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Wikidata Advisor (Consultant) position open
— by Tito Dutta — last modified May 19, 2019 03:32 PMThe Access to Knowledge team of the Centre for Internet and Society is seeking applications for the position of Wikidata Advisor (consultant), to support its Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) Programme.
Supporting Indian Language Wikipedias Program/Report
— by Gopala Krishna A — last modified May 01, 2019 05:04 AMCIS-A2K team submitted Project Tiger final report.
CIS-A2K proposal to Wikimedia Foundation for 2019-2020
— by Ananth — last modified Apr 15, 2019 08:05 AMThe Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) has submitted its proposal form for the year 2019 - 2020 to the Wikimedia Foundation. CIS thanks all community members who gave valuable suggestions and inputs for drafting this proposal.
Indic Wikisource speak : Ajit Kumar Tiwari
— by Jayanta Nath — last modified Apr 17, 2019 08:07 PM"Wikisource is going to be as important as Wikipedia because it addresses the issues of citations and references inherently. I will make it as my key pedagogical tool to educate my students and make them a part of this great movement." - Hindi Wiki-librarian Ajit Kumar Tiwari ( अजीत कुमार तिवारी ) share his experience about Hindi Wikisource which approved by Language committee of Wikimedia Foundation Inc , US for separate domain on February 2019.
Indic Wikisource Speak: Sushant Savla
— by Jayanta Nath — last modified Apr 17, 2019 08:09 PMFuture is bright -- Sushant Savla (User:Sushant_savla) from Gujarati Wikisource community, share his experience & journey.
SVG Translation Workshop at KBC North Maharashtra University
— by Subodh Kulkarni — last modified Apr 26, 2019 06:47 AMThe Centre for Internet & Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) wing organized an SVG translation workshop in collaboration with KBC North Maharashtra University, Jalgaon on 14-15 March 2019. The workshop was a part of India level campaign. Total 58 participants attended the workshop and contributed to Commons till 31 March 2019.
Content Donation Sessions with Authors
— by Subodh Kulkarni — last modified Apr 10, 2019 01:28 AMCIS-A2K has adopted an integrated approach towards knowledge generation in Marathi language. With the involvement of various stakeholders in different programmes, CIS-A2K facilitated a comprehensive workshop for publishers, printers, designers and writers on 7 September 2018.
Wikimedia projects orientation session at Tata Trust's Vikas Anvesh Foundation
— by Subodh Kulkarni — last modified Apr 09, 2019 12:56 AMResearchers in development sector produce a pool of training material and case studies. However, these do not trickle down to the society and many in the public domain are unaware of the same.
Comments and Suggestions to the Draft Patent Manual March 2019
— by Achal Prabhala, Feroz Ali, Ramya Sheshadri, Roshan John and Anubha Sinha — last modified Apr 05, 2019 02:15 AMA coordinated civil society response to the consultation on the Patent Manual. CIS provided comments on patenting of computer related inventions.
Indic Wikisource Speak: Dr. Hrishikes Sen
— by Jayanta Nath — last modified Apr 26, 2019 06:42 AMThere are plenty of people engaged in digitising Bengali books. Plenty of pirated digitised books are available online. We need to tap into that catchment area. I think, if we can prepare high-grade pdf versions of our completed works and spread those to various online non-wiki reader communities, we are likely to get good contributors. -- User:Hrishikes from English and Bengali Wikisource community, share his journey.
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