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Dear all,<br>
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Below is the details of the activities by the Centre for Internet
and Society's Access To Knowledge program (CIS-A2K).<br>
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<h4><a rel="nofollow" class="external text"
href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/telugu-wikimedia-hackathon-2014">Telugu
Wikimedia Hackathon 2014</a>
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<p>Telugu Wikimedia (including their projects <a
href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/" class="extiw"
title="te:">Telugu Wikipedia</a>, <a
href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/te:" class="extiw"
title="s:te:">Telugu Wikisource</a> etc.) is one of the
largest and most powerful Indian language Wikimedia projects,
and it is growing and expanding everyday<sup id="cite_ref-1"
class="reference"><a
href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Reports/Newsletter/January_2015#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup>.
In the last half of 2014, Telugu Wikimedia community members
contacted CIS-A2K team with a request to organize a MediaWiki
tutorial workshop for them. Following their request, on 28
December 2014, CIS-A2K team organized a MediaWiki hackathon
event for Telugu Wikimedia community members to enhance their
skills and understanding of technical matters related to
MediaWiki usage. The theme of the workshop was “Mediawiki, its
extensions and tools to work around” and it aimed at allowing
Wikipedians to use MediaWiki tools more effectively.</p>
<h4><span class="mw-headline" id="Op-ed">Op-ed</span></h4>
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<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text"
href="http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/op-ed-samaja-jan-2015">ଓଡ଼ିଆ
ଭାଷା ପାଇଁ ଅନ୍ତର୍ଜାତୀୟ ପ୍ରକଳ୍ପ</a> (Subhashish Panigrahi; The
Samaja, January 31, 2015).</li>
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<h4><span class="mw-headline" id="Blog_Entry">Blog Entry</span></h4>
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<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text"
href="http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/telugu-wikimedia-hackathon-2014">Telugu
Wikimedia Hackathon 2014</a> (Rahmanuddin Shaik; January 31,
2015).</li>
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<h4><span class="mw-headline" id="Media_Coverage">Media Coverage</span></h4>
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<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text"
href="http://cis-india.org/openness/news/the-hans-india-december-31-2014-works-of-veerasalingam-pantulu-on-web">Works
of Veerasalingam Pantulu on web</a> (Hans India; January 1,
2015).</li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text"
href="http://cis-india.org/openness/news/zee-news-january-9-2015-centre-should-partner-local-communities-in-digital-india">Centre
should partner local communities in 'Digital India': Expert</a>
(IANS and mirrored in Zee News; January 9, 2015).</li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text"
href="http://cis-india.org/openness/news/the-times-of-india-january-20-2015-sandhya-soman-musician-donates-gwalior-gharana-songs-to-free-e-library">Musician
donates Gwalior Gharana songs to free e-library</a> (Times
of India; January 20, 2015).</li>
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<h4><span class="mw-headline" id="Participation_in_Event">Participation
in Event</span></h4>
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<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text"
href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/citizen-media-summit-2015">Citizen
Media Summit 2015</a> (Organized by Global Voices; January
24 – 25, 2015).</li>
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<h4><span class="mw-headline" id="Announcement">Announcement</span></h4>
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<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text"
href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/opensource-2015-award-winners">2015
Opensource.com Community Awards</a> Every year,
Opensource.com awards people from our community who have
excelled in contributing and sharing stories about open
source. Subhashish Panigrahi from the CIS-A2K team won the
award under the category ‘People's Choice Awards’.</li>
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<h4><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span></h4>
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<li id="cite_note-1"> <span class="reference-text"><a
class="external text"
href="http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaTE.htm">Telugu
Wikipedia Stats tables</a></span></li>
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<h4><span class="mw-headline" id="The_Access_to_Knowledge_Team">The
Access to Knowledge Team</span></h4>
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<li>Wikimedia Foundation has funded A2K to anchor the growth of
the Wikimedia movement in India. The A2K team consists of five
members, all of them being based in Bangalore: T. Vishnu
Vardhan, Dr. U.B. Pavanaja, Subhashish Panigrahi, Rahmanuddin
Shaik and Tanveer. We also have one Advisor, Dr. Tejaswini
Niranjana working with us.<br>
Archives of our newsletters can be accessed <a rel="nofollow"
class="external text"
href="http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters">here</a>.
Wikipedians from various communities can request for outreach
programmes, technical bugs, logistics-merchandise and media,
public relations and communications <a class="external text"
href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Requests">here</a>.</li>
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<h4><span class="mw-headline" id="About_CIS">About CIS</span></h4>
<p>The Centre for Internet and Society is a non-profit research
organisation that works on policy issues relating to freedom of
expression, privacy, accessibility for persons with
disabilities, access to knowledge and IPR reform, and openness
(including open government, FOSS, open standards, etc), and
engages in academic research on digital natives and digital
humanities.</p>
<h4><span class="mw-headline" id="Follow_us_elsewhere">Follow us
elsewhere</span></h4>
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<li>Twitter: <a rel="nofollow" class="external free"
href="https://twitter.com/CISA2K">https://twitter.com/CISA2K</a></li>
<li>CIS group on Facebook: <a rel="nofollow" class="external
free" href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/cis.india">https://www.facebook.com/groups/cis.india</a></li>
<li>Visit us at: <a rel="nofollow" class="external free"
href="https://cis-india.org">https://cis-india.org</a></li>
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<h4><span class="mw-headline" id="Request_for_collaboration">Request
for collaboration</span></h4>
<p>We invite researchers, practitioners, and theoreticians, both
organisationally and as individuals, to collaboratively engage
with Internet and society and improve our understanding of this
new field. To discuss research collaborations, write to Sunil
Abraham, Executive Director, at <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:sunil@cis-india.org">sunil@cis-india.org</a> or Nishant
Shah, Director – Research, at <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:nishant@cis-india.org">nishant@cis-india.org</a>. To discuss
collaborations on Indic language Wikipedia, write to T. Vishnu
Vardhan, Programme Director, A2K, at <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:vishnu@cis-india.org">vishnu@cis-india.org</a>.</p>
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This bulletin is also available on Meta-wiki at:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Reports/Newsletter/January_2015">https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Reports/Newsletter/January_2015</a><br>
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Thank you all for your kind support and collaboration!<br>
<br>
-- <br>
With Thanks & Regards<br>
Rahmanuddin Shaik<br>
Program Officer,<br>
<a href="cis-india.org">Centre for Internet and Society - </a><a
href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge">Access
2 Knowledge Program</a>
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