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Access to Knowledge Bulletin — March 2013
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<b>In the third issue of our newsletter for 2013, we are pleased to bring you updates from the Indic Wikipedia Visualisation project, reports of events organised in Goa, and press coverage of the Kannada Wikipedia Workshop held in Mysore.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The <a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Access_To_Knowledge/Team" target="_blank" title="Access To Knowledge/Team">A2K team</a> consists of four members based in Delhi: <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/people/our-team" target="_blank">T. Vishnu Vardhan</a>, <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/newsletters/people/our-team" target="_blank">Nitika Tandon</a>, <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/newsletters/people/our-team" target="_blank">Subhashish Panigrahi</a> and <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/newsletters/people/our-team" target="_blank">Noopur Raval</a>, and one member <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/people/our-team" target="_blank">Dr. U.B. Pavanaja</a> who is working from Bangalore office.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Wikipedians from various communities can request for outreach programs, technical bugs, logistics-merchandize and media, public relations and communications at <a href="http://bit.ly/TOcXId" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/TOcXId</a>.</p>
<h3>Indic Wikipedia Visualisation Project</h3>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog/indic-wikipedia-visualisation-project-visualising-basic-parameters">Visualising Basic Parameters</a> (by Sajjad Anwar and Sumandro Chattapadhyay, March 26, 2013): Sajjad and Sumandro bring you a visualisation of the growth of Indic Wikipedia in this first post on Indic Wikipedia Visualisation project. </li>
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<h3>Events Organised</h3>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog/wikipedia-session-at-bits-goa">Introductory Wikipedia session at BITS Goa</a> (organised by CIS, Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, Goa, March 7, 2013). The Access to Knowledge team was invited by Nikhil Dixit from BITS to organise a Wikipedia editing session. Nitika Tandon led the editing session.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/kannada-wikipedia-workshop">Kannada Wikipedia Workshop</a> (organised by CIS, Institution of Engineers, JLB Road, Mysore, March 24, 2013). Dr. U.B. Pavanaja led the event.</li>
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<h3>Events Co-organised</h3>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog/wiki-womens-day-in-goa">Wiki Women's Day in Goa</a> (organised by the Wikimedia India Chapter and CIS, Nirmala Institute of Education, Panaji, Goa, March 8, 2013). Nitika Tandon participated in this workshop held on International Working Women's Day, and shares the developments in this report.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-workshop-for-kannada-science-writers">Wikipedia Workshop for Kannada Science Writers</a> (organised by Wikimedia Chapter India, Karnataka Rajya Vijnana Parishath and CIS, Karnataka Rajya Vijnana Parishath Conference Hall, Banashankari 2nd Stage, Bangalore, March 17, 2013). Dr. U.B. Pavanaja participated in the event.</li>
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<h3>Upcoming Event (Co-organised)</h3>
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<li><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/telegu-wiki-mahotsavam-2013">Telugu Wiki Mahotsavam 2013</a> (co-organised with the Telegu Wikipedia community, Hyderabad, April 9 to 11, 2013). Vishnu Vardhan is participating in this event as a speaker. A public event will be held on April 11 from 5.00 p.m. to 8.00 p.m. at Golden Threshold (Sarojini Naidu's house) in Hyderabad.</li>
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<h3>Events Participated In</h3>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/news/wikipedia-womens-workshop-bangalore-2013">Wikipedia Women's Workshop Bangalore 2013</a> (organised by Wikimedia India, Servelots Infotech, Jayanagar, Bangalore, March 8, 2013). The event was covered by <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/news/wikipedia-womens-workshop-bangalore-2013">Kannada Prabha</a> on March 9, 2013. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja participated in the event.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/news/wikipedia-at-avenir">Wikipedia at Avenir</a> (organised by the Wikipedia community, Netaji Subhash Engineering College, Kolkata, West Bengal, March 11, 2013). CIS supported the event.</li>
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<h3>Event Report from Other Organisations</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Wikipedia Community members helped the Higher Education Innovation and Research Applications Programme (HEIRA) of CSCS Bangalore organize a day-long workshop on ‘Digital Literacy’ at Ahmednagar College, Ahmednagar, Maharasthra on January 17, 2013. Tanveer Hasan of HEIRA shares with us the developments in <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog/ahmednagar-marathi-wikipedia-workshop-report">this report</a>.</p>
<h3>Media Coverage</h3>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/news/kannada-wikipedia-workshop-report-in-prajavani">Kannada Wikipedia Workshop, Mysore</a> (Prajavani, March 25, 2013).</li>
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<h2><a href="http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/">About CIS</a></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">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, Access to Knowledge, Openness, Internet Governance, and Telecom. The policy research programmes have resulted in outputs such as the <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/advocacy/accessibility/blog/e-accessibility-handbook">e-Accessibility Policy Handbook for Persons with Disabilities</a> with ITU and G3ict, and <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/digital-natives/front-page/blog/dnbook">Digital Alternatives with a Cause?</a>, <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/digital-natives/front-page/blog/position-papers">Thinkathon Position Papers</a> and the <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/digital-natives/front-page/blog/digital-natives-with-a-cause-a-report">Digital Natives with a Cause? Report</a> with Hivos, etc. We have conducted policy research for the Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, etc., on <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/a2k/blog/cis-analysis-july2011-treaty-print-disabilities">WIPO Treaties</a>, <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/a2k/blog/analysis-copyright-amendment-bill-2012">Copyright Bill</a>, <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/internet-governance/front-page/blog/cis-feedback-to-nia-bill">NIA Bill</a>, etc.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS is accredited as an observer at WIPO. CIS staff participates in the Standing Committee for Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) meetings regularly held in Geneva, and participate in the discussions and comments on them from a public interest perspective. Our Policy Director, Nirmita Narasimhan won the <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/accessibility/blog/national-award">National Award for Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities</a> from the Government of India and also received the <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/news/nirmita-nivh-award">NIVH Excellence Award</a>.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">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 the research collaborations, write to Sunil Abraham, Executive Director, at <a href="mailto:sunil@cis-india.org">sunil@cis-india.org</a> or Nishant Shah, Director – Research, at <a href="mailto:nishant@cis-india.org">nishant@cis-india.org</a></p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/about/newsletters/access-to-knowledge-bulletin-march-2013'>http://editors.cis-india.org/about/newsletters/access-to-knowledge-bulletin-march-2013</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaOpennessWikipediaAccess to KnowledgeWikimedia2013-04-15T16:47:20ZPageWikipedia Indian Languages Workshop at IIT, Bombay
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wiki-workshop-at-iit-bombay
<b>This is a brief report on the Wikipedia Indian languages workshop held on March 9, 2013 at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in partnership with Vaani, the Hindi bloggers' club at IIT, Bombay. </b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Vaani is a group of students at the institute who maintain personal blogs in Hindi language. They upload stories, poems and other original material in Hindi and hold regular meetings as a part of Vaani. Their motive is to conserve and promote the love for native languages, especially that of Hindi.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The A2K team had proposed a meeting and workshop to Vaani students earlier in February but it was eventually scheduled in March. The date also coincided with Women's day celebrations which gave us an opportunity to discuss questions of gender, access, knowledge bias on Wikipedia and more. It was attended by 17 participants and was coordinated by Apoorv Maheshwari from Vaani.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The participant group was diverse – it consisted of doctoral students from humanities as well as sciences and a few graduate students from different departments. Before talking about how to contribute to Wikipedia, we had a round of introductions and questions from participants about what they wanted to know. Most of the participants had seen the 'edit' button and had clicked on it but were clueless beyond that. They also wanted to know about the style guide to writing articles on Wikipedia. After initial discussions and a few edits on English Wikipedia, we moved to exploring Indian language Wikipedias. Surprisingly, only a few of them knew that Wikipedia exists in Indian languages. This led to questions of font support, readership and contribution – who contributes to Indian Wikipedias, why one should contribute and more.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Unfortunately, since the institute's IP address has been reported and blocked for vandalism, we could not make user accounts on the spot. However, they tried their hand at editing to understand the process itself. Another challenge while doing workshops with Indian language Wikipedias is font support for individual computers that participants bring. Perhaps there is a need to carry support documentation and tools (keyboard layouts and free fonts). Towards the end, they expressed an interest in a longer Wikipedia program for all the bloggers on campus in different languages.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">We thank the members of Vaani for their support and participation and hope to build and sustain this relationship further.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wiki-workshop-at-iit-bombay'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wiki-workshop-at-iit-bombay</a>
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No publishernoopurOpennessWikipediaAccess to KnowledgeWikimedia2013-03-28T11:44:04ZBlog EntryIndic Wikipedia Visualisation Project #1: Visualising Basic Parameters
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/indic-wikipedia-visualisation-project-visualising-basic-parameters
<b>Sajjad Anwar and Sumandro Chattapadhyay bring you a visualisation of the growth of Indic Wikipedia in this first post on Indic Wikipedia Visualisation project. In doing so, the authors look into the different aspects of the past and present activities of Indic Wikipedias, and divide the visualisation into three different focus areas.</b>
<h3>Introduction</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Understanding how the Indic or the Indian language Wikipedia projects are growing is something that we have been interested in for quite sometime. We were delighted to come across this opportunity from the <a href="http://www.cis-india.org/">Centre</a><a href="http://www.cis-india.org/"> </a><a href="http://www.cis-india.org/">for</a><a href="http://www.cis-india.org/"> </a><a href="http://www.cis-india.org/">Internet</a><a href="http://www.cis-india.org/"> </a><a href="http://www.cis-india.org/">and</a><a href="http://www.cis-india.org/"> </a><a href="http://www.cis-india.org/">Society</a> (CIS) and <a href="http://www.wikimedia.org/">Wikimedia</a><a href="http://www.wikimedia.org/"> </a><a href="http://www.wikimedia.org/">Foundation</a>. We divided our analyses into three focus areas: (1) basic parameters, (2) geographic patterns of edits, and (3) exploring the topics that receives the greatest number of edits. The existing infographics and data visualisations that we found about Indic Wikipedias mostly engaged on the first area, and also emphasised on yearly aggregates. We thought a more granular, that is monthly, understanding and a focus on the geographic and thematic spread of the edits would be very helpful to further appreciate the activities.</p>
<p>We began by collecting data about the following basic parameters:</p>
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<li>Number of Editors</li>
<li>Number of Articles</li>
<li>Page Views</li>
<li>Number of Active Editors</li>
<li>Number of New Articles</li>
<li>Number of New Editors</li>
<li>Edit Size</li>
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<h3>Acquiring the data</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">We explored the <a href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API">MediaWiki</a><a href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API"> </a><a href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API">API</a>, <a href="http://toolserver.org/">ToolServer</a> and the <a href="http://stats.wikimedia.org/">Wikimedia</a><a href="http://stats.wikimedia.org/"> </a><a href="http://stats.wikimedia.org/">Statistics</a><a href="http://stats.wikimedia.org/"> </a><a href="http://stats.wikimedia.org/">Portal</a>. These are several ways of obtaining data about Wikipedia in general. Depending on the use case, such as the quantity of data required or the need for customised/selective data scraping, any one or more of these methods of data gathering can be chosen. The API had limitations in terms of how much data you can access, and it is meant to be used to access actual Wikipedia entries. We, however, were looking for metadata about the entries/articles (such as when it was first created, when and how many times it was edited, etc.) and not the actual entries/articles, that is the actual contents of Indic Wikipedias. ToolServer is an excellent way of running custom scripts. Although, this takes for granted that user (of ToolServer) has substantial command over the back-end infrastructures and processes that Wikipedia runs on. We wrote a few scrapers to extract metadata about Indic Wikipedia projects from the ToolServer but not exactly being experts in the Wikipedia back-end systems, we found scraping from ToolServer rather time-and effort-intensive. The statistics portal is a well organised and an accessible place for collecting data for analyses. However, we came across several missing parameters and projects, that is the statistic portal did not have all the parameters and Wikipedia projects we were interested in. In our search for Indic Wikipedia datasets so far, we realised that the Wikimedia Analytics Team (WAT) puts a lot of effort in writing scripts and collecting various data at different levels. Wikimedia developer Yuvi Panda and the Access to Knowledge team at CIS, aware of our difficulty in obtaining the data, also pointed us towards the WAT. While we were already scraping data on some of the parameters, we approached the WAT whose prompt and very supportive response much accelerated our work process. The fantastic Wikimedia developers, especially Evan Rosen (a big ‘thank you’ for him) shared the needed data, which we cleaned up and archived at the <a class="external-link" href="https://github.com/geohacker/indicwiki">Github repository</a> for the project.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">We obtained data for the period from January 2001 to December 2012. It appears that the Indic Wikipedia projects began their activities around 2005. A big part of cleaning the data involved identifying when each of the projects started and dropping data. There are <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Indic_Languages">20 </a><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Indic_Languages">Indic</a><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Indic_Languages"> </a><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Indic_Languages">Wikipedia</a> projects with 4,98,964 articles, 5,689 editors and over 3,35,49,102 readers.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Deciding upon chart types</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">We spent quite some time discussing different methods of visualising the data. The major difficulty is that there are too many entities to be plotted. As each language must be plotted as a separate entity — point, line, circle, etc. — the chart has a tendency to become cluttered and illegible. Even if we take only one variable — say New Editors — there will still be 20 points or lines to be plotted. Hence, using any of the conventional charts becomes difficult. For example, if we chose a line chart with New Editors on the Y-axis and months on the X-axis, there will be 20 lines each of a different colour, representing different languages. Also, the five-six year monthly timeline translates into 60-72 temporal data points.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">We have adopted two strategies, and related chart types, to address this difficulty.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Firstly, we used a monthly calendar-like heatmap chart that limits the temporal spread of data to one year for each section of the chart and uses a positionally uniform set of columns for each language so as to make reading the chart easier. Limiting each chart section to 12 months allow the user to focus on more granular movements of the variable concerned, say the number of New Editors per month. By representing each languages on an unique column, and not by an upwards-and-downwards moving line as in a line chart, makes it easier for the user to follow movements in each language (where movement is shown by the intensity of colour, as characteristic of heatmaps) without the need to have a separate coloured entity — point, line, circle — for each language.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Secondly, we used a motion chart, as made famous by Dr. Hans Rosling, that removes the temporal axis from X- and Y-axes of the chart and uses animated transition to represent temporal change. Motion chart has the unique ability to handle as many as five variables in an organised manner, using the following visual elements: X-axis, Y-axis, Z-axis (animated temporal transitions), size of bubbles, and colour of bubbles. It is, however, recommended that represented variables be limited to a maximum of four for easier legibility. In our case, we have used the X- and Y-axes to plot various related variables (which can be selected by the user) such as New Editors and New Articles, the Z-axis to represent time, and the colour of the bubbles to represent a third optional variable (also can be selected by the user). Since different Indian language Wikipedia projects often take a wide range of values for most variables, using the size of the bubble to represent any of those variables is avoidable. Further, the motion chart gives the user a lot of controls to explore the various projects and variables according to their interest and especially to compare particular projects and variables to each other.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Discussing the chart types with the Access to Knowledge team, we decided to use simpler line charts — emphasising upon single Indic Wikipedia projects — on the language-specific pages that we will be creating next.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Calendar charts</h3>
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<th><img src="http://editors.cis-india.org/home-images/indicwiki_calendar_chart.png" alt="Indic Wikipedia Language Chart" class="image-inline" title="Indic Wikipedia Language Chart" /></th>
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<td style="text-align: center; ">Calendar heatmap chart of New Editors across Indic Wikipedia projects, 2008-2011. Source: <a class="external-link" href="http://bit.ly/XDb3fa">http://bit.ly/XDb3fa</a></td>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">We visualised three parameters using the calendar heatmap strategy: (1) <a href="http://geohacker.github.com/indicwiki/new-articles">New</a><a href="http://geohacker.github.com/indicwiki/new-articles"> </a><a href="http://geohacker.github.com/indicwiki/new-articles">Articles</a>, (2) <a href="http://geohacker.github.com/indicwiki/new-editors">New</a><a href="http://geohacker.github.com/indicwiki/new-editors"> </a><a href="http://geohacker.github.com/indicwiki/new-editors">Editors</a>, (3) <a href="http://geohacker.github.com/indicwiki/active-editors">Active</a><a href="http://geohacker.github.com/indicwiki/active-editors"> </a><a href="http://geohacker.github.com/indicwiki/active-editors">Editors</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The New Articles Calendar shows new articles posted on every Indic Wikipedias for every month since 2004. It was interesting to note the few number of articles in 2012 for all the languages. The first language to have the most number of new articles is Bengali. Hindi picks up around same time with fewer number of articles. Except Urdu and Nepali, every other language dropped in the number of new articles. However, we should remember that a lower number of new articles does not necessarily indicate at low overall activity in the project concerned.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Like the new articles, we wanted to explore the patterns in the number of new editors across all of the Indic Wikipedia projects. As you run through the new editors calendar chart, it is evident that there is consistent growth in the editor base for few projects like Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam. If one takes a step back and compares this with the number of new articles chart, something is not very clear -- in some of the projects, there is a growth in the number of editors but not many new articles are posted. We are very keen to understand why this has happened.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">If we look at the active editors calendar, Tamil started with 2 active editors in January 2004 and with few ups and downs grew to about 115 active editors in December 2012. Malayalam started slow in late 2004 with 2 editors and grew to 155 active editors in December 2012. We are sure the viewers should be able to find out more patterns by studying the charts closely and comparatively.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Motion chart</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">We developed <a href="http://geohacker.github.com/indicwiki/motion_chart.html">a</a><a href="http://geohacker.github.com/indicwiki/motion_chart.html"> </a><a href="http://geohacker.github.com/indicwiki/motion_chart.html">motion</a><a href="http://geohacker.github.com/indicwiki/motion_chart.html"> </a><a href="http://geohacker.github.com/indicwiki/motion_chart.html">chart</a><a href="http://geohacker.github.com/indicwiki/motion_chart.html"> </a><a href="http://geohacker.github.com/indicwiki/motion_chart.html">comparing</a><a href="http://geohacker.github.com/indicwiki/motion_chart.html"> </a><a href="http://geohacker.github.com/indicwiki/motion_chart.html">five</a><a href="http://geohacker.github.com/indicwiki/motion_chart.html"> </a><a href="http://geohacker.github.com/indicwiki/motion_chart.html">variables</a>: (1) Active Editors (> 5 edits per month), (2) New Editors, (3) Total Editors, (4) New Articles, and (5) Total Articles. When the visualisation is opened, Total Editors is plotted on the X-axis, Total Articles is plotted on the Y-axis, the colour of the bubbles indicate the Active Editors (Blue is low and Red is high) and the sizes of the bubbles are kept the same for easier comparison.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The user can click on the drop down menus at the X- and Y-axes, and next to the size and colour variables, and make them represent different variables.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">We chose to configure the X- and Y-axes to show the data in logarithmic scales and not in linear scales. Since most projects experience small increments over time and there exists a wide difference between the most and the least popular/active projects, the logarithmic scale is better suited to represent the changes in the given data. The user has the option to select linear scale at the end of both X- and Y-axes (click on "Log").</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">As evident in the visualisation, the Newari project and the Hindi-Malayalam project cluster show very interesting contrasting dynamics — while both achieve similar Total Articles numbers, the latter is much more editor-heavy. This suggests a smaller but more active editor community for the Newari project.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Please click on the image of the motion chart below to open the interactive version in a separate window. The code can be accessed at the project repository on <a class="external-link" href="https://github.com/geohacker/indicwiki">Github</a>.</p>
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<th><img src="http://editors.cis-india.org/home-images/indicwiki_motion_chart.png" alt="Indic Wiki Motion Chart" class="image-inline" title="Indic Wiki Motion Chart" /></th>
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<td>Motion chart comparing multiple variables across Indic Wikipedia projects, 2001-2011. Source: <a class="external-link" href="http://bit.ly/Yw4Wzq">http://bit.ly/Yw4Wzq</a></td>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><a class="external-link" href="http://sajjad.in/">Sajjad Anwar</a> is a programmer based in Bangalore. <a class="external-link" href="http://www.ajantriks.net/">Sumandro Chattapdhyay</a> is a researcher based in Delhi. They often work together.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/indic-wikipedia-visualisation-project-visualising-basic-parameters'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/indic-wikipedia-visualisation-project-visualising-basic-parameters</a>
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No publisherSajjad Anwar and Sumandro ChattapadhyayAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaFeaturedOpenness2013-03-26T10:04:43ZBlog EntryKannada Wikipedia Workshop, Mysore — Coverage in Prajavani
http://editors.cis-india.org/news/kannada-wikipedia-workshop-report-in-prajavani
<b>A Kannada Wikipedia workshop was organized by the Centre for Internet and Society in Mysore on March 24, 2013. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja participated in the event. Prajavani has published a report of the event on March 25, 2013.</b>
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<th><img src="http://editors.cis-india.org/home-images/PrajavaniWikiMeetupMysore.png" alt="Prajavani report" class="image-inline" title="Prajavani report" /></th>
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<td>Prajavani published a report of the Kannada Wikipedia workshop held at Mysore on March 25, 2013.<br /></td>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/news/kannada-wikipedia-workshop-report-in-prajavani'>http://editors.cis-india.org/news/kannada-wikipedia-workshop-report-in-prajavani</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpenness2013-03-25T08:49:20ZNews ItemWiki Women's Day in Goa
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wiki-womens-day-in-goa
<b>International Women's Day (IWD), also called International Working Women's Day, is celebrated on March 8, every year. There were a series of Wikipedia events organised this year with the aim of increasing participation of women contributing to Wikipedia. One such event was organised by the Access to Knowledge team at the Centre for Internet and Society and the Wikimedia India Chapter at the Nirmala Institute of Education (NIE), a Secondary Teacher Education College in Panaji, Goa on March 8, 2013.</b>
<p align="JUSTIFY">NIE is a respected institution providing pre- and in-service teacher education to thousands of teachers and about a 100 of them (99 per cent of the participants being women) joined in to learn Wikipedia editing and increase women related content on Wikipedia.</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY">Rohini Lakshane from the Wikimedia India Chapter and Nitika Tandon from Access to Knowledge, CIS lead the session jointly. The session began with the introduction of Wikipedia, Wikipedia volunteers, the five pillars, motivation of volunteers to contribute to Wikipedia tirelessly and a brief of different activities that are being organised to strengthen the Wikimedia movement in India. Most of the students and faculty members were curious about two main things:</p>
<ol>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">How to integrate the new community of editors in Goa with the larger Indian and global community?</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">How can teachers and students use Wikipedia to advance students' knowledge and add useful content to Wikipedia?</li>
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<p><img src="http://editors.cis-india.org/home-images/NethasVideo.png/@@images/7c6006be-6dee-4a10-b4bf-982ca38cf478.png" title="Netha's Video" height="247" width="330" alt="Netha's Video" class="image-inline" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center; ">Participants watching Netha's video</p>
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<td style="text-align: justify; ">
<p>To answer the first part, participants were informed about regular Wiki meet ups in different cities, several city based and language based Wikipedia mailing lists where one can find volunteer friends, active use of user talk pages and village pumps, Wikimedia India Facebook page amongst many others.</p>
<p>To address the second part there was also a brief discussion about wiki project classroom coordination with specific examples from universities around the world. The teachers and faculty members will be sent a detailed outline of the program, list of universities with on-going projects, list of teachers who have used Wikipedia as a teaching tool and are willing to serve as a contact to help others set up a similar teaching courses.</p>
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<p align="JUSTIFY">The session was planned to go on until late evening with hands on editing in the computer lab. But unfortunately, we (Rohini and Nitika) were informed that the session will have to close before the scheduled closing time as participants had to leave. Except for two or three participants coming on stage and making their user accounts and another 3-4 article edits, we couldn't include more editing as a part of the outreach session, primarily due to time constraint. We're hoping that at a small percentage of participants would try actual editing at home and contribute to women related articles and some of them will be successful in using Wikipedia as a teacher's tool. We have their contact details and we'll try and monitor their on Wiki activities and provide them support whenever needed.</p>
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<th><img src="http://editors.cis-india.org/home-images/NIEWikipediaWorkshop.png" alt="NIE Wikipedia Workshop" class="image-inline" title="NIE Wikipedia Workshop" /></th>
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<td style="text-align: center; ">A picture of participants doing Wiki editing at the NIE workshop in Goa</td>
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</table>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wiki-womens-day-in-goa'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wiki-womens-day-in-goa</a>
</p>
No publishernitikaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaFeaturedWorkshopOpenness2013-03-19T06:32:25ZBlog EntryIntroductory Wikipedia session at BITS Goa
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wikipedia-session-at-bits-goa
<b>The Access to Knowledge team at the Centre for Internet and Society was invited by Nikhil Dixit, Public Relations Officer at the Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani – Goa (BITS Goa) to organise Wikipedia session on March 7, 2013. Nitika Tandon participated in this workshop and shares with us the developments.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Despite the fact that students were busy with their exams and lab tests nearly 30 of them turned up for the event. Many of the students had already tried a bit of IP editing but had not bothered to create accounts. When asked why they hadn't created user accounts many of them said they didn't feel that it is important to create accounts till they are able to correct or add information that they want to share using IPs. The participants were then told about the importance of creating user accounts: using it as an identity with the Wikipedia community, each edit being added to their edit count, helping them build trust, friends and connections with other editors, being able to become Wikipedia administrators or system operators, etc.</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY">As most of the participants had some knowledge of Wikipedia editing, having made sporadic edits in the past, they wanted to know more about advanced editing. About an hour was therefore spent on actual hands on editing where students tried — adding references, wiki markups, info boxes, etc. Students were also taught on how to use user talk pages to interact with other editors. During the course of the workshop we figured that one of the participants had worked on <a href="http://live.wikimedia.in/">live.wikimedia.in</a> search in 2011 and we invited him to talk a little about his project, experience and involvement. A lot of students were surprised that one amongst their fellow students had worked with the Wikimedia movement in India and achieved so much success. His story really inspired several in the room and many participants made promises to get more involved as editors. Many participants were also curious to know more about Hackathons.</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY"><i>Our next step is to connect participants from all the workshops organised in Goa at <a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BITS_Goa">BITS Goa</a>, <a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goa_University">Goa University</a>, <a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goa_State_Central_Library">Central State Library</a> and Nirmala Institute of Education, since December last year, to enable and support them to organise regular Wiki meet-ups and programs, etc., and strengthen the Wikimedia movement in Goa</i>.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wikipedia-session-at-bits-goa'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wikipedia-session-at-bits-goa</a>
</p>
No publishernitikaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpenness2013-07-26T11:40:41ZBlog EntryAhmednagar — Marathi Wikipedia Workshop
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/ahmednagar-marathi-wikipedia-workshop-report
<b>Wikipedia Community members helped the Higher Education Innovation and Research Applications Programme (HEIRA), CSCS Bangalore organize a day-long workshop on ‘Digital Literacy’ at Ahmednagar College, Ahmednagar, Maharasthra on January 17, 2013. Tanveer Hasan of HEIRA shares with us the developments in this report.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><a class="external-link" href="http://www.aca.edu.in/">Ahmednagar College</a> is one of the participant colleges in the ‘<a class="external-link" href="http://www.fordfoundation.org/pdfs/library/pathways_to_higher_education.pdf">Pathways to Higher Education</a>’ programme anchored by <a class="external-link" href="http://cscs.res.in/irps/heira">HEIRA</a>, and run in collaboration with CIS. This programme works closely with undergraduate students in three states to address the problem of quality of access to higher education. The focus of the programme is on inculcating critical and analytical skills which play a very important role in gaining access to knowledge.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The Wikipedia workshop in Marathi held at the Ahmednagar College intended to introduce the students to the concepts of open and free sources of knowledge, and encourage active Marathi editors to edit and populate the Marathi Wikipedia domain.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Yogesh Khandke was representing the Wikipedia community. He started off by explaining the five pillars of Wikipedia, the copyright issues and the importance of references and citations. As most of the students were new to the concepts of both editing and knowledge production, we faced a few problems in the beginning. Since the IP addresses were already cleared for multiple registrations we did not face that particular problem.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The students were asked to come up with material and information that they would want to add to the <a class="external-link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathi_Wikipedia">Marathi Wikipedia</a> domain. We conducted a group activity where the groups exchanged the information they were planning to use. These groups researched, proof read and added to the information collected by their friends. We had stressed that all the information needed to be cited from a reliable source and must have a clear reference. Hence, a lot of unnecessary and opinionated information was cleared at the first level itself.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The hands-on editing session proved to be challenging as most of the students did not know how to type in Marathi and ended up using phonetic keyboards. The session ended with all the students having been registered as Wikipedia editors and most of the groups were successful in editing. A couple of groups created new pages as well.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Yogesh Khandke was of immense help and he was ably supported by Nagesh Shelake, <a class="external-link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Arts,_Science_and_Commerce_College,_Ahmednagar">Dept. of Sociology, New Arts and Science College, Ahmednagar</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">A special thanks to <a class="external-link" href="http://www.aca.edu.in/Details.aspx?Faculty_No=69">Dr. S.B Iyyer</a>, Department of Physics, Ahmednagar College and Coordinator of Pathways Cell, and Raikwad, Department of Commerce and Assistant Coordinator of Pathways Cell.</p>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/ahmednagar-marathi-wikipedia-workshop-report'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/ahmednagar-marathi-wikipedia-workshop-report</a>
</p>
No publisherTanveer HasanOpennessWikipediaAccess to KnowledgeWikimedia2013-07-26T09:34:47ZBlog EntryKannada Wikipedia Workshop
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/kannada-wikipedia-workshop
<b>A Kannada Wikipedia workshop is being organized by the Centre for Internet and Society in Mysore on March 24, 2013. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja will be participating in this workshop. The one day workshop will begin at 10 a.m. in the morning and shall end at 5.00 p.m. in the evening.</b>
<h1 class="firstHeading" id="firstHeading"><span dir="auto">ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ:ಸಮ್ಮಿಲನ/೯</span></h1>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಕ್ಕೆ ಇನ್ನಷ್ಟು ಮಾಹಿತಿ ಸೇರಿಸುವ ಸಲುವಾಗಿ ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ಸಮುದಾಯ ಮಾರ್ಚ್ ೨೪ರಂದು ಮೈಸೂರಿನ ಇನ್ಸ್ಟಿಟ್ಯೂಶನ್ ಆಫ್ ಇಂಜಿನಿಯರ್ಸ್ ಸಭಾಂಗಣದಲ್ಲಿ ಒಂದೆಡೆ ಸೇರುತ್ತಿದೆ. ಕನ್ನಡದ ಸ್ವತಂತ್ರ ವಿಶ್ವಕೋಶದ ಸಂಪಾದನೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಆಸಕ್ತಿ ಉಳ್ಳವರು, ಬ್ಲಾಗಿಗರು, ಪತ್ರಕರ್ತರು, ಲೇಖಕರು ಎಲ್ಲ ಈ ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ರಮದಲ್ಲಿ ಭಾಗವಹಿಸಬಹುದು.</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id=".E0.B2.B8.E0.B2.AE.E0.B3.8D.E0.B2.AE.E0.B2.BF.E0.B2.B2.E0.B2.A8.E0.B2.A6_.E0.B2.89.E0.B2.A6.E0.B3.8D.E0.B2.A6.E0.B3.87.E0.B2.B6">ಸಮ್ಮಿಲನದ ಉದ್ದೇಶ</span></h2>
<ul>
<li>ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ಪರಿಚಯ</li>
<li>ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಕ್ಕೆ ಸಂಪಾದಕ ಆಗುವ ವಿಧಾನ</li>
<li>ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಕ್ಕೆ ಲೇಖನಗಳನ್ನು ಸೇರಿಸುವ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಪ್ರಾತ್ಯಕ್ಷಿಕೆ</li>
<li>ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಕ್ಕೆ ಚಿತ್ರಗಳನ್ನು ಸೇರಿಸುವ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಪ್ರಾತ್ಯಕ್ಷಿಕೆ</li>
<li>ಕನ್ನಡದ ವಿಶ್ವಕೋಶದಲ್ಲಿ ಇರಲೇ ಬೇಕಾದ ವಿಷಯಗಳ ಪಟ್ಟಿ ತಯಾರಿಸುವುದು</li>
<li>ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಕ್ಕೆ ಲೇಖನ ಮತ್ತು ಚಿತ್ರ ಸೇರಿಸುವುದು</li>
</ul>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id=".E0.B2.AF.E0.B2.BE.E0.B2.B0.E0.B3.81_.E0.B2.AD.E0.B2.BE.E0.B2.97.E0.B2.B5.E0.B2.B9.E0.B2.BF.E0.B2.B8.E0.B2.AC.E0.B2.B9.E0.B3.81.E0.B2.A6.E0.B3.81">ಯಾರು ಭಾಗವಹಿಸಬಹುದು</span></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">ಕನ್ನಡದ ಸ್ವತಂತ್ರ ವಿಶ್ವಕೋಶದ ಸಂಪಾದನೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಆಸಕ್ತಿ ಉಳ್ಳವರು, ಬ್ಲಾಗಿಗರು, ಪತ್ರಕರ್ತರು, ಲೇಖಕರು, ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಗರು(ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಾದ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಆಸಕ್ತಿ ಉಳ್ಳವರು)</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id=".E0.B2.A6.E0.B2.BF.E0.B2.A8.E0.B2.BE.E0.B2.82.E0.B2.95_.E0.B2.AE.E0.B2.A4.E0.B3.8D.E0.B2.A4.E0.B3.81_.E0.B2.B8.E0.B3.8D.E0.B2.A5.E0.B2.B3">ದಿನಾಂಕ ಮತ್ತು ಸ್ಥಳ</span></h2>
<ul>
<li><b>ಇನ್ಸ್ಟಿಟ್ಯೂಶನ್ ಆಫ್ ಇಂಜಿನಿಯರ್ಸ್</b></li>
</ul>
<p>ಜೆ.ಎಲ್.ಬಿ. ರಸ್ತೆ<br /> ಮೈಸೂರು - ೫೭೦೦೦೫</p>
<ul>
<li><b>ದಿನಾಂಕ</b>: ಮಾರ್ಚ್ ೨೪, ೨೦೧೩, ಭಾನುವಾರ (ಇಡೀ ದಿನ)</li>
</ul>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id=".E0.B2.95.E0.B2.BE.E0.B2.B0.E0.B3.8D.E0.B2.AF.E0.B2.95.E0.B3.8D.E0.B2.B0.E0.B2.AE_.E0.B2.AA.E0.B2.9F.E0.B3.8D.E0.B2.9F.E0.B2.BF">ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ರಮ ಪಟ್ಟಿ</span></h2>
<table class="listing">
<tbody>
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<td style="text-align:center; "><b>ಸಮಯ</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center; "><b>ಕಾರ್ಯಸೂಚಿ</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center; "><b>ಮಾತನಾಡುವವರು</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center; "><b>ಟಿಪ್ಪಣಿ, ಉಪಯೋಗ</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>೯:೫೦ ಬೆಳಗ್ಗೆ</td>
<td>ನೊಂದಣಿ</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>ನಿಮ್ಮ ಹೆಸರು/ಇ-ಅಂಚೆ/ಮೊಬೈಲ್/ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ಬಳಕೆದಾರರ ಹೆಸರು ಜೊತೆಗೆ,<br /> ಭಾಗಿಯಾಗುತ್ತಿರುವುದರ ಉದ್ದೇಶವನ್ನು ಸ್ವಾಗತಕಾರರ ಬಳಿ ತಿಳಿಸಿ</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>೧೦:೦೦</td>
<td>ಸ್ವಾಗತ</td>
<td>ಪವನಜ</td>
<td>ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ರಮದ ಉದ್ದೇಶ ಮತ್ತು ಅದರ ಪ್ರತಿಪಲಾಪೇಕ್ಷೆಗಳ ವಿವರಣೆ</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>೧೦:೧೫ - ೧೧:೧೫</td>
<td>ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ</td>
<td>ಪವನಜ</td>
<td>ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ಎಂದರೆ ಏನು?<br /> ಇದನ್ನು ಸಂಪಾದಿಸುವವರು ಯಾರು ಮತ್ತು ಏಕೆ?<br /> ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯದ ಇತರೆ ಯೋಜನೆಗಳು</td>
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<tr>
<td>೧೧:೧೫ - ೧೧:೩೦</td>
<td align="center" colspan="3">ಚಾ</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>೧೧:೩೦ - ೧೨:೦೦</td>
<td>ಕ್ರಿಯೇಟಿವ್ ಕಾಮನ್ಸ್</td>
<td>ಕಿರಣ್ ರವಿಕುಮಾರ್</td>
<td>ಕ್ರಿಯೆಟೀವ್ ಕಾಮನ್ಸ್ (Creative Commons) ಬಗ್ಗೆ ವಿವರಣೆ.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>೧೨:೦೦ - ೧೩:೦೦</td>
<td>ಪ್ರಾತ್ಯಕ್ಷಿಕೆ</td>
<td>ಪವನಜ</td>
<td>ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ಸಂಪಾದಕ ಆಗುವುದು ಹೇಗೆ, ಸಂಪಾದಿಸುವುದು ಹೇಗೆ, ಇತ್ಯಾದಿ</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>೧೩:೦೦ - ೧೪:೦೦</td>
<td align="center" colspan="3">ಊಟ</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>೧೪:೦೦ - ೧೪:೧೫</td>
<td>ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ ೧೦೦೦ ಯೋಜನೆ ಪರಿಚಯ</td>
<td>ಪವನಜ</td>
<td>ಕನ್ನಡ ಮತ್ತು ಕರ್ನಾಟಕಕ್ಕೆ ಸಂಬಂಧಿಸಿದ ಪ್ರಮುಖ ಲೇಖನಗಳನ್ನು ಪಟ್ಟಿ ಮಾಡಿ,<br /> ಸಮುದಾಯದ ಆಯ್ಕೆಯ ಮೇರೆಗೆ ಲೇಖನಗಳ ಸಂಪಾದನೆ, ಪರಿಷ್ಕರಣೆ ಇತ್ಯಾದಿಗಳ ಅವಶ್ಯಕತೆ, ಭಾಗವಹಿಸುವಿಕೆ</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>೧೪:೧೫ - ಕೊನೆಯವರೆಗೆ</td>
<td>ಪ್ರಯೋಗ (hands-on)</td>
<td>ಎಲ್ಲರೂ</td>
<td>ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯದಲ್ಲಿ ವಿಜ್ಞಾನಕ್ಕೆ ಸಂಬಂಧಿಸಿದ ಲೇಖನಗಳನ್ನು ಸೇರಿಸುವ ಪ್ರಯತ್ನ</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id=".E0.B2.B8.E0.B3.8D.E0.B2.B5.E0.B2.AF.E0.B2.82.E0.B2.B8.E0.B3.87.E0.B2.B5.E0.B2.95.E0.B2.B0.E0.B3.81">ಸ್ವಯಂಸೇವಕರು</span></h2>
<ol>
<li><a href="http://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%B8%E0%B2%A6%E0%B2%B8%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%AF:Pavanaja" title="ಸದಸ್ಯ:Pavanaja">Pavanaja</a> (<a href="http://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%B8%E0%B2%A6%E0%B2%B8%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%AF%E0%B2%B0_%E0%B2%9A%E0%B2%B0%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%9A%E0%B3%86%E0%B2%AA%E0%B3%81%E0%B2%9F:Pavanaja" title="ಸದಸ್ಯರ ಚರ್ಚೆಪುಟ:Pavanaja">talk</a>) ೦೭:೩೭, ೧೧ ಮಾರ್ಚ್ ೨೦೧೩ (UTC)</li>
<li>ಕಿರಣ್ ರವಿಕುಮಾರ್</li>
<li>ನವೀನ್ ಜೋಯಿಸ್</li>
</ol>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id=".E0.B2.AD.E0.B2.BE.E0.B2.97.E0.B2.B5.E0.B2.B9.E0.B2.BF.E0.B2.B8.E0.B2.B2.E0.B3.81_.E0.B2.87.E0.B2.9A.E0.B3.8D.E0.B2.9B.E0.B2.BF.E0.B2.B8.E0.B3.81.E0.B2.B5.E0.B2.B5.E0.B2.B0.E0.B3.81">ಭಾಗವಹಿಸಲು ಇಚ್ಛಿಸುವವರು</span></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">ನೀವೂ ಭಾಗಿಯಾಗಲು ಇಚ್ಚಿಸುವುದಾದರೆ ನಿಮ್ಮ ಹೆಸರನ್ನು # ಮುಂದೆ ಸೇರಿಸಿ ಅಥವಾ ~ ಅನ್ನು ನಾಲ್ಕು ಭಾರಿ ಟೈಪಿಸಿ ಸಹಿ ಮಾಡಿ.</p>
<ol style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>ಹಾಲತಿ ಸೋಮಶೇಖರ</li>
<li>ಮಾಲಿನಿ ಅಭ್ಯಂಕರ್</li>
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<dl style="text-align: justify; "><dt>ಬೆಂಬಲ</dt></dl>
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<li>ಸೆಂಟರ್ ಫಾರ್ ಇಂಟರ್ ನೆಟ್ ಅಂಡ್ ಸೊಸೈಟಿ, ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು</li>
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<dl style="text-align: justify; "><dt>ಉಪಯುಕ್ತ ಕೊಂಡಿಗಳು</dt><dt>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id=".E0.B2.B8.E0.B3.82.E0.B2.9A.E0.B2.A8.E0.B3.86">ಸೂಚನೆ</span></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">ಭಾಗವಹಿಸುವವರು ಲ್ಯಾಪ್ಟಾಪ್, ಪವರ್ ಸ್ಟ್ರಿಪ್ (extension switchboard) ಮತ್ತು ಅಂತರಜಾಲ ಸಂಪರ್ಕ ಡಾಂಗಲ್ ತಂದರೆ ಒಳ್ಳೆಯದು.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/kannada-wikipedia-workshop'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/kannada-wikipedia-workshop</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpennessEvent2013-03-15T09:52:18ZEventWikipedia Workshop for Kannada Science Writers
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-workshop-for-kannada-science-writers
<b>The Centre for Internet and Society in partnership with Wikimedia Chapter India and KRVP, Bangalore, is organizing a workshop for Kannada science writers at Karnataka Rajya Vijnana Parishath Conference Hall in Banashankari, Bangalore on March 17, 2013. The one day workshop shall begin at 10 a.m. in the morning and will conclude at 5.00 p.m. in the evening. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja will be participating in the event.</b>
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<p>The information was published in the Kannada wikipedia page <a class="external-link" href="http://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%B5%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%95%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%AA%E0%B3%80%E0%B2%A1%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%AF:%E0%B2%B8%E0%B2%AE%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%AE%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%B2%E0%B2%A8/%E0%B3%AE#.E0.B2.AD.E0.B2.BE.E0.B2.97.E0.B2.B5.E0.B2.B9.E0.B2.BF.E0.B2.B8.E0.B2.B2.E0.B3.81_.E0.B2.87.E0.B2.9A.E0.B3.8D.E0.B2.9B.E0.B2.BF.E0.B2.B8.E0.B3.81.E0.B2.B5.E0.B2.B5.E0.B2.B0.E0.B3.81">here</a>.</p>
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<h1 class="firstHeading"><span dir="auto">ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ:ಸಮ್ಮಿಲನ/೮</span></h1>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">ವಿಜ್ಞಾನಕ್ಕೆ ಸಂಬಂಧಿಸಿದ ವಿಷಯಗಳನ್ನು ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಕ್ಕೆ ಸೇರಿಸುವ ಸಲುವಾಗಿ ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ಸಮುದಾಯ ಮಾರ್ಚ್ ೧೭ರಂದು <a href="http://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%95%E0%B2%B0%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%A8%E0%B2%BE%E0%B2%9F%E0%B2%95_%E0%B2%B0%E0%B2%BE%E0%B2%9C%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%AF_%E0%B2%B5%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%9C%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%9E%E0%B2%BE%E0%B2%A8_%E0%B2%AA%E0%B2%B0%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%B7%E0%B2%A4%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%A4%E0%B3%81" title="ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ ರಾಜ್ಯ ವಿಜ್ಞಾನ ಪರಿಷತ್ತು">ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ ರಾಜ್ಯ ವಿಜ್ಞಾನ ಪರಿಷತ್ತಿನ</a> ಸಭಾಂಗಣದಲ್ಲಿ ಒಂದೆಡೆ ಸೇರುತ್ತಿದೆ. ಕನ್ನಡದ ಸ್ವತಂತ್ರ ವಿಶ್ವಕೋಶದ ಸಂಪಾದನೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಆಸಕ್ತಿ ಉಳ್ಳವರು, ಬ್ಲಾಗಿಗರು ಕೂಡ ಈ ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ರಮದಲ್ಲಿ ಭಾಗವಹಿಸಬಹುದು.</p>
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<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>ವಿಜ್ಞಾನ ಲೇಖಕರನ್ನು ಕನ್ನಡಿಗರಿಗೆ ಪರಿಚಯಿಸುವುದು</li>
<li>ವಿಜ್ಞಾನ/ತಂತ್ರಜ್ಞಾನದ ಪುಸ್ತಕಗಳ ಮಾಹಿತಿ ಕ್ರೂಡೀಕರಣ</li>
<li>ಮೂಲ ವಿಜ್ಞಾನಕ್ಕೆ ಸಂಬಂಧಿಸಿದ ಪುಟಗಳನ್ನು ಹುಡುಕಿ ತೆಗೆದು ಅವನ್ನು ಅಭಿವೃದ್ದಿ ಪಡಿಸುವುದು</li>
<li>ಕನ್ನಡದ ವಿಶ್ವಕೋಶದಲ್ಲಿ ಇರಲೇ ಬೇಕಾದ ವಿಜ್ಞಾನ ಸಂಬಂಧಿ ಪುಟಗಳ ಪಟ್ಟಿ ತಯಾರಿಸುವುದು</li>
<li>ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ಲೇಖನಗಳನ್ನು ಕನ್ನಡಕ್ಕೆ ಅನುವಾದ ವಿಧಾನದ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಪ್ರದರ್ಶನ-ಸಹಿತ ವಿವರಣೆ</li>
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<h2 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id=".E0.B2.AF.E0.B2.BE.E0.B2.B0.E0.B3.81_.E0.B2.AD.E0.B2.BE.E0.B2.97.E0.B2.B5.E0.B2.B9.E0.B2.BF.E0.B2.B8.E0.B2.AC.E0.B2.B9.E0.B3.81.E0.B2.A6.E0.B3.81">ಯಾರು ಭಾಗವಹಿಸಬಹುದು</span></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">ವಿಜ್ಞಾನ, ತಂತ್ರಜ್ಞಾನ ಲೇಖಕರು, ಬ್ಲಾಗಿಗರು, ಪತ್ರಕರ್ತರು, ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಗರು(ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಾದ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಆಸಕ್ತಿ ಉಳ್ಳವರು)</p>
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<li><b>ಸ್ಥಳ</b>: <b>ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ ರಾಜ್ಯ ವಿಜ್ಞಾನ ಪರಿಷತ್ತು<br /></b>ವಿಜ್ಞಾನಭವನ,<br /> ಕ.ರಾ.ವಿ.ಪ. ಸಭಾಂಗಣ<br /> ನಂ.24/2 ಮತ್ತು 24/3, 21ನೇ ಮುಖ್ಯರಸ್ತೆ,<br /> ಬನಶಂಕರಿ 2ನೇ ಹಂತಬೆಂಗಳೂರು - 560 ೦೭೦<br /> ಟೆಲಿಫ್ಯಾಕ್ಸ್ : 080 - ೨೬೭೧೮೯೫೯<br /> ದೂರವಾಣಿ : 080 - ೨೬೭೧೮೯೩೯</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><b>ದಿನಾಂಕ</b>: ಮಾರ್ಚ್ ೧೭, ೨೦೧೩, ಭಾನುವಾರ (ಇಡೀ ದಿನ)</li>
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<td style="text-align:center; "><b>ಸಮಯ</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center; "><b>ಕಾರ್ಯಸೂಚಿ</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center; "><b>ಮಾತನಾಡುವವರು</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center; "><b>ಟಿಪ್ಪಣಿ, ಉಪಯೋಗ</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>೯:೫೦ ಬೆಳಗ್ಗೆ</td>
<td>ನೊಂದಣಿ</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>ನಿಮ್ಮ ಹೆಸರು/ಇ-ಅಂಚೆ/ಮೊಬೈಲ್/ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ಬಳಕೆದಾರರ ಹೆಸರು ಜೊತೆಗೆ,<br /> ಭಾಗಿಯಾಗುತ್ತಿರುವುದರ ಉದ್ದೇಶವನ್ನು ಸ್ವಾಗತಕಾರರ ಬಳಿ ತಿಳಿಸಿ</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>೧೦:೦೦</td>
<td>ಸ್ವಾಗತ</td>
<td>ಓಂಶಿವಪ್ರಕಾಶ್/ಪವನಜ</td>
<td>ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ರಮದ ಉದ್ದೇಶ ಮತ್ತು ಅದರ ಪ್ರತಿಪಲಾಪೇಕ್ಷೆಗಳ ವಿವರಣೆ</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>೧೦:೧೫ - ೧೧:೧೫</td>
<td>ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ</td>
<td>ಓಂಶಿವಪ್ರಕಾಶ್</td>
<td>ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ಎಂದರೆ ಏನು?<br /> ಇದನ್ನು ಸಂಪಾದಿಸುವವರು ಯಾರು ಮತ್ತು ಏಕೆ?<br /> ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯದ ಇತರೆ ಯೋಜನೆಗಳು</td>
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<td>೧೧:೧೫ - ೧೧:೩೦</td>
<td align="center" colspan="3">ಚಾ</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>೧೧:೩೦ - ೧೨:೦೦</td>
<td>ಕ್ರಿಯೇಟಿವ್ ಕಾಮನ್ಸ್</td>
<td>ಓಂಶಿವಪ್ರಕಾಶ್</td>
<td>ಕ್ರಿಯೆಟೀವ್ ಕಾಮನ್ಸ್ (Creative Commons) ಬಗ್ಗೆ ವಿವರಣೆ.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>೧೨:೦೦ - ೧೩:೦೦</td>
<td>ಪ್ರಾತ್ಯಕ್ಷಿಕೆ</td>
<td>ಓಂಶಿವಪ್ರಕಾಶ್/ಪವನಜ</td>
<td>ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ಸಂಪಾದಕ ಆಗುವುದು ಹೇಗೆ, ಸಂಪಾದಿಸುವುದು ಹೇಗೆ, ಇತ್ಯಾದಿ</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>೧೩:೦೦ - ೧೪:೦೦</td>
<td align="center" colspan="3">ಊಟ</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>೧೪:೦೦ - ೧೪:೧೫</td>
<td>ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ ೧೦೦೦ ಯೋಜನೆ ಪರಿಚಯ</td>
<td>ಓಂಶಿವಪ್ರಕಾಶ್</td>
<td>ಕನ್ನಡ ಮತ್ತು ಕರ್ನಾಟಕಕ್ಕೆ ಸಂಬಂಧಿಸಿದ ಪ್ರಮುಖ ಲೇಖನಗಳನ್ನು ಪಟ್ಟಿ ಮಾಡಿ,<br /> ಸಮುದಾಯದ ಆಯ್ಕೆಯ ಮೇರೆಗೆ ಲೇಖನಗಳ ಸಂಪಾದನೆ, ಪರಿಷ್ಕರಣೆ ಇತ್ಯಾದಿಗಳ ಅವಶ್ಯಕತೆ, ಭಾಗವಹಿಸುವಿಕೆ</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>೧೪:೧೫ - ಕೊನೆಯವರೆಗೆ</td>
<td>ಪ್ರಯೋಗ (hands-on)</td>
<td>ಎಲ್ಲರೂ</td>
<td>ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯದಲ್ಲಿ ವಿಜ್ಞಾನಕ್ಕೆ ಸಂಬಂಧಿಸಿದ ಲೇಖನಗಳನ್ನು ಸೇರಿಸುವ ಪ್ರಯತ್ನ</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
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<ol style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>~<a href="http://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%B8%E0%B2%A6%E0%B2%B8%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%AF:Omshivaprakash" title="ಸದಸ್ಯ:Omshivaprakash">ಓಂಶಿವಪ್ರಕಾಶ್</a><sup>/<a href="http://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%B8%E0%B2%A6%E0%B2%B8%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%AF%E0%B2%B0_%E0%B2%9A%E0%B2%B0%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%9A%E0%B3%86%E0%B2%AA%E0%B3%81%E0%B2%9F:Omshivaprakash" title="ಸದಸ್ಯರ ಚರ್ಚೆಪುಟ:Omshivaprakash">ಚರ್ಚೆ</a>/<a href="http://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%B5%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%B6%E0%B3%87%E0%B2%B7:Contributions/Omshivaprakash" title="ವಿಶೇಷ:Contributions/Omshivaprakash">ಕಾಣಿಕೆಗಳು</a></sup> ೦೬:೩೩, ೧೧ ಮಾರ್ಚ್ ೨೦೧೩ (UTC)</li>
<li><a href="http://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%B8%E0%B2%A6%E0%B2%B8%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%AF:Pavanaja" title="ಸದಸ್ಯ:Pavanaja">Pavanaja</a> (<a href="http://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%B8%E0%B2%A6%E0%B2%B8%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%AF%E0%B2%B0_%E0%B2%9A%E0%B2%B0%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%9A%E0%B3%86%E0%B2%AA%E0%B3%81%E0%B2%9F:Pavanaja" title="ಸದಸ್ಯರ ಚರ್ಚೆಪುಟ:Pavanaja">talk</a>) ೦೭:೩೭, ೧೧ ಮಾರ್ಚ್ ೨೦೧೩ (UTC)</li>
<li><b><a href="http://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%B8%E0%B2%A6%E0%B2%B8%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%AF%E0%B2%B0_%E0%B2%9A%E0%B2%B0%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%9A%E0%B3%86%E0%B2%AA%E0%B3%81%E0%B2%9F:Sbblr0803" title="ಸದಸ್ಯರ ಚರ್ಚೆಪುಟ:Sbblr0803"><span>ಅಭಿರಾಮ</span></a></b></li>
</ol>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id=".E0.B2.AD.E0.B2.BE.E0.B2.97.E0.B2.B5.E0.B2.B9.E0.B2.BF.E0.B2.B8.E0.B2.B2.E0.B3.81_.E0.B2.87.E0.B2.9A.E0.B3.8D.E0.B2.9B.E0.B2.BF.E0.B2.B8.E0.B3.81.E0.B2.B5.E0.B2.B5.E0.B2.B0.E0.B3.81">ಭಾಗವಹಿಸಲು ಇಚ್ಛಿಸುವವರು</span></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">ನೀವೂ ಭಾಗಿಯಾಗಲು ಇಚ್ಚಿಸುವುದಾದರೆ ನಿಮ್ಮ ಹೆಸರನ್ನು # ಮುಂದೆ ಸೇರಿಸಿ ಅಥವಾ ~ ಅನ್ನು ನಾಲ್ಕು ಭಾರಿ ಟೈಪಿಸಿ ಸಹಿ ಮಾಡಿ.</p>
<ol style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>ಟಿ. ಆರ್. ಅನಂತರಾಮು</li>
<li>ನಾಗೇಶ ಹೆಗಡೆ</li>
<li>ಹಾಲ್ದೊಡ್ಡೇರಿ ಸುಧೀಂದ್ರ</li>
<li><a class="new" href="http://kn.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E0%B2%B8%E0%B2%A6%E0%B2%B8%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%AF:Srimysore&action=edit&redlink=1" title="ಸದಸ್ಯ:Srimysore (ಪುಟವು ಇನ್ನೂ ಸೃಷ್ಟಿತವಾಗಿಲ್ಲ)">ಟಿ. ಜಿ. ಶ್ರೀನಿಧಿ</a> (<a href="http://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%B8%E0%B2%A6%E0%B2%B8%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%AF%E0%B2%B0_%E0%B2%9A%E0%B2%B0%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%9A%E0%B3%86%E0%B2%AA%E0%B3%81%E0%B2%9F:Srimysore" title="ಸದಸ್ಯರ ಚರ್ಚೆಪುಟ:Srimysore">talk</a>) ೦೮:೦೪, ೧೧ ಮಾರ್ಚ್ ೨೦೧೩ (UTC)</li>
<li>ಯಶಸ್ವಿನಿ</li>
<li>ಲಕ್ಷ್ಮಿ ಎಸ್.</li>
<li>ಕೆ. ಎಸ್. ನಟರಾಜ (ಕರಾವಿಪ)</li>
<li>ಎ.ಸತ್ಯನಾರಾಯಣ</li>
<li>ಕೊಳ್ಳೇಗಾಲ ಶರ್ಮ</li>
<li>ಜಿ. ವಿ. ನಿರ್ಮಲ</li>
<li><a class="new" href="http://kn.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E0%B2%B8%E0%B2%A6%E0%B2%B8%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%AF:Akashbalakrishna&action=edit&redlink=1" title="ಸದಸ್ಯ:Akashbalakrishna (ಪುಟವು ಇನ್ನೂ ಸೃಷ್ಟಿತವಾಗಿಲ್ಲ)">Akashbalakrishna</a> (<a href="http://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%B8%E0%B2%A6%E0%B2%B8%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%AF%E0%B2%B0_%E0%B2%9A%E0%B2%B0%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%9A%E0%B3%86%E0%B2%AA%E0%B3%81%E0%B2%9F:Akashbalakrishna" title="ಸದಸ್ಯರ ಚರ್ಚೆಪುಟ:Akashbalakrishna">talk</a>) ೦೯:೧೧, ೧೧ ಮಾರ್ಚ್ ೨೦೧೩ (UTC)</li>
<li>ನಾರಾಯಣ್</li>
<li>ವೈ. ಸಿ. ಕಮಲ</li>
<li>ಟಿ ಎಸ್ ಗೋಪಾಲ್</li>
<li>ಶ್ರೀಧರ ಬಾಣಾವರ</li>
<li>ಸುಮನ ದಿನಕರ್</li>
<li>ಟಿ ಎಸ್ ಶ್ರೀಧರ</li>
<li>ಡಾ| ವಸುಂಧರಾ ಭೂಪತಿ</li>
<li>ಗೀತಾ ಕೃಷ್ಣಮೂರ್ತಿ</li>
<li>ಎನ್.ಎ.ಎಂ. ಇಸ್ಮಾಯಿಲ್</li>
</ol> <dl style="text-align: justify; "><dt>ವಾಸ್ತವೋಪಮ ಭಾಗವಹಿಸುವಿಕೆ (Virtual participation)</dt></dl>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">ನೀವು ದೂರದ ಪ್ರದೇಶಗಳಿಂದ <b>ಯೂಟ್ಯೂಬ್ ಲೈವ್ ಸ್ಟ್ರೀಮಿಂಗ್</b> ಮೂಲಕ ಭಾಗವಹಿಸಬಹುದು. ಹೆಚ್ಚಿನ ವಿವರಗಳನ್ನು ಈ ವಿಭಾಗದಲ್ಲಿ ಸಮ್ಮಿಲನದ ದಿನ ಪ್ರಕಟಿಸಲಾಗುವುದು. ನಿಮ್ಮ ಹೆಸರನ್ನು # ಮುಂದೆ ಸೇರಿಸಿ ಅಥವಾ ~ ಅನ್ನು ನಾಲ್ಕು ಭಾರಿ ಟೈಪಿಸಿ ಸಹಿ ಮಾಡಿ.</p>
<ol style="text-align: justify; ">
<li><ನಿಮ್ಮ ಹೆಸರು></li>
</ol>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id=".E0.B2.B8.E0.B2.AE.E0.B3.8D.E0.B2.AE.E0.B2.BF.E0.B2.B2.E0.B2.A8.E0.B2.95.E0.B3.8D.E0.B2.95.E0.B3.86_.E0.B2.B8.E0.B2.B9.E0.B2.BE.E0.B2.AF">ಸಮ್ಮಿಲನಕ್ಕೆ ಸಹಾಯ</span></h2>
<dl style="text-align: justify; "><dt>ಬೆಂಬಲ</dt></dl>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>ಸೆಂಟರ್ ಫಾರ್ ಇಂಟರ್ ನೆಟ್ ಅಂಡ್ ಸೊಸೈಟಿ, ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು</li>
<li>ವಿಕಿಮೀಡಿಯ ಇಂಡಿಯ ಚಾಪ್ಟರ್</li>
<li>ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ ರಾಜ್ಯ ವಿಜ್ಞಾನ ಪರಿಷತ್ತು</li>
</ul>
<dl style="text-align: justify; "><dt style="text-align: justify; ">ಉಪಯುಕ್ತ ಕೊಂಡಿಗಳು</dt></dl><ol style="text-align: justify; "> </ol><ol style="text-align: justify; "> </ol>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
</ul>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-workshop-for-kannada-science-writers'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-workshop-for-kannada-science-writers</a>
</p>
No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpennessEvent2013-03-14T11:41:41ZEventWikipedia Women's Workshop Bangalore 2013
http://editors.cis-india.org/news/wikipedia-womens-workshop-bangalore-2013
<b>The Wikipedia Women's Workshop Bangalore 2013 was held on March 8, 2013 at Servelots Infotech, Jayanagar in Bangalore. It was organized by Wikimedia India. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja participated in the event. The news was covered by Kannada Prabha on March 9, 2013. </b>
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<p>
For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/news/wikipedia-womens-workshop-bangalore-2013'>http://editors.cis-india.org/news/wikipedia-womens-workshop-bangalore-2013</a>
</p>
No publisherpraskrishnaOpennessWikipediaAccess to KnowledgeWikimedia2013-03-13T05:09:48ZNews ItemAccess to Knowledge Bulletin — February 2013
http://editors.cis-india.org/about/newsletters/access-to-knowledge-bulletin-february-2013
<b>In the second issue of our newsletter for 2013, we are glad to introduce you to our new programme officer, Dr. U.B. Pavanaja. The A2K team consists of four members based in Delhi: T. Vishnu Vardhan, Nitika Tandon, Subhashish Panigrahi and Noopur Raval, and one new team member Dr. U.B. Pavanaja who works from Bangalore office. </b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Wikipedians from various communities can request for outreach programs, technical bugs, logistics-merchandize and media, public relations and communications at <a href="http://bit.ly/TOcXId" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/TOcXId</a>.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">New Team Member</h3>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/people/our-team">Dr. U.B. Pavanaja</a> joined the A2K team as Programme Officer, India Language Initiatives on March 4, 2013. Dr. Pavanaja holds a Master’s degree from Mysore University and Ph.D. from Mumbai University. He was a scientist at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, for about 15 years. He is one of the earliest editors of Kannada Wikipedia. He has to his credit many firsts, viz., first Kannada website, first Kannada online magazine, first Indian language (Kannada) website to receive Golden Web Award, first Indian language (Kannada) editor for Palm OS, first Indian language (Kannada) editor for WinCE device (HP Jornado 720), first Indian language version (Kannada) of universally popular Logo (programming language for children) software, etc. His Kannada logo won the Manthan Award for the year 2006. He was a member of the technical advisory committee setup by the Govt. of Karnataka for Standardization of Kannada on Computers (2000). He is also a member of the Kannada Software Committee of Govt. of Karnataka (2008-current). </li>
</ul>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Events Participated In</h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; "></h3>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog/foss-wikimedia-under-one-roof-gnunify">GNUnify 2013</a> (organized by Pune Linux/Unix User Group and Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies & Research, Pune, February 15 – 17, 2013). Subhashish Panigrahi participated in the event. </li>
</ul>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog/creative-commons-comes-to-india">Creative Commons comes to India</a> (co-organized by Pune Linux/Unix User Group and Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies & Research in Pune, February 15, 2013, and CIS the Wikimedia India Chapter, Chitrakala Parishad, Bangalore, February 25, 2013).The Access to Knowledge team participated in the CC meetings organized in Bangalore.</li>
</ul>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog/fifty-fourth-bangalore-wikimedia-meetup">Fifty-fourth Bangalore Wikimedia Meet-up at IIM, Bangalore</a> (organized by Radhakrishna Arvapally, SIG (Special Interest Group) Chair, Bangalore (a part of the Wikimedia India Chapter) with support from Solutions IQ, Wikimedia India Chapter and CIS, Indian Institute of Management, February 25, 2013). Sudhwana Jogalekar (President, Wikimedia India) spoke on Wikimedia Projects. T. Vishnu Vardhan (Programme Director, A2K, CIS) gave a talk on 'Accessibility to Knowledge'. Joe Justice (Founder WikiSpeed) and Vibhu Srinivasan gave a presentation of WikiSpeed Car project. Chief Guest K.S. Viswanath (Vice President, Industry Initiatives, NASSCOM) gave the welcome address. Noopur Raval participated in the event. </li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/knowledge-sharing-through-glam">Knowledge Sharing through GLAM at Bangalore</a> (organized by Wikimedia India and Creative Commons, Karnataka Chitrakala Parishad, Kumara Krupa Road, Bangalore, February 25, 2013). Dr. U.B. Pavanaja, Nitika Tandon and Subhashish Panigrahi participated in the event. CIS supported the event.</li>
</ul>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Education Program</h3>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog/odia-wikipedia-education-program-iimc-dhenkanal">Odia Wikipedia Community Brings Wikipedia Education Program to IIMC, Dhenkanal</a> (by Subhashish Panigrahi, February 28, 2013).</li>
</ul>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Event Reports</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS organised one Wiki workshop in the month of February 2013, and also brings you the report from an event organised in the month of January:</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog/celebrating-odia-wikipedias-ninth-anniversary">Celebrating Odia Wikipedia's Ninth Anniversary</a> (organized by the Odia Wiki Community with support from CIS and Academy for Media Learning, January 29, 2013, Bhubaneswar). Few glimpses of the event are available as an audio podcast.</li>
<li><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog/digital-literacy-workshop">Digital Literacy Workshop at Department of Arts, Delhi University</a> (by Nitika Tandon, February 5, 2013).</li>
</ul>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Media Coverage</h3>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li><a href="http://odishan.com/?p=2534" target="_blank">ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆର ନବମ ଜନ୍ମତିଥି ଅବସରରେ କର୍ମଶାଳା: ଇମିଡ଼ିଆରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷାର ପ୍ରୟୋଗ</a> (Odishan.com, February 4, 2013). </li>
<li><b>ସମ୍ବାଦ</b><b>:</b><a href="http://sambadepaper.com/Details.aspx?id=36615&boxid=23625437" target="_blank"><i><b> </b></i>ଲିପି ବ୍ୟାକରଣ ଓ ମାନକ ଭାଷାର ପ୍ରୟୋଗ ଜରୁରୀ</a>. (Sambad, February, 2013). </li>
<li><a href="http://www.eindiadiary.com/content/odisha-workshop-organized-9th-anniversary-odia-language-application-odia-language-e-media" target="_blank">Odisha: Workshop organized on 9th Anniversary of Odia language: Application of Odia language in e-media</a> (e India Bureau, March 2, 2013). </li>
<li><a href="http://news.fullorissa.com/odia-wikipedias-9th-anniversary/" target="_blank">Odia Wikipedia’s 9th anniversary</a> (fullOrissa News, February 13, 2013). </li>
<li><a href="http://indiaeducationdiary.in/Orissa/Shownews.asp?newsid=19485" target="_blank">Odisha: Workshop organized on 9th Anniversary of Odia language: Application of Odia language in e-media</a> (India Education Diary.com, March 2, 2013). Subhashish Panigrahi is quoted. </li>
<li><a href="http://www.odishaviews.com/odia-language-workshop-organized-on-9th-anniversary-of-odia-wikipedia-application-of-odia-language-in-e-media/" target="_blank">Odia language workshop organized on 9th Anniversary of Odia Wikipedia: Application of Odia language in e-media</a> (Odishaviews.com, February 5, 2013). Subhashish Panigrahi is quoted.</li>
</ul>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Ongoing Events</h3>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-workshop-bits-goa">Wikipedia Workshop @ BITS Goa</a> (BITS Pilani K K Birla Goa Campus, March 7, 2013, 5.30 p.m. to 8.00 p.m.). </li>
<li><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-editing-workshop-in-goa">A Wikipedia Editing Workshop in Goa</a> (Nirmala Institute of Education, Goa, March 8, 2013, 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.).</li>
</ul>
<h3>Announcement</h3>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/news/sanskrit-wikiquote">Sanskrit Wikiquote — Now Available</a>!: The Access to Knowledge team at CIS is happy to announce the availability of Sanskrit Wikiquote. Shiju Alex, an ex-team member played an active role in bringing this out. For more info see <a href="http://bit.ly/Y9OY9R">http://bit.ly/Y9OY9R</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b> </b></p>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; "><a href="http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/">About CIS</a></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">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, Access to Knowledge, Openness, Internet Governance, and Telecom. The policy research programmes have resulted in outputs such as the <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/advocacy/accessibility/blog/e-accessibility-handbook">e-Accessibility Policy Handbook for Persons with Disabilities</a> with ITU and G3ict, and <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/digital-natives/front-page/blog/dnbook">Digital Alternatives with a Cause?</a>, <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/digital-natives/front-page/blog/position-papers">Thinkathon Position Papers</a> and the <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/digital-natives/front-page/blog/digital-natives-with-a-cause-a-report">Digital Natives with a Cause? Report</a> with Hivos, etc. We have conducted policy research for the Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, etc., on <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/a2k/blog/cis-analysis-july2011-treaty-print-disabilities">WIPO Treaties</a>, <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/a2k/blog/analysis-copyright-amendment-bill-2012">Copyright Bill</a>, <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/internet-governance/front-page/blog/cis-feedback-to-nia-bill">NIA Bill</a>, etc.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS is accredited as an observer at WIPO. CIS staff participates in the Standing Committee for Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) meetings regularly held in Geneva, and participate in the discussions and comments on them from a public interest perspective. Our Policy Director, Nirmita Narasimhan won the <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/accessibility/blog/national-award">National Award for Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities</a> from the Government of India and also received the <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/news/nirmita-nivh-award">NIVH Excellence Award</a>.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Follow us elsewhere</h3>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>Get short, timely messages from us on <a href="https://twitter.com/cis_india">Twitter</a></li>
<li>Join the CIS group on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/groups/28535315687/">Facebook</a></li>
<li>Visit us at <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/">http://cis-india.org</a></li>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Support Us</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Please help us defend consumer / citizen rights on the Internet! Write a cheque in favour of ‘The Centre for Internet and Society’ and mail it to us at No. 194, 2nd ‘C’ Cross, Domlur, 2nd Stage, Bengaluru – 5600 71.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Request for Collaboration</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">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 the research collaborations, write to Sunil Abraham, Executive Director, at <a href="mailto:sunil@cis-india.org">sunil@cis-india.org</a> or Nishant Shah, Director – Research, at <a href="mailto:nishant@cis-india.org">nishant@cis-india.org</a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><i>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.</i></p>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/about/newsletters/access-to-knowledge-bulletin-february-2013'>http://editors.cis-india.org/about/newsletters/access-to-knowledge-bulletin-february-2013</a>
</p>
No publisherpraskrishnaOpennessWikipediaAccess to KnowledgeWikimedia2013-03-12T04:20:14ZPageWikipedia at Avenir
http://editors.cis-india.org/news/wikipedia-at-avenir
<b>A 4 hours Wikipedia event at Avenir, 2013 is being held at Netaji Subhash Engineering College, Kolkata, West Bengal on 11th March 2013. The Centre for Internet and Society is supporting this event.</b>
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<p>Read the event page on <a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_at_Avenir">Wikipedia</a></p>
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<h2 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Basic_Agenda">Basic Agenda</span></h2>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>1 hour Wikpedia edit-a-thon Workshop with Kolkata based Wikipedians.</li>
<li>3 hours long MediaWiki Workshop on Wikipedia-Gadgets and UserScripts.</li>
</ul>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Edit-a-thon">Edit-a-thon</span></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">A 2 hours long Wikipedia editing workshop with Kolkata based Wikipedians.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Why_an_Edit-a-thon">Why an Edit-a-thon</span></h3>
<ol style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>It helps build the encyclopedia</li>
<li>It builds relationships in the community</li>
<li>It can help new Wikipedians to contribute</li>
<li>It's fun :)</li>
</ol>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Pre-requisites">Pre-requisites</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Bring your own laptops if possible, we will be creating things!</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="What_will_you_have_learnt_at_the_end_of_it.3F">What will you have learnt at the end of it?</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Along with the idea of how to create and edit articles in Wikipedia, you will get to know about Wikipedia, about setting knowledge free, about all those awesome things, that make us believe in this huge repository of knowledge.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Articles_Planned">Articles Planned</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lascar_War_Memorial,_Calcutta_%28Kolkata%29" title="en:Lascar War Memorial, Calcutta (Kolkata)">Lascar War Memorial, Calcutta (Kolkata)</a></p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Facilitators">Facilitators</span></h3>
<ol style="text-align: justify; ">
<li><a class="text external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rangan_Datta_Wiki">Rangan Dutta</a></li>
<li><a class="text external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jayantanth">Jayanta Nath</a></li>
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<h2 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="MediaWiki_Workshop">MediaWiki Workshop</span></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">3 hours long MediaWiki Workshop on Wikipedia-Gadgets and UserScripts with Developers from Wikimedia.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Goal">Goal</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The Wikipedia community needs small bits of web tech that make the site better for lots of users. We'll take people who know wiki stuff and also a little programming stuff, and have them be able to write code for Wikipedia.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Pre-requisites_2">Pre-requisites</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Please bring your laptops! This is a hands on session, and you'll be creating things!</p>
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<li>Basic grasp of Javascript, CSS</li>
<li>An account on Wikipedia</li>
<li>A modern browser (preferably Chrome, but Firefox with Firebug will also do)</li>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="What_will_you_have_learnt_at_the_end_of_it.3F_2">What will you have learnt at the end of it?</span></h3>
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<li>Understanding how user scripts work</li>
<li>Be able to use the MediaWiki API appropriately</li>
<li>Improve your own wiki experience / experience for your language wikipedia by writing scripts</li>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Lesson_Plan">Lesson Plan</span></h3>
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<li>Environment (JS, Dev Toolbar, Common.js, importScript)</li>
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<li><a class="text external" href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Yuvipanda">Yuvi Panda</a></li>
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<h2 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Register_Yourselves.21">Register Yourselves!</span></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Folks who are interested to join us, are requested to fill up the <a class="text external" href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1qh4B6_0NU_H2XkVUl1jaz3xhEP2tqxr0mFNsSAjg6SI/viewform" rel="nofollow">form</a> and register themselves for the event. We shall send you an invitation via email!</p>
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<li><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Harsh4101991" title="User:Harsh4101991">Harsh Kothari</a></li>
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<li>Data (API, API Sandbox, actions)</li>
<li>Accessing Data from the Environment (AJAX concepts, mw.API, mw.loader.using)</li>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/news/wikipedia-at-avenir'>http://editors.cis-india.org/news/wikipedia-at-avenir</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaOpennessWikipediaAccess to KnowledgeWikimedia2013-03-11T04:08:23ZNews ItemA Wikipedia Editing Workshop in Goa
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-editing-workshop-in-goa
<b>On the occasion of International Women's Day, the Access to Knowledge team from the Centre for Internet & Society is organizing a wikipedia editing workshop on March 8, 2013 at Nirmala Institute of Education, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m., followed by an offline and online editathon.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The online editathon is a month-long affair, which will be held every weekend starting with the weekend after March 8. The goal of the month-long event is to encourage more women to contribute to Wikipedia and increase representation of articles related to women in Wikipedia.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The event aims at creating new articles, expanding the existing stubs and translating English articles to various Indian languages. Members are requested to start edithons in regional language Wikipedias.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-editing-workshop-in-goa'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-editing-workshop-in-goa</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaOpennessEvent2013-03-05T09:10:24ZEventWikipedia Workshop @ BITS Goa
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-workshop-bits-goa
<b>The Access to Knowledge team at the Centre for Internet & Society is organising a workshop at BITS Pilani KK Birla Goa Campus on March 7, 2013, from 5.30 p.m. to 8.00 p.m.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The workshop aims to spread awareness about Wikipedia, who edits Wikipedia and how to edit Wikipedia. Some of you might be curious to learn more about Wikipedia and contribute to this pool of knowledge in your own special ways. We'd like to encourage such students and provide them all the information and support they need. Several colleges and universities across the world have already successfully participated in similar Wikipedia workshops.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Below are some more details about the Wikipedia session:</p>
<p><b>Purpose:</b></p>
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<li><b><span>Understand what is Wikipedia</span></b></li>
<li>Explore how Wikipedia works</li>
<li>Learn how they can contribute (i.e., writing) to Wikipedia</li>
<li><b><span>Discover what they (students / faculty / institutes) can gain by editing </span></b></li>
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<div><b>Logistics:</b></div>
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<li>A room big enough to accommodate all the students comfortably</li>
<li>If possible, laptops or computers for everyone</li>
<li>Stable internet connection</li>
<li>Projector facility</li>
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<p><b> Duration:</b></p>
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<li>2-3 hour workshop</li>
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<p><b>Participants</b></p>
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<li>Maximum 40-50</li>
<li>Students, faculty & staff</li>
<li>Please do convey to everyone that it is totally voluntary and should not be in lieu of attendance, etc.</li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Our experience has shown that Wikipedia for students (and, indeed faculty) is invaluable in supporting better writing skills, stronger research abilities, richer critical thinking, improved collaboration as well as providing a massive global audience to students (which drives academic excellence).</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Feel free to get in touch with Nitika Tandon (<a class="mail-link" href="mailto:nitika@cis-india.org">nitika@cis-india.org)</a> if you have any queries.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-workshop-bits-goa'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-workshop-bits-goa</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaOpennessWikipediaEventWikimedia2013-03-05T08:29:13ZEventCreative Commons comes to India
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/creative-commons-comes-to-india
<b>Creative Commons team visited four Indian cities to spread the word about CC free licenses and CC affiliate program. Wikimedia India chapter was approached to join hands with Creative Commons for research and community building.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><a href="http://creativecommons.org/staff#jessicacoates" target="_blank">Jessica Coates</a>, Global Network Manager and <a href="http://creativecommons.org/staff#janehornibrook" target="_blank">Jane Hornibrook</a>, Regional Coordinator, Asia-Pacific, <a class="external-link" href="http://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons </a>recently visited India. The <a class="external-link" href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge">Access to Knowledge</a> team from the <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/" class="external-link">Centre for Internet and Society</a> got a chance to join them for three of their meetings: one in Pune and two in Bengaluru.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Ceative Commons is a not-for-profit organization and the base for the free licenses. More than 400 million work in the world are in Creative Commons license as of today. The foundation is looking to expand its wing of voluntary affiliates in India who would support for more outreach, community building and research. "We are excited to see the wikipedians in India and their passion to contribute to Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. Wikimedia Commons is the largest Creative Commons license use and we are looking for joining hands with the Indian wikipedians and the Wikimedia India chapter", says Jessica Coats.</p>
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<td><span class="description">Jessica Coates and Jane Hornibrook from Creative Commons at Centre of Internet and Society, Bengaluru</span></td>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Jane Hornibook, who looks after Creative Common's operation in Asia-Pacific said, "Creative Commons has many users in India. It would be exciting for us to collaborate with more academicians, wikipedians and organizations like Wikimedia India Chapter and CIS for peer research and outreach and grow our <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC_Affiliate_Network" target="_blank">affiliate network</a> in India.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Video</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><iframe frameborder="0" height="300" src="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jessica_Coates_and_Jane_Hornibrook,_Creative_Commons-GNUnify.webm?embedplayer=yes" width="400"></iframe><br /><br />Note: This blog post is a combination of events organized in Pune by Pune Linux/Unix User Group and Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies & Research, and CIS and the Wikimedia India Chapter in Bangalore.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/creative-commons-comes-to-india'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/creative-commons-comes-to-india</a>
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No publishersubhaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaVideoOpenness2013-07-17T06:49:55ZBlog Entry