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Wikipedia Hackathon at BITS Hyderabad
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-hackathon-bits-hyderabad
<b>CIS - A2K team and BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad Campus are organizing a hackathon for their tech fest — ATMOS on October 26 - 27, 2012, from 6.00 p.m. on October 26 to 6.00 a.m. on October 27.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">An all night hackathon to get started in contributing technically to the world’s largest source of free information – Wikipedia. The code that you write (and eventually deploy) will be viewed/used 7,938,026,125 times a month! Write user scripts that fix annoying little things with the way Wikipedia functions. Write bots to import (and accurately maintain) large amounts of information from various sources into Wikipedia. Write tools to make it easier to maintain Wikipedia’s standards and fight spam. Most of all join the awesome Open Source community and have fun!</p>
<h3>Pre-requisites:</h3>
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<li>Preferable working knowledge of HTML/CSS/Javascript *or* python.</li>
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<li>Laptops, which you will have to carry with you.</li>
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<p><span style="text-align: start; float: none; ">To register for the event, click </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGpCalViX1FCc0FwT1g2ZFNqN3FrNUE6MQ" style="text-align: start; " target="_blank">here</a><span style="text-align: start; float: none; ">.</span></p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-hackathon-bits-hyderabad'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-hackathon-bits-hyderabad</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaOpennessEvent Type2012-10-25T08:42:56ZEventWikipedia Gains Massive Traffic Thanks To Vernacular Languages
http://editors.cis-india.org/news/beforeitnews-august-1-2013-wikipedia-gains-massive-traffic-thanks-to-vernacular-languages
<b>The blog post was published in Before It's News on August 1, 2013. T. Vishnu Vardhan is quoted.</b>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><a class="external-link" href="http://beforeitsnews.com/science-and-technology/2013/08/wikipedia-gains-massive-traffic-thanks-to-vernacular-languages-2623714.html">Click to read the original published in Before It's News</a></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Non-profit <a href="http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://wikimediafoundation.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Wikimedia Foundation</a>, the parent company of knowledge-based article collating platform <a href="http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://www.wikipedia.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a> seems to be <a href="http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-news/internet/Wikipedia-boom-in-Marathi-Malayalam-and-other-desi-languages/articleshow/21518534.cms" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">receiving</a> enhanced traction on the portal from India. The reason for this upswing in activity is apparently its decision to <a href="http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://www.watblog.com/2010/09/25/wikimedia-to-open-office-in-india/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">expand</a> the scope of the portal via multiple Indian Languages, revealed a recent study by the Bangalore-based Center for Internet and Society (<a href="http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://cis-india.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">CIS</a>).</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">A while back Wikipedia, sensing the need of non-English speaking /understanding audience had opened its doors for about 18 Indian Languages. The main attractions seemed to be articles penned down in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam & Kannada, which managed to attract a lot of writers who have come forth & added “thousands” of new articles in these & other native languages, all within a span of 8 months ranging from September 2012 to April 2013.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Interestingly, the study reveals that though a lot of pages did get created, many of these articles did not enjoy equally massive visitor count. However, when Wikipedia subsequently <a href="http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://www.watblog.com/2012/03/01/now-browse-wikipedia-in-marathi-more-indian-languages-coming-soon/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">extended</a> the support to Marathi & Bengali, the reader-count picked up. Started just a few months back, about 40,000 articles written in Marathi have been getting 30 Lakh visitors & these pages have collectively managed to add another 10 Lakh monthly visitors, while Bengali articles has been steadily getting about 14 Lakh Page Views per month.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Wikipedia seems to have undoubtedly fueled the consumption of online content. It has proven that people actually craved for knowledge in the native language, but didn’t have a proper platform. However, there were a few technological hurdles as well. Web Browsers, in their formative stages, simply didn’t have the capability of pulling, processing & displaying languages or alphabets other than English. Additionally, having been used to type in English-only keyboards, penning information-laden articles in native languages did have a long & steep learning curve.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Thankfully, such petty, but pestering issues seem to have been <a href="http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://www.watblog.com/2013/07/26/wikipedia-announces-an-editing-tool-for-mobile-devices/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ironed out</a> & creation, publication & consumption of content in local languages has evidently picked-up steam. Now the writers, who are fondly called ‘Wiki foot soldiers’ have been forwarding the crusade of offering free knowledge to anyone <a href="http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://www.watblog.com/2013/07/26/aircel-offers-free-wikipedia-access-on-mobile-phones-thanks-to-wikimedia-partnership/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">interested</a> & numbers at both the end is growing healthily.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Judging by the <a href="http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://www.watblog.com/2013/03/28/gmail-introduces-indic-language-support-for-feature-phone-users/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">appetite</a> for online content in their <a href="http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://www.watblog.com/2013/05/09/google-can-now-translate-into-five-new-languages-including-marathi/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">local avatar</a>, T Vishnu Vardhan, Program Director, Access to Knowledge Project, CIS has aptly summarized the current state of altered necessities. He says “<i>In the last two years, the demand for knowledge in Indian languages has grown as we have moved to the motto of ‘roti, kapda and internet</i>” What do you think?</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/news/beforeitnews-august-1-2013-wikipedia-gains-massive-traffic-thanks-to-vernacular-languages'>http://editors.cis-india.org/news/beforeitnews-august-1-2013-wikipedia-gains-massive-traffic-thanks-to-vernacular-languages</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaOpennessWikipediaAccess to KnowledgeWikimedia2013-08-19T04:18:24ZNews ItemWikipedia Editing as Assessment Tool in the Indian Higher Education Classroom
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wikipedia-as-assessment-tool-in-indian-higher-education-classroom
<b>Getting students to create and edit Wikipedia entries in English and Indian languages can be a comprehensive assessment tool at the Bachelor’s and Master’s levels. Both levels of higher education require the demonstration of the ability to present knowledge in encyclopaedic form, which can be done by a good review of relevant literature and the showcasing of key arguments in the field.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Using the <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/dublin-descriptors.pdf" class="internal-link">Dublin competency level descriptors</a>,<a href="#fn*" name="fr*">[*]</a> we can put down what sorts of <a class="external-link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher_education">higher education</a> skills Wikipedia editing can help evaluate. The most commonly accepted descriptors internationally are:</p>
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<li>Demonstration of Knowledge and understanding </li>
<li>Applying knowledge and understanding </li>
<li>Making judgements </li>
<li>Communication abilities</li>
<li>Learning skills relevant to higher education</li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><a class="external-link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page">Wikipedia</a> allows for assessing the ‘depth’ of an article which is the measure of the quality of an entry. The depth is a function of several parameters like the number of edits an article has seen, the length of discussion in the talk pages, the number of footnotes, references, hyperlinks and editors active on that page. In addition to this, providing Wiki-interlinks to key concepts within an article and categorization of articles exposes the students to a "semantic web" of interconnections between various fields of knowledge. Although, it may not be a complete substitute for the more formal modes of assessment, it provides a more rounded form of evaluation for student assessment. The ‘depth’ indicator also shows the relative significance of an article for the larger community of users, thereby providing a better model for student assessment in the long run.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Bachelor's Level</h3>
<p>By getting students to edit on Wikipedia at the Bachelor’s Level, you can test the following, and appropriate weightage can be given to each aspect of the work:</p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; ">Comprehension of the theory, concepts and processes pertaining to a field or fields of learning </li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Demonstration of knowledge, supported by the use of advanced textbooks and other reading materials, of one or more specialised areas </li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Ability to apply this knowledge and comprehension in a manner that indicates a thorough and informed approach to the work, and have competences typically demonstrated through devising and sustaining arguments</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Ability to gather and interpret relevant data to inform independent judgements which include reflection on relevant social, scientific or ethical issues </li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Ability to communicate information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialist and non-specialist audiences [in the case of Wikipedia, the audience would usually be a non-specialist one]</li>
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<h3>Master's Level</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">By getting students to edit on Wikipedia at the Master’s Level, you can test the following, and appropriate weightage can be given to each aspect of the work:</p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; ">Demonstration of knowledge and comprehension that is founded upon, extends and enhances that associated with the Bachelor’s level and is at the forefront of a field of learning </li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Critical awareness of current problems and new insights, new tools and new processes within their field of learning (ability to do a good literature review, which can be seen through the citations provided for a Wikipedia entry)</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Ability to apply their knowledge, comprehension, and critical awareness in broader or multidisciplinary areas related to their fields of study </li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Ability to integrate knowledge and handle complexity, to formulate judgements with incomplete or limited information, with an awareness of the social and ethical responsibilities linked to the application of their knowledge and judgements </li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Ability to communicate their conclusions, and knowledge, rationale and processes underpinning these, to specialist and non-specialist audiences clearly and unambiguously</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Ability to reflect on one’s own writing by engaging with feedback received from a collaborative network.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Ability to form peer knowledge networks through collaboration and interaction with other contributors</li>
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<h3>Risks and Mitigation</h3>
<p>It is helpful to be aware of the typical risks a faculty may face in using Wikipedia entries as an assessment tool.</p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; ">New article creation: Wikipedias, especially the <a class="external-link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Wikipedia">English Wikipedia</a>, are closely monitored by thousands of volunteers from across the world. Often, articles created by new users come under a lot of scrutiny. It is advisable to first encourage the students to edit and improve the existing articles before creating a new article all by themselves. Also taking the help of an experienced Wikipedian will go a long way in mentoring the students on the nuances of the Wikipedia platform and the volunteer community that strives in good faith to preserve the quality of entries. </li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Copyright violation: <a class="external-link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control-C">Ctrl+c</a> and <a class="external-link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cut,_copy,_and_paste">Ctrl+v</a> (i.e., <a class="external-link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism">plagiarism</a>) is a major challenge for the higher education sector across the world. Often the students find that copy-pasting the content from various sources is an easy way of doing an assignment. On Wikipedia, plagiarism is taken very seriously and a student editor can get banned from further contribution to Wikipedia, which may de-motivate the entire class. It’s useful for the faculty to give a detailed orientation on this aspect before encouraging the students to take up writing a Wikipedia entry as an assignment. There are numerous resources (text and videos) made available by Wikimedians across the world explaining the problem of plagiarism. These could be used by the faculty. </li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">If you are encouraging students to write an entry in an Indian language Wikipedia, special attention and support needs to be planned to train the students in typing in that particular Indian language script. Wikipedias have a useful tool called <a class="external-link" href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Universal_Language_Selector">Universal Language Selector</a> (ULS) which makes it very easy for the student to start typing in any script using the transliteration method. There is increasing support for Indian language scripts, however. You could check whether your University computer lab has Unicode compliant computers/systems. This will help the students to work offline on their assignment, if required.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">One of the biggest challenges for a teacher is to get the student to see the value of taking up a Wikipedia entry as an assignment. Some of the students may see this as an additional task or extra-curricular activity and may not put in a committed effort, which could affect the goals you have set for your course. Faculties are encouraged to find various means of integrating/dovetailing the Wikipedia assignment into the curriculum or course. </li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Faculty may also feel this as an additional burden on them, especially in terms of evaluation of the assignment. There are various tools available to measure most of the assessment parameters set out above, which will not take much time. It is in fact possible to save faculty time if the evaluation is planned meticulously. </li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">A pragmatic challenge for the faculty would be to deal with a scenario where the entire class submits the assignments on Wikipedia on the last day. This will not only increase burden on the faculty but can also result in a lot of plagiarism. An effective way to address this challenge is to make the Wikipedia entry assignment part of a formative assessment, whereby the student develops the entry over a period of time (e.g. one month or during the course). There are various tools through which you can track the students’ contribution continuously and share feedback with them periodically.</li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">[<a href="#fr*" name="fn*">*</a>].Available at <a class="external-link" href="http://www.tcd.ie/teaching-learning/academic-development/assets/pdf/dublin_descriptors.pdf">http://www.tcd.ie/teaching-learning/academic-development/assets/pdf/dublin_descriptors.pdf</a></p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wikipedia-as-assessment-tool-in-indian-higher-education-classroom'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wikipedia-as-assessment-tool-in-indian-higher-education-classroom</a>
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No publisherDr. Tejaswini Niranjana, Ashwin Kumar A.P. and T. Vishnu VardhanSocial MediaHigher EducationAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaOpenness2014-01-30T10:06:40ZBlog EntryWikipedia Editathon on India Women's History at CBIT, Hyderabad
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wikipedia-editathon-on-india-women-history-at-cbit
<b>“Wikipedia Editathon on India Women's History” and “Work-Life Balance: Women in Engineering” were organized parallelly at Chaitanya Bharati Institute of Technology (CBIT), Hyderabad on March 8, 2014. These events had a common session during the morning and a separate sessions in the afternoon.
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<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; ">The speakers for the morning session included Dr V Malakonda Reddy, Chairman,CBIT, Y Hemalatha, Chief Guest, CBIT staff Members V Hari Leela, Dr D Sandhya Sri and Dr B Chennakesava Reddy. Dr V Malakonda Reddy emphasised that the high position given to women is by no means a gift of the western society. He recalled the historic role played by women in India. Other speakers also stressed on importance of the day and the need for women as leaders and proactive members of the society.</p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; ">During the morning session, Vishnu Vardhan, Director, Access to Knowledge, Centre for the Internet and Society, recalled that first computer programmer was a woman named Ada Lovelace, which clearly necessitates a need for women to play an even more significant role in the Information technology era. He also spoke about the<a href="http://adainitiative.org/about-us/"> Ada Initiative</a> (<a href="http://adainitiative.org/">http://adainitiative.org/</a>) which supports women in open technology and culture. He concluded by showing the English and Telugu project pages of the ediathons running concurrently and especially encouraged the girl students to participate in the editathon.</p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; ">During the second session of the “Wikipedia Editathon on India Women's History”, Vishnu Vardhan explained the concept of “Wiki” and Wikipedia editing basics. On this occasion, a student volunteer Gayathri demonstrated the editing basics of Wikipedia on the stage.</p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; ">She was later felicitated. All volunteers wore Wikipedia t-shirts which were provided prior to the event.</p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; ">The practical session in the afternoon was handled by Syed Muzammiluddin, Programme Officer, Access to Knowledge, Centre for the Internet and Society. Later, in the evening there was a separate session with student volunteers. During the course of the session, the volunteers led by Ranjit and Ashraf showed CBIT Wiki (<a href="http://www.3mb.in/ES">http://www.3mb.in/ES</a>).They said that contributing to Wikipedia will definitely help them to build their college Wiki. It was pointed out that most of the CBIT students have registered on Wikipedia and many contributions are in the offing. The volunteers also informed that they have also signed up for Wikimedia India mailing list as they want to see more collaboration among the Wikimedia India community in future and be part of it. Prof Swamidas of the Information Technology Department supervised all the day long activities of the event.</p>
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<h3>Media Coverage</h3>
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<li><a class="external-link" href="http://www.andhraprabha.com/districts/hyderabad/telugu-wikipedia-womens-day-in-hyd/13521.html">Andhra Prabha</a> (March 8, 2014)</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://www.andhrabhoomi.net/content/bjp-71">Andhra Bhoomi</a> (March 8, 2014)</li>
</ul>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wikipedia-editathon-on-india-women-history-at-cbit'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wikipedia-editathon-on-india-women-history-at-cbit</a>
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No publishersyedOpennessWikipediaAccess to KnowledgeWikimedia2014-04-07T01:32:57ZBlog EntryWikipedia edit-a-thons to add content on LGBTs
http://editors.cis-india.org/news/the-hindu-july-7-2014-renuka-phadnis-wikipedia-edit-a-thons-to-add-content-on-lgbts
<b>From Monday, Wikipedia will hold a series of “edit-a-thons” to encourage people to add content to the site about the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community.</b>
<p class="body" style="text-align: justify; ">The article by Renuka Phadnis was <a class="external-link" href="http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/technology/internet/wikipedia-editathons-to-add-content-on-lgbts/article6183874.ece">published in the Hindu</a> on July 7, 2014. T. Vishnu Vardhan gave his inputs.</p>
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<p class="body" style="text-align: justify; ">It is inspired by “Wiki Loves Pride”, a global campaign to expand and improve LGBT-related content across Wikimedia projects. The campaign focuses on the June to October period, when LGBTs around the world celebrate their community.</p>
<p class="body" style="text-align: justify; ">An “edit-a-thon” is a workshop where people are trained in how to edit the Wikipedia and add content to it, usually focussing on a particular topic.</p>
<p class="body" style="text-align: justify; ">The aim is to make Wikipedia inclusive and reflect diversity by creating content on the LGBT discourse: history, culture, rights, equal opportunities and Article 377. The focus is also on generating content in regional Indian languages which do not have equivalents for terms such as “gay”, “lesbian” or “bisexual”. The website <a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/ Events/Wiki_Loves _Pride_2014">https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/ Events/Wiki_Loves _Pride_2014</a> has listed 11 languages.</p>
<p class="body" style="text-align: justify; ">The edit-a-thon will culminate in two offline events in Bangalore and Delhi on July 19, creating a forum for the community. While anyone can participate in the edit-a-thon, Vishnu, programme director for Access to Knowledge at Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), Bangalore, which works on improving Indian language Wikipedias and India-related content on Wikipedia, said, “We hope the [LGBT] community takes the lead.”</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/news/the-hindu-july-7-2014-renuka-phadnis-wikipedia-edit-a-thons-to-add-content-on-lgbts'>http://editors.cis-india.org/news/the-hindu-july-7-2014-renuka-phadnis-wikipedia-edit-a-thons-to-add-content-on-lgbts</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaOpennessWikipediaAccess to KnowledgeWikimedia2014-07-28T06:41:42ZNews ItemWikipedia edit-a-thon in Mangalore to bring Tulu Wikipedia live
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/wikipedia-edit-a-thon-in-mangalore-to-bring-tulu-wikipedia-live
<b>A Wikipedia edit-a-thon was organised in Mangalore, Karnataka this 14th to encourage more Tulu-language speakers to contribute to Tulu Wikipedia. Tulu Wikipedia is is currently in the Incubator but the enthusiastic editor community is putting their best effort to bring it live out of Incubator. This edit-a-thon is one of the many activities the Tulu Wikimedia community has organised.</b>
<p>30 Wikipedia editors participated and created about 89 new articles. Interestingly, 12 of these 30 participants crossed more than 10 edits. Some of the new participants faced problems with using the<a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:UniversalLanguageSelector/Input_methods#Kannada"> input methods</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Wiki_markup">Wiki-markup</a>. It is important to note that because of the lack of addition of Tulu-alphabet code points in the Unicode chart, and the speakers being well conversant in Kannada, they are using Kannada script for Tulu Wikipedia Incubator project. There is a plan to organise a monthly meetup and/or edit-a-thon to continue the momentum these editors have brought in. <a href="http://www.tuluacademy.org/en/">Tulu Sahitya Academy</a> has kindly supported the event.</p>
More details in the <a class="external-link" href="https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/tcy/ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ:ಕಜ್ಜಕೊಟ್ಯ-5">event page</a> (in Tulu).
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/wikipedia-edit-a-thon-in-mangalore-to-bring-tulu-wikipedia-live'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/wikipedia-edit-a-thon-in-mangalore-to-bring-tulu-wikipedia-live</a>
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No publisherpavanajaWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpennessTulu Wikipedia2015-09-15T09:07:24ZBlog EntryWikipedia comes to Hyderabad!
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wikipedia-hyderabad-report
<b>This post is a report on the series of Wikipedia meets organized in the city of Hyderabad on September 29-30, 2012. These workshops were a a part of the larger effort to help Wikipedia contributors in the same city to meet each other and strengthen the local community. </b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The city of Hyderabad is not only an IT hub but also home to many English and Indian language Wikipedians. In a recent series of weekend workshops and meet-ups conducted within the city, I had the opportunity to interact with many of them. We conducted a Wikipedia workshop at BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad, an Odia Wikipedia workshop as well as a general Wikipedia workshop for people interested in contributing to all language Wikipedias. I would like to convey my gratitude to the Computer Science department students at BITS, Hyderabad, Odia Wikipedians Swetapadma and Amaresh and English Wikipedians Tausif and Abhijith for making these events happen despite festivities and protests in the city.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">To provide a brief report on the events, the BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad workshop was organized as a general introduction to Wikipedia. The event was organized with the support of the Computer Science department at the college and saw a presence of more than 60 students. It was 2 hour session where 6 students created their Wikipedia user accounts and entered their names on the BITS project page. They were also shown how Wikis work – live and global.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Students were encouraged to make changes to their college article and they discovered how to view recent changes, page views and other functions. It was a particularly informative session because majority of the group did not know that Wikipedia articles are written by common people from all walks of life! The session ended with a proposal to start a Wiki club for their college. The Odia Wikipedia meetup organized on the same day registered 11 participants while the general meetup on the next day had over 20 participants. In all three workshops, the majority of participants were not aware how one could contribute to Wikipedia articles.</p>
<h3>Next steps:</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">It was great to see existing Wikipedians discuss the idea of having a Hyderabad SIG (special interest group) to conduct regular meetings, workshops, photo walks and more! Since the participants have shared their email-IDs, we will stay in touch and inform them about upcoming Telugu and English editing workshops. Students at BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad have also requested a Wikipedia workshop and hackathon for their upcoming techfest this month. A Telugu Wikipedia workshop has been proposed for the second week of October.</p>
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<p>For more information on how to conduct a Wikipedia workshop in your city, you could contact <a href="mailto:noopur@cis-india.org">noopur@cis-india.org</a></p>
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<p>There was newspaper coverage about this event:</p>
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<li>Wiki Meetup, <a class="external-link" href="http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/drumming-session/article3943855.ece">Hindu</a>, September 28, 2012</li>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wikipedia-hyderabad-report'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wikipedia-hyderabad-report</a>
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No publishernoopurAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpenness2013-02-13T11:40:06ZBlog Entry Wikipedia can establish Tulu in a wider way
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/mangalore-today-october-17-2014-wikipedia-can-establish-tulu-in-a-wider-way
<b>In his predential address after inaugurating the three-day workshop on ‘The use of internet for promotion of Tulu language,’ organised by Karnataka Tulu Sahitya Academy, Karnataka Tulu Sahitya Academy President Janki M Brahmavar opined that internet media, especially Wikipedia, can contribute to a large extent towards the promotion of Tulu language. The president said there was a need for the effective use of Unicode for the digital interpretation of Tulu.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">This was <a class="external-link" href="http://www.mangaloretoday.com/newsbriefs/Wikipedia-can-establish-Tulu-in-a-wider-way.html">published in Mangalore Today</a> on October 17, 2014. Dr. U.B.Pavanaja gave his inputs.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><span>Delivering a talk on the occasion, Centre for Internet and Society (Bangalore) Indian Languages Programme Coordinator and Wikipedia representative Dr U B Pavanaja said that Tulu Wikipedia is in the process of getting life. He said that minimal work has taken place in Tulu language and that too, is not up to the mark, to be considered for the inclusion of the language to the 8th schedule. There is a need for Unicode, which would enable the language to acquire wide recognition, though it positively qualifies as a classical language of ancient times.<br /><br />There should at least be 500-600 articles in Wikipedia to consider it as live. At least 8-10 articles should be uploaded every month. He added that only eight people had updated their Tulu articles into Wikipedia, during previous year, when the workshop was held at Mangalore. At present the number has gone up to 320. Until March, the number of articles uploaded was 137. The government should work towards it. Dr Pavanaja added that Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia, and is in 287 languages across the world. Anyone who is interested can update his or her articles into the encyclopedia. There are nearly 6000 languages across the world. The people who avail the internet facilities at home can also work on some articles and upload their write ups into Wikipedia.</span></p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/mangalore-today-october-17-2014-wikipedia-can-establish-tulu-in-a-wider-way'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/mangalore-today-october-17-2014-wikipedia-can-establish-tulu-in-a-wider-way</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaOpennessTulu Wikipedia2014-10-24T16:01:07ZNews ItemWikipedia Campus at Oxford College
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wikipedia-campus-at-oxford-college
<b>CIS-A2K collaborated with the Oxford College of Engineering, Bommanahalli, Bangalore on April 24, 2015 for introducing Wikimedia projects at their institution. Radhakrishna, a senior Wikimedian from Bangalore provided the crucial introduction and worked closely with the A2K team in conducting all the activities.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span id="docs-internal-guid-99a384d1-957f-0578-aae6-c07d4ab9ef10">Team A2K learnt valuable lessons regarding committing resources and building short term partnerships with higher education institutions. It was noted that the students showed high level of interest but due to the extremely busy academic calendar, activities could not be conducted as per the original plan.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span><span id="docs-internal-guid-99a384d1-957f-b5c7-037e-53e1ad593851">Selected students from Oxford College of Engineering were given hands on training for two weeks (April-May) on various Wikimedia projects and were initiated into Wikisource as an evaluative activity. The diverse group of students presented the A2K team an opportunity to discuss various language projects and prepare a plan for engaging the students after the intensive training comes to an end.</span></span></p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wikipedia-campus-at-oxford-college'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wikipedia-campus-at-oxford-college</a>
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No publishersubhaOpennessWikipedia2015-05-27T14:22:44ZBlog EntryWikipedia boom in vernacular languages
http://editors.cis-india.org/news/dna-august-1-2013-divya-saboo-wikipedia-boom-in-vernacular-languages
<b>The number of Wikipedia entries in vernacular languages has grown substantially in the last eight months</b>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">This article by Divya Saboo was<a class="external-link" href="http://www.dnaindia.com/india/1868526/report-wikipedia-boom-in-vernacular-languages"> published in DNA on August 1, 2013</a>. The Centre for Internet and Society is mentioned.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">In the last eight months, the number of Wikipedia entries in vernacular languages has grown substantially, says a Bangalore-based Centre for Internet and Society.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Wikipedia, the world's largest encyclopedia, where anyone can write and publish, was mainly written in the English language until a few years ago. There is a sudden boom of interest in regional languages on the internet because browsers now support Indian language scripts. Thus, people are now more interested in typing in their mother-tongues. Interestingly, this initiative is fueled by diaspora.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Mahit Gar, who has been working with the Marathi Language Wikipedia, said, “Since the last one year, we have concentrated on improving the quality of the content more. We are ranked #20. There are also some new editing facilities that are being introduced by the Wikimedia Foundation (WMS). We can now write in Marathi as well. 40 per cent of the people can type Marathi well but the rest still find it difficult to do so. The rural people interact mostly with Marathi."</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">He adds, "We have had this sudden boom because in 2011, we had some conferences with the English Wikipedia team and we talked about how people are not able to communicate without their mother tongues in place. Also, we don't spam. Most people love their mother tongue so they don't touch the content inappropriately (this is not the case with the English Wikipedia).”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Tinu Cherian Abraham who was on the Wikimedia India Chapter talks about how an NRI's love for Malyalam kick-started the project. There are people from all walks of life involved in this project. The collective passion for knowledge of a visually challenged editor of Hindi Wikipedia along with an elderly contributor from Kerala, has aided him in forgetting his ailments.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/news/dna-august-1-2013-divya-saboo-wikipedia-boom-in-vernacular-languages'>http://editors.cis-india.org/news/dna-august-1-2013-divya-saboo-wikipedia-boom-in-vernacular-languages</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaOpennessWikipediaAccess to KnowledgeWikimedia2013-08-12T04:29:28ZNews ItemWikipedia boom in Marathi, Malayalam and other desi languages
http://editors.cis-india.org/news/times-of-india-august-1-2013-sandhya-soman-wikipedia-boom-in-marathi-malayalam-other-desi-languages
<b>A vibrant vernacular Wikipedia seems to be taking root in India. In the last eight months, the number of Wikipedia entries has grown substantially in 20 Indian languages, says a study by the Bangalore-based Centre for Internet and Society (CIS).
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">The article by Sandhya Soman was <a class="external-link" href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-news/internet/Wikipedia-boom-in-Marathi-Malayalam-and-other-desi-languages/articleshow/21518534.cms">published in the Times of India</a> on August 1, 2013. T. Vishnu Vardhan is quoted.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Wiki, the world's largest online encyclopaedia where anyone can write and edit articles, didn't have much content in vernacular till a few years ago. According to the study, Wikis in Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi have added thousands of new articles on various subjects from September 2012 to April 2013. A few of these pages were viewed more during this period. Marathi, which had 30 lakh page views per month previously, had another 10 lakh visitors, while Bengali Wikipedia had 14 lakh page views.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">While Malayalam Wiki took the top position with an enviable team of 100 plus editors, the number Hindi, Marathi and Sanskrit editors came down. "Marathi has 40,000 articles. But most editors in Mumbai prefer to work on English. Pune has more Marathi editors,' says <a class="external-link" href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Vishnu-Vardhan">T Vishnu Vardhan</a>, programme director, Access to Knowledge project at CIS.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">"In the last two years, the demand for knowledge in Indian languages has grown as we have moved to the motto of 'roti, kapda and internet'," says Vardhan.<br /><br />One of the reasons for growth is that many browsers now support Indian language scripts. But this was not the case in early 2000. Though many wanted to read and type in their own language, there was no browser support, says Shiju Alex, blogger and Malayalam Wiki editor. Moreover, many didn't know how to type in their mother tongues.<br /><br />But once Indian languages were encoded in Unicode, the fonts became accessible. "There was no need to write Malayalam in English and people started blogging in their mother tongues," says Alex. According to Vardhan, communities with better literacy rates seem to have taken the lead online.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">"Telugu Wiki is stronger as internet penetration in <a class="external-link" href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Andhra-Pradesh">Andhra Pradesh</a> is higher than in places where Bhojpuri or Assamese is spoken."</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">As with most online language initiatives, the Wiki movement was also fuelled by the diaspora. Tinu Cherian Abraham, a former board member of the <a class="external-link" href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Wikimedia-India">Wikimedia India chapter</a>, talks about how an NRI's love for Malayalam kick-started the project.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">But now there are many Wiki foot soldiers in India, including a blind editor of Hindi Wikipedia and an elderly contributor from Kerala whose passion for free knowledge has helped him forget his ailments.</p>
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No publisherpraskrishnaOpennessWikipediaAccess to KnowledgeWikimedia2013-08-01T05:28:28ZNews ItemWikipedia at Forefront in Christ University
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wikipedia-at-forefront-in-christ-university
<b>Wikipedia has entered Indian undergraduate language classroom in Christ University, Bangalore. Recently the Access to Knowledge team from the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS-A2K) organized a series of events in Christ University. This blog post provides a brief analysis of the outcome.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Every year, universities worldwide and in India recognise the need to revise their curriculum to provide up-to-date knowledge for their students. Fresh topics are identified and prescribed replacing the ones which have become obsolete. As technology advances, the need for redesigning the syllabus is not just restricted to the theoretical elements of the academic programme, as the need for a paradigm shift in emphasising the practical implications of the acquired knowledge is recognised universally.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">In line with this, universities and colleges across the world have introduced innovative ways of making their curriculum more contemporary than traditional and more pragmatic than academic. One of the leading examples of such initiatives was the "<a class="external-link" href="http://bitly.com/wikiucsf">WikiProject Medicine</a>" started by the <a class="external-link" href="http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/">University of California</a>, San Francisco School of Medicine (<a class="external-link" href="http://medschool.ucsf.edu/">UCSF School of Medicine</a>) which aimed at making quality article writing on medical subjects a quintessential part of the syllabus completion. The result of this exercise was startling — 25,825 articles produced under the project received 189,908,947 hits — a record achievement for any Wikipedia project (Source: <a class="external-link" href="http://bitly.com/wikiprojmed">http://bitly.com/wikiprojmed</a>).</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Universities and colleges in India also realise that internet is a boon for educational system. Students often refer to informative websites for their projects and assignments, with Wikipedia articles topping the list of the reference resources that are easily accessible. Although <a class="external-link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Wikipedia">English Wikipedia</a> is more viewed and referred by the students, of late there has been an increase in both readership and voluntary editorial contributions to the Indic language Wikipedias such as Hindi, Tamil, Kannada and other language versions of Wikipedia.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Keeping in view these developments, <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/cis-a2k-mou-christ-university" class="external-link">CIS entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Christ University</a>, Bangalore to make article writing on Wikipedia a core exercise for their continuous internal assessment of its 1600 undergraduate students. The state-of-the-art university which also has a recording studio agreed to host the first of its kind Wikipedia video tutorials in two languages — Hindi and Kannada.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">During the month of December 2013, 10 videos each were recorded in both Hindi and Kannada for the respective language Wikipedia editing. While the video scripts were prepared by CIS, the students of the Christ University played an active role for the introductory videos and rendered their voices for the other video tutorials which featured various Wikipedia editing screenshots. These videos have been uploaded on the Moodle Learning platform of the <a class="external-link" href="http://www.christuniversity.in/">Christ University website</a>, Wikimedia Commons and the <a class="external-link" href="http://www.youtube.com/user/cisa2k">"Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K)" Channel on YouTube</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">In order to help the students assess their grasp of the knowledge disseminated in each video, each uploaded video on the Christ University website ends with a set of objective questions. Students were also given the right answers along with their scores. The questions were designed by CIS staff in consultation with Christ University professors.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">During December 2013 and January 2014 separate campus ambassadors’ orientation programmes were organized by CIS for Hindi and Kannada second language students at Christ University. A training programme was also held for Urdu students. An orientation programme for Tamil students was organized by CIS at Christ University with support from noted Tamil Wikipedian Bala Sundara Raman. Similarly, an orientation programme for Sanskrit students was organized by CIS at Christ University with the support from Shubha of Sanskrit Bharati.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Beginning from January 23 to the first week of February, 2014 is the timeline for Christ University students to finish their assignments. With the video tutorial, training and orientation programmes, constant monitoring by CIS, and with support from Christ University, it is hoped that students will contribute significantly to the five different language Wikipedias — Hindi, Kannada, Sanskrit, Tamil and Urdu.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wikipedia-at-forefront-in-christ-university'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wikipedia-at-forefront-in-christ-university</a>
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No publishersyedOpennessWikipediaAccess to KnowledgeWikimedia2014-02-04T05:08:41ZBlog EntryWikipedia at Avenir
http://editors.cis-india.org/news/wikipedia-at-avenir
<b>A 4 hours Wikipedia event at Avenir, 2013 is being held at Netaji Subhash Engineering College, Kolkata, West Bengal on 11th March 2013. The Centre for Internet and Society is supporting this event.</b>
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<p>Read the event page on <a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_at_Avenir">Wikipedia</a></p>
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<h2 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Basic_Agenda">Basic Agenda</span></h2>
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<li>1 hour Wikpedia edit-a-thon Workshop with Kolkata based Wikipedians.</li>
<li>3 hours long MediaWiki Workshop on Wikipedia-Gadgets and UserScripts.</li>
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<h2 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Edit-a-thon">Edit-a-thon</span></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">A 2 hours long Wikipedia editing workshop with Kolkata based Wikipedians.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Why_an_Edit-a-thon">Why an Edit-a-thon</span></h3>
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<li>It helps build the encyclopedia</li>
<li>It builds relationships in the community</li>
<li>It can help new Wikipedians to contribute</li>
<li>It's fun :)</li>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Pre-requisites">Pre-requisites</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Bring your own laptops if possible, we will be creating things!</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="What_will_you_have_learnt_at_the_end_of_it.3F">What will you have learnt at the end of it?</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Along with the idea of how to create and edit articles in Wikipedia, you will get to know about Wikipedia, about setting knowledge free, about all those awesome things, that make us believe in this huge repository of knowledge.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Articles_Planned">Articles Planned</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lascar_War_Memorial,_Calcutta_%28Kolkata%29" title="en:Lascar War Memorial, Calcutta (Kolkata)">Lascar War Memorial, Calcutta (Kolkata)</a></p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Facilitators">Facilitators</span></h3>
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<li><a class="text external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rangan_Datta_Wiki">Rangan Dutta</a></li>
<li><a class="text external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jayantanth">Jayanta Nath</a></li>
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<h2 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="MediaWiki_Workshop">MediaWiki Workshop</span></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">3 hours long MediaWiki Workshop on Wikipedia-Gadgets and UserScripts with Developers from Wikimedia.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Goal">Goal</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The Wikipedia community needs small bits of web tech that make the site better for lots of users. We'll take people who know wiki stuff and also a little programming stuff, and have them be able to write code for Wikipedia.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Pre-requisites_2">Pre-requisites</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Please bring your laptops! This is a hands on session, and you'll be creating things!</p>
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<li>Basic grasp of Javascript, CSS</li>
<li>An account on Wikipedia</li>
<li>A modern browser (preferably Chrome, but Firefox with Firebug will also do)</li>
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<li>Understanding how user scripts work</li>
<li>Be able to use the MediaWiki API appropriately</li>
<li>Improve your own wiki experience / experience for your language wikipedia by writing scripts</li>
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<li><a class="text external" href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Yuvipanda">Yuvi Panda</a></li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Folks who are interested to join us, are requested to fill up the <a class="text external" href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1qh4B6_0NU_H2XkVUl1jaz3xhEP2tqxr0mFNsSAjg6SI/viewform" rel="nofollow">form</a> and register themselves for the event. We shall send you an invitation via email!</p>
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<li><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Harsh4101991" title="User:Harsh4101991">Harsh Kothari</a></li>
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<li>Data (API, API Sandbox, actions)</li>
<li>Accessing Data from the Environment (AJAX concepts, mw.API, mw.loader.using)</li>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/news/wikipedia-at-avenir'>http://editors.cis-india.org/news/wikipedia-at-avenir</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaOpennessWikipediaAccess to KnowledgeWikimedia2013-03-11T04:08:23ZNews ItemWikipedia and Free Culture
http://editors.cis-india.org/events/wikipedia-and-free-culture
<b>Bangalore International Centre, in collaboration with the Centre for Internet and Society, hosts a discussion focusing on Wikipedia and free culture, with Jimmy Wales (Founder, Wikipedia) and Sue Gardner (Wikimedia Foundation)</b>
<p>Bangalore International Centre, in collaboration with the Centre for Internet and Society, </p>
<p>cordially invites you to an interactive discussion</p>
<p><em><strong>Wikipedia and Free Culture</strong></em></p>
<p>with</p>
<p><strong>Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales</strong></p>
<p><em>Founder, Wikipedia </em></p>
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<p><strong>Sue Gardner</strong></p>
<p><em>Executive Director, Wikimedia Foundation</em></p>
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<p>Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, will deliver a presentation about the history, growth, and prominence of Wikipedia on the internet today. Since its inception in 2001, Wikipedia has risen quickly to become the largest information resource and free knowledge repository in history, now with over 11 million articles in over 250 unique language editions.</p>
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<p>Sue Gardner, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, will speak on the origins of the Wikimedia Foundation, the San Francisco based non profit organisation that operates Wikimedia and other free knowledge projects.</p>
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<p>Lawrence Liang, member, Alternative Law Forum, and author of <em>A Guide to Open Content Licences</em>, will steer the discussions.</p>
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<p><strong>Date and Time:</strong> Saturday, 13 December 2008, 6.00 pm-8.00 pm</p>
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<p>Bangalore International Centre Auditorium</p>
<p>TERI Complex,</p>
<p>4th Main, 2nd Cross,</p>
<p>Domlur II Stage,</p>
<p>Bangalore 560 071</p>
<p><strong>Registration: </strong></p>
<p>Please register for the event with the Bangalore International Centre (phone: +91 80 2535 9680).</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/events/wikipedia-and-free-culture'>http://editors.cis-india.org/events/wikipedia-and-free-culture</a>
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No publishersachiaOpenness2011-10-21T08:31:01ZEventWikipedia Academy in Mangalore
http://editors.cis-india.org/news/wikipedia-academy-in-mangalore
<b>The one-day workshop will focus on the use of Indian languages in Wikipedia, editing and its application in academics.
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<p>Department of Mass Communications and Al Madhyam of the St. Aloysius College, Mangalore in collaboration with Centre for Internet and<br />Society, Bangalore are holding a State-level Wiki-Academy in Mangalore on 22nd August, 2009. The one-day workshop will focus on the use of<br />Indian languages in Wikipedia, editing and its application in academics.</p>
<p>Registration is free. Register before 21st August for the workshop.Registration is open on the day of the event, as well.</p>
<p>Wikipedia editors will speak about the history of Wikipedia and its role in making information freely available to people in several languages.<br />They will also provide hands-on training on editing and improving articles on Wikipedia.</p>
<p>The talks for this edition will be presented by:<br />Prashanth N S (editor, English Wikipedia)<br />Hari Prasad Nadig (sysop, Kannada Wikipedia)</p>
<p>More details on the program is at:</p>
<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Prashanthns/Wikiconference">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Prashanthns/Wikiconference</a></p>
<p><a href="http://hpnadig.net/sites/hpnadig.net/files/WikiAcademy.pdf">http://hpnadig.net/sites/hpnadig.net/files/WikiAcademy.pdf</a></p>
<p>(Feel free to pass this on to your friends in Mangalore)</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/news/wikipedia-academy-in-mangalore'>http://editors.cis-india.org/news/wikipedia-academy-in-mangalore</a>
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