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Odia Wikipedia Community Brings Wikipedia Education Program to IIMC, Dhenkanal
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/odia-wikipedia-education-program-iimc-dhenkanal
<b>The Odia Wikipedia community collaborated with the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, Dhenkanal and hosted a pilot Odia Wikipedia Education Program. The program began in November 2012 and got over by January 2013. Sixteen student wikipedians signed up and took part in editing more than a dozen articles on Odia Wikipedia.</b>
<p align="JUSTIFY">Odia Wikimedia community is primarily active in three major cities: Bhubaneswar, Cuttack and Nalconagar. There was a sustained growth in the community during August-October 2012 which inspired the comunity to initiate a long term program like <a class="external-link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Education_program">Wikipedia Education Program</a>. <a class="external-link" href="http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MKar">Mrutyunjaya Kar</a> from Nalconagar community reached out to several schools in Nalconagar and Phulbani to find a potential institute for such a program. <a class="external-link" href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Psubhashish">Subhashish</a> from <a class="external-link" href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge">Access To Knowledge</a> team of CIS supported the community for setting up a meeting with Prof. <a class="external-link" href="http://www.iimc.nic.in/mrinal-chatterjee.html">Mrinal Chatterjee</a> and few other faculty members of <a class="external-link" href="http://www.iimc.nic.in/branches-dhenkanal.html">Indian Institute of Mass Communication, Dhenkanal</a> followed by a workshop for the students.</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY">More than 45 students from both Odia and English department took part for the first introductory workshop. A <a class="external-link" href="http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ:ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ_ଶିକ୍ଷା_ପ୍ରକଳ୍ପ/ଭାରତୀୟ_ଜନସଂଚାର_ସଂସ୍ଥାନ,_ଢେଙ୍କାନାଳ-୧">program page</a> was created on Odia Wikipedia for the detailed plan and discussion. 16 out of 45 students showed their interest to take part in the program and signed up on the project page. Teaching assistants Bhagaban and Sucharita supported the students in assessing and suggesting articles. A follow up session was organized in December by the Nalconagar Wiki-Community to teach the students about the typing and basic Wikipedia editing. Students continued to edit their chosen articles. Though initially the program was planned to be run for 3-4 months because of the course structure and exam announcement students requested for the closure of it.</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY">The articles were assessed and wiki-fied by the wikipedians. On January, 26 a celebratory event was organized for the student-wikipedians. Prof. Chatterjee addressed the students about the benefits of contributing to Wikipedia in their mother tongue Odia. Subhashish along with fellow Wikipedians Dr. Subas Rout, Mrutyunjaya Kar, Srikant Kedia and Manoranjan Behera took part in a discussion about “What students can gain by contributing to Odia Wikipedia”.</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY">Contribution details:</p>
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<li>Number of student participants for introductory session: 45</li>
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<li>Number of students took part in the Wikipedia workshop: 16</li>
<li>Number of students contributed: 12</li>
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<li>Number of mentor wikipedians: 4</li>
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<li>Number of articles edited: 12</li>
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<p align="JUSTIFY"><strong>Other details:</strong></p>
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<li>More details on <a class="external-link" href="http://or.wikipedia.org/s/cgj">Project</a> page.</li>
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<li>Photos, meeting podcasts and videos: <a class="external-link" href="http://bit.ly/YymQkn">http://bit.ly/YymQkn</a></li>
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<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Podcast of discussion among Odia Wikipedians with Prof. Mrinal Chatterjee and Subhashish Panigrahi</span></li>
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<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="23" src="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Discussion_about_the_plans_for_Odia_Wikipedia_Education_Program_at_IIMC,_Dhenkanal.ogg?embedplayer=yes" width="300"></iframe></p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/odia-wikipedia-education-program-iimc-dhenkanal'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/odia-wikipedia-education-program-iimc-dhenkanal</a>
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No publishersubhaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpenness2013-08-23T14:01:17ZBlog EntryNational IG Mechanisms – Looking at Some Key Design Issues
http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/national-ig-mechanisms
<b>The Centre for Internet & Society is coorganizing this workshop along with Brazilian Internet Steering Committee, Institute for System Analysis, Russian Academy of Sciences, et.al., at the seventh Internet Governance Forum 2012 in Azerbaijan. The workshop will be held in Conference Room 4, from 2.30 p.m. to 4.00 p.m. Pranesh Prakash is a panelist for this workshop.
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<p><b>Workshop Theme: </b><br />Other <br /><b>Theme Question: </b><br />It is a workshop on national level IG mechanisms, and does not directly address any main theme questions</p>
<h3>Concise Description of Workshop:</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Such is the unique nature of the Internet that its governance often calls for institutional innovations. The proposed workshop will look at a range of national level IG mechanisms across the world. While the discussion will refer to good models and practices in different countries, it will not be organized around simple show-casing of different national IG mechanisms. The discussion will centre around key contexts, requirements, challenges and possibilities. It will be directed towards examining key institutional design issues, functions and outcomes with regard to national level IG mechanisms with the purpose to help countries make appropriate decisions in their specific contexts. Some of these are; - How should the national commons of Internet resources be managed?- What kinds of mechanisms are appropriate for technical matters, what for those that are partly technical and partly social, and what for larger public policy matters, requiring more political responses? - Should there be a common single mechanism to address all the above kinds of issues, or different ones? How to coordinate different mechanisms, and different parts of the national governance machinery dealing with different aspects or kinds of IG issues? - How to ensure meaningful participation of all stakeholders in a manner that focuses on public interest?- How can the surplus from domain name registration fees etc collected by national IG agencies be employed for public interest purposes, especially, for taking up Internet related research.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Organiser(s) Name:</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore - Civil SocietyBrazilian Internet Steering Committee - National level governance bodyInstitute for System Analysis, Russian Academy of Sciences - Academic InsitutionCentre for Community Informatics Research, Development and Training (CCIRDT), Vancouver, BC CANADA - Civil Society Instituto NUPEF , Rio de Janeiro - Civil SocietyIT for Change, Bangalore - Civil Society.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Previous Workshop(s):</h3>
<p>See in the workshops section in IGF 2011IG4D Workshop 183: A Possible Framework for Global Net Neutrality.</p>
<h3>Submitted Workshop Panelists:</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Carlos Afonso, Insituto NUPEF, Board Member, Brazilian Steering CommiteeEmily Taylor, Independent Consultant, Formerly with NOMINETAlice Munya, Chairperson, Kenya Internet Steering CommiteeVictor Tishchenko, Institute of Advanced Systems, Russian Academy of Sciences,Sunil Abraham, Centre for Internet and Society,Moderator, Micheal Gurstein, Centre for Community Informatics Research, Development and Training, Canada.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Name of Remote Moderator(s):</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Ginger Paque</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Read the original published on the IGF website <a class="external-link" href="http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/w2012/proposals">here</a></p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/national-ig-mechanisms'>http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/national-ig-mechanisms</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaEvent TypeWorkshopInternet Governance2012-12-09T00:50:46ZEventMarathi Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at Dalit Mahila Vikas Mandal, Satara
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/marathi-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-at-dalit-mahila-vikas-mandal-satara
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<p>A Marathi Wikipedia Edit-a-thon was conducted at the Dalit Mahila Vikas Mandal in Satara on 4 August 2017. The organisation, working on issues of women's rights, gender, justice and violence against women, was given an introduction to editing on Wikipedia. Voluntary organisation Dalit Mahila Vikas Mandal is eager to implement innovative projects for the students and field activists. It has decided to integrate Wikimedia Projects and training modules for capacity building of students and movement volunteers. To get the overall introduction of Wikimedia Projects and basic skills, this workshop was organised for faculty and selected students. The edit-a-thon was attended by 10 female and 5 male participants. </p>
<p>Sana Patel, a participant emphasises, "I realised the need to contribute gender related content. It is very important to write about women's issues and laws'. The edit-a-thon resulted in 13 new editors discovering Wikipedia for the first time. 20 articles were improved and five images were uploaded. A follow-up workshop on building content on women-related issues has been planned with the Dalit Mahila Vikas Mandal as well as other like-minded organisations in Satara. Onkar Tapase, a participant opines, "as a journalist, I see a great potential to contribute" </p>
<p>The meta page of the event can be found <a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Marathi_Wikipedia_Edit-a-thon_at_Muktangan_Naw_Vichar_Prerana_Kendra,Satara">here</a>.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/marathi-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-at-dalit-mahila-vikas-mandal-satara'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/marathi-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-at-dalit-mahila-vikas-mandal-satara</a>
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No publisherSubodh KulkarniCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaMarathi WikipediaWorkshopMarathi Wikisource2017-10-24T11:52:24ZBlog EntryMarathi Wiki Workshop at Tata Institute of Social Sciences
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/marathi-wiki-workshop-at-tiss
<b>The Centre for Indian Languages in Higher Education at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai is taking up a number of activities and conducting workshops focusing on Indian languages across cities. A series of workshops in Marathi, Kannada and Bangla have been planned with Wikipedia sessions in each of these events.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The Marathi workshop was organised on December 8, 2012 at Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS). It was a three-hour workshop.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Following preparations were made before the session:</p>
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<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Yogesh Khandke and Kartik Nadar from Mumbai community visited the venue three days prior to check technical requirements.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Programme participants were suggested to select a subject of their choice and find sufficient resources to add information during the course of the event. This proved to be extremely helpful and an efficient way. Participants didn't spend any time looking for resources during the event; they were already ready with the content they wanted to add.</li>
<li>Programme participants were requested to create usernames before they came for the session.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">A tailored presentation was made ready.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">A <a href="https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42765">ticket</a> was raised to release the IP address of TISS computer labs. Despite the ticket being resolved the IP address got blocked after creation of seven accounts. We will be looking deeper into this problem to make sure that we do not face such issue again.</li>
<li>Multiple conference calls were organised between the conductors — Yogesh, Nikita and Nitika.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Details of the event</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The morning session of this workshop focused on digital humanities and social sciences research, and exposed students to different kinds of resources. The afternoon session focused on Wikipedia literacy and Marathi-language computing. There were be about 25 participants (MA and PhD level) and 5 conductors - Yogesh, Nikita, Moksh, Kartik and Nitika.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Nikita gave a brief 40 minutes introduction about Wikipedia using a presentation followed by a hands on session which was led by Yogesh and supported by rest of the conductors. Many of the participants were comfortable with Marathi computing while some were struggling. There were a few participants who were editing in other languages including Hindi and Malayalam. Kartik & Moksh jointly led the session with educating participants about Wikimark ups, page view stats, article and user talk pages. Rest of the conductors pitched in with insightful examples, comments and answers. The participants raised some really interesting questions and were completely involved the workshop. Several participants showed interest to organise similar workshops at other institutes they are connected with.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/marathi-wiki-workshop-at-tiss'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/marathi-wiki-workshop-at-tiss</a>
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No publishernitikaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpenness2013-02-04T04:55:56ZBlog EntryMaps for Making Change Kicks Off, and You Can Get Involved!
http://editors.cis-india.org/advocacy/other-advocacy/maps-for-making-change-kicks-off-and-you-can-get-involved
<b>A first in India, Maps for Making Change explores the use of geographical mapping techniques to support struggles for social justice in India. On 3 December, the project officially kicks off during a one-day workshop in Delhi. But even if you can not be there with us in Delhi, there are ways to get involved. </b>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/advocacy/other-advocacy/maps-for-making-change-kicks-off-and-you-can-get-involved'>http://editors.cis-india.org/advocacy/other-advocacy/maps-for-making-change-kicks-off-and-you-can-get-involved</a>
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No publisheranjaDigital ActivismPracticeWorkshopResearchers at WorkMaps for Making Change2015-10-05T15:03:39ZBlog EntryMaps for Making Change - The First Workshop
http://editors.cis-india.org/events/maps-for-making-change-the-first-workshop
<b>In this first workshop in a series of three, participants will think through the potential of mapping in the context of a project that they have suggested in their application and the preparations they need to make to make these ideas a reality. </b>
<p>On 3 December, 'Maps for Making Change:
Using Geographical Mapping Techniques to Support Struggles for Social
Justice in India' will officially kick off at the India Islamic
Cultural Centre on Delhi's Lodhi Road. In this first workshop in a
series of three, participants will think through the potential of
mapping in the context of a project that they have suggested in their
application and the preparations they need to make to make these
ideas a reality.</p>
<p>A joint initiative by the Centre for Internet and Society
in Bangalore and the Tactical Tech Collective in Bangalore and the
UK, Maps for Making Change is a two month project that seeks to
explore the potential of digital mapping for social change
specifically in the Indian context. For the first time, activists
and supporters of movements and campaigns working for progressive
social change in the country will get the opportunity to collectively
debate and explore in detail the potential of digital mapping as a
tool to support their work. </p>
<p align="left"><strong>The aims of
this first workshop are to: </strong></p>
<ul><li>
<p align="left">introduce
tools and techniques for mapping</p>
</li><li>
<p align="left">assist
participants to identify the information they need to collect for
their mapping project</p>
</li></ul>
<p align="left"><strong>By the end
of the workshop, the participants will be able to:</strong></p>
<ul><li>
<p align="left">understand
the socio-political context of mapping and how maps can be used to
maximise advocacy efforts</p>
</li><li>
<p align="left">identify
different types of maps (static, interactive, collaborative, etc)</p>
</li><li>
<p align="left">identify
some of the tools used for creating, uploading and editing maps (not
covering the technical aspects nor the step-by-step process for
making maps, but focusing on the general web-based mapping
techniques)</p>
</li><li>
<p align="left">understand
data collection for mapping</p>
</li></ul>
<p align="left"><strong><br /></strong></p>
<p align="left"><strong>The preliminary workshop schedule is as follows:</strong></p>
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td><br /></td>
</tr>
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<tbody>
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<td>
<p align="left">Welcome
and introductions</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p align="left">Why
mapping?</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p align="left"><strong>15 min
break</strong></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p align="left">Mapping
and Advocacy Discussion</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p align="left">How
do you 'map'? Basic tools and techniques</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p align="left">What
can you 'map'?</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p align="left"><strong>Lunch
break</strong><strong> </strong></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p align="left">Project
scoping of participants' projects</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p align="left">Summary</p>
<p align="left"> </p>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/events/maps-for-making-change-the-first-workshop'>http://editors.cis-india.org/events/maps-for-making-change-the-first-workshop</a>
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No publisherAnja KovacsRAW EventsPracticeWorkshopResearchers at WorkEventMaps for Making Change2015-10-05T15:09:14ZEventMalayalam Wikipedia Education Program: August to October Updates
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/malayalam-wikipedia-education-program-august-october-update
<b>Three months back, I wrote a blog post (http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/07/06/wikipedia-education-a-model-from-malayalam-wikipedia/) about the inauguration of the Wikipedia education program in Malayalam Wikipedia. This program is the first of its kind in an Indic language, and Malayalam community is doing the program in collaboration with the IT@School, a project of the Department of General Education, Government of Kerala, setup in 2001, to foster the IT education in schools. </b>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Three months have passed since the last report in English (regular updates in Malayalam) about the program have been shared with the Malayalam wiki community during this period. Here is a brief update about this ongoing program. The <a class="external-link" href="http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/07/06/wikipedia-education-a-model-from-malayalam-wikipedia/">July report</a> was mainly about the inauguration of the project in the Government Higher Secondary School, Anchal West, Kollam, and a few details about the plans of the community regarding this project.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The Wikipedia education program was inaugurated by the IT@School director, Abdul Nasar Kaipanchery on July 14, 2012. After two weeks, we conducted a Malayalam Wikipedia introduction workshop for the students and teachers of Anchal West School. Almost 150 participants including students and teachers attended this workshop. After the workshop students were asked to write an article (on paper in Malayalam) about any topic related to Anchal and submit it to the education program coordinator, Sateesh R. Veliyam, a teacher in that school. Satheesh is also a Malayalam wikipedian. Students were given three weeks to submit the article on paper. Nearly 100 students submitted the articles and the project coordinator (with inputs from other Malayalam Wikipedia community members) shortlisted 34 students for the Wikipedia education program. The selection of the students for this program was based on their writing skills in Malayalam, the interest in this voluntary project, and other skills needed for this time bound Wikipedia education project.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">A meeting was conducted with the selected students on August 9 in the school computer lab. As Malayalam Wikipedians knew that the major roadblock for students to start wiki editing in Malayalam would be Malayalam typing (in fact this is the case with all Indic languages) we decided to teach Malayalam typing to students on a priority basis. A printout of the Malayalam Inscript layout was given to the students. The Inscript layout was selected because that is part of the syllabus in Kerala. Students were asked to practice Malayalam typing and learn it within the next two months. From that day onwards students were practising Malayalam typing at school and making a steady progress.</p>
<p>Some recent developments are listed below:</p>
<h3>September 8</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Students are back to school after the Onam vacation. The progress on their Malayalam typing is evaluated. Malayalam Wikipedians, Kannan Shanmugham and Sugeesh visited students and addressed them. They discussed the potential articles that could be created as part of this project. They also helped few students to create their user names in Malayalam Wikipedia. After addressing the students they also visited some famous people in Anchal, other places, and some organizations to collect reference books and other information related to this project. The collection of reference materials from library, personal collections, and from panchayat office is vital for this project as these are the only places from where we can get any reliable information regarding the different topics that students plan to write.</p>
<h3>October 1</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">As Malayalam typing and the collection of information and reference materials were in progress we received an important book authored by Dr. P. Vinayachandran which had a lot of information about Anchal. Students who achieved a minimum level of expertise in Malayalam typing and those who had created user accounts started editing in Wikipedia. On October 1, four new articles were created by the students who had learned Malayalam typing.</p>
<h3>October 12</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Shiju Alex visited the school students to see the progress of the project, interacted with them, and welcomed them to Malayalam Wikipedia. Since all of them had acquired a minimum level of expertise in Malayalam typing, we decided to create usernames for all of them. So on that day we created accounts and user pages for all the 34 students who were included in the project.</p>
<h3>October 13</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">All the students who were part of the project reached Kollam to participate in a one-day Malayalam Wikipedia editing workshop. The program started at 10 a.m. Malayalam wikipedians Binu, Sugeesh, Kannan Shanmugham, Ajay Balachandran, Akhil, and Shiju Alex participated in this workshop. It was organized to assist students in getting started with Malayalam Wikipedia, introduce them to basic wiki editing and other related stuff. Apart from providing support for all basic needs, students were also introduced to "talk pages" and the basic policies of Wikipedia which would help them to get started with the project. We finished this one-day workshop at 3.30 p.m. by taking a group photo. A detailed report (in Malayalam) regarding this one day workshop can be read from <a class="external-link" href="http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%80%E0%B4%A1%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AF:%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%A6%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%AF%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%AD%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%AF%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%B8_%E0%B4%AA%E0%B4%A6%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%A7%E0%B4%A4%E0%B4%BF/%E0%B4%85%E0%B4%9E%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%9A%E0%B5%BD_%E0%B4%B5%E0%B5%86%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B1%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B1%E0%B5%8D_%E0%B4%97%E0%B4%B5._%E0%B4%B9%E0%B4%AF%E0%B5%BC_%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%86%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%A8%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B1%E0%B4%B1%E0%B4%BF_%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%82%E0%B5%BE/%E0%B4%B1%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%8B%E0%B5%BC%E0%B4%9F%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%9F%E0%B5%8D">here</a>.</p>
<p><img src="http://editors.cis-india.org/Itschoolmal_wiki10.JPG/image_preview" alt="Students attending Malayalam wikipedia workshop" class="image-inline image-inline" title="Students attending Malayalam wikipedia workshop" /><br />Students doing Malayalam wiki editing</p>
<h3>October 14</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Malayalam Wikipedians Sateesh, Sugeesh, Shiju, and our new wikipedian Anathu P. Sankar visited the Rehabilitation Plantation Limited [RPL] which is an important institution near Anchal and is one of the article being developed as part of this project. We met a few key people who provided some references about RPL. It was decided that students who were working on the articles related to RPL will visit again to collect more information about the project.</p>
<p>As of today some of the important progress the main progress made on the project are is listed below:</p>
<ul>
<li>All students have created their accounts.</li>
<li>All students have created their user pages.</li>
<li>Most students created or edited articles that they were planning to contribute.</li>
<li>Students with the help of their teacher, Satheesh continue collecting reference materials on topics they plan to write.</li>
<li>Students continue editing in Malayalam whenever they get access to computer and internet.</li></ul>
<p>Some of the things that need to be kept in mind regarding this project are:</p>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify;">The project is done entirely on a voluntary basis. No separate time is allocated for students to participate in this project.</li>
<li>Thirty-four students are part of this and most of them are from ninth standard.</li>
<li>Out of the 34 students, 7 are girl students.</li>
<li>Out of 34 students only 10 students have got computers at home.</li></ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Kerala schools are using free software for computers. They use a customized version of Ubuntu in computer labs. It is easy to configure Malayalam typing in that. Technically all 34 students need to depend on the five computers available (computers with internet facility) in the school computer lab to practice Malayalam typing, wiki editing, and do the other tasks related to the project. And the lack of regular access to computer and internet is affecting the smooth progress of the project.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">As separate time is not allocated for this project, students who are
part of this project are working on it either during intervals, lunch
time, during early hours before the start of the school, or by staying
late after the school working hours. Since we have only around five
computers with internet in the school lab, students need to divide and
share the timing among themselves. Many of them come to the school on
Saturdays and Sundays to participate in the project.</p>
<p>Few important links related to this project:</p>
<ul>
<li>The master project page of this program is available<a class="external-link" href="http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%80%E0%B4%A1%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AF:%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%A6%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%AF%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%AD%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%AF%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%B8_%E0%B4%AA%E0%B4%A6%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%A7%E0%B4%A4%E0%B4%BF/%E0%B4%85%E0%B4%9E%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%9A%E0%B5%BD_%E0%B4%B5%E0%B5%86%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B1%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B1%E0%B5%8D_%E0%B4%97%E0%B4%B5._%E0%B4%B9%E0%B4%AF%E0%B5%BC_%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%86%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%A8%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B1%E0%B4%B1%E0%B4%BF_%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%82%E0%B5%BE"> here</a>.</li></ul>
<ul>
<li>The list of students participating in this program is available <a class="external-link" href="http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%80%E0%B4%A1%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AF:%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%A6%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%AF%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%AD%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%AF%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%B8_%E0%B4%AA%E0%B4%A6%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%A7%E0%B4%A4%E0%B4%BF/%E0%B4%85%E0%B4%9E%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%9A%E0%B5%BD_%E0%B4%B5%E0%B5%86%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B1%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B1%E0%B5%8D_%E0%B4%97%E0%B4%B5._%E0%B4%B9%E0%B4%AF%E0%B5%BC_%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%86%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%A8%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B1%E0%B4%B1%E0%B4%BF_%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%82%E0%B5%BE/%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%A6%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%AF%E0%B4%BE%E0%B5%BC%E0%B4%A4%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%A5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%BE">here</a></li>
<li>The list of articles that students started or enhancing as past of this project is available <a class="external-link" href="http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%80%E0%B4%A1%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AF:%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%A6%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%AF%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%AD%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%AF%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%B8_%E0%B4%AA%E0%B4%A6%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%A7%E0%B4%A4%E0%B4%BF/%E0%B4%85%E0%B4%9E%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%9A%E0%B5%BD_%E0%B4%B5%E0%B5%86%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B1%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B1%E0%B5%8D_%E0%B4%97%E0%B4%B5._%E0%B4%B9%E0%B4%AF%E0%B5%BC_%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%86%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%A8%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B1%E0%B4%B1%E0%B4%BF_%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%82%E0%B5%BE/%E0%B4%B2%E0%B5%87%E0%B4%96%E0%B4%A8%E0%B4%99%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%99%E0%B5%BE">here</a></li>
<li>The progress report of the project in Malayalam is regularly updated <a class="external-link" href="http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%80%E0%B4%A1%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AF:%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%A6%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%AF%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%AD%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%AF%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%B8_%E0%B4%AA%E0%B4%A6%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%A7%E0%B4%A4%E0%B4%BF/%E0%B4%85%E0%B4%9E%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%9A%E0%B5%BD_%E0%B4%B5%E0%B5%86%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B1%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B1%E0%B5%8D_%E0%B4%97%E0%B4%B5._%E0%B4%B9%E0%B4%AF%E0%B5%BC_%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%86%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%A8%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B1%E0%B4%B1%E0%B4%BF_%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%82%E0%B5%BE/%E0%B4%B1%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%8B%E0%B5%BC%E0%B4%9F%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%9F%E0%B5%8D">here</a></li></ul>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>We will keep you posted about the updates from this project as and when it happens. Malayalam community is planning to complete this project (student editing) by the third or fourth week of November</em>.</p>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/malayalam-wikipedia-education-program-august-october-update'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/malayalam-wikipedia-education-program-august-october-update</a>
</p>
No publishershijuAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpenness2012-11-09T18:18:20ZBlog EntryLocating Internets: Histories of the Internet(s) in India — Research Training and Curriculum Workshop: Call for Participation
http://editors.cis-india.org/research/conferences/conference-blogs/workshop
<b>Deadline for submission: 26th July 2011-06-08;
When: 19th - 22nd August, 2011;
Where: Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT) University, Ahmedabad;
Organised by: Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore and CEPT University, Ahmedabad.
Please Note: Travel support is only available for domestic travel within India.</b>
<p>LOCATING INTERNETS is an innovative, multi-disciplinary, workshop that engages with some of the most crucial debates around Internet and Society within academic scholarship, discourse and practice in India. It explores Where, When, How and What has changed with the emergence of Internet and Digital Technologies in the country. The Internet is not a singular monolithic entity but is articulated in various forms – sometimes materially, through accessing the web; at others, through our experiences; and yet others through imaginations of policy and law. Internets have become a part of our everyday practice, from museums and archives, to school and university programmes, living rooms and public spaces, relationships and our bodily lived realities. It becomes necessary to reconfigure our existing concepts, frameworks and ideas to make sense of the rapidly digitising world around us. The Internet is no longer contained in niche disciplines or specialised everyday practices. LOCATING INTERNETS invites scholars, teachers, researchers, advanced research students and educationalists from any discipline to learn and discuss how to ask new questions and design innovative curricula in their discipline by introducing concepts and ideas from path-breaking research in India.</p>
<p>Comprised of training, public lectures, open discussion spaces, and hands-on curriculum building exercises, this workshop will introduce the participants to contemporary debates, help them articulate concerns and problems from their own research and practice, and build knowledge clusters to develop innovative and open curricula which can be implemented in interdisciplinary undergraduate spaces in the country. It showcases the research outputs produced by the Centre for Internet and Society’s Researchers @ Work Programme, and brings together nine researchers to talk about alternative histories, processes, and bodies of the Internets, and how they can be integrated into mainstream pedagogic practices and teaching environments.</p>
<h3>Knowledge Clusters for the Workshop</h3>
<p>LOCATING INTERNETS is designed innovatively to accommodate for various intellectual and practice based needs of the participants. While the aim is to introduce the participants to a wide interdisciplinary range of scholarship, we also hope to address particular disciplinary and scholarly concerns of the participants. The workshop is further divided into three knowledge clusters which help the participants to focus their energies and ideas in the course of the four days.</p>
<ul><li><strong>Bridging the Gap</strong>: This workshop seeks to break away from the utopian public discourse of the Internets as a-historical and completely dis-attached from existing technology ecologies in the country. This knowledge cluster intends to produce frameworks that help us contextualize the contemporary internet policy, discourse and practice within larger geo-political and socio-historical flows and continuities in Modern India. The first cluster chartsdifferent pre-histories of the Internets, mapping the continuities and ruptures through philosophy of techno-science, archiving practices, and electronifcation of governments,to develop new technology-society perspectives.</li><li><strong>Paradigms of Practice</strong>:One of the biggest concerns about Internet studies in India and other similar developed contexts is the object oriented approach that looks largely at specific usages, access, infrastructure, etc. However, it is necessary to understand that the Internet is not merely a tool or a gadget. The growth of Internets produces systemic changes at the level of process and thought. The technologies often get appropriated for governance both by the state and the civil society, producing new processes and dissonances which need to be charted. The second cluster looks at certain contemporary processes that the digital and Internet technologies change drastically in order to recalibrate the relationship between the state, the market and the citizen.</li><li><strong>Feet on the Ground</strong>: The third cluster looks at contemporary practices of the Internet to understand the recent histories of movements, activism and cultural practices online. It offers an innovative way of understanding the physical objects and bodies that undergo dramatic transitions as digital technologies become pervasive, persuasive and ubiquitous. It draws upon historical discourse, everyday practices and cultural performances to form new ways of formulating and articulating the shapes and forms of social and cultural structures.</li></ul>
<h3>Workshop Outcomes</h3>
<p>The participants are expected to engage with issue of Internet and it various systemic processes through their own disciplinary interests. Apart from lectures and orientation sessions, the participants will actively work on their own project ideas during the period in groups and will be guided by experts. The final outcome of the workshops would be curriculum for undergraduate and graduate teaching space of various disciplines in the country.</p>
<h3>Participation Guidelines</h3>
<p>LOCATING INTERNETS is now accepting submissions from interested participants in the following format:</p>
<ol><li>Name:</li><li>Institutional affiliation and title:</li><li>Address:</li><li>Email address:</li><li>Phone number:</li><li>A brief resume of work experience (max. 350 words)</li><li>Statement of interest (max. 350 words)</li><li>Key concerns you want to address in the Internet and Society field (max. 350 words)</li><li>Identification with one Knowledge-cluster of the workshop and a proposal for integrating it in your research/teaching practice (max. 500 words)</li><li>Current interface with technologies in your pedagogic practices (max. 350 words)</li><li>Additional information or relevant hyperlinks you might want to add (Max. 10 lines)<br /></li></ol>
<pre>Notes:</pre>
<ul><li>Submissions will be accepted only from participants in India, as attachments in .doc, .docx or .odt formats at <a class="external-link" href="mailto:locatinginternets@cis-india.org">locatingInternets@cis-india.org</a></li><li>Submissions made beyond 26th July 2011 may not be considered for participation. <br /></li><li>Submissions will be scrutinized by the organisers and selected participants will be informed by the 30th July 2011, about their participation.</li><li>Selected participants will be required to make their own travel arrangements to the workshop. A 2nd A.C. train return fare will be reimbursed to the participants. Shared accommodation and selected meals will be provided at the workshop.</li><li>A limited number of air-fare reimbursements will be available to participants in extraordinary circumstances. All travel support is only available for domestic travel in the country.<br /></li></ul>
<p><strong>Chairs</strong>: Nishant Shah, Director-Research, Centre for Internet and Society Bangalore;</p>
<p>Pratyush Shankar, Associate Professor & Head of Undergraduate Program, Faculty of Architecture, CEPT University</p>
<p><strong>Supported by</strong>: Kusuma Foundation, Hyderabad</p>
<p><strong>Experts</strong>:Anja Kovacs, Arun Menon, Asha Achuthan, Ashish Rajadhykasha, Aparna Balachandran, Namita Malhotra, Nithin Manayath, Nithya Vasudevan, Pratyush Shankar, Rochelle Pinto and Zainab Bawa</p>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/research/conferences/conference-blogs/workshop'>http://editors.cis-india.org/research/conferences/conference-blogs/workshop</a>
</p>
No publisherpraskrishnaDevelopmentGamingDigital ActivismDigital GovernanceResearchCISRAWFeaturedCyberculturesarchivesNew PedagogiesWorkshopIT Cities2011-07-21T06:00:39ZBlog EntryLaunch of Public Juris (An Online Archive of Legal Resources)
http://editors.cis-india.org/raw/histories-of-the-internet/blogs/the-cyborgs/announcing-the-launch-of-public-juris
<b>Aparna Balachandran, Rochelle Pinto, and Abhijit Bhattacharya announce the launch of Public Juris, an online archive of legal resources. </b>
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<p>We are pleased to announce the launch of Public Juris, an online archive of legal sources and would like to elicit the active participation of the scholarly
community in conceptualizing and building Public Juris as a site where
we are able to provide access to material needed for law and social
science research in South Asia. We would very much appreciate feedback,
support and collaboration as we develop this project.<br />
<strong><br />
Who we are</strong>: We are two historians (Rochelle Pinto
and Aparna Balachandran, Centre for the Study of Culture and Society,
Bangalore) and an archivist (Abhijit Bhattacharya, Centre for the Study
of Social Sciences, Kolkata) who are interested in issues of
technology, users and access in relation to state and private archives
in India (<a class="external-link" href="http://www.publicarchives.wordpress.com">see blog</a>).<br />
<strong><br />
The Project</strong>: We are soliciting contributions
for an online digital archive of legal sources called “Public
Juris” focusing on, but not limited to, South Asia. We hope this
archive will be a useful and easily accessible resource for historians
and other scholars interested in the study of different aspects of the
law. We see this archive as particularly useful to students and
teachers in South Asia and elsewhere who for logistical, economic or
political reasons may not be able to travel to libraries and archives
in order to access material of this kind. Eventually, we envisage that
an online archive of this kind will allow students to broaden the
thematic and regional range of their research.</p>
<p><strong>How it will work</strong>: We do not have any strict
definition of what constitute legal sources — they could range from
acts and regulations to court cases, police records and petitions. For example, one set of records that has already been contributed to the
archive centres on disputes over ceremonial privileges between the
Valangi and Idangai castes in the city of Madras in the early
nineteenth century. Documents that are not usually archived, such as
leaflets, pamphlets, people’s enquiry reports, photographs, and
advertisements, but which are critical to understanding the relationship
between law and the public, can also find a space here. The material
could be in any language.</p>
<p>As a community of scholars we are in possession of resources that
can be harnessed usefully and inexpensively. All of us, for instance,
have material collected from different locations that we have already
used for our research or which is simply superfluous. This research
could be shared. Since the archive inevitably leaves different traces
for specific readings by different researchers, our research material
could be put to other uses in other works. Hence, just as the Centre
for the Study of Law and Governance has asked for your writings for
their library, we would like to extend our request for collaborative
energies within the LASS community to contribute to constructing a
shared resource. Please do claim authorship of this archive by sharing
with us material that you think should define and belongs in Public
Juris.</p>
<p><strong>Modalities</strong>: If you would like to contribute to this online archive, we request you to either bring the material with you when you attend the inaugural
LASSNET conference in January, or if you prefer, send it by post to the
Centre for Internet and Society (Centre for Internet and Society, No. D2, 3rd Floor,
Sheriff Chambers, 14, Cunningham Road, Bangalore, Karnataka 560052, India). We will undertake to scan the material and make it
available on the Public Juris website which is in the process of being
constructed and designed. We will acknowledge the contributor on the
website, unless specifically asked not to do so. We will also make sure that once
scanned, the material will be sent back to the contributor</p>
<p>If you have any questions about this initiative, please do contact
aparna@cscs.res.in or rochelle@cscs.res.in. If you would like to
contribute to the archive, please do contact us and let us know what
kind of materials you would be willing to provide. We look forward to hearing from you. </p>
<p>Aparna Balachandran, Centre for the Study of Culture and Society<br />
Rochelle Pinto, Centre for the Study of Culture and Society<br />
Abhijit Bhattacharya, Centre for the Study of Social Sciences</p>
<p>In conversation with</p>
<p>Pratiksha Baxi, Anchor, <a href="http://lassnet.blogspot.com/">LASS</a></p>
</div>
</div>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/raw/histories-of-the-internet/blogs/the-cyborgs/announcing-the-launch-of-public-juris'>http://editors.cis-india.org/raw/histories-of-the-internet/blogs/the-cyborgs/announcing-the-launch-of-public-juris</a>
</p>
No publisheraparnaWorkshopResearchers at WorkArchives2015-04-24T12:07:59ZBlog EntryLaunch of Assamese Wikipedia Education Program at Guwahati University
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/launch-of-assamese-wikipedia-education-program
<b>The Assamese Wikipedia community has shown a rapid growth in the past six months from 20 active editors in January 2012 to 29 active editors in June 2012. The absolute numbers might seem low but in terms of percentages its an overwhelming increment of 45 per cent.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">This increment can partly be credited to the photography and article contest, conducting workshops at various educational institutions and organic community growth.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Though Assamese Wikipedia is still a small project with about 1600 articles, the Assamese Wikipedians have the drive, willingness and zest to get more editors and multiply their community. Their enthusiasm and determination has led them to start with an Assamese Wikipedia Education Program. The program was launched on October 14, 2012 with 15 masters students (90 per cent of these are women students) under the guidance of Prof. Dulumoni Goswami, Head of the Department of Education, <a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guwahati_University">Guwahati University</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The day before the launch some of the Assamese Wikipedia editors including Jyoti and Durbhajyoti met to design and alter the Wikipedia Education Program for Assamese Wikipedia. It was decided that the entire program will be divided in four different stages which are as follows:</p>
<ul>
<li>Stage 1: Introduction to Wikipedia + Introduction to Education Program + Assamese typing</li>
<li>Stage 2: Editing Assamese Wikipedia</li>
<li>Stage 3: Advanced editing including adding references, headers, TOC and wiki markups</li>
<li>Stage 4: Concluding the Education Program</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">In accordance with each of these stages there will be set of deliverables expected out of the students which are as follows:</p>
<ul>
<li>Deliverable 1: Create Wikipedia user accounts and user pages</li>
<li>Deliverable 2: Submit a two-page typed article in Assamese</li>
<li>Deliverable 3: Students will select one article each and start editing their articles</li>
<li>Deliverable 4: Students will continue enhancing their articles and will start adding references, wiki markups and pictures, if desired.</li>
</ul>
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<p><img src="http://editors.cis-india.org/home-images/Assam1.jpg/@@images/e24483a8-26fa-40d2-b814-2b3769562139.jpeg" alt="Assam Wikipedia Workshop 1" class="image-inline" title="Assam Wikipedia Workshop 1" /></p>
<p>Assamese Wikipedia Education Program initiated in Guwahati University</p>
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<td style="text-align: justify; ">On Oct 14, 2012 at 11 a.m., the program was initiated with an introduction about Assamese Wikipedia and Wikipedia Education Program. Students were completely thrilled with the idea of them contributing to Wikipedia articles and created their usernames during the session. Since students were not familiar with Assamese typing a larger part of the session was dedicated to teach students on how to type in Assamese using Rudali. As a deliverable, students will be submitting two-page article typed in Assamese on paper before the first week of November. Thereafter, a second in-class session will be organized where students will be taught editing Assamese Wikipedia.</td>
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<p><img src="http://editors.cis-india.org/home-images/Assam2.jpg/@@images/531afaa1-f266-4bab-805d-280bfa654302.jpeg" alt="Assam Wikipedia 2" class="image-inline" title="Assam Wikipedia 2" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center; ">Students learn Assamese typing using typing tool Rudali.</p>
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</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">All the students have willingly enrolled themselves in the program and have not been forced by the faculty members. Indeed, three students were not studying in Guwahati University but still wanted to be a part of the Assamese Education Program. A loud cheer and good wishes to the Assamese Wikipedia community!</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Video</b></p>
<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Gn2cJStjQSM" width="300"></iframe></p>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/launch-of-assamese-wikipedia-education-program'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/launch-of-assamese-wikipedia-education-program</a>
</p>
No publishernitikaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopVideoOpenness2013-07-26T11:43:37ZBlog EntryKrishnarajapet Wikipedia Workshop (Coverage in Vijaya Vani)
http://editors.cis-india.org/news/vijaya-vani-august-12-2013-krishnarajapet-wikipedia-workshop
<b>Prajavani covered the Kannada Wikipedia workshop organised by the CIS-A2K team and the Kannada Sahitya Parishat of KR Pet., on August 12, 2013. A scanned version of the report is produced below.</b>
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<th style="padding-left: 30px; "><img src="http://editors.cis-india.org/home-images/copy_of_VijayaVaniWikiWorkshopMandyaAug122013.png" alt="Vijaya Vani Coverage" class="image-inline" title="Vijaya Vani Coverage" /></th>
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</table>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/news/vijaya-vani-august-12-2013-krishnarajapet-wikipedia-workshop'>http://editors.cis-india.org/news/vijaya-vani-august-12-2013-krishnarajapet-wikipedia-workshop</a>
</p>
No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpenness2013-09-05T06:45:12ZNews ItemKrishnarajapet Wikipedia Workshop (Coverage in Suvarna Times of Karnataka)
http://editors.cis-india.org/news/suvarna-times-of-karnataka-august-12-2013-krishnarajapet-workshop
<b>Suvarna Times of Karnataka covered the Kannada Wikipedia workshop organised by the CIS-A2K team and the Kannada Sahitya Parishat of KR Pet., on August 12, 2013. A scanned version of the report is produced below.</b>
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<th><img src="http://editors.cis-india.org/home-images/SuvarnaTimesOfKarnatakaMandya1282013Page61.png" alt="Suvarna Times of Karnataka Coverage" class="image-inline" title="Suvarna Times of Karnataka Coverage" /></th>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/news/suvarna-times-of-karnataka-august-12-2013-krishnarajapet-workshop'>http://editors.cis-india.org/news/suvarna-times-of-karnataka-august-12-2013-krishnarajapet-workshop</a>
</p>
No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpenness2013-09-05T06:10:01ZNews ItemKrishnarajapet Wikipedia Workshop (Coverage in Prajavani)
http://editors.cis-india.org/news/prajavani-august-12-2013-krishnarajapet-workshop
<b>Prajavani covered the Kannada Wikipedia workshop organised by the CIS-A2K team and the Kannada Sahitya Parishat of KR Pet., on August 12, 2013. A scanned version of the report is produced below.</b>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpenness2013-09-05T05:50:24ZNews ItemKonkani Wikipedia workshop at AIMIT, St Aloysius College
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<b>St. Aloysius College is organizing a Konkani Wikipedia workshop at AIMIT, St Aloysius College (Autonomous), Beeri, Mangalore on September 13, 2013. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja from the CIS-A2K team will participate in the event.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The workshop is aimed at people who want to edit Konkani Wikipedia using Kannada script. Konkani Wikipedia is in incubator at present. Konkani speaking people want to bring this out of incubator. Adding enough content to the Konkani Wikipedia will enable that. Those interested in adding content to Konkani Wikipedia will be trained in the workshop. This will be a full day event.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><a class="external-link" href="http://www.staloysius.ac.in/">Click to read</a> about St.Aloysius Institute of Management</p>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpenness2013-09-12T06:09:42ZNews ItemKonkani Wikipedia makes headway
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<b>The first floor of the Krishnadas Central Library has been bustling with activity for the last four days. A closer look reveals the concentration, thought and precision that is put into each letter of the Devnagri script Konkani they type. Still further and you realise it’s a Wikipedia site that final year MA Konkani students of Goa University are busy with.</b>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">This article by Diana Fernandes was <a class="external-link" href="http://www.epaperoheraldo.in/Details.aspx?id=10641&boxid=155915750&uid=&dat=8%2f25%2f2013">published in OHeraldO</a> on August 24, 2013. Nitika Tandon is quoted.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">A follow up to the Konkani Wikipedia workshop that was held earlier last month at St. Xavier’s College, Mapusa and King’s school, Margao, the Centre for Internet and Society ( CIS) in its Access to Knowledge ( A2K) initiative were back to try and bring to life a seven year incubation Konkani Wikipedia page.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The final year MA Konkani students were busy typing away at their screen as I went to pay them a visit. Nitika Tandon, Goa in- charge from the CIS- A2K team says Goan students have shown the most interest so far. Priyadarshini Tadkodkar, Head of Department at Goa University says she’s thrilled for the project as it will not only help students update and reach out to other writers but also help in popularising Goa’s mother tongue.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">“ So far there was nothing in Konkani on Wikipedia. There are so many articles about Goa in English but not in Konkani. Those who do not know only to read or develop their Konkani skills can probably use this.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Also for the students it’s an opportunity for them to discuss their thoughts with other editors,” says Tadkodkar.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The last time she was in the state, Tandon says people were more inclined to hear of the English Wikipedia rather than Konkani, but sees this workshop as a definite success story.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Students were visibly interested in not only writing about Goa but to change the way people look at Goa. “ Goa is only seen as beaches, parties and cheap liquor. There is so much more. Like Goa’s unique cuisine or its famous personalities like D D Kosambi,” says Supriya.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">“ People say that Konkani will die in another 20 – 25 years. I see this as an opportunity to save it,” says another student John.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Articles written by the students will be assessed by Madhavi Sardesai, editor of Jaan, a Konkani literary journal, after which students will be asked to make the corrections online.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">A total of 38 students attended over the span of two days. Each session comprised eight hours of training a day. Topics discussed during the workshop included basics of Wikipedia and the status of Konkani Wikipedia as well as typing in Devnagri script, the sort of articles that are required for the site and using references other than Facebook and how to site them in the article.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">“ Forty- two pages of content were generated in two days and have already been put up on the site. The students love it. Students who came in the first batch wanted to join the second one simply because they want to write. Though they don’t get credit for this workshop as part of the syllabus students are indeed interested,” says Tandon.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Though a total of 140 articles on topics ranging from Goa’s heritage, culture, traditions and famous personalities have been uploaded, she says it requires at least five contributors to add to the existing database regularly.</p>
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