Thanks, Ananth for sharing these events and updates! This is exciting :)
If you need any help in designing a curriculum, or gathering tools or
resources for running a technical workshop/event, feel free to reach out to
the Developer Advocacy team:
.
Best,
Srishti
*Srishti Sethi*
Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 8:24 AM Samuel Klein <meta.sj(a)gmail.com> wrote:
+++ Thanks for these updates, as always :) SJ
On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 9:07 AM Shani Evenstein <shani.even(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
This is great!
So wonderful to see such wonderful activity from India!
Keep up the good work!
Shani.
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*Shani Evenstein Sigalov*
* Lecturer, Tel Aviv University.
* EdTech Innovation Strategist, NY/American Medical Program, Sackler
School
of Medicine, Tel Aviv University.
* PhD Candidate, School of Education, Tel Aviv University.
* OER & Emerging Technologies Coordinator, UNESCO Chair
<https://education.tau.ac.il/node/3495> on Technology,
Internationalization
and Education, School of Education, Tel Aviv University
<https://education.tau.ac.il/node/3495>.
* Chairperson, WikiProject Medicine Foundation
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Project_Med>.
* Chairperson, Wikipedia & Education User Group
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_%26_Education_User_Group>.
* Chairperson, The Hebrew Literature Digitization Society
<http://www.israelgives.org/amuta/580428621>.
* Chief Editor, Project Ben-Yehuda <http://bybe.benyehuda.org>.
+972-525640648
On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 3:36 PM Ananth Subray <ananth.subray(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
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
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