 2012). * Wikipedia comes to Hyderabad! [14] (by Noopur Raval, September 30, 2012). There was coverage in the Hindu [15] on September 28, 2012. # Blog Entry * Editor Growth & Contribution Program on Telugu Wikipedia [16] (by Nitika Tandon, September 29, 2012). About CIS [17] CIS was registered as a society in Bangalore in 2008. As an independent, non-profit research organisation, it runs different policy research programmes such as Accessibility [18], Access to Knowledge [19], Openness [20], Internet Governance [21], and Telecom [22]. _CIS is grateful to its donors, Wikimedia Foundation, Ford Foundation, Privacy International, UK, Hans Foundation and the Kusuma Trust which was founded by Anurag Dikshit and Soma Pujari, philanthropists of Indian origin, for its core funding and support for most of its projects._ FOLLOW US ELSEWHERE * Get short, timely messages from us on Twitter [23] * Join the CIS group on Facebook [24] * Visit us at http://cis-india.org [25] Thanks & Regards Noopur Raval Consultant - Communications Access to Knowledge Team, The Centre for Internet & Society, G 15, Top floor Behind Hauz Khas, G Block Market Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110016 Ph: + 91 11 26536425 [26] Links: ------ [1] http://cis-india.org/a2k/access-to-knowledge-program-plan [2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Access_To_Knowledge/Team [3] http://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team [4] http://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team [5] http://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team [6] http://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team [7] http://cis-india.org/openness/indic-language-wikipedias-statistical-report-… [8] http://stats.wikimedia.org [9] http://cis-india.org/openness/first-punjabi-wikipedia-workshop [10] http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/punjabi-wikipedia-workshop-at-punjabi-un… [11] http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/punjabi-wikipedia-workshop-at-amritsar [12] http://cis-india.org/openness/report-of-the-wikipedia-workshop-in-british-l… [13] http://cis-india.org/openness/kannada-wiki-workshop-tumkur-university [14] http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/wikipedia-hyderabad-report [15] http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/drumming-sess… [16] http://cis-india.org/openness/editor-growth-and-contribution-on-telegu-wiki… [17] http://cis-india.org/ [18] http://cis-india.org/accessibility [19] http://cis-india.org/a2k [20] http://cis-india.org/openness [21] http://cis-india.org/internet-governance [22] http://cis-india.org/telecom [23] https://twitter.com/cis_india [24] http://www.facebook.com/groups/28535315687/ [25] http://cis-india.org/about/ [26] http://mail.cis-india.org/tel:%2B%2091%2011%2026536425

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