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Women's Day Edit-a-thon at Jnana Prabodhini
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<b>A Marathi Wikipedia Women's Day edit-a-thon was conducted in collaboration with Jnana Prabodhini to commemorate the celebration of International Women's Day.</b>
<p>A Marathi
Wikipedia Women's Day edit-a-thon was conducted in collaboration with Jnana
Prabodhini in Pune on 9 March, 2017 to commemorate the celebration of
International Women's Day. Jnana Prabodhini is an organisation that is active
in the field of social work. The organisation enabled the bringing together of women working
in the culture and Indology sectors for this edit-a-thon.</p>
<p>The aim of
the two-hour-long edit-a-thon was to help build resources in the field of Culture, Indology and women
empowerment on Marathi Wikipedia. The edit-a-thon also introduced the
participants to editing Wikipedia and contributing to Wiki projects. In
addition to this, the workshop attempted to add references to existing articles
in order to improve their credibility.</p>
<p>The all-women event was attended by
seven women from different walks of life. The participants edited five articles
on women related to culture and Indology. Dr. Aaryaa Joshi, research scholar at
Jnana Prabodhini was one of the expert trainers at the event.</p>
<p>Link to event page on meta can be found <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_Day_Edit-a-thon_at_Jnana_Prabodhini,_Pune_on_9th_March_2017">here</a>.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/womens-day-edit-a-thon-at-jnana-prabodhini'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/womens-day-edit-a-thon-at-jnana-prabodhini</a>
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No publisherSubodh KulkarniCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaMarathi WikipediaOpenness2017-04-15T07:31:38ZBlog EntryWomen's Day Edit-a-thon at Jeewan Jyoti Women's Empowerment Centre, Pune
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/womens-day-edit-a-thon-in-pune
<b>Sterlite Tech Foundation and Jnana Prabodhini joined hands with the Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team to hold a Wikipedia edit-a-thon at Jeewan Jyoti Women's Empowerment Centre, Ambawane in Pune on March 10, 2017. Subodh Kulkarni was one of the trainers. The edit-a-thon was attended by 28 students.</b>
<h3><img src="http://editors.cis-india.org/home-images/PuneEditathon.jpg" alt="Pune Editathon" class="image-inline" title="Pune Editathon" /></h3>
<h3>Background</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Sterlite Tech Foundation and Jnana Prabodhini are the organisations working for Women's Empowerment in Velhe Block of Pune District Maharashtra. Jeewan Jyoti - Sterlite’s flagship initiative aims to address these issues by empowering the under privileged sections of society, especially rural women with equal learning opportunities and with professional training courses in their formative years; thereby providing them with sustainable income opportunities.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">On the occasion of World Women's Day, Women's Wikipedia edit-a-thon week is arranged across the world. The organisers collaborated with The Centre for Internet & Society-Access to Knowledge Program to conduct this workshop for rural women.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Project Goal</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The goal of this Wikipedia Workshop is to build resources in the field of rural development & women empowerment on Marathi Wikipedia and equip its participants with the process of contributing to Wikipedia, and to introduce it as a concept to them. Another focus of the workshop will be on village articles.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Primary Goals</b></p>
<ul>
<li>To introduce Wikipedia as an encyclopedia for research and a concept to new editors.</li>
<li>To Promote Marathi Wikipedia Community & promote the use of regional languages in Wikipedia.</li>
<li>To have an open interaction within the editors, existing as well as new.</li>
<li>To spread the awareness of Wikipedia as a powerful tool.</li>
<li>To develop articles on gender & environment related issues</li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_Day_Edit-a-thon_at_Jeewan_Jyoti_Women%27s_Empowerment_Centre,_Ambawane,Dist.Pune">More info on Wikimedia Blog</a></p>
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No publishersubodhCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaMarathi WikipediaOpenness2017-04-10T16:04:03ZBlog EntryWinners of the Opensource.com 2015 Community Awards
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/opensource-2015-award-winners
<b>Every year, Opensource.com awards people from our community who have excelled in contributing and sharing stories about open source.</b>
<p>These stories are about open source as we use it in our everyday lives as well as how it helps to build a better world and future in technology. This year, we present to you the 2015 Opensource.com Community Awards in the following categories.</p>
<h3>People's Choice Awards</h3>
<p><b><a class="external-link" href="http://opensource.com/users/psubhashish" target="_blank">Subhashish Panigrahi</a></b></p>
<p><b><img src="http://editors.cis-india.org/home-images/copy_of_Subhashish.jpg" alt="Subhashish" class="image-inline" title="Subhashish" /></b></p>
<p>An educator and open source activist, based in Bangalore, India.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: left; "><i>Reader's Choice Awards</i></h2>
<p style="text-align: left; "><i>Recognizes the community's favorite articles from 2014. Voted on by the community.</i></p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/opensource-2015-award-winners'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/opensource-2015-award-winners</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaOpennessWikipediaOdia WikipediaWikimedia2015-02-12T01:23:44ZNews ItemWill domain dot भारत spur the growth of Indian languages on the internet?
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/scroll-in-rohan-venkataramakrishnan-will-domain-dot-bharat-spur-the-growth-of-Indian-languages-on-the-internet
<b>Modi's effort to promote the use of Hindi and e-governance has given hope to those who want to see more vernacular content online, but many challenges have to be overcome.</b>
<p>Rohan Venkataramakrishnan's blog post was <a class="external-link" href="http://scroll.in/article/676475/Will-domain-dot-%E0%A4%AD%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%A4--spur-the-growth-of-Indian-languages-on-the-internet">published in Scroll.in</a> on August 29, 2014. Sunil Abraham gave his inputs.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">For most of its short history, the internet has been the English speaker’s playground. Though English is the world’s third-most spoken language (after Mandarin and Spanish), it is by far the most commonly used language on the internet. If you wanted to make sense of most of what’s on the World Wide Web, you had to be able to read and write English.<br /><br />This is slowly changing. The <a href="http://www.medianama.com/2014/07/223-bharat-domain-hindi/" target="_blank">launch of Devanagari script web addresses</a> on Sunday, allowing people to use .भारत domain names, was another step in the slow effort to bring about a multilingual Web. Already, Indian languages like Hindi – one of the most commonly-spoken languages on Earth – lag far behind. The move gels well with the new government’s effort to promote the use of Hindi, and its push to increase digital services available to all citizens. The next few years could well see a spurt in vernacular content online.<br /><br />But first many challenges have to be overcome. “At present, not a single Indian language figures in the top 10 languages prevalent on the Internet, though Chinese, Arabic and Russian feature in the list,” said a<a href="http://www.mckinsey.com/%7E/media/mckinsey%20offices/india/pdfs/online_and_upcoming_the_internets_impact_on_india.ashx" target="_blank"> McKinsey report</a> on the internet's impact on India. “The next wave of internet adoption in India will be dominated by local language speakers, which underscores the need for much more content and applications to be offered in local languages.”<br /><br /><b>Vernacular internet</b><br /><a href="http://qz.com/96054/english-is-no-longer-the-language-of-the-web/">Early studies </a>of the internet attempted to quantify how much of the web was in English. A 1997 estimate put the number at 80% of all websites, while the Online Computer Library’s study in 2003 concluded that 72% of all online content was in English. Today that number is much lower.</p>
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<p>W3Techs, which conducts surveys of the internet, now estimates that about 55% of content on the Internet is in English, followed by German, Russian and Japanese. Indian languages don’t crack the top 35.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The analysis is by its nature imprecise. The internet is vast and mostly uncharted. Estimates suggest search engines have indexed only 40% of Web content, leaving much off the mainstream radar. Measuring language becomes even harder because, in the early years, when fonts were harder to render, most non-English content on the internet was spelt out in Roman letters.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Indian Wiki<br />T</b>he rise of multilingual scripts has changed that, and made it easier to evaluate the diversity of the internet. Yet even the best approach relies more on sampling than measurement. There is one section of the Web, however, that does allow for comparisons of absolute numbers.<b></b></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Relative to other tongues, Indian language-articles still comprise a minuscule portion of Wikipedia. English, Spanish and French are perhaps expected, but even languages like Vietnamese have nearly 10 times the number of pages that Hindi does. Waray-Waray, the fifth-most commonly spoken language in the Philippines, appears to be an outlier because of an automated translation method that creates pages in that language.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Hindi content has been growing on the internet encyclopedia, from no pages in 2003 to more than one lakh in 2011, but it still falls far behind the languages that are spoken as commonly as it, like Spanish and Arabic, let alone those with much smaller reach. Of course in many countries English is not spoken at all, so Internet users need web pages in their own language. In India, because of the language-class association, the majority of Internet users are at least conversant in English.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Obstacle Course</b><br />The impediments to further growth are all too apparent. For one, internet infrastructure still <a href="http://www.medianama.com/2014/08/223-namaindic-a-summary/">leaves much to be desired</a>. Though India has the third-largest internet user-base in the world, only 10% of the country is actually online. Even by 2015, when internet access is expected to reach 28% of the population, the equivalent rural figure is likely to be just 9%, according to estimates.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">“A lot of the core infrastructure that is necessary for language computing is missing,” said Sunil Abraham, executive director of the Centre for Internet & Society. “There’s no mandate by the government that these languages must be supported, no comprehensive dictionaries, no thesauri, no machine translation capabilities, no optical character recognition capabilities. Because our market is so insignificant for proprietary software makers, they haven’t done enough to develop these. Meanwhile, the free software community is too small and mostly English-speaking.”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The government has launched some initiatives in this regard, like a National Translation Mission aimed at machine translating text from English into Indic languages, as well as banks of fonts that are free to use. But Abraham said that while the government is clear this should be a priority area, it underestimates the scale of the problem.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">“We need large scale investment by the government into each language,” he said. “We’re looking at maybe even Rs 100 crore per language, to bring each of our traditional languages into the internet age.”</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/scroll-in-rohan-venkataramakrishnan-will-domain-dot-bharat-spur-the-growth-of-Indian-languages-on-the-internet'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/scroll-in-rohan-venkataramakrishnan-will-domain-dot-bharat-spur-the-growth-of-Indian-languages-on-the-internet</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaWikipediaInternet GovernanceAccess to Knowledge2014-09-08T05:50:11ZNews ItemWikiWars: Programme
http://editors.cis-india.org/research/conferences/conference-blogs/uploads/wikiwarsprog
<b>The programme for Wikiwars, 12th, 13th January - MS Office document</b>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/research/conferences/conference-blogs/uploads/wikiwarsprog'>http://editors.cis-india.org/research/conferences/conference-blogs/uploads/wikiwarsprog</a>
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No publishernishantWikipedia2010-01-05T17:37:43ZFileWikiwars: 12th, 13th January, Bangalore
http://editors.cis-india.org/research/conferences/conference-blogs/wikwarsreg
<b>The Centre for Internet and Society and the Institute of Network Cultures brought together a critical range of scholars, academicians, practitioners, artists and researchers to inquire into the new conditions which emerge with the rise of Wikipedia. The first of two events, WikiWars was the beginning of a knowledge network that shall contribute to a reader titled Critical Point of View, becoming the first resource tool to engage creatively and fruitfully with the diverse range of questions that surround Wikipedia. </b>
<p>The Wikipedia has emerged as the de facto global reference of dynamic knowledge. Different stakeholders – Wikipedians, users, academics, researchers, gurus of Web 2.0, publishing houses and governments have entered into fierce debates and discussions about what the rise of Wikipedia and Wiki cultures means and how they influence the information societies we live in. The Wikipedia itself has been at the centre of much controversy, pivoted around questions of accuracy, anonymity, vandalism, expertise and authority.</p>
<p> The first event, titled WikiWars is scheduled on the 12th and 13th of January 2010. This is the registration page for interested participants who want to join us in the discussions at the WikiWars.</p>
<p>For Event Details look <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/events/wikiwars" class="external-link"> here</a></p>
<p>For information on Programme, Panels, participants and presentation titles, look <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/research/conferences/wikiwars" class="internal-link" title="Wikiwars.xls">here</a> (MS Office) or <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/research/conferences/conference-blogs/uploads/wikiwarsprog1/view" class="external-link">here</a> (PDF document)</p>
<p>For more details on WikiWars and CPOV, look <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/publications/workshops/conference-blogs/Wikiwars" class="external-link">here</a></p>
<p>We have, apart from the 40 presenters, 45 seats available for interested participants to join the discussions.</p>
<strong>There are no fees for registration, but the seats are limited, available only on first come first serve basis and not expandable.<br /></strong>
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To register, email us on : nishant@cis-india.org
<p>Registrations closes: 10th January, 12:00 midnight, Indian Time.</p>
<p>Make sure you give us the following information in your registration request: <strong>Name, Email address, Cell phone/contact number, Institutional affiliation, Position/Designation, Areas of interest.</strong></p>
<p>We will publish the final list of registered participants on the 11th of January 2010. Registered participants will be provided with a Registration kit and lunch & refreshments during the event.</p>
<p>Please Note: We might not be able to accommodate participants who turn up at the venue without prior registration due to logistical constraints.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/research/conferences/conference-blogs/wikwarsreg'>http://editors.cis-india.org/research/conferences/conference-blogs/wikwarsreg</a>
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No publishernishantFeaturedWikipedia2012-03-13T10:43:09ZBlog EntryWikiWars - A report
http://editors.cis-india.org/research/conferences/conference-blogs/wwrep
<b>The Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore and the Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, hosted WikiWars – an international event that brought together scholars, researchers, academics, artists and practitioners from various disciplines, to discuss the emergence and growth of Wikipedia and what it means for the information societies we inhabit. With participants from 15 countries making presentations about Wikipedia and the knowledge ecology within which it exists, the event saw a vigorous set of debates and discussions as questions about education, pedagogy, language, access, geography, resistance, art and subversion were raised by the presenters. The 2 day event marked the beginning of the process that hopes to produce the first critical reader – Critical Point of View (CPOV) - that collects key resources for research and inquiry around Wikipedia.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The
debates around Wikipedia, the de facto dynamic knowledge production system
online, are very fairly divided into two competing camps. There is a group of
people who swear by Wikipedia – celebrating its democratic processes of
knowledge production, ease of access, and the de-canonisation of knowledge to
produce the ‘WikiWay’; And then there is a group of people who swear at
Wikipedia – raising concerns over authenticity, reliability, vulgarisation of
knowledge and the de-hierarchisation of knowledge systems that Wikipedia seems
to embody. The debates between the two groups are often passionate and situated
in wildly speculative and often personal interests and investments in Wikipedia
and the Web 2.0 Information Revolution that it seems to be a symptom of. The
debates also play out in various international locations, most of them relying
on personal anecdotes, experiences and half hearted data that does not stand
the tests of rigour.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">WikiWars,
then, concentrated on things which are about Wikipedia but also not about Wikipedia.
In many ways, as Geert Lovink, the Director of INC suggested, WikiWars was a
recognition of the fact that Wikipedia has come of age and can now be
systematically and philosophically examined as a work in progress that has
long-term implications about our future. It was the ambition of the Editorial
team (consisting of Geert Lovink, Sabine Nerdeer, Nathaniel Tkacz, Johanna
Niyesito, Sunil Abraham and Nishant Shah) to veer away from the recognised
battle-lines drawn in, around and about Wikipedia, and instead examine the
fault-lines that run under many of our assumptions, prejudices and imaginations
of Wikipedia. And Wikiwars, through careful screening and invested interests,
became one of the first platforms in the world to initiate a critical discourse
on Wikipedia, seeking to engage with its histories, it contemporary
manifestations and practices, and the futures that it seeks to inhabit.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The
different presentations brought in located debates, theoretical and
philosophical concepts and personal experiences to build frameworks that
explain and contextualise Wikipedia as one of the most contested spaces online.
The eight panels across two days dealt with four major thematic areas which
need to be summarised in brief:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst">1. <strong><u>Education, Pedagogy and
Knowledge:</u></strong> At the very basis of Wikipedia (and
other structures like it) is the question of knowledge production, the
possibility of using it as an educational tool and the potentials it has for
introducing new pedagogies and learning practices in and outside of institutionalised
education. Presenters from various disciplines engaged with these questions in
interesting ways.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst"> </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">Usha
Raman from Teacher Plus in Hyderabad, brought in the question of primary
education, the need for teacher training programmes and the ways by which
infrastructure development needs to be thought through when talking of
Wikipedia and education in the Indian context. The
necessity of locating Wikipedia in a much larger debates on learning were also
echoed by Noopur Rawal and Srikeit Tadepalli, students from Christ University
who brought their experience of Wikipedia and the expectations from classroom
education and learning in their presentation. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"> </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">In
the same field, but from a different approach, a panel examined Wikipedia as a site to critique
Western Knowledge production systems. Stian Haklev and Johanna Niyesito
concentrated on the questions of language and knowledge production. Haklev made
an impassioned argument deconstructing the utopian idea of Wikipedia’s
multilingual dreams and instead made a call for recognising the black-holes
when it comes to non-English production and consumption of knowledge on
Wikipedia. He further explored the implications that linguistic imbalance has
on the very governance structure of Wikipedia and its communities. Niyesito
challenged the ‘global’ and ‘cosmopolitan’ image that Wikipedia has built for
itself and posited the idea of Wikipedia as a translingual space where
different languages and cultures negotiate common understandings and processes
of producing knowledge. HanTeng
Liao explored knowledge production through the market economy of key-words to
see how the linguistic biases of search engines that harvest these keywords,
determines the access and visibility of different Wikipedia pages.</p>
<strong><u>Resistance, Diversity
and Representation:</u></strong> While these questions were present as
undercurrents to most of the presentations at WikWars, they were perhaps most
fiercely present in the debates that followed the presentations by Eric Ilya
Lee (Academia Sinica, Taiwan), YiPing Tsou (National Central University,
Taiwan), William Beutler and Eric Zimmerman (IDC, Israel).
<p> </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">For
Lee and Tsou, the responses to the Chinese language Wikipedia from popular
media and personal experiences, were demonstrative of the fact that the lack of
diverse means of representation and participation lead to a strong resistance
of Wikipedia in Taiwan. Beutler
looked at the heavily contested editorial space and policies of Wikipedia to
make a point about how lack of effective governance systems based on
mutual tolerance and diversity lead to
stressful and often traumatic experiences for users who might not be
represented through the mainstream ideas and
ideologies of an English speaking populace.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">Zimmerman
took a startling position, calling for a regime of attribution and dissolving
the pseudonymous structures of knowledge production in Wikipedia in order to
build designs of trust and verification into the system, thus leading to better
and more credible research tools and representations.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">The
tone of debates was altered with presentations by Mark Graham (Oxford Research
Institute) and the team of artists Nathaniel Stern and Scott Kildal, the team
responsible for the Wikipedia Art Project. Graham
showed the complexity of visualising space and how the production of space (or
physical geography) on Wikipedia often reflects the virtual density of access
and presence online. Showing a nuanced set of images that help mapping these
new geographies for a richer diversity and representation, Graham showed how
systems like Wikipedia ‘cannot know what they cannot know’ despite the reliance
on the wisdom of crowds.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">Stern
and Kildall, in giving an account of their project which used Wikipedia’s
policies to undermine and challenge it, show how the institutionalisation of a
space and its ‘canonisation’ can quickly lead to a new set of problems where
the space becomes the very thing it had set itself against.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"> </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">3. <strong><u>Politics of Free, Open
and Exclusion:</u></strong> The rhetoric of free and open have been
built into all popular discourses around Wikipedia. However, the presentations
at WikiWars showed that these need to be taken with at least a pinch of salt
and further examined for what they signify. Alok
Nandi of Architempo made a dramatic and creative revisit of these guiding
principles of Wikipedia. He showed how an inquiry into rituals of
participation, distortion and access on Wikipedia can promote, not merely
looking at the politics of exclusion but also at the politics of inclusion and
the problems therein.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"> </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">Dror
Kamir’s evocative narrative of ‘Your side, my side and Wikipedia’ illustrated
how the question of boundaries, of knowledges, of facts and truths get
distorted as language, community, nationality, etc. come into play in recording
and documenting knowledge on Wikipedia. Concentrating on conflict zones in the
Middle East, he talked about the lack and perhaps the impossibility of
producing neutrality the way in which Wikipedia demands of its users. These
ideas resonated with the propositions that ShunLing Chen from Harvard had
floated in the opening panel to explore the ‘boundary work’ of Wikipedia and
how it defines and produces itself in relation to external forces and
controversies. These
discussions on the politics of presence, absence, inclusion and exclusion were
further layered by presentations by Linda Gross, Elad Weider, Heather Ford and
Nathaniel Tkacz who produced a critique of the Free and Open, taking a
cautionary step away from accepting these as inherently good.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"> </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">While
Gross explored the structure of egalitarianism that Wikipedia builds for
itself, Ford presented an analysis of the licensing regimes of the knowledge
produced within Wikipedia and the problems they pose to traditional knowledges
and non-mainstream information. Weider,
trained as a lawyer, critiqued the neo-liberal discourse around Wikipedia and
tried to correlate the communities with markets. Tkacz’s historical overview of
Free and Open, resulted in a compelling inquiry into the very structures that
inform the shape and functioning of objects like Wikipedia.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Twitter:
#WikiWars <a href="http://twitter.com/wikiwars">http://twitter.com/wikiwars</a>
and <a href="http://www.twitter.com/jackerhack/wikiwars">www.<strong>twitter</strong>.com/jackerhack/<strong>wikiwars</strong></a><cite></cite></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Flickr:
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/30479432@N03/sets/72157623193288710/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/30479432@N03/sets/72157623193288710/</a></p>
<p>
CPOV blog : <a href="http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/cpov/">http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/cpov/</a></p>
<p> </p>
<p>The videos fom the Wikiwars event are embedded below:</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/research/conferences/conference-blogs/wwrep'>http://editors.cis-india.org/research/conferences/conference-blogs/wwrep</a>
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No publishernishantDigital GovernanceWikipediaFeaturedCyberculturesWorkshopCPOV2010-10-06T11:21:56ZBlog EntryWikisource:Internship Project at New Law College, Pune
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikisource-internship-project-at-new-law-college-pune
<b>This Wiki - internship project is being conducted for New Law College (Pune),under the guidance of Prof.Dr.Mukund Sarda, Dean and Principal of NLC by CIS A2K as part of this project at en wikisource; teams of students will acomplish proof reading, validation, compilation annotation etc. of Indian Laws and to begin with Copyright laws and Intellectual property laws at Portal:Copyright law/Copyright law of India.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Next /intermittant stages of a (internship) project, may be conducted on <a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/" title="w:">english wikipedia</a> for case studies part, and for questions answers, research etc on <a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Main_Page" title="wikiversity:Main Page">english wikiversity</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:WikiProject" title="Wikisource:WikiProject">WikiProject</a> is dedicated to posting and organizing pages for <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Category:Laws_of_India" title="Category:Laws of India">Acts of the Indian Parliament</a> and other Indian legislation. Present collaboration :<a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Portal:Copyright_law/Copyright_law_of_India" title="Portal:Copyright law/Copyright law of India">Intellectual Property Acts</a>:</p>
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<li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Index:Indian_Copyright_Act_1957.djvu" title="Index:Indian Copyright Act 1957.djvu">Index:Indian Copyright Act 1957.djvu</a> (<a class="text external" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Special:RecentChangesLinked/Index:Indian_Copyright_Act_1957.djvu">related Recent Changes</a>)</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Index:Patents_Act_1970_%28India%29.pdf" title="Index:Patents Act 1970 (India).pdf">Index:Patents Act 1970 (India).pdf</a> (<a class="text external" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Special:RecentChangesLinked/Index:Patents_Act_1970_%28India%29.pdf">related Recent Changes</a>)</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Index:Trade_Marks_Act_%28India%29,_1999.djvu" title="Index:Trade Marks Act (India), 1999.djvu">Index:Trade Marks Act (India), 1999.djvu</a> (<a class="text external" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Special:RecentChangesLinked/Index:Trade_Marks_Act_%28India%29,_1999.djvu">related Recent Changes</a>)</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Index:Geographical_Indications_of_Goods_%28Registration_and_Protection%29_Act,_1999.djvu" title="Index:Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration and Protection) Act, 1999.djvu">Index:Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration and Protection) Act, 1999.djvu</a> (<a class="text external" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Special:RecentChangesLinked/Index:Geographical_Indications_of_Goods_%28Registration_and_Protection%29_Act,_1999.djvu">related changes</a>)</li>
</ul>
<p><img src="http://editors.cis-india.org/home-images/WikisourceCertificate.png" alt="Wikisource Certificate" class="image-inline" title="Wikisource Certificate" /></p>
<p>More information on <a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Internship_project_at_New_Law_College,_Pune">Wikimedia Blog</a></p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikisource-internship-project-at-new-law-college-pune'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikisource-internship-project-at-new-law-college-pune</a>
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No publishersubodhCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWikisource2017-03-28T15:37:09ZBlog EntryWikisource Workshop at Vigyan Ashram, Pabal
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/subodh-kulkarni-may-26-2019-wikisource-workshop-at-vigyan-ashram
<b>The Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) organized a workshop in collaboration with Vigyan Ashram, Pabal on May 25-26, 2019 at Pabal. Total 12 participants attended sessions during this two days workshop. The basic skills in digitisation, uploading on Commons and Wikisource process were imparted in the workshop. Jayanta Nath was the facilitator.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Active members of Wikisource at Vigyan Ashram have expressed their interest in learning advanced skills on VP. Previously, they have scanned & uploaded 50+ books on Commons, OCR'd 10,000+ pages and proofread few pages. This team wants to learn advanced skills in processing scanned books, metadata linking with Wikidata, Wikisource - proofreading & layout skills, tools etc. The institution has also planned to integrate proofreading activity with the Unicode/FOSS training courses, so that the students will be involved in next academic year. The primary objectives of the workshop were:</p>
<p>To impart :</p>
<ul>
<li>Basic orientation to Wikisource</li>
<li>Understanding of Wikisource work flow</li>
<li>Skills required from scanning to OCR of book</li>
<li>skills for Proof-reading, transclusion methods</li>
</ul>
<h3>Agenda</h3>
<ul>
<li>Introduction to Wikisource - features, scope and future potential</li>
<li>Wikisource work flow - explanation of different stages</li>
<li>Upload tools and Copyrights</li>
<li>OCR4Wikisource and Indic OCR</li>
<li>Proofreading methods and Tools required</li>
<li>Wikisource tools, gadgets</li>
<li>Transclusion methods</li>
<li>Wikidata linkage</li>
</ul>
<h3>Day 1</h3>
<p id="_mcePaste" style="text-align: justify; ">Day one started with training on Scanning and post processing methods. The expert trainer explained various programmes to clean files & make the pdf of book. He also reviewed the previous work done at Vigyan Ashram and gave important suggestions. All the participants scanned 20 pages and processed them for practise. Then copyright issues and various licenses were discussed with some examples on Commons. The big size books were uploaded by chunkedupload tool. This will be useful in future as it reduces time and space also. <span>After the uploading session, the basics of Wikisource project were explained by Jayanta Nath. He demonstrated proof-reading methods and the related tools, gadgets required. Some scripts for proof-reading are not imported in Marathi Wikisource. The need analysis was done to identify basic minimum templates and gadgets. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span>The participants learned to make their common.js pages to install the scripts. The hands-on activity was done by distributing the pages of one book for all the members. </span><span>Day one started with training on Scanning and post processing methods. The expert trainer explained various programmes to clean files & make the pdf of book. He also reviewed the previous work done at Vigyan Ashram and gave important suggestions. All the participants scanned 20 pages and processed them for practise. Then copyright issues and various licenses were discussed with some examples on Commons. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span>The big size books were uploaded by chunkedupload tool. This will be useful in future as it reduces time and space also.After the uploading session, the basics of Wikisource project were explained by Jayanta Nath. He demonstrated proof-reading methods and the related tools, gadgets required. Some scripts for proof-reading are not imported in Marathi Wikisource. The need analysis was done to identify basic minimum templates and gadgets. The participants learned to make their common.js pages to install the scripts. The hands-on activity was done by distributing the pages of one book for all the members.</span></p>
<h3><span>Day 2</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">On the second day, three active Wikimedians and one new member from Pune joined group at Vigyan Ashram. After the recap of first day activity, the review of status of Marathi Wikisource was taken. The practise session for proof-reading & layout of pages continued till lunch break. In the second half, final process of transclusion was explained in detail. The participants also learnt about the various methods for different forms of books. The final layout for reading the books on Wikisource and formats for downloading the books were also discussed.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">In the last session, the future plan of Wikisource activity was discussed. The organisation has decided to involve all the trainees in this activity to enhance the skills as well as knowledge. The active community members have planned to spread the awareness about the Wikisource in the society for more content donation and increasing editor base.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Follow-up</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Consistent activity for the new trainees is planned with trained team at the institute. Scanning of rare and re-licensed books from libraries is in progress. This activity will be scaled up in near future.</p>
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<p><a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/Wikisource_Workshop_at_Vigyan_Ashram,_Pabal_(25-26_May_2019)">The blog post was originally published on Wikimedia Blog</a></p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/subodh-kulkarni-may-26-2019-wikisource-workshop-at-vigyan-ashram'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/subodh-kulkarni-may-26-2019-wikisource-workshop-at-vigyan-ashram</a>
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No publishersubodhWikimediaWikipediaAccess to Knowledge2019-06-23T03:26:53ZBlog EntryWikisource Handbook for Indian Communities
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wiki-source-handbook-for-indian-communities
<b>Wikisource is one of the trending Wikimedia projects. Many new editors and new books to Indic language Wikisource's get added over a period of time. However, new editors as well as existing editors face numerous problems while working with the content online. The Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) team, to help the editors, has created this Handbook. CIS invites feedback to the first draft of this Handbook. CIS-A2K will continue to work with the Wikipedia communities to improve their efforts towards developing Wikisource. </b>
<h2>Preface</h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Currently, CIS-A2K is working with five Indian-languages Wikimedia communities (Kannada, Konkani, Marathi, Odia, and Telugu) and one focus project area (Wikisource with punjabi community). While working with the above mentioned Indic Wikimedia communities, we noticed that there are many similarities between the issues and challenges faced by these communities. So, we decided to create this “Wikisource Handbook for Indian Communities”.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">At first, we went through the Wikisource of each language and noted the status. Then we talked to Indic Wikipedians to know more about the Wikisource related issues that they are facing. We also asked for the feedback on the first draft of this handbook. Our actual work will start after the release of this book, when we’ll work with the communities to improve their efforts towards developing Wikisource.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Click to download the <b><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/files/wikisource-handbook-for-indian-communities">Wikisource Handbook for Indian Communities</a></b> co-authored by Bodhisattwa Mandal and Ananth Subray P V. with graphics support from Saumya Naidu.</p>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wiki-source-handbook-for-indian-communities'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wiki-source-handbook-for-indian-communities</a>
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No publisherBodhisattwa Mandal and Ananth Subray P. V.CIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaFeaturedHomepage2018-09-19T02:18:40ZBlog EntryWikiSangamotsavam 2013 brings Indian Wikimedians together
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/dna-january-14-2014-netha-hussain-subhashish-panigrahi-wikisangamotsavam-2013-brings-indian-wikimedians-together
<b>WikiSangamotsavam, the annual conference of Malayalam Wikimedians, took place in Alappuzha, Kerala from December 21 to 23, 2013. The conference brought together around 200 Wikimedians and well-wishers from all over India.</b>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">The blog post originally <a class="external-link" href="http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/01/06/wikisangamotsavam-2013/">published on Wikimedia Foundation's website</a> was copy edited by Rohini Lakshane and published as an <a class="external-link" href="http://www.dnaindia.com/blogs/post-wikisangamotsavam-2013-brings-indian-wikimedians-together-1950971">article in DNA</a> on January 14, 2014.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">The host town, Alappuzha is popularly known as the Venice of the East owing to its picturesque backwaters and canals. Alappuzha was chosen as the location for the conference in an attempt to draw attention to the region's diversity and touristic appeal, thereby increasing the town's representation on Wikipedia. A few pre-conference events including a bicycle rally, a meetup for young Wikimedians and several edit-a-thons were held.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Day 1</b><br />The first day of WikiSangamotsavam started with Wiki-Vidyarthi-Sangamam, a meetup of student Wikimedians. The digitisation of "Sri-Mahabharatham", a seven volume Malayalam epic was flagged off during the Wiki-Vidyarthi-Sangamam. Around 100 students from all over Kerala interacted with each other and learnt about Wikimedia projects in Malayalam. A Wikipedia workshop was conducted for physically impaired delegates. They were introduced to various means of accessibility by the <a href="http://www.daisy.org/" target="_blank">DAISY Consortium</a>. This session helped them learn about self-education tools, accessing knowledge platforms such as Wikipedia, and contributing in Malayalam online.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">During a panel discussion on "Malayalam and Wikipedia" language and computing experts discussed the role of Wikipedia in the growth of the Malayalam language. Talks and presentations about topics relevant to Wikimedia were held in three parallel sessions.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The first day of the event also marked the Malayalam Wikipedia’s eleventh anniversary. The occasion was celebrated by cutting a cake. At the end of the day, Wikimedians entertained themselves by singing Malayalam folk songs.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Day 2</b><br />The second day started with the inaugural session. The event was inaugurated by Sashi Kumar, a media analyst and founder of India’s first regional satellite television channel.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Dr. Thomas Isaac, a former minister in Kerala, was the chief guest at the function. Mementos were given away to active Wikimedians who organised various Wikimedia events throughout 2013.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The QRpedia project was launched by Dr. Thomas Isaac at the Alappuzha lighthouse. QRpedia aims to make QR codes for tourist locations, which link to Wikipedia articles pertaining to the locations and monuments. By the start of the next year, all historical monuments and tourist destinations are set to be marked with QR codes. If successfully completed, Alappuzha would be the first town in India to be fully digitised with QR codes.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">A Non-Malayalam Indic Wikimedia meetup was held for Wikimedians who contribute to Wikimedia projects in other Indic languages and English. There was a track to discuss how various collaborative projects could be built to have content creation drives for enriching Wikipedia.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Day 3</b><br />The third and final day of WikiSangamotsavam was devoted to taking Wikimedians on a boat trip amidst the flora of the Vembanad lake to experience its unique biodiversity. Experienced Wikimedians who have done extensive research on the region's biodiversity provided a guided tour onboard the boat.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The 126 acres of reclaimed wetland around the lake and its rare plant species serves as the location for a rich discussion and collaboration among bio-enthusiasts on Wikipedia. Wikimedians also discussed how to go about protecting the biodiversity of the R. Block of Vembanad lake.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The three-day long WikiSangamotsavam brought together many of the Malayalam Wikimedians under one roof and enabled them to share their best practices, ideas and visions for the future.</p>
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No publisherNetha Hussain and Subhashish PanigrahiAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaMalayalam WikipediaOpenness2014-02-03T06:57:04ZBlog EntryWikipediansSpeak: Piotr Konieczny
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<b>WikipediansSpeak is a video interview show hosted by Subhashish Panigrahi at the Centre of Internet and Society. It brings you series of posts about Wikipedians across the globe. Wikipedians are those voluntary contributors who write Wikipedia articles, correct mistakes made by other wikipedians and share knowledge for free to the world. </b>
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<div id="stcpDiv" style="text-align: justify; ">This episode brings you a conversation with <a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Piotrus">Piotr Konieczny</a>, a veteran Wikipedian from Poland. He has contributed to over <a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Did_you_know">514 DYK articles</a> on Wikipedia. Being a sociologist and academician Piotr has always tried to divert attention more students, academicians, researchers, scholars to contribute to Wikipedia. I first met Piotr during <a class="external-link" href="http://www.opensym.org/2013/08/09/a-simple-report-on-wikisym-opensym-2013/">WikiSym + OpenSym Conference</a> at Hong Kong and again at <a class="external-link" href="https://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_page">Wikimania 2013</a>. It was the beginning of my Wiki-experience of meeting more researchers and scholars who are also Wikipedians. Piotr is now based in Seoul and where he is <a class="external-link" href="http://www.hanyang.ac.kr/user/teacherDirect.action?gaeinNo=A045978&viewHakgwajojikCd=Y3YEAD">teaching Informational Sociology</a> at the Hanyang University (한양대학교). His keen interest in using Wikipedia as a teaching tool and Wikipedia’s impact in social movement brings the expanse of diversifying Wikipedia’s outreach to masses. In academia he proposes for <a class="external-link" href="http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Education_Program">Wikipedia Education Programs</a> that converts the users of Wikipedia to contribute who elsewhere use it just as a tool to accessing knowledge. If a small portion of the subject experts start contributing to Wikipedia then there would be a big change in this world.</div>
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No publishersubhaOpennessWikipediaAccess to KnowledgeWikimedia2013-09-18T12:22:36ZBlog EntryWikipediansSpeak with Dr. Kishore Kumar Rai Sheni: Tulu Wikipedia in the making
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<b>Dr. Kishore Kumar Rai Sheni, Principal, Shri Ramakrishna P.U. College, Mangaluru shares with Dr. U.B. Pavanaja of the Centre for Internet and Society's Access To Knowledge (CIS-A2K) programme his insights on bringing more contributors of different corners of the society to grow Tulu Wikipedia. Tulu Wikipedia is in Incubator at present and there are a bunch of contributors who are expanding the project to bring it live.</b>
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When I caught up with Dr. Kishore Kumar Rai Sheni during an ongoing Tulu Wikipedia edit-a-thon in his college, Shri Ramakrishna P.U. College, Mangaluru, he left me with his wonderful ideas of expanding the Tulu Wikipedia. Back in 2014, with a few sporadic contributors, the Tulu Wikipedia community probably did not exist. After several outreach programmes in and around Mangaluru, it has grown to about an eight-editor community. It could look really tiny today but has potential to grow to a bigger community provided the constant effort by these eight people continue. This edit-a-thon is one of the stepping stones to build this community. About 37 people who hardly know anything about Tulu Wikipedia are participating in this event where six of the experienced editors will support them. The project is all about creating a live encyclopedia on the internet. We have enough and many Tulu authors and teachers who otherwise contribute to the language and literature. The idea is to bring them aboard. In collaboration with three other institutions here; Ramakrishna PU College, Ramakrishna Degree College and Tulu Sahitya Academy, we're trying to bridge the gap of lack of Wikipedia in our language. So far, very little work has been done in documenting the rich Tulu culture in Tulu language. There is no encyclopaedia of any sort in Tulu at this moment. There is also a need to bring the entire world's knowledge to the Tulu speakers. I hope Tulu Wikipedia will be the future to take our language and culture to the world, and fill the gap of knowledge that exists today.</p>
<em><strong>Tulu Wikipedia Incubator is available at <a class="external-link" href="https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/tcy"><cite class="_Rm">https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/tcy.</cite></a></strong></em>
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No publisherpavanajaTulu WikipediaWikipediaWikipedianSpeak2016-06-18T18:06:49ZBlog EntryWikipedia: State of Tech — A Talk by Erik Moeller
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<b>The Centre for Internet & Society, Bangalore is hosting a talk by Erik Moeller, Vice President of Engineering and Product Development at the Wikimedia Foundation at its office in Bangalore on November 12, 2012, from 11.00 a.m. to 1.00 p.m., followed by a lunch discussion.</b>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Wikipedia's technology platform is rapidly changing, with improvements being deployed every day. Unlike other top websites, Wikipedia is run by a non-profit (Wikimedia Foundation) and all its technology is open source, ready to be improved and extended by you.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Learn about the recent and coming technology changes to Wikipedia and Wikimedia's other projects: the new Visual Editor, improvements to mobile sites and apps, Wikidata, and projects with mysterious codenames like "Echo", "Milkshake", "Agora" and "Flow". Learn how to get involved and ask anything you'd like to know about Wikipedia.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Erik Moeller is the Vice President of Engineering and Product Development at the Wikimedia Foundation, overseeing a department of about 70 people. Erik has been involved in Wikipedia since 2001 and joined the staff of Wikimedia in 2008. He previously worked as a journalist and project manager.</p>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaOpennessLectureEvent Type2012-12-18T06:51:46ZEventWikipedia writes a new script
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<b>Wikipedia is available in over 30 Indian languages. Add Konkani to that list. The Centre for Internet and Society has just completed a programme of training students to write for Konkani Wikipedia.</b>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">The article was <a class="external-link" href="http://www.thegoan.net/Goa/Goenkar/Wikipedia-writes-a-new-script/05585.html">published in the Goan</a> on August 24, 2013.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">They sat listening to Subhashish Panigrahi, learning how to seamlessly flow from English to Konkani. Panigrahi walked around the room, 40 sets of eyes and ears followed him eagerly, latching on to his every word. Then the team moved into a small conference room at the new Central Library, where they sat down to work on a few articles in Konkani. The reason: Because Wikipedia has a new language – Konkani.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">When on February 4, 1987, Konkani in Devnagri script was declared the official language of Goa according to the Goa Daman and Diu Official Language Act, 1987, little did the officials know that one day, one of the largest web-based encyclopaedias would want the encyclopaedia to be available also in Konkani for the 30, 00000 or so Konkani language speakers over the world.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Wikipedia, a multi-lingual, web-based, free content encyclopaedia is available in over 30 Indian languages and several languages of other nations. The project to begin a Konkani Wikipedia began in 2006. “Sadly, even after seven years of inception, Konkani Wikipedia has only 90 articles,” says Nitika Tandon, of the CIS-A2K (Centre for Internet & Society, Access to Knowledge) team. The CIS is a movement for open access to web-based information. “Rather than being open receivers of knowledge, we want people to be active producers of knowledge,” she adds. The CIS has selected five Indian languages to uplift and Konkani is one of them.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Carlos Fernandes, the Curator of the Central Library said, “We supported it because this will maintain the culture and develop the language using technology. Articles in Konkani language will be available to people all over the world and thus should one want to research something in Konkani, his search will not be limited to the books of the library.” Another project by the CIS team to make Konkani more well-known is digitising the 4-volume Konkani encyclopaedia published by the Goa University. “This encyclopaedia will be uploaded by this team and will be available under the creative commons licence,” says Dr Gopakumar, the university Librarian.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The programme covered aspects like how Wikipedia works, how to edit articles, how to type in Devnagri, how to create a new article, etc. “We are learning how to about editing and writing in Wikipedia. The 40 students are of MA part 2, and the group is divided into two. The first 20 will work on the first two days and the others will work on the last two,” says Fr Luis Xavier Gomes who is doing his MA in Konkani at Goa University. Fr Gomes will be writing on Konkani tiatr and Konkani cantar after having researched and referenced about the same.</p>
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