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Access to Knowledge Bulletin — February 2013
http://editors.cis-india.org/about/newsletters/access-to-knowledge-bulletin-february-2013
<b>In the second issue of our newsletter for 2013, we are glad to introduce you to our new programme officer, Dr. U.B. Pavanaja. The A2K team consists of four members based in Delhi: T. Vishnu Vardhan, Nitika Tandon, Subhashish Panigrahi and Noopur Raval, and one new team member Dr. U.B. Pavanaja who works from Bangalore office. </b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Wikipedians from various communities can request for outreach programs, technical bugs, logistics-merchandize and media, public relations and communications at <a href="http://bit.ly/TOcXId" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/TOcXId</a>.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">New Team Member</h3>
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<li><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/people/our-team">Dr. U.B. Pavanaja</a> joined the A2K team as Programme Officer, India Language Initiatives on March 4, 2013. Dr. Pavanaja holds a Master’s degree from Mysore University and Ph.D. from Mumbai University. He was a scientist at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, for about 15 years. He is one of the earliest editors of Kannada Wikipedia. He has to his credit many firsts, viz., first Kannada website, first Kannada online magazine, first Indian language (Kannada) website to receive Golden Web Award, first Indian language (Kannada) editor for Palm OS, first Indian language (Kannada) editor for WinCE device (HP Jornado 720), first Indian language version (Kannada) of universally popular Logo (programming language for children) software, etc. His Kannada logo won the Manthan Award for the year 2006. He was a member of the technical advisory committee setup by the Govt. of Karnataka for Standardization of Kannada on Computers (2000). He is also a member of the Kannada Software Committee of Govt. of Karnataka (2008-current). </li>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Events Participated In</h3>
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<li><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog/foss-wikimedia-under-one-roof-gnunify">GNUnify 2013</a> (organized by Pune Linux/Unix User Group and Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies & Research, Pune, February 15 – 17, 2013). Subhashish Panigrahi participated in the event. </li>
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<li><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog/creative-commons-comes-to-india">Creative Commons comes to India</a> (co-organized by Pune Linux/Unix User Group and Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies & Research in Pune, February 15, 2013, and CIS the Wikimedia India Chapter, Chitrakala Parishad, Bangalore, February 25, 2013).The Access to Knowledge team participated in the CC meetings organized in Bangalore.</li>
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<li><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog/fifty-fourth-bangalore-wikimedia-meetup">Fifty-fourth Bangalore Wikimedia Meet-up at IIM, Bangalore</a> (organized by Radhakrishna Arvapally, SIG (Special Interest Group) Chair, Bangalore (a part of the Wikimedia India Chapter) with support from Solutions IQ, Wikimedia India Chapter and CIS, Indian Institute of Management, February 25, 2013). Sudhwana Jogalekar (President, Wikimedia India) spoke on Wikimedia Projects. T. Vishnu Vardhan (Programme Director, A2K, CIS) gave a talk on 'Accessibility to Knowledge'. Joe Justice (Founder WikiSpeed) and Vibhu Srinivasan gave a presentation of WikiSpeed Car project. Chief Guest K.S. Viswanath (Vice President, Industry Initiatives, NASSCOM) gave the welcome address. Noopur Raval participated in the event. </li>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/knowledge-sharing-through-glam">Knowledge Sharing through GLAM at Bangalore</a> (organized by Wikimedia India and Creative Commons, Karnataka Chitrakala Parishad, Kumara Krupa Road, Bangalore, February 25, 2013). Dr. U.B. Pavanaja, Nitika Tandon and Subhashish Panigrahi participated in the event. CIS supported the event.</li>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Education Program</h3>
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<li><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog/odia-wikipedia-education-program-iimc-dhenkanal">Odia Wikipedia Community Brings Wikipedia Education Program to IIMC, Dhenkanal</a> (by Subhashish Panigrahi, February 28, 2013).</li>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Event Reports</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS organised one Wiki workshop in the month of February 2013, and also brings you the report from an event organised in the month of January:</p>
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<li><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog/celebrating-odia-wikipedias-ninth-anniversary">Celebrating Odia Wikipedia's Ninth Anniversary</a> (organized by the Odia Wiki Community with support from CIS and Academy for Media Learning, January 29, 2013, Bhubaneswar). Few glimpses of the event are available as an audio podcast.</li>
<li><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog/digital-literacy-workshop">Digital Literacy Workshop at Department of Arts, Delhi University</a> (by Nitika Tandon, February 5, 2013).</li>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Media Coverage</h3>
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<li><a href="http://odishan.com/?p=2534" target="_blank">ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆର ନବମ ଜନ୍ମତିଥି ଅବସରରେ କର୍ମଶାଳା: ଇମିଡ଼ିଆରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷାର ପ୍ରୟୋଗ</a> (Odishan.com, February 4, 2013). </li>
<li><b>ସମ୍ବାଦ</b><b>:</b><a href="http://sambadepaper.com/Details.aspx?id=36615&boxid=23625437" target="_blank"><i><b> </b></i>ଲିପି ବ୍ୟାକରଣ ଓ ମାନକ ଭାଷାର ପ୍ରୟୋଗ ଜରୁରୀ</a>. (Sambad, February, 2013). </li>
<li><a href="http://www.eindiadiary.com/content/odisha-workshop-organized-9th-anniversary-odia-language-application-odia-language-e-media" target="_blank">Odisha: Workshop organized on 9th Anniversary of Odia language: Application of Odia language in e-media</a> (e India Bureau, March 2, 2013). </li>
<li><a href="http://news.fullorissa.com/odia-wikipedias-9th-anniversary/" target="_blank">Odia Wikipedia’s 9th anniversary</a> (fullOrissa News, February 13, 2013). </li>
<li><a href="http://indiaeducationdiary.in/Orissa/Shownews.asp?newsid=19485" target="_blank">Odisha: Workshop organized on 9th Anniversary of Odia language: Application of Odia language in e-media</a> (India Education Diary.com, March 2, 2013). Subhashish Panigrahi is quoted. </li>
<li><a href="http://www.odishaviews.com/odia-language-workshop-organized-on-9th-anniversary-of-odia-wikipedia-application-of-odia-language-in-e-media/" target="_blank">Odia language workshop organized on 9th Anniversary of Odia Wikipedia: Application of Odia language in e-media</a> (Odishaviews.com, February 5, 2013). Subhashish Panigrahi is quoted.</li>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Ongoing Events</h3>
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<li><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-workshop-bits-goa">Wikipedia Workshop @ BITS Goa</a> (BITS Pilani K K Birla Goa Campus, March 7, 2013, 5.30 p.m. to 8.00 p.m.). </li>
<li><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-editing-workshop-in-goa">A Wikipedia Editing Workshop in Goa</a> (Nirmala Institute of Education, Goa, March 8, 2013, 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.).</li>
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<h3>Announcement</h3>
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<li><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/news/sanskrit-wikiquote">Sanskrit Wikiquote — Now Available</a>!: The Access to Knowledge team at CIS is happy to announce the availability of Sanskrit Wikiquote. Shiju Alex, an ex-team member played an active role in bringing this out. For more info see <a href="http://bit.ly/Y9OY9R">http://bit.ly/Y9OY9R</a>.</li>
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<h2 style="text-align: justify; "><a href="http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/">About CIS</a></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS was registered as a society in Bangalore in 2008. As an independent, non-profit research organisation, it runs different policy research programmes such as Accessibility, Access to Knowledge, Openness, Internet Governance, and Telecom. The policy research programmes have resulted in outputs such as the <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/advocacy/accessibility/blog/e-accessibility-handbook">e-Accessibility Policy Handbook for Persons with Disabilities</a> with ITU and G3ict, and <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/digital-natives/front-page/blog/dnbook">Digital Alternatives with a Cause?</a>, <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/digital-natives/front-page/blog/position-papers">Thinkathon Position Papers</a> and the <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/digital-natives/front-page/blog/digital-natives-with-a-cause-a-report">Digital Natives with a Cause? Report</a> with Hivos, etc. We have conducted policy research for the Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, etc., on <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/a2k/blog/cis-analysis-july2011-treaty-print-disabilities">WIPO Treaties</a>, <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/a2k/blog/analysis-copyright-amendment-bill-2012">Copyright Bill</a>, <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/internet-governance/front-page/blog/cis-feedback-to-nia-bill">NIA Bill</a>, etc.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS is accredited as an observer at WIPO. CIS staff participates in the Standing Committee for Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) meetings regularly held in Geneva, and participate in the discussions and comments on them from a public interest perspective. Our Policy Director, Nirmita Narasimhan won the <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/accessibility/blog/national-award">National Award for Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities</a> from the Government of India and also received the <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/about/news/nirmita-nivh-award">NIVH Excellence Award</a>.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Follow us elsewhere</h3>
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<li>Get short, timely messages from us on <a href="https://twitter.com/cis_india">Twitter</a></li>
<li>Join the CIS group on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/groups/28535315687/">Facebook</a></li>
<li>Visit us at <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/">http://cis-india.org</a></li>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Support Us</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Please help us defend consumer / citizen rights on the Internet! Write a cheque in favour of ‘The Centre for Internet and Society’ and mail it to us at No. 194, 2nd ‘C’ Cross, Domlur, 2nd Stage, Bengaluru – 5600 71.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Request for Collaboration</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">We invite researchers, practitioners, and theoreticians, both organisationally and as individuals, to collaboratively engage with Internet and society and improve our understanding of this new field. To discuss the research collaborations, write to Sunil Abraham, Executive Director, at <a href="mailto:sunil@cis-india.org">sunil@cis-india.org</a> or Nishant Shah, Director – Research, at <a href="mailto:nishant@cis-india.org">nishant@cis-india.org</a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><i>CIS is grateful to its donors, Wikimedia Foundation, Ford Foundation, Privacy International, UK, Hans Foundation and the Kusuma Trust which was founded by Anurag Dikshit and Soma Pujari, philanthropists of Indian origin, for its core funding and support for most of its projects.</i></p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/about/newsletters/access-to-knowledge-bulletin-february-2013'>http://editors.cis-india.org/about/newsletters/access-to-knowledge-bulletin-february-2013</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaOpennessWikipediaAccess to KnowledgeWikimedia2013-03-12T04:20:14ZPageWikipedia at Avenir
http://editors.cis-india.org/news/wikipedia-at-avenir
<b>A 4 hours Wikipedia event at Avenir, 2013 is being held at Netaji Subhash Engineering College, Kolkata, West Bengal on 11th March 2013. The Centre for Internet and Society is supporting this event.</b>
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<p>Read the event page on <a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_at_Avenir">Wikipedia</a></p>
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<h2 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Basic_Agenda">Basic Agenda</span></h2>
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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>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>Basic grasp of Javascript, CSS</li>
<li>An account on Wikipedia</li>
<li>A modern browser (preferably Chrome, but Firefox with Firebug will also do)</li>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="What_will_you_have_learnt_at_the_end_of_it.3F_2">What will you have learnt at the end of it?</span></h3>
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<li>Understanding how user scripts work</li>
<li>Be able to use the MediaWiki API appropriately</li>
<li>Improve your own wiki experience / experience for your language wikipedia by writing scripts</li>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Lesson_Plan">Lesson Plan</span></h3>
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<li>Environment (JS, Dev Toolbar, Common.js, importScript)</li>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Facilitators_2">Facilitators</span></h3>
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<li><a class="text external" href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Yuvipanda">Yuvi Panda</a></li>
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<h2 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Register_Yourselves.21">Register Yourselves!</span></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Folks who are interested to join us, are requested to fill up the <a class="text external" href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1qh4B6_0NU_H2XkVUl1jaz3xhEP2tqxr0mFNsSAjg6SI/viewform" rel="nofollow">form</a> and register themselves for the event. We shall send you an invitation via email!</p>
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<li><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Harsh4101991" title="User:Harsh4101991">Harsh Kothari</a></li>
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<li>Data (API, API Sandbox, actions)</li>
<li>Accessing Data from the Environment (AJAX concepts, mw.API, mw.loader.using)</li>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/news/wikipedia-at-avenir'>http://editors.cis-india.org/news/wikipedia-at-avenir</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaOpennessWikipediaAccess to KnowledgeWikimedia2013-03-11T04:08:23ZNews ItemA Wikipedia Editing Workshop in Goa
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-editing-workshop-in-goa
<b>On the occasion of International Women's Day, the Access to Knowledge team from the Centre for Internet & Society is organizing a wikipedia editing workshop on March 8, 2013 at Nirmala Institute of Education, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m., followed by an offline and online editathon.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The online editathon is a month-long affair, which will be held every weekend starting with the weekend after March 8. The goal of the month-long event is to encourage more women to contribute to Wikipedia and increase representation of articles related to women in Wikipedia.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The event aims at creating new articles, expanding the existing stubs and translating English articles to various Indian languages. Members are requested to start edithons in regional language Wikipedias.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-editing-workshop-in-goa'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-editing-workshop-in-goa</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaOpennessEvent2013-03-05T09:10:24ZEventWikipedia Workshop @ BITS Goa
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-workshop-bits-goa
<b>The Access to Knowledge team at the Centre for Internet & Society is organising a workshop at BITS Pilani KK Birla Goa Campus on March 7, 2013, from 5.30 p.m. to 8.00 p.m.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The workshop aims to spread awareness about Wikipedia, who edits Wikipedia and how to edit Wikipedia. Some of you might be curious to learn more about Wikipedia and contribute to this pool of knowledge in your own special ways. We'd like to encourage such students and provide them all the information and support they need. Several colleges and universities across the world have already successfully participated in similar Wikipedia workshops.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Below are some more details about the Wikipedia session:</p>
<p><b>Purpose:</b></p>
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<li><b><span>Understand what is Wikipedia</span></b></li>
<li>Explore how Wikipedia works</li>
<li>Learn how they can contribute (i.e., writing) to Wikipedia</li>
<li><b><span>Discover what they (students / faculty / institutes) can gain by editing </span></b></li>
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<div><b>Logistics:</b></div>
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<li>A room big enough to accommodate all the students comfortably</li>
<li>If possible, laptops or computers for everyone</li>
<li>Stable internet connection</li>
<li>Projector facility</li>
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<p><b> Duration:</b></p>
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<li>2-3 hour workshop</li>
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<p><b>Participants</b></p>
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<li>Maximum 40-50</li>
<li>Students, faculty & staff</li>
<li>Please do convey to everyone that it is totally voluntary and should not be in lieu of attendance, etc.</li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Our experience has shown that Wikipedia for students (and, indeed faculty) is invaluable in supporting better writing skills, stronger research abilities, richer critical thinking, improved collaboration as well as providing a massive global audience to students (which drives academic excellence).</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Feel free to get in touch with Nitika Tandon (<a class="mail-link" href="mailto:nitika@cis-india.org">nitika@cis-india.org)</a> if you have any queries.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-workshop-bits-goa'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-workshop-bits-goa</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaOpennessWikipediaEventWikimedia2013-03-05T08:29:13ZEventCreative Commons comes to India
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/creative-commons-comes-to-india
<b>Creative Commons team visited four Indian cities to spread the word about CC free licenses and CC affiliate program. Wikimedia India chapter was approached to join hands with Creative Commons for research and community building.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><a href="http://creativecommons.org/staff#jessicacoates" target="_blank">Jessica Coates</a>, Global Network Manager and <a href="http://creativecommons.org/staff#janehornibrook" target="_blank">Jane Hornibrook</a>, Regional Coordinator, Asia-Pacific, <a class="external-link" href="http://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons </a>recently visited India. The <a class="external-link" href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge">Access to Knowledge</a> team from the <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/" class="external-link">Centre for Internet and Society</a> got a chance to join them for three of their meetings: one in Pune and two in Bengaluru.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Ceative Commons is a not-for-profit organization and the base for the free licenses. More than 400 million work in the world are in Creative Commons license as of today. The foundation is looking to expand its wing of voluntary affiliates in India who would support for more outreach, community building and research. "We are excited to see the wikipedians in India and their passion to contribute to Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. Wikimedia Commons is the largest Creative Commons license use and we are looking for joining hands with the Indian wikipedians and the Wikimedia India chapter", says Jessica Coats.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center; "><img src="http://editors.cis-india.org/home-images/CreativeCommons.png" alt="Creative Commons Bengaluru" class="image-inline" title="Creative Commons Bengaluru" /></p>
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<td><span class="description">Jessica Coates and Jane Hornibrook from Creative Commons at Centre of Internet and Society, Bengaluru</span></td>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Jane Hornibook, who looks after Creative Common's operation in Asia-Pacific said, "Creative Commons has many users in India. It would be exciting for us to collaborate with more academicians, wikipedians and organizations like Wikimedia India Chapter and CIS for peer research and outreach and grow our <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC_Affiliate_Network" target="_blank">affiliate network</a> in India.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Video</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><iframe frameborder="0" height="300" src="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jessica_Coates_and_Jane_Hornibrook,_Creative_Commons-GNUnify.webm?embedplayer=yes" width="400"></iframe><br /><br />Note: This blog post is a combination of events organized in Pune by Pune Linux/Unix User Group and Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies & Research, and CIS and the Wikimedia India Chapter in Bangalore.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/creative-commons-comes-to-india'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/creative-commons-comes-to-india</a>
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No publishersubhaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaVideoOpenness2013-07-17T06:49:55ZBlog EntryFifty-fourth Bangalore Wikimedia Meet-up at IIM, Bangalore
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/fifty-fourth-bangalore-wikimedia-meetup
<b>The 54th Wikimedia meet-up in Bangalore was held at the Indian Institute of Management on February 25, 2013. The event was planned and organized by Radhakrishna Arvapally, SIG (Special Interest Group) Chair, Bangalore (a part of the Wikimedia India Chapter) with support from Solutions IQ, Wikimedia India Chapter and CIS.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The proposed agenda was as follows: an introduction to Wikimedia projects by Sudhanwa Jogalekar, President of Wikimedia India Chapter, a talk on accessibility and knowledge by T. Vishnu Vardhan, Programme Director, Access to Knowledge, followed by a session on WikiSpeed – extreme manufacturing of high speed cars by Joe Justice and Vibhu Srinivasan from Solutions IQ. Mr K S Viswanathan, Vice President (NASSCOM) was the chief guest. He spoke to the participants about the importance of developing a digital hub of free knowledge.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Sudhanwa gave a brief introduction to the world of Wikimedia including projects like Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Incubator, MediaWiki and more. He also explained how one could contribute to each of these projects. He mentioned two upcoming projects – Wikivoyage and Wikidata. He answered a few questions after his session and encouraged participants to become members of the Wikimedia India Chapter and get involved in Wikimedia activities in India. Here are the details to become a member.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Vishnu’s talk was about understanding why Wikipedia and what is the importance of enabling access to knowledge resources. He took the example of older technologies and what propelled their invention. In the interactive session, we explored our relationship with knowledge resources, how happy we are with the knowledge we get and how we can make the access better and wider. The discussion also touched upon knowledge resources in Indian languages in the digital domain and the problems associated with them. Participants noted some challenges like affordability, awareness, fonts, low visibility in search etc. They also agreed that given the multilingualism, machine translations are not the solution to knowledge gaps in Indian languages in the digital domain. Another question was about awareness versus access to existing knowledge.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">We also discussed how audio technologies could help the cause of Indian languages in education. Radhakrishna coordinated the sessions and answered questions related to content on Wikipedia, authenticity of knowledge on Wikipedia.</p>
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<td>Participants seen in the classroom during the Wiki meetup at IIM, Bangalore</td>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">In the next session, Joe Justice and Vibhu Srinivasan spoke about WikiSpeed cars, a DIY project to make high-speed cars by harnessing work methods from the Open Source movement. Joe spoke of Kanban and agile engineering. He also explained how the car uses Arduino circuit boards and this project is being scaled so that people across the world can make functional cars collaboratively. He also invited the participants to WikiSpeed event in Bangalore.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Mr Viswanathan then spoke about TEQIP (Technical education and Skill Development Cycle), a program devised to ensure industry exposure and experience to students in technical fields. He also mentioned how the curriculum would be freely available online for all to use. Radhakrishna made the concluding remarks and thanked all the participants and guests for attending.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The meetup ended with questions and more interaction. Details of upcoming Wikimedia meetups in Bangalore can be found <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore">here</a>.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/fifty-fourth-bangalore-wikimedia-meetup'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/fifty-fourth-bangalore-wikimedia-meetup</a>
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No publishernoopurOpennessWikipediaAccess to KnowledgeWikimedia2013-03-06T09:09:03ZBlog EntryFOSS, Wikimedia and Mozilla Under One Roof at GNUnify 2013, Pune
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/foss-wikimedia-under-one-roof-gnunify
<b>GNUnify 2013 organized in the campus in Pune from February 15 to 17, 2013. The event was organized by Pune Linux/Unix User Group (PLUG) and Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies & Research (SICSR). Subhashish Panigrahi reports the outcomes in this blog post.</b>
<p><a class="external-link" href="http://www.gnunify.in/">GNUnify</a> is an annual gathering consisting of <a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_software">Free and Open Source software</a> workshops, talks, seminars and BOFs (Birds of a feather). This was hosted by the <a class="external-link" href="http://www.plug.org.in/">Pune Linux User Group</a> and the <a class="external-link" href="http://sicsr.ac.in/">Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies</a> and Research in Pune, India.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Day 1: February 15, 2013</b><br />The first day of the event had many parallel tracks including talks on KDE, Firefox OS, FUEL Project, Wikimedia Localization, OpenSSL, Discussions on Creative Commons, OpenStack and few technical workshops.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Day 2: February 16, 2013</b><br />Few of the full day events includes several talks and discussions about Mozilla and Firefox, Internationalization, Localization and Indic language input method related talks and workshops by the Wikimedia Foundation Engineering team (More details on mediawiki.org), Drupal and workshop and talks on Python. Wikipedians, translators from various languages, A2K team members Vishnu Vardhan and Subhashish had an open conversation with the Wikimedia Foundation Engineering team.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Day 3: February</b> <b>17, 2013</b><br />The final day of GNUnify had 3 major parallel day long events; Mozilla India community meetup, Wikipedia translation sprint and Wikipedia gadget workshop. At the end of all the events participants gathered for a group photo and socialized.<b><br /> </b></p>
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<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="300" src="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jessica_Coates_and_Jane_Hornibrook,_Creative_Commons-GNUnify.webm?embedplayer=yes" width="300"></iframe></p>
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<h2>Podcasts<br /> <iframe frameborder="0" height="23" src="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amir_Aharoni,_Yuvi_Panda-talk-GNUnify-1.ogg?embedplayer=yes" width="300"></iframe></h2>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/foss-wikimedia-under-one-roof-gnunify'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/foss-wikimedia-under-one-roof-gnunify</a>
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No publishersubhaOpennessWikipediaAccess to KnowledgeWikimedia2013-07-17T06:55:43ZBlog EntryOdia 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 EntryCelebrating Odia Wikipedia's Ninth Anniversary
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/celebrating-odia-wikipedias-ninth-anniversary
<b>Odia Wikipedia saw its first edit on January 29, 2004. After a dormancy of many years it got revived in 2011. To commemorate the effort of many volunteer wikipedians, a celebratory event was organized on January 29, 2013 in Bhubaneswar. Subhashish Panigrahi participated in this event.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><a href="http://or.wikipedia.org/">Odia Wikipedia</a> recently has celebrated its <a href="http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ:ମେଳଣ/ଭୁବନେଶ୍ୱର/ଭୁବନେଶ୍ୱର୪">9</a><a href="http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ:ମେଳଣ/ଭୁବନେଶ୍ୱର/ଭୁବନେଶ୍ୱର୪"><sup>th</sup></a><a href="http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ:ମେଳଣ/ଭୁବନେଶ୍ୱର/ଭୁବନେଶ୍ୱର୪"> anniversary</a>. January 29 is considered to be that day when someone made a first edit on it. Communities from Bhubaneswar, Cuttack and Nalconagar joined hands to celebrate this event with a panel discussion on "Application of Odia language in e-media". The discussion was coordinated by Nilambar Rath, Director of Academy for Media Learning. The event was organized by the Odia Wiki Community with support from <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/">The Centre for Internet and Society</a> in collaboration with <a href="http://www.aml.edu.in/">Academy for Media Learning</a>. Panelists who took part in the discussion were Prasanna Kumar Mohanty, Director of "Odia Bhasa Pratisthan", Dr. Prafulla Tripathy, Odia linguist and writer, Dr. Dhanada Mishra, Academician and Director-Academics, <a href="http://www.kmbb.in/">KMBB College of Engineering</a>, Subhashish Panigrahi, Programme Officer, Centre for Internet and Society, Jatindra Das, Senior journalist and founder, <a href="http://Odisha.com/">Odisha.com</a> and Subhransu Panda, Senior journalist, <a href="http://www.orissasambad.com/">Sambad</a>. Wikipedians, students and journalists took active part in the discussion.</p>
<p>To celebrate the success of Odia Wikipedia, wikipedians joined the guest to cut a “<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chhena_Poda">Chhenapoda</a>” and light Deepam as an integral part of the Odia culture.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The discussion began with Nilambar Rath speaking briefly about the agenda of the meeting and about the current scenario of the use of Odia language in media especially in the web. Prasanna Kumar Mohanty spoke about how the true form of the language should be taken to public via media. He also emphasized about the need to sacrifice our conventional way of approach and adopt new technologies like Wikipedia. Many such efforts are not rewarded because of the lack of support from the government even though funding is available for such development. Odia linguist Prafulla Tripathy explained about the lack of public interest to pledge for declaring Odia as a classical language even though Odia holds the 31<sup>st</sup> position among 6500 world languages. "The language of our personal lives, social interaction and verbal communication never gets documented. The confusion among various linguists is another obstacle to take Odia to a global level. If the script grammar is kept in focus and script and eventually the fonts are simplified then they would be easier to be used online", he expressed. Dr. Tripathy also shared his experience of his interaction with other Indian language experts at places where he worked such as on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_character_recognition">OCR (Optical character reading)</a> software which could be a great tool to digitize many precious resources. He offered his support for helping with OCR in Odia. Few other aspects of simpler approaches of scripts discussed were glossary, Odia-English and English-Odia lexicon, spell check feature for typing and interactive e-learning which could boost the effort of the wikipedians.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Prof. Dhanada Mishra took the audience through the free and open source culture and Linux and future role of Odia Wikipedia to tackle the problems of primary education. He thanked the wikipedians for their noble effort and showed his interest in promoting it more in academics. Subhashish Panigrahi discussed about the role of Odia Wikipedia in documenting various resources in Odia Wikipedia. He brought various technical problems that common men face while typing, contributing to Wikipedia and how they could be handled. He also proposed a plan for bringing more language experts and museum curators to the community which would increase the spectrum of resource and capacity for the Odia Wikimedia community.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Jatindra Das, founder of the first online Odia newspaper Odisha.com discussed about the hurdles of using Odia Unicode and acceptance level in the society for it. Senior journalist Subhransu Panda discussed about the usage of various fonts and how adopting Unicode could bring a lot of information to the public.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Nilambar Rath, Director, Academy for Media Learning talked about the future efforts of Odia Wikipedia community. He elaborated how media could be used as an essential tool for taking Wikipedia to more people. Mrutyunjaya Kar, one of the very active Wikipedians closed the ceremony with a brief talk about the achievements, education program and impact of Odia Wikipedia in the recent past and community building plans.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">There was a press meet in the afternoon. Wikipedians interacted with the media about future prospects of Odia Wikipedia and its current state.</p>
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<td style="text-align: center; "><i>Odia wikipedians being felicitated by the guests</i></td>
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<th style="text-align: center; ">Few glimpses of the event<br /><iframe frameborder="0" height="253" src="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bhubaneswar_Odia_Meetup_2013Jan29-32.webm?embedplayer=yes" width="450"></iframe><br />Audio Podcast<br /><iframe frameborder="0" height="23" src="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prafulla_Tripathy_on_Odia_script_and_Odia_Wikipedia.ogg?embedplayer=yes" width="300"></iframe></th>
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<p><b><br />Press coverage:</b></p>
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<li><span></span><span><b>ଓଡ଼ିଶାନ୍:</b></span><a href="http://odishan.com/?p=2534"><span><span><span><b> </b>ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆର ନବମ ଜନ୍ମତିଥି ଅବସରରେ କର୍ମଶାଳା</span></span></span></a><a href="http://odishan.com/?p=2534"><span><span><span>: </span></span></span></a><a href="http://odishan.com/?p=2534"><span><span><span>ଇମିଡ଼ିଆରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷାର ପ୍ରୟୋଗ</span></span></span></a><span><span>.</span></span><span><b> </b></span><span><b></b></span></li>
<li> <span><b>ସମ୍ବାଦ:</b></span><a href="http://sambadepaper.com/Details.aspx?id=36615&boxid=23625437"><span><i><span><b> </b>ଲିପି ବ୍ୟାକରଣ ଓ ମାନକ ଭାଷାର ପ୍ରୟୋଗ ଜରୁରୀ</span></i></span></a><span><span>.</span></span><span><b> </b></span></li>
<li> <span>eindiadiary.com:</span><a href="http://www.eindiadiary.com/content/odisha-workshop-organized-9th-anniversary-odia-language-application-odia-language-e-media"><span><span>Odisha: Workshop organized on 9th Anniversary of Odia language: Application of Odia language in e-media</span></span></a><span><span>.</span></span></li>
<li> <span>Fullorissa.com:</span><a href="http://news.fullorissa.com/odia-wikipedias-9th-anniversary/"><span> Odia Wikipedia’s 9th anniversary</span></a><span><b>. </b></span><span>Fullorissa.com</span></li>
<li> <span>orissadiary.com:</span><a href="http://www.orissadiary.com/ShowEvents.asp?id=3924"><span><span>Odisha: Workshop organized on 9th Anniversary of Odia language: Application of Odia language in e-media</span></span></a><span><span>.</span></span></li>
<li> <span><span>In</span></span><span>diaeducationdiary.in:</span><a href="http://indiaeducationdiary.in/Orissa/Shownews.asp?newsid=19485"><span><span>Odisha: Workshop organized on 9th Anniversary of Odia language: Application of Odia language in e-media</span></span></a><span><span>. </span></span><span></span></li>
<li> <span>Odishaviews.com:</span><a href="http://www.odishaviews.com/odia-language-workshop-organized-on-9th-anniversary-of-odia-wikipedia-application-of-odia-language-in-e-media/">Odia language workshop organized on 9th Anniversary of Odia Wikipedia: Application of Odia language in e-media</a><i>. </i>Subhashish Panigrahi is quoted.<i><br /></i></li>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/celebrating-odia-wikipedias-ninth-anniversary'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/celebrating-odia-wikipedias-ninth-anniversary</a>
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No publishersubhaOpennessFeaturedWikipediaWikimedia2013-02-28T04:32:29ZBlog EntryKnowledge Sharing through GLAM at Bangalore
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/knowledge-sharing-through-glam
<b>A seminar for GLAM institutions (GLAM stands for Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) will be held in Bangalore on February 25, 2013, from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. The program is supported by Wikimedia, Creative Commons and the Centre for Internet & Society.</b>
<h2>Sponsors</h2>
<p>This program is sponsored by:</p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; ">Wikimedia Chapter, (WMIN), Bengaluru, a non profit society and the India Chapter of Wikimedia Foundation,</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Center for Internet and Studies, (CIS), Bengaluru, an independent NGO, operating the Access to Knowledge program for Wikimedia Foundation,</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Creative Commons, USA, a nonprofit organization that enables people to share their knowledge and creativity through free legal tools, <br />in partnership with</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">College of Fine Arts, Karnataka Chitrakala Parishad, Bengaluru, an autonomous institution promoting Art, and Education. Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath was first established as “Chitrakala Vidyalaya”, under the aegis of Chitrakala Parishath in 1964. The founder secretary Late Prof. M.S. Nanjunda Rao was instrumental in establishing and developing the institute, which has grown to the current international status. The Institution offers Post- Graduate and Post- Diploma courses, and proposes to begin a PhD programme [Research Centre] in the near future. Presently the Institution has been accredited and functioning as an Autonomous Institution as set by the U.G.C. and Bangalore University.</li>
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<h3>What is GLAM and what does it have to do with Wikimedia and Creative Commons?</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>GLAM</b> is an acronym for Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums. It also incorporates other cultural institutions such as theatres, zoos, botanical gardens, public broadcasters, etc.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The <b>GLAM-WIKI</b> project supports GLAMs and other institutions who want to work with Wikimedia to produce open-access, freely-reusable content for the public.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Why contribute?</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Every cultural institution has an abundance of resources to share. A partnership with Wikimedia is a low cost, high-impact way for them to disseminate their resources to a global audience.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">How to contribute?</h3>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><b>Wikipedia</b> - Contributions can include article creation or expansion, reference correction and expansion, and institutional research/text donations.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><b>Wikimedia Commons</b> - Contributions can include images, video, and other media as well as descriptions and metadata for already-existing files in the repository.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><b>Wikisource</b> - As a collection of free and open content texts of original sources, appropriate contributions include out-of-copyright books and documents.</li>
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<h3>How does it help the GLAM institution?</h3>
<p>Here are a few reasons:</p>
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<li>It fits in closely with the core mission of the cultural institution of preserving heritage and history.</li>
<li>It step jumps the GLAM institution’s reach by increasing potential audiences.</li>
<li>Footfalls to the GLAM institution are likely to increase through greater awareness of the institute’s collection and knowledge.</li>
<li>It will provide a well-tested platform for the digitization efforts of the GLAM institution. Staff will find it satisfying given its global reach and impact.</li>
<li>There is a strong likelihood of higher public relations coverage of the GLAM institute because of Wikipedia’s goodwill.</li>
<li>Wikimedia Foundation and Creative Commons are nonprofit organizations.</li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Different GLAMs have different needs and goals for their projects, and this seminar will educate the audience on how GLAM-WIKI fits these with Wikimedia's goals of free knowledge. From existing partnership programs Wikimedia India will present a few global projects, and examples on how they've worked in practice and benefited every one including the GLAM institutions.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; ">Creative Commons</h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that enables users to share their knowledge and creativity through free legal tools. They develop, support, and steward legal and technical infrastructure that maximizes digital creativity, sharing, and innovation.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Copyright laws were developed in a previous era where in protection was given to artists, authors, and other creators as a default. In this situation sharing requires a deliberate prior permission. In the internet era, so much of sharing of digital media is happening online, and these require tools that ensure prior permission, and control the level of use. The legal tools of Creative Commons enable controlled sharing.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Creative Commons licenses are not an alternative to copyright. They work alongside copyright and enable users to modify their copyright terms to best suit their needs.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">What will users learn?</h3>
<p>In this part of the seminar users will learn about:</p>
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<li>Creative Commons as an organization</li>
<li>How the Creative Commons licenses work</li>
<li>How they relate to Open GLAM, and Wikimedia</li>
<li>What are the tools? How to choose them and use them</li>
<li>How can people selectively retain rights, while releasing some of it for free public use</li>
<li>Examples of how GLAM institutions are using CC</li>
<li>New business models and online communities</li>
<li>Other applications of CC</li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">The speakers from Creative Commons have a long experience of discussing CC with GLAM institutions.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CC licensing also works for many other applications such as music, video, writing, and many other creative works. Open Education Resources, and Public Data are also some of the domains. The focus of the presentation will be on GLAM. However, people interested in other applications may also be able to take the opportunity to have discussions after the main presentation.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Who should attend the seminar?</h3>
<p>The seminar would be of interests to:</p>
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<li>Administrators of Public policy</li>
<li>Administrators of GLAM institutions</li>
<li>Art historians, Artists, Photographers, and Sculptors</li>
<li>Legal professionals</li>
<li>Bloggers, Authors, Editors, and Publishers.</li>
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<h2>Admission:</h2>
<p>Admission is free to the public who register. <b>Please bring a print copy of this registration page for admission</b>.</p>
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<li>Please visit the link to register: <a class="external-link" href="http://bit.ly/VZ8yIE">http://bit.ly/VZ8yIE</a></li>
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<li>Location map of venue: <a class="external-link" href="http://goo.gl/maps/sYsxI">http://goo.gl/maps/sYsxI</a></li>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/knowledge-sharing-through-glam'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/knowledge-sharing-through-glam</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpennessEvent2013-02-18T05:37:46ZEventWikimedia Bangalore Meetup @ Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wikimedia-bangalore-meetup-at-iimb
<b>The Access to Knowledge team of the Centre for Internet & Society in partnership with Wikispeed and NASSCOM is organizing meetup at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore on February 25, 2013 at 2.00 p.m. Vishnu Vardhan will speak on the Access to Knowledge program.</b>
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<p>Register for the event <a class="external-link" href="http://wpmbl54.doattend.com">here</a></p>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaOpennessEvent2013-02-14T06:01:28ZEventWiki Meet-up in Bangalore: Talk by Vishnu Vardhan
http://editors.cis-india.org/news/wiki-meet-up-bangalore
<b>Vishnu Vardhan, Director of Access to Knowledge team at CIS has been invited by the Bangalore SIG Chair. Vishnu will speak on the Access to Knowledge (Wikipedia) project. The talk is scheduled for February 25, 2013 at 2.00 p.m. in Bangalore.</b>
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<li> Wikimedia Projects </li>
<li> Access to Knowledge by Mr.Vishnu Vardhan, Director A2K, CIS </li>
<li> Guest Talk by Mr.Joe Justice, Founder WikiSpeed & Mr.Vibhu Srinivasan, MD, Solutions IQ </li>
<li> Audience address by Chief Guest, Mr.KS Viswanath, Vice President, Industry Initiatives, NASSCOM </li>
<li> Networking </li>
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<h2>KS Viswanath</h2>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Mr. K.S. Viswanathan, Vice President, Industry Initiatives, NASSCOM, has around 32 years of general management and leadership experience in the Indian business context, building key executive relationships and a strong customer capital in diverse business environment. His extensive work experience in the IT industry and social sector comprises of developing and executing operational strategies, managing customer engagement programs, and establishing models for customer acquisition and retention. Over the span of his career, Mr. Viswanathan has held strategic & leadership positions at Wipro, Dell, Azim Premji Foundation and Hilleman Laboratories. As the Head for India geography at Wipro Infotech (2003-2008), he led the positive transformation of and business landscape for Wipro in India. He was the first country manager for Dell in India in 2000 and was instrumental in establishing Dell’s direct business model in India. Mr. Viswanathan is a graduate from Birla Institute of Technology and Science (1979 batch). He holds a MBA in marketing from PSG College of Technology (1981 batch).</p>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; ">Vishnu Vardhan</h2>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Vishnu Vardhan is the Programme Director-Access to Knowledge at CIS since February 2013. His experience spans across academics, industry (media) and not-for-profit sectors. Over the last 11 years he has worked in various capacities as researcher, grant manager, teacher, project consultant, information architect and translator. Prior to joining CIS, Vishnu managed the Art, Crafts and Culture portfolio of the Sir Ratan Tata Trust (SRTT); where had spent 5 years in project conceptualization, management and assessment of quality and impact in the not-for-profit sector. Vishnu managed more than 30 projects and funds to the tune of Rs. 160 million. He also anchored SRTT’s automation and knowledge management activities. Vishnu worked as Research Coordinator at Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (CSCS), Bangalore where he a) coordinated the online M.A. in Cultural Studies; b) managed the Library Fellowship programme; c) conceptualized and coordinated national and international workshops and short-term courses in Media and Cultural Studies; and d) helped in building academic institutional partnerships. Vishnu is a superannuated doctoral candidate at the Centre for Media Research, University of Ulster and CSCS, Bangalore.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; ">Joe Justice</h2>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Joe Justice (@WIKISPEED) Founder, CEO, WikiSpeed Joe's team tied for 10th place in the mainstream class of the 2010 Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize, a $10 million challenge for 100+ MPG automobiles. WIKISPEED now uses agile processes to solve problems for social good. Joe has spoken to audiences at TEDx, Denver University, University of California Berkley, Google, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Rotary International, and others about social web application development, project methodology, and agile best practices. He is CEO of WIKISPEED and works at SolutionsIQ, a leading provider of Agile consulting, certified training, coaching, development, and Agile talent services, where he helps clients leverage Agile project management and team development methods to deliver solutions more reliably.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; ">Vibhu Srinivasan</h2>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Vibhu Srinivasan (@vibhu_s) Managing Director, SolutionsIQ India Vibhu Srinivasan is an Entrepreneur, Agile Coach, Technologist and currently heads SolutionsIQ India. Vibhu has an extensive technology, process, and consulting background allowing him to work with a diverse set of clients and teams. Vibhu has been practicing agile practices since 1997 (officially called Agile only in 2001).He brings to his consulting, deep rooted passion and practices gained by working in the trenches with hundreds of developers on real projects. He is very passionate about software development and can code in multiple languages. He has helped many teams in their quest for agility. He is a CTO of a early stage start up in Seattle and has an MBA in strategic management from school of business Madison. He has a very solid understanding of building large scale scalable systems having participated in various roles over the years, most recently chief architect for a game, Lead for virtualization product at Microsoft and CTO of his own start-up. He has worked in financial, gaming, visualization domains to name a few. An entrepreneur by choice he is always busy building a company/product and is currently in India heading Solutions IQ a premier provider of Agile consulting and development services in the US.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; ">Participants</h2>
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<h3>Intended Audience</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Anyone interested in Wikipedia (user, contributor or curious about it). Wikipedians from any part of India or the world and anyone who is interested in Wikipedia! Meetup is open to members of all Wikimedia projects and Wikipedians from all languages. All are welcome, and we are especially interested in seeing newcomers to join the experienced Wikipedians/Wikimedians. If you are interested in coming, please add your name below.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">The full details can be accessed on the <a class="external-link" href="http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiMeetups/Bangalore/Bangalore54#Vishnu_Vardhan">Wikipedia page</a></p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/news/wiki-meet-up-bangalore'>http://editors.cis-india.org/news/wiki-meet-up-bangalore</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaOpennessWikipediaAccess to KnowledgeWikimedia2013-02-11T06:22:56ZNews ItemSanskrit Wikiquote — Now Available!
http://editors.cis-india.org/news/sanskrit-wikiquote
<b>The Access to Knowledge team at the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) is happy to celebrate the availability of Sanskrit wikiquote. </b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">"The project is a store house of Subhashitas extracted from different scriptures like the Vedas, Upanishads Puranas, Ramayana, Mahabharatam, etc., categorised and based on the topics with explanations. It contains idioms and phrases, witty puzzles, sayings of great people, Chitrakaavyam, etc., everything in Samskrit. It is to be noted that all these, in a single webpage is not available anywhere else in such an easily available form." says Dr. Sumana, Wikipedia Wing, Samskrita Bharati.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Shiju Alex, an ex-team member of CIS played an active role in bringing this out. It has about 1260 pages under various categories, for a ready review.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">For more information, visit <a class="external-link" href="http://bit.ly/Y9OY9R">http://bit.ly/Y9OY9R</a></p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/news/sanskrit-wikiquote'>http://editors.cis-india.org/news/sanskrit-wikiquote</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaOpennessWikipediaAccess to KnowledgeWikimedia2013-03-01T05:07:38ZNews ItemDigital Literacy Workshop at Department of Arts, Delhi University
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/digital-literacy-workshop
<b>A digital literacy workshop was organised at the Department of Arts, Delhi University for students pursuing their masters in Modern Indian Languages and Literary Studies on February 5, 2013. Nitika Tandon shares the developments.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">About 30 students and 4 faculty members attended the three hour long workshop. Surprisingly most participants had a clear understanding of how Wikipedia works, who writes the content, who are the Wikipedia editors, where do these editors come from, availability of Wikipedia in different Indian languages and many other aspects that participants are usually not aware of before most wikipedia outreach sessions. I was stunned and pleasantly surprised at the same time. I was then told that many of their fellow colleagues from Hindi department had already attended a session sometime last year and had briefed them about workings with Wikipedia. The main reason to organise this particular session was the curiosity to understand how does one actually 'edit' Wikipedia.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Mid way into the session we moved to the computer lab where all participants had access to computers, laptops and internet. A computer was shared by 2-3 participants because there were'nt enough machines. To begin with students were taught how to do basic and minor editing such as correcting spelling, grammar, punctuations, the importance of show preview button and writing an edit summary. Participants were then taught wiki mark up, adding references, adding inter-wiki links.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Towards the end of the session students filled in feedback forms with their contact information so that we could keep them updated on upcoming events and meetups that are being organised in the city. Many participants had questions about how to add table of contents, pictures and info box but there wasn't enough time to cover it all.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/digital-literacy-workshop'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/digital-literacy-workshop</a>
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No publishernitikaOpennessWikipediaAccess to KnowledgeWikimedia2013-03-05T01:03:05ZBlog EntryAccess to Knowledge Report — September to December 2012
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/access-2-knowledge-report-2012
<b>This post provides an overview of the activities done by the Access to Knowledge team under the grant provided by the Wikimedia Foundation from September 2012 to December 2012.</b>
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<p>The information provided in this post can also be viewed in form of a presentation <a class="external-link" href="http://www.slideshare.net/noopurraval/a2-k-september-january-16234882">here</a>.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">The activities done by the Access to Knowledge team have been listed under events, meetups and programs. Here, events indicate workshops conducted and outreach activities supported for people outside the existing community while meetups indicate the meetings with existing community members and programs refer to education programs and competitions across different language Wikipedias. A detailed list of these events and meetups can be found in the presentation.</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY">During this period of four months, a total of 22 events were conducted in 7 languages across 14 cities reaching out to a total of 2,250 participants between the ages of 15 and 52. There were 27 meetups where approximately 150 community members participated. To list briefly, these were in the cities of Bangalore, Pune, Mumbai, Chennai, Bhubaneswar, Kolkata, Anugul, Dhenkanal, Hyderabad, Panjim, Ahmedabad, Rajkot, Karkala and Delhi.</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY">The focus of the Access to Knowledge team has significantly shifted in terms of concentrating on Indian language projects as well as limiting the scale of initiatives to ensure more engagement. We conducted and supported 5 programs including the Malayalam education program, Gujarati Wikipedia article competition, Assamese education program, Odia education program, supporting Konkani Wikipedia incubator project and Wikipedia takes Pune. In line with the Wikimedia Foundation’s narrowed focus which includes promoting technical volunteer initiatives, the Access to Knowledge team has been helping with filing bugs for Punjabi, Assamese, Odiya, Hindi, Gujarati and Marathi communities. We conducted two hackathons at BITS-Pilani Hyderabad and in Delhi and have been helping connect interested volunteers across the country including initiatives like MediaWiki groups.</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY">Including all the activities listed above, we reached out to a total of approximately 2,050 people and have connected with about 49 per cent of them who continue to receive updates on Wikipedia activities in India through our newsletters, mails, etc. Of these, approximately 387 participants (37.9 per cent) created usernames and made edits. The total number of female participants were 288 approximately which is about 28.2 per cent of the total people engaged. However, we are yet to generate a list of articles edited and the list of current active users. One useful way of tracking active editors on different Wikipedia projects is being developed by WMF Labs. <a class="external-link" href="http://global-dev.wmflabs.org/graphs/guwp_editors">Here</a> is an example of the increase/decrease in editor count on Gujarati Wikipedia. We feel that more work needs to be done around studying editor retention.</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY">From the team’s experience with outreach in these months, I want to share a few qualitative insights. For instance, we do think that there is great enthusiasm and potential among engineering students to contribute to MediaWiki and more initiatives need to be planned in order to welcome them and utilize their potential to the benefit of Indian language Wikipedias. Similarly, in terms of gender gap, while the initial barrier of participation can be overcome with outreach, a systematic strategy needs to be developed in order to make female editors feel a part of the existing community and ensure they continue contributing to topics that interest them. Also, right now the team conducts outreach sessions and workshops in all institutions that invite us with no specific approach based on subjects, gender or other parameters. Currently, the Access to Knowledge team has been sharing reports and blog posts with the community via mail, newsletters, tweets and social media fora. We hope to start monthly IRC meets with the community to improve communication and brainstorm together on what challenges each community faces.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/access-2-knowledge-report-2012'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/access-2-knowledge-report-2012</a>
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No publishernoopurOpennessWikipediaAccess to KnowledgeWikimedia2013-01-31T10:14:26ZBlog Entry