Greetings from CIS-A2K,
I am writing this email to inform you about the Wikimedia Education SAARC
conference which is going to be organised at Christ University on 20-22
June 2019. The CIS-A2K team has been working with the language department
of Christ University and other institutions to enrich the content of Indic
Wikimedia projects with the help of students.
Wikimedia Education SAARC conference will be the first of its kind
conference in SAARC countries which will engage students, education program
leaders, educators and researchers engaged with Open Education and free
knowledge movement. This conference will allow us to understand the
different efforts made by the communities involved in the Wikimedia
Education movement.
We're thankful to Christ University for helping us to the host the event,
for more details and further updates, Please have a look at this page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Education_SAARC_conference>[1].
[1]. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Education_SAARC_conference
Thanks and Regards,
*ANANTH SUBRAY P V*
MSc Candidate at CHRIST (Deemed to be University)
Programme Associate at The Centre for Internet & Society
<https://cis-india.org/a2k/cis-a2k>
Secretary of Wikipedia & Education User Group
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_%26_Education_User_Group>
Co-founder of Lakshya
<https://www.facebook.com/lakshyaforchange/?eid=ARDO9f7NCVPHN1bsF2mChlPDM4qS…>
+91-9739811664
Dear All,
We are glad to inform that CIS-A2K has published our newsletter for January
2019.
*Events*
- *Mini MediaWiki Training Theni:* Indic TechCom members and CIS-A2K
decided to reach out to students with the Computer science background and
help them understand how to contribute on MediaWiki. As a pilot project,
we reached out to Nadar Saraswathi College of Engineering and Technology
and organised a two-day long Mini MediaWiki training for the students on
22nd and 23rd of January 2019.
- *Marathi Language Fortnight Workshops: * CIS-A2K started collaborating
with State language dept. in 2017. In the first series
<https://mr.wikipedia.org/s/48ug> of workshops, we conducted three
workshops. In the second series <https://mr.wikipedia.org/s/48u9> in
2018, we conducted six workshops out of a total of 17 workshops conducted
across the state. In the year 2019, the awareness spread to more
educational institutions located in different regions of the state.
In this third
series <https://mr.wikipedia.org/s/48gs>, CIS-A2K conducted five
workshops out of a total of 21 workshops
- *Wikisource training Bengaluru: * During the Indic Wikisource
Community Consultation at Kolkata, India on 24–25 November 2018,User
:Shubha requested to conduct a Wikisource specific Workshop for
Sankrit Wikisource
Team at Bengaluru Samkrit Bharati. The CIS-A2K Team conducted a workshop
for Sanskrit Community at Bengaluru, Karnataka on 23 - 24 January 2019.
- *TWLCon (2019 India): * TWL Con or the Wikipedia Library conference
was supported by the CIS-A2K. The aim of the conference was to spread
awareness about TWL among the Indian languages community, understand and
identify different challenges of the movement in India.
- *1lib1ref session at Goa University: * Marathi language department and
faculty from other languages organised the #1lib1ref event at Goa
University. The practice of Marathi typing in Unicode was carried out
through preparing articles as a Word document. The students selected the
articles on the history of Goa, writers & artists of Goa, Tourism in Goa
and villages in Goa. Total of 37 editors actively participated in the
workshop. They learnt basic editing skills, adding references and uploading
on Commons.
- *Punjabi Wikimedians meetup: * Punjabi Wikimedians had an online
meeting on 27 January 2019. 11 participants joined this meeting.
*Upcoming Events: *
- *Project Tiger Community Consultation: * Project Tiger Community
Consultation is a consultation program that will take place on 2-3 March
2019 at Chennai (most probably).
- *Gujarati Meetup & Workshop, Ahmedabad: * CIS-A2K along with the
Gujarati Wikimedia community is planning the Gujarati Wikisource Workshop
and Gujarati Wikimedia Meetup in Ahmedabad. The goal of the meetup is to
introduce Wikisource and help the community better understand the scope and
future of Wikisource.
- *Train the Trainer-2019(Bids): **The bids for Train-the-trainer
program 2019 has already taken place. Currently, the jury members are
deciding the place for the TTT 2019. TTT 2019, the 6th iteration of the
Train-the-trainer program. *
You can find the meta version of the newsletter at:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/January_2019
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/January_2019>
Thanks and Regards,
*ANANTH SUBRAY P V*
MSc Candidate at CHRIST (Deemed to be University)
Programme Associate at The Centre for Internet & Society
<https://cis-india.org/a2k/cis-a2k>
Secretary of Wikipedia & Education User Group
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_%26_Education_User_Group>
Co-founder of Lakshya
<https://www.facebook.com/lakshyaforchange/?eid=ARDO9f7NCVPHN1bsF2mChlPDM4qS…>
+91-9739811664
Dear All,
Firstly I would like to thank you for the continuous support and
contribution to the Wikimedia movement specially in Wikisource.
You are aware that after first wikisourse workshop organized in Patiala,
the Punjabi Wikisource Community is growing rapidly, reaching a total of
7000+ pages proofreaded in last two month. For updated page/
digitized content you go here[2]
But Indic community members have not got any chance to advantages for this
kind of Workshop for their language community. Workshop for Wikisource
of Punjabi,
Sanskrit & Kannada language community is completed. Assamese, Gujarati &
Tamil have shown their interest for workshop in coming month. Keeping this
in mind we are planning to have an IRC[1] on 17th February 2019 (@8PM) for
the Indic Wikisource community. Please suggest more Agenda for the IRC.
:Agenda
- Update status of what we have done after first IRC and IWCC2018
- Major issues we faced, and how do I help personally towards the
specific community ( Offline and Online both)
- Organize edit-thon for Wikisource ( Offline and Online both)
- Workshop planning for other community for Oriya Malayalam, Tamil and
Telugu.
- Advance Wikisource Workshop for Punjabi Community.
- Add more if you have to discuss ….
[1]. https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#cis-a2k
[2]. https://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Indic_Wikisource_Stats
Thanks and Regards,
Jayanta Nath
Wikisource Project advisor
Access to Knowledge program
The Centre for Internet & Society